Greetings, and welcome to the Mineralis Therapeutics fourth quarter and full year 2020 conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Dan Ferry of Lifeside Advisors. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Operator. I would like to welcome everyone joining us today for our fourth quarter and full year 2025 conference call. This afternoon, after the close of market trading, we issued a press release providing our fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results and business updates. A replay of today's call will be available on the Investors section of our website approximately one hour after its completion. After our prepared remarks, we will open the call for Q&A. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that this conference call and webcast will contain forward-looking statements about the company. Actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied by these forward-looking statements due to risk and uncertainties associated with the company's business. These forward-looking statements are qualified by the cautionary statements contained in today's press release and our SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings. Please note that these forward-looking statements reflect our opinions only as of today, March 12, 2026. Except as required by law, we specifically disclaim any obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events. I would now like to turn the call over to John Collison, Chief Executive Officer of Mineralis Therapeutics. Thank you, Dan.

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results and corporate update conference call. I'm joined today by Adam Levy, our Chief Financial Officer, Dr. David Rodman, our Chief Medical Officer, and Eric Warren, our Chief Commercial Officer. I will begin with an overview of the business, our clinical programs, and recent milestones, followed by Adam to review our fourth quarter financial results before we open up the call for your questions. We're pleased to have this opportunity to provide a corporate update as this call comes on the heels of our announcing the FDA's acceptance of the NDA for Lirunderstat for the treatment of adult patients with hypertension in combination with other antihypertensive drugs. In connection with the acceptance, the FDA has signed a PDUFA target action date of December 22, 2026. This NDA submission followed a successful clinical program, which culminated in the completion of five positive clinical trials that consistently demonstrated clinically meaningful blood pressure reduction, 24-hour control, and a favorable safety profile. This comprehensive data set has generated broad interest across the medical community, underscoring the significant clinical need in uncontrolled and resistant hypertension and the desire for innovative solutions that help patients meet their blood pressure goals. The NDA includes the positive data from the LAUNCH-HTN and ADVANCE-HTN pivotal trials, as well as the proof-of-concept trial EXPLORE-CKD and our open-label extension trial, TRANSFORM-HTN. Each of these trials demonstrate that Lerunderstat maintains a durable and clinically meaningful response across diverse patient populations, a key consideration for its potential as a new treatment for patients with hypertension. Uncontrolled and resistant hypertension remain major unmet needs, affecting over 20 million people in the United States and attributed to nearly 700,000 deaths per year. As we've noted previously, roughly 30% of all hypertension patients have dysregulated aldosterone. We are progressively seeing research and updated guidelines that highlight the need to identify and address aldosterone dysregulation in these patients. Our clinical data highlight the differentiated value of targeting aldosterone with an aldosterone synthase inhibitor like lorundrostat, especially when compared to current third and fourth line treatment options. To catalyze the successful launch of Lerunderstat, we have begun market access planning and payer engagement to ensure the value proposition of Lerunderstat is understood and appreciated. We have also expanded our medical communications efforts, which will include increased peer-reviewed publications, a larger presence at scientific meetings, and an expanded team of field-based medical science liaisons, which will support broader data dissemination for this potentially transformative therapy. These activities are intended to drive a rapid uptake of lorunderstat and feed into potential partnering opportunities. I would now like to briefly touch on the other development activities we're pursuing to enhance and extend the lorunderstat profile into hypertension with comorbid conditions, which are largely driven by inadequately controlled blood pressure and dysregulated aldosterone. Earlier this week, we issued a press release announcing the top-line results of our exploratory trial, ExploreOSA. This four-week trial, which enrolled 48 participants, evaluated the safety and efficacy of lorundrastat in participants with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension. This trial enrolled a high-risk population with an average body mass index of 38, an average apnea hypopnea index, or AHI, of 48, and baseline systolic blood pressure of 142 millimeters of mercury. While lorundrastat did not demonstrate a clinically meaningful difference relative to placebo on the primary endpoint, AHI, the trial did show clinically meaningful reductions in blood pressure and a favorable safety profile in this population with difficult-to-control hypertension. In the pre-planned parallel arm analysis of the first period, the trial demonstrated an 11.1 millimeter of mercury blood pressure reduction with lorunderstat and a 1.0 millimeter mercury reduction with placebo at four weeks. There was a 6.2 millimeter mercury placebo-adjusted reduction in blood pressure in the crossover analysis. Lorunderstat demonstrated a favorable safety profile and was well-tolerated with no serum potassium excursions above 5.5 millimoles per liter. Our analysis is ongoing for other endpoints in the trial and will be reported in future publications or medical meetings. Our clinical development strategy has been and will continue to be focused on generating a comprehensive data set that reflects the complexities that physicians face when treating their hypertension patients. We remain focused on fulfilling our mission to develop lorundrastat as a potential best-in-class therapy for patients with uncontrolled or resistant hypertension. We believe the strength of the lorunderstat data generated to date and the significant clinical needs for uncontrolled and resistant hypertension offer substantial opportunity as we prepare for the upcoming milestones. We're continuing to evaluate further clinical development for lorunderstat in comorbidities and other potential indications. We will keep you informed on our progress as appropriate. period. I'll now turn the call over to Adam to review our financial results for the fourth quarter in full year 2025.

