Acticor Biotech Announces the Appointment of Patricia Zilliox to the Board of Directors as an Independent Director

Regulatory News:

ACTICOR BIOTECH (ISIN: FR0014005OJ5 - ALACT) (Paris:ALACT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of innovative drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular emergencies, in particular stroke, is announcing today the appointment of Patricia Zilliox as an independent director to replace Corinne Le Goff, whose plurality of Board of Directors' seats in the United States no longer allow her to fulfill her mission at Acticor Biotech.

The Board of Directors of Acticor Biotech met on January 26, 2023, and co-opted Patricia Zilliox for a three-year term of office, effective immediately. This appointment as an independent member of the Board of Directors will be submitted for ratification at the next Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on May 12, 2023.

Alain Munoz, Chairman of the Board of Directors, said: "We are delighted to welcome Patricia Zilliox to our Board as an independent director. Her expertise in drug development and her knowledge of the US industry will be very useful to us at this stage of the development of glenzocimab. We warmly thank Corinne for her contribution to the work of the Board of Directors in 2022 and wish her every success in her assignments across the Atlantic”.

Patricia ZILLIOX, new independent director of Acticor Biotech, added: "After spending my entire career in the USA, I am very proud to have the opportunity to contribute to the development of a truly breakthrough drug, glenzocimab, which is the result of French academic research”.

Patricia Zilliox, Ph.D. in Pharmacy, managed the ophthalmology clinical development programs as Senior Director Clinical Pharma at Alcon Laboratories in the US until 2011. Most recently, Patricia was responsible for identifying, funding and developing promising treatments for gene mutated retinal diseases at the Clinical Research Institute, a division of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, in Columbia, Maryland. Since 2017, she has been President and CEO of Eyevensys, a biotech company developing a non-viral gene therapy platform for the treatment of retinal diseases.

About ACTICOR BIOTECH

Acticor Biotech is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, a spin-off from INSERM (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research), which is aiming to develop an innovative treatment for cardiovascular emergencies, including ischemic stroke.

Acticor Biotech is developing glenzocimab (ACT017), a humanized monoclonal antibody (mAb) fragment directed against a novel target of major interest, platelet glycoprotein VI (GPVI). Glenzocimab inhibits platelet binding to the thrombus without affecting physiological hemostasis, thereby limiting the bleeding risk, particularly in the brain.