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Evotec AG today announced that its shareholders approved all proposals the Company’s Management put to vote at the Company’s Annual General Meeting 2018 with the required majorities.

Evotec AG today announced having signed a transaction agreement with Sanofi to integrate Sanofi’s infectious disease unit into its organisation. Pursuant to this agreement, Evotec will also licence-in the majority of Sanofi’s infectious disease research portfolio and initiatives. This successfully seals the exclusive negotiations between the two companies and completion of the required legal social process, initiated on 08 March 2018.

Evotec AG announced today the formation of the LAB591 academic BRIDGE with Arix Bioscience plc (“Arix”, London Stock Exchange: ARIX ) and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (“Fred Hutch”). LAB591 aims to accelerate research discoveries at Fred Hutch and leverage these discoveries to form new companies focused on cancer and infectious disease drug development.

Evotec AG announced today that the Company will receive a $ 6 m payment from Celgene following Celgene’s decision to expand the collaboration to include additional cell lines. Evotec and Celgene initiated the collaboration in December 2016 to identify disease-modifying treatments for a broad range of neurodegenerative diseases.

Evotec AG today announced that it has expanded its iPSC platform through a licence agreement with ID Pharma. The non-exclusive licence enables Evotec to both work with and differentiate induced pluripotent stem cells (“iPSC”) produced with ID Pharma’s Sendai virus (“SeV”) vector technology.

Evotec AG announced today that Evotec and Celgene Corporation have entered into a long-term strategic drug discovery and development partnership to identify new therapeutics in oncology.

Evotec AG today reported financial results and provided corporate updates for the first quarter of 2018.

Evotec AG today announced a strategic collaboration with Carna Biosciences, Incorporated (“Carna”). Carna will access Evotec’s INDiGO platform to accelerate the development of its programme CB-1763, which is being developed for the treatment of blood cancer, through to the submission of an Investigational New Drug Application (“IND”) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Evotec AG announced today that its management will be presenting at the Deutsche Bank 43rd Annual Health Care Conference in Boston, USA, at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2018 Healthcare Conference in Las Vegas, USA, at the Berenberg USA Conference 2018 in Tarrytown, USA, at the Jefferies 2018 Global Healthcare Conference in New York, USA, and at the dbAccess Berlin Conference in Berlin, Germany.

Evotec AG today announced that it has expanded its CRISPR service offering with the addition of a licence from ERS Genomics Limited. With this licence, Evotec gains access to the leading technology for gene editing, thereby complementing and expanding its existing service offering in the CRISPR gene editing space. The new licence from ERS Genomics Limited complements and expands Evotec’s existing CRISPR licences through the Broad Institute with gene editing technology from Emmanuelle Charpentier and others.

Evotec AG will report its financial results for the first quarter of 2018 on Wednesday, 09 May 2018. The Company is going to hold a conference call to discuss the results as well as to provide an update on its performance. Furthermore, the Management Board will present an outlook for the fiscal year 2018. The conference call will be held in English.

Five years after initiating our endometriosis alliance with Bayer, we draw some very important lessons from one of our key performance-based alliances – and share our insights.

Evotec AG announced today that its multi-target alliance with Bayer has advanced another promising small molecule into Phase I for the treatment of endometriosis, a painful, debilitating reproductive condition that affects approximately 176 million women worldwide.

Evotec AG announced today a strategic collaboration with Petra Pharma Corporation (“Petra”). Through the collaboration, Petra will access Evotec’s INDiGO platform to accelerate the development of its lead programme Petra-01, which is being developed for a range of oncological indications, through to the submission of an Investigational New Drug Application (“IND”) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by the close of 2018.

Evotec AG today reported financial results and corporate updates for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2017.

Evotec AG has launched its accelerated drug development service INDiGO®. With the launch of INDiGO®, Evotec’s expertise and capabilities are uniquely combined under one roof to deliver better drug candidates to patients faster and more efficiently than standard industry approaches. 

Evotec AG will report its financial results for 2017 on Wednesday, 28 March 2018. The Company is going to hold a conference call to discuss the results as well as to provide an update on its performance. Furthermore, the Management Board will present an outlook for fiscal year 2018. The conference call will be held in English.

Evotec AG today announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with the Center for Regenerative Therapies TU Dresden ("CRTD") to discover novel small molecule candidates for retinal diseases. 

Evotec AG announced today that LAB282, the £ 13 m drug discovery partnership between Oxford University, Oxford Sciences Innovation and Evotec, is celebrating its first year of operation after successfully accelerating 12 drug discovery and development projects at the University.

