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Karuna at-a-glance

Developing first-in- class therapeutics

  • Leadership team with successful track record in neuroscience drug discovery and development
  • Building a portfolio of differentiated assets led by KarXT, a novel asset with broad therapeutic applicability which enables near- and long-term opportunities
  • Developing pipeline of novel drug candidates through in-house discovery efforts and in partnership with strategic collaborators

KarXT

Pipeline-in-a-Product

  • KarXT is a new, unique and mechanistically differentiated therapeutic targeting CNS indications
  • Evaluating KarXT in indications where standard of care is insufficient, including schizophrenia and dementia-relatedpsychosis
  • KarXT demonstrated robust efficacy and was generally well-tolerated in large Phase 2 trial; differentiated safety and tolerability profile not associated with the most common problematic adverse events of current antipsychotic medications
  • Advancing Phase 3 program for the treatment of psychosis in adults with schizophrenia by end of year
  • Advanced formulation development

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Leadership team

Deep expertise in neuroscience and drug development

Steve Paul, M.D.

Andrew Miller, Ph.D.

Troy Ignelzi

Stephen Brannan, M.D.

Chairman and CEO

Founder and COO

CFO

CMO

Former EVP and president at Eli

Founder and inventor of KarXT;

Former CFO at scPharmaceuticals

Former Therapeutic Head of

Lilly Research Labs; Co-founder,

Former VP at PureTech; 2020

and Juventas; Finance, BD,

Neuroscience at Takeda; senior

board member at Sage

Emerging Pharma Leaders from

operations and sales executive at

positions at Novartis (Exelon patch),

Therapeutics & Voyager

Pharmaceutical Executive; 40

Esperion Therapeutics, Insys

Eli Lilly (Cymbalta), Cyberonics, &

Therapeutics; Former scientific

under 40 innovators award from

Therapeutics and Eli Lilly

Forum Pharmaceuticals

director of NIMH

MedTech Boston; Director and

Former COO at Entrega

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Pipeline

Advancing target-directed & target-agnostic discovery efforts & clinical programs

KarXT

Other

INDICATION

DISCOVERY /

PHASE 1

PHASE 2

PHASE 3

UPCOMING

PRECLINICAL

MILESTONE

Schizophrenia

Initiate Ph. 3 Program

Psychosis

YE 2020

Schizophrenia

Initiate Ph. 2 trial

Psychosis in adults with an inadequate

Following initiation of trials

response to standard of care*

within Ph. 3 program

Schizophrenia

Ph. 2 ready

Negative and cognitive symptoms

Dementia-related Psychosis

Ph. 1b topline data

Early 2Q 2021

Undisclosed

Initiate IND-enabling

Muscarinic-targeted drug candidate

studies

Undisclosed

Candidate declaration

Target-agnostic drug candidate**

The Company continues to monitor the impact of COVID-19 across all clinical trials and will provide updates on enrollment and completion timelines as appropriate

*Trail to evaluate KarXT when added to standard of care; **In collaboration with PsychoGenics

PIPELINE 5

Significant unmet need in large patient populations

Affecting nearly 4M people with psychosis in the U.S.

Schizophrenia

Dementia-related Psychosis

Positive (psychosis), negative and cognitive

Antipsychotics prescribed despite black box

symptom domains

warning for increased morbidity and mortality

  • Currently approved antipsychotics treat psychosis only and offer modest efficacy in many patients
  • Significant side effects including movement disorders, weight gain, sedation, etc.
  • >21M patients with schizophrenia worldwide, with ~2.7M in the U.S.
  • No approved medicines for treatment of psychosis in Alzheimer's disease, the largest underlying cause of dementia-related psychosis
  • Dementia affects ~8.4M people in the U.S., with ~1.2M experiencing symptoms of psychosis

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Antipsychotics: Blockbuster sales, but little innovation

  • Today's drugs rely on same mechanism as antipsychotic drugs of the 1950s

(first antipsychotic drug, chlorpromazine, discovered in 1952)

  • Sales of antipsychotic drugs were >$11B in 2015 and are expected to be >$14B by 2025 worldwide
  • Despite limited efficacy, severe side effects, and the availability of generic medicines, antipsychotic drugs such as Zyprexa, Seroquel and Abilify each achieved >$5B peak sales worldwide
  • Antipsychotics are a protected Medicare Part D class

