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Business Insider
14-05-2025
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TD Cowen Sticks to Its Hold Rating for MacroGenics (MGNX)
TD Cowen analyst Tara Bancroft maintained a Hold rating on MacroGenics (MGNX – Research Report) today. The company's shares closed today at $1.54. Protect Your Portfolio Against Market Uncertainty Discover companies with rock-solid fundamentals in TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter. Receive undervalued stocks, resilient to market uncertainty, delivered straight to your inbox. Bancroft covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Geron, Merus, and Vaxcyte. According to TipRanks, Bancroft has an average return of -15.7% and a 20.31% success rate on recommended stocks. MacroGenics has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $6.00. The company has a one-year high of $5.77 and a one-year low of $0.99. Currently, MacroGenics has an average volume of 730.7K.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
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MacroGenics (MGNX) Reports Q1 Loss, Lags Revenue Estimates
MacroGenics (MGNX) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.65 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.61. This compares to loss of $0.84 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of -6.56%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this biopharmaceutical company would post a loss of $0.23 per share when it actually produced a loss of $0.25, delivering a surprise of -8.70%. Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates just once. MacroGenics , which belongs to the Zacks Medical - Products industry, posted revenues of $13.19 million for the quarter ended March 2025, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 5.45%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $9.1 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates just once over the last four quarters. The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call. MacroGenics shares have lost about 51.1% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's decline of -0.6%. While MacroGenics has underperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock? There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately. Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions. Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for MacroGenics: favorable. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to outperform the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is -$0.50 on $18.13 million in revenues for the coming quarter and -$2.21 on $78.51 million in revenues for the current fiscal year. Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Medical - Products is currently in the bottom 32% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1. Another stock from the same industry, Allurion Technologies, Inc. (ALUR), has yet to report results for the quarter ended March 2025. The results are expected to be released on May 14. This company is expected to post quarterly loss of $1.53 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of -155.6%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days. Allurion Technologies, Inc.'s revenues are expected to be $5.7 million, down 39.3% from the year-ago quarter. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report MacroGenics, Inc. (MGNX) : Free Stock Analysis Report Allurion Technologies, Inc. (ALUR) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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21-03-2025
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MacroGenics (MGNX) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
MacroGenics (NASDAQ: MGNX)Q4 2024 Earnings CallMar 20, 2025, 4:30 p.m. ET Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call ParticipantsOperator Good afternoon. We will begin the MacroGenics fourth quarter and full year 2024 corporate progress and financial results conference call in just a moment. All participants are in a listen-only mode, and we will conduct a question and answer session at the conclusion of the call. At this point, I will turn the call over to Jim Karrels, senior vice president and chief financial officer of MacroGenics. Please proceed. James Karrels -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, and welcome to MacroGenics conference call to discuss our fourth quarter and full year 2024 financial and operational results. For anyone who has not had the chance to review these results, we have issued a press release this afternoon outlining today's announcements. This release is available under the investors tab on our website at You may also listen to this conference call via webcast on our website, where it will be archived for 30 days beginning approximately two hours after the call is completed. I'd like to alert listeners that today's discussion will include statements about the company's future expectations, plans, and prospects that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provision under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those discussed in the risk factors section of our annual, quarterly, and current reports filed with the SEC. In addition, any forward-looking statements represent our views only as of today and should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date. 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Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Thank you, Jim. I'd like to welcome everyone participating via conference call and webcast today. 