UNITED STATES
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FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
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UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the date of December 18, 2020
Commission File Number 001-39124
Centogene N.V.
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Centogene N.V.
On December 18, 2020, Centogene N.V. issued a press release titled “CENTOGENE Announces Voting Results of Extraordinary General Meeting”.
A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
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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: December 18, 2020
CENTOGENE N.V.
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By: | /s/ Richard Stoffelen |
Name: Richard Stoffelen | |
Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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Exhibit Index
Exhibit | Description of Exhibit |
99.1 | Press release dated December 18, 2020. |
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Exhibit 99.1
PRESS RELEASE
CENTOGENE Announces Voting Results of Extraordinary General Meeting
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROSTOCK, Germany, and BERLIN, December 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Centogene N.V. (Nasdaq: CNTG) (“CENTOGENE” or the “Company”), 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, today announced the voting results of the Company’s Extraordinary General Meeting. The shareholders of the Company voted in favor of all proposals, which included the appointments of Dr. Andrin Oswald as Managing Director and Dr. Jonathan Sheldon as Supervisory Director, the reappointment of Mr. Richard Stoffelen as Managing Director, and adjustments to the compensation of the Supervisory Board.
Dr. Flemming Ornskov, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at CENTOGENE, said, “We would like to thank our shareholders for their support. We look forward to working with Andrin, Jonathan, and Richard on our mission to further scale and accelerate CENTOGENE’s growth as a leader in advancing the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases.”
About CENTOGENE
CENTOGENE engages in diagnosis
and research around rare diseases transforming real-world clinical and genetic data into actionable information for patients,
physicians, and pharmaceutical companies. Our goal is to bring rationality to treatment decisions and to accelerate the development
of new orphan drugs by using our extensive rare disease knowledge, including epidemiological and clinical data, as well as innovative
biomarkers. CENTOGENE has developed a global proprietary rare disease platform based on our real-world data repository with over
3.6 billion weighted data points from approximately 595,000 patients representing over 120 different countries as of September
30, 2020.
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 September 30, 2020, the Company
collaborated with over 40 pharmaceutical partners covering over 45 different rare diseases.
Important Notice and Disclaimer
This press release contains statements that constitute “forward-looking statements” as that term is defined in
the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements that express the Company’s opinions,
expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions or projections regarding future events or future results, in contrast with
statements that reflect historical facts. Examples include discussion of our strategies, financing plans, growth opportunities,
and market growth. In some cases, you can identify such forward-looking statements by terminology such as “anticipate,”
“intend,” “believe,” “estimate,” “plan,” “seek,” “project”
or “expect,” “may,” “will,” “would,” “could,” or “should,”
the negative of these terms or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current beliefs
and assumptions and on information currently available to the Company. However, these forward-looking statements are not a guarantee
of our performance, and you should not place undue reliance on such statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to many
risks, uncertainties, and other variable circumstances, such as negative worldwide economic conditions and ongoing instability
and volatility in the worldwide financial markets, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and results of operations,
possible changes in current and proposed legislation, regulations and govern-mental 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 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, or other
factors. Such risks and uncertainties may cause the statements to be inaccurate and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance
on such statements. Many of these risks are outside of the Company’s control and could cause its actual results to differ
materially from those it thought would occur. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of
the date hereof. The Company does not undertake, and specifically declines, any obligation to update any such statements or to
publicly announce the results of any revisions to any such statements to reflect future events or developments, except as required
by law.
For further information, please refer to the Risk Factors section in our Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2019, on
Form 20-F filed with the SEC on April 23, 2020, Form 6-K containing our financial results for the three months ended March 31,
2020, furnished to the SEC on June 15, 2020, Form 6-K containing our financial results for the three and nine months ended September
30, 2020, furnished to the SEC on December 16, 2020, and other current reports and documents furnished to or filed with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). You may get these documents by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov.
Media Contact:
CENTOGENE
Ben Legg
Corporate Communications
press@centogene.com
FTI Consulting
Bridie Lawlor O’Boyle
+1.917.929.5684
bridie.lawlor@fticonsulting.com