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Sean LermanHead of US Midcap Biotech Equity Research

Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Sean Lerman. I am the head of U.S. Midcap Biotech Equity Research at Morgan Stanley. Welcome to Morgan Stanley's Global Healthcare Conference. Before we begin, just to make you aware of some important disclosures, please see those disclosures at the Morgan Stanley Research Disclosure website at www.morganstanley.com/researchdisclosures. If you do have any questions on that, please reach out to your Morgan Stanley sales representative. For this session, we welcome Contineum Therapeutics with CEO Carmine Stengone. Welcome, Carmine. I hope I pronounced your surname correctly.

Sean LermanHead of US Midcap Biotech Equity Research

Close enough. Close enough. Maybe just to begin with some introductory macro questions.

Sean LermanHead of US Midcap Biotech Equity Research

How is the rise of China origin innovation changing the way that you think, either in a BD sense or an R&D sense, or if at all?

Carmine StengoneCEO and President

Yeah. I think it changes the pace of innovation now. We have several compounds that are being developed across mechanisms that we see.

Carmine StengoneCEO and President

in U.S. and European companies. For us, we see it as a potential advantage. There is the opportunity for additional BD, as you said. As we look to continue to expand our portfolio, we can look towards China and potentially more rational cost metrics around there as well. It also gives us an opportunity in the future to potentially find additional partners for the Asian regions.

Sean LermanHead of US Midcap Biotech Equity Research

Sure. Thank you. Are you implementing AI across your business? If so, can you point to some specifics on whether it is a cost save, a decision made, or even sort of POS assumptions within your pipeline?

Carmine StengoneCEO and President

We do. The main focus on this is cost efficiency and being able to generate data in a much more efficient manner. For instance, we can generate phase II data sets from our competitors and be able to evaluate that in a much more rapid fashion than had we were building spreadsheets for that, as well as around competitive intelligence and investor interactions and things like that. We see this as a tool for efficiency and ability to reduce costs. We are not using this to synthesize molecules or anything like that. We are very focused on the biology and the team that we have that has been able to generate our portfolio since our inception.

Sean LermanHead of US Midcap Biotech Equity Research

Yeah, wonderful. Thank you. Last question in a macro sense. I am guessing it is the FDA, but which policy variable do you think about the most? Is it FDA? Is it Medicare negotiation tariffs? What do you think about the most?

Carmine StengoneCEO and President

By and large, FDA. We're an early-stage company. We're in the clinic. Obviously, we lean on FDA for guidance for study conduct. It is really the key regulator that we focus on in getting the study up and running.

Sean LermanHead of US Midcap Biotech Equity Research

Wonderful. Thank you. I'm going to focus this discussion on PIPE-791.

Sean LermanHead of US Midcap Biotech Equity Research

Sure. Just to deal with, can you give us a summary of PIPE-307 and the recent disclosure before we move on?

Carmine StengoneCEO and President

Sure. We recently put out data or a press release with our partner, Johnson & Johnson, for PIPE-307. This program or this compound was in a phase IIa study focused on MDD and really looking into the cholinergic thesis of depression. A well-controlled study, over 100 patients. Unfortunately, like a lot of MDD studies, we missed on the primary endpoint. J&J has been a fantastic partner through this, and as we communicated in the press release, they are investigating pre-specified exploratory endpoints. We don't have any data to speak about today, but we're looking forward to getting more information from J&J and seeing what the next steps, if any, in the development program of PIPE-307 will be.

Sean LermanHead of US Midcap Biotech Equity Research

Okay. Thank you, Carmine Stengone. To move on to the real meat, which is PIPE-791 and PROPEL-IPF. It is a once daily LPA1R antagonist without the same titration burden as Bristol Myers Squibb's shot on goal in IPF. How meaningful is that in older symptomatic population already taking background anti-fibrotic therapy?

Carmine StengoneCEO and President

Yeah. I think that it is more meaningful than it sounds like on paper. If you look at the patient population with IPF, generally 65 to 85-year-old patients, infirm, a lot of comorbidities, as well as additional treatments that are on their treatment schedule. So having a dose titration adds complexity to their treatment. It potentially leads to additional doctor's visits and things like that. To be able to identify in advance a compound that can be at its starting dose from the very beginning leads to convenience, and I think in this patient population, that is not lip service. That is something that is meaningful in their adherence and ability to address their disease with 791.

Sean LermanHead of US Midcap Biotech Equity Research

Sure. Thank you. PROPEL-IPF, it is now active in more than 55 sites across Yeah 8 countries.

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