Renovo plc

Renovo Group plc
Company type	Public limited company
Industry	Biotechnology
Founded	October 2000
Defunct	May 2011; 13 years ago
Headquarters	Manchester, United Kingdom
Key people	Mark Ferguson (CEO)
Number of employees	110
Website	Archived 24 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine

Renovo Group plc was a biopharmaceutical company, which was founded in 1998 and was headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom. It worked in the discovery and development of drugs to reduce scarring, improve wound healing and enhance tissue regeneration.^[1] Renovo does not currently have any marketed products. It aimed "to be first to market with a scar prevention pharmaceutical drug in the US and Europe" in approximately 2014. Following the failure of its last clinical candidate Juvista, all 100 of Renovo's staff were laid off in 2011.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Although the company stopped all pharmaceutical development it continued as a financial provider. In August 2014, Renovo Group plc was renamed Inspired Capital plc.^[5]^[6]

Products

Renovo does not currently have any marketed products. Its development pipeline currently includes one drug in phase III clinical development, two drugs in phase II clinical development, and numerous pre-clinical candidates.^[7]

Drug	Phase	Action
Juvista	Failed^[8]	Injected to the wound margins around the time of surgery causes a prevention or reduction of scarring through introduction of recombinant TGFβ3.
Adaprev	Halted^[9]	Injected at the time of surgery for the prevention and reduction of scarring and adhesions between the tendon and surrounding tissues following tendon repair.].
Prevascar	Halted^[10]	Injected to the wound margins around the time of surgery causes a reduction of scarring through suppression of TGFβ1 and TGFβ2.
Juvidex		Renovo planned to partner Juvidex as a cosmetic ingredient for the improvement of skin appearance and to promote the healing of damaged skin.
RN1005	Phase I Clinical trial	RN1005 is an advanced preclinical candidate pharmaceutical, discovered by Renovo, targeting the Wnt pathway to reduce scarring and enhance tissue regeneration.