CARMAT announces that it has received regulatory approvals to resume its clinical study in France

French National Agency for Medicine and Health Product Safety and Patient Protection Committee have provided approval to resume Aeson® implants within the framework of the EFICAS study

Paris, October 26, 2022 – 7 am CEST

CARMAT (FR0010907956, ALCAR), the designer and developer of Aeson®, the world’s most advanced total artificial heart, designed to provide a therapeutic alternative for people suffering from end-stage biventricular heart failure, announced today that it has been granted the necessary regulatory approvals from the French National Agency for Medicine and Health Product Safety (“ANSM”) and the Patient Protection Committee (CPP Ile-de-France XI) to restart the EFICAS Clinical Study.

The study will include 52 transplant-eligible patients in France and will allow CARMAT to collect both additional data on the efficacy and safety of its artificial heart, and medico-economic data to support the value proposition and reimbursement of the device, notably in France.

Ahead of the restart, four centres have undergone refresher trainings on the product and clinical protocol and are ready to screen patients (APHP-HU Pitié Salpêtrière, CHRU Lille, CHU Rennes and CHU Strasbourg).

As a reminder, CARMAT benefits from a funding of €13 million from the French National Innovation Fund, to partially finance this study.

Given this approval, which follows the recently announced green light to resume commercial implants as well, CARMAT confirms its intention to resume implants in Europe in the near future, at a gradual pace in line with the rebuilding of its prostheses inventory.

Stéphane Piat, Chief Executive Officer of CARMAT, said: “This approval is very positive news for French patients who will now be able to benefit from Aeson® as part of the EFICAS study that we will shortly be initiating in France. This study is also instrumental for the Company as it will allow us to collect essential medico-economic data to support the reimbursement of our therapy, notably in France. Our teams are working hard to build prostheses inventory to support the resumption of our implants in Europe.” 

About CARMAT

CARMAT is a French MedTech that designs, manufactures and markets the Aeson® artificial heart. The Company’s ambition is to make Aeson® the first alternative to a heart transplant, and thus provide a therapeutic solution to people suffering from end-stage biventricular heart failure, who are facing a well-known shortfall in available human grafts. The world’s first physiological artificial heart that is highly hemocompatible, pulsatile and self-regulated, Aeson® could save, every year, the lives of thousands of patients waiting for a heart transplant. The device offers patients quality of life and mobility thanks to its ergonomic and portable external power supply system that is continuously connected to the implanted prosthesis. Aeson® is commercially available as a bridge to transplant in the European Union and other countries that recognize CE marking. Aeson® is also currently being assessed within the framework of an Early Feasibility Study (EFS) in the United States. Founded in 2008, CARMAT is based in the Paris region, with its head offices located in Vélizy-Villacoublay and its production site in Bois-d’Arcy. The Company can rely on the talent and expertise of a multidisciplinary team of more than 200 highly specialized people. CARMAT is listed on the Euronext Growth market in Paris (Ticker: ALCAR / ISIN code: FR0010907956).

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