Kiadis Pharma Satellite Symposium at 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

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Kiadis Pharma N.V. ("Kiadis Pharma” or the "Company”) (Euronext Amsterdam and Brussels: KDS), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative T-cell immunotherapy treatments for blood cancers and inherited blood disorders, today announces that it will organise a satellite symposium on April 3, 2016 at the 42^nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) in Valencia, Spain.

The satellite symposium is entitled: "Prevention and treatment of relapses after haploidentical HSCT: An ideal opportunity for cell-based therapy?” and will be chaired by Dr. Stefan Ciurea, Associate Professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA. The symposium will address the issue of relapse following (haploidentical) stem cell transplantations and the opportunities for donor lymphocyte infusion post-transplantation, and will discuss current knowledge on other cell-based approaches such as NK-cell and CAR-T cell therapies.

The speakers are international key opinion leaders in the field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Prof. Arnon Nagler (Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel), Prof. Andrea Bacigalupo (Università Cattolica Policlinico Gemelli, Rome, Italy) and Prof. Dr. Stephan Mielke (Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany).

The satellite symposium will take place in the industry sponsored and supported program on Sunday April 3, 2016 from 11.00 – 12.30 CET in Room 3F-3G of the EBMT conference venue.

About ATIR101™

For patients suffering from blood cancers, an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is generally regarded as the most effective curative approach. During an HSCT treatment, the bone marrow, harbouring the diseased cancer cells, is completely destroyed and subsequently replaced by stem cells in the graft from a healthy donor. After an HSCT treatment it usually takes the patient at least six to twelve months to recover to near-normal blood cell levels and immune cell functions. During this period, the patient is highly vulnerable to infections caused by bacteria, viruses and fungi but also to disease relapse.

ATIR101™ (Allodepleted T-cell ImmunotheRapeutics) provides for a safe donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) from a partially matched (haploidentical) family member without the risk of causing severe Graft-versus-Host-Disease (GVHD). The T-cells in ATIR101™ will help fight infections and remaining tumour cells and thereby bridge the time until the immune system has fully re-grown from stem cells in the transplanted graft.

In ATIR101™, T-cells that would cause GVHD are eliminated from the donor lymphocytes using Kiadis Pharma’s photodepletion technology, minimizing the risk of GVHD and eliminating the need for prophylactic immune-suppression. At the same time, ATIR101™ contains potential cancer killing T-cells from the donor that could eliminate residual cancer cells and help prevent relapse of the disease, known as the Graft-versus-Leukemia (GVL) effect.

Therefore, ATIR101™, administered as an adjunctive immuno-therapeutic on top of HSCT, provides the patient with functional, mature immune cells from a partially matched family donor that can fight infections and tumour cells but that do not cause GVHD. ATIR101™ thus has the potential to make curative HSCT a viable option to many more patients.

The Company estimates that approximately 35% of patients who are eligible and in urgent need of HSCT will not find a matching donor in time. A partially matched (haploidentical) family donor, however, will be available to over 95% of patients.

ATIR101™, consisting of donor T-cells that fight infections and residual tumour cells while not eliciting severe GVHD, is designed to result in low relapse rates and low rates of death due to infections, in the absence of severe acute GVHD.

About Kiadis Pharma

Kiadis Pharma is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on research, development and future commercialization of cell-based immunotherapy products for the treatment of blood cancers and inherited blood disorders. The Company believes that its innovative products have the potential to address the current risks and limitations connected with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), being graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), cancer relapse, opportunistic infections and limited matched donor availability. HSCT is generally regarded as the most effective curative approach to blood cancers and certain inherited blood disorders and the Company expects that HSCT could become a first-choice treatment for blood cancers and inherited blood disorders once current risks and limitations are addressed, thereby meeting a significant unmet medical need with its products.

The Company’s product ATIR101™ is being tested using a single-dose regimen in an open-label fully enrolled Phase II trial in patients with blood cancer who have not found a matching donor and where a partially matched (haploidentical) family member is used as donor for HSCT. The primary endpoint for the final patient in this trial will be reached at the end of Q1, 2016 and top-line results will be announced in April 2016. Very encouraging and positive interim data of this trial was presented recently at ASH2015.

In addition, the Company is enrolling blood cancer patients in a further Phase II clinical trial to study the safety and efficacy of administrating a second dose of ATIR101™ to further improve the HSCT outcome.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued an Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP) certificate for manufacturing quality and non-clinical data to the Company, and to date Kiadis Pharma is one of only five companies that have received such a certificate.

ATIR101™ has been granted Orphan Drug Designations both in the US and Europe.

ATIR201™ will be developed for inherited blood disorders with an initial focus on thalassaemia, an inherited blood disorder which results in improper oxygen transport and destruction of red blood cells in a patient. ATIR201™ is expected to enter Phase I/II clinical development for thalassaemia in the first quarter of 2016. Kiadis Pharma recently announced a collaboration with the Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF), an internationally renowned organisation that seeks to address the needs of patients, carers, healthcare professionals and the general public in the area of thalassaemia.

Kiadis Pharma is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and its shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussels. Further information can be found at: www.kiadis.com

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