NASDAQ:LTRN Lantern Pharma Q4 2024 Earnings Report $3.59 -0.03 (-0.83%) Closing price 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$3.60 +0.02 (+0.42%) As of 04:05 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings HistoryForecast Lantern Pharma EPS ResultsActual EPS-$0.54Consensus EPS -$0.51Beat/MissMissed by -$0.03One Year Ago EPSN/ALantern Pharma Revenue ResultsActual RevenueN/AExpected RevenueN/ABeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/ALantern Pharma Announcement DetailsQuarterQ4 2024Date3/27/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateThursday, March 27, 2025Conference Call Time4:30PM ETUpcoming EarningsLantern Pharma's Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Thursday, May 8, 2025, with a conference call scheduled at 4:30 PM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Q1 2025 Earnings ReportConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Annual Report (10-K)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Lantern Pharma Q4 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMarch 27, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 3 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00And and we were very excited to establish a scientific advisory board that, is joined by experts such as doctors Mitch Berger at UCSF, Doctor. Lisa DeAngelis at Memorial Sloan Kettering and doctors Stuart Grossman and John Latera at Johns Hopkins, all four of which have deep subject matter expertise, accomplished scientific experts and leaders in neuro oncology. In fact, two of them are actually lifetime achievement award winners at Society of Neuro Oncology, and they're able to now help us shape the development and path for STAR one. Remind you, STARLIGHT is 100% owned by Lantern and will have the potential to this be a very positive impact on our investors as we monetize this unique asset, the patents, the insights and its ability to work in certain brain cancers. The dosage and safety data in Phase one trial will be used to advance the indications for the 1b Phase two trial, which Lantern, wholly owned subsidiary will sponsor. Operator00:00:59And we think the market potential for both this drug as STAR001 and as LP184 will exceed $14,000,000,000 consisting of about $4 plus billion in CNS cancers, both pediatric and adult and about $9,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,000 for other solid tumors. So we believe this has the potential to be a blockbuster drug across a number of indications. Now to support a lot of this, we actually were working quite a bit on trying to understand how do we predict the blood brain barrier permeability. And our team did a fantastic job at our patent pending blood brain barrier permeability predictive algorithm. It represents what we believe is a computational breakthrough of exceptional significance. Operator00:01:46With five of the top 11 rankings in the Therapeutic Data Commons leaderboard and the ability now to be a very high performing algorithm, we can do maybe 100,000 molecules an hour, that translated can mean 1,000,000 molecules or more in a workday. So we've developed an AI system that outperforms industry standards in terms of accuracy and throughput for CNS drug therapeutic development. This will also be in fact one of the first Agentic AIs that we make publicly available for drug developers. We're going to open this up and partner this with precision medicine groups to help guide their development and also potentially for therapy selection in patients. So we're in fairly advanced discussions now with a number of institutions and a brain tumor group to actually use this algorithm as part of their work. Operator00:02:36Now this technological advantage has profound implications for accelerating CNS drug discovery, a notoriously challenging domain where over 98% of small molecules fail to effectively penetrate the blood brain barrier and where some of the traditional algorithms have been kind of in the two thirds to 70 mid-70s maybe percent accuracy. Now we're seeing a whole new generation of algorithms, including ours, which have taken that up into the low to high 90s. And so this unprecedented accuracy allows us to identify promising CNS penetrant compounds with extraordinary efficiency. Now again, I also mentioned ours is also high performing. So we've taken some very unique engineering steps to actually decrease the amount of time required. Operator00:03:24And the computational capability doesn't merely enhance our existing programs. It actually opens up entirely new therapeutic possibilities across multiple neurological indications from not only us, but also for other drug development teams. Now our AI powered antibody drug conjugate development module also represents a fundamental reinvention of traditionally resource intensive high risk development process. Our AI module for ADC development identified 82 very promising targets and over two ninety target indication combinations and many of these are actually validated because some of them are already in preclinical and clinical trials. So this is one of oncology's most rapidly growing therapeutic modalities. Operator00:04:07And the technical implications for this ADC module for using AI is pretty substantial. Traditional ADC development requires a lot of iterative testing of antibodies, antibodies, any kind of maybe bispecific and then the linkers and various payloads and a process that can take years and millions or maybe even tens of millions of dollars just in early stage work. Our computational approach reduces these timelines, we believe, by a third to half and preclinical costs by even more than half, while simultaneously enhancing the target selection process. So this efficiency advantage positions us to rapidly advance multiple ADC candidates with exceptional selectivity profiles and potential for superior therapeutic windows and enables us to allow others to take advantage of this AI. Now this will be one of the many AI modules we place into what we call an agentic framework, which is really the kind of the vanguard of AI work today. Operator00:05:10And once we put into an agentic framework, we can allow it to be used by collaborators and partners. And I'll talk more about this later in today's call. The Radar platform expansion beyond 100,000,000,000 oncology specific data points represents a computational resource of unprecedented scale and specificity in precision oncology. The vast repository of molecular, clinical, pharmacological data enables increasingly sophisticated analysis that traditional approaches simply cannot match, but very importantly, don't have the underlying data and curation already that we've done. Now the technical sophistication of radar enables multidimensional analysis that identify non obvious relationships between genomic features, drug responses and potential combination strategies. Operator00:05:57This capability has directly enabled our biomarker discovery initiatives, including PTGR1 signature, mechanisms underlying synergistic combinations such as checkpoint inhibitors or spironolactone with one hundred and eighty four or even rituximab with two eighty four. And as we continue to refine the methodologies and feed data from studies back into the platform, radar evolves from just an analytical platform to a predictive engine capable of identifying promising therapeutic approaches with unprecedented efficiency and precision and ultimately in the next generation with its own level of automation. So through the integration of advanced AI, computational biology and precision medicine approaches, we're systematically addressing some of oncology's most challenging domains with an unprecedented level of efficiency and scientific rigor. Our burn rate is a fraction of that of other companies, yet our advancements across multiple molecules, putting them into patients and advancing the platform is something I'm quite excited about. Financially, we closed the year with $24,000,000 in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, which I believe will give us runway to execute in our business this year and take our programs to inflection points with data and outcomes. Operator00:07:12David Margrave, our CFO, will discuss this in more detail in a moment. Our continued execution across these clinical trials and with our precision oncology programs positions us for multiple value creating milestones throughout this year and with the potential to deliver transformative therapies for patients with limited treatment options. Now I'll turn the call over to David Margrave, who will talk about our financials and other key metrics. David? Thank you, Pana, and good afternoon, everyone. Operator00:07:45I'll now share some financial highlights from our fourth quarter and full year ended 12/31/2024. I'll start with a review of the fourth quarter. Our general and administrative expenses were approximately $1,600,000 for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four, up from approximately $1,300,000 in the prior year period. R and D expenses were approximately $4,300,000 for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four, up from approximately $3,600,000 in the fourth quarter of twenty twenty three. We recorded a net loss of approximately $5,900,000 for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four or $0.54 per share compared to a net loss of approximately $4,200,000 or Speaker 100:08:35$0.39 per share for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty three. For the full year 2024, our R and D expenses were approximately $16,100,000 up from approximately $11,900,000 for 2023. This increase was primarily attributable to increases in research studies of approximately $2,950,000 relating to the conduct and support of our clinical trials as well as increases in research and development payroll expenses of approximately $897,000 and increases in consulting expenses of approximately $376,000 Our general and administrative expenses for 2024 were approximately $6,100,000 up slightly from approximately $6,000,000 for 2023. The increase was primarily attributable to increases in other professional fees. Our R and D expenses continue to exceed our G and A expenses by a strong margin, reflecting our focus on advancing our product candidates and pipeline. Speaker 100:09:46Net loss for the full year 2024 was approximately $20,800,000 or 1.93 per share compared to approximately $16,000,000 or $1.47 per share for 2023. Our loss from operations in the 2024 calendar year was partially offset by interest income and other income net totaling approximately $1,400,000 Our cash position, which includes cash equivalents and marketable securities, was approximately $24,000,000 as of 12/31/2024. Based on our currently anticipated expenditures and capital commitments, we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities as of 12/31/2024, will enable us to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements for at least twelve months from today's date. We expect that we will need substantial additional funding in the near future, and one of our key objectives for the remainder of 2025 will be to be to pursue additional funding opportunities. As of 12/31/2024, we had 10,784,725 shares of common stock outstanding, outstanding warrants to purchase 70,000 shares and outstanding options to purchase 1,245,694 shares. Speaker 100:11:21These warrants and options combined with our outstanding shares of common stock give us a total fully diluted shares outstanding of as of 12/31/2024. Our team continues to be very productive under a hybrid operating model. We currently have 24 employees focused primarily on leading and advancing our research and drug development efforts. And I'll now turn the call back over to Pana for an update on some of our development programs. Pana? Operator00:11:55Thank you, David. So our leadership and the use innovative use of AI and machine learning, in many ways AI for good, to transform cost and timelines in the development of precision oncology therapies has allowed us to have a pretty exciting pipeline. It's allowed us to bring three molecules to market with teams, cost and efficiency that continues to make massive year over year improvements. And we have LP300 in Phase two. Again, we plan on having another readout during the second quarter. Operator00:12:32We've accelerated enrollment because of our expansion into Japan and Taiwan. Specifically, there the disease occurs in never with in never smokers at about a 2x to 3x higher rate. So this is particularly important because we'll also use that to leverage the Phase II data to look at partnerships, perhaps geographic partnerships as well, which we've already begun having conversations with. Our Phase one trials for LP184 and LP284, both really potent synthetic lethal agents, one for solid tumors, has advanced to over fifty patients. We expect to enroll about sixty patients. Operator00:13:17So we're getting very close to what we believe will be the completion of the trial. LP284, slightly different dosing schedule, but similar cohort structure, is a few months behind and we think we'll be able to have that 30 patients enrolled later this year. So all three trials will have data. But very importantly, we also expect to have great ideas on how to pinpoint the use of these molecules in specific therapeutic areas. This is why we have over 11 orphan, rare pediatric and fast track designations. Operator00:14:03It's very important to note. So for a small company, we have 12 designations across 11 different programs, ATRT having both orphan and rare pediatric. So that's really almost we have for every headcount, we almost have a half a designation. And in fact, it's the only molecule that I know that actually has four designations for a rare pediatric. So pinpointing how a molecule work is really one of the most challenging things. Operator00:14:33And so this is really about not only understanding your molecule, but also actually knowing where and how to use it. So we've achieved this in a very, very short period of time. Remember, LP284 did not even exist when we raised money to go public. LP184 wasn't in the clinic, LP300 was just beginning to peel the onion in terms of its mechanistic potential. So during 2024, we achieved our goal of reaching 100,000,000,000 data points, growing that cancer focused data more in one year than we had in the prior three years. Operator00:15:06And more of this data growth and data ingestion campaigns will be automated, freeing up our team to focus on intelligent curation and analysis of data and also on creating upstream engineered data sets to solve more specific problems. And these problems, we think, can start making use of certain types of generative AI, AI that will transform our analytic capabilities to actually autonomous agents. So today, I'd like to share with you our vision for the next evolution of our Rador platform, a future where Agentic AI and autonomous intelligence dramatically accelerates our ability to transform oncology drug development, not only at Lantern, but also for other drug companies. At Lantern, we've consistently demonstrated how our proprietary platform has revolutionized our approach, but we believe also traditional oncology drug development paradigms. And as we've shared in our previous quarters, our AI guided approach has enabled us to advance all these candidates in the clinic at a fraction of the traditional cost and actually have more pinpointed and more precise trials. Operator00:16:07It takes us an average of about $2,000,000 to $2,500,000 per program from scratch to get it into a trial, whereas industry standard is somewhere in the range of $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 dollars Now we're entering a transformative phase where Radial will leverage the agentic we're going to start leveraging agentic AI capabilities. So autonomous systems capable of making complex decisions, analyzing intricate biological datasets and executing sophisticated workflows without constant human supervision. So our enhanced radar platform will feature autonomous intelligence and will modularize these into agents and these agents will continuously monitor and integrate real time data from relevant biomarker and cancer studies and publications, enabling dynamic protocol insight that can be used in real trials and to make precision medicine decisions. They'll autonomously identify potential combination regimens by analyzing billions of unique molecular interactions across multiple therapeutic modalities, similar to our recent significant insights on 184 and checkpoint inhibitors that demonstrate a transformation of an immunologically cold tumor into hot tumor, but with a totally different level of scale. Imagine being able to do thousands of these molecules in a week. Operator00:17:24And we'll also deploy advanced reinforcement learning algorithms that will optimize lead compound selection or elucidate target characterization across for antibody drug conjugate development or peptide or drug drug conjugate development. And again, we've already identified 82 promising targets and over two ninety target indications, many of which are already validated in the clinic from other companies. Now this next generation of our platform represents a fundamental shift in drug development methodology, moving from human limited analytics and reactive to proactive continuously self learning systems capable of identifying non obvious patterns and opportunities and benchmarking those across multiple therapeutic dimensions. So for us though, it is we have certain dimensions, specifically in oncology or specific in neuro oncology. But while our current platform has already proven exceptional with over 100,000,000,000 data points oncology focused, by deploying agentic architecture