Intellia Therapeutics Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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May 4, 2023

There are 18 speakers on the call.

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the Intellia Therapeutics First Quarter 2023 Financial Results Conference Call. My name is Drew, and I will be your conference operator today. Following formal remarks, we will open the call up for a question and answer session. This conference is being recorded at the company's request and will be available on the company's website following the end of the call. As a reminder, all participants are currently in listen only mode.

Operator

I will now turn the conference over to Ian Karp, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications at Intellia. Please proceed.

Speaker 1

Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Intellia Therapeutics' Q1 2023 earnings call. Earlier this morning, Intellia issued Press release outlining the company's progress this quarter as well as topics for discussion on today's call. This release can be found on the Investor and Media section of Intellia's website at intelliatx.com. This call is being broadcast live and a replay will be archived on the company's website.

Speaker 1

At this time, I'd like to take a minute to remind listeners that during this call, Intellia Management may make certain forward looking statements and ask that you refer to our SEC filings available atsec.gov for a discussion of potential risks and uncertainties. All information presented on this call is current as of today, and Intellia undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law. Joining me from Intellia are Doctor. John Leonard, Chief Executive Officer Doctor. David Lebwahl, Chief Medical Officer and Glenn Goddard, Chief Financial Officer.

Speaker 1

John will begin with an overview of recent business highlights, David will provide an update on our clinical programs and Glenn will review financial results for the Q1 2023 before we open up the call for Q and A, at which time Doctor. Laura Sepuloranzino, our Chief Scientific Officer, will also be available. With that, I'll now turn the call over to John.

Speaker 2

Thank you, Ian, and thank you all for joining us this morning. At Intellia, we're continuing to lead the genome editing revolution with the broadest and deepest toolbox of novel editing and delivery solutions. We've had a productive start to the year in the recent successful clearance of our first IND for an investigational in vivo CRISPR based therapy. Alongside that regulatory accomplishment, we continue to make important progress across both our in vivo and DEXIVO pipeline and platform. Today, we're pleased to announce dosing has begun in the Phase 2 study of NTLA-two thousand and two for the treatment of hereditary angioedema or HAE.

Speaker 2

Additionally, based on strong interest from investigators and patients, we expect to complete study enrollment in the second half of this year. Both the FDA's acceptance of our IND application and the rapid clinical progression of NKLA-two thousand and two move us one step closer to our goal of introducing a potential functional cure for people living with HAE. Simultaneously, we're working towards submitting our second in vivo IND. This next IND is for the planned pivotal trial of NTLA-two thousand and one for people with the cardiomyopathy manifestation of ATTR amyloidosis. Some estimates indicate there may be as many as 500,000 people who suffer from this disease around the world.

Speaker 2

Subject to regulatory feedback, We expect to initiate the global pivotal trial by year end. Both NTLA-two thousand and one and NTLA-two thousand and two Represent potentially paradigm shifting treatments as supported by the initial groundbreaking clinical data presented last year. As the 1st and only company to demonstrate successful systemic CRISPR gene editing in humans to date, we now look forward to presenting new interim data from each Phase 1 study at upcoming medical meetings later this year. Lastly, we're very happy to welcome Bill Chase to our Board of Directors. Bill brings over 3 decades of financial management expertise and a strong track record for building leading biopharmaceutical companies.

Speaker 2

He was formerly the CFO of AbbVie and spearheaded its successful spin out from Abbott Laboratories. Bill will succeed Carolyn Dorsa as Audit Committee Chair following her retirement from the Board. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Carolyn Dorsa for her long and dedicated service on Intellia's Board and her many contributions to the company's growth and success as its 1st Independent Director. We wish her well in her future pursuits. With that summary of the excellent progress we've made so far this year, I'll hand the call over to our Chief Medical Officer, David Lebwohl, who will review the lead clinical programs in greater detail.

Speaker 2

David?

