RNS Number:4951O
Tepnel Life Sciences PLC
08 August 2003

              Tepnel Life Sciences Plc ("Tepnel" or "the Company")



                             Director Shareholding





The Company was notified today by Mr Gron Ffoulkes-Davies, Group Finance
Director, that in the recent placing he had purchased 133,500 ordinary shares of
1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), at a price of 16p per share.
Following this purchase, Mr Ffoulkes-Davies' total holding in Tepnel amounts to
400,000 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.37 per cent. of the issued share capital
of the Company.




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