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Maxwell SkorBiotech Analyst

Great. Thank you very much everyone for attending. I am Max Skor, a biotech analyst with Morgan Stanley. Before we get started, for important disclosures, please see the Morgan Stanley Research Disclosure website at www.morganstanley.com/researchdisclosures. With that, I am very happy to have the Pharvaris team with me today. Berndt Modig, CEO, and Maggie Beller, Head of IR. Thank you very much for joining us.

Berndt ModigCEO

Thank you, Max. Good to be here.

Maxwell SkorBiotech Analyst

Great. Maybe we start off, I think this is the third year in a row you have attended. We have sat here at the Fireside Chat. This is a momentous time in the story of Pharvaris. If you can just maybe step back and give us a brief overview of just how you got here and what are the key steps going forward?

Berndt ModigCEO

Mm-hmm. Sure. Actually, our journey, or my personal journey in HAE started 23 years ago, not with Pharvaris, but with the company that developed icatibant. I worked there together with Jochen Knolle, who is the inventor of icatibant. Then in, as we all know, Shire took over in 2008, and it then became, and still is, the most widely used acute therapy for subcutaneous injection. But already back then, we knew that patients were looking for better treatments and already then we were just starting to think about the vision for an oral therapy. Then a couple of years later in 2015, starting operations in 2016, Jochen and I started Pharvaris, with the idea to develop an orally available B2 receptor antagonist, really from chemistry square one, really from scratch.

Berndt ModigCEO

We are really excited to what we see today with what came out of that, is deucrictibant. The properties of that molecule makes it very different from icatibant, that it is a B2 receptor antagonist, but it is, to our knowledge, the first and only orally available B2 receptor antagonist. It also has the properties that make it half-life and so on, that makes it suitable for prophylactic development, unlike icatibant. Looking at the therapeutic area for over more than two decades, you see the big unmet need for an efficacious oral therapy option, and that there is still nothing approved out there. We are of course hoping that deucrictibant is going to be the first orally available B2 receptor antagonist, an oral therapy with a high level of efficacy for people living with HAE.

Maxwell SkorBiotech Analyst

Great. Thank you very much for that introduction. When we think about the HAE market, we have the on-demand market, which you also have a formulation for of deucrictibant, and then the prophylactic. Let us start with the prophylactic because you just reported impressive Phase III CHAPTER-3 data. Maybe give us a high-level overview of the overall efficacy profile, and then we can dive into specifics.

Berndt ModigCEO

Yeah. You saw the data. We had a remarkable 87% efficacy in the type 1, type 2 population of hereditary angioedema. The study included as also part of the overall protocol, patients with normal C1 inhibitor, other mutations. The primary endpoint included a small number of such patients and that total primary endpoint and efficacy attack reduction was 83%. That really means that we are in the area of what we can call injectable-like efficacy. If you look at the other injectables in the prophylactic space therapies out there all seems to be almost like a ceiling. I was thinking more or less, maybe not coincidence, but there seems to be like there is a maximum level of efficacy at around 87%.

Berndt ModigCEO

We are very happy to see that with deucrictibant, and it really puts us in a very differentiated position vis-à-vis the others. As I said, we see a huge unmet need for an oral therapy that really provides that level of efficacy.

Maxwell SkorBiotech Analyst

Mm-hmm. Maybe if we can dive into the key secondary endpoints, maybe you can talk about the baseline characteristics and how that compares to competitors in the space. Specifically, I imagine everyone's looking at ORLADEYO, and how that phase III lined up versus CHAPTER-3.

Berndt ModigCEO

Mm-hmm. Yeah, the baseline characteristics are very similar to other therapies. In terms of attack frequency, they range from, I think the lowest is the TAKHZYRO with 1.7, and the highest is ORLADEYO indeed. We were sort of in the little over 2.1, I think it was in our case. It's all very similar. These are fairly severe patients.

Berndt ModigCEO

Yeah. Yeah. I think that's very comparable.

Maggie BellerHead of Investor Relations

I'll add on that those were our placebo rates in the full 24-week study. For the baseline characteristics leading into the study, our average attack rate was about 3.6, so that is a more severe patient population. We were incredibly impressed to see the 87% attack reduction given the severity of the patients that we were treating.

Maxwell SkorBiotech Analyst

Mm-hmm. I guess after the results came out, there were some questions around the safety profile. We actually hosted a KOL a couple of days later. The KOL was comfortable with the enzyme elevations given the compounding or confounding factors such as androgen exposure, fatty liver. Could you comment on those?

Maggie BellerHead of Investor Relations

Yes, happy to. In our study, we did see two grade 3, level 2 liver enzyme elevations. As you mentioned, Max, one of those patients did have fatty liver disease. That was also a normal C1 patient. That person ended up discontinuing the study drug but stayed on the study, so we were able to continue their lab assessments. The second patient had previously used androgens. They actually stayed on study and completed the study and then rolled over onto the open label extension. Both of those patients neither were symptomatic and neither saw elevated bilirubin, so we were pleased to see that.

Maxwell SkorBiotech Analyst

Okay. That's very helpful. There was one patient, I believe, laryngeal attack. Any commentary around that? Absolutely.

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