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Pete StavropoulosBiotech Analyst

Welcome to the Cantor Global Healthcare Conference. I'm Pete Stavropoulos, biotech analyst with Cantor. With us, we have Nuvectis, a company we recently initiated coverage on. I'm pleased to introduce Ron Bentsur. Welcome, and thank you for joining us.

Pete StavropoulosBiotech Analyst

Thank you very much. Let's start off with a brief intro of yourself, followed by a snapshot of the company and how you think about the company today following that Haisco transaction.

Ron BentsurCEO and Co-Founder

First of all, thank you very much. Thank you for inviting us to the conference. It's a pleasure to be here. My name is Ron Bentsur. I'm the CEO and also co-founder of Nuvectis. Prior to Nuvectis, the management team was involved with three different companies, Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Stemline Therapeutics, and UroGen Pharma. I was the CEO of both Keryx and UroGen, and a longstanding board member at Stemline. At each one of these companies, we were fortunate enough to get a drug approved. At Keryx, it was a drug called Auryxia, which actually has two approvals. The first one as a hyperphosphatemia agent for dialysis patients, and the one that actually was very important to the transaction that we did with Haisco was as an anemia agent for pre-dialysis patients.

Ron BentsurCEO and Co-Founder

That is important because one of the assets that we brought in as part of the transaction, obviously, is anemia-related. At UroGen and Stemline, we got oncology drugs approved. I am sure some of you follow UroGen, and some of you recall Stemline, which was acquired by Menarini in 2020. That is the background, and we started Nuvectis in late 2021. We completed the transaction with Haisco about 2 months ago, 2 and a half months ago. Courtesy of Cantor, we did a follow-on offering right after that. We raised $150 million, and here we are.

Pete StavropoulosBiotech Analyst

All right. Could you just walk us on, as you just mentioned, the deal that you did with Haisco. Just walk us through the term details and how that transaction sort of came together.

Ron BentsurCEO and Co-Founder

The transaction with Haisco came together as a result of—it is basically a 2-year relationship that started out with the oncology compound that we brought in also as part of the transaction. In fact, when it was still late pre-clinical. One of our people at Nuvectis took an interest in the compound and started the dialogue with Haisco about that compound, which we now call NXP200. It obviously went into clinical trials and showed some very good data and responses, and we became very interested from a business development perspective. That kind of went along, and during that process, they also introduced us to the second compound, which we call NXP100, which is the complement Factor B inhibitor. About a year ago or so, maybe a little bit more, we were introduced to that compound. We started dialogue around both of them.

Ron BentsurCEO and Co-Founder

It took time, and obviously the chemistry between the teams needed to be there, and they needed to feel confident enough in our ability to move this down the field. Again, we were fortunate enough to be able to bring in these 2 compounds. We are very happy with the transaction, and they are a terrific, in fact, an incredible partner, extremely smart, and truly an exceptional development team over there.

Pete StavropoulosBiotech Analyst

Many companies are being formed around or expanding the pipeline with China-originated assets. But some investors still apply a very large discount. What diligence did you conduct that got you comfortable around the other licensing of 100, and what can you share with investors?

Ron BentsurCEO and Co-Founder

Sure. We conducted obviously very extensive due diligence on all the aspects that you would expect. Pre-clinical, CMC, IP, of course, and of course, all the clinical data. I think it's also important to add that we closed our deal in June of this year, so about 2 months ago. Right before us, in fact, in the second quarter of 2026, Haisco closed 2 big pharma deals. The first one was with AbbVie, and about a month or a month and a half later, they closed a deal with Eli Lilly. As you can imagine, they went through the wringer in terms of due diligence, and they passed with flying colors. I think we're in a great position. We feel very comfortable with Haisco as a partner.

Pete StavropoulosBiotech Analyst

100 shares the same mechanism of Novartis' FABHALTA, which is approved in PNH, C3G, and IgAN. This obviously derisks the target, Factor B. We have an approved Factor B inhibitor. Why do we need another one? What I'm driving at is how is 100 differentiated from FABHALTA?

Ron BentsurCEO and Co-Founder

Yeah. FABHALTA is really the first and only Factor B on the market. It's an oral, and it's kind of slowly but surely overtaking the PNH space for 2 reasons. One, it's an oral versus SOLIRIS and ULTOMIRIS, which are injectables. But also the data for the Factor B is superior, and it's not even close actually. If you compare the data for the Factor B versus SOLIRIS and the C5s, there were 2 studies that were conducted. One was by Novartis with FABHALTA doing a head-to-head study against SOLIRIS. The second one was Eisai with our drug NXP100 doing a head-to-head study against SOLIRIS, and it's not even close. The Factor B are clearly superior to the C5s.

Ron BentsurCEO and Co-Founder

When you combine those two factors together, the fact that you are talking about an oral, which is much easier, and a much better drug, I do not think it is a question of if, it is really a question of just how fast the Factor B are going to overtake this multi-billion dollar market. The PNH market currently is about $5 billion, maybe $5.5 billion, soon to become $7 billion or $8 billion. That is the expectation by the end of the decade. A multi-billion dollar market that is going to be overtaken by the Factor B, initially FABHALTA, of course, and then hopefully us. You talk about the differentiation. We are once a day, they are twice a day. Obviously, there is a huge convenience advantage there. Think about lifelong therapies. These are all lifelong therapies, and we are not talking about keeping patients compliant for the first week.

Ron BentsurCEO and Co-Founder

Obviously, everyone is going to be compliant for a week or several months. The question is what happens after years and years of treatment. You do not want to lose compliance, especially not in a disease like PNH, because that can lead to very adverse outcomes. Keep in mind that before any drugs were introduced into the PNH market, the life expectancy of patients from diagnosis was less than 15 years because unfortunately, many of them died due to thrombotic events. The fact that SOLIRIS and ULTOMIRIS made it onto the scene was a huge blessing for the patients. Now they live pretty much a normal lifespan, but they have to be controlled. If they start losing compliance, they can run into these events, and these events can become deadly. You have to make sure compliance is airtight.

Ron BentsurCEO and Co-Founder

The fact that we can show up there with a once a day versus a twice a day, again, talking about years and years of treatment, we think can be a pretty substantial advantage.

Pete StavropoulosBiotech Analyst

All right. Can you just walk us through your development strategy? You have disclosed you will start off with PNH, but how are you thinking about the overall strategy, approved indications versus indications that FABHALTA and NXP-100 are being evaluated in, versus white space? How are you looking to maximize value for NXP-100?

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