and interfaces on top of very specific modules, we will have the potential to create systems that reduce key development decision timelines and compress complex data gathering analytics, creating unprecedented efficiency advantages rapid biomarker identification and validation, in our case, PTGR1 and others autonomous design and automation of combination regimens instantaneous evaluation and molecular libraries. Operator00:18:57The financial implications for this are pretty substantial, potentially reducing preclinical development costs by 60%, seventy % and eighty % while simultaneously increasing successful transition rates in early development and perhaps later development phases. So we're strategically positioning our AgenTek architecture with Radour platform to not only drive our internal pipeline, but also as a valuable collaborative asset for biopharma partners seeking to overcome drug development bottlenecks. We've had very successful collaborations with Oregon Therapeutics and ACTUATE Therapeutics, both collaborations, where we target we offer targeted radar modules for these partners. And we believe we'll generate some near term commercial traction as a result of that. We anticipate launching our first Agentic AI around the Blood Brain Barrier Permeability Prediction algorithm That's now being commercialized as a module that will be publicly upcoming and it will leverage our unprecedented performance metrics and also have the algorithm hopefully guide actual treatment decisions being made in a number of trials. Operator00:20:08Additionally, our ADC development module, which has already demonstrated capabilities as compared to traditional approaches, will also become more broadly available later this year and along with another project that we'll be publicly facing probably in early summer called Project Zeta. Now all three of these will be leveraging agentic architectures, some wildly very different, but they'll put into public face the ability to actually start thinking about drug development at a level of scale and data access that's usually unheard of. So the golden age of AI in medicine isn't just beginnings. It's accelerating exponentially. By integrating agentic capabilities, we believe our AI radar will transform from an analytical platform to a true development partner, one that is awake twenty four hours a day, one that's capable of operating continuously at a scale that's unprecedented across multiple research dimensions and constantly grows, connecting insights across previously siloed areas of cancer biology and ultimately helping us deliver life changing therapies to patients faster. Operator00:21:17We aren't just building better tools, we're actually fundamentally reimagining what's possible in precision oncology. And as we continue this journey, our AgenTic radar platform positions us at the forefront of an entirely new paradigm in drug development, one in which AI doesn't merely assist human researchers, but actively participates alongside through autonomous continuous learning and insights that can be tested and recursed back into the system and hopefully deployed into the clinic faster. So this golden age is actually accelerating, and it's being driven by large scale highly available computing power, incredibly massive data storage, and also great people. At the end of the day, you have to have great imaginations and wonderfully dedicated people to be able to deliver this ultimately for patients and to improve human life. And so we're at levels of quality and data that have never been imagined before. Operator00:22:15Companies that harness these capabilities are really the future of the tech bio industry, I believe will become long term leaders that create massive value for patients and investors. And we think, of course, industries go through their cycles and ups and downs, but I've never been more bullish on the potential for AI to really transform and change outcomes for patients. But also it will make our medicines faster, cheaper and with increased precision. I think it will help us change the direction of R and D productivity and output in the pharma industry. So we believe our approach is the future of developing cancer therapies where data can be used to accelerate programs, derisk identification, identify combinations and patient populations faster and get life changing medicines into actual trials. Operator00:23:05So I want to express our deep gratitude my deep gratitude to our team, our partners, our stakeholders for their unwavering support, especially to our clinical trial sites and to the patients participating in our trials. I think together, we're lighting a way towards a brighter future in oncology and solving real world problems that enable rapid development of precision therapies that can alter the cost and timelines in drug discovery and very importantly, place Lanter at the forefront of a new era of unprecedented insights. Now with that, I'd like to now open the call to any questions or clarifications, but also as we do so, I'd like to take a quick moment to thank our team for helping us to prepare for these calls and to prepare for our quarterly filing filings. So again, let's go ahead and take questions from our audience. I ask you to do so in one of two ways. Operator00:23:58You can type your question directly into the QA tool or you can click on raise the hand and speak directly, and we'll try to unmute your line. Thank you. So we've got the first question. I'll repeat the question before I answer it. Thank you, John, for your question. Operator00:24:25The question is from John is how is the pace and quality of enrollment in Asia compared to The US? It is about two to four x faster. They got ramped up, faster. Some sites are slower than others. But in terms of output just in this past few months, we saw an equal amount of output from Asia as we saw in The U. Operator00:24:50S. But of course, their time line from onboarding to first patient was phenomenally faster and it's just accelerating. So I think it will be three to 4x faster ultimately this year because of Asia. Great question. Next question is from John also. Operator00:25:17In the ADC realm and with help from Radar, what are the opportunities for ADCs that substitute the toxic payload with another immunotherapy? So with an immuno well, it depends on what kind of immunotherapy, whether it's a modulating agent or binding. I think doing an antibody conjugate is potentially challenging. But if you do it with a small molecule that's an immunomodulating agent like an IL agent or others, I think, yes, that's possible. You're going to start seeing many of those. Operator00:26:00You're going to see the one of the things that we're actually looking at, it's a great question, John, is actually things that have multiple payloads, so more than one payload. So that's actually very exciting. It's a space that probably it's not in our plate right now, but I do think that design of multi payload and bispecifics with multi payloads is definitely going to be in the future. You may have payloads that are both immunomodulating and also toxic. So I think you're going to see a lot of innovation. Operator00:26:40Now the challenges, of course, always been testing those because right now one of the most expensive points in testing ADCs is testing them in the non human primates. So how you test in non human primates for some of these more complex architectures that are being imagined will be something that we got to sort out. But yes, theoretically, that's definitely doable. It requires a level of precision biology and data collection that is just beginning to happen. So that's perfect area for AI. Operator00:27:12It's a wonderful question. I'm going to turn it over to Chad. Speaker 200:27:22Yes. Hi, Connor. Thank you. Just wondering for the Harmonic update in the later this year that we expect to get, if you could just set the stage for, you know, where you guys think you're gonna be, how much data you think you're gonna have, what what would you look what would you look for in, in that update? Operator00:27:44Sir, your question was on Harmonic data, correct? Speaker 200:27:49Correct. Operator00:27:51Yes. So we've enrolled a nice chunk of patients in Asia and also in The U. S. In the last few months. So we are continuing to see the same kind of trend in terms of the clinical benefit. Operator00:28:04I think we hope to have a nice chunk of patients that will have multiple scans in terms of resist criteria. So I think sometime in mid to late Q2, we'll have the next readout. But the key one will come at 30 events. So if we have 30 events, that will probably be closer to the end of the year, and that'll be an important time because then we'll be able to decide, do we take this into a larger trial and also will give confidence that we'll have enough data to partner out the asset. But But we'll probably do something more near