Business
Expansion of volunteer recruitment centres
Expansion of volunteer recruitment centres.
About this update from Hvivo Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 2335M\n Open Orphan PLC\n 20 January 2021\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Open Orphan plc\n \n \n (\"Open Orphan\" or the \"Company\")\n \n \n \n \n \n Expansion of volunteer recruitment centres for human challenge trials\n \n \n \n \n \n Open Orphan plc (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist pharmaceutical services clinical research organisation (CRO) and the world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials, has opened two new volunteer recruitment centres to screen potential trial volunteers, the first in East London and a second in central Manchester. These new locations are part of the Company's expansion of its human challenge study trials launching in 2021.\n \n The first new site is a repurposed former coffee shop at the street level of Queen Mary BioEnterprise Innovation Centre (\"QMB\"), which houses hVIVO's current 24-bedroom state-of-the-art quarantine clinic in Whitechapel, East London. This is the first time a branded volunteer recruitment centre has been situated at street level whereby volunteers can walk straight in for screening. The large, multi-use space has the capacity to provide substantially more volunteer medical screening and processing with dedicated private physical exam and consenting rooms, ample hot-desking space and a refreshment area, as well as a dedicated reception area. Importantly, this means the facility can now offer 520 volunteer recruitment visit slots per week, with the intention that this will increase over time. This new centre has processed its first volunteers in recent weeks. Learn more about the screening process at www.flucamp.com/what-is-screening/. \n \n \n \n \n The Company has opened another similar volunteer recruitment facility in central Manchester, broadening its reach and reducing travel time required by potential volunteers to attend the initial visit at our London clinic. It will have an initial capacity for more than 100 visits per week, but this will increase substantially in the weeks that follow. The clinic is due to process its first volunteers on 27 January.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cathal Friel, Executive Chairman of Open Orphan plc commented:\n \n \n \"We are delighted to have had the opportunity to get access to these new volunteer recruitment screening ce...