Adalta (1AD: $0.155) has progressed its collaboration with GE Healthcare for its cancer treatment diagnostic.

In September Adalta signed a commercial deal with GE to find i-bodies using its unique technology that could very specifically bind to the enzyme granzyme B which is produced by activated T-cells.

Adalta has now identified several relevant i-bodies which will progress into preclinical development.

Last week Adalta (1AD: $0.175) provided details of the successful completion of its Phase Ia trial with its lead antibody drug candidate, AD-214. The company will now move into two additional Phase I studies, one in healthy volunteers and the second in patients with fibrotic lung diseases.

Adalta’s (1AD) competitive prospects improved recently when a high profile drug, ziritaxestat, being developed by Galapagos and Gilead Sciences for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), was discontinued.