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Summit Therapeutics plc : Result of AGM

18-07-2017

Summit Therapeutics plc

('Summit' or 'the Company')

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Oxford, UK, 18 July 2017 -
Summit Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ: SMMT, AIM: SUMM), the drug discovery and development company advancing therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and
Clostridium difficile
infection, announces that all resolutions proposed to shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today were duly passed. The results of the proxy votes lodged in advance and at the meeting will be available shortly from the Investors section of Summit's website,
www.summitplc.com
.   

About Summit Therapeutics

Summit is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialisation of novel medicines for indications for which there are no existing or only inadequate therapies. Summit is conducting clinical programs focused on the genetic disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the infectious disease
C. difficile
infection. Further information is available at www.summitplc.com and Summit can be followed on Twitter (@summitplc).

For more information, please contact:

Summit


Glyn Edwards
/
Richard Pye (UK office)




Erik Ostrowski / Michelle Avery (US office)




 
 




Tel: +44 (0)1235 443 951




  +1 617 225 4455
Cairn Financial Advisers LLP




(Nominated Adviser)




Liam Murray / Tony Rawlinson




 
 




 




Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 0880
N+1 Singer




(Broker)




Aubrey Powell / Lauren Kettle 




 
 




 




Tel: +44 (0)20 7496 3000
MacDougall Biomedical Communications




(US media contact)




Karen Sharma


Tel: +1 781 235 3060




ksharma@macbiocom.com




 

Consilium Strategic Communications



(Financial public relations, UK)




Mary-Jane Elliott / Sue Stuart /


Jessica Hodgson / Lindsey Neville
Tel: +44 (0)20 3709 5700




summit@consilium-comms.com

 

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Source: Summit Therapeutics plc via GlobeNewswire

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