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ProteinLogic appoints Dr. Berwyn Clarke as new Non-Executive Director

CAMBRIDGE, UK (2012-07-31) – ProteinLogic, the biomarker discovery and exploitation company, has appointed Dr Berwyn Clarke as a Non-Executive Director.  Dr Clarke joins the ProteinLogic Board with 25 years’ experience in diagnostics and pharmaceuticals working for start-ups and global businesses such as GlaxoWellcome and Bayer Diagnostics. He is Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Lab21 Ltd, a rapidly growing healthcare diagnostics business, providing state-of-the-art diagnostic infectious disease products to blood-banks and clinical labs on a worldwide basis; molecular diagnostic products; and molecular diagnostic services in personalised medicine, mainly in oncology. Dr Clarke played a leading role in taking Lab21 from…

ProteinLogic appoints new Chairman and concludes successful rights issue

CAMBRIDGE, UK (2011-10-04) – ProteinLogic, the biomarker discovery and exploitation company, has appointed Dr Paul Rodgers as Executive Chairman. Dr Rodgers is an entrepreneur with thirty years’ experience in the life sciences industry, who has co-founded ten biotechnology companies. Paul has led a number of companies from start up to technology commercialisation and achieved significant exits for early stage investors. A seasoned Board Director, Paul has experience in the healthcare, agriculture and food sectors of biotechnology with particular experience in biomarkers. Most recently, Paul has served as Chairman of Psynova Neurotech Ltd, a company focused on the commercial development and…

ProteinLogic announces successful identification of ImmiPrint diagnostic signatures for several new diseases

CAMBRIDGE, UK (2010-04-27) – ProteinLogic Ltd. (“the Company”), today announced that preliminary ImmiPrint diagnostic signatures have been successfully identified for several new diseases. These encouraging results follow the completion of a range of exploratory tests of different diseases using its proprietary ImmiPrint technology. ProteinLogic has consequently now demonstrated the utility of its diagnostic technology across several different diseases and disease areas. The sensitivities and specificities make it appropriate for the Company to consider validation of some of the ImmiPrint tests. The Company believes that the new results constitute a generalised proof of concept for the ImmiPrint diagnostic biomarker discovery platform…

ProteinLogic closes Private Placing – 24 March 2009

CAMBRIDGE, UK (2009-03-24) -FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ProteinLogic closes Private Placing CAMBRIDGE, UK (17th March 2009) ProteinLogic Ltd (the Company) is pleased to announce that it has raised a total of just over £426,000 from a mix of existing shareholders and a number of new investors. After taking into account the costs of the placing, ProteinLogic has a net cash balance of circa £400,000 with which to fund the continued development of the business and ProteinLogic’s ImmiPrint diagnostic technology. The directors anticipate that this funding will be sufficient to take the company through to the next major milestones in the development of…

ProteinLogic announces collaboration with the Immune Tolerance Network – 30 September 2008

CAMBRIDGE, UK (2008-09-30) – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ProteinLogic announces collaboration with the Immune Tolerance Network CAMBRIDGE, UK (30th September, 2008) ProteinLogic Ltd. (“the Company”), announced today a collaboration with US research consortium the Immune Tolerance Network to look for disease-specific diagnostic protein fingerprints in the blood of patients with a broad range of different autoimmune diseases. This initiative is expected to lead to a more extensive relationship between ProteinLogic and the Immune Tolerance Network that will provide the Company with access to patient samples from a wide range of US autoimmune clinical trials and if successful may result in significant…

ProteinLogic diagnostic patent granted by Australian Patent Office – 02 July 2008

CAMBRIDGE, UK (2008-07-02) – ProteinLogic Ltd. (‘the Company’), announced today that its diagnostic testing method – SCD FINGERPRINTS (patent application 2003219275) was sealed by the Australian Patent Office (Australian Government IP Australia) on 26 June 2008 and assigned the Patent Number 2003219275. The decision by the Australian patent office Australian Government IP Australia to grant this patent represents the first decision by a national patent office to endorse the intellectual property underpinning the Company’s technology. The applications filed in other global territories, including the US, are still pending Dr Richard Cumming, Marketing Director, said “The granting of the Australian patent…

Diagnostic testing method deemed patentable by Australian Patent Office – 17 June 2008

CAMBRIDGE, UK (2008-06-17) – ProteinLogic Ltd. (‘the Company’), announced today that its diagnostic testing method Australian Patent Application (No: 2003219275) has been deemed patentable by the Australian Patent Office (Australian Government IP Australia). The Company has been informed by its patent attorney that the patent is now expected to grant within the next month. Having been the subject of a Notice of Acceptance dated 15th January 2008, the application was advertised in the Australian Official Journal of Patents on 24th January 2008. Following an opposition period that expired on 24th April 2008, the Company was informed that no objections had…