MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwired - May 3, 2013) - Prana Biotechnology (NASDAQ: [ PRAN ]) (ASX: PBT) is pleased to advise that its Share Purchase Plan (SPP) closed on Friday 26 April 2013 at 5.00 pm (EST) with applications received for 10,370,488 ordinary shares (New Shares).

Allotment of the New Shares occurred today, 3 May 2013.

Holding Statements will be mailed to shareholders on Wednesday, 8 May 2013.

Applicants are cautioned about trading in the New Shares applied for under the SPP until holding statements are received confirming the allotment of the New Shares.

Funds raised by the offer will be used to advance the development of the Company's key clinical asset, PBT2, which is currently in two concurrent clinical trials in Huntington's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease.

The Board appreciates the on-going support from shareholders who have participated in the SPP.

About Prana Biotechnology Limited
Prana Biotechnology was established to commercialize research into age-related neurodegenerative disorders. The Company was incorporated in 1997 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in March 2000 and listed on NASDAQ in September 2002. Researchers at prominent international institutions including The University of Melbourne, The Mental Health Research Institute (Melbourne) and Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, contributed to the discovery of Prana's technology.

For further information please visit the Company's web site at [ www.pranabio.com ].

Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Company has tried to identify such forward-looking statements by use of such words as "expects," "intends," "hopes," "anticipates," "believes," "could," "may," "evidences" and "estimates," and other similar expressions, but these words are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Such statements include, but are not limited to any statements relating to the Company's drug development program, including, but not limited to the initiation, progress and outcomes of clinical trials of the Company's drug development program, including, but not limited to, PBT2, and any other statements that are not historical facts. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties relating to the difficulties or delays in financing, development, testing, regulatory approval, production and marketing of the Company's drug components, including, but not limited to, PBT2, the ability of the Company to procure additional future sources of financing, unexpected adverse side effects or inadequate therapeutic efficacy of the Company's drug compounds, including, but not limited to, PBT2, that could slow or prevent products coming to market, the uncertainty of patent protection for the Company's intellectual property or trade secrets, including, but not limited to, the intellectual property relating to PBT2, and other risks detailed from time to time in the filings the Company makes with Securities and Exchange Commission including its annual reports on Form 20-F and its reports on Form 6-K. Such statements are based on management's current expectations, but actual results may differ materially due to various factions including those risks and uncertainties mentioned or referred to in this press release. Accordingly, you should not rely on those forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual future results.