Thank you, John. Good afternoon, everyone. Today I will discuss select portions of our fourth quarter in full year 2025 financial results. Additional details can be found in our Form 10-K, which will be filed with the SEC today, March 12th. The end of the year with cash, cash equivalents and investments of $656.6 million as of December 31st, 2025, compared to $198.2 million as of December 31st, 2024. We believe that our cash, cash equivalents, and investments will be sufficient to fund our planned clinical trials and regulatory activities, as well as support corporate operations into 2028. R&D expenses for the year ended December 31st, 2025 were $132 million, compared to $168.6 million for the year ended December 31st, 2024. R&D expenses for the quarter ended December 31st, 2025 were $24.4 million, compared to $44.6 million dollars for the quarter end of December 31st, 2024. The annual decrease in R&D expenses was primarily driven by $49.3 million reduction in preclinical and clinical costs, largely attributable to the conclusion of the Lerunderstadt Pivotal Program in the second quarter of 2025. The annual decrease was partially offset by increases of $9.9 million in compensation expenses, resulting from headcount growth, higher salaries and accrued bonuses, and increased stock-based compensation, as well as $3 million in clinical supply, manufacturing, and regulatory costs. GINA expenses were $38.6 million for the year-ended December 31st, 2025, compared to $23.8 million for the year-ended December 30th, 31st, 2024. G&A expenses were $13.9 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2025, compared to $7.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2024. The annual increase in G&A expenses was primarily attributable to $8.9 million in higher compensation expense given by headcount growth, higher salaries and accrued bonuses, and increased stock-based compensation. The annual increase was further attributable to $5.3 million in higher professional fees and $0.6 million in other general and administrative expenses. Total other income net was $16 million for the year ended December 31st, 2025, compared to $14.6 million for the year ended December 31st, 2024. Total other income net was $6 million for the quarter end of December 31, 2025, compared to $2.8 million for the quarter end of December 31, 2024. The annual increase was primarily attributable to higher interest earned on investments in money market funds in U.S. Treasuries, resulting from higher average cash balances invested during the year end of December 31, 2025. Net loss was $154.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to $177.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. Net loss was $32.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2025, compared to $48.9 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2024. The annual decrease was primarily attributed to the factors impacting our expenses described earlier. With that, I will ask the operator to open the call for questions. Operator?

Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. And our first question will come from Michael DeFiore with Evercore ISI.

Hi, guys. Thanks so much for taking my question, and congrats on all the continued progress. Two commercial questions for me. Now that the potential launch of Lurundestat is roughly six months behind your direct competitor. What are you hoping to learn from this competitive launch that would optimize the success of LaRundiStrat's launch? And second, could you offer any additional color on the pre-launch payer interactions you've been having? Like, have there been any unexpected changes in anticipated coverage, et cetera?