Speaker 3

Thanks, John, and welcome, everyone. I'll begin with an update for 2,001, an in vivo CRISPR based candidate with the potential to halt and reverse disease in people living with ATTR amyloidosis after a single dose. As we shared back in February, we have now completed the planned enrollment in the dose expansion portion of the cardiomyopathy and polyneuropathy arms of the 2 part Phase 1 study. Data from these expansion cohorts will be used to inform our dose selection decision for subsequent pivotal studies. For ATTR Centimeters, We remain on track to submit an IND application mid this year.

Speaker 3

We are currently in the process of preparing the IND package. Similar to 2,002, we are putting together a robust filing, including the extensive preclinical work and available clinical data. Subject to regulatory feedback, we plan to initiate the global pivotal study by year end. For hereditary ATTR amyloidosis with polyneuropathy, we are preparing for a future Phase 3 study and discussions with regulatory authorities. Separately, we also recently began re dosing patients received the 0.1 milligram per kilogram dose of 2001 in the dose escalation portion of the Phase 1 study.

Speaker 3

As you may recall, the first three patients in the first in human study received a relatively low dose. Our objective for testing this low dose in the first cohort of patients was primarily to examine the lower bound 2,001 safety and activity profile. Patients in this cohort achieved a mean TTR reduction of 52% by day 28. This is in comparison to patients who achieved near or greater than 90% will receive a 55 milligram dose, the fixed dose corresponding to 0.7 milligrams per kilogram. While we are developing 20 1 as a one time treatment, we believe that the ability to potentially redose with our CRISPR based candidates is an important advantage of our LNP based delivery system.

Speaker 3

As such, this redosing feature may provide valuable Finally, we plan to present additional data from both arms of the study this year. For ATTR Centimeters, we I'll turn now to our 2nd in vivo program, 2,002, our investigational therapy for the treatment of hereditary angioedema or HAE. Despite the availability of chronic treatments, people living with HAE face High treatment burden and many still experience breakthrough attacks. With 2,002, we aim to prevent attacks by providing lifelong reduction of plasma calacrine activity with just a single dose. We were very pleased to announce in March that the FDA cleared the 2,002 IND application.

Speaker 3

This was our first in vivo IND submission and the FDA's clearance within the initial 30 day review period speaks to the extraordinary work from the team here at Intellia. Importantly, this marks the first time the FDA has cleared an IND for a systemically administered in vivo CRISPR based candidate using LNP delivery. Shortly after IND clearance, we also received RMAT designation for 2,002 for treatment of HAE. The FDA confers RMAT designation to certain promising therapeutic candidates and includes important benefits to expedite development and review. It is recognition by the FDA for our early clinical data and indicates that 2,002 has the potential to address serious unmet medical need for people living with HAE.

Speaker 3

The significant progress we've made with the 2,002 program doesn't stop there. More recently, we have begun dosing patients in the global Phase We've seen strong interest and enthusiasm from investigators and patients alike following our early clinical data suggesting 2,002 may provide durable prevention of swelling attacks after a single dose. Today, we announced that we expect to complete enrollment in the second half of this year. As a reminder, the goal of the Phase 2 is to identify the dose to move forward into a future registrational trial. We look forward to presenting New additional data from the Phase 1 portion of the first in human study later this year.

Speaker 3

Data expected to be presented include new safety, As John mentioned, it's been a very productive Q1, especially for the 2,002 program. As 2,012 continue to progress, We believe that we are moving closer to setting a new standard of care for people living with these serious diseases. Beyond our 2 lead programs, we're advancing a pipeline of in vivo and ex vivo programs towards the clinic. Notably, we remain on track to submit an IND or IND equivalent for 3,001, our first wholly owned in vivo insertion program in the second half of this year. I'll now hand over the call to Glenn, our CFO, who will provide an overview of our Q1 2023 financial results.

