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Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (SRPT)

Q4 2023 Earnings Call· Wed, Feb 28, 2024

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Operator

Operator

Good afternoon and welcome to the Sarepta Therapeutics Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2023 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today's program is being recorded. At this time, I'll turn the call over to Francesca Nolan, Executive Director, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. Please go ahead.

Francesca Nolan

Analyst

Thank you, Shannon. And thank you all for joining today's call. Earlier this afternoon, we released our financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2023. The press release is available on our Web site at sarepta.com, and our 10-Q was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission this afternoon. Joining us on the call today are Doug Ingram; Ian Estepan; Dallan Murray; and Dr. Louise Rodino-Klapac. After our formal remarks, we'll open the call for Q&A. I'd like to note that, during this call, we will be making a number of forward-looking statements. Please take a moment to review our slide on the webcast which contains our forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Sarepta's control. Actual results could materially differ from these forward-looking statements, and any such risks can materially and adversely affect the business, the results of operations, and trading prices for Sarepta's common stock. For a detailed description of applicable risks and uncertainties, we encourage you to review the Company's most recent annual quarterly report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC, as well as the Company's other SEC filings. The Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update its forward-looking statement, including any financial projections provided today based on subsequent events or circumstances. And now I'll turn the call over to our President and CEO, Doug Ingram, who will provide an overview of our recent progress. Doug?

Douglas Ingram

Analyst

Thank you, Fran. And by the way, everyone, it was Fran's birthday yesterday, so Happy Birthday, Fran. And good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining Sarepta Therapeutics' fourth quarter 2023 financial results conference call. Led by an exceptional launch of ELEVIDYS and continuing performance of our approved PMOs, EXONDY, VYONDYS, and AMONDYS, we announced, this afternoon, another strong quarter of full-year growth and quarterly growth as we serve the patient community. As we pre-announced in January at the J.P. Morgan conference, fourth quarter total net product revenue came in at $365. 1 million, growing some 55% over the same quarter of prior year and the full-year net product revenue achieved $1.14 billion, growing 36% over the prior year. In addition to continuing strong performance among our three approved therapies, ELEVIDYS' performance was particularly impressive, and reflects first-in-class launch excellence, notwithstanding, a label limited to four and five-year-olds, representing only about 3% or so of the total Duchenne population. ELEVIDYS net product revenue was $131.2 million for the quarter, and over $200 million for the full-year. I'm exceptionally proud of the team's performance here, which speaks to our level of preparation and attention to detail, expert understanding of all aspects of lunching innovative rare disease therapies, and, of course, our passion for bringing a better life to those living with Duchenne. Dallan Murray, our Chief Customer Officer, will speak to this in his remarks shortly. We also continue to exercise the discipline of a fully integrated commercial-stage biotech organization. We were profitable on a GAAP basis in the fourth quarter, having achieved non-GAAP profitability in the third quarter of 2023. And we exited 2023 with approximately $1.7 billion of cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and investments on our balance sheet. Our CFO, Ian Estepan, will provide more color on financial…

Dallan Murray

Analyst

Thank you, Doug, and good afternoon. The fourth quarter of 2023 represented a strong finish to an already impressive year as the team generated over $1 billion in net product revenue, a milestone for Sarepta. As previously noted, net product revenue for 2023 totaled $1.14 billion, consisting of roughly $945 million from our PMO franchise, and $200 million from the launch of ELEVIDYS, the first gene therapy approved for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Each of these accomplishments stands on their own merits, and the performance of both surpassed our internal projections and external consensus. In the seventh year of our PMO franchise, we again grew net product revenue by double digits from the nearly $844 million in net product revenue from 2022. As with previous years, we delivered this growth organically, without taking price increases on any of our approved PMO products. As such, this growth represents an increase in the number of patients we are serving, reflecting our commitment to the Duchenne community. Turning to ELEVIDYS, we're extremely pleased with launch execution, exceeding our own lofty expectations. In fact, the $200 million in net product revenue surpassed the combined 2023 revenue of the other five gene therapy launches from the past 18 months. Remarkable, given the ELEVIDYS approval occurred just this past summer. The success of ELEVIDYS shows that gene therapy can be commercially viable, providing hope for those patients with Duchenne, and for all those with genetic conditions with unmet need. While revenue is how we quantify the success of this launch externally, we measure ourselves on how we support patients. Our preparation is deliberate and intense, and our process was put to the test with the narrow label. The team responded to that challenge with an incredible commitment to supporting all eligible four to five-year-old patients.…