term to kind of showcase that the trends that we saw in the early cohort are continuing in the existing cohort, which has included a lot of patients from Japan and Taiwan. Speaker 200:28:57Okay. And then if I may, just a follow-up in a different direction on your ADC programs. What should we be looking for next? Obviously Operator00:29:10Yeah. There'll be two things. You know, we've talked about, but we made a conscious effort on this call not to focus on it because we wanted to focus more on the the clinical assets and some of the other AI features. But we've got some exciting preclinical data that we're validating. We put out some data last year in terms of HER2 low and HER2 medium, but definitely HER2 low expressing cancers where we saw a tremendous potency several fold higher than existing FDA approved agents with our cryptophycin linked ADC that we've designed. Operator00:29:43We also have another one that's in the Allude and nacellefolfin family that we're working on, some very exciting new payloads that are super, super potent, you know, 100 to 500 times more potent than LP 184. And we have some targets in mind. So we'll have more preclinical data as the year progresses. And we also will announce a couple of partnerships with groups that are using our ADC AI platform as an analytical tool. So those are the two things to expect. Speaker 200:30:17Thank you. Operator00:30:19You've got a great question from Clay Heiden. So Clay asked a question about providing results in LP 184 in Q4, and then it was pushed. When will you provide results? That's a great question on the 01/1984 data, Clay. So the 184 data originally was expected in Q4 because we expected to see MTD around dose level nine or 10. Operator00:30:50What's mostly changed is that the enrollment has gone to higher dose levels and so that's basically added to the time. So, the calculations for PK and availability of the drug seem to end up more like rats than dogs. So our thought was, we'll probably end up somewhere in between, but we're definitely much more like rats in terms of the, the amount of drug that humans can take. It's actually a good thing because we're seeing higher therapeutic, sorry, higher likelihood of having therapeutic doses at these higher cohorts, these double digit cohorts. We're now in cohort eleven, twelve, and so each cohort takes about a month. Operator00:31:31And so that's exactly why we see that. So nothing other than the dose levels have gone higher and we haven't seen any significant serious adverse events and we're now just beginning to see therapeutic levels of efficacy. So that's added to the time. Hopefully that answers your question. Next question is on the dose in cohorts eleven and twelve. Operator00:32:10I believe the dose is zero point six one, right, MG? I believe it's zero point six one. Well, I will have to I'll get back to them. Let me write that down. I'm going to have to look that up on my little board, but I believe it's zero point six one mgs per kg. Operator00:32:30But let's find that out right now. While we look that up, I'm going to take another question from anonymous attendee. When will likely we see STAR for pediatric? Wonderful question. We're working very closely with the Poetic consortium. Operator00:32:47We're very close to getting a protocol that everyone can agree to for pediatric brain cancers. Doctor. Mark Chamberlain and Sandra are leading up the efforts to interact with the POTA consortium. I think we will probably see that mid to late this year. So we do have a protocol that seems to have enough people around the table and we'll be able to then exploit the rare pediatric disease designations and hopefully march towards getting our drug to patients. Operator00:33:20And part of that also is to have a clear signal in adult gliomas. So we think those two factors will be easily checkmarked. And so we'll then launch into pediatric. Of course, all subject to the right approvals. Next question is from Luca. Operator00:33:46Luca, thank you very much for your question. I'll answer it. Says, what is missing to sign deals with other firms to discover new drugs? Yes, great question, Luca. We constantly look for deals. Operator00:34:00I think if there are deals out there, I think we'd love to do it. There's I think partly is it does take a lot of financial but really actual people resources. If you want to do this for others, they're going to pay you on an hourly or as a target amount. And so as a small company, bear in mind, our scientists and data engineers are somewhat limited. And so we have focused on our own pipeline. Operator00:34:27But yes, we'd like we'd love to focus more on other people's pipeline as long as they're willing to pay us for it. I don't think our shareholders want us to do a lot of work unless we get either equity in the drug or and get reimbursed significantly. So I think we're happy to have discussions. So yes, thank you. Great question. Operator00:34:48I mean, I think if there are there are definitely conversations we have, they usually tend to break down really around are they willing to give us enough equity in the molecule or enough upside to make it worth our while for us to stop working on our programs. But again, one of the things that we're doing now is using Agentic AI architecture to take some of these more simple initial analytic modules and put them out to the public. So that's something that we plan on doing with three or four of these modules, the Blood Brain Barrier module, the ADC module or aspects of the ADC module, some of the modules around differential gene expression and transcriptomic analysis and a very exciting project code named Zeta that we'll be talking more about in the next forty five to sixty days. Thank you. Great question from Michael Mantegas. Operator00:35:45Yeah, we've Michael asked the question, have we reached out to Amazon? Yes, we've had a lot of discussions with Amazon. Unfortunately, probably not at the right levels, but we've done a lot of education of Amazon about how big pharma needs are very different from drug developer kind of needs. And they're very good at kind of thinking about data storage and making data available. But the problems that we solve tend to be more computation rather than compute intensive rather than necessarily just data intensive and data storage intensive. Operator00:36:20But yes, I think groups like Amazon, like NVIDIA are beginning to understand the potential this has. But again, we're looking for people who would love to help us have those conversations with Big Tech. And part of our goal in making the Agentik AI architectures publicly available is to drive those conversations. Thank you for that question. So again, please raise your hand if you have a question. Operator00:36:49We can put you live like we did with Chad or please enter into the chat window. I think we have a question on the dose levels. So That was from just to respond to Clay. Yeah. So do you want to Speaker 100:37:03Yeah. Clay, I think you'd ask a question about the dose levels for '1 hundred and '80 '4. And the current dose level 12 is zero point six one milligrams per kilogram. So that's where we are now. Operator00:37:22Hopefully, that answers your question. You can raise your hand right. And where at what percentage dose level we're increasing from dose level? Is it 25%? I think that's what it is. Operator00:37:34Yeah. I think we're at a 25% level. So I think it was one hundred and fifty and thirty three or 25. I think we're at twenty five percent increase. Okay. Operator00:37:44Well, I would love to answer any other questions as they come in. Again, we think we're well positioned for the year. We've got multiple readouts. We believe we're getting very close to some of the final cohorts for both 01/1984 and approaching two eighty four later this year. We'll have data at least once, maybe twice for 300. Operator00:38:09We think once as we get the next big chunk of data from the current subjects that have been enrolled. And we'll also have in that update, we'll also have updates from the initial lead in cohort. So we'll have some exciting data to report on those initial patients where we saw the eighty six percent clinical benefit rate as well. So that will be coming more near term and then the larger report on three hundred probably later in the year as we get 30 events. So thank you, everyone, and I look forward to talking with many of you in upcoming meetings or one on ones. Operator00:38:48And thank you for your time today. And thank you to the Lantern team as well.Read morePowered by Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallLantern Pharma Q4 202400:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2x Earnings DocumentsSlide DeckPress Release(8-K)Annual report(10-K) Lantern Pharma Earnings HeadlinesLantern Pharma initiated with a Buy at Lake StreetApril 3, 2025 | markets.businessinsider.comLake Street Initiates Coverage of Lantern Pharma (LTRN) with Buy RecommendationApril 3, 2025 | msn.comTrump Orders 'National Digital Asset Stockpile'‘Digital Asset Reserve’ for THIS Coin??? 