Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3757I

Proteome Sciences PLC

23 November 2018

 

23 November 2018

Proteome Sciences plc

("Proteome Sciences" or the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Company has received notification from Vulpes Life Sciences Fund ("Vulpes") that on 22 November 2018 it purchased 500,000 Ordinary Shares of 1p in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at 3.24p per Ordinary Share (the "Purchase"). Following the purchase, Vulpes has a total direct and indirect interest in 63,946,734 equivalent to 21.66% of Proteome Sciences' total issued share capital.

The Company would also like to announce that by virtue of Martin Diggle being a Director of both Vulpes Investment Management and the Company, he now has an interest in 63,946,734 Ordinary Shares of the Company representing 21.66% of the issued share capital of the Company.

The below notification is made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse regulation.

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Martin Diggle
	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Non-Executive Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial Notification
	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	Proteome Sciences Plc
b)	LEI:	213800Q62ICXANKU2986
	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary Shares of 1p nominal value GB0003104196
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Purchase of Ordinary Shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s) Volume(s) 3.24 500,000
d)	Aggregated information: ·    Aggregated volume: ·    Price:	Single transaction as in 4 c) above Average Price Volume(s) 3.24 500,000
e)	Date of the transaction:	22 November 2018
f)	Place of the transaction:	London Stock Exchange, AIM (XLON)

For further information:

Proteome Sciences plc
Dr Jeremy Haigh, Chief Executive Officer	Tel: [phone]
Dr Ian Pike, Chief Scientific Officer Richard Dennis, Chief Commercial Officer
finnCap Limited (Nominated Adviser & Broker)
Geoff Nash/Hannah Boros (Corporate Finance) Tim Redfern (Broking)	Tel: [phone]

About Proteome Sciences plc. (www.proteomics.com)

Proteome Sciences is a leader in applied proteomics offering high sensitivity, proprietary technologies and workflows for mapping cell signalling pathways (SysQuant^®) and for the discovery, validation and assay development of protein biomarkers (TMTcalibrator^™). The company has its headquarters in London, UK, with laboratory facilities in Frankfurt, Germany from where the PS Biomarker Services^™ division provides outsourced proteomics services and proprietary biomarker assays to biopharmaceutical and diagnostics companies and to academia.

Proteome Sciences has patented several novel protein biomarkers for diagnostic and treatment applications in important areas of human therapeutics such as cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's disease, and these are available for license.

 

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