1980

2020

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Rationale for KarXT

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Unrealized potential of muscarinic receptors

Muscarinic receptors in the

Many companies pursued muscarinic

A novel approach is needed to

brain are promising targets for

drug development, but were stymied

realize potential of muscarinic

schizophrenia and dementia-

by side effects caused by peripheral

agonists

related psychosis

muscarinic receptors

RATIONALE FOR KarXT

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KarXT: Proprietary lead product candidate

xanomeline

(muscarinic agonist)

  • Human proof-of-concept in double-blind,placebo-controlled trials in schizophrenia and
    Alzheimer's disease
  • Trials enrolled over 800 patients including 68 elderly patients for
    ≥ 1 year
  • Exclusively licensed from Eli Lilly

KarXT

trospium chloride

(muscarinic antagonist)

• Does not meaningfully cross

the blood-brain barrier, limiting

xanomeline + trospium chloride

effects to peripheral tissues

• No known metabolic overlap

KarXT is designed to

with xanomeline

maintain efficacy of xanomeline

• Generic drug for overactive

while ameliorating

bladder used since the 1960s

its cholinergic adverse events

Sources: Bodick et al. 1997; Shekhar et al. 2008

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Selective activation of muscarinic receptors in the brain

System

Potential Impact on Symptoms

Commentary

xanomeline + trospium =

KarXT

Central Nervous

N/A

Improvement in

System

psychosis and cognition

Salivation

Glands

Sweat Glands

Tolerability from

neutralization of

GI Tract

peripheral activation

Bladder

Increase Activity

Decrease Activity

Offsetting Effect

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KarXT in neuropsychiatry

Multiple positive efficacy and safety studies supporting further development

Three double-blind,placebo-controlled trials supporting therapeutic benefit of xanomeline and KarXT

  • KarXT Phase 2 (EMERGENT-1) trial in adults with schizophrenia
  • Phase 2 trial in adults with schizophrenia with xanomeline alone
  • Phase 2 trial in elderly subjects with Alzheimer's disease with xanomeline alone

Large existing safety database with xanomeline and KarXT

  • >1000 subjects enrolled in studies with KarXT or xanomeline across 20 human clinical trials
  • 68 elderly subjects with Alzheimer's disease treated with xanomeline for at least one year
  • Long-termpreclinical safety data with xanomeline, including 2-year carcinogenicity trials

Multiple clinical trials demonstrating robust efficacy and a large existing

safety database support ongoing clinical development of KarXT in

neuropsychiatric disorders

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KarXT in Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

Chronic, serious and often disabling brain disorder affecting how a person thinks, feels and behaves

Symptoms of schizophrenia generally fall into three categories:

Positive Symptoms

Negative Symptoms

Cognitive Symptoms

Hallucinations

Flat, constricted affect

Impaired executive function

Delusions

Social withdrawal

Memory deficits

Confused thoughts and speech

Loss of motivation

Reduced processing speed

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KarXT in addressing current unmet needs

THE UNMET NEED

  • Today's standard of care relies on same mechanism as drugs of the 1950s
  • A substantial population of patients achieve a partial, or inadequate, response to atypical antipsychotics
  • Current therapies do not address negative and cognitive symptoms; in some cases, current therapies may worsen cognitive symptoms in patients
  • In many patients, approved antipsychotics offer only modest efficacy and patients experience significant side effects

THE KarXT OPPORTUNITY

  • Novel mechanism of action not mediated via dopamine or serotonin; distinct from currently available therapies
  • Potential to address positive, negative and cognitive symptoms as monotherapy or in conjunction with standard of care
  • EMERGENT-1demonstrated robust efficacy across primary and key secondary outcome measures on positive and negative symptoms, and improvements in cognition in exploratory endpoint analysis
  • Generally well tolerated and not associated with the most common problematic adverse events of current antipsychotic medications in trials conducted to date

