BioSyent Pharma Signs Exclusive Licensing and Distribution Agreement For Two New Drug Products

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 16, 2012) - BioSyent Inc. ("BioSyent") (TSX VENTURE:RX) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary BioSyent Pharma Inc. has signed an exclusive Licensing and Distribution Agreement with a European partner for two new products that will be marketed by its' Hospital Products Division. The products utilize a patented delivery system which will provide Canadian hospitals and healthcare professionals improved safety and cost effectiveness versus products currently in use. The products will be launched after Health Canada approval.

BioSyent Inc. continues to concentrate on its pharmaceutical strategy to source products that have been successfully developed and proven to be safe and effective; manage these products through the regulatory process and product registration (approval); and once approved, market these products in Canada. The Company is focused on medications that occupy a niche in the market, that are unique either due to complexity of manufacture or provide novel technological or therapeutic advantages, or that are backed by strong partners holding intellectual property rights that are defendable. This strategy allows the Company to market these medications as brands owned by, or licensed to, it.

BioSyent Inc. is a publicly traded specialty pharmaceutical company whose wholly owned subsidiary, BioSyent Pharma Inc., sources, acquires or in-licences pharmaceutical products and markets these products in Canada. Wholly owned BioSyent subsidiary Hedley Technologies Ltd. operates the company's legacy business marketing bio and health friendly non-chemical insecticides. BioSyent common shares are listed for trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) under the symbol RX.