UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of May 2024
Commission File Number 001-39124
Centogene N.V.
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Am Strande
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18055 Rostock
Germany
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Centogene N.V.
On May 10, 2024, Centogene N.V. issued a press release titled “CENTOGENE
Biodatabank Grows to Incorporate Disease Insights From Over 850,000 Diverse Patients.” A copy of the press release is attached hereto
as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.
Signatures
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: May 10, 2024
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Exhibit Index
Exhibit 99.1
CENTOGENE Biodatabank
Grows to Incorporate Disease Insights From Over 850,000 Diverse Patients
Fueling the diagnosis
of over 2,500 rare and neurodegenerative diseases, more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, and 48 pharma collaborations
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROSTOCK, Germany,
and BERLIN, May 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Centogene N.V. (Nasdaq: CNTG), the essential
life science partner for data-driven answers in rare and neurodegenerative diseases, today revealed significant growth in the CENTOGENE
Biodatabank, the world’s largest real-world data repository for rare and neurodegenerative diseases. Analysis of this patient data
enables precise diagnosis of disease, identification of new genetic variants, and potential de-risking of drug development.
The number of analyzed patient cases
has grown by 13% to more than 850,000 patients as of December 31, 2023, compared to December 21, 2022, and the number of total unique
variants has increased by 19% to over 850,000,000. This includes patients from over 120 countries, over 70% of whom are of non-European
descent, underscoring the ethnic diversity of CENTOGENE’s knowledgebase.
“Our comprehensive genomic and
multiomic analyses are key to fostering the richest data within the CENTOGENE Biodatabank. This not only fuels the further innovation
of our diagnostic portfolio, but supports our pharmaceutical partners in fast-tracking the discovery, development, and commercialization
of orphan drugs,” said Kim Stratton, Chief Executive Officer at CENTOGENE. “Ultimately, our commitment is to deliver data-driven,
life-changing answers to rare and neurodegenerative disease patients around the world, and the CENTOGENE Biodatabank is the cornerstone
of this mission.”
Enabling Diagnostic Excellence
The CENTOGENE Biodatabank has enabled
CENTOGENE to work alongside its active physician network of approximately 30,000 physicians to diagnose over 2,500 rare and neurodegenerative
diseases across 120 countries. With the CENTOGENE Biodatabank serving as the backbone, the Company has the broadest diagnostic testing
portfolio for rare diseases, covering over 19,000 genes using approximately 5,000 different tests. As of December 31, 2023, over 570,000
CentoCards®, CENTOGENE’s proprietary sample collection solution, are stored in the Company’s physical biobank,
which enables retrospective analysis for research consented samples.
Driving Disease Understanding
Since 2006, CENTOGENE has generated
data-driven insights from its Diagnostics segment. Leveraging these insights via in-house research, the Company has discovered unique
links between rare and neurodegenerative diseases, like Parkinson’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. CENTOGENE’s R&D
team has contributed to top tier studies, recently hitting a milestone of 300 peer-reviewed publications. As a result, patients affected
by thousands of rare and neurodegenerative diseases have been diagnosed and gained access to available treatment options, while opening
the potential to diagnose and treat countless others based on this research.
Accelerating Treatment Options
Leveraging the CENTOGENE Biodatabank
at the core of the Company’s business, CENTOGENE had a total of 48 collaborations with 34 different pharmaceutical partners during
2023 – working together to accelerate diagnoses and de-risk drug discovery, development, and commercialization. Of these 48 collaborations,
12 were with new partners, including the Michael J. Fox Foundation and Chiesi, among others. Starting off Q1 2024, the Company has extended
its relationships with existing biopharma partners, such as Takeda with their Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSDs) diagnostic testing program,
as well as formed collaborations with eight new partners, such as Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease.
About CENTOGENE
CENTOGENE’s mission is to provide
data-driven, life-changing answers to patients, physicians, and pharma companies for rare and neurodegenerative diseases. We integrate
multiomic technologies with the CENTOGENE Biodatabank – providing dimensional analysis to guide the next generation of precision
medicine. Our unique approach enables rapid and reliable diagnosis for patients, supports a more precise physician understanding of disease
states, and accelerates and de-risks targeted pharma drug discovery, development, and commercialization.
Since our founding in 2006, CENTOGENE
has been offering rapid and reliable diagnosis – building a network of approximately 30,000 active physicians. Our ISO, CAP, and
CLIA certified multiomic reference laboratories in Germany utilize Phenomic, Genomic, Transcriptomic, Epigenomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic
datasets. This data is captured in our CENTOGENE Biodatabank, with over 850,000 patients represented from over 120 highly diverse countries,
over 70% of whom are of non-European descent. To date, the CENTOGENE Biodatabank has contributed to generating novel insights for more
than 300 peer-reviewed publications.
By translating our data and expertise
into tangible insights, we have supported over 50 collaborations with pharma partners. Together, we accelerate and de-risk drug discovery,
development, and commercialization in target and drug screening, clinical development, market access and expansion, as well as offering
CENTOGENE Biodata Licenses and Insight Reports to enable a world healed of all rare and neurodegenerative diseases.
To discover more about our products,
pipeline, and patient-driven purpose, visit www.centogene.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking
statements” within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws. Statements contained herein that are not clearly historical
in nature are forward-looking, and the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continues,” “expect,”
“estimate,” “intend,” “project,” “plan,” “is designed to,” “potential,”
“predict,” “objective” and similar expressions and future or conditional verbs such as “will,” “would,”
“should,” “could,” “might,” “can,” and “may,” or the negative of these are
generally intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties,
and other important factors that may cause CENTOGENE’s actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different
from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward- looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties
include, among others, negative economic and geopolitical conditions and instability and volatility in the worldwide financial markets,
possible changes in current and proposed legislation, regulations and governmental policies, pressures from increasing competition and
consolidation in our industry, the expense and uncertainty of regulatory approval, including from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,
our reliance on third parties and collaboration partners, including our ability to manage growth, execute our business strategy and enter
into new client relationships, our dependency on the rare disease industry, our ability to manage international expansion, our reliance
on key personnel, our reliance on intellectual property protection, fluctuations of our operating results due to the effect of exchange
rates, our ability to streamline cash usage, our continued ongoing compliance with covenants linked to financial instruments, our requirement
for additional financing, and our ability to continue as a going concern, or other factors. For further information on the risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating
to CENTOGENE’s business in general, see CENTOGENE’s risk factors set forth in CENTOGENE’s Form 20-F filed on May 16,
2023, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and subsequent filings with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements
contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and CENTOGENE specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
CONTACT
CENTOGENE
Melissa Hall
Corporate Communications
Press@centogene.com
Lennart Streibel
Investor Relations
IR@centogene.com
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