SANTHERA PHARMACEUTICALS HOLDING AG (CHF.IMC) — FY 2025 Results

0:00 Good afternoon, and welcome to the SANTHERA PHARMACEUTICALS investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to the management team. Dorio, good morning, sir. Thank you, Lily. Good morning for those in The U. S. Who are joining us, and good afternoon for those in here in Europe. And welcome to this full year twenty twenty five investor call. As usual, I'm today joined by Katherine Eisted, who is our Chief Financial Officer as well as Shabir Hasham, who is our Chief Medical Officer.

0:49 They will both give their respective parts of the presentation and be here for the Q and A as well. So can I have the next slide, please? Can we have the next slide after that? Here we go. No. The disclaimer, please. Can we go back? So I just wanna draw your attention to the greetings from our legal department here where you should, at your own leisure, read this if you're not familiar with the text. And with that, let's move into the actual presentation. So 2025 was a real exciting year with expansion and global momentum continuing. These six points that you can see on this slide here really are the summary of our presentation today. We will have deeper dives on each of the six subjects.

1:36 But I just want to highlight a few things here that, first of all, in Austria and Germany, we are continuing to make great progress. In Q1 of this year, we actually had 50% growth over last year, which means that in Germany, we're well over 40% penetrated in the glucocorticoid steroid market. And in Austria, we're actually already hitting numbers above 50% market share. This is in the first year or shortly after the first full year of launch. We're also making good progress with reimbursement across Europe. A few weeks ago, we announced that we had reached an agreement with the Spanish authorities for a reach of our reimbursement in Spain. We're expecting to launch there in June or July. And in Italy, we announced today that we have an agreement with AIFA. It's still pending the publication in the official Gazette, which is expected in six to eight weeks, after which we can officially launch also in Italy.

2:33 We've also seen fantastic progress with our partner, CATALYST, in The US, who delivered USD 117,000,000 of sales in the first full year. And in China, our partner, Spiragenyx, is also advancing nicely with the self pay soft launch, which I'll speak to in a few minutes. At the end of last year, we were very busy with partnering negotiations for Japan and Korea, and we decided to also wrap in Australia and New Zealand into a deal. I'll speak more about that in a minute. But that's a great achievement to complement our global footprint. And speaking of global footprint, we also last year signed up the five remaining countries of the India, Turkey and Russia for distribution partnerships.

3:22 And we're currently in negotiations late stage negotiations with our partners potential partners for Latin America. And then finally, Shabir will speak about this later in the presentation. The AGAMRI Guardian study has had its first tranche of analysis presented at the MDA Conference in March in Florida, and the results are truly spectacular and real testimony to the power of a GAMRI differentiation. Moving to the next slide, please. So let's start with a quick update on Germany. I want to remind everybody that Germany was a market or is a market where we had no pivotal clinical trial sites. So when we launched in Germany, we had zero clinical experience in the market with a GammaRy, and yet the uptake is beyond impressive.

4:12 We have now, as I said, forty percent plus of the patients switched. The initial patients in the first twelve to eighteen months were switchers aged six to 12, but we start to see now a broadening of the patient population where patients older who have either stopped taking steroids altogether or have never started are switching to or starting a GAMRI, as well as the newly diagnosed patients, four or five year old boys, who, as a rule, almost now all get a GAMRI in Germany. The the price in Germany is worth mentioning, was originally €3,600 per bottle that was agreed with the with the German government for an eighteen month period.

4:58 So the 01/01/2026 price has dropped down to €3,000 per bottle. That was a pre agreed price reduction that was anticipated from our side. As you can see now, we are almost halfway through the patient population, the combined market, Germany and Austria. Those are both markets with a relatively low penetration of glucocorticoids in the DMD population, fifty to fifty five percent of patients only are taking steroids as a standard. In other European markets like The UK, Spain, Italy, as well as in The US, that percentage, the equivalent percentage is well above seventy percent. So we believe that in Germany and Austria, as we start seeing more and more data come out from the Guardian and the long term extension studies, we believe that this could also be a market growth opportunity because many of those patients who are not taking steroids in these two markets should medically be on steroids, but are avoiding it because of the toxicities and the side effects.

6:02 Can I get the next slide, please? So here's a quick overview of our launch progress. It's obviously driven by the access in the various countries. Germany and Austria as well as The UK and Spain are check marks. We have reimbursement there. And in Spain, the launch is imminent. In Italy, we announced today that we have a price agreement with the IFA. And as I said, in six to eight weeks, when the Gazette publishes the official notification, we'll be able to launch. In The Nordics, we're somewhat delayed. We had hoped to be able to wrap up all the Nordic countries by midyear, but it now looks like it could be delayed by three to six months in The Nordics. I will not go into a lot of details on the negotiations there because it's different from country to country.

6:49 But as a whole, we want to include the Guardian data into the health economic modeling that is being done in the Nordic countries to make sure that the price that we achieve in The Nordics is in line with the price that we have achieved in other markets. The same goes for Benelux as well. In France, we have decided to withdraw our application and resubmit entirely. Our initial ASMR V was just not sufficient for a reasonable price agreement with the French government. We believe that with this long term extension data that we have now, we can get an ASMR IV in the next round, which would then allow us to negotiate a price that is in line with pricing in other European countries. The resubmission is expected in Q3 of this year. And as many of you know, that process could take up to a year. So we probably won't have reimbursement in France until the second half of next year.

7:44 And France is likely going to be the last country in Europe to have reimbursement for a gamma ray. In Switzerland, we're in the process of negotiating with BAG and we're expecting to have reimbursement in the third quarter of this year. Next slide, please. A few words about our licensed partner markets. Catalyst in The U. S. Is making excellent progress with the drug in The U. S. We had US$117,000,000 in revenue last year, above the guidance that they had originally given. This also triggered a milestone payment to us, which had its cash flow early in the year. And the guidance they provide for this year is 140,000,000 to $150,000,000 I want to remind everybody that CATALYST has their first quarter earnings call next week on Wednesday.

