Concert Pharmaceuticals Reports Second Quarter 2015 Financial Results and Provides Company Update

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNCE) today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2015. “We are pleased with the continued progress of our pipeline over the last quarter. In particular, we are encouraged by the progress Avanir has made with AVP-786 in 2015. We see a continued commitment by Avanir to broadly evaluate the potential of AVP-786 in multiple neurological disorders including Alzheimer’s agitation, schizophrenia and depression,” said Roger Tung, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Concert Pharmaceuticals. “In addition, we are focused on advancing Concert’s newest drug candidate CTP-656, our deuterium-modified ivacaftor, and we believe that with our strong balance sheet, Concert is well positioned to develop CTP-656 to provide patients with more choices and potentially better outcomes.”

Recent Business Highlights and Upcoming Milestones

Second Quarter 2015 Financial Results

Conference Call and Webcast

The Company will host a conference call and webcast today at 8:30 a.m. EDT to provide an update on the company and discuss second quarter financial results. To access the conference call, please dial (855) 354-1855 (U.S. and Canada) or (484) 365-2865 (International) five minutes prior to the start time. A live webcast of Concert’s presentation may be accessed in the Investors & Media section of the Company’s website at www.concertpharma.com. Please log on to the Concert website approximately 15 minutes prior to the scheduled webcast to ensure adequate time for any software downloads that may be required. A replay of the webcast will be available on Concert’s website for three months.

About Concert

Concert Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on applying its DCE Platform® (deuterated chemical entity platform) to create novel small molecule drugs. This approach starts with approved drugs, advanced clinical candidates or previously studied compounds that have the potential to be improved with deuterium substitution to enhance clinical safety, tolerability and efficacy. The Company is developing a broad pipeline targeting CNS disorders, genetic diseases, renal disease, inflammatory diseases and cancer. For more information, please visit www.concertpharma.com.

Cautionary Note on Forward Looking Statements

Any statements in this press release about our future expectations, plans and prospects, including statements about future milestone payments, our expectations for clinical development of our therapeutic candidates, including CTP-656 and AVP-786, and other statements containing the words "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "target," "would," and similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: the uncertainties inherent in the initiation of future clinical trials, whether preliminary results from a clinical trial will be predictive of the final results of that trial or whether results of early clinical trials will be indicative of the results of later clinical trials, expectations for regulatory approvals, availability of funding sufficient for our foreseeable and unforeseeable operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements and other factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in other filings that we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, any forward-looking statements included in this press release represent our views only as of the date of this release and should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date. We specifically disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statements included in this press release.