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Pete StavropoulosBiotech Analyst

Welcome to the Cantor Global Healthcare Conference. I'm Pete Stavropoulos, a biotech analyst with Cantor. With us, we have Axsome, a company I cover. I am pleased to introduce Nick Pizzie and Mark Jacobson of Axsome. Let's start off with a brief intro of yourselves, snapshot of Axsome, and the company's focus and strategy.

Mark JacobsonCOO

Thanks for having us, Pete.

Nick PizzieCFO

Mark Jacobson. Nick Pizzie, CFO.

Mark JacobsonCOO

Axsome, CNS-focused biopharma. We have three commercial products, which we'll of course focus on with the flagship at the moment, and all eyes are on AUVELITY, which is approved for major depressive disorder and recently Alzheimer's disease agitation, which we are launching. We've done expansion around that, and right now it's all commercial performance for that product and the two others, Symbravo for migraine and Sunosi for excessive daytime sleepiness in obstructive sleep apnea and narcolepsy. Behind those products, we have a very deep and broad balanced pipeline of programs that are NDA stage. That's AXS-12 for narcolepsy. We have a PDUFA date of May 1st there, and multiple phase III programs, either with one positive phase III trial or that we've just initiated and are looking through various readouts. We can touch on those. It's an incredible time for the company.

Mark JacobsonCOO

The company's better positioned, and the fundamentals are better than they ever have been, and right now it's all about execution on the commercial and pipeline side of the house.

Pete StavropoulosBiotech Analyst

All right. In terms of catalysts that are coming up on late-stage assets, what should we expect in the remainder of 2026 and 2027?

Mark JacobsonCOO

Remainder of 2026 from a pipeline perspective, we've recently initiated a number of phase III trials. We'll get into those, but looking towards between now and the end of the year, we have the ENGAGE phase III trial of solriamfetol, that's Sunosi, in binge eating disorder. We've guided to top-line results in the fourth quarter. We're looking forward to that. We like that program and the three other label expansion efforts or potential label expansion efforts that are ongoing now. Those are, real quick, major depressive disorder with symptoms of excessive daytime sleepiness, shift work disorder, and ADHD. That's the next pipeline event. Then looking to next year, I've touched on the NDA, the PDUFA date for AXS-12 and narcolepsy. Again, that's May 1st, and then we also have guided to top line from the shift work trial of solriamfetol in 2027.

Pete StavropoulosBiotech Analyst

All right, so you're also laying the foundation for the next wave. You have ongoing phase II/III's, as well as those that you plan to initiate. Just walk us through those.

Mark JacobsonCOO

Sure. I will touch on the recent initiations, which I alluded to. We have AXS-05 in smoking cessation. We just initiated the SUMMIT phase III trial. That is AXS-05 versus placebo and versus bupropion. Again, that we just started. We haven't guided to top line yet, and enrollment is underway, and stay tuned for updates there. Just prior to that initiation, we initiated 2 trials with solriamfetol and ADHD. We have a positive phase III trial in adults with solriamfetol and ADHD, and we saw a substantial improvement in adults in symptoms of ADHD, and now we need to complete studies in children and adolescents. Those are ongoing. We will provide updates there and top-line guidance once enrollment is really underway and we have a sense of how that's tracking.

Mark JacobsonCOO

The other trials that are underway, we have, again, I touched on the shift work disorder trial, and then there's the trial in major depressive disorder with solriamfetol. We haven't guided there yet either. That study enrollment has now been underway for a number of months. Looking at AXS-14, that is esreboxetine, so the S enantiomer of reboxetine in fibromyalgia. That trial we initiated a number of months ago now, and is enrolling there too. We will have updates for all of these programs. We're really excited about them, and if you look even earlier in the pipeline, there's AXS-17 and AXS-20, both of which are our programs that are relatively new to the pipeline, which we added last year and early this year, and tech transfer activities are underway.

Mark JacobsonCOO

Those are programs that were AXS-17 we're looking at for epilepsy and AXS-20 we plan to start a phase III trial in schizophrenia as the next program there, and we're also interested in exploring that for Tourette's syndrome. Just a lot going on, different therapeutic categories, all highly complementary and have leveraged the clinical expertise that we've built over the years, and we will look forward to keeping you posted on them.

Mark JacobsonCOO

I'm surprised you can keep all of that in Yeah, no, it's there.

Mark JacobsonCOO

I'm sure I forgot something.

Pete StavropoulosBiotech Analyst

All right, turning to AUVELITY, you recently increased your peak sales potential in MDD in combo with Alzheimer's to greater than $8 billion. What are the assumptions behind that greater than $8 billion opportunity?

Nick PizzieCFO

Sure. Yeah, I could talk a little bit about MDD to start with. We ended the quarter Q2, $180 million, so annualizing $720 million. That was with less than 0.25% of the total market share. We recently expanded the team from 300 to 600. We also now have an LTC team that will be detailing or is detailing on MDD as well as ADA. We feel that if you take a look at the $8 billion and you split that up roughly 50/50, $4 billion, that's only 1%, a little bit north of 1% of the entire antidepressant market. What we've been able to achieve thus far with roughly a significantly smaller sales force than a lot of our peers.

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