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Actinogen CEO & CMO present at Sachs Neuroscience Innovation Forum &
JPM Week meetings
Sydney, 8 January 2024. Actinogen Medical ASX: ACW (“ACW” or “the Company”) is pleased to
announce that Chief Medical Officer Dr Dana Hilt will present today at the Sachs Associates 7th Annual
Neuroscience Innovation Forum in San Francisco (7 January USA PST). Dr Hilt is joined in San Francisco by
ACW CEO Dr Steven Gourlay.
The Sachs Forum brings together large and small pharmaceutical companies and investors who are focused
on neuroscience as a key component of their pipelines and portfolios. The audience includes buy and sell side
analysts from investment banks and funds, along with partnering executives from pharma, biotech, medtech,
neurotech and diagnostics companies.
After more than two years of subdued conditions and performance in the biotech sector, the neuroscience
industry received a major boost in 2023 with approval of the anti-amyloid antibody drug Leqembi™ for
Alzheimer’s disease and announcement of the Phase 3 success for donanemab. Recently, dealmaking has
accelerated with the US$8.7 billion Abbvie acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics for their psychiatric and
neurological treatments including those for schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease and mood disorders
announced on 6 December, and the US$14 billion acquisition of Karuna Therapeutics by Bristol Myers Squibb
for their psychiatry and neurology assets, announced on 22 December.
While in San Francisco, Dr Gourlay and Dr Hilt will also participate in a significant number of partnering, analyst
and investor meetings associated with the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference from 8 to 12
January (JPM Week).
The information used for all Sachs Innovation Forum and JPM Week presentations and meetings is
attached to this announcement or has been previously announced.
The attached presentation recaps the success of Xanamem, ® ACW’s novel pro-cognitive and potentially
disease-modifying small molecule drug and examines the two near-term major Phase 2 readouts in Depression
and Alzheimer's disease in 2024 and 2025 respectively.
Dr Steven Gourlay, Actinogen’s CEO and Managing Director, said:
“In San Francisco we are focused on briefing potential pharmaceutical partners on our progress and planned
data readout for the XanaCIDD Phase 2a depression trial in less than 6 months. Novel mechanisms to
successfully treat depression are very important and valuable clinical opportunities.
"We will also be briefing potential partners on the XanaMIA Phase 2b Alzheimer’s disease trial, which is
expected to release interim results on the first 100 patients in the first half of 2025. We have a high level of
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confidence in the utility of Xanamem for treating Alzheimer’s disease based on the positive results seen in
three prior independent, placebo-controlled trials.”
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About Actinogen Medical
Actinogen Medical (ACW) is an ASX-listed, biotechnology company developing a novel therapy for neurological and
neuropsychiatric diseases associated with dysregulated brain cortisol. There is a strong association between cortisol and
detrimental changes in the brain, affecting cognitive function, harm to brain cells and long-term cognitive health.
Cognitive function means how a person understands, remembers and thinks clearly. Cognitive functions include memory,
attention, reasoning, awareness and decision-making.
Actinogen is currently developing its lead compound, Xanamem, ® as a promising new therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease
and Depression and hopes to study Fragile X Syndrome and other neurological and psychiatric diseases in the future.
Reducing cortisol inside brain cells could have a positive impact in these and many other diseases. The cognitive
dysfunction, behavioural abnormalities, and neuropsychological burden associated with these conditions is debilitating for
patients, and there is a substantial unmet medical need for new and improved treatments.
Current and Upcoming Clinical Trials
The XanaCIDD Phase 2a depression trial is a double-blind, six-week proof-of-concept, placebo-controlled, parallel group
design trial in 160 patients. Patients are evenly randomized to receive Xanamem 10 mg once daily or placebo, in some
cases in addition to their existing antidepressant therapy, and effects on cognition and depression are assessed.
The XanaMIA Phase 2b Alzheimer’s disease trial is a double-blind, 36-week treatment, placebo-controlled, parallel
group design trial in 220 patients with mild to moderate AD and progressive disease, determined by clinical criteria and
confirmed by an elevated level of a pTau protein biomarker in blood. Patients receive Xanamem 10 mg or placebo, once
daily, and effects on cognition, function and progression of Alzheimer’s disease are assessed. Thus, Xanamem is being
assessed in this trial for its potential effects as both a cognitive enhancer and a disease course modifier.
