Premaitha Health PLC

("Premaitha" or the "Company")

Premaitha secures four further laboratories in Europe

Manchester, UK - 11 December 2017: Premaitha Health PLC (AIM: NIPT), a leading international molecular diagnostics group focused on non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), announces further expansion of its European customer base, with four new laboratories added.

The laboratories are situated across three EU countries. The Company's European distributors secured three of the laboratories, with one laboratory having been contracted directly by Premaitha. The customers are all private reference laboratories seeking to offer the IONA® test in their respective regions.

The laboratories will be fully installed by early 2018 and the Company anticipates that these laboratories will perform an aggregate volume of over 9,000 NIPT tests per year once they are fully active, generating in excess of £1 million in annual revenues for Premaitha.

Premaitha's IONA® test estimates the risk of a fetus being affected with Down's syndrome or other genetic conditions. The test is performed on a maternal blood sample, containing traces of fetal DNA, which is then analysed using next generation DNA sequencing technology. The test is highly accurate and significantly reduces the number of women who are unnecessarily subjected to risky, invasive follow up procedures to diagnose Down's syndrome and other genetic conditions.

Dr Stephen Little, CEO of Premaitha, commented: "We are delighted to have secured four additional laboratories for the IONA® test, further evidencing the widespread uptake and adoption of NIPT.  Making the IONA® test available to pregnant women across Europe through our partner distributors and laboratories is a significant motivator for us and for our distributors and we are pleased to be expanding the addressable market."

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014.

About Premaitha

Premaitha is an international molecular diagnostics group which uses the latest advances in DNA analysis technology to develop safer, faster and regulatory approved genetic screening tests. The Group's primary focus is on non-invasive prenatal tests (NIPT) for pregnant women - an emerging, multi-billion dollar global market.

Premaitha's IONA® test was launched in 2015 as the first CE-IVD NIPT test in Europe. It enables laboratories and healthcare practitioners to offer a complete CE-marked NIPT system in-house. The IONA® test is performed on a maternal blood sample - which contains traces of fetal DNA - and estimates the risk of a fetus being affected with Down's syndrome or other genetic conditions.

Unlike existing prenatal screening methods, due to its high level of accuracy, the IONA® test can significantly reduce the number of women subjected to unnecessary invasive follow up diagnostic procedures, such as amniocentesis, which are costly, resource intensive and carry a risk of miscarriage.

In March 2017, Premaitha acquired Yourgene Bioscience, a specialist next generation sequencing and bioinformatics company based in Taiwan, with its own NIPT screening test that operates on the same Thermo Fisher next-generation sequencing platform as Premaitha's IONA® test. Yourgene brings significant benefits to the Group through expanded market access in Asia - the world's fastest growing NIPT market - as well as opportunities for cross-selling and the ability to jointly develop expanded test content both within NIPT and beyond.

Premaitha is headquartered in Manchester, England, with Yourgene offices in Taipei and Singapore. Its shares trade on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: NIPT). For further information, please visit www.premaitha.com. Follow us on twitter @PremaithaHealth.