Speaker 4

Thank you, David. Good morning, everyone. Intellia continues to maintain a strong balance sheet that allows us to execute on our pipeline and platform. Our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities were $1,200,000,000 as of March 31, 2023, compared to $1,300,000,000 as of December 31, 2022. The decrease was driven by cash used to $3,400,000 of collaborator reimbursements, dollars 1,500,000 of net equity proceeds from the company's at the market program and $800,000 in proceeds from employee based stock plans.

Speaker 4

Our collaboration revenue increased by $1,300,000 to $12,600,000 during the Q1 of 2023 compared to $11,300,000 during the Q1 of 2022. Our R and D expenses decreased by $36,000,000 to $97,100,000 during the Q1 of 2023 compared to $133,100,000 during the Q1 of 2022. This decrease was mainly driven by 50 Increase in expenses of $20,000,000 driven by the advancement of our lead programs and personnel growth to support these programs. Our G and A expenses increased by $5,000,000 to $27,400,000 during the Q1 of 2023 compared to of $22,400,000 during the Q1 of 2022. This increase was primarily related to an increase in stock based compensation of of $2,100,000 Finally, we expect our cash balance to fund our operating plans beyond the next 24 months.

Speaker 4

It's certainly been a very productive start to the year, and we look forward to a number of additional key milestones and data presentation throughout the remainder of the year. With that, I will now open the call for your questions. Operator, you may now open the call for today.

Operator

We will now begin the question and answer session. Please limit yourself to one question. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. The first question comes from Joseph Thorne with TD Cowen. Please go ahead.

Speaker 5

Hi there. Good morning and thank you for taking my question. Maybe could you give us a little bit more of an indication in terms of what that ILAP designation means for the development program for 2,002. And maybe just broadly, Peter Marks has obviously been a little bit more Favorable in terms of accelerated approval for gene therapies in the U. S.

Speaker 5

Do you think this speaks through to gene editing and Does this impact your development strategy at all? Thank you.

Speaker 2

David, do you want to speak to the ILAP question? And I guess more broadly, the FDA's outlook is as we see it for gene editing in the U. S.

Speaker 3

Thank you. The ILAP designation refers specifically to the U. K. As mentioned. So this is a program in which they're trying to advance innovative therapies.

Speaker 3

I think we talked to you in the past about how closely we have worked with Our UK authorities have been very interested in gene editing as a class and have been very helpful in moving our program forward. In this case, they officially have a program in which they make the designation for programs which they think will be very valuable They have populations, the people in their country and they help move along the approval process. This is fairly new. We don't know exactly how it's going to affect the advancement in UK, but They really have taken a very innovative approach to try and move this type of program forward. We've also noted that Peter Marks has We've been very positive towards more positive towards accelerated approvals for gene therapies.

Speaker 3

In general, We have talked about our registration programs. In these cases, we generally do think we need at least a randomized study because of the nature of the assessing the response to these diseases. But we will certainly talk to them about ways to accelerate the approval using the data that we are gaining in these studies.

Speaker 5

Perfect. Very helpful. Thank you.

Operator

The next question comes from Maury Raycroft with Jefferies. Please go ahead.

Speaker 6

Hi, good morning and thanks for taking my question. For the IND filing mid year for ATTR cardiomyopathy, You likely have to have a near final plan in place for the study when you file. But there are 2 key events in the space mid year with Alnylam's AdCom and BridgeBio's Phase 3 outcomes data. Wondering, will you wait for those events to inform your IND or will you file and adjust I guess, how are you thinking about the timing and strategy?

Speaker 2

I'll take that, Maury. Thanks for the question. Our plan is to move forward as we've guided with the IND filing mid this year. We think that we have much of the information that we're going to need to move the program forward and it's of highest priority for us to get to an agreement on what

Operator

The next question comes from Yanan Zhu with Wells Fargo Securities. Please go ahead. Hi.

Speaker 7

Thanks for taking my question. So I think you made this interesting comment that Enrollment interest has been high for the 2002 HAE Phase 2 global study. I think one thing that has been mentioned by others is that HAE has fairly good standard of care, at least in the U. S. And therefore, there has been a question of interest in receiving a one time Wes and Dun, Gene Editing Treatment.

