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Derek ArchilaBiotech Analyst

Well, good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us here after the lunch session. Get right back into the fireside discussions. My name's Derek Archila. I'm one of the biotech analysts here at Wells Fargo. Really excited to have next here, BridgeBio. From the company, we have Chinmay Shukla, Chief Business Officer, congratulations on that, as well as Anna Wade, CEO of the Neuromuscular Division. So thank you guys for joining us.

Chinmay ShuklaCBO

Derek, thank you for hosting us, and thanks to the investors for joining us. We are excited to speak to you today and excited for all our conversations.

Derek ArchilaBiotech Analyst

Excellent. Well, Chinmay, maybe just to level set us with the business and where you guys are. We've got a pretty solid growing base business with acoramidis, three launches upcoming. So maybe just give us a state of the business before we dig in.

Chinmay ShuklaCBO

Yeah. It's a great question. So state of the business today is, if you look at our post phase III drugs, right, that's in ADH1, limb-girdle, ATTR-CM, obviously, and achondroplasia. We have $8 billion of de-risked peak year sales potential. Total, if you look in the entire pipeline, we have $10 billion of risk-adjusted sales potential. So if you feel great about that, I think if you look at acoramidis second quarter global revenues were annualizing to over $1 billion. U.S. revenues were $222 million. We've been growing very nicely at about $25 million to $30 million quarter-over-quarter. We expect to keep growing at that $25 million to $30 million quarter-over-quarter cadence for acoramidis. I think all the clinical updates on acoramidis have been extremely positive.

Chinmay ShuklaCBO

We can get into that more and that gives me a lot of confidence that in 2027, as we launch these next three drugs, that is going to add a lot of growth. Then eventually, second half 2027, once these clinical messages take hold in the community, acoramidis is also going to start to accelerate. We feel very good about where we are. The last thing which I will say, which is important in the long-term perspective of the business is, for us, as we start to have all these revenues and generate cash flow, we think about where can we invest it. If you look at the genetic disease landscape, innovation has never been higher, unmet need has never been higher.

Chinmay ShuklaCBO

Yes, of course, we have to grow into all of that, and we have to do it in the right way, but we feel like we have the opportunity to help a lot of patients, and that, I think, will accrue to the benefit of our shareholders.

Derek ArchilaBiotech Analyst

Excellent. Well, maybe let us start with Attruby. You provided some good context there in terms of growth and things. But we just came out from ESC. We had the CARDIO-TTRansform data and all that stuff. I guess what is your view in terms of how the market continues to evolve and the role of stabilizers?

Chinmay ShuklaCBO

Yeah. There has been a lot of clinical updates in the TTR space, and so let me sort of summarize where I think we are at right now and where we see this market growing. First of all, stabilizers post CARDIO-TTRansform, it is very clear that today, as well as in the future, almost all new frontline ATTR-CM patients will start on a stabilizer. Today, that number is north of 80%. I do not think that that is going to change given what we saw in CARDIO-TTRansform. I also think that combination therapy is not really effective, and it is not going to be a big part of this market going forward. That is the second thing which we learned.

Chinmay ShuklaCBO

The third thing which we learned is the two knockdowns are very similar to each other, and that obviously feeds into why stabilizers are frontline, but if you look at the placebo-adjusted knockdowns, they are the same. If you look at the hazard ratio on monotherapy, they are the same. Then the last thing, which I think ESC told us, which I think is a little lost sometimes from investors, is there is meaningful room to help beyond VYNDAMAX. Obviously today, a ton of patients, majority of frontline patients start on VYNDAMAX, which makes sense given it is the established product. But we think Attruby as the next gen, second generation differentiated stabilizer, will take more and more share, and more patients will start on that drug because simply put, it is a better drug.

Chinmay ShuklaCBO

I think that we feel very good about where we are, whether it is because if you look at subpopulations like AFib variant, whether you look at unique nephroprotective effects of Attruby, and now what you are starting to see, which is really interesting, is real-world evidence start to come to the front, right? You have had one publication. We have heard talks about there being more independent real-world studies which are coming out, so we have to see what happens at HFSA and AHA. But I think all of that will mean that stabilizers will continue to be the frontline therapy of choice. Then over time, we do expect Attruby to keep taking more and more share and become the preferred stabilizer.

Derek ArchilaBiotech Analyst

You talked about some of these data sets that are coming, whether they are yours or externally. What other evidence do you want to generate between now and maybe the tafamidis patent expiry to really drive home what you are talking about in terms of that differentiation?

Chinmay ShuklaCBO

Yeah. All of our work on this front stems from what physicians tell us is most convincing to them. What we have learned is, number one, subgroup data, right? So that is why this AFib data really drove AFib and variant subgroup data, which showed that acoramidis confers a very large benefit amongst the AFib population and has the highest point estimate in the variant subpopulation. Actually, it has a stat sig benefit on variants, which is really remarkable if you think about it, given the low number of patients in that segment in the trials, right? I think that that is convincing. I think we have now built on that with this very unique nephroprotective effect that acoramidis has. That is still in its early days right now. I do not think that that message has fully gone out to the community.

Chinmay ShuklaCBO

We just published a paper on it a couple of months ago. I think it's going to take 6-9 months for people to fully appreciate just how profound that nephroprotective effect is that acoramidis confers. I think the third thing which we've heard from physicians is real-world evidence. Of course, the most convincing real-world evidence is when it's not published by us.

Chinmay ShuklaCBO

So far, there have been, I think, three studies to my understanding. One we've been involved with, the other two we haven't been involved with. Even in studies where we are not involved, you are seeing that acoramidis outperforms tafamidis in real-world settings. We hear that there is going to be a big publication at HFSA on real-world evidence, which I think will further move the field in terms of understanding how to use these drugs in the real-world setting. Those are the kinds of things which I think are going to be important. I think our job right now is to educate physicians on all these benefits which have already been generated.

Chinmay ShuklaCBO

I think the other factor which we don't need to educate physicians on, but which maybe we need to do a better job educating Wall Street on is things like channel dynamics, which mean that even in 2031, when VYNDAMAX does eventually go generic, because this is a channel controlled by specialty pharmacies, institutional specialty pharmacies, as opposed to payers, we do think that volume for Attruby is going to remain high. I actually think if you look at drugs like this, and we updated our corporate decks, we have some examples there now. If you look at these kinds of situations, you always see that the second-gen differentiated product continues to grow after the first-gen product has a loss of exclusivity. I also know that some of your own work suggests that.

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