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Cellectis to Present Data on TALE-Base Editors and Non-Viral Gene Therapy at the ESGCT 31st Annual Congress

NEW YORK, Oct. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cellectis (the “Company”) (Euronext Growth: ALCLS – NASDAQ: CLLS), a clinical-stage biotechnology company using its pioneering gene-editing platform to develop life-saving cell and gene therapies, announced today that they will be showcasing pre-clinical data that permit the design of an efficient and specific TALE base editors (TALEB) as well as a process to enhance the efficacy of non-viral gene insertion in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) at the European Society of Cell and Gene Therapy 31st annual congress, that will take place on October 22-25, 2024, in Roma, Italy.

The data will be presented in two posters:

Controlling C-to-T editing with TALE base editors

Presenter: Alexandre Juillerat, Ph.D., Vice-President Gene Editing & NY Lab Head at Cellectis

Date/Time: Thursday, October 24 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm CET

Poster number: P0666

Circular Single-Stranded DNA Enables Efficient TALEN-Mediated Gene Insertion in Long Term HSC

Presenter: Julien Valton, Ph.D., Vice-President Gene Therapy at Cellectis

Date/Time: Thursday, October 24 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm CET

Poster number: P0585

The posters will be published on Cellectis’ website after the presentations.

About Cellectis       

Cellectis is a clinical-stage biotechnology company using its pioneering gene-editing platform to develop life-saving cell and gene therapies. Cellectis utilizes an allogeneic approach for CAR-T immunotherapies in oncology, pioneering the concept of off-the-shelf and ready-to-use gene-edited CAR T-cells to treat cancer patients, and a platform to make therapeutic gene editing in hemopoietic stem cells for various diseases. As a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with 25 years of experience and expertise in gene editing, Cellectis is developing life-changing product candidates utilizing TALEN®, its gene editing technology, and PulseAgile, its pioneering electroporation system to harness the power of the immune system in order to treat diseases with unmet medical needs. Cellectis’ headquarters are in Paris, France, with locations in New York, New York and Raleigh, North Carolina. Cellectis is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (ticker: CLLS) and on Euronext Growth (ticker: ALCLS).       

To find out more, visit our website: www.cellectis.com

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TALEN® is a registered trademark owned by Cellectis. 

Forward-looking Statements    

This press release contains “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as “will”, “could”, “potential”, “has the potential to” and emerging or the negative of these and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements, which are based on our management’s current expectations and assumptions and on information currently available to management, include statements about the potential of our research programs, including without limitation the TALEB and TALEN technologies. These forward-looking statements are made in light of information currently available to us and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including with respect to the numerous risks associated with biopharmaceutical product candidate development. Furthermore, many other important factors, including those described in our Annual Report on Form 20-F and the financial report (including the management report) for the year ended December 31, 2023 and subsequent filings Cellectis makes with the Securities Exchange Commission from time to time, as well as other known and unknown risks and uncertainties may adversely affect such forward-looking statements and cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.     

For further information on Cellectis, please contact:     

Media contacts:         

Pascalyne Wilson, Director, Communications, + 33 (0)7 76 99 14 33, media@cellectis.com    

Patricia Sosa Navarro, Chief of Staff to the CEO, +33 (0)7 76 77 46 93 

Investor Relations contact:      

Arthur Stril, Interim Chief Financial Officer, +1 (347) 809 5980, investors@cellectis.com              

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