K I A D I S P H A R M A | CO M PA N Y P R ES E N TAT I O N | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 2 0
EURONEXT: KDS
Leveraging the natural strengths of humanity and our collective immune systems to source the best cells for life
K-NK-cell therapy to treat cancer and infectious disease
K-NK-cells:enoughof the rightNK cells, broad opportunity in cancer and infectious disease
Unique proprietary immunotherapy platform, with broad applicability:
- Hyper-functionalNK-cell phenotype, all killing mechanisms
- Engineering optional and synergistic, but not required
- Optimal donors with disease specific attributes
Off the shelf, industrial, scalable
- Industrial, robust, tumor-free manufacturing
- Millions of doses, cryopreserved, cost of goods competitive to antibody
Clinical proof-of-concept in 45 immunocompromised blood cancer patients
- Remarkable remissions; Improvement in relapse and survival
- Anti-infectiveefficacy (viral/fungal/bacterial)
- No safety event (no CRS, no GVHD, no serious AE)
- Repeat dosing, persistence and proliferation in patients
KIADIS PHARMA | www.kiadis.com | CONFIDENTIAL | 2 |
K-NK cells: Sourced from optimal Universal Donors, manufactured with PM21, supplied off-the-shelf
1. Source panels of optimal Universal Donors
- Mature fully licensed NK cells as starting point
- Universal Donor, suitable for all patients, with disease specific attributes
2. Produce millions of doses of hyperfunctional K-NK cells using PM21
• Activation and expansion of Universal Donor NK cells with PM21 (membrane particles of FC21 mbIL21)
- Epigenetics and engineering to enhance product specific efficacy (knock outs, CARs)
- Cryopreservation and storage
3. Supply off-the-shelf supply, immediately available as needed for patients
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Broad applicability: hyper-functional, role across diseases
Natural NK cells: Role
against cancer and infectious disease
Hyper-functionalK-NK cells:
• PM21: all killing |
Synergy with antibodies:
Killing upon binding of disease specific antibodies via CD16 (ADCC)
Activation of adaptive | ||
immune system: | ||
Antibody | IFNγ | Secretion of cytokines, |
CD16 | including IFNγ | |
NK-cell
mechanisms | |
upregulated | |
• | Universal donor: |
optimal profile and | |
minimal inhibition |
KIRXDSX
Direct killing via multiple targets: 20+ receptors against stress and viral ligands (many indications, heterogeneous disease, escape)
Activating receptor
Inhibitory receptor
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No inhibition upon recognition of HLA 'self':
Donor-patient mismatch improves outcomes, no GVHD or safety risk
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Scalability and off the shelf supply: potential for 1 million doses from each donor
Each donor | Initial K-NK | K-NK expansion | 1 million doses | ||||
expansion for | for patient | ||||||
intermediate | High density | supply | K-NK Final | ||||
intermediate | inventory | ||||||
50 billion cells | bank; | 20 trillion cells | |||||
per 2 week run | Adequate for 50 | per 3 week run | |||||
(50 doses per run) | runs | (20,000 doses per run) |
Dosing: 1 billion cells/dose
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Pipeline: clinical proof-of-concept, cancer and infectious disease
PRE- | CLINICAL | CLINICAL | |||||||||||
PROGRAM | INDICATION | SETTING | PRODUCT | CLINICAL | PoC | PH. 1 | PH. 2 | STATUS | |||||
K-NK002 | HSCT in | Adjunctive to | Haplo | Phase 2 with US BMT- | |||||||||
blood cancer | SoC (PTCy) | 24 patients | CTN; IND approved | ||||||||||
K-NK003 | AML R/R | After induction | OTS | Phase 1 with US OSU; | |||||||||
(>3L salvage) | chemo (FLAG) | 21 patients | enrolling patients | ||||||||||
K-NK004 | Multiple | Combination | OTS | Upfront €17,5M; | |||||||||
