novel integrin receptor antagonist - clanotech.se · (lucentis required monthly), prevent fellow...
TRANSCRIPT
Patrizia Caldirola, Ph.D., CEO
September 2013
Novel integrin receptor antagonist
Partnering Opportunity
Disclaimer
• The information and opinions in this document have not been independently verified. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is given by Clanotech AB – nor their respective directors, partners, officers, affiliates, employees, advisers or agents - as to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this document or that the document necessarily contains such information that would be considered desirable or necessary in order to evaluate a potential investment in Clanotech AB, and assume no responsibility for the use of or relying on the information in this document.
• The information contained in this document is submitted to parties for use solely in connection with their consideration of the transaction opportunity described herein. By its acceptance hereof, the recipient agrees that neither it nor any of its employees or advisors shall use the information for any purpose other than the evaluation of the business opportunity, nor shall it divulge the information or distribute this document to any other party, in whole or in part, at any time without the prior written consent of Clanotech AB.
• This document will not constitute or form part of any offer for sale of shares in Clanotech AB, and is not to be taken as constituting the giving of investment advice by Clanotech AB.
2
CLT-28643
1. Small molecule α5β1 integrin inhibitor with unique
properties and anti-angiogenic and anti-fibrotic effects
2. Therapy for maintenance of intraocular pressure
(IOP) following glaucoma surgery
3. Opportunity for treatment and prevention of wet Age
related Macular Degeneration (wAMD)
4. Possible use in both front- and back-of-eye
indications
3
Market Potential:
Glaucoma Surgery USD 590 – 960m
wAMD USD >1.5bn
Clanotech AB in Brief
• Founded in 2006 by Prof. Yihai Cao at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska Development 2006
• Focus on development of CLT-28643 for ophthalmology
• Privately owned. Main shareholders: Karolinska Development (S) and Rosetta Capital (UK)
• Virtual company with 1FTE (Dr Patrizia Caldirola, CEO)
• Offices on campus of Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Intellectual Property
• CLT-28643 composition of matter patent filed
2009
• Expiry in 2028 with possibility for extension in
Europe, USA, Japan and other countries with
legislation for patent term extensions
5
CLT-28643 at a glance
6
Drug target α5β1 integrin inhibitor
Properties Anti-angiogenic, anti-fibrotic, anti-inflammatory
Class Small molecule
Target indications
supported by data
Maintain IOP after Glaucoma filtration surgery
Orphan indication but market size growing
No approved drug on the EU market, Mitomycin C in USA
Market potential US$ 590m - 960m, launch 2019.
Systemic treatment of wAMD with selective accumulation in the target organs
also treating the fellow eye
Unique drug profile in a blockbuster market
No known competitors with similar product offering
Safety GLP 28 day systemic toxicology study completed
Stage First Clinical Study scheduled for 1H 2014 in Glaucoma Surgery
IP Composition of matter patent pending, priority date 2009
Other indications Diabetic eye disease, fibrotic conditions, solid tumors
CLT-28643 Lead indications
7
Glaucoma surgery (subconjunctival) wAMD (non-injectable)
• Maintain IOP by preventing failure of filtering
glaucoma surgery
• Replace Mitomycin C
• ↑ bleb survival
• ↓ other medications
• Better long term safety
• 1st line co-administration with anti-VEGF
• ↑ response rate
• ↓Fellow eye involvement
• ↓ anti-VEGF injection
• ↓ fibrosis,
• ↓ RPE-atrophy
Unmet need: prolonged effect duration,
reduced number of intravitreal injections
(Lucentis required monthly), prevent fellow eye
disease, more patients achieving 20/40
Attractive features:
• Non-injectable
• Prevention of wAMD of the fellow eye too
• complementary to current therapy Lucentis
Unmet need: Safe prevention of surgical failure.
Currently used cytotoxic drugs have
unpredictable outcome and toxicity
Attractive features:
• No satisfactory drug approved today
• Large market but with orphan drug
designation‘
• Non-cytotoxic anti-fibrotic and anti-
inflammatory drug
α5β1-integrin
• Transmembrane receptor
– inactive (quiescent cells) and active
(pathology)
– Not required for normal cell maintenance
• Fibronectin is the natural ligand
• Expressed in vascular endothelial cells,
fibroblasts, inflammatory cells, keratinocytes
• α5β1 integrin drives endothelial cell proliferation
and angiogegensis
• High expression of α5β1 integrin in proliferating
choroidal blood vessels but not in normal
vessels
• High expression of α5β1 in fibrotic scar after
glaucoma surgery
9
Motility Survival Proliferation
a5b1 plays a pivotal role in pathogenic processes connected
with angiogenesis, inflammation and fibrosis
CLT-28643 - Multiple distinct actions
10
VEGF bFGF Ang
/Tie2
ANGIOGENESIS
α5β1
Fibroblast activation and migration
FIBROSIS
anti-α5β1
CLT-28643
• CLT-28643 inhibits angiogenesis, fibrosis and inflammation
• essential elements in the pathology of wAMD and failure of glaucoma
filtration surgery
• CLT-28643 acts via a distinct and complementary pathway to anti-VEGFs.
