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Immunotherapy, Bringing It All Together: The Next Generation of Approaches & Combinations Moderator: Axel Hoos, MD, Vice President, Oncology Research and Development, GlaxoSmithKline Panelists: Neil Berinstein, MD, Affiliate Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute Paul Higham, Chief Executive Officer, Immatics Sara Zaknoen, MD, CMO, Polynoma, LLC Dennis L. Panicali, Ph.D, Vice President, Technical Operations Bavarian __Nordic ImmunoTherapeutics Charles J. Link, Jr. MD, Chairman, Chief Executive & Scientific Officer at __NewLink Genetics Corp

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Immunotherapy, Bringing It All Together: The Next Generation of Approaches & Combinations Moderator: Axel Hoos, MD, Vice President, Oncology Research and Development, GlaxoSmithKline Panelists: • Neil Berinstein, MD, Affiliate Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute • Paul Higham, Chief Executive Officer, Immatics • Sara Zaknoen, MD, CMO, Polynoma, LLC • Dennis L. Panicali, Ph.D, Vice President, Technical Operations Bavarian __Nordic ImmunoTherapeutics • Charles J. Link, Jr. MD, Chairman, Chief Executive & Scientific Officer at __NewLink Genetics Corp

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Paul G Higham March 2013 / New York

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immatics – at a glance

Multi-peptide cancer vaccines developed from the X-President identification and validation platform

Since 2004 immatics has:

• Established and continuously evolved its proprietary technology platform XPRESIDENTTM

• Built a robust pipeline with three high potential vaccines in clinical development:

→ 1st product IMA901 (Renal Cell Cancer) delivered positive Phase 2 data, Phase 3 trial is fully recruited

→ 2nd product IMA910 (Colorectal Cancer) recently completed Phase 2 study

→ 3rd product IMA950 (Glioma) is in Phase 1 clinical development

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Key Opportunities and Issues in Cancer Immunotherapy

Move into earlier disease settings

Combination therapy

• existing first-line therapies – is synergy possible?

• new immuno-modulators (anti-CTLA4, anti-PD1etc…)

Patient selection – validation

Predicting and measuring immune responses

Engagement with large pharma and biotech companies

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IMA901 Renal Cell Cancer Phase 3 Trial

Study Design – 1st line in combination with SoC 5

N = 330 • 1st line metastatic and/or locally advanced RCC •HLA-A*02-positive •Documented tumor lesions • Favorable or intermediate risk (Heng et al., 2009)

Chief Investigator US: Brian Rini, Cleveland Chief Investigator EU: Tim Eisen, Cambridge

Primary: OS Secondary: OS in biomarker subgroup, PFS safety, immune responses, novel biomarkers

Supported by Pfizer Inc.

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Synergy with existing therapies? Sunitinib inhibits immunosuppressive cell populations clinically (below)

Finke et al., 2010

Decrease of myeloid suppressor cells in sunitinib-treated patients

Inhibition of Tregs in IMA901 phase 2 study by sunitinib pre-treatment

IMA901 phase II data

p = 0.012

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IMA901 Phase 2 Biomarker programm >400 biomarkers analysed pre-treatment

147 Cytokines / Chemokines e.g. TNF-R1,

TGF-beta, IL-10

16 Biogenic Amines

e.g. kynurenine, serotonin

21 Amino Acids e.g. Trp

41 Carnitines

e.g. C16 (hexadecanoyl

carnitine)

106 Lipids

(lyso-)phosphatidyl cholines,

sphingomyelins

36 Cellular Analyses

•CD3 zeta nitrotyrosin (6) •Treg: Flow, PCR (15)

•MDSCs (12) •TH17 (3)

21 Clinical

Parameters e.g. Pre-treatment,

Metastases, Staging

15 Clinical

Chemistry e.g. electrolytes, serum proteins,

glucose

17 Classical Hematology/

Coagulation e.g. lymphocytes, neutrophils,

hemoglobin

6 Patient

Parameters e.g. gender, age,

CMV

12 Urine Analyses

e.g. protein, glucose

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IMA901 Phase 2 Study ApoA1/CCL17 biomarker signature

Logrank p-values, FU5

HR = 0.17 p=0.000077

BM pos (75%)

BM neg (25%)

(TARC+ or ApoA1+, 50% of patients)

(TARC+ & ApoA1+, 25% of patients)

(TARC- & ApoA1-, 25% of patients)

biomarker score of 1 or 2 vs. score of 0 biomarker score of 2 vs. score of 1 vs. score of 0

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9 Predicting Response – in vitro to in vivo immune response validation platform

• Principle: Priming of naïve precursor T cells specific for TUMAPs • Use of artificial antigen presenting cells allows high degree of standardization • The platform indicates whether circulating specific precursor T cells exist

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10 In vitro veritas!

R and p values from spearman correlation Linear regression with 90% confidence intervals

In vitro immunogenicity from healthy donors was associated with in vivo immune responses in patients in 4 independent clinical studies

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Collaborating and Partnering with Large Pharma/Biotech

• Attitudes are changing towards cancer immunotherapy • Further positive data needed to continue to drive this change

• Understanding?

• Where/how could we best work together?

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Immunotherapy, Bringing It All Together: The Next Generation of Approaches & Combinations Moderator: Axel Hoos, MD, Vice President, Oncology Research and Development, GlaxoSmithKline Panelists: • Neil Berinstein, MD, Affiliate Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute • Paul Higham, Chief Executive Officer, Immatics • Sara Zaknoen, MD, CMO, Polynoma, LLC • Dennis L. Panicali, Ph.D, Vice President, Technical Operations Bavarian __Nordic ImmunoTherapeutics • Charles J. Link, Jr. MD, Chairman, Chief Executive & Scientific Officer at __NewLink Genetics Corp