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PRESCIENT THERAPEUTICS LIMITED AGM Information 2021

Nov 11, 2021

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Gaining momentum.

Annual General Meeting November 2021

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At the 2020 AGM we said:

Innovative Pipeline in Personalised Medicine

Key achievements during another productive year

Cell Therapies

  • Strategic review of OmniCAR to identify three highly differentiated internal programs
    • AML
    • Her2+ solid tumours
    • GBM
  • Initiation and progress of these OmniCAR programs
  • Manufacturing and testing of key OmniCAR components
  • Successful demonstration of unique OmniCAR features
  • CAR-T agreement with Peter Mac
  • Transitioned Cell Therapy Enhancement program to Peter Mac

Targeted Therapies

  • Progression of PTX-200 in AML
  • Completion of PTX-100 Phase 1b basket trial
    • Excellent safety profile
    • Encouraging data in area of unmet need
  • Manufacturing PTX-100
  • Investigating IST opportunities

Operations

  • Building world class capabilities
  • Bolstering PTX team in areas including:
    • cell therapy
    • immunology
    • biologic engineering
    • clinical operations
  • PTX & Peter Mac: a very productive and cohesive relationship
  • Full time post docs at Peter Mac together with Professor Phil Darcy
  • Significant business development interest

Assembling a world class Scientific Advisory Board

Professor Phil Darcy

Eminent CAR-T expert

Professor H. Miles Prince, AM

Internationally renowned haematologist

Professor Don O'Rourke, MD

Neurosurgeon & brain cancer key opinion leader

Achievements becoming reflected in company valuation

  • PTX one the best performing biotech stocks on ASX this year
  • Significantly improved liquidity

Share price 28c

Overcoming challenges

COVID-19

  • No specific and material disruptions, but impossible to escape its impact
  • US disruptions in 2021
    • AML recruitment
    • Manufacturing and logistics bottlenecks
    • Assay development
  • Things back on track
  • Pre-clinical work forged ahead despite Australian lockdowns

Science and technical

  • New modality required bolstering inhouse expertise in new areas
  • Matched by world-class SAB and Peter Mac collaboration
  • Would novel experiments work in our hands? Even then, how long would it take?
  • Outcomes: successful and rapid progress across programs

Building OmniCAR awareness

  • cell therapy limitations and
  • The more parties understand cell therapy, the more they appreciate the value of the platform!
  • Playing the long game, and it is

PTX-100

FIRST IN CLASS RAS PATHWAY INHIBITOR

PTX-100 PHASE 1B BASKET STUDY COMPLETED

  • Phase 1b PK/PD safety study

  • Focus on cancers prone to Ras and Rho mutations

  • Basket trial of:

    • Gastric cancer
    • Pancreatic cancer
    • Colorectal cancer
  • Myeloma

  • T-cell lymphomas

Professor H. Miles Prince, AM Principal Investigator

PTX-100 PHASE 1B SUMMARY

Excellent safety profile

  • PTX-100 well tolerated up to and including 2,000 mg/m2
  • No SAEs related to PTX-100

SAE: SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENT PR: PARTIAL RESPONSE (REDUCTION OF DISEASE) PFS: PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL (TIME UNTIL DISEASE WORSENS) SOC: STANDARD OF CARE

Early clinical activity

  • PRs in 2 patients with aggressive refractory TCL
  • Expected PFS of <4 months on SoC
    • r/r CTCL: 12 months (19 cycles)
    • r/r PTCL: 17 months so far (24 cycles, still on therapy)

PROGRESSING TO EXPANSION COHORT

  • 8 12 patients with r/r T cell lymphoma (esp PTCL)
  • Potential bridge to registration study
  • Focussing on sweet spot in an area of considerable unmet need
  • Shortest path to market
  • Awaiting delivery of drug product to Australia – US-wide manufacturing and logistics bottlenecks!
    • Working closely with manufacturer

Case Study

  • pralatrexate (Folotyn®)
  • Approved for PTCL
    • 5,600 cases/year in US
  • US$450,540 per patient, per year

PTX-200 NOVEL AKT INHIBITION

PHASE 1B TRIAL UNDERWAY: ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA

  • Building upon encouraging Phase 1 results with PTX-200 (monotherapy)
  • PI Professor Jeff Lancet at Moffitt, with Dr Tara Lin at KUMC
  • 18 patients with cytarabine held constant at 200-400 mg/m2 as continuous infusion
    • 3 CRs so far
  • Both sites were impacted by general COVID-19 disruptions in 2021, which impacted recruitment and correlative analysis
  • Currently screening second cohort at 45 mg/m2
  • Granted Orphan Drug Designation by US FDA

Jeffrey E Lancet, M.D. Principal Investigator

Universal, Next Generation CAR-T

How does the CAR-T process work?

OmniCAR: flexible, modular CAR platform

Associate Professor Daniel J. Powell, Jr

Professor Andrew Tsourkas

Thorough strategic review yielded 3 internal OmniCAR programs

• Prescient understands the landscape, challenges and opportunities

What is the broader vision for cell therapy?

The future is efficient yet personalized: OmniCAR cells + "plug & play" binder library

Strategically positioned in a rapidly moving landscape for cell therapy

Current In development

With OmniCAR, this is just the start for CAR-T

Companion diagnostics

  • Seeking to enhance current generation CAR-Ts….
  • …& more significantly, help realise the broader potential of CAR-T, which is much bigger opportunity!

Other hematological malignancies

Solid tumours!!!

  • Novel antigens & optimising antigen combinations
  • Overcoming trafficking
  • Tumor microenvironment

Safer CAR-T = more applications

  • Safer and more controllable next-gen therapies will bring CAR-T to many more patients
  • Opens opportunities beyond oncology

Business development

  • Extremely active business development activities, spearheaded by Dr Dan Shelly (US)
  • Different parties have different drivers
    • Incumbent cell therapy players: Top priorities are maximizing returns on their existing programs
    • Emerging companies: Believe the "second mouse will get the cheese"; looking for technologies to leapfrog competitors
    • Companies with binders: e.g. antibody companies. See OmniCAR as a way to add enter the cell Tx field and bolster their pipelines
  • OmniCAR can benefit all these groups!
  • Prescient is playing the long game for the right parties

Considerations include:

What is the party brining to the table, and how will it help us win?

Balance between doing a deal and not jeopardising the bigger picture

Summary

Key building blocks to PTX Future Value

Targeted therapies • PTX-100 • PTX-200 Cell Therapy Enhancements • Enhancing current generation CAR-T • Also applicable to next gen • Collaboration with Peter Mac • 100% ownership of Intellectual Property OmniCAR • Next generation universal CAR platform • AML • Her2+ solid tumours • GBM • 3rd party opportunities 1 2 3

In the next 12 months we will work towards:

* Estimates only, given inherent uncertainty of biotech development

Thank you!

ASX code: PTX

www.ptxtherapeutics.com

Appendices

Key Challenges confronting the field of CAR-T

Time and Cost

of delivering treatment

Targets

Finding targets that work; Antigen heterogeneity - esp. in solid tumours

Safety

CAR-T can have serious safety concerns

Exhaustion

Persistent stimulation of CAR-Immune cells leads to exhaustion

No Control

Clinicians have no control of cells post infusion

Escape

Antigen loss leads to relapse

OmniCAR can do what conventional CAR-T cannot

Conventional CAR-T

  • Soldier with only one map
  • Single weapon
  • Only trained to hit one target
  • Incapable of redirection
  • No communication or control in

CD33 & CLL-1 for AML

Global AML market opportunity

AML Market Growth

  • AML market is expected to reach US$5.1B in 2029
  • CAGR of 13.6%
  • Growth assumptions largely based on new targeted therapies
  • Any CAR-T breakthrough in AML would grow this market further

Landscape for CAR-T in blood cancers

For CAR-T to succeed in AML, it must overcome:

Safety

AML patients are especially ill with many unable to tolerate vigorous therapies like CAR-T

Rapidly Mutating Disease

AML can mutate midtherapy, quickly rendering single CAR-Ts infective

Rapid Disease Progression

Even if multiple current generation CAR-T therapies were available, resistant patients are likely to progress before subsequent therapies are manufactured for them

OmniCAR is uniquely placed to address these CAR-T challenges in AML

OmniCAR CD33/CLL-1 for AML

Targets OmniCAR features Comments
CD33 + CLL-1 •(and ability to switch off/on) forTitrationimproved safety & tolerability•Co-arming against CD33 & CLL-1•Sequential or simultaneous targeting •targetsValidated•Expressed on >90% of AML blasts &LSCs
•Ability to cease treatment to avoidneutropenia •Only 1 of 3 programs worldwidetargeting CD33 & CLL1

Unique OmniCAR flexibility important in AML

Sequentially Simultaneously

AML peer with CD33/CLL1 CAR-T

Legend Biotech Corp Prescient Therapeutics
Ticker NASDAQ: LEGN ASX: PTX
Market Cap A$8.2B A$174M
AML program CD33 + CLL1 OmniCAR CD33 + CLL1
Generation Current generation, Next generation,
autologous autologous
Stage of development Phase 1 Discovery/Pre-clinical
Titratable for safety
Switch on/off
Persistent dosing withoutnew cell product
Able to switch antigentargeting

Her2 for Ovarian, Breast & Gastric cancers

Key challenges for CAR-T in solid tumours

Targets Limited targets that are cancer-specific

Leads to on-target, off-tumour effects

Safety

Ability to titrate doses safely and switch off in the event of adverse events

Trafficking

Inability of T-cells to reach tumour sites and penetrate physical barriers

TME

Overcoming an immunosuppressive Tumour Microenvironment once they get there

OmniCAR's features enable it to address these solid tumour challenges

Huge market opportunities for Her2+ cancers

New Her2+ cases/year
Ovarian Cancer 87,000
Breast Cancer 340,000
Gastric Cancer 209,440
  • Very large patient populations

  • "Basket study" approach

  • Patients failing Herceptin treatment would make excellent candidates

    1. Shang AQ, et al. Relationship between HER2 and JAK/STAT-SOCS3 signaling pathway and clinicopathological features and prognosis of ovarian cancer. Cancer biology & therapy. 2017:1–9
    1. Luo, H et al, The prognostic value of HER2 in ovarian cancer: A meta-analysis of observational studies. PLoS ONE 13(1) 2018
    1. Bang YJ, et al. Trastuzumab in combination with chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for treatment of HER2-positive advanced gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (ToGA): a phase 3, open-label, randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2010;376:687-97.

1. World Cancer Research Fund

OmniCAR Her2 for Her2+ solid cancers

Target OmniCAR features Comments
Her2 •Titrationfor improved safety &tolerability•Persistent binder dosing for improvedefficacy and persistence•TMEand checkpoint enhancements •Validated targetLarge difference of antigen•expression on tumorvs healthytissue•Most mature next-gen Her2 CAR-Tprogram

OmniCAR Her2: durable, dose-dependent CAR-T activity

  • Ovarian cancer model, using anti-Her2 OmniCAR
  • Loading more binder results in proportionate killing of cancer…
  • …and proportionate survival
  • Lasting effects even when cease dosing of binder

Notable Her2 CAR-T peers

• Prescient the most advanced next-generation CAR-T program in Her2

Shenzhen GenoImmune MedicalInstitute1 Tessa Therapeutcs2 Fate Therapeutics Novartis3 Calibr Xyphos PrescientTherapeutics
Status Hospital Private Company NASDAQ: FATE;Market capA$9.3B Global pharmacompany ResearchInstitute Acquired byAstellas 2019 ASX: PTXMarket capA$174M
Indications Breast cancer Multiple cancers Breast & otherunspecified cancers Ovarian cancer Breast cancer Solid cancers(unspecified) Ovarian, Breast,Gastric
Generation Currentgeneration,autologous Current generation+ oncolytic virus Current generation,autologous Currentgeneration,autologous Nextgeneration,autologous Next generation,autologous Next generation,autologous
Stage ofdevelopment Phase 2 Phase 1 Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery Pre-clinical

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Company data; 47 1. Together with The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

