arGEN-X appoints Don deBethizy to its Board as Non-Executive Director

– NETHERLANDS, Breda / BELGIUM, Gent – arGEN-X N.V. (Euronext Brussels: ARGX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating and developing differentiated therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of cancer and severe autoimmune diseases, today announced that at the Company’s Annual General Meeting appointed Mr. Donald (Don) deBethizy as non-executive director to the board.
As previously announced, Dr. H. van Barlingen and Dr. B. Montanari have resigned from the board of directors as non-executive directors with effect as per the date of the meeting, to be replaced by independent industry professionals in line with the Dutch Corporate Governance Code.
Don has 30 years of experience in research and development, financial, business, and operating management in the biotechnology and consumer products industry. Don is currently President of White City Consulting ApS in Denmark. He served as President and CEO of Santaris Pharma A/S, Denmark and USA until September 2014 when the Company was sold to Roche.
About arGEN-X
arGEN-X is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating and developing differentiated therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of cancer and severe autoimmune diseases.

arGEN-X has generated a pipeline of differentiated clinical and preclinical antibody candidates using its SIMPLE Antibody™ discovery platform. SIMPLE Antibody™ has a particular strength in addressing novel, complex disease targets that are difficult to access using established antibody technology platforms. Proprietary Fc engineering technologies (NHance® and ABDEG™) and POTELLIGENT® technology (licensed from BioWa, Inc.) further enhance the therapeutic properties of SIMPLE Antibody™ leads in terms of tissue penetration/residence time in the body, ability to clear disease targets or pathogenic antibodies and cell-killing potency through Antibody-Dependent Cell-mediated Cytotoxicity (ADCC), respectively. arGEN-X has leveraged its suite of antibody technologies in forging strategic collaborations with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to provide new approaches to diseases with unmet medical needs. arGEN-X is listed on the Euronext Brussels exchange under the symbol ARGX.

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