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Operator
and welcome to X4 Pharmaceuticals Third Quarter Financial and Operating Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Dan Ferry, from LifeSci Advisors. Thank you, Mr. Ferry. You may begin.
Dan Ferry
Thank you, Operator. And good morning, everyone. Presenting on today's call will be X4's Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Paula Regan, Chief Commercial Officer, Mark Baldry, and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Krzysztof Arvet-Engels. Following prepared remarks by each, we will open up the call to your questions and will be joined by Chief Financial Officer, Adam Mostafa, Chief Scientific Officer, Art Tavares, and Chief Operating Officer, Mary DiBiase. As a reminder, on today's call, the company will be making forward-looking statements regarding regulatory and product development plans, as well as research activities. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from those forecasted. Discretion of these risks can be found in X4's most recent filings with the SEC, including this quarter's Form 10-Q, which is expected to be filed after market close today. I'd now like to turn the call over to X4's President and CEO, Dr. Paula Regan. Paula?
Paula Regan
Thanks, Dan. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us on the call today. To start, I'll be reviewing our third quarter events and recent highlights, the first two of which will be the primary focus of our discussion today. As you can see here, it's again been a very busy and productive period at X4, which culminated in the great news last week that our NDA, seeking approval of our lead drug candidate, Mavarixifor, for the treatment of WIM syndrome, was accepted by the FDA for priority review. The FDA has set a PDUFA, or action date, of April 30, 2024, which sets us up for a potential second quarter 2024 launch in the U.S., if approved. In anticipation of this, we have continued to build out our fit-for-purpose commercial organization. Mark Baldry, our Chief Commercial Officer, will run through some of the details of our launch readiness and pre-launch activities to date, all of which aim to further the understanding of WHIM syndrome and educate both patients and physicians on the importance and benefits of early diagnosis. We do want to remind everyone here that due to Mavericks IV's rare pediatric disease designation for WHIM syndrome in the U.S., XIV is eligible to receive a priority review voucher, or PRV, if Mavericks IV is approved, that we can use to either obtain priority review for a subsequent application or to sell to another drug sponsor. Turning now to our Mavericks for chronic neutropenia program, we've continued to advance our Phase II study and have now enrolled more than 15 participants in the trial. Importantly, key learnings from this ongoing study, along with the data from previous trials and input from the FDA, have enabled us to finalize the design of what we believe will be the global, pivotal, Phase III clinical trial that will be used as the basis for seeking approval of Mavericks for inserting chronic neutropenic disorders. As discussed on our last quarterly call, Dr. Christoph Arbett-Engels has joined X4 as our new chief medical officer. We thought it would be a good opportunity to hear from him today as we approach some key milestones in our development of Mavericks IV in chronic neutropenia. He will be providing an update on this program later in the call. During the quarter, we also strengthened our board of directors with the addition of Mr. Keith Woods, Keith brings significant global commercial strategy and operations experience, most recently at Argenix, where as Chief Operating Officer, he helped build a sustainable enterprise and successfully launched a rare disease product globally. His meaningful experience adds to our board as X4 aims to transition to a global R&D and commercial enterprise as well. As also discussed on our last quarterly call, we completed an expanded loan facility with Hercules Capital. In addition to the possible PRV next year, this facility provides us with financial flexibility and, importantly, non-dilutive financing options. Lastly, we believe our current cash and equivalence balance of just over $140 million at the end of the third quarter is sufficient to fund our operations into 2025. And note that this does not include the debt options or the potential proceeds of the sale of the PRV if NDA approval is obtained. Before I turn it over to Mark, I'd like to present a quick review of WHIM syndrome as a reminder to those not familiar with our lead indication. WHIM syndrome is a rare primary immunodeficiency caused by the over-signaling of the CXCL12-CXCR4 pathway, which in many cases results from genetic variants in the CXCR4 receptor gene. This pathway is a key regulator of normal trafficking of white blood cells, which include neutrophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes. In WHIM syndrome, white blood cells become trapped in the bone marrow, which leads to chronic utropenia and lymphopenia. These immunodeficiencies lead to a number of clinical manifestations, most notably an increased risk of infection in the lungs, skin, and other key organs, and an increase in the incidence of HPV-related cancers, greatly affecting the quality and length of life of the estimated 1,000 people diagnosed with WHIM in the U.S. With earlier diagnosis, we believe the damage from these infections could be mitigated As you recall, we were able to show in our successful Phase III trial in WIMP syndrome statistically significant increases in both neutrophil and lymphocyte counts, as well as clinically significant reductions in the rate, frequency, and severity of infections versus placebo. If approved next spring, Maverick 4 would be the first therapy available for those individuals diagnosed with WIMP syndrome and the only disease-modifying treatment. I'm now going to turn it over to Mark to give you some of our insights and details on our progress and plans for commercializing Maverick Sephora for Wim Syndrome. Mark?
