Spotlight Innovation Subsidiary Celtic Biotech Iowa, Inc. Completes Merger With Celtic Biotech Ltd.

WEST DES MOINES, IA--(Marketwired - June 10, 2014) - Spotlight Innovation, Inc. (OTCQB: STLT) today announced that effective June 4, 2014, Celtic Biotech Iowa, Inc. (a subsidiary of Spotlight Innovation, Inc.) has completed a share exchange agreement with biopharmaceutical company Celtic Biotech Ltd.

Pursuant to the share exchange agreement, Celtic Biotech Ltd. is a subsidiary of Celtic Biotech Iowa, Inc., and gains access to Spotlight Innovation’s intellectual property commercialization and business development expertise.

Paul F. Reid, Ph.D., co-founder of Celtic Biotech Ltd., said, “With this new relationship, we are positioned to continue developing a suite of cancer treatment and pain therapies that have been progressing through clinical trials. We are tremendously excited and motivated to bring these highly-promising products to bear in the fight against cancer.”

Cristopher Grunewald, President and CEO of Spotlight Innovation and Director of Celtic Biotech Iowa, said, “Celtic Biotech Iowa’s mission directly supports our goal of positively impacting the health and well-being of as many people as possible. Celtic Biotech Ltd.'s novel, development-stage cancer and pain therapeutic products for treatment in humans, derived from naturally specialized receptor-binding proteins, have the potential to reduce treatment costs, increase survivability, and improve the quality of life for cancer patients. We look forward to fulfilling their promise.”

About Spotlight Innovation, Inc.

Spotlight Innovation, Inc. provides solutions for healthcare-focused companies commercializing healthcare intellectual property developed by major centers of academia in the United States. The company focuses on identifying, validating and acquiring/cooperating with early stage companies developing healthcare technologies including pharmaceuticals, devices and equipment, diagnostic products and healthcare IT. Additional information available at www.spotlightinnovation.com.

About Celtic Biotech Iowa, Inc.

Celtic Biotech Iowa, Inc. is a subsidiary of Spotlight Innovation, Inc. Additional information available at www.spotlightinnovation.com/celticbiotech.

About Celtic Biotech, Ltd.

Celtic Biotech Ltd has developed novel, clinical trial-phase therapeutic products for the treatment of cancers and pain in humans. Derived from naturally specialized receptor-binding proteins, these products have the potential to reduce treatment costs, increase survivability, and improve the quality of life for cancer patients.

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