argenx to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences

Breda, the Netherlands / Ghent, Belgium – argenx (Euronext & Nasdaq: ARGX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a deep pipeline of differentiated antibody-based therapies for the treatment of severe autoimmune diseases and cancer, today announced that management will participate in several upcoming investor conferences in November:

  • 2019 Wolfe Research Healthcare Conference. Company presentation on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 12:55 p.m. ET in New York.

  • 28th Annual Credit Suisse Healthcare Conference. Management will participate in investor meetings on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 in Scottsdale, AZ.

  • Guggenheim Healthcare Talks | Idea Forum | Neuro / Immunology Day. Company presentation on Monday, November 18, 2019 at 3:15 p.m. ET in New York.

  • Stifel 2019 Healthcare Conference. Company presentation on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 10:55 a.m. ET in New York.

Live webcasts of each presentation will be available on the Company’s website at www.argenx.com. Replays of the webcasts will be available for 90 days following each presentation on the argenx website.

About argenx

argenx is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a deep pipeline of differentiated antibody-based therapies for the treatment of severe auto-immune diseases and cancer. The company is focused on developing product candidates with the potential to be either first-in-class against novel targets or best-in-class against known, but complex, targets in order to treat diseases with a significant unmet medical need. argenx’s ability to execute on this focus is enabled by its suite of differentiated technologies. The SIMPLE Antibody™ Platform, based on the powerful llama immune system, allows argenx to exploit novel and complex targets, and its three complementary Fc engineering technologies are designed to expand the therapeutic index of its product candidates.

www.argenx.com

For further information, please contact:

Beth DelGiacco, Vice President, Investor Relations

+1 518 424 4980

bdelgiacco@argenx.com

Joke Comijn, Director Corporate Communications & Investor Relations (EU)

+32 (0)477 77 29 44

+32 (0)9 310 34 19

info@argenx.com

Forward-looking Statements

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