About Xanamem
Xanamem’s novel mechanism of action is to block the production of cortisol inside cells through the inhibition of the 11βHSD1 enzyme in the brain. Xanamem is designed to get into the brain after it is absorbed in the intestines upon swallowing.
Chronically elevated cortisol is associated with cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s Disease and excess cortisol is known to
be toxic to brain cells. Cognitive impairment is also a feature in Depression and many other diseases. Cortisol itself is also
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associated with depressive symptoms and when targeted via other mechanisms has shown some promise in prior clinical
trials.
The Company has studied 11β-HSD1 inhibition by Xanamem in approximately 350 volunteers and patients, so far finding
a statistically significant improvement in working memory and attention, compared with placebo, in healthy, older volunteers
in two consecutive trials and clinically significant improvements in functional and cognitive ability in patients with biomarkerpositive mild AD. Previously, high levels of target engagement in the brain with doses as low as 5 mg daily have been
demonstrated in a human PET imaging study. A series of Phase 2 studies in multiple diseases is being conducted to further
confirm and characterize Xanamem’s therapeutic potential.
Xanamem is an investigational product and is not approved for use outside of a clinical trial by the FDA or by any global
regulatory authority. Xanamem® is a trademark of Actinogen Medical.
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Xanamem: A novel pro-cognitive and potentially disease
modifying drug
Two near-term major Phase 2 readouts in Depression and
Alzheimer's disease in 2024 & 2025
Presented at the 7th Sachs Neuroscience Innovation Forum and JPM week meetings
San Francisco, 7 - 12 January 2024
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Xanamem: Oral, once-a-day treatment with a unique,
non-amyloid/non-tau mechanism
Mouse experimental studies & clinical trials validate cortisol as a target for the treatment of AD1-4
Inflammation and glucose/lipid dysregulation emerging as key mechanisms in AD5
Xanamem is a brain penetrant 11β-HSD1 small
molecule enzyme inhibitor which reduces
brain cortisol3,4
Potential to be:
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Rapidly cognitive enhancing
Disease-modifying (slowing progression)1,3
Anti-depressant effects
Anti-inflammatory effects
Insulin sensitizing
1. Sooy et al. 2015 showing effects on amyloid plaque reduction in an aged mouse model after 28 days associated with increases in insulin degrading enzyme – at 13 month cognitive protection was independent of continued amyloid deposition;
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2. Popoli et al. 2011 microglial cell modulation in rats, effects on glutamate, cannabinoid and other signalling pathways; 3. Hilt, D. Oral symposium AD/PD International Conference 2023; Actinogen website: Actinogen – News;
4. based on
human PET scan evidence (data on file), Webster et al. 2017 Selection and early clinical evaluation of the brain‐penetrant 11β‐hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β‐HSD1) inhibitor UE2343 (Xanamem™); 5. CTAD conference Oct 2023
January 2024
PET data shows full target engagement in the
brain at low doses
Previous enzyme inhibitors1 have not achieved adequate brain concentrations
Baseline
After 7 days of daily dosing
5 mg Xanamem
10 mg Xanamem
20 mg Xanamem
SUVRcarotid
PET data2 demonstrates that
Xanamem extensively binds
to the 11β-HSD1 enzyme
throughout the brain,
with high post-treatment
effects (absence of colour)
after 7 days at all doses,
slightly less at a 5 mg dose.
This is consistent with full
hormonal pharmacodynamic
activity seen in clinical trials
with doses as low as 5 mg.
1. ABT-384 was claimed to have brain penetrant ability based on likely hepatic effects on deuterated cortisol (Katz et al. 2013), negative 12-week AD trial (Marek et al. 2014)
2. Study population consisted of ~50% healthy older subjects who were cognitively normal and ~50% with Alzheimer's disease. Subjects dosed for seven days.
Baseline: Mean of baseline scans of patients in that dose group; After dose: Mean of post-dosing (7 days) scans in that dose group.
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Two large clinical opportunities: Depression and AD
Rapidly acting oral therapy with dual action on cognitive
impairment / depression
Depression market size ~$17 billion in 2032
Cognitively enhancing and disease modifying oral therapy
for all stages of Alzheimer’s disease not just MCI
Alzheimer’s market ~$14 billion in 2030
Depression market size ~$17 billion in 2032
1.
2.
https://www.futuremarketinsights.com/reports/depression-treatment-market 3 Nov 2023
Global Data report 7 June 2023
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Actinogen Xanamem Phase 2 trials underway
De-risked by extensive existing clinical data from four previous trials of Xanamem 10mg
Phase 2a proof-of-concept trial in
Depression/Cognitive Impairment (n=160)
Phase 2b confirmatory trial in mild-moderate
Alzheimer’s disease (n=220)
Results
Q2 2024
Interim results
H1 2025
n~100
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Targeting brain cortisol with
Xanamem is a promising strategy
in depression
✓ 80-90% of MDD patients report neurocognitive
symptoms1
✓ Cognitive symptoms often persist during remission1
✓ Elevated cortisol associated with severe, melancholic
depression2
✓ Cortisol levels associated with treatment outcomes,
relapse, & cognition3
✓ Positive effects with GR receptor antagonism with
mifepristone4
✓ Meta-analysis of clinical cortisol approaches5
✓ Xanamem has improved human cognition in 2
trials with same cognitive endpoint to be used6
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
3-year prospective study and review, Conradi et al. 2011
Quantitative summary of four decades of research, Stetler & Miller 2011
Depression literature review, Malhi & Mann 2018; HPA axis in major depression, Keller et al. 2016
GR, glucocorticoid receptor; Combined analysis of mifepristone for psychotic depression, Block et al. 2018; mifepristone effects on
depression in biopolar disorder, Young et al. 2004; Evidence from clinical studies with CRH1 receptor antagonists, Holsboer & Ising 2008
Meta-analysis of prior trials aimed at reducing cortisol, Ding et. al 2021
Two Xanamem placebo-controlled trials showing improved working memory & attention (Actinogen data on file)
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XanaCIDD proof-of-concept Phase 2a trial in
Depression and Cognitive Impairment
10mg Xanamem +/- existing antidepressant
Follow-up
Screening
Placebo +/- existing antidepressant
-4
0
6
10 Weeks
Double-blind, randomised
treatment period (N=160)
Key inclusion/exclusion criteria
• Primary diagnosis of MDD
• Persistent depressive
symptoms/deficit despite existing
therapy or no therapy
• Cognitive impairment relative to
demographic norms (~0.5 SD)
Primary Endpoints
• Cogstate Cognitive Test Battery
Attentional Composite (attention
and working memory)*
Key Secondary Endpoints
• Montgomery-Åsberg Depression
Rating Scale (MADRS)
• Executive Function Cognitive
Composite
• Memory Function Cognitive
Composite
* Same attention and working memory tests shown to demonstrate Xanamem effect in the XanaHES and XanaMIA Part A trials (see Slide 7)
Key Implementation Features
• Australia & UK trial sites
• Actinogen “hands-on” operational
model
• ~100 enrolled
• Final Results Q2 CY24
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The answers to Alzheimer’s Disease
are starting to emerge in the clinic…
Alzheimer’s proteins amyloid and
tau are the pathology – not the
cause…
Clearing amyloid produces a very
modest benefit
Other causal processes are involved
like inflammation, lipids and glucose
handling…
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Newer anti-amyloid “immunotherapy” antibodies
shown to slow but not halt progression of AD1
Ideally patients would not worsen on treatment
0
Worsening of
CDR-SB2 over
18 months
-0.5
Large area of
unmet need
requires nonamyloid therapies
-1
-1.5
Benefit of
donanemab
-2
-2.5
donanemab all
placebo all
halt progression
-3
Drugs targeting other mechanisms like Xanamem are needed
1.
2.
Donamemab is an anti-amyloid antibody given as an intravenous infusion every 4 weeks until amyloid clearance (Sims JR at al. JAMA. Published online July 17, 2023.
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doi:10.1001/jama.2023.13239 Data shown are for whole population studied with absolute difference to placebo of 0.7 points, intermediate tau population difference also 0.7 points
CDR-SB is an 18-point scale measuring functional status on an 18 point scale, patients in the donanemab trial had an average baseline score of 4 ± 2 points
Dr Howard Fillit,
Founder Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation1
“Seventy-eight percent …. of all drugs in clinical development are nonamyloid, non-tau drugs.
Multiple targets are being addressed now, which is great for the field
because I think the way we're going to have to go is combination therapy,
addressing all the multiple pathways that are involved in Alzheimer’s.”
1. https://www.neurologylive.com/view/looking-ahead-development-alzheimer-disease-howard-fillit; updated at recent October 2023 CTAD conference as 78% of programs
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Cortisol in AD: Guilt by association
•
Multiple studies support the association between elevated cortisol
and AD development and progression1-5
•
Cognitive impairment in patients with neuroendocrine dysfunction6-9
•
Compelling evidence provided by the Australian Imaging, Biomarker
& Lifestyle Study of Ageing (AIBL) study (2017)5
o Higher plasma cortisol leads to a much greater risk of developing
AD
MEAN CSF CORTISOL LEVELS
0.7
•
Higher CSF cortisol levels in AD patients are associated with more
rapid clinical worsening and cognitive impairment10,11
•
High cortisol and low folate predict probable Alzheimer’s disease
after age 7512
0.6
CSF cortisol (μg/dl)
•
Individuals with the APOE-ε4 allele have higher CSF cortisol8
p<0.001
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
Cognitive Normal
MCI Other
MCI AD
AD dementia
Popp et al, 2015
[1] Geerlings et al., 2015, Neurology 85: 1-8; [2] Lehallier et al., 2016, JAMA Neurology 73(2), 203-212; [3] Popp et al., 2015, Neurobiol. Aging 36:601–607; [4] Ennis et al., 2017, Neurology 88(4):371-378; [5] Pietrzak et al., 2017, Biol
Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimagery, 2:45-52; [6] Lupien et al., 2009, Nat Rev Neurosci 10:434–445; [7] Starkman et al., 1999, Biol Psychiatry 46: 1595–1602; [8] Lupien et al., 1998, Nat Neurosci 1:69–73; [9] MacLullich
et al., 2005, Psychoneuroendocrinology 30:505–515; ; [10] Cernansky et al., 2006, Am J Psychiatry 163:2164-2169; [11] Kornhuber & Jensen, 2015, Neurobiol Aging 36:601-607; [12] Hinterberger et al., J Am Ger Soc 2013 61(4):648-651;
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11β-HSD1 inhibition and attenuated cognitive decline
Xanamem has pleiotropic mechanisms of action to reduce or halt cognitive decline
Increased synaptic plasticity
cortisone
(inert)
z
X
Lowers
brain
cortisol
Greater dendritic complexity
reduced GR/MR
activation
Less negative feedback
•
•
Increases pituitary ACTH within normal range
No reduction of plasma cortisol at doses ≤10 mg
Better working &
episodic memory
Larger hippocampal volume
+
Reduced amyloid synthesis
Increased IDE amyloid clearance
Reduced tau phosphorylation
Reduced
neurodegeneration
Less excitotoxicity - glutamate
11β-HSD1
inhibition
cortisone
(inert)
zX
Altered neuroinflammation
Lowers
liver & fat
cortisol improved
Insulin sensitivity
+
Improved glucose handling
Reduced vascular pathology
Potential
metabolic benefits
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Methods for double-blind, prospective assessment of
biomarker-positive mild AD patients in Phase 2a1
Re-examining the 12-week XanADu Phase 2a trial with biomarkers
- a simulation of the 36-week XanaMIA Phase 2b trial
Measure disease
biomarkers Week 0 & 12
72 patients with
stored blood samples
Phase 2a trial
(XanADu2)
• Blinded laboratory and
company staff
• N=34 with elevated pTau
• pTau181
• Amyloid 42/40 ratio
• GFAP
• Assess change over time
Assess efficacy trends
on clinical endpoints
• Effects in biomarker-positive
patients
• Endpoints including CDR-SB,
executive function, ADAS-Cog
• Cohen’s d to measure clinical
effect size
• 185 people with mild AD
treated for 12 weeks with 10 mg
or placebo
1. Used a pre-specified protocol and statistical analysis plan, blinded laboratory and company personnel
2. Prior phase 2a trial completed in 2019 included participants with a clinical diagnosis but no PET or biomarker confirmation
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT02727699?term=actinogen&draw=2&rank=3
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Xanamem significantly slows the rate of functional
decline (CDR-SB) in patients with mild AD*
Patients with elevated plasma pTau181 indicating progressive, amyloid-positive
disease (n=34)
Xanamem
0
Placebo
0
0.2
CDR-SB units
Change from
Baseline (SE)
0.36
0.4
* Difference vs. placebo
0.6
0.8
0.98
1
Worse
*
•
•
•
•
Mean 0.6 units
Median 0.8 units
p = 0.09
Cohen’s d = 0.4
1.2
1.4
Baseline
Week 12
Xanamem benefits extrapolated to 18 months would produce a large effect size
* CDR-SB Clinical Demetia Rating Scale – Sum of Boxes is a measure of patient function and is an endpoint used by the FDA; Patients with a pre-treatment plasma pTau181 level greater than the prespecified median of 6.74 pg/mL to indicate AD pathology and likelihood of progressive disease; similar effect size for pTau >10.2 pg/mL cutoff; extrapolated effect size 8-10 times greater than 0.4-0.45
reported for lecanemab (USPI Leqembi 2023 & van Dyck et al. 2022; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2212948) if extrapolated to 18 months; no treatment effect detected in ADASCog-14 or ADCOMS
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Cognitive improvements suggest potential clinical
benefits across dementia patient sub-types*
Positive trends in both high and low plasma pTau biomarker groups
Higher pTau biomarker (n=34)
Lower pTau biomarker (n=34)
0.3
Composite Units (SE)
Composite Units (SE*)
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
-0.1
-0.2
-0.3
Worse
0.2
0.1
0
-0.1
-0.2
-0.3
Xanamem
Placebo
Preserved cognition
Xanamem
Placebo
Cognitive enhancement
Consistent with Xanamem activity as a cognitive enhancer & disease-modifier
* Post hoc analysis of composite of word recall & recognition, CFT & COWAT tests (p=NS), error bars show Standard Error of the Mean; low pTau patients less
likely to have amyloid-positive disease, results consistent with volunteer data shown in Slide 7
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XanaMIA Phase 2b trial in Alzheimer’s Disease
Matching patients and endpoints in Phase 2b as in the positive Ph 2a analysis
10mg Xanamem
Follow-up
& open
label
Screening from Dec 23
Placebo
-4
0
40 Weeks
36
Double-blind, randomised treatment
period (N=220)
Interim analysis N=100 @ 24 weeks
Key inclusion/exclusion criteria
• Clinical diagnosis of mild to
moderate dementia due to AD (NIA-AA,
MMSE 18-26)
• Elevated blood p-tau181 to
confirm progressive AD diagnosis
• Cognitive impairment test deficit
Primary Endpoints
• Cognitive Test Battery
(7 cognitive measures)
NIA-AA=National Institute of Aging - Alzheimer’s Association; CDR-SB Clinical Dementia Rating Scale – Sum of Boxes
Key Secondary Endpoints
Key Implementation Features
• CDR-SB (functional measure)
• Amsterdam Activity of Daily
Living scale
• Executive Function & Episodic
Memory Function Composites
• Care Giver questionnaire / Patient Global
Improvement
• Initial 100 patients in Australia
with Administrative IA in H1CY25
• Expand to global trial sites including US,
Asia, EU and other post IA
• Actinogen “hands-on”
operational model assures high quality
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Xanamem AD & Depression programs
Building on multiple Phase 1 and 2 studies showing safety and procognitive activity
Prior Phase 1 & 2a studies
Safety (n~350), cognition, clinical
activity demonstrated in 3 prior trials
Phase 2a (n=160)
Phase 2b (n=220)
Cognitive Impairment
in Depressive Disorder (CIDD)
Final results Q224
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)
Initial results H125
Phase 3
Phase 3
Cognitive Impairment
in Depression
Alzheimer’s Disease with focus
on cognitive enhancement
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