Equity Incentive Pool Increase and Option Grant

28 April 2023

Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals plc 

("Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals" or the "Company")

Equity Incentive Plan Pool Increase and Grant of Share Options

Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals plc (LSE: HEMO) announces that the Company's Board of Directors has resolved to increase the pool for the granting of share options, restricted shares, and restricted share units under the Company's 2021 Equity Incentive Plan with Non-Employee Sub-Plan by 60,000,000 shares, amounting to a total pool of 90,000,000 shares.

The Company has also granted a total of 57,099,966 options over ordinary shares in the capital of the Company ("Share Options") to the Company's co-founder and CEO, Dr Vladislav Sandler. The Share Options vest in two tranches of 22,839,986 Share Options ("Tranche 1") and 34,259,980 Share Options ("Tranche 2"). The Tranche 1 Share Options are being granted in recognition of Dr Sandler's work in bringing HEMO-CAR-T to the point of preparing it for submission of an Investigational New Drug ("IND") application to the US Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for approval. The Tranche 2 Share Options will vest upon authorization by the FDA for the Company to commence clinical trials of HEMO-CAR-T.

The details of the Share Options granted are set out below:

Following the grant of the Share Options, there are, in aggregate, 92,399,552 ordinary shares of 1 penny each in the Company under option held by directors, employees and members of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Company arising from awards made under the Company's original Employee Plan, Non-Employee Plan and the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan with Non-Employee Sub-Plan. These represent 8.09% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.

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