myeloma | with Sarclisa | CD38KO | value >€875 million | ||||||||||
K-NK-ID101 | Influenza / | Prophylaxis & | OTS-ID | IND approved; funded | |||||||||
COVID-19 | treatment | by ARMI/US DoD | |||||||||||
Undisclosed | Cancers and | Stand alone or | Proof-of-concept | ||||||||||
infections | combo's | cancer study in 2020 | |||||||||||
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K-NK004 partnered to Sanofi - potential deal value >€875 million
- K-NK004targets €15 billion market in multiple myeloma
- Anti-CD38antibodies hamper their own efficacy by depleting patients' own NK cells (no ADCC available)
- In K-NK004 cells CD38 has been knocked out, thus K-NK004 can not be depleted
- Sanofi to combine K-NK004 with Sarclisa®, Sanofi's recently approved anti-CD38 antibody
- Sanofi gains exclusive worldwide rights to K-NK004
- K-NK004in combination with anti-CD38 antibodies in multiple myeloma and CD38+ blood cancers
- Two additional pre-clinical programs
- Potential deal value ~€875 million, plus royalties
- €17.5 million upfront
- €857.5 million in preclinical, clinical, regulatory and commercial milestones
- Up to low double-digit royalties on Sales by Sanofi
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K-NK unlimited opportunities
Separate products, based on disease specific:
- Universal donor profile
- K-NKattributes
- Engineering (optional)
- AML R/R (induction and maintenance)
- Multiple myeloma (with Sarclisa)
- CML (refractory to TKI)
- …
Blood | ||||
cancers | ||||
• HNC and CRC (with Erbitux) | Solid | Infectious | ||
• | Ovarian Cancer (with PARPi) | K-NK | ||
tumors | disease | |||
• | … |
Transplants
• Haplo HSCT
• Matched donor HSCT (OTS)
• …
KIADIS PHARMA | www.kiadis.com | CONFIDENTIAL
- Influenza/COVID-19
- Microbial hospital infections
- …
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K-NK: differentiated versus other platforms
COMPANY | CLINICAL | STAGE | SOURCE | REGU- | ENGI- | PARTNER | POTENCY & | SCALE UP & | ||
POC | LATORY | NEERNG | BREADTH | REGULATORY | ||||||
Nantkwest | ✓ | Phase 2 | Cell line | Cancer cell | Required | |||||
Fate | Phase 1 | iPSC | Cancer cell | Required | J&J | |||||
Takeda | ✓ | Phase 1/2a | Cord blood | Cancer cell | Required | Takeda | ||||
Nkarta | Preclinical | Donor | Cancer cell | Required | ||||||
Kiadis | ✓✓ | Phase 2 | Universal | PM21 | Optional & | Sanofi | ||||
donor | synergistic | US DoD | ||||||||
KIADIS PHARMA | www.kiadis.com | CONFIDENTIAL | 9 |
The future of immunotherapy: enoughof the rightNK cells
Dr. Carl June
Kiadis SAB member
"NK-cell therapy could significantly advance immuno-oncology."ASCO 2018
Others | K-NK | ||||
Functionality | Potent and persistent, repeat | ✓ | ✓✓ | ||
dosing | |||||
Breadth | Effective across indications, | ✓ | ✓✓ | ||
heterogeneous disease/escape | |||||
Manufacturing | Industrial/scalable and off-the- | ✓ | ✓✓ | ||
shelf | |||||
Regulatory | Safety profile suitable for mass | ✓✓ | |||
usage | |||||
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K-NK002
Adjunctive to standard of care haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) with post transplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy)
K-NK002: improvement in Survival, Relapse and GVHD in haplo HSCT
30 billion K-NK cells during HSCT (10 times healthy recipient levels):
- Residual tumor cells sensitized to NK cell killing by chemo
- Patient's own NK cells killed by chemo
Haplo HSCT | Haplo HSCT | |||||
matched control | ||||||
READ OUT AT 2 YEARS | with K-NK002 | Relapse | ||||
(US CIBMTR; | ||||||
(MDACC; n=24) | ||||||
n=160) | ||||||
Control: 38% | ||||||
Relapse | 4% | 38% | ||||
(30-46%) | ||||||
Relapse Free Survival | 66% | 44% | ||||
Non-Relapse-Mortality | 30% | 18% | K-NK002: 4% | |||
(0-16%) | ||||||
