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Actinogen XanaMIA Phase 2b Alzheimer’s disease (AD) trial amendment and
Clinical Trials Science Forum 2023 presentation slides
Sydney, 24 May 2023. Actinogen Medical ASX: ACW (“ACW” or “the Company”) announces specific
amendments to the upcoming XanaMIA Phase 2b clinical trial in patients with AD and release of the
presentation slides for this morning’s Clinical Trials Science Forum webinar commencing at 11am AEST.
XanaMIA Phase 2b AD trial amendment
Having completed a number of key steps to develop a global syndicate of investigators and trial sites for the
upcoming trial, Actinogen is making several improvements to the trial design while submitting updated
regulatory documentation to the FDA and other regulators. FDA approval of the tablet formulation and protocol
changes outlined below is expected early in H2 CY23 and the first patient is expected to be treated in the
subsequent months. Results are expected in H2 CY25.
Principal components of the XanaMIA Phase 2b trial amendment are:
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The newly manufactured tablet formulation will be used in the Phase 2b trial
Patients will be enrolled for a 36-week double-blind treatment period (24 weeks previously) to improve
initial assessment of disease-modification effects
An interim analysis will be included around the middle of trial enrolment
Patients with “moderate AD” are now included to match the Phase 2a population more closely with
elevated pTau levels in the blood analysed and previously reported to have a large Xanamem effect
Following extensive data analysis of prior trial data, the primary endpoint will be a cognitive composite
of several tests, reflecting the strong cognitive effects of Xanamem in prior trials. The CDR-SB
functional score remains a key secondary endpoint along with the assessment of activities of daily
living.
Clinical Trials Science Forum webinar
Event registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5gdyj5DpRJ-XORhbhafIPQ
‘Following the Science’ is fundamental to all Actinogen’s activities and a primary foundation for today’s
presentation titled Alzheimer’s disease: amyloid therapies are only part of the answer. The presentation is
designed to explain the science behind targeting amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease and the opportunity for nonamyloid treatments such as Xanamem.
The quest to find drug therapies to cure AD has only just begun. The approval of two recent anti-amyloid
antibody drugs in the USA and another with positive late-stage clinical results is a great beginning for AD
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therapy but this approach does not halt disease progression, requires intravenous infusion, and is associated
with serious but rare side effects.
Actinogen is a leader in clinical AD research having the only oral therapy to have demonstrated benefits on
cognition in multiple placebo-controlled trials. 1 We consider the ‘weight of evidence’ from academic work and
our own trials has validated Xanamem’s cortisol mechanism and are excited to now conduct our two larger
Phase 2 controlled trials in AD and cognitive impairment in depression.
Today’s plain English webinar has been designed for a broad audience, including those from non-technical
backgrounds. The presentations will explore the following topics:
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An overview of the current ‘state of play’ on clinical AD research (CEO, Dr Steven Gourlay)
An introduction to the Xanamem drug product and in particular its tablet formulation by Dr Fujun Li,
Head of Manufacturing, that has been developed for the upcoming XanaMIA Phase 2b AD trial and all
subsequent trials
An insightful high-level analysis from ACW CMO and neurologist, Dr Dana Hilt on the role of treating
AD with anti-amyloid antibody therapy and the significant opportunity remaining for alternative and
complementary approaches
A copy of the full presentation is attached to this announcement. As soon as practicable after the conclusion
of the webinar a full recording will be made available on the company’s website: www.actinogen.com.au.
Dr Steven Gourlay, Actinogen CEO and MD, commented:
“Actinogen is at a remarkably important juncture in the world of drug development with its promising oral
therapy Xanamem. While recent data on new amyloid antibody infusions give Alzheimer’s patients hope, they
do not halt disease progression, highlighting the continued and urgent need to find effective and safe nonamyloid therapies.
“Today’s Clinical Trials Science Forum will cover three important topics: Xanamem manufacturing,
understanding how to put amyloid and non-amyloid therapies into context, and the XanaMIA Phase 2b trial
design update.
