Toronto, Ontario, 16 February 2012 – Compugen today announced it has been again recognized as an esteemed HP Partner in Excellence, this time for Global Business Growth, at the 2012 HP Global Partner Conference (GPC) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Yesterday, Compugen announced its receipt of the Canada ESSN Growth Award at the same event.

Selected by a panel of HP Channel executives, the Global Business Growth award recognizes HP partners for professional excellence in the areas of market leadership and overall year-over-year growth and performance. The Canadian award honours Compugen for growth across the entire HP Portfolio.

"This award affirms again our very positive relationship with Hewlett-Packard and the high levels of customer satisfaction associated with HP, with Compugen and with the HP-Compugen solutions we have developed. Two thousand and eleven was a year of substantial growth for Compugen, and HP played an important role in that growth," said Harry Zarek, President and CEO of Compugen. "We thank HP for last night’s recognition and for the Enterprise Storage, Servers and Networking Growth Award granted on Tuesday, and look forward to making 2012 another year of success for our customers, HP and Compugen. Once again, thanks to our sales, service and operations teams for their hard work."