CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROSTOCK, Germany and BERLIN, Dec. 02, 2019 (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, announced today that it will report its third quarter 2019 results on Thursday, 5th December 2019, and will host a conference call on that day at 8 a.m. Eastern Time. A news release including financial results will be issued on Thursday, December 5, 2019, at 6 a.m. Eastern Time and will be available at https://investors.centogene.com
The call on 5 December can be accessed by dialing U.S. toll free +1 866 966 1396 or U.K. +44 (0) 207 192 8000 up to ten minutes prior to the start of the call and providing the conference ID 3977687. A presentation and webcast of the conference call can be accessed on the Investor Relations page of our website at http://investors.centogene.com
2019 Corporate Highlight and Outlook
CENTOGENE made solid progress in 2019. The number of our pharmaceutical partners increased from 28 partners as of September 30, 2018 to 38 partners as of September 30, 2019, and we signed over 10 new contracts with new and existing pharmaceutical partners in the nine months ended September 30, 2019. The recent data access and collaboration with Pfizer Inc. announced on November 13, 2019 further confirms the value attributed to our global rare disease repository.
Looking forward, for the full year 2019, we anticipate to have received over 130,000 order requests, allowing our data repository to grow to approximately 500,000 patients. We anticipate the total number of pharmaceutical partners to be over 40 partners by the end of 2019, and anticipate that revenue growth for the full year 2019 will be approximately 20% when compared to the full year 2018.
About Centogene
Centogene is 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. The Company’s goal is to bring rationality to treatment decisions and to accelerate the development of new orphan drugs by using our knowledge of the global rare disease market, including epidemiological and clinical data and innovative biomarkers. Centogene has developed a global proprietary rare disease platform based on our real-world data repository with over 2.0 billion weighted data points from over 450,000 patients representing 115 different countries as of August 31, 2019, or an average of over 500 data points per patient.
The Company’s platform includes epidemiologic, phenotypic and genetic data that reflects a global population, and also a biobank of these patients’ blood samples. Centogene believes this represents the only platform that comprehensively analyzes multi-level data to improve the understanding of rare hereditary diseases, which can aid in the identification of patients and improve our pharmaceutical partners’ ability to bring orphan drugs to the market. As of August 31, 2019, the Company collaborated with over 35 pharmaceutical partners for over 30 different rare diseases.
Important Notice and Disclaimer
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