VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, October 5, 2016 — bioMmune Technologies Inc. (TSX.V: IMU) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that pursuant to the Company’s Incentive
Stock Option Plan (the “Plan”), it has granted incentive stock options to directors and officers of the Company to purchase an aggregate of 392,000 common shares in the capital stock of the Company. The options are exercisable at a price of $0.72 per share (being the closing price of the Company’s stock on Tuesday, October 4, 2016) for a period of five years from the date of grant.
The options are subject to vesting as to 205,000 options 3 months after the date of grant and 98,000 each quarter thereafter until fully vested (12 months following the date of grant).
ABOUT BIOMMUNE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
bioMmune Technologies Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that is advancing technologies focused on cancer, infectious and autoimmune diseases. Three significant technologies are:
- Utilizing proprietary screening systems for identifying novel compounds that are able to restore immune recognition and killing of cancer cells.
- Exploiting the regulation of calcium channel activity which is very important for controlling cells involved in the immune system. By regulating these calcium channels, immune activity can be controlled in ways to improve their ability to combat cancers, infections and autoimmune diseases.
- Modulating CD74, a protein involved in the immune system and its ability to fight foreign antigens. Finding molecules that regulate CD74 activity will aid the immune system to combat infections and cancers and to control autoimmune diseases.
Forward Looking Statements
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On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Dr. Patrick W. Gray, President, CEO 1 (206) 650-6765
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