Lysogene Appoints Côme de La Tour du Pin as Chief Financial Officer

03 Feb 2023 18:00 CET

Regulatory News:

Lysogene (Paris:LYS) (FR0013233475 – LYS), a phase 3 gene therapy platform Company targeting central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today announced the appointment of Côme de La Tour du Pin, currently VP Finance/Chief Financial Officer ad interim, as Chief Financial Officer. He will replace Stéphane Durant des Aulnois who has decided to leave the Company to pursue other opportunities.

Mr. de La Tour du Pin joined the Company in 2020 as Vice President Finance before becoming CFO ad interim in November 2022, and has been involved in the fundraising, investor relations and FP&A activities. Prior to joining Lysogene, he gained extensive experience within the investor relations teams at Ipsen and at Groupe Casino. Before that, he acquired a solid background in investment banking at BNP Paribas and in audit at PwC. Côme graduated from EM Lyon Business School.

About Lysogene

Lysogene is a gene therapy Company focused on the treatment of orphan diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). The Company has built a unique capability to enable delivery of gene therapies to the CNS to treat lysosomal diseases and other disorders of the CNS. A phase 2/3 clinical trial in MPS IIIA is ongoing. An adaptive clinical trial in GM1 gangliosidosis is also ongoing. Lysogene is also developing an innovative AAV gene therapy approach for the treatment of Fragile X syndrome, a genetic disease related to autism. The Company also entered into an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Yeda, the commercial arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, for a novel gene therapy candidate for Parkinson disease with GBA1 mutations. www.lysogene.com.

Forward Looking Statement

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This press release has been prepared in both French and English. In the event of any differences between the two texts, the French language version shall supersede.

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Contacts - Corporate
Côme de La Tour du Pin
Chief Financial Officer
come.delatourdupin@lysogene.com
+ 33 1 41 43 03 90

Contacts - Patients
contact@lysogene.com