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Q2 2025 Earnings Call· Fri, Aug 8, 2025

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Operator

Operator

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to Zymeworks Second Quarter 2025 Results Conference Call and Webcast. [Operator Instructions] The conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the conference over to Shrinal Inamdar, Senior Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Shrinal Inamdar

Analyst

Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining our second quarter 2025 results conference call. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that we will be making a number of forward-looking statements during this call, including, without limitation, those forward-looking statements identified in our slides and the accompanying oral commentary. Forward-looking statements are based upon our current expectations and various assumptions and are subject to the usual risks and uncertainties associated with companies in our industry and our stated development. For discussion of these risks and uncertainties, we refer you to the latest SEC filings as found on our website and as filed with the SEC. In a moment, I will hand over to Leone Patterson, our Executive Vice President and Chief Business and Financial Officer, who will provide an overview of our recent business and partnership update along with financial results for our second quarter 2025. Following this, Dr. Sabeen Mekan, our Senior Vice President of Clinical Development, will provide progress updates on our Phase I program, ZW171 and ZW191. We will then pass the call over to Dr. Paul Moore, our Chief Scientific Officer, who will give an overview of recent R&D development as well as an update on IND clearance for our second Topo ADC candidates, ZW251. At the end of the call, Leone, Sabeen, Paul and Ken Galbraith, our Chair and CEO, will be available for Q&A. As a reminder, the audio and slides from this call will also be available on the Zymeworks website later today. I will now hand the call over to Leone. Leone?

Leone D. Patterson

Analyst

Thank you, Shrinal, and thank you all for joining us today. I'll first walk you through our highlights for the second quarter of 2025. On our clinical programs, we presented trial and progress posters for ZW171 and ZW191, which are both progressing in their respective Phase I studies. Sabeen will provide more color on the dosing regimen and study design for each of these trials later in the call. We are also pleased to have announced the IND clearance of our second TOPO1 inhibitor payload ADC, ZW251 for the treatment of HCC. Based on our observations of ZW191 in the clinic to date, we are excited to get the study up and running. With this development, ZW251 would be our third product candidate in active Phase I trials in 2025. Two additional product candidates are on track to enter the clinic in 2026, while ZW220 remains IND-ready. Together, these developments demonstrate consistent execution across our R&D programs and long-term business strategy. On our preclinical pipeline, we are pleased to have presented inaugural data on our novel IL-4, IL-33 bispecific in development for COPD at the American Thoracic Society International Conference. Paul will talk more about the preclinical data presented later in the call and how we see ZW1528 positioned in the competitive landscape. Meanwhile, zanidatamab continues to progress through the presentation of updated long-term survival data at ASCO, highlighting that among 41 GEA patients with centrally confirmed HER2-positive tumors. Treatment with zanidatamab in combination with physicians' choice of chemotherapy resulted in a median progression-free survival of 15.2 months and a median overall survival of 36.5 months. We believe these data reflect the durability and tolerability of zanidatamab and support our thesis of patients staying on treatment longer. This builds on the meaningful efficacy and tolerability profile seen to date with…

Sabeen Mekan

Analyst

Thanks, Leone, and good afternoon, everyone. We are pleased to have presented trial in progress process for both ZW171 and ZW191 at recent peer-reviewed medical conferences, highlighting the translation from preclinical tolerability profiles to clinical starting doses for each program. In some cases, these updates also provide insights and learnings for the safety and tolerability profiles we could see for earlier-stage product candidates within our ADC and multi-specific T-cell engager portfolios. Firstly, in June 2025, we presented a trial in progress poster for ZW171 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting. The study employs a subcutaneous step-up dosing regimen on days 1, 8 and 15 of each 21-day cycle. The starting dose level is based on a quantitative systems pharmacology-guided minimal anticipated biological effect level, MABEL approach and includes sequential doses of 4.2 micrograms Cycle 1 Day 1; 12.6 micrograms Cycle 1 Day 8; and 38 micrograms Cycle 1 Day 15. Dose level 2 and above are determined by the data from prior dose based on prespecified rules within the protocol. The modified toxicity probability interval mTPI design is being used to establish the maximum tolerated dose and recommended dose for expansion. We will continue to monitor early data from the Phase I trial of ZW171 as it continues to progress, and we will be thoughtful and decisive about next steps in line with observations on its tolerability and pharmacologic activity. Moving on to the design for ZW191 as presented at the ESMO Gynecological Cancers Congress. The study is designed in 2 parts with the primary objectives of evaluating safety, tolerability and identifying the recommended dose for expansion in patients with ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. Part 1 is the dose escalation phase, where we are evaluating the safety profile of ZW191 and determining…