Overall Survival | 70% | 58% | ||||
Chronic GVHD | 0% | 44% | ||||
- Phase 1/2: Investigator trial at MDACC: AML/MDS/CML; patients in CR; 59% high risk cytogenetics, median follow up 44 months (range 15-61); dose escalation 13 pts at 105 to 108 cells/kg per dose; highest dose 11 pts at 108 cells/kg per dose
- Control: Matched control from US CIBMTR database (up to 1:4 per patient), matched for e.g., age, disease type/status
KIADIS PHARMA | www.kiadis.com | Ciurea et. al. Blood 2017; Ciurea EBMT2018; Ciurea Haplo2018; Ciurea ASH2019 12 | 12 |
K-NK002: Phase 2 NK-REALM in haplo HSCT - IND approved
Haploidentical donor
Single arm, open label, multicenter trial:
- 63 AML/MDS patients
- Adjunctive to haploidentical HSCT with PTCy
- Three doses of 108 NK cells/kg
- Safety lead in 6 patients (107 NK and 108 NK cells/kg)
- Primary endpoint: 1-year relapse
- Statistic plan: reduction from 30% (CIBMTR control) to 15% (K-NK002)
- Haplo donor; PM21 (bridging from FC21 accepted by FDA)
- With US Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT-CTN)
Peripheral blood collection no | Marrow collection on | |||||||||
later than day -35 | day 0 | |||||||||
NK cell | Marrow | |||||||||
expansion | infusion | |||||||||
Hydration | ||||||||||
-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 8 | 9 | 28 | ||
Marrow Collection/Infusion | Tacro/MMF beginning day 5 | |||||||||
Melphalan 140 mg/m2 | GCSF beginning day 7 | |||||||||
K-NK002 | Melphalan 100 mg/m2 | (Age 60 or older) | ||||||||
Fludarabine 40 mg/m2 | ||||||||||
TBI 2 Gy | Cyclophosphamide 50 mg/kg |
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K-NK002: addressing significant unmet need, with small commercial footprint
HSCT unmet need:
relapse, GVHD, survival
Haplo
Matched Unrelated Donor (MUD)
53% | 51%49% | |
45% | ||
38% | 38% | |
26% | 27% |
Acute | Chronic | Relapse Survival |
GVHD II-IV | GVHD |
Large patient population: | Top 25 centers perform 65% | ||||
>25,000 HSCTs per year | of HSCT procedures | ||||
US/EU | 2019 | 2024 | CAGR | ||
Thousand | |||||
Total | 24,2 | 25,7 | 1,2% | ||
Cord Blood | 1,2 | 1,0 | -4.0% | ||
MUD | 11,0 | 9,9 | -2.1% | ||
MRD | 6,6 | 6,7 | 0.2% | ||
Haplo | 5,4 | 8,2 | 8.5% | ||
All Centers | Top 25 Centers* | ||||
'Relapse is the major unmet need' Elmariah and Fuchs 2019; Robinson et al 2016
KIADIS PHARMA | www.kiadis.com | CONFIDENTIAL
Size of dot corresponds to total HSCT procedures
Overlap between top 25 sites and NK REALM sites
Simon-Kucher & Partners 2018, CIBMTR transplant data, 2014. Fuchs 207 (up to 3 years follow up; Weighted average of 5 PTCy/MUD comparison publications (n=463 PTCy and n=2647 MUD)
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K-NK003
Acute Myeloid Leukemia R/R: >3L salvage patients
K-NK003: Remarkable remissions in severe AML R/R >3L salvage patients
Single course after induction chemo (1-8 Billion K-NK cells)
SITES | PATIENTS | REMISSION | OTHER | |
MDACC | • 4-5 median prior treatments | CR/CRi: 75% (6pts) | • | Subsequent HSCT: |
(8 pts) | • 12 out of 21 patients relapsed | 43% (9 pts) | ||
after prior HSCT | ORR: 78,5% | • | With ORR: median | |
• 40% median BM blasts | OS 344 days (HCPA) | |||
HCPA | (11 pts) | |||
• Most refractory to FLAG | • | With CR/CRi: median | ||
Brazil | of which | |||
• Many with CNS disease and | DFS 199 days (HCPA) | |||
(13 pts) | CR: 50% (6 pts) | |||
infections, e.g., fungal, TB | ||||
CRi: 7% (1 pt) | ||||
Literature FLAG in >3L salvage population: CR: ~20%
Phase 1 Investigator trials: 6 doses in 11 day window at 106 and 107 cells/kg per dose of K-NK-cells from haplo donor; Produced with FC21
Ciurea SO et. al. ASCO2018; Ciurea SO Haplo2018; Silla L et al ASCO 2020; Silla L et al EHA 2020; Silla L et al EBMT 2020
