Toulouse and Geneva, May 2nd, 2017

Genkyotex (Euronext Paris & Brussels: FR00011790542 – GKTX), a biopharmaceutical company and the leader in NOX therapies, announced today that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its Investigational New Drug (IND) Application, which allows Genkyotex to proceed with a phase 2 clinical trial of GKT831, its NOX1 and NOX4 inhibitor, in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). Genkyotex expects to initiate this study prior to the end of the second quarter 2017, with interim top-line results anticipated in the first half of 2018, and full results anticipated in the second half of 2018.

Further information at :

https://www.genkyotex.com/images/PDF/GB/1_Press_Releases/2017/2017-05-02_PR_GKTX__IND_Ph2_GKT8318_EN_final.pdf