Kadmon Provides Business Update and Reports First Quarter 2019 Financial Results

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / May 9, 2019 / Kadmon Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KDMN) today provided a business update and reported financial and operational results for the first quarter of 2019.

”The advancement of KD025 for the treatment of cGVHD continues to be Kadmon’s key priority. We recently held a Type B Breakthrough Therapy meeting with the FDA and remain aligned with the Agency on our registration study design and the broader data package to support a potential New Drug Application,” said Harlan W. Waksal, M.D., President and CEO at Kadmon. ”We are pleased with the enrollment progress in our ongoing registration study and are on track to complete enrollment in the second half of 2019. By the end of this year, following completion of enrollment, we expect to share guidance on the initial analysis of our registration trial and our regulatory pathway.”

Dr. Waksal continued, ”Since the start of 2019, we have added three new directors to our Board and appointed a new CFO to further expand our strategic capabilities. Kadmon has the leadership and capital resources in place to continue the advancement of our pipeline of product candidates for major unmet medical needs.”

2019 Anticipated Key Clinical Milestones:

KD025

• Complete enrollment in registration trial of KD025 in chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) in 2H 2019
• Provide guidance on initial analysis of registration trial and regulatory pathway of KD025 in cGVHD in 2H 2019
• Initiate double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial of KD025 in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) in 2Q 2019

KD045

• Initiate clinical trial of KD045, Kadmon’s next-generation pan-ROCK inhibitor for the treatment of fibrotic diseases, in 2H 2019

KD033

• Initiate clinical trial of KD033, Kadmon’s anti-PD-L1/IL-15 fusion protein for immuno-oncology, in 2H 2019

KD034

• Continue dialogue with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding its review and approval of KD034, Kadmon’s generic trientine hydrochloride drug candidates, for the treatment of Wilson’s disease

Recent Business Highlights

Kadmon strengthened its leadership team with the naming of three new members of the Board of Directors and the addition of a key executive:

• David E. Cohen, M.D., MPH, was appointed to the Board of Directors in February 2019. Dr. Cohen is the Charles C. and Dorothea E. Harris Professor of Dermatology at New York University School of Medicine, where he also serves as Chief of Allergy and Contact Dermatitis, Vice Chairman of Clinical Affairs, and Director of Occupational and Environmental Dermatology.
• Arthur Kirsch has been nominated to stand for election to the Board of Directors at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 15, 2019. Mr. Kirsch has more than 40 years of experience leading global healthcare research and investment banking operations, including his current role as Senior Advisor and Head of Healthcare at GCA Global, an investment bank.
• Cynthia Schwalm was appointed to the Board of Directors in January 2019. Ms. Schwalm has extensive pharmaceutical industry experience, having held management roles at Johnson & Johnson, Amgen and Eisai, and most recently served as President and CEO of Ipsen North America.
• Steven Meehan was named Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in February 2019. Mr. Meehan, who has served as a member of the Board of Directors at Kadmon since 2017, has over 25 years of financial leadership experience spanning corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and financial planning and analysis.

Financial Results

First Quarter 2019 Results

Loss from operations for the three months ended March 31, 2019 was $22.7 million, compared to $17.9 million for the same period in 2018.

Research and development expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2019 were $15.0 million, compared to $9.8 million for the same period in 2018. The increase in research and development expenses was primarily related to the development of KD025, our most advanced product candidate, as well as the development of KD045 and KD033.

Selling, general and administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2019 were $7.9 million, compared to $8.3 million for the same period in 2018.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

At March 31, 2019, Kadmon’s cash and cash equivalents totaled $99.4 million, compared to $94.7 million at December 31, 2018. In addition, as of March 31, 2019, Kadmon maintained approximately 10.7% ownership of common stock of MeiraGTx Holdings plc, a publicly-traded (Nasdaq: MGTX), clinical-stage gene therapy company.

About KD025

KD025 is a selective oral inhibitor of Rho-associated coiled-coil kinase 2 (ROCK2), a signaling pathway that modulates inflammatory response. Enrollment is ongoing in KD025-213, a registration trial of KD025 in adults with cGVHD who have received at least two prior lines of systemic therapy. The primary endpoint of the study is the Overall Response Rate (ORR), defined as the percentage of patients who meet the 2014 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Conference overall response criteria of complete or partial response. In October 2018, the FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to KD025 for the treatment of cGVHD, which was supported by data from a Phase 2 clinical trial of KD025 in cGVHD (KD025-208). In August 2017, the FDA granted Orphan Drug Designation to KD025 for the treatment of cGVHD.

About Kadmon Holdings, Inc.

Kadmon Holdings, Inc. is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company developing innovative products for significant unmet medical needs. Our product pipeline is focused on autoimmune, inflammatory and fibrotic diseases as well as immuno-oncology.

Forward Looking Statements

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Contact Information
Ellen Cavaleri, Investor Relations
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ellen.cavaleri@kadmon.com

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