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pHion Therapeutics Limited strives to pioneer therapeutic vaccines and improve the landscape of AAV manufacture

CRN
NI645613
Founded
2017
Age
9

Overview

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Legal name
PHION THERAPEUTICS LTD
Region
Northern Ireland
Registered address
C/O KPMG THE SOLOIST BUILDING
1 LANYON PLACE
BELFAST
NORTHERN IRELAND
BT1 3LP
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

9 events
21 May
2025

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

15 Nov
2024

Liquidation Administrators Proposals Northern Ireland

Insolvency

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Published 19 Nov 2024 01:59

02 Oct
2024

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Address

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Published 03 Oct 2024 06:45

25 Sep
2024

Liquidation Appointmentt Of Administrator Northern Ireland

Insolvency

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Published 26 Sep 2024 06:41

16 Sep
2024

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Officers

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Published 16 Sep 2024 10:26

07 May
2024

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2023

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

31 Dec
2021

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

08 May
2017

Incorporated

Inception

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Company description

pHion Therapeutics develops a formulation that can be used to increase the efficiency of drug development through the use of peptides which speed up the process.

pHion Therapeutics is a therapeutic vaccine development company, utilising its patented peptide based drug delivery system, RALA, which when combined with nucleic acids, generates a uniquely potent therapeutic response without provoking an innate immune response. pHion's therapeutic vaccine programme is focused on viral infections as it evokes a strong interferon gamma response. We believe that the RALA vaccine technology marks the advent of a new generation of therapeutic vaccines that could clear infectious diseases on a global scale. In addition to therapeutic vaccines, RALA possesses unique traits that will offer significant value in both oncology (tumour specific delivery) and in ex vivo gene therapy (nanoparticle formulation for AAV manufacture) applications.

Project impact

N/A

pHion Therapeutics
2017
pHion Therapeutics
2017
PHION THERAPEUTICS LTD
2017

Public funding

12 awards
First funded
2019
Funded years
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Age at first award
2 years

Projects

2023 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Process Development and Stability of the RALA Peptide for mRNA Vaccines

1 Aug 2023 to 31 Jul 2025

Awarded
£291,133
Total cost £415,904

mRNA vaccines have the potential to transform healthcare interventions as evidenced by the approval of 2 products in the last 2 years for Covid-19\. The mRNA codes for an antigen for a disease that can either be administered to healthy patients to prevent infective diseases or can treat diseases such as cancer. Vaccines that prevent disease are typically ...

2023 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

A Therapeutic mRNA Vaccine for Prostate Cancer

1 Jun 2023 to 31 May 2025

Awarded
£521,737
Total cost £745,338

Prostate cancer (PCa) accounts for 7.3% (1.4 Million) of all cancers worldwide and ~20% become Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) which is highly aggressive. In the UK the incidence of PCa accounts for 27.8% of all new cancer cases in males. The 5-year survival rates are only 28.9% when metastases arise in CRPC. The incidence in the UK is set to ri...

2022 Small Business Research Initiative Lead participant

A Peptide-mRNA Vaccine for Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF)

1 Apr 2022 to 31 Mar 2023

Awarded
£499,362
Total cost £499,362

The Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is transmitted to humans via infected ticks and through animal reservoirs that carry the virus. CCHF is also transmitted to humans through close contact and bodily fluids and has a fatality rate of 10-40%. CCHF is restricted to primarily warmer countries so any vaccine needs to withstand extreme temperatures. Th...

2021 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

A Therapeutic mRNA Vaccine for Ovarian Cancer

1 Nov 2021 to 30 Apr 2023

Awarded
£256,451
Total cost £366,359

Epithelial ovarian cancer accounts for 90% of all ovarian cancer cases and of these \>50% are the High Grade Serious Carcinomas (HGSC) which is highly aggressive. With no symptoms, most patients are diagnosed at stage 3 or 4 where the 5-year survival rates are only 15%. Given that worldwide, there are 600,000 women living within 5 years with ovarian cance...

2021 Centres

Northern Alliance ATTC

1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2022

Awarded
£0
Total cost £4,746
2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Development of a Therapeutic mRNA Vaccine for COVID-19 using pHion's Delivery Technology

1 Jan 2021 to 30 Jun 2022

Awarded
£679,048
Total cost £970,068

As infections with SARS-CoV-2 continue to rise with associated healthcare and economic implications, there is a race on to develop a vaccine to prevent the disease. RNA vaccines are designed to encode the genetic sequences of antigens of a disease, in this instance SARS-CoV-2 and evoke an appropriate immune response. There are several pipeline mRNA vaccin...

2020 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Automated Production of RALA/Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles from Bench to Patient Dose

1 Oct 2020 to 30 Sep 2021

Awarded
£139,688
Total cost £174,610

RNAi therapeutics have the potential to transform healthcare interventions as evidenced by the approval of 2 products in the last 2 years for life threatening diseases. RNAi therapy is designed to transiently reduce a defective gene for therapeutic purposes. It is a rapidly growing market with 109 RNAi based therapeutics in clinical trials (July 2018) \[W...

2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Additional Support Required for Project 105441 resulting from COVID-19 pandemic

1 Jun 2020 to 28 Feb 2021

Awarded
£191,456
Total cost £227,005

no public description

2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Transient knockdown of the ACE-2 Receptor using the RALA Technology for COVID-19

1 Jun 2020 to 31 Mar 2021

Awarded
£74,912
Total cost £74,912

RNAi therapeutics have the potential to transform healthcare interventions as evidenced by the approval of 2 products in the last 2 years for life threatening diseases. RNAi therapy is designed to transiently reduce a defective gene for therapeutic purposes. It is a rapidly growing market with 109 RNAi based therapeutics in clinical trials (July 2018) \[T...

2020 Study

A new approach for safe and effective human therapeutic gene editing

1 Feb 2020 to 31 Jul 2021

Awarded
£105,860
Total cost £151,228

Advancements in the development of genome editing technologies have significantly improved our ability to make precise changes to the DNA of eukaryotic cells, with the potential to truly transform healthcare interventions from the targeting of faulty genomes of cancer cells through to correcting genetic errors of inherited disorders. Despite this potentia...

2019 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Development of a Therapeutic mRNA HPV Vaccine using Phion's Delivery Technology

1 Sep 2019 to 30 Jun 2021

Awarded
£332,297
Total cost £474,710

Infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV) leads to genital warts, pre-cancerous lesions and cancer. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease, yet all current vaccines are designed to prevent the disease and there is no effective treatment for those currently infected. Given that worldwide there are 200 million currently infected with HPV t...

2019 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Tumour Targeted Small Molecule Therapeutic (RALgem)

5 Jun 2019 to 5 Mar 2022

Awarded
£442,559
Total cost £442,559

Tumour Targeted Small Molecule Therapeutic (RALgem)

Product types

Centres Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies Small Business Research Initiative Study