Paul A. Moore

Analyst

Thank you, Sabeen. I'm pleased to share updates from our R&D pipeline, where we continue to see strong momentum, particularly with the IND clearance of ZW251. As Sabeen touched on, we are encouraged by the clinical progress observed to date with our lead ADC candidate, ZW191, which demonstrates early signs of translational alignment between preclinical predictions and clinical outcomes. We believe these early data from the ZW191 provide a strong foundation and confirms our confidence in the therapeutic potential of our proprietary topoisomerase 1 inhibitor payload, ZD06519. This alignment has reinforced our decision to advance ZW251 into the clinic. 251 incorporates the same foundational elements as 191, including our topoisomerase 1 inhibitor payload and optimized antibody framework, but it's specifically engineered to address hepatocellular carcinoma, a disease with high unmet medical need and few effective targeted therapies. What we think makes GPC3 particularly attractive from a therapeutic standpoint is its expression profile. It is highly expressed in the majority of HCC tumors while exhibiting minimal expression in normal adult tissues. This tumor selective expression reduces the risk of off-target effects and supports a favorable therapeutic index for GPC3 targeted therapies. As you can see from the panel on the left-hand side of this slide, GPC3 is overexpressed in more than 75% of HCC tumors while showing limited expression in normal tissues, confirming as a compelling candidate for selective ADC targeting. Importantly, GPC3 is expressed during fetal development, but is largely silenced and healthy adult tissue. This fetal -- oncofetal expression pattern provides a unique window for tumor targeting without disrupting normal adult physiology. Prior studies have demonstrated the successful accumulation of anti-GPC3 antibodies in patient tumors, validating GPC3's accessibility and relevance as a therapeutic target. While glypican-3 or GPC3 has attracted attention across the industry, it's important to note that…

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

Thank you, Paul. As we move through the remainder of 2025, there's no question that capital markets continue to reward clarity, capital discipline and real progress towards durable value. That's how we've designed our strategy and it's how we're evolving our business model to optimize both long-term value for shareholders while making a meaningful difference in patient outcomes. As demonstrated by our partnerships with Jazz and BeOne, we believe that long-term success in biotech lies at the intersection of platform-driven innovation and strategic execution. That belief now forms the backbone of our strategy, combining the strength of our proprietary technology platforms such as Azymetric with targeted partnerships to fully unlock asset value and deliver durable returns for shareholders. Azymetric platform has proven itself to be a differentiated antibody platform that allows for precise control over geometry and valency, essential features for engineering next-generation biologics with superior selectivity and function. This has already been validated through clinical and regulatory success with zanidatamab as well as multiple high-value licensing partnerships with some of the industry's most respected pharmaceutical companies, as Leone has walked through earlier. We believe these collaborations validate our science and they position us well for meaningful milestones and royalty revenue opportunities in the years ahead as we've already seen materialize through the first half of 2025. Our evolving strategy is both building on our successful track record of discovering and developing highly differentiated assets and executing strategic partnerships to maximize their value through upfront and milestone payments and continued royalty rights. Together, we believe our platform and pipeline creates a business model that offers investors exposure to a rich diversified portfolio anchored by the potential for product-linked cash flows. We believe that our ability to partner assets currently under development as well as future R&D candidates, especially in our…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Andrew Berens from Leerink Partners.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

This is Emily on for Andy. With the HERIZON-GEA readout coming up, I'm wondering if PD-L1 status be broken out for the triplet for arm C in the top line? Or will this come later on? And then I'm also curious if you could provide any color on how much of the Zyme $525 million regulatory milestone is weighted towards GEA versus other indications?

