NGM Biopharmaceuticals Inc.

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• NGM Biopharmaceuticals Inc.
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NGM

We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics based on our scientific understanding of key biological pathways underlying cardio-metabolic, liver, oncologic and ophthalmic diseases. These diseases are among the largest unmet medical needs globally and represent leading causes of morbidity and mortality and a significant burden for healthcare systems. Since the commencement of our operations in 2008, we have generated a robust portfolio of seven product candidates, five of which are in clinical testing. Our most advanced product candidate, NGM282, is wholly-owned and will enter Phase 2b development for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, in the first quarter of 2019. In an ongoing Phase 2 clinical trial, NGM282 demonstrated the ability to rapidly improve NASH and reverse liver fibrosis at 12 weeks. We have created this portfolio using our research and drug discovery approach that employs unbiased, in vivo-based discovery to identify proprietary insights into critical biological processes. We combine this approach with our protein and antibody engineering expertise to find the appropriate modality to enhance each product candidate’s therapeutic potential. Our executives, directors and advisors have extensive track records of successfully discovering, developing and delivering to patients first-in-class drugs, which positions us well to maximize the potential of our drug discovery approach.

In 2015, we entered into a five-year research collaboration, product development and license agreement with Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., or Merck. The collaboration includes an exclusive worldwide license to our growth differentiation factor 15, or GDF15, program. Under the agreement, we also granted Merck options to take exclusive, worldwide licenses for the programs in our research and development pipeline on a program-by-program basis. Merck generally has a one-time right to exercise its option when a program completes a human proof-of-concept trial. The collaboration enables us to develop more product candidates for major indications than we could likely advance on our own, with Merck bearing a majority of the associated cost and risk. We retain an option, when a candidate has advanced to Phase 3 clinical trials, to participate in up to 50% of the economic return from that candidate if it becomes an approved medicine. Overall, the Merck collaboration provides us with robust research and development support, while we retain our research independence and the option to split costs and profits on product candidates Merck elects to advance. We excluded our fibroblast growth factor 19, or FGF19, program, including NGM282, from the agreement and it remains wholly-owned by us.

Our most advanced programs have focused on novel discoveries in hormone pathways that regulate cardio-metabolic processes and liver function, including those driving NASH, type 2 diabetes and obesity. We have identified multiple hormone pathways of interest, the most advanced of which are: FGF19 which plays a critical role in controlling bile acid, lipid and glucose metabolism; fibroblast growth factor receptor 1c-beta-klotho, or FGFR1c/KLB, which regulates insulin sensitivity, blood glucose and liver fat; and GDF15, which drives profound metabolic activity by regulating fuel flux and has been considered a challenging therapeutic target. We believe these hormone pathways work through distinct mechanisms and play an important role in metabolic regulation. 

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