Earnings call transcript: Mineralys Therapeutics’ Q3 2025 beats EPS forecasts

Mineralys Therapeutics Inc. (MLYS) reported a narrower-than-expected loss for the third quarter of 2025, with earnings per share (EPS) coming in at -$0.52, significantly above the forecasted -$0.96. This surprise, coupled with promising updates on their lead drug, Lorandirostat, led to a strong market reaction. The stock surged 17.04% in aftermarket trading, closing at $38.07, reflecting investor optimism about the company’s future prospects.

Key Takeaways

• Mineralys reported a significant EPS beat, with a surprise of 45.83%.
• The stock price jumped 17.04% in aftermarket trading.
• Cash reserves increased to $593.6 million, providing a runway into 2028.
• Lorandirostat trials showed promising results, supporting NDA submission plans.

Company Performance

Mineralys Therapeutics continues to make strides in its financial and operational performance. The company reported a net loss of $36.9 million for Q3 2025, an improvement from the $56.3 million loss in the same quarter last year. This progress is attributed to reduced R&D expenses, which fell from $54 million to $31.5 million, despite an increase in general and administrative expenses.

Financial Highlights

• Cash and investments: $593.6 million (up from $198.2 million in December 2024)
• R&D expenses: $31.5 million (down from $54 million in Q3 2024)
• G&A expenses: $9.7 million (up from $6.1 million in Q3 2024)
• Net loss: $36.9 million (improved from $56.3 million in Q3 2024)

Earnings vs. Forecast

Mineralys reported an EPS of -$0.52, significantly outperforming the forecast of -$0.96. This 45.83% positive surprise marks a noteworthy improvement from previous quarters, indicating effective cost management and operational efficiencies.

Market Reaction

Following the earnings announcement, Mineralys’ stock surged by 17.04% in aftermarket trading, reaching $38.07. This rise reflects investor confidence, spurred by the company’s better-than-expected earnings and positive drug development updates. The stock now sits closer to its 52-week high of $44.89, showcasing strong market sentiment.

Outlook & Guidance

Mineralys is poised for growth with plans to submit a New Drug Application (NDA) for Lorandirostat by late Q4 2025 or early Q1 2026. The company is also exploring partnerships for commercialization outside the U.S. Upcoming milestones include results from the EXPLORE-OSA trial in Q1 2026 and potential strategic partnerships.

Executive Commentary

CEO Jon Congleton expressed confidence in the company’s strategic direction, stating, "We feel very comfortable with our best-in-class profile at this point." He also highlighted the broader applications of their lead drug, noting, "Aldosterone plays a critical role in conditions beyond hypertension."

Risks and Challenges

• Market competition: The ASI class remains competitive, with several players vying for market share.
• Regulatory hurdles: The success of the NDA submission is crucial for future growth.
• Economic conditions: Broader economic pressures could impact funding and market expansion.

Q&A

During the Q&A session, analysts inquired about the diversity of trial participants and the potential for combination therapies. The management emphasized the consistent efficacy of Lorandirostat across racial groups and confirmed no unexpected feedback from the FDA pre-NDA discussions.

Full transcript - Mineralys Therapeutics Inc (MLYS) Q3 2025:

Conference Operator: Greetings and welcome to Mineralys Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Dan Ferry. Thank you. You may begin.

Dan Ferry, Investor Relations, Mineralys Therapeutics: Thank you, Operator. I would like to welcome everyone joining us today for our Third Quarter 2025 Conference Call. Earlier this afternoon, we issued a press release providing our Third Quarter 2025 financial results and business updates. A replay of today’s call will be available on the investor section of our website approximately one hour after its completion. After our prepared remarks, we will open the call for Q&A. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that this conference call and webcast will contain forward-looking statements about the company. 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 today’s press release and our SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

Please note that these forward-looking statements reflect our opinions only as of today, November 10, 2025. Except as required by law, we specifically disclaim any obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events. I would now like to turn the call over to Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer of Mineralys Therapeutics.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Thank you, Dan.

Dan Ferry, Investor Relations, Mineralys Therapeutics: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our Third Quarter 2025 financial results and corporate update conference call. I’m joined today by Adam Levy, our Chief Financial Officer, Dr. David Rodman, our Chief Medical Officer, and Eric Warren, our Chief Commercial Officer. I’ll begin with an overview of the business, our clinical programs, and recent milestones, followed by Adam to review our Third Quarter financial results before we open up the call for your questions. We’re excited to have this opportunity today to provide an update on the progress our team has made over the past couple of months. Last month, we received pre-NDA feedback from the FDA. There were no surprises in this feedback, and we’re moving ahead with our NDA filing, which we expect to submit either late this quarter or in the first quarter of 2026.

