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Fortrea Appoints Machelle Sanders to Board of Directors

DURHAM, N.C., May 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fortrea (Nasdaq: FTRE) (the “Company”), a leading global contract research organization (“CRO”), today announced the appointment of Machelle Sanders to the Company’s Board of Directors. Ms. Sanders has served as North Carolina’s Secretary of Commerce since February 2021 and brings strong domain expertise from more than 30 years of operational and quality assurance roles in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

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Scorpius Holdings, Inc. Announces Closing of Public Offering

DURHAM, N.C., May 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Scorpius Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: SCPX), (“Scorpius” or the “Company”), an integrated contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), today announced the closing of its underwritten public offering of 60,000,000 common units and/or pre-funded units in lieu thereof. Each common (or pre-funded) unit was offered at a public offering price of $0.10 per unit (inclusive of the pre-funded warrant exercise price) and consists of one share of common stock (or pre-funded warrant to purchase one share of common stock in lieu thereof) and a common warrant, for gross proceeds of $6,000,000, before deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses. The warrants have an exercise price of $0.12 per share and are immediately exercisable upon issuance for a period of five years following the date of issuance. In addition, the Company has granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 9,000,000 shares of common stock (and/or pre-funded warrants) and/or up to an additional 9,000,000 common warrants solely to cover over-allotments, if any.

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CytomX Therapeutics Announces New Employment Inducement Grants

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTMX), a leader in the field of masked, conditionally activated biologics, today announced that on May 15, 2024, the Company granted two new employees options to purchase a total of 130,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price per share equal to $1.96, which was the closing price on May 15, 2024, the date of the grants.

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BioSyent Declares Second Quarter 2024 Dividend

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, May 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioSyent Inc. (“BioSyent”, “the Company”, TSX Venture: RX) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.045 per common share, payable in Canadian Dollars on June 15, 2024, to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 31, 2024. This second quarter 2024 dividend compares with the first quarter 2024 dividend of $0.045 per common share. This dividend qualifies as an 'eligible dividend' for Canadian income tax purposes. The declaration, timing, amount and payment of future dividends remain at the discretion of the Board of Directors.

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HUTCHMED Highlights Sovleplenib Phase III ESLIM-01 Study and Hematological Malignancy Programs Data to be Presented at the upcoming EHA2024 Congress

HONG KONG, SHANGHAI and FLORHAM PARK, N.J., May 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HUTCHMED (China) Limited (“HUTCHMED”) (Nasdaq/AIM:HCM; HKEX:13) today announces that topline and subgroup results from the ESLIM-01 Phase III study of sovleplenib, as well as new and updated data related to novel investigational hematological malignancy therapies HMPL-306, HMPL-760 and tazemetostat, will be presented at the upcoming European Hematology Association (“EHA”) Hybrid Congress, taking place on June 13-16, 2024 in Madrid, Spain and online.

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Erasca Announces Pricing of Underwritten Offering of Common Stock

SAN DIEGO, May 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Erasca, Inc. (Nasdaq: ERAS), a clinical-stage precision oncology company singularly focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing therapies for patients with RAS/MAPK pathway-driven cancers, today announced the pricing of an underwritten offering of 86,486,486 shares of its common stock at a price of $1.85 per share. All of the shares to be sold in the offering are to be sold by Erasca. The gross proceeds to Erasca from the offering, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses, are expected to be approximately $160 million. In addition, Erasca has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 12,972,972 shares of common stock at the offering price. The offering is expected to close on May 21, 2024, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

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