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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 ¤8.90 and ¤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 ¤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.

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