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CureVac Chief Technology Officer to Pursue New Career outside Biotech
T BINGEN, Germany/ BOSTON, USA -
January 17, 2022 - CureVac N.V. (Nasdaq: CVAC), a global biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of transformative
medicines based on messenger ribonucleic acid ("mRNA"), today announced that the company's Chief Technology Officer,
Dr. Mariola Fotin-Mleczek, will resign from CureVac effective January 31, 2022. Mariola exits her role at CureVac after nearly 16 years
of scientific leadership at the company, and 33 years in Germany, with plans to pursue a family business outside the biotech industry
in her home country of Poland. Further development of CureVac's unique mRNA technology platform will be led by Dr. Igor Splawski, Chief
Scientific Officer of CureVac, and spearheaded by Dr. Patrick Baumhof, Senior Vice President Technology, who has a 15-year scientific
tenure with the company. The consolidated scientific frontend will seamlessly integrate with the subsequent clinical development of new
mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics.
"On behalf of the supervisory board, I would
like to wholeheartedly thank Mariola for her longstanding and exceptional commitment to CureVac and wish her all the best in the next
chapter," said Jean St phenne, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CureVac. "Mariola's dedication and expertise
helped to build CureVac and fundamentally contributed to the advancement of mRNA technology as a whole."
"Mariola's groundbreaking work and
innovations in mRNA technology have strongly contributed to CureVac becoming the world's pioneering company to harness mRNA for
medical purposes," added Dr. Franz-Werner Haas, Chief Executive Officer of CureVac. "Her leadership and outstanding scientific
expertise have been invaluable over the last 16 years. It is as a dear colleague and with her personality that she has impacted CureVac's
innovation culture most."
"It has been a great privilege to be part
of the CureVac story and to work alongside such innovative teams for such a long time," said Dr. Mariola Fotin-Mleczek. "mRNA
has emerged as a key technology to address some of today's most pressing healthcare needs, and to have been part of the journey
makes me very proud. I would like to thank all of my CureVac colleagues and the supervisory board for their support and loyalty."
Mariola Fotin-Mleczek joined CureVac in May 2006
and became a member of the management board in 2013, first as Chief Scientific Officer and as Chief Technology Officer in 2018. As a scientist
trained in immunology and cell biology, Mariola was responsible for the development and preclinical testing of CureVac's mRNA technology
platform across the therapeutic areas of prophylactic vaccines, oncology and molecular therapy. She is co-inventor of multiple key mRNA
technology-related patents and has authored more than 30 scientific publications with a focus on mRNA technology.
CureVac is a global biopharmaceutical
company in the field of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, with more than 20 years of expertise in developing and optimizing this
versatile biological molecule for medical purposes. The principle of CureVac's proprietary technology is the use of optimized
mRNA as a data carrier to instruct the human body to produce its own proteins capable of fighting a broad range of diseases. In July
2020, CureVac entered in a collaboration with GSK to jointly develop new products in prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases
based on CureVac's second-generation mRNA technology. This collaboration was later extended to the development of
second-generation COVID-19 vaccine candidates, and modified mRNA vaccine technologies. Based on its proprietary technology, CureVac
has built a deep clinical pipeline across the areas of prophylactic vaccines, cancer therapies, antibody therapies, and the
treatment of rare diseases. CureVac had its initial public offering on the New York Nasdaq in August 2020. It is headquartered in
T bingen, Germany, and employs more than 700 people at its sites in T bingen, Frankfurt, and Boston, USA.
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CureVac, T bingen, Germany
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