Ncardia, a leader in standardised, validated iPSC assays for safety, phenotypic screening and disease modeling, announced today that they entered into a global non-exclusive IP licensing agreement with Evotec

Evotec AG announced today that it has achieved a clinical milestone under its drug discovery alliance with Boehringer Ingelheim triggering revenues of EUR 2.00 m to Evotec.

Carrick Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the innovative research and development of transformative oncology medicines, today announced that the first patient has been dosed in the phase 1 clinical programme of CT7001

Evotec AG announced today that its management will be presenting at upcoming investor conferences

Evotec AG today reported financial results and corporate updates for the first nine months of 2017.

Evotec AG today announced a strategic collaboration on microfluidics technology including induced pluripotent stem cell ("iPSC") differentiation with leading academic institutions in the UK and Italy to accelerate the discovery of novel drugs to treat kidney diseases.

Evotec AG will report its financial results for the first nine months of 2017 on Wednesday, 08 November 2017. 

Evotec AG and TESARO, Inc. today announced a three-year integrated drug discovery collaboration to discover and develop novel small molecule product candidates against an undisclosed immuno-oncology (IO) target. 

Evotec AG announced today that its strategic alliance with Celgene has reached a first milestone triggering revenues of $ 5.0 m to Evotec.

Evotec AG and Exscientia Ltd ("Exscientia") today announced that Evotec has made a EUR 15 m investment to take a minority stake in Exscientia.

Evotec AG and MaRS Innovation ("MI") today announced the launch of "LAB150".

Evotec AG and the European Investment Bank ("EIB") announced today that the EIB has granted Evotec an unsecured loan facility of up to EUR 75 m to support Evotec's Innovate strategy.

Evotec AG and ABIVAX today announced a strategic collaboration to discover and develop novel treatments for multiple serious viral infectious diseases.

Evotec AG announced today that its management will be presenting at upcoming investor conferences.

Evotec AG today announced that, effective mid-August 2017, it has successfully completed the acquisition of Aptuit as announced in detail on 30 July 2017.

Evotec AG today reported financial results and corporate updates for the first half of 2017.

Evotec AG today announced a strategic collaboration on induced pluripotent stem cell ("iPSC") technology with the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, ScreeningPort.

Evotec AG will report its financial results for the first half of 2017 on Thursday, 10 August 2017.

Evotec AG and Aptuit announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Evotec will acquire Aptuit for $ 300 m.

Evotec AG announced today an integrated drug discovery collaboration with STORM Therapeutics ("STORM") to develop new small molecule epigenetic drugs for oncology and other therapeutic areas.

Evotec AG announced today that its multi-target endometriosis alliance with Bayer has advanced a programme from the alliance portfolio into Phase I clinical development for the treatment of endometriosis, triggering a milestone payment to Evotec.

Evotec AG announced today that the Company has been awarded a 'Programm für Innovation' ("PROFI") grant for a period of two years from the  Hamburgische Investitions- und Förderbank

Evotec AG today announced a collaboration with Censo Biotechnologies Ltd. ("Censo") to source and provide patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells ("iPSC") to support Evotec's broad iPSC platform.

Evotec AG announced today that LAB282, the drug discovery BRIDGE between Oxford University, has made its second round of awards to support promising life sciences ideas emerging from the University.

Evotec AG announced today that it will make a strategic investment as part of Facio Therapies' ("Facio") 2017 funding round together with Australian, European and North American members of the Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy ("FSHD") community (Total volume: EUR 4.8 m).

Evotec AG was awarded the European Mediscience Award for “Company of the Year”. 

Evotec AG today announced that it has joined the NURTuRE consortium to drive kidney disease
focused drug discovery based on patient derived-data.

Evotec AG today announced that its shareholders approved all proposals the Company's Management put to vote at the Company's Annual General Meeting, which took place today, with the required majority.

Forge Therapeutics and Evotec present first efficacy data for Lpxc inhibitor in uti model at  ASM MICROBE 2017

Evotec AG announced today that its multi-target endometriosis alliance with Bayer has reached another significant pre-clinical milestone, triggering a payment of approx. EUR 5 m to Evotec for the transition of a programme into pre-clinical development for the treatment of endometriosis.

Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, TecDAX, ISIN: DE0005664809) announced today that its management will be presenting at upcoming investor conferences

Evotec AG today reported financial results and corporate updates for the first quarter of 2017.

Evotec AG today announced that its strategic alliance (TargetBCD) with Sanofi in the field of diabetes has reached an important milestone, triggering a payment of EUR 3.0 m to Evotec, for achieving pre-clinical proof-of-concept.