8:37 In The U. S, it's a very concentrated market. They have about 90 centers of excellence in The U. S, where more than ninety percent of the patients are treated. And to continue the theme of 90, about ninety percent of those centers have actually started prescribing a GammaRy as a routine drug for their boys and young men. Moving to the next slide, the other licensing partner in China, which is Spiragenyx. They have an early access programme out of pocket pay soft launch ongoing right now. There are about eight hundred patients cumulatively that have been treated with a gamma ray in China. This is obviously more than we have in Germany already, and this is just the self pay portion of the launch.

9:26 They're submitting for what's called an NRD, a listing, National Reimbursed Drug Listing in China in the fall of this year, with the expectation that the reimbursement will be granted as of early twenty twenty seven. Next slide, please. And our final licensing partner of the three licensing deals that we have, the new one, which is Nexera. This is a midsized Japanese company. It has management sitting both in Japan as well as in London. They are having their own affiliates in both Japan and Korea, and they're looking to find partners for Australia and New Zealand where they can either sublicense or distribute for Nexera. Nexera is a fully integrated company, so they have their own regulatory, commercial and manufacturing activities and capabilities.

10:16 And they will be basically manufacturing the product themselves in well, they will have either manufacturing done through a third party in Europe or manufacture local in Japan. And is worth mentioning here is that this team is very familiar with the drug. Japanese and Korean affiliates of Nexera were actually acquired by Idorsia, which obviously was the company that had the right initial rights to vamorolone. And the CMC group, the technical group that is now part of Nexera, is actually the former Idorsia team, and they're sitting here near us in Basel. So that collaboration is functioning extremely well. There are two options for the launch timing in Japan.

11:05 If Nexera is not required to do a registrational bridging study in Japanese patients, we could be looking at a launch towards the end of 'twenty seven, so the end of next year. Should they have to do a bridging study, which we don't expect, the launch would then be a year later in around end of 'twenty eight. Next slide, please. So this takes us to the geographical overview of where Agamiri is now partnered and where it will is already available or will soon be available through our partners and our own organization. So we signed up Turkey, GCC, India and Russia in the fall of last summer and fall of last year. We signed up through Nexera, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Japan early this year.

11:53 And we're expecting a partnership announcement for BrazilLatin America sometime this summer, so in a few months' time. So that will cover then most of the globe, and we continue to work closely with these both distribution partners and licensing partners to get product locally either reimbursed or through other methods paid for so that the revenues from that start flowing back to us. Just as a reminder to everybody, for distribution partnerships, we typically retain about 60% to 70% of the partners' net sales. Depends on the contract, but 60% to 70%. So about twothree of the net sales of these partners come to us. And obviously, that's a very high incentive for us to support them and work closely with them.

12:43 So with that, I'll change tact, and we'll move to a clinical update. And I'll pass it on to Shabir to give you a quick update on the Guardian data and why we believe this is very significant for the differentiation, market access and uptake of the drug. Shabir? Thank you, Dario. Last month we were delighted to be able to present the outcomes of our long term data collection at the MDA meeting. It's a prestigious meeting based in The US, where many of the world's experts in Duchenne, both physicians and patient advocacy communities convene. We had an extremely positive reaction to the data, both from the clinical community, and as Dario has alluded to, we've had a very positive reaction to the data from market access and payers. We will continue to dig and learn more about vimoron and its unique attributes.

13:33 But for now, I'm going to present to you just the highlights of the data that were presented last month, and indicate where we think these will continue in terms of our strategic growth. The long term data collection is an open label study, where we followed up 110 boys who originally started vermolero in the clinical development programme. So they started when they were young, they are now being followed up for up to eight years, on average five, which is a really great period to learn about where differentiation occurs, because many of the side effects, of course, occur with continued use of steroids around the three to four years of age. In terms of efficacy, we were very clearly able to show comparable long term effectiveness to classical corticosteroids, both prednisone and deflazacort, and this has very important implications in terms of how we think market penetration will continue.

14:25 In terms of tolerability and safety, we were very pleased to show an 80% reduction in the risk of spinal fractures, and now this is actually the second study in which we've been able to do this. We were able to show maintenance of height. As you know, Duchenne is terrible disease, and then inflicting growth stunting on these boys causes a huge social issue, so I'll go into that a little bit more. We were also able to show cataracts significantly lower than deflazacort, and no glaucoma has been reported to date. And we've shown that there are no new safety signals emerging, which again gives us continued confidence in terms of the benefitrisk profile. Now that the data have been presented, we are aggressively submitting manuscripts which will be submitted probably in the next few weeks, so that the data will be available both to the clinical community, but also more importantly for our colleagues in the field to be able to educate the physicians and patient groups.

15:23 And we're planning additional readouts from the long term data collection over the next three years annually. So there will be continued data flow. Next slide, please. This is an extremely impressive graph. Here you can see the impact of the monomer in terms of reduction in spine fractures. What you will see in the panel on the right in red are the number of patients who experienced a fracture on the flazacort. Just a reminder, the flazacort is perceived currently to be the more efficacious corticosteroid, but we have now shown absolutely clearly that we have comparable efficacy. But the the Flazacort is also associated with some of the the more severe side effect profiles.

