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spk08: Good morning. My name is Julian and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Lexican Pharmaceutical third quarter 2020 financial results call. 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 then the number one in your telephone keypad. If you would like to redire your question, press the pound key. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Chas Schultz. You may begin.
spk01: Thank you, Julianne. Good morning, and welcome to the Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results and Clinical Update Conference Call. Joining me today are Lynelle Coates, Lexicon's President and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Praveen Tile, Lexicon's Executive Vice President of Research and Development, and Jeff Wade, Lexicon's Executive Vice President of Corporate and Administrative Affairs and Chief Financial Officer. Earlier today, Lexicon issued a press release announcing our financial results for the third quarter of 2020, which is available on our website at www.lexpharma.com and through our SEC filings. A webcast of this call, along with a slide presentation, is available on our website. During this call, we will review the information provided in the release provide an update on our clinical programs, and then use the remainder of our time to answer your questions. Before we begin, let me remind you that we will be making forward-looking statements, including the statements relating to the safety, efficacy, and the therapeutic and commercial potential of LX9211, Sotocoflozin, and other potential drug candidates. These statements may include characterizations of the expected timing and results of clinical trials of LX9211, Sotocoplosin, and other drug candidates and the regulatory status and market opportunity for those programs. This call may also contain forward-looking statements relating to our growth and future operating results, discovery and development of our drug candidates, strategic alliances and intellectual property, as well as other matters that are not historical facts or information. Various risks may cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. These risks include uncertainties related to the timing and results of clinical trials and preclinical studies of LX9211, Sotocoflozin, and our other drug candidates, our dependence upon strategic alliances and other third-party relationships, our ability to obtain patent protections for our discoveries, limitations imposed by patents owned or controlled by third parties, and the requirements of substantial funding to conduct our research and development activities. For a list and a description of the risk and uncertainties that we face, please see the reports we have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. I will now turn the call over to Linnell Coates.
spk02: Thank you, Chas. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us on the call. We welcome the opportunity to discuss a pivotal quarter for Lexicon in which we shifted our focus to LX9211 and our other scientific assets and research and developments. During the third quarter, we completed the sale of Zamello and related assets to Tessera Therapeutics. This sale allowed us to strengthen our balance sheet by repaying our $150 million term loan in full. We also exchanged $75.8 million in principal amount of our convertible notes for cash and common stock and have retired more than 90% of our outstanding debt in total. We are in a very good position to focus our time and efforts on the advancement of LX9211, which is a program we have been excited about for a number of years. Praveen will share more about this program and the potential we see for it to become a new treatment option for the millions of people suffering from neuropathic pain. Starting in the fourth quarter, Lexicon will be operating as a much more streamlined and focused company. We expect our cash bearing to be dramatically lower moving forward into 2021, and we will be laser focused on advancing LX9211 through two phase two clinical trials in diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain and post-herpetic neuralgia. Jeff will delve into the financials more deeply, including our outlook on expected spend moving forward. I feel confident that with the delevering of our balance sheet and a substantial reduction in our expected spend, We are in a much better position to advance our science and increase the opportunity for values to flow through to our stakeholders. On slide four, I would like to take a quick moment and remind everyone that Sotocoflozin remains an important asset in our science and development pipeline. This is a drug that we wholly own and continue to believe has the potential to become a very important new treatment for the many people living with type 1 diabetes. Sotagliflozin has shown in a Phase III program involving approximately 3,000 patients to be effective as an adjunct to insulin in reducing A1C and achieving other secondary efficacy endpoints, which led to an approval in Europe for type 1 diabetes last year. We continue to believe that the diabetic ketoacidosis risk observed in a Phase III program is manageable, and we will continue to seek approval in the United States. At this point, we feel there is an opportunity to initiate the next phase of our strategy and reengage with the FDA. It is important that we gain alignment with the agency on a clear pathway forward in type 1 diabetes, and we plan to start that work this quarter. We will be providing updates to you in the coming months as we make progress toward this outcome. We're also completing the early closeout of SCORD and SOLOIS, two outcome studies of psilocybin with primary endpoints evaluating a composite of total cardiovascular death, hospitalizations for heart failure, and urgent visits for heart failure. The outcomes of those trials will be presented as part of a late-breaker session titled Late-Breaking Science at the upcoming American Heart Association Scientific Session on November 16th at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, so set your calendars. With that, I would like to invite Praveen to update you on our important pipeline asset, 9211. Dr. Tayo? Thank you, Linnell.
