BeOne Medicines AG (ONC) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

July 18, 2023

NASDAQ US Health Care Biotechnology special 128 min

Earnings Call Speaker Segments

Julia Wang

executive
#1

Hello, everyone. Welcome to BeiGene's Investor Day to highlight our progress in research and development. My name is Julia Wang, and I am the Chief Financial Officer at BeiGene. We are very excited to host this event, both in person in New York City and online. Thank you very much for joining us today. This is truly an exciting time for BeiGene as a global, truly integrated and commercial-stage oncology company. We have reached a meaningful scale and are well positioned with strong momentum to continue the acceleration of our business growth and patient impact. Before we begin, please be aware that during today's event, we will be making forward-looking statements, and our business carries certain risks. You can find more information in our filings with the SEC, Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange. Joining me today to present are John Oyler, our Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO; Dr. Lai Wang, Global Head of R&D; Dr. Mehrdad Mobasher, Chief Medical Officer, Hematology; and Dr. Mark Lanasa, Chief Medical Officer, Solid Tumors. We have a full agenda lined up for you today. John will kick it off and walk you through our path to global oncology leadership. Lai will share with you our approach for delivering impactful oncology innovations. Mehrdad will walk you through accelerating our leadership in hematology. Mark will further discuss our broad and evolving solid tumor portfolio. Lastly, Lai will take you through our prolific research pipeline and the next wave of new programs and assets. After the presentations, we will host a Q&A session. The presenters will be joined by Josh Neiman, Chief Commercial Officer for North America and Europe; and Dr. Christiane Langer, Senior VP for Global Medical Affairs at China. As you might have followed our progress over the last few years, we have significantly accelerated our progress and growth. Today, the BeiGene story is no longer about the company that will be, but rather it's about the impactful company that we have already become with an even brighter future ahead. Specifically speaking, we are 10,000 people strong with top tenants operating on 5 continents. We have clearly built speed and cost advantages with the internalized global clinical development capabilities and have initiated over 140 clinical trials in 48 countries and regions. We are also building global manufacturing capability to support our clinical development and commercialization, including our biologic manufacturing site in Princeton, New Jersey that is not far from here. [indiscernible], our financial trajectory and operating leverage have also been very strong. For perspective, last year, our total product revenue reached almost $1.3 billion doubled versus the year before, and the top line growth was 5x as fast as the [indiscernible] growth. This trend continued into the first quarter of this year. Going forward, we expect continued robust top line growth and strong operating leverage, further supporting our reinvestment for long-term growth, including into R&D. Throughout today's presentations, we look forward to detailing for you our innovations that are grounded in differentiated science and unmet patient need, while leveraging our global scale and the internal capabilities with clear speed and cost advantages. With that, now I'd like to introduce John Oyler, our Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO. Hi, John.

John Oyler

executive
#2

Thanks so much, Julia. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. Thanks for joining our R&D Day today. I'm really excited to share with everyone the great progress that BeiGene has made. Today, I want to talk about our path to oncology leadership, as Julia said. And I think what most defines BeiGene's path is really our vision. Thirteen years ago, Xiaodong and I founded BeiGene. At this time, only 1/6 of the world had access to latest oncology medicines. And here in the United States, 3 out of 8 cancer patients were unable to afford their co-pays. To us, this was simply unacceptable. We believe strongly in the science and its ability to have huge impact, but we were determined to change the business model to be able to bring medicine more affordably to cancer patients here and around the world. To achieve our goal, we knew that we needed to approach almost everything differently, and we have. We'll talk about it later, but I think the single biggest lever to doing this is reducing clinical trial cost. Clinical trial costs can account for 75% to 90% of all costs of a medicine brought to a patient. We set out to dramatically change this. Today, BeiGene has begun to realize this vision. We have several approved medicines and we're providing innovative medicine today to over 800,000 patients worldwide. And I want to let everyone know, this is just the very beginning. To achieve our mission, we knew we had to do things differently, and we set out to build 5 important competitive advantages. The first advantage was around our research. Research and science are at the heart of who we are. Our team is one of the largest in the industry with 1,100 highly productive scientists. We've demonstrated our excellence across a broad spectrum of modalities. Nearly half the programs that we're working on have first-in-class potential. To date, we've received more than $1.4 billion in collaboration revenues. This is over 2.5x our cumulative spend for research to date. So already, our research is a profit center. Secondly is our clinical development. This is critical and central to the success of developing affordable medicines. We built a team that's fully integrated, it's CRO-free, which is highly unusual and it's highly productive. It's global. This team includes over 3,000 colleagues across 48 regions, and it's growing. We've run more than 120 clinical trials in-house, and we have over 21,000 subjects enrolled in our studies, and we're cost and time advantaged. Our goal is none other than to be the absolute leading oncology development organization in the world. Our third competitive advantage is our global commercial footprint. We have approximately 3,500 colleagues worldwide, and our commercial revenue was up 60% in the first quarter of this year over the fourth quarter -- first quarter of the previous year. Our fourth competitive advantage, of course, is our pipeline. We have great cornerstone medicines in BRUKINSA and Tisle. Both have only begun to scratch the surface of their significant global potential. And BRUKINSA has now improved in over 65 markets. Lastly, and probably the least understood, we have tremendous manufacturing capabilities. This offers us additional speed, cost and flexibility advantages. I'd like to highlight our 700 million-plus biologics manufacturing, late-stage research and clinical development facility that Julia mentioned, which is in Princeton, New Jersey. As of today, we have capacity that's 55,000 liters of biologics manufacturing. We expect this to grow to 74,000 liters next year, and it can easily be expanded up to 200,000. We also have small molecule production capabilities with our capacity reaching 600 million capsules or tablets annually by the end of this year. And among our peers, we're one of the few full ADC manufacturing capabilities across all steps of the process. This provides us additional advantages in this exciting new area, which is internally valuable to us, but also makes us an extremely attractive partner for ADC programs globally. And we have the entire ability to do this in-house. It's quite rare. Each of these is a clear sustainable competitive advantage. Together, they enable us to innovate with speed and quality at lower cost, which allows us to better serve more patients all around the world. With that in mind, I want to leave you in my opening with these thoughts. First, BeiGene has built one of the largest, most productive and efficient oncology research teams in the industry and our internal clinical development capabilities, which are extremely hard to build are cost and time advantaged. The size of our R&D team today exceeds that of many larger companies and is incredibly productive. It's more productive than most others. By way of reference, our oncology R&D team size is close to that size of Regeneron's entire R&D team across all indications and it's actually substantially larger than the oncology teams at either Seagen or [indiscernible]. Secondly, we have the broadest reach of global clinical trials. Over the past 6 years, we've become a leading oncology Phase III clinical trial sponsor. We've surpassed several excellent large pharmaceutical companies, such as Pfizer, AbbVie and Lilly, we've actually completed 16 oncology Phase III trials in this time period. In running these trials by our estimate, our clinical trial cost per patient advantage has now been proven to be more than 30% lower than the industry average. Third, the team is productive. We have an innovative pipeline of oncology medicines with 23 development programs and more than 60 discovery programs. From 2020 to 2022, we brought more oncology molecules into the clinic than several of our large pharmaceutical company peers. This includes the impressive oncology teams from AstraZeneca, Merck and Janssen. Looking forward, we expect to bring more than 15 molecules into the clinic over the next 18 months. This rate could easily make us one of the leading companies in the industry. Most important, these programs are not just large a number. They're very compelling programs. They address unmet medical need and they have met a very high hurdle to move forward within our company. My last point I want to make, is really about the leadership position that we've built in hematology and where we're going in solid tumors. We now have 3 impressive post-PoC programs in hematology. We've already developed 1 best-in-class heme medicine, BRUKINSA and we're developing 2 others that you're going to hear a lot about today. We've also showed today that we've built a very strong foundation of highly compelling programs with the potential to establish a similar leadership position over time in several other important solid tumor areas in the upcoming years. With that, I'd like to introduce our Global Head of R&D, Dr. Lai Wang, to take you through some of this. Thank you.

Wang Lai

executive
#3

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. As John talked about a moment ago, BeiGene has ambition to become the global leading oncology company. This needs to start with R&D. Over the past decade, BeiGene has built a large oncology-focused research team with now around 1,100 innovative scientists working in the lab, the major expansion happened in the last 3 to 4 years, which is translating [ into a burst ] of new molecules into the clinic. The team is on track to deliver 10 globally competitive new molecule entities a year to the clinic starting from 2024. Today, I will show you examples of the new competitive molecules discovered by the research team. I will demonstrate to you that this is not only one of the largest, but also one of the most productive research teams in the world. We believe the most clinical experiment in drug discovery is the clinical proof-of-concept study, which is also the value inflection point for a drug candidate. BeiGene strive to deliver clinical PoC faster with high quality and at a low cost. Our in-house manufacturing capability and the CRO-free clinical development model can reduce the overall cost by at least 1/3 and the shortening of the time line for preclinical candidate, PCC to clinical proof of concept for more than 6 months. With the success of the BRUKINSA, BeiGene has established our position in hematology oncology, especially in [ indolent ] B-cell malignancies. To complement and synergize with BRUKINSA, our scientists has invented 2 other highly impactful molecules, the BCL-2 inhibitor sonrotoclax and the BTK degrader BGB-11673. These molecules are also expanding BeiGene's portfolio into other heme malignancies, including AML, MDS and multiple myeloma and aggressive B-cell lymphoma. On the solid tumor side, BeiGene has gone beyond I-O. We have now built a deep pipeline of oncogenic signaling targeted therapies and the tumor-associated antigen, TAA-driven therapies to complement our strong I-O portfolio. I'm now going through the pipeline slides in details. We have a leading hematology pipeline with 3 important programs: a best-in-class BTK inhibitor with BRUKINSA, compelling efficacy and safety with sonrotoclax and the BTK degrader, BGB-11673 with proof of concept in clinic. Our broader and innovative solid tumor portfolio is growing rapidly, while expanding into additional tumor types with novel programs, including many targeted therapy on the late-stage side. Tislelizumab is leading the way with 9 positive Phase III readouts. For TIGIT, we are focusing on Phase III in [ first-line ] non-small cell lung cancer with [ high PD-L1 ] expression. There are 3 collaboration programs in late-stage development, including sitravatinib, a multi-kinase inhibitor in collaboration with Mirati; zanidatamab, a HER2 bispecific in collaboration with Zymeworks/Jazz; and Tarlatamab, a [ DLL3 ] CD3 bispecific antibody in collaboration with Amgen. In today's R&D section, there are 3 parts: first, our Heme CMO, Dr. Mehrdad Mobasher, will share with you [ new compelling ] data from our 3 key heme programs. Second, our Solid Tumors CMO, Dr. Mark Lanasa, will discuss the [ progress in ] as well as the evolution of our solid tumor portfolio. Finally, I will come back to discuss a few new exciting molecules [indiscernible] coming out of our research. Now I'm going to hand this over to Mehrdad to talk about our hematology portfolio. Mehrdad?