Louise Rodino-Klapac

Analyst

Thanks, Doug. 2023 was a year of great accomplishment for Sarepta, for the advancement of science, and for the health and well-being of patients living with rare disease. 2023 will also be remembered as being a defining moment in genetic medicine. In June 2023, the FDA granted accelerated approval to ELEVIDYS, first gene therapy to treat to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Since that time, we've been successfully treating ambulatory pediatric patients aged four through five years with Duchenne, who have a confirmed mutation in the DMD gene. And then, just about two weeks ago, and as Doug mentioned, we were thrilled to announce that the FDA accepted and filed our efficacy supplement for ELEVIDYS, whereby they will now evaluate broadening the approved indication of ELEVIDYS. By removing age and emulation restrictions and converting the ELEVIDYS accelerated approval to a traditional approval. Should we receive accelerated approval for ELEVIDYS in the non-ambulant population in the United States? Our ENVISION study also called SRP-9001-303 will serve as our confirmatory study for this population. ENVISION is a global randomized double-blind placebo-controlled two-part study evaluating the safety and efficacy of delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl gene therapy in non-ambulatory and older ambulatory individuals with Duchenne. This study is ongoing with all remaining patients being enrolled outside of the United States. With U.S. enrollment completed and the remaining 85% of recruitment occurring ex-U.S., we are confident in our ability to complete this trial. Moving now to our limb-girdle muscular dystrophy or LGMD program, on January 16th, we announced that screening was underway in study SRP-9003-301, also known as the EMERGENE study. We are pleased to now share that the first patient has been successfully dosed in that study. To remind you, EMERGENE is a Phase 3, multi-national, open-label clinical trial of SRP-9003 for the treatment of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy…

Ian Estepan

Analyst

Thanks, LRK. Good afternoon everyone. This afternoon's financial results press release provided details for the 4th quarter of 2023 on a non-GAAP basis as well as a GAAP basis. Please refer to our press release available on Sarepta's website for a full reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial results. Before we get to the results, I just wanted to flag that beginning in the fourth quarter of 2023, amortization of in-licensed rights and income tax expense or benefit are no longer excluded from non-GAAP results. The company has added income tax effective adjustments, which represents the estimated income tax impact of each pre-tax non-GAAP adjustment based on the applicable effective income tax rate. Non-GAAP financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2022 have been updated to reflect this change for comparability purposes. So, for the three months ended December 31, 2023, the company recorded total revenues of $396.8 million, which consists of net product revenues and collaboration and other revenues compared to revenues of $258.4 million for the same period of 2022, an increase of $138.4 million. Net product revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023 from ELEVIDYS was $131.2 million. Net product revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023 from our PMO exon skipping franchise was $233.8 million, compared to $235.9 million for the same period of '22. For the fourth quarter of 2023, individual net product sales were $131 million for EXONDYS 51, $69.9 million for AMONDYS 45, and $32.9 million for VYONDYS 53. The increase in net product revenue primarily reflecting increasing demand for our PMO products as well as net product revenue associated with sales of ELEVIDYS. In the quarter ended December 31, 2023, we recognized $31.7 million of collaboration and other revenues compared to $22.5 million for the same period of 2022. This revenue…

Douglas Ingram

Analyst

Thank you very much, Ian. Shannon, let's open the call for questions.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Gena Wang with Barclays. Your line is now open.

Gena Wang

Analyst

Thank you. I think, operator, your voice was cut off, so I don't know how many questions I can ask. I'll just ask two very quick questions. So, one is ELEVIDYS. So, for the proposed label, was that based on FDA feedback or was purely from Sarepta's end? And the second, regarding the emerging Phase 3 study in limb-girdle 2E, was it confirmed with the FDA that 15 patient would be sufficient? And what protein level will be approvable?