Yeah, Mike, thanks for the questions. We're obviously excited about the timeline we're on now, the day 74 letter giving us the PDUFA date. We clearly see a significant market opportunity here with, as we've stated before, about 20 million patients in the United States alone dealing with uncontrolled and resistant hypertension. We're obviously aware that AstraZeneca potentially is going to be launching in the second quarter. I think there'll be some interesting things to identify as far as how they think about pricing, their footprint in the space. But fundamentally, we think this is a large market opportunity. There's certainly room for two novel therapeutics in what I think may be a transformative class overall. We clearly are very bullish on the profile that we've seen with Wurundjerstet with its best-in-class profile. Now, as it relates to some of the dialogues that we've had with payers, we continue to feel bullish as it relates to access, particularly where we've targeted a lorunderstats use. That's that third line or later. We think resistant hypertension is the natural opening space and with experience, both from physician standpoint and demand growing into the third line usage. I think it's also important to point out, and I talked about it in my opening remarks, the comprehensive nature of the data set that we've built. When we think about resistant hypertension patients, it's rare that they're isolated to only be dealing with elevated blood pressure. There are so many comorbidities these patients are dealing with. Certainly, that's why we did the Explore CKD study. It's why we did the Explore OSA study. Even though we did not achieve a benefit on AHI, we know there's significant overlap, over 50% overlap with resistant hypertension and OSA. And so being able to show the kind of robust, safe benefit we have on blood pressure in this population, we think will have a significant translation into reduced cardiovascular risk for these patients.

Thanks, Mike.

And our next question comes from Rich Law with Goldman Sachs.

Hey, guys. Congrats on the PADUFA day and getting the NDA accepted. A couple questions from me. So, when you look at the results from the Phase 2 OSA study, do you think the desired limited laryngeal has potential to show benefit in the AGI primary endpoint? I mean, the study was much shorter than the historical MRA studies with only four weeks and you allow CPAP and PAP use. And then the study population was also different from MRA trials. So it's not clear to me to study duration and define really tested lorandrostat's effects one way or the other. How confident are you on the finding, and where do you go from here in regards to OSA? And then I have a follow-up.

Yeah, Rich, let me give you some opening thoughts, and I'll turn it to Dave. As I noted, the reason we did this study was because we think it's important for the prescribers they're going to be utilizing lorunderstat to have a clear sense of both efficacy and safety within these complex patients. And so being able to show a really robust reduction in BP and doing so safely in these patients that clearly are high risk, particularly the ones that we studied in Explore OSA with the BMI over 38, with AHI over 48, when severe OSA is picked off above 30. These are patients that have a pretty high cardiovascular risk when you compound that with elevated blood pressure. So for us, it was an important study to complete. Again, we believe that we're going to be able to operate with our existing label within this population, just given the fact that they have uncontrolled hypertension and elevated cardiovascular risk. But I'll have Dave talk about some of the design features and his thoughts.

Thanks for the question, Rich. Good thoughts. I have a couple of things I want to say, but first of all, directly, was it long enough? It's unclear. It could have taken longer than the four weeks, but I think there's probably a major interaction between that and the actual study population demographics. In other words, we saw these people were extremely obese. they had extremely high AHIs, close to 50, and their BMIs were 28, with many of them as high as 40.

38. 38 on average.

I'm sorry, their AHI.

AHI was 48, BMI 38, but please.

Okay, sorry, 38. You're right. And so we think the mechanism here, which is, the mechanism is your fluid overloaded. When you lay down, the fluid goes up into the veins of the neck, and that further obstructs the airway. In this population, there's so much extra adipose tissue that it may be that that compartment is already obstructing the airway enough just from that structural piece that you wouldn't see anymore. with decreasing volume. So I think the thing to look at it going forward should we want to answer the question is take a more representative population similar to the ones that were used in studies like a pleramone and spironolactone and test it again. But I want to make a different point if you can just give me a minute which is this. We did this because we wanted to know about AHI mainly because that's the easier way to register a drug if you want a claim for treatment of OSA. But that's not necessarily our objective. Our objective is to know whether we're going to have a benefit on long-term outcomes in patients with OSA. And the interesting point is, if you make AHI less than 5 with CPAP, it doesn't reduce your blood pressure, and there's no compelling evidence that it makes your long-term cardiovascular outcomes any better so it's really simply a way to look at the regulatory effect on the other hand the reduction in blood pressure we saw is comparable to is predicts rather and the agency gives you sort of the claim for improved outcomes. And at the 10 millimeters of mercury that we saw in the point estimate analysis, that's been shown to have about a 17% incidence of reduced coronary heart disease, 27% of stroke, and 28% of heart failure. So what we learned here was that we have the potential to be disease modifying in sleep apnea. And as John mentioned, we can get to that point with the label we have or we're going to have already for treatment of uncontrolled resistant hypertension, it's been reported that 80% of these patients have uncontrolled or resistant hypertension. So that's the long and the short of it. We don't need to prove it works in AHI because our objective isn't to make a therapy for upper airway obstruction. It's to make a therapy that makes these people live longer, better lives.

