NH TherAguix announces the release of a new clinical batch for its drug AGuIX, manufactured by CARBOGEN AMCIS
MEYLAN, France, BUBENDORF, Switzerland, (November 3rd, 2021) - NH TherAguix, a clinical stage company developing innovative nanomedicine for the treatment of cancer, and CARBOGEN AMCIS, a pharmaceutical process development and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) and Drug Products manufacturing company, announced today the release of a new batch of AGuIX Drug Product for clinical trials.
CARBOGEN AMCIS just released the fifth batch of AGuIX Drug Product since inception of the company. The release of this 3.7 kg batch added to previous available batches will secure the supply for hospitals and cancer centers that are involved in the clinical trials managed by the company. At present, 4 Phase1b/2 studies are recruiting (brain metastasis, cervix cancer, pancreatic cancer and lung cancer) and 3 are foreseen to start on other indications since already authorized by health authorities.
AGuIX combines three essential assets to fight tumors without changing the patient care. It has the potential to target, image (magnetic resonance imaging) and treat (radiosensitizing effect) cancer after intravenous injection. Its pharmacological potential is related to its innovative design that combines both a metal containing hybrid composition and a nanoscale structure.
The manufacturing of the fifth clinical batch of AGuIX Drug Product was performed at CARBOGEN AMCIS’ French site in Riom:
“We’ve manufactured several clinical batches of AGuIX Drug Product for NH TherAguix at our Riom site and we are delighted with the collaboration between our two companies on this exciting product that could make significant positive impact on patients.” said Mark Griffiths, Dishman Carbogen Amcis Global CEO. “NH TherAguix has a bright future, and we are very proud to be a part of their innovation journey. We hope to be able to support them for many years to come, especially by offering them more production capacity at our new French state-of-the-art facility localised 7km away from our current Riom site and dedicated to custom development and commercial manufacturing of parenteral drug products, which will open its doors in early 2023.”
The two companies have been collaborating on product development for seven years in the past. “CARBOGEN AMCIS was our first service partner for the production of the AGuIX Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient back in 2014 at their Swiss sites for a total of three successful campaigns. In 2019 the manufacturing of AGuIX API was transferred to Sanofi for scale-up purposes. However, we are very happy to work with CARBOGEN AMCIS from the inception of the project in 2015 on the Drug Product manufacturing at Riom site,” said Michel Julien, head of CMC at NH TherAguix. “It has been and it is still a very structuring partnership for a rapidly growing young company like NH TherAguix to be backed by a manufacturer like CARBOGEN AMCIS”.
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About AGuIX
The drug candidate AGuIX, whose potential efficacy is based on nanoscale structuring, is administered by intravenous injection. It combines three essential assets to fight tumors and accessible from the same injection: target, image and treat. AGuIX technology is therefore part of the theranostic concept which corresponds to a combination of therapy (radiosensitizing effect) and diagnosis (visible in MRI), and more broadly in the personalized medicine of tomorrow, without changing the patient's care path. Due to its biodistribution and mode of action, the nanomedicine AGuIX has a broad spectrum of action against solid tumors, 60% of which are treated by radiotherapy.
About the company NH TherAguix (www.nhtheraguix.com)
NH TherAguix is a French biotech start-up based in Grenoble and created in 2015 by two co-founding scientists, Prof Olivier Tillement (Scientific advisor of NH TherAguix and Director of the Fennec team, Institute Lumière Matière, University of Lyon 1) and Géraldine Le Duc (CEO of NH TherAguix), after 10 years of preclinical research. The technology of the drug candidate AGuIX is supported by 14 patent families and more than 70 scientific publications. The production of AGuIX is handled by partners such as Sanofi and Carbogen. The team currently consists of 16 people and its board of directors is chaired by Hervé Brailly (Co-founder and current chairman of the supervisory board of Innate Pharma). The company is pursuing its strategy ambitiously as it is currently focused on its clinical development in the USA and on the preclinical development of a second generation drug.
Contact: Géraldine Le Duc contact@nhtheraguix.com
About the company CARBOGEN AMCIS (www.carbogen-amcis.com)
Carbogen Amcis is a leading service provider offering a portfolio of drug development and commercialization services to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries across all stages of clinical development and product life cycle. Our integrated services and innovative chemistry solutions support timely and safe drug development, allowing customers to better optimize available resources. CARBOGEN AMCIS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dishman Carbogen Amcis Limited, Ahmedabad, India.
Dishman Carbogen Amcis Limited (www.imdcal.com) is a global outsourcing partner for the pharmaceutical industry, offering a portfolio of development, scale-up and manufacturing services. Dishman Carbogen Amcis group improves its customers’ businesses by providing a range of development and manufacturing solutions at locations in Europe and in India.
Contact: press@carbogen-amcis.com