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

Yes. Thanks, Emily, for both questions. I think what data is included in the top line press release is going to be up to both Jazz and BeOne since they're the sponsor and cosponsor of the study. So we'll leave that for them to decide what might come in a top line release versus what might be safe for a conference proceeding. For the second question, we have $500 million left in development milestones in our agreement with Jazz, having received $25 million for the approval of BTC. And we've not provided any guidance around when that -- what that $500 million will be allocated to. But I think as we earn those payments, we'll obviously find out the magnitude of those around each of the GEA milestone as well as the other indications.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Charles Zhu from LifeSci Capital.

Charles Yue-Wen Zhu

Analyst

On the broad progress and I fully understand we're heavily anticipating the Phase III HERIZON-GEA study results coming up shortly. But I had 2 questions on some of your in-house pipeline assets, if you don't mind. Maybe the first one is from a clinical positioning and capital allocation perspective, how similar or better does ZW191 need to be relative to other topoisomerase-based ADCs targeting FR alpha or other potentially overlapping targets in similar indications like CDH6 for you to continue the development of this program? And maybe the second one, Paul, I picked up some of your comments on really being mindful of liver impairment and tolerability for ZW251 in liver cancer patients. I guess, along that vein, to what degree are you looking to also evaluate this asset beyond -- in patients beyond where some of our more potent options have focused on, whether it's like Child-Pugh class B or even potentially class C patients? How are you thinking about those?

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

Yes. Let me take the first one, Charles, and I'll pass on to Paul for the second one. I think when we look at ZW191, we learned a lot from development of our first medicine, zanidatamab, which has gone from us discovering it right through to approval and now launch. And again, remember in the HER2 space with zanidatamab developed, there were established brands with Herceptin and Perjeta and Kadcyla. There were other entrants which are looking to move the innovation needle like us, including with T-DXd and other ADC format. We really focused on trying to do something that was a very novel mechanism, create a novel biological approach, which we certainly did with zanidatamab, which is still the only approved bispecific approach in the HER2 space and really the only one that's been validated in any sense by any clinical data. And obviously, there, we learned a lot about having good activity, but also having a tolerability profile that allows combinations to occur more readily and looking at the benefit of those combinations. We didn't expect to have the whole market ourselves. We didn't expect to be first or the primary choice in every indication in a broad set of potential tumor types. But I think if you look at where zanidatamab ended up with competing with established brands, other competitors entering the market before you, other innovators coming along, we're still going to be able to create what we think is a differentiated asset, which has a commercial potential of several billion dollars peak sales per year. So we learned a lot about that. With ZW191, we think there's room to move innovation further when we look at ADCs, both in gynecological and non-small cell lung cancer. And so that's really interesting for us to think about…

Paul A. Moore

Analyst

Yes. Thanks, Charles. Yes, as you -- as I indicated and as you're aware, we have to think carefully with diseases like hepatocellular carcinoma and liver capacity. In our design thinking of the molecule and the payload, we really have spent a lot of time thinking about tolerability in general for our ADCs. That's then reflected in the real high tolerability in the preclinical models I mentioned. So for -- in particular, for 251, we have maximum tolerated dose of 120 mg per kg in primate. So that sort of gives you one lens into the tolerability. And we think what that then provides us is bandwidth as we take that molecule into the clinic. I can't say too much about 191, but so far, that's holding. Our hypothesis is holding. So I think when we go into HCC, we'll be systematic in our study. We'll push forward in a disease subset of patients that we think are the most appropriate. And then as we get the data, we'll analyze and see how far we can go within that patient population and then also think about the ability to move up in line in combination. So that's also very much in our thinking as we think about a particular disease indication and applicability of a molecule. But certainly, we're encouraged by the tolerability profile while not impacting the efficacy, as I showed in the preclinical profile in various HCC models.