Douglas Ingram

Analyst

Yes, thank you very much for your questions, Gena. Just, for the future, it is one question per analyst. But I appreciate your questions, so let me answer them. So, the basis for our request to expand the label by removing both the age and ambulation restrictions, that is driven by the science, I want to be very clear about that. We're in the midst of a review. We're very -- we're pleased with the progress of the review so far, but it's too early right now to give you a substantive view on the division's perspective on that. But our view is that the science and the totality of the evidence supports the label extension that we've asked for. And it's the right answer from our perspective. It's the right answer from the science. It's the right answer from a policy perspective. And most of all, it's the right answer for patients living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which I hope will be all of our north stars in this regard. With respect to emerging -- or emerging, I should say, the -- that the protocol for that has been shared with and reviewed with by the FDA. And they have, on the basis of those discussions, including the end of the study, given us their blessings to commence that study. And we'll provide additional information on the level of expression likely to predict the clinical benefit at a later date. I would note, in our prior studies, we've had two cohorts; we've seen very robust expression of the beta-sarcoglycan protein, the absence of which is the sole and exclusive cause of the degeneration in patients who have LGMD Type 2E. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Tazeen Ahmad with Bank of America. Your line is now open.

Tazeen Ahmad

Analyst · Bank of America. Your line is now open.

Hi, good evening, and thanks for taking my question. I just wanted to get a sense, as you look for the expansion of label and how to model COGS, especially as more patients get on therapy over time, and the wait of the patients presumably will go higher as you get to older patients. What's the reasonable range of COGS that we should be assuming? Thank you.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · Bank of America. Your line is now open.

Yes, and, Ian, I'll turn this to you.

Ian Estepan

Analyst · Bank of America. Your line is now open.

Sure. So, from a cost perspective, we've been pretty clear that we're targeting 80%, obviously, from our financials that we reported today, you see it's much higher than that. But over time, as heavier patients get on the therapy and, obviously, our pre-expense inventory is exhausted, you'll see the COGS obviously start to increase, and our margin to start to decline more to that 80% range, which we've been guiding. Obviously, we can't give complete clarity around that because we have a suspension which could be coming online with as much higher yielding process and time for some of the older, heavier patients to be coming on, which would offset their weight. So, as we said, over time, you'd see some erosion of the margin from where we currently are, but modeling in around 80% is probably reasonable.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Joseph Schwartz with Leerink Partners. Your line is now open.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · Leerink Partners. Your line is now open.

Hi, all. Thanks for taking our questions. This is [Will] (ph) on for Joe. Congrats on the great question here. So, one question for us on manufacturing, with the recent acquisition of Catalent by Novo, and the expected expiration of your agreement with Catalent at the end of this year, how are you guys thinking about manufacturing moving forward? And then in terms of capacity, the potential for an expanded label this year, are there any potential for supply constraints in the near-term? Thank you.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · Leerink Partners. Your line is now open.

Yes, it sounds like your questions, Will -- first of all, I think there might be a misunderstanding of some sort, let me be very clear. Our agreement with Catalent does not end at the end of this year. We have a long-term relationship with Catalent there. They've been very good partners of ours. So, the -- there will be, from our perspective, no impact from the acquisition of Catalent by Novo Holdings. As we understand it, Novo Holdings would be acquiring the entity as a whole. The GLP-1-related manufacturing, I think, is going to be sold down to Novo Nordisk. And then, the Novo Holdings will hold the rest of Catalent, and it'll be run the way it's run today. And we've had -- I am -- have had direction discussions with the senior management at Catalent, and then I'm quite confident that it is business as usual with them. So, we're very, very good about that. And then generally from a supply perspective, I will say what we have done together over the last, since, well, 2018, at the beginning of this journey, from a manufacturing and CMC perspective, yes, would be nothing other than miraculous if it wasn't for the fact that it's science and hard work-driven. And as we sit here today, we're done a -- really a brilliant job of serving the community and we'll be continuing to do a brilliant job of serving the community over the course of this year with our partner Catalent, and we're feeling very good about where we are.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Gil Blum with Needham & Company. Your line is now open.

Gil Blum

Analyst · Needham & Company. Your line is now open.