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EMERGENT Program

On track to initiate Phase 3 program by end of 2020

EMERGENT-1

EMERGENT-2

EMERGENT-3

EMERGENT-4

EMERGENT-5

Phase

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 3

Phase 3

Phase 3

Evaluate efficacy and

Evaluate efficacy and

Evaluate efficacy and

Evaluate long-term

Evaluate long-term

Objective

safety of KarXT

safety of KarXT

safety of KarXT

safety and tolerability

safety and

compared to placebo

compared to placebo

compared to placebo

of KarXT

tolerability of KarXT

Five-week, 1:1

Five-week, 1:1

Five-week, 1:1

randomized, flexible-

randomized, flexible-

randomized, flexible-

52-week,open-label,

52-week, open-

dose, double-blind,

dose, double-blind,

dose, double-blind,

outpatient extension

Design

label, outpatient

placebo-controlled

placebo-controlled

placebo-controlled

of EMERGENT-2

trial

inpatient trial in 182

inpatient trial in ~250

inpatient trial in ~250

and EMERGENT-3

adults in the U.S.

adults in the U.S.

adults the U.S. & ex-U.S.

Status

Complete (Nov. 2019)

Initiate YE 2020

Initiate 1H 2021

Rollover from

Initiate 1H 2021

EMERGENT- 2 & 3

EMERGENT-1, one successful Phase 3 efficacy and safety trial, and additional safety data to meet regulatory

requirements, would be acceptable to support a New Drug Application (NDA) filing

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EMERGENT-1 trial design overview

Same fundamental trial design used in registrational studies of other antipsychotic drugs

Treatment Period

Randomized, double-blind,placebo-controlled inpatient phase

Days 1 - 35

Screening Period

Flexible dosing

Washout of prior oral lithium

and/or antipsychotics

50/20^ KarXT BID

100/20^ KarXT BID

100/20^ KarXT BID

>2 weeks

Optional increase to 125/30^

KarXT BID*

Days 1 - 2

Days 3 - 7

Days 8 - 35

KarXT (n=90)

R

Placebo (n=92)

KEY

^ xanomeline/trospium (mg/mg)

* titration based only on tolerability

Start of trial

End of trial (Week 5)

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03697252

R Patients randomized

EMERGENT-1 RESULTS

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Robust results across efficacy endpoints

Prespecified Outcome Measures

KarXT vs. Placebo

P-value (Week 5)

PRIMARY ENDPOINT

Change from baseline in PANSS total score

<0.0001

SECONDARY ENDPOINTS

Change from baseline in PANSS-positive

<0.0001

Change from baseline in PANSS-negative

<0.001

Change from baseline in PANSS Marder negative symptoms factor

<0.001

CGI-S frequency counts

<0.001

Proportion of CGI-S responders (CGI-S ≤ 2)

=0.151

All efficacy analyses performed using the modified intent-to-treat (mITT) analysis set, defined as all randomized participants who received

at least one dose of study medication and had a baseline and at least one post-baseline PANSS assessment

Abbreviations: PANSS: Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale; CGI-S: Clinical Global Impression Severity

EMERGENT-1 RESULTS

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PANSS total score at week 5

Primary endpoint

Baseline

± SEM)

0

-5

PANSS Change from

(LS mean change

-10

****

****

-15

****

Placebo

KarXT

-20

Baseline

Week 2

Week 4

Week 5

mITT population

****p<0.0001

Clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in total PANSS vs. placebo

  • 11.6-pointimprovement at week 5, with p<0.0001 (-17.4 KarXT vs. -5.9 placebo)
  • Statistical separation at every assessed time point
  • Cohen's d effect size of 0.75

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Favorable Cohen's d effect size

COHEN'S d

NUMBER OF

NUMBER OF

PEAK SALES

YEAR

STUDIES

PATIENTS

APPROVED

KarXT

0.75

1

182

-

-

Risperidone

0.58

15

3,036

>$3B

1993

Therapy

Olanzapine

0.55

19

3,298

>$5B

1996

Quetiapine

0.43

8

2,140

>$6B

1997

Aripiprazole

0.39

9

1,761

>$9B

2002

Lurasidone

0.35

7

2,043

>$3B

2010

KarXT Phase 2 effect size of 0.75 compares favorably with meta-analysis

of historical trials of the most commonly used medicines

Source: Leucht et al. 2017 Am J Psych

EMERGENT-1 RESULTS

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PANSS Positive, Negative, Marder and CGI-S

Secondary endpoints

A. PANSSP

B. PANSSN

C. PANSS Marder Negative

D. CGI-S

Clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement on secondary endpoints:

  • PANSS positive subscale (Panel A)
  • PANSS negative subscale (Panel B)
  • PANSS Marder negative factor score (Panel C)
  • CGI-Sscore (Panel D)
    1. Note that Panel D is not the prespecified analysis; figure shows analysis of CGI-S as a continuous variable
  • Prespecified secondary endpoint 5 was responder analysis, defined as % of CGI-S responders (endpoint CGI-S score of 1 or 2)
    • Percentage of responders for KarXT compared with placebo: 5.6% vs.1.4%, p=0.151

Key: *p<0.05; **p<0.01, ***p<0.001, ****p<0.0001

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CGI-S: categorical analyses

Secondary endpoints (cont.)