Okay, got it. And then just to For my second question, I know you guys are still exploring the partnership, but with the PDUFA date now set in December, which is about nine months from now, can you discuss what kind of commercial capability have you been building and how large is that commercial team now and what commercial hires are you still holding back while you're continuing to explore the partnership? And then is there any urgency to build a full commercial capability now in case a partnership may not occur until after the PDUFA date? Thank you.

Yeah, thanks, Rich. I'll take you back five years ago. We've always made discrete investment choices that support this molecule and put it in its best position to deliver value for the most appropriate patients possible. And so early days, that was CMC. That was ClinPharm. Where we're at now is we're making those right investment choices. We began this late last year, as you're aware. We're continuing it now to ensure that we're preparing the market. And so that's why Eric and his team are beginning to have dialogues with payers. It's why we're expanding our medical affairs capabilities from continued data dissemination. I mean, we have just a wealth of clinical data that we've accumulated last year and even as recently as the ExploreOSA that we're going to continue to put in the public forum via medical meetings and publications. We're expanding our MSL team. I don't want to give numbers, Rich, other than to say we're continuing to do everything we can to ensure a rapid uptake on the potential approval of Lerunderstat for uncontrolled and resistant hypertension. And I think fundamentally that's the right thing for us to do because it also becomes very informative, and potentially catalyzes those partnering dialogues. And we've heard that from potential partners, but we need to make sure that we're continuing to invest in this asset. So upon approval, it does have a rapid uptake and a rapid launch.

Got it. Thank you. Thanks, Rich.

We'll go next to Seamus Fernandez with Guggenheim Partners.

Oh, thanks. So just to follow up on the commercial side of things, can you just help us understand, you know, what you believe the number of reps would be to, you know, launch the Larendra stat effectively versus AstraZeneca? And do you envision having a, you know, sort of differentiated approach to market than Astra, you know, if there is a differentiated approach, what would that be?

Yeah, I don't know that I'll give you a specific number, Seamus, and we're continuing to evaluate that. But as you've heard us say before, when we look at where we've developed this molecule, third line or later, and in the United States, who prescribes there? It's about 60,000 physicians that are responsible for half of the script, third line or later. So that's kind of a broad way to look at the market. I don't want to give too much on our intended commercial strategy, but I will say that if you look at the comprehensive data set that we have, advanced HTN, confirmed hypertension, that was a study we did with the Cleveland Clinic, explore CKD that looks at hypertension and comorbid chronic kidney disease. And then if you look at the OSA population, the data that just came out of the Explore OSA, that's going to begin to inform how we think about subsegments of physicians that are treating specific types of hypertension with related comorbidities. And so we'll begin to look at the broad IMS data, but then also in the context of these subsegments that we think can give us rapid uptake within the resistant hypertension population, And then with experience, move rapidly in the third line as well.

Great. And then maybe just as a follow-up, is there kind of a timing-related, you know, dynamic? How much of a de-risking event, not just for mineralis but perhaps for strategics, would you say the availability, the assignment of a PDUFA date actually is, you know, broadly speaking?

