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Evotec launches 'beLAB1407' to accelerate translational research from the UK's academic life science ecosystem in collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb

DGAP-News: Evotec SE / Key word(s): Miscellaneous Evotec launches 'beLAB1407' to accelerate translational research from the UK's academic life science ecosystem in collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb 06.05.2021 / 07:30 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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• beLAB1407 TRANSLATES ACADEMIC INNOVATION FROM LEADING ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS IN THE UK
• THE COLLABORATION LEVERAGES EVOTEC'S UNIQUE MULTIMODALITY PLATFORM TO VALIDATE FIRST-IN-CLASS THERAPEUTIC CONCEPTS FROM THE UNIVERSITIES OF BIRMINGHAM, EDINBURGH, NOTTINGHAM, AND DUNDEE
• BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB JOINS beLAB1407 AS A BIOPHARMA COLLABORATOR

Hamburg, Germany, 06 May 2021:
Evotec SE (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, MDAX/TecDAX, ISIN: DE0005664809) announced today that the Company, together with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY), has launched beLAB1407, a new $ 20 m academic BRIDGE to identify and advance novel and breakthrough drug discovery opportunities across therapeutic areas from the UK's top-tier academic institutions. Through a unique combination of Evotec's drug discovery and development platforms and early-stage therapeutic concepts from the Universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh, Nottingham, and Dundee, beLAB1407 offers a unique route to the advancement of first-in-class therapeutics and the creation of spin-out companies.

Evotec's BRIDGE (Biomedical Research, Innovation & Development Generation Efficiency) collaborations provide an integrated fund and award framework to validate exciting academic projects in collaborations with Pharma and biotech with the goal to form new companies. Since implementing the first academic BRIDGE 'LAB282' in Oxford in November 2016, Evotec has continued to evolve similar collaborations with a variety of academic, Pharma and venture capital partners across Europe and North America.

With beLAB1407 representing the continued refinement of the approach, Evotec links one of Europe's foremost academic clusters of excellence in the life sciences with Bristol Myers Squibb as a major biopharmaceutical partner dedicated to advancing innovation in therapeutics from academia to patient benefit. The beLAB1407 collaboration builds on the longstanding and successful relationship between Evotec and Bristol Myers Squibb in drug discovery across several therapeutic areas.