“We remain committed to our high-quality and timely Phase 2 trials in both Alzheimer’s and cognitive
impairment in depression and believe they will demonstrate and confirm the potent clinical benefit of Xanamem
therapy.”
ENDS
Investors
Dr. Steven Gourlay
CEO & Managing Director
P: +61 2 8964 7401
E. steven.gourlay@actinogen.com.au
Michael Roberts
Investor Relations
M: +61 423 866 231
E. michael.roberts@actinogen.com.au
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Companies claiming efficacy based on uncontrolled data, biomarkers or imaging not included in this comparison
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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.
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
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 more than 300 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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FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE
Clinical Trials Science Forum
Alzheimer’s disease: amyloid therapies are only part
of the answer
Xanamem® targets brain cortisol and is one of a few programs that has
demonstrated clinical benefit
Wednesday 24 May 2023 | 11.00am AEST
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Introduction and welcome
Michael Roberts BEc Hons, CPA, Ffin
Dr Steven Gourlay MBBS FRACP PhD MBA
Investor Relations
Chief Executive Officer
• 25+ years' business experience
• Industry physician with more than 25 years
experience
• Senior IR & comms professional in top-50 listed
companies
• Strategic corporate comms advisor
• Venture capital 8 years
• Recent successful startup exit with sale of
Principia Biopharma to Sanofi for US$3.7 billion
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Agenda
Welcome
Michael Roberts
Investor Relations
Dr Steven Gourlay
Introduction
Chief Executive Officer
Introduction of Xanamem drug product
Dr Fujun Li
The treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: Amyloid is not the
entire problem … so, it is only part of the solution
Dr Dana Hilt
Summary
Moderator
Dr Steven Gourlay
Questions and wrap-up
Moderator
Dr Steven Gourlay
Head of Manufacturing
Chief Medical Officer
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Introduction
Dr Steven Gourlay
Chief Executive Officer
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Actinogen is a leader in clinical Alzheimer’s research
Only amyloid antibody infusions and oral Xanamem have multiple, positive cognitive trial data1
Actinogen
Oral Xanamem
• Safely targets brain tissue cortisol
• 2 trials: improved attention & working memory
• 1 trial: trends to reduce AD progression, improve cognition
Eisai-Biogen
i.v. infusion of lecanemab
• Approved on ability to reduce brain amyloid
• Causes brain swelling and bleeding
• 2 trials reduced progression modestly
• Will need to be combined with other therapies
Lilly
i.v. infusion of donanemab
• Full approval expected ~8 months, reduces brain amyloid
• Causes brain swelling and bleeding
• 2 trials reduced progression modestly
• Will need to be combined with other therapies
1 Companies
claiming efficacy based on uncontrolled data, biomarkers or imaging not included in this comparison
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Introduction of Xanamem drug product
Dr Fujun Li, Ph.D.
Head of Manufacturing
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Xanamem is promising small molecule pharmaceutic
• Small molecule, once-a-day pill or capsule for oral administration
• High solubility and high membrane permeability - well absorbed through
gastrointestinal tract (intestines)
• Crystalline material and stable at room temperature
C19H19N5O2S
Molecular Wt: 381.45
Drug in
tablet
Dissolution in
stomach
Drug in
solution
Absorption in
intestines
Drug in
blood and
brain
Xanamem has favourable characteristics for an oral drug
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Xanamem capsules and now (commercial) tablets
Xanamem was initially formulated in gelatin
capsules that were used in early Phase 1 and
Phase 2 clinical studies
As Actinogen prepares for and implements late
phase clinical studies, a tablet formulation has been
developed that provides advantages over capsules
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Capsules contained simple blend of drug substance
and inactive ingredients
• Typically, has longer shelf-life
Capsule formulation offered flexibility to
accommodate changes of dose in early clinical trials
• Manufacturing is easy to scale-up and more cost
effective
Capsule formulation
Tablet formulation
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• Variety of shapes, sizes, colors and identifiers
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Advantages of Xanamem tablets over injectables
like anti-amyloid antibodies
• Xanamem tablets are manufactured using a conventional tablet manufacturing process according
to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards
• Small pill and easy to swallow for elderly patients
• Once a day oral dosing at home unlike intravenous injections or infusions needing clinic visits
• No infusion-related adverse effects
• No requirement for frequent brain scans to monitor for brain swelling
• Storage at room temperature - no need for refrigeration
Xanamem oral tablet is convenient to take, cost effective to manufacture and
designed to minimize patient burden
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The treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
Amyloid is not the entire problem …
so, it is only part of the solution
Dr Dana C Hilt MD
Chief Medical Officer
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Alois Alzheimer and amyloid
The historical background of amyloid in AD
In November 1901, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German neurologist,
made his first examination of a 51-year-old woman named
Auguste Deter who was experiencing problems with memory
and language as well as various psychological problems such
as disorientation and hallucinations. These symptoms
matched the definition of what was then called ‘dementia’, but
she was very young to be displaying them, so he diagnosed
her as having “presenile dementia”. This came to be known
as Alzheimer’s disease.
