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Selected for European Cancer ID Programme
Selected for European Cancer ID Programme.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 6697W Angle PLC 13 February 2017 \n\n\n\n\n\nFor immediate release\n\n\n 13 February 2017\n\n\n\n\n \nANGLE plc (\"the Company\") \n \nPARSORTIX SELECTED FOR EUROPEAN CANCER-ID PROGRAMME\n \n \nANGLE plc (AIM: AGL OTCQX: ANPCY), the specialist medtech company, is pleased to announce that it has been formally selected for CANCER-ID, the European consortium to validate blood-based biomarkers for cancer.\n \nCANCER-ID is a European consortium funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), with a total budget exceeding €14 million, bringing together 38 partners from 13 countries, and aimed at the establishment of standard protocols for and clinical validation of blood-based biomarkers to enable liquid biopsies to become routine clinical practice. \n \nUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Twente, Bayer AG and Menarini Silicon Biosystems coordinate the consortium, bringing together experts from academic and clinical research to the life sciences industry to provide a unique setting to establish the clinical utility of liquid biopsies.\n \nANGLE's participation in the consortium involves a contribution to the programme in the form of a number of Parsortix instruments and associated consumables for evaluation. The evaluation will assess the suitability of the Parsortix system being adopted as a standard circulating tumour cell (CTC) harvesting system to be used alongside a variety of different molecular analysis techniques in standard operating protocols. Running until 2020, an initial evaluation phase will be followed by a clinical phase to establish the use of liquid biopsies in treating lung and breast cancer. This is intended to provide clinical evidence to support the adoption of liquid biopsy in routine cancer care.\n \nThe academic leads of the CANCER-ID consortium are Prof. Klaus Pantel, Head of the Department of Tumor Biology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, and Prof. Leon Terstappen, Head of the Department of Medical Cell Biophysics at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. Both are leaders in the field of liquid biopsy and have an impressive track record in both basic research and applied science including device development. The lead companies of the CANCER-ID con...