Mehrdad Mobasher

executive
#4

Thank you, Lai. Hi, everyone. I would also like to welcome you all to BeiGene's R&D Day today, and thank you for spending some time with us as I will be talking about our leading hematology pipeline. As we've also discussed before, we believe that we are well positioned to be a hematology leader in numerous indications with our current pipeline. We are here to show you our current foundation, what our near future direction is and where we are headed as a leader in developing medicines in many hematological malignancies. In summary, we have cemented BRUKINSA as a best-in-class BTK inhibitor in CLL, and preferred option based on superior data. We will solidify our leadership in CLL with other 2 assets, sonrotoclax, our BCL-2 inhibitor and our BTK CDAC, while we'll be amplifying our impact in other B-cell malignancies with progressive treatment strategies, including fixed duration or rational sequencing and expand our footprint into other hematological malignancies. With sonrotoclax, we will be developing in AML and MDS and multiple myeloma and our BTK CDAC, we can expand to high-grade lymphomas, including Richter's transformation and large B-cell lymphomas. We believe that we are an emerging global leader in hematology -- with our hematology pipeline of differentiated assets. Number one is BRUKINSA. We have shown superior and durable efficacy and safety across indications, including head-to-head studies. BRUKINSA has the broadest label among all BTK inhibitors with 4 indications that you see, CLL, mantle cell lymphoma, marginal zone lymphoma and Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia and is the first BTK inhibitor with compelling data in follicular lymphoma and now accepted filings in the United States and Europe. From the business side, BTK class is expected or projected to have $15 billion by 2028. Our BCL-2 inhibitor, sonrotoclax also has the chance to be a best-in-class. We have already enrolled more than 500 patients and have compelling data across different indications and different combinations. And based on these compelling data that we have collected, we are initiating a Phase III study in treatment naive CLL that I will talk about later and also fast to market strategies in Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia and mantle cell lymphoma. We will also develop this medicine in AML, MDS and multiple myeloma. Specifically, sonrotoclax has characteristics that can make it a best-in-class, give the potential for broad use in any practice. BCL-2 business opportunity is currently expected to be [ $4.5 ] billion by 2028, and that's despite the challenges that the current BCL-2 inhibitor has in practice. And last, we have utilized our expertise in BTK and approach to target with a novel mode of action and developed BGB-16673 with our CDAC platform. And this medicine, our BTK CDAC, is the first CDAC that has entered clinic. We have enrolled more than 50 patients in this program when we have already achieved the proof of concept based on encouraging clinical data that I will talk about later. We have a robust clinical development program, and we expect to start pivotal cohorts by next year. As a BTK degrader, this medicine has a potential in diseases like Richter's transformation and large B-cell lymphoma where BTK inhibitors don't have proven efficacy. We are starting our target population with BTK resistant patients. But again, given the potential of this specific mode of action has, we have the chance to broaden our target population. With that summary, I would like to focus on BRUKINSA, our BTK inhibitor that was designed to be best-in-class and now has demonstrated to be best-in-class with single arm and randomized trials and now has a broad set of indications around the world. We had a hypothesis and that was around sustained inhibition of our targets. Our scientists at BeiGene work on engineering and designing and rational dosing of a BTK inhibitor that exhibits high potency, kinase selectivity and bioavailability. And with that hypothesis, that's how we were working on reducing off-target toxicity and maintaining continuous BTK inhibition to increase efficacy. With that in mind, we took BRUKINSA to a large clinical development program and enrolled a lot of patients in 35 trials and have consistently shown good efficacy and superior safety. We have had 2 bold, what I call bold head-to-head studies including, the first one, ALPINE study in relapsed/refractory CLL that has shown superior PFS and safety that I'll talk a little bit about it later, and ASPEN trial in Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia. We have presented long-term follow-up of this study, and we show more durable and deeper responses with -- in ASPEN trial, which has made zanubrutinib or BRUKINSA as standard of care in this disease. We continue to expand our development programs with BRUKINSA with rational combinations, including our own assets, including sonrotoclax and several -- in several hematological malignancies. This slide shows a list of BRUKINSA pivotal trials that are ongoing across 5 different indications. Some of these studies, I have already read out and we have approvals based on those, including our CLL and as I mentioned, Waldenstrom and some are still ongoing, including the MANGROVE study in frontline CLL that's assessing BRUKINSA with rituximab, which is important because we just had the results of the SHINE study of ibrutinib plus chemotherapy and that ibrutinib lost their indication in mantle cell lymphoma because of increased toxicity when they were combined with chemotherapy, but we are combined with rituximab and in early studies, we saw good safety. And of course, we are now entering follicular lymphoma. PFS analysis from ALPINE study showing PFS superiority was presented last year at ASH 2022 as a late-breaker abstract given the importance and the impact of these data. We were not surprised when we saw these curves as we had confidence in this molecule all the way to the way that the molecule was designed based on our hypothesis. This Kaplan-Meier curve that we showed at ASH was with a median follow-up of 29.6 months, which is a very meaningful follow-up in relapsed/refractory CLL. Today, I'm announcing that we have continued our study, and we will submit an abstract to upcoming ASH meeting with a longer follow-up and based on incoming data, we are confident that separation of these Kaplan-Meier curves will continue similarly and the impact of PFS is sustained now with 3-year follow-up. We were particularly interested in a high-risk population or a high-risk subset of CLL with deletion of 17p or TP53 mutation as these patients are known to have poor prognosis, and we -- where we see the impressive PFS superiority of BRUKINSA versus ibrutinib with risk of progression or death decreased by almost 50%. We usually discourage cross-trial comparisons. But since there are a lot of interest in knowing how BRUKINSA behaves versus acalabrutinib, I think this curve is a good curve to look at, and we can compare it with a curve that acala has shown in ELEVATE-RR, but the study population limited to 17p deletion population. They have published that curve in their supplementary publication. And there are 2 important things to see there. One is that the ibrutinib arm of ELEVATE-RR is exactly the same as how you see ibrutinib in this study. And the second thing is their hazard ratio when they compared ibrutinib versus acalabrutinib, the hazard ratio was 1, and they only showed noninferiority. And here, you see the superiority of BRUKINSA. In ALPINE study, zanubrutinib or BRUKINSA was more tolerable than ibrutinib and more patients in the ibrutinib arm had treatment discontinuation and treatment dose reduction. However, that is not the reason for our PFS superiority unlike what you might hear from some of our competitors. What we did was that we did several [ safety, efficacy, ] sensitivity analysis and we factor in all those safety issues, as you can see, including accounting for treatment discontinuation or drug interruption. And you see consistently, PFS is superior with BRUKINSA. That shows that our superiority of PFS consistent with the overall population is a true PFS superiority and has nothing to do with tolerability of our medicine. Important safety finding in ALPINE was BRUKINSA's favorable cardiac safety profile that we showed at ASH, and we presented in New England Journal of Medicine. Most importantly, there was no [ death to ] cardiac events with BRUKINSA. Again, we have followed this study longer and with a longer follow-up safety data that will also be presented to ASH and based on the incoming data, we are confident that the cardiac safety profile of BRUKINSA will be similarly favorable. Another way that we looked at the safety data of BRUKINSA among -- in our entire program is what we call it EAIR or exposure-adjusted incidence rate, which is a method that factors in exposure time and can provide incidents over a fixed period of time to enable comparisons. As I mentioned, ibrutinib was sometimes discontinued or sometimes shorter duration and some of the BRUKINSA patients remained on treatment longer and we wanted to see over a set fixed period of time, how do they compare? And as you can see in this graph that I'm not going to go through all the details, both in terms of hypertension and atrial fibrillation, BRUKINSA has less hypertension and less atrial fibrillation when compared to ibrutinib. And in fact, for the atrial fibrillation, the difference even statistically significant, as you can see, a p-value associated with it. BRUKINSA has shown consistent impressive efficacy across all indications and has shown superior to alternative therapy. This also includes follicular lymphoma. And based on ROSEWOOD study, we are now the one and only BTK inhibitor that has an sNDA accepted by the U.S. FDA as we just recently announced and previously accepted by EMA. You see here the long follow-up of the ROSEWOOD study that we just presented at the ICML conference, and you can see that the median follow-up of 20 months, the primary endpoints of overall response rate and CR are both clinically and statistically superior when you compare BRUKINSA plus obinutuzumab versus obinutuzumab. And you also see the curve for the duration of response as assessed by IRC, that's clearly superior in the BRUKINSA plus obinutuzumab arm. And we are very excited about this data and potentially giving this treatment to patients with follicular lymphoma. So to summarize, BRUKINSA superiority is core to our hematology franchise right now. In treatment naive CLL, we had data from SEQUOIA trial that led to approval in treatment naive. We just showed this data -- longer follow-up of this data this summer and has been listed as NCCN Category 1. We have conducted 2 head-to-head trials that I talked about in relapsed/refractory CLL, and we are excited that we will send a follow-up data from this study to ASH this year, and of course, Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia. In other indications, we have consistent superior safety and efficacy data that has led to Accelerated Approvals. We have ongoing pivotal studies to convert and expand our label in mantle