BioProgress PLC - Board Appointment.

(From AFX CNF)

RNS Number:1238L BioProgress PLC 27 October 2006 For Immediate Release 27 October 2006 BioProgress plc Appointment of Non-Executive Director London, UK, 27 October 2006: BioProgress plc ('BioProgress' or the 'Company') (AIM: BPRG; NASDAQ: BPRG), the speciality pharma and healthcare company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr James Robert Murray as a Non-Executive Director of BioProgress. Dr Murray, age 62, has 30 years' experience in the pharmaceutical industry including executive positions at Gist-Brocades NV and Shire Pharmaceuticals Group plc, which he co-founded becoming Research Director in 1990. He was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Hunter-Fleming Ltd, a bio-pharmaceutical company where he is now President. Dr Murray is a member of Bristol University's …