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Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies hire Champions Oncology to test how cancer drugs perform alone or in combination and identify cancers and patient groups that may respond. It grows patient-derived tumors in mice, maintains these models in its proprietary TumorBank, and combines experimental results with molecular data and computational analysis. Customers pay for studies that inform their drug-development decisions; these research services generate most of the company’s revenue.
The company also licenses tumor-model data and sells annual subscriptions to Lumin Bioinformatics, which combines its Datacenter with analytics and artificial intelligence for cancer research. Alongside these services, it has an early-stage drug-discovery business that identifies and experimentally validates therapeutic targets. Some targets have advanced into therapeutic development, but the commercial strategy remains under development.
Revenue depends on customers’ cancer-research budgets and decisions to proceed with studies, with one customer supplying a substantial share. The experimental work also depends on a live laboratory-mouse colony and the TumorBank. Its laboratories must maintain required licenses and approvals under state laboratory and federal and state healthcare regulation.
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Champions Oncology, Inc.’s results hinge on pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies’ cancer-research budgets, the timing of booked studies and an unnamed customer accounting for 24% of revenue, rather than the drug-specific outcomes driving most candidates considered for this list.
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Champions Oncology’s report will show whether more pharmacology studies are converting into revenue and whether bringing radiopharmacology work in-house is lowering laboratory costs.
Read pharmacology-services revenue alongside cost of oncology revenue. Revenue growth with lower costs would show that more booked studies are converting and that doing radiopharmacology work in-house may be reducing outsourced costs. Weaker revenue or persistently high costs would mean study progress and savings are not yet improving the economics of this service business.