NCCN guidelines; Roboz GJ, et al. JCO.2014; Jabbour E, et al. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma.2012; Ravandi et al, Blood 2010; Velluchamy 2017: 6 studies, Romee et al. 2016; Shaffer et al. 2016; Rubnitz et al. 2015; Bachanova et al. 2014; Curti et al. 2011; Miller et al. 2005; AML patients only
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K-NK003: Remarkable remissions in severe AML R/R >3L salvage patients (Brazil)
• Resolution of CNS and infections
• Inflammation at site of disease
• K-NK cells present in cerebrospinal fluid
• No dose-limiting toxicities; No cytokine storm syndrome
• All patients refractory to prior FLAG therapy
Source: Silla L et al, EHA 2020; Silla et al, ASCO 2020, abstract #3025; Silla L et al, EBMT 2020
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K-NK003: Remarkable remissions in severe AML R/R patients with CNS disease and infections (Brazil)
Patient 1: Female 48 | Patient 3: Female 48 | Patient 4: Male, 31 | Patient 5: Male, 22 | |||
CNS disease | Mycetoma (aspergillus) | Bone and nerve root | Uncus/ brain stem | |||
Infections | VRE (enterococcus); | Pulmonary tuberculosis | ||||
Pulmonary aspergillus | ||||||
Prior treatments | 6 (including HSCT) | 6 (including 2 HSCTs) | 4 (including HSCT) | 7 (including HSCT) | ||
Relapse | 4th relapse | 3rd relapse | 2nd relapse | 3rd relapse | ||
Total KNK cells | 1,4 B cells (106 cells/kg) | 2,5 B cells (6.9 × 106) | 2,9 B cells (5.5 × 106) | 3,3 B cells (8.3 × 106) | ||
infused | ||||||
Complete Response | CR | CR | CR(i) | CR | ||
Mycetoma resolved | TB resolved | |||||
Duration CR | 151 days | 301 days | 31 days | 168 days | ||
Overall Survival | 344 days (no HSCT) | 440 days (no HSCT) | 176 days (no HSCT) | 505 days (no HSCT) |
Source: Silla L et al, EHA 2020; Silla et al, ASCO 2020, abstract #3025; Silla L et al, EBMT 2020
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K-NK003: Remarkable remissions in severe AML R/R
patients
Male, 22 years (HCPA; Brazil)
- 7 lines of prior treatment, incl prior failed HSCT
- 2nd CNS relapse, refractory to therapy
- CR; Duration of response 168 days, no subsequent HSCT, overall survival 505 days
Male, 25 years (MDACC)
- 8 lines of prior treatment, incl prior failed HSCT
- Active disease, 90% BM blasts
- CR; Reduction of MRD during 4 months; No subsequent HSCT, overall survival 2 years
Pre-treatment: | 1 week after K-NK: | 6 months after: |
CNS disease | Inflammation | Disease free |
Minimum residual disease (% BM blasts)
K-NK003
CR
Continued MRD
reduction
Days
Silla L et al EBMT 2020
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K-NK003: Phase 1 in AML R/R (with Ohio State University) - enrolling
Kiadis supported, single arm, open label, investigator-initiated trial
- Primary refractory AML, relapsed AML (>3L salvage)
- Ages: 18 to 80 yrs
- Objective: Establish safety for induction of remission
- Endpoints: Recommended phase 2 dose; Overall Response Rate
- Single course (6 doses within 11 days after induction chemo)
- Dose escalation: 1 x 107 and 3 x 107
- FC21 (switching over to PM21)
- Retreatment/maintenance (if no subsequent transplant)
- Universal Donor; Off the shelf
Potential for further improved outcomes versus current data:
- No waiting time before treatment of patient
- Superior Universal donor
- Retreatment/maintenance
- Higher dose level
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K-NK-ID101:
Universal platform for Respiratory/COVID-19 Seasonal and pandemic
K-NK cells in infectious disease: clinical data in severely immuno-suppressed patients
Immuno-suppressed HSCT patients (K-NK002): | Immuno-compromised patients (K-NK003): | ||||
anti-viral | anti-microbial | ||||
• Patient 1: pulmonary and | |||||
Control | CNS fungal infection resolved | ||||
(aspergillosis) | |||||
K-NK002 | Control | • | |||
Patient 3: pulmonary | |||||
