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Heidelberg Pharma AG / Key word(s): Personnel Heidelberg Pharma AG: Heidelberg Pharma Announces Changes to the Executive Management Board 29-Nov-2023 / 11:56 CET/CEST Disclosure of an inside information acc. to Article 17 MAR of the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, transmitted by EQS News – a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Ad hoc announcement Disclosure of inside information under Article 17 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 Heidelberg Pharma Announces Changes to the Executive Management Board Ladenburg, Germany, 29 November 2023 – Heidelberg Pharma AG (FSE: HPHA) today announced that Dr. Jan Schmidt-Brand, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Heidelberg Pharma AG and Managing Director of the subsidiary Heidelberg Pharma Research GmbH, is planning to retire at the beginning of February 2024 and step down from his positions. The Supervisory Board has appointed Prof. Dr. Andreas Pahl as CEO effective 1st February 2024. Mr. Pahl will also assume the role of Managing Director of the subsidiary. Prof. Pahl has been Head of Research & Development at Heidelberg Pharma since 2012 and has been a member of the Executive Board since 2016. He holds a doctorate in chemistry and previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry and in academic research and teaching for over 25 years. Dr. Schmidt-Brand has been with Heidelberg Pharma since 2001, first as Managing Director of the subsidiary Heidelberg Pharma Research GmbH and since 2012 as a member of the Management Board of Heidelberg Pharma AG. He will continue to support the company as a consultant. End of Inside Information Information and Explanation of the Issuer to this announcement: About Heidelberg Pharma Heidelberg Pharma is an oncology specialist and the first company to develop the toxin Amanitin into cancer therapies using its proprietary ATAC technology and to advance the biological mode of action of the toxin as a novel therapeutic principle. The proprietary technology platform is being applied to develop the Company’s own therapeutic ATACs as well as in third-party collaborations. The lead candidate HDP-101 is a BCMA ATAC in clinical development for multiple myeloma. Further ATAC candidates are being developed against different targets such as CD37, PSMA or GCC each in the indications non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer or gastrointestinal tumors such as colorectal cancer. Heidelberg Pharma AG is based in Ladenburg, Germany, and is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: ISIN DE000A11QVV0 / WKN A11QVV / Symbol HPHA. More information is available at http://www.heidelberg-pharma.com/. ATAC® is a registered trademark of Heidelberg Pharma Research GmbH in the EU and the USA.
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