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Life Therapeutics (ASX: LFE)
announces the appointment with immediate effect
of Mr Michael Milne as a director of the
company.
Mr Milne is an Australian resident and brings to
the LFE Board significant corporate experience.
Mr Milne is a Fellow of the Australian Institute
of Company Directors.
LFE advises that for personal reasons Dr Jim
Brown has decided to stand down as Chairman of
the Board and will be replaced in his role with
immediate effect by Mr Milne. Dr Brown will
remain as a non-executive director of the LFE
Board.
LFE also announces the resignation of Ms Rachel
Freeman as Acting Company Secretary. As
previously noted in an announcement dated 8
January 2008, Catherine Caradus from TMF
Corporate Services (Aust) Pty Limited has been
appointed as the Company Secretary.
About Life Therapeutics
Life Therapeutics is an international company
that specializes in niche therapeutic
hyperimmune products. It has 12 operational
plasma collection centers and signed leases for
a further 2 centers around the US. The Company
has considerable experience recruiting and
collecting hard to find hyperimmune plasma for
IND studies and clinical trials.
Life Therapeutics has 480 employees, located in
the United States and 12 plasma donor centers in
seven American States. It has an established
U.S. American Depositary Receipt (ADR) Level I
program, which enables trading in Life
Therapeutics shares by U.S. based investors. The
company’s divisions are all headquartered in
Atlanta, Georgia.
Life Sera collects both specialty plasma and
normal source plasma, including Anti-D and
Hepatitis B from a donor base of more than 5,000
in fourteen operational U.S. collection centers.
The plasma is then sold to blood fractionators
who process it into hyperimmune therapeutic
products.
Life Diagnostics provides highly specific
diagnostic tests for blood-clotting disorders
and source plasma products for blood-borne
diseases. Technologies include specialized blood
coagulation tests to predict the risk of
thrombosis and bleeding disorders. It also
collects high-titer source plasma and serum used
to make diagnostic kits.
For more information, visit
www.life-therapeutics.com.
Enquiries: Email:
info@life-therapeutics.com
TMF Corporate Services (Aust) Pty Ltd
Level 9
50 Park Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Phone: (61) 2 8988 5808
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