Month: January 2024

NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SIGA Technologies, Inc. (SIGA) (NASDAQ: SIGA), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the health security market, today announced that Diem Nguyen, Ph.D., will join the Company as chief executive officer (CEO), effective January 27, 2024, and will also be appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors. SIGA’s current CEO, Dr. Phil Gomez, will retire from SIGA on January 26, 2024. “The appointment of Diem Nguyen as our new CEO marks a significant milestone for SIGA as we continue to expand our partnerships with governments across the world in global health security initiatives and medical countermeasure preparedness,” said Joseph (Chip) Marshall, chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors. “Diem’s scientific expertise and...

TORONTO, Jan. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Platinex Inc. (CSE: PTX) (OTCQB: PANXF, Frankfurt: 9PX) (“Platinex” or the “Company”) reports the voting results from its Annual General Special Meeting of shareholders (the “Meeting”) held on January 16, 2024. Shareholders holding 129,324,513 shares or 42.53% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company (as at the record date January 16, 2024) were represented in person or by proxy at the Meeting and voted in favour of all matters brought before the Meeting as outlined in the Company’s Management Information Circular dated December 08, 2023. The results have been filed on SEDAR, www.sedar.com. The Company’s shareholders set the number of directors of the Company for the ensuing year at six. The six Directors included one new nominee appointee, Mr. Rajesh Sharma. Platinex...

HOUSTON, Jan. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Marker Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRKR), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company focusing on developing next-generation T cell-based immunotherapies for the treatment of hematological malignancies and solid tumors, announced today that the United States Adopted Names (USAN) Council, and the World Health Organization (WHO) International Nonproprietary Names (INN) expert committee has approved “neldaleucel” as the nonproprietary (generic) name for MT-601, a multi-tumor associated antigen (multiTAA)-specific T cell product candidate for the treatment of patients with lymphoma. The USAN Council in close collaboration with the WHO established INN expert committee select and assign a single unique name of worldwide acceptability for each active substance that is to be marketed as a pharmaceutical,...

Vancouver, British Columbia, Jan. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Surge Copper Corp. (TSXV: SURG) (OTCQB: SRGXF) (Frankfurt: G6D2) (“Surge” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce assay results from drill hole BRG23-244, the second hole of the Company’s 2023 drilling program testing the deeper portions of the large Berg copper-molybdenum deposit in West-central British Columbia. HighlightsHole BRG23-244 intersected 548 metres grading 0.36% CuEq2 (0.28% copper, 0.018% molybdenum, 3.6 g/t silver, and 0.02 g/t gold) from 12 metres depth (copper equivalent “CuEq” is reported net of by-product recoveries, please see Table 1, footnote 2 for details) The upper portion of the hole encountered the chalcocite blanket returning a subinterval with elevated copper of 108 metres grading 0.46% CuEq (0.42% copper, 0.007% molybdenum, 2.6 g/t silver,...

Map 1Map 1: Macpass Project and Mactung Project locationsMap 2Map 2: Location of 2023 Boundary Zone drillholes, cross sections and long section M–M’. See below for sections.Map 3Map 3: Mineralized intervals in 2023 drilling and pre-2023 drilling defining a stratiform laminated to massive sulphide zone that is connected at depth (purple polygon) and a broader envelope of vein, breccia, and other stratiform zinc mineralization, showing significant areal extent (within green dashed line).Long Section M–M’Long Section M–M’ – Estimated true thickness interpretation and selected intersections with zinc grades shown within the laminated to massive sulphide stratiform zone of pyrite-sphalerite-galena mineralization at Boundary Zone. Halo vein and breccia mineralization is not included in this long section.Cross...

DUBLIN, Ireland and BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Jan. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Amarin Corporation plc (NASDAQ:AMRN) today announced that the Company’s Chairman of the Board, Odysseas Kostas, M.D., and President & CEO, Patrick Holt, issued the following letter to Amarin shareholders: Dear Fellow Amarin Shareholders, 2023 was an important year for Amarin, marked by necessary transition and change. With a new board focused on shareholders, we undertook significant actions to strengthen the Company. We restructured the management team, redesigned our operations and approach in Europe, improved our financial discipline, streamlined the U.S. business to maximize cash flows and progressed our Rest of World (RoW) rollout. We believe the company is fundamentally in a much stronger position today. As shareholders ourselves, we remain disappointed...

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Macerich Company (NYSE: MAC) today announced the tax treatment for dividend distributions taxable in 2023 on its Common Stock. During the calendar year ended December 31, 2023 Macerich paid dividends of $.68 per share. The 2023 dividends are classified for income tax purposes as follows for The Macerich Company, Common Stock, CUSIP # 554382101:Record Date Payable Date Rate per Share 2023 Taxable Ordinary Dividends 2023 Section 199A Dividends* 2023 Total Capital Gain Distribution2/17/2023 3/3/2023 $0.17 $0.09 $ 0.09 $0.085/19/2023 6/2/2023 $0.17 $0.09 $ 0.09 $0.088/18/2023 9/8/2023 $0.17 $0.09 $ 0.09 $0.0811/9/2023 12/1/2023 $0.17 $0.09 $ 0.09 $0.08* These amounts are included in the 2023 Taxable Ordinary Dividends column. About Macerich Macerich is a fully...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Koryx Copper Inc. (formerly Deep-South Resources) (“Koryx” or “the Company“) (TSX-V: KRY) announces that, further to its news release dated February 7, 2023 confirming a continuous disclosure audit of the Company by the British Columbia Securities Commission (the “BCSC”), it has filed an amended preliminary economic assessment (“PEA”) technical report (the “Amended Report”) for the Haib Copper project near Noordover in the south of Namibia. The amendment has not impacted the material components of the PEA, notably resources, metallurgy, mine plan, cost estimates, economic analysis and environmental matters (see the Company’s news release dated December 15, 2020 announcing the results of its PEA). As disclosed in its...