Yeah, I think each step along this journey, there's a level of de-risking and a level of increasing value. That began last year with the readout of advance and launch. It continued with the submission of the NDA last year. I think the day 74, both acceptance of and pidufidate for lorunderstat further de-risks the molecule and brings value nearer term. You know, maybe related to that, when is an ideal time to identify a partnership? I think that these partnerships, they have a life of their own, a timeline of their own. Our goal is to really identify a means to generate the greatest value with lorunderstat, which means getting the molecule in front of the most appropriate patients in the United States and in due course outside of the United States. So those are all of the things that go into the calculus as we think about maximizing the value of lorunderstat through partnering.

Thanks so much. Thanks, Seamus.

And moving next to Jason Gerberry with Bank of America.

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. Just wanted to quickly follow up on the payer access discussions. I think the comment was maybe favorable access with a certain segment of payers. So I was wondering if you can expand upon that a little bit and just get a sense of your confidence in breadth of quality coverage, 3L+, as I guess you've articulated in the past. And then one CFO question here, just from an R&D perspective, thinking about 2026 R&D relative to 2025, should we be thinking about, I don't know, cash burn mitigation effort or is 2025 a good run rate for the company? And then last one for me is just on the OUS regulatory submissions, apologies if I missed this in past commentary from you guys, but is that in any way gated at all by the partnership discussions? If you can give us a sense of, you know, when you anticipate the OUS submissions.

Yeah, thanks. Let me maybe give some quick thought on Peyer, and then I'll have Eric add some additional color. We've done a great deal of research in this area. Obviously, it's probably one of the most critical vectors to ensure that we get lorundrastat to the appropriate patients with as few barriers as possible. I think we continue to feel very strong about the value proposition of lorundrostat, the need specifically in the resistant hypertension population. And so we believe that both the combination of appropriate price and rebate is going to create that access. But Eric, I don't know if you want to add some additional thoughts. I know your team continues to work aggressively on this.

Yeah. Yeah, and Jason, I'm just back from a large payer conference in Orlando, PCMA, where the team was engaging Medicare as well as commercial payers. I will say we're on their radar. They're very well aligned with the positioning that John spoke of, and we're now in the midst of scheduling these pre-approval information exchange or PII discussions. So, we've got a favorable footprint and interaction, you know, kind of cadence with payers.

And then, Jason, I think to your second question, Adam, do you want to add some thoughts?

So, Jason, we haven't intended to give guidance on R&D, but I can tell you that in 2025, we're running a number of trials. We had Launch HTN, Advanced HTN, Explore CKD for part of that year, Explore OSA, plus the Open Label Extension. So it was a heavy lift on R&D for us in 2025. When you roll into 2026, we've been wrapping up the costs on the OSA trial. We still have the Open Label Extension running. There may be other R&D that we decide to do this year, but I would expect that there's less R&D activity in 2026 than we had in 2025, at least, current or existing plans.

And, Jason, to your last question, if I recall it right, ex-US and how do partnerships play within that? But as we've spoken about in the past, our goal is certainly to try to get Lerunderstat to as many patients in the United States as well as outside of the United States as appropriate. We know there are some complexities right now between MFN and tariffs that we're continuing to evaluate. Partnering may play a role in that, and it may play a role beyond just a co-promotion. This is where co-development becomes an interesting opportunity. I think Dave and his team have done such an excellent job of characterizing lorondrostat, not just in hypertension, but in so many of these related comorbidities, that that creates an opportunity for us to assess what is the appropriate way to introduce lorondrostat outside of the United States. Is it as a monotherapy? Is it potentially in a fixed-dose combination strategy? Those are still things we're evaluating. And once we've made a solid plan relative to that, we'll certainly be communicating Thanks, John.

Thanks, Jason.

Moving on to Annabelle Samimi with Stiefel.

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Just a little bit more on the commercial side. Maybe you can help. I know it's probably too early to talk about pricing, but is there any scenario where the competitor can angle for third line while you're putting yourself in fourth line first? Are you thinking about the possibility of using pricing as a competitive lever, and what kind of things do you need to do to get yourself into third line?

