Medgenics, Inc. Issue of Options and Restricted Shares to Directors and Officers

MISGAV, Israel & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medgenics, Inc. (NYSE MKT: MDGN and AIM: MEDU, MEDG), the developer of a novel technology for the sustained production and delivery of therapeutic proteins in patients using their own tissue, announces that, on 2 January 2013 it (i) granted options to subscribe for 15,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value US$0.0001 (“Common Shares”) (“Options”) and (ii) made a restricted share award of 7,000 Common Shares (“Restricted Shares”) to each of Isaac Blech, Sol Barer, Alastair Clemow, Joel Kanter, and Stephen McMurray, all non-executive directors of the Company, as part of their remuneration for the year.