** Shares of C4X Discovery C4XD.L down 6% at 19.5p
** British drug discovery company posts wider FY pre-tax
loss of 10.5 mln pounds ($12.94 mln) vs 5.9 mln pounds a year
ago urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN3343O5
** FY revenue plunges ~52% to 2.7 mln pounds vs 5.6 mln
pounds reported last year
** C4DX adds that it entered licence deal with drugmaker
AstraZeneca AZN.L in November 2022 for its oral small molecule
NRF2 programme
** This third agreement across our partnered programmes with
truly world-renowned industry leader, AstraZeneca, brings the
total potential value of our deals to $1.2 billion - CEO Clive
Dix
** Including session losses, stock has fallen 54% YTD
($1 = 0.8116 pounds)
(Reporting by Amna Karimi in Bengaluru)
((Amna.Karimi@thomsonreuters.com; +91 8083261226;))