Hi, everyone. Good afternoon and thanks for taking our question. So, I know this may be knowable, but can you remind us what the population divide is between ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients? And what is kind of the median age for loss of ambulation? Thanks.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · Needham & Company. Your line is now open.

So, I can give you the broad strokes. It is about epidemiologically about 50-50 between ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients. And Dallan, do you have the recent estimates of the loss of ambulation?

Dallan Murray

Analyst · Needham & Company. Your line is now open.

You cut out there for a second. Did you say the diagnosed patients?

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · Needham & Company. Your line is now open.

No, I said what is the average age of loss of ambulation?

Dallan Murray

Analyst · Needham & Company. Your line is now open.

Oh, average age of loss of ambulation. I think, Louise would probably have better data than me, but it would be depending on different publications in the 11 to 12 range. Louise, is that right, from me?

Louise Rodino-Klapac

Analyst · Needham & Company. Your line is now open.

Yes, some are slightly earlier. To your point, there are some differences. Yeah.

Gil Blum

Analyst · Needham & Company. Your line is now open.

Thank you, Louise.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Brian Abrahams with RBC Capital Markets. Your line is now open.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · RBC Capital Markets. Your line is now open.

Hi, this is Leonard on for Brian. So, maybe I'll ask 1.5 questions if that's okay, not quite two. So, can you clarify the application process with respect to ELEVIDYS? I guess is the conversion to a full approval and the label expansion two separate questions before the FDA that have potentially separate timelines, reviews, discussions around them, and can they be separated? And then I guess just related to that, you mentioned in the prepared remarks, you're thinking through broad label scenarios. So, and you mentioned if you get an accelerated approval in the non-ambulatory setting, I guess, is that part of those scenarios? Is that something you've heard from the FDA or is this just preparing for all the possibilities? Thanks.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · RBC Capital Markets. Your line is now open.

So, a couple of things, yes, there are essentially two issues at the agency at the same time. One is modifying the label to expand the label and to provide access to a much broader population of patients. And as we said, and it bears repeating, our BLA supplements requested the removal of all age and ambulation-related restrictions from the label, because we believe that's founded on science. And of course, the second question, then is this the view that we have satisfied the requirements for our confirmatory trial and that the entire approval should be translated from accelerated to a traditional approval. There are many different scenarios there. There's obviously going to be dialogue about the breadth of the label, and then of course there'll be this dialogue about what portions of that are confirmed for traditional approval and what portions of that are confirmed for an accelerated -- will remain an accelerated approval. So, there are many iterations. We have a strong view on what we think the science justifies. So, first from an administrative perspective, the timelines are identical. So, we have a June 21 target completion date. That is for both of those issues. So, we'll address both of those issues with June 21. And we're very pleased with June 21, as you know, because we had them guiding people to end of August from that perspective. On the substantive issues or what's going to happen in the review, that's going to be subject to the review and we're in the early days. Again, I'd say we're very pleased at least with the engagement of the division thus far, but we have more work to do and more discussions to be had and I don't want to over promise before the end of this. I will also say, there are a lot of different iterations from our perspective. Priority number one is the broadest possible label. So, as between the two issues that we're discussing, we are first and foremost focused on the broadest possible label, giving the potential of access and hopefully a better life to the greatest number of patients. And then, of course, we also, it's important to us, but the secondary issue is translating this from accelerated to traditional, and the breadth of that will be a separate discussion. But we have more work to do and more discussions and work to do with the agency, and June 21 will be our return date on all of that.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Kostas Biliouris with BMO Capital Markets. Your line is now open.

Kostas Biliouris

Analyst · BMO Capital Markets. Your line is now open.

Thanks for taking our question and congrats on the impressive progress. So, one quick question from us, if we assume that your label will restrict elevated use to ambulatory patients only for all ages, how straightforward would it be for physicians and importantly payers to clearly determine whether someone is ambulatory or not, given that patients are losing ambulation progressively. So, there may be a stage where the ambulation status is unclear. So, would it be clear for physicians and payers to determine if someone is eligible or not? Thank you.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · BMO Capital Markets. Your line is now open.