The pathological hallmarks of AD include:
• amyloid plaques - deposits of extracellular amyloid; and
• neurofibrillary tangles - intracellular deposits of tau protein
The plaques and tangles of AD
Tau tangles
Amyloid plaques
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Amyloid as the cause of AD: A closer look
Reducing amyloid to treat AD
Amyloid can not be the entire solution
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• Mutations in amyloid and enzymes processing amyloid
account for a very small fraction <2% of all AD patients1
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All genetic cases of AD are associated with some defect in
amyloid protein processing: mutation in the amyloid gene or
mutation in the enzymes processing amyloid
All cases of AD have the signature of amyloid and tau
protein deposition in the brain
Overexpression of amyloid in animal models of AD can lead
to nervous system pathology and behavioral abnormalities
• Amyloid (or Tau) mutations are not the cause of the vast
majority of AD cases
• AD greatest genetic risk - ApoE4 gene - encodes a protein
linked to lipid/fat metabolism not amyloid metabolism
• The association with amyloid and tau deposition in the brain
and AD clinical stage is low2
• ~33% of older cognitively normal people have amyloid in
their brains at the same level as in AD3
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3.
Haas etal Plos Biol 2022
Tideman etal Neurology 2022
Jansen etal JAMA Neurol 2022
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Amyloid as the cause of AD: A closer look
Reducing amyloid to treat AD
Amyloid can not be the entire solution
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The amyloid gene is contained on chromosome 21
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Trisomy (3 copies) of chromosome 21 causes Down
Syndrome which is characterized by early cognitive
impairment (early AD) and AD pathology
• >15 anti-amyloid therapies have been taken into large clinical
trials
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A mutation in the amyloid gene decreasing production of
amyloid has been detected and individuals with decreased
amyloid production are partially protected against AD
• Some of these drugs have demonstrated significant
clearing of amyloid from the brain - but no benefit
• Stated at the recent AD Congress: ‘To date we have
‘Only 1½ drugs which have an effect’ 1: lecanemab
and aducanumab’
• Other drugs that have cleared amyloid to approximately
the same degree… have had no effect… some have made
the condition worse
• The treatment effects of the most successful anti-amyloid
antibodies (lecanemab and donanemab) are modest
For every complex question, there is a simple answer… and it is wrong2
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AD/PD Congress, April 2023
Variously attributed the either HL Mencken or Mark Twain
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The effects of clearing amyloid in AD
Correlations between amyloid clearance and clinical benefit in anti-amyloid antibody
studies are modest
• A number antibodies have shown clearance of amyloid but few have shown benefit1
• In some antibody studies (e.g. aducanumab and donanemab) brain volume actually shrinks on
treatment
• Weak correlation between amyloid removal and clinical benefit (CDR-SB)2. Recently, more robust
clearance does seem to correlate with clinical benefit for lecanemab and donanemab
• Lecanemab showed an ~0.45 point CDR-SB change in the Phase 3 study over 18 months – well below
the Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID) for the CDR-SB in AD of ~1.5 points3
The clinical benefits of anti-amyloid antibody infusions are modest
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2.
3.
Haas etal Plos Biology 2022
Clinical Dementia Rating Scale- Sum of Boxes
Andrews etal Alzheimer’s Dementia 2022
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Anti-amyloid approach leaves significant unmet medical need
Lecanemab1 slows progression modestly during the first 12 months
CDR-SB
units
Blue area = treatment effect
1. Lecanemab is an anti-amyloid antibody given as an intravenous infusion every 2 weeks and largely clears brain of amyloid largely by 12 months, accelerated approval given by
the US FDA based the ability of the drug to clear amyloid, full approval pending. Used a functional AD scale called the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB)
with an effect size reported of 0.4-0.45 points at 18 months; Leqembi USPI & van Dyck et al. 2022; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2212948
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Anti-amyloid approach leaves significant unmet medical need
CDR-SB*
units
Area of unmet need for newer
and novel non-amyloid
therapies like Xanamem
~1.2 points
Area of treatment effect
~0.4 points
Drugs targeting other mechanisms like Xanamem will be required to fill this gap
*
Lecanemab is an anti-amyloid antibody given as an intravenous infusion every 2 weeks and largely clears brain of amyloid by 12 months, accelerated approval given by the US
FDA based the ability of the drug to clear amyloid, full approval pending. Used (CDR-SB) with an effect size reported of 0.4-0.45 points at 18 months; Leqembi USPI & van
Dyck et al. 2022; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2212948 n=1795)
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The road forward to better treatment
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Reducing amyloid to treat AD can provide modest clinical benefit (lecanemab and donanemab antibodies)
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The benefit seen for lecanemab and donanemab is likely to be the maximal effect of anti-amyloid therapy as
they clear amyloid rapidly and to a great extent
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The effects may wane after ~12 months
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Intravenous infusions required, side effects like brain swelling and bleeding may be fatal, require monitoring
including multiple MRI brain scans
The challenge
The goal
Identification of additional therapies to add
to the presently approved treatments
Enhance function and clinical benefit
for patients
Virtually all chronic illnesses require multiple therapies
to make a significant impact on the disease
AD is no exception: Better or combination therapies will be the key to effective treatment
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Xanamem: Oral, low dose, once-a-day treatment with a
unique non-amyloid/tau mechanism
Only known brain penetrant 11β-HSD1
small molecule enzyme inhibitor
Reduces cortisol in brain - modulating
signalling pathways and potentially
underlying disease processes1,2
11β-HSD1 is preferentially expressed in
brain and liver but minimally expressed in
endocrine tissues
Xanamem has potential to:
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Enhance cognition
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Be anti-depressant/procognitive in
depression
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2.
Slow progression or produce
durable delay in symptoms in AD
Xanamem® is a CNS (Central Nervous System) penetrant small molecule based on human PET scan evidence and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) measurements
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; Popoli et
al. 2011 microglial cell modulation in rats, effects on glutamate, cannabinoid and other signalling pathways
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Elevated cortisol leads to human brain dysfunction
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Multiple studies support the association between elevated cortisol and
AD development and progression1-5
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Cognitive impairment in patients with neuroendocrine dysfunction6-9
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Compelling evidence provided by the Australian Imaging, Biomarker &
Lifestyle Study of Ageing (AIBL) study (2017)5
MEAN CSF CORTISOL LEVELS
o
Higher plasma cortisol leads to a much greater risk of developing AD
o
Accelerated effect of Αβ+ on decline in global cognition, episodic
memory, and attention
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Individuals with the APOE-ε4 allele have higher CSF cortisol8
Higher CSF cortisol levels in AD patients are associated with more rapid
clinical worsening and cognitive impairment10,11
High cortisol is one of the predictors of probable AD after age 7512
CSF cortisol (μg/dl)
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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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Xanamem clinical trial data
Two separate normal volunteer
studies have shown positive
procognitive effects of Xanamem:
attention, working memory, and
executive function1
Oral Xanamem 5 and 10 mg/d have
excellent CNS penetration and
target occupancy by PET scanning
while being safe and well tolerated
New analyses of the Phase 2
XanADu
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