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Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. (RLMD)

Q3 2025 Earnings Call· Thu, Nov 13, 2025

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Operator

Operator

Good afternoon, and welcome to Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the prepared remarks, we will conduct a question and answer session. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded and will be available for replay on the Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. website. I would now like to turn the call over to Brian Ritchie of LifeSci Advisors. Please go ahead.

Brian Ritchie

Management

Thank you for joining us today. This afternoon, Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. issued a press release providing a business update and outlining its financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2025. Please note that certain information discussed on the call today is covered under the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. We caution listeners that during this call, Relmada's management team will be making forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied by these forward-looking statements due to risks and uncertainties associated with the company's business. These forward-looking statements are qualified by the cautionary statements contained in Relmada's press release issued today, and the company's SEC filings including in the annual report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2025, filed after the close today. This conference call also contains time-sensitive information that is accurate only as of the date of this live broadcast, on November 13, 2025. Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this conference call. With me on today's call are Relmada's CEO Dr. Sergio Traversa, who will briefly provide a summary of recent business highlights, Dr. Raj S. Pruthi, Relmada's CMO, who will provide an NDV-01 program update, and Relmada's CFO Maged S. Shenouda, who will provide an update on our financial results. After that, we will open the line for a brief Q&A session. Now I would like to hand the call over to Sergio. Sergio, please go ahead.

Sergio Traversa

Management

Thank you, Brian, as always. And good afternoon, and welcome everyone to the Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. Third Quarter 2025 Conference Call. 2025 is shaping up to be a standout year for Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. with excellent product development progress, driven by the effort of our outstanding team and strengthened by our recent successful capital raise. We are developing one late-stage and one mid-stage clinical program that we believe could be life-changing for patients. Each program has the potential to be the best-in-class treatment. Our lead program is NDV-01, a sustained release formulation of gemcitabine docetaxel or Gemdosi in development for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer or NMIBC, which affects about 68,000 new patients each year in the US and has a prevalence of approximately 744,000 patients in the US. Our second program is Sepranolone. It is intended to normalize GABA A receptor activity in compulsive disorder. The plan is in development for Prader-Willi syndrome, which has a US prevalence of approximately 20,000 patients. Here are the three key messages that we will cover today. Number one, we report the nine months data from the phase two study of NDV-01 in patients with NMIBC. In brief, the study showed a 92% overall response rate at any time, with favorable overall safety. We are very pleased by these encouraging and consistent data. Number two, we are pleased to have secured FDA alignment on the key elements of the phase three program for NDV-01. It is intended to enable two distinct and independent registrational tracks for NDV-01 in NMIBC. This is an important key de-risking milestone for the program that opens the door to a broad market opportunity in NMIBC. Number three, with the recently completed $100 million underwritten finance, we are well capitalized. The recent offering provides the resources to support our planned…

Raj S. Pruthi

Management

Thank you, Sergio, and good afternoon, everyone. I believe this is a very exciting time for our patients based on our excellent progress with the NDV-01 development program. I want to touch on three items today. An overview of the patient care journey in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer or NMIBC, a review of the nine-month data, and a summary of the FDA meeting highlights. Let's start with the NMIBC and the patient journey. There are about 85,000 new cases of bladder diagnosed each year in the United States and 744,000 people living with bladder cancer. About 80% of bladder cancer patients have NMIBC, and recurrence rates over five years are about 60 to 80%. Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. is focused on high-risk NMIBC and on intermediate-risk NMIBC, representing about 80% of NMIBC cases or 54,000 people per year. In brief, the patient care journey most commonly begins when a patient presents with blood in the urine or hematuria. Suspected bladder cancer cases are diagnosed using cystoscopy and cytology. Treatment begins with a surgical procedure called transurethral resection of the bladder tumor or TURBT. This procedure allows surgeons to classify the patient's disease stage and risk category and define the treatment plan. After surgery, patients with high-risk disease receive intravesical adjuvant therapy with standard of care immunotherapy known as bacillus Calmette-Guerin or BCG. Patients are then monitored with regular and urine cytology every three months to assess for recurrence. Patients with recurrent disease are treated with repeat surgery alternating with intravesical treatments. NDV-01 is a novel sustained release intravesical formulation of two chemotherapy agents, gemcitabine and docetaxel, or Gemdosi, as we say. It was designed to build on data from numerous studies conducted over the past decade showing that combination use of these two agents achieves response rates and recurrence-free survival that…