Speaker 7

And can you comment on what you make of the strong interest that you have seen for this study and whether that part of that interest includes in developed markets like the U. S. Market? Thank you. Thanks.

Speaker 2

Yes, Yanan. Thanks for the question. We're seeing broad based interest really irrespective of geography. We are in developed markets. The IND obviously brings the program here to the U.

Speaker 2

S. We've been really quite gratified by the clinical interest that we've seen from investigators. I guess the core of your question is why might that be. I think there's really a couple of Very fundamental points that speak to the program. Number 1, what we've seen thus far for efficacy Surpasses that.

Speaker 2

We'll see as the program moves on. But I think one underappreciated factor for patients with HAE is that Remember that they're frequently diagnosed when they're young, and they require lifelong therapy. And that translates into what patients view as a very Urgent some treatment regimen, whether it's infusions or the materials that they need to carry with them and the uncertainty that they contend with as they go about their So, what we're seeing and this is what both patients and physicians tell us that the prospects of Dispensing with that therapy potentially and being essentially functionally cured, which means Approximating disease free status is something of great interest to patients. And we'll see as our Phase 1 data continues to mature, but that prospect is very, very exciting to patients. So Stay tuned as the work goes on and we'll see how far we get to achieving those goals, but it's certainly we've learned is alluring to patients.

Speaker 7

Great to hear. Thanks for the update.

Operator

The next question comes from Daegu with Stifel. Please go

Speaker 8

ahead. Great. Good morning. Thanks for taking our question. I'll switch gears to 3,001, if I may.

Speaker 8

So with regards to the IND plans, looking back at the 2002 and your soon to be filed 2,001, Overall IND experience, I guess can you talk about your confidence in IND submission for that 3,001 program and eventual clearance? I guess I'm just wondering how much of this IND or IND equivalent decision will be driven by regulatory requirements as opposed

Speaker 2

David, do you want to speak to how we're approaching the regulatory filings to begin clinical work with 3,001? Yes.

Speaker 3

So first recall with 3,001 that would be knock in of the up when antitrypsin we're able to get What looked like normal levels of non human primates. So we have seen a lot of enthusiasm from investigators to be able to start to use this therapy to test Putting that together, this IND and that also motivates regulators, I should say. So that's what's important there. In terms of the IND there are really 2 pieces, major pieces of this. One is the lipid nanoparticle able to target at the albumin site and what we've learned from the 2,002 application is that we are Doing the things that the FDA is interested in that aspect of the gene editing.

Speaker 3

The second piece of it is New to us, but not new to the FDA at all and this is the AAV virus that's part of that program. That way forward for IND is very well established. So putting the 2 together, we think that the IND will be IND or IND equivalent has a good chance of passing. We don't think that's a major hurdle in terms of going forward.

Operator

The next question comes from Debjit to reprior with Guggenheim. Please go ahead.

Speaker 9

Good morning, everyone. This is Rye For Seth on for Debjit. Thinking about the 2,001 data that you'll share later this year, do you anticipate providing information around NT ePROBNP with that data set? And secondly, just one clarification for those patients that were redosed. I think you said a fixed dose equivalent to 0.7 mgkg.

Speaker 9

I think you also said the flat dose, but I missed that.

Speaker 2

David, maybe you can speak to some of the Clinical information that we expect to share. I guess the question was specifically about some biomarkers. In the meanwhile, we can say that, yes, The re dosing is with the 55 flat dose. It's not going to be weight based. What we're doing is Following up these patients in the first cohort with the same dose that everyone else has been receiving in the expansion phase of David, do you want to speak to some of the clinical information for 2,001 that we expect to share this year?