2024 was an important year for MacroGenics as we achieved several significant clinical development milestones and are well-positioned to build upon that momentum in 2025. We have a diverse and promising clinical portfolio, and we look forward to a year of continued progress. On today's call, we will provide key updates on our business and clinical programs. I'll now turn it over to Stephen to discuss those clinical updates. Stephen Eck -- Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, and Chief Medical Officer Thank you, Scott. We made meaningful advancements in 2024 and look forward to continued execution as we develop and grow our portfolio of antibody-based cancer treatments in 2025. First, from our proprietary investigational pipeline, I will talk about lorigerlimab, our bispecific tetravalent DART molecule designed to enable blockade of PD-1 and CTLA-4 with potentially enhanced CTLA-4 blockade on T cells co-expressing these immune checkpoint molecules that are highly enriched in the tumor microenvironment. I'm pleased to share that enrollment is complete in the ongoing LORIKEET phase 2 trial, a 150-patient randomized study for lorigerlimab in combination with docetaxel versus docetaxel alone in second-line chemotherapy-naive patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The current trial design includes a primary study endpoint of radiographic progression-free survival. Given that this endpoint is an event-driven, the availability and subsequent presentation of final rPFS data will depend on the eventual rPFS event accrual rate. We anticipate providing a clinical update for LORIKEET in the second half of this year. Based on our cumulative experience to date from our phase 1 and phase 2 studies of lorigerlimab, including in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, a tumor setting historically insensitive to checkpoint inhibition, we plan to initiate the limits of phase 2 study. This clinical trial will evaluate lorigerlimab monotherapy in patients with either platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, PROC, or clear cell gynecologic cancer, CCGC. Both represent unmet need and historically have been relatively insensitive to checkpoint inhibitor therapy. The study's primary endpoint is ORR with multiple secondary endpoints to be explored. The company anticipates enrolling up to 40 patients with PROC and up to 20 patients with CCGC in LINNET, which is expected to commence by mid 2025. Next, I'm very excited to update you on our emerging ADC portfolio. We have three antibody drug conjugate molecules, two in clinical development, one in preclinical studies, that each incorporate a novel glycan-linked topoisomerase inhibitor-based payload, which are developed by our collaboration partner, Synaffix, a Lonza company. I will now walk you through these three candidates. First is MGC026, which is a Topo 1 inhibitor-based ADC that targets B7-H3, an antigen with broad expression across multiple solid tumors and a member of the B7 family of molecules involved in immune regulation. We are excited about the potential for MGC026 given the molecule was constructed using a clinically active variable domain, also contained in vobra duo, as well as the use of Synaffix's Topo 1 inhibitor-linker payload, which has shown potentially superior preclinical profile compared to that of other topoisomerase one inhibitors. MGC026 is currently being evaluated in a phase 1 dose escalation study in patients with advanced solid tumors. We anticipate dose expansion in selected indications will initiate in 2025. We plan to disclose these indications at a later date. Second is MGC028, a Topo 1 inhibitor-based ADC that targets ADAM9, a member of the ADAM family of multifunctional type one transmembrane proteins that play a role in tumorigenesis and cancer progression and are over-expressed in multiple cancers such as pancreatic, gastric, adenocarcinoma of the lung, and squamous-cell lung cancer, among others. As a reminder, we previously presented preclinical data showing anti-tumor activity of MGC028 in vivo models. Also, in a nonhuman primate study, MGC028 was well tolerated at high dose levels with mild reversible side effects and no ocular toxicity, which is often a concern with tubulin inhibitor-based ADCs. The IND for MGC028 was cleared by the FDA early this year, and the first patient was recently dosed in a phase 1 study in patients with advanced solid tumors. And third is MGC030, a preclinical Topo 1 inhibitor-based ADC that targets an undisclosed antigen expressed across several solid tumors. There are currently no approved therapies to this target. We anticipate submitting an Investigational new drug, or IND, application for MGC030 in 2026, further expanding our already deep clinical pipeline. In terms of our T cell engagers, recall that MGD024 is our next-generation bispecific CD123 by CD3 DART molecule that incorporates a CD3 component designed to minimize cytokine release syndrome. Our phase 1 dose escalation study of MGD024 is ongoing in patients with CD123-positive relapse or refractory hematologic malignancies, including acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. Gilead has the option to license MGD024 at predefined decision points during the phase 1 study. Finally, I'll update you on vobramitamab duocarmazine, or vobra duo, which is our ADC designed to deliver DNA-alkylating duocarmycin cytotoxic payload to tumors expressing B7-H3. We announced today results from the TAMARACK phase 2 study of vobra duo in patients with mCRPC who were previously treated with one prior androgen receptor axis-targeted therapy. Study participants may have received up to one prior taxane containing regimen but no other chemotherapy agents. These results based on a data cutoff of February 21, 2025, showed mature median rPFS of 9.5 months for the 2.0 mg/kg cohort and 10.0 months for the 2.7 mg/kg cohort in patients with mCRPC. Safety data from the study remained consistent with our prior data disclosures. Based on our internal review and assessment of TAMARACK efficacy and safety, to date, we have decided not to pursue further internal development of vobra duo and are exploring potential alternatives for partnering the program. We believe the B7-H3 target continues to have potential and are pleased with the progress being made with our alternative anti-B7-H3 ADC MGC026. As you can see, there are several upcoming milestones expected across our portfolio in 2025. We're excited about the progress we made in 2024 to advance our programs and look forward to providing further updates in 2025. And now, I'll turn the call over to Jim. James Karrels -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary Thank you, Stephen. This afternoon MacroGenics reported financial results for the year ended December 31, 2024, which highlight our financial position. As described in a release this afternoon, MacroGenics total revenue was $150 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to total revenue of $58.