SYNAIRGEN PLC

Major Shareholding Notification • Apr 3, 2018

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Synairgen plc

03 April 2018

Synairgen plc

('Synairgen' or the 'Company')

Holding in Company

Southampton, UK,: Synairgen plc (LSE: SNG), the respiratory drug discovery and development company, announces that it was today informed that Leonard Licht, a private investor, now holds 6,000,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company through his Choice Bespoke SIPP.

This represents 6.56% of the total voting rights of the Company.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Synairgen plc 

Richard Marsden, Chief Executive Officer

John Ward, Finance Director

Tel: + 44 (0) 23 8051 2800

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Geoff Nash, James Thompson (Corporate Finance)

Stephen Norcross, Simon Johnson (Corporate Broking)

Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7220 0500

Consilium Strategic Communications (Financial Media and Investor Relations)

Mary-Jane Elliott / Sukaina Virji / Laura Thornton

synairgen@consilium-comms.com

Tel: +44 (0) 20 3709 5701

About Synairgen 

Synairgen is a respiratory drug discovery and development company founded by University of Southampton Professors Stephen Holgate, Donna Davies and Ratko Djukanovic. The business, focused primarily on asthma and COPD, uses its differentiating human biology BioBank platform and world-renowned international academic KOL network to discover and develop novel therapies for respiratory disease. Leveraging scientific and clinical trial facilities at the University of Southampton and Southampton General Hospital, the Company uses in vitro and ex vivo models to progress opportunities into clinical development. The BioBank of human samples is used in these models to increase confidence in the likelihood of successful drug development. Core to Synairgen's business strategy is the realisation of value via licensing transactions. In August 2015 the Company entered into a collaboration with Pharmaxis to develop an oral LOXL2 inhibitor to reduce fibrosis in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). In December 2017 the collaboration agreement was amended as Pharmaxis took on full responsibility for the programme, with Synairgen receiving a £5 million upfront payment and circa 17% of any future partnering proceeds from all fibrotic indications.

Synairgen is quoted on AIM (LSE: SNG). For more information about Synairgen, please see www.synairgen.com. 

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