CLT-28643 – Substantial Preclinical Data
• Inhibition a5b1-integrin conformational changes
leading to inhibition of migration and adhesion of
endothelial cells
• Pronounced anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory
effects in lung fibrosis in vivo model
• Maintains the reduction of IOP (intraocular
pressure) in rabbit after trabeculectomy over 28
days and prolongs bleb survival compared to
vehicle
• Blocks abnormal blood vessels growth in the eye
in CNV (choroidal neovascularization), ROP
(retinopathy of prematurity) and zebra fish
models.
11
1. Maintenance of IOP by preventing
failure of filtration glaucoma surgeries
2. Oral treatment of wAMD
12
CLT-28643 - Key Indications
CLT-28643 in Glaucoma Surgery - Overview
– First in class - small molecule α5β1-integrin antagonist
– Favorable physico-chemical properties supporting prolonged effect
of duration
– Orphan drug opportunity, but growing market size
– Faster to market
– Limited competition
– Market potential US$ 590m - 960m, launch 2019
13
Glaucoma Surgery
• Glaucoma patients (EU+US) expected to increase
to >14.7 million by 2021
• Estimated number of surgical procedures (excluding
laser procedures) in
• 2021 = 348,000
• 2025 = 402,000
• Filtering Surgery: Creates enhanced drainage of
aqueous humour from the anterior chamber to
subconjunctival space.
• High failure rate due to fibrosis
• 28 – 51% (depending on definition)
• Adjuvants used today are cytotoxic antimetabolites:
• Mitomycin C (MMC) mainly in US and EU
• 5-FU mainly in JP and Australia
• MMC approved in the US, otherwise off-label
14
Glaucoma Surgery - Unmet Medical Need
15
Mitomycin C assisted trabeculectomy
Maintain low IOP and ↑Bleb survival
↓Complications
CLT-28643
11
6
15
55
17
26
37
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Wound leak
Hypotony
Shallow Ant. Chamber
Cataract after 4 years
Cataract after 1 year
Failure rate (≤18mmHg)
Failure rate (≤15mmHg)
%
Market research
• Revenues from USD$590M to USD$960M in 2025 (Procedure-based
model)
• Glaucoma surgeon KOLs indicate
• Prevention of failure of filtering glaucoma surgery is still an important
unmet medical need
• Todays treatment is not satisfactory, especially in view of failure rate and
long term safety
• CLT-28643 offers tremendous potential with its combination of efficacy
and safety
• CLT-28643 would be used in the majority of their filtering surgery cases,
both intra-operatively and post-surgically
• Payers in the US would likely cover CLT-28643 with reimbursement similar to
that for other orphan drugs.
CLT-28643 meets the efficacy and safety criteria in
the rabbit trabeculectomy study
• Maintains IOP reduction throughout the study – The IOP effect of one subconjunctival
injection lasts for 21 days
– Inhibition of collagen deposition
• Well tolerated – No signs of toxicity or prolonged
inflammation following one subconjunctival injection and eye drops QID for 28 days
– Better safety than MMC evidenced as less loss of goblet cells
17
Competition – Adjuvant to Glaucoma Surgery
• Source: MedTRACK
Product Originator / Licensee Class / Mechanism of Action Stage of
Development Launch Date
Mitosol (MMC) Mobius Therapeutics DNA Polymerase
Inhibitor/Antifibrotic Marketed in US 2012
PRM151 Promedior
Amylid P component, serum
(recombinant,
human)/Antifibrotic
Phase II (EU) Discontinued
ALT-401 Altacor, Ltd. TGF-Beta Inhibitor/Antifibrotic Phase II No CT registered
JB991 Swedish Orphan Biovitrum Cyclopentenone prostaglandin
analoge/antiproliferative agent Preclinical TBD
bFGF Essex Bio-Technology Ltd. Fibroblast Growth Factor
Agnonist/Angiogensis Inducer Preclinical TBD
ACUHTR028 Opko Health
TGF-Beta Inhibitor/Antifibrotic
Preclinical TBD
P144 Digna Biotech TGF-Beta Inhibitor/Antifibrotic Preclinical TBD
ISV120 InSite Vision MMP-2 & MMP-9 Inhibitor/Anti-
inflammatory Preclinical Discontinued
Modest competition – High Unmet medical Need
CLT-28643 – In Glaucoma Surgery
Differentiating features versus other programs
19
Small molecule High metabolic and chemical stability
Standardized and controllable process chemistry
Favorable physico-chemical properties supporting prolonged effect of duration
Long lasting effect of a single subconjunctival injection