Yes, okay. Thank you very much for your question. First, let me be clear. I resist the assumption that we may only get ambulatory alone, of course, because we are at this point seeking a removal of the ambulatory restrictions. But to your point, ambulation is in the label today. And the question then is, what is -- how do physicians determine what ambulation means? The short answer is that, that is left to the medical judgment of physicians, but there is good guidance in medical practice for that. It is based on functional assessments and functional tests. There are well-defined approaches. Probably the most common, perhaps the most gold standard approach is the definition from synergy, which is that there is a patient reported continuous use of a wheelchair without ambulation and then that is verified by the physician by the inability of the patient to walk 10 meters unassisted. So, that would be a typical functional assessment that a physician would use to determine ambulatory status. So, this is an enormously difficult functional assessment and conclusion to make by physicians.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Neena Bitritto-Garg with Deutsche Bank. Your line is now open.

Neena Bitritto-Garg

Analyst

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my question. Just to follow up on the last question, could you just remind us what data was included in the filing on patients with, that are non-ambulatory, if any, just to kind of clarify that? Thanks.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst

Yes, we have data from children up to 20 years old from a separate study that we call study 103 that went in with it. We obviously also have an ongoing study ENVISION, which is a study for non-ambulatory patients. Now that is an ongoing placebo-controlled trial, but the safety from that study is obviously made available to the FDA on a continuous basis and all of that supports our DLA supplements.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Tim Lugo with William Blair. Your line is now open.

Tim Lugo

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is now open.

Thanks for the question. Can you discuss the level of warehousing currently occurring in the DMD community and maybe any subpopulations that are ahead of this potential expansion in the summer, which we should be aware of? I know we all focus on ambulatory and age-related. Is there anything else though, that we should be also looking at the life function or other cell populations?

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is now open.

Well, I'm not 100% sure what we mean by warehousing, to be honest. There is going to be an exceptional amount of demand for this therapy when the label is expanded, both from the physician community, but from families with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. And we stand prepared to build the material and have lots available to fully serve that demand over the course of 2024. But, Dallan, do you have other thoughts on the warehousing question itself?

Dallan Murray

Analyst · William Blair. Your line is now open.

Yes, I think it's related to the PMOs and warehousing with the PMOs in anticipation of the gene therapy. We were worried about that leading up to the initial launch, and the team did an exceptional job of making sure that, that did not happen. And we don't see widespread warehousing where patients are getting delayed, or really any warehousing where people are foregoing PMO in anticipation of the gene therapy. So, I think, as I mentioned in the script, one of the things we're particularly pleased with this year is the continued incredibly excellent execution of the PMO team for patients who were not eligible for the gene therapy for ELEVIDYS.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Uy Ear with Mizuho. Your line is now open.

Uy Ear

Analyst · Mizuho. Your line is now open.

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my question. So, just going back to the exon skipping products, could you -- I'm not asking for guidance or anything, but can you just help us understand on the first-half of the year, and the prior quarter year-over-year growth is relatively strong in the first-half, just wondering how we should think about the first-half of 2024 for those three products. Thanks.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · Mizuho. Your line is now open.

We haven't provided guidance on the PMOs for this year, but we are doing very well. And we saw very good performance of all three of the PMOs last year, and AMONDYS and VYONDYS were still growing double-digits. And one of the things that's interesting is that we are not seeing right now, and probably won't see a significant amount of cannibalization from ELEVIDYS over the course of 2024 that will have a significant impact on the PMO. So, we feel very good about where we are with our three RNA-based therapies in 2024.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Salveen Richter with Goldman Sachs. Your line is now open.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · Goldman Sachs. Your line is now open.

Hi. This is [Rudy] (ph) on for Salveen. Thank you so much for taking my question. So, if the label for ELEVIDYS is expanded and the broader population opens up, how do you think the physicians might prioritize which patients to treat first in the context of their constraints? Thank you so much.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · Goldman Sachs. Your line is now open.

