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COM SAM Corp Pitch Short
COM SAM Corp Pitch Short
COM SAM Corp Pitch Short
AI
Non-Invasive Deep Lung Sampling
for Diagnostics
& Personalised Treatment
A spin-out from Northumbria University
Problem Solution Your Breath: Your HealthTM
Lung tests are failing patients: Non-invasive sampling from the deep lung:
- Expensive, invasive, contaminated - Clinically-validated, uncontaminated
- Infrequent monitoring - Affordable, scalable, simple to use
- Late & unclear diagnoses - Perform targeted tests, identity disease cause
- Trial & error treatment - Inform effective clinical action, quickly.
• Effective treatments
Target market: Your Breath: Your HealthTM
Adult asthma (US$ 6.7 Bn) 0-5 year old wheeze (US$0.5Bn)
o 25.3M US patients o >1.6 M USA cases per year3
o 50% have no diagnostic option (T2 low)1,2. o Asthma and lung infections4
o Complex diagnosis, trial & error treatment o “No way to test right now”
o ”Can we classify asthma in one test?” o ”1/3 of all children under 3 years old”5
1. Kuruvilla ME Clin. Rev. Allergy Immunol. 2021; 2. Brand PL ERJ 2014; 3. Brand PL ERJ 2014; 4. Martinez FD NEJM 1995; 5. European Respiratory Society 2023
Our Customers: B2B pharma
Dr Terry Fetterhoff
Head, US Chief Technology Officer Other market research:
Roche Diagnostics
Our Customers: asthma clinicians
All existing products suffer from one or more of the following limitations:
▪ Poor sample reproducibility ▪ Contamination (saliva / ambient) ▪ Sample loss ▪ Safety ▪ Upper
and deep lung separation ▪ and, importantly, inability to analyse all classes of biomarkers.
Sales in 4 Continents:
Lung Cancer (USA, EU) Elderly lung infections (CN, Australia)
o US$2.61Bn Diagnostic market globally o >960,000 p.a. USA hospital admissions1
o 236,000 new US cases p.a.1 o >120,500 p.a. cases among 65yo+ in UK3
o 12 tests for 18 personalised treatments2 o US$2.6 Bn global lung screening market
1. American Thoracic Society 2019. 2. US Federal Drug Administration 2022. 3. ONS 2019
The Team Your Breath: Your HealthTM
Ø NED Clinical Research Prof. Peter J Barnes FRS, FRCP, CFFP, FMedSci
Highest-cited respiratory clinician for the past 20 years, co-author of GINA (asthma) & GOLD
(COPD) clinical guidelines, & exhaled breath research guidelines & technical standards.
-6% -10%
• 1.5% US asthma market = -4%
1 sublicensing deal modelled; Break Even month 32; clinical asthma sales start year 5.
Use of funds Your Breath: Your HealthTM
1. SEIS and EIS eligible; 2. Kinesys consulting (UK) 2021; 3. Proxima Clinical Research (TX, USA) 2022
Profit & Loss Forecast
£98
Year of Operations
1 2 3 4 5 6 £73 Manufacturing
Staff
Costs 812 1,169 2,074 1,270 2,193 6,219 Sales
(£k)
Millions
£48 Regulatory
IP
R&D
Revenue 182 1,095 4,967 18,383 32,242 98,314 Overheads
£23
(£k) Marketing & BD
P&L
P/L -630 -74 2,892 17,113 30,049 92,095
-£2
(£k) 1 2 3 4 5 6
Year
Winners