• Focus on potential partnership and strategic opportunities for the Company’s stem cell therapy program for Alzheimer’s disease
• Recent Type B meeting with FDA provided alignment on a planned single, pivotal Phase 2/3 clinical trial, which if positive, would be acceptable for Biological License Application (BLA) submission for Alzheimer’s disease
• Initiation of planned single, pivotal Phase 2/3 clinical trial in mild Alzheimer’s disease anticipated in 2H 2026, contingent upon obtaining non-dilutive funding and/or partnering support
• Results from the Phase 2a clinical trial (CLEAR MIND) evaluating laromestrocel as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease were published in the peer reviewed journal Nature Medicine
• Laromestrocel is, to Company’s knowledge, the first cellular therapeutic candidate to receive FDA Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation for Alzheimer’s disease
  

MIAMI, May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Longeveron Inc. (NASDAQ: LGVN), a clinical stage regenerative medicine biotechnology company developing cellular therapies for life-threatening and chronic aging-related conditions, today announced that the Company will participate in the BIO International Convention taking place June 16-19, 2025 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

At the conference, members of the Longeveron management team will host meetings with global pharmaceutical company executives to explore potential partnership and strategic opportunities for the Company’s Alzheimer’s disease program, which has generated positive data in successful Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials.   Results from the Phase 2a clinical trial (CLEAR MIND), which support the therapeutic potential of laromestrocel in the treatment of mild Alzheimer’s disease, were published in the peer reviewed journal Nature Medicine in March 2025.

Longeveron’s lead investigational therapeutic candidate is laromestrocel, a proprietary, scalable, allogenic cellular therapy. In the completed Phase 2a clinical trial (CLEAR MIND), laromestrocel treated patients showed an overall slowing/prevention of disease worsening compared to placebo. The trial achieved the primary safety and secondary efficacy endpoints and showed statistically significant improvements in pre-specified clinical and biomarker endpoints in specific laromestrocel groups compared to placebo.
  
Longeveron previously announced top-line results for the CLEAR MIND Phase 2a clinical trial on October 5, 2023, and reported additional clinical data and imaging biomarker results from CLEAR MIND on December 20, 2023. Full results from the CLEAR MIND study were presented in a featured research oral presentation at the 2024 Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC).

The FDA has granted laromestrocel both Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation and Fast Track designation for the treatment of mild Alzheimer’s disease, which allow greater access to FDA interaction during laromestrocel’s development for Alzheimer’s disease. Laromestrocel is, to Company’s knowledge, the first cellular therapeutic candidate to receive FDA RMAT designation for Alzheimer’s disease.

To connect with Longeveron during the conference, please request a meeting via the BIO International Conference meeting portal or contact info@longeveron.com.

About Longeveron Inc.
Longeveron is a clinical stage biotechnology company developing regenerative medicines to address unmet medical needs. The Company’s lead investigational product is laromestorcel, an allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy product isolated from the bone marrow of young, healthy adult donors. Laromestrocel has multiple potential mechanisms of action encompassing pro-vascular, pro-regenerative, anti-inflammatory, and tissue repair and healing effects with broad potential applications across a spectrum of disease areas. Longeveron is currently pursuing three pipeline indications: hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), Alzheimer’s disease, and Aging-related Frailty. Laromestrocel development programs have received five distinct and important FDA designations: for the HLHS program - Orphan Drug designation, Fast Track designation, and Rare Pediatric Disease designation; and, for the AD program - Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation and Fast Track designation. For more information, visit www.longeveron.com or follow Longeveron on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram.

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Further information relating to factors that may impact the Company’s results and forward-looking statements are disclosed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Longeveron’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2025, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and its Current Reports on Form 8-K. The Company operates in highly competitive and rapidly changing environment; therefore, new factors may arise, and it is not possible for the Company’s management to predict all such factors that may arise nor assess the impact of such factors or the extent to which any individual factor or combination thereof, may cause results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release based on information available as of the date of this press release, are inherently uncertain, and the Company disclaims any intention or obligation, other than imposed by law, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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