Speaker 3

What we're going to show from the trial is information from both the polyneuropathy and cardiomyopathy arms. What we Think you know is that we completed enrollment for the cardiomyopathy at the end of last year and the polyneuropathy early this year. So those patients have had will have had some follow-up as we move to the year. We haven't said exactly when that presentation will be, But that will be it will be early for some patients. We started in that late period.

Speaker 3

Of So that will be available really for all patients. But the other measures like ProBNP and cardiomri of the heart Do take longer and of course with the varying follow-up, there will be various degrees of follow-up in different patients. In general, we do want to report data when there's substantial and complete information. So, we can't say exactly what we're presenting right now, but we will come forward with the Important information that we find.

Speaker 1

Thank you.

Operator

The next question comes from Liisa Bayko with Evercore ISI. Please go ahead.

Speaker 10

Hi there. Thanks for taking the question. I was really curious about your re dosing Strategy, are you is there anything specifically you're looking for, for this particular program? Or is it more a safety evaluation for other programs? How will you know If it's doing what you're expecting, what are you looking for, if there's anything beyond safety?

Speaker 10

Thank you.

Speaker 2

David, do you want to speak to that?

Speaker 3

Yes. So the re dosing in general, we don't think is needed for either the TTR program or the HAE program. We think that the single dose that we can achieve the results that we want greater than 90% reduction of TTR at the appropriate doses in general And for AJE what we've seen the higher doses is 80% to 90% reduction in the biomarker with a complete elimination of the events. So we don't think they need redosing those effects should be permanent based on everything we know. The redosing that is being done is really being done For the benefit of those patients who joined our trial, particularly patients who joined as the first people in the world to receive a CRISPR based in vivo therapy.

Speaker 3

So we had committed to them that if they didn't get the type of effect that we wanted them to that we would offer them a re dose. We proved that this is feasible in the preclinical situation that if we went to the full dose that we would be able to achieve very good editing in first monument primates. But for these patients by giving them 55 milligrams, we do think we'll be able to achieve the type of result that The other patients in this trial have had at the higher doses. We did mention that could this be useful in some other indications. We haven't found that yet, but you could imagine someplace where you may want to redose if Perhaps a titration type of thing, but we haven't found that indication yet, but it's not it will be good to know that this is safe to give the drug again.

Speaker 3

And it's especially outside the liver where we're interested in whether that might be necessary to give an additional dose. We haven't seen that of course that you've seen in the liver so far.

Speaker 10

Okay, makes sense. Thank you.

Operator

The next question comes from William Pickering with Bernstein. Please go ahead.

Speaker 8

Good morning. Thank you for taking my question. David, at an investor conference in March, you stated your expectation that the Pivotal trial in cardiomyopathy could be smaller than others that we have seen. Could you share more about what gives you that confidence? And how do you see that translating into study duration?

Speaker 8

Thank you.

Speaker 3

Yes. So what I was indicating is that we have First, the fact that because we're seeing deeper reductions in TTR, we expect to see better efficacy. That's the correlation that's been seen already for neuropathy and has been seen in other types of cardiomyopathy. These Keep in reductions could translate into that better efficacy. When you do have a greater treatment effect, you don't need as many people to establish a positive endpoint to achieve a primary endpoint that is statistically significant.

Speaker 3

So for example, we do think the trial will be not very different from the HELIOS B, But of course, there's other trials like Ionis that are now at 1400 patients. You'd have a very small treatment effect that You can see a very small treatment effect when you go to a size trial such as that. So that's what I was talking about.

Speaker 1

Thank you.

Operator

The next question comes from Joon Lee with Truist Securities. Please go ahead.

Speaker 3

Hi, good morning and thanks for taking our questions. This is Mehdi on for June. So you showed that ex vivo based editing is capable of like multiplexing, very safe and efficient. So would you expect the same or similar efficacy in vivo? And if that's the case, would you do Choose base editing for your next in vivo candidate and if there are any notable considerations in this domain.

Speaker 3

Thank you.

