Amorfix vCJD assay achieves 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity on 1,000 fresh samples from UK blood donors

Amorfix Life Sciences, a company focused on treatments and diagnostics for brain wasting diseases, today announced the best sensitivity and specificity ever reported using its EP-vCJDTM Blood Screening Assay to test fresh blood plasma samples from anonymous UK blood donors. Amorfix completed this testing in the laboratories of the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) in the United Kingdom.

Amorfix tested 1,000 fresh blinded human plasma samples which included samples that were spiked with vCJD brain prions and normal brain. The EP- vCJDTM Blood Screening Assay scored 100% sensitivity for all spiked samples down to a 1 in 100,000 dilution of 10% brain homogenate (1/1,000,000 dilution of vCJD brain). The specificity for all samples was 99.3% on initial testing and 100% on repeat reactive testing.

"A major concern for screening human blood donors for vCJD is finding false positives and then erroneously notifying blood donors and excluding them from future donations, "said Dr. George Adams, Chief Executive Officer of Amorfix. "The UK authorities have put forward a 99.9% specificity as an acceptable performance for a vCJD test on blood donor samples and these first results suggest we can meet or exceed this requirement."

NIBSC has asked us to continue testing samples to verify the results and to determine if frozen samples can similarly be used, as all vCJD patient samples are frozen. The current testing was conducted with kits manufactured over 12 months ago which continue to demonstrate excellent shelf life and stability.

About Amorfix

Amorfix Life Sciences Ltd. (TSX:AMF) is a theranostics company developing therapeutic products and diagnostic devices targeting brain-wasting diseases including ALS, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). Amorfix's proprietary Epitope Protection(TM) (EP) technology enables it to specifically identify very low levels of aggregated misfolded proteins (AMP) in a sample of normal protein. Aggregated misfolded proteins are a common element of many brain wasting diseases and the ability to identify AMPs and understand their structure and mechanism of folding are the first steps to developing new treatments for these devastating diseases. Amorfix's lead programs are a diagnostic blood screening test for vCJD and a therapy for ALS.

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SOURCE: Amorfix Life Sciences Ltd.

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