cell and marginal zone, as I mentioned, and we're seeking approval in follicular lymphoma based on positive pivotal data from ROSEWOOD, and we also have a Phase III study in that. BRUKINSA is central to our future clinical development in several indications as now we have medicines that can be combined, including sonrotoclax and improve outcome of patients with B-cell malignancies. With that, I want to focus on sonrotoclax that used to be called BGB-11417, which is our novel BCL-2 inhibitor that also has the potential to be best-in-class. The story of sonrotoclax is very similar to what I -- how I described BRUKINSA. So -- again, our scientists at BeiGene specifically designed a molecule with characteristics that can lead to its being best-in-class. So specifically, sonrotoclax is more potent than the current available BCL-2 inhibitor, venetoclax. In preclinical models, we have seen superiority in BCL-2 wild-type and specifically impressive activity in venetoclax resistance models. It is selected against BCL-2 only and not the other members of BCL-2 family, and this can be important in tolerability of this drug. As I mentioned, it has characteristics that can potentially enable broader use among all health care providers. Specifically, venetoclax has a very long half-life of 26 hours and also accumulates in peripheral blood. That leads to the very known and important risk of tumor lysis syndrome with venetoclax. And that's why in patients who receive venetoclax, they need labor-intensive lab checks at baseline, late hours of 8, end of the day, the next day, and the ramp-up is slow. Sonrotoclax on the other hand has a shorter half-life of 5 hours and doesn't accumulate in the peripheral blood. And that has enabled us to aggressively work on shorter ramp-up and less blood checks, particularly those late-hour blood checks are not going to be necessary. And so this can be used by all physicians, whether they're in community or academic practice. We have already treated more than 500 patients in trials with sonrotoclax across different indications and combinations. And we are consistently seeing deep and durable responses, which speaks to the potency of this drug. Importantly, combinations, including combination with BRUKINSA in CLL has been very safe and tolerable and induces deep responses. As a leader in B-cell malignancies, we believe that sonrotoclax strengthens our leadership position in these B-cell malignancies. We have already designed and planning on starting a Phase III registrational study in CLL, testing a fixed duration of sonrotoclax plus BRUKINSA that I'll talk about a little bit later. We also have potential registrational opportunities in post-BTKi indications. So patients will receive BRUKINSA and then after that, they can get sonrotoclax. And these include Phase IIs in mantle cell lymphoma that is currently enrolling a Phase II study in relapsed/refractory CLL in China, and these are indications that venetoclax currently doesn't have and also an unmet population in Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia. We are developing sonrotoclax in AML, MDS, both in combinations and multiple myeloma in combinations, and that will expand our hematology lead position outside B-cell malignancies. And it's important to note that venetoclax currently doesn't have an indication in multiple myeloma and MDS yet. We have an extensive global development program with sonrotoclax with many studies within this drug -- [ for this ] drug. I'll briefly talk about some of them. On the top, you see our study with B-cell malignancies. I'll talk a little bit more about this study, and I'll present some new and compelling data that has enabled us design our Phase III study. Below that, you see a study in multiple myeloma, patients with translocation (11;14). Today, I'll present some new data from this study in combination with dexamethasone. Below that, you see our study in myeloid malignancies, and we specifically presented some data at ASH 2022, and we showed even at the lowest dose of 40 milligrams, we had complete remissions that were durable that gives us a lot of confidence about future of this medicine in acute myeloid leukemia and also MDS. I've listed the pivotal studies that I talked about in red, and I'll talk about a couple of them later. We had a comprehensive design for this first-in-human study. We have one study globally that we call it 101 study specifically in China for dose-finding in Chinese population as is required by the health authority in China. This comprehensive study that I'm not going to go through all the details was designed to answer many important questions, including in CLL. We want to find our dose, optimize our dose. We want to find the most optimal ramp-up, as I was discussed before, that is very important and the best rational combination. And I think we have achieved all of those. We have determined a recommended Phase II dose, and we have done a comprehensive dose optimization with the 320-milligram dose and the dose below that, which is 160 milligram to fulfill the requirements that the FDA and other health authorities have from us. So today, I'm showing new efficacy data from the CLL part with sonrotoclax. We started enrolling patients in this study with relapsed/refractory monotherapy, then relapsed/refractory combination [ with ] sonrotoclax and then combination of sonrotoclax and BRUKINSA in frontline CLL. And I want you to look at the overall response rate in the treatment-naive population, which is 100%. So every single patient that was treated with this combination had a response. I also want you to look at the high rates of complete remission, CRs. CR is a meaningful endpoint in CLL and is known to correlate with outcome. And I want you to look at the relapsed/refractory cohort because this cohort was started before that treatment naive and has a longer follow-up. And the CR rate is impressive at 44%. We know that longer treatment with BCL-2 inhibition deepens the response, and we are confident that our responses will be around the same or higher in treatment-naive CLL as we continue this cohort as well. More important than CR in illustrating deep responses in CLL is eradication of minimal residual disease. Undetectable MRD is known as a very important endpoint in CLL, we call it a surrogate endpoint. And we know that it correlates directly with PFS and even overall survival. Here, I show the rate of undetectable MRD in treatment-naive patients at the dose of that 320 milligram, which is a recommended dose and the dose below that, the 160-milligram dose. You see the rate of undetectable MRD at 320 milligram, a recommended Phase II dose is 65%. And as I mentioned, the 160-milligram dose was started before 320. And we looked at the patients who have reached a 12-month landmark, which was -- because that was the landmark that we were interested for a fixed duration treatment and the MRD negativity in that population is 69%. We know that undetectable MRD rate increases with increased dose, and we also see that those MRD negativities are coming sooner in our dose with 320 milligram. All giving us confidence in the dose of 320 milligram than the overall future of this combination at the 320 milligram in treatment-naive patients. This is the PFS curve. And looking at PFS, which is the gold standard endpoint in CLL, PFS is 100% among all patients that were treated with 160 milligram and 320 milligrams in treatment-naive patients. You see that we enrolled 94 patients that were evaluable for this assessment in treatment naive and not a single patient had progression on this treatment so far. I'm acknowledging that some of the durations -- follow-up is short in -- particularly in 320 milligram, but this gives us a lot of confidence. About safety, monotherapy with sonrotoclax and combination, both in relapsed/refractory and treatment naive has been safe and tolerable. We have enrolled about 100 patients in treatment naive in this combination that you can see [indiscernible] relapsed/refractory. It's important to see specifically, we have no report of tumor lysis syndrome. And it's also important to know the similar combination of a BCL-2 inhibitor and BTK inhibitor, it is venetoclax plus ibrutinib. It does not have a label in the United States given increased toxicity. And even though it has a label outside the United States, its use is becoming less and less, and that's because we are learning a lot about the toxicity that is associated with this combination. So we looked specifically at the toxicities that are known with venetoclax and ibrutinib and we don't see that when you put 2 safer and better BCL-2 inhibitor and BTK inhibitor of sonrotoclax and BRUKINSA together. We don't see complicated neutropenia, neutropenic fever and sepsis. We don't see infections, and we don't see GI toxicities that are associated with venetoclax plus ibrutinib that patients hate, including diarrhea. The totality of data that I showed you of efficacy, including the ORR, CR, undetectable MRD and, of course, PFS and the safety that I showed you has given us a lot of confidence about our next step. And we have designed the study that you see here that we will be enrolling previously untreated patients and will randomize them to a fixed duration of BRUKINSA plus sonrotoclax versus fixed duration of venetoclax plus obinutuzumab. I have to stress about the importance of fixed duration. Patients and physicians and health authorities and patient advocates and all are very interested in fixed duration treatment for a subset of patients. And that's why we wanted to have a fixed duration option for our patients and compared it to the most potent fixed duration regimen that's available, which is venetoclax plus obinutuzumab. We showed impressive data from venetoclax plus obinutuzumab, and I say we because I was involved in development of venetoclax and that was published in New England Journal of Medicine, but I have to acknowledge that its use has been very limited, given the issues that we have with delivering venetoclax plus obinutuzumab. We have confidence that we can beat venetoclax plus obinutuzumab in terms of efficacy, in terms of PFS, which is the gold standard. As you can see, the primary endpoint of the study and we'll have 2 oral medicines. Both of them have shown superior safety. And we will, of course, look at a series of secondary endpoints, including undetectable MRD, as I mentioned, it's a surrogate endpoint. And we'll see how health authorities will eventually evolve with undetectable MRD. This study design has already been discussed and okayed, both by U.S. FDA and EMA and is very well under its way to initiation and we are confident that we will start this study and start enrollment before the end of this year. I want to talk a little bit about multiple myeloma. We all know that multiple myeloma is a disease that we are not curing yet. That means we have a lot of multiple myeloma patients because they all go through several times of progression. And no treatment with multiple myeloma has improved so much over the past few years. All multiple myeloma patients continue to receive many lines of treatment. That shows that there's a huge pool of multiple myeloma patients and still an