spk00: LX9211 is a potent, orally delivered, selective small molecule inhibitor of AP2-associated kinase, which I will reference as AAK1, which is a pathway we believe may have utility in reducing neuropathic pain while avoiding the addictive downsides of the opioid pathways. LX9211 was discovered by scientists working within our drug discovery alliance with Bristol Myers Squibb, and we now wholly own all rights to telex9211, as well as any additional compounds acting through AAK1 pathway that we may develop. As you can see on this chart, we have already initiated a phase two proof of concept study in diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, and we plan to initiate an additional phase two proof of concept study in post-herpetic neuralgia by the end of this year. We expect that both of these phase two studies will read out by the end of next year. Neuropathic pain affects a large portion of the population within a worldwide market of approximately $6.4 billion in estimated sales expected for 2020. The worldwide market is expected to grow at over 13% a year to $13.2 billion by 2026. There is estimated to be a prevalence of approximately 12 million people worldwide suffering from DPNP and 600,000 people suffering from PHN in 2026. Despite neuropathic pain affecting millions of people, there remains a high level of unmet need for those suffering from the condition. The current approved therapies are limited by a lack of efficacy compounded by disruptive side effects. As a result, many people turn to opioids to experience some level of relief, which of course carry their own risks of potential abuse and addiction. We feel that LX9211, through its inhibition of AAK1, independent from the opioid pathway, has the potential to overcome many of the shortcomings of current therapies and could become a welcome new innovation for those suffering from neuropathic pain on a routine basis. So let's talk a little bit about why we are so interested in AAK1 as an innovative pathway for neuropathic pain. The discovery of AAK1 as a potential target for neuropathic pain occurred in the course of our multi-year discovery and research program we conducted about a decade ago called the Genome 5000 Project. In that initiative, we studied the phenotypes of approximately 5,000 different knockout mouse lines and identified the AAK1 knockout mice as exhibiting the most compelling phenotype for neuropathic pain among all the genes we studied here at Lexicon. Our preclinical data for LX9211 has demonstrated excellent central nervous system penetration and reductions in pain behavior in animal models of neuropathic pain. take you through some of our preclinical findings for LX9211 in these animal models shortly. But what is very important is that we have conducted several preclinical tests to confirm LX9211's independence from the opioid pathway, and so far we have found no concerns around addictive potential with LX9211. We have conducted single and multiple ascending dose phase one clinical studies in healthy volunteers, to study the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of LX9211. These studies support the preclinical profile we had obtained in our laboratories. LX9211 was well tolerated with dose-proportional pharmacokinetics that was supportive of once-daily dosing. There were no drug-related serious adverse events, and the most common adverse events were transient, headaches, and dizziness. Overall, we feel LX9211 represents an innovative potential approach to treat neuropathic pain without the addictive potential of many of the current therapies and treatments. Let me show you some of the preclinical data supporting our view that LX9211 may be beneficial for people suffering from diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain and post-herpetic neuralgia. With diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, people living with diabetes often develop nerve damage, which cause painful, dehabilitating symptoms, most often in their legs and feet. It is estimated that 60 to 70% of people with diabetes will develop peripheral neuropathy at some point in their life. On this slide, you will see the effect of LX9211 in the gold standard diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain model in rats. also called STZ model. In this model, streptozotocin, STZ, is used to induce diabetes in rats, and then tests are performed to evaluate the rat's sensitivity to mechanical allodynia, which is a condition associated with diabetes where even slight touch can cause a painful sensation. This graph is bookended with the brown and purple lines. The brown line represents the rats in which diabetes was induced, while the purple line represents the control rats without diabetes and with normal sensitivity to touch. The rats along the brown line are feeling the full effect of neuropathic pain from their diabetes, and they feel pain with any type of touch, as shown by 0% inhibition of mechanical allodynia. The rats along the purple line are not feeling any effect of neuropathic pain or sensitivity to touch, as shown by 100% inhibition of mechanical allodynia. The lines in between these two extremes show the effect of LX9211 on the diabetic rat. As you can see, there is a clear dose response to LX9211 that enables these diabetic rats to experience a statistically higher degree of touch without pain at the 1 milligram and 3 milligram