Premaitha Health PLC Notice of AGM (3973L)

TIDMNIPT

RNS Number : 3973L

Premaitha Health PLC

30 September 2016

Premaitha Health plc

("Premaitha" or the "Company")

Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of AGM

Manchester, UK - 30 September 2016 - Premaitha Health plc (AIM: NIPT), developer of the leading CE-marked complete non-invasive prenatal screening system, announces that its Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2016 and Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM") have today been posted to shareholders and are available on the Company's website: http://www.premaitha.com/.

Premaitha's AGM will be held at 2.00 p.m. on Thursday, 27 October 2016 at Greenheys Building, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester M15 6JJ.

For more information, please contact:

 
 Premaitha Health plc                   Tel: +44 (0)161 
                                         667 6865 
 Dr Stephen Little, Chief Executive     [e-mail] 
  Office 
 Barry Hextall, Chief Financial 
  Officer 
 Joanne Cross, Head of Marketing 
 
 
 Cairn Financial Advisers LLP (Nomad)   Tel: +44 (0)20 
                                         7148 7900 
 Liam Murray 
 
 finnCap (Broker)                       Tel: +44 (0)20 
                                         7220 0500 
 Adrian Hargrave / Scott Mathieson 
  (Corporate Finance) 
 Tony Quirke (Corporate Broking) 
 
 Vigo Communications                    Tel: +44 (0)20 
                                         7830 9700 
 Ben Simons / Fiona Henson / Antonia 
  Pollock 
 [e-mail] 
 

About Premaitha

Premaitha is a molecular diagnostics company which uses the latest advances in DNA analysis technology to develop safer, faster and regulatory approved non-invasive screening tests for pregnant women.

Premaitha's lead test - the IONA(R) test - was launched in February 2015 and is the leading CE marked complete system which estimates the risk of a fetus being affected with Down's syndrome or other genetic conditions. The IONA(R) test is performed on the mother's blood sample - which contains traces of fetal DNA - and then analysed using next generation DNA sequencing technology from ThermoFisher Scientific.

Unlike existing prenatal screening methods, due to its high level of accuracy, the IONA(R) test can significantly reduce the number of women subjected to unnecessary stressful and invasive follow-up diagnostic procedures which are costly, resource intensive and carry a risk of miscarriage.

Non-invasive prenatal screening is an emerging, multi-billion dollar global market and Premaitha's complete CE marked system enables laboratories and health care practitioners to offer an approved, non-invasive prenatal screening system in-house.

Premaitha is based in Manchester Science Park, United Kingdom and its shares trade on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: NIPT). For further information please visit www.premaitha.com. Follow us on twitter @PremaithaHealth.

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

END

NOASDMFLSFMSEDU

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

September 30, 2016 10:38 ET (14:38 GMT)