CENTOGENE and Molecular Health Announce an Exclusive Collaboration With the Aim to Transform the Development of Orphan Drugs

• The combination of real-life data sets in rare diseases with innovative big data/artificial intelligence/novel scientific computational knowledge will transform biomedical research, product development, and therapy.
• Real-life data and Innovative Bioinformatic Algorithms (RIBA project) will enable the creation of a powerful environment to accelerate, de-risk, and improve the development of new orphan drugs for many diseases and disease areas.
• RIBA develops and offers data-/computing-driven solutions to guide the highest and most precise innovation for a new way of drug development in a modern biopharmaceutical environment.
• The collaboration will start with Epilepsy as the first indication

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROSTOCK, Germany and BERLIN and HEIDELBERG, Germany, July 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Centogene N.V. (Nasdaq: CNTG), a commercial-stage company focused on rare diseases that transforms real-world clinical and genetic data into actionable information for patients, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies, and Molecular Health, a leading company in the field of data and computing science for precision medicine, announced today that they will collaborate exclusively to initiate the Real-life data and Innovative Bioinformatic Algorithms (RIBA) project – starting with Epilepsy as the first indication. RIBA aims to foster a unique novel precision medicine environment to accelerate, de-risk, and improve the development of new orphan drugs based on the combination of large real-life data sets in rare disease with innovative big data, innovative artificial intelligence, as well as computational algorithms and expertise. Both companies are convinced that this strategy of merging real-life data with a global curated biomedical knowledge, as well as applying artificial intelligence and scientific computing will radically change and transform biomedical research, product development, and therapy. Additionally, it will offer data-/computing-driven solutions to guide the highest and most precise innovation for the new way of drug development in a modern biopharmaceutical environment.

Prof. Arndt Rolfs, CENTOGENE Chief Executive Officer, stated, “We are excited about this collaboration. Both companies have been analyzing the potential interaction for an extended period of time and are deeply convinced that now is the right time to start an exclusive cooperation focusing on rare genetic diseases. The complementary expertise and knowledge of both companies will allow us to reduce the time to develop a new orphan drug by combining of real-life data and innovative computational biomedical expertise. CentoMD, one of the world’s largest rare disease data repositories, allows us to take advantage of the high quality of the real-life data from a global cohort of more than 500,000 consented patients. The extraordinary expertise of Molecular Health will not only speed up the identification of new targets in rare disease, but also allow us to de-risk and accelerate the development of new orphan drugs.”