per kilogram levels. By way of comparison, in the same experiment, gabapentin was administered at 100 milligram per kilogram and resulted in a similar response as the 1 milligram and 3 milligram per kilogram levels of LX9211. So we were able to achieve a similar level of efficacy at a much lower dose with LX9211. More importantly, at this level of dosing, we saw no motor impairment in the rats and no impairment of performance in a cognition model, which are the two significant side effects of carbapentin. We have advanced LX9211 into a phase two proof of concept trial in DPNP. This trial is a double-blind placebo-controlled parallel group study that is expected to enroll approximately 300 patients from 30 U.S. sites. Patients will be randomized to one of the three arms, placebo, 100 milligram initial dose followed by 10 milligram maintenance dose, and 200 milligram initial dose followed by 20 milligram maintenance dose of LX9211 with a 1-to-1-to-1 randomization. The primary endpoint is changed from baseline to week six in average daily pain score, a very standard symptom measurement tool used in most of the neuropathic pain trials. The first patient was those during third quarter of this year, and we expect results in the fourth quarter of 2021. We have taken steps to mitigate the strong placebo effect that is characteristics of studies in diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, including studying a large number of patients over a long treatment period, conducting the trial exclusively in the United States, and otherwise designing the trial with the potential placebo effect in mind. Now, let's turn our attention to the second indication, postherpatic neuralgia. Postherpatic neuralgia is the most common complication of shingles. Individuals who contract shingles will often be left with nerve damage that causes burning sharp pain long after the rash and blisters of shingles disappear. People of an older age and people with greater acute pain, greater rash severity, or on immunosuppressive therapies are more likely to develop PHN. This condition can last months to years. On this slide, you will see the effect of LX9211 in postherpetic neurology model in RACs. In this model, varicella zoister, which is the virus that causes shingles, is introduced to the rats. Rats are nocturnal by nature and prefer to stay in the dark, usually only entering the light when under duress. In this model, we looked at the time the rats spend in dark versus the light. After placing the rat in the test chamber, the rat was stimulated on the face with a filament every 15 seconds. We measured the time rats spend in the dark over five minute intervals or 300 seconds. The rats represented by the white circle dotted line have not been administered the virus and therefore act normally. As you can see in both graphs, they spend nearly all their time in the dark. The rats represented by blue circles dotted line have been administered the virus and therefore are in pain from shingles and spend large amounts of time in the light. On the left graph, we tested the effect on the rats of a single dose of our drug LX9211 seven days post-virus infection. As you can see, the rats which were treated with our drug LX9211 acted similarly to the rats that were not infected. On the right graph, we tested the effect on rats of seven daily doses of LX9211 14 days post-virus infection. In this case, the rats which were treated with our drug LX9211 acted nearly identical to the rats that were not infected, and you can see great separation from the untreated rats. By way of comparison, we ran the same test head-to-head with gabapentin at 100 milligram per kilogram. Once again, we have the single doses of LX9211 and gabapentin on the left, and multiple doses of LX9211 and gabapentin on the right. The gabapentin single dose resulted in a similar response as the single dose of 30 milligram per kilogram of LX9211. Both drugs provided a statistically significant improvement in time in the dark as compared to the untreated RAPs. In the multiple dose administration involving seven doses of our drug LX9211 and gabapentin, we saw further separation. When comparing gabapentin-treated rats to LX9211-treated rats, the pain response was significantly better in our LX9211-treated rats. With LX9211, we were able to achieve a similar or potentially superior level of efficacy at both single dose and multiple dose and using a much lower dose than gabapentin. We are very encouraged by the preclinical data and we will be initiating an additional phase two clinical study of LX9211 in post-hepatic neurology. In general, PHN has a lower placebo effect and outcomes are more straightforward. The PHN trial will be a small pilot study with two arms only, placebo versus 200 milligram initial dose followed by 20 milligram maintenance dose daily. We plan to enroll approximately 74 patients in approximately 30 sites globally. The primary endpoint is also a change from baseline to week six average daily pain score, and we expect the first patient to be dosed later this year. Overall, we feel that our drug LX9211 has the potential to show significant benefits for people suffering from DPNP and PHN, and we look forward to completing and reporting results from both of these studies toward the end of next year. With that, I would like to turn the call over to Jeff Wade to discuss our financial results.
