Stockholm, July 31, 2014 — NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ) announces that the trading in LIDDS AB (LIDDS) shares commenced today on First North at NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. LIDDS belongs to the Health Care sector and is the 27th company to be admitted to trading on First North’s Nordic markets (Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Iceland) in 2014.
LIDDS (Local Intelligent Drug Delivery System) is a Swedish pharmaceutical company developing innovative pharmaceutical products based on medical need and its proprietary drug delivery technology. LIDDS was initially founded by researchers and entrepreneurs at Uppsala University, departments of pharmacy and material sciences and University of Gothenburg, departments of urology and oncology, and within the life-science incubator P.U.L.S. AB (www.pulsinvest.se). LIDDS is located in Helsingborg, Sweden, in one of Europe’s premiere biotechnology regions. For more information, visit www.liddspharma.com.
Lars Åke Malmsten, CEO of LIDDS, commented: “With a successful IPO and listing on First North we can now proceed with the clinical development of our first product Liproca Depot intended for local treatment of prostate cancer and develop new applications of our proprietary drug delivery technology with a focus on localized cancer forms.”
“We welcome LIDDS to NASDAQ OMX First North and to our Health Care sector,” said Adam Kostyal, Senior Vice President at NASDAQ OMX. “It is our pleasure to see that LIDDS is one of many innovative life science companies that have opted for a listing at First North. We congratulate LIDDS on their successful initial public offering, and we look forward to supporting them in their continued journey as a publicly traded company.”
LIDDS has appointed Erik Penser Bankaktiebolag as Certified Adviser.
To view an interview from today’s listing ceremony click here.
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