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Ramakanth SwayampakulaAnalyst

Good morning, and thanks for joining us to have a conversation with Will Ho, CEO and co-founder of IN8bio. IN8bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing gamma delta T cell therapies and gamma delta T cell engagers for cancer and autoimmune diseases, built around the ability of these cells to distinguish between healthy from diseased tissue. The preclinical pipeline is anchored by INB-600, a novel gamma delta T cell engager platform with INB-619, a CD19-targeting engager for oncology and autoimmune disease, now moving into IND-enabling studies. Initial in vivo preclinical data is expected in the second half of this year. On the clinical side, DeltEx DRI for newly diagnosed glioblastoma was published in the JCO on July 1st, with repeat dose patients reaching median progression-free survival of 16 months against a roughly 6.9-month standard of care benchmark.

Ramakanth SwayampakulaAnalyst

The company is now seeking for a regulatory path with the FDA. The other molecule, INB-100, is an allogeneic product in development for high-risk leukemias. We expect a clinical update from that in late 2026. To discuss the gamma delta franchise and what's coming up over the next, say, 12 months, let's get started with Will. Will, glad to see you.

Will HoCEO and Co-Founder

Good to see you, RK.

Ramakanth SwayampakulaAnalyst

Appreciate you accepting our invitation and talking to our audience today. Will, as an introduction to IN8bio, could you walk us through what the long-term strategy is? You now have not only a clinical cell therapy franchise in glioblastoma, but also a wholly owned engager platform.

Ramakanth SwayampakulaAnalyst

How different, obviously, are these two businesses, not only in terms of capital but also in timelines?

Will HoCEO and Co-Founder

Thanks, RK. Yes. Hi, everybody. Great to see everyone. It is a nice packed room. Our business, we have actually two sides. We have the historical cell therapy, and today we have a T cell engager platform. Our company background is based on the science and research of our scientific founder, Dr. Lawrence Lamb. He has been working with these cells, these gamma delta T cells, since the early 1990s and is one of the world's best experts in these particular cells. On the cell therapy side, look, I am not going to beat around the bush too much, but it has been a challenging environment broadly for cell therapy. We are really excited. We had great data that got presented in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Will HoCEO and Co-Founder

We had an ASCO presentation, and we will give an update on our median overall survival later this year, likely at The Society for Neuro-Oncology meeting in November. Timelines for that are obviously longer. It would require a registrational trial and additional data to get through to the market, but GBM is a significant unmet need with very little competition given that the last product approved was TEMODAR in 2005. On the T cell engager side, look, T cell engagers are hot. We have seen three major deals so far this year in the autoimmune sector. We saw MiroBio get acquired by Gilead for almost $1.7 billion. You saw Candid get acquired for UCB for $2 billion, and you saw Kali Therapeutics do a deal for $180 million upfront by Sanofi. All of those with a handful of phase I data.

Will HoCEO and Co-Founder

Obviously, that is a much faster and quicker route to returns. Strategically, look, I was a long Wall Streeter. I spent 17 years on Wall Street. We understand we need to generate returns to our shareholders, and we are executing, and we continue to execute to deliver data, and in the long term, to generate shareholder returns.

Ramakanth SwayampakulaAnalyst

Gamma delta T cells is not something everybody talks about every day. What is it? How different are they from other T cells? What is the real biological argument here that you are making?

Will HoCEO and Co-Founder

Look, we love gamma delta T cells. We think they are highly differentiated. When the CAR Ts came out, when Juno and Kite came out, everyone was focused on the alpha-beta T cell. The reason why was they are plentiful. You take your blood and 70% of the T cells are all alpha-beta T cells. The gamma delta T cells comprise only 1%-5%. People make this mistake. They think, "Oh, those cells are in low numbers. They must not be important." One of my friends who is actually an immunologist from Stanford, she actually said one day, "Actually, those cells that are in small numbers, those are the powerful ones.

Will HoCEO and Co-Founder

Those are the ones that can recruit the rest of the immune system." Gamma deltas have unique properties, and we think we can leverage that for novel products that are potentially more precise, function more like a scalpel rather than a sledgehammer, and have much better safety profiles, both on the cell therapy side and on the T cell engager side. Across all of our clinical trials to date, we have not seen major DLTs or SAEs. We have not seen any cytokine release syndrome to date. Despite the fact that we are putting cells directly into the brain, we have not seen any ICANS or neurotoxicity.

Ramakanth SwayampakulaAnalyst

Talking about the clinical data itself- Yeah on the INB-200 program, as I said, the data got recently published at JCO, which showed a median PFS of 9.9 months across all 13 treated patients, and 16.1 months for the repeat dose patients.

Ramakanth SwayampakulaAnalyst

This is against a 6.9 month benchmark. What does the JCO data change for you, in terms of not only investigator interest, but also in terms of talking with the FDA for the path forward?

Will HoCEO and Co-Founder

To talk a little bit about our data, I am going to actually update that data. The JCO publication was actually made last fall. It takes quite a while to get through editorial review. At ASCO, we updated the data. We included the phase II data where we had four patients that were dosed from three additional centers. In totality, we have dosed patients across UAB, Moffitt Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, and The Ohio State University. I think it is more powerful when you have results that are duplicated from multiple centers, so it is just not one magical surgeon. When we look across all of the data, the median progression-free survival is 13 months. The median overall survival at last count as of mid-May was 19 and a half months. Then we found we had a handful of patients, we found 10, that had consented but never received their treatment.

Will HoCEO and Co-Founder

Many went through the exact same process, but at the end, decided not to receive treatment. Those patients had a median progression-free survival of 6.6 months and median OS of 13.2 months. We almost doubled progression-free survival. We will provide an update on our OS at SNO this year. But what I thought was more incredible was actually if you go back to our ASCO presentation and our R&D presentation, we actually have paired biopsies. We have paired biopsies at first diagnosis and at relapse in patients that received the therapy and those that did not. We see a significant difference in that tumor microenvironment. We see multiples increases in not only gamma delta T cells, but CD4 cells, CD8 cells. We see differences in the macrophage population. We see a 90% reduction in tumor density. We are actually having an impact on these patients.

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