SAREUM HOLDINGS PLC : Director Declaration

SAREUM HOLDINGS PLC : Director Declaration

11 February 2013

Sareum Holdings plc

("Sareum" or "the Company")

Director Declaration

Sareum Holdings plc (AIM: SAR), the specialist cancer drug discovery business, notes the announcement of Angel Biotechnology plc ("Angel") made on 11 February 2013 confirming that administrators have been appointed with immediate effect.

Paul Harper, a director of Sareum, was a director of Angel until December 2012, and accordingly is required to make this notification pursuant to Rule 17 of the AIM Rules for Companies.

For further information:
Sareum Holdings plc
Tim Mitchell 01223 497 700
Merchant Securities Limited (Nomad)
Simon Clements 020 7628 2200
Hybridan LLP (Broker)
Claire Noyce, Deepak Reddy 020 7947 4350
Media enquiries:
The Communications Portfolio Ltd
Philip Ranger / Caolan Mahon 020 7536 2028/2029
philip.ranger@communications-portfolio.co.uk

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About Sareum Holdings plc

Sareum is a drug discovery company, headquartered in Cambridge UK, that produces targeted small molecule therapeutics, focusing on cancer and auto-immune disease. Sareum aims to successfully deliver drug candidates for licensing to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies at the pre-clinical or early clinical trials stage.

Sareum's Chk1 kinase cancer research programme is a joint research collaboration with The Institute of Cancer Research and Cancer Research Technology Limited. The development candidate resulting from the collaboration increases the effectiveness of current cancer therapeutics in several in-vivo cancer models.

SKIL® (Sareum Kinase Inhibitor Library) is Sareum's drug discovery technology platform that has so far produced the Company's Aurora+FLT3, Aurora+ALK VEGFR-3, FLT3 & TYK2 kinase cancer and auto-immune disease research programmes. SKIL can also generate drug research programmes against other kinase targets.

Sareum Holdings plc is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol SAR.  For further information, please visit www.sareum.co.uk




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