Yes, that will be an issue that physicians are going have to grapple with. There are number of constraints. One of the things that you asked that I remember is that we need to ensure that we are always prioritizing great outcomes in safety over, for instance, short-term revenue. So, we need to make sure that physicians -- and physicians will know that they're going to certainly consider this, and they need to make sure that they can not only infuse stations, but follow-up appropriately, and so, that will likely require them to prioritize stations as they consider this therapy. The short answer is that we can't invade the process of medicine and decide for them what to do. There is a compelling argument on both, across the spectrum. On the one hand, there may very well be physicians who want to prioritize very young children to get in and intervene before damage is done. On the other hand, the non-ambulatory patients and later patients, there is a race against time in those stations. And so, getting to those patients, and stopping damage before its too late is extraordinarily important. So, these are going to be difficult decisions physicians are going to have to work that out. And I'm sure there will be whitepapers and discussions amongst our leaders on that topic. The issue today is a slightly different one. The prioritization today, given the label that we have is to ensure that we get kids on the label, and this really comes from the physician more than from us, to get kids on the label before they age out and then the frailty won't be available to them. So, if you look at the bias here, the bias tends to be in this type age range of four and five to be in the later ages, because we're really trying to get to those kids through ADOC, get through the administrative process will age out to six years old. The good news is that if we can expand this label that issue goes to the side, then we will have to deal with the other issues and then prioritization and like. But it ultimately will be a physician's decision and the issue of the practicing medicine for physicians.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ritu Baral with TD Cowen. Your line is now open.

Ritu Baral

Analyst · TD Cowen. Your line is now open.

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking the question. I want to just follow-up on the shorter guidance, given your comment on not to expect additional quotes in ELEVIDYS through the first-half of the year at least until the PDUFA. Is that a comment or reflection on just the fact that you reached sort of a runway on four to five-year-old, or is that a comment on sort of capacity of the systems throughput? Are you getting through with many patients as possible? And can you comment on what that sort of throughput capacity of the center is at this point for when hopefully the label expands? Thanks.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · TD Cowen. Your line is now open.

Yes. This really isn't a capacity issue right now. So, I think as Dallan commented in his opening remarks, the label that we have today in this population is really a fairly unique population. First, as we call know, it's a very narrow age range, four to five years old, but that alone doesn't really describe the unique nature of this population, because beyond that there is a significant percentage of those patients that are not yet diagnosed. And so, that makes it unusual. And when they're diagnosed, remember, they're not all getting diagnosed on four years in one day. Some of these kids are getting diagnosed until they're five. And so, what does it mean? It means that a family is faced with what is very likely the most devastating piece of news so far in their life has to come to groves with that news. Then understanding well enough, and then go through the administrative process that exists to get approvals, to get antibody tests, to get an infusion date and to get infused. So, this is a really unique population in light of that, obviously give a shout up to the team, it is particularly impressive when one considers that we did $200 million in that product revenue this year. So, what Dallan was really talking about, when we were talking about, this is just simply that as we work through the prevalent population, this is a really unique population, and much narrowed than you might imagine the four to five. And so, by the middle of this year, assuming now label expansion, you would get to a place where you begin to be treating the incident population as opposed to some abolished prevalent population in this group. Now, the good news is that we have a June 21 date for our request for label expansion. So, hopefully by July we will have a broader label, and we will be able to serve a much greater percentage of the population.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of David Hoang with Citigroup. Your line is now open.

David Hoang

Analyst · Citigroup. Your line is now open.

Hi. Thanks for taking the question. I just wanted to ask a little bit more about the suspension of manufacturing you have in the works. How active something like that come online and once that is operationalized, how might that improve your margins?

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · Citigroup. Your line is now open.

So, we are excited about where we are from a suspension perspective. There's still a ton of more work to do, but a couple of things to think about. We are very advanced actually in those suspension works that we are doing, not just SRP-9001, but we are actually getting great results from a suspension perspective with some of our limb-girdle programs. A couple of our sarcoglycan programs actually transitioned through suspension, and we are making great progress there. When we focus specifically on ELEVIDYS, we are in engineering realms right now. On suspension, we have done 500 liter, we are doing another 500 liter. We will start in the next month or so, 2,000 liter. We are so far getting not only really tremendous enhancement on yields, but really good product qualities. If all goes well, our goal is to have this suspension process available commercially by 2026. That's a moon shot goal on our part, and we are keeping the patients front and center, we are going to try to move as fast as possible. But hopefully we have the history to prove that we can cope with audacious plans and serve them. So, we are really excited about that. As far as what that might do, both from a capacity perspective as we go around the world with our partnership, and a COGS perspective, that's going to require more work and more clarification as we get these runs done, but it won't be modest. It will be multiples. And we are seeing multiple times greater yields with suspension than we get with our ICLS process, which Ian mentioned; filter it right now and 80% margin. So, you will probably hear in my voice certain amount of enthusiasm for our manufacturing approach and our suspension approach, and it is still early days and we are just in engineering realm trying out. But we are very, very excited about this could mean for our ability to bring this therapy across the world and at a lower cost of goods as we go across the world.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Mike Ulz with Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open.

