ProQR Announces Nomination of Dr. Lykke Hinsch Gylvin to its Board of Directors

LEIDEN, Netherlands & CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ProQR Therapeutics N.V. (Nasdaq: PRQR) (ProQR), a clinical-stage company dedicated to changing lives through transformative RNA therapies based on its proprietary Axiomer™ RNA editing technology platform, today announced the nomination of Lykke Hinsch Gylvin, MD, EMBA, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Global Medicine at Boehringer Ingelheim, to its Board of Directors.

“We are pleased to nominate Lykke to our Board of Directors,” said James Shannon, MD, Chairperson of the Board of ProQR Therapeutics. “Her extensive experience in global drug development and broad perspective across therapeutic areas will complement the expertise of our Board. As we continue to advance our pipeline and strategy, her insights will be valuable in supporting ProQR’s next phase of growth.”

Dr. Hinsch Gylvin is a seasoned pharmaceutical executive with more than 20 years of global leadership experience spanning all phases of drug development. She currently serves as Chief Medical Officer and Head of Global Medicine at Boehringer Ingelheim, where she leads the global medical and clinical development organization across a broad range of therapeutic areas, including oncology, cardiometabolic diseases, immunology, CNS, and rare diseases.

Prior to joining Boehringer Ingelheim, Dr. Hinsch Gylvin held senior leadership roles at Novartis and AstraZeneca, where she led global medical and development strategies across multiple therapeutic areas. Earlier in her career, she held roles of increasing responsibility at Roche, Novo Nordisk and Lundbeck, gaining extensive experience in clinical development, regulatory strategy and global medical affairs.

Dr. Hinsch Gylvin holds an MD from the University of Copenhagen and an Executive MBA from SBS Swiss Business School.

The nomination will be submitted for shareholder approval at the Company’s upcoming Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. If appointed, Dr. Hinsch Gylvin will serve as an independent non-executive director.

About Axiomer^™

ProQR is pioneering a next-generation RNA base editing technology called Axiomer^™, which could potentially yield a new class of medicines for diverse types of diseases. Axiomer^™ “Editing Oligonucleotides”, or EONs, mediate single nucleotide changes to RNA in a highly specific and targeted way using molecular machinery that is present in human cells called ADAR (Adenosine Deaminase Acting on RNA). Axiomer^™ EONs are designed to recruit and direct endogenously expressed ADARs to change an Adenosine (A) to an Inosine (I) in the RNA – an Inosine is translated as a Guanosine (G) – correcting an RNA with a disease-causing mutation back to a normal (wild type) RNA, modulating protein expression, or altering a protein so that it will have a new function that helps prevent or treat disease.

About ProQR

ProQR Therapeutics is dedicated to changing lives through the creation of transformative RNA therapies. ProQR is pioneering a next-generation RNA technology called Axiomer^™, which uses a cell’s own editing machinery called ADAR to make specific single nucleotide edits in RNA to reverse a mutation or modulate protein expression and could potentially yield a new class of medicines for both rare and prevalent diseases with unmet need. Based on our unique proprietary RNA repair platform technologies we are growing our pipeline with patients and loved ones in mind.

Learn more about ProQR at www.proqr.com.

Forward Looking Statements

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