17:00 Thu 28 May 2020
Shield Therapeutics - Investor presentations
("Shield" or the "Group" or the "Company")
Investor presentations
Shares Investor Evening - Webinar
No new material information will be disclosed at either event and the presentations will be made available on the Company website shortly after the events here: https://www.shieldtherapeutics.com/investors/presentations
For further information please contact:
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+44 (0)20 7186 8500 |
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Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker |
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+44 (0)20 7418 8900 |
Joint Broker finnCap Ltd |
+44 (0)20 7220 0500 |
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Financial PR & IR Advisor |
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Walbrook PR |
+44 (0)20 7933 8780 or shield@walbrookpr.com |
Paul McManus/Lianne Cawthorne |
+44 (0)7980 541 893 / +44 (0)7584 391 303 |
About
Shield is a de-risked, commercial stage, specialty pharmaceutical company delivering innovative pharmaceuticals to address patients' unmet medical needs. The Company's clear purpose is to develop products that help patients become people again, enabling them to enjoy the things that make a difference in their everyday lives. The Group's lead product, Feraccru®/ Accrufer® has exclusive IP rights until the mid-2030s and is approved for the treatment of iron deficiency with or without anaemia in adults in the
About Feraccru®/Accrufer®
Feraccru®/Accrufer® is a novel, stable, non-salt based oral therapy for adults with iron deficiency with or without anaemia that has been shown to be an efficacious and well-tolerated therapy in a range of controlled phase 3 trials, and offers a compelling alternative to IV iron for those patients unable to tolerate salt-based oral iron therapies and wish to avoid the complexities of infusion-based iron therapies.
When salt-based oral iron therapies are ingested they can cause a range of mild-to-severe gastrointestinal tract (GI) adverse events, including nausea, bloating and constipation through the release and subsequent reactivity of free iron in the GI tract, leading to poor tolerability, reduced patient compliance and ultimately treatment failure. Feraccru®/Accrufer® is not an iron salt and, as a result, it does not routinely cause the same treatment-limiting intolerance issues of salt-based iron therapies, whilst the iron from the ferric maltol molecule can be readily absorbed.
Prior to Feraccru®/Accrufer®, IV iron therapies were the only realistic alternative treatment option for iron deficient patients with or without anaemia intolerant of or unwilling to be treated salt-based oral iron therapies. However, use of such an invasive, costly, inconvenient and complex to administer treatment option, which is associated with potentially life-threatening and spontaneous hypersensitivity reactions, means there remains a clear unmet medical need for these patients to have access to an effective therapy that is well tolerated, convenient and does not require hospital-based administration. Feraccru®/Accrufer® meets those requirements.
About Iron Deficiency
The WHO states that iron deficiency is the most common and widespread nutritional disorder in the world. As well as affecting a large number of women and children in non-industrialized countries, it is the only nutrient deficiency which is also significantly prevalent in virtually all industrialised nations. There are no current global figures for iron deficiency but, using anaemia as an indirect indicator, it can be estimated that most preschool children and pregnant women in non-industrialised countries, together with at least 30-40% in industrialized countries, are iron deficient.
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