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March 28, 2024

Calico Appoints Michael Lenardo, M.D., as Chief Scientific Officer

Michael Lenardo, M.D., to join Calico Life Sciences as Chief Scientific Officer

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April 11, 2024 The HEALEY ALS Platform Trial completes enrollment for testing investigational product ABBV-CLS-7262 from Calico Life Sciences

October 4, 2023 Nature Publishes Discovery and Preclinical Results for ABBV-CLS- 484, a Potential First-in-Class PTPN2/N1 Inhibitor in Cancer Immunotherapy

April 26, 2023 Calico Life Sciences Announces First Participant Dosed in Phase 1b Clinical Study Evaluating ABBV-CLS-7262 for the Treatment of Vanishing White Matter Disease

March 28, 2023 The HEALEY ALS Platform Trial Enrolls First Participants for the Investigational Product ABBV-CLS-7262 from Calico Life Sciences

October 12, 2022 Terray Therapeutics and Calico Enter into a Multi-Target Collaboration to Discover Small Molecule Therapeutics for Age-Related Diseases

September 21, 2022 Public-private partnership announces ambitious project to create the world’s largest longitudinal imaging dataset to assess disease progression

July 12, 2022 Investigational drug ABBV-CLS-7262 initiates design phase for entry into the HEALEY ALS Platform Trial

August 2, 2021 Calico Appoints Jessica Wilan as Head of Human Resources

July 27, 2021 AbbVie and Calico Announce Second Extension of Collaboration Focused on Aging and Age-Related Diseases

March 25, 2021 Cynthia Kenyon Awarded 2021 Dickson Prize in Medicine

February 3, 2021 Calico and AbbVie Share Update on Early-Stage Clinical Programs

January 29, 2020 David Botstein Awarded Genetics Society of America’s Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal For Lifetime Achievement

October 8, 2019 Broad Institute and Calico Extend Collaboration Focused on the Biology of Aging and Age-Related Diseases

September 27, 2019 eLife press release on Calico paper titled, “Systematic identification of cancer cell vulnerabilities to natural killer cell-mediated immune surveillance.”

November 28, 2018 Calico Announces Collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania for Translational Medicine Efforts in Aging and Age-related Diseases; Garret FitzGerald to Become Senior Advisor to Calico

November 6, 2018 Genetics Society of America press release on Calico paper titled, “Estimates of the heritability of human longevity are substantially inflated due to assortative mating.”

June 26, 2018 AbbVie and Calico Announce Extension of Groundbreaking Collaboration

January 25, 2018 Calico Scientists Publish Paper in eLife Demonstrating that the Naked Mole Rat’s Risk of Death Does Not Increase With Age

March 23, 2017 C4 Therapeutics and Calico Enter Strategic Partnership to Discover Novel Therapeutics Based on Targeted Protein Degradation

April 26, 2016 The Jackson Laboratory and Calico to Investigate Basic Biology of Aging

November 10, 2015 David Botstein receives the Double Helix Medal from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

July 21, 2015 AncestryDNA and Calico to Research the Genetics of Human Lifespan

July 20, 2015 Cynthia Kenyon named one of the “15 Most Amazing Women in Science Today”

April 28, 2015 Calico enters into agreement with the Buck Institute to conduct research into the biology of aging and to identify potential therapeutics for age-related diseases

March 31, 2015 Calico licenses technology from acclaimed UCSF laboratory

March 24, 2015 Calico and QB3 announce partnership to conduct research into the biology of aging and to identify potential therapeutics for age-related diseases

March 17, 2015 Broad Institute and Calico announce an extensive collaboration focused on the biology of aging and therapeutic approaches to diseases of aging

October 3, 2014 Art Levinson to receive National Medal of Technology and Innovation

September 11, 2014 UT Southwestern researchers discover novel class of NAMPT activators for neurodegenerative disease; Calico enters into exclusive collaboration with 2M to develop UTSW technology

September 3, 2014 AbbVie and Calico Announce a Novel Collaboration to Accelerate the Discovery, Development, and Commercialization of New Therapies

September 18, 2013 Google announces Calico, a new company focused on health and well-being (Google News)