OK so you thought the title of the other thread was out of date BUT unfortunately there is no way to edit thread titles.

So here is a new title

This one has got the charts at the top again & has a link to the old one.
http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/posts.php?tid=5021

Ma foi! Un idiot-pomme de terre arrive.

OXB is now doing deals with the big boys, see news today about a deal with Glaxo!! This is great news and endorses Oxb technology as leading edge. This should just be the beginning although if they've got something big, Glaxo will probably swallow them up before that, anyone know what percentage Kingsman or the other major shareholders own?

I totally agree robstuff. But where's the sp movement (or have the last couple of week's worth of rises been due to the imminent announcement of this news?)?

I've seen this before with OXB, the rise normally comes a few days later so lets see. Anyway, great news and 2007 should be a blinder for OXB

Let's hope so

In the Biotech sector, 2007 will be a year of larger Pharmaceuticals such as AstraZeneca and Glaxo SK taking over smaller companies with developments in Phase III in the areas of oncology and neurotherapy - OXB being a prime candidate

At what take-out price? OXB has an awful lot going on at present which will be of interest to the majors.

It would have to be over double it's current price today, but next yr news and interest in the sector should take it towards a pound anyway I would think.

Patrick Evershed
Manager of New Star Select Opportunities Fund

FTSE 100 5,250 (5,500). I fear the very large Government budget deficits, record levels of personal indebtedness and dangerously large trade deficits in the USA and UK will undermine the prolonged period of economic growth and high profit margins.

If the rate of economic growth does slow and profit margins come under pressure at least some of the exceptionally highly geared private equity funds could find themselves in trouble.

Top share Oxford BioMedica could complete value enhancing deals during the year. The first could be for its lead cancer drug TroVax. The second could be for its Parkinson's treatment, which is reputed to have gone exceptionally well in pre-clinical trials, and the last is for its LentiVector drug delivery system which is in demand from other pharmaceutical companies.

Thanks both. rayrac your post backs up my view. How many OXB peers can boast a potential product pipline like that?

Oxford BioMedica and its partner Viragen Inc announced reaching a further milestone in their avian transgenics cooperation, having successfully expressed interferon alpha-2a in white eggs laid by transgenic hens.

Alpha interferon is a protein produced by the human immune system that is fundamental to the body's resistance to disease.

This is the third therapeutic protein expressed thus far in a series of 'proof-of-principle' studies, which aim to develop the OVA System (Avian Transgenic Biomanufacturing) as a large-scale biomanufacturing alternative capable of cost-effectively expressing many types of therapeutic proteins.

This latest OVA-expression study produced interferon alpha-2a, which is the active ingredient in Roferon-A, a Roche Holdings AG drug approved for the treatment of certain chronic infectious diseases and cancers.

Without wanting to sound like a policeman can I just say: Hello, hello, what's going on here then? Through the 50p barrier like it wasn't even there. Is there an announcement imminent.....?

I HAVE SOLD /// THAT THE REASON/

What's the reason??

What's going on here, if I may be so bold as to answer your rhetorical question, is that a good stock with tremendous potential is finally being recognised and the share price is now roughly half it's value later this year, and a third of next.

Only danger I can see is if our friend says he loves it.

I hear from the other side that the rumour is Glaxosmithkline are gonna take them out for 70p...it was in one of the newspapers...I'll find it and post it...I'm still holding :-)
Di

Market Report: Oxford Biomedica (LSE: OXB.L - news) (rumours of a 70 pence-a-share bid approach, possibly from GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK.L - news) )
Guardian

http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/070204/323/gy4eh.html

Financial Times
6/2/2007

Oxford BioMedica rose 12 per cent to 51p, its highest level for more than six years, amid continued speculation that GlaxoSmithKline would be unveiled as its partner to develop the cancer vaccine Trovax.

Sunday Times Business
Major Share Movements
11-2-2007

Oxford Biomedica. + 7.5p. Hopes of GSK tie-up.

ProActive Investor
Feb. 2007

Clearly there are a few takeover rumours doing the rounds, and in the case of this company, the rumours appear to have some justification as this company does have some exciting products in the pipeline and controls a new gene delivery platform - OXB should be tempting to a bigger fish.

http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/articles/article.asp?OXB2