16:08 Here we can show very clearly an eighty percent reduction in the number of patients who have fractures, but also on the panel on the right where you see the blue and orange, we have not only fewer patients, but we will have also, very importantly, less severe fractures. We show also in the next slide, on the first panel on the left, this is a Kaplan Meier plot where we show time to loss of ambulation. This is an extremely important milestone in terms of disease progression when children lose the ability to walk. It's one of the more robust ways to measure efficacy. We've shown here in red the time to loss of ambulation for prednisone and deflazacort together pooled and in blue for vamorone. You'll see there's absolutely no difference between the two. We've also shown similar outcomes when we separate the individual corticosteroids.

17:02 And so now we are able to confidently communicate to our clinical community that there is very comparable and durable efficacy for both. The reason this is really important is not only does this give confidence in the long term outcomes of vimolerae, but it also now gives physicians the confidence to be able to switch patients who are currently on a classical corticosteroid with the confidence that they will maintain efficacy. On the right hand side is a graph showing growth and you'll see in blue that it's a flat line. This is a Z score. It means that height for age is kept. So children on vamolarone grow as would be expected as if they were not on corticosteroid. In red, you will see the same comparison for the pooled prednisone and the flazocort cohort. You'll see that there is a significant widening of the curve, about 12.1 centimeters at five years.

17:59 This is a huge change in the mindset of physicians. There was a dogma previously that you had to keep children short to be able to maintain efficacy. So physicians in some ways were forcing children to to have a stature comparing a 12 year old looking like a six to seven year old. We have now shown definitively that height has no impact on efficacy, that children can grow normally, appear normal and retain efficacy. This is also another aspect where we will be, in terms of future research focusing, if children are taller, it means that physiologically that they will probably also have larger lung volumes, because lung volume and thoracic cavity are associated with height. We're very excited, and we have already started amending protocols to collect respiratory function data retrospectively, which means that somewhere second half of next year, we should be able to do an analysis to show that not only do we maintain efficacy and we have normal height, but we may actually for the first time ever be able to define a new efficacy outcome measure in terms of respiratory function if it holds true. So that's something that we're adamantly focusing on and very excited to bring to market in the next few months.

19:16 With that, I'll hand over to Catherine just to talk about how we're expanding our manufacturing capabilities and some financial highlights. So good morning and good afternoon. So look at manufacturing, we just really wanted to highlight some advancements that we've had this year. First of all, we have our second supply for drug product that was completed at the end of twenty twenty five. This is really important for us because we have so I'm just checking that people can still see us. The screen's gone off. Hopefully, we're still running live. Okay. So excuse excuse us. So in the second half of of twenty five, we have the second manufacturing site online.

20:05 This really is important in terms of supply chain resilience and that security of supply. You you always want to have a second source of of product. Additionally, it really gives important cost of goods reduction. So we're this is through a fivefold increase in production scale. So very important in terms of that longer longer term aim of continuing to decrease our cost of goods. Looking at other partnerships in terms of manufacturing. For Catalyst in 2025, they established their own drug product manufacturing capabilities. This is so they can serve own territories.

20:50 It does mean that post q one twenty twenty five, we won't be sorry. Q one twenty twenty six, we won't be providing them any more products. So I'll come on to that a bit later, but that does change our revenue profile as we go into 2026 with them. For Spiragenyx, they are also planning their own local manufacturing. Can we go back one slide, please? Operator, can we go back one slide? Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. So for Spiragenyx, they are also planning their own manufacturing, and we're expecting that online in 2028. And then finally, Nexera, as we've mentioned before, they will be responsible for their own manufacturing as they look to bring product into their territories.

21:44 So if we can now move on to the next slide and going through the financial highlights. So we're delighted to announce this year an almost doubling of our revenues. So that was up to 77,200,000. This is really on the back of that strong growth in a GammaRy that Dario has talked about. This is obviously also ahead of our guidance originally at the start of the year of 65,000,000 to 70,000,000. Within that, our product sales were up 72% to 25,800,000. Again, we're seeing this from our acceleration in Germany and Austria, but also the strong uptake that we saw in The UK. And The UK is actually tracking the German trajectory we're now seeing.

22:34 Milestones were at 23,100,000, so that's 37% higher. This was driven by two parts. Firstly, the royalties from CATALYST as raw as the sales from CATALYST increase, we have increased royalties, but also a 25 so 12,500,000 sales milestone from Catalyst that was recognized in the p and l for the the the year ending December 25, although we received the the cash at the start of 2026. Going into revenue from supply and products and services. So this is, for example, selling bottles of products to CATALYST and Spiragenyx, also selling API, but also services that we sell to them. That increased substantially to 28,300,000 from just 7,000,000 the the year before.

23:33 Looking at operating expenses, we kept very good control of our costs. This is despite the increasing footprint of our sales and marketing team. So while sales and marketing were higher in the year, we had lower development and lower g and a expenses. In September, we had our 20,500,000 raise that was from a convertible bond extension of 10,000,000 Swiss francs as well as 13,000,000 royalty agreement. I spoke about that in the the interim results, so wasn't going through that in in more detail today. And then finally, the operating loss was 37,600,000 versus 33.1. I think this is worth a bit more explanation because we've got an increased operating loss.

24:23 However, as you can see, we've got increased revenues and lower OpEx, so that might look a bit odd. This was really related to the higher cost of goods. Again, I I mentioned this at the interim results. We had a milestone that came through. When we have milestones that are payable, these sit in the cost of goods line. So we have that impact as well as the royalties that are payable are increased as well because we're we're selling more product. So that is how you got that that slight slightly odd look at the the operating loss. Finally, the cash and cash equivalents at the year end were 22,400,000. However, to add to this, we have the CHF 40,000,000 that we received from Nexera as well as the cash payment from CATALYST of CHF 12,500,000, both of which are received in the first quarter.

