Appointments support ProQR’s strategy to scale AI across the discovery and development of medicines using its Axiomer RNA editing platform and pipeline 相关任命支持 ProQR 利用其 Axiomer RNA 编辑平台及管线,在药物发现与开发中规模化应用人工智能的战略AX-0811, the first ProQR program identified through its AI-enabled discovered engine in clinical testing, with target engagement data expected in early January 2027 AX-0811 是首个通过 ProQR 人工智能驱动发现平台识别并进入临床试验的项目,预计将于2027年1月初公布靶点结合数据ProQR’s expanded AI strategy is directly supporting the ongoing development programs; the Company expects up to 5 clinical data readouts over the next 12 months across 4 development programs ProQR扩展的人工智能战略正在直接支持其 ongoing 开发项目;公司预计在未来12个月内,将在4个开发项目中获得多达5项临床数据结果。LEIDEN, Netherlands & CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ProQR Therapeutics N.V. (Nasdaq: PRQR) (ProQR), a clinical-stage company dedicated to changing lives through transformative RNA therapies based on its proprietary ADAR-mediated Axiomer™ RNA editing technology platform, today announced the appointments of:. 荷兰莱顿与美国马萨诸塞州剑桥,2026年9月23日(环球电讯社)——ProQR Therapeutics N.V.(纳斯达克股票代码:PRQR)(简称“ProQR”)是一家临床阶段公司,致力于通过其专有的ADAR介导Axiomer™ RNA编辑技术平台开发变革性RNA疗法,从而改变患者生命。该公司今日宣布任命:Chris Hart, PhD, Chief Data and AI Officer – Dr. Hart most recently served as Vice President of Data Science and AI/ML at Eli Lilly and Company. 克里斯·哈特博士,首席数据与人工智能官——哈特博士最近担任礼来公司数据科学与人工智能/机器学习副总裁。Thomas Wolf, PhD, Board of Directors as strategic AI advisor – Dr. Wolf is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, which Nvidia has recently agreed to acquire. 托马斯·沃尔夫(Thomas Wolf)博士,董事会战略人工智能顾问——沃尔夫博士是 Hugging Face 的联合创始人兼首席科学官,英伟达(Nvidia)最近已同意收购该公司。“I am thrilled to welcome Chris to ProQR’s management team and Thomas to the Board of Directors as strategic advisor. Together, they bring complementary and highly relevant expertise that will help us further integrate AI into drug discovery and development as we work to deliver more and better medicines to patients faster,” said Daniel A. “我非常高兴欢迎克里斯加入ProQR的管理团队,并欢迎托马斯作为战略顾问加入董事会。他们将带来互补且高度相关的专业知识,帮助我们在致力于更快为患者提供更多、更优质药物的过程中,进一步将人工智能整合到药物发现与开发中。”丹尼尔·A表示。de Boer, Chief Executive Officer of ProQR. “Chris brings more than 15 years of experience applying AI and machine learning to oligonucleotide therapeutics, most recently at Eli Lilly, while Thomas brings frontier AI experience from co-founding and building Hugging Face, a leading open-source AI platform. ProQR 首席执行官德布尔表示:“克里斯拥有超过15年将人工智能和机器学习应用于寡核苷酸疗法的经验,最近任职于礼来公司;而托马斯则通过联合创立并打造领先开源人工智能平台 Hugging Face,带来了前沿的人工智能经验。”Their expertise comes at an important time for our RNA editing pipeline, with AX-0811, our first program identified through ProQR’s AI-enabled discovery process to enter clinical development, and the second, AX-2911, expected to follow in the coming months.”. 他们的专业知识在我们RNA编辑平台发展的关键时刻发挥了重要作用,其中AX-0811是通过ProQR人工智能驱动的发现流程识别出的首个进入临床开发阶段的项目,而第二个项目AX-2911预计将在未来几个月内紧随其后。Chris Hart, PhD, 克里斯·哈特博士,most recently served as Vice President of Data Science and AI/ML in the Genetic Medicines team at Eli Lilly and Company. He brings more than two decades of experience in computational biology, genomics, AI, and oligonucleotide drug development, including more than 15 years focused on AI/ML-driven optimization of oligonucleotide therapeutics. 