Newron Provides End of Year Corporate Update

Significant progress in 2017 including US Xadago approval, STARS initiation, Evenamide results

Milan, Italy - December 11, 2017 - Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A. ("Newron") (SIX: NWRN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapies for patients with diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system, today provides an end of year market update.

Significant progress has been made in 2017 with the approval and launch of Xadago for the treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) in the US in July, and its commercialization in twelve European countries. A study with Xadago to demonstrate the reduction of dyskinesia in PD patients with Levodopa Induced Dyskinesia (LID), scheduled to start in 2018, is in planning together with our partner Zambon.

The "Sarizotan Treatment of Apneas in Rett Syndrome" (STARS) study, a potentially pivotal study, now includes patients as young as six years, following approval by the US FDA and health authorities in Italy, Australia, the UK and India. Newron expects to announce the results of this study in 2018. As previously stated, Newron plans to commercialize Sarizotan for Rett syndrome directly in key markets.

Preclinical results indicating glutamate antagonism mechanism of Evenamide, together with clinical results indicating a benefit in patients not responding to atypical antipsychotics as well as plans to evaluate Evenamide in patients with schizophrenia in two studies, have been discussed with a number of European and the Canadian health authorities, with meetings with CHMP and FDA planned for early 2018. Newron intends to initiate one study each in patients with schizophrenia experiencing worsening of psychosis on atypical antipsychotics, and in treatment resistant patients not responding to clozapine. It is estimated that this latter condition affects approximately 20,000 patients in the US, thus allowing Newron and/or other mid-sized companies the opportunity to commercialize Evenamide directly.

Newron's current cash position after completing a private placement in September 2017 is approximately €60m, enabling Newron to fund its planned clinical trials into 2020, well beyond the key inflection points, as well as current and future research and development and other general corporate activities.


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