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EVOTEC ACHIEVES FIRST MILESTONE IN NEURODEGENERATION ALLIANCE WITH CELGENE
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DGAP-News: Evotec AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous Hamburg, Germany, 10 October 2017:
Evotec has built an industrialised iPSC infrastructure that represents one of the largest and most sophisticated iPSC platforms in the industry. Evotec’s iPSC platform has been developed over the last five years with the goal to industrialise iPSC-based drug screening in terms of throughput, reproducibility and robustness to reach the highest industrial standards.Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, TecDAX, ISIN: DE0005664809) announced today that its strategic alliance with Celgene has reached a first milestone triggering revenues of $ 5.0 m to Evotec, which are recognised in the third quarter of 2017. The milestone is due to the successful completion of a screening campaign using Evotec’s induced pluripotent stem cell (“iPSC”)-based screening platform. This milestone has been achieved under an agreement between Evotec and Celgene, signed only in December 2016. The goal of this collaboration is to identify disease-modifying therapeutics for a broad range of neurodegenerative diseases by leveraging Evotec’s unique iPSC platform. Dr Cord Dohrmann, Chief Scientific Officer of Evotec, commented: “With ever-increasing life expectancy, neurodegenerative diseases present a major threat to global healthcare systems. Together with our colleagues at Celgene, we are committed to the discovery and development of new treatment options in this field. We are very pleased to have achieved this very important first milestone in this iPSC-based alliance and look forward to advancing these exciting programmes.” About Evotec and iPSC Induced pluripotent stem cells (also known as iPS cells or iPSCs) are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from adult cells. The iPSC technology was pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka’s lab in Kyoto, Japan, who showed in 2006 that the introduction of four specific genes encoding transcription factors could convert adult cells into pluripotent stem cells. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize along with Sir John Gurdon “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”. Pluripotent stem cells hold great promise in the field of regenerative medicine. Because they can propagate indefinitely, as well as give rise to every other cell type in the body (such as neurons, heart, pancreatic and liver cells), they represent a single source of cells that could be used to replace those lost to damage or disease. About Evotec AG Evotec is a drug discovery alliance and development partnership company focused on rapidly progressing innovative product approaches with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academics, patient advocacy groups and venture capitalists. We operate worldwide providing the highest quality stand-alone and integrated drug discovery solutions, covering all activities from target-to-clinic to meet the industry’s need for innovation and efficiency in drug discovery (EVT Execute). The Company has established a unique position by assembling top-class scientific experts and integrating state-of-the-art technologies as well as substantial experience and expertise in key therapeutic areas including neuroscience, diabetes and complications of diabetes, pain and inflammation, oncology and infectious diseases. On this basis, Evotec has built a broad and deep pipeline of more than 80 partnered product opportunities at clinical, pre-clinical and discovery stages (EVT Innovate). Evotec has established multiple long-term discovery alliances with partners including Bayer, CHDI, Sanofi or UCB and development partnerships with e.g. with Sanofi in the field of diabetes, with Pfizer in the field of tissue fibrosis and Celgene in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. For additional information please go to www.evotec.com. FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS Information set forth in this press release contains forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements contained herein represent the judgement of Evotec as of the date of this press release. Such forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, and which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements. We expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. Contact Evotec AG: Gabriele Hansen, VP Corporate Communications & Investor Relations, Phone: +49.(0)40.56081-255, gabriele.hansen@evotec.com
10.10.2017 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP – a service of EQS Group AG. |
| Language: | English |
| Company: | Evotec AG |
| Manfred Eigen Campus / Essener Bogen 7 | |
| 22419 Hamburg | |
| Germany | |
| Phone: | +49 (0)40 560 81-0 |
| Fax: | +49 (0)40 560 81-222 |
| E-mail: | info@evotec.com |
| Internet: | www.evotec.com |
| ISIN: | DE0005664809 |
| WKN: | 566480 |
| Indices: | TecDAX |
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