25:18 I now go to the next slide and go through guidance and longer term outlook. I've decided to give a bit more detail on guidance this year. I think it's really important to have better clarity around the business. So so there's a lot more detail here than we've previously given. In terms of the top line revenue guidance for 2026, we expect this to be 80 to 90,000,000 Swiss francs. Within that, we're expecting growing product sales. So we expect product sales despite the 17% reduction in German price, which Dario talked about earlier, we're still expecting sales to grow by more than 50%. So you can say our unit sales are growing even faster than that. In terms of royalty income, again, we expect this to grow year on year.

26:06 However, we do have a step down in the amounts that we receive from Catalyst. So there's actually a 5% reduction in the royalty rate for the first 100,000,000 of sales from Catalyst. So our royalty income will lag the underlying US sales growth. But overall from our royalty income, we will expect that to increase. In terms of milestone income, again, we expect this to be higher than the 2025 level levels. This is primarily due to the upfront payment from Nexera. So and just to clarify this, this is the 30,000,000 of the 40 that we received. So 30,000,000 was a cash upfront. The 10,000,000, which was the equity investment, doesn't show in revenue. So hence, it's not shown in the revenue guidance, only the 30,000,000.

26:51 In this figure, or in the total figure, I have only included that one upfront payment. I have not included at this stage any additional sales milestones, which may be achieved during 2026, but we'll review how our licensing partners continue to progress their sales and adjust accordingly as as the year goes on. The one area that will be lower in 2026 is the revenues from supply and services. So while we expect that to increase for for China in terms of the amount of product that we're selling into China, because of Catalyst now having their own production, we would expect a significant reduction post Q1 of twenty twenty six in terms of the supply and services. So we factored that into our guidance.

27:45 In terms of operating expenses, again, as we've talked about previously, we expect that in the GBP 50,000,000 to GBP 55,000,000 range. And looking at cash flow breakeven, we expect this to be in q three twenty twenty six. That's in line with the the previous guidance with no additional funding. While we're talking about cash and cash flow, and I think this leads on to actually something around going concern because people look at cash and and going concern together. I am delighted to say that if you look in the our full annual report or 150 pages of it, you'll see for the first time this year, the auditors have not given us a going concern statement, so it's effectively clean. This is the first time in SANTHERA's history.

28:33 They are seeing our our our our growth and our projections and are happy that they don't need to caveat their statement. So I think that's a real achievement for the company. So looking further ahead, we're we've previously given guidance for '28 and '30. This remains the same as previously highlighted. So as a reminder, for 2028, we expect revenues of a €150,000,000. This is revenues excluding milestone payments, but does include our direct and partner markets as well as those royalties that we receive from our our licensing partners. And for 2030, if we looked at our direct markets only, so those 17 countries within Europe that we sell ourselves, we expect in excess of a €150,000,000 of sales.

29:30 With that, I'll hand back to Dario to talk through strategy. Thanks, Catherine. So we have two more slides, of which this one is the first one. It's intended to just remind you of our overall strategy, which has four pillars. The first one is the obvious one, go direct in Europe with our own affiliates, commercialize ourselves, keep the full margin ourselves. The second pillar is geographical expansion through distributors or licensing partners. We have those three licensing partners for North America with Catalyst Nexera for Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand and Spiragenyx for Greater China. But we also have distributors across the many geographies that we have shown to you earlier. There, with the distributors, as I said, we keep about twothree of their net sales.

30:17 The third pillar is something we're working on very actively now, which is acquiring additional assets. Asset or assets. We are in mid stage early to mid stage negotiations with a number of parties to do so, and we have just made an offer for a new senior person to join our organization as head of business development and licensing who's gonna have a dedicated task to to bring this to closure. As I had mentioned on previous calls, we have a pretty elaborate infrastructure for one product with Agamry across Europe, both here at headquarters and and also in the countries, which could be leveraged very profitably if you could bring in a second and a third asset. We are looking at rare and orphan disease assets. So we're staying in the rare and orphan disease space. We're therapeutic area agnostic.

31:07 And we're looking to bring in an asset that has typically between CHF 100,000,000 and 200,000,000 of European peak sales. So a product that is similar in order of magnitude to a GAMRI. The third pillar is additional indications for a gamma ray. Here, we are relying on our partners, CATALYST, Spiragenyx and Nexera to potentially develop additional indications for a gamma ray to which we will then have an opt in right over time. Now, obviously, if a clinical trial is started tomorrow, it will still take four to five years before you have a registration and an approval for that new indication. But it's something that I think in the five year planning towards the end of that five year planning, we foresee to expand the agamry indication and sales.

31:55 And obviously, we would benefit from additional sales and milestones and royalties from our partners if those additional indications then drive their top line growth. Then let's move to the final slide, which relates to executive changes for 2026. We have two new executives joining us in the very near future. I'll start with the gentleman to the right here, which is Mark Clauser. He will start on the June 1 as our Chief Commercial Officer. He will be replacing Hertjian Van Dahl, who after eleven years at SANTHERA, very deservedly goes into retirement and will focus on his newly found grandchildren. Mark Clause has a long experience in the rare and orphan disease space in the pharmaceutical industry. He has career steps at companies like Alexion, Shire, TesaroGlaxoSmithKline, and most recently was the Vice President of International Commercial Operations and UK General Manager for The US biotech company, Nirum Pharmaceuticals.

33:01 To the left, we have my successor, Orlando Oliveira, who currently is still the Chief Commercial Officer of Boston based NASDAQ listed Zenas Bio. He has a lot of experience as well, also mainly focused in the rare and orphan disease space, but also broad geographies. He's been General Manager for Amgen in places like Portugal and Mexico. He's also lived with his family in The Nordics. He spent fourteen years total in Amgen before moving to Cubist and then to Tesaro, where he actually worked with Mark Clauses. So these two gentlemen have worked together in the past. And then AG, also in his career history. So we are very proud to bring these two gentlemen in to refresh the organization.

