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To ALL: TM News Release on additions to Scientific Advisory Board. NEWS RELEASE TRANSMITTED BY CANADIAN CORPORATE NEWS FOR: TM BIOSCIENCE CORPORATION 08 April 98 close $0.91 Shares issued: 43,788,656 VSE SYMBOL: TMC APRIL 8, 1998 Tm Bioscience Corporation: Additions to Scientific Advisory Board TORONTO, ONTARIO-- Mr. Don MacAdam reports: Tm Bioscience has increased the size of its Scientific Advisory Board to nine external members with the appointment of six prominent scientists: R. Christopher Bleackley, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He is a cellular biochemist and an expert on human disease and human gene therapy. Jerrie Gavalchin, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the State University of New York, Syracuse. She is an immunologist with particular expertise on immuno assay design and cellular immunology. J. Michael Schurr, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Washington, in Seattle. He is an expert on DNA sequence dependent polymorphic structure and dynamics in solution. Nadrian C. Seeman, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at New York University. He is an expert on DNA sequence dependent structure and molecular nanotechnology using DNA. Richard D. Sheardy, PhD, is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry at Seton Hall University. He is an expert on DNA sequence dependent structure and synthesis of model compounds that bind DNAs. Roger M. Wartell, PhD, is a Professor and Head of the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an expert on DNA thermodynamics, sequence dependent cooperativity, stability and processing. These scientists join existing members: Jonathan B. Chaires, PhD, an expert on DNA thermodynamics and DNA/ligand interactions; Donald Low, MD, a bacteriologist and clinician and an expert on human infectious disease; and Bernard J. Poiesz, MD, a virologist and clinician and expert on human retroviruses. Tm Bioscience Corporation is a biotechnology company based in Toronto, Ontario, with a subsidiary Tm Technologies Inc. in Woburn, Massachusetts. The company has developed five platform technologies - biochips, therapeutics, gene expression, diagnostics and genomic analysis - each of which underlies multiple commercial products. -30-