Sirona Biochem Announces LOI for Collaboration With Bloom Burton & Co.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Oct. 8, 2013) - Sirona Biochem Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SBM) (OTCQX:SRBCF) (FRANKFURT:ZSB) and Bloom Burton & Co. ("Bloom Burton") announce the signing of a Letter of Intent to conduct collaborative research to develop and commercialize new therapeutics in the areas of inflammation and infectious disease.

Leveraging Sirona's proprietary fluorination technology platform, Sirona and Bloom Burton will identify and design promising assets, undertake chemical synthesis and scale up, and conduct preclinical proof of concept studies necessary to support further development activities. The collaboration hopes to address rare or neglected inflammatory diseases and the threat of emerging bacterial resistance, both of which are markets with enormous medical need. Sirona and Bloom Burton will share in the future proceeds arising from the commercialization activities.

"Bloom Burton is Canada's leading healthcare-specialized investment banking group," said Neil Belenkie, CEO of Sirona Biochem. "We are proud to be developing a collaborative partnership, where our joint expertise will be combined to develop and transact cutting-edge industry solutions in areas with unmet needs."

"One of Bloom Burton's many advantages is that we see the widest range of opportunities spanning early to late stage assets, at private and public companies across all areas of healthcare," said Bloom Burton President, Brian Bloom. "Through this experience, we understand where needs exist in the marketplace and what investors are seeking. We believe Sirona has an excess of therapeutic opportunities than can be exploited by Sirona alone. We are excited to develop these assets in partnership with Sirona and monetize them at the appropriate time."

About Bloom Burton & Co.

Bloom Burton & Co. exists to accelerate monetization in healthcare. Bloom Burton has an experienced team of medical, scientific, pharmaceutical, legal and capital markets professionals who perform a deeper level of diligence, which combined with a creative and entrepreneurial culture, leads to the right monetizing events for companies and investors. Bloom Burton's many services include capital raising, mergers and acquisitions advisory, equity research, scientific and medical consulting, direct investing, company creation and incubation. For more information, please visit www.bloomburton.com.

About Sirona Biochem

Sirona Biochem is not a traditional biotech company. Sirona is a product-pipeline company with a proprietary technology platform developed at its laboratory facility in France. The company specializes in the stabilization of carbohydrate molecules, with the goal of improving compounds' efficacy and safety. Sirona Biochem's compounds are being developed for both pharmaceutical and cosmetic marketplaces and are patented as new chemical entities for maximum commercial protection and revenue potential. Newly developed compounds are licensed to leading companies around the world in return for licensing and milestone fees and ongoing royalty payments. TFChem, Sirona Biochem's wholly-owned French laboratory is a recipient of multiple French national scientific awards and a European Union and French government grant. For more information visit www.sironabiochem.com.

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