Charles Yue-Wen Zhu

Analyst

Congrats again on the progress.

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

Thanks Charles.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Yaron Werber from TD Cowen.

Yaron Benjamin Werber

Analyst

Congrats on the quarter. A couple from me. I want to follow up on 191. Generally, when can we start to think about data from the Phase I trial? And then I see that in your product design, you have expansion cohorts also in non-small cell. What do you know about the expression of FR alpha in non-small cell lung cancer? And how would you characterize that opportunity?

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

Yes, I'll take the first one and I'll let Paul take the expression question. But obviously, we're 9 to 10 months into the start of the dose escalation studies for both 191 and 171. And obviously, with AC, you can tend to get an easier read on where you're going. So we're -- we've gone very well so far. I think we will look for opportunities to present that data once we think we have something interesting to share, once we have our investigators agree with us on that and as we find an opportunity to submit and have an abstract accepted at a peer review meeting, then we're still looking for those potential possibilities, which could be in 2025, if not in 2026. We said before that any data we present will be at a peer review meeting, you have to get the right format. And also that obviously, that means timing related to having an abstract accepted for that basis. And we won't provide further guidance on that until you see an abstract title accepted or a late-breaking abstract published for presentation. You'll just have to wait on that. But we're obviously intrigued with 191 with the first 9 months of dosing. There's more to explore. But again, we'll look for an appropriate opportunity with our investigators to share data, at least initial data along the way. Paul, you want to answer the second question on expression?

Paul A. Moore

Analyst

Yes. Yes. So the question about expression in non-small cell lung cancer. And we've done analysis ourselves of looking at that by IHC and consistent with what's been published, we do see a subset of patients in non-small cell lung cancer with folate receptor expression. So that encourages us to move forward in that indication. And I think as well, when you think about the design of our molecule, we were careful to pick an antibody. It was very efficient at internalization. We think that will aid in the therapeutic profile and potential of the molecule. It was amongst the strongest payload delivery. And then also, we alluded to the selection of our payload and it was very important the way we designed that and selected that payload that also has bystander activity that we think also helps overcome tumor -- expression target expression is heterogeneous. So with that profile, we feel that non-small cell lung cancer is underserved and could benefit from us evaluating 191 there.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Stephen Willey from Stifel.

Stephen Douglas Willey

Analyst

I'm not sure if Paul, Sabeen or Ken want to take this. But I was just wondering if you'd be willing to offer your thoughts on the pasritamig data that was presented at ASCO. Obviously, very well tolerated, not a whole lot of CRS, a good median rPFS at the recommended Phase II dose. But the PSA50 rates, I guess, are lower relative to what we've seen with other PSMA targeting bispecifics. I think the patient population appeared to be a bit curated with respect to visceral and liver met. So just kind of curious as to what you think is happening here and kind of what's driving the uniqueness of this molecule? Is it the format? Is it the target? I guess any thoughts would be helpful.

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

Yes, sure. Thank you. I'll let Paul provide a little comment. Even though J&J's innovative medicines molecule, we -- obviously we're involved in the program and have a financial interest. So we follow very closely, and we're really excited about what they've been able to build there with our Azymetric platform with the same way we build our own agents. But I'll let Paul talk a little bit about his observations around the data.

