Aelis Farma CEO Pier Vincenzo Piazza Receives the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Regulatory News:

Aelis Farma (ISIN: FR0014007ZB4 – Ticker: AELIS, PEA-PME eligible), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company specialized in the development of treatments for brain diseases, announces today that Pier Vincenzo Piazza, CEO of Aelis Farma, has received the Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 award from auditing and consulting firm Ernst and Young, in the “Scale-Up” category.

For the last 30 years, this Entrepreneur of the Year award highlights men and women who create wealth and employment in France. The Scale-Up of the Year award recognizes entrepreneurs embarked on a major acceleration phase of their activity and capable of becoming the next French unicorns.

For this 30^th edition, the Entrepreneur award highlighted almost 300 contenders in eight major French regions: Est, Ile-de-France, Sud-Est, Occitanie, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Nord de France, Ouest and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

“It is a genuine honor to receive this award that we owe to the immense work undertaken by Aelis Farma’s teams. It is to them that I dedicate this award, congratulating and thanking them for making this collective success possible. Thanks to their exemplary commitment and expertise, Aelis Farma is seeing rapid and solid growth enabling it to position itself today as one of the most innovative companies in the field of brain diseases, addressing major health issues characterized by substantial unmet medical needs such as cannabis addiction and cognitive disorders associated with Down syndrome”, commented Pier Vincenzo Piazza.

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About AELIS FARMA

Founded in 2013, Aelis Farma is a biopharmaceutical company that is developing a new class of drugs, the Signaling Specific inhibitors of the CB₁ receptor of the endocannabinoid system (CB₁-SSi). These new molecular entities hold great potential in the treatment of many brain diseases. CB₁-SSi were developed by Aelis Farma on the basis of the discovery of a new natural defense mechanism of the brain made by the team of Dr. Pier Vincenzo Piazza, CEO of the Company, when he was Director of the Inserm Magendie Neurocenter in Bordeaux. For these discoveries, Dr. Piazza was awarded the Inserm Grand Prix and the Grand Prix of Neurology of the French Academy of Sciences, which are among the most prestigious French prizes in medicine and neurology.