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. The increase was primarily due to a net increase of $85 million in revenue recognized from milestones achieved under the Incyte license agreement. Our revenue for the year ended December 31, 2024 included $118.9 million in revenue from collaborative and other agreements, MARGENZA net sales of $16.4 million, and contract manufacturing revenue of $13.1 million. Our research and development expenses were $177.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, compared to $166.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. The increase was primarily due to increased research, development, manufacturing, and clinical costs related to MGC028, our preclinical ADC pipeline, and lorigerlimab, offset by decreased development and clinical trial costs related to our previously discontinued projects and margetuximab. Our selling, general and administrative expenses were $71 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, compared to $52.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. The increase was due to an $8 million amendment fee we paid to our former commercial partner pursuant to the asset sale of MARGENZA to TerSera Therapeutics, which closed in the fourth quarter of 2024, as well as increased noncash stock-based compensation and accrued severance expenses related to the separation agreement with our chief executive officer. During the year ended December 31, 2024, other income reflected a $36.3 million gain recognized on our sale of MARGENZA to TerSera. Our net loss was $67 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, compared to net loss of $9.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. Our cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities balance as of December 31, 2024 was $201.7 million compared to $229.8 million as of December 31, 2023. Finally, in terms of our cash runway, we anticipate that our cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities balance of $201.7 million as of December 31, 2024, plus additional projected and anticipated future payments from partners, should extend our cash runway into the second half of 2026. Our anticipated funding requirements reflect expected expenditures related to the ongoing phase two LORIKEET study of lorigerlimab and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, as well as our other clinical and preclinical studies currently ongoing. And now, I will turn the call back to Scott. Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Thank you, Jim. As I previously mentioned, 2024 was a year of strong execution and important progress for MacroGenics. We are excited about our innovative and proprietary pipeline of product candidates, including lorigerlimab, MGCO26 and MGC028. And we look forward to continuing to advance these candidates and sharing our progress with you. Our development efforts are complemented by our continued business development focus, and we were very pleased to complete the sale of Mar MARGENZA to TerSera Therapeutics in the fourth quarter. The nondilutive capital from this deal, along with a $100 million received from Incyte during the year, has allowed us to continue to invest in our clinical pipeline and R&D efforts. Lastly, the board continues its diligent search for my successor, and I remain committed to supporting the company during the transition period. We look forward to providing you with updates when available. In closing, 2025 looks to be an exciting year for MacroGenics as we work to advance our pipeline, expand our partnerships, and drive value for both patients and our shareholders. We would now be happy to open the call for questions. Operator?Operator [Operator instructions] Please stand by for our first question, please. And it comes from the line of Peter Lawson with Barclays. Please proceed. Peter Lawson -- Analyst Great. Thanks so much for taking the questions. On the LINNET study, what are the gating factors to starting? And then, on the B7-H3 Topo 1 ADC, where are you for the -- in the dose expansion or -- yeah. Stephen Eck -- Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, and Chief Medical Officer Yeah, I'm happy to answer that. So, with regard to LINNET, as you know, the standard of care for -- in later-line ovarian cancer is quite low. You typically see the overall response rates of 10% to 15% with anti-PD-1 experimental therapy setting. Some selected experimental trials of ADCs in combination with checkpoint inhibitors have demonstrated ORRs outside about 30%. This is a small study, but it is a well-selected patient population, which I think will be able to inform us about whether we can further develop in these indications. And then, you had a question about the MGC026 a phase 1 study. So, that study has enrolled quite well. We're very pleased with the progress we've made. You know, we're well into a very nice dosing range, and we should be selecting a dose for further expansion sometime later this year. Peter Lawson -- Analyst Gotcha. Thank you so much. Operator Thank you. One moment for our next question, please. Comes from the line of Jonathan Chang with Leerink Partners. Please proceed. Jonathan Chang -- Analyst Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. First question, can you discuss the rationale behind developing