Mark Goldsmith
Analyst · Jonathan Chang with Leerink Partners. Your line is now open
Thanks, Jonathan. I think on the first question, which was capital allocation, given all the competing opportunities that we have, I think we've been pretty clear about this, that our number one strategic priority is to advance 6236 into pivotal trials in second-line pancreatic and lung cancer. And no question that from our bandwidth perspective and even direct spending that supports it, that the allocation of capital is made accordingly, so that's going to take the lion's share of our effort. So then, beyond that, we've identified these two additional corporate priorities for 2024, which is to expand the reach of 6236, and you've heard the various ways in which we're doing that, and that requires a certain amount of capital and a certain amount of bandwidth, and then qualifying our mutant selective inhibitors, 6291 and 9805, to advance into late stage development, that requires a certain amount of capital too. So those are clearly kind of ring-fenced and elevated in priority for 2024. That doesn't account for the entire budget, of course, because we have programs that go beyond those assets. Those are earlier stage programs, either defined development stage assets, of which we have several that we've identified and talked about, and then we have a robust discovery effort that leverages years of accumulated know-how to build out second later generation RAS inhibitors and so on. So we're going to continue to allocate according to those priorities, but we are thinking about not just the near term, so when we're making these investments in 2024, we have to meet our 2024 goals, but we also are trying to build our strategy, our data set, and our asset pool that would sustain and protect a franchise once we're able to create a commercial franchise from the first -- from the earliest assets that move forward. So lots of things to invest in. It seems like we have a lot of capital today. At some point, it won't feel like that much capital, but we're managing according to a very strategic plan.