Optimal balance for the wound healing process due to the anti-fibrotic
combined with anti-inflammatory and anti-angiogenic effects
Long ½ life in the eye
CLT-28643 - Glaucoma Surgery Status and Development Plan
I
M
P PI/II PIII Reg
N= 65 + 65
6 months follow up
t
o
x
Ocular Safety
Clinical supply
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
20
CLT-28643 – Proof-of-concept (Phase I/II)
21
Double blind Double masked, randomised clinical trial comparing the use of CLT-28643 with
placebo (or MMC) to maintain low IOP after first-time trabeculectomy
Race Caucasian
Treatment CLT-28643 peroperative subconjunctival injection +
(repeated injection schedule TBD after PK results)
Duration of treatment 3 months
Follow up 6 months after trabeculectomy
Primary Objectives IOP, responder analysis at 6m after trabeculectomy
Secondary Objective Local tolerance, Difference in mean IOP at 6 months, bleb morphology
Use of post operative medications for IOP
Number of Subjects TBD but estimated at 2 x 65 subjects
Number of Centres 10
#pt/site 2 pt/ month /site
1. Maintenance of IOP by preventing
failure of glaucoma filtration surgeries
2. Oral treatment of wAMD
22
CLT-28643 - Key Indications
Wet Age Related Macula Degeneration (wAMD)
• Progressive disease resulting in loss of central vision
• Associated with inflammation, new vessel growth and leakage into retina and
scarring disrupting photoreceptor’s function
• wAMD is the form causing 90% loss of vision
• Prevalence 1.75 million in US (3 million in 2020)
• Risk of fellow eye involvement 12% p.a.
23
wAMD - Unmet Medical Need
24
Complementary MoA to anti-VEGFs
Effect on both eyes (oral)
Selectively accumulates in eye
Maintenance therapy (↓ injections)
No effect on normal retina
CLT-28643
Anti-VEGF Therapy
• Only third of treated patients recover ≥3 lines of
vision
• Fellow eye not protected
– 50% risk in 5 years
• Rapid onset but short lasting anti-leakage effect
• Monthly injections needed
– (US$1500-2000/injection)
• No effect on size of CNV membrane
• Safety concerns with chronic use
CLT-28643 – Preclinical Pharmacology
25
In vivo anti-angiogenic effect was demonstrated in
multiple models of eye neovascularization • Murine models CNV and ROP models
Effect obtained with different routes of administration • Oral, subcutanous and intravitreal
Unique kinetics
• accumulation in the eye and low systemic exposure following multiple
routes of administration
CLT-28643 in wAMD - Differentiating features
26
• Non-injectable treatment in development
– Simultaneous treatment of the fellow eye
– Convenient and quality of life
• Favourable kinetic after systemic administration
– High concentration & long ½-life in retina and choroid, low plasma
concentrations
• Complementary to anti-VEGF
– potential to be used in combination
• Anti-fibrotic effect in addition to anti-angiogenic effect
• α5β1 integrin not required for normal tissue maintenance
– Low potential for toxicity to normal retina
• Market penetration & Potential
• Broad and rapid uptake driven by both convenience and efficacy improvements
• Market Potential USD >1.5bn
• Product assumptions
• Oral administration
• ↓anti-VEGF to quarterly injections after initial 3x monthly injections
• Fellow eye involvement reduced
• ↑Vision compared to anti-VEGF mono treatment
• Pricing Assumptions
• Generic ranibizumab (Lucentis) likely to be available when launching CLT-28643
• Price: 50% price premium compared to savings on injections and service utilisation (i.e. cost neutral scenario)
• 2282 USD/year
27
Market potential: USD >1.5bn
CLT-28643 – wAMD development plan
Clanotech is seeking an industrial partnership for the
development of CLT-28643 in wAMD
28
2014 2015 2016 2017
Ph1 PIIa PhIIb
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
PhIII Reg
wAMD – Competition
29
Product Target Company Phase Indication route Comments
Lucentis Anti-VEGF Genentech Launched 2006 AMD, DME IVT Market leader
EYLEA® VEGF trap Regeneron Launched (US)
2011
AMD IVT Similar to
Lucentis
Macugen Anti-VEGF EyeTech Launched 2004 AMD IVT Ousted by
Lucentis
Avastin Anti-VEGF ab NEI III
AMD, PDR (&
Cancer)
IVT Off-labelled
AGN150998 Anti-VEGF
DARPin
Allergan
Molecular
Partner
II AMD IVT Failed
LFG316 Anti-VEGF Novartis II AMD IVT -