Mike Ulz

Analyst · Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open.

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the question. Maybe just a quick one on timing, since the PDUFA date was granted two months ahead of expectations, just curious if the thinking now is you'll probably get a decision close to the PDUFA date, or is the FDA still really committed to rapidly reviewing this? And we might get an answer sooner? Thanks.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open.

I have more reason to believe that the FDA isn't committed to rapidly reviewing this. With that said, there is still lot of work to be done, and I think it would be a dream for all of us to assume that our target completion date of June 21 is the date on which we are going to get the answer on this. So, we are planning for June 21, even though we are going to get so many things. We try to move as fast as possible, but we are assuming June 21 is when we are going to get on label expansion request answered.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Danielle Brill with Raymond James. Your line is now open.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · Raymond James. Your line is now open.

Hey, guys. This is Alex on for Danielle. Thanks for taking the question. Maybe the PMO confirmatory trials are fully enrolled, could you just remind us whether we should expect data for the MIS51ON this year?

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · Raymond James. Your line is now open.

No, we shouldn't. It doesn't read out until 2026.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Brian Skorney with Baird. Your line is now open. Brian Skorney with Baird, your line is now open.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · Baird. Your line is now open. Brian Skorney with Baird, your line is now open.

Hi, this is Charlie on for Brian. Thanks for taking our question. So, we were just wondering if you've heard anything from Roche regarding timelines with the EMA as well as. If the European opportunity were to come online, would there be any supply limitations resulting from that? I know you're very comfortable with the expansion of the label, but bringing on a whole another constant. Do you think you'd have to do any prioritization between regions? Thank you.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · Baird. Your line is now open. Brian Skorney with Baird, your line is now open.

Well, Roche is publicly saying that their goal is to submit in 2024. And then, as it relates to supply, our supply plans include our partner Roche.

Operator

Operator

Thank you.

Dallan Murray

Analyst

And just one quick follow-up just to the previous question around MIS51ON and the timing, just one thing to remind everyone is that this is a dose that compares the doses of the drug. And so, the data which we'll read out will be comparative from the 30 mg/kg compared to either a 100 mg or 200 mg/kg. And there's no risk of the drug being pulled off the market.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Kristen Kluska with Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is now open.

Richard Miller

Analyst · Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is now open.

Hi, this is Rich Miller on for Kristen. Thanks for taking our question. Since launching, are you able to talk about if and how the profiles of DMD patients that are looking to get on a ELEVIDYS have changed? Or to put it another way, I imagine you had highly engaged caregivers who were ready for a ELEVIDYS on day one. So, are you seeing more patients coming forward now after a few months of commercial experience or caregivers to get their child in line for a ELEVIDYS? Thanks.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is now open.

Yes, I would say in the broadest of strokes, there is going to be a substantial demand for this therapy. I don't think that's changed; I think it's what we anticipated. Before launch, I don't think it's changed after launch. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a devastating disease and the opportunity that's offered by a ELEVIDYS is an important one. I think physicians understand that, families with Duchenne muscle dystrophy, boys understand that as well. But, Dallan, if you have any additional color on this or views, please share them.

Dallan Murray

Analyst · Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is now open.

No, I think broadly speaking, you're exactly right, Doug. It's -- we're not seeing a real major change in terms of the patients coming in. It is, as we set up, we're on a small population. And so, as soon as they're getting diagnosed and have had their discussions with the docs, they're coming in through the enrollment forms. And so, we're just working through those patients as fast as they can -- as we can, prior to them aging out. But no major differences in for example, there wasn't a big kind of bolus of patients that initially came in, and now that's different. It's just a -- it's been a steady clip, essentially.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Anupam Rama with J.P. Morgan. Your line is now open.

