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Destiny Pharma plc
("Destiny Pharma" or "the Company")
Result of Annual General Meeting and Strategy Update
Brighton, United Kingdom - 27 May 2022 - Destiny Pharma plc (AIM: DEST), a clinical stage innovative biotechnology company focused on the development of novel medicines that can prevent life-threatening infections, announces that all resolutions proposed to shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today were duly passed.
The full text of each resolution was included in the notice of the meeting which was made available on the Company's website and posted to shareholders on 27 April 2022. The results for the resolutions will shortly be available on the Investors' section of the Company's website, www.destinypharma.com.
Nick Rodgers, Chair of Destiny Pharma, stated: "Destiny Pharma is in a very strong position having two late-stage assets that have both delivered excellent Phase 2 data and are derived from two totally different technologies. This diversification and the existing robust data sets greatly reduce the risk inherent in drug development and biotechnology company pipelines.
We are on track to achieve our key strategic targets for our two lead programmes, XF-73 nasal and NTCD-M3. Discussions are ongoing with the US and EU regulatory authorities which will allow us to finalise the Phase 3 plans for XF-73 nasal for the prevention of post-surgical S. aureus infections. Active discussions regarding the out-licensing of our lead asset NTCD-M3 targeting the prevention of recurrent C. difficile gut infections are progressing well.
Our Senior Management Team has recently been strengthened with the appointment of an experienced Chief Medical Officer and we have also expanded the Board's skills through the appointment of new Non-Executive Directors.
The macroeconomic backdrop is challenging and financial markets have had a tough start to the year, but Destiny Pharma is in a strong position to deliver our strategy and develop our novel products that prevent serious infections. We look forward to reporting further progress in the rest of the year."
ENDS
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Destiny Pharma plc
Neil Clark, CEO / Shaun Claydon, CFO
+44 (0)1273 704 440
pressoffice@destinypharma.com
Optimum Strategic Communications
Mary Clark / Manel Mateus / Vici Rabbetts
+44 (0) 208 078 4357
DestinyPharma@optimumcomms.com
finnCap Ltd (Nominated Advisor and Broker)
Geoff Nash / Kate Bannatyne / George Dollemore, Corporate Finance
Alice Lane / Nigel Birks / Harriet Ward, ECM
+44 (0) 207 220 0500
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Anne Hennecke / Andreas Burckhardt
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About Destiny Pharma
Destiny Pharma is a clinical stage, innovative biotechnology company focused on the development of novel medicines that can prevent life-threatening infections. Its pipeline has novel microbiome-based biotherapeutics and XF drug clinical assets including NTCD-M3, a Phase 3 ready treatment for the prevention of C. difficile infection (CDI) recurrence which is the leading cause of hospital acquired infection in the US and XF-73 nasal gel, which has recently completed a positive Phase 2b clinical trial targeting the prevention of post-surgical staphylococcal hospital infections including MRSA. It is also co-developing SPOR-COV, a novel, biotherapeutic product for the prevention of COVID-19 and other viral respiratory infections and has earlier grant funded XF research projects.
For further information, please visit https://www.destinypharma.com
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