Business Update & Financial Outlook
ID
Progressing our broader pipeline
Vaccines and Infectious Disease
VACCINES
V116, our investigational pneumococcal conjugate
vaccine specifically designed for adults:
- protects against serotypes that are responsible for ~85% of
invasive pneumococcal disease in adults ages ≥651
- includes 8 serotypes that are currently not covered by
approved vaccines, and are responsible for ~30% of invasive
pneumococcal disease in adults ages ≥651
Announced positive topline data for V116 for two Phase 3
trials (STRIDE-3 and STRIDE-6)
General Medicine
CARDIOMETABOLIC
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Completed FDA submission of sotatercept for the
treatment of adults with PAH based on the Phase 3
STELLAR trial
Presented positive data at EASL from the Phase 2a trial
evaluating efinopegdutide, our investigational GLP-1/
glucagon receptor co-agonist, in patients with NAFLD
and initiated Phase 2b trial in pre-cirrhotic NASH
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Received FDA approval for PREVYMIS for prophylaxis of
CMV disease for adult recipients of kidney transplant
who are at high-risk of infection
COUGH
FDA accepted re-submission of the NDA for gefapixant
in patients with refractory or unexplained chronic cough
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, IPD serotype data 2019, as compiled from data provided through Active Bacterial Coresurveillance (ABCs).
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