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Compugen (Tel Aviv, Israel) said it has received about $3.6 million from the private sale of 1 million Evogene (Rehovot, Israel) shares to a single buyer. The company plans to use the funds from this deal for general corporate purposes through mid 2010. After this sale, the company continues to hold 1,150,000 Evogene shares.

Evogene was established as an independent company in 2002 to utilize certain of Compugen's in silico predictive discovery capabilities in the agricultural field. Evogene securities are listed for trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

"The accelerating validation of the power and potential for computational prediction and selection in life science product discovery by both Compugen and Evogene is very impressive," said Martin Gerstel, Compugen's Co-CEO. "Of course, the path from computational prediction to experimental validation in the target organism is much quicker when dealing with agricultural crops than with humans. However, Compugen has now reached the stage where it is demonstrating, in a growing number of areas of key unmet medical needs, positive results for initial product candidates in animal disease models and other in vivo validation studies. As previously reported, based on this proof of our unique and broad discovery capabilities, we have recently begun discussions with a number of major pharmaceutical and biotech companies regarding various forms of strategic arrangements. As we move forward with these discussions, the funds generated through this sale of a portion of our Evogene holdings provides us with the cash required to fully support our operations through mid next year, even in the absence of any other sources of cash, and without any dilution to Compugen's shareholders."

In other dealmaking activity, JAG Media Holdings (Boca Raton, Florida) reported a further update of the status of its acquisition of CardioGenics by its subsidiary CardioGenics Exchange Co. (Mississauga, Ontario). The closing date for the acquisition has been rescheduled to a date on or before July 17, to allow the parties sufficient time to attend to the remaining closing matters, such as the completion of the required pro forma financials for the transaction, the Current Report on Form 8-K for the transaction that will be filed on or about the closing, and certain other documents and matters required to be completed prior to the closing.

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CardioGenics develops technology and products targeting the immunoassay segment of the in vitro diagnostic testing market.