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Its product pipeline comprises LP-300, which is in phase 2 clinical trial in combination therapy for never-smokers with non-small cell lung cancer adenocarcinoma; LP-184, which is in phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of solid tumor, such as pancreatic, breast, bladder, and lung cancers, and glioblastoma and other central nervous system cancers; and LP-284, which is in phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, including mantle cell lymphoma and double hit lymphoma. The company develops STAR-001, which is in preclinical development for the treatment of glioblastoma, brain metastases, atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors, and pediatric rare disease designation. In addition, it provides ADC program, an antibody drug conjugate therapeutic approach for cancer treatment. Further, the company's artificial intelligence platform RADR uses big data analytics and machine learning for combining molecular data. Lantern Pharma Inc. has a strategic AI-driven collaboration with Oregon Therapeutics to optimize the development of its first-in-class protein disulfide isomerase inhibitor drug candidate XCE853 in novel and targeted cancer indications. 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There are 3 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00And and we were very excited to establish a scientific advisory board that, is joined by experts such as doctors Mitch Berger at UCSF, Doctor. Lisa DeAngelis at Memorial Sloan Kettering and doctors Stuart Grossman and John Latera at Johns Hopkins, all four of which have deep subject matter expertise, accomplished scientific experts and leaders in neuro oncology. In fact, two of them are actually lifetime achievement award winners at Society of Neuro Oncology, and they're able to now help us shape the development and path for STAR one. Remind you, STARLIGHT is 100% owned by Lantern and will have the potential to this be a very positive impact on our investors as we monetize this unique asset, the patents, the insights and its ability to work in certain brain cancers. The dosage and safety data in Phase one trial will be used to advance the indications for the 1b Phase two trial, which Lantern, wholly owned subsidiary will sponsor. Operator00:00:59And we think the market potential for both this drug as STAR001 and as LP184 will exceed $14,000,000,000 consisting of about $4 plus billion in CNS cancers, both pediatric and adult and about $9,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,000 for other solid tumors. So we believe this has the potential to be a blockbuster drug across a number of indications. Now to support a lot of this, we actually were working quite a bit on trying to understand how do we predict the blood brain barrier permeability. And our team did a fantastic job at our patent pending blood brain barrier permeability predictive algorithm. It represents what we believe is a computational breakthrough of exceptional significance. Operator00:01:46With five of the top 11 rankings in the Therapeutic Data Commons leaderboard and the ability now to be a very high performing algorithm, we can do maybe 100,000 molecules an hour, that translated can mean 1,000,000 molecules or more in a workday. So we've developed an AI system that outperforms industry standards in terms of accuracy and throughput for CNS drug therapeutic development. This will also be in fact one of the first Agentic AIs that we make publicly available for drug developers. We're going to open this up and partner this with precision medicine groups to help guide their development and also potentially for therapy selection in patients. So we're in fairly advanced discussions now with a number of institutions and a brain tumor group to actually use this algorithm as part of their work. Operator00:02:36Now this technological advantage has profound implications for accelerating CNS drug discovery, a notoriously challenging domain where over 98% of small molecules fail to effectively penetrate the blood brain barrier and where some of the traditional algorithms have been kind of in the two thirds to 70 mid-70s maybe percent accuracy. Now we're seeing a whole new generation of algorithms, including ours, which have taken that up into the low to high 90s. And so this unprecedented accuracy allows us to identify promising CNS penetrant compounds with extraordinary efficiency. Now again, I also mentioned ours is also high performing. So we've taken some very unique engineering steps to actually decrease the amount of time required. Operator00:03:24And the computational capability doesn't merely enhance our existing programs. It actually opens up entirely new therapeutic possibilities across multiple neurological indications from not only us, but also for other drug development teams. Now our AI powered antibody drug conjugate development module also represents a fundamental reinvention of traditionally resource intensive high risk development process. Our AI module for ADC development identified 82 very promising targets and over two ninety target indication combinations and many of these are actually validated because some of them are already in preclinical and clinical trials. So this is one of oncology's most rapidly growing therapeutic modalities. Operator00:04:07And the technical implications for this ADC module for using AI is pretty substantial. Traditional ADC development requires a lot of iterative testing of antibodies, antibodies, any kind of maybe bispecific and then the linkers and various payloads and a process that can take years and millions or maybe even tens of millions of dollars just in early stage work. Our computational approach reduces these timelines, we believe, by a third to half and preclinical costs by even more than half, while simultaneously enhancing the target selection process. So this efficiency advantage positions us to rapidly advance multiple ADC candidates with exceptional selectivity profiles and potential for superior therapeutic windows and enables us to allow others to take advantage of this AI. Now this will be one of the many AI modules we place into what we call an agentic framework, which is really the kind of the vanguard of AI work today. Operator00:05:10And once we put into an agentic framework, we can allow it to be used by collaborators and partners. And I'll talk more about this later in today's call. The Radar platform expansion beyond 100,000,000,000 oncology specific data points represents a computational resource of unprecedented scale and specificity in precision oncology. The vast repository of molecular, clinical, pharmacological data enables increasingly sophisticated analysis that traditional approaches simply cannot match, but very importantly, don't have the underlying data and curation already that we've done. Now the technical sophistication of radar enables multidimensional analysis that identify non obvious relationships between genomic features, drug responses and potential combination strategies. Operator00:05:57This capability has directly enabled our biomarker discovery initiatives, including PTGR1 signature, mechanisms underlying synergistic combinations such as checkpoint inhibitors or spironolactone with one hundred and eighty four or even rituximab with two eighty four. And as we continue to refine the methodologies and feed data from studies back into the platform, radar evolves from just an analytical platform to a predictive engine capable of identifying promising therapeutic approaches with unprecedented efficiency and precision and ultimately in the next generation with its own level of automation. So through the integration of advanced AI, computational biology and precision medicine approaches, we're systematically addressing some of oncology's most challenging domains with an unprecedented level of efficiency and scientific rigor. Our burn rate is a fraction of that of other companies, yet our advancements across multiple molecules, putting them into patients and advancing the platform is something I'm quite excited about. Financially, we closed the year with $24,000,000 in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, which I believe will give us runway to execute in our business this year and take our programs to inflection points with data and outcomes. Operator00:07:12David Margrave, our CFO, will discuss this in more detail in a moment. Our continued execution across these clinical trials and with our precision oncology programs positions us for multiple value creating milestones throughout this year and with the potential to deliver transformative therapies for patients with limited treatment options. Now I'll turn the call over