Baseline Distribution

Percentage of Patients

Percentage of Patients

80

KarXT

Placebo

Clinically meaningful and statistically significant

60

improvement on CGI-S: categorical analyses

40

CGI-S frequency count comparison:

P<0.001 at endpoint using non-parametric comparison of KarXT vs.

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placebo (Mann-Whitney Wilcoxon test)

This was the prespecified analysis

0

Statistical separation at every assessed time point (week 2, 4 and 5)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

CGI-S Score

At baseline:

Week 5 Distribution

Percentage of patients with scores 5 or 6 for KarXT compared to

80

placebo: 84% vs. 80%

60

At endpoint:

40

Percentage of patients with scores rated 5-7 for KarXT compared to

placebo: 33% vs. 60%

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Percentage of patients rated mildly ill or better (scores rated 1, 2, or 3)

for KarXT compared to placebo: 38% vs.11%

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

CGI-S Score

CGI-S score legend: 1 = normal, 2 = borderline ill, 3 = mildly ill, 4 = moderately ill, 5 = markedly ill, 6 = severely ill, 7 = extremely ill

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Cognition

Exploratory endpoint

Exploratory endpoint analyses show trends towards improvements in cognition for KarXT relative to placebo (Figure 1), with larger benefit seen in patients with greater cognitive impairment at baseline (Figure 2)

  • Trial recruited based on psychosis; half of patients had cognitive performance >1 SD below age matched controls
  • Post-hoc subgroup analysis of patients with greater impairment at baseline show larger benefit (Figure 2)
    • Cohen's d=0.56, p=0.03 for 1/2 of patients w/greatest impairment
    • Cohen's d=0.83, p=0.02 for 1/3 of patients w/greatest impairment

Assessments in longer-term studies or patients with stable psychosis needed to further evaluate cognitive symptoms

  • Plans to further evaluate cognition in the EMERGENT program trials via prespecified subgroup of patients with high baseline cognitive impairment
  • Previous xanomeline trial in Alzheimer's disease showed peak cognitive benefit, similar to donepezil (Aricept®), after 2-3 months of treatment in trial completers (Bodick et al)

*Data presented at 33rd ECNP Congress (Sept. 12 - 15, 2020)

Figure 1: Cognitive performance results*

Cognitive Test

Statistic

Value

(KarXT vs. placebo)

Composite Score

p-value

0.11

Cohen's d

0.24

Detection

p-value

0.07

Cohen's d

0.28

Pediatric Groton Maze

p-value

0.47

Learning

Cohen's d

0.11

Identification

p-value

0.40

Cohen's d

0.13

International

p-value

0.35

Cohen's d

0.14

Shopping List

One-Back Speed

p-value

0.35

Cohen's d

0.16

One-Back Accuracy

p-value

0.92

Cohen's d

-0.02

Figure 2: Composite score analysis stratification by baseline impairment

Statistic

Impairment Median Split

Impairment Tertile Split*

(KarXT vs. placebo)

High

Low

Highest

Middle

Lowest

p-value

0.53

0.02

0.52

0.87

0.03

Cohen's d

0.56

0.13

0.83

0.19

0.04

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Summary of safety and tolerability

Well-tolerated with a discontinuation rate equivalent to placebo

Overall completion rate similar between KarXT and placebo (80%)

  • The number of discontinuations due to TEAEs was equal in each treatment group (KarXT n=2; placebo n=2)
  • All TEAEs were mild or moderate, with the exception of one serious AE: one patient on KarXT discontinued treatment, subsequently sought hospital care for worsening psychosis
  • Most common AEs (>5%) were all mild or moderate in severity and did not lead to any discontinuations
  • BP and QTc similar to placebo; 5.5 bpm peak mean placebo-adjusted resting HR increase with downward trend after day 8; no syncope

Dose escalation on KarXT was high and similar to placebo

  • Dose escalation based on tolerability
  • 91% of KarXT subjects escalated to 125/30 KarXT (vs. 97% on placebo)
  • 4% percent de-escalated back to 100/20 KarXT dose (vs. 1% on placebo)

Adverse Events (AEs) and Safety During the Treatment Period

KarXT (n=89)

Placebo (n=90)

number (%)

number (%)

Patients with any treatment-emergent

48

(53.9%)

39

(43.3%)

adverse events (TEAE)

Patients with a serious TEAE

1

(1.1%)

0 (0%)

Patient with a severe TEAE

1

(1.1%)

1

(1.1%)

Patients with a TEAE leading to

2

(2.2%)

2

(2.2%)

withdrawal

AEs ≥ 5%

Constipation

15

(16.9%)

3

(3.3%)

Nausea

15

(16.9%)

4

(4.4%)

Dry mouth

8 (9.0%)

1 (1.1%)

Dyspepsia

8

(9.0%)

4

(4.4%)

Vomiting

8

(9.0%)

4

(4.4%)

Headache

6

(6.7%)

5

(5.6%)

Somnolence

5

(5.6%)

4

(4.4%)

Safety population received ≥1 dose study medication

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Tolerability comparison to historical xanomeline trials

Clinically significant improvement observed in the most common xanomeline AEs

Adverse Event

Excessive sweating

Vomiting

Nausea

Excessive salivation

Diarrhea

Placebo-adjusted cholinergic AE rates

xanomeline

KarXT

6-month AD trial

3-week schizophrenia trial

EMERGENT-1

(n=87, 225 mg/d)

(n=10, 225 mg/d)

(n=90, 200/40 mg/d or 250/60 mg/d)

71%

20%

1.1%

34%

50%

4.6%

32%

30%

12.5%

24%

10%

0%

15%

20%

(2.2%)

Sources: Bodick et al. 1997; Shekhar et al. 2008; Abbreviations: AD = Alzheimer's disease; SZ: schizophrenia

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Rates of adverse events over course of trial

Majority of the most common KarXT-related AEs decreased over the course of the trial

Percentage of Patients

12%

10%

8%

6%

4%

2%

0%

Nausea

Placebo-adjusted nausea

1

2

3

4

5

Treatment Week

Percentage of Patients

12%

10%

8%

6%

4%

2%

0%

Vomiting

Placebo-adjusted vomiting

1

2

3

4

5

Treatment Week

Percentage of Patients

Dry Mouth

12%

10%

Placebo-adjusted dry mouth

8%

6%

4%

2%

0%

1

2

3

4

5

Treatment Week

Most cholinergic and anticholinergic AEs associated with KarXT treatment decreased over the course of the trial

  • Rates of nausea, vomiting and dry mouth consistently decreased to rates near placebo by week 5
  • All cholinergic and anticholinergic AEs were mild or moderate in severity and did not lead to discontinuations
  • Constipation and dyspepsia rates remained essentially constant (data not shown)

Data represent % of subjects with AEs as an AE at any point in that study week interval (safety population: KarXT n=89, placebo n=90)

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KarXT was not associated with the most common problematic adverse events of current antipsychotic medications

KarXT was not associated with any weight- related changes

  • KarXT similar to placebo in mean change in weight, mean change in BMI, % patients with >%7 weight change, and reported AEs of weight increased

KarXT was not associated with somnolence or sedation

  • Rates of somnolence and sedation similar to placebo

Weight Related Observations

KarXT

Placebo

(n=89)

(n=90)

Reported AE of weight increased - number (%)

3 (3.4%)

4 (4.4%)

Weight change from baseline to Week 5 - kg ± SD

1.5 ± 2.8

1.1 ± 3.5

Patients >7% weight increase at Week 5 - number (%)

2 (2.2%)

5 (5.6%)

BMI change from baseline to Week 5 - kg/m2 ± SD

0.5 ±1.0

0.4 ± 1.2

Sedation and Somnolence

Reported AE of Somnolence - number (%)

5 (5.6%)

4 (4.4%)

Reported AE of Sedation - number (%)

2 (2.2%)