Speaker 2

Yes, thanks for the question. I think we should just go back to the basics here and Think through how we approach programs. Remember, we have our platform where we've been aggregating tools that Sorry to go after a particular disease state. Obviously, we've built out a platform that It starts with a deep understanding of CRISPR and what it can do in guide RNA formations. We've added to that the ability to do base editing And we're well on our way to doing what we think is very advanced forms of gene writing.

Speaker 2

So we have a toolbox that we can draw on to address What we think is the most appropriate tool for whatever the particular disease might be. So if Base editing were the right approach, we would choose that. We think as we look at it today that base editing is best Suited for ex vivo uses when one is multiplexing, which is inherent to some of the aspects of Base editing in terms of its activity, but also how one goes about assessing its off target effect. So I would look to our pipeline as it continues to develop to see where we deploy base editing. We think it has a place, but Right now, we're very, very excited about what our approach does in the diseases that we're currently advancing in the

Operator

clinic. Thank you very much. The next question comes from Salveen Richter with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Speaker 11

Hi, thank you for taking my question. This is Srinathra on for Salveen. Can you provide some color on how you're thinking about the trial design for the Phase 3 study in And what have you learned from your discussions with regulators on that front? And what do you think the FDA would like to see in the pivotal study?

Speaker 2

David, how are you thinking about the Phase 3 program for cardiomyopathy?

Speaker 3

Yes. Thank you for that question. We think firstly to think about the primary endpoints of the trial. What's important to patients? What's important to the doctors and the payers?

Speaker 3

We think that is the clinical benefit that you can achieve. So this is reducing cardiovascular events, reducing cardiovascular mortality. So first and foremost, what can this do for patients? In terms of the design of the trial, We do think it will be similar to the other trials that are out there. You've seen that tafamidis is part of the Background therapy for many patients around the world that continues to be a growing trend and we think that the The fact that you'll be combining TTR reduction with stabilization certainly is an antagonistic and possibly could be quite beneficial If you get for example with our drug down to less than 10% of the initial protein to very low levels of TTR And you even want to avoid any of that protein getting into organs, the stabilization may be helpful there.

Speaker 3

We don't know at this So what we want to see is a benefit over what's currently out there. So it will be Obviously a randomized study looking at the benefit of 2,001 in those patients. The size of the trial we do think will be Similar to other trials as mentioned it could be somewhat smaller because of the greater treatment effect. However, we do need to learn from the ongoing trials. We've learned really from the APOLLO B that that was probably too small a trial with too short a follow-up to In order to see the full clinical benefit of the drug and so they do not really establish the clinical benefit with that type of trial.

Speaker 3

We do think you need a good follow-up on patients as well as probably a larger number of patients than the APOLLO B. Luckily, we will be seeing the results of some of these trials before we unblind our trial. So this will also help us Make sure that we have the right trial design as we go and unblind and get our primary endpoint for our trial. So Those are the main features that we are looking to. We will gain agreement with regulators on that and then go forward to the trial starting later this year.

Speaker 12

Thank you.

Operator

The next question comes from Brian Chiang with JPMorgan, please go ahead.

Speaker 13

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my question this morning. Given the genetic heterogeneity in AATD and the mix of associated clinical phenotype, is there a specific variant basket that you See more of a lower hanging fruit for 3,001. In other words, would you exclude those that also have presentation of liver disease in

Speaker 2

David, do you want to Talk about just the basics of how we're thinking about the Phase 1 program for 3,001?

Speaker 3

Yes. So you're right that there are different Some patients really have a very predominant lung issue, loss of function in the lung. Other patients have a predominant liver dysfunction, particularly some of the younger patients and some patients have both. Going into a Phase 1 study, we would avoid patients who we think have liver disease in general because you're not treating it When you put in the new gene, you're not getting rid of the mutant gene in the initial program. Similarly for our second program 2,003 which This also would be predominantly for patients who have The liver disease as their main manifestation initially, of course, those patients later on could get lung disease as well.

