Volition Announces Promising Clinical Trials Results for its Novel COVID-19 Triage Test

July 14,2020

VolitionRx Limited (NYSE AMERICAN: VNRX) ("Volition"), a multi-national epigenetics company applying its Nu.Q™ Nucleosomics™ technology to develop simple, cost effective blood-based tests for cancer and other diseases, today announced that results from two proof of concept clinical studies using its Nu.Q™ assays have been submitted for peer review and will be available on BIORXIV.ORG shortly. "Circulating Nucleosomes as potential prognostic markers for COVID-19 disease severity" .

Commenting on the results, corresponding author Professor Stefan Holdenrieder, Director of the Institute of Laboratory Medicine, German Heart Center, Munich, Germany said, "We tested two independent cohorts of COVID-19 positive patients with quantitative nucleosome immunoassays and found that nucleosomes were highly elevated in plasma of severe COVID-19 patients relative to healthy control subjects and that both histone 3.1 variant and citrullinated nucleosomes increased with disease severity. Given that the highest levels of nucleosomes were found in patients requiring artificial ventilation or extracorporeal oxygenation, we believe that nucleosomes could serve as a guiding biomarker for disease severity in COVID-19 positive patients."

Cameron Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer of Volition commented, "Nu.Q^TM has shown correlation with more severe COVID-19 cases implying strong prognostic potential, and we are now focused on the completion of larger longitudinal studies that would be needed to support a potential COVID-19 product launch. If we continue to see positive results in these longitudinal studies, we aim to have a CE-marked product available on multiple platforms in 2020 and will look to launch a low-cost product that could be used in any laboratory worldwide as soon as possible thereafter."