unmet need. There's a subset of multiple myeloma that they have translocation (11,14). And these subset of multiple myeloma patients are specifically very dependent on BCL-2. There's a rationale to combine BCL-2 inhibition with dexamethasone because that makes the multiple myeloma cells more susceptible to this treatment because they are more dependent on BCL-2 inhibition. So we have this part of this study, the 105 study. And you can see the dose escalation part of this study that combines dexamethasone with sonrotoclax. And today, I'm showing for the first time some compelling data that we have from dexamethasone plus sonrotoclax. And I want you to look at the 640-milligram bar that shows we have high ORR of 70%, but more importantly, the deeper responses. So in multiple myeloma, specifically deep responses of VGPR, CR and what we call it stringent CR are very important and are known to correlate with outcome. And we are very happy and excited with the data that we see here. As a comparison, I've put the venetoclax monotherapy data in translocation (11;14), that shows an ORR of 40%. This study, as I showed in the previous slide, will have an expansion of dexamethasone plus sonrotoclax and also a separate part of the study that will also combine with the most potent proteasome inhibitor [indiscernible]. You heard briefly from Dr. Lai Wang about some of our chimeric degradation activation compounds or CDACs. BGB-16673 is the first compound that has entered clinic, and I'll talk about it today, and it's a BTK degrader. CDACs are bivalent molecules that co-op [indiscernible] process that leads to degradation of their protein. You see a very simple cartoon in the bottom that it basically brings something with your target and leads to the degradation of the protein. And the only thing I want to talk about based on this cartoon is that it's very different than a BTK inhibitor because it completely degrades the protein. In our case, it degrades BTK, and it will affect B-cell receptor pathway that the cancer cells are dependent on. As you can see, the degraders, our BTK CDAC, is agnostic of the mutations and that's very important sequencing. So regardless of what BTK inhibitor, what covalent BTK inhibitor patients receive, BRUKINSA or anything else, this medicine can be given to them and none of the mutations that we're talking about now are going to be relevant. Because of degradation of the protein, it has the chance to be even more potent than the conventional BTK inhibitors. And I also want to compare some of that characteristics with the competitors that are out there in the degradation platform. You saw some data at ASH from one of our competitors that had a BTK degrader. But our compound compares with theirs doesn't have IMiD activities. Therefore, we know that we are not going to see the safety issues that they had and that gives us more confidence about the future of this medicine. We have put together a robust clinical development program with this molecule and we're executing very well. We have 2 clinical trials, again, 1 global and 1 specific for dose-findings in China. And both of them are enrolling very well, and there's a lot of excitement in the community, and we have enrolled 50 patients so far in this trial. We are very well set to start the pivotal cohorts of the study that I will show later by 2024, and we are working on opening combination arms of this study, particularly in combination with sonrotoclax also next year. That will also potentially expand our presence to diseases that the conventional BTK inhibitors have a rationale but haven't been proven to be successful in inducing response, and that includes Richter's transformation or large cell lymphomas. This is the study schema. I only want you to look at the diseases that are listed. So a wide variety of B-cell malignancies are enrolled in our dose escalation. And then what we have what we call a dose -- we call a safety expansion, again, in order to the dose optimization that is required from us. And then we have the 2 pre-defined cohorts in dose expansion. That -- these are the cohorts that I say they have the potential to be pivotal, both in relapsed/refractory post-BTK inhibitor in CLL and mantle cell lymphoma. We have achieved early proof of concept with PK and PD markers with this drug. Not shown on this slide, but in our PK, we saw a dose-dependent increase in the concentration of our drug, which is what we want to see typically when we do a novel drug. And we have a long enough PK that gives us confidence that this will be a once-a-day treatment. And I'm showing the PD, PD markers in this slide. We looked at the protein degradation, both in peripheral blood and lymph node as a marker of our degradation. You can see peripheral limit on your left-hand side, and you can see lymph nodes on your right-hand side. And when we looked at the steady state in peripheral blood, we had 100% BTK degradation at the lowest dose that was tested. And when we look at the lymph nodes at the dose of 100 milligram, we only had 20% malignant cells with BTK expression. And when we looked at 200-milligram dose, we only have 1% of BTK remaining. As I mentioned, the dose escalation continues, and we will continue to collect data on our PD model as well. And in Phase I, it's important to discuss safety. I'm showing safety from our 101, the global study only. And in this heavily pre-treated patient population that typically has a low reserve, you see, we only had one single DLT that was rash. Majority of our adverse events were hematological as it was expected in this population, both from the disease standpoint and, of course, the treatment that they were getting. Again, important to know, we didn't have any of the adverse events that our competitors have shown. We have had no hypertension and no atrial fibrillation, and we only see some very low-grade fatigue with this treatment. You also see the data on efficacy that I'm presenting for the first time. I want you to look at our preliminary overall response rate by dose on your left-hand side. And also, you can see these patient population had a median pre -- prior treatment of 4. But I want to draw your attention to the numbers of overall response rate, you can see and particularly how it increases from dose of 50 milligram to 200 milligrams. The cohorts of 350 and 500 milligram are early, so data is not mature. And you can also look at the ORRs from the disease standpoints, all of the diseases that we have treated from follicular lymphoma to marginal zone lymphoma and Waldenstrom lymphoma. And this is an important slide that I want you to look at while ORR is, of course, very important, and we were happy with the impressive data that I showed in the previous slide. But in this slide, I'm showing the streamline plots in combination with patient profiles. So on your left-hand side, that heat map looking, you see a patient's profile, any treatments they have received before. So almost all these patients have received a covalent BTK before. You only see a few lines that patient didn't receive covalent BTKs, and all of them are follicular lymphoma. A lot of our patients also received venetoclax before coming on this trial. And you see some of our patients even received noncovalent BTK. And with those, you see that the majority of patients had response and the responses were durable and patients are remaining on treatment. I want to draw your attention to a couple of these lines. So all the way on the top, you see at a very first dose of 50 milligram, we had a patient with mantle cell lymphoma that had received covalent BTK before, had a response, continues to be in response and remains on the trial. A couple of lines below that in 100 milligrams, you see a Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia patient who progressed on zanubrutinib and [indiscernible] and when entered this trial, he had a response, the response is deepening, and patient stays on treatment. There's a similar pattern in CLL patients below that and many other examples, but I'm not going to go through all of that. But these data gives us confidence that BTK CDAC is a viable option for patients who have diseases that are exclusively sensitive to BTK, but they have progressed through conventional either covalent or noncovalent BTK inhibitors. Just as a summary, we have very good safety. We are happy with the toxicity profile early that what you see gives us a lot of confidence. We have no hypertension or atrial fibrillation, as I mentioned, and we have proof of concept, even the promising efficacy data and PD marker data that I showed you. In a very heavily pretreated patient population, as I mentioned, all of them have received covalent BTK and a bunch of them had noncovalent BTK. I've mentioned and I talked about our current leadership in CLL and how we're solidifying our leadership in CLL. I want to talk about the journey of CLL patients and how I believe every CLL patient during their journey with their disease will have the opportunity to have a best-in-class, safe and efficacious treatment with a BeiGene medicine. So of course, CLL patients are diagnosed. They are -- a lot of them are in watch and wait for a while and then they start getting treatment for their treatment-naive CLL. On the top, you see BRUKINSA. So a subset of patients will get BRUKINSA up to progression. Now with us developing the fixed duration of BRUKINSA and sonrotoclax, some patients have the chance to get that fixed duration treatment. We are also going to be assessing the roll of CD20 in addition to do the [ doublet ] or CD20 with sonrotoclax alone. We know that a lot of patients enjoy a long progression-free trial -- survival now with these novel medicines. But unfortunately, some CLL patients progress, and they are in need of another line of treatments. And we are happy that we have a pipeline. We have several options for relapsed/refractory CLL patients and physicians to choose from. We can have our BTK CDAC with or without sonrotoclax depending on what they got in their prior treatment. We can have our BTK CDAC with or without CD20. In fact, this fixed duration treatments can be repeated. There is data from venetoclax, and we know when we are confident that our patients can get our combination in relapsed/refractory setting as well, and we will be testing sonrotoclax in combination with BCL-2 inhibitor as well. With that, I hope that you leave this meeting with these key takeaways. So BRUKINSA as the best-in-class BTK inhibitor in CLL is based on SEQUOIA and of course, ALPINE data, adding to our confidence its durable superior efficacy and safety versus ibrutinib. We will be bringing forward sonrotoclax, our BTK CDAC similarly to patients who need these treatments. We will develop evidence to support impactful and desirable treatment strategies, including fixed duration and important rationale sequencing. And we will expand our footprint with sonrotoclax in AML/MDS and multiple myeloma as I discussed and our BTK CDAC in aggressive lymphomas of Richter and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. With that, I want to thank you for your attention and invite my colleague, Dr. Mark Lanasa, who will talk about our pipeline in solid tumors.