Paul A. Moore

Analyst

Yes. No, yes, Stephen, I mean, we are aware of what was been published and what was presented and J&J did publish their observations as well. So from our perspective -- from my perspective, I think the selection of the target is really important there. I think that target seems to be able to support a much better therapeutic window and tolerability profile. We know from T cell engagers, the challenges with targets that are expressed in the tumor, but also have some expression elsewhere. And I think that there's not finding that target is, there's challenges with that. And I think the KLK2 seems to have that profile. So the tolerability is quite remarkable, the dose that they've gone up to with their molecule. And I think that then supports then this exciting profile where they have a very manageable drug that they then see as the opportunity and combined with other therapies to really push forward the efficacy profile. So we see that as exciting. It's kind of somewhat not that surprising if you think about it in the selection of that target, but then you may need some additional -- let's see how the data provide. This is just pure personal commentary. Let's see how that develops. But you can see that they're quite excited about the combination with different modalities. And I think that's what a T cell engager offers you is that ability to then combine with other complementary mechanisms to really get an even better response profile.

Stephen Douglas Willey

Analyst

And is there any overlap with respect to the CD3 variant that's used in that molecule and the one that's used on 171 just in terms of affinity?

Paul A. Moore

Analyst

Yes. I'm not sure I can say too much about that, Stephen. Certainly, we thought about the affinities for different targets. And I think we went with a low affinity CD3 in the case of mesothelin, we felt that, that was the right play. But for other targets that you could consider different affinity CD3s because they have a different normal tissue profile. I think that affords you that opportunity. So I wouldn't -- I think that's really the biology can really drive your selection there rather than just assuming what works for one target works for another target.

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

If you think about ZW209 [ indiscernible ] target. The affinity on the CD3 on that for IHC is different than 171.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Brian Cheng from JPMorgan.

Lut Ming Cheng

Analyst

Maybe just looking at the details of the dose escalation for 171, your mesothelin program. Can you give us a better sense of just how the dose escalation schedule is determined? Specifically, when we look at the dose level 1, it seems that you have characterized 4.2 mg and also 38 mg in dose level 1. So should we assume that 4.2 mg as the dose level 1, the low end of the dose range and then 38 mg as the high end of the dosing range?

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

Yes. Thanks, Brian. I'll let Paul answer that.

Paul A. Moore

Analyst

Yes. I can answer that and Sabeen can feel free to add as well. But no, when we talk about -- when we look at that, Brian, what we mean by dose level, it's really the target dose is 38 micrograms. So when we think of dose level 1, we're stepping up to that target dose. So we kind of more think that the target dose of dose level 1 is 38 micrograms. Does that clarify?

Lut Ming Cheng

Analyst

Yes, yes.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Akash Tewari from Jefferies.

Phoebe Tan

Analyst

This is Phoebe on for Akash. We were wondering about your view on the HERIZON-GEA-01 readout being delayed to Q4 '25 and how it affects your confidence on the data? And what could be reasons behind the delay?

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

No, thanks for the question. Again, Akash using the word delay twice again as you did this conference. We don't see it as a delay. I think the prior guidance from Jazz was given as their best estimate second half of 2025. And now they -- given where we are in August, they've re-guided that to give the guidance of Q4 2025, which is still within the balance of the second half. I think as we explained before, we don't see it's a delay, it's obviously an events-driven trial, and they're trying to give guidance around blind event data, which they have access to. It's an open-label study. So it's important to protect the integrity of the data set, obviously, until we're ready to unblind the study after the specific number of events that are necessary to do that. So we don't see any delay in that basis. Obviously, the study has been recruited some time ago, but it's fully recruited and being followed and as soon as the number of events that are required to trigger the data readout are done, then that will occur and it's still happening within the second half of 2025, but it will happen in Q4 according to the guidance given by Jazz yesterday and repeated by -- sorry, 2 days ago and repeated by BeOne yesterday.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Yigal Nochomovitz from Citigroup.

Yigal Dov Nochomovitz

Analyst

Two questions on relevant topics, one on supply chain and one on drug development using new technologies such as AI. I know you have a long lead time to get to market for the new wave of products, which puts you in a fortunate position in terms of being able to plan. So what can you say about how you're doing scenario planning on the supply chain to potentially address some of the questions around domestic manufacturing that are obviously important. And then on the topic of AI, I'm curious how much is going on at the early discovery for yet-to-be launched programs where you're doing AI for protein design and things of that nature?

