HalioDx is successfully implementing its range of service offering to pharmaceutical companies

HalioDx is successfully implementing its range of service offering to pharmaceutical companies

•  HalioDx sees strong development of its clinical research activity toward precision immunotherapy

Marseille, France, November 3, 2016 - HalioDx SAS, an immuno-oncology diagnostic company, today has drawn up a progress report on the implementation of its clinical research services. By integrating its proprietary technologies in clinical trials for innovative immune-modulatory drugs, HalioDx ambition is to be the preferred partner of biopharmaceutical companies for the development of precision immunotherapy.  

Seven master service agreements have been signed since the beginning of 2016 with biopharmaceutical companies of all sizes, from both the U.S. and Europe. By these agreements, HalioDx provides its battery of proprietary tests within the full range of clinical research, from Phase I to Phase III, for innovative immunotherapies or other immune-related drugs.

This success is deeply associated with the shared awareness of the importance of the tumor micro-environment, an area where HalioDx is leveraging on the unique expertise of Jérôme Galon's work on the immune contexture^[1]. HalioDx strategy is to develop immuno-oncology diagnostic products and services that clearly meet the need for patient stratification and predictive biomarkers. Their goal is to guide the development of oncology and immuno-oncology therapeutics and the management of patients.

After its first full year of activities, HalioDx overachieved its business development objectives and is accelerating and strengthening services activities. The overall team has grown 30% in the lasts months with now 100 employees, and will continue to grow in 2017, notably to serve clinical research activities.

In July, the Company has launched its first flagship assay, Immunoscore® Colon, which provide to clinical investigators a unique and robust decision making tool for patients' management based on intra-tumor immune response. In the next months, pathologists will have access to the CE-IVD assay in Europe, while RUO (Research Use Only) solution will stay available in the rest of the World.  

"The significant success of our clinical research offer to biopharmaceutical partners, thanks to the scientific contribution of our co-founder Dr. Galon combined with our experienced team and capabilities, attract more and more Biopharma partners" said Vincent Fert, co-founder and CEO of HalioDx. "These assets and our unique offering of proprietary immune oncology assays, ready to be embarked on companion diagnostic projects, represent a strong competitive advantage. We are now looking forward to the first results to be presented by our biopharmaceutical partners at ASCO 2017." 

About HalioDx SAS

The Immune Response to Cancer Diagnostics

By precisely measuring the immune reaction in and around the tumor, HalioDx tests allow the clinician to determine the degree of severity of the patient's disease and predict the response to treatment, regardless of the cancer stage or the molecular class.

HalioDx designs and develops a unique range of immune scoring tests, whose first-in-class product is Immunoscore®. Considered a future diagnostic standard in Oncology, this biomarker has already demonstrated strong prognostic value in colorectal cancer. HalioDx was founded in 2014 by the former management team of Ipsogen (leader in the molecular diagnosis of leukemia), and a pioneer in integrative immunology and oncology, Dr. Jérôme Galon. HalioDx benefits of worldwide licenses on a broad portfolio of IP rights on immuno-oncology biomarkers (including the Immunoscore® technology) developed by Dr. Jérôme Galon, Research Director at Inserm, and his team (Inserm UMRS1138) at Cordeliers Research Center, Paris, France.

HalioDx has an experienced team of more than 100 employees and compliant facilities to develop, manufacture, deliver and market in vitro diagnostic products and services in immuno-oncology.

For more information, please visit: www.haliodx.com

HalioDx and Immunoscore are registered trademarks.

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