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SMMT • CIK 0001599298
Summit Therapeutics Inc. (“we”, “Summit” or the “Company”) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of patient-, physician-, caregiver- and societal-friendly medicinal therapies intended to improve quality of life, increase potential duration of life, and resolve serious unmet medical needs. The Company’s pipeline of product candidates is designed with the goal to become the patient-friendly, new-era standard-of-care medicines, in the therapeutic area of oncology. The Company’s current lead development candidate is ivonescimab, a novel, potential first-in-class bispecific antibody intending to combine the effects of immunotherapy via a blockade of PD-1 with the anti-angiogenesis effects of an anti-VEGF (as defined in Part I, Item I Business, Company Overview, Ivonescimab) compound into a single molecule. On December 5, 2022, the Company entered into the License Agreement with Akeso, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “Akeso”) pursuant to which the Company has in-licensed intellectual property rights related to ivonescimab (as amended, the “License Agreement”). Through the License Agreement, the Company obtained the rights to develop and commercialize ivonescimab in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. The License Agreement and transaction closed in January 2023 following customary waiting periods. On June 3, 2024, the Company entered into the Second Amendment with Akeso to expand its territories covered under the License Agreement to also include Latin America, including Mexico and all countries in Central America and South America, the Middle East and Africa. The Company’s operations are focused on the development of ivonescimab and other future activities, as the Company determines. The Company is developing ivonescimab in non-small cell lung cancer (“NSCLC”) and colorectal cancer (“CRC”), specifically conducting Phase III clinical trials in the following proposed indications: (a) ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy in patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (“EGFR”)-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a third-generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (“TKI”) (“HARMONi”); (b) ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC (including separate statistical analyses planned for patients with squamous NSCLC and non-squamous NSCLC) (“HARMONi-3”); (c) ivonescimab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC whose tumors have high PD-L1 expression (“HARMONi-7”); and (d) ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line unresectable metastatic CRC (“HARMONi-GI3”). In October 2024, the Company completed enrollment in its HARMONi clinical trial. In May 2025, we announced topline results from our multiregional, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, Phase III study HARMONi. At the prespecified primary data analysis, ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in progression free survival (“PFS”), the magnitude of which we believe to be clinically meaningful, with a hazard ratio of 0.52 (95% CI: 0.41 – 0.66; p<0.00001) compared to placebo in combination with chemotherapy; median PFS was 6.8 months for those patients receiving ivonescimab plus chemotherapy compared to 4.4 months for those receiving chemotherapy. PFS was assessed by blinded independent central radiology committee (“BICR”). We believe the PFS hazard ratio that was observed in both Asian and Western sub-populations to be clinically meaningful. The primary analysis demonstrated the consistency of the magnitude of the PFS benefit between patients randomized in Asian and Western territories, as well as the consistency in a single-region study (HARMONi-A) with this multiregional study. In a longer-term follow-up of PFS, which included all Western patients and at least six months of follow-up time for all patients, ivonescimab plus chemotherapy demonstrated a consistent improvement in PFS with an observed HR of 0.57 (95% CI: 0.46 – 0.71). With the longer-term follow-up analysis, consistency of the magnitude of PFS benefit was demonstrated between patients randomized in Asia and Western patients when measured by hazard ratio.…