Jan van de Winkel
Management
So, hello and welcome to the general conference call to discuss the company’s financial results for the first 9 months of 2020. With me today to present these results is our CFO, Anthony Pagano. And for the Q&A, we will also welcome our Chief Development Officer, Judith Klimovsky; and our Chief Operating Officer, Anthony Mancini. Let’s move to Slide 2. As already said, we will be making forward-looking statements, so please keep that in mind as we go through this call. Let’s move to Slide 3. We have seen significant advances in our and our partners’ pipelines throughout 2020, and the third quarter was no exception. On a single day in August, the U.S. FDA granted approvals to Novartis for Kesimpta in relapsing MS and to Janssen for the 8th multiple myeloma indication for DARZALEX. The Kesimpta approval was highly anticipated, and we were very pleased that RMS patients in the U.S. had this convenient treatment option approved nearly a month earlier than expected. I am also very pleased to note the progress in our proprietary pipeline, where we have at least 50% ownership of potential therapies. In July, we dosed the first patient in an expansion cohort for epcoritamab. As you may have seen this morning, epcoritamab will be featured at an oral presentation at ASH. In August, we saw the start of the first-in-human trial of Duobody-CD3x5T4. And as you may recall, we are developing both epcoritamab and CD3x5T4 as part of our broad oncology collaboration with AbbVie. It is also my pleasure to announce that in October, we submitted the IND for HexaBody CD38, the second IND Genmab submitted this year. We’re also very much looking forward to the presentation of the first clinical data for Duobody-PD-L1x4-1BB, a major milestone in our collaboration with BioNTech at the…