Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. Common Stock Citigroup’s Biopharma Back to School Summit 2026
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Day one of the Back to School Biopharma Conference Citi is hosting here in New York. I'm Ygal Nochomovitz, a biotech analyst. We're on our third session of the morning, which is my great pleasure to introduce Arcturus Therapeutics. We have both the CEO, Joe Payne, and Alan Cohen is the relatively new CMO. Welcome, both of you. Appreciate it.
Thank you. It's good to be with you.
Joe, a lot's happened in the last couple of years with the company, both on the OTC front and then also on the CF front. It'd be great if we could just start with the high level, introduce the company, what are the key programs.
Yeah. We'll have plenty to talk about on both those programs.
Sure. Arcturus is a messenger RNA medicines company that we have next generation technologies that differentiate us from the field and within the mRNA community. We do have a self-amplifying mRNA technology to support the vaccines division. But we utilize the self-amplifying mRNA platform, which includes infectious disease vaccines and potential cancer applications. We utilize that division to non-dilutively fund the value-creating portion of the organization, and that is our therapeutics pipeline. We have a pair of messenger RNA therapeutics that are deep in phase II with some meaningful milestones and readouts this year. Our liver platform has a flagship asset that is for an indication called ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency or OTC deficiency. It is the number one urea cycle disorder. And we have a phase II readout for that later this month.
That is a very near-term milestone for us, along with some regulatory clarity associated with that flagship program for the liver platform. And then we also have an inhaled messenger RNA platform that is led by our CF product or cystic fibrosis indication, and we have a key decision for that program in Q4, a go/no go decision to whether we proceed into phase III. That is where we are. Again, just to reiterate, we have an advanced vaccine platform, self-amplifying mRNA that is approved in 32 countries. And we are looking to that to help generate cash or fuel for the value-creating therapeutics pipeline franchise.
Okay. Let us start with OTC. You mentioned that there is going to be some data coming up. Maybe help us understand what we are going to learn at that data readout. I believe that is later this year?
This month. This month. Yeah.
Very good. What are we going to learn? What will you learn in terms of feedback from the FDA in terms of the path forward? Given you're studying both the pediatrics and the adults, are there differences Yeah in terms of what you need to see there?
Yeah. We've had a pair or two Type C meetings this year. We've engaged the regulatory agency to discuss the path forward for this program. You're right, there's two general populations that we've segregated the OTC deficiency community into. You have stable adults, and then you have pediatrics, where there's a larger commercial opportunity and higher unmet need with respect to pediatrics. As we've talked to them, we've already indicated that both of these Type C meetings were positive and productive, but the details around those meetings will be provided in more granularity at our communication later this month. It's not just data that we'll be providing, but it's also the regulatory path forward and more granular feedback from those two Type C meetings.
In terms of what data to expect, you mentioned this is a phase II data set that includes Europe and the U.S. We have completed all our dosing and enrollment. We have already communicated that. It is just about compiling the data and presenting it. But why it is a unique data set is not only because it is additional data from our interim communications, but it is in a format and additional data that was recommended through advice from the regulatory agency from these Type C meetings. We will be able to communicate not just biomarker data, but additional data that we had to go back retroactively and dig up, and provide that for Wall Street as well.
So it sounds like some of those details in terms of what biomarkers you are going to show are not ready for prime time today. That is something you can talk about later.
Well Or could you illuminate a little bit?
Well, we can discuss this a little bit.
The biomarkers for OTC deficiency are well established. Ammonia is a bad actor.
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