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

Yes. Thanks for the question, Yigal. With respect to zanidatamab commercially, both Jazz and BeOne have direct responsibility now for supply of zanidatamab. And with respect to tislei, obviously, BeiGene has that already with respect to U.S. commercial supply. So we feel very comfortable with the steps they've taken to protect the current commercial efforts and obviously, hopefully, an upcoming launch for GEA in the U.S. So we feel very comfortable with the steps we've taken to protect the supply chain and be able to supplement it where necessary with the domestic manufacturer if required. So I'm not concerned there, and you can talk to Jazz and BeiGene directly about that. With respect to our other compounds, obviously, we're very early in clinical development or late in preclinical development. So lots of opportunities for us to understand how to deal with any new regulations which might be in place as those approach commercialization. So we feel very comfortable where we are with zanidatamab. With respect to AI, obviously, Zymeworks started as a computational platform and a computational biology company. So we've been doing AI long before who's ever called AI and the way we think about engineering and developing complex biologics, but I'll let Paul talk a little bit more about that.

Paul A. Moore

Analyst

Yes. No, thanks for asking that question. And as Ken mentioned, it's kind of in the roots of protein engineering at Zymeworks, and we still have that kind of theme that's based in our design and our thinking about molecules that how do you make the best molecule? How do you get to that sort of needle in a haystack sometimes that you need to get to, to get the right -- the really thing that you want to develop and whether that's from target binding or giving you the diversity, we can then -- we have the luxury of then being able to screen different molecules through the screening capacity of Azymetric. So we do use that. I mean we apply it, and we're keeping aware of the capability externally as well that we can tap into those and collaborations. So it is very much in our fore thought as we tackle particularly in the multispecifics and we think about how best to combine different binders or the ultimate sort of profile or biophysical properties that you want, that can really lend itself to AI strategies.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Jon Miller from Evercore.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Congrats on the print. This is J.P. for Jon. I have 2 questions. On 1528, recent posters show longer half-life and today, you're showing better inhibition. So how do you expect the differentiation in profound humans be driven between bispecific design versus long half- life? And then on 251, how do you expect to proceed on dosing? Are you going to start a very conservative dosing? Or do you think you can get more aggressively to higher doses to show signs of efficacy?

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

Yes. I'll let Paul take the 1528 question and then ask Sabeen to talk about 251 dosing.

Paul A. Moore

Analyst

Yes. So yes, I think well spotted. We didn't mention the half-life extension that we incorporated into 1528 today. We -- but that is definitely a feature that we think is important as we think about dosing strategy, and we will evaluate that in the clinic. We'll have various pharmacodynamic readouts that will allow us to support our thinking on the half-life. But that is a good point to highlight that we have incorporated YTE mutation. I think then on the biology, I mean, we see really the desire -- the thinking here is that there's mixed immune contributions in COPD. IL-4 is obviously clinically validated. IL-33 also clinically validated to a degree. What we believe is by covering both of those pathways that we can get benefit that you -- that's beyond what you can achieve by just one. And that there -- our preclinical data suggests that we have that feature. And then in some of the actual models, what we're looking at is that we can also recapitulate. We can see that in COPD patients, samples ex vivo. So we do those types of studies to sort of confirm the contribution and the design of the molecule works. And then also, we've got some encouraging data to suggest that maybe we're going to get activity beyond what we can get with combinations. That suggests that mechanistically, we're doing something different with our molecule, either how we anchor on IL-4 or how [ we hold ] inhibit IL-4 receptor and IL-33, that's giving us an additional mechanistic advantage that we'll then see how that plays out when we go into the clinic.

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

And maybe, Sabeen can you talk about the second part? Obviously, we've just cleared our IND, so we've had a chance to have discussion with regulators on this. But I don't know, Sabeen, anything you want to add on the 251 dosing approach?