最近担任礼来公司遗传药物团队数据科学与人工智能/机器学习副总裁。他在计算生物学、基因组学、人工智能以及寡核苷酸药物开发领域拥有二十多年的经验,其中超过十五年专注于由人工智能/机器学习驱动的寡核苷酸疗法优化。Hart was previously founding CEO of Creyon Bio, where he applied AI and machine learning to oligonucleotide drug discovery. Before Creyon, he spent seven years at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, where he built and led the company’s functional genomics group. He holds a PhD from the California Institute of Technology and completed postdoctoral training at Yale University.. 哈特此前是 Creyon Bio 的创始首席执行官,在那里他将人工智能和机器学习应用于寡核苷酸药物研发。在加入 Creyon 之前,他在 Ionis Pharmaceuticals 工作了七年,期间组建并领导了该公司的功能基因组学团队。他拥有加州理工学院的博士学位,并在耶鲁大学完成了博士后培训。As Chief Data and AI Officer, Hart will lead ProQR’s AI strategy and its execution across drug discovery and development. Drawing on his experience in AI-driven oligonucleotide engineering, he will connect ProQR’s proprietary data, computational models and experimental capabilities to accelerate EON design and optimization, strengthen candidate selection, and inform and optimize clinical development.. 作为首席数据与人工智能官,哈特将领导 ProQR 的人工智能战略及其在药物发现与开发中的执行。凭借其在人工智能驱动的寡核苷酸工程方面的经验,他将整合 ProQR 的专有数据、计算模型和实验能力,以加速 EON 的设计与优化,加强候选药物筛选,并为临床开发提供信息支持和优化指导。“ProQR has built a one-of-a-kind RNA editing platform that combines RNA biology with advanced AI to discover and optimize new therapies,” said Chris Hart, PhD. “I look forward to helping scale this approach and translate this platform into many new therapies for patients.” “ProQR 打造了一个独一无二的 RNA 编辑平台,将 RNA 生物学与先进的人工智能相结合,以发现和优化新疗法,”Chris Hart 博士表示。“我期待帮助扩大这一方法的应用规模,并将该平台转化为多种面向患者的新疗法。”Thomas Wolf, PhD 托马斯·沃尔夫,博士, will join ProQR's Board of Directors as strategic advisor on AI. Wolf is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform that Nvidia recently agreed to acquire for $12.9B. At Hugging Face, he has built a widely adopted ecosystem of models, datasets, and tools that enable researchers and companies to develop and apply AI at scale. 将加入ProQR董事会,担任人工智能战略顾问。Wolf是开源人工智能平台Hugging Face的联合创始人兼首席科学官,英伟达最近已同意以129亿美元收购该平台。在Hugging Face,他构建了一个被广泛采用的模型、数据集和工具生态系统,使研究人员和企业能够大规模开发和应用人工智能。This work has made advanced AI more accessible, enabling teams to adapt models to their own data and translate research advances into practical applications. He is driving the development of Hugging Face’s robotics technologies and building collaborations with academia and industry to advance AI in scientific discovery. 这项工作使先进的人工智能更易于获取,使团队能够根据自身数据调整模型,并将研究进展转化为实际应用。他正推动Hugging Face机器人技术的发展,并与学术界和业界建立合作,以推进人工智能在科学发现中的应用。In his role, Dr. Wolf will advise ProQR’s Board on technology strategy and scaling AI across the Axiomer platform.. 在其任职期间,沃尔夫博士将就技术战略以及在Axiomer平台上规模化应用人工智能向ProQR董事会提供建议。“ProQR is integrating AI into its proprietary RNA editing platform, which has the potential to address a broad range of diseases,” said Thomas Wolf, PhD. 'The platform creates a unique opportunity as each program can build on insights from others, and AI is turning that collective learning into a growing advantage across disease targets. “ProQR 正在将人工智能整合到其专有的 RNA 编辑平台中,该平台有望应对多种疾病,”Thomas Wolf 博士表示。“该平台创造了独特的机会,因为每个项目都可以借鉴其他项目的见解,而人工智能正将这种集体学习转化为针对各种疾病靶点的日益增长的优势。”