to David Margrave, who will talk about our financials and other key metrics. David? Thank you, Pana, and good afternoon, everyone. Operator00:07:45I'll now share some financial highlights from our fourth quarter and full year ended 12/31/2024. I'll start with a review of the fourth quarter. Our general and administrative expenses were approximately $1,600,000 for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four, up from approximately $1,300,000 in the prior year period. R and D expenses were approximately $4,300,000 for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four, up from approximately $3,600,000 in the fourth quarter of twenty twenty three. We recorded a net loss of approximately $5,900,000 for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four or $0.54 per share compared to a net loss of approximately $4,200,000 or Speaker 100:08:35$0.39 per share for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty three. For the full year 2024, our R and D expenses were approximately $16,100,000 up from approximately $11,900,000 for 2023. This increase was primarily attributable to increases in research studies of approximately $2,950,000 relating to the conduct and support of our clinical trials as well as increases in research and development payroll expenses of approximately $897,000 and increases in consulting expenses of approximately $376,000 Our general and administrative expenses for 2024 were approximately $6,100,000 up slightly from approximately $6,000,000 for 2023. The increase was primarily attributable to increases in other professional fees. Our R and D expenses continue to exceed our G and A expenses by a strong margin, reflecting our focus on advancing our product candidates and pipeline. Speaker 100:09:46Net loss for the full year 2024 was approximately $20,800,000 or 1.93 per share compared to approximately $16,000,000 or $1.47 per share for 2023. Our loss from operations in the 2024 calendar year was partially offset by interest income and other income net totaling approximately $1,400,000 Our cash position, which includes cash equivalents and marketable securities, was approximately $24,000,000 as of 12/31/2024. Based on our currently anticipated expenditures and capital commitments, we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities as of 12/31/2024, will enable us to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements for at least twelve months from today's date. We expect that we will need substantial additional funding in the near future, and one of our key objectives for the remainder of 2025 will be to be to pursue additional funding opportunities. As of 12/31/2024, we had 10,784,725 shares of common stock outstanding, outstanding warrants to purchase 70,000 shares and outstanding options to purchase 1,245,694 shares. Speaker 100:11:21These warrants and options combined with our outstanding shares of common stock give us a total fully diluted shares outstanding of as of 12/31/2024. Our team continues to be very productive under a hybrid operating model. We currently have 24 employees focused primarily on leading and advancing our research and drug development efforts. And I'll now turn the call back over to Pana for an update on some of our development programs. Pana? Operator00:11:55Thank you, David. So our leadership and the use innovative use of AI and machine learning, in many ways AI for good, to transform cost and timelines in the development of precision oncology therapies has allowed us to have a pretty exciting pipeline. It's allowed us to bring three molecules to market with teams, cost and efficiency that continues to make massive year over year improvements. And we have LP300 in Phase two. Again, we plan on having another readout during the second quarter. Operator00:12:32We've accelerated enrollment because of our expansion into Japan and Taiwan. Specifically, there the disease occurs in never with in never smokers at about a 2x to 3x higher rate. So this is particularly important because we'll also use that to leverage the Phase II data to look at partnerships, perhaps geographic partnerships as well, which we've already begun having conversations with. Our Phase one trials for LP184 and LP284, both really potent synthetic lethal agents, one for solid tumors, has advanced to over fifty patients. We expect to enroll about sixty patients. Operator00:13:17So we're getting very close to what we believe will be the completion of the trial. LP284, slightly different dosing schedule, but similar cohort structure, is a few months behind and we think we'll be able to have that 30 patients enrolled later this year. So all three trials will have data. But very importantly, we also expect to have great ideas on how to pinpoint the use of these molecules in specific therapeutic areas. This is why we have over 11 orphan, rare pediatric and fast track designations. Operator00:14:03It's very important to note. So for a small company, we have 12 designations across 11 different programs, ATRT having both orphan and rare pediatric. So that's really almost we have for every headcount, we almost have a half a designation. And in fact, it's the only molecule that I know that actually has four designations for a rare pediatric. So pinpointing how a molecule work is really one of the most challenging things. Operator00:14:33And so this is really about not only understanding your molecule, but also actually knowing where and how to use it. So we've achieved this in a very, very short period of time. Remember, LP284 did not even exist when we raised money to go public. LP184 wasn't in the clinic, LP300 was just beginning to peel the onion in terms of its mechanistic potential. So during 2024, we achieved our goal of reaching 100,000,000,000 data points, growing that cancer focused data more in one year than we had in the prior three years. Operator00:15:06And more of this data growth and data ingestion campaigns will be automated, freeing up our team to focus on intelligent curation and analysis of data and also on creating upstream engineered data sets to solve more specific problems. And these problems, we think, can start making use of certain types of generative AI, AI that will transform our analytic capabilities to actually autonomous agents. So today, I'd like to share with you our vision for the next evolution of our Rador platform, a future where Agentic AI and autonomous intelligence dramatically accelerates our ability to transform oncology drug development, not only at Lantern, but also for other drug companies. At Lantern, we've consistently demonstrated how our proprietary platform has revolutionized our approach, but we believe also traditional oncology drug development paradigms. And as we've shared in our previous quarters, our AI guided approach has enabled us to advance all these candidates in the clinic at a fraction of the traditional cost and actually have more pinpointed and more precise trials. Operator00:16:07It takes us an average of about $2,000,000 to $2,500,000 per program from scratch to get it into a trial, whereas industry standard is somewhere in the range of $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 dollars Now we're entering a transformative phase where Radial will leverage the agentic we're going to start leveraging agentic AI capabilities. So autonomous systems capable of making complex decisions, analyzing intricate biological datasets and executing sophisticated workflows without constant human supervision. So our enhanced radar platform will feature autonomous intelligence and will modularize these into agents and these agents will continuously monitor and integrate real time data from relevant biomarker and cancer studies and publications, enabling dynamic protocol insight that can be used in real trials and to make precision medicine decisions. They'll autonomously identify potential combination regimens by analyzing billions of unique molecular interactions across multiple therapeutic modalities, similar to our recent significant insights on 184 and checkpoint inhibitors that demonstrate a transformation of an immunologically cold tumor into hot tumor, but with a totally different level of scale. Imagine being able to do thousands of these molecules in a week. Operator00:17:24And we'll also deploy advanced reinforcement learning algorithms that will optimize lead compound selection or elucidate target characterization across for antibody drug conjugate development or peptide or drug drug conjugate development. And again, we've already identified 82 promising targets and over two ninety target indications, many of which are already validated in the clinic from other companies. Now this next generation of our platform represents a fundamental shift in drug development methodology, moving from human limited analytics and reactive to proactive continuously self learning systems capable of identifying non