Centogene N.V., the essential life science partner for data-driven
answers in rare and neurodegenerative diseases, today announced
that it received a notice from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
(“Nasdaq”) indicating that the Nasdaq Hearings Panel has determined
to delist CENTOGENE’S common stock from Nasdaq. The notice
indicates that CENTOGENE (the “Company”) remains noncompliant with
Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(b)(2)(C), which requires a minimum USD 15
million market value of publicly held shares.
Suspension of trading in the Company’s common stock on Nasdaq
will be effective at the open of trading on August 8, 2024. The
Company may, within 15 calendar days from the date of the notice,
request that Nasdaq review the decision, but the Company does not
intend to make such a request.
The Company expects its common stock to commence trading on the
OTC Markets Group platform (the “OTC”) at the open of trading on
August 8, 2024, under the symbol "CNTGF." The Company has also
applied to trade its common stock on the OTCQX Market and expects
to commence trading of its common stock on the OTCQX in the coming
weeks. However, no assurances can be provided that trading of the
Company’s common stock on the OTC will commence promptly, or at
all, or will be maintained if commenced.
As previously announced, on February 27, 2024, CENTOGENE
received a notification from Nasdaq’s Listing Department notifying
it of Nasdaq’s determination to delist the Company’s securities
from Nasdaq due to non-compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule
5450(b)(2)(C), subject to the Company’s right to a hearing.
On April 30, 2024, the Company had a hearing with Nasdaq and
presented a plan of compliance with respect to the minimum market
value requirement. As previously announced, the Company’s plan to
regain compliance related to the Company completing a sale
transaction by no later than August 26, 2024, which is the latest
date for which the Nasdaq panel has authority to grant an
extension. The Company is unable to meet this requirement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company continues to actively
pursue a sale transaction pursuant to its announced strategic
alternatives review process.
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
850,000 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 300 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 and 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 specifically disclaims any obligation to update any
forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information,
future events, or otherwise.
Contacts:
Melissa HallCENTOGENECorporate Communications
Press@centogene.com
Lennart StreibelCENTOGENEInvestor Relations
IR@centogene.com
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