Valneva SE

Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Volneva presents its half-year 2025 Financial Results Conference call and webcast. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, please press star 1 and 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1 and 1 again. Please note that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to have the conference over to your first speaker, Joshua Drum, Vice President, Global Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Operator. Hello, and thank you for joining us to discuss Belneva's first half 2025 results and corporate update. It's my pleasure to welcome you today. In addition to our press release and analyst presentation, you can find our consolidated financial results for the six months ended June 30th, 2025, which were published earlier today, available within the financial reports section on our investor website. I'm joined today by Valneva's CEO, Thomas Lingelbach, and our CFO, Peter Buhler, who will provide an overview and update on our business, as well as our key financial results for the first half. There will be an analyst Q&A session at the conclusion of the prepared remarks. Before we begin, I'd like to remind listeners that during this presentation, we will be making forward-looking statements. which are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. You can find additional information about these risks and uncertainties in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and with the French Market Authority, which are listed on our company website. Please note that today's presentation includes information provided as of today, August 12, 2025, and Valneva undertakes no obligation to revise or update forward-looking statements except as required by applicable securities laws. With that, it's my pleasure to introduce Thomas to begin today's presentation.

Thank you, Josh.