Sabeen Mekan

Analyst

Absolutely. First, we're excited to get our second ADC 251 into the clinic. With regards to its first-in-human dosing, as Paul pointed out earlier, we are very confident about the safety of this molecule from a preclinical perspective. And also now we have experience with this linker payload 519 based on the data that we're seeing from 191. So we can afford to be a little less conservative with our starting dose. Obviously, we will reveal the exact doses later as we reveal more information about the trial. But we're confident in proceeding with being somewhat less conservative with 251 as we proceed into the clinic. And we're excited to show good safety given its preclinical safety profile and tolerability and the effect that we've seen in patients with hepatocellular cancer.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Derek Archila from Wells Fargo.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

This is [ Simone ] on for Derek. Congrats on the progress. Just one question. Do you expect 1528 to move as quickly as 171, 191 and 251? And if you do choose to partner any of your in-house programs, is there a specific one that you prioritize partnering on first?

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

Yes. I think right now, I think what we've shown for 171 and 191, and we're going to start to show that again, I think with 251 is the ability to work quickly on ideas that we have preclinically and it translates in quickly in the clinical studies and to be able to execute these Phase I programs at a very fast pace. And so we would expect the 1528 would be no different than that. With respect to partnering prioritization, obviously, we have 6 compounds with 6 different products that we nominated, including ZW220, which is IND-ready. We would expect that in order to be competitive with any of those agents and to take them through further clinical development to market, we would need partners to come along with us, join us along the way somewhere. So we have open partnering discussions on all 6 of those molecules. In addition to that, we're building our next wave of compounds through advance. And rather than moving all of that into clinical studies ourselves as we did with the top 6, we're certainly interested in having discussions around partners joining us at a very early stage to build maybe a number of molecules with us in a broader collaboration. And both of those are attractive. And I think we won't try and prioritization around those. We're open to discussions around the entire portfolio, and we'll see at what point partners would like to join us along the way in all of those efforts in the top 6 and the advanced portfolio.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from Mayank Mamtani from B. Riley Securities.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Congrats on the progress. This is Gaurav on for Mayank. Regarding your ADC candidate, ZW191, do we expect any data at any upcoming fall conferences like ESMO? And how much of the dose escalation data believe of the 6 dose level you plan to evaluate, you expect to have accumulated at the cutoff point?

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

No. Thanks for the question. And I think I tried to answer this earlier. We're very excited where we are with ZW191. And I think we're looking for an opportunity to share what we've learned so far in our initial Phase I study. And I think we'll be talking to our investigators about the appropriate time to do that. And obviously, we said we'll do it at a peer review medical meeting. So I think as soon as we decided with our investigators that we have enough data to present because it's of interest to us, and we want to share it in a peer review format, then we'll take the appropriate steps to submit and hopefully get accepted an abstract at a regular late breaking for a conference. We won't indicate when that might be or won't give any guidance to that until you see a title announced or a late breaker abstract presented. So we'll have to wait just rather to do that than any specific early guidance, you have to wait for that to occur, but we're certainly at a stage in 191 where we find what we're doing very interesting. It's still early. We're still exploring continued patient enrollment, but it is possible that we'll have some data to share in 2025, if not, an early opportunity in 2026 is possible.

Operator

Operator

I am showing no further questions at this time. I will now turn it back to Ken Galbraith for closing remarks.

Kenneth H. Galbraith

Analyst

That's great. Thank you, operator. Thanks, everyone, for listening to our call today and for the questions that you provided to us in the Q&A session. Obviously, it's about 4 years ago that we started working seriously on moving zanidatamab into the Phase III clinical trial in GEA because we felt we had a molecule that could really help patients in this therapeutic category. And we're anticipating the outcome of HERIZON-GEA-01 as much as our investors are, and we look forward to being able to present those results with our partner, Jazz and BeOne in a top line basis in Q4 2025 as guided. In the meantime, we'll make more progress in the portfolio and look forward to reporting on that in the months ahead with you. So thank you very much for your time and attention everyone, have a great rest of your summer. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program. You may now disconnect.