Speaker 3

Our advantage of our program is ultimately we will treat both aspects of disease not only the lung disease but also liver disease And that these drugs can be used together as we advance the program even further. But initially that would be appropriate to avoid patients

Operator

The next question comes from Rick Mankowski with Cantor Fitzgerald. Please go ahead.

Speaker 14

Hi, good morning. Thanks for taking the question. So for the Phase 2 program of Intellia 2,002, given this is the first time that patients will be dosed in the U. S, could you just help us with our expectation for the pace of dosing here? Will you be required to space out the dosing for each of the patients in the initial U.

Speaker 14

S. Cohort or can you dose more rapidly given the safety data that was generated

Speaker 2

I'll take that. What We're seeing is, as we discussed earlier in the call, very high interest in the program here in the U. S. And outside the U. S.

Speaker 2

We're actively enrolling the study we expect will finish this year. And with respect to the pacing of patients, We think that that's going to go very, very fast without the requirement to space as is typically done in a Phase 1 program. So overall, I would expect this study to move quite quickly and we'll update this as the program unfolds.

Operator

The next question comes from Greg Harrison with Bank of America. Please go ahead.

Speaker 12

Good morning. This is Mary Kate on for Greg. Thanks for taking our Just looking at some of the upcoming medical conferences, you have multiple abstracts in collaboration with Regeneron for the preclinical hemophilia program at ASGCT. Maybe how are you looking at this early stage program and what impact could a gene editing product have in this indication? Thanks.

Speaker 2

You're asking specifically about hemophilia? Yes. Yes. I'll take that. The way we think about that is there's a couple of aspects to the program.

Speaker 2

First of all, Hemophilia, obviously, is a lifelong disease that starts in children as they deal with the manifestations of the disease. They accumulate Morbidity as the lives unfold, our objective is ultimately Be able to get to a curative approach for the pediatric population. So as we think about the progression of studies here, What we would want to do is establish that we're able to carry out gene insertion. We've got a couple of programs that are looking at that 3,001 as David just discussed with alpha-one antitrypsin, Factor 9 with our collaborators at Regeneron. And the objective there would be as quickly as reasonable to get to the pediatric And we think that that addresses potentially if we're able to achieve what our objectives are, the ability Of getting into kids before the disease takes its ultimate toll, the therapies that are available that are single Those applications today are really best suited for the adult population per se.

Speaker 2

And so we think that there's an important Advantage that comes with having a stable gene that's integrated that can grow with the patient, the pediatric patient as he or she Well, he, in this case, sorry, develops.

Operator

The next question comes from Luca Izzi with RBC. Please go ahead.

Speaker 12

Hi, this is Rina on for Luca. Thanks for taking my question. I just wanted to ask on HAE, you commented earlier that there has been broad based interest irrespective of geography regarding enrollment. So Just wondering if you could add more color on the first patient dosed. Was this at a U.

Speaker 12

S. Or ex U. S. Trial site? And What proportion of the trial sites are based in the U.

Speaker 12

S?

Speaker 2

You're correct that we've begun dosing. You're correct There's broad based interest. What we're not going to do is talk about individual sites and individual patients. Our approach is to provide updates As we collect information in aggregate and we've done that with all the programs to date and we'll continue doing that, so stay tuned.

Speaker 12

Okay. Thanks for taking my question.

Operator

The next question comes from Gena Wang with Barclays. Please go ahead.

Speaker 15

Hi, good morning. This is Harshita on for Gena. Thank you for taking our questions. We had A quick one. So for 3,001, your insertion program, as you're nearing the IND or IND equivalent in Second half of twenty twenty three.

Speaker 15

We just wanted to get your thoughts on how you're thinking about dose selection for this program given that you'll be dealing with both LNP P and AAV components when it comes to gene insertion. Thank you.

