A UK company revolutionising drug discovery

Network pharmacology - finding alternate uses for existing drugs - is a growing area of medical research. Tom Bulford looks at one small-cap pharma that could be about to make an exciting breakthrough.

Sometimes that eureka moment happens when you least expect it. Take the example of Alexander Fleming. It's 1928, and Fleming is arriving back from holiday. He goes into his study, where he had been researching bacteria called staphylococcus and he notices a fungus has sprouted in one of his cultures.

The colonies of staphylococci that surrounded the fungus have been destroyed. And this accidental discovery, first named mould juice' by Fleming, would later be released as penicillin one of the most important lifesaving drugs of the 20th century.

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Tom worked as a fund manager in the City of London and in Hong Kong for over 20 years. As a director with Schroder Investment Management International he was responsible for £2 billion of foreign clients' money, and launched what became Argentina's largest mutual fund. Now working from his home in Oxfordshire, Tom Bulford helps private investors with his premium tipping newsletter, Red Hot Biotech Alert.