RNS Number : 4124C
Fusion Antibodies PLC
12 June 2023
 

 

12 June 2023

 

Fusion Antibodies plc

("Fusion" or the "Company")

 

Director/PDMR Shareholding

 

Fusion Antibodies plc (AIM: FAB), specialists in pre-clinical antibody discovery, engineering and supply for both therapeutic drug and diagnostic applications, has been notified that Richard Buick, Chief Scientific Officer of Fusion, has purchased 68,750 ordinary shares in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 7.2 pence per Ordinary Share. Following this purchase, Richard Buick holds 700,000 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 1.18 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital. 

 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

 

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Richard Buick

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Scientific Officer

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial notification

3

 

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Fusion Antibodies plc

b)

LEI

213800KBAYRC9VOQ9V39

4

 

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 4p each in Fusion Antibodies plc

 

 

Identification code (ISIN) for Fusion Antibodies plc ordinary shares: GB00BDQZGK16

b)

Nature of the transaction

Purchase of Ordinary Shares

 

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

 

 Price(s)

Volume(s)

7.2p

68,750

d)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

 

-      68,750

-      7.2p

e)

Date of the transaction

9 June 2023

f)

Place of the transaction

XLON, London Stock Exchange

 

 

Enquiries: 

 

Fusion Antibodies plc

www.fusionantibodies.com

Adrian Kinkaid, Chief Executive Officer

 

Via Walbrook PR


 

Allenby Capital Limited

Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656 

James Reeve/Vivek Bhardwaj (Corporate Finance)

Tony Quirke/Joscelin Pinnington (Sales and Corporate Broking)

 



Walbrook PR

Tel: +44 (0)20 7933 8780 or fusion@walbrookpr.com

Anna Dunphy

Mob: +44 (0)7876 741 001

 

About Fusion Antibodies plc

 

Fusion is a Belfast based contract research organisation ("CRO") providing a range of antibody engineering services for the development of antibodies for both therapeutic drug and diagnostic applications.

 

The Company's ordinary shares were admitted to trading on AIM on 18 December 2017. Fusion provides a broad range of services in antibody generation, development, production, characterisation and optimisation. These services include antigen expression, antibody production, purification and sequencing, antibody humanisation using Fusion's proprietary CDRx TM platform and the production of antibody generating stable cell lines to provide material for use in clinical trials. Since 2012, the Company has successfully sequenced and expressed over 250 antibodies and successfully completed over 200 humanisation projects and has an international, blue-chip client base, which has included eight of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies by revenue.

 

The Company was established in 2001 as a spin out from Queen's University Belfast. The Company's mission is to enable pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies to develop innovative products in a timely and cost-effective manner for the benefit of the global healthcare industry. Fusion Antibodies provides a broad range of services in antibody generation, development, production, characterisation and optimisation.

 

Fusion Antibodies growth strategy is based on combining the latest technological advances with cutting edge science to deliver new platforms that will enable Pharma and Biotech companies get to the clinic faster, with the optimal drug candidate and ultimately speed up the drug development process. 

 

The global monoclonal antibody therapeutics market was valued at $135.4 billion in 2018 and is forecast to surpass $212.6 billion in 2022, an increase at a CAGR of 12.0 per cent. for the period 2018 to 2022. In 2017, seven of the world's ten top selling drugs were antibody-based therapeutics with the combined annual sales of these drugs exceeding $63.2 billion. 

 

 

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