Oncolytics Biotech Inc T.ONC

Alternate Symbol(s): ONCY

Healthcare Biotechnology

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The Company is focused on developing pelareorep, an intravenously delivered immunotherapeutic agent that activates the innate and adaptive immune systems and weakens tumor defense mechanisms. This compound induces anti-cancer immune responses and promotes an inflamed tumor phenotype turning cold tumors hot through innate and adaptive immune responses to treat a variety of cancers. This improves the ability of the immune system to fight cancer, making tumors more susceptible to a broad range of oncology treatments. The Company’s primary focus is to advance its programs in hormone receptor-positive / human epidermal growth factor 2- negative (HR+/HER2-) metastatic breast cancer and advanced/metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma to registration-enabling clinical studies. In addition, it is exploring opportunities for registrational programs in other gastrointestinal cancers through its GOBLET platform study.

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Comment by Noteableon Jul 13, 2023 4:47pm

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RE:Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) boosts biological drugs

July 12, 2023 - A Mizhou Securities industry commentary from its recent healthcare banking panel noted that M&A strategy between large and small biotechnology/ pharmaceutical companies could be affected by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), in terms of price capping and patent life reductions. Under the IRA, biologics are granted a 13-year protection period before price controls come into effect, while small molecules undergo price negotiations after only nine years of approval.

The Mizhou Securities industry commentary from its recent healthcare banking panel also noted: “Although the definition of life is not technically referring to the patent cliff, for all effective purposes, companies will likely treat this as loss of patent exclusivity.” And this could result in uncertainty around smaller companies potentially selling their assets earlier, or at a discount, in the face of risking decreasing lifecycle and valuation in the small molecule space.

Ophelia Chan, Business Fundamentals Analyst at GlobalData, commented that these provisions of the IRA could “…result in favoring biologics even further over small molecules, influencing future decisions regarding biotech financing and drug development pipelines.”

However, the Mizhuo summary takes the examination of biologics vs. small molecules one step further. With small molecules representing 90% of approved drugs, and when these drug patents expire are easier and cheaper to reproduce and enter the generics market to increase revenue. They posit the following: “Just this year, nine transactions have taken place among small molecule drugs. This begs the question, are these deals a result of small molecule drug developers getting ahead of the IRA? Additionally, will small molecule transactions look different in the future and will they still occur?”

Mizhou panelists also noted the following: