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topicnews · October 23, 2024

Summit Therapeutics will host a third quarter 2024 financial results and operational progress conference call on October 30, 2024

Summit Therapeutics will host a third quarter 2024 financial results and operational progress conference call on October 30, 2024

The conference call will take place at 9:00 a.m. ET

MIAMI, October 23, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Summit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMT) (“Summit,” “we,” or the “Company”) will host an earnings conference call to report its third quarter 2024 financial results and to provide an operational update for the Company on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, prior to the market open.

Summit will host a live webcast of the earnings conference call at 9:00 a.m. ET, which will be accessible via our website www.smmttx.com. An archived edition of the meeting will be available on our website.

About ivonescimab

Ivonescimab, known as SMT112 in Summit’s licensed territories, the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Latin America, including Mexico and all countries in Central America, South America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa, and as AK112 in China and Australia a novel, potentially first-in-class bispecific antibody that combines the effects of immunotherapy via blockade of PD-1 with the anti-angiogenesis effects associated with blocking VEGF in a single molecule. Ivonescimab exhibits unique cooperative binding to each of its intended targets with several times higher affinity when both PD-1 and VEGF are present.

This could differentiate ivonescimab as both PD-1 and VEGF may be more highly expressed (present) in the tumor tissue and tumor microenvironment (TME) compared to normal tissue in the body. The tetravalent structure of ivonescimab (four binding sites) allows for higher avidity (accumulated strength of multiple binding interactions) in the TME with over 18-fold increased binding affinity to PD-1 in the presence of VEGF in vitroand a fourfold increased binding affinity to VEGF in the presence of PD-1 in vitro (Zhong, et alSITC, 2023). This tetravalent structure, the intentionally novel design of the molecule, and the combination of these two targets in a single bispecific antibody with cooperative binding properties have the potential to direct ivonescimab to tumor tissue rather than healthy tissue. The intent of this design, along with a half-life of 6 to 7 days (Zhong, et alSITC, 2023) is to improve the previously established efficacy thresholds as well as the side effects and safety profiles associated with these targets.

Ivonescimab was developed by Akeso Inc. (HKEX code: 9926.HK) and is currently in multiple Phase III clinical trials. Over 1,800 patients have been treated with ivonescimab in clinical trials worldwide.

Summit has initiated clinical development of ivonescimab in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and will begin enrollment in two multiregional Phase III clinical trials, HARMONi and HARMONi-3, in 2023, with plans to initiate HARMONi-7 in early 2025 .