obvious patterns and opportunities and benchmarking those across multiple therapeutic dimensions. So for us though, it is we have certain dimensions, specifically in oncology or specific in neuro oncology. But while our current platform has already proven exceptional with over 100,000,000,000 data points oncology focused, by deploying agentic architecture and interfaces on top of very specific modules, we will have the potential to create systems that reduce key development decision timelines and compress complex data gathering analytics, creating unprecedented efficiency advantages rapid biomarker identification and validation, in our case, PTGR1 and others autonomous design and automation of combination regimens instantaneous evaluation and molecular libraries. Operator00:18:57The financial implications for this are pretty substantial, potentially reducing preclinical development costs by 60%, seventy % and eighty % while simultaneously increasing successful transition rates in early development and perhaps later development phases. So we're strategically positioning our AgenTek architecture with Radour platform to not only drive our internal pipeline, but also as a valuable collaborative asset for biopharma partners seeking to overcome drug development bottlenecks. We've had very successful collaborations with Oregon Therapeutics and ACTUATE Therapeutics, both collaborations, where we target we offer targeted radar modules for these partners. And we believe we'll generate some near term commercial traction as a result of that. We anticipate launching our first Agentic AI around the Blood Brain Barrier Permeability Prediction algorithm That's now being commercialized as a module that will be publicly upcoming and it will leverage our unprecedented performance metrics and also have the algorithm hopefully guide actual treatment decisions being made in a number of trials. Operator00:20:08Additionally, our ADC development module, which has already demonstrated capabilities as compared to traditional approaches, will also become more broadly available later this year and along with another project that we'll be publicly facing probably in early summer called Project Zeta. Now all three of these will be leveraging agentic architectures, some wildly very different, but they'll put into public face the ability to actually start thinking about drug development at a level of scale and data access that's usually unheard of. So the golden age of AI in medicine isn't just beginnings. It's accelerating exponentially. By integrating agentic capabilities, we believe our AI radar will transform from an analytical platform to a true development partner, one that is awake twenty four hours a day, one that's capable of operating continuously at a scale that's unprecedented across multiple research dimensions and constantly grows, connecting insights across previously siloed areas of cancer biology and ultimately helping us deliver life changing therapies to patients faster. Operator00:21:17We aren't just building better tools, we're actually fundamentally reimagining what's possible in precision oncology. And as we continue this journey, our AgenTic radar platform positions us at the forefront of an entirely new paradigm in drug development, one in which AI doesn't merely assist human researchers, but actively participates alongside through autonomous continuous learning and insights that can be tested and recursed back into the system and hopefully deployed into the clinic faster. So this golden age is actually accelerating, and it's being driven by large scale highly available computing power, incredibly massive data storage, and also great people. At the end of the day, you have to have great imaginations and wonderfully dedicated people to be able to deliver this ultimately for patients and to improve human life. And so we're at levels of quality and data that have never been imagined before. Operator00:22:15Companies that harness these capabilities are really the future of the tech bio industry, I believe will become long term leaders that create massive value for patients and investors. And we think, of course, industries go through their cycles and ups and downs, but I've never been more bullish on the potential for AI to really transform and change outcomes for patients. But also it will make our medicines faster, cheaper and with increased precision. I think it will help us change the direction of R and D productivity and output in the pharma industry. So we believe our approach is the future of developing cancer therapies where data can be used to accelerate programs, derisk identification, identify combinations and patient populations faster and get life changing medicines into actual trials. Operator00:23:05So I want to express our deep gratitude my deep gratitude to our team, our partners, our stakeholders for their unwavering support, especially to our clinical trial sites and to the patients participating in our trials. I think together, we're lighting a way towards a brighter future in oncology and solving real world problems that enable rapid development of precision therapies that can alter the cost and timelines in drug discovery and very importantly, place Lanter at the forefront of a new era of unprecedented insights. Now with that, I'd like to now open the call to any questions or clarifications, but also as we do so, I'd like to take a quick moment to thank our team for helping us to prepare for these calls and to prepare for our quarterly filing filings. So again, let's go ahead and take questions from our audience. I ask you to do so in one of two ways. Operator00:23:58You can type your question directly into the QA tool or you can click on raise the hand and speak directly, and we'll try to unmute your line. Thank you. So we've got the first question. I'll repeat the question before I answer it. Thank you, John, for your question. Operator00:24:25The question is from John is how is the pace and quality of enrollment in Asia compared to The US? It is about two to four x faster. They got ramped up, faster. Some sites are slower than others. But in terms of output just in this past few months, we saw an equal amount of output from Asia as we saw in The U. Operator00:24:50S. But of course, their time line from onboarding to first patient was phenomenally faster and it's just accelerating. So I think it will be three to 4x faster ultimately this year because of Asia. Great question. Next question is from John also. Operator00:25:17In the ADC realm and with help from Radar, what are the opportunities for ADCs that substitute the toxic payload with another immunotherapy? So with an immuno well, it depends on what kind of immunotherapy, whether it's a modulating agent or binding. I think doing an antibody conjugate is potentially challenging. But if you do it with a small molecule that's an immunomodulating agent like an IL agent or others, I think, yes, that's possible. You're going to start seeing many of those. Operator00:26:00You're going to see the one of the things that we're actually looking at, it's a great question, John, is actually things that have multiple payloads, so more than one payload. So that's actually very exciting. It's a space that probably it's not in our plate right now, but I do think that design of multi payload and bispecifics with multi payloads is definitely going to be in the future. You may have payloads that are both immunomodulating and also toxic. So I think you're going to see a lot of innovation. Operator00:26:40Now the challenges, of course, always been testing those because right now one of the most expensive points in testing ADCs is testing them in the non human primates. So how you test in non human primates for some of these more complex architectures that are being imagined will be something that we got to sort out. But yes, theoretically, that's definitely doable. It requires a level of precision biology and data collection that is just beginning to happen. So that's perfect area for AI. Operator00:27:12It's a wonderful question. I'm going to turn it over to Chad. Speaker 200:27:22Yes. Hi, Connor. Thank you. Just wondering for the Harmonic update in the later this year that we expect to get, if you could just set the stage for, you know, where you guys think you're gonna be, how much data you think you're gonna have, what what would you look what would you look for in, in that update? Operator00:27:44Sir, your question was on Harmonic data, correct? Speaker 200:27:49Correct. Operator00:27:51Yes. So we've enrolled a nice chunk of patients in Asia and also in The U. S. In the last few months. So we are continuing to see the same kind of trend in terms of the clinical benefit. Operator00:28:04I think we hope to have a nice chunk of patients that will have multiple scans in terms of resist criteria. So I think sometime in mid to late Q2, we'll have the next readout. But