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| Our financial strength allows us to advance the Phase 2 hepatitis delta and hepatitis B programs through multiple milestones, invest in our core antibody platform and provide flexibility to evaluate external innovation |
| He leads a strong clinical development team in place, positioning us well for continued success, and I wish him the very best |
| As I reflect on 2023, I'm proud of the clinical progress we have made towards developing a potential treatment for patients with chronic hepatitis delta, a potential functional cure for the millions living with chronic hepatitis B, as well as a differentiated approach to preventing HIV |
| That excitement has meaningfully translated into our ability to rapidly enroll patients, both with and without cirrhosis ahead of schedule in our SOLSTICE study |
| So to close, we are eagerly anticipating our multiple data catalysts that's really in our mind holds a great promise for patient impact and for value creation |
| I have full confidence in Vir's future and the ability of our promising clinical programs to impact the lives of millions of patients |
| We aim to develop a best-in-class treatment, which we believe will drive increased diagnosis rates and position Vir to become the leader in hepatitis delta |
| Our financial strength allows us to fund our clinical programs through major infection points while enabling the flexibility to invest in external innovation opportunities |
| And third, we are very excited about VIR-1949, which is a potential therapeutic T-cell vaccine that builds on our human cytomegalovirus vaccine vector platform and targets precancerous HPV lesions |
| So you can assume that even if you were to access only a modest portion of this population and if you think about pricing that would reflect really the clinical benefit of a potential transformative therapy, taking that together, you are confident that you would already be looking at a very large and significant market opportunity |
| We're pleased to share our financial results for the fourth quarter of 2023 and the full year |
| That would set a gold standard that I think we could definitely show a meaningful benefit on, because it would require everyone to, at the first instance, get to the lower limit of quantification where we would have a possible advantage over the standard of care |
| So I think we're excited and looking forward to that data |
| And of course, in a limited set of patients but still very impressive data |
| But what we are really doing now is broadening that vision to, we call it, powering the immune system, which is really giving patients the ability to empower the immune system to either fight infection, fight cancer |
| We attributed rapid rate of enrollment to the positive clinician and patient interest following the initial data we reported at AASLD last year |
| First of all, what is going to be really critical is for someone to have a proven track record in advancing therapies really through Phase 3 and having experience bringing therapeutics all the way to market |
| And we are well on our way as we said to powering the immune system to transform lives |
| These data are encouraging and we look forward to sharing end of treatment data from the March Part B trial, which is evaluating 48 weeks of the doublet and triplet regimens in the fourth quarter |
| So those three candidates are VIR-7229, the next generation COVID antibody I spoke about earlier with its increased breadth and potency, thanks to our AI engineering platform |
| And as Phil pointed out, we have a very talented leadership team here in our clinical group |
| While participant numbers are small, these data were recognized by several hepatologists as one of the most exciting advancements shared at the AASLD Conference in 2023 |
| And really what we're always looking for is obviously something that is differentiated and something that we believe can make an impact on patient's lives |
| It is important to appreciate that there is a significant underserved patient population in need of a safe, highly efficacious and convenient therapy for treating hepatitis delta |
| So we think as well as clinicians that getting to undetectable or below the limit of quantification would be strongly preferred |
| So the type of expansion that we are looking at, Alec, is really rooted in our strengths as a company and where we have deep expertise, and that is in immunology, virology and oncology |
| We continue to advance antibody therapeutics, optimized for increased likelihood of development success, thanks to our proprietary platform powered by AI and machine learning |
| Vir has been a family to me, as well as an all consuming passion for the last seven plus years |
| To position us for success, we are collaborating with patient advocacy groups and policy makers to improve surveillance and screening |
| Based on the data reported in our ongoing Phase 2 trials thus far, we believe our two therapeutic candidates, tobevibart and elebsiran, have the potential to play a critical role in delivering high functional cure rates for chronic hepatitis B patients |
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| And this line item could make the negative contribution to our top line due to the ongoing required investments to support the marketing authorization of sotrovimab, which our partner GSK leads the efforts in |
| The primary driver for the year-over-year decline is lower collaboration revenues from sotrovimab |
| And the fact that there is a lack of good options for many of them is also clear |
| So both on an OpEx basis and cash utilization basis, we would be significantly lower than 2023, which we would consider a peak year driven by the flu study and related manufacturing |
| The year-over-year decline was driven by lower third party royalties owed on sotrovimab sales |
| The expected year-over-year decline is driven primarily by; first, the absence of expenses from the Phase 2 flu trial, evaluating VIR-2482 and related manufacturing costs in 2024, partially offset by the ramp up of our hepatitis delta and hepatitis B programs in 2024; and second, the cost optimization measures taken in 2023 |
| And I'll just round out my statement by saying, on a operating expense basis when you exclude the noncash significant items, we would expect to be down 18% year-over-year, which is significant and again, from all the cost optimization efforts undertaken last year and coming off the peak of the flu investment last year as well |
| For example, if you go from seven logs to five logs, you still have a hundred thousand copies of the virus in your blood per milliliter and that obviously does not sound good |
| For the full year of 2023, we reported a consolidated net loss of $615.1 million compared to a net income of $515.8 million in 2022 |
| On the HDV SOLSTICE trial, there was some ALT elevations seen with 2218 monotherapy, which came down with the combo |
| For the fourth quarter of 2023, we reported a consolidated net loss of $116 million compared to a net loss of $101.6 million for the same period in 2022 |
| The decrease was primarily driven by the wind down of the Phase 2 flu study of VIR-2482 in the fourth quarter of 2023 |
| Decompensated patients are obviously much more fragile and have a high one year mortality |
| And I must say also since the news has gone out this week, we have received a flood of inquiries |
| And we do believe that this is likely a growth underestimate given that diagnosis is really not optimal at this moment in time |
| But I think when you speak to physicians, providers and virologists, what they'll say is they're not sure what a two log decline actually means |
| I think you also asked a question about regulatory feedback |
| So I think that there's, again, no reason to believe there's a concern, but that's why we do the clinical trials |
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