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  • GPCR targeted drug discovery

  • Grace O. Mizuno, PhD Co-Founder & CEO

    Domain expert who established company’s platform

    Lin Tian, PhD Co-Founder & Scientific advisorInventor of company technology

    Seven Bioscience’s leadership team is made up of key scientific leaders and business experts

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    Mark von Zastrow, MD, PhDScientific advisor

    Kit Lam, MD, PhDScientific advisor

    Friedhelm Blobel, PhDStrategic advisor

  • G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) are implicated in diseases across every therapeutic area but a majority of druggable GPCRs have not been targeted

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    Not targeted (224) In clinical trials (67) Established (107)0%

    10%

    20%

    30%

    40%

    50%

    60%

    224 druggable GPCRs have not been successfully targeted

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    USABLE IN PRE-CLINICAL ANIMAL MODELS IN REAL-

    TIME

    REPORTS DIRECT RECEPTOR-LIGAND

    DYNAMICS (TEMPORAL KINETICS)

    USED TO IDENTIFY BIASED LIGANDS

    USED TO INTERROGATE ALLOSTERIC

    MODULATION

    USED FOR ORPHAN RECEPTORS

    SUITABLE FOR ALL GPCRS

    Our technology ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

    Radioligand binding ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

    CRE/ SRE reporter ✔ ✔

    Fluo-4 Ca2+ assays ✔ ✔

    IP3 assays

    cAMP assays

    BRET/ FRET B-Arrestinrecruitment ✔ ✔ ✔

    BRET/ FRET Dimerization ✔ ✔ ✔

    Despite decades of effort, existing GPCR technologies produce compounds that often lack clinical efficacy due to their inability to readout the functional physiology of the target

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    Does not require

    • Structural information• Known endogenous ligand• Known g-protein coupling

    pathway

    Seven’s technology, GPCR biosensors, overcomes the challenges other technologies face

    • Kd• Emax• Ligand binding kinetics• Receptor conformation• Constitutive activity • Allostery/ dimerization• Off-target effects

    Real-time output

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    hit discoveryin vitro + in vivo

    pharmacodynamics target discovery

    GPCR biosensors, revolutionizes drug development by enabling hit discovery and candidate development in vivo and in vitro

    HIT DISCOVERY

    • affinity• potency• conformation defined functional

    states dimerization modulation• residence time• subtype specificity + off target effects

    PRE-CLINICAL PHARMACODYNAMICS

    • real-time cellular + anatomical specificity

    • msec temporal resolution

    POWERFUL PRE-CLINICAL MODELS

    TARGET DISCOVERY

    • deorphanization• in vivo target validation compatible

    with genetic animal models and behavior paradigms

    NEW VALIDATED TARGETS

    NEW CHEMISTRY

  • Tian et al., 2009Huber et al., 2012

    Objec&on discrimina&on task

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    The compounds that we identify have a higher probability of success in the clinic because our technology achieves answers to difficult to address pre-clinical questions

    Illustration

    Questions we can answer in pre-clinical animal models:• Is the pathophysiology changing in response to drug X?• What is the real-time efficacy of drug X?• What is the real-time safety profile of drug X?• Are there any off-target effects?• How does drug X perform in vivo compared to drug Y?

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    *3-5 months to generate new sensor

    cpGFP

    cpmApple

    We can explore a broad range of GPCRs since GPCR biosensors can be engineered for any GPCR including orphans

    • MOR, KOR, DOR opioid • GRP (BB2) gastrin releasing

    peptide • CRF corticotrophin releasing factor • DRD1, DRD2, DRD4 dopamine• 𝛽1 and 𝛽2 adrenergic • 5HT2a serotonin • A2a adenosine • MT2 melatonin • NPY neuropeptide Y• NTR neurotensin

    Sensors generated to date

  • • Single fluorescent protein preserves optical bandwidth for imaging with multiple sensors, even closely related receptor subtypes: target selectivity/ off-target effects

    • High signal to noise ratio: easy to obtain EC50/ IC50, activation/ deactivation kinetic information in HTS format (Z-prime = 0.7 using FLIPR Tetra)

    • Easy to optimize and implement for all GPCRs (class A, B, etc.) including orphans, without structural information

    • Directly reflects ligand induced conformation changes which enables the identification of biased ligands

    • Allows both discovery and characterization of the effect of: PAMs, NAMs, agonists, antagonists, inverse agonists

    • High spatial and temporal (real-time) resolution for pre-clinical animal imaging

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    Seven’s technology is unmatched, powerful and revolutionary

  • Our business model integrates an in house and partnered pipeline

    v Partnered drug development§ Partnered drug discovery § Partnered pre-clinical developmentà Licensing of development assets

    v In house drug development*§ In house assay development§ In house drug discovery§ In house pre-clinical development à Licensing of development assets

    *Possible separate target-based LLC subsidiaries

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  • Grace O. Mizuno, PhD

    [email protected]