K-NK002 | |||||
tuberculosis resolved | |||||
• | Patient 11: ascending | ||||
cholangitis resolved (E.coli) | |||||
Literature haplo HSCT: 63% CMV reactivation and 30% BKV infections
Ciurea et. al. Blood 2017; ASCO 2020, L. Silla abstract #3025;
CMV (482 out of 766 patients) and BKV (151 out of 504 patients): Ramlal 2016; Mohty 2019; Malki 2018; Crochiollo 2015; Goldsmth 2016; Slade 2017; Gaballa 2016; Solomon 2015; Raiola 2012; Luznik 2008
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K-NK-ID101: address unmet need for influenza & COVID-19
Need:
Prophylaxis/treatment for all seasonal/pandemic strains for influenza and COVID-19
Unmet need with current products:
- Specificity (separate for each virus/strain)
- Time (especially in pandemic)
- Immunocompromised/high risk patients (product efficacy)
K-NK-ID101:
Universal pre-/post-exposure prophylaxis and treatment:
Effective across all influenza/SARS strains
Immunocompromised/high-risk patients, healthcare
workers and military:
Hospital/outpatient setting
Seasonal and early pandemic response:
Off the shelf; Scalable; Health economic benefit
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Influenza - NK cells effective across strains, lymphopenia associated with severity of disease
Effective against across strains | NK-cell lymphopenia associated with | NK-cell inhibition associated with | ||||||||
(example H3N2) | severe disease (H1N1 2009) | severe disease (H1N1 2009) | ||||||||
Uninfected | % NK-cell | |||||||||
A/Eng/878/1969 | Mild | Severe | ||||||||
Lymphopenia | ||||||||||
A/Eng/327/1990 | ||||||||||
A/Eng/919/1999 | ||||||||||
3% | 67% | |||||||||
A/Eng/24/2000 | At enrolment | |||||||||
(1/39) | (6/9) | |||||||||
While | 13% | 100% | ||||||||
admitted | (5/39) | (10/10) | ||||||||
After | 5% | 12% | ||||||||
recovery | (1/19) | (1/8) | ||||||||
'NK cells play a vital role in the early control of influenza virus replication.' 'Lung tissues from infants with fatal influenza demonstrate a near absence of CD8 T cells and NK cells such that severity has been attributed to inadequate rather than excessive immune responses'
KIADIS PHARMA | www.kiadis.com | CONFIDENTIAL | Owen et al, J. Virol. 2007; Aranda et al, 2012; La et al, PLOS 2011; Fox et al, PLOS 2012 | 24 |
COVID-19 - NK cell lymphopenia associated with severity of disease
Severe patients have fewer | NK cells in severe patients | Lower proportion of NK cells |
NK cells | make less IFNy | correlates with longer disease |
Duration of illness
Recovered patients: number of NK cells is restored and number of cells expressing NKG2A
(marker of immature or exhausted cells) is reduced
Apoil PA 2017; Zhang 2020; Chen 2020; Liu 2020; Zheng 2020
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K-NK-ID101: Enhanced antiviral potency
Stronger cytotoxicity | Upregulated anti-viral receptors |
K-NK cells |
Normal blood NK-cells
Similar for NKp46 and CD16
Denman et al., PLoSONE, 7(1), 2012
Increased cytokine secretion
10000 | ||||||
[pg/ml] | 1000 | |||||
Supernatant | 10 | |||||
100 | ||||||
1 | mbIL15 | mbIL21 | mbIL15 | mbIL21 | ||
Fresh | Fresh | |||||
IFNg | IL-2 |
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K-NK-ID101: collaborations COVID-19
Research with Dutch consortium:
- Mode of Action
- Function vs Phenotype
- Interplay with antiviral antibodies (mAb & vaccines)
- In vitro & in vivo influenza and CoV infection models
Phase 1/2 with NCH (En-Cor;IND approved; 30 patients)
Research
Phase 1/2a trial
Marketing | |||||||||||
authorization | |||||||||||
Phase 3 trials | |||||||||||
Large-scale supply | |||||||||||
GMP large | |||||||||||
Emergency use | contract US | ||||||||||
scale | |||||||||||
authorization | government | ||||||||||
Phase 2b trials | capacity (> | ||||||||||
