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Key Dates

January 2000 André Choulika and David Sourdive found Cellectis.
June 2000 The company obtains licenses to six Pasteur Institute patent portfolios. The Pasteur Institute becomes a company shareholder.
November 2000 Kaminvest Holding (Business Angel) becomes a company shareholder (equity increase of 3.8 million euros in two rounds).
November 2000 The company moves into the Pasteur Institute's BioTop company incubator in Paris's 15th arrondissement.
August 2001 Zentaris signs a license agreement with the company in the field of cancer.
October 2001 GenOway signs a license agreement with the company in the field of animal models.
January 2002 Constitution of the Scientific Advisory Board, chaired by Professor François Jacob, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
May 2002 BankInvest Biomedical Venture, AGF Private Equity, Odyssée Venture and Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners become company shareholders (equity increase of 8 million euros).
November 2002 Pioneer Hi-Bred International - DuPont signs a license agreement with the company in the field of meganucleases applied to corn.
Mars 2003 BASF Plant Science signs a license agreement with the company in the field of meganucleases applied to plant science.
June 2003 Publication of an article in Nucleic Acids Research on the production of synthetic hybrid meganucleases, constituting the first step worldwide in implementation of this technology.
December 2003 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. signs a license agreement with the company in the field of animal models.
February 2004 The company moves its corporate office and labs from the BioTop incubator in Paris to the Biocitech campus in Romainville (in the Seine Saint-Denis county, just north of Paris).
April 2004 Lexicon Genetics Inc. signs a license agreement with the company in the field of animal models.
June 2005 BankInvest Biomedical Venture, AGF Private Equity, Odyssée Venture and Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners make an additional 5.6 million euro investment in the company.
September 2005 Biogen Idec signs an collaboration agreement with the company on the synthesis of custom meganucleases for use in protein production.
November 2005 Publication of an article in Nucleic Acids Research on the production method for the custom meganucleases designed by the company.
December 2005 TransKaryotic Therapies signs a license agreement with the company in the field of protein production.
January 2006 Publication of an initial article in the Journal of Molecular Biology on the large-scale production of custom meganucleases (validating the company's commercial potential).
March 2006 Publication in the Journal of Gene Medicine of an article on the first known experiment in in vivo meganuclease-based genome surgery (in the animal).
June 2006 Bayer BioScience signs a collaboration agreement with the company on custom meganucleases in the field of plant science.
July 2006 Lexicon Genetics Inc. signs a cross-licensing agreement with the company in the field of homologous recombination.
September 2006 The company produces its first therapeutically-focused meganuclease recombination systems (MRSs).
November 2006The company achieves an annual production capacity of 8 MRSs.
December 2006Registration of its Document de Base with the AMF in the context of the Company's contemplated initial public offering on the Alternext market of Euronext Paris.
January 2007Publication of a Journal Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) article on artificial homing endonuclease.
23 January 2007Launch of its initial public offering on the Alternext market of Euronext Paris. Guide price: between Eur 8.90 and Eur 10.25 per share
6 February 2007Success of its initial public offering on the Alternext market of Euronext Paris. The offer price is set at Eur 10.25 per share
Demand from institutional investors was over 6 times the number of shares offered
5 March 2007Full exercise of the greenshoe in the context of its initial public offering on the Alternext market of Euronext Paris.
19 March 2007Cellectis S.A. announces the publication of a Current Gene Therapy article on Meganucleases and its Perspectives for Gene Therapy.
3 April 2007Celonic sign a commercial license agreement following key milestone in meganuclease-mediated cell line engineering for biomanufacturing.
May 2007Cellectis grants GlaxoSmithKline a non-exclusive sub-license for its homologous recombination technology.
May 2007Cellectis announces the publication of a paper entitled "The C-terminal loop of the homing endonuclease I-CreI is essential for site recognition, DNA binding and cleavage" in the journal Nucleic Acids Research
May 2007Cellectis reaches key milestone in collaboration with Bayer Cropscience on uses of Meganuclease technology in plants.
24 May 2007Cellectis will begin continuous trading on Alternext of Euronext Paris.
June 2007The Institut Pasteur and Cellectis announce the grant of a key European patent covering the use of homologous recombination in eukaryotes.
June 2007Cellectis S.A. wins a patent battle in the field of targeted recombination and gene correction.
June 2007Election of Professor Richard C. Mulligan to Cellectis' Board of Directors.
July 2007Cellectis announces the delivery of two meganucleases targeting the p53 gene in the framework of the NETSENSOR European program.
September 2007Cellectis announces the delivery of a meganuclease targeting the IL2RG gene responsible of a severe immunodeficiency linked to X chromosome (X-SCID) to Professor Alain Fisher's research group, Necker Hospital (INSERM U768).
September 2007Cellectis announces the presentation of results demonstrating the correction of an XP mutation in a patient's cell line by homologous gene targeting at the first French-German meeting on DNA repair, damage signaling and carcinogenesis in Toulouse.
October 2007Laboratoires Servier and Cellectis sign an agreement in the field of cell engineering.
October 2007Cellectis grants TransGenic a non-exclusive license to its homologous recombination technology.
November 2007Cellectis announces delivery of a meganuclease targeting the RAG1 gene (responsible for a severe immunodeficiency) to Professor Luigi Notarangelo's research group at the Children's Hospital Boston (USA).
December 2007Cellectis announces the publication of a key article in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
December 2007Two significant nominations for Cellectis: Professor Alain Fischer joins the Scientific Advisory Board and Alain Godard joins the Board of Directors.
March 2008Cellectis sues Precision BioSciences for Infringement of its patents concerning Meganuclease technology.
April 2008Cellectis announces the publication of a paper entitled "Computer design of Obligate heterodimer meganucleases allow efficient cutting of custom DNA sequences", in the journal Nucleic Acids Research.
May 2008Cellectis sues Shionogi for infringement of its Patents concerning Homologous Recombination Technology.
June 2008Cellectis S.A. announces the inception of two subsidiaries: Cellectis BioResearch to develop and market research kits and Cellectis Genome Surgery to develop therapeutics
July 2008Cellectis and Regeneron sign an agreement over the use of homologous recombination technology.

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