Mark Lanasa

executive
#5

Thank you very much, Mehrdad. Thank you all for joining us again. Thank you again for joining us this morning. My name is Mark Lanasa and I'm very glad to present the progress and potential of our solid tumor portfolio. So we have 3 areas of focus in our solid tumor portfolio. The first is that we continue to have very positive news flow for tislelizumab our PD-1 antibody, and we're looking to turn that positive news flow into regulatory approvals and ultimately, patient impact. From there, we want to build tislelizumab to develop best-in-class regimens with new IO targets in our next wave immuno-oncology portfolio, including targets that we're disclosing today, including CCR8, DGK Zeta and PVRIG. And from there, we want to expand into additional tumor types with novel agents, some of which we believe have blockbuster potential, such as a CDK4 selective inhibitor in breast cancer. Tislelizumab is an outstanding PD-1 inhibitor and, in fact, is already a successful medicine. We have treated over 750,000 patients with commercial tislelizumab to date. And we have enrolled over 12,000 patients in our global clinical development programs. We are developing a subcutaneous injection formulation for tislelizumab that will achieve first human dose later this year so that we can bring the impact of tislelizumab to more patients globally. The data for tislelizumab continues to be very positive. Indeed, every Phase III study that we have initiated with tislelizumab has met the primary end point. We have recently announced that the RATIONALE 305 study in frontline gastric cancer met the primary endpoint of overall survival in the intention to treat population. Similarly, in the RATIONALE 312 study. That study also met the primary endpoint of overall survival in the intention to treat population in a study of extensive stage small cell lung cancer. And again, we're working hard to turn this positive data into regulatory approvals with our partner, Novartis, are happy to inform that the FDA has completed their on-site GMP inspections for Tisle manufacturing. And the BLA review is progressing as well as the regulatory reviews are also progressing in EMA. Importantly, regulatory submissions are now also underway to expand tislelizumab to the rest of the world in markets such as Australia, Brazil and South Korea. And as John mentioned to you earlier, this is all being accomplished at reduced costs through optimization, internalization and scale. So where do we go from here? At BeiGene, we believe that PD-1 is the beginning of the story in immuno-oncology, but it's not the complete story. PD-1 has definitively been a transformational mechanism within solid tumor oncology. One of the challenges that we have in solid tumors is that the human immune system is highly complex. And therefore, we have developed a rational but focused program, whereby we are modulating different components of the human immune system in a way that can address different patient segments because the immune system is disregulated in different ways across different tumor types. And if you'll hang in there with me for a moment, I'm about to take you on a brief but deep dive of our current solid tumor portfolio in immuno-oncology. So to start with TIGIT, while we acknowledge that the recent data flow with TIGIT has been mixed, we have completed enrollment in 5 randomized Phase II studies. And therefore, we will have in-house data that will allow us to understand the opportunity landscape for ociperlimab. Additionally, our Phase III study in PD-L1 high non-small cell lung cancer continues to enroll very well, and we will complete enrollment this year. In short, we're delighted to have retained the global rights for ociperlimab. From there, for our next wave of molecules, we are working towards establishing proof of concept in a focused and cost-effective manner. We are upscaling our LAG-3 program substantially this year with Phase II studies underway in both frontline and resectable non-small cell lung cancer, frontline esophageal cancer, head and neck cancer as well as frontline colorectal cancer maintenance. TIM-3 is another co checkpoint inhibitor. We have established a Phase II dose not only in combination with tislelizumab but also as a triplet in combination with LAG-3 and we are testing both that doublet and the triplet in frontline head and neck cancer. We're very excited about our OX40 molecule. The reason for that is that we have the only OX40 agonist monoclonal antibody that does not block the interaction between the OX40 and its ligand, the OX40 ligand. We have established a Phase II dose, both as monotherapy and in combination with tislelizumab and have started a Phase II study in both frontline and second-line non-small cell lung cancer as well as additional evidence generation in immune-sensitive tumor types, including bladder, renal cell and melanoma. HPK1, we believe, is a very important target. Our HPK1, which was one of the first HPK1 to enter the clinic is advancing well through early evaluation. We have again identified a recommended Phase II dose, both as monotherapy and in combination with tislelizumab and have recently opened expansions in non-small cell lung cancer and esophageal cancer. Because we have seen activity with our HPK1 molecule. We think that this is a potentially important target in immuno-oncology. Turnout we have a second HPK1 inhibitor that is on an entirely different chemical backbone. We intend to bring that molecule into the clinic as well, so that we can compare safety, efficacy and pharmacodynamic effects of the 2 molecules. And for there, we have 3 new NMEs that will be entering the clinic prior to the end of the year. Our CCR8, we believe has best-in-class potential because it binds a unique epitope, which may facilitate more potent ADCC. DGK Zeta, like HPK1 is a kinase that sits downstream of the T cell receptor. This is a selective inhibitor of DGK Zeta and a potent activator of T and NK cells. And finally, PVRIG is another co checkpoint monoclonal antibody that we believe has best-in-class potential given its strong binding affinity and ligand blockade potency. The use of multi-cohort studies is core to our strategic and focused assessment of immuno-oncology combinations. Umbrella trials evaluate similar treatment arms against the carbon reference arm with contemporary randomization to identify the most promising interventions. It really will allow us to establish prioritization across our relatively broad portfolio of immuno-oncology assets. They can be adaptive and allow for dropping ineffective interventions and flexible to allow new molecules to be added as they emerge from Phase I. We have already initiated umbrella studies in advanced and resectable non-small cell lung cancer that are enrolling patients, and we have an umbrella study in head and neck cancer that isn't set up. To transition to what's next in solid tumor oncology at BeiGene, we are entering a transformative period with the application of new targets and novel methodologies across priority tumor types. You'll hear from Lai in some detail about 7 new molecules that we will bring into the clinic over the next 18 months for non-small cell lung cancer. On the lower left, you can -- but from there, we are also bringing these novel methodologies and new targets across all of our priority tumor types. So on the lower left, you can see an upper GI. We have both a bispecific antibody and ADC targeting CEA and an ADC -- novel ADC targeting B7-H3. In colorectal cancer, we again have the 2 CEA targeting molecules as well as a small molecule inhibitor of PanKRAS. In head and neck cancer, our SMAC mimetic molecule continues to progress well through early investigation and again, the B7-H3 ADC. In breast cancer, we have recently announced an exclusive global option from Duality for their B7-H4 ADC. We think that this is a great target that's highly complementary to our internal portfolio of ADC targets. You heard from Mehrdad about the potency and selectivity of sonrotoclax, and we intend to test that in HR-positive breast cancer. And I'd like to spend a bit more time discussing in detail our selective inhibitor of CDK4. CDK4 inhibitors have had huge patient impact for women with breast cancer and have also been commercially very successful medicines. There are 3 approved CDK4/6 inhibitors that all have dose-dependent toxicities that are related either to CDK6 inhibition or to other off-target effects. So although the adverse events with these molecules are driven primarily by inhibition of CDK6 efficacy is driven primarily by CDK4 and therefore, having a CDK4 selective molecule allows for improvement of both efficacy and safety. There's a single CDK4 selective inhibitor that is already in the clinic that is being developed by Pfizer. Now that said, we believe that we have the potential best-in-class medicine in that in a cellular proliferation assay, as you can see on the left-hand side of this slide, what you can see is that our CDK4 selective inhibitor has the highest potency against CDK4 of any of the approved CDK4/6 inhibitors or Pfizer's investigational CDK4 selective molecule. And what this conveys is the greatest selectivity for CDK4 over CDK6, which we think will provide the widest therapeutic margin for us with this target. We have shown preclinical efficacy in a number of different preclinical models. And I'm very happy to say that this molecule has already completed its GLP toxicologic studies, did not have significant neutropenia or GI toxicities. We are currently developing the IND and CTA submissions and we'll have our first human dose by the end of this year. So putting it all together, across our target tumor types of upper GI, lung, head and neck, breast and colorectal cancers crossed against the diverse set of therapeutic modalities, we have developed a compelling group of innovative molecules to address priority tumor types. There was a large addressable population an unmet medical need. So our B7-H3 molecule across multiple indications. CDK4 in breast cancer and potentially additional indications. The EGFR-CDAC will be our first bivalent degrader in solid tumor oncology, the PanKRAS molecule in thoracic and GI malignancies, in the MTA cooperative PRMT5 again in multiple solid tumors. And therefore, we believe that we are well on track to establish Tisle as a global standard of care to build best-in-class combinations upon the foundation of tislelizumab with our next wave immuno-oncology assets. And then finally, to expand into additional tumor types with novel agents, some of which have blockbuster potential. And from there, I'm very happy to hand it back to Lai to share the exciting details of our innovative research programs.

