Result of AGM
Stem Cell Sciences plc
24 May 2007
Stem Cell Sciences plc
("SCS" or "the Company")
Result of AGM
24 May 2007
At the Annual General Meeting held at 8.00 am on 23 May 2007, all the
resolutions contained within the Notice of Meeting were passed.
Two copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been
submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for
inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is
situated at Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf,
London, E14 5HS.
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For further information, please contact:
Stem Cell Sciences plc (United Kingdom)
Susan Furber, Director of Finance & Company Secretary +44 131 662 9829
Weber Shandwick Financial
James White +44 207 067 0700
Stem Cell Sciences (Australia) pty ltd
Paul Bello, Scientific Program Manager +61 3 9905 0608
David Campbell, Group Business Manager
Talk Biotech
Fay Weston +61 4 2220 6036
Stem Cell Sciences llc (USA)
David Dodd, Chairman of SCS plc +1 678 641 4029
George Murphy, Vice President Business Development +1 415 425 6540
Notes to Editors
Stem Cell Sciences plc (AIM: STEM, ASX: STC) is a global biotechnology company,
established in Melbourne, Australia in 1994, providing products in the
burgeoning stem cell research and drug discovery markets, in addition to the
targeted development of cell-based therapies for neurodegenerative disease and
injury.
The Company has established a leading intellectual property (IP) and technology
portfolio that enables the commercial application of stem cells in drug
discovery, providing the Company with early-stage revenue streams and technology
development for at scale cell production of SCS cell-based therapeutics. SCS
principal focus is in neurological disease. Revenues in the neurotech market,
including pharmaceuticals, devices and diagnostics, grew 10% in 2005 to US$110
billion (Neurotech Insights, Volume 2/3 April 30 2006).
SCS operates as a group of independent operations with offices and laboratories
in Edinburgh and Cambridge, UK, Kobe, Japan, Melbourne, Australia and San
Francisco, USA (office only). Each SCS facility is affiliated with an academic
centre of excellence. These include the Institute of Stem Cell Research (ISCR),
Edinburgh, UK, RIKEN Centre for Development Biology, Kobe, Japan and the
Australian Stem Cell Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
SCS has four business units, each dedicated to different aspects of the stem
cell business opportunity.
SC Proven(R) provides cell culture media (liquid formulations) and reagents that
enable the growth and differentiation of stem cells. The first SC Proven(R)
product, "ESGRO CompleteTM", a cell culture medium capable of consistent growth
of mouse embryonic stem cells without serum or feeder cell support was launched
in February 2006. This was followed by "HEScGROTM", the first animal-component
free cell culture medium to enable improved growth of human embryonic stem
cells, in January 2007. These products are manufactured and distributed by
Chemicon International, now part of Millipore Corporation.
SC Licensing licenses SCS proprietary technologies, such as Internal Ribosome
Entry Site (IRES), Stem Cell Selection, hMADS (human adipose derived stem cells)
and Neural Stem Cell Technology for application in laboratory-based research and
discovery. SCS has licensed technology to major pharmaceutical and biotechnology
companies including Merck & Co, Pfizer, Sanofi Aventis, GSK, Deltagen Inc and
Lexicon Genetics Inc and others.
SC Services provides specialised stem cell production for basic research and
drug discovery, including high-throughput applications through an automated cell
production facility in Cambridge UK. The services offered include the creation
of specific cell lines for a customer, the modification of existing cell lines
so that they can be grown in serum free SC Proven(R) media, and the supply of
cells for drug screening in multi-well plate format.
SC Therapies' goal is to develop safe and effective cell-based therapies for
currently incurable diseases. Initial research is being directed to developing
and characterising cell lines of potential therapeutic value in the treatment of
spinal injury, Parkinson's disease, eye disease, epilepsy and Duchenne Muscular
Dystrophy (DMD). Programmes to test SCS' proprietary stem cells in animal models
of spinal cord injury have been initiated in a number of disease models and
preclinical studies for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy are
anticipated in 2007-8.
For further information on the company please visit:
www.stemcellsciences.com
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