Evaxion Biotech A/S (EVAX) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 22, 2023 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Per Norlen - Chief Executive Officer

Jesper Nyegaard Nissen - Chief Operating Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Thomas Flaten - Lake Street

Ahu Demir - Ladenburg Thalmann

Swayampakula Ramakanth - H.C. Wainwright

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Evaxion Biotech Q2 Results Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Per Norlen. Please go ahead.

Per Norlen

Thank you, operator. Good morning and good afternoon, everyone. I'm Per Norlen, Chief Executive Officer at Evaxion. And with me today is Jesper Nyegaard Nissen, Chief Operating Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer at Evaxion since August 1.

First, before we start, a note on forward-looking statements. Let me remind you that the following discussion contains certain statements that are considered forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Because forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, they are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including those risk factors discussed in the company's annual report Form 20-F and the company's current and future reports submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC.

With that said, I'm pleased to welcome you to today's conference call. During the call, I will provide you with a brief overview of the excellent progress we made across our pipeline and on our core AI technologies over the past six months. I will then turn the call over to Jesper, who will review our financial report for the second quarter of 2023, and then we will open up the line for questions.

We have a presentation which you can follow, and this is Slide 1, and we will start by taking a quick look at today's agenda, which is on Slide 2. So, Slide 2. I will start with our recent communication on our staphylococcus aureus vaccine EVX-B1, where we were pleased to present preclinical proof-of-concept data showing that the vaccine candidate can clear staphylococcus infections. We will also show the early-stage clinical data reported on AACR 2023 and ASCO23, indicating that patients treated with our vaccines, EVX-01 or EVX-02, in combination with the checkpoint inhibitor experienced a treatment benefit and with good overall tolerability. Further, I will provide an update on our next-generation personalized cancer vaccine candidate EVX-03, which is approaching the clinic as well as our novel AI technology observed, that's been used to identify a new source of antigens for personalized cancer vaccines. And that's planned for clinical validation through the EVX-03 program. And of course, the financial update with second quarter financial results as presented by Jesper.