Dan
Thanks, Paula, and thanks to all of you on the call today. We thought it would be helpful to start by highlighting some of the ways that we've been engaging with the Wim community, developing an understanding of the market landscape and establishing a foundation for a successful introduction of Maverick Sephora to physicians, patients, and payers. As Paula mentioned, there are currently no approved therapies for WHIM syndrome. Physicians are limited to managing their patients' symptoms using repurposed symptomatic treatments, for example, immunoglobulin replacement therapy, which is injected or infused into the body, and or prophylactic antibiotics, all of which carry their own challenges and do not address the underlying cause of the disease. Diagnosing WHIM syndrome is also a challenge, given that the clinical presentation of the disease is so variable. And in fact, only about 20% of patients present with all four of the hallmark symptoms and manifestations of WHIM. Some physicians use genetic testing to help identify WHIM or confirm its diagnosis, while other physicians rely more on the clinical presentation of the patient. Due to the rarity of the disease and lack of investment in treatment innovation, there is limited awareness of WHIM syndrome in the general physician community, and the patient journey often includes visits to multiple types of doctors as they try to uncover what might be causing the symptoms. Given this lack of historical attention and investment, we recognize the significant opportunity to not only address the unmet needs of currently diagnosed WHIM patients, but also to use our resources to identify additional patients in what we believe to be a larger population of undiagnosed people living with WHIM syndrome who could potentially benefit from Mavericks for treatment. The next slide provides an overview of our efforts to date which have focused on partnering with the WIM community, driving earlier diagnosis of WIM, ensuring broad access for eligible patients, and delivering on the promise of maverixifor. I'll highlight a few of our key successes here. First, with regard to partnering with the WIM community, we've successfully identified KOLs with expertise and treatment experience in WIM. We've assembled an advisory panel, several of whom you've met during our previous data presentation events, and we've worked with numerous experts to author many of our publications. We've also developed and continue to foster collaborations with immunodeficiency patient advocacy groups and disease-focused professional societies in the U.S. and abroad. Through all of these partnerships and collaborations, we believe X4 is playing a significant role in uniting the WIM community around a common mission to advance the understanding and management of this rare disease. Next, to drive earlier diagnosis of WIM, we've initiated a number of programs and websites to increase disease awareness, including our most recently launched What If It's WIM campaign. As you can see here, through the campaign, we're aiming to educate on the variable clinical presentation of WHIM syndrome, driving home the importance and urgency of early diagnosis, which can lead to better patient outcomes, and providing easy access to additional resources, including direct contact with our field diagnostic team, as well as to free genetic testing. We've also been analyzing medical databases and have completed a significant physician mapping exercise to build our prioritized list of target immunologists and hematologists. We've strengthened our presence at key medical conferences, hosting peer-to-peer disease education symposia, and launching our new Congress exhibition booth, which pulls through our What If It's WHIM campaign. all of which has significantly increased the visibility of X4 and WHIM syndrome and has connected us directly with a broader group of physicians and patients. In fact, our patient-finding efforts have been accelerating nicely and continue to give us confidence in our prevalence estimate of at least 1,000 patients living with WHIM syndrome in the U.S. To ensure that eligible patients have access to therapy after approval, we've engaged with payers and are developing materials to communicate the compelling value proposition of Maverick Sephora. Our published clinical data from the Phase III 4WIM trial supports our value messaging by providing evidence of improved neutrophil and lymphocyte counts, and importantly, reductions in the rate, severity, and duration of infections in trial participants treated with Maverick Sephora. We will be leveraging these points as we begin to discuss pricing and reimbursement going forward. And finally, we've been building an organization that's truly fit for purpose. We've made key leadership hires across medical and commercial functions, all of whom have significant rare disease and launch experience, and supports the ramp up of our go-to-market efforts as we head towards an anticipated second quarter 2024 launch in the U.S., I would like to conclude by highlighting the investment synergies here between the WHIM syndrome and chronic neutropenia commercial opportunities. We believe that if we're successful in developing Mavericks for the treatment of chronic neutropenia, we expect to leverage much of the work and many of the relationships developed through commercializing in WHIM with a future potential commercial launch in CN. And now I'll hand it back to Paula to discuss more about our ongoing development program in CN. Paula?
