Following the Company's recent announcement concerning the trial conducted by scientists from the
The rationale of this decision is that, as a standalone genomics-based personalized medicine company and separate legal entity, StemPrintER could: Secure separate financial resources, with the goal of enabling accelerated development of the StemPrintER genomic test; Separate StemPrintER from Tiziana's biotechnology and pharmaceutical businesses so it may focus on the personalized medicine market and Allow Shareholders to benefit from both Tiziana's rapidly developing drug portfolio and the standalone value of StemPrintER as it progresses through its own development milestones and the path to commercialization and allow shareholders to receive the maximum potential value from StemPrintER as a standalone entity.
The Board is taking the necessary preliminary steps in preparation for a potential spin-out, including the incorporation of a new subsidiary to hold the relevant assets. The Company will also put proposals to shareholders at the Annual General Meeting to obtain the approval necessary for a capital reduction which will be required to implement the demerger.
Notwithstanding that the required approval for the capital reduction will be sought, these considerations remain at an early stage and there can be no guarantee that the demerger will be completed. The approval of the capital reduction will enable the Board, in due course, to declare distribution in specie of shares in the new StemPrintER entity to existing Tiziana shareholders.
No record date has yet been set for the entitlement to shares in the new StemPrintER entity as a number of technical, legal and accounting processes need to be completed before the demerger can be formally put to shareholders of Tiziana for approval. For the avoidance of doubt StemPrintER will remain a group business until such time as shareholders formally approve proposals for a demerger.
About StemPrintER and SPARE
StemPrintER is a multi-gene prognostic assay intended for the prediction of the risk of recurrence in luminal, estrogen receptor-positive HER2-negative breast cancer patients, based on the detection of 20 cancer stem cell markers. The assay has been evaluated in an initial retrospective validation study using a consecutive cohort of approximately 2,400 patients with breast cancer.
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