LUND, SWEDEN--(Marketwire - April 30, 2010) -
The number of shares and votes in Active Biotech has changed as a result of the exercise of employee stock options and the directed share issue placed with funds managed by Sectoral Asset Management Inc.
Today, the last trading day of the month, there are in total 65,670,925 shares and votes in Active Biotech.
Lund, April 30, 2010 Active Biotech AB (publ) For further information, please contact: Hans Kolam, CFO Tel: +46 (0)46 19 20 44 E-mail: hans.kolam@activebiotech.com Active Biotech AB PO Box 724, SE-220 07 Lund Sweden Tel: +46 (0)46-19 20 00 Fax: +46 (0)46-19 11 00
Active Biotech AB (OMX NORDIC: ACTI), headquartered in Sweden, is a biotechnology company with R&D focus on autoimmune/inflammatory diseases and cancer. Projects in pivotal phase are laquinimod, an orally administered small molecule with unique immunomodulatory properties for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, as well as ANYARA for use in cancer targeted therapy, primarily renal cancer. Further key projects in clinical development comprise the three orally administered compounds TASQ for prostate cancer, 57-57 for SLE and RhuDex™ for RA. Please visit www.activebiotech.com for more information.
Active Biotech is required under the Financial Instruments Trading Act to make the information in this press release public. The information was submitted for publication at 08:30 am CET on April 30, 2010.
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Number of shares and votes in Active Biotech: http://hugin.info/1002/R/1410152/362717.pdf