Paula Regan
Thanks so much, Mark. Really great summary of all of our efforts to increase disease awareness, enable earlier diagnosis, and support patients in need as we head towards our anticipated launch in WIM. Let's now change gears a bit and focus on our chronic utropenia program. We thought it would be helpful here as well to remind everyone what would make the biggest difference to people living with chronic neutropenia and their physicians. That is, where are the greatest needs in those that we serve? If you recall, a little over a year ago, we held an investor event focused on CN and our initial Phase 1b trial results. At that time, we shared that 100% of the 25 patients enrolled achieved robust ANC responses from a single dose of Maverick Sephora, regardless of background therapy. Additionally, from our interviews, we gathered valuable insights from patients and physicians where they highlighted their needs as related to the product profile of a potential new treatment for CN. Their preferred attributes included an oral formulation that is safe, well-tolerated, and easy to administer or take, and one that durably increases ANCs over time. Mavericks 4 has already demonstrated these attributes across a number of populations. Additionally, patients' and clinicians' criteria for a new treatment includes a therapy that decreases infection burden and also decreases the toxicities and challenges associated with taking lifelong GCSF. Our successful WIM Phase 3 trial, where infection rate, severity, and duration were meaningfully reduced, provides evidence that this benefit of Maverick's force could also translate into helping the CN community. Most importantly, our CN Phase 2 study is beginning to build direct evidence in chronic uterine patients across the key metrics of durable ANC increases, safety, and reduction of GCFS use. I'll now pass it over to Christophe Arbett-Engels, our chief medical officer, to share an update on the status of the promising CN program. Christophe?
Mark
Thanks so much, Paula. As you know, following the successful completion of our phase 1B clinical trial, evaluating the ability of a single dose of Maverick C4 to raise absolute neutrophil counts, or ANC, in CN patients, We launched a phase two trial to evaluate chronic use of Mavarix S4 in the same patient population with or without concurrent GCSF treatment. The study is designed to assess Mavarix S4 ability to durably raise ANC within the first few months and to see whether patients could possibly reduce or eliminate their GCSF dose longer term. Importantly, we also assess for safety of Maverick C4 in combination with DCSS. We have seen a nice acceleration in trial enrollment and now have more than 15 participants receiving treatment in the trial. On our last quarterly conference call, The team presented initial data from the first three participants in the study, all of whom were on GCSF treatment at study initiation but had identified unmet needs. All achieved large durable increases in ANC, and the two neutropenic patients achieved normal ANC levels despite having low ANC while on GCSF therapy as they entered the study. Notably, the ANC increase theme would meet the responder criteria that we've established for the phase 3 study design, which I will go into in more detail shortly. Importantly, the robust ANC response in the early months of the trial enabled the successful dose decrease or complete withdrawal of the GCSF in some patients. Maverick so far has also demonstrated an acceptable safety profile in combination with GCSF. The full dataset on these three subjects will be presented in the poster at the annual ASH meeting in December. In addition, we expect to be able to present a comprehensive update from at least 15 of the participants in the phase two trial during the first half of 2024. Most importantly, we are pleased to rapidly move forward towards our pivotal phase 3 trial in CN, given all the positive data to date supporting this population. The success we've seen thus far across the CN studies, as well as the positive impact that Maverick so far has demonstrated in women patients, has inspired us to advance as quickly as we can by delivering an innovative oral therapy. With our current insight and input from the FDA, I'll now provide a little more detail on our global pivotal phase three clinical trial, which we remain on track to initiate in the first half of 2024. We've now completed multiple interactions with the FDA and have a line on the current study design. The trial will be a global, double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled trial in participants with or without concurrent GCSF treatment. The dosing of Maverick C4 will be the same as our Phase III 4Win clinical trial. Participants on GCSF at baseline will remain on the stable dosing regimen during the 52-week study duration, and adjustments in GCSF dosing will be allowed only for safety reasons. Patients included in the study are required to have confirmed idiopathic, autoimmune, or congenital chronic neutropenia with an ANC less than 1,500 cells per microliter, and to have demonstrated a history of infection requiring medical intervention in the last 12 months prior to trial entry. The trial is currently designed with a two-component primary endpoint assessing annual infection rate and ANC response. Secondary endpoints will include severity and duration of infection, antibiotic use, fatigue, quality of life assessment, and safety. Infections will be assessed by a centralized blinded adjudication committee, the same approach used for infection assessment in the successful RIN Phase III Pivotal Study. Working with Professor Tom Fleming, an FDA biostatistics advisor, We've determined the trial size to be 150 participants globally to achieve a power of greater than or equal to 90% for each of the annualized infection rates and ANC response endpoints. With this protocol finalized, we are confident that we will be able to initiate the trial in the first half of 2024. And further adding to our confidence, we have selected our global CROs to have already begun advancing towards site activation and identifying potential participants for the trial. By leveraging the existing CN patient advocacy groups and global patient registry, and through our own efforts to align a large pool of existing patients with the identified sites, we believe we are now well positioned to achieve full enrollment in the phase three pivotal trial in approximately 12 months. I'll now pass it back to Paula.
