2/15/2023

speaker
Bettina
Conference Operator

Good morning. My name is Bettina and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Biogen fourth quarter and full year 2022 earnings call and business update. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star 1 on your telephone keypad. Please limit yourself to one question to allow other participants time for questions. If you require any further follow-up, you may press star 1 again to rejoin the queue. Thank you. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Mike Henke, Head of Investor Relations. Mr. Henke, you may begin your conference.

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Mike Henke
Head of Investor Relations

Thank you. Good morning and welcome to Biogen's fourth quarter and full year 2022 earnings call. Before we begin, I encourage everyone to go to the investor section of Biogen.com to find the earnings release and related financial tables, including our GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of the GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures that we'll discuss today. Our GAAP financials are provided in tables one and two, and table four includes the reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP financial results. We believe non-GAAP financial results better represent the ongoing economics of our business and reflect how we manage the business internally. We have also posted slides on our website that follow the discussions related to this call. I'd like to point out that we will be making forward-looking statements, which are based on our expectations. These statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and our actual results may differ materially. I encourage you to consult the risk factors discussed in our SEC filings for additional detail. On today's call, I'm joined by our President and Chief Executive Officer, Christopher Wiebacher, Dr. Priya Singhal, Head of Development, and our CFO, Mike McDonald. As a reminder, during the Q&A portion of the call, we kindly ask that you limit yourself to one question. I'll now turn the call over to Chris.

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Christopher Wiebacher
President and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Mike. Good morning, everybody, and thanks for joining us. It's a pleasure to welcome you here today. This is my first earnings call since joining Biogen. Clearly, Biogen has a strong legacy as one of the pioneers in biotechnology, and there's clearly a strong foundation to build upon. Equally, there's an urgent need to restore growth to the company. We have a great opportunity ahead with a potential launch of two important near-term launches with Alzheimer's and depression. And we have several pipeline programs. We'll be covering a lot more about how we intend to return to growth. But first, I'd like to turn this over to Mike and invite Mike to provide an overview of the fourth quarter and full year financial results.

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