Shareholders of Molecular Partners AG approved all Board proposals at the Annual General Meeting Mittwoch, 06. Mai 2015 - 18:56
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Shareholders of Molecular Partners AG approved all Board proposals at the Annual General Meeting | |||||||||||||||
Zurich-Schlieren, May 06, 2015. At today’s Annual General Meeting of Molecular Partners AG (ticker: MOLN), the shareholders of the company approved all motions proposed by the Board of Directors with a large majority. | |||||||||||||||
The shareholders of Molecular Partners AG approved the annual report and the annual financial statements for the financial year 2014, as well as the appropriation of the 2014 results. The Board of Directors and the Management Board were granted discharge for the financial year 2014.
Jörn Aldag, Goran Ando, Francesco De Rubertis, Steven H. Holtzman, William A. Lee, Andreas Plückthun, Petri Vainio and Christian Zahnd were all re-elected as members of the Board of Directors and Jörn Aldag was also re-elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Molecular Partners AG. The proposed three members of the Compensation Committee - Jörn Aldag, William A. Lee and Petri Vainio - were also re-elected.
The shareholders of Molecular Partners AG also approved the proposed respective compensation amounts for the Board of Directors and the Management Board.
About Molecular Partners AG Molecular Partners is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that is developing a new powerful class of therapies known as DARPins™. DARPins™ are potent, specific and versatile small protein therapies which have the potential to offer benefits over conventional monoclonal antibodies or other currently available protein therapeutics. The DARPin technology has the potential to enable a “multi-benefit” approach to treatment which enables DARPins to target multiple pathways, or multiple epitopes on a single target to achieve substantial patient benefit. DARPins™ have the potential to advance modern medicine and significantly improve the treatment of serious diseases, including cancer and sight-threatening disorders.
Molecular Partners has four compounds in various stages of clinical and preclinical development and several more in the research stage, with a current focus on ophthalmology and oncology. Its most advanced product candidate is abicipar pegol, for which the company's partner Allergan plans to initiate a Phase III clinical trial in wet AMD in 2015. The company has ongoing research and development partnerships with leading pharmaceutical companies including Allergan, Roche and Janssen and is backed by established biotech investors.
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