the key one will come at 30 events. So if we have 30 events, that will probably be closer to the end of the year, and that'll be an important time because then we'll be able to decide, do we take this into a larger trial and also will give confidence that we'll have enough data to partner out the asset. But But we'll probably do something more near term to kind of showcase that the trends that we saw in the early cohort are continuing in the existing cohort, which has included a lot of patients from Japan and Taiwan. Speaker 200:28:57Okay. And then if I may, just a follow-up in a different direction on your ADC programs. What should we be looking for next? Obviously Operator00:29:10Yeah. There'll be two things. You know, we've talked about, but we made a conscious effort on this call not to focus on it because we wanted to focus more on the the clinical assets and some of the other AI features. But we've got some exciting preclinical data that we're validating. We put out some data last year in terms of HER2 low and HER2 medium, but definitely HER2 low expressing cancers where we saw a tremendous potency several fold higher than existing FDA approved agents with our cryptophycin linked ADC that we've designed. Operator00:29:43We also have another one that's in the Allude and nacellefolfin family that we're working on, some very exciting new payloads that are super, super potent, you know, 100 to 500 times more potent than LP 184. And we have some targets in mind. So we'll have more preclinical data as the year progresses. And we also will announce a couple of partnerships with groups that are using our ADC AI platform as an analytical tool. So those are the two things to expect. Speaker 200:30:17Thank you. Operator00:30:19You've got a great question from Clay Heiden. So Clay asked a question about providing results in LP 184 in Q4, and then it was pushed. When will you provide results? That's a great question on the 01/1984 data, Clay. So the 184 data originally was expected in Q4 because we expected to see MTD around dose level nine or 10. Operator00:30:50What's mostly changed is that the enrollment has gone to higher dose levels and so that's basically added to the time. So, the calculations for PK and availability of the drug seem to end up more like rats than dogs. So our thought was, we'll probably end up somewhere in between, but we're definitely much more like rats in terms of the, the amount of drug that humans can take. It's actually a good thing because we're seeing higher therapeutic, sorry, higher likelihood of having therapeutic doses at these higher cohorts, these double digit cohorts. We're now in cohort eleven, twelve, and so each cohort takes about a month. Operator00:31:31And so that's exactly why we see that. So nothing other than the dose levels have gone higher and we haven't seen any significant serious adverse events and we're now just beginning to see therapeutic levels of efficacy. So that's added to the time. Hopefully that answers your question. Next question is on the dose in cohorts eleven and twelve. Operator00:32:10I believe the dose is zero point six one, right, MG? I believe it's zero point six one. Well, I will have to I'll get back to them. Let me write that down. I'm going to have to look that up on my little board, but I believe it's zero point six one mgs per kg. Operator00:32:30But let's find that out right now. While we look that up, I'm going to take another question from anonymous attendee. When will likely we see STAR for pediatric? Wonderful question. We're working very closely with the Poetic consortium. Operator00:32:47We're very close to getting a protocol that everyone can agree to for pediatric brain cancers. Doctor. Mark Chamberlain and Sandra are leading up the efforts to interact with the POTA consortium. I think we will probably see that mid to late this year. So we do have a protocol that seems to have enough people around the table and we'll be able to then exploit the rare pediatric disease designations and hopefully march towards getting our drug to patients. Operator00:33:20And part of that also is to have a clear signal in adult gliomas. So we think those two factors will be easily checkmarked. And so we'll then launch into pediatric. Of course, all subject to the right approvals. Next question is from Luca. Operator00:33:46Luca, thank you very much for your question. I'll answer it. Says, what is missing to sign deals with other firms to discover new drugs? Yes, great question, Luca. We constantly look for deals. Operator00:34:00I think if there are deals out there, I think we'd love to do it. There's I think partly is it does take a lot of financial but really actual people resources. If you want to do this for others, they're going to pay you on an hourly or as a target amount. And so as a small company, bear in mind, our scientists and data engineers are somewhat limited. And so we have focused on our own pipeline. Operator00:34:27But yes, we'd like we'd love to focus more on other people's pipeline as long as they're willing to pay us for it. I don't think our shareholders want us to do a lot of work unless we get either equity in the drug or and get reimbursed significantly. So I think we're happy to have discussions. So yes, thank you. Great question. Operator00:34:48I mean, I think if there are there are definitely conversations we have, they usually tend to break down really around are they willing to give us enough equity in the molecule or enough upside to make it worth our while for us to stop working on our programs. But again, one of the things that we're doing now is using Agentic AI architecture to take some of these more simple initial analytic modules and put them out to the public. So that's something that we plan on doing with three or four of these modules, the Blood Brain Barrier module, the ADC module or aspects of the ADC module, some of the modules around differential gene expression and transcriptomic analysis and a very exciting project code named Zeta that we'll be talking more about in the next forty five to sixty days. Thank you. Great question from Michael Mantegas. Operator00:35:45Yeah, we've Michael asked the question, have we reached out to Amazon? Yes, we've had a lot of discussions with Amazon. Unfortunately, probably not at the right levels, but we've done a lot of education of Amazon about how big pharma needs are very different from drug developer kind of needs. And they're very good at kind of thinking about data storage and making data available. But the problems that we solve tend to be more computation rather than compute intensive rather than necessarily just data intensive and data storage intensive. Operator00:36:20But yes, I think groups like Amazon, like NVIDIA are beginning to understand the potential this has. But again, we're looking for people who would love to help us have those conversations with Big Tech. And part of our goal in making the Agentik AI architectures publicly available is to drive those conversations. Thank you for that question. So again, please raise your hand if you have a question. Operator00:36:49We can put you live like we did with Chad or please enter into the chat window. I think we have a question on the dose levels. So That was from just to respond to Clay. Yeah. So do you want to Speaker 100:37:03Yeah. Clay, I think you'd ask a question about the dose levels for '1 hundred and '80 '4. And the current dose level 12 is zero point six one milligrams per kilogram. So that's where we are now. Operator00:37:22Hopefully, that answers your question. You can raise your hand right. And where at what percentage dose level we're increasing from dose level? Is it 25%? I think that's what it is. Operator00:37:34Yeah. I think we're at a 25% level. So I think it was one hundred and fifty and thirty three or 25. I think we're at twenty five percent increase. Okay. Operator00:37:44Well, I would love to answer any other questions as they come in. Again, we think we're well positioned for the year. We've got multiple readouts. We believe we're getting very close to some of the final cohorts for both 01/1984 and approaching two eighty four later this year. We'll have data at least once, maybe twice for 300. Operator00:38:09We think once as we get the next big chunk of data from the current subjects that have been enrolled. And we'll also have in that update, we'll also have updates from the initial lead in cohort. So we'll have some exciting data to report on those initial patients where we saw the eighty six percent clinical benefit rate as well. So that will be coming more near term and then the larger report on three hundred probably later in the year as we get 30 events. So thank you, everyone, and I look forward to talking with many of you in upcoming meetings or one on ones. Operator00:38:48And thank you for your time today. And thank you to the Lantern team as well.Read morePowered by