Paula Regan
Thanks so much, Christophe. We hope it's clear from our discussions today why we are so excited about the future of our company. We have a robust data set maturing in our CN Phase 2 study. Given all the positive data in hand and clear FDA guidance, we are gearing up for a potential launch of our global CN Phase 3 pivotal trial. And finally, we are headed for a potential first approval of Maverick's foreign whim syndrome in the U.S. and subsequent launch. We look forward to the potential of delivering Maverick for a much-needed treatment option to this underserved group of patients. We very much look forward to the continued periods of growth and accomplishment in the coming years. And with that, we'll now open up the call for your questions. Operator?
Operator
Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star 2 if you would like to remove your questions from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. The first question comes from the line of Eva Triviterra with TD Coven. Please go ahead.
Eva Triviterra
Hi, good morning, and thanks for taking our question. I was wondering if you could talk about the CN patients who are on GCSF but still neutropenic. What are the reasons for their inadequate response? Is it mostly due to intolerance or are there reasons they're refractory or have inadequate response? I guess I'm trying to get a sense of how heterogeneous this patient population is.
Paula Regan
It's an excellent question. Christoph, our CMO, will provide some commentary on that.
Steve
Yes, thanks. Yes, it is indeed a very heterogeneous population. We do have the plan to have congenital and idiopathic neutropenic patients in our phase 3 study. There are different reasons, obviously, if there's the genetic mutations in those congenital patients. And the response with GCSF varies within these patients. So some have a defect in the maturation of the neutrophils, and GCSF may not address all the aspects of the different phenotypes you can see in these patients.
Paula Regan
Maybe just to add, we had an excellent recent clinical meeting, and what we've heard even from some of our clinicians is how happy some of these patients are to be considered for a study around an oral therapy, given the very difficult tolerance levels, even when they can respond to GCSF, it's a tough treatment to take.
Eva Triviterra
Great. Thanks for that. And second, on WHIM, just based on all your commercialization and market-building efforts in WHIM, How do you expect the launch trajectory to look? Do you expect a full list of patients at launch?
Dan
Yeah, we've actually been really pleased with the level of engagement we've had with physicians and patient groups to date. And it's actually given us continuing confidence in our prevalence estimates of about 1,000 patients with WIM in the U.S., So we're building the foundations for a launch that will get the product to patients as quickly as possible after approval.
Eva Triviterra
Great. Thank you so much for taking my question.
Maverick Sephora
Thank you.
Operator
Next question comes from the line of Steven Billy with Stifel. Please go ahead.
Steven Billy
Yeah, good morning. Thanks for taking the question. Can you say whether or not, I guess, you've brought any additional sites online in the phase two? I think you had previously said you were at around six. And then how many sites are you planning for the phase three?
Paula Regan
Sure. Thanks, Steve. So we have some good lessons learned on the phase two. We did have those six. We maintained the next six, which is why there's a little bit of a hiccup in enrollment. But we're very pleased with the 15-plus patients now enrolled. So we'll have a robust data set. But it's a great lesson learned to prepare us for the phase three, and Christophe will share some more on that.
Steve
Yeah, so we've learned a lot from the phase two study and from the PIs of the phase two study. We're going to apply those to the phase three. We are evaluating exactly the number of sites that we're going to have ex-U.S. and in the U.S., at this time. We're confident we've identified a large proportion of the patients that we plan to enroll in the U.S. and ex-U.S., and feasibility seems to really match with the tracking with what our expectations are. So we're confident we can enroll this phase three study.
