Yannis Morel
Analyst · Citi. Your line is open
Thank you, Joyson. So let's move on Slide 12 where there is a summary of our monalizumab agreement with AstraZeneca. To date, we have cashed in $450 million, including $50 million last year with the start of the PACIFIC-9 Phase 3 trial in lung cancer. The total milestone package sign was up to $1.275 billion with royalty on net sales outside Europe, plus 50% of the profit share Europe with the option to co-promote the drug in this region. We look forward to continuing our relationship with AstraZeneca on the monalizumab as well as our -- on our anti-CD39 IPH5201. Indeed IPH5201 has moved into Phase 2 in early lung cancer with [indiscernible] trial in a neoadjuvant and adjuvant setting, which trigger a $5 million milestone payment last year. Now moving to Slide 13, I wanted to highlight our proprietary multi-specific NK cell engager platform that we call ANKET. ANKET standing for antibody-based NK cell engager therapeutics. ANKET is a versatile fit-for purpose technology made of various building blocks that is creating an entirely new class of tri or tetra-specific engager to induce synthetic immunity against cancer. This technology platform, which is leveraging our scientific expertise in the NK cell space, will be an enzyme for our pipeline creating value via multiple drug candidates addressing multiple tumor target. The backbone of this ANKET platform is based on the unique engagement of the activating NK cell receptors NKp46 and CD16 on the NK cells, which allows for the optimal harnessing of the NK cell effector functions, which can be further increased by addition of [indiscernible] variant that induce their proliferation. Now moving to Slide 14, I wanted to share our enthusiasm for this platform in the context of the growing interest in the NK cell space. Our expertise in antibody engineering has enabled us to develop this platform which generates ANKET molecule designed to engage efficiently the patient's own NK cells against its own tumor. On the left panel, you can see the detailed mechanism of action of the ANKET, which we have recently published in a couple of article in high impact factor journals. As shown in our natural biotechnology paper describing the joint work that with Sanofi on the CD123 NK cell engager, the engagement with of NKp46 and CD16 on NK cells triggers potent antigen dependent killing of the tumor as well as production of key cytokines for the anti-tumor response, but without systemic cytokine release, which is a major dose limiting factor for T cell engagers. In addition, as shown in our Cell Reports Medicine paper, the addition of interleukin-2 variant into an ANKET in use of preferential NK cell proliferation within the tumor microenvironment increasing therefore the number of anti-tumor effector cells. Overall, this platform demonstrates compelling preclinical activity as evidenced in these two publication. In the middle panel, you can see the most recent presentation we had on the -- at the ASH annual meeting in December, some with our partner Sanofi. We had a trialing process poster for the CD123 targeted IPH6101, also called SAR’579, which started Phase 1 trial in December 2021. Then we showcased our technical data again with Sanofi on the BCMA NK cell engager showing strong efficacy against multiple [indiscernible] tumors again without inducing systemic cytokine release. This molecule called IP6401 or SAR’514 is moving through IND enabling studies. Finally, we presented at this meeting the technical characterization of our proprietary [indiscernible] IPH6501, which is a CD20 targeted tetra-specific ANKET. Lastly, on the right you can see the overall growing pipeline of ANKET molecule we have with Sanofi adding licensed pre-molecule and having an option on two other undisclosed. Our most advanced proprietary ANKET IPH6501, we just talked about, is adding toward the IND this year. We have also other preclinical targets, which we hope to provide some updates in due course. Now moving to Slide 15, you can see a summary of our Sanofi partnership. In 2016, we signed an initial agreement for two ANKET molecule worth up to €400 million in milestone among which we received to date €40 million. Both program have progressed with IPH6101 in Phase 1 for 15 months now, and IPH6401 progressing towards IND. In December last year, we signed a further agreement whereby Sanofi licensed the IPH62 ANKET program targeting B7-H3, which is a solid tumor target antigen with an option on two other targets. Sanofi paid €25 million upfront with a total of €1.35 billion in potential milestones and royalty. This now takes the total milestone package of our partnership with Sanofi to up to €1.5 billion plus royalty. Building on our existing and successful relationship, we look forward to continuing working with the Sanofi R&D team as we bring this molecule to the clinic. I will now hand over to Frederic, to cover financial update.