Silence Therapeutics plc — Director's Dealing 2019

Oct 3, 2019

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RNS Number : 7226O

Silence Therapeutics PLC

03 October 2019

Director/PDMR Shareholding

October 3, 2019

LONDON, Silence Therapeutics, PLC (LON: SLN) ("Silence" or "the Company") a leader in the discovery, development and delivery of novel RNA therapeutics for the treatment of serious diseases, today announces that on October 2nd 3,171 Shares were purchased by Alistair Gray, Non-Executive Director of the Company, at £1.89 per share.

Following this purchase, Alistair Gray is interested in 7,019 ordinary shares (0.01%) of the issued share capital of the Company and will be interested in 8,645 ordinary shares (0.01%) of the issued share capital of the Company following the admission of the new shares on October 7th pursuant to his exercise of Conditional Share Awards announced on October 1st.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1.

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities (PDMR) / person closely associated

a)

Name

Alistair Gray

2.

Reason for the notification

a)

Position / status

Non-Executive Director

b)

Initial notification / Amendment

Initial notification

3.

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Silence Therapeutics plc

b)

LEI

213800SSURRJBX85SQ91

4

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each in Silence Therapeutics plc

ISIN for Silence Therapeutics plc Ordinary Shares:

GB00B9GTXM62

b)

Nature of the transaction

Purchase of Ordinary Shares in Silence Therapeutics plc

c)

Prices(a) and volume(s)

Price	Volume
£1.89	3,171

d)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

3,171 Ordinary Shares

£5,993.19

e)

Date of the transaction

02 October 2019

f)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange, AIM

Enquiries:

Silence Therapeutics plc Dr David Horn Solomon, Chief Executive Officer	Tel:  +44 (0)20 3457 6900
Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Broker) James Steel/Oliver Jackson	Tel:  +44 (0)20 7418 8900
European IR Consilium Strategic Communications Mary-Jane Elliott/Chris Welsh/Angela Gray [email protected]	Tel: +44 (0) 20 3709 5700
US IR Westwicke Partners Peter Vozzo [email protected]	Tel: +1 (443) 213-0505

About Silence Therapeutics plc

Silence Therapeutics is developing a new generation of medicines by harnessing the body's natural

mechanism of RNA interference, or RNAi, within its cells. Its proprietary technology can selectively

inhibit any gene in the genome, specifically silencing the production of disease-causing proteins. Using

its enabling delivery systems, it has achieved an additional level of specificity by delivering its

therapeutic RNA molecules exclusively to target cells. Silence's proprietary RNA chemistries and

delivery systems are designed to improve the stability of our molecules and enhance effective delivery

to target cells, providing a powerful modular technology well suited to tackle life-threatening diseases.

For more information, please visit: https://www.silence-therapeutics.com/ 

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