ESBA1008 Anti-VEGF Alcon II AMD IVT -
• CLT-28643 oral as unique feature
• Complementary mechanism to any product
• Positioned as maintenance therapy to reduce frequency of IVT injections
wAMD – Competition
30
Product Target Company Phase Indication route
E10030 Anti-PDGF
aptamer
Ophthotech II AMD IVT
AL39324 RTKI Alcon II AMD IVT
H1-Can1 Tissue Factor Iconic Therapeutics I/II AMD IVT
Isonep Sonepcizumab
mab sphingosine-1-
phosphate
Lpath Inc. & Pfizer II AMD IVT
ORA102 Anti-angiogenic OraBio II AMD (& Cancer) IVT
Zybrestat vascular disrupting
and antineoplastic
Oxigene II AMD IV
Pazopanib Anti-PDGR/VEGF GSK II AMD ( & Cancer) Topical
ATG3 Acetylcoline
release
CoMentis II AMD Topical
Anti-integrin with anti-angiogenic anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic effects
In summary – CLT-28643
31
First-in- class
High unmet medical needs
Dual
commercial
potential
Novel MoA
Different routes of
administration
Subconjunctival
Oral
Back-of-the eye
Front-of-the eye
Glaucoma surgery Wet AMD
CLT-28643
1. Small molecule α5β1 integrin inhibitor with unique
properties and anti-angiogenic and anti-fibrotic effects
2. Therapy for maintenance of intraocular pressure
(IOP) following glaucoma surgery
3. Opportunity for treatment and prevention of wet Age
related Macular Degeneration (wAMD)
4. Possible use in both front- and back-of-eye
indications
32
Market Potential:
Glaucoma Surgery USD 590 – 960m
wAMD USD >1.5bn
α5β1 is a validated target in angiogenesis
• Knock outs correlates directly with defects in blood vessels Arjan van der Flier et al, Development 137, 2439-2449, 2010
• α5β1 integrin drives endothelial cell proliferation and angiogegensis Li, Exp. Neurology, 237: 46-54, 2012
• High expression of α5β1 integrin in proliferating choroidal blood
vessels but not in normal vessels
Umeda et al, Mol. Pharmacol 69:1829-1828, 2006
Clemmons, Nature Reviews, Drug Discovery 6:821-833, 2007
34
α5β1 integrin is a target for wound healing - Rational for the use
of CLT-28643 in glaucoma surgery
Integrins are the major mediator of the interaction of fibroblast and extracellular matrix during scar formation
Thannickal et al. J. Biol. Chem. 2003, 278:12384-12389.
Roberts et al JJ biol ChemVol. 263, No. 10, Issue of April 5, pp. 4586-4592, 1988
High expression of α5β1 integrin in activated fibroblasts switching to the fibrotic state
Weston et al J Am Soc Nephrol 14: 601–610, 2003
Nesbit et al Laboratory Inv. Vol. 81, No. 9, p. 1263-1274, 2001
Norman et al Exp Nephrol 1999;7:167–177
High expression of α5β1 in fibrotic scar after glaucoma surgery
Internal Information
Integrin modulations by RGD peptides derivatives used in rabbit glaucoma filtration surgery
Avila et al. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers 1998 309-317
Avila et al. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers 2001 134-139
35
wAMD Market Scenarios
• General assumptions – Generic environment; Lucentis off-patent when launching CLT-28643
– Drug cost for Lucentis at launch is assumed to be similar to today’s drugs cost for Avastin of 50 USD/injection (Patel et al., 2010)
– Medical utilization: 457 USD/injection (Patel et al., 2010)
• Base Case – Effect: CLT-28643 reduces the need with 3 anti-VEGF injections per year and improves vision
compared to Lucentis mono treatment with 60%
– Price: 50% price premium compared to cost neutral scenario
• Low Case – Effect: CLT-28643 reduces the need with 3 anti-VEGF injections per year
– Price • Cost neutral scenario, i.e. CLT-28643’s price equal to the savings from reduced drug and use of
medical resources equal to 507 USD/injection
• 3 less injections per year: CLT-28643 cost neutral priced at 1521 USD/year
36
Cost Neutral Scenarios
Base Case
• Generic ranibizumab (Lucentis) likely to be available when launching CLT-28643
– Scenario 1 & 2 less likely
• Cost of ranibizumab at launch similar to today’s cost of bevacizumab (Avastin)
• Medical utilization cost at similar level as today
0 2000 4000 6000 8000
Scenario 5
Scenario 4
Base Case
Scenario 2
Scenario 1
Price per year (USD)
Cost neutral price scenarios 3 less injections per year
Lucentis drug cost Avastin drug cost
Medical Utilization drug cost
7 221
5 850
1 521
1 371
150
37