“This is a highly significant grant for Hybrigenics. It shows Oseo’s confidence in our product and in our ability to successfully complete clinical trials,” explained Guillaume Floch, Hybrigenics’ CFO. “The total EUR 1.4M will be reimbursed between 2012 and 2015. No interest is payable. This final payment will help fund further clinical development of inecalcitol.”
About Hybrigenics
Hybrigenics SA (http://www.hybrigenics.com) is a bio-pharmaceutical group listed (ALHYG) on Alternext (NYSE-Euronext) in Paris, focusing its internal R&D programs on innovative targets and therapies for the treatment of cancer. Hybrigenics’ development program is based on inecalcitol, a vitamin D analogue, for the treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer in combination with Sanofi-Aventis' Taxotere(R), which is the current gold-standard chemotherapeutic treatment for this indication. Hybrigenics’ research program explores the role of enzymes known as ubiquitin-specific proteases (USP) in the degradation of onco-proteins, and the effectiveness of proprietary USP inhibitors in treating various types of cancer.
Hybrigenics Services SAS is a fully-owned subsidiary of Hybrigenics SA, and the market leader in Yeast-Two Hybrid (Y2H) and related services to identify, validate and inhibit protein interactions for researchers in all areas of life science, using its ISO 9001-certified high-throughput Y2H screening platform, its sophisticated bioinformatics tools and extensive database, along with its chemical library and chemical screening platform.
HYBRIGENICS is listed on the Alternext by NYSE Euronext
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