33:51 And I think to preempt a potential question on why am I stepping aside and handing over to Orlando, I just wanted to say that I believe and I have always believed that it's good corporate hygiene to, after five or six years, to refresh senior executives in organizations. I've done this in my past career as well. Bringing in new executives brings in not only new ideas and new energy, but also fresh impulses which the organization needs. But there's a timing to do it. And the timing is when the company is in good shape, in good health, stable and has good prospects, and to not step out when trouble may still be around the corner. And the second criteria is you need to have a competent successor found in order to step down.

34:40 And so given that we have now reached a point where cash flow positiveness is just around the corner in a few months' time, And we have the Guardian data in hand that Shabir was talking about. And we have four out of five major European markets reimbursed. And we have filled the house with talent. We have really good people now in in many many of the key functions. The timing to do this is perfect. And the challenge that Orlando and Mark will have will be different than the challenge that I had over the last five, six years. Well, it will be almost seven by the time I leave. The focus will be very sharply now on commercial execution in the affiliates, commercial execution of our partners, and then what I mentioned on the previous slide, business development licensing, you know, growing the company, bringing in a second and a third asset, and making SANTHERA a leading player in the small to midsize spec pharma space in Europe.

35:40 And I have to say here that I can't think of a better person to lead that charge than Orlando, whom I've known for more than a decade and whom I personally lured into this role, if you will. And I'm very proud to to be able to hand over to him in in a few months' time. So with that, I'll hand it over to Catherine for questions and answers. So thank you all for for your time. We have a lot of questions that have come in, so we will try our best to answer these. If we don't, I appreciate that we can actually answer these later on. So let's see where we we get to on this. So the first one, could you provide more details on the breakdown of sales, for instance, by patients switching from classical steroids and by new DMD patients?

36:32 And how do you expect this to evolve? And do you see any differences between North America and Europe? So I guess that's a question that I can answer. So initially, we saw the large cohort of patients on a GammaRay coming from switches, six to 12 year old boys who had been on one of the previous steroids for a while and were facing side effects and toxicities that were intolerable, where they either had to reduce the dose to a dose that may not be efficacious or take them off the drug entirely. Over time now, we've seen more and more a broadening of the patient pool to the younger ones, the four to five year olds who have recently been diagnosed with Duchenne. I would say in all of our markets, it's pretty much becoming a standard of care that those are initiated with a GammaRay. They don't get the traditional steroids at all anymore.

37:26 But what is also encouraging is that we have seen older patients, patients who had never been on steroids or patients who had stopped taking steroids altogether, starting on a gamma ray. And this has particularly been the case in Austria, where we have seen older patients. There's even a poster that's going to be presented soon that shows the benefits in older patients that are starting a GAMRI or have been switched to a GAMRI. So we think that trend is going to continue. So in a year from now, two years from now, for all the new diagnosed patients, a GAMRI will be the standard. Patients will increasingly be switching away from these old steroids. I think that with a steroid now, with a GAMRI on the market that has the same efficacy long term as the existing steroids, but with a remarkably different safety profile, it almost becomes unethical to continue giving old toxic steroids to these boys who are already suffering from a devastating disease.

38:25 So I think that switching is going to increase, I also believe there's a small cohort of older patients who will benefit and will switch to a GAMRI or start a GAMRI. But there's an underappreciated segment as well, which is the big chunk of patients in Europe who are not at all on steroids today. And if you recall previous slides and if you go into our corporate presentation, you'll see these numbers. There's about thirteen thousand patients who live with Duchenne in Europe, Western Europe, our own markets today. Of those thirteen thousand, about eight thousand are on steroids at any given time, which means that five thousand are not. And medically speaking, best medical practice would dictate that all of those five thousand should also be on steroids from the moment they're diagnosed until the moment they take their last breath.

39:15 And it's not happening because of the toxicities and the side effects and the fears around steroids, which is exactly what a gamma ray addresses. So while we have not built this into our sales guidance for 2030, which is the EUR 150,000,000 plus, we believe we can grow the market with this product now that we have the Gargan data in hand. So I wouldn't be surprised if sometime in the future we adjust that guidance. The question on The U. S, it's hard to say. I believe it's probably similar in The U. S, but it's a question really that I shouldn't be answering. That's a question that should be asked of Catalyst. They are closer to the market. Okay. The second question. Thank you for whoever asked this question.

40:03 We should have mentioned it in the presentation. The question is, what do you expect the recent positive CHMP opinion to expand a gamma ray's use to patients aged two years and older will have on a gamma ray's profile and on your revenue outlook in Europe? Do you expect such a label extension in The U. S? Javier? So maybe I'll start and I'll pass it over to Shabir. The label extension in The U. S, it is already two plus in The U. S. So the European label, which includes now two and three year olds, is actually aligning itself with The US label. In terms of market potential, I think there's an indirect benefit. The revenue potential in those two to three year olds, I think, Shabir is relatively low.

40:49 They're often not diagnosed that early. But I think the indirect benefit is the safety signal it sends to the stakeholders, both HCPs as well as patients and their parents about the safety profile of a GAMRI. Any anything else? So one important aspect that that you need to remember is that the average age of diagnosis is somewhere between three and five, but the average age of starting treatment is older, seven to eight. And this is based on current recommendations in the guidelines that the benefit risk of traditional steroids for treatment are only positive once the patients are in the decline phase, they're actually losing muscle function. And that's because of the worry around growth stunting, the bone fractures and the toxicities.

