ImmunoGen, Inc.

ImmunoGen, Inc.

IMGN
ImmunoGen, Inc.US flagNASDAQ Global Select
31.24
USD
+0.01
- -
8.73BMarket Cap

Q2 2012 · Earnings Call Transcript

Jan 27, 2012

APIChat

Operator

Good day, and welcome everyone to the ImmunoGen Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Financial Results Conference Call. Today’s call is being recorded.

At this time, for opening remarks and introductions, I’d like to turn the call over to the Executive Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications, Carol Hausner. Please go ahead.

Carol Hausner

Thank you. Good morning.

Our quarterly calls are now being held on Friday mornings, rather than on Thursday evenings in light of the number of evening calls now competing for analysts' time. Consequently, at 6:30 this morning Eastern Time, we issued a press release that summarizes our financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2011, which is the second quarter of our 2012 fiscal year.

I hope you've all had a chance to review it, if not, it's available on our website.

Carol Hausner

During today’s call, we will make forward-looking statements. Our

actual results may differ materially from such statements, descriptions of the risks and uncertainties associated with an investment in ImmunoGen are included in our SEC filings, which also can be accessed through our website.

In our call today, our Chief Executive Officer, Dan Junius, will provide an update on ImmunoGen; and our Chief Financial Officer, Greg Perry, will

discuss our financial results and guidance. We'll then open the call to questions.

Dan?

Daniel Junius

Thanks, Carol, and good morning, everybody. Again, thank you for joining us for our morning call as we switch the format here.

Daniel Junius

Let me just position where ImmunoGen is today. We're in a field of ADCs that is gaining increasing interest in the space of oncology therapy and we have the -- we're proud to have been a part in developing this field, we think we have a very strong position as a leader in this field.

What we’ve been able to do with that is to build a pipeline and I’ll take you through that. This pipeline has been increasing in depth and breadth.

Certainly, with our partner compounds but increasingly with compounds that ImmunoGen is developing and bringing forward. We have a number of partners that are recognized leaders in the development of significant new therapeutics particularly in oncology.

If you think about Roche, Sanofi, Amgen, Bayer, all of them are aggressively advancing one or more clinical stage TAP compounds. And then we have Novartis and Lilly, our newest partners, who are very rapidly moving into their compounds to get them prepared to take them into the clinic.

So we’re seeing a lot of activity across the portfolio with partners, Novartis and Lilly, giving these new investments on their part quite a bit of attention. You think of the partner portfolio, in total, 4 of the top 6 companies in oncology now have accessed to our TAP technology, which we're very proud of.

Financially, we continue to be on a very strong position, you'll have Greg cover that just a little bit later.

Let me talk about the pipeline. If you look at it a year ago or I should say at the beginning of our fiscal year, which would be July of 2011, there was only one pipeline compound that had advanced beyond Phase I and that would be TDM-1.

As we stand here today, the T-DM1 clinical program has continued to advance and expand. They started a third Phase III trial in the second half of 2011, and they also have multiple Phase II trials underway.

We expect the first Phase III data from Roche this year, along with marketing submissions for T-DM1. They also have indicated, that being Roche, that they plan to update where they’re taking adjuvant over the course of the year as it pertains to T-DM1.

For Sanofi, SAR3419 is now in Phase II. There are 3 Phase II trials underway, one for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, that’s being studied as a single agent, they’re also looking at diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, both as with 3419 as a single agent, as well as in combination with Rituxan.

And they intend to submit an abstract on the selected Phase II dose to an upcoming medical conference. So we'll hear more about SAR3419 at a conference over the course of this year, assuming acceptance of the abstract.

But in terms of other compounds moving beyond Phase I, IMGN901 and BT-062, will be moving into Phase II this year. We expect IMGN901 to start the Phase II testing in late March or early April.

Currently, we’re at the dose confirmation stage in that Phase I2 study.

Going beyond depth and compound advancing beyond Phase I and focusing on the breadth of the pipeline, over the past quarter, we’ve seen 2 IMGN TAP compounds have INDs become active. In addition, we’re making progress with our 2 next wholly-owned compounds.

IMGN529, which is for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, we think of it as something of a T-DM1 analog. In that, you have an antibody, which preclinically has shown anticancer activity and to that, we’ve added our TAP technology.

And in this particular case using the same format is T-DM1, the SMCC-DM1 combination.

Here, the IND is active. The first site is open for enrollment and we expect patient dosing to begin shortly.