Paula Regan
Yeah, maybe just to give you a little bit of a benchmark, Steve, I think we had around 20 sites just using rough numbers for WIM. We have about three times as many patients in CN, so you should expect about three times as many sites for the Phase III trial. We're still finalizing those exact numbers, but it's definitely going to be a robust number to make sure we hit that one-year enrollment.
Steven Billy
Okay, that's helpful. And then with respect to the Phase III protocol in chronic neutropenia, I guess How are you standardizing GCSF reduction, withdrawal? Is that just investigator subjectivity? And then is there a way that you're going to try to statistically quantify that at all?
Steve
Right. So GCSF, as you know, is prescribed individually to patients, and there is a lot of variability. So we're asking our patients in the phase three to remain stable. We want to establish the effectiveness of Maverick Sephora versus placebo. And we're going to maintain this. We're going to allow only modifications of this under a blinded, adjudicated committee for safety reasons. So, for example, if their ANC goes too high or if there's a safety event, we're going to be trying to enforce stable treatment of GCSF for the 52 weeks of the trial.
Maverick Sephora
Okay. Thanks for taking my questions. Thank you.
Operator
Next question comes from the line of Edward Tinoff with Piper Sandler. Please go ahead.
Edward Tinoff
Thank you very much, and good morning, everyone. Two questions, if I may. Firstly, I think I should know this, but is there any open-label extension work being done in WIMS? In other words, are there currently any patients on Mavarixifor? And then the second question, I think you mentioned, if I heard you correctly, that there will be the three patients, more data on those three patients from ASH. Could there be more patients just because of additional time between abstract submission and the actual presentation? Thank you.
Paula Regan
Sure, so I'll just do a quick summary. The WHIM OLE is ongoing. We expect to present data on that on the first half of next year. So we'll look forward to sharing some updates on the patients who are on placebo moving into Mavericks 4 and those on long-term Mav. So stay tuned for that. And then in terms of the three patients in the ASH poster, our intent is to really make sure we have a robust data set around those 15 patients in the first half of next year. I think that'll tell the fulsome story around how the drug's acting. But we're really looking forward to presenting the six-month data on the three patients on GCSF. There's a lot of exciting new information amongst those three patients, so stay tuned for that as well, Ted.
Edward Tinoff
Great. Awesome. I'm looking forward to that. And can you remind me, I know the majority of patients rolled over. How many patients are in the OLE for when things?
Paula Regan
So, we haven't given any cuts updates, but I think 90 plus percent of them rolled over, and I'm actually not sure where the cut is at this point, but we'll certainly be disclosing that when we get the data updates.
Edward Tinoff
Yep.
Maverick Sephora
Thanks, Paula. Thanks, Ted.
Operator
Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Kalpat Patel with B Riley Securities. Please go ahead.
Kalpat Patel
Hey, good morning. This is Andy Pleasure on for Kalpat. Thank you for taking the questions. Are you able to give any additional granularity on the timing of the next comprehensive update for the 15 patients, or if there's a certain amount of follow-up that you'll be looking for before presenting the results?
Paula Regan
Sure, Chris, I'll go ahead. Yep.
Steve
Yeah, no, we will have all of those data in a more comprehensive manner in the first half of next year. The ASH poster will help share some preliminary information, and we hope to continue this. I want to remind you that the Phase 2 study is a six-month study. It's an open label, so we can do Different analysis, but it is important that we see those six-month data, and we see this in the largest number of patients to raise the confidence of the preliminary data we are going to be seeing at ASH.
Kalpat Patel
Okay. And then as a follow-up to that, do you anticipate the Phase II data to be enriched for cyclic, congenital, or idiopathic CNF?
Paula Regan
No, I think what we're doing for the phase two, of course, is all comers because there's two questions we're trying to answer. Obviously, making sure that our phase three study design is robustly incorporating any responses that we're seeing. And then secondly, there's the longer term question around GCSF. So both of those questions need to be answered. That's why we are including a diverse population with no pre-specified numbers in any of those categories.
Kalpat Patel
That makes sense. And then one final question from us. From your market research, can you speak about what level of GCF reduction is clinically meaningful to patients and prescribers? Obviously, more reduction is better, but any color that you can provide on what success might look like would be helpful.
Paula Regan
That's an excellent question, and our answer is come to the ASH poster because we'll be actually providing some very meaningful market research around that exact question. Sounds great.
Kalpat Patel
We look forward to seeing you there. Thank you.
Paula Regan
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Kristen Kluska with Cantor Fitzgerald. Please go ahead.
