Agenus Inc. (NASDAQ:AGEN) Q2 2022 Earnings Conference Call August 9, 2022 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Ethan Lovell - Chief of External Affairs & Communications Officer

Garo Armen - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Christine Klaskin - Vice President-Finance

Steven O'Day - Chief Medical Officer

Dhan Chand - Scientific Director, Head of Drug Discovery

Conference Call Participants

Mayank Mamtani - B. Riley Securities

Matt Phipps - William Blair

Operator

Good morning. My name is Abby and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Agenus Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Thank you.

Mr. Ethan Lovell, Chief of External Affairs and Communications Officer. You may begin your conference.

Ethan Lovell

Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our second quarter earnings results conference call. I’m Ethan Lovell, Agenus' Chief External Affairs and Communications Officer, and I have with me today on the call, Agenus', Chairman and CEO, Garo Armen; and the company's Vice President of Finance, Christine Klaskin. Also joining us today is the Genesis' Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Steven O'Day, who will be available during the Q&A portion of this call.

Before I turn the call over to Garo for his prepared remarks, I would like to read our forward-looking statement disclosure. This call will include forward-looking statements, including statements regarding our clinical development, regulatory and commercial plans and timelines including time lines for data release and partnership opportunities. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and speak only as of the date they are made. Agenus is under no obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements and we refer you to our SEC filings for more details on these risks.

With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Garo Armen. Garo?

Garo Armen

Thank you very much, Ethan, and thank you for joining us today. We will concentrate to start on our priority clinical programs, which have demonstrated highly exciting activity. We will also provide updates on our earlier stage programs, which we expect to deliver successful outcomes interconnect based on the robust research and preclinical data that's been generated so far.

Agenus has had a successful second quarter capped by a groundbreaking presentation at the World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer in Barcelona. Our late-breaking submission was offered prime of place at the conference's opening session, and Dr. Anthony El-Khoueiry presented on heavily pretreated MSS colorectal patients who are treated with our novel adaptive innate immune activator called balstilimab in combination with our anti-PD-1 antibody balstilimab.