For IMGN853, this is a compound that targets the folate receptor, that incorporates a linker that counters multi-drug resistance. This is the first time this linker will be put in human clinical studies.

The preclinical data on this compound has been very exciting. We’re doing a lot of work here to prepare to submit the IND that we think will be submitted sometime this spring and that would lead to the first patient dosing sometime this summer.

Beyond those 2 compounds, we’re evaluating other earlier stage candidates, which we think will allow us to further expand the pipeline with novel product candidates.

The implications of this is that over the next 6 months, there's a number of things that we will understand better. We'll know at least the top line results from EMILIA from the Phase III trial for T-DM1.

We’ll also know more about the specific timing from Roche on the expected BLA and MAA submissions, and we’ll hear more about their plans for T-DM1 in the adjuvant setting. Roche has acknowledged that there’s potential for T-DM1 in gastric cancer, there’s also the potential to hear more about their plans in that particular indication.

For SAR3419, we’ll see new clinical data, that being the dose for the Phase II testing and their rationale for that particular Phase II dosing. And also in the next 6 months, we’ll have at least 7 Phase I and 3 Phase II compounds in the clinic plus T-DM1 in Phase III.

This will mean we'll -- there’ll be over 20 clinical trials using our TAP compound including 7 Phase II or Phase III studies. This will include trials conducted by us, as well as by Roche, Sanofi, Amgen, Bayer and Biotest.

If we look beyond the next 6 months and just start to think about 2013, there are a number of significant events that will be taking place. We would expect to see the start of T-DM1 commercialization.

In addition, we’d also expect to hear the first findings from the Phase I -- I'm sorry, the Phase III first-line MARIANNE study, possibly in the later part of 2013.

We also will get to the key data on IMGN901 and potentially IMGN529 and IMGN853. If we’re able to get those latter 2 studies started as we expect and move them quickly through their Phase I in the expansion phase, that should give us significant insight on those 2 studies, as well as the Phase II for 901 that will help us understand the appropriate pathway to registration for these compounds.

Phase II data for SAR3419 should be available in 2013 plus data from a large number of other partner compounds. And lastly, we’ll be able to look at further expansion of this product pipeline that would include our next compounds, as well as additional partner compounds.

Finally, before I turn it over to Greg, let me acknowledge our newest partnership, that being the multi-target agreement with Eli Lilly and Company. This brings another major player in oncology and through their ImClone arm, a major player in antibodies, who's accessed our technology for multiple programs.

With this agreement, they’ve garnered the rights to use our TAP technology for antibodies that they provide. Again, recall, these are target-specific contracts, so they will come to us with specific targets that they have in mind, if they’ve not been exclusively licensed elsewhere or being -- or are in a proprietary program, they then become available for their development.

The terms of this agreement were that they -- are that they paid us $20 million upfront, each individual license or each target has the potential for about $200 million in milestones and then royalties on any subsequent commercial sales. I think this agreement following on the agreement that we executed with Novartis roughly a year earlier continues to demonstrate our ability to access non-dilutive capital, and at a very strong value level for the technology.

Over the last 10 years, the partners have provided us over $300 million in cash in a variety of forms, upfronts, milestones, work that we’ve done, research work we’ve done on their behalf and manufacturing. And as we move forward, there’s also the potential for a new revenue stream in the form of royalties.

Beyond the economic value, I also think that working with a broad range of partners, a broad range of targets has provided us vast experience that has benefited the technology. The experience that we certainly couldn’t have generated by simply maintaining a proprietary position with the technology.

At the same time, I want to reinforce the fact that this doesn’t reduce our commitment to build a proprietary pipeline with one compound going into Phase II, 2 additional compounds about to go into clinic and more under development. I think we make a very strong statement about our commitment to proprietary pipeline and we’re always very cognizant of the level of commitment to a new partner when we enter into an agreement.

So by no means is that, proprietary commitment that diluted with the agreement with Lilly.

So with that, let me ask Greg to walk you through the financials.

Gregory Perry

Thanks, Dan. I’m just going to step you through the press release.

Our net loss for the second quarter of fiscal year 2012 was $12.8 million or $0.17 a share compared with $14.2 million or $0.21 per share for the same quarter last year. Our revenues for our second quarter this year were $7.6 million as compared to the $4.2 million in the same quarter last year.

