NW Bio Releases Vote Tallies From Special Shareholder Meeting

Large Voter Turn-Out and Landslide Approval Of All Proposals

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May 01, 2018, 08:45 ET

BETHESDA, Md., May 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwest Biotherapeutics (OTCQB: NWBO) -- ("NW Bio"), a biotechnology company developing DCVax® personalized immune therapies for solid tumor cancers, today released the vote tallies for the three proposals on the ballot at its Special Meeting of Shareholders held last Friday afternoon in Washington, DC.

Voter turnout was 74% of all the eligible common and preferred holders (511,950,158).

Proposal 1 was to raise the ceiling on the total number of authorized shares of common stock of the Company from 450 million to 1.2 billion. For this Proposal, only the common shares could vote. This Proposal was approved, with Yes votes from 87% of the votes cast (245,267,573), with 4% voting against (11,699,346), and 9% abstaining (25,836,335 votes). 30% did not vote (131,861,943).

Proposal 2 was to raise the ceiling on the total number of authorized shares of preferred stock of the Company from 40 million to 100 million. For this Proposal, both the preferred stock and the common stock could vote. This Proposal was approved with Yes votes from 86% of the votes cast (327,025,901), with 7% voting against (27,266,121), and 7% abstaining (25,796,199). 26% did not vote (131,861,937).

Proposal 3 was to approve equity compensation (options) for the independent Directors. For this Proposal, both the preferred stock and the common stock could vote. This Proposal was approved with Yes votes from 85% of the votes cast (321,886,756 yes votes), with 8% voting against (31,807,105), and 7% abstaining (26,434,360). 25.7% did not vote (131,071,937).

Linda Powers, NW Bio's CEO, commented "We are grateful to our shareholders for their votes overwhelmingly in favor of all three of the Proposals at the Special Meeting, despite what we believe was an all-out assault in the weeks leading up to the Meeting, with incessant attacks on the Company, its technology and its clinical trials, smear campaigns about our supposedly imminent demise, fear mongering on the message boards, apparent dumping of large blocks of our stock, millions of shares mysteriously being "lost" by some brokers and intermediaries, and other shares being "unavailable" or blocked from being voted.

We greatly respect our shareholders' ability to see these attacks for what they were. And most importantly, with the goals of this Special Shareholder Meeting fully accomplished, we plan to continue moving forward vigorously with our programs."

About Northwest Biotherapeutics

Northwest Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing personalized immunotherapy products designed to treat cancers more effectively than current treatments, without toxicities of the kind associated with chemotherapies, and on a cost-effective basis, in both the North America and Europe. The Company has a broad platform technology for DCVax® dendritic cell-based vaccines. The Company's lead program is a 331-patient Phase III trial in newly diagnosed Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). GBM is the most aggressive and lethal form of brain cancer, and is an "orphan disease." The Company is also pursuing a Phase I/II trial with DCVax-Direct for all types of inoperable solid tumor cancers. It has completed the 40-patient Phase I portion of the trial, and is preparing for the Phase II portion. The Company previously conducted a Phase I/II trial with DCVax-L for metastatic ovarian cancer together with the University of Pennsylvania.

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SOURCE Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc.