OptiBiotix Health plc

("OptiBiotix" or the "Company" or "the Group")

Partial Disposal of Shareholding in SkinBioTherapeutics

OptiBiotix Health plc (AIM: OPTI, OTCQB: OPTBF), a life sciences business developing products which reduce hunger and food cravings, enhance the gut microbiome, and sweet fibres as healthy sugar substitutes announces that it has disposed of 7,500,000 ordinary shares in SkinBioTherapeutics plc (AIM:SBTX) ("SkinBioTherapeutics"), generating cash proceeds of £675,000 which will be used for the Company's general working capital purposes and are expected to provide the Company with working capital runway into H1 2027.

Following the disposal, the Company's shareholding in SkinBioTherapeutics consists of 5,700,000 ordinary shares, representing 2.2% of the total issued share capital of SkinBioTherapeutics at the date of this announcement.

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About OptiBiotix - www.optibiotix.com

OptiBiotix Health plc (AIM: OPTI, OTCQB: OPTBF), OptiBiotix Health has developed a range of technologies and commercialised products which modulate the human microbiome to help prevent and manage human disease.  Since the Group's inception it has created a wide range of microbiome-based ingredients and products including prebiotic products like SlimBiome®, WellBiome®, SweetBiotix® and Microbiome Modulators within its core OptiBiotix Health plc (OPTI) business, but also skincare through its holdings in SkinBioTherapeutics PLC (SBTX), and probiotics through ProBiotix Health plc (PBX). These companies create a diverse portfolio technologies and products in an emerging area of healthcare that is of growing interest in consumer markets throughout the world.

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