Cobra BioManufacturing Wins New Adenovirus Service Contract

Keele, UK: 26 August 2009, Cobra Biomanufacturing Plc (AIM: CBF), the international manufacturer of biopharmaceuticals, today announces that it has signed an agreement with a European biotechnology company to provide development services for an Adenovirus based product. Cobra was selected because of its experience with Adenovirus production and the full production service that Cobra can provide.

At the heart of the contract will be the application of Cobra’s proprietary virus purification platform, which is based on scalable chromatographic operations and integrates single use technologies throughout. The process shows comparable purities to density gradient approaches and yields of up to 50%.

Simon Saxby, Chief Executive of Cobra Biomanufacturing said: “We are very pleased to have been selected by this company as this underlines Cobra’s extensive experience and expertise in producing virus based products for clinical trials. This agreement also highlights Cobra’s continued commitment to be the CMO of choice for virus production.”

About Cobra Biomanufacturing Plc:

Cobra Biomanufacturing Plc is a leading international manufacturer of biopharmaceuticals to the lifescience industry. Founded in 1992, Cobra provides innovative manufacturing solutions to the biopharmaceutical industry covering DNA, virus, cellular therapeutics and recombinant protein products.

Cobra has developed a range of unique, patented technologies, which underpin a successful revenue generating contract manufacturing business.

www.cobrabio.com

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