Gregory Perry

Our second quarter this year contained $6 million in license and milestone fees as compared to $900,000 in the same quarter last year and includes the $3 million milestone payment from Sanofi that we earned when SAR3419 started Phase II testing, and the 2 $1 million milestones from Amgen we earned when their 2 TAP compounds got active INDs.

Our second quarter this year also includes $945,000 in research and development support, and $647,000 in clinical materials reimbursement compared with $2 million and $1.3 million respectively in the same quarter last year. These revenue items obviously vary by quarter depending on partner events and timing and the work we do in supporting our partners.

Our operating expenses for the second quarter of our 2012 fiscal year were $20.4 million as compared to $19.7 million in the same quarter last year. We had increased personnel cost including increased stock comp expense and patent cost in the current period in support of our internal programs, but also have lower expenses for clinical materials for our own and partner programs compared with the same period last year.

We had approximately $168.4 million in cash and cash equivalents as of December 30, 2011, as compared with $191.2 million last year. The December amount doesn’t include the $20 million upfront payment from Lilly as this cash was received after the month end.

Our guidance for our full 2012 fiscal year remains unchanged from what we provided when we announced the collaboration with Lilly in late December. Just as a reminder, we project our net loss would be between $78 million to $82 million.

Our net cash used in operations will be between $40 million and $45 million, and we’ll end our fiscal year on June 30, 2012, with expected cash and marketable securities of between $145 million and $150 million.

Based on these figures, we expect our current capital resources, along with the expected future collaborative payments to be sufficient to meet our operational expenses and capital expenditures through our 2014 fiscal year.

As Dan noted, we’re seeing momentum building with our proprietary product

pipeline. We’re also seeing each of our partners putting solid support behind TAP compounds.

Roche’s Phase III program for T-DM1, Sanofi’s multi-pronged Phase II program for SAR3419, Biotest’s BT-062 Phase I2 program, Bayer’s advancement of BAY 94-9343 to the clinic and the Amgen’s advancement of 2 TAP compounds in earlier stage work by our newest partners, Novartis and Lilly. This represents another strong step forward for ImmunoGen in our TAP technology.

Dan?

Daniel Junius

Thanks, Greg. Let me take you through what we see as anticipated events over the coming year.

Starting with what we’ve seen in the early part of 2012, this will primarily be ImmunoGen-driven events. Those would include the start of the Phase I study in IMGN this current calendar quarter.

IMGN901 would be the Phase II initiation, that will be late this quarter or early next quarter. For both IMGN529 and IMGN853, late April and -- or late March rather and early April of this year.

Daniel Junius

And then lastly, in IMGN853, that IND will become active some time before the middle of this year, probably in the early part of the next quarter.

Then, as we get to the middle of 2012, we’ll see much more going on from a partner standpoint. That would include EMILIA Phase III study from Roche, based on what we hear from their public communication, that sounds like that will be some time around midyear.

Midyear would also when we’d expect to hear more about the plans from Roche on T-DM1 in the adjuvant setting. And then also midyear is when we would expect to see the Phase II dosing information from Sanofi on SAR3419.

As we then get to marketing submissions on T-DM1 in the U.S., EU and elsewhere, based on, again, what we can glean from Roche’s public statement, that looks like it would be some time in the third quarter of

this year, that will be third quarter of calendar 2012. And then probably early third quarter, at least around midyear, we look to be starting the

IMGN853 study.

In the latter half of 2012, probably more towards year end, we would expect to have the first data from the IMGN901 Phase I2 in small cell lung cancer. For example, that would be the information around the Phase II dosing, and possibly some initial response data.

It’s a little bit early to have some clarity on that one.

And over the course of the year, there's the potential to also hear more from Roche about their plans with T-DM1 in gastric cancer. So that’s what

we’re looking for within this calendar year. Let me turn it over to Carol, and she can coordinate the Q&A.

Carol Hausner

Great. Thanks, Dan.

About to ask -- open the call to questions. [Operator Instructions] Operator, we’re now ready to open the line to questions.

Operator

[Operator Instructions] We’ll take our first question from Ling Wang with Summer Street Research Partner.

Ling Wang

So I was wondering for Roche events that, Roche tend to give plans for the development of adjuvant. I was wondering whether you can give a little bit of color on, what can kind of follow on they might disclose this?

And also, Dan, for 3419, you mentioned -- didn’t quite get what kind of data shall we expect in the midyear, this year?

