Incyte's CEO Presents At Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference (Transcript)

Drug has worked extremely well in myeloproliferative neoplasm called myelofibrosis of which there were about 18,000 known patients in the United States. It treats the very debilitating symptoms of the disease and also as part of that shrinks the very large spleens that many of these patients get. There is accumulating data that shows that the drug may well prolong survival, although we don’t have that in the label. And the drug was approved for use in intermediate and high-risk patients which comprise about 85% of that 18,000, and without any restriction on platelet count, despite the fact that we had only studied patients with platelet counts above 100,000 in our Phase III studies.

So the approval was towards the end of last year, and our revenue is growing in a steady and sustained way. And we are getting reports back from the field and from physicians that they are seeing pretty dramatic effects which is the same thing we saw in the Phase III studies.

I’m sure you don’t want to get more specific about some aspects of that, but in general that’s kind of the story.

David Friedman – Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

Great. And so, maybe if we can just jump into the types of patients that have come on drug to date and it’s only been a couple of quarters. But if you can talk about just in the general sense the types of patients that you saw coming on drug in the first couple of months versus the contrast of the types of people you’ve seen come on drug in the past couple of months.

Paul A. Friedman



Sure, but I think that is important to note. So the beauty of the label was we did not get a restriction for platelet count. The difficulty with the label that we’re dealing with aggressively is that without a limitation on platelet count, we saw in the beginning of our launch a very high proportion of the sicker patients who are too sick to get into our clinical trials that is patients with platelet counts less than 100,000. I mean over 60% of the patients who came in early in launch had platelet count in that range.

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