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Summary: Genmab Reports Results for the Six Month Period Ended June 30,

2007

COPENHAGEN, August 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genmab A/S (OMX: GEN) announced today results for the six month period ended June 30, 2007. During this period, Genmab reported the following results:

Genmab's revenues were DKK 279.6 million (approx. USD 50.7 million) for the first half of 2007. In the same period of 2006, Genmab recognized DKK 74.3 million (approx. USD 13.5 million) in revenues.

An Operating Loss of DKK 118.9 million (approx. USD 21.6 million). This compares to an Operating Loss of DKK 187.5 million (approx. USD 34.0 million) reported for the corresponding period of 2006.

Net Financial Income totaled DKK 31.8 million (approx. USD 5.8 million), compared to Net Financial Expenses of DKK 2.3 million (approx. USD 0.4 million) in the first six months of 2006. Net Financial Income has benefited from the higher average cash position, whereas the negative net financial income reported for the first half of 2006 was impacted by increasing interest rates and weakening of the USD against the DKK.

A Net Loss of DKK 87.0 million (approx. USD 15.8 million) compared to a Net Loss of DKK 189.8 million (approx. USD 34.4 million) for the same period in 2006. The Net Loss per share was DKK 2.01 (approx. USD 0.36) for the first half of 2007 compared to DKK 4.96 (approx. USD 0.90) in the first half of 2006.

Genmab ended the six month period with a cash position of DKK 3.980 billion (approx. USD 722 million), which is a net increase of DKK 2.256 million (approx. USD 409.4 million) from the end of 2006.

Highlights

During the second quarter of 2007, Genmab achieved a number of business and scientific milestones, as follows:

On June 29, Genmab regained all rights to HuMax-CD4(R) (zanolimumab) from Merck Serono S.A. and announced final data from the HuMax-CD4 Phase II data in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (C
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