And then as a follow-up to that, just with Explore CKD and Explore OSA, are you actually seeking to put it in the label as a differentiating feature or just have the data available for presentation and publication? yeah um i think it's it's too early to give you too much specificity on on pricing i can't really speak to you know where astrazeneca may go from a pricing um a line of treatment approach i i can tell you as as eric kind of alluded to and i did my prior comments that based on the research we've done with payers right now, the value proposition of LaRunderstat certainly resonates fourth line, with some payers even third line. I think it's going to be, as I noted, a beachhead at fourth line. That's clearly where there's unmet need. That's clearly where the value proposition resonates. And with experience and demand, I think that begins to open up third line. You know, we've talked in the past, Annabelle, that as a guidance or a frame for pricing, we've always directed to probably more of a SGLT2 branded price point, Entresto price point, broadly at a WAC, but haven't guided as it relates to rebates. To your second question, as I noted in my prepared remarks, we do anticipate having Explore CKD as part of the NDA application. That'll be part of a negotiation. What portion of that data may be reflected within the label? We believe that the blood pressure reduction data from Explore CKD is informative for prescribers, and that'll be part of our positioning from a negotiation standpoint. ExploreOSA was not part of the original NDA application. It may be part of continued safety updates, but the actual data was not available at the time the NDA submission was made. But we do think both of those trials will be very informative to the medical community. We will be using medical meetings, publications, and our medical science liaison team to certainly convey the important messages contained within both of those studies.

Okay. And is there any possibility to share other comorbidities you might be interested in exploring that could be particularly impacted by hypertension-lowering agents?

Yeah, I think I'd go a little bit deeper than hypertension agents, very specifically aldosterone-driven conditions. You know, when we talk about 30% of hypertension patients have dysregulated aldosterone, I think by extension, that goes into other conditions like CKD, like OSA, as David's spoken about before. Heart failure, we've mentioned, is a place where clearly aldosterone plays a significant role in the risk profile of those patients. There are some other indications that we continue to look at that we haven't really spoken about yet. But as I said in a previous response to a question, we believe that there are significant opportunities. Some of those are ones that we would pursue on our own. I think some of those others are ones that we've, you know, thought about having partnering involvement with. But, yeah, it's clearly at this stage, we'll understand extremely well characterized for what it does to aldosterone, how it safely addresses that, and we think it opens up a lot of other opportunities. And as we said in the remarks, as we solidify those development plans, we'll be sure to convey those to the market.

Okay, thank you.

Thanks, Annabelle.

And our next question will come from Mohit Bansal with Wells Fargo.

Great, thank you very much for taking my question, and congrats on all the progress. Just one question. Just try to double-click on the 60,000 prescriber number John you mentioned. Wondering, like, is this primary care heavy or these are specialists that you would be targeting? And then what sort of role direct-to-consumer marketing type of mechanism could play for a market like this? Thank you.

Yeah, Mohit, I think it's important. There's two vectors that Eric and his team are looking at, and it's the broad prescriber data that everybody can look at, the IQVIA data, and that's where the 60,000 is a broad target comes from. It's about a 60-40 split primary care specialty, the bulk of the specialty being cardiologist. But then there's another vector that we're looking at this, and that is for those resistant hypertension patients with comorbidities, who's managing those patients? So hypertension, NCKD, hypertension, NOSA, confirmed hypertension, you know, and even the Black or African American population, because we know we have done a considerable job to make sure we have proper representation within our clinical trials. And so we're taking the broad macro data from a prescribing standpoint, but also informing that with primary market research to see where are the true targets that can really ensure that we're getting lorunder stat as rapidly to as many appropriate patients as possible. And I'm sorry, I think you had a second part of your question, Mohit.

Yeah, thank you for this. But the second part was more about the direct to consumer marketing sort of mechanism, like What sort of role it could play for a company like yours?

Yeah, I don't know that we're in a position quite yet to talk about the consumer strategy, but obviously we'll want to be speaking to patients, reiterating the importance of getting their blood pressure under control, seeking different means to do that, whether it's diet, exercise, or therapeutics, and the benefits specifically of lorundrastat, particularly if they have overlapping comorbidities where we have data that can speak to the opportunity for lorundrastat to help them get to goal and subsequently have hopefully longer lives and better lives.

Very helpful. Thank you. Thanks, Mohit.

We'll go next to Rami Kadkuda with LifeSci Capital.

