7 May 2015 07:10
Tiziana Life Sciences: Board changes
London, 07 May 2015 - Tiziana Life Sciences plc ("Tiziana", AIM: TILS), the clinical stage biotechnology company focused on targeted drugs to treat diseases in oncology and immunology, announces that, Phil Boyd, the Chief Financial Officer, has tendered his resignation as a director of the Company in order to focus on other opportunities. He will step down from the Board with immediate effect.
The Company has commenced a search for an appropriate successor and in the interim, Phil will continue to provide consulting services to the Company, together with other interim finance solutions.
Gabriele Cerrone, Chairman and founder of Tiziana, commented: "We would like to thank Phil for his invaluable contribution to the growth of Tiziana and we wish him well in his future career."
Contacts:
Tiziana Life Sciences plc Gabriele Cerrone, Chairman and founder
| +44 (0)20 7493 2853 |
Cairn Financial Advisers LLP (Nominated advisor) Liam Murray / Avi Robinson
| +44 (0)20 7148 7900 |
Beaufort Securities Limited (Broker) Saif Janjua
| +44 (0)20 7382 8300 |
FTI Consulting Simon Conway / Rob Winder / Natalie Garland-Collins | +44 (0)20 3727 1000 |
About Tiziana Life Sciences
Tiziana Life Sciences plc is a UK biotechnology company that focuses on the discovery and development of novel molecules that treat human disease in oncology and immunology.
In January 2015, the Company entered into an exclusive licence from Nerviano Medical Sciences relating to milciclib, a molecule which blocks the action of specific enzymes called cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) involved in cell division as well as a number of other protein kinases. Milciclib is currently in phase II clinical trials for thymic carcinoma in patients previously treated with chemotherapy.
The Company also in-licensed another clinical asset in December 2014 from Novimmune. Foralumab is the only fully human engineered anti-human CD3 antibody in clinical development. This phase II asset has potential application in a wide range of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, type-1 diabetes (T1D), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis, where modulation of a T-cell response is desirable.
Tiziana Life Sciences' research team has discovered that Bcl-3 has a prominent role in the metastasis of mammary cancers, and has elucidated the mechanism of Bcl-3 action to be a regulator of cancer cell motility. Tiziana has also determined that Bcl-3 inhibition suppresses cell motility in triple-negative, HER-2-positive PR- and ER-positive breast cancer sub-types, suggesting that Bcl-3 may be a master regulator of this metastatic property not only in aggressive breast cancers, but across the clinical spectrum of breast disease.