EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bionovo, Inc. today announced that its founders Mary Tagliaferri and Isaac Cohen each closed on the private sale of 250,000 shares of common stock to JP Morgan Investment Management Inc., Global Life Science Fund, NY, for an aggregate sale of 500,000 shares at a price of $1.60 per share.
On January 21, 2007, Bionovo raised gross proceeds of approximately $15.7 million in a private placement financing. Due to certain by-law restrictions of JP Morgan’s Funds it was unable to participate in the private placement of unregistered shares. Bionovo’s founders, Isaac Cohen, President and CEO and Mary Tagliaferri, Sr. Vice President and CMO accommodated JP Morgan’s desire to acquire Bionovo shares by each selling JP Morgan’s Global Science Fund 250,000 shares. This number of shares constitutes slightly under 2.5% of their personal holdings in Bionovo.
“We are excited to have JP Morgan’s Global Science Fund invest in Bionovo and show their support of our development initiatives,” said Isaac Cohen, Chief Executive Officer of Bionovo.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
Bionovo, Inc.
Bionovo is a drug development company focusing on the discovery of novel pharmaceutical agents for cancer and women’s health. The company has two drugs in clinical testing. MF101 is in Phase 2 for quality of life conditions associated with menopause, and BZL101 is in Phase 1/2 for the treatment of advanced breast cancer. The company has an additional pipeline of drugs in development for breast cancer, pancreatic cancer and other menopausal symptoms with a total of 5 drug candidates expected to be in clinical trials by the end of 2007. The company is developing its products in close collaboration with leading U.S. academic research centers, including the University of California, San Francisco, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. For further information please visit: http://www.bionovo.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains certain forward-looking statements relating to the business of Bionovo, Inc. that can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “believes,” “expects,” or similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including uncertainties relating to product development, efficacy and safety, regulatory actions or delays, the ability to obtain or maintain patent or other proprietary intellectual property protection, market acceptance, physician acceptance, third party reimbursement, future capital requirements, competition in general and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Certain of these risks and uncertainties are or will be described in greater detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at www.sec.gov. Bionovo, Inc. is under no obligation (and expressly disclaims any such obligation) to update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Bionovo, Inc.
CONTACT: Jim Stapleton, Chief Financial Officer of BioNovo, Inc.,+1-510-420-4180, or jim@bionovo.com; or media, Jennifer Larson,+1-415-409-2729, or jlarson@labfive.com; or investors, Jordan Silversteinof Investor Relations Group, +1-212-825-3210, both for BioNovo, Inc.
Web site: http://www.bionovo.com//