41:34 We now have data, the change in the label for Europe was actually based on data rather than The US where we were granted a broad label by the FDA. What I think is the impact here is that our safety profile and especially the bone and the growth benefits could mean that actually kids are treated earlier rather than waiting three years between diagnosis time and the start of treatment time. There you don't really want to start growth in a four or five year old. The risk of osteoporosis within four years of starting treatment also limits that discussion. So I think we should see earlier initiations after the time of diagnosis. In terms of other indirect effects, of course, Duchenne families often have two or three children by the time the first child is diagnosed, and these children will be tested genetically for Duchenne. So again, we should see earlier initiations, but also families would have an option for siblings of children with Duchenne. So I think there are several areas where we should see the impact of this.

42:43 The next question actually talks about our first reported sales from Spiragenyx that started in September. Are these sales commercial sales? I think we've we've actually answered that in the question. These are the private payer markets. We we hope that they will be moving to their the government Reimbursement. Reimbursement as of the beginning of next year. And then also that question then goes on to ask about when do you expect the APAC partnership from Nexera to contribute to revenues? And I think, again, I think it depends on the time frame for approval and if they have to do a a study there, which we've answered.

43:31 The next question is around cash flows. You're guiding for cash flows to reach breakeven in q three twenty twenty six. Could you provide guidance revenues and OpEx? We've done that. But the second part says, do you expect a sharp decline in development costs? The answer to that will be we'll continue seeing the trend that we have seen in 2025. There won't be a sharp decline because as as Shabir talked about, we have the continuation of the Guardian study. We also have several other studies that are post approval commitments that are ongoing, although over time that is decreasing. There is also actually a spend within the Shabir's department in relation to actually getting approvals as well, so that medical affairs component.

44:24 So that obviously remains very high all the time that we are continuing to to work with the various regulators to get pricing and reimbursement. Right. On to the next question. When do you expect to announce European partnership for late stage products to leverage your European sales infrastructure? I guess we really talked about that. That's adding in a new product. So it's not it's not really partnerships in the sense that that we would partner with another company. What I'm I'm referring to is a a license arrangement where we acquire the license for the territory from either a European company or a U. S. Company. I mean, I'm not excluding Asian companies, but very often, require additional clinical work before they can be approved in Europe. So that our current focus is really on The U. S. And to a lesser extent, European companies that are in The U. S, there are companies that may want to or have chosen to commercialize themselves in The U. S. But when they look at Europe and the 27 or 37 markets, if you include all the non EU European markets, they are intimidated. There's a lot of complexity with launching and building infrastructure in Europe, and they would rather partner with somebody. And we hope that for assets that are in that CHF 100,000,000 to CHF 200,000,000 peak sales opportunity, we would be the ideal partner for those companies, given the track record we now have with

45:55 Agamari. There's also less competition for those types of assets in that 100,000,000 to 200,000,000 bracket. If you look at the bracket CHF 200,000,000 to 500,000,000, we would be competing with midsized European companies and potentially wouldn't be able to secure such licensed assets. But the focus is really to own the asset rights in Europe and commercialize them as our own products. Okay. Next question. When would SANTHERA expect to be in a position to begin exploring a gamma ray in additional neuromuscular disorders? Well, that's a good question. I mean, we are not exploring it in additional neuromuscular disorders ourselves. We are relying on our partners, certainly CATALYST primarily, but potentially also Nexera to do so, and I'll explain why. In Europe, we have a patent protection until 2035.

46:47 In The U. S, they have patent protection until 2040. And in Japan, they will have exclusivity for at least ten years from the moment they launch. So when you look at the timelines for us to invest in additional indications, clinical work, it would take probably two to three years to run a study and another year to analyze it and package it for a regulatory submission and then another year for review. So we will be looking at 2030ish before we would get an approval for such an additional indication in Europe. And the net present value calculation just makes it very risky if you have only the five years until 2035 to recoup that investment. So what we have decided to do is that we will have our partners who have a longer exclusivity, as I said, CATALYST until 2040, hopefully pursue those additional indications, and then we will have the opt in rights for that negotiated.

47:41 And depending on the timing of the approval, the quality of the data, the indication, the time left on the clock, we can then decide whether we want to exercise that option or not. But we are not going to be spending our own hard earned euros on Swiss francs on additional clinical work right now. The next question, what is the anticipated impact of the a f AIFA reimbursement approval on European revenue growth in '26? I'll I'll probably answer that. That is factored in to our our forecasts of the 80 to 90,000,000 total revenues for 2026 launch would be very late q two, early q three. So we have half a year of sales factored into our our our guidance there.

48:36 The next question is on German pricing and the 17% price reduction. Was this pre agreed? And are there expected to be any other reductions in the German pricing? Or is this a one off? That's part one. So I'll answer that one first of all. So answering part one of that question. That was pre agreed, as I mentioned in my opening remarks. There was an agreement of €3,600 for eighteen months, after which the price would drop to €3,001 That was a compromise we struck with the German authorities. The next price reduction that is expected in Germany is when we hit €30,000,000 of revenue in Germany on a rolling twelve month basis.

49:26 And I'm not going to speculate when that happens now. But typically, at that stage, you have to renegotiate the price. Our benchmark, I mean, I'm not going to give you guidance here, but the benchmark that we have looked at, like drugs in SMA, etcetera, who have had this threshold reached, typically have reductions of 10% to 15% on their price at the point where they reach the 30,000,000 threshold. So then the second part of the or second and third part of the question is, does this have any implications for pricing on the other European markets? So that's the change in German pricing. And please remind us of your assumptions on pricing in Europe to reach the 150,000,000 target by 2030.

50:11 Yes. So we could have a two hour lecture on international reference pricing and pricing referencing within Europe over time. So I'm not going to get into that. But what I can say about the guidance is that we have assumed CHF 150,000,000 plus revenue in Europe by 2030. This comes this is driven by two factors or two variables, if you will, the number of patients on the one hand and the price per patient on the other. The average patient, and this is also in our corporate deck, if you want to look it up, there's a slide on this. The average patient in Europe, we assume, is about a thirty three kilo patient, heavy patient. This is a patient that represents the typical patient from a long term extension study. We assume that that average patient consumes five point two milligrams per kilogram per day.