Daniel Junius

For 3419, the data that we would expect is, they went through a couple of different Phase I studies looking at different dosing regimens for 3419. And I think what we would expect to see coming out for data this year is the results of that and the rationale that got them to in the final Phase II dose.

I don’t think that was covered, they've had a couple of posters that I recall over 2 of the Phase I studies, but never got to a final dosing discussion, this I think would be closure to that issue. As it relates to Roche in the adjuvant, we’re reading the tea leaves there a little bit, but Roche has been very clear on saying that out of the

Daniel Junius

Phase II study that they conducted in adjuvant and neoadjuvant, that they would have data in the first quarter of this year and that they would provide an update to their adjuvant plans as it pertains to T-DM1 by midyear. That’s what we know.

Trying to think of what forum they would choose, it could be any one of a number of things. It depends -- I would expect it would be something that might be timed as they're talking about the Phase III results from the EMILIA study because that would beg the question of, where does adjuvant fits?

So depending on what their decision is on, when they’re going to get into the detail of that study might provide some insight as to when they provide further clarity around their adjuvant plans for T-DM1.

Ling Wang

I just wanted to clarify, should we still expect that Roche might report the adjuvant Phase II data this quarter or not really?

Daniel Junius

I don’t know what to tell you there. We know that they said that they would have data in the first quarter.

That’s sort of a teaser when they say they’re going to have it, it makes you think they’re going to disclose it. But I haven’t heard them say, we’re going to have and disclose.

So I can’t -- I really can’t help you much on that.

Operator

We’ll take our next question from Thomas Wei with Jefferies & Company.

Thomas Wei

I wanted to just first ask about the timing of EMILIA data, it sounded like you were implying that there was a slight shift to data release a

Thomas Wei

little bit later in mid-2012. Does that mean that it’s unlikely to be prepared in time or mature in time for its submission for an ASCO abstract?

Daniel Junius

Thomas, if that’s something you interpreted, it wasn’t intended. The only thing that we know is, they’ve said, 2012 disclosure of data at one point, there was a reference to having data at ASCO.

They haven’t reinforced that. So -- but there was nothing that I intended to convey that suggested that there was any shift in timing.

Timing has been a little ambiguous all the way along.

Thomas Wei

That’s helpful. And then I just wanted to ask you for your own thoughts on adjuvant disease and what you think the role of T-DM1 is?

A lot of

Thomas Wei

us are trying to figure out how this might fit into an adjuvant regimen when chemo is given usually for the first 4 cycles and then Herceptin and

chemo for an additional 4 maybe up to 6 cycles, and then a long duration of Herceptin almost maintenance therapy afterwards. Based on the T-DM1 data so far, what parts of the regimen do you think -- or if you control the adjuvant trial, how would you test T-DM1, what would you replace?

Daniel Junius

Well, you’re talking to a non-doctor here. So we have to be -- I have to be a little bit careful, but I do think that -- one of the strong themes coming from Roche around T-DM1, clearly, the efficacy has been very important.

But our ability in being able to get chemotherapy out of the regimen has been extremely important. And I think that’s the theme you hear not only with respect to T-DM1, but across the whole range of treatment in oncology with personalized medicine, with new therapies that take these systemic chemotherapy's out.

So you would think that you would want to find an avenue to eliminate chemotherapy within the adjuvant setting as well. And if you’re getting more robust responses, any activity in the metastatic setting, the expectation would be that you would see similar impacts in the adjuvant, neoadjuvant.

So if -- I sort of simplify it, if you’re taking T-DM1 in metastatic and using it to replace that the foundation therapy of Herceptin plus chemotherapy, that should at least be the starting point as you’re thinking about it in adjuvant. The question is whether you move that ahead of chemotherapy in adjuvant and simply replace chemotherapy in total with T-DM1 or not?

Adjuvant, as you referenced, is a relatively fragmented regimen or a series of regimens today to be able to simplify it with a more effective therapy that doesn’t contain chemo would seem to be an attractive path to pursue.

Thomas Wei

And just to clarify, so it sounds like both the chemo start and then the Herceptin chemo part of the regimen is up for grabs, and do you see the

Thomas Wei

tolerability as being getting off to also replace the subsequent, more than half year of Herceptin monotherapy?

Daniel Junius

Well, just again to frame the first part of your comment correctly, this is my view, this isn’t a view that we’re conveying from any discussion with Roche on the topic. Is the tolerability enough to replace Herceptin?

