CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROSTOCK, Germany and BERLIN, June 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CENTOGENE N.V. (Nasdaq: CNTG) (the "Company"), the essential life science partner for data-driven answers in rare and neurodegenerative diseases, today announced the voting results of the Company's Annual General Meeting. Shareholders voted in favor of all proposals, which included the appointment of Prof. Dr. Peter Bauer as a member of the Management Board of the Company, as well as the appointment of Mary Sheahan and the reappointment of Peer Schatz as members of the Supervisory Board of the Company.
The shareholders extended the period for drawing up the Dutch statutory annual accounts and board report for the financial year ended December 31, 2022. The shareholders also approved the instruction to Ernst & Young Accountants LLP for the external audit of the Company's annual accounts for the financial year ended December 31, 2022, and the financial year ending December 31, 2023. In addition, the shareholders extended the authorization for the Company's Management Board to issue shares and grant rights to subscribe for shares, limit and exclude pre-emption rights, and acquire shares and depository receipts for shares in the Company's capital.
Peer Schatz, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at CENTOGENE, said, "We would like to thank our shareholders for their continued support of the Company's mission. CENTOGENE has recently made significant steps forward in our mission to deliver data-driven, life-changing answers to patients around the world and towards creating a pathway to achieving sustainable growth and profitability."
About CENTOGENE
CENTOGENE's mission is to provide data-driven, life-changing answers to patients, physicians, and pharma companies for rare and neurodegenerative diseases. We integrate multiomic technologies with the CENTOGENE Biodatabank - providing dimensional analysis to guide the next generation of precision medicine. Our unique approach enables rapid and reliable diagnosis for patients, supports a more precise physician understanding of disease states, and accelerates and de-risks targeted pharma drug discovery, development, and commercialization.
Since our founding in 2006, CENTOGENE has been offering rapid and reliable diagnosis - building a network of approximately 30,000 active physicians. Our ISO, CAP, and CLIA certified multiomic reference laboratories in Germany utilize Phenomic, Genomic, Transcriptomic, Epigenomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic datasets. This data is captured in our CENTOGENE Biodatabank, with over 750,000 patients represented from over 120 highly diverse countries, over 70% of whom are of non-European descent. To date, the CENTOGENE Biodatabank has contributed to generating novel insights for more than 275 peer- reviewed publications.
By translating our data and expertise into tangible insights, we have supported over 50 collaborations with pharma partners. Together, we accelerate and de-risk drug discovery, development, and commercialization in target & drug screening, clinical development, market access and expansion, as well as offering CENTOGENE Biodata Licenses and Insight Reports to enable a world healed of all rare and neurodegenerative diseases.
To discover more about our products, pipeline, and patient-driven purpose, visit www.centogene.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws. Statements contained herein that are not clearly historical in nature are forward-looking, and the words "anticipate," "believe," "continues," "expect," "estimate," "intend," "project," "plan," "is designed to," "potential," "predict," "objective" and similar expressions and future or conditional verbs such as "will," "would," "should," "could," "might," "can," and "may," or the negative of these are generally intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other important factors that may cause CENTOGENE's actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward- looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, negative economic and geopolitical conditions and instability and volatility in the worldwide financial markets, possible changes in current and proposed legislation, regulations and governmental policies, pressures from increasing competition and consolidation in our industry, the expense and uncertainty of regulatory approval, including from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, our reliance on third parties and collaboration partners, including our ability to manage growth, execute our business strategy and enter into new client relationships, our dependency on the rare disease industry, our ability to manage international expansion, our reliance on key personnel, our reliance on intellectual property protection, fluctuations of our operating results due to the effect of exchange rates, our ability to streamline cash usage, our continued ongoing compliance with covenants linked to financial instruments, our requirement for additional financing and our ability to continue as a going concern, or other factors. For further information on the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to CENTOGENE's business in general, see CENTOGENE's risk factors set forth in CENTOGENE's Form 20-F filed on May 16, 2023, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and subsequent filings with the SEC. Any forward- looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and CENTOGENE's specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
CONTACT
Melissa Hall
Corporate Communications
Press@centogene.com
Lennart Streibel
Investor Relations
IR@centogene.com
