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CONTACT<br />

Carina Schmidt<br />

Chief Executive Officer<br />

ADDRESS<br />

Fogdevreten 2A<br />

17165 SOLNA<br />

SWEDEN<br />

TELEPHONE<br />

+46 8 508 847 44<br />

Carina Schmidt<br />

+46 76 1938 190<br />

EMAIL<br />

info@athera.se<br />

c.schmidt@athera.se<br />

YEAR FOUNDED<br />

2002<br />

Athera Biotechnologies AB<br />

www.athera.se<br />

FINANCIAL SUMMARY<br />

Current shareholders, including Karolinska Development AB (publ), Baltic Sea Foundation and KCIF Coinvestment<br />

Fund AB, have invested nearly €17 m in the company.<br />

Athera is currently in discussion with investors to raise €10 m to fund the Phase I clinical trial of PC-mAb.<br />

Athera plans to partner the program with pharma partners at the end of Phase I trial. Current shareholders have<br />

committed to invest up to 1/3rd of the current financing need.<br />

COMPANY PROFILE<br />

PC-mAb is a fully human monoclonal antibody which neutralizes a key driver of vascular inflammation,<br />

phosphorylcholine (“PC”), and will be indicated for secondary prevention to improve outcome after acute<br />

coronary syndrome (“ACS”). Low endogenous levels of antibodies to phosphorylcholine (“anti-PC”) have been<br />

linked to a higher incidence of secondary events as well as a markedly increased mortality after the coronary<br />

event. This program is in IND-enabling studies and the IND is expected in 2013.<br />

To enhance clinical success by properly selecting the target population, Athera has developed a proprietary<br />

companion diagnostic CVDefine® kit to identify patients with low anti-PC levels in need of receiving PC-mAb<br />

therapy. The kit is CE-approved.<br />

Athera is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing targeted anti-inflammatory bio-therapeutics<br />

and companion diagnostics for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease (“CVD”). The Company<br />

initiated its current program, harnessing breakthrough innovations made at the world-renowned Karolinska<br />

Institute. The company currently has a proprietary pre-IND program, PC-mAb, supported by an approved<br />

proprietary companion diagnostic kit.<br />

MANAGEMENT<br />

Athera is managed by a team of senior professionals from the pharmaceutical and diagnostics industries in<br />

a semi-virtual organization. The core team is led by CEO, Carina Schmidt. Ms. Schmidt has nearly 30 years<br />

industrial experience, mainly in business development and management, international marketing and product<br />

management within the biotech area. During 15 years she has worked with Pharmacia Biotech/Amersham<br />

Biosciences (now GE HealthCare). Later she founded Grasp Bioscience and co-founded BioBusiness Partners<br />

Scandinavia, where positions included management consultant, interim CEO and business advisor to several<br />

biotech start-ups.<br />

In Nov 2011, a new Scientific Advisory Board was formed in Athera, which includes Professors Peter Libby,<br />

Maarten Simoons, Lars Wallentin and Ulf de Faire.<br />

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