lorigerlimab in ovarian and clear-cell gynecologic cancers? And second question, on MGC026, when could we see initial clinical data for that program? Thank you. Stephen Eck -- Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, and Chief Medical Officer Yeah. Hi. This is Stephen. So, I'll answer the second question first. We probably won't get to show you data until the latter half of this year for 026. With regard to lorigerlimab in ovarian cancer and clear-cell gynecologic cancers, I would take that indication because it's basically untreated area as far as checkpoint inhibitors are concerned. The checkpoint inhibitors are currently available have not shown as much promise as one would like. We think our checkpoint inhibitor lorigerlimab differentiates well because we specifically target the T cells that are already in the tumor microenvironment and that co-express both PD-1 and CTLA-4. And in doing so, largely but not completely, spare the T regulatory cells that are in the periphery that give rise to the classic toxicities that you see with the available CTLA-4 inhibitors. Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Jonathan, this is Scott. I'll just add on the other note. Looking at open spaces for treating combination checkpoint molecules, our encouraging data that we have seen both in reported late stage castration-resistant prostate cancer and the ongoing LORIKEET study, which is, as you know, an indication in which is considered a [Inaudible] tumor has not successfully been treated with checkpoints before, we think ovarian is another case here where similar mechanisms might prevail on the value and the side effects of the lorigerlimab. Jonathan Chang -- Analyst Got it. Thanks for taking the questions. Operator Thank you. Our next question is from Tara Bancroft with TD Cowen. Please proceed. Nick Lorusso -- TD Cowen -- Analyst Thanks, guys. This is Nick, on for Tara. The first one for me is, given the rPFS data that you guys just reported for vobra duo, how does this help clarify the path forward for MGC026? For example, do you plan to move this forward in pre-chemo or post-chemo patients, assuming that mCRPC is still an indication of interest? And then, the second question is, for the LORIKEET data that's coming in the second half of the year, should we expect to see any rPFS data from that, or is this primarily just going to be ORR? Thanks. Stephen Eck -- Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, and Chief Medical Officer Well, we certainly will see -- I'll answer the second question first, Nick. We certainly will see ORR, whether we see PFS or not is event-driven. And so, we just have to wait and see how the cards fall and how quickly we progress, so I can't speculate beyond that. Now, your first question is in regard to 026 and how that differentiates, 026 is considerably different than of vobra duo, 018. They have a different -- a slightly different linker and a completely different payload. So, we think there's opportunity for activity beyond what we saw with 018. And also, it's unlikely we will see and so far haven't seen the -- some of the toxicities we saw with the vobra duo, most notably the pleural effusions. Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director And, Nick, this is Scott. I just want to add, your question alluded to the fact of comparing that in a prostate setting. We have not decided at this point on 026 on which indications. We'll let the clinical data guide us, obviously, the competitive landscape and what we see in prostate and other tumors to decide what particular tumor types will prioritize for further expansion. Nick Lorusso -- TD Cowen -- Analyst That's very helpful, Thank you very much. Operator Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Jon Miller with Evercore. Please proceed. Jon Miller -- Analyst Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my question. I'm going to build on the other Jon question on the LINNET indications. I noticed that you're not including any of the indications where AstraZeneca is developing their PD-1, CTLA-4 bispecific. Can you speak to any plans you might have in those more traditionally hot tumors or places where we already know that there's a good potential for PD-1, CTLA-4 combinations. And then, secondly, speaking of combinations, if LINNET really does have a superior tox profile relative to CTLA-4s, are there places where you might practically be targeting combinations of LINNET with non-IO agents in those indications? Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Jon, thanks so much for your question. With regard to the pathway, we are going to proceed. Obviously, we have to prioritize our studies and given the open space in ovarian. We figured that this was an opportunity for us to take advantage of, but we have not excluded the opportunities for other tumors as well. We'll see how the lorigerlimab LORIKEET study comes out. We'll see how the LINNET proceed. And then, clearly, we are certainly open to looking at other indications in a timely manner. With regard to combinations, you hit the nail on the head. In fact, by completing the LORIKEET study and now demonstrating that we can combine it with a chemotherapeutic, like docetaxel, which by itself has its own toxicities, we will look at other combinations in the future as we get the final results on LORIKEET. Given particularly the mechanisms by which LORIKEET is working, the ability to combine this with other ADCs, TKIs, and other therapeutics is certainly planned in the future. Jon Miller -- Analyst Thanks so much. Operator Thank you. Our next question is from Stephen Willey with Stifel. Please proceed. Stephen Willey -- Analyst Yeah. Thanks for taking the question. I guess in the context of potentially getting an update of LORIKEET that maybe does not include at rPFS before the end of this year, is there just anything that you can say? I know it's really early at this point, but is there anything that you can say just about how the event rate appears to be accruing at this point? Is it in line with its expectations? Is it going a little bit slower than expected? I know the randomization scheme here is 2-to-1 in favor of lori. So, just curious. Stephen Eck -- Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, and Chief Medical Officer Yes. I mean it's a 2-to-1 randomization study of a study designed for 150 patients. We're very pleased with how quickly it enrolled. We started in the later part of 2023 and closed that enrollment for the end of 2024. So, the study's fully enrolled, and we're just waiting for events. I think it's too early to comment on the event rate. You know, so beyond that, we just have to wait and see. It's just too early to know. Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director You know, just an addition is that we had a sizable number of patients that were enrolled early in '24 as well. And given what the expected control population would progress, it would not be unreasonable to think that having a PFS event rate in the second half of the year is possible. But as Stephen commented on, until we achieve the actual numbers, we won't discuss it. Stephen Willey -- Analyst OK. And I think maybe the question was asked. I might have missed the answer. But could there be some data that's disclosed here in the back half of the year from LORIKEET, whether that's a response rate data point, a PSA point? Stephen Eck -- Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, and Chief Medical Officer Yeah, yeah, that certainly could. We just don't know. I mean -- so it's -- there are two factors. One, you don't know how well the control arm performs. There's a good bit of variability, you know, docetaxel performs in a clinical setting and varies from trial to trial. So, there's that factor. And then, there's -- you have the experimental arm. So, we'd like to see how much added benefit we have if it's going to come down to the effect size. And the size -- bigger the effect size, the sooner you find out. Stephen Willey -- Analyst OK. I guess the question is just whether or not there's disclosable data in the absence of having that rPFS trigger. Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Yeah -- Stephen Eck -- Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, and Chief Medical Officer The ORR is something we can look at. Stephen Willey -- Analyst OK. Stephen Eck -- Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, and Chief Medical Officer And we would expect both agents could contribute to ORR, so you could see differentiation on ORR alone. And that's not as event-driven. Stephen Willey -- Analyst And then -- Stephen Eck -- Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, and Chief Medical Officer There's -- there is a [Inaudible] of time that it takes to get an ORR sometimes. Stephen Willey -- Analyst Yep, yep, understood. And then just on the ADC portfolio, can you just remind us what the highest nontoxic dose for 026 was in pre-clinical primate trials? Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Yes. Stephen Willey -- Analyst And is there any kind of differential in that dosing threshold between 026 and 028 just as we try to think about the relative TI for each of these targets? Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director So, Steve, this is Scott. We achieved doses of 50 mgs per kg in the primate studies and did not hit a toxic dose. Just from at that point, the magnitude of the effect here were over 20x in terms of human dosing expected in terms of area under the curve. So, at this -- what was the second part of the question? Stephen Willey -- Analyst I'm just wondering if that 50 mgs per kg is applicable for both candidates or just 026? Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Yes, for both, for both. Stephen Willey -- Analyst OK. Very helpful. Thanks for taking the questions. Operator Thank you. Our next question is from Silvan Tuerkcan with Citizens. Please proceed. Silvan Tuerkcan -- Analyst Thanks. Thanks for taking my questions. Mine's on the bi-specific MGD024. You're almost one and a half years into the phase 1. Can you provide any more details on when we could see data and when Gilead -- I know you mentioned that they have points where they can opt in, but are we getting close to one of these points? Could that be this year or would that be next year? Thank you. Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Well, hopefully it'll be this year. I mean, we're locked into a relatively slow in dose escalation design based on what the FDA expects. And so, we're taking a very slow incremental approach to dose escalation and characterizing all of the adverse events very carefully. So, it is a bit of a slow going trial compared to your typical phase 1 study. We knew this from the beginning just based on where we started. Started very low doses, and slowly worked our way up. So, you know, we're certainly getting near, but we are not at MTD yet. Silvan Tuerkcan -- Analyst Great. Thanks for the color. Operator Thank you. One moment for our last question please. It comes from Mayank Mamtani with B. Riley Securities. Please proceed. Mayank Mamtani -- B. Riley Financial -- Analyst Yes, good afternoon, team. Thanks for taking our questions. Just quickly on the LORIKEET, are you able to talk to your expectations for the discontinuation rate given the CTLA-4, PD1 experience previously? And I was also curious to learn what learnings, if any, from the phase 2 experience informed you prioritizing the LINNET program. Just sorry if I missed that earlier. Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Yeah, so I think your first question has to do with the discontinuity -- what we expect in terms of discontinuation rate. We think we'll do better than some of the prior checkpoint inhibitors simply because lorigerlimab is very well-tolerated in patients. We've had patients stay on the lorigerlimab for considerable lengths of time in other studies. So, we're not anticipating that we'll have a significant dropout from the experimental arm. That is the combination of lorigerlimab with docetaxel, due to intolerability. Obviously, you can have some, But we think this is a much better tolerated drug than say giving ipilimumab [Inaudible] for example. Mayank Mamtani -- B. Riley Financial -- Analyst Yeah. Any learnings from that study that contributed to the LINNET program -- Stephen Eck -- Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, and Chief Medical Officer Well, I mean -- I mean, after that, there are very different programs or different education. So, the learnings are indirect, principally around what dose you want to use and what safety profile we should expect. Now the LINNET-study is an open-label noncombination study. It's a single agent study. So, it's a simpler study in that respect. Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director And you know, this is Scott, the totality of the data which encouraged us to go into ovarian cancer was not only based on our experiences in LORIKEET, it was from the phase 1 expansion studies in prostate. But I should also remind you that in the dose escalation study, we were seeing good tolerability. In fact, one of the patients that had an objective response was a patient with a serious carcinoma of the fallopian tube which is essentially similar to ovarian cancer. So, again, all these points in aggregate and our experiences of improved tolerability of getting this combination checkpoint encourage us to seek other indications like ovarian cancer. Mayank Mamtani -- B. Riley Financial -- Analyst Thank you. And just one more. On MGC028, are you able to comment on how far along you are in the phase 1 study and if there is any specific tumor type enrichment you have started doing already? Thanks for taking that question. Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Yeah, so that study just got underway a few weeks ago. You know, we typically have plenty of patients lined up. I think that will go in a very expeditious manner. It's too early to comment on that. With regard to the second part of your question, we're not preselecting patients with respect to the level of ADAM9 expression. I think that's what you were alluding to. We'll have a look later on and see if there is a differential effect. But for now, we're not pre-selecting. Stephen Eck -- Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, and Chief Medical Officer But, you know, I just want say we did limit it initially to particular tumor types where we know adenine has up-regulation, particularly pancreatic, lung, and cholangiocarcinoma. And we have ideas by adding other tumor types subsequently. So, we hope that during the dose escalation, we'll see evidence of activity, as well as tolerability. Mayank Mamtani -- B. Riley Financial -- Analyst I'm good. Thank you. Operator [Operator instructions] All right. As I see no further questions in the queue, I will conclude Q&A session. I will turn it back to Scott Koenig for his final remarks. Scott E. Koenig -- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director Well, thank you. In closing, I'd like to thank everyone for joining us on this call and for continued interest in MacroGenics. A special thanking to our employees for their continued commitment, and we look forward to sharing updates on our progress during future calls. Have a good evening. Operator Thank you and this concludes our program. [Operator signoff] Duration: 0 minutes James Karrels -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary Scott E. 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MacroGenics Announces Date of Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Financial Results Conference Call
ROCKVILLE, MD, March 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MacroGenics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGNX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing innovative monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today announced that the Company will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2024 after the market closes on Thursday, March 20, 2025. MacroGenics will host a conference call to discuss the financial results and recent corporate progress on Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 4:30 pm ET Conference Call Information To participate via telephone, please register in advance via this link. Upon registration, all telephone participants will receive a confirmation email detailing how to join the conference call, including the dial-in number along with a unique passcode and registrant ID that can be used to access the call. The listen-only webcast of the conference call can be accessed under "Events & Presentations" in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at A recorded replay of the webcast will be available shortly after the conclusion of the call and archived on the Company's website for 30 days following the call. About MacroGenics, (the Company) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, manufacturing and commercializing innovative monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. The Company generates its pipeline of product candidates primarily from its proprietary suite of next-generation antibody-based technology platforms, which have applicability across broad therapeutic domains. The combination of MacroGenics' technology platforms and protein engineering expertise has allowed the Company to generate promising product candidates and enter into several strategic collaborations with global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. For more information, please see the Company's website at MacroGenics and the MacroGenics logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of MacroGenics, Inc. CONTACT: Contacts: Jim Karrels, Senior Vice President, CFO 1-301-251-5172 info@ Argot Partners 1-212-600-1902 macrogenics@ in to access your portfolio
