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Cyprotex PLC
11 November 2003
Press Release 11 November 2003
Cyprotex reports successful customer validation studies for CloeTM Technology
Cyprotex (LSE: CRX) today announces results of successful trials of its Cloe PK
TM software applied to over 150 potential drugs provided by seven pharmaceutical
companies. The trials showed that Cloe PKTM can estimate how long a drug stays
in the body and is sufficiently accurate to be used in the rapid selection of
promising compounds and the early elimination of those likely to fail.
In parallel, blind trials of the Cloe ScreenTM experimental testing technology
on several hundred compounds provided by six laboratories from major
pharmaceutical companies, all demonstrated a high degree of accuracy.
The CloeTM technology can be used to predict what would happen in humans as well
as in rats, one of the main species used in pharmaceutical research, and the
cumulated data showed that the CloeTM technology allowed the estimation of human
outcomes more accurately than experiments carried out in live rats. These
results demonstrate that customers can confidently use the CloeTM technology to
reduce the number of animals they use in drug discovery research, while
improving the chance that their drug would work in humans.
The detailed results of the trials were described to leading industry and
academic practitioners in the field of computer-based prediction for drug
discovery, who recently visited Cyprotex's laboratories in Macclesfield. The
event was a satellite meeting of the UK QSAR (see below) Discussion Group
meeting, a twice-yearly event which allows industry and academic scientists to
exchange information on progress in the development of computer-based predictive
approaches, which was also hosted by Cyprotex.
Dr David Leahy, Chief Scientific Officer and Founder of Cyprotex plc, said: 'I
am proud of the way that our skilled team of scientists and engineers have
delivered, in less than 18 months, uniquely accurate and cost-effective
technology for the estimation of pharmacokinetics.
'We now have the evidence that demonstrates to potential partners that the Cloe
TM technology can improve productivity in drug discovery. We are able to offer
to our partners similar information to that obtained in a Phase One clinical
trial on every compound they synthesise, at a fraction of the cost, within days
rather than years.'
The acronym QSAR stands for Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships and
refers to mathematical or statistical relationships between the chemical
structure of a drug and its properties.
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Notes to editors:
Cyprotex PLC
Cyprotex is a specialist provider of pharmacokinetic information and technology
to evaluate and optimise key properties of potential drugs that determine how
well they will be absorbed, distributed, metabolised and excreted by the body.
This provides pharmaceutical partners with a sound basis for decision-making
regarding compound selection and design that takes into account how the compound
will behave in the body. Cyprotex predicts the likely outcome of administering
either orally or intravenously administered compounds by modelling human and rat
physiology. Predictions require basic compound information that can be derived
in the laboratory using established methods, all of which are routinely
performed by Cyprotex's experimental capability. This unique combination of
technologies is aimed at improving pharmaceutical productivity by improving the
quality of compound libraries and drug candidates progressing through the drug
pipeline. Cyprotex is based in the UK and is listed on the Alternative
Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (CRX).
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