Initial supply | |||||||||||
GMP capacity | million doses | ||||||||||
contract US | |||||||||||
p.a.) | |||||||||||
expansion | government | ||||||||||
ARMI/DoD funded $9,5M | Future funding |
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K-NK-ID101: attractive seasonal and pandemic opportunity
Immunocompromised/high risk patients (US target population: >>>10 million):
- Immunosuppressed: Transplants, Cancer, RA, Crohn, MS, COPD, Asthma
- Immuno-compromised:SCID, PID, sickle cell anemia
- Co-morbidities:Heart disease, stroke, HIV/AIDS, CKD, CF, liver disease
- Critical and intensive care patients
- Neonates
- Pregnant woman
- Nursing home residents
Pandemic response (US target population: >10 million):
- Healthcare workers (8 million in US)
- Law enforcement/firefighters (2 million in US)
- Military (2,3 million in US)
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Corporate
The transformation of Kiadis in 2020
1H 2019
Acquired CytoSen Therapeutics and NK-cell platform
Phase 3 and preparation potential commercial launch of ATIR
Restructured business; focusing on K-NK programs
Formed NK-cell scientific advisory board
Terminated ATIR
2H 2019
Efficacy and persistence data in 45 patients and K-NK platform data at major medical meetings (ASGCT, ASCO, EHA)
IND approved for K-NK002 phase 2 study (NK-REALM; 63 patients)
First patient enrolled and treated for K-NK003 Phase 1 in R/R AML
2020 YTD
Partnered new K-NK004 program to Sanofi; potential deal value of
>€875 million
Launched infectious disease; IND approved for K-NK-ID101 in COVID-19 trial; $9.5 million US government grant received
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Kiadis: strong leadership team with unique cell therapy experience & renowned scientific advisory board
MANAGEMENT TEAM | SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD |
ARTHUR LAHR, CEO
ROBERT FRIESEN, CSO
ANDREW SANDLER, CMO
DIRK DE NAEYER, COO
AMY SULLIVAN, CStratO
RAY BARLOW, CBO
CARL JUNE, MD
CHIARA BONINI, MD
DEAN LEE, MD, PhD, Chairman
ELAINE MARDIS, PhD
HELEN HESLOP, MD, DSc
KRISHNA KOMANDURI, MD
MICHAEL CALIGIURI, MD
TODD FEHNIGER, MD, PhD
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Kiadis: significant progress in 2020 sets the stage for a promising 2021
2020 | 2021 | |||||
✓ IND filing and approval for NK-REALM study | • Completion safety lead-in and start open enrolment | |||||
K-NK002 | NK-REALM Phase 2 trial | |||||
✓ Updates existing clinical proof-of-concept trials | ||||||
HSCT | • Interim efficacy and persistence data NK-REALM | |||||
• Start NK-REALM Phase 2 trial enrolment | ||||||
Phase 2 trial | ||||||
K-NK003 | ✓ IND approval for Phase 1 trial | |||||
✓ Start Phase 1 trial enrolment | • Interim efficacy/safety data Phase 1 trial | |||||
AML R/R | ||||||
✓ Updates existing clinical proof-of-concept trials | ||||||
K-NK-ID101 | ✓ Establish and execute R&D collaborations | • Start Phase 1/2 enrolment | ||||
Influenza / | ✓ Government grants | • Interim read out Phase 1/2 trial | ||||
COVID-19 | ✓ IND approval Phase 1/2 trial | • | Additional government grants | |||
✓ Preclinical data | • Interim clinical data proof of concept | |||||
✓ Pharma/biotech BD partnership | ||||||
Other | • | Pharma/biotech BD partnership | ||||
• Start clinical proof-of-concept (signal) trials in | ||||||
• Start new clinical studies | ||||||
solid/blood tumors | ||||||
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Risks associated with our business
The following are a selection the key risks that relate to our industry and business, operations and financial condition, and to our shares. For further information on the risks that we are subject to, reference is made to the risk factors included in our financial statements and any prospectus that we may publish from time to time.
