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PlantForm Corporation, a University of Guelph spin-off company, is working to secure funding for more trials of its innovative treatments to combat critical illnesses like cancer.
The principle focus of PlantForm’s work is using tobacco plants to create low-cost versions of biosimilar drugs – plant-based, generic versions of biological medications.
The plants are grown indoors and, through genetic engineering, made to express certain compounds that are then purified into alternatives to popular drugs like Herceptin, used to treat breast cancer.
“We are now in the final stages of securing a third round of funding that will let us take our best drug candidates forward into animal studies,” explains Don Stewart, PlantForm’s President and CEO. “We’ve demonstrated efficacy in an animal model, and that’s key to us moving forward with trying to secure funding for clinical trials.”
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