Pencoed, UK, 15 March 2016: ReNeuron Group plc (the “Company”) (AIM: RENE), a leading UK-based stem cell therapy development company, is pleased to announce that the first patient has been treated with the Company’s cell therapy candidate for the blindness-causing disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in a first-in-human US clinical trial. The procedure, involving a single injection of hRPC cells under the retina, was conducted at Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a world-renowned clinical and research centre for the treatment of eye disease, including retinal degeneration. The patient was discharged from hospital on the same day.