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OctoPlus N.V. (AMS:OCTO) OctoPlus N.V. ("OctoPlus" or the "Company") (Euronext: OCTO), the drug delivery company, announces today the publication date for its Annual Report 2007 and its results for the six-month period ended 30 June 2008, and the date for its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM).
- Thursday 16 October: publication of Annual Report 2007 and the results for the first half-year of 2008 - Thursday 6 November: Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in Leiden.
An Agenda for the AGM and location details will be published shortly.
For further information, please contact: Rianne Roukema, Corporate Communications, telephone number +31 (71) 524 1071 or e-mail IR@octoplus.nl.
About OctoPlus OctoPlus N.V. is a product-oriented biopharmaceutical company committed to the creation of improved pharmaceutical products that are based on OctoPlus' proprietary drug delivery technologies and have fewer side effects, improved patient convenience and a better efficacy/safety balance than existing therapies. Rather than seeking to discover novel drug candidates through early stage research activities, OctoPlus focuses on the development of long-acting, controlled release versions of known protein therapeutics, other drugs, and vaccines.
Our pipeline consists of 5 products in pre-clinical and clinical development. The lead product incorporating our technology is Locteron, a controlled release formulation of interferon alfa for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, which has been licensed to Biolex Therapeutics and is being manufactured by OctoPlus. Locteron is currently in Phase II clinical studies. Furthermore, our pipeline comprises a product candidate for the treatment of chronic middle ear infection, which is in Phase II clinical development, a pre-clinical GLP-1 analogue product candidate for the treatment of diabetes and two pre-clinical-stage single-shot vaccines.
In addition, OctoPlus is a European leading provider of advanced drug formulation and clinical scale manufacturing services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, with a focus on difficult-to-formulate active pharmaceutical ingredients.
OctoPlus is listed on Euronext Amsterdam by NYSE Euronext under the symbol OCTO. For more information about OctoPlus, please visit our website www.octoplus.nl.
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