Investor Presentaiton
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Werner Helicase is Synthetic Lethal with Microsatellite Instability
Targeting Development Candidate in H2 2023
Discovery of Potent and Selective WRN Inhibitors
Werner Helicase Inhibitor Drug Discovery
Solved >85 X-ray Co-Crystal Structures
D2
τα
D2
D1
Achieved >10,000,000-fold Affinity Increase
Initial Hits
Improved Inhibitors
High Affinity
Poor Druglike Properties Good Druglike Properties
Low Affinity
Mean tumor volume (mm³)
In Vivo Efficacy and Selectivity*
1500
MSI-H
750
Vehicle
WRNi
% Activity
wrt DMSO control
D2
τα
D2
D1
Biochemical activity across Target Class*
120-
100-
80-
60-
Pangenomic Cellular Activity Correlation^
10
9
8
WRN
BLM
✰ RecQ1
RecQ4
RecQ5
(b)001-
WRN
⚫ PRISM AUC
3
2
40-
20-
0+
0.0001 0.001 0.01 0.1
1
10 100
1000
IDB WRNI (μM)
-0.35
-0.25
-0.15
-0.05
0.05
0.15
0.25
Nanomolar potency only against WRN
Pearson correlation
CRISPR Knockouts
Sensitivity to WRNi correlates most strongly with
WRN gene dependency across the CCLE
* IDEAYA / GSK Data: AACR 2023, M. Fischer et. al.
^ IDEAYA / GSK / Broad Institute Data: AACR 2023, M. Fischer et. al.
Mean tumor volume (mm³)
0
2500 MSS
1250
20
Treatment day
40
Vehicle
WRNi
10
Treatment day
20
IDEAYA
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