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| Despite a challenging macro environment in 2023, we maintained a strong balance sheet position and executed efficiently to position the company to create potentially significant value inflections that will be realized over the next 12 to 18 months |
| Successes include Immunocore Tebentafusp in Uveal Melanoma, the first approved T-cell engager for solid tumors, and more recently Amgen's Tarlatamab targeting DLL3, which has demonstrated impressive results in small cell lung cancer |
| And that, again, has translated into what we interpret as a successful decreasing of target engagement |
| CX-2051 has demonstrated a wide predicted therapeutic index and strong preclinical activity and tolerability in multiple preclinical models, including colorectal cancer |
| The promise of masking and conditional activation strategies to improve the therapeutic window for potent biologics like ADCs, T-cell engagers and cytokines continues to be an important and exciting frontier in cancer R&D and our leadership in this field at CytomX derives from more than a decade of innovation with the Probody therapeutic platform |
| The field of antibody masking and conditional activation is continuing to accelerate, and we remain very well positioned to build on the depth of our experience as a leading innovator in this area |
| 2024 promises to be an exciting year for us and the longer-term outlook for 2025 and beyond is also very compelling as we make progress across our multimodality pipeline |
| Overall, our prudent financial management of the company and focused capital allocation priorities has resulted in continued balance sheet strength as we progressed our pipeline |
| We're really excited to see what this unique and first-in-class ADC can do for patients |
| This cash guidance does not assume any additional milestones from existing collaborations or any new business development, both of which CytomX has a strong track record of obtaining |
| So we're excited to see this progress across the field |
| So the field has come a long way, and we're excited to see now in the hands of others these types of approach is also beginning to gain some traction |
| Notably, this shift in focus within the BMS alliance now means that the majority of our partner programs are now focused on T-cell engagers, reflecting strong strategic interest in this area and showing that this modality is emerging as a key application of masking and conditional activation |
| At CytomX, we have a broad-based program focused on masking T-cell engagers to decrease tumor antigen binding in normal tissues and CD3 binding in the periphery, thereby improving therapeutic index |
| Our partnerships have consistently been a strategic pathway for value creation and financing opportunities that allow us to generate non-dilutive capital while increasing the reach of our platform |
| There has been tremendous progress in ADCs in the past few years and the impact for patients has driven significant strategic interest in this field |
| Our partnerships continue to advance and have generated more than $500 million of incoming cash to date, and we see near-term opportunities for additional milestone payments in 2024 and 2025 |
| T-cell engaging bispecific antibodies have enormous potential for the treatment of cancer and first demonstrated meaningful clinical benefit in hematologic malignancies |
| It has demonstrated clinical activity and gained regulatory approval many years ago in multiple cancer types, including melanoma, renal cancer and bladder cancer |
| Looking across the T-cell engager landscape for solid tumors is taken time to see meaningful clinical results, but we're now starting to see important breakthroughs generating great excitement |
| CytomX entered 2024 with a strong balance sheet, with $175 million in cash, cash equivalents and investments as of December 31, 2023, compared to $194 million at the end of 2022 |
| We are making steady progress in the clinic, having now advanced through multiple dose cohorts at above dose levels that would be expected to be tolerated with an unmasked EGFR T-cell engager |
| Moreover, we've also shown that systemic activity of our masked interferon is significantly reduced and overall tolerability is markedly improved compared to the unmasked cytokine in animal models |
| We have armed the antibody with a cytotoxic payload based on camptothecin, a topoisomerase I inhibitor, a class of drug that has shown potent clinical anticancer activity in the ADC context for multiple targets, leading to dramatic advances for patients |
| The development of these and other programs has not only provided long awaited proof-of-concept, but this important work has also helped to increasingly define a roadmap and key considerations for how to optimally develop this emerging class of potent therapies including optimization of dosing paradigms |
| Interferon therapy has recently returned to focus with Ferring Pharmaceuticals' approval in 2022 of Adstiladrin, an interferon alpha-2b encoding gene therapy indicated for the treatment of localized BCG nonresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, reaffirming that this potent cytokine could indeed achieve robust antitumor responses in patients |
| Our foundational clinical work with the Probody platform has achieved many firsts in demonstrating how marketing strategies could be effective in cancer patients, and we have opened a broad field in which progress continues to accelerate |
| We saw an increase in revenue due to a higher percentage of completion for research programs in the Bristol-Myers Squibb collaboration and the recent collaborations with Regeneron and Moderna |
| We've had a highly productive start to 2024 |
| Our cash position reflects our focus on controlling costs and efficient capital allocation, as well as our consistent track record of funding the company through a mix of both strategic business development and equity financing over time |
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| However, for this modality to fully breakthrough in solid tumors, there are still significant challenges to overcome |
| Efforts to generate systemically administered anti-EpCAM therapeutics have not been successful to-date due to toxicities in epithelial tissues, including the GI tract |
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