Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:AUPH) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 3, 2023 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Jamie Harrell - Investor Relations

Peter Greenleaf - Chief Executive Officer

Joe Miller - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Will Soghikian - Leerink Partners

Ed Arce - H.C. Wainwright

David Martin - Bloom Burton

Farzin Haque - Jefferies

Justin Kim - Oppenheimer

Operator

Greetings. And welcome to Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Incorporated Second Quarter 2023 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions]

As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Jamie Harrell, Investor Relations for Aurinia Pharmaceuticals. Thank you. You may begin.

Jamie Harrell

Thank you, Operator. And thanks everyone for joining today’s call and webcast to review and discuss Aurinia’s second quarter and six-month 2023 financial and operational results. Joining me on the call this morning are, Peter Greenleaf, Chief Executive Officer; and Joe Miller, our Chief Financial Officer.

This morning, Aurinia issued a press release announcing its financial results and operational highlights for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2023. In addition, the company filed its quarterly financial statements on Form 10-Q. For more information, please refer to Aurinia’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are also available on Aurinia’s website at auriniapharma.com.

During this call, Aurinia may make forward-looking statements based on current expectations. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of significant risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially.

For a discussion of factors that could affect Aurinia’s future financial results and businesses, please refer to the disclosures in Aurinia’s press release and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q along with Aurinia’s annual report on Form 10-K and all of its recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Canadian securities authorities.

Please note that all statements made during today’s call are current as of today, Thursday, August 3, 2023, unless otherwise noted and are based upon information currently available to us at this time. Except as required by law, Aurinia assumes no obligation to update any such statements.

Now, let me turn the call over to Aurinia’s President and CEO, Peter Greenleaf. Peter?

Peter Greenleaf

Thanks, Jamie, and good morning, everyone. I want to thank you all for joining us on the call today. On this morning’s call, we will focus on the company’s second quarter and six-month performance, our key commercial metrics for LUPKYNIS, as well as a brief update on R&D and our progress outside the U.S. I will then turn the call over to Joe Miller, our CFO to provide additional detail on our financial results.