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ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Precigen EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.05Consensus EPS -$0.01Beat/MissBeat by +$0.06One Year Ago EPSN/APrecigen Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$54.98 millionExpected Revenue$27.98 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$27.00 millionYoY Revenue Growth+6,322.70%Precigen Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2026Date8/4/2026TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateTuesday, August 4, 2026Conference Call Time4:30PM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Precigen Q2 2026 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 4, 2026ShareShareShare This ReportLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: PAPZIMEOS revenue surged to $53.1 million in Q2 from $21.6 million in Q1, a more than 145% sequential increase that drove Precigen to quarterly net income of $20.1 million, or $0.05 per diluted share. Positive Sentiment: Commercial adoption continued to broaden, with more than 500 patients registered through PAPZIMEOS SUPPORT, approximately 315 million covered U.S. lives, and increasing use across major medical centers and community practices. Management said the permanent J-code effective April 1 has helped institutions establish routine reimbursement and treatment workflows. Positive Sentiment: Management highlighted a broad FDA label, favorable safety profile, and durability data showing 83% of patients remained in complete response beyond three years as of the April 30 cutoff, with some patients exceeding four years without additional RRP treatment. PAPZIMEOS also received seven-year U.S. market exclusivity through August 2032. Neutral Sentiment: Precigen expects PAPZIMEOS gross margins to stabilize in the high-80% to low-90% range after remaining pre-launch inventory is sold, while R&D spending is expected to rise as pipeline programs advance. The company said cash, investments, and collection of receivables should fund operations through cash-flow breakeven by the end of 2026. Positive Sentiment: The company remains on track to begin a pediatric PAPZIMEOS trial this year, while its EMA marketing application is under review. PRGN-2009 continues in Phase 2 trials with pembrolizumab in HPV-related head and neck and cervical cancers, with updated head-and-neck data expected later in 2026. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallPrecigen Q2 202600:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Precigen Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Business Updates Conference Call. At this time, all lines are in listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. If at any time during this call you require immediate assistance, please press star zero for the operator. This call is being recorded on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. Operator00:00:27I would now like to turn the conference over to Steve Harasym. Please go ahead. Steven HarasymVP of Investor Relations at Precigen00:00:32Thank you, operator, and thank you to everyone joining us for Precigen's second quarter 2026 update call. We are pleased to be speaking with you today as we continue to see strong momentum across the commercial launch of PAPZIMEOS. Joining me on today's call are Helen Sabzevari, our President and Chief Executive Officer, Phil Tennant, our Chief Commercial Officer, Harry Thomasian, our Chief Financial Officer, and Rutul Shah, our Chief Operating Officer. Helen will begin with an overview of the launch and key strategic updates. Phil will provide additional details on the commercial execution. Harry will review our financial results, and Rutul will be available for the Q&A section. Steven HarasymVP of Investor Relations at Precigen00:01:16Before we begin our prepared remarks, I remind everyone that we will be making various forward-looking statements. These statements are based on our current expectations and beliefs. We encourage you to review the slide in this presentation and our SEC filings, which include risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from today's forward-looking statements. Steven HarasymVP of Investor Relations at Precigen00:01:40With that, I will now turn the call over to Dr. Sabzevari. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:01:45Thank you, Steve, and thank you to everyone joining us for our Q2 2026 business update call. As we approach the one-year anniversary of PAPZIMEOS approval in August 2025, it is worth reflecting on what a meaningful milestone this has been for adults with RRP. PAPZIMEOS brought the first and only approved therapy and a new first-line standard of care to the RRP community. Nearly one year after approval, we continue to see a strong commercial momentum with broadening patient access, growing physician adoption, and increasing utilization across both major medical centers and community practices. I'll begin with a high-level overview of what we are seeing across the launch before turning the call over to Phil for additional commercial detail. Q2 represented exceptional growth from Q1. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:02:52I am proud to state that we generated $53.1 million in PAPZIMEOS revenue compared to $21.6 million in Q1, representing more than 145% revenue growth and marks a significant financial milestone for Precigen. PAPZIMEOS revenue in Q2 propelled the company to a quarterly net profit even before we reach the first anniversary of FDA approval. These results reinforce the significant enthusiasm we continue to see among patients, physicians, and institutions. What is particularly encouraging as we move through Q2 and continue into Q3 is that momentum is building across several dimensions of the launch at the same time. We believe we now have the commercial foundation for durable multi-year growth for PAPZIMEOS. We are seeing a strong demand, broader access, expanding use across care settings, and continued physician adoption. These indicators give us increased confidence in the breadth and durability of PAPZIMEOS' early commercial trajectory. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:04:25We are seeing the benefit of launching with full approval and a broad FDA label translate into a real-world prescribing behavior. Importantly, the label does not impose a minimum number of prior surgeries before a patient can be treated with PAPZIMEOS. As a result, physicians are able to consider PAPZIMEOS based on the individual patient's clinical need. We are seeing use across a broad range of RRP patients, not just the severe cases. This supports our view that PAPZIMEOS is being embedded earlier in the treatment paradigm. The clinical profile continues to resonate strongly with physicians and patients as the new standard of care. PAPZIMEOS is not another intervention in a cycle of repeated surgical interventions. It is designed to address the underlying HPV 6 or 11 driver of the disease through a targeted immune response. PAPZIMEOS durability data continues to strengthen as the long-term follow-up matures. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:05:51As we presented at ASCO, as of the April 30th cut-off, the ongoing durability of complete responses continues to increase, with 83% of patients in ongoing complete response beyond three years, with a number of them beyond four years of being surgery-free. I would like to emphasize that these durable, complete responders have not received any treatment for RRP after receiving PAPZIMEOS. We believe this combination of transformative efficacy, durability, and ongoing responses, and a favorable safety profile remains highly differentiated. Finally, the FDA granted PAPZIMEOS seven-year market exclusivity for adult RRP patients. This exclusivity into August 2032 adds an important layer of protection against prospective competition and supports the value of the commercial opportunity as we continue to expand access and adoption. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:07:15Collectively, these factors have helped build a strong commercial foundation, leading to a strong performance in Q2 and momentum for what we anticipate to be a continued growth. As we have said before, we believe the RRP indication has a blockbuster potential. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:07:39With that, I will now turn the call over to Phil for more detail on our commercial launch. Phil? Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:07:47Thank you, Helen, and welcome to everyone joining us today. I'm pleased to provide an update on the continued progress of our commercial launch. Q2 represented a meaningful acceleration across the business, with strong demand, expanding patient access, and increasing engagement from physicians and institutions as PAPZIMEOS continues to establish itself as the new standard of care for adults with RRP. Importantly, the commercial indicators we are seeing that this is the beginning of a durable growth story. As Helen mentioned, in Q2, PAPZIMEOS generated $53.1 million in revenue compared with $21.6 million in Q1, reflecting continued strong launch performance since the first full quarter of sales in Q1. Launch to date, PAPZIMEOS revenue exceeded $78 million at the end of Q2, underscoring the continued strong momentum we are seeing across all aspects of our launch effort. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:08:53As per my commentary in previous quarters, there are a number of factors and leading indicators continuing to support the impressive launch performance. Patient engagement through the Precigen hub continues to grow. As of today, the total hub number is well over 500 patients. This reflects steady patient identification and continued interest from both major academic centers and community settings. Importantly, Precigen hub data do not capture all patients, as a meaningful proportion of treated patients are coming through non-hub-using institutions. Sites are becoming increasingly confident in their own processes for securing patient access, which could mean more patients in the future receiving PAPZIMEOS without necessarily requiring Precigen hub intervention. We believe the current picture reinforces the breadth of demand for the brand irrespective of our hub utilization. Payer coverage remains exceptional and continues to provide a strong foundation for access. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:10:00With the addition of approximately 18 million covered lives in Q2, total commercial and government coverage is now approximately 315 million lives, representing nearly all potential covered lives in the U.S. market. In my experience, this compares extremely favorably to the typical speed and breadth of coverage for newly approved treatments in the U.S. As expected, we also continue to see activation across both major medical centers and community practices. We feel the permanent J-code, which became effective April 1st, has been particularly important as accounts move from initial engagement to routine use. It provides a standard pathway for reimbursement, it helps institutions process claims more efficiently, and it reduces uncertainty for sites that are still building PAPZIMEOS into their workflows. Together with our field reimbursement support and favorable payer coverage, this has helped bring forward additional accounts and supported continued adoption across both academic centers and community practices. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:11:10Taken together, the Q2 numbers show clear and continued acceleration across leading indicators, including hub registrations, new patient starts, payer coverage, and account activation on top of the FDA-granted market exclusivity and robust quarter-over-quarter revenue growth. We are extremely pleased with the launch performance to date and believe these trends provide a strong foundation for continued growth. The key point is that PAPZIMEOS remains early in its launch curve with a substantial continued opportunity in RRP. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:11:46I'll now turn the call over to Harry for an overview of our Q2 financials. Harry? Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:11:53Thank you, Phil, and good afternoon to all of you participating in our call today. You've heard Helen and Phil talk about the exciting second quarter PAPZIMEOS revenue that we've reported today. That revenue has propelled Precigen to profitability for both the quarter and the six months ended June 30th. This is a significant milestone and somewhat rare for a company to have achieved this prior to the first anniversary of an FDA-approved drug. Let me provide some further color on our overall financial results for the quarter. Total revenues were $55 million, which included $53.1 million related to PAPZIMEOS. Our second quarter PAPZIMEOS revenue grew from the first quarter by $31.5 million as we saw demand for PAPZIMEOS continue to build as the second quarter progressed. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:12:50Cost of products and services for the second quarter totaled $2.8 million, resulting in a gross margin of $52.2 million, or 95%. After the sale of our remaining pre-launch inventory, which we anticipate to be in the third quarter of this year, we expect gross margins related to PAPZIMEOS to stabilize between the high 80% and low 90%. Research and development costs for the quarter were $7.3 million, which compared to the prior year second quarter, decreased by $4.2 million. The majority of this change is explained by the fact that PAPZIMEOS manufacturing costs were expensed as R&D costs prior to the FDA approval, and that amount was $5.7 million in the prior year quarter. We expect that R&D expenses will increase as the year progresses and we continue to advance our pipeline. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:13:52Selling, general and administrative expenses for the quarter were $22.2 million, having increased by $6.1 million from the prior year's second quarter. This increase was significantly driven by increased commercial activities related to PAPZIMEOS. Moving down the statement of operations, operating income for the quarter was $22.6 million. Other expense net totaled $2.6 million for the second quarter, representing interest expense of $3 million on our $100 million outstanding debt, offset by interest income on investments of approximately $400,000. Net income for the quarter was $20.1 million, or $0.05 per diluted share. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:14:40Turning to the balance sheet, we ended the quarter with $38.7 million in cash equivalents, and investments. Q2 represented the first quarter where we saw cash proceeds from the collection of accounts receivable related to PAPZIMEOS. We ended the quarter with $71.9 million in trade accounts receivable on the balance sheet, which based on customer payment terms, we expect to collect over the four months following the quarter end. We continue to reiterate that based on our current financial forecast, our cash equivalents, and investments, along with the collection of PAPZIMEOS receivables, will fund operations through cash flow breakeven by the end of 2026. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:15:30Thank you again for participating in today's call. I'd like to now turn it back to Helen for some closing remarks. Helen? Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:15:38Thank you, Harry. I will now provide an update on our broader portfolio, beginning with PAPZIMEOS clinical and regulatory progress in the U.S. and abroad. PAPZIMEOS has the potential for redosing, supported by its mechanism of action and favorable safety profile. We are currently evaluating this in an ongoing clinical trial, which is actively enrolling patients. We remain on track to initiate a pediatric clinical trial of PAPZIMEOS this year. Our marketing authorization application for PAPZIMEOS is under review by the EMA. PAPZIMEOS has been granted Orphan Drug Designation from the European Commission. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:16:30Turning to PRGN-2009, which uses the same AdenoVerse platform backbone as our approved therapy, PAPZIMEOS, and underscores the broader potential of this technology. PRGN-2009 is an investigational immunotherapy designed to train the immune system to recognize and eliminate tumor cells associated with HPV16 and HPV18, which are the underlying drivers of several major HPV-related cancers, including certain head and neck and cervical cancers. HPV-related malignancies represents nearly 5% of all cancer cases worldwide. PRGN-2009 is currently advancing in multiple phase II clinical trials in combination with pembrolizumab in both head and neck cancer and cervical cancer. We remain very enthusiastic about the potential of this program, particularly given the scale of HPV-related cancers globally. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:17:48We look forward to providing updated data on a head and neck cancer later this year. More broadly, the success of PAPZIMEOS and the progress of PRGN-2009 has established proof of principle for the AdenoVerse platform. As commercial and clinical evidence continues to build, we believe the platform has a strategic value across various indications. We are extremely excited to advance the platform to maximize its potential. We expect to continue evaluating opportunities to advance this platform. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:18:34I will now turn the call over to the operator for Q&A. Operator? Operator00:18:41Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. Should you have a question, please press star followed by the one on your telephone keypad. You will hear a prompt that your hand has been raised. Should you wish to cancel your request, please press star followed by the two. I would like to advise everyone to have a limit of one question and one follow-up. If anyone has an additional question, you can put yourself back in the queue by pressing star one. If you're using a speakerphone, please lift the handset before pressing any keys. One moment please for your first question. Thank you. Your first question comes from the line of Jason Butler from Citizens. Please go ahead. Jason ButlerManaging Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst at Citizens00:19:27Hi. Thanks for taking the questions. Congrats on an exceptional quarter. Obvious first question, can you give us any color into or insight into the growth rate we should expect from 2Q to 3Q? Can you maintain the growth rate you saw from 1Q to 2Q? At least just in broad level, help us understand the trajectory we should expect here. The follow-up is, can you give us a sense of the number of physicians and institutions that have used the drug so far, and if the majority of patients are coming from your hub or outside of the hub? Thank you. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:20:05Hey, Jason. Thank you for the question. It's Phil here. Let me address the first one first. Obviously, the growth rate is critical. We definitely have a very exciting growth story on our hands, and as you've seen, we've grown significantly from Q1 into Q2. The growth story will continue. The level at which we continue to grow will be determined when we get to the end of Q3. All of the things that we've spoken about in terms of the leading indicators, the payer coverage, the account activation, the patients that are coming into play, the permanent J-code, all of these things are leading to a continued growth story. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:20:48Now, mathematically, obviously, when you launch, the growth rate tends to diminish over time, but it's still a growth story, and we're very encouraged by what we're seeing as we head into Q3. [crosstalk] The physicians, so on. We're seeing activations of accounts consistently, so it's a high proportion of our targeted accounts and others that are actually using. Importantly, that's both at the IDN level and in the community setting. We expect that to continue to grow as we go forward. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:21:29Maybe, Jason, this is Helen, and thank you for your question. Maybe we can also add further. Obviously, a tremendous growth rate from Q1 to Q2, which we expect to continue. As Phil mentioned, I think the pre-work that was done by the commercial group in establishing all the fundamentals that is needed to sustain the growth and promote this as we go forward has paid off and continue to pay off. We are really looking forward as we move. As we have mentioned previously, with 27,000 patients at hand in the United States alone, and as you are seeing with the continuous increase in the number of the patients in our hub and also ex Precigen hub, clearly this speaks to the uptake of PAPZIMEOS as a standard of care by physicians, the request of the patient. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:22:35What we are seeing, which is also extremely exciting, it's not just on a severe patient population. We see this across a broad label that we have. All of that are indicators for us that we are looking at a really very exciting trajectory. Jason ButlerManaging Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst at Citizens00:22:59Thank you, Helen. Thanks for taking questions. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:23:02Thanks, Jason. Operator00:23:05Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Swayampakula Ramakanth from Wainwright. Please go ahead. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:23:12Thank you. Good afternoon, team. An excellent quarter. Congratulations from my end as well. PAPZIMEOS is a four-injection course over 12 weeks. What portion of the second quarter revenues is later cycle doses in these patients who initiated in the first quarter? How should we think about that as a tailwind as we go into the third quarter? That's the first question. I have a couple more. Can I go one by one? Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:23:53Sure. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:23:54Okay. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:23:54Hi, thank you for the question. In regard to the patients that we have up to this point have treated more than 200 patients, at least have received one dose of PAPZIMEOS. As you are seeing, the number of the patients in the hubs is continuing to grow, as well as in ex hubs and patients that are coming in from a community center. This is quite exciting. As for the number of the patients that have completed. There are over 100 patients have gone through basically four treatments. Obviously, new patients are joining the hubs as we go. We are very excited about this and fairly[crosstalk]. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:24:45Yeah. Okay, you're right, though. There is a sort of mini annuity, right? With these patients, depending on when they start during the quarter. Some of those doses are carried over into the following quarter. I would say that certainly for the next few quarters, the bulk of the revenue that we will win is going to be new demand. There's definitely a carryover factor quarter-over-quarter, it's new demand that is driving the business. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:25:15Okay. The couple more questions that I have is, one is, of the $53.1 million that you recorded in the second quarter, is there any true-up from prior period revenue reserves? The third question is, on the gross margin, you recorded 95%. Obviously, quite a bit of that is from your pre-approval manufacturing costs, but it's got expense through the R&D line. What could be the real steady-state COGS once that inventory is consumed? Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:25:51Hey, RK, it's Harry. How are you? Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:25:54Great. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:25:56The first question, remind me again the first question. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:25:59Out of that $53.1 million that you recorded in the second quarter. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:26:03Yeah. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:26:03Is there any true-up from the prior quarter? Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:26:06Yeah. Any true-up that would've been recorded as part of reserves would've been very insignificant. The answer is no. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:26:14Okay. On the COGS, what could be the steady-state COGS once you use up all your pre-approval manufacturing reserves? Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:26:25Yeah. We've guided that we anticipate the gross margin will be in the high 80% to low 90%. In the 10% range for COGS. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:26:37Perfect. Thank you very much, folks. Thanks. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:26:39Yeah. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:26:40Thanks, RK. Operator00:26:42Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Brian Cheng from JPMorgan Chase. Please go ahead. Brian ChengSenior Biotech Analyst at JPMorgan Chase00:26:49Hey, guys. Thanks for taking our questions this afternoon. Maybe just two from us. First, can you talk about the trajectory that we're seeing here, just based on the patients at your own patient hub? Are you seeing more patients onboarding from the Center of Excellence, versus your own patient hub in the recent quarter? Second question is, you're just looking into the update later this year, what will you be looking for from the head and neck and cervical updates? Thank you. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:27:22Hey, Brian. Phil here. I'll take the first question. I think the revenue speaks to a very exciting trajectory in terms of patient identification and treatment, regardless of whether it's patients in our hub or patients that have come from outside of our hub. There's a significant contribution of treated patients from institutions who don't use our hub, who haven't used our hub. I think what we're seeing, and we've reported the hub numbers, which are now well over 500. You see that steady and ongoing patient identification, but that is not the only source of patient identification, and we're excited by both trends. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:27:59Yeah. Hi, Brian. In regard to PRGN-2009 and head and neck, as we had mentioned previously, our head and neck trial is an open label trial. Clearly, we are seeing the data as we move, and we will be presenting not only all of the science-based data that will be there, but also the clinical efficacy as well as safety. Especially, it's quite interesting as obviously the arms of the trial are continuing, and we are following those. Definitely the clinical data as well as the scientific data of the mechanism of action and everything else will be presented. We are very excited about this in the coming very near future. By the end of the year, we will be presenting. Brian ChengSenior Biotech Analyst at JPMorgan Chase00:28:56Great. Maybe just a quick follow-up here. Can you talk about just the cadence of patients are incoming? You've seen your permanent J-code in place in April. Has that changed in a meaningful way in terms of patients that are onboarding? Just curious if you can provide a little bit more color since the J-code's in place. Thank you. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:29:22Yeah. Thanks, Brian. We've seen some other launch analogs that the J-code can have an impact, I think it's safe to say that it definitely has helped us since April 1st. Tangibly, we've seen some institutions that we knew were holding back and waiting for the permanent J-code, as you would imagine, they've now come on board and are starting to identify patients. Just in general, across the board, this J-code, which does give more certainty for providers of being reimbursed by payers, is quite an important factor. I think across the board, that has sort of lifted all boats in terms of identification of patients and their treatment. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:30:02Yes, the momentum is definitely with us, particularly after the J-code. Brian ChengSenior Biotech Analyst at JPMorgan Chase00:30:12Great. Thank you, guys. Operator00:30:15Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Michael DiFiore from Evercore ISI. Please go ahead. Michael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISI00:30:23Hi, guys. Thanks so much for taking my question and congrats on the stellar quarter. A few from me. You frequently referenced that the, I guess, prevalent patient pool in the U.S. is 27,000. I guess my question is, how many of those patients are actively managed, identifiable, and realistically addressable by your commercial infrastructure at this point? I have a follow-up. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:30:50Yeah. No, great question. Thanks for that. Yes, there are a lot of patients out there, 27,000, and in any one year, you would expect a number of several thousand of those are actually very evident to the healthcare system because they have multiple surgeries and they're using a lot of resources of the healthcare system. There are thousands of what you might call severe patients. Beyond that, particularly as you then go into the community setting, there are many patients who are earlier in their journey. The good thing from our perspective is that we have a very broad label, and patients right from the beginning of that journey can be treated with PAPZIMEOS, and that's obviously our goal. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:31:34We are seeing patients across all severities, as Helen mentioned, starting to be treated. As we also said, we feel we're at the beginning of our journey and there are a lot more patients, and there's a lot more runway ahead for us. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:31:46Yeah. Michael. Michael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISI00:31:49Thank you. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:31:50Go ahead. Michael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISI00:31:50I'm sorry. Go ahead. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:31:52No, no. Michael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISI00:31:52I was going to say I'm sorry. I was going to say, a related question is regarding if there's any bolus or pent-up demand/warehouse patients, how big is that, and how long might it take you to work through? Thank you. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:32:10Well, I'd refer you to my previous answer, really, because there are several thousand in any one year, and that's just say a count over the past 12 months. In any one year, you're going to have, from our numbers, several thousand patients who fall into that more severe category, which is an obvious place to start for some physicians as they get experience with the drug. We haven't worked our way through that, and there are many more patients consistent with our broad label. Again, we reiterate, there's an ongoing growth story here. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:32:43Maybe I can also add, Michael. From a perspective of the patient population for RRP, unfortunately, patients that are diagnosed with RRP, or they have been diagnosed over the years, the tendency of this disease is just it becomes worse. As we have mentioned, these patients, just by doing a surgery, this disease does not go away because surgeries never address the underlying issues, which is an infection by HPV, basically 6 and 11, whereas PAPZIMEOS does that and addresses exactly the underlying issue. For that reason, as Phil mentioned, not only we have these severe patient populations that exist, we have a patient population that they unfortunately they are infected and it start, and then eventually, as the year go by, it becomes worse. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:33:44Also, what for us is very important and what we are seeing across is the uptake of PAPZIMEOS by physicians and also patients that because the physician at this point, based on the broad label, the safety, the efficacy, and especially the durability that we see, and we reported at ASCO that now where we have not only past three years on some of our patients, in four years post receiving PAPZIMEOS has not required any treatment for RRP. This has added to the excitement for treating the patients as early as possible so they do not receive irreversible damages. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:34:32As you can see, not only we have the thousands of patients that are at the severe position, but also patients that are in their journey with RRP with the less severe, and definitely the physicians do not want them to become more severe and therefore prescribing the PAPZIMEOS. Michael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISI00:34:57Very helpful. Thank you. Operator00:35:00Thank you. Your last question comes on the line of Yuan Zhi from B. Riley. Please go ahead. Yuan ZhiSenior Healthcare Equity Research Analyst at B. Riley00:35:07Thank you for taking our questions, and congrats for a strong quarter. Since you had in-person engagement with initial target accounts, can you remind us how many accounts were on the initial list and how many have actually ordered your drug so far? What is the second wave expansion plan now you have 500 registration in the hub? Thank you. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:35:37Great. Thanks for the question. Just going back to the initial footprint and target number of institutions we identified, there were about 500 institutions that we identified that looked at over 90% or covered 90% of the patient population. Within that, it was about 100 large hospital systems that were responsible for over 80%. Obviously we've targeted accordingly, but as I also mentioned before, we've seen the community come on board quickly, we've embraced the community side of things into our targeting as well. I won't give a specific number on the number that are using, but as you can see from our revenue and all of the leading indicators that we've spoken about, we're making great progress on activating those accounts, and the accounts that are activated are becoming repeat users. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:36:33In terms of the outlook, all of the things that we've spoken about, the continued account activation with the support of the permanent J-code, our broad label, the continued durability results that we have, the safety profile of the drug, the early experience of treating patients with PAPZIMEOS, and the user-friendliness of that experience is all going to drive the continued wave of growth that we expect. Yuan ZhiSenior Healthcare Equity Research Analyst at B. Riley00:37:00Got it. Thank you for taking our questions. Operator00:37:08Thank you. That concludes our question and answer session. I will now hand the call back to Helen Sabzevari for any closing remarks. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:37:17Thank you, operator, thank you to everyone who joined us today. We are very pleased with the strong results we delivered in the second quarter, particularly the continued momentum behind PAPZIMEOS and the important foundation we are building for long-term growth. As we approach the one-year anniversary of approval, we remain focused on expanding access, supporting adoption, advancing our clinical and regulatory priorities, and continuing to execute across the business. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:37:52On behalf of the entire Precigen team, thank you for joining us today and for your continued support. We look forward to keeping you updated as the year progresses. Operator00:38:07That concludes our call for today. Thank you for participating. You may all disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesSteven HarasymVP of Investor RelationsHelen SabzevariPresident and CEOPhil TennantChief Commercial OfficerHarry ThomasianCFOAnalystsJason ButlerManaging Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst at CitizensSwayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at WainwrightBrian ChengSenior Biotech Analyst at JPMorgan ChaseMichael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISIYuan ZhiSenior Healthcare Equity Research Analyst at B. RileyPowered by Earnings DocumentsPress Release(8-K)Quarterly report(10-Q) Precigen Earnings HeadlinesPrecigen (PGEN) Q2 2026 Earnings Call TranscriptAugust 12 at 8:51 AM | finance.yahoo.comHC Wainwright Has Bullish Forecast for Precigen Q3 EarningsAugust 9, 2026 | americanbankingnews.comTrump's New DollarPorter Stansberry says President Trump has signed an executive order initiating what he calls a full U.S. dollar reset - and most Americans don't know it's happening. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Precigen Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Business Updates Conference Call. At this time, all lines are in listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. If at any time during this call you require immediate assistance, please press star zero for the operator. This call is being recorded on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. Operator00:00:27I would now like to turn the conference over to Steve Harasym. Please go ahead. Steven HarasymVP of Investor Relations at Precigen00:00:32Thank you, operator, and thank you to everyone joining us for Precigen's second quarter 2026 update call. We are pleased to be speaking with you today as we continue to see strong momentum across the commercial launch of PAPZIMEOS. Joining me on today's call are Helen Sabzevari, our President and Chief Executive Officer, Phil Tennant, our Chief Commercial Officer, Harry Thomasian, our Chief Financial Officer, and Rutul Shah, our Chief Operating Officer. Helen will begin with an overview of the launch and key strategic updates. Phil will provide additional details on the commercial execution. Harry will review our financial results, and Rutul will be available for the Q&A section. Steven HarasymVP of Investor Relations at Precigen00:01:16Before we begin our prepared remarks, I remind everyone that we will be making various forward-looking statements. These statements are based on our current expectations and beliefs. We encourage you to review the slide in this presentation and our SEC filings, which include risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from today's forward-looking statements. Steven HarasymVP of Investor Relations at Precigen00:01:40With that, I will now turn the call over to Dr. Sabzevari. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:01:45Thank you, Steve, and thank you to everyone joining us for our Q2 2026 business update call. As we approach the one-year anniversary of PAPZIMEOS approval in August 2025, it is worth reflecting on what a meaningful milestone this has been for adults with RRP. PAPZIMEOS brought the first and only approved therapy and a new first-line standard of care to the RRP community. Nearly one year after approval, we continue to see a strong commercial momentum with broadening patient access, growing physician adoption, and increasing utilization across both major medical centers and community practices. I'll begin with a high-level overview of what we are seeing across the launch before turning the call over to Phil for additional commercial detail. Q2 represented exceptional growth from Q1. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:02:52I am proud to state that we generated $53.1 million in PAPZIMEOS revenue compared to $21.6 million in Q1, representing more than 145% revenue growth and marks a significant financial milestone for Precigen. PAPZIMEOS revenue in Q2 propelled the company to a quarterly net profit even before we reach the first anniversary of FDA approval. These results reinforce the significant enthusiasm we continue to see among patients, physicians, and institutions. What is particularly encouraging as we move through Q2 and continue into Q3 is that momentum is building across several dimensions of the launch at the same time. We believe we now have the commercial foundation for durable multi-year growth for PAPZIMEOS. We are seeing a strong demand, broader access, expanding use across care settings, and continued physician adoption. These indicators give us increased confidence in the breadth and durability of PAPZIMEOS' early commercial trajectory. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:04:25We are seeing the benefit of launching with full approval and a broad FDA label translate into a real-world prescribing behavior. Importantly, the label does not impose a minimum number of prior surgeries before a patient can be treated with PAPZIMEOS. As a result, physicians are able to consider PAPZIMEOS based on the individual patient's clinical need. We are seeing use across a broad range of RRP patients, not just the severe cases. This supports our view that PAPZIMEOS is being embedded earlier in the treatment paradigm. The clinical profile continues to resonate strongly with physicians and patients as the new standard of care. PAPZIMEOS is not another intervention in a cycle of repeated surgical interventions. It is designed to address the underlying HPV 6 or 11 driver of the disease through a targeted immune response. PAPZIMEOS durability data continues to strengthen as the long-term follow-up matures. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:05:51As we presented at ASCO, as of the April 30th cut-off, the ongoing durability of complete responses continues to increase, with 83% of patients in ongoing complete response beyond three years, with a number of them beyond four years of being surgery-free. I would like to emphasize that these durable, complete responders have not received any treatment for RRP after receiving PAPZIMEOS. We believe this combination of transformative efficacy, durability, and ongoing responses, and a favorable safety profile remains highly differentiated. Finally, the FDA granted PAPZIMEOS seven-year market exclusivity for adult RRP patients. This exclusivity into August 2032 adds an important layer of protection against prospective competition and supports the value of the commercial opportunity as we continue to expand access and adoption. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:07:15Collectively, these factors have helped build a strong commercial foundation, leading to a strong performance in Q2 and momentum for what we anticipate to be a continued growth. As we have said before, we believe the RRP indication has a blockbuster potential. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:07:39With that, I will now turn the call over to Phil for more detail on our commercial launch. Phil? Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:07:47Thank you, Helen, and welcome to everyone joining us today. I'm pleased to provide an update on the continued progress of our commercial launch. Q2 represented a meaningful acceleration across the business, with strong demand, expanding patient access, and increasing engagement from physicians and institutions as PAPZIMEOS continues to establish itself as the new standard of care for adults with RRP. Importantly, the commercial indicators we are seeing that this is the beginning of a durable growth story. As Helen mentioned, in Q2, PAPZIMEOS generated $53.1 million in revenue compared with $21.6 million in Q1, reflecting continued strong launch performance since the first full quarter of sales in Q1. Launch to date, PAPZIMEOS revenue exceeded $78 million at the end of Q2, underscoring the continued strong momentum we are seeing across all aspects of our launch effort. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:08:53As per my commentary in previous quarters, there are a number of factors and leading indicators continuing to support the impressive launch performance. Patient engagement through the Precigen hub continues to grow. As of today, the total hub number is well over 500 patients. This reflects steady patient identification and continued interest from both major academic centers and community settings. Importantly, Precigen hub data do not capture all patients, as a meaningful proportion of treated patients are coming through non-hub-using institutions. Sites are becoming increasingly confident in their own processes for securing patient access, which could mean more patients in the future receiving PAPZIMEOS without necessarily requiring Precigen hub intervention. We believe the current picture reinforces the breadth of demand for the brand irrespective of our hub utilization. Payer coverage remains exceptional and continues to provide a strong foundation for access. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:10:00With the addition of approximately 18 million covered lives in Q2, total commercial and government coverage is now approximately 315 million lives, representing nearly all potential covered lives in the U.S. market. In my experience, this compares extremely favorably to the typical speed and breadth of coverage for newly approved treatments in the U.S. As expected, we also continue to see activation across both major medical centers and community practices. We feel the permanent J-code, which became effective April 1st, has been particularly important as accounts move from initial engagement to routine use. It provides a standard pathway for reimbursement, it helps institutions process claims more efficiently, and it reduces uncertainty for sites that are still building PAPZIMEOS into their workflows. Together with our field reimbursement support and favorable payer coverage, this has helped bring forward additional accounts and supported continued adoption across both academic centers and community practices. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:11:10Taken together, the Q2 numbers show clear and continued acceleration across leading indicators, including hub registrations, new patient starts, payer coverage, and account activation on top of the FDA-granted market exclusivity and robust quarter-over-quarter revenue growth. We are extremely pleased with the launch performance to date and believe these trends provide a strong foundation for continued growth. The key point is that PAPZIMEOS remains early in its launch curve with a substantial continued opportunity in RRP. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:11:46I'll now turn the call over to Harry for an overview of our Q2 financials. Harry? Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:11:53Thank you, Phil, and good afternoon to all of you participating in our call today. You've heard Helen and Phil talk about the exciting second quarter PAPZIMEOS revenue that we've reported today. That revenue has propelled Precigen to profitability for both the quarter and the six months ended June 30th. This is a significant milestone and somewhat rare for a company to have achieved this prior to the first anniversary of an FDA-approved drug. Let me provide some further color on our overall financial results for the quarter. Total revenues were $55 million, which included $53.1 million related to PAPZIMEOS. Our second quarter PAPZIMEOS revenue grew from the first quarter by $31.5 million as we saw demand for PAPZIMEOS continue to build as the second quarter progressed. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:12:50Cost of products and services for the second quarter totaled $2.8 million, resulting in a gross margin of $52.2 million, or 95%. After the sale of our remaining pre-launch inventory, which we anticipate to be in the third quarter of this year, we expect gross margins related to PAPZIMEOS to stabilize between the high 80% and low 90%. Research and development costs for the quarter were $7.3 million, which compared to the prior year second quarter, decreased by $4.2 million. The majority of this change is explained by the fact that PAPZIMEOS manufacturing costs were expensed as R&D costs prior to the FDA approval, and that amount was $5.7 million in the prior year quarter. We expect that R&D expenses will increase as the year progresses and we continue to advance our pipeline. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:13:52Selling, general and administrative expenses for the quarter were $22.2 million, having increased by $6.1 million from the prior year's second quarter. This increase was significantly driven by increased commercial activities related to PAPZIMEOS. Moving down the statement of operations, operating income for the quarter was $22.6 million. Other expense net totaled $2.6 million for the second quarter, representing interest expense of $3 million on our $100 million outstanding debt, offset by interest income on investments of approximately $400,000. Net income for the quarter was $20.1 million, or $0.05 per diluted share. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:14:40Turning to the balance sheet, we ended the quarter with $38.7 million in cash equivalents, and investments. Q2 represented the first quarter where we saw cash proceeds from the collection of accounts receivable related to PAPZIMEOS. We ended the quarter with $71.9 million in trade accounts receivable on the balance sheet, which based on customer payment terms, we expect to collect over the four months following the quarter end. We continue to reiterate that based on our current financial forecast, our cash equivalents, and investments, along with the collection of PAPZIMEOS receivables, will fund operations through cash flow breakeven by the end of 2026. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:15:30Thank you again for participating in today's call. I'd like to now turn it back to Helen for some closing remarks. Helen? Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:15:38Thank you, Harry. I will now provide an update on our broader portfolio, beginning with PAPZIMEOS clinical and regulatory progress in the U.S. and abroad. PAPZIMEOS has the potential for redosing, supported by its mechanism of action and favorable safety profile. We are currently evaluating this in an ongoing clinical trial, which is actively enrolling patients. We remain on track to initiate a pediatric clinical trial of PAPZIMEOS this year. Our marketing authorization application for PAPZIMEOS is under review by the EMA. PAPZIMEOS has been granted Orphan Drug Designation from the European Commission. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:16:30Turning to PRGN-2009, which uses the same AdenoVerse platform backbone as our approved therapy, PAPZIMEOS, and underscores the broader potential of this technology. PRGN-2009 is an investigational immunotherapy designed to train the immune system to recognize and eliminate tumor cells associated with HPV16 and HPV18, which are the underlying drivers of several major HPV-related cancers, including certain head and neck and cervical cancers. HPV-related malignancies represents nearly 5% of all cancer cases worldwide. PRGN-2009 is currently advancing in multiple phase II clinical trials in combination with pembrolizumab in both head and neck cancer and cervical cancer. We remain very enthusiastic about the potential of this program, particularly given the scale of HPV-related cancers globally. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:17:48We look forward to providing updated data on a head and neck cancer later this year. More broadly, the success of PAPZIMEOS and the progress of PRGN-2009 has established proof of principle for the AdenoVerse platform. As commercial and clinical evidence continues to build, we believe the platform has a strategic value across various indications. We are extremely excited to advance the platform to maximize its potential. We expect to continue evaluating opportunities to advance this platform. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:18:34I will now turn the call over to the operator for Q&A. Operator? Operator00:18:41Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. Should you have a question, please press star followed by the one on your telephone keypad. You will hear a prompt that your hand has been raised. Should you wish to cancel your request, please press star followed by the two. I would like to advise everyone to have a limit of one question and one follow-up. If anyone has an additional question, you can put yourself back in the queue by pressing star one. If you're using a speakerphone, please lift the handset before pressing any keys. One moment please for your first question. Thank you. Your first question comes from the line of Jason Butler from Citizens. Please go ahead. Jason ButlerManaging Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst at Citizens00:19:27Hi. Thanks for taking the questions. Congrats on an exceptional quarter. Obvious first question, can you give us any color into or insight into the growth rate we should expect from 2Q to 3Q? Can you maintain the growth rate you saw from 1Q to 2Q? At least just in broad level, help us understand the trajectory we should expect here. The follow-up is, can you give us a sense of the number of physicians and institutions that have used the drug so far, and if the majority of patients are coming from your hub or outside of the hub? Thank you. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:20:05Hey, Jason. Thank you for the question. It's Phil here. Let me address the first one first. Obviously, the growth rate is critical. We definitely have a very exciting growth story on our hands, and as you've seen, we've grown significantly from Q1 into Q2. The growth story will continue. The level at which we continue to grow will be determined when we get to the end of Q3. All of the things that we've spoken about in terms of the leading indicators, the payer coverage, the account activation, the patients that are coming into play, the permanent J-code, all of these things are leading to a continued growth story. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:20:48Now, mathematically, obviously, when you launch, the growth rate tends to diminish over time, but it's still a growth story, and we're very encouraged by what we're seeing as we head into Q3. [crosstalk] The physicians, so on. We're seeing activations of accounts consistently, so it's a high proportion of our targeted accounts and others that are actually using. Importantly, that's both at the IDN level and in the community setting. We expect that to continue to grow as we go forward. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:21:29Maybe, Jason, this is Helen, and thank you for your question. Maybe we can also add further. Obviously, a tremendous growth rate from Q1 to Q2, which we expect to continue. As Phil mentioned, I think the pre-work that was done by the commercial group in establishing all the fundamentals that is needed to sustain the growth and promote this as we go forward has paid off and continue to pay off. We are really looking forward as we move. As we have mentioned previously, with 27,000 patients at hand in the United States alone, and as you are seeing with the continuous increase in the number of the patients in our hub and also ex Precigen hub, clearly this speaks to the uptake of PAPZIMEOS as a standard of care by physicians, the request of the patient. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:22:35What we are seeing, which is also extremely exciting, it's not just on a severe patient population. We see this across a broad label that we have. All of that are indicators for us that we are looking at a really very exciting trajectory. Jason ButlerManaging Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst at Citizens00:22:59Thank you, Helen. Thanks for taking questions. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:23:02Thanks, Jason. Operator00:23:05Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Swayampakula Ramakanth from Wainwright. Please go ahead. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:23:12Thank you. Good afternoon, team. An excellent quarter. Congratulations from my end as well. PAPZIMEOS is a four-injection course over 12 weeks. What portion of the second quarter revenues is later cycle doses in these patients who initiated in the first quarter? How should we think about that as a tailwind as we go into the third quarter? That's the first question. I have a couple more. Can I go one by one? Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:23:53Sure. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:23:54Okay. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:23:54Hi, thank you for the question. In regard to the patients that we have up to this point have treated more than 200 patients, at least have received one dose of PAPZIMEOS. As you are seeing, the number of the patients in the hubs is continuing to grow, as well as in ex hubs and patients that are coming in from a community center. This is quite exciting. As for the number of the patients that have completed. There are over 100 patients have gone through basically four treatments. Obviously, new patients are joining the hubs as we go. We are very excited about this and fairly[crosstalk]. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:24:45Yeah. Okay, you're right, though. There is a sort of mini annuity, right? With these patients, depending on when they start during the quarter. Some of those doses are carried over into the following quarter. I would say that certainly for the next few quarters, the bulk of the revenue that we will win is going to be new demand. There's definitely a carryover factor quarter-over-quarter, it's new demand that is driving the business. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:25:15Okay. The couple more questions that I have is, one is, of the $53.1 million that you recorded in the second quarter, is there any true-up from prior period revenue reserves? The third question is, on the gross margin, you recorded 95%. Obviously, quite a bit of that is from your pre-approval manufacturing costs, but it's got expense through the R&D line. What could be the real steady-state COGS once that inventory is consumed? Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:25:51Hey, RK, it's Harry. How are you? Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:25:54Great. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:25:56The first question, remind me again the first question. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:25:59Out of that $53.1 million that you recorded in the second quarter. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:26:03Yeah. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:26:03Is there any true-up from the prior quarter? Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:26:06Yeah. Any true-up that would've been recorded as part of reserves would've been very insignificant. The answer is no. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:26:14Okay. On the COGS, what could be the steady-state COGS once you use up all your pre-approval manufacturing reserves? Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:26:25Yeah. We've guided that we anticipate the gross margin will be in the high 80% to low 90%. In the 10% range for COGS. Swayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wainwright00:26:37Perfect. Thank you very much, folks. Thanks. Harry ThomasianCFO at Precigen00:26:39Yeah. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:26:40Thanks, RK. Operator00:26:42Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Brian Cheng from JPMorgan Chase. Please go ahead. Brian ChengSenior Biotech Analyst at JPMorgan Chase00:26:49Hey, guys. Thanks for taking our questions this afternoon. Maybe just two from us. First, can you talk about the trajectory that we're seeing here, just based on the patients at your own patient hub? Are you seeing more patients onboarding from the Center of Excellence, versus your own patient hub in the recent quarter? Second question is, you're just looking into the update later this year, what will you be looking for from the head and neck and cervical updates? Thank you. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:27:22Hey, Brian. Phil here. I'll take the first question. I think the revenue speaks to a very exciting trajectory in terms of patient identification and treatment, regardless of whether it's patients in our hub or patients that have come from outside of our hub. There's a significant contribution of treated patients from institutions who don't use our hub, who haven't used our hub. I think what we're seeing, and we've reported the hub numbers, which are now well over 500. You see that steady and ongoing patient identification, but that is not the only source of patient identification, and we're excited by both trends. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:27:59Yeah. Hi, Brian. In regard to PRGN-2009 and head and neck, as we had mentioned previously, our head and neck trial is an open label trial. Clearly, we are seeing the data as we move, and we will be presenting not only all of the science-based data that will be there, but also the clinical efficacy as well as safety. Especially, it's quite interesting as obviously the arms of the trial are continuing, and we are following those. Definitely the clinical data as well as the scientific data of the mechanism of action and everything else will be presented. We are very excited about this in the coming very near future. By the end of the year, we will be presenting. Brian ChengSenior Biotech Analyst at JPMorgan Chase00:28:56Great. Maybe just a quick follow-up here. Can you talk about just the cadence of patients are incoming? You've seen your permanent J-code in place in April. Has that changed in a meaningful way in terms of patients that are onboarding? Just curious if you can provide a little bit more color since the J-code's in place. Thank you. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:29:22Yeah. Thanks, Brian. We've seen some other launch analogs that the J-code can have an impact, I think it's safe to say that it definitely has helped us since April 1st. Tangibly, we've seen some institutions that we knew were holding back and waiting for the permanent J-code, as you would imagine, they've now come on board and are starting to identify patients. Just in general, across the board, this J-code, which does give more certainty for providers of being reimbursed by payers, is quite an important factor. I think across the board, that has sort of lifted all boats in terms of identification of patients and their treatment. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:30:02Yes, the momentum is definitely with us, particularly after the J-code. Brian ChengSenior Biotech Analyst at JPMorgan Chase00:30:12Great. Thank you, guys. Operator00:30:15Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Michael DiFiore from Evercore ISI. Please go ahead. Michael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISI00:30:23Hi, guys. Thanks so much for taking my question and congrats on the stellar quarter. A few from me. You frequently referenced that the, I guess, prevalent patient pool in the U.S. is 27,000. I guess my question is, how many of those patients are actively managed, identifiable, and realistically addressable by your commercial infrastructure at this point? I have a follow-up. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:30:50Yeah. No, great question. Thanks for that. Yes, there are a lot of patients out there, 27,000, and in any one year, you would expect a number of several thousand of those are actually very evident to the healthcare system because they have multiple surgeries and they're using a lot of resources of the healthcare system. There are thousands of what you might call severe patients. Beyond that, particularly as you then go into the community setting, there are many patients who are earlier in their journey. The good thing from our perspective is that we have a very broad label, and patients right from the beginning of that journey can be treated with PAPZIMEOS, and that's obviously our goal. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:31:34We are seeing patients across all severities, as Helen mentioned, starting to be treated. As we also said, we feel we're at the beginning of our journey and there are a lot more patients, and there's a lot more runway ahead for us. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:31:46Yeah. Michael. Michael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISI00:31:49Thank you. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:31:50Go ahead. Michael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISI00:31:50I'm sorry. Go ahead. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:31:52No, no. Michael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISI00:31:52I was going to say I'm sorry. I was going to say, a related question is regarding if there's any bolus or pent-up demand/warehouse patients, how big is that, and how long might it take you to work through? Thank you. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:32:10Well, I'd refer you to my previous answer, really, because there are several thousand in any one year, and that's just say a count over the past 12 months. In any one year, you're going to have, from our numbers, several thousand patients who fall into that more severe category, which is an obvious place to start for some physicians as they get experience with the drug. We haven't worked our way through that, and there are many more patients consistent with our broad label. Again, we reiterate, there's an ongoing growth story here. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:32:43Maybe I can also add, Michael. From a perspective of the patient population for RRP, unfortunately, patients that are diagnosed with RRP, or they have been diagnosed over the years, the tendency of this disease is just it becomes worse. As we have mentioned, these patients, just by doing a surgery, this disease does not go away because surgeries never address the underlying issues, which is an infection by HPV, basically 6 and 11, whereas PAPZIMEOS does that and addresses exactly the underlying issue. For that reason, as Phil mentioned, not only we have these severe patient populations that exist, we have a patient population that they unfortunately they are infected and it start, and then eventually, as the year go by, it becomes worse. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:33:44Also, what for us is very important and what we are seeing across is the uptake of PAPZIMEOS by physicians and also patients that because the physician at this point, based on the broad label, the safety, the efficacy, and especially the durability that we see, and we reported at ASCO that now where we have not only past three years on some of our patients, in four years post receiving PAPZIMEOS has not required any treatment for RRP. This has added to the excitement for treating the patients as early as possible so they do not receive irreversible damages. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:34:32As you can see, not only we have the thousands of patients that are at the severe position, but also patients that are in their journey with RRP with the less severe, and definitely the physicians do not want them to become more severe and therefore prescribing the PAPZIMEOS. Michael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISI00:34:57Very helpful. Thank you. Operator00:35:00Thank you. Your last question comes on the line of Yuan Zhi from B. Riley. Please go ahead. Yuan ZhiSenior Healthcare Equity Research Analyst at B. Riley00:35:07Thank you for taking our questions, and congrats for a strong quarter. Since you had in-person engagement with initial target accounts, can you remind us how many accounts were on the initial list and how many have actually ordered your drug so far? What is the second wave expansion plan now you have 500 registration in the hub? Thank you. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:35:37Great. Thanks for the question. Just going back to the initial footprint and target number of institutions we identified, there were about 500 institutions that we identified that looked at over 90% or covered 90% of the patient population. Within that, it was about 100 large hospital systems that were responsible for over 80%. Obviously we've targeted accordingly, but as I also mentioned before, we've seen the community come on board quickly, we've embraced the community side of things into our targeting as well. I won't give a specific number on the number that are using, but as you can see from our revenue and all of the leading indicators that we've spoken about, we're making great progress on activating those accounts, and the accounts that are activated are becoming repeat users. Phil TennantChief Commercial Officer at Precigen00:36:33In terms of the outlook, all of the things that we've spoken about, the continued account activation with the support of the permanent J-code, our broad label, the continued durability results that we have, the safety profile of the drug, the early experience of treating patients with PAPZIMEOS, and the user-friendliness of that experience is all going to drive the continued wave of growth that we expect. Yuan ZhiSenior Healthcare Equity Research Analyst at B. Riley00:37:00Got it. Thank you for taking our questions. Operator00:37:08Thank you. That concludes our question and answer session. I will now hand the call back to Helen Sabzevari for any closing remarks. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:37:17Thank you, operator, thank you to everyone who joined us today. We are very pleased with the strong results we delivered in the second quarter, particularly the continued momentum behind PAPZIMEOS and the important foundation we are building for long-term growth. As we approach the one-year anniversary of approval, we remain focused on expanding access, supporting adoption, advancing our clinical and regulatory priorities, and continuing to execute across the business. Helen SabzevariPresident and CEO at Precigen00:37:52On behalf of the entire Precigen team, thank you for joining us today and for your continued support. We look forward to keeping you updated as the year progresses. Operator00:38:07That concludes our call for today. Thank you for participating. You may all disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesSteven HarasymVP of Investor RelationsHelen SabzevariPresident and CEOPhil TennantChief Commercial OfficerHarry ThomasianCFOAnalystsJason ButlerManaging Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst at CitizensSwayampakula RamakanthManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at WainwrightBrian ChengSenior Biotech Analyst at JPMorgan ChaseMichael DiFioreManaging Director at Evercore ISIYuan ZhiSenior Healthcare Equity Research Analyst at B. RileyPowered by