Evotec AG today announced that its partner Forge Therapeutics ("Forge") has received a research award from CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria) of $ 8.8 m to advance its novel Gram-negative antibiotic programme targeting LpxC for the treatment of bacterial infections.

Evotec AG today announced its financial results and corporate updates for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2016.

Evotec AG and Business France today released their short film about Evotec’s research site in Toulouse, France, under the headline: “Evotec found Business in France – Great story, short film”.

Evotec AG is pleased to announce that LAB282, the £ 13 m (over EUR 15 m) drug discovery partnership with Oxford University, has made its first wave of awards, backing projects targeting cardiovascular diseases and infectious diseases.

Evotec AG today announced that it resolved on a capital increase from its authorised capital against cash. Evotec will issue 13,146,019 new shares to Novo A/S (Denmark). Novo A/S is the independent holding company for the Novo Group.

Evotec AG today announced that Cyprotex, a company wholly owned by Evotec AG, has completed the relocation of its UK operations from Macclesfield to Alderley Park.

Evotec AG today announced it has entered into an integrated drug discovery collaboration on an ion channel target with Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Asahi Kasei Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.

Evotec AG and MaRS Innovation today announced the launch of Fibrocor Therapeutics LP ("Fibrocor"), a Toronto-based company focused on developing first-in-class therapeutics targeting fibrotic diseases. 

Evotec AG today announced a promising research result in the field of picornaviruses published in a scientific article by Dr Thijn Brummelkamp, the co-founder of Haplogen GmbH, a biotech company based in Vienna, Austria, that develops antiviral therapeutics in a co-owned partnership with Evotec.

Evotec AG announced today that it will extend its existing relationship with Eternygen GmbH ("Eternygen") by becoming an investor in addition to being a pre-clinical drug discovery partner. 

Evotec AG announced today that Evotec and Celgene Corporation have entered into a strategic drug discovery and development collaboration to identify disease-modifying therapeutics for a broad range of neurodegenerative diseases.

Evotec AG today announced the successful closing of the acquisition of 100% shares in Cyprotex PLC, a specialist pre-clinical contract research organisation in ADME-Tox and DMPK headquartered in the UK.

Evotec AG today announced a strategic alliance with Forge Therapeutics, Inc. ("Forge") to advance its novel Gram-negative antibiotic programme targeting "LpxC" for the treatment of bacterial infections including those caused by drug resistant 'superbugs'.

Evotec AG today announced the signing of a set of collaboration agreements with the life science business of Merck, which will combine Merck's portfolio of genome editing technologies with Evotec's versatile screening platforms and disease expertise.

Evotec AG today announced a novel strategic partnership with the University of Oxford, Oxford University Innovation Ltd, OUI (the university's research commercialisation company) and Oxford Sciences Innovation, OSI (the world's largest IP investment company dedicated to a single university) aimed at accelerating the translation of basic biomedical research from Oxford into new therapeutics.

Evotec AG today reported financial results and corporate updates for the first nine months of 2016.

Evotec AG today announced that it has made an offer to acquire Cyprotex PLC ("Cyprotex", AIM: CRX-GB), a specialist pre-clinical contract research organisation in ADME-Tox and DMPK.

Evotec AG today announced a collaboration with UCB to provide a broad range of in vitro pharmacology services.

Evotec AG announced today that in line with its strategy to participate in promising corporate formations it will deepen its already existing relationship with Carrick.

Evotec AG announced today that its multi-target endometriosis alliance with Bayer has reached another key pre-clinical milestone for the transition of a project from the alliance portfolio into pre-clinical development.

Evotec AG today announced a multi-target collaboration with C4X Discovery Holdings plc ("C4XD").

Evotec AG announced today that the Company has entered into a research collaboration with Inserm Transfert, the private subsidiary of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research ("Inserm").

Evotec AG today announced that Evotec and Bayer have entered into a five-year, multi-target research partnership in kidney disease. 

Evotec AG today reported financial results and corporate updates for the first half of 2016.

Evotec AG announced today that it has reached a milestone from Bayer for the progression of a programme from the alliance portfolio into Phase I clinical development for the treatment of endometriosis, triggering a milestone payment to Evotec.

Evotec AG announced today a collaboration with Antibiotic Research UK ("ANTRUK") to identify alternative means of treating infections that are resistant to currently available antibiotics.

Evotec AG announced today that the Company has entered into a non-exclusive licence agreement with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for the use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology.

Evotec AG announced today that the investment company Ellersbrook GmbH & Co. KG, ("Ellersbrook"), Germany, will invest into Evotec's internal TargetNASH programme. 

Evotec AG today announced that Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, has extended its integrated drug discovery alliance with Evotec for a further three years to discover novel small molecule therapeutics.