Wang Lai

executive
#6

I hope you enjoyed the presentation so far. So BeiGene is developing a diverse and compelling portfolio across hematology and solid tumor with 20-plus programs in the development and the 60-plus programs in discovery. I will detail our tumor type approach with the lung cancer portfolio, we have over -- where we have over 30 first-in-class or best-in-class programs, including TOX therapies and a combinations. I will share with you some new programs that target lung cancer, including 3 small molecules, 2 ADC molecules and the 2 bi-specific antibodies with differentiated TAA approaches. All of these programs have compelling [ procurement data ]. We're lead in the industry in the breast of novel modality designs to improve patient outcomes, we combine differentiated targets with novel modalities across tumor types. With our 1,100 innovative research team, we will deliver 10-plus new molecule entities per year to the clinic starting from 2024. We believe we are on path to deliver innovation at a scale. BeiGene pipeline has broad coverage in oncology with clear focus, highlighting that our current key disease focus areas including lung cancer and upper GI cancers in solid tumors and the B-cell malignancies and AML and MDS in Hematology. As top line growth, we are also expanding to few [ watching types ] including head and neck, breast, colorectal cancers and multiple myeloma. In the following slides, I will take lung cancer as an example to walk you through our pipeline innovation strategy. Lung cancer presents about 20% of cancer worldwide with high unmeet medical need that we can address with our portfolio. In the past decade, BeiGene has built a strong immuno-oncology pipeline centered around our PD-1 antibody tocilizumab as shown on the right. Mark has given you an update on our progress in IO in his section. To complement the IO portfolio, we have also developed therapies targeting oncogenic signaling pathways and the TAAs mediated therapies. Today, I will discuss 7 new molecules in detail. EGFR CDAC, PanKRAS inhibitor, PRMT5 MTA-cooperative inhibitor, 2 ADCs, B7-H3 and the CEA, to the immune cell engager, MUC1 CD16 and a Claudin6 CD3. For the concluding [indiscernible] light and lighter blue stands for ADCs and bispecifics, respectively. . EGFR CDAC. EGFR mutations occurs in about 50% of lung adenocarcinoma in Asia and 15% in Caucasian. It represents a very large lung cancer patient population. Four generations of EGFR kinase inhibitors have been developed over the years. The first 3 generations are already on the market and the fourth generation are in the clinical development. EGFR CDAC induced complete EGFR protein degradation, which might present the best way to abolish each of our signaling by first, inducing more sustainable signal inhibition by eliminating the EGFR protein in the cells. Second, by covering broader EGFR mutation spectrum by addressing both osimertinib sensitive and resistant EGFR mutations. Third, by destroying EGFR Scaffold function to minimize compensatory signaling via heterodimerization with other receptor tyrosine kinases. EGFR CDAC program is on track to enter clinic in early next year. PanKRAS inhibitor -- actually, this 1 is the EGFR CDAC data, as shown on the top right panel compared to the traditional EGFR-TKI. BeiGene's EGFR CDAC molecule has broader EGFR mutations coverage, targeting both osimertinib sensitive and resistant mutations yet a completely sparing wild-type EGFR. This molecule has demonstrated a very clear selective profile in the proteome panel as well. The molecule has desirable oral bioavailability which supporting daily dosing in clinic. Robust preclinical antitumor activity was observed. Two models are shown on this slide. The one on the left is on osimertinib resistant subcutaneous model and the one the right is an intracranial model. This molecule has good brain penetration. What is not shown here is that EGFR CDAC also works well in osimertinib sensitive models. PanKRAS inhibitor. As shown on the top right panel compared to trade -- so for the PanKRAS, which covers a very broad cancer population, which was found about in 15% of all tumor types and PanKRAS has been a wholly growth for the oncology. This is accounted for about 9% of the lung cancer adenocarcinoma in Asia and 33% in the Caucasian population. This also has high preference in the CRC as well as in the pancreatic cancers. The G12C KRAS inhibitor is the first success in the KRAS field. However, the G12C mutation only accounts for about 10% of all KRAS mutations. Although the KRAS knockout was [indiscernible] we find in-house the adult mice with inducible KRAS knockout appeared to be normal and healthy, suggesting there is a low risk with inhibiting wild-type KRAS by KRAS inhibitor. We believe this is due to the compensatory mechanism by NRAS and HRAS. We have developed a PanKRAS inhibitor which is highly potent across different KRAS mutations and with good selectivity against NRAS and HRAS. PRMT5 is a protein arginine methyltransferase, essential to many cellular functions in both normal and iin cancer cells. Many companies have attempted to develop a substrate or core factor competitive PRMT5 inhibitor. However, the first-generation PRMT5 inhibitor cannot distinguish normal versus tumor cells, but development is largely impacted by unfavorable on target hematological toxicity observed in the clinic. To address this toxicity issue, we're leveraging a fascinating biology, a sincerely steady concept to develop the second generation PRMT5 inhibitor to selectively cure tumor cells with MTAP deletion. MTAP is MTA methylthioadenosine phosphorylase. Tumor MTAP deletion leads to accumulation of MTA in cancer cells. MTA cooperative PRMT5 inhibitor is designed to only steadily bind to the PRMT5 in the presence of a high-concentration MTA. Normal cells have very low MTA concentration, therefore, avoid inhibition by the second-generation PRMT5 inhibitor. PRMT5 deletion represents a large cancer population segment funding about 15% of all tumor types, including lung and GI cancers. BeiGene's PRMT5 inhibitor has promising pharmacological properties with good brain penetration and desirable half life. Changing the deal, in addition to oncogenic [ onco ] therapies BeiGene has also developed a strong portfolio with TAA derived therapies. Toxin ADCs and new cell engagers are the current portfolio focus. I will highlight a few select programs from those platforms in the next few slides. Moving forward, we are also investing new ADC technology with next-generation payloads and allogenic cell therapy with cast against TAAs. BeiGene aims to develop innovative and award leading ADC platform with rationalize design to enhance efficacy and reduce toxicity. Our robust ADC discovered platform has enabled high quality and efficient delivery of a single or multi-targeting antibody to fit different targets and disease biology. We also actively take various creative approach around payload, linker, conjugation to address the main pain points in the ADC field. For the payload, we generate a diversified and optimized the payload toolbox to cover broader targets and indications. This includes Proprietary Topoisomerase I inhibitor designed with better promotility to achieve stronger life standard killing. We also have MMAE payloads paired with hydrophilic linkers to enable higher DAR. In addition, we'll leverage prodrug design to enlarge safety window of PBD. For the linker, we use hydrophilic linker platform to improve ADC by physical properties and to reduced aggregation, which is also equipped with multiple linkers cleavage mechanisms to support various drug design needs. For example, we designed a 2-step lysosome cleavage, tandem released linker to minimize systemic payload release. Another one is a serine with serine linkers insensitive to neutrophil protease to reduce neutropenia toxicity commonly associated with MMAE payloads. For the conjugation, with new and stable conjugator and site specific conjugation technology to achieve homogeneous stock and better ADC stability. B7-H3 ADC is the first ADC introduced to you. B7-H3 is hardly expressed in various tumor types, including lung, GI and gynecological cancers as indicated on the top-right table. DS-7300 or B7-H3 developed by Daiichi Sankyo has shown interesting clinical proof-of-concept data in small cell lung cancer and the prostate cancer. As compared to DS-7300, BeiGene leverages internal ADC platform to pursue best-in-class opportunity via differentiated drug design including higher DAR, proprietary linker to enhance bystander effect and a stable conjugator. I will share some data on the next slide. A detailed comparison versus DS-7300 is shown on this slide. We integrate the molecule design. BeiGene's B7-H3 ADC demonstrates stronger on target and bystander killing activity as shown on the top left 2 panels. In contrast to DS-7300, who DAR reduced nearly 50% after 4 days postdosing ponkey PK study. BeiGene's ADC shows good stability with sustainer DAR over the time. I would also like to point out in [indiscernible] models that are insensitive or resistant to DS-7300, BeiGene ADC still demonstrate robust anti-tumor activity, even at half of those of the competitor molecule to compensate for the difference DAR. Hopefully, this exciting data will also translate into better efficacy in the clinic. CEA ADC. CEA ADC is a well-established TAA, harder expressed in lung and the GI cancers with tumor prevalence indicated on the top right table. Clinical PoC has been achieved for [indiscernible], SAR701 in lung cancer. However, the overall response rate is only 20% in lung cancer patients with high CEA expression. While the activity is minimal in lung cancer patients with medium CEA expression also was minimal in the CRC and gastric-cancer patients. We believe there's a lot of room for improvement in the clinical efficacy. BeiGene's CEA ADC adopts a highly differentiated ADC design and into expanding target population to lung cancer patients with medium low-high expression and GI cancer patients. So utilizing topoisomerase I inhibitor with high DAR to enhance the tumor killing versus DM4 anti-micro tumor payload as well as the stable conjugated design and hydrophilic linker to enhance ADC stability and the homogeneity. As shown on the left panel, BeiGene's ADC demonstrates prolonged and vest stability while DAR for SAR701 quickly dropped to only 20% remaining at the end of the PK study. While ADC concentration in tumor versus circulation was assessed, BeiGene molecule showed a higher tumor enrichment. In addition, BeiGene molecule was also superior in the bystander effect. Consistent with this great characteristics, BeiGene's ADC also demonstrated robust anti-tumor activity in SAR701-resistant, primarily colon and gastric cancer models. MUC1 CD16A. MUC1 is a very attractive TAA for multiple tumor types, especially for lung around 90% of adenocarcinoma has moderated to high MUC1 expression. To differentiate from previously further MUC1 monoclonal antibodies, BeiGene takes a unique MUC1 antibody discovered approach to target the membrane proximity region, which can minimize soluble MUC1 binding to avoid the sink effect as shown on the top right panel. In house find informatics analysis showed a nice correlation in the expression of MUC1 CD16A NK cell activating receptor. Based on this finding, CD16A NK engager was selected as the [indiscernible] of a partner for the MUC1 program. BeiGene's MUC1 CD16A bispecific has a firm characteristics, high CD16A binding affinity, wild-type Fc function for FcR binding and the spatial short distance between MUC1 and the CD16A arm. All those characteristics strengthen NK-cell engagement and improve tumor cell killing. Claudin6 CD3. Claudin6 is a very clean TAA. It's highly tumor-specific making the attractive TAA for CD3 bispecific developments. Claudin6 is expressed in lung and gynecological cancers. But it's very challenging actually to develop a highly selective Claudin6 antibody due to its close homology to the family member Claudin9. There's only extremely amino acids difference between these 2 proteins. Claudin9 has broad in normal tissue expression and therefore, needs to be spread. BeiGene's Claudin6 CD3 bispecific is highly specific against Claudin9. It is in Fab single gene ScFv format to shorten the spatial distance between the 2 arms for better tumor cell killing. But it can stimulate T cell infiltration and result in robust antitumor activity in nuclear tumors as shown in the top right panel. In addition, it works in cells with low antigen levels and the Claudin6 negative cell via a bystander effect leading to strong and efficacy even in heterogeneous tumor models as shown on the bottom right. I have shown you that we have a very deep market portfolio in lung cancer that complements well of our existing immuno-oncology pipeline. The 7 programs highlighted today cover a very broad lung cancer patient segment. The target populations are distinct but also overlapping which is providing multiple approaches to treat the lung cancer patients. We have fully leveraged our integrated CMC and manufacturing capabilities across multiple modalities to empower a fast path to clinic. Over the last few years, we have also established an extensive early-stage clinical trial network in addition with our internalized clinical demand capability enables very quick clinical proof of concept better than industry standard. Finally, I see everyone agreed that combination treatment is a key to the future success in oncology. With all this tool in our toolbox, we have tremendous flexibility and advantage to test the rationalized internal combinations. This slide is not meant for you to see the details but rather to be a high level view of the breadth and the depth of our BeiGene portfolio in our key tumor types of interest. Each column represents a tumor type and each row represents a program sorted by modalities. Over the years, BeiGene has heavily invested in various technology platforms and the therapeutic modalities. Very few companies has the breadth of the platform that BeiGene strived to build in-house. On [indiscernible] country side, we have shown you that we are able to produce not only one best-in-class molecule for [indiscernible], but also potentially a second one [indiscernible]. CDAC is in general difficult to make with further pharmacological properties due to its large molecule rates. BeiGene has one CDAC molecule BTK CDAC in the clinic with beautiful proof of concept data that I showed you today and that there are 2 more CDAF molecule at the R&D stage. One is EGFR while the other one was undisclosed targets. This makes BeiGene one of the companies with the largest pipeline in the protein degradation space. One of our major efforts in the last few years is to upgrade our antibody discovery and engineering platform, which empowers us to deliver complex antibody molecules with greater efficiency. On ADC, we started rather late, but now we have our own proprietary platform established with 4 programs at R&D stage and close to 10 in discovery stage. Cell therapies and MI therapies are still at a relatively early stage with leading assets progressing on track towards clinic in the next couple of years. Hopefully, at the next R&D day, I'll be able to show with you more advancements in those areas. We are extremely excited about the next wave of innovation. In the next 18 months, we're on pace to deliver 15-plus molecules into clinic. What's exciting is not only the quantity, but also the quality of these molecules, hopefully bringing new treatment options to cancer patients around the globe. To summarize research innovation section, our 1,100 team in research is a prolific and innovative, they are on treatment change molecules at a pace of 10-plus molecules a year. We have kept our entrepreneur culture and always have a sense of urgency, which we believe is extremely critical to our success. Our tumor type approach is comprehensive, including target therapy on the combinations. The 7 molecules will review -- we reviewed today have compelling differentiated versus competitive molecule or are already in position in their target class. We lead the industry in the breadth of novel modality designs. We have now seen what high risk drive to improve patient outcomes with differentiated targets and with novel modalities across the tumor types. Finally, there are 3 take-home messages I hope you get from today's R&D presentation. First, BeiGene's hematology portfolio is more than just BRUKINSA. Two other potential blockbuster medicine are being developed. Sonrotoclax and the BTK CDAC BGB-11673. Second, BeiGene's solid tumor portfolio is more than just IO. We have a broad target therapy portfolio with exciting new molecules to complement our IO portfolio. Third, research innovation at scale. BeiGene's research innovation is scientific and impactful and prolific. With that, I will hand this back to John for his closing remarks.

