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 date of November 21, 2019

 

Commission File Number 001-39124

 

Centogene N.V.
(Translation of registrant's name into English)

 

Am Strande 7
18055 Rostock

 

Germany
(Address of principal executive offices)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

 

Form 20-F..X.. Form 40-F.....

 

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Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7): ____

 

 

Centogene N.V.

 

On November 21, 2019, Centogene N.V. issued a press release titled “CENTOGENE Announces Temporary Leave of Absence of Holger Friedrich from the Supervisory Board”.

 

 A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is 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: November 21, 2019

 

CENTOGENE N.V.
By:	/s/ Richard Stoffelen
Name: Richard Stoffelen
Title:    Chief Financial Officer

 

Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit	Description of Exhibit
99.1	Press release dated November 21, 2019

 

 

Exhibit 99.1

 

CENTOGENE Announces Temporary Leave of Absence of Holger Friedrich from the Supervisory Board

 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROSTOCK, Germany and BERLIN, Nov. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CENTOGENE (Nasdaq: CNTG), a commercial-stage company focused on rare diseases that transforms real-world clinical and genetic data into actionable information for patients, physicians and pharmaceutical companies, announced today that Holger Friedrich, a member of the Company’s supervisory board, will with immediate effect take a temporary leave of absence from the Supervisory Board.

 

About CENTOGENE

 

Centogene is a commercial-stage company focused on rare diseases that transforms real-world clinical and genetic data into actionable information for patients, physicians and pharmaceutical companies. The Company’s goal is to bring rationality to treatment decisions and to accelerate the development of new orphan drugs by using our knowledge of the global rare disease market, including epidemiological and clinical data and innovative biomarkers. Centogene has developed a global proprietary rare disease platform based on our real-world data repository with over 2.0 billion weighted data points from over 450,000 patients representing 115 different countries as of August 31, 2019, or an average of over 500 data points per patient.

 

The Company’s platform includes epidemiologic, phenotypic and genetic data that reflects a global population, and also a biobank of these patients’ blood samples. Centogene believes this represents the only platform that comprehensively analyzes multi-level data to improve the understanding of rare hereditary diseases, which can aid in the identification of patients and improve our pharmaceutical partners’ ability to bring orphan drugs to the market. As of August 31, 2019, the Company collaborated with over 35 pharmaceutical partners for over 30 different rare diseases.

 

Media Contact:

 

Ross Bethell 

Director, Corporate Communications 

press@centogene.com