Evotec AG today reported financial results and corporate updates for the first quarter of 2016.

Evotec AG and Exscientia Ltd (Dundee, UK) today announced a collaboration with the objective to discover and develop first-in-class bispecific small molecule immuno-oncology therapies.

Evotec AG today announced a multi-year compound management agreement with Pierre Fabre Laboratories, the 2nd largest private French pharmaceutical group.

Evotec AG today announced the formation of a spin-off company in the field of nanoparticle-based therapeutics to treat immunological disorders.

Evotec AG today announced its financial results for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2015.

Evotec AG today announced the achievement of a key pre-clinical milestone in the ongoing alliance with its research partner Padlock Therapeutics, Inc. ("Padlock").

Evotec AG today announced that it has been awarded a research grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation ("MJFF") to further develop Evotec's TargetaSN (Targetalpha-synuclein) programme for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

Evotec AG today announced the achievement of an important milestone in its TargetAD collaboration with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Janssen") for the transition of a project into further drug discovery process.

Evotec AG today announced an EVT Execute collaboration aimed at providing a complete solution to UCB's global sample management requirements.

Evotec AG today announced an extension of an existing collaboration with Spero Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aimed at discovering and developing new and ground-breaking therapeutics for Gram-negative bacteria to treat serious infections and address the growing threat to global public health resulting from antibiotic resistance.

Evotec AG announced today that its multi-target collaboration with Bayer HealthCare has reached two important pre-clinical milestones for the transition of two projects from the alliance portfolio into late-stage discovery and pre-clinical development for the treatment of endometriosis.

Evotec AG today announced an EVT Execute collaboration with Beyond Batten Disease Foundation aimed at discovering and developing new treatments for juvenile Batten disease, a rare, fatal autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder. 

Evotec AG today announced it has entered into a multi-year compound management agreement with the U.S. National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services. 

Evotec AG today announced that it increases its financial guidance for the current year. 

Evotec AG today announced that it has signed an agreement on a four-year research collaboration with Pfizer Inc.

Evotec AG today announced that CHDI Foundation, Inc. has extended and expanded its collaboration with Evotec through to August 2018.

Evotec AG and Apeiron Biologics AG, a biotech company with a focus on immunological approaches to treat cancer, today announced a strategic collaboration with Sanofi to develop novel small molecule-based cancer immunotherapies.

Evotec AG and Sanofi today announced a strategic collaboration in the field of diabetes.

Evotec AG, a leading provider in the discovery and development of novel small molecule drugs, today announced that it has entered into a research agreement with Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB), a leading biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., USA.

Evotec AG announced today that the acquisition of the controlling majority stake of Research Support International Private Limited ("RSIPL") has been successfully completed and that RSIPL is a 70%, majority owned subsidiary of Evotec as of August 31, 2009.

Joern Aldag, President and Chief Executive Officer of Evotec OAI, commented: "Following a successful collaboration in the development of our EVOscreen® uHTS system, Novartis has chosen Evotec OAI to support their lead discovery efforts. We are delighted that one of the world's leading R&D organisations has chosen our expertise in drug discovery and our technology platform in this critical area of research."

Evotec AG announced today that Evotec and Celgene Corporation have entered into a long-term strategic drug discovery and development partnership to identify new therapeutics in oncology.

Evotec AG today decided to begin preparations for legal conversion of the Company into a European Company (Societas Europaea, SE). The proposal, which has already been approved by the Supervisory Board, will be put to a vote at this year’s Annual General Meeting on 20 June 2018.

Evotec AG today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Aptuit Holdings LLC ("Aptuit") under which Evotec will acquire all operational business of Aptuit for $ 300 m (approx. EUR 256 m) to combine the businesses and expand Evotec's role as leading player in integrated outsourced drug discovery and development solutions.

Evotec AG today announced that it resolved on a capital increase from its authorised capital against cash.

Evotec AG announced today that Evotec and Celgene Corporation have entered into a strategic drug discovery and development collaboration to identify disease-modifying therapeutics for a broad range of neurodegenerative diseases. Initial disease areas of focus will include Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and multiple other neurodegenerative disorders.

Evotec AG today announced that it has made an offer to acquire Cyprotex PLC (AIM Listing: CRX-GB), a specialist pre-clinical contract research organisation in ADME-Tox and DMPK headquartered in UK. The proposed acquisition, which has been unanimously recommended by the board of Cyprotex, is expected to close before year-end 2016.

Evotec AG today announced that, in the context of the half year results published on 10 August 2016, it increases its financial guidance for the current year.

Evotec AG today announced that it increases its financial guidance for the current year.