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Expertise in drug discovery and the treatment of life-changing inflammatory diseases has been rewarded with prestigious funding via the UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) Scheme. Dr Obinna Ubah, heads up Scottish biotechnology company Elasmogen Ltd’s auto-immune and anti-inflammation research efforts, and has received a £2 M research award of which £1.57 M is a grant […]

At only one tenth the size of traditional antibodies new VNAR biologics could be used to both treat and protect against SARSCoV-2 infections January 25th 2021: Aberdeen, Scotland:  Elasmogen Ltd, the pioneering biopharmaceutical company leading the development of VNAR and soloMERTM biologics, today announces a significant breakthrough in the identification of next-generation protein-based drugs potentially […]

New grants across multiple territories cover the use of humanised or de-immunised VNARs for therapeutic applications December 9th 2020: Aberdeen, Scotland:  Elasmogen Ltd, the biopharmaceutical company leading the development of soloMERTM biologics, today announces a significant development in its comprehensive intellectual property position as two new patent families go to grant in multiple territories.  These […]

New awards for COVID-19 and oncology programs support re-opening of labs in Aberdeen Aberdeen, UK, 8th July 2020:  Aberdeen drug discovery pioneer, Elasmogen Ltd has won two new grants worth £374,000 to support programs for COVID-19 and oncology.  In April 2020 Elasmogen secured £143,000 from Scottish Government to use their drug discovery platform to accelerate […]

Intract Pharma Limited London, UK (“Intract”), and Elasmogen Limited, Aberdeen, Scotland (“Elasmogen”) have announced an agreement to collaborate and develop novel orally-delivered protein therapeutics (biologics), incorporating proprietary technologies developed by each of the partners. The collaboration combines Elasmogen’s soloMER™ technology, small (11 kDa) single-chain  binding domains that can be rapidly re-formatted to generate super-neutralizers (bivalent, […]

29th April 2020; Elasmogen Limited, Aberdeen, Scotland (“Elasmogen”) are to collaborate with the University of Aberdeen as a partner on a Scottish Government research award of almost £1 M to tackle COVID-19.    Current diagnostic testing for COVID-19 so called RT-PCR for infectious agents, whilst accurate is complex to perform, suited to centralised laboratories, takes […]

Elasmogen has been featured in BBSRC’s report highlighting a few spinout companies that exemplify BBSRC investments in research.

Elasmogen has been nominated for a Life Science Award with Almac Discovery in the Innovative Collaboration category. The finalists in the Innovative Collaboration award, sponsored by @MarksClerkScot are announced! They are @ElasmogenLtd , @iCAIRD_Scot , and @MedtronicUK . Find out who wins at #ScotLiSciAwards on 19 March – tickets available at https://t.co/z5f5tnBLNS pic.twitter.com/9Q7SOYezme — LifeScienceAwardScot […]

Funding from Deepbridge Capital will support development of next generation biologics January 10th 2020: Aberdeen, Scotland:  Elasmogen Ltd, the biopharmaceutical company leading the development of soloMERTM biologics, today announced it has secured follow-on equity investment from Deepbridge Capital totalling £2 M, taking Deepbridge’s total investment in Elasmogen to £3.15 M.  The funding will be used […]

We are delighted that The Times has featured Elasmogen in an article titled ‘Ruthless killers? Shark antibodies are latest weapon in fight against cancer‘.