  1. Together with Baylor College of Medicine

Her2 & EGFRviii for GBM

CAR-T challenges in GBM: single antigen targeting

• Limited effectiveness of CAR-Ts only targeting a single antigen in GBM

"A major limitation of a single-antigen targeting in GBM is the inherent heterogeneity and plasticity of the tumor cells, allowing some cells to escape CAR-T cell killing due to the loss of the targeted antigen…"

  • "…single antigen-targeting CAR-T cells fail to completely eradicate brain tumors resulting in antigen negative relapses"
  • By contrast, CAR-Ts targeting multiple antigens have demonstrated anti tumor responses and more importantly prevented antigen escape in vivo
REVIEW Open Access
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy
in glioblastoma: charging the T cells to fight
Craig A. Land 1 , Phillip R. Musich 1 , Dalia Haydar 3 , Gedre Krenciute 2 and Qian Xie 1, 16
Abstract
Globlastoma multiforme IGBM is the most common malignant brain cancer that invades normal brain tissue andimpedes surgical eradication, resulting in early local recurrence and high mortality. In addition, most therapeutic
agents lack permeability across the blood brain banker (888), further reducing the efficacy of chemotherapy. Thus,
effective treatment against GBM requires tumor specific targets and efficient intracranial drug delivery. With the mostrecent advances in immunotherapy, genetically engineered T cells with chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) are becom-
ing a promising approach for treating cancer. By transducing T lymphocytes with CAR constructs containing a turnor-associated antigen (TAA) recognition domain linked to the constant regions of a signaling T cell receptor, CART cells
may recognize a predefined TAA with high specificity in a non-MHC restricted manner, and is independent of antigen
processing. Active T cells can travel across the BBB, providing additional advantage for drug delivery and tumpr target-ing. Here we review the CAR design and technical innovations, the major targets that are in pre-clinical and clinical
development with a focus on GBM, and multiple strategies developed to improve CART cell efficacy.Keywords: Chimeric antigen receptors, CAR, T-cell therapy, Globlastoma, Cellular immunotherapy
Background rates to about 50% of patients [4, 5]. During the same
Glichlastoma (GBM), WHO erade IV elioma, is the mostdevastating brain tumor in adults [1]. The intrinsic capa- period, genetically engineered T cell receptors (TCR)were explored to achieve robust T cell responses which
bility of single tumor cells to invade normal brain tis- ultimately led to the emergence of chimeric antigen
use impedes surgical eradication, predictably resultingin early local recurrence and death. Current treatment receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy [6, 7]. In 2017, CD19-CAR(tissgenlecksocel) became the first IDA-sporesed CAR-T
options for GBM include maximal surgical removal,radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, the overall cell therapy for treating patients with relapsed or refrac-tory B cell acute hymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) [8].
survival rate has not changed significantly over the past The first ACT-based attempts for GBM therapy started
decade. Adoptive cell transfer (ACT) using autologous lym- about 40 years ago when several case reports showed thatautologous leukocyte infusion into the resection cavity at
phocytes for treating cancer started in 1988 with meta- the time of tumor resection may improve patient's sur-vival without texicity [9-11]. However, these approaches
static melanoma patients [2]. While early trials reportedan overall response in approximately 34% of patients [3]. lacked specificity. To overcome this, practic engineered
subsequent studies demonstrated that hyrphodepletionprior to ACT may significantly improve the response T cells have been generated to specifically target brainturner associated antigens (TAA) and have shown
promising pre-clinical results. For GBM, interleakin-13
Companience and MetuschOrpannent of Borredical Sciences, Quiller College of Medicine, East receptor alpha 2 (IL13Ra2) became the first CAR T-celltarget tested in the clinic for its specific overespon-
Tennessee Spee University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USAfull for of author information is available at the end of the article sion in tumors but not in normal tissues [12]. Epidermalgrowth factor receptor variant III (EGFRxIII) [13], human
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Competitive landscape in CAR-T GBM

OmniCAR 1 of only 3 targeting multiple antigens

  • OmniCAR the only next gen CAR-T
  • (The 2 other programs are at a not-for profit)

Targets OmniCAR features Comments
Her2 + EGFRviii •Multivalent antigen targeting•Persistent binder dosingfor improved& persistenceefficacy•Titrationfor improved safety •1 of 3 multiple antigen programs inthe world•Single antigen targeting isinadequate in GBM