Fabrice Chouraqui
Management
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Q1 2025 Call. I'm Fabrice Chouraqui, CEO of Pharming, and I'll be joined on this call today by Stephen Toor, our Chief Commercial Officer, Anurag Relan, our Chief Medical Officer, and Jeroen Wakkerman, our Chief Financial Officer. We'll be making forward-looking statements in this call that are based upon our current insights and plans. As you very well know, this may differ from future results. First of all, let me say that I had a great first three months at Pharming. I mean, the passion and the commitment of all employees to serving rare disease patients is really palpable throughout the company, whether you are at the production facilities, at the headquarter or with the field. And this mindset of going this extra mile is clearly part of the DNA of the company and not just a few words on a culture slide as I've seen it actually too often. So everyone is clearly determined to realize the vision that we've set for the company, which is to make Pharming a leading global rare disease company with a diverse portfolio and presence in large markets that leverages a proven and efficient clinical development, supply chain and commercial infrastructure. Our results in the first quarter of 2025 are a good illustration of the solid growth foundation that we have built to realize this vision. We've had a strong start of the year with our total revenues increasing by 42% in the first quarter and a significant improvement of our bottom line, which supported an upgrade of our full year guidance. So going into a little more detail, RUCONEST grew 49% to $68.6 million driven by a continued increase of new patient enrollment and the sustained expansion of our prescriber base as well as a lower inventory destocking versus the previous quarter. RUCONEST has a unique profile on-demand HAE market, which make it an extremely valuable treatment for moderate-to-severe patients who experience more frequent and stronger attacks. And this differentiation really explains the strong momentum and the growth prospect that we have for RUCONEST in the long term. When it comes to Joenja, revenue increased by 9%, driven by robust new patient enrollment, offset by the impact of stocking in the last quarter of 2024 and higher but expected gross to net adjustment versus a year ago. The efforts to identify new patients after the initial bonus of launch is really starting to pay off with six new patients in the U.S. this quarter, the largest quarterly increase since Q2 2024. We expect to see a sustainable acceleration of the number of new patients on Joenja starting in the second half of the year with three clear growth catalysts to come: first, the reclassification of VUS patients in the U.S. Second, the pediatric label expansion and third, the launch in key markets outside the U.S., which started actually with the U.K. just a month ago. In the first quarter of 2025, our operating loss narrowed very significantly year-over-year and we even generated a profit for the third quarter in a row if we exclude the nonrecurring Abliva acquisition related expenses. So given our strong growth outlook, I believe that our ability to be disciplined financially will be as important as generating strong top-line growth to unlock silicon value creation in the near and long term. And as a first step, we've made a decision to cut G&A expenses by 15% or $10 million on an annual basis to optimize capital allocation to grow our business. Our pipeline continues to progress well during this quarter. Both the genetic PID and CVID Phase II studies are now initiated and enrolling patients. These two indications in patients with immune dysregulation who may benefit from a modulation of their PI K3 delta signaling pathway, have the potential to propel Joenja to a whole new level given the much higher patient prevalences. The clinical development team also worked very hard to resume the enrollment of the Phase II registrational trial for KL1333 in MTD just a few weeks after the completion of the Abliva acquisition. Before I let Anurag tell you more about this $2 billion plus pipeline opportunities, let me first hand over to Stephen Toor, our Chief Commissioner Officer, who will give you a more granular perspective on the strong dynamics of RUCONEST and Joenja. Steve?