Results of PrimaryBid Offer

Results of PrimaryBid Offer

Released : 04 Aug 2023 07:00

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4 August 2023

Oxford BioDynamics PLC

Results of PrimaryBid Offer

Oxford BioDynamics PLC (AIM: OBD, "OBD" or "the Company"), a biotechnology company developing precision medicine tests based on the EpiSwitch® 3D genomics platform, is pleased to announce the successful completion of the PrimaryBid Offer that was announced on 1 August 2023.

Following the successful completion of the Placing and the Subscription, as announced by the Company on 2 August 2023 (the "Results Announcement"), retail investors have subscribed via the PrimaryBid platform for a total of 4,941,611 new Ordinary Shares at an issue price of 11p per Ordinary Share, raising gross proceeds of approximately £543,577.

Consequently, in aggregate, 55,591,035 new Ordinary Shares will be issued pursuant to the Placing, the Subscription and the PrimaryBid Offer, representing approximately 27.5 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital as enlarged by the Placing, the Subscription and the PrimaryBid Offer, and raising aggregate gross proceeds of approximately £6.1 million.

Further to the Director and PDMR participations set out in the Results Announcement, Dr Alexandre Akoulitchev, Chief Scientific Officer, has subscribed for 300,000 shares in the PrimaryBid Offer and Paul Stockdale, Chief Financial Officer, has subscribed for 90,909 Ordinary Shares in the PrimaryBid Offer.

Admission and settlement

An application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that Admission will become effective and dealings in the new Ordinary Shares to be issued pursuant to the Placing, the Subscription and the PrimaryBid Offer will commence on 22 August 2023, subject to the approval by the Company's shareholders of the resolutions to be proposed at a general meeting of the Company's shareholders to be held at 10.00 a.m. on 18 August 2023 in connection with the Fundraising.

The new Ordinary Shares to be issued pursuant to the Placing, the Subscription and the PrimaryBid Offer will, on Admission, rank in full for all dividends and other distributions declared, made or paid on the Ordinary Shares after Admission and will otherwise rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares.

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About Oxford BioDynamics Plc

Oxford BioDynamics Plc (AIM: OBD) is a global biotechnology company, advancing personalized healthcare by developing and commercializing precision medicine tests for life-changing diseases.

Its flagship product is EpiSwitch® CiRT (Checkpoint Inhibitor Response Test) for cancer, a predictive immune response profile for immuno-oncology (IO) checkpoint inhibitor treatments, launched in February 2022.

OBD's next commercial product will be the Prostate Screening EpiSwitch® (PSE) blood test, due to be launched in Q4 2023.

In March 2021, the Company launched its first commercial prognostic test, EpiSwitch® CST (Covid Severity Test) and the first commercially available microarray kit for high-resolution 3D genome profiling and biomarker discovery, EpiSwitch® Explorer Array Kit, which is available for purchase by the life science research community.

The Company has developed a proprietary 3D genomic biomarker platform, EpiSwitch®, which can build molecular diagnostic classifiers for the prediction of response to therapy, patient prognosis, disease diagnosis and subtyping, and residual disease monitoring in a wide range of indications.

Oxford BioDynamics has participated in more than 40 partnerships with big pharma and leading institutions including Pfizer, EMD Serono, Genentech, Roche, Biogen, Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma.

The Company has created a valuable technology portfolio, including biomarker arrays, molecular diagnostic tests, bioinformatic tools for 3D genomics and an expertly curated 3D genome knowledgebase comprising hundreds of millions of data points from over 10,000 samples in more than 30 human diseases.

OBD is headquartered in Oxford, UK and is listed on AIM of the London Stock Exchange. It also has a commercial office in Gaithersburg and a clinical laboratory in Frederick, MD, USA, and a reference laboratory in Penang, Malaysia.

For more information, please visit the Company's website, www.oxfordbiodynamics.com, or follow OBD on Twitter (@OxBioDynamics) and LinkedIn.

About EpiSwitch®

The 3D configuration of the genome plays a crucial role in gene regulation. By mapping this architecture and identifying abnormal configurations, EpiSwitch® can be used to diagnose patients or determine how individuals might respond to a disease or treatment.

Built on over 10 years of research, EpiSwitch® is Oxford Biodynamics' award-winning, proprietary platform that enables screening, evaluation, validation and monitoring of 3D genomic biomarkers. The technology is fully developed, based on testing of over 10,000 samples in 30 disease areas, and reduced to practice.

In addition to stratifying patients with respect to anticipated clinical outcomes, EpiSwitch® data offer insights into systems biology and the physiological manifestation of disease that are beyond the scope of other molecular modalities. The technology has performed well in academic medical research settings and has been validated through its integration in biomarker discovery and clinical development with big pharma.