- We are dependent on external funding in the foreseeable future and require substantial additional funding to continue our operations, including during the next twelve months. If we are unable to raise funding when needed or on acceptable terms, we could be forced to delay, reduce or terminate our development programs and may be unable to continue as a going concern and ultimately go into insolvency.
- We have a history of operating losses and will continue to incur operating losses for the foreseeable future. We may never achieve profitability, while our net losses are expected to fluctuate significantly.
- We are early in our development efforts and all of our programs are in early stage clinical development or preclinical development. If we are unable to advance our programs through clinical development, obtain regulatory approval and commercialize one or more of our product candidates, we may never generate any product revenue and our business will be materially adversely affected.
- Our NK-cell platform and the technologies we are using are new and unproven. The use of NK-cells expressed with PM21 particles and the use of universal donors for NK-cells is a novel and unproven therapeutic approach without any clinical studies in humans with NK-cells produced with our NK-platform having been performed yet, and our development of our NK-platform and our NK-programs may never lead to a marketable product.
- In relation to our lead program K-NK002 and K-NK003,investigator-initiatedproof-of-concept studies have been performed, which may affect the reliability of the results and data generated in these studies and the extent that these are of use for the further development of these programs.
- We may experience setbacks in our clinical trials, including delays in commencing, conducting or completing, inability to commence, conduct or complete, or inconclusive or negative results, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
- Due to our limited resources and access to capital, we must prioritize development of certain programs and our decision to pursue these programs may prove to be unsuccessful as they may never receive regulatory approval or achieve profitability.
- We currently rely on a single contract manufacturing organization to provide supplies of our product candidates for our planned clinical trials. We expect to increase manufacturing capacity by using existing or other CMOs and potentially in the future developing our own manufacturing facilities for clinical trials and commercial production of our products. We have no experience operating a manufacturing facility, and we may not be successful in developing our own manufacturing facilities or capacity in the future if we chose this route. If we cannot manufacture our product candidates in sufficient amounts, with CMOs or ourselves, at acceptable costs and on a timely basis, we may be unable to supply sufficient products for clinical trials or to support commercialization.
- In order to have sufficient NK-cells for our planned clinical trials we need to improve and scale up our NK-cell manufacturing process. This could require the process or parts thereof to be changed, which may require revalidation, additional comparability or bridging clinical trials and regulatory vetting and we may experience setbacks in our trials if we do not succeed in improving and upscaling this process or experience delays.
- We rely on third parties who license intellectual property rights to us, including intellectual property relating to our NK-platform. If any such license is terminated, we may be unable to commercialize and market our products candidates.
- The price of our shares may be volatile and fluctuate significantly.
- Ownership of our shares is highly concentrated and the interests of our significant shareholders may conflict with the interests of our other shareholders.
- Future sales and issuances, or the possibility of future sales or issuances, of a substantial number of shares could significantly lower the price of our shares and dilute the interests of shareholders.
- There may be limited liquidity of our shares, which may affect the price of the shares and make it difficult for investors to sell shares at or above the price paid for them or at all.
- We may implement anti-takeover protection that may prevent a change of control, and Dutch corporate law contains provisions that may delay or discourage a takeover attempt.
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