Celcuity Stifel 2026 Healthcare Conference
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All right, we're going to go ahead and get started. I'm Stephen Willey, one of the Senior Biotech Analysts here at Stifel, and glad to have with us as part of the next session, Chief Executive Officer of Celcuity, Brian Sullivan. Brian, thanks for being here this morning.
Welcome. I know you guys have a lot going on.
Maybe before we jump into Q&A, I'm not sure if there's any opening statements that you'd like to make.
Well, I think it's helpful maybe just to look back on the past 18 months for us, because it's been a transformative period.
We reported our first phase III data, middle of 2025 for PIK3CA wild-type patients in the second-line setting of breast cancer. It was very, very positive, unprecedented data. We've subsequently gotten an approval for that indication, so that's a big deal, and launched our first indication, and so we're in the process of that. We also announced data, positive data for a second phase III trial in patients who have PIK3CA mutations. Again, very positive. Certain components of that were unprecedented data. We've submitted an sNDA there. We did get a PDUFA date, so that'll be end of Q2. We're laying the groundwork. The launch itself is, and I'm sure we'll talk about that in detail, gotten off, in our view, to a good start. In that same period of time, we started two phase III studies in the first-line patient population.
in two different populations. We're separately evaluating each of those patients in a single study. Market potential for that segment is very, very significant. 90,000 patients would potentially be indicated for gedatolisib if those trials read out positively. We have very favorable preliminary data in those populations, so we think the probability of success is high in those studies. We've also reported recently data in the metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer population. Again, very encouraging, not surprising in our view, given the similar biology that underlies prostate cancer and HR-positive breast cancer. More to come. I mean, we're at an earlier stage, but that data was what we were hoping to see. Certainly then warrants further investigation. We'll be initiating additional work to further prosecute that.
Okay. Maybe we can kind of start off working through the REVTORPYK launch.
Sure. I know it's early.
You're five weeks in, or you were five weeks in when you reported last week, but it does seem that you have made a meaningful amount of progress within a fairly short period of time.
As you look at some of the early metrics that were provided on that call a week ago, which of those kind of gives you the most confidence that this drug, from the outset, is really kind of resonating with prescribers?
Sure. Well, one of the challenges when you are launching a drug is that there are a lot of gatekeepers that you need to work with to lift the gate.
For instance, insurers would be an example of that, right? If they do not incorporate our drug on their policies and patients cannot get reimbursed, that would be a huge barrier. So we were successful, and that just reflects the work done prior to launch, not just since launch, but prior to launch, to get incorporated in those policies, to get NCCN level 1 recommendation, so that now 90%-plus of patients have policies that will reimburse them for treatment with REVTORPYK. That is an important gate to get lifted. Another important gate is with what we label strategic accounts, okay? These are accounts that when you look at the total population that they collectively treat, represent 50% or treat 50% of breast cancer patients. Now, these accounts have multiple sites, so it is 36 accounts, but ultimately they represent well over 1,000 different treatment locations.
Because of the way they are organized, think of them as they have a corporate approach to saying, "Okay, we want to have this drug on formulary. We want it to be incorporated in the pathway. We need to have order sets built. We need various committees within our organization to approve usage of this drug." That is a process. It is a lot of constituents, a lot of infrastructure that needs to get built. Until that is built or those approvals are received, that is a gate. If you have an account that has 1,000 or rather 400 treating sites, you need to get that gate lifted so that your reps can effectively engage with physicians who treat patients at those sites.
We were successful there in getting roughly 80% of these key 36 strategic accounts to order, which essentially an order reflects that all of this pre-work- was successfully accomplished.
Those were very much a focus of the initial launch period. Very, very pleased that a lot of these gates got lifted. Also pleased with the level of engagement that our reps have had at the account level, where we've prioritized accounts based on number of patients they treat, and they've been able to get into roughly 3,400 accounts that comprise or treat roughly 80-plus percent of breast cancer patients. So they're getting access to the doctors who are the accounts that really treat the great bulk of breast cancer patients. Then we've also been pleased with the interest in participating or attending peer-to-peer programs where they can listen to a regional KOL or a national KOL talk about the drug, present the data, get perspective from other physicians who are attending.
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