There are open questions in terms of how long adjuvant therapy should last, and if you bring a more effective therapy in with T-DM1, does that change the treatment paradigm for duration, as well as what's used? Or will Herceptin still have a role?

Can they keep patients on T-DM1 for a time and then move to Herceptin? I’m not sure.

You probably have a modestly more benign therapy with Herceptin alone but all that remains to be seen, Thomas.

Operator

We’ll take our next question from Jason Kantor with RBC Capital Markets.

Jason Kantor

My question with regard to your bandwidth to do more. I know that you stayed pretty involved with your partners in terms of the early preclinical work on these conjugates.

So was it something that you’re reaching at some kind of capacity constraints on at this point or could we expect more?

Daniel Junius

Well, it’s something we spend an awful lot of time looking at it, Jason, and it’s one that we can't -- we have some ability to manage and we do that by placing caps on the level of support that we’re obliged to provide to partners, for example, in multi-target deals to make sure that we don’t over obligate the organization. We also -- our support can come in stages, so that when we provide support, it maybe exclusively for some of the early research around conjugate design, some of the downstream work will come into consideration later on and we can decide whether we want to do that or not.

And the bias is to do it, not necessarily for financial reasons, although that’s not insignificant, but for the reasons I noted earlier that, I think, that the more work we do in this space, it enhances our knowledge base, to some extent keeps the know-how in our shop as opposed to seeing it go elsewhere. So we think we have the

Daniel Junius

bandwidth, metered pretty well at this point. We may selectively and we have been selectively adding resources to ensure that working with partners doesn’t inhibit the support of our proprietary programs, but that’s been relatively limited today.

I think we’re okay for now.

Jason Kantor

And then along the same line of questions with partners. We saw yesterday, 2 Hem-Onc companies getting acquired, one, next-generation antibody technology and I’m just wondering from your perspective have you seen more interest on the M&A side from partners in your discussion?

Daniel Junius

Yes. Well, I wouldn’t comment on that, Jason.

Operator

[Operator Instructions] We’ll go next to Ryan Martins with Lazard.

Ryan Martins

My first question was around 901. Can you give us some color on what the challenges have been in terms of getting to the final dose for Phase II.

also it's being studied in combination with etoposide and carboplatin there. But if you can give us some idea on that?

And also in terms of the Phase II trial, are you going to have an interim analysis in the Phase II and your assumptions on historical PFS and overall survival in small-cell lung cancer patients?

Daniel Junius

The challenges, again, in the MTD really come in to play because of the particular regiment they choose has standard chemotherapy for

Daniel Junius

small-cell lung cancer patients, and the nuance to that is that there isn’t a single regimen. The docs work with 2 different standards and when they combine etoposide and carboplatin, I don’t think we fully either appreciate it or certainly anticipated that as we entered into the study and so as we went through it, we realized to fully explore the appropriate dose, we needed to look in both regimens.

And as a result, that took us longer to go through that than we had planned. That said, we’re very close and may well be at the MTD, we have to confirm that.

But that would allow us to then move into the Phase II. Your question on interim analysis with the Phase II, I think we’ve talked to most, if not all of you, about the design and the study where we’ll be recruiting 120 patients, 80 into the experimental arm and 40 into the control arm.

But what we’re going to do is break that into 2 cohorts. So we will have 60 patients in the initial cohort that will allow us to look at them as a separate sub-population as that data matures to gain some insight that allow us to make decisions to compress the time it would take for us to move into a pivotal study here.

So we’re doing this to get the fastest read that we possibly can. We’re excited about the prospects for 901, we think this is a disease that is looking for additional solutions and we’re looking forward to getting into the Phase II.

Ryan Martins

Okay. And your historical assumptions for PFS and overall survival in these patients?

Daniel Junius

PFS for patients with small-cell lung cancer is -- you’re talking about 5 months in terms of PFS. So -- and these are patients that they respond to the basic chemotherapy, but without any durability.

Survival was less than a year.

Ryan Martins

And one final question is on the plans for T-DM1 in gastric cancer. If you could give us some idea of what HER2 expression levels are

Ryan Martins

firstly in gastric cancer. And secondly, is this going to be looking at just HER2 positive patients in gastric cancer?

Or is it going to be based on the higher HER2 expression? We know there was a better on survival benefit in the trial but what happened?

Daniel Junius

My understanding is the expression in gastric, in HER2 expression is similar to what you see in breast cancer and that it’s only about 20% of the gastric cancer patients over-expressed at a -- I don’t know if they use the same metric, but at a 3-plus like level. And that’s a sub-population for what Herceptin is approved today.