Maged S. Shenouda

Management

Thanks, Raj, and good afternoon, everyone. Today, I'll spend a few minutes on Sepranolone, and then provide you with an overview of our third quarter 2025 financials. Sepranolone is a member of a new subgroup of neurosteroids called GAMSAs or GABA modulating steroid antagonists. We believe Sepranolone's novel action on the GABA neurotransmitter pathway gives it unique potential to normalize GABA A receptor activity and alleviate the repetitive symptoms and disorders where compulsive behaviors are a common feature. These disorders affect millions of people in the US and around the world and include indications such as Prader-Willi syndrome and Tourette's syndrome. We have selected Prader-Willi syndrome, or PWS, as the first clinical indication that we will evaluate for Sepranolone. It affects approximately 350,000 people worldwide, including approximately 20,000 people in the US. PWS is a complex genetic disorder often defined by persistent hunger and overeating. Current treatment is focused on improving the obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Phase II data from a study in patients with Tourette's syndrome established Sepranolone's initial efficacy in a compulsivity disorder with good overall tolerability. We intend to initiate a proof of concept study in PWS in 2026. Our immediate efforts are dedicated to completing study preparations, including engaging with the FDA on our proposed trial design and in establishing a robust supply chain. Moving now to our financial results. As noted earlier by Brian, this afternoon, Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. issued a press release announcing our business and financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025. As of September 30, 2025, Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. had cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments of approximately $13.9 million compared to $44.9 million as of December 31, 2024. Notably, this excludes net proceeds of approximately $94 million from our $100 million underwritten offering of common stock prefunded…

Sergio Traversa

Management

Thank you, Maged. Before we go to the Q&A session, I would like to share that I'm very pleased with Relmada Therapeutics, Inc.'s work this year to advance and de-risk a portfolio of potentially life-changing therapies for patients. With our progress comes our gratitude for your support and for taking time to join today's call. 2026 is shaping up to be another very important year for the company, and we look forward to updating you on our continued progress. Operator, I would like now to open the call for questions.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder, if you have a question, please press one on your telephone keypad. Our first question comes from Uy Sieng Ear of Mizuho Securities. Please go ahead.

Uy Sieng Ear

Analyst

Hey, guys. Congrats on all the progress that you've made over the last nine months. It takes a lot of doing. Maybe, you know, the first question we have is maybe just help us understand a little bit about, you know, the different potential market opportunity for the two, I guess, indications that you are kind of going after, and maybe also, you know, help us understand the sequence of it. Will you start the study at the same time? And when do you think that one study will finish before the other, and if you can maybe provide some guidance on when each of the studies could complete. So maybe, you know, talk about the potential number of patients in the refractory second-line setting versus the potential number of patients in low-grade intermediate risk who could benefit from the adjuvant combination of NDV-01. First question. Thanks.

Sergio Traversa

Management

Thank you, Uy, for the question. I believe Raj, who runs the clinical program, can answer your question appropriately. Raj, do you want to try?

Raj S. Pruthi

Management

Yeah, of course. So as I mentioned, there's two proposed indications. One is in BCG unresponsive, refractory to first-line therapy. And I'll talk, let me talk a little bit about this population, then the intermediate risk, and then we'll talk about timelines. So this is a relatively smaller, about 8,000 patients per year. Now with current therapies, 55 to 80% of those patients will recur after first-line therapy. So there's a growing number of patients that are needed in this second-line indication. So from 8,000, you can take that down to 55 to 80% that will each year be BCG unresponsive that fail primary therapy. High-grade and low-grade intermediate risk. Now the intermediate risk population, and this is a much larger patient population estimated about 80,000 incident and prevalent patients each year in the United States with intermediate risk NMIBC. A significant number of them, probably over half, will receive an adjuvant therapy. And so that's about 40,000. So that represents a significant market for us to address. And I think if you look at surveys of urologists, chemotherapy and Gemdosi chemotherapy is the preferred choice. Regarding your question on timing, our plan is to initiate both of these trials, although they're separate indications, both trials at about the same time in 2026. I think this will provide for operational efficiencies and cost checks, contracting, and addressing sites. And I think for the sites, it will be easier as they kind of know how to do a clinical trial one side or the other. And the unresponsive patient population, with the first patient in being Q2 2026, will likely have clinical data, three-month data by Q4 2026 to provide internally and externally. And then the endpoint is going to be a twelve-month CR. So that'll be Q2 2027, with top-line data in Q2 2028. And the intermediate risk study also initiating in Q2 2026. That's an open-label but randomized study. That'll take probably about fifteen months to complete enrollment. Within that completed enrollment, we'll need probably about 24 months of follow-up. It's, I think it's a little bit trickier. We plan to do an interim analysis that's 70% events. Regarding the ability to provide data before then, I think that's a conversation we'll have to have with the FDA. Although it's an open-label study, we certainly wouldn't want to expend alpha along the way. So I hope that gives you an idea of the size of the populations and the timelines.

Uy Sieng Ear

Analyst

Yeah. That was super helpful. So maybe just help us with the other element. So, you know, with J&J and Lexo, I think the price is $69,000 per dose or per one of those pretzel tubes. And the induction phase is, I think it's what you need eight of those. So that sort of rounds up to about $550,000 a year. Does that sort of make sense in terms of, I know it's probably too early to sort of speak about pricing. Just wanted to maybe get your view on what potential pricing could look like.

Raj S. Pruthi

Management

Yeah. Let me actually take a quick answer to that, and then I would like to ask our CEO Sergio to comment. So, yeah, I think if you actually add up the induction phase and maintenance phase in the first year for Inlexo, it approaches $700,000. So that certainly is now set the new benchmark above ANTIVA for one if you look at one year of therapy. The other end of the spectrum to me is Zosduri, which is in low-grade intermediate chemoablation, which the yearly cost there is about $120,000. So I think the numbers will fall somewhere between. But, Sergio, do you mind if I ask you to comment on that?

Sergio Traversa

Management

Yeah. No. Sure. Thanks, Raj. I know it look. It's a bit early to talk about pricing. Because, like, we have to, we'll be data-driven depending on what the data looks like. We will, you know, price accordingly to the value added for patients. But we do have the luxury to watch what the uptake and the penetration of J&J and the other chemotherapy origin with their pricing, and we'll base our decision based on also how their pricing will be received by the urology community. So I hope I answered your question the best way I can. But we don't really have any specific pricing orientation for now.

Uy Sieng Ear

Analyst

Mhmm. Yeah. Thanks for that. I know it's probably way too early. And you're right. You know, you need to look at the data, but it's, I guess it's kind of encouraging that the pricing is kind of interesting. So maybe our last question, you know, maybe just help us to kind of a little better with respect to the differentiation from, you know, the conventional Gemdosi. I think on the call, you mentioned that, you know, you need a special biochemical hood and you need a special pharmacist as, I guess, someone who maybe even licensed who needs to put the product into syringes to be used. Yeah. Just help us understand, like, because of this hurdle where the product is currently used? Is it mostly in academic centers? And if all of this goes away, like, how does it open up the market for you if it does? Thanks.

Raj S. Pruthi

Management

Yeah. That's a wonderful question. And I think that has been the hurdle of Gemdosi. Right? We know it works as urologists. We know it works well, like I mentioned, for a decade. The obstacles for the community urologist, where 70 to 80% of these patients are taken care of in the community, is you need a specialized pharmacy. And if you look at the overall procedural time of sequential gemcitabine followed by docetaxel, it's upwards of four hours. So that's very easy to do in an academic center, and I think that's where most of the uptake has been. Very difficult in the community, lack of specialized pharmacy, and room or chair time and the staff for that for four hours. So I think by having prefilled syringes, avoiding the specialized pharmacy, and having a five-minute or so installation to a catheter, removing the catheter, watching the patient, allowing them to go home, I think opens the door. This is an opportunity for academic centers as well, but I think also to meet the patients where they're at and to meet the urologists where they're at as well. So I think this opens up the market significantly.

Uy Sieng Ear

Analyst

Okay. Sorry. Maybe just one additional question. I know you're going after just the two indications, which is actually quite broad, particularly in the intermediate risk section. But you know, there's an ongoing study in BCG naive patients called the, I guess, the BRIDGE study. If this study succeeds, like, what does that do to the potential opportunity for this product to be used off-label even though you, you know, you won't be promoting it because every doc will probably know about your product.

Sergio Traversa

Management

Yeah. Raj, you want to give your view?

Raj S. Pruthi

Management

Yeah. Thank you, Sergio. So that's a very insightful question, Uy. And, actually, Max Cates is one of the heads in the BRIDGE trial. So the BRIDGE trial is a randomized study of BCG versus Gemdosi in high-risk disease. And it's an 800 patient trial, cooperative group trial that is near end of enrollment and will read out in two years. So timing is nice for us. It's meant to look if Gemdosi is noninferior to BCG. So we know that the obstacle with BCG now are supply issues, and that's been ongoing for fifteen years in the US globally. And, also, it does have toxicity to it. It's effective, but it does have toxicity. So if now you introduce the ability of Gemdosi to substitute in for BCG, you know, Uy, I think that especially as you said in an off-label use, an easier way to give it, I think that opens the market significantly. That's a tremendous opportunity for Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. Great question. Thank you.

Uy Sieng Ear

Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the question and answer session. I will now hand over to Sergio Traversa for closing remarks.

Sergio Traversa

Management

Thank you very much, and thank everyone. And just an extended thank you to investors, patients, employees, collaborators, and consultants that have helped us to get where we are now, and they will continue to help us to get where we want to be. That is to bring NDV-01 and Sepranolone available for doctors and patients. Thank you very much, and I wish everyone a great evening for the rest of the day.

Brian Ritchie

Management

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today's call. Thank you for joining us, and you may now disconnect.