Cyclacel Limited And Xcyte Therapies, Inc. Combine To Form International Biopharmaceutical Company

2005--Cyclacel Group plc (Cyclacel), a privately held corporation, and Xcyte Therapies, Inc. (Xcyte) (Nasdaq:XCYT) (Nasdaq:XCYTP) announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine the two companies. The transaction will create a publicly-traded international biopharmaceutical company with two clinical stage, mechanism-targeted, small molecule drug candidates in cancer, a third candidate expected to enter clinical trials in the second half of 2006 and a strong development pipeline.

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