RNS Press Release
For release: 16 December 2015
Result of Annual General Meeting
Epistem Holdings Plc (LSE: EHP), the personalised medicine and biotechnology company, announces today that all resolutions were duly passed at its Annual General Meeting, held today in London.
For further details please contact:
Epistem Holdings Plc
Dr Ian Gilham: Chairman +44 (0)161 606 7258
John Rylands: Finance Director
Peel Hunt LLP
James Steel +44 (0)207 418 8900
Tom Burt
Oliver Jackson
Consilium Strategic Communications
Chris Gardner / Laura Thornton +44 (0)203 709 5700
Notes to Editors
Epistem is a personalised medicine and biotechnology company developing innovative diagnostics and biomarkers alongside providing contract research services to drug development companies. Epistem's Genedrive® is a next-generation Point of Care molecular diagnostic system providing a low cost, rapid, versatile, simple to use and robust diagnostics platform for the diagnosis of infectious diseases and for use in patient stratification (genotyping), pathogen detection and other indications. Genedrive® aims to provide a 'gold standard' identification of Tuberculosis & antibiotic resistance. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has publicly recommended that nations incorporate new rapid and molecular tests for Tuberculosis into their disease testing programs. The Genedrive® platform and its first Tuberculosis test is now being prepared for launch in India and the Indian sub-continent. Further details can be found at: www.epistem.co.uk and www.genedrive.com