29 Jul 2008 13:47
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For Immediate Release
29 July 2008
ReGen Therapeutics PlcΒ (AIM: RGT)
Update on US International OTCQX trading platformΒ
ReGen Therapeutics Plc ("ReGen" or the "Company") announced on the 14thΒ July that its American Depository Receipts (ADRs) were trading on the US International OTCQX under the symbol REGUY. ReGen now confirms that it can issue ADRs in respect of up to 25% of its issued share capital. Each ADR represents 20 of ReGen ordinary shares. ReGen retains its primary listing onΒ AIM.
Further details of ReGen's ADR programme can be found at www.regentherapeutics.com/reganplc/investors/adr/
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For further information:
Percy Lomax
ReGen Therapeutics Plc
Tel No 020 7153 4920
RolandΒ Cornish/Felicity Geidt
BeaumontΒ Cornish
Tel No 020 7628 3396
David Scott/NickΒ Bealer
Alexander David
Tel No 020 7448 9800
AdrianΒ Duffield/Jon Davies
College Hill Associates
Tel No 020 7457 2020
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Notes to Editors:
About ReGen Therapeutics
ReGen TherapeuticsΒ PLCΒ is a UK-based biopharmaceutical company engaged in the acquisition and development of therapies related to age related disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other degenerative neurological disorders.
The Company is focused particularly on technologies that address large unmet medical need to maintain healthy brain ageing, as well as rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury. ReGen's product pipeline comprises ColostrininTMΒ a nutraceutical that is in full commercial production and had been launched to the professional channel in the USA and Australia under the brand name CogniSureTM; a drug development programme based on ColostrininTM-derived peptides; and Phase II clinical trials on a novel formulation of Zolpidem for the treatment of brain trauma and reversal of dormancy.
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