Anupam Rama

Analyst · J.P. Morgan. Your line is now open.

Hey, guys. Thanks so much for taking the question. At the conference in January, you talked about 70 sites being active and about half of those sites had dosed patients. Can you give us a sense of where you are kind of now in the first couple months of the year? Thanks so much.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · J.P. Morgan. Your line is now open.

Yes. I mean, I believe that, that remains the accurate answer, but, Dallan, you can give us an update if there's any change in that.

Dallan Murray

Analyst · J.P. Morgan. Your line is now open.

No, Anupam, it really hasn't changed all that much. There's obviously more than there was then, and there's a higher proportion of sites that have dosed, but we're actively looking at this on a daily basis, and we have this flexible model where we can bring on new sites, get them trained and up and ready as needed. So, we've got more than enough sites up and running and we've throughout -- we've got great geographic coverage, but the team is also ready to support and serve as needed out there.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst · J.P. Morgan. Your line is now open.

I really do want to give kudos to this team for where we are. The -- I think everybody knows the goal was to try to get to 50 -- as much as 50 sites in 2024. 2023 -- by the end of 2023, which would have been -- would have been record-smashing for a gene therapy launch, and that there was going to be this aspiration that maybe someday we could get to 70 sites that would be trained and up and running. And this team got, as you know, to over 70 sites in 2023, but also the way they got there is something that gives me an enormous amount of pride, which is, as I said earlier in this call, recall, we don't prioritize revenue over patient safety and great outcomes. Far more important for us to ensure great outcomes, and this team has done a ton in that direction. These 70 sites that are activated because they've all been well-trained, they're in good shape to be able to safely infuse this therapy and get good outcomes and consistent outcomes, which is important. We have a very laudable safety profile for a full body infusion gene therapy, and we want to ensure that remains the case over the long-term, not the short-term. And then, of course, there's a lot of other programs around that, the ability to access experts so that every physician has an opportunity to get the right kinds of information to inform the way they not only infuse, but monitor patients and react is something that has been -- that is unique. I'm not sure anyone else has ever done the kind of work we've done. So, we're in great shape right now to serve this community and serve it responsibly. So, I'm really proud of where the team is right now. And frankly, it also explains our revenue in 2023.

Dallan Murray

Analyst · J.P. Morgan. Your line is now open.

Thanks, Doug. And as you were speaking, that team did get us just a direct answer to Anupam's question. And we're closing in on 60% of the sites have dosed. So, it just, exactly as you said, it's just increasing as we go.

Anupam Rama

Analyst · J.P. Morgan. Your line is now open.

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. I'd now like to turn the call back over to Doug Ingram for closing remarks.

Douglas Ingram

Analyst

Thank you, Shannon, and thank you all for joining us today. Thank you for your insightful questions. We appreciate it. At the risk of repeating myself I think 2023 was an extraordinarily important year for Sarepta. We -- a lot of folks on this team, in concert with the patient community and investigators and physicians, frankly, moved heaven and earth to get us where we are today, which is, I think, a fast-maturing, fully integrated biotech organization committed to bringing a better life to patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, limb-girdles, and other serious rare diseases. 2024 is actually going to be even more significant if we're successful, and that's going to put us in a position where we can do a lot of good for a lot of rare disease patients and where we can reward those who have stuck with us and invested in a better life for these patients. So, I will remind you with the -- if we are successful this year and we broaden the label for ELEVIDYS and we can meet our goals this year. We are going to leverage our acumen and our financial strength and the talent of this team. And through both advancing our internal pipeline but looking to external innovation, we will have the goal of growing even after ELEVIDYS. Not incrementally, but in multiples. So, we are going to build for ourselves a very big ambition if we are successful in 2024. With that said, we need to focus on 2024 and be successful, and the team is prepared to do that. And I look forward to updating you along the way as well. So, thank you and have a lovely evening.

Operator

Operator

This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.