spk05: Jeff? Thank you, Praveen. To begin, I will discuss key aspects of our third quarter financials. More financial details can be found in the press release that we issued earlier today and in our upcoming 10Q SEC filing. As indicated in our press release, we had net product revenues of $6.5 million for the third quarter, reflecting product sales prior to the completion of the sale of Zermelo and related assets to Tercera Therapeutics on September 8, 2020. This compares to net product revenues of $8.4 million from the prior year quarter, which represented a full three months of product sales. The prior year quarter also reflected collaborative revenues of $260 million from the termination of the alliance with Sanofi and and recognition of the remaining amount of $23.5 million allocated to performance obligations from the initial agreement with Sanofi. Research and development expenses for the third quarter increased to $40.1 million from $26.7 million for the corresponding period in 2019, primarily due to increases in external clinical development costs relating to Sotoflozin subsequent to the termination of the Sanofi Alliance. Selling general and administrative expenses for the third quarter decreased to $12 million from $13.9 million for the same period in 2019. Our R&D and G&A expenses for the quarter included severance expenses associated with personnel changes relating to the sale of Zermelo and refocusing of our operations around our research and development stage assets. Finally, we recognized a gain of $132.8 million during the quarter from the sale of Zermelo and related assets to Tercera. In total, we had net income for the third quarter of $82.6 million, or 71 cents per diluted share, as compared to a net income of $226.1 million, or $1.95 per diluted share, in the corresponding period in 2019. Our net income for the third quarter of 2020 and 2019 reflected non-cash stock-based compensation expense of $1.9 million and $3.6 million, respectively. We ended the third quarter of 2020 with $111.4 million in cash and short-term investments as compared to $271.7 million as of December 31, 2019. We eliminated most of our debt during the third quarter, reducing our overall indebtedness from $245.3 million at June 30th to $20.3 million at September 30th. And we eliminated an additional $8.8 million in convertible debt in early October. During the third quarter, we realigned the company to focus our efforts moving forward on LX9211 and other research activities. This resulted in our headcount and operating expenses being reduced moving forward. We now expect our total full-year operating expenses for 2020 to be $225 to $231 million, down from $230 to $250 million. We expect fourth quarter R&D expenses to be in the range of $22 to $27 million, which would put our full year 2020 R&D expenses in a range of $175 to $180 million, with the top end of the range down from the $185 million reflected in our prior guidance. Notably, our anticipated fourth quarter R&D expenses will be substantially less than the $40.1 million we recorded in the third quarter, the results of our continued wind down of the Sotagliflozin Type 2 Diabetes Program and outcome studies, which will be substantially complete in the fourth quarter. We expect fourth quarter SG&A expenses to be in the range of $6 to $7 million, which would put our full year 2020 SG&A expenses in a range of $47 to $48 million, down from our prior guidance of $55 to $65 million. We expect non-cash expenses to be approximately $20 million of our total operating expenses. Overall, we expect that our cash will be sufficient to fund our operations for at least the next 12 months. I will now turn the call back to Alan Allen.
spk02: Thank you, Jeff. So let me summarize. I think for us as a company, we're pretty excited about LX9211. It's been a compound that I've been excited about from the time I started here. And we negotiated the wholly owned rights from our alliance with BMS, our discovery alliance with BMS. to have this compound, we've now cleared the way to focus on this compound and accelerate it through development. I truly believe it will be a game changer for us should we be successful. And therefore, we have now put ourselves in a position to focus on it. For the remainder of 2020, we expect to initiate the Phase II studies in post-herpetic neuralgia, as well as DPNP. And as noted before, we expect to report the Phase II study results with both of these studies by the end of next year. And then once again, I will remind everybody on November 16th at 8 p.m. Eastern time, we expect the presentation of the data from the Sotica, Flos and Solis and SCORDS phase three studies at the American Heart Association scientific session. With that, I will stop there and turn the call over to the operator for Q&A.
spk08: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We will now begin the question and answer session. As a reminder, if you wish to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone, from your telephone keypad. If you wish to cancel your request, please press the hash key.
spk07: Once again, please press star 1 to ask a question. Your first question comes from the line of Yigal Nuchumovitz from Citigroup.
