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Evotec awarded multi-year contract to manage National Cancer Institute Chemical Biology Consortium Screening Libraries Center

Hamburg, Germany - 05 October 2015: Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, TecDAX, ISIN: DE0005664809) today announced it has entered into a multi-year compound management agreement with the U.S. National Cancer Institute ("NCI"), Department of Health and Human Services. Under the terms of the agreement, Evotec will provide compound management services to the NCI Chemical Biology Consortium ("CBC") for a period of five years with a total estimated value of up to EUR 4.5 m ($ 4.9 m).

The NCI Chemical Biology Consortium contract will continue to provide to acquire, store, maintain and distribute the current library collection. This repository will form part of the CBC's drug discovery and development platform for new oncology therapeutics being researched by a consortium of primarily academic and non-profit institutions.

Dr Mario Polywka, Chief Operating Officer of Evotec, commented: "We are pleased the NCI has elected to award Evotec this important contract to support the Chemical Biology Consortium, an important initiative in the discovery of new cancer treatments."

ABOUT THE NCI CHEMICAL BIOLOGY CONSORTIUM (CBC) The NCI Chemical Biology Consortium ("CBC") was established in 2009 to facilitate the discovery and development of new agents to treat cancer. The Consortium brings together chemical biologists and molecular oncologists from government, industry and academia to address unmet needs in therapeutic oncology. Through the CBC and the interactions among the various participants, the NCI's drug discovery and development pipeline now spans from target identification through proof-of-concept clinical trials. The project is funded in whole with U.S. Federal funds from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under contract HHSN261201500010I with Evotec (US), Inc.

Contact Evotec AG:
Gabriele Hansen, VP Corporate Communications & Investor Relations, Phone: +49.(0)40.56081-255, [email protected]

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