Director/PDMR Shareholding

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ValiRx PLC announced that Chief Executive Officer Mark Eccleston purchased 1,000,000 ordinary shares at 0.33 pence per share on 3 March 2026. This transaction increases his resultant interest in ordinary shares to 59,746,187, representing 8.04% of the company's issued ordinary shares. This director's shareholding update indicates confidence in the company's future prospects.

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ValiRx PLC
04 March 2026
 

ValiRx PLC

("ValiRx" or the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

London, UK - ValiRx Plc (AIM: VAL), a life science company focusing on early-stage cancer therapeutics and women's health, announces that it received notification on 3 March 2026 that Mark Eccleston, Chief Executive Officer, made the following purchase of ordinary shares in the Company.  

 

Director

Purchase price (Aggregated)

Ordinary shares purchased

Resultant interest in ordinary shares

Resultant percentage of issued ordinary shares

Mark Eccleston

0.33 pence

1,000,000

59,746,187

8.04%

 

Further details are set out in the Notification of Dealing Form below.

 

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of the UK Market Abuse Regulation and the Directors of the Company are responsible for the release of this announcement.

 

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Investor questions on this announcement

We encourage all investors to share questions

on this announcement via our investor hub

https://valirx.com/link/peg6vy

ValiRx plc

 

Dr Mark Eccleston, CEO

 

Tel: +44 115 784 0026

www.valirx.com

Mark.Eccleston@valirx.com

 

Cairn Financial Advisers LLP (Nominated Adviser)

 

Liam Murray / Ludovico Lazzaretti

 

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7213 0880

Shard Capital Partners LLP (Sole Broker)

 

Damon Heath

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7186 9000

V Formation (Public Relations)

 

Lucy Wharton - Senior PR Executive

Sue Carr - Director

 

+44 (0) 115 787 0206

www.vformation.biz

 

lucy@vformation.biz

sue@vformation.biz

 

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Notes for Editors

 

About ValiRx

ValiRx is a life science company focused on early-stage cancer therapeutics and women's health, accelerating the translation of innovative science into impactful medicines to improve patient lives.

ValiRx provides the scientific, financial, and commercial framework for enabling rapid translation of innovative science into clinical development.

 

Using its extensive and proven experience in research and drug development, the team at ValiRx selects and incubates promising novel drug candidates and guides them through an optimised process of development, from pre-clinical studies to clinic and investor-ready assets.

 

ValiRx connects diverse disciplines across scientific, technical, and commercial domains, with the aim of achieving a more streamlined, less costly, drug development process. The team works closely with carefully selected collaborators and leverages the combined expertise required for science to advance.

Lead candidates from ValiRx's portfolio are outlicensed or partnered with investors through ValiRx subsidiary companies for further clinical development and commercialisation.

 

ValiRx listed on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange in October 2006 and trades under the ticker symbol: VAL.

 

For further information, visit: www.valirx.com

 

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

 

1

Details of the persons discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

 

a)

Name

 

Mark Eccleston

2

Reason for the notification

 

a)

Position/Status

 

Chief Executive Officer

b)

Initial notification/ Amendment

 

Initial

3

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

 

a)

Name

 

ValiRx PLC

b)

LEI

 

213800VQKB9SJCQDET40

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

 

 

GB00BLH13C52

b)

Nature of the transaction

Purchase of shares

 

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

0.33 pence

1,000,000

 

d)

Aggregated information

 

-      Aggregated volume

 

-      Price

 

 

 

N/A

 

e)

Date of transaction

 

3 March 2026

f)

Place of transaction

 

AIM

 

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