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PYC THERAPEUTICS LIMITED Board/Management Information 2016

Nov 27, 2016

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Board/Management Information

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Market Announcements Platform Australian Securities Exchange

Director Resignation

PERTH, AUSTRALIA: November 28[th] , 2016 – Phylogica Ltd (ASX: PYC, XETRA: PH7) announces that Dr Doug Wilson has resigned as a Non-Executive Director, effective from the AGM on 25[th] November 2016.

Dr Wilson has been a Director of Phylogica since December 2007, became an Executive Director in December 2008 and Executive Chairman in 2009. He became Non-executive Chairman in November 2012, in which capacity he remained until October 2015, continuing thereafter as a Non-executive Director until his resignation.

During his career, Dr Wilson had held senior positions in international pharmaceutical firms and still consults widely in the medical and biotechnology industries. His knowledge and skills have been extremely valuable to Phylogica in developing its peptide libraries into potential oncology drug candidates and its cell penetrating peptide delivery platform, which are generating significant interest in the pharmaceutical industry.

The board wishes to express its deep appreciation of the contribution which Dr Wilson has made to its operation and, on behalf of shareholders, for his contribution to the development of the Company to its present position.

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For further information, please contact:

Rudi Michelson Monsoon Communications Tel + 61 3 9620 3333 [email protected]

About Phylogica

Phylogica Limited (ASX: PYC) is a biotechnology company based in Perth, Australia with a world-class drug discovery platform harnessing the rich biodiversity of nature to discover novel peptide therapeutics. The Company was incorporated in 2001 as a spin out from the Telethon Kids Institute (Perth, Australia) and the Fox Chase Cancer Centre (Philadelphia, USA). The Company’s drug discovery platform is based on its proprietary Phylomer[®] libraries containing over 400 billion unique natural peptides, which have been optimised by evolutionary selection to have stable drug-like structures. Phylogica offers fully integrated drug discovery services to the pharmaceutical industry utilising its Phylomer[®] libraries and proprietary screening technologies. Phylogica’s alliance partners have included Roche, Genentech (a member of the Roche Group), MedImmune (the worldwide biologics arm of AstraZeneca), Pfizer, Janssen and Cubist Pharmaceuticals (subsequently acquired by Merck).

Tel: +61 8 9384 3284 | Fax: +61 8 9284 3801 www.phylogica.com Phylogica Ltd ABN 48 098 391 961