They would be -- if they pursue and I assume that they would be looking at that same subpopulation.

Operator

We’ll take our next question from Bret Holley with Oppenheimer.

Bret Holley

I’m wondering on the 853, you’ve obviously referred to ovarian cancers being under the initial target. I’m wondering what other tumor types you find particularly attractive for 853?

And I guess the follow-up question is, are you going to, I guess concentrate ovarian cancer patients in the Phase I program for 853?

Daniel Junius

Bret, what we’re going to do with that is -- there is, as you know a lot of subcategories with 853 and the plan is to pursue a couple of things there. One is, you want to look at what has the potential to be the fastest pathway to registration.

I’ll also try and understand what the breadth is of the particular compound. The; way we’re setting up the study is that it’s going to be all comers in the Phase I, but we’re setting up sites that would specifically attract ovarian patients.

We have some experience from some earlier studies to know that for 901, for example, when we're looking to attract ovarian patients as we’re doing

Daniel Junius

Phase I, we really couldn’t get any of those patients unless we set up sites within women’s health centers. So we will be doing that.

I think in the broader studies, although they aren’t specific to ovarian patients, we expect to see a lot of non small-cell lung cancer patients.

Operator

We’ll go next to Cory Kasimov with JPMorgan.

Cory Kasimov

Two questions for you. One is on 901, and I’m wondering if the Phase

Cory Kasimov

I portion of that study has given you any insight into how easy or difficult it may be to enroll the Phase II part of it. And then the second question is more of a big picture for you, and again it’s around your proprietary pipeline and it's as you’ve been building up the breadth of this pipeline with several new assets, can you update us on your latest strategic thinking?

Are you at the point where you’re considering taking one or more of these candidates, if successful, all the way to the finish line by yourself to become a fully integrated company or alternatively, do you expect to partner these upon proof of concept?

Daniel Junius

.As your comment about moving it to the morning, pretty good attendance this morning. So we will make -- that indicates that maybe this was

Daniel Junius

successful in getting this information to all of you directly. I don’t know that it -- on your 901 question about whether the insights about how easy or difficult to enroll.

I’m not sure that we have a lot really because as you know Phase I, you have a limited number of sites. Here, we were not targeting our specific patient population, which in some way it

would have lowered the bar a little bit. But I think the fact that we’re going to a number of countries, all the sites today are U.S, we will have a number of sites in Spain, U.K.

and Canada, will probably give us a different profile around recruitment. And getting away from later-stage patients and going into first line patients will be an impact.

One of the things that we’ve seen is that with later stage patients we are screening, it has been very active. But what we find is because you’re dealing with later-stage patients, we run into some obstacles relative to the protocol, patients have brain metastasis that exclude them from the study.

So maybe we'll run into different issues with first time, but I wouldn’t draw our conclusions off of the current patient population from what we might see and when we get into the Phase II. Your second question about strategically, how do we view the pipeline and what might we do with some of these compounds if they’re successful going forward.

Our thinking certainly has evolved over the last several years. At one point in time, and this goes back probably 3 or 4 years ago, if you had talked to me about it, I probably would have told you that we would get the compounds to a stage and then partner.

I don’t know -- our thinking now

is that that’s not necessarily the path that we'll pursue. We think that there's the potential to take these forward, having the 3 compounds we’re talking about today and further expanding the pipeline gives us a lot of opportunities and things to think about.

But we don’t view there being any obstacles, it couldn’t be addressed, it wouldn’t allow us to take

a compound and fully commercialize it. It may not be on a global basis with one in the early compounds, that’s the decision we can look at later.

But I think as we see data across the pipeline and potentially, hopefully, positive data, it just opens up a number of different alternatives in fully developing one of these compounds, one or more of them on our own is one of those options.

Cory Kasimov

Okay. That’s helpful.

One follow-up I just thought of, do you know how much Herceptin generates in sales, in gastric cancer?

Daniel Junius

I don’t. I don’t know that Cory.

Operator

At this time, there are no further questions in queue. I’d like to turn the conference back over for any additional or closing remarks.

Carol Hausner

Great. Thank you very much.

Thanks all for your interest in ImmunoGen. If you have any additional questions, please don’t hesitate to call and have a great day.

Operator

Again, ladies and gentlemen, we thank you for your participation. This will conclude today’s conference call.