Capital Markets Event & PRRSv Programme Update

Genus plc

('Genus', the 'Company' or the 'Group')

Capital Markets Event and PRRSv Resistance Programme Update

Genus (LSE:GNS), a leading global animal genetics company, is hosting a Capital Markets Event ('CME') today at 3pm UK time. The CME will cover key strategic progress and initiatives being implemented to further strengthen Genus's leadership in the animal genetics market. The presentations given by members of Genus's executive management will be made available on the Company website after the event at https://www.genusplc.com/media/1787/genus-capital-markets-event-jun2021-presentation.pdf 

As part of the CME, Genus's Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Elena Rice will provide an update on Genus's porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus ('PRRSv') resistance programme, including the results of the most recent disease challenge for Genus's gene edited pigs. In the most recent trial, 40 animals (23 gene edited for PRRS resistance and 17 unedited animals), which were infected with two prevalent types of the PRRS virus, were tested. The trial demonstrated that the gene edited pigs were 100% resistant to both types of the PRRS virus, and confirms previous academic findings. In the next phase of the disease trials, Genus will be evaluating whether PRRSv resistance is preserved across generations by breeding and testing the offspring of the first generation of edited pigs. These trials will be included as part of the submissions to the US Food and Drug Administration as part of the regulatory review process. 

Any institutional investors and sell side analysts not already registered and wishing to attend the event should contact Buchanan at genus@buchanan.uk.com.

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This announcement is available on the Genus website www.genusplc.com

About Genus
Genus is a world-leading animal genetics company. Genus creates advances to animal breeding and genetic improvement by applying biotechnology and sells added value products for livestock farming and food producers. Its technology is applicable across livestock species and is currently commercialised by Genus in the dairy, beef and pork food production sectors.

Genus's worldwide sales are made in over seventy-five countries under the trademarks 'ABS' (dairy and beef cattle) and 'PIC' (pigs) and comprise semen, embryos and breeding animals with superior genetics to those animals currently in farms. Genus's customers' animals produce offspring with greater production efficiency, and quality, and use these to supply the global dairy and meat supply chains.

The Group's competitive edge has been created from the ownership and control of proprietary lines of breeding animals, the biotechnology used to improve them and its global supply chain, technical service and sales and distribution network.

With headquarters in Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Genus companies operate in over twenty-five countries on six continents, with research laboratories located in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.