Donald P. Francis, MD, DSc Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar.

Donald P. Francis, MD, DSc

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar

Presentation Outline

I. Myself – a brief description

II. Vaccines – Social need, business challenge

III. The company/mechanisms to develop vaccines

IV. Lessons, reality, future directions

An Entrepreneur by Necessity

• California physicians: Grandfather, mother, father• Trained in pediatrics and infectious diseases• 21 years with CDC as infectious disease epidemiologist

• Cholera Nigeria• Smallpox Sudan, India, Bangladesh• Ebola Sudan• AIDS everywhere

• Since 1992, an AIDS vaccine “Entrepreneur”• Co-founded what became Int’l AIDS Vaccine Initiative• Genentech• Co-founded VaxGen (1995)• Now developing a not-for-profit for developing country vaccines.

How Do Vaccines Work?

• Vaccines “fake out” the immune system

• Without causing disease, they induce a “post-infection” immune status

• Protection from subsequent infection or disease

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Infectious Disease Mortality Rates in the U.S.

Source: UNAIDS, AIDS Epidemic Update, Dec. 1998

North America 890,000 Caribbean 330,000

Latin America 1,400,000 N. Africa, Middle East 210,000

Western Europe 500,000

Total: 33.4 million

Sub Sarahan Africa 22,500,000 South and South-East Asia 6,700,000

Eastern Europe, Central Asia 270,000 East Asia and Pacific 560,000

Australia and New Zealand 12,000

People Living with HIV/AIDS

AIDS Orphans in Sub-saharan Africa

"By the year 2010, one in seven

children under 15 years will

have lost a parent to AIDS."

Annual Direct Medical Costs of HIV for the World

$18 billion in 1997*

*Modified from AIDS in the World II, ed. Mann & Tarantola

An HIV/AIDS Vaccine

The only way to stop the AID epidemic is with a vaccine

ChallengesBusinessScientificSocial value

How Many Candidate HIV Vaccines Could BeFunded by One Year's Direct Medical Costs?

$ 18.0 billion (medical costs)

$ 0.3 billion (develop. costs)

61 candidate vaccines

HIV-1 Vaccine Development

Pipeline or pipette?

Phase I 27 candidates Phase II 2 candidates Phase III 1 candidate

"Maybe in the next 10 years if we work very hard, there may be 3 candidate vaccines in Phase III."

Dr. Jose Esparza, UNAIDS March, 1999

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Cost of HIV Vaccine Development

Opportunity Costs

Huge social need

Questionable return ? Market (esp developing

countries)? Social value (demand?)

Why Vaccines Fail to CompeteVaccine/TherapeuticMarket Comparison

Note: Vaccine market data 2000, pharma sales 2001

Development of Vaccines vs Anti-viral Agents for HIV

Anti-viral Anti-viralVaccines Drugs

Historical Many FewDev Time Longer ShorterSocial Demand Low HighNum Available None Many

HIV Prevalence vs GNP

VaxGen’s Vaccine

Almost 20 years

$280MM invested

A long way to go

84 85 86 87 97 9888 89 90 91 03Genentech, Inc. VaxGen, Inc.

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Antibodies Inhibit binding to CD4

Antibodies to rgp 120neutralize HIV

IIIB producedChimps protected (IIIB)

IIIB Phase I

AIDSVAX research begins

Nucleotide squence of HIV determined

MN Produced

MN Phase I

MN Phase II

Chimps protected (MN)

B/B and B/E produced

B/B Phase I/II

B/E Phase I/II

B/B Phase III Trial

B/E Phase III Trial

AIDSVAX Development History

AIDSVAX –Cost of Development

Investment:

Genentech $ 50M

VaxGen $130M

Celltrion $100M ______ Total $280M

Capital Sources:

Private capital: $269M

US Government: $11M1

NGO $0 _____

Total $280M

1 Includes CDC and NIH

Efficacy Trial Results

Thai trial – no efficacy

US/Europe Trial – Low efficacy

AIDSVAX B/B - Efficacy by Subgroups

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65.7%77.6%

86.5%

Volunteers (vacc + plcbo)

Overall Black Women

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Observed infections (vacc)

5009 498 314 268 194 33 17 8 191 12 4 1

*Expected infections, VE=0

Weighted cohort

Black Asian

Other

*Adjusted for 2:1 vaccine:placebo

NS <0.01 <0.02 NSp-value (unadjusted)

VaxGen – Built a Company with Value

• > 120 highly-skilled vaccine developers

• Excellent team spirit

• Flexible

VaxGen - Looking Ahead

• Company following “social value” - Priority shift to anthrax and smallpox

• Future AIDSVAX development will require outside funding/partnerships NIH/CDC collaboration to complete analysis

NIH - Subtype C vaccine – early stage NIH - Thailand prime-boost Phase III

trial

The Next Venture

• Three VaxGen senior executives stepping out of company

• Will establish a not-for-profit foundation

• Pursue vaccine development for the less-developed parts of the world

• Dependent on outside (Gates) funding