51:01 If that patient that average patient then uses that amount of drug and weighs that much, it translates into 15 bottles, one-five bottles per year. At an average price of EUR 2,000 per bottle, that would be a EUR 30,000 per patient annual revenue. If we then assume 5,000 patients by 2030, that 5,000 patients multiplied with the 30,000 gives you the 150,000,000. But let's look at these two variables. On the one hand, we believe the 5,000 may be at the lower end of our of where we land by 2030, mainly driven by the Guardian data and the evidence we have in the first launch markets in terms of uptake. That five thousand patients represents about sixty percent market share of glucocorticoid users today. And as I said, in Germany, we're already at forty percent, in Austria, we're at fifty and in The UK, we're tracking similarly.

51:57 So reaching that sixty percent by 2030 is probably on the lower end of expectations, particularly given the data that we've seen. When it comes to pricing, which is the other variable, euros 2,000 per bottle is what we assumed we were going to get three years ago when we gave this guidance. We also assumed the five thousand patients three years ago. Now that we see the prices come through in Europe, we see that they're all in the 2,000 to $3,000 range. The German price of $3,000 is at the upper end, but all the others fall into the 2,000 to $3,000 range, which suggests that there's an upside on the pricing as well. And as these patients get older and get heavier, they will also no longer be the average thirty three kilo patient, they will probably get closer to thirty five and forty kilos, so the consumption will also increase.

52:44 So there's an upside on both variables. There's an upside in terms of number of patients, and there's an upside in terms of the number of bottles used and the price of the bottles. So I think that as we get more data in from now from our Spanish launch, our Italian launch across the smaller markets in Europe also in 2026 and we start getting more data points, we may then update our guidance. But the guidance for now remains at EUR 150,000,000 or more by 2030, and it's a multiplication of the 5,000 patients in 2030 with an average price of 30,000 per patient per year, which is represented by 12 bottles at €2,000 sorry, 15 bottles at €2,000. Thank you, Dario. Next question, which might be more.

53:33 Are there any initial feedback responses from doctors in the field to the long term Guardian data? And how can your commercial people use this data? Yeah. Thank you. So I think I I hinted before the reception has actually been extremely positive both by clinicians, but also as importantly by the payer and patient advocacy groups. We're delighted with that. In terms of how we're going to be able to educate the community, the thing I do need to come back to is that very early on in the registration process we were very adamant that we wanted to have a differentiated label so that down the road we would be able to commercialize long term data. So the EU label itself has already been set up, and we did that prospectively, so that we would leverage the data.

54:22 We have already within the label very clear descriptions of the mechanism of action being differentiated. We already have comparative efficacy in the label versus prednisone from the original pivotal study. Height has already been established as an advantage in the label, as well as bone metabolism, biomarker and some initial wording around vertebral fractures. So again, for us, the commercialization through both the country field force, but as importantly, the medical infrastructure is already prepared. We are in final draft of the publications. They should be submitted in the next few weeks. So pending review and approval of the of the manuscripts, we'll be able to fully leverage the data we have. Okay. Thank you. Now there's some questions around margins.

55:09 I'm actually gonna combine several of the questions. The first one is around margins for our products and how this is now and how that can improve in the '30 the future by 2030. And then it's another question around the margins that we get on supply of product and services. So in terms of our gross margins, we always say that it is greater or our cost of goods are 10% or less even on the lowest price countries. As we get to 2030, we should see that closer to just a a 5% cost of goods Because not only are we going to be benefiting from the manufacturing site that's online now for drug product, but also we are looking to have a second manufacturer of API, and we have a a different process which also improves the cost of goods on that side.

56:01 So that's ongoing over the next year or two to bring that second step in in terms of reduction in cost of goods. Looking at the cost of goods for our supply of services, so that's the bottles, API, and services, that is in the 10 to 20% range. So that's the margin questions. The next question is also a finance question. Are there any debt repayments in the horizon? Just to really remind you of the the debt, the 35,000,000 term loan that was agreed in summer twenty four, we had a period of two years where we had no amortization.

56:47 So after summer of this year, we will have a 10% amortization coming through for the next two years. And then at the end of that time frame, we'll have to to look at whether or not we repay that bond or whether or not those that convertible sorry. That's on the term loan. If we repay that, the remaining part of the term loan or if we roll that. And if we did roll it, obviously, we would expect a far lower interest rate considering the stage of the company. Then next question, what are the expectations for securing commercial partners in LatAm? Prefer one partner would you prefer one partner for the full region?

57:33 The answer is yes. And we're we're we still have a short list of, well, essentially, two potential partners that we're talking to. We're going to make a decision very soon on which one we want to pursue. They're both very strong, but we're still doing our due diligence on them. But the partner, they're both Brazilian based companies. And they will get the Latin American territory. We have got lots of questions left, and we haven't got much time. I'm gonna answer this one just because I think it's a really important one. The question around RovereGEN, are there any other one off related milestones due in the in the coming years? So as what we talked about in the results, due to the third of five major countries starting commercialization.

58:28 We have what we call a pricing and reimbursement milestone that comes through this summer. That is the only what I call one off unusual milestone. Everything else in terms of milestone payments are sales related. And as we have talked about before, any sales related milestone that's payable, we've managed to match that in terms of cash inflows from milestones in. So, yes, this this milestone this summer is a one off in terms of it being the only one that isn't a sales related milestone. Another question on new asset acquisition, been has there been any impact from MFN drug pricing that has made that has maybe put partners on pause when thinking about launching their products in Europe?

