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Crucell and DSM Biologics announce PER.C6® license agreement with AbGenomics Corporation


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Sittard/Leiden, The Netherlands, 11 January 2007 - Dutch biotechnology company Crucell N.V. (Euronext, NASDAQ: CRXL; Swiss Exchange: CRX) and technology partner DSM Biologics today announced that they have signed a PER.C6® research license agreement with the Taiwan-based AbGenomics Corporation.
AbGenomics Corporation intends to use the PER.C6® cell line for its research, development and early clinical studies of monoclonal antibodies.

“The unique characteristics of the PER.C6® technology as a human cell line combined with the short timeline involved in producing clinical material along with the technology’s robustness undoubtedly makes our choice for PER.C6® highly imperative,” said Shih-Yao Lin, PhD, AbGenomics Corporation’s President.

Under the terms of this agreement, AbGenomics Corporation will make license payments and annual maintenance fees in exchange for certain rights. Further financial details were not disclosed.

About Crucell
Crucell N.V. (Euronext, NASDAQ: CRXL; Swiss Exchange: CRX) is a biotechnology company focused on research, development and worldwide marketing of vaccines and antibodies that prevent and treat infectious diseases. Its vaccines are sold in public and private markets worldwide. Crucell’s core portfolio includes a vaccine against hepatitis B, a fully-liquid vaccine against five important childhood diseases, and a virosome-adjuvanted vaccine against influenza. Crucell also markets travel vaccines, such as the only oral anti-typhoid vaccine, an oral cholera vaccine and the only aluminum-free hepatitis A vaccine on the market. The company has a broad development pipeline, with several Crucell products based on its unique PER.C6® production technology. The company licenses this and other technologies to the biopharmaceutical industry. Important partners and licensees include DSM Biologics, sanofi aventis, GSK and Merck & Co. Crucell is headquartered in Leiden (the Netherlands), with subsidiaries in Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Korea and the US. The company employs over a 1000 people. For more information, please visit www.crucell.com.

About DSM Biologics
DSM Biologics, a business unit of DSM Pharmaceutical Products, is a leading provider of manufacturing technology and services to the biopharmaceutical industry. In addition to offering world-class biopharmaceutical manufacturing services, DSM Biologics has co-exclusive rights, along with Dutch biotech company Crucell N.V., to license the high-producing PER.C6® human cell line as a production platform for recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies. DSM Biologics’ FDA-approved facility in Groningen, The Netherlands, was established in 1986 and has a strong track record in using a broad range of cell lines (PER.C6® CHO, hybridoma, etc.) in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, and has a wide range of experience using multiple manufacturing (batch, fed-batch and continuous perfusion) and purification techniques. The combination of the PER.C6® human cell line and DSM’s manufacturing services provides companies with a turn-key biologic manufacturing solution reducing cost, risk and time to market. For more information, please visit www.dsmbiologics.com.

About AbGenomics Corporation
AbGenomics Corporation is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of breakthrough medicines to treat serious life threatening and debilitating diseases, including cancer, inflammations, autoimmune, infectious and metabolic diseases. The Company’s business strategy is to commercialize its products both independently and in collaboration with major pharmaceutical partners. For more information, please visit www.abgenomics.com

Forward-looking statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We have identified certain important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in such forward-looking statements. For information relating to these factors please refer to our Form 20-F, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 6, 2006, and the section entitled “Risk Factors”. The Company prepares its financial statements under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (US GAAP) and Europe (IFRS).



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