Actelion's Chief Scientific Officer Martine Clozel awarded the Tomoh Masaki award by the 14th International Conferences on Endothelin

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SAVANNAH,  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ALLSCHWIL, SWITZERLAND - 05 September 2015 - Actelion Ltd (SIX: ATLN) today announced that its Chief Scientific Officer and Member of the Actelion Founding team, Martine Clozel, has been awarded the Tomoh Masaki Award by the International Conferences on Endothelin, the bi-annual scientific event, currently taking place for the 14th time in  Savannah, Georgia/USA.

In its tribute, the award committee highlighted Dr. Clozel's contribution to successfully discovering multiple endothelin receptor antagonists, especially Tracleer^® (bosentan) and Opsumit^® (macitentan), two molecules that each made history in the field of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Accepting the award, Dr. Clozel highlighted her long-term commitment to turn groundbreaking scientific achievements, such as the discovery of the endothelin system by Professor Tomoh Masaki and his team, into innovative medicines that change the lives of patients. She also highlighted the key contribution of Professor Masashi Yanagisawa, who was the lead author on the study in the discovery of endothelin and was the first recipient of the award, as well as Professor Kastutoshi Goto, the second recipient, for his role in understanding the pathophysiology of endothelin.

Dr. Clozel said: "It is my privilege to be part of such a vibrant research community as the one that covers endothelin science. I have been actively participating to every international conference on endothelin since the very first one in 1988 in London. At every meeting, new information has been presented that showed the path forward for new endothelin-based medical therapies."

Dr. Clozel specifically highlighted the ongoing further research and development efforts at Actelion in the field of endothelin receptor antagonists, with multiple clinical studies either ongoing or in the process of being initiated, to identify further applications where counteracting the deleterious effects of an endothelin overproduction could result in significant changes in clinical outcome and patient well-being.