GeoVax Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOVX) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call May 4, 2023 4:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Gabby DeGravina - Investor Relations

David Dodd - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Mark Reynolds - Chief Financial Officer

Mark Newman - Chief Scientific Officer

Kelly McKee - Chief Medical Officer

John Sharkey - Vice President, Business Development

Conference Call Participants

Jason Kolbert - Dawson James

Vernon Bernardino - H.C. Wainwright

Kumar Raja - Roth Capital

Robert LeBoyer - Noble Capital Markets

Operator

Good afternoon and welcome everyone to the GeoVax First Quarter 2023 Corporate Update Call. My name is Jack and I will facilitate today’s call. With me are David Dodd, Chairman and CEO; Mark Reynolds, Chief Financial Officer; Mark Newman, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer; Kelly McKee, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer; and John Sharkey, PhD, Vice President, Business Development. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

At this time, I am turning the call over to Gabby DeGravina of GC Capital.

Gabby DeGravina

Thank you. Please note the following. Certain statements in this presentation may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. These statements are based on management’s current expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual results may differ materially from those included in these statements due to a variety of factors, including whether GeoVax can develop and manufacture it’s product candidates with the desired characteristics in a timely manner and such products will be safe for human use; GeoVax’s vaccines will effectively prevent targeted infections in humans; GeoVax’s product candidates will receive regulatory approvals necessary to be licensed and marketed; GeoVax raises required capital to complete development of its products, there is development of competitive products that maybe more effective or easier to use than GeoVax’s products; GeoVax will be able to enter into favorable manufacturing and distribution agreements; and other factors over which GeoVax has no control. GeoVax assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements and does not intend to do so. More information about these factors is contained in GeoVax’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those set forth as risk factors in GeoVax’s Form 10-K.

It is now my pleasure to introduce the Chairman and CEO of GeoVax, David Dodd. David?

David Dodd

Good afternoon and thank you for participating in the GeoVax corporate update call. Since the start of 2023, we have expanded patient enrollment and supported the Gedeptin Phase 2 clinical trial and the two Phase 2 trials for GEO-CM04S1; also, the third Phase 2 clinical program in support of CM04S1, evaluating the vaccine as a booster among patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia has viewed by the FDA and is expected to initiate soon. We also recently expanded our rights related to CM04S1 to include all omicron variants, monkeypox, and smallpox, further differentiating our COVID-19 vaccine. While the clinical development progress Gedeptin and the CM04S1 remain our priority, we are also focused on GEO-MVA, our vaccine against monkeypox and smallpox; as well as the implementation of the transformative MVA continuous cell line manufacturing process.