2 (2.2%)

KarXT was not associated with EPS

  • Mean changes similar for KarXT and placebo on the Barnes akathisia scale and Simpson-Angus scale
  • 3 patients who reported Akathisia in the KarXT arm all resolved spontaneously without changes in study drug and all patients scored a 0 at all time points on the Barnes akathisia scale

Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS)

Akathisia - number (%)

3 (3.4%)

0 (0%)

Restlessness - number (%)

0 (0%)

1 (1.1%)

Simpson-Angus score mean change

-0.1± 0.7

-0.1± 0.6

from baseline to week 5

Barnes akathisia mean change

0.0 ± 0.2

0.0 ± 0.4

from baseline to week 5

All analysis on safety population; received ≥1 dose study medication

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Additional therapeutic opportunities in schizophrenia

KarXT in conjunction with standard of care for the treatment of psychosis in adults who have an inadequate response to current therapies

  • A substantial population of patients achieve a partial, or inadequate, response to atypical antipsychotics
  • Company plans to evaluate KarXT when dosed in conjunction with standard of care following the initiation of the Phase 3 EMERGENT trials
  • Data intended to support a supplemental NDA filing, assuming the successful development of KarXT as a monotherapy for the treatment of adults with schizophrenia

Opportunity to investigate ability of KarXT to address negative and cognitive symptoms as part of ongoing data collection

  • KarXT demonstrated improvement on negative symptoms and on cognition in patients with high cognitive impairment in EMERGENT-1 trial; additional data collection to inform next steps in these indications

Source: Miyamoto et al., 2002, p. 775

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KarXT in

Dementia-related

Psychosis

KarXT opportunity in DRP

THE UNMET NEED

  • Dementia is characterized by the loss of cognitive functioning
    - including thinking, remembering and reasoning - and behavioral abilities to an extent that interferes with the ability to perform everyday activities
  • Dementia is caused by a variety of different diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia and Parkinson's disease dementia
  • Dementia affects ~8.4M people in the U.S. Despite the prevalence, only 40% of those affected are diagnosed, with ~1.2M experiencing symptoms of psychosis
  • Psychosis in patients with dementia is currently treated with antipsychotics, despite black-boxwarnings for increased risk of death in the elderly

THE KarXT OPPORTUNITY

  • Novel mechanism of action not mediated via dopamine or serotonin; distinct from currently available therapies
  • Xanomeline demonstrated robust, dose-dependentremission of multiple psychotic symptoms, including hallucinations and delusions, in Phase 2 placebo-controlled trial in Alzheimer's disease patients
  • Xanomeline was also observed to reduce the emergence of psychotic symptoms, including agitation, in patients who did not have psychotic symptoms at baseline
  • In addition, potential applicability in addressing behavioral, psychological and cognitive symptoms
  • Currently conducting a Phase 1b trial in healthy elderly volunteers to determine the optimal dose of KarXT (ratios of xanomeline and trospium) to inform Phase 2 trial of KarXT in dementia-related psychosis

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Phase 1b healthy elderly trial

Foundation for Phase 2 DRP trial

Dose-ranging trial to select optimal KarXT dose for Phase 2 trial in DRP

  • Goals of trial:
    • Demonstrate that volunteers can tolerate the exposure levels that showed antipsychotic benefit in previous Lilly AD trial (150 mg and 225 mg per day of xanomeline)
    • Select dosing and titration scheme for Phase 2 DRP trial
  • Similar design to previous Phase 1 multiple dose optimization trial in healthy volunteers used to select dosing for EMERGENT-1
  • Flexible-dosed,multiweek design to determine highest tolerated dose on an individual patient basis
  • Evaluating different dosing and titration schedule on a cohort by cohort basis; each cohort to consist of
    16 subjects with 3:1 randomization (KarXT or placebo)

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Xanomeline in Alzheimer's disease

Findings show therapeutic benefit and inform KarXT DRP program

Trial Design

  • Randomized, double-blind, placebo- controlled, 6-month trial in 343 Alzheimer's disease patients
    • Patients randomized (3:1) to receive one of three doses of xanomeline (75, 150, and 225 mg/d) or placebo
  • Endpoints
    • Co-primary:ADAS-Cog and CIBIC+
    • Secondary: Behavior (ADSS, includes psychotic symptoms) and Nurses' Observation Scale for Geriatric Patients