John Oyler

executive
#7

Thanks so much, Lai. I hope everyone has taken away, as Lai said, the following points. We do have one of the largest, most productive and cost of time efficient teams in the industry. Our oncology clinical team is one of the largest and advanced in the industry today. It has a track record of success and again, sense of urgency and entrepreneurial spirit and focus on cost. The pipeline is impressive; 23 development programs, 60 discovery programs, 2 blockbusters already, 2 impressive programs that we think have now declared themselves and have tremendous prospects. And we've already established a leadership position in hematology with 3 very important programs. And I think we've laid the foundation, as Lai showed you, to do the same in several other areas in solid tumors in the upcoming years. I do want to reiterate our leadership position in hema and our belief that this is not one program, it's really all 3. I know you hear lots of noise from our competitors related to the BTKi space. But the data and the longer-term follow-up that was shared to you today with Mehrdad, especially around the PFS separation in both the all-comers and in the deletion 17p population speaks for itself, and it can't be denied. Secondly, the BCL2 inhibitor, Sonro, it is potentially best-in-class, superior safety and tolerability, but the ease of use should really be able to expand its use in the community setting. We're close to initiating Phase III trials for the BCL2 and the market potential here is quite large. And thirdly, our BTK CDAC. It's exciting because it shows our capabilities in this important new platform, but also there's a clear and quick path for BTKi resistant population. And given the removal of the structural function, it really has the potential to work in some of these other areas like large B-cell lymphoma, Richter's and potentially beyond hematology. Today, BeiGene is making significant progress on our path to oncology leadership. As we've said already, our medicines have treated more than 800,000 patients. And I think that's why we're all part of this industry and it's why BeiGene's team is here and together. We've the entrepreneurial and the science-driven culture still we've created this, and it allows us to continue to make and work on developing critical medicines and to make them quickly, affordably and to bring them accessibly to more patients around the world. Thirteen years, it's been quite an adventure. The industry and the science has worked as we believed. You're hearing about covalent molecules, which people didn't believe in, you're hearing about immuno-oncology, which people didn't believe in, and you've seen very impactful ADCs in this period, which people weren't so sure about. It's been a tremendous decade of impact for cancer patients, and it's a tribute to the incredible partners we have in fighting cancer and peer companies that we work with and help develop science. It's amazing. But that said, cancer is still killing 10 million people a year. No patient can face cancer alone, no oncologist can help patients alone. No family can deal with things alone, no company can fight cancer alone. No regulator, no policymaker, we're all in this together. And we're all trying to work together to move forward this ecosystem that we have to have impact and to try to fight and work to do our best to impact this 10 million number. We can only do it through working together as an industry, and we're really, really proud to be a part of that. And that's what gets us excited every day and every morning when we wake up early and stay late and makes us super passionate about what we're doing here. So with that, I just want to thank everybody that works with BeiGene and that works at BeiGene and all of our investors and supporters and everybody, and let's do our best to really have impact and help reach billions more patients affordably and reduce this 10 million number. With that, I thank you.

Julia Wang

executive
#8

Thank you, John. In order to round out our presentations today, here is a summary of our upcoming catalysts in the second half of 2023. We won't talk about them in greater details, but wanted to make sure that you have this information. With that, we are wrapping up our presentations. And now moving on to the Q&A session. As our panelists come up on to the stage, I'd like to get out a few logistic items. If you have a question and you are in the room, please raise your hand, and we will bring you a microphone. If you are online, please feel free to submit your questions on phone. When asking a question, please start with your name and your company before sharing the question. With that, let's open up the floor for questions.

Yige Guo

analyst
#9

Yige Guo with Guggenheim Securities. Great presentation and congrats on the progress across the R&D pipelines. I guess a couple of quick ones from us. Number one, on the BCL2 inhibitors, it's interesting to see that you guys are pursuing indications not pursued by venetoclax or not approved. And so in particular, multiple myeloma, can you talk about the frequency of the t(11,14) mutation? What's the opportunity? How big is the opportunity? And is it possible that the efficacy that we see in that population can be expanded to the total population. And the second one on the [ TK US ] and the PanKRAS program, I guess there's a school of thought that inhibiting the wild-type KRAS could sort of like contributing to the adaptive resistance. So I guess -- but that could come with some on target toxicities such as rash. And so wondering what's your thoughts on balancing the inhibiting the wild-type KRAS, but dialing out on-target toxicities?

Mehrdad Mobasher

executive
#10

So I'll start with the BCL-2 inhibitor in multiple myeloma with translocation 11,14. So translocation 11,14 is about 20% to 25% of the overall population. Actually, as physicians are learning about this translocation, vast majority of multiple myeloma physicians or other community physicians are testing for 11,14. And like I said, the pie is huge. That's why 25% of this pie will remain huge as well. When we are taking several paths through that. And actually, we are starting with some of the indications that venetoclax is not approved, but of course, we are pursuing all of those, including CLL and AML.

Wang Lai

executive
#11

I can take the PanKRAS question. As you pointed out, because the KRAS is such an essential molecule for the body, so there was a lot of concern about developing a PanKRAS inhibitor. We actually did not just initiate program based on incentive perhaps we actually did experiment. When we made a KRAS conditional knockout mice, and we did adulthood whole body systemic knockout, the mice was petrified and with that piece of data, previously, people only did for the bone marrow kind of specific knockout. With that data, which went on to start the PanKRAS inhibitor program because the PanKRAS inhibitor will inhibit wild type KRAS. But we believe in normal cells, the segment part will be compensated by NRAS and HRAS therefore, it shouldn't be on major toxicities. So far, our molecule, we have made in house has been very well tolerated in the animal models. So it remains to be seen in the clinic, but we are pretty confident and there's shouldn't be major issue with the PanKRAS.

Julia Wang

executive
#12

Next question please.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#13

Sam [indiscernible] Asset Management. Congratulations on a marvelous outlook at a micro level. So the question from me. Some 5 years ago, maybe more, maybe less, a senior Chinese special maybe Susan Bing, I'm not sure was very proud to point out that the PD-1 prices in China were the lowest in the world. How can this be good? Can you specify what I'm trying to remember. And what's the outlook for pricing on a longer-term outlook in China?

John Oyler

executive
#14

Sure. I'm not -- I don't know exactly to what you're referring, but I can certainly speak about pricing. With the largest number of cancer patients in the world, 25% of all cancer incidents are in China. I think as we built this company, we understood that if you charged U.S. pricing in that country, you simply can't afford it. The GDP per capita is much lower. From that perspective, our expectations in building the company was you'd have a range of prices under reimbursement that would range from roughly several thousand dollars, probably on average, $2,000 a month, and that's all that could be afforded at this point in time. Nonetheless, if you looked at that and saw reimbursement, you'd be in a situation where the industry would contribute billions of dollars back to innovative medicine. I think as we've laid out, most of the cost for innovative medicine is upfront. It's in clinical trials. And I think today, there's about $17 billion in oncology that's coming back to the industry to pay for that upfront cost of clinical trials from China today. But the price point is roughly where we assumed it would be a couple of thousand dollars. This is different than in the U.S. And I think we have a system in the U.S. where pricing has been very high. And medicine, I think, as I said, when the company was started, really the innovative medicine was only getting to 1/6 of the world. So our approach in BeiGene is, first of all, we have to dramatically reduce the clinical cost, which is upfront. If this is 75% to 90% of the total cost of making a medicine and delivering it to a patient, how do you do that? You do it, first of all, through -- getting through additional centers and bringing them into the clinical trial pool. We've done this in Australia. We're doing a lot of work in Poland and Italy, now in Brazil and South Africa. By getting to more centers around the world and in the United States, working with centers that are often neglected here we're able to conduct clinical trials more quickly and conduct clinical trials more cost effectively. Our goal is through globalization, through adding additional centers through internalization, not using CROs and through adopting the latest technology. A lot of clinical -- almost all clinical medicine now is double entry -- manual double entry to get into a clinical trial system. We're working to fix these things, our aspiration is to reduce clinical trial cost in half. I think we're 30%, not 50% so far. I think the second part is once we get a medicine approved because we've become so good at manufacturing in our industry, whether it's a small molecule or a biologic, our cost of goods sold is now dramatically lower than it's previously been. And I think our ability to now take those medicines and try to get them to more places around the world, even if it's a lower price point, as long as they're contributing above your cost of goods sold, creating a gross margin, which can come back and help pay for that upfront cost of the clinical trials and both BRUKINSA and Tisle ultimately, we've probably spent close to $1 billion on those clinical development programs. But the revenue that comes back from these other places, even if it's at a lower price, it can help us cover that upfront cost, which in our minds, can ultimately lead to lower pricing here in the United States and in Europe, and in Japan, the traditional markets. To that effect, you've heard of the BTK, superior on efficacy and superior on safety, yet in the United States, when that product is launched. It's selling several thousand dollars a month less expensively than ibrutinib. Why is it doing that? Because that's our philosophy and because we believe that we can and are generating revenue across the rest of the world that can help us support a model and demonstrate a model that will result in lower pricing here over time. So that's really what we're trying to drive to. And we think it's actually working quite well. But we hope to prove that with BRUKINSA globally as we get to the C5 markets, and we hope to prove that with Tisle as we bring it to the rest of the world, too.

Yigal Nochomovitz

analyst
#15

Yigal Nochomovitz from Citi. Great presentation, very interesting. I have another strategic question. It does intersect with Sam's question on pricing. Just with regard to the combo with sonrotoclax and BRUKINSA, excellent new Phase II data with the efficacy that you reported as well as favorable safety. My question was related to thoughts in terms of doing the combo in first-line CLL until progression or at least a much longer [indiscernible] fixed duration in the broader CLL population. What are your thoughts about that? And the reason I ask is given the IRA likely having an impact on the pricing for the BTK class towards the end of the decade. If you had a combo option that you could match BRUKINSA with in the first-line population that would give you another way to potentially protect BRUKINSA price later in the decade. So if you could comment on that strategically and clinically.

Mehrdad Mobasher

executive
#16

Maybe I should start on the clinic standard benefit, if you don't mind. So like I mentioned, the real emphasis that we see from physicians and patients and all is a fixed duration of treatment and that's as short as possible because patients want to get a treatment and be done. And similarly, particularly post COVID, we know that everybody wants a short treatment and not going back to clinics. And based on everything that we have seen in CLL field, including the venetoclax and obinutuzumab that I showed. One year seems to be an optimal period, and that's why we have been anchoring our MRD negativity and our CR in now 1 year. So we think with 1 year of working plus sonrotoclax, we'll put a lot of patients in MRD negativity and a long outcome. Not every patient will go on fixed duration. It actually depends on patients' desire, physicians desires, subset of CLL rehab. So a few -- some of our patients were remaining on BRUKINSA up to progression, but some patients will prefer to go on -- that is a limited time treatment. And there are a lot of effort just outside us as well, like I said in venetoclax and obinutuzumab is a good regimen. So we'll get those patients. There are patients who are currently getting ibrutinib plus venetoclax and we'll get those patients as well. So that's how we see fixed duration as something that physicians want, and that's how we see we're going to capture those patients. But I think in terms of the strategy and what it means for pricing and all that, also for that to my colleagues 0

Unknown Executive

executive
#17

Good. Just to make sure that I'm tracking. Can you ask the second part of your question again?