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spk06: Hi, great. Thanks very much for taking the question. I think, Parveen, you mentioned the placebo effect with some of the neuropathic pain trials. I'm wondering if you could just go into a little bit more detail, please, in terms of the specific steps that you're taking both for the diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain study as well as the post-herpetic neurologist study. What steps are you taking in order to mitigate the placebo response in both those studies?
spk00: Thanks, Yukal, for your question. Very relevant question. Actually, we took a little bit of time in order to figure out how we wanted to design this protocol in order to mitigate this placebo effect. And we, you know, looked at the other studies which have been done in the area, why they have failed and all that. So what we are basically, we have done is we have mitigated by making sure that we are having a large number of patients in each of the randomization cohorts. So we have a one-to-one-to-one randomization, and like I mentioned, for DPMP, we have 300 patients. So we will have approximately 100 patients per arm. We also have a very good amount of efficacy period. So most of those other studies have failed because they have not studied the efficacy, you know, for up to six weeks, and we are going to study up to six weeks with that placebo effect in mind. We have also trained our investigators to look for this placebo effect. And we are making sure that these patients who we enroll are filling out their diary on a daily basis to ensure compliance. And if they have a high placebo effect, we are evaluating whether they should be in the study or not in the study. So we are basically taking care of placebo effect on multiple levels. And that is all for diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, Ugal. For PHN, it's a more homogeneous disease. And the practice of treating PHN is widely accepted worldwide. So we are a little less concerned about the placebo effect of PHN.
spk06: Okay, got it. Thank you. And then just one question for Jeff. I mean, you extinguished almost all of the debt, over 90%. Any particular reason you just didn't go and just extinguished all of it? You have a small amount left on the balance sheet.
spk05: Yes, well, as of early October, we have less than $12 million outstanding. So it's an agreed-upon exchange, so we had to get to an agreement, and we did what we thought was optimal. Our goal was to reduce the debt so that it wouldn't be an obstacle going forward, and we think that at the level that it is now, we've achieved that objective.
spk06: Okay, great. Thanks. And then just one more question on Sotagliflozin. Can you spend a little more time just talking about some of the details in terms of the plan to seek approval in the U.S.? What, you know, are you going to conduct new studies? Are there other analyses of the existing studies that you can do to help the FDA better understand and put the DKA risk in perspective? And what is what is the strategy now in terms of trying to seek approval in the US for type 1 diabetes?
spk02: You go. Thank you for the question. I think we watch very carefully, you know what the other players were going to do That's in this space and I think as we can clearly see Particularly given the Cova 19 struck most have moved away from type 1 and have chosen not to go forward for us We feel very passionate about, the drug has shown extremely good benefit. There is no question. The benefit is not questioned about the drug in type 1. We still need to be able to get clear guidance from the FDA on what's the best way to go forward in terms of managing risk of DKA. It is the position of the company we think we have done that, and we think we need to have more dialogue about it in different ways and different forms. And, you know, it'll become much more transparent, I think, as we go forward in the fourth quarter going into next year, exactly how we're going to approach the agency. But right now, I think we need more clarity from the agency on how best we go forward and being able to manage that risk in a very organized way. To date, we have not gotten that clarity from the FDA, and I believe they owe it to the patient population as we owe it to the patient population to continue this dialogue. So we have not given up on it. We took a break just because I think COVID-19 caused all of us to to reprioritize things, but we certainly have not given up on it, and we will approach it again. And we'll keep you posted as we have dialogue with the agency. Great.
spk06: Okay.
spk02: Thank you very much.
spk08: Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Kevin Kedra from GE Research. Your line is open.
spk03: Hi, thanks for taking the questions. Maybe to piggyback on that last one, you talked about how some of the competitors have moved away from the Type 1 indication, yet they're still out there, they're on the mark with Type 2, and there's obviously a lot of experience out there with their drugs. Are you concerned at all that if you do the work to get the FDA aligned on a pathway to Type 1, that basically you guys are going to be doing the legwork for the entire class and there's still an opportunity once you guys put in the work, for others to just kind of quickly piggyback off your pathway and quickly bring their products to market as well based on the data that they have?
spk02: Yeah, that's a great question, and certainly it's a possibility. But I think the way we have, one, tried to appropriately time this, and two, we are in a unique position where we have done most of the work and we have created, I think, the – the greatest amount of data to be able to have an approved indication versus when I say the others have not moved forward. In the absence of an approved indication, it'll be very difficult, particularly given you'll be managing a safety risk. So I think if we would be successful and we move in this direction and we do get an indication, we would have done the work that would be necessary to have an approved product where you have clear mandates around how to manage that product in a safe way. Unless the other companies choose to pivot at this point and do the same work, I do not see them coming on the same pathway as we are. So I do think it's a unique opportunity for us, given our position versus theirs. So I will leave it at that.