Speaker 2

I can address that. I mean, the Principles are, as you say, there's a couple of things that need to be Assess both the LNP as well as the AAV. So our preclinical program is addressing those variables And the objective in a Phase 3 program would be to reduce the number of variables to the greatest extent possible. Obviously, we've learned a lot about How to dose LMPs with 2,012,002 thus far. So we think we have a Pretty good understanding of how those are likely to behave.

Speaker 2

My guess at this point, and obviously we haven't finalized this yet, Would be that there's probably more to explore on the AAV side of the equation, but as we finalize that program, we'll share more

Operator

The next question comes from Steve Seedhouse with Raymond James. Please go ahead.

Speaker 16

Good morning. Thank you. For the ATD program, it seems optimal in theory to just correct The SERPINA-one gene at the mutated locus and it sounds like ultimately you do want to combine the insertion and the knockdown Therapeutics you have into one approach that addresses both lung and liver. So I'm curious what are the technical hurdles that just prevent a single therapeutic here Making correction of the mutation and are those limitations specific to AATD or would they apply for gene correction in general? Thanks.

Speaker 2

Well, the way we've approached alpha-one antitrypsin deficiency is looking at the 2 primary manifestations of the This has been referenced to you earlier on the call. 1 is knocking out the gene as it causes liver problems. The other one is providing a basis to replace essentially normal levels of Circulating alpha-one antitrypsin. With the work that we've done, which relies on 2 approaches, as you rightly point out, What we've been able to see in our preclinical work is that you can essentially achieve normal levels of the circulating protein and So we've looked at what we're able to accomplish with this program thus far And what we think we have something that offers for many patients an opportunity to have something that approximates normality. It's correct, as you say, that if one can do this all in one maneuver, it may be possible to achieve Both steps simultaneously.

Speaker 2

And as we think about our own Alpha-one antitrypsin program, I see it as a Progression of technologies, starting with what we've already achieved, which we think is very appealing for many patients In advance over what's currently available today, both our gene writing work, we can imagine down the road at some point So stay tuned as that work unfolds. And What we see here is a significant opportunity in the disease that is currently poorly treated.

Operator

The next question comes from Silvan Turkalyan with JMP Securities. Please go ahead.

Speaker 17

Good morning and thanks for taking my question. Just a quick one on your initiated Phase to HAE trial. Is there any specific goal of achieving a specific number or percentage of U. S. Patients versus

Speaker 2

No, we have not pre specified any particular proportion of patients by geography. I'd say this, Selwyn, we As we said at the outset, we've got many, many patients interested in participating in the trial. Right now, our primary objective is to get to the right dose So that we can move into what we believe will be registrational studies at the next step. We're absolutely committed to having U. S.

Speaker 2

Patients in this program, and that is A priority for us, but getting to the answer for the right dose is something that we think we can do very, very quickly this year.

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from Richard Law with Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.

Speaker 8

Good morning and thanks for taking my question. So you mentioned before that there's a possibility of doing an interim analysis for 2,001 in ATTR Centimeters and then Possibly show a positive CV outcomes then. Is there a possibility to file a BLA early if that's the case and not when the charge completion? And just based on your preliminary thinking right now, what would be the timing of an interim analysis? Thanks.

Speaker 2

David, how are you thinking about interim steps and what might you do with the information?

Speaker 3

Yes. So it goes back to the question greater interest in accelerated approvals for important new therapies in the U. S. And elsewhere. So there is a potential to have an interim analysis in the study.

Speaker 3

We'll learn more about whether this could be valuable based again on other people's trials as they Come forward with an interim analysis be a place to see a positive result. But we can't Say exactly the timing of what that would be at this point, but it would if we do it, it would be for the purpose of achieving an earlier BLA. But that's the details we have at this point.

Operator

This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Ian Karp for any closing remarks.

Speaker 1

Great. Thanks so much, Drew, and thank you everyone for joining us today. We look forward to continuing to keep you informed on our progress. But until then, we wish you all a great day and we'll talk again soon. Bye now.

Operator

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

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