Key Findings

  • Patients treated with xanomeline were observed to have dose-dependentdecreases in multiple psychotic symptoms and related behaviors, including hallucinations, delusions and agitation, as compared to patients on placebo
  • Responses seen as early as two to three weeks after commencement of dosing with xanomeline
  • Xanomeline was also observed to reduce the emergence of psychotic symptoms over the course of the six-month trial in patients who did not have psychotic symptoms at the initiation of the trial
  • Cognitive benefit on ADAS-cog similar to donepezil (Aricept®) in completers analysis

Source: Bodick et al. 1997

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Xanomeline in Alzheimer's disease

Significant remission of psychotic symptoms observed

% of patients with symptom at baseline whose symptoms stopped during treatment (ITT analysis)

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%

p=0.003

p=0.020

p=0.063

p=0.063

p=0.011

p=0.066

p=0.003

(p=0.008)

(p=0.005)

(p=0.021)

(p=0.028)

(p=0.017)

(p=0.012)

(p=0.015)

Hallucinations

Compulsivness

Delusions

Suspiciousness

Vocal Outbursts

Mood Swings

Unsafe Use of

Appliances

p value is 225 mg/d xanomeline vs. placebo

xanomeline alone

(p value is dose-response analysis)

Placebo

75 mg/d

150 mg/d

225 mg/d

Source: Bodick et al. 1997

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Xanomeline in Alzheimer's disease

Significant prevention of psychosis onset observed

% of patients who developed symptom during trial (ITT analysis)

60%

p=0.011

p=0.001

p=0.001

p=0.002

p=0.017

p=0.001

p=0.013

(p=0.012)

(p=0.001)

(p=0.003)

(p=0.002)

(p=0.019)

(p<0.001)

(p=0.004)

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%

Hallucinations

Delusions

Suspiciousness

Vocal

Agitation

Wandering

Fearfulness

Outburst

p value is 225 mg/d xanomeline vs. placebo

xanomeline alone

(p value is dose-response analysis)

Placebo

75 mg/d

150 mg/d

225 mg/d

Source: Bodick et al. 1997

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Pipeline

Advancing target-directed & target-agnostic discovery efforts & clinical programs

KarXT

Other

INDICATION

DISCOVERY /

PHASE 1

PHASE 2

PHASE 3

UPCOMING

PRECLINICAL

MILESTONE

Schizophrenia

Initiate Ph. 3 Program

Psychosis

YE 2020

Schizophrenia

Initiate Ph. 2 trial

Psychosis in adults with an inadequate

Following initiation of trials

response to standard of care*

within Ph. 3 program

Schizophrenia

Ph. 2 ready

Negative and cognitive symptoms

Dementia-related Psychosis

Ph. 1b topline data

Early 2Q 2021

Undisclosed

Initiate IND-enabling

Muscarinic-targeted drug candidate

studies

Undisclosed

Candidate declaration

Target-agnostic drug candidate**

The Company continues to monitor the impact of COVID-19 across all clinical trials and will provide updates on enrollment and completion timelines as appropriate

*Trail to evaluate KarXT when added to standard of care; **In collaboration with PsychoGenics

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Financial information

$344.9M

CASH ON HAND 1

AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Current funding supports:

  • Filing of an NDA with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of psychosis in schizophrenia, including planned trials in the EMERGENT clinical program
  • Completion of Phase 1b healthy elderly trial and potential Phase 2 trial for the treatment of DRP
  • Continued investment into pipeline expansion, including evaluating KarXT in patients who have an inadequate response to current standard of care

Cash expected to fund operations for at least the next three years

1Includes cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments

Analyst Coverage

Firm

Analyst

Citigroup Global Markets

Mohit Bansal

Goldman Sachs & Co.

Salveen Richter, CFA

Guggenheim Securities

Yatin Suneja

H.C. Wainwright

Raghuram Selvaraju, Ph.D.

JMP Securities

Jason N. Butler, Ph.D.

Mizuho

Vamil Divan, M.D.

Oppenheimer

Jay Olson, CFA

Stifel

Paul Matteis

Wedbush Securities

Laura Chico, Ph.D.

Wells Fargo Securities

Jacob Hughes

William Blair

Myles Minter, Ph.D.

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