59:24 Yes, there was an uncertainty around that early on with the guidance or policy of the Trump administration with the MFN. So just to remind everybody, MFN applies to the CMS, so Medicare and Medicaid customers in The US. And in rare and orphan diseases, Medicare, which is the elderly, is rarely an issue. It's more the Medicaid, which is the ones that are have less income that are potentially an issue when it comes to rare orphan diseases. After more careful consideration, we've looked at it. And in The U. S, the Medicaid branch of CMS typically gets the best price in The U.

1:00:09 S. Already. And that best price would then be benchmarked in Europe against the second lowest price in a basket of, I think, 13 countries worldwide. And then adjusted on a GDP per capita basis compared to The U. S. And when you do that analysis, you realize that there's actually not a very big discrepancy between the lowest price in The U. S. In Medicaid multiplied with the GDP adjustment factor compared to the second lowest market in Europe. And I'm speaking generically now, not specifically for a GammaRy. And so the more we look at it and the more potential partners look at this whole dynamic, they realize that it's less of a concern than it originally was.

1:00:55 And that's even given that we don't know if this policy will be converted into law or not, and whether rare and orphan diseases will be carved out from MFN, which is also an initiative that is being discussed in The U. S. Right now. So our plan is to go forward at full speed, do the analysis depending on what the asset is, what the disease is, to see what the price in The U. S. For Medicaid for that particular asset is, and what pricing we can then achieve in Europe before we make any dramatic statements about MFN really impacting these these discussions. We are over time, but there is one final question. There are other questions that I we will come back to you, but I think there's one other final question I would like to answer because I think it's important before we sort of do a final wrap up. And this is a question around the catalyst royalties.

1:01:50 And can you provide clarity around the step down in royalties for the first 100,000,000 of sales? So I'm actually going to refer you to there is actually a lot of detail around this in the catalyst 10 k. But to give you the answer to that, once the product had been on the market for two years, we agreed a step down of royalties from originally 12% down to 7%. So that's what you see on our on our top line for the first 100,000,000 of sales. So going forward, the first 100,000,000, it was 12. It's now gonna be down at 7. Everything over a 100,000,000, it then steps up. So between a 100,000,000 and let's take 500,000,000, our top line royalty rate, what you'll see in our our revenue lines is anywhere between 1420%.

1:02:42 So the the higher the amount of sales, the higher it goes up to that range. The exact details I said are are in the the $5.10 k. But to give you an overview of the royalty rates that we we get from from Catalyst. So those are the total royalties? That's the total royalties that appear on the top line. Yes. And and then some of that gets passed on and some big some And is then you have the cost of goods that's taken out in terms of royalties paid, but to give it an idea on on the top line. And then there was just to tie in with that, obviously, we have the royalty monetization agreement, which currently so the royalties from The US go through to to CBC and Partners Group, And there's a question around when do you think that that will be finalized, and we estimate in sort of the 2029, 2030 range would be the approximate time frame for that. There's one more question I'd like to answer. Okay, the last one. Yes. Congratulations on the result. How does SANTHERA PHARMACEUTICALS AG:] So there's a couple of avenues that can be pursued here.

1:03:51 We have been approached by private equity groups that will be willing to make a larger investment in the company should we find a second asset or a second and third asset to license in to cover our upfront payment as well as our working capital required for launching such product. We've also had other investment groups, not private equity firms, but investment groups, who have said to us that they would be very willing to fund together with potentially other investment groups such an acquisition. To them, both private equity groups as well as these investment groups, it's very attractive for them to invest in a company that has multiple assets. It derisks the investment significantly in their eyes and they will be very willing to build on the foundation that we've now built with Agambri.

1:04:43 That would be the approach that we would probably take given assuming that the share price development is healthy and that we have a fair valuation on the market. We've also been approached by companies that provide royalty financing, who would be willing to give us these upfronts that we require for our license acquisition and the working capital in exchange for royalties on the product that we license in. So we would then give away, again, from typically, from mid single digits to the high teens over the years on increasing revenue of that product to pay back that initial funding. That's slightly more expensive money in the long run than doing an equity raise to support it. But we would have to look at the circumstances at the time when such a deal would take place.

1:05:35 But suffice it to say, there's no shortage of money available to do such a deal. Okay. I think that that answers all the questions. Appreciate it was slightly over. Dari, do you wanna do a final summary? Yeah. Sure. Since this is my last investor call, I just wanted to say a few words. And and what I really want to say from the heart is that it's been a real privilege to lead this company for nearly seven years by the time the clock stops. And I want to thank my colleagues here at SANTHERA, the management team who have stuck with me as well as all the other employees who have gone through very difficult times. Many years, we couldn't pay a bonus, we couldn't make salary increases, we couldn't replace colleagues that had left and people had to do two jobs at interim and so on. It's been a very, very, very rewarding journey to lead this team and see the collegiality and the loyalty and the hard work that the team has put in. But I also want to thank the patients and families that I've met along the way as well as partners and investors who have supported us in this venture and also the Board, of course, who has been very, very supportive all these years through very difficult times.

1:06:51 So the journey continues. I will be watching it with the intensity from the sidelines as a relatively large shareholder, and I wish the team all the best. But I think that it it's a fantastic opportunity to for the new CEO Orlando to and and Mark, who's the chief commercial officer coming in to just build on the foundation that that we have built over the last couple of years, and I wish everybody a lot of success and joy in the future. Thank you very much. That's great. Thank you for updating investors today. Can I please ask investors not to close this session as you'll now be automatically redirected to provide your feedback in order that the management team can better understand your views and expectations? This will only take a few moments to complete, and I'm sure will be greatly valued by the company. On behalf of the management team, we'd like to thank you for attending today's presentation, and good afternoon to you all.