Midatech Pharma announces confirmation of a €2.6 million EU Grant for further clinical development of MTX110 for the treatment of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, a rare and fatal form of childhood brain cancer

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Dec 05, 2019
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LONDON, UK / ACCESSWIRE / December 5, 2019 / Midatech Pharma PLC ("Midatech" or the "Company") (AIM:MTPH.L; Nasdaq:MTP), an R&D biotechnology company focused on delivering innovative oncology and rare disease products to patients, is pleased to announce that it has received confirmation of a €2.6 million EU grant to be used to conduct a ground-breaking clinical study, GlioKIDS, designed to demonstrate the efficacy of MTX110 as a treatment for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma ("DIPG"), a rare and fatal form of childhood brain cancer with an average life expectancy of 7 to 9 months.