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The Enterprise Court of Nivelles approves the BioSenic restructuring plan  

PRESS RELEASE – PRIVILEGED INFORMATION

Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium, June 14, 2024 7.00am CEST – BioSenic (Euronext Brussels and Paris: BIOS), the clinical stage company specializing in serious autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, as well as cell repair, announces that it has received the homologation judgment for the restructuring plan filed with the Enterprise Court of Nivelles. This homologation judgment makes the plan binding on all deferred creditors, and the measures provided for therein will continue until June 2029, the end of the five-year period set by law.

The restructuring plan can be accessed via the following link: https://biosenic.com/sites/default/files/2024-04/PRJ_BioSenic_FR.pdf

The homologation judgment closes the judicial reorganization procedure. BioSenic’s board of directors will take the necessary decisions to implement the approved plan, and will convene a shareholders’ meeting as soon as possible to ensure the conversion of the convertible bonds (other than those subscribed by Global Tech Opportunities 15) in accordance with the agreed terms.

Prof. François Rieger, President of the Board and CEO of the BioSenic Group, said: “The judicial reorganisation procedure initiated on 12 October 2023, with a 4-month reprieve from BioSenic’s accumulated debts, the heaviest inherited from Bone Therapeutics, has led us to devise a general plan to restructure the company and its receivables in order to meet the needs of its development. This restructuring plan has received the positive opinion of the vast majority of creditors – grouped into classes of interest – and the Enterprise Court of Nivelles has taken this into account to send us its approval today. The completion of this plan puts us in a new era for BioSenic, enabling us to face the challenges typical of a biotech company in the advanced clinical trials phase. Indeed, our main challenge is now to run and successfully complete an international phase 3 clinical trial for the indication of graft versus host disease (cGvHD), while developing our Lupus and Systemic Sclerosis projects”.

About BioSenic

BioSenic is a leading biotech company specializing in the development of clinical assets issued from its Medsenic’s arsenic trioxide (ATO) platform. Key target indications for the autoimmune platform include graft-versus-host-disease (GvHD), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and now systemic sclerosis (SSc).
Following the merger in October 2022, BioSenic combined the strategic positionings and strengths of Medsenic and Bone Therapeutics. The merger specifically enables Medsenic/Biosenic to develop an entirely new arsenal of various anti-inflammatory and anti-autoimmune formulations using the immunomodulatory properties of ATO/oral ATO (OATO).

BioSenic is based in the Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium. Further information is available at http://www.biosenic.com.

About the main Medsenic/BioSenic technology platform

The ATO platform provides derived active products with immunomodulatory properties and fundamental effects on the activated cells of the immune system. One direct application is its use in onco-immunology to treat GvHD (Graft-versus-Host Disease) in its chronic, established stage. cGvHD is one of the most common and clinically significant complications affecting long-term survival of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT).

Medsenic has been successful in a phase 2 trial with its intravenous formulation, Arscimed®, which has orphan drug designation status by FDA and EMA. The company is heading towards an international phase 3 confirmatory study, with its new, IP-protected, OATO formulation. Another selected target is moderate-to-severe forms of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), using the same oral formulation. ATO has shown good safety and significant clinical efficacy on several affected organs (skin, mucosae, and the gastrointestinal tract). Systemic sclerosis is now full part of the clinical pipeline of Medsenic/BioSenic. This serious chronic disease badly affects skin, lungs, or vascularization, and has no current effective treatment. Preclinical studies on pertinent animal models are positive, giving good grounds to launch a phase 2 clinical protocol, using new immunomodulatory formulations of APIs recognized to be active on the immune system.

The company is currently focusing its present R&D and clinical activities on a selective, accelerated development of its autoimmune platform.

Note: The allogeneic cell therapy platform-originating from the previous listed company Bone Therapeutics company, may be of renewed interest by using isolated and purified differentiated bone marrow Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) as a starting material for further isolation of passive or active biological subcellular elements. Indeed, these cells may provide new subcellular vesicles potentially able to deliver a unique and proprietary approach to organ repair. BioSenic is now involved in determining new patentable approaches in this complex area of cell therapy.

For further information, please contact:

BioSenic SA
François Rieger, PhD, CEO
Tel: +33 (0)671 73 31 59
investorrelations@biosenic.com

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