This makes drug discovery more systematic and efficient while increasing the probability of success in drug development. This is a key example of how AI contributes to improving human health.”. 这使得药物发现更加系统化和高效,同时提高了药物开发成功的概率。这是人工智能助力改善人类健康的一个关键例证。”ProQR AI Strategy for Axiomer RNA Editing ProQR 针对 Axiomer RNA 编辑的 AI 战略ProQR is integrating AI across its Axiomer platform and workflows to support its core mission: discovering, developing, and delivering transformative RNA editing medicines to patients. The combination of ProQR’s platform technology and proprietary datasets uniquely positions the Company to maximize the impact of AI on drug discovery and development.. ProQR 正在其 Axiomer 平台和工作流程中全面整合人工智能,以支持其核心使命:发现、开发并向患者交付具有变革性的 RNA 编辑药物。ProQR 的平台技术与专有数据集的结合,使公司处于独特优势地位,能够最大化人工智能在药物发现和开发中的影响。In discovery, AI and machine learning complement ProQR’s wet biology and experimental capabilities, enabling faster identification and optimization of EONs, across targets to capture the full value of the platform. AI-enabled discovery led to the discovery of AX-0811, which achieved approximately 60% editing efficiency in humanized models, around six-fold higher than the prior generation AX-0810, with improved stability. 在发现阶段,人工智能和机器学习与 ProQR 的湿实验生物学及实验能力相辅相成,从而能够跨靶点更快地识别和优化 EON,以充分释放平台的全部价值。借助人工智能驱动的发现流程,公司发现了 AX-0811;在人源化模型中,AX-0811 实现了约 60% 的编辑效率,较上一代产品 AX-0810 提高约六倍,并且稳定性得到改善。This was achieved with reduced discovery timelines from what used to take three years to approximately three months. ProQR’s partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks enables faster generation of high-quality data via their autonomous labs, leading to shorter learning cycles and better training sets for its AI model.. 这一成果使发现周期从过去的三年缩短至大约三个月。ProQR 与 Ginkgo Bioworks 的合作通过其自动化实验室加速了高质量数据的生成,从而缩短了学习周期,并为其人工智能模型提供了更优质的训练数据集。In development, ProQR is applying AI and advanced data capabilities to support more informed decisions on patient stratification, endpoint selection, and clinical trial design, incorporating insights from real-world data. 在开发过程中,ProQR 正在应用人工智能和先进数据能力,结合真实世界数据的洞察,为患者分层、终点选择以及临床试验设计提供更明智的决策支持。The appointments of Chris Hart, PhD, and Thomas Wolf, PhD, strengthen ProQR’s expertise to scale AI across discovery and development stages. The Company is building a continuous learning loop connecting target identification, hit optimization, lead selection and clinical development, with clinical insights feeding back into discovery and informing decisions across programs. 克里斯·哈特博士和托马斯·沃尔夫博士的任命,增强了ProQR在发现和发展阶段规模化应用人工智能的专业能力。公司正在构建一个持续学习闭环,将靶点识别、_hit_优化、先导化合物选择和临床开发连接起来,并将临床洞察反馈至发现阶段,为各项目决策提供依据。The Company expects this approach will accelerate discovery and increase the probability of success across the development pipeline. . 公司预计,这一方法将加速发现进程,并提高整个开发管线中的成功概率。ProQR’s growing RNA editing pipeline is expected to generate up to 5 clinical data readouts over the coming 12 months across four development programs. AX-0811, the first ProQR program in clinical testing discovered through its AI-enabled discovery process drug that is on track for target engagement data from the first two cohorts in early January 2027. ProQR 不断壮大的 RNA 编辑管线预计将在未来 12 个月内,通过四个开发项目产生多达 5 项临床数据结果。AX-0811 是 ProQR 首个通过其人工智能赋能的发现流程发现并进入临床试验的项目,有望于 2027 年 1 月初获得来自前两个队列的靶点结合数据。