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Investee Company Update: Summit Therapeutics plc

28 Jun 2018 07:00

RNS Number : 8262S
Port Erin Biopharma Investments Ltd
27 June 2018
 

27 June 2018

Port Erin Biopharma Investments Limited

("PEBI")

Investee Company Update

Summit Therapeutics plc: Ezutromid Trial Fails Primary and Secondary Endpoints

 

The Board notes that investee company and NASDAQ listed, Summit Therapeutics plc ("Summit") has announced today that their PhaseOut DMD trial has not met its primary or secondary endpoints after 48 weeks of treatment of ezutromid in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy ('DMD') and it will therefore discontinue the development of ezutromid. PhaseOut DMD was a multi-centre, open-label Phase 2 clinical trial of the utrophin modulator, ezutromid. As a result, the market capitalisation of Summit has fallen considerably.

PEBI, however, took the decision in mid-May this year to substantially reduce its exposure to Summit by selling 60,975 shares at an average price of £1.95 per share, generating £118,701.87 net cash now sitting on the balance sheet, thereby realising a profit, based on the original cost of investment, of £75,599.08.

PEBI still holds 60,966 shares in Summit at a cost of £43,081.22. This holding will form part of the quarterly Net Asset Valuation due to be released at the beginning of July, 2018.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Port Erin Biopharma

Investments Limited

Beaumont Cornish Limited

Optiva Securities Limited

The Company

Nomad

Broker

 

 

 

Denham Eke

+44 (0) 1624 639396

Roland Cornish/James Biddle

+44 (0) 207 628 3396

Jeremy King/Ed McDermott

+44 (0) 203 137 1904

 

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