Kiadis Pharma announces two senior management appointments

Kiadis Pharma announces two senior management appointments

Strengthens Senior Management Team with Chief Human Resources Officer and General Counsel and Company Secretary

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 6, 2018 - Kiadis Pharma N.V. ("Kiadis Pharma" or the "Company") (Euronext Amsterdam and Brussels: KDS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announces that Mr. Mark Schaefer has been appointed Chief Human Resources Officer and Mr. James Joy has been appointed General Counsel and Company Secretary. Mr. Schaefer and Mr. Joy will be members of the Senior Management Team at Kiadis Pharma, report to the Chief Executive Officer, and are both based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Arthur Lahr, CEO of Kiadis Pharma, commented: "I am delighted to welcome Mark Schaefer and James Joy to Kiadis. Mark's 25 years of global Human Resources experience building manufacturing and commercial operations will help us in expanding and strengthening the organization as we prepare for EU launch and scale up. James brings with him significant experience as corporate lawyer and general counsel and has an excellent track record in corporate finance. Building a biotech company requires highly experienced people across all disciplines. These appointments clearly show and reinforce our ability to attract seasoned senior executives and specialized staff to deliver on our strategy."

Mr. Mark Schaefer has 25 years of HR experience and joins from Aenova Holding, where he was Senior Vice President of Global HR. The Aenova Group is a global leader in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and one of the leading contract manufacturers in Europe. Prior to this Mr. Schaefer worked in senior global HR roles at West Pharmaceuticals, 3M, Sony and GE. He holds a BA in Economics and Commerce as well as a Master's degree in Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto. Mr. Schaefer is a Canadian citizen.

Mr. James Joy has over 20 years of legal and corporate finance experience. Mr. Joy served as General Counsel respectively VP Legal at leading multinational companies TomTom N.V. and Royal Ahold N.V.  Previously, Mr. Joy practiced as international corporate lawyer in New York and London with Latham & Watkins and Norton Rose Fulbright where he advised on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.  Mr. Joy holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Heriot-Watt University and a Juris Doctor degree from Tulane Law School.  Mr. Joy is a member of the New York State Bar. Mr. Joy is a British citizen.

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About Kiadis Pharma
Kiadis Pharma is initially developing its lead product candidate, ATIR101, for use in conjunction with haploidentical HSCT for adult blood cancers to address key limitations of haploidentical HSCT, without prophylactic immunosuppression and its associated morbidity and mortality. Based on the positive results from the single dose Phase II CR-AIR-007 study, the Company submitted a marketing authorization application, or MAA, to the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, in April 2017 for approval of ATIR101 as an adjunctive treatment in haploidentical HSCT for high risk adult hematological malignancies. Kiadis Pharma submitted responses to the EMA's Day 180 List of Issues in August 2018. The Company expects a Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, or CHMP, opinion in the fourth quarter of 2018 which, if positive, would enable it to receive a conditional marketing approval from the European Commission as early as in the first quarter of 2019. If then conditionally approved, Kiadis Pharma intends to launch ATIR101 in selected countries in Europe through its own commercial organization starting in the second half of 2019.

In December 2017, Kiadis Pharma commenced an international, multicenter, randomized and controlled Phase III clinical trial of ATIR101 against the Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide, or PTCy protocol, the main protocol used to perform a haploidentical HSCT. The trial will be performed in 250 patients with acute leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, at approximately 50 sites in the United States, Canada, Europe and certain additional countries. The trial's primary endpoint is GVHD-Free and Relapse-Free Survival, or GRFS, which is defined as survival without acute GVHD grade III/IV, without chronic GVHD requiring systemic immunosuppression, and without relapse, and is a composite endpoint widely used in HSCT trials that captures survival, quality of life and future prognosis. The first patient was enrolled in December 2017. If successful, the Company intends to use data from this Phase III trial as a basis for the filing of a Biologics License Application, or BLA, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA. The Company also plans to use data from the Phase III trial to support the conversion of the anticipated conditional marketing approval of ATIR101 in Europe into a standard marketing approval. ATIR101 received regenerative medicine advanced therapy, or RMAT, designation from the FDA in September 2017, which provides benefits that are materially equivalent to a breakthrough designation from the FDA. In addition, ATIR101 has been granted multiple orphan drug designations both in the European Union and the United States.

The Company's shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam and Brussels under the ticker KDS.

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