Additional programs, including AX-0422 for MPS I Hurler syndrome and AX-2911 for PNPLA3-associated MASH, are progressing toward the clinic. Together, these programs demonstrate the potential of ProQR’s scalable Axiomer platform across liver and central nervous system.. 包括用于MPS I型Hurler综合征的AX-0422和用于PNPLA3相关MASH的AX-2911在内的其他项目正逐步推进至临床阶段。这些项目共同展示了ProQR公司可扩展的Axiomer平台在肝脏和中枢神经系统领域的潜力。About Axiomer 关于 Axiomer™ 商标ProQR is pioneering a next-generation RNA base editing technology called Axiomer ProQR 正在开创一种名为 Axiomer 的下一代 RNA 碱基编辑技术™ 商标, which could potentially yield a new class of medicines for diverse types of diseases. Axiomer ,这有可能为多种类型的疾病带来一类新药。Axiomer™ 商标“Editing Oligonucleotides”, or EONs, mediate single nucleotide changes to RNA in a highly specific and targeted way using molecular machinery that is present in human cells called ADAR (Adenosine Deaminase Acting on RNA). Axiomer “编辑寡核苷酸”(EONs)利用人体细胞中存在的名为ADAR(作用于RNA的腺苷脱氨酶)的分子机制,以高度特异性和靶向性的方式介导RNA的单核苷酸改变。Axiomer™ 商标EONs are designed to recruit and direct endogenously expressed ADARs to change an Adenosine (A) to an Inosine (I) in the RNA – an Inosine is translated as a Guanosine (G) – correcting an RNA with a disease-causing mutation back to a normal (wild type) RNA, modulating protein expression, or altering a protein so that it will have a new function that helps prevent or treat disease. EON旨在招募并引导内源性表达的ADAR,将RNA中的腺苷(A)转化为肌苷(I)——肌苷在翻译过程中被识别为鸟苷(G)——从而将携带致病突变的RNA修正为正常(野生型)RNA,调节蛋白质表达,或改变蛋白质使其获得有助于预防或治疗疾病的新功能。. 。About ProQR 关于 ProQRProQR Therapeutics is a clinical-stage company dedicated to changing lives through the creation of transformative RNA therapies. ProQR is pioneering a next-generation RNA technology called Axiomer ProQR Therapeutics 是一家临床阶段的公司,致力于通过开发变革性的 RNA 疗法来改变患者的生活。ProQR 正在开创一种名为 Axiomer 的下一代 RNA 技术。™ 商标, which uses a cell’s own editing machinery called ADAR to make specific single nucleotide edits in RNA to reverse a mutation or modulate protein expression and could potentially yield a new class of medicines for both rare and prevalent diseases with unmet need. Based on our unique proprietary RNA repair platform technologies we are growing our pipeline with patients and loved ones in mind.. ,该技术利用细胞自身的ADAR编辑机制,对RNA进行特定的单核苷酸编辑,以逆转突变或调节蛋白表达,有望为存在未满足医疗需求的罕见病和常见病带来新一代药物。基于我们独有的专有RNA修复平台技术,我们正以患者及其家属为核心,不断拓展我们的研发管线。Learn more about ProQR at 在以下网址了解更多关于 ProQR 的信息www.proqr.com www.proqr.com. 。Forward Looking Statements 前瞻性陈述This press release contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, which are often indicated by terms such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “should,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions. 本新闻稿包含前瞻性陈述。除历史事实陈述外的所有陈述均为前瞻性陈述,这些陈述通常通过“预期”、“相信”、“可能”、“预计”、“打算”、“也许”、“计划”、“潜在”、“应该”、“将”、“将会”等词语及类似表述来标识。Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the expected roles that Dr. Hart and Dr. Wolf will serve in and the expected benefits they will bring to ProQR; ProQR’s strategy and ability to integrate and scale artificial intelligence and machine learning across its discovery and development activities; the ability of AI-enabled discovery and proprietary data to accelerate the identification, optimization and selection of EONs and improve clinical development decisions; the potential benefits of ProQR’s collaboration with Ginkgo Bioworks; the continued development and advancement of the Axiomer platform and ProQR’s pipeline; the Phase 1 clinical development of AX-0811, including the anticipated timing of initial clinical data in early January 2027; the development and advancement of AX-2911 and AX-0422; the timing and number of anticipated clinical data readouts across ProQR’s development programs; and the therapeutic potential of Axiomer EONs and ProQR’s product candidates.. 此类前瞻性陈述包括但不限于,关于Hart博士和Wolf博士预期在ProQR担任的角色及其将为ProQR带来的预期效益的陈述;ProQR的战略以及在其发现与开发活动中整合并规模化应用人工智能和机器学习的能力;人工智能赋能的发现平台及专有数据加速EONs的识别、优化和选择并改善临床开发决策的能力;ProQR与Ginkgo Bioworks合作的潜在效益;Axiomer平台及ProQR产品管线的持续开发与进展;AX-0811的I期临床开发,包括预计于2027年1月初获得初步临床数据的时间安排;AX-2911和AX-0422的开发与进展;ProQR各开发项目中预期临床数据读出的时间和数量;以及Axiomer EONs和ProQR候选产品的治疗潜力。Forward-looking statements are based on management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information available to management only as of the date of this press release. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements for many reasons, including, without limitation, the risks, uncertainties and other factors described in ProQR’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including certain sections of its most recent annual report on Form 20-F. 前瞻性陈述基于管理层的信念和假设,以及仅在本新闻稿发布之日向管理层提供的信息。由于多种原因,实际结果可能与这些前瞻性陈述所明示或暗示的结果存在重大差异,包括但不限于ProQR在向美国证券交易委员会提交的文件(包括其最近一份20-F表格年度报告中的某些章节)中所述的风险、不确定性和其他因素。These risks and uncertainties include, among others, the cost, timing and results of preclinical studies and clinical trials and other development activities; the risk that preclinical or early clinical data may not be predictive of future results or clinical benefit; the likelihood that ProQR’s programs may not advance on the timelines currently anticipated; reliance on contract research organizations, contract manufacturers and other third parties; the ability to recruit and retain employees and consultants, including members of management and scientific advisors; the ability to integrate and realize the anticipated benefits of AI, machine learning and proprietary data in discovery and development; the unpredictability of regulatory requirements and the duration and results of regulatory review; possible safety or efficacy concerns that may emerge as additional data are generated; the possible impairment of, inability to obtain or costs to obtain intellectual property rights; the ability to secure, maintain and realize the intended benefits of collaborations and partnerships; risks related to cybersecurity and data privacy; general business, operational, financial and accounting risks; and risks related to macroeconomic conditions, market volatility, geopolitical even. 这些风险和不确定性包括但不限于:临床前研究和临床试验及其他开发活动的成本、时间和结果;临床前或早期临床数据可能无法预测未来结果或临床获益的风险;ProQR 的项目可能无法按目前预期的时间表推进的可能性;对合同研究组织、合同制造商及其他第三方的依赖;招聘和留住员工及顾问(包括管理层成员和科学顾问)的能力;整合并实现人工智能、机器学习和专有数据在发现与开发中的预期效益的能力;监管要求的不确定性以及监管审查的持续时间和结果;随着更多数据的产生而可能出现的安全性或有效性担忧;知识产权权利可能受到损害、无法获得或获取成本高昂的风险;确保、维持并实现合作与伙伴关系的预期效益的能力;与网络安全和数据隐私相关的风险;一般商业、运营、财务和会计风险;以及与宏观经济状况、市场波动和地缘政治事件相关的风险。ProQR Therapeutics N.V. 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