Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals plc announced that its Chimeric Bait Receptor ("CBR") platform can potentially be used in the treatment of cancers, in addition to the viral diseases extensively reported by the Company to date. The Company has demonstrated that human macrophages, a type of immune cells, programmed with a purpose designed CBR, were able to eliminate Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma ("NHL") derived cells with high efficiency in vitro. This result suggests that the Company may be able to develop an efficient treatment for people suffering from relapsed and/or refractory stage III/IV metastasized NHL.

In addition, based on data derived from its testing of CBR in connection with NHL, the Company has reason to believe that the newly designed CBR construct can be adapted to target several solid tumours such as epithelial ovarian cancer as well as certain carcinomas. The Company has been able to speed up its R&D efforts dramatically by using Artificial Intelligence ("AI") based protein structure/interaction simulations and in-house synthesis of messenger RNA ("mRNA"). AI tools allow the Company's scientists to triage variants of CBR constructs rapidly in order to select those with the likelihood of success, while in-house mRNA synthesis facilitates the building of CBR constructs in a matter of just days.