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my questions as well. I guess I know it was a small study, but did you observe any differential treatment effects in blood pressure reductions or AHI across any kind of key subgroups in Explore OSA? And I guess a particular focus in those receiving and not receiving CPAP? And then maybe secondly, I know you touched upon potential future indications. Is the goal to be first in class for those indications, or are they large enough similar to hypertension where it doesn't matter?

I'll let Dave answer the first part, and then I'll address your second one on other indications, Rami.

Thanks, Rami. So we're in the midst of examining deeper into the data and one of the things we're doing right now is looking at your question of subsets. You're right, it is a small trial, so it will be hypothesis generating more than proving hypotheses, but that's still really useful and we intend to present that kind of analysis at future publications and meeting presentations so just stay tuned for that um in terms of the cpap about a third of the subjects or a quarter were on cpap and we didn't see any difference between those groups but again they're pretty small numbers so i don't want to hang my hat on that yeah then and rami to your uh follow a question as it related to um so go ahead if would you repeat it for me one more time i want

to make sure i address it specifically yeah i just wanted to check in and see if those indications the goal is to be first in class there or could you kind of pursue larger indications i know you mentioned heart failure where uh they're large enough to encompass multiple winners here in the ASI class?

Yeah, I think what our intent is, is to not be a follower. And what do I mean by that? We know that the epigliflizone is going to be generic potentially this year. I think some of what's being done with the ASIs tend to be more lifecycle management combined with an SGLT2. I don't know that we're looking to, frankly, get into that mud fight. I think there's going to be ample opportunity and with the data that we have for physicians to use lorundristat with the SGLT2 of choice if patients have an overlapping comorbidity like CKD with their hypertension. As I noted in a previous response, we know that dysregulated aldosterone plays a significant role across the spectrum of cardiorenal metabolic disorders. That's what's informing how we think about where is the white space, where is the opportunity for us to take what we believe to be the best-in-class aldosterone synthase inhibitor, and either alone or in some distinct combinations, bringing forward solutions for those patients.

And going next to Dennis Ding with Jeffries.

Thank you for taking our questions. This is Georgia Bank on the line for Dennis Ding. Maybe a little bit more on the potential partnerships and if you could talk about what an ideal partnership looks like in terms of capabilities and also creative deal structuring. Obviously, the commercial infrastructure is important, but what other nuances are important to you, maybe in terms of R&D funding or bigger indications in pair relationships? I know that you mentioned that there's opportunity in pursuing some indications on your own and others involved, maybe partnering it on. Any color there would be helpful.

Thanks, Georgia. No, it's a good question, and I will repeat what I've said in the past. We would love to find a partner that sees the opportunity with or understated the way we do, and how is that? And that is, with the best-in-class aldosterone synthase inhibitor in the near term, generating significant value for patients, for physicians, and for the healthcare community at large in helping to control uncontrolled and resistant hypertension, but then also more broadly fully realizing the value of the asset from a development standpoint. So co-development, I'm not going to talk about what kind of deal structures that would look like, but really extending the value of lorundristat beyond hypertension and some of its related comorbidities. And then within that becomes addressing the complexity that exists just right now with branded assets that you want to get into the hands of patients outside of the United States. And so it's really what's been informing the dialogues that we've had is finding a partner that thinks more holistically about the opportunity. As we've stated before, Lerunderstat has excellent IP out to 2035 patent term extension, probably to 2039. There's a significant time period there to fully realize the value of this asset and bring that value to patients.

Got it. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Thanks, Georgia.

And this concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the floor back over to John Congleton for closing comments.

Thank you, Operator. We believe the strength of the clinical results for lorunderstat show the potential benefit for uncontrolled and resistant hypertension and those related comorbidities. This is an exciting time for our team, the patients with hypertension who may benefit from treatment with lorunderstat, the physicians and researchers that have worked so hard in support of bringing lorunderstat through our clinical trial program and our shareholders. We look forward to sharing updates with you in the coming quarters, and with that, I'll say thank you, operator, and thank you to everyone for joining us today. We'll now close the call.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your participation. This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines and have a wonderful day.