Connect Biopharma Holdings Ltd.

• Connect Biopharma Holdings Ltd.
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We are a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for the treatment of T cell-driven inflammatory diseases. Our core expertise is in the use of functional cellular assays with T cells to screen and discover potent product candidates against immune targets. Our two most advanced clinical-stage programs include highly differentiated product candidates against validated targets. Our lead product candidate, CBP-201, is an antibody designed to target interleukin-4 receptor alpha, or IL-4Ra, which is a validated target for the treatment of inflammatory diseases such as atopic dermatitis, or AD, and asthma. The estimated global market for AD was approximately $10.4 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow to $19.3 billion by 2025, a compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, of 13.2%.

Based on observed results in preliminary clinical studies, CBP-201 has the potential to be differentiated from dupilumab, an antibody that also targets IL-4Ra, which is now approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA. We have initiated a Phase 2b trial of CBP-201 in the United States, Australia and New Zealand in AD patients with moderate-to-severe AD, and plan to initiate additional trials in asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, or CRSwNP, in the first half of 2021 and in AD patients in China in the second half of 2021. We anticipate reporting top-line results from our ongoing clinical trial in AD patients in the second half of 2021. Furthermore, we are developing CBP-307, a modulator of a T cell receptor known as sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 1, or S1P1, for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. Specifically, we are developing CBP-307 for two types of IBD, ulcerative colitis, or UC, and Crohn’s disease, or CD. We anticipate reporting top-line results from a global Phase 2 trial in UC before the end of the first quarter of 2022 and also intend to initiate a global clinical trial in CD based on the preliminary clinical responses observed in a limited number of patients in an earlier CD clinical trial.

Our immune modulator product candidates originate from our approach to drug discovery based on using biologically relevant functional cellular assays to conduct primary drug screens instead of high-throughput biochemical assays. The clinical and preclinical results we have observed for our product candidates support the potential for this physiologically relevant methodology to yield highly differentiated solutions, in a more efficient manner. Our approach is agnostic to drug modalities and has been used to identify both small molecule and antibody product candidates. 
 

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