Kristen Kluska
Hi. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for taking the question. When I look at your finalized P3CN study design, in a lot of ways, as you mentioned, it really does mirror what the trial looked like for WHIM, which, of course, was successful. So can you talk about how you think that gives you the confidence in this particular study Any differences we should really be thinking about related to the mechanism in these subset of patients versus when?
Steve
No, so we have worked with one of our consultants, Professor Tom Fleming from the FDA, in designing that study very closely with him. We are confident that we have the power for our primary endpoint to be achieved, and we have the right sample size. We have two populations that we're going to be including in that study, which is the monotherapy and the patients on GCSF. And because it's a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial versus placebo, we will be able to establish the effectiveness, the efficacy of Maverick's reform. We also incorporated in that study the requirements from and the feedback from the FDA that we received. And so we believe we have all the elements to recruit and see positive data in this phase three study.
Paula Regan
And maybe just to remind folks in the phase 3, we thought about a 60% reduction across those patient populations. We actually took a fairly conservative approach, even reducing that to plan for the stats on the phase 3, which is why we feel very confident.
Kristen Kluska
Okay, thanks for that. And it's nice to see the uptake in enrollment in this update. Can you maybe talk about what you think some of the factors are that, you know, it was originally slower than expected now that you've seen this uptick? So were it things like seasonality and, again, how this also helps for planning for phase three? Thanks again.
Paula Regan
Yeah, sure. I mean, I think trial enrollment is a challenge for every biotech out there, especially in a new field such as chronic neutropenia. But I think what we just learned is, you know, the summer is tough for some of the younger patients. You know, we actually have fairly sick patients in this trial, but they certainly wanted to have some downtime as is expected. The trial enrollments picked up nicely. I mean, more importantly, phase 3s are very different from phase 2s. They're very heavy operational lift. You want to create a large pool of patients waiting that are co-localized with your site. We actually have a very nice start to that with quite a robust patient pool already identified to the sites that are coming on board. So we look forward to certainly hitting that 12-month enrollment with high confidence.
Maverick Sephora
Are you done with the question, Ms. Kluska?
Eva Triviterra
Yes, thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Swampakula Ramakant with HCVN. Please go ahead.
spk13
Thank you. Good morning, Paula and Adam. A lot of my questions have been answered. Just looking into the phase three study in CM disorders, what's the label you're looking for once we get into the application stage? And also, do you foresee either increasing the size of the trial as the trial progresses so that you maintain a certain number of patients in these individual populations so that you can get a broad label?
Steve
So regarding the label, based on the previous label for GCSF, for example, we should see a label that addresses the reductions of infections in the patient populations that we include in this trial. And so we haven't finalized the label yet with the FDA, obviously, but this is what we think could be happening, and we're looking at this reduced infection rate. With regards to... Yeah, I think he was just asking about subpopulations.
Paula Regan
I mean, similar to GCSF, subpopulations were kind of catch-as-you-catch-can, but it's based on the inclusion and then the label covered all the variable patient populations.
Steve
So, right, yes. And we're not... The trial, again, is powered 90% for our primary endpoint. So, we're not planning, we're planning to have this study executed as with the sample size and we're confident that we should be able to hit our primary endpoint with the current sample size.
Maverick Sephora
Thank you. Thanks for taking my question.
Operator
Thank you. Next question comes from the line of David Bodge with Zach Small Cap Research. Please go ahead.
David Bodge
Hey, good morning, everyone. Thanks for the update this morning. Just one question for me. I'm curious, what type of doctor ends up typically making the diagnosis for WHIM? And I guess what I'm trying to get at is, how are you sure that you're reaching the correct physician population with your outreach programs?
Dan
That's a great question. And because of the variable presentation of the disease, these patients have a different, you know, journey, diagnostic journey, depending on their symptoms. So some of the patients end up under the care of immunologists and some of the patients end up under the care of a hematologist or a hemoc. So this is what we've been focused on for the past few months is really looking at the data, engaging with key institutions, and learning about who are the physicians most likely to have these patients so that once we get approved, we know where to prioritize our efforts. We've also been complementing this with, you know, our digital marketing, which I talked about earlier in the presentation, and this is an efficient way of extending our reach
Maverick Sephora
Okay, great. Thanks for that. Thank you.
Operator
This concludes today's question and answer session. I would now like to turn the floor over to Paula Regan for closing comments.
Paula Regan
Thank you very much again today for joining the call. We look forward to providing continued updates in the future as we make our exciting progress as a company.
Operator
Have a great day. Thank you. This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.
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