spk03: All right, great. As far as a new discovery pipeline, you guys have obviously shifted to being more of a discovery company at this point. Should we expect to see any potential new compounds move into the clinic or an IND stage in 2021, or should we really be thinking about 2021 being just 9-2-1-1 and maybe any movement on type 1 for surgical flows?
spk02: Yeah, that's a great question. I think we have an opportunity to move another asset into IND-enabling studies in 2021. So I would say stay tuned to that work that's being done. But 2021 really will be about, uh, you know, two compounds for us. One soda flows in. Um, I think you'll clearly see, we're not abandoning that. I think it's an opportunity to accelerate some of the work that we're doing there, but it's, it's a low cost effort at this time. And secondly, and most importantly, it's really to spend as much of our time as we can to accelerate nine, two, one, one, because, uh, as I've said, I've always believed it has the greatest potential to transform the company. And we need to know that sooner than later. So that's where most of our efforts would be placed in 2021. But we will continue to advance our discovery engine and look at ways in which we can put products into the clinic beyond 2021, particularly going into 2022. Great.
spk03: I'm going to squeeze one last one in. Jeff, you gave us some color on how to think about Q4 spending. Should we think of those as baseline levels to work with going into 2021? Obviously, you guys are going to be ramping up two Phase II studies, but other than that, are there other moving parts within the Q4 numbers we should think about when we start looking into 2021?
spk05: I would just say that the 2021 fourth quarter R&D spend is still going to be higher than it will be. I mean, sorry, the 2020 fourth quarter R&D spend will still be higher than it will be in 2021 because we're still winding down some of the activities and the sort of flows and type 2 diabetes and outcome studies in this in this quarter And that that will be largely almost entirely complete by the end of this quarter So we will have some some lower R&D spend next year compared to this year Great. Thanks
spk08: Thank you again.
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spk04: Yeah, good morning, guys. Thanks for taking the question. I was maybe just wondering if you could speak a little bit to the amount of wiggle room that you've kind of provided into the year-end phase two data guidance for both of the phase twos with respect to just the pace of patient enrollment. I know that this was a trial. I think the DPN trial was kind of slowed a little bit due to COVID. And I would imagine those are both indications which are probably a bit more sensitive to patient visits than perhaps some others. So maybe you can just talk a little bit about your confidence in the guidelines you've provided with respect to anticipated pace of patient enrollment and how you think that may be impacted just over the coming months.
spk02: Yeah, Steve, I appreciate the question. Yeah, I think we made it clear that we did slow down on enrollment in our efforts when COVID-19 hit in March. Otherwise, the program, I think, would be much further along. And we are having to think through what that's going to look like should we have another challenge around COVID-19. So there's a little bit of wiggle room in there, but not a whole lot. Our objective is to put all of our resources and efforts into getting this enrollment up to speed and in a position where we can overcome any challenge or risk to COVID-19. So that's kind of built in at this point. With that being said, it's anybody's game with COVID-19 and what may happen in the near-term future.
spk04: Understood. And I know that these are blinded trials, but... Would there be an opportunity for you guys to maybe structure in some kind of interim analysis if, for whatever reason, we're approaching the end of next year and you don't yet have the amount of patient data to formally close the trial?
spk02: I'll simply say that we're giving thoughts to all the ways in which we can provide information around this program as we're confident about it earlier than later. So I would categorize it that way.
spk04: Okay. Thanks for taking the question. Yep.
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spk07: There are no further questions at this time. Please continue.
spk02: Well, let me thank everyone for joining us this morning. I think it's been a remarkable third quarter where we have moved back to our roots of being a very strong scientific company in discovery as well as development. And it's important to note that we still have extremely high confidence in sodagliflozin, particularly for type 1 diabetes. More news will come forward on the Soloist and SCORE program on November 16th at 8 p.m. at the American Heart Association. I would encourage you to chime into that program to hear those data be called out. For LX9211, our confidence is very high around this program. I thought Dr. Tile did a very good job of outlining why our confidence is high and what we've seen preclinically and what's been supported in Phase I trials. The way we've designed the Phase II trials, I think, gives us every shot of being successful in 9-2-1-1 because this is a remarkably unmet need area. We'll continue to push forward with the FDA strategically, and I think it will become very transparent how we intend to do that as the quarter progresses and we go into the new year to ensure that patients have an opportunity to sort of close with type 1 diabetes. With that being said, I appreciate everyone dialing in and joining us. Thank you.
spk08: That does conclude our conference for today. Thank you for participating in the All Disconnect.
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