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Member News from Almac Group

Almac Diagnostics Appoints Dr Leeona Galligan as Vice President UK Operations

Craigavon, N.I., 15 February 2017 – Almac Diagnostics, the global personalised medicine company, focusing on the discovery, development and commercialisation of complex diagnostic and companion diagnostic tests, has announced the appointment of Dr. Leeona Galligan (PhD, FRCPath) to the position of Vice President, UK Operations.

In her new role, Dr Galligan will be responsible for all UK based operations including commercial biomarker discovery, CLIA/FDA compliant analytical validation, downstream clinical testing, manufacturing and shipping of clinical specimen and release of controls and reagents for registrational clinical trials. In addition, she will continue to serve as a valuable member of the Almac Diagnostics’ Executive team helping to define and implement its global business strategy.

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RCSI and Almac Discovery enter research collaboration to target therapy-resistant cancer tumours

Research has potential to improve 20 per cent survival rate in ovarian cancer

Craigavon, N.I., UK, – 14 Feb 2017 – RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) and Almac Discovery, a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and identifying innovative therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, have today announced a major research collaboration that aims to gain a new understanding of how to target tumour cells that are resistant to cancer therapies and cause cancer to spread to other parts of the body. The project will explore the potential of a drug, based on initial research by RCSI’s Professor Tracy Robson and developed by Almac Discovery, which is currently undergoing a Phase I dose escalation trial for patients with solid tumours. It is expected that the trial will be expanded in a biomarker selected patient population within ovarian cancer, however the drug, ALM201, has the potential to treat a range of other cancers.

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