Yigal Nochomovitz

analyst
#18

Yes. I mean, there's going to be pressure on the BTK class, given IRA presumably with -- and that may trickle through to the more innovative products like BRUKINSA. If you can pair BRUKINSA with a novel mechanism and price that as a duo, potentially, you can protect price given claims around efficacy that you wouldn't have with the monotherapy. Therefore, is that a strategy potentially to expand that duo beyond just a fixed duration and with the broader frontline population and treat the progression to capture that dynamic.

Unknown Executive

executive
#19

Sure. Thanks for the proper question. So taking a step back and we think about the impacts of IRA, right? It's on the molecule level. So the potential impact for zanubrutinib, will have been irrespective of sonrotoclax. So I think if your question is and if the price comes down to the obligatory discount, then by paring it with sonrotoclax, we have a chance to perhaps provide more value through the combination. I don't think that's accurate. And so really, it's going to be the clinical data and that all sort of sets up a strategy. Other thoughts potentially around how we might package them together in other ways that we might come to market. We still need to evaluate that and see how the landscape changes over time. But at the heart of your question is like, does this potentially unlock more value for zanubrutinib generally? Through the combination, I would agree with that. I think the other aspect of the combination that might be a bit underappreciated because right now, sonrotoclax is primarily paired with a binituzumab from a fixed duration standpoint. So that's VO. Ibrutinib plus venetoclax, if you look at the U.S. market, very low utilization, right? It's not currently approved. Actually the sonrotoclax and zanubrutinib combination as a potential opportunity to grow the BTK class, right? And so there's been some questions around potential cannibalization as [indiscernible] monotherapy. I think it's important to think about the reason patients get combination therapy. The reason they might get fixed duration, it's different from giving a monotherapy approach. And so we would anticipate less cannibalization and monotherapy and actually a growth of the zanubrutinib opportunity through erosion of venetoclax and obinutuzumab and potentially then going into the other aspects of the market that are still getting chemo immunotherapy, right? Because the goal there is a deep and fast response. That's not why you use BTKi monotherapy. So in addition to your question, I think there's also the potential for sonrotoclax and ibrutinib to grow the overall market for BTK inhibitors and to grow the opportunity for zanubrutinib as well.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#20

This is [ Ken from Berens/Partners ] from speaking on behalf of Andy Berens. So for the PRMT5 MTA cooperative program. Wondering if you could speak to any potential differentiation from other competitors from the second-generation class. I mean, we've seen compounds from Mirati, Tango Therapeutics, I think initial data. I think Amgen has a program as well. Maybe you could speak to potential differentiation for that class.

Wang Lai

executive
#21

Yes, there are still very limited information out there for the other second generation PRMT5 inhibitor, as you point out, including Mirati, Amgen as well as Tango. We have done some in-house analysis versus those competitive molecules. I can tell you a lot of work is still ongoing. What I can say is about our molecule, which has really good pharmacological properties. All viability with testing other competitive molecule [indiscernible]. And also in terms of dosing wise, they probably require like tie steady dosing as well as the brain penetration, we believe this is a very important characteristics for treating lung cancer patients. Our molecules has other characteristics but ultimately, you have to do the experiment in the clinic to see whether they are truly differentiating or not. At this moment, I think this will be a highly competitive field. Don't get me wrong. A lot of people is investing that but it's still very early in the game. We believe we're right out of it and the public has a chance to take a leading position once our molecule gets to clinic.

Julia Wang

executive
#22

Next question, can we go to online. Liza can you please read the question that we are getting. Thank you.

Liza Heapes

executive
#23

One of the questions was asking about the timing for tislelizumab approval in the U.S.

Mark Lanasa

executive
#24

So that remains open ended. We have, as I mentioned, we've completed the on-site GMP manufacturing inspections. And at this point, shall we say the ball is in FDA's court in terms of the final adjudication and hopefully, completion of the review period and determination of benefit/risk.

Liza Heapes

executive
#25

I'll ask another that was submitted online. It is asking about the Novartis agreement on TIGIT and what's next for the program?

Mark Lanasa

executive
#26

So again, as I mentioned, we acknowledge that the external data flow has been mixed related to TIGIT. Ultimately, that's a question for Novartis. So we don't have visibility to their internal discussions and deliberations in regards to their specific programs. As I mentioned, we're very happy to have TIGIT back. We have a broad development program of Phase II studies, which, as John has mentioned, we have delivered a very favorable cost that all help us to understand what's the opportunity landscape for TIGIT as a class. And we carry on and are optimistic about our study in PD-L1 high front-line non-small cell lung cancer.

Julia Wang

executive
#27

Next question, let's come back to the room.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#28

[indiscernible] form Jefferies. I have 2 questions regarding the pipeline development. BeiGene recently signed a deal with a Shanghai-based ADC company, DualityBio. So 2 early-stage ADC assets. Could you share what kind of ADC technologies attracted from this strategic partnership? And how does it synergize with term ADC development effort?

Wang Lai

executive
#29

Yes, I can take that question. So we actually did on licensing deal with Duality, which is an option deal in a way -- we can take over the program at a clinical stage this year during the preclinical development. In terms of the reason we did that deal with Duality [indiscernible], look at their platform, there's only to the extent I can disclose is also topoisomerase inhibitor based platforms. And we look at their preclinical data pathways, we believe it's highly competitive. And also the target, as Mark mentioned in his presentation, is B7-H3 which complements extremely well to our current evolving breast cancer portfolio. So this is really the rationale behind we did the deal with Duality. And this molecule will be in the clinic early next year.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#30

And also, the BTK degrader dynamics for promising and they were critical for franchise building but if you also say [indiscernible] autoimmune indications for this molecule besides the development plan layout in oncology.

Wang Lai

executive
#31

A very good question. Certainly, BTK, as a class has shown some promising activity in the autoimmune disease, including the multiple sclerosis, et cetera. BeiGene at this moment are developing design in ibrutinib in autoimmune disease with several different trials ongoing. In terms of the CDAC side of it, certainly, we do believe it has a chance for the autoimmune disease. The question is which indication at this moment, we're still contemplating that strategy internally.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#32

Great. And then lastly, if I may, it's a high-level question. Given the very broad programs with both high-profile targets and all novel modalities for developing next wave of oncology drugs at BeiGene and also very promising data you presented today from multiple fronts such as BCL2 inhibitor and the BTK degrader. Can you help us to understand how do you strategically plan the pipeline development with the considerations of efficiency, cost and maximizing the opportunities.

Wang Lai

executive
#33

Yes, I love that question. Because for our industry as in the one, the most difficult part is to predict which target will be successful. If you look at our industry as a whole, in the past 20 years alone, you can see we didn't do a good job in terms of predicting which target is successful by using PD-1 versus CTLA-4, as an example, CTLA-4 looks much better than a PD-1 in preclinical model. And also BTK versus [ PC data ] is another good example. And they're both working [indiscernible], but one become really multi, multi billion block buster drug. Another one really, at this moment, has a very minimum commercial market. So BeiGene possibly we have to be focused in terms of our disease area of interest then in that particular disease area of interest, we're going to do multiple shots on goal. The shots we are making are really based on scientific rationale based on the impact, which we predict this drug could potentially have, but not necessarily make a decision in the beginning to say, this one well with that one will lose because it's really difficult to predict until you have a clinical proof of concept data. So we also spend a lot of effort trying to thrive in this process from a preclinical candidates to proof of concept. If you look at the entire development cost for drug from the targets all the way to clinical proof of concept, probably counts about 1/3 of the overall drug development. While the Phase III, the late-stage studies usually comes for other 2/3. So if you really do well in the first part to give yourself the chance to see the chemical proof of concept, you're really in a much better position to make the ultimate decision. We also believe in our industry, the place you can really do much better job in prediction is when you see the preclinical proof of concept. So to summarize what I'm saying here is, we're really trying to thrive from the target all the way to the proof of concept, then at that stage, we're also trying to really focus on our disease area to make very good shots on goal and then ultimately make a decision based on the clinical proof of concept data.

Julia Wang

executive
#34

Thank you, Lai. We have time for one more question.

Unknown Analyst

analyst
#35

This is Steve from Morgan Stanley. I have 2 questions. The first one, can you talk about, for example, BTK CDAC, you we compared the advantage versus non covalent BTK inhibitor from liability for example? And the second one is I want to follow up on the t(11,14) transformation in multiple myeloma. Could you remind us the treatment efficacy of the current therapies in this subgroup of multiple myeloma.

Mehrdad Mobasher

executive
#36

Sure. So I'll summarize what we saw in our BTK CDAC. We have patients who are heavily pretreated. A majority of them for diseases that do get covalent have gotten covalent, some of them have BCL2 and some of them even had non-covalent or [ Puerto ] yet we saw all the responses. So from the efficacy standpoint, again, the numbers are small, we think the efficacy is on par with what [ Puerto ] has. From the safety standpoint, our database is small, but we are very happy with how the safety is coming together. We do foresee a future if everything holds then non-covalent BTK actually is going to be irrelevant because for now, frontline treatment is with covalent BTKs, so if we know that regardless of all these mutations because all the covalent and non-covalent BTKs, there's some evolution of mutations that are coming. So then everybody can go on a degrader. And also, they can do more potent because of the work that we described that the mode of action is. So the future will tell, but that's what we are hoping for, and that's what we are aspiring for. And in terms of translocation 11,14, it's -- like I said, it's a test that all physicians are doing, there are no approvals for translocation 11,14 yet. However, venetoclax is available to patients. So most of the patients are being treated same as any other multiple myeloma, say with a triplet or even quad and when they cycle through the other available treatments. Because venetoclax is available, some physicians are using that. And remember, the first trial that was done in this subset was a combination of bortezomib plus venetoclax and that trial unfortunately failed because of increased toxicity. There was increased death and a lot of increased toxicity. But when you look at just progression-free survival, the progression-free survival in 11,14 was amusing compared to just bortezomib. So that's why we think -- because our drug is safer because we are trying to do to at a dexamethasone burst and with Cusatuzumab but that has a different toxicity profile, we're able to produce the data that's going to be more superior. Venetoclax does have a study, but I don't know why the outcome is delayed. We'll see when that comes up.

Julia Wang

executive
#37

With that, we are concluding today's Q&A session. I'd like to thank all of our investors and analysts for your interest in and support to BeiGene. I also would like to thank the entire BeiGene team for their support to this event. With that, I wish you a good day or good evening, and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

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