Robert Barrow
Management
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to MindMed's Q3 2021 Earnings Call. I'm Rob Barrow, the Interim CEO of MindMed. I'm also joined today by our Chief Financial Officer, Dave Guebert; and our Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Dan Carlin. I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that this is a conference call that will contain forward-looking information, which may include, but is not limited to statements with respect to anticipated business plans or strategies of MindMed. Forward-looking statements are made as of today's date may involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of MindMed to be materially different from the forward-looking statements. We draw your attention to the full disclaimer contained in our filings on SEDAR and EDGAR. As a reminder, please e-mail any questions you may have to investors@mindmed.co. This year at MindMed has been one of significant growth and maturation of the company with the evolution of our management team, Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board. I believe that the company is only as good as the people that make it up, and I'm very pleased to report that at every level of our organization, our people are excellent and excelling. I'm inspired by the expert -- expertise, passion and drive MindMed team brings to our work every single day, and I'm honored to work alongside such outstanding colleagues. Over the course of 2021, we have expanded our team by approximately 50 people across the U.S. and Europe, and we have recruited some of the top talent from the pharmaceutical industry from the likes of AstraZeneca, Sanofi, GW Pharma, Janssen and many others. Additionally, the world-class business and scientific leaders that we have added to our Scientific Advisory Board and Board of Directors over the course of 2021, provide further validation of our mission and approach, and we believe it solidify MindMed's position as a leader in the psychedelic sector. Our mission is simple but ambitious. To discover, develop and deploy innovative therapies to address major unmet medical needs in psychiatry, addiction and beyond. Now more than ever, the world needs new treatment options for these serious conditions as we have seen a significant uptick in mental health concerns and substance abuse amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm pleased to report that MindMed has continued to progress all of its development programs across its drug and digital platforms. This includes the advancement of our lead drug programs in the Phase II clinical trials, along with our innovative digital medicine technologies that we believe will play a key role and one day facilitating adoption and accessibility to our novel therapies. At MindMed and across the entire sector, we have witnessed amazing achievements in 2021 and we believe we are very well positioned to continue our growth and tremendous progress as we enter 2022. Speaking more specifically about some of the changes to our Board of Directors in 2021, in September, we announced the transition of Mr. Bruce Linton off of our Board of Directors and the appointment of Mr. Andreas Krebs and Ms. Carol Vallone. Mr. Krebs is an internationally experienced executive, entrepreneur and best-selling author. He heads the family-owned investment company, Long Field Investment in Germany, which focuses on growth companies in various industries as well as in the new economy. He has worked in 7 countries in Latin America, Asia and Canada and as President and Executive Board member of Wyeth Corporation in the United States. Mr. Krebs was Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Shareholder Council of Merz Pharma, Frankfurt, Germany, from 2010 to 2019. He's currently a member of the Supervisory Board of the European eye clinic Group, Veonet, which is part of the Nordic Capital Group and holds other Board positions across various sectors. Furthermore, he serves as Chairman of the private nongovernmental organization Förderverein Girassol eV, which supports children and young people from socially difficult backgrounds in São Paulo, Brazil. Ms. Vallone is a well-known business leader, former CEO and Corporate Board Director with a strong track record in launching, scaling and selling global companies. Currently, she serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of McLean Hospital, the #1 ranked freestanding psychiatric hospital and largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School. She serves on the Board of Trustees at MGH Institute of Health Professionals, and she serves on the Finance Committee at Mass General Brigham. Additionally, Ms. Vallone serves as a Board member for the publicly traded Cresco Labs and for a Bain Capital Double Impact portfolio company, Arosa. She is also an Advisory Director for the investment firm Berkshire Partners and an Advisory Board member of the health care focused venture growth firm, Longitude Capital. Ms. Vallone has served as Founder and CEO of global e-learning companies, held manager positions in leading corporate technology companies and served on the Board of Public Financial services in e-commerce organizations. We are incredibly excited to have Mr. Krebs and Ms. Vallone join our Board of Directors. They are already feeling the positive impact of their expertise and guidance. In addition to these changes at the Board level, 2021 has seen a continued evolution of MindMed Scientific Advisory Board, including 3 recent appointments in Dr. Maria A. Oquendo, Dr. Rob Dworkin, and Dr. Bryan Roth. Dr. Oquendo is Ruth Meltzer Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. A summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University. She attended Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. She completed her residency at the Payne Whitney Clinic of New York Hospital, Cornell. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in medicine. And Dr. Oquendo's extensive experience in psychiatry and pharmacology, including with high-risk patients will be invaluable in progressing all of our research and development efforts. Dr. Rob Dworkin has spent over 35 years conducting clinical research on pain. He is currently Professor of Anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, neurology and psychiatry and Professor in the Center of Health and Technology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. As MindMed advances therapies under our pain franchise, Dr. Dworkin's specific expertise in pain will provide invaluable guidance to the design and execution of our critical path clinical trials. Further, Dr. Dworkin's extensive experience with complex clinical trials will complement our other scientific advisers to ensure that we are making the best possible choices to efficiently and effectively advance our portfolio of clinical assets. Dr. Bryan Roth has spent over 30 years studying molecular neuropharmacology. He is a Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine. He is also the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health Psychoactive Drug Screening Program. Dr. Roth's extensive background discovering and characterizing novel psychoactive drugs will be invaluable as we continue to build our multigenerational pipeline of drug candidates for years to come. This engagement from key thought leaders across multiple therapeutic areas reflects the major opportunities that MindMed represents to potentially revolutionize the treatment landscape for diseases of the central nervous system. With the incredible organizational growth and evolution we have executed throughout 2021, we believe we have never been in a better position to deliver on our mission as we advance into 2022. And with that, I'd like to turn it over to Dr. Dan Carlin to discuss some of our product development updates. Dan?