In preparation for the submission, we developed a robust data package featuring results from multiple clinical trials across the spectrum of distinct and diverse participants with lorandirostat, which we believe support its potential as a best-in-class treatment for high-risk patients with uncontrolled or resistant hypertension and beyond. Earlier this year, we announced data from the Launch HTN and Advanced HTN pivotal trials. The results from both trials demonstrate that lorandirostat offers a clinically meaningful and sustained reduction in systolic blood pressure. These data have generated broad interest across the medical community, underscoring the unmet need, the desire for innovation in the management of hypertension, and the commercial potential of lorandirostat. These findings form the foundation of our NDA submission, which includes data demonstrating that lorandirostat maintains a durable and clinically meaningful response across diverse patient populations, a key consideration for its potential use in treating uncontrolled and resistant hypertension.

This includes subgroup analysis from the phase III Launch HTN trial and data from confirmed hypertension patients in the Advanced HTN trial. The Launch HTN trial enrolled a diverse group of participants. Nearly a third were Black or African Americans, half the participants were women, the majority of participants were overweight or obese, and over half had resistant hypertension, requiring three or more background antihypertensive medications. Across all subgroups, lorandirostat 50 milligrams once daily demonstrated consistent, statistically significant, and clinically meaningful reductions in blood pressure. All systolic BP reductions generated in Launch HTN were measured at 24 hours after a dose, proving the sustained effect and true once-daily profile. The Advanced HTN trial, designed and executed in conjunction with the Cleveland Clinic, enrolled a diverse group of hard-to-treat participants with confirmed uncontrolled and resistant hypertension by design, with over half of the subjects being Black or African Americans.

Now, let me pause for just a second to describe what I mean by confirmed. In any trial that allows participants to remain on their existing background medications, such as Launch HTN, patients may have apparent hypertension, meaning if they optimize their treatment with the existing medications, they may get to goal. In Advanced HTN, participants’ existing background medications were removed, and they were started on an optimized background treatment aligned with AHA guidelines, confirmed daily compliance with smartphone technology, and randomized only if they remained hypertensive after a three-week run-in utilizing the measurement of 24-hour ABPM. In these most difficult-to-treat participants, lorandirostat again demonstrated a significant and clinically meaningful reduction in systolic blood pressure and was well tolerated.

I would now like to briefly touch on the other development activities we’re pursuing to enhance and extend the lorandirostat profile in hypertension with comorbid conditions, which are largely driven by inadequately controlled blood pressure and dysregulated aldosterone. Starting with our proof-of-concept EXPLORE-CKD trial, which evaluated the safety and efficacy of lorandirostat in subjects with hypertension and comorbid chronic kidney disease on a background of SGLT2 inhibitor. Last week, we were excited to have data from this trial presented during a late-breaking session at ASN’s Kidney Week 2025. Lorandirostat demonstrated a clinically meaningful reduction on systolic BP in four weeks and was well tolerated. The key secondary outcome measure of reduction of urinary albumin-creatinine ratio, or UACR, an accepted surrogate for renal protection, was clinically meaningful and highly statistically significant.

Immediately after the release of these data, First Word Pharma surveyed 133 healthcare professionals, with 77% indicating they would consider prescribing lorandirostat to CKD patients with uncontrolled hypertension on either an ACE inhibitor or an ARB. Turning to the ongoing phase II EXPLORE-OSA trial, in the third quarter, we completed enrollment in this trial, which is evaluating the safety and efficacy of lorandirostat in participants with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension. We anticipate reporting top-line results from the trial in the first quarter of 2026. If the trial is successful, these data would complement the previously announced EXPLORE-CKD results and further our strategy to extend lorandirostat’s profile in treating patients with hypertension and comorbid conditions. Our rationale for targeting OSA is clear. A significant portion of patients with obesity and resistant hypertension also have OSA, which is often undiagnosed and untreated.

These conditions are biologically linked, as blood pressure and hypoxia rise during sleep due to upper airway obstruction. Both are drivers of major adverse cardiovascular events, including death. Prior small studies of MRAs or adrenalectomy have demonstrated reduction in AHI, which is the primary endpoint of the EXPLORE-OSA trial. The trial will also test the effect of lorundrostat on nighttime blood pressure using 24-hour ABPM, as well as a novel measurement of continuous blood pressure through the evening. While we have already clearly demonstrated lorundrostat’s efficacy as a once-daily morning antihypertensive, this trial will explore nighttime dosing since the triggers for aldosterone production in OSA are reduction in oxygen delivery leading to increased sympathetic activation of aldosterone production that occurs in the night during sleep. Uncontrolled and resistant hypertension remain major unmet needs, affecting over 20 million people in the U.S. and contributing significantly to cardiorenal complications.

Our clinical data highlight the differentiated value of targeting aldosterone with an aldosterone synthase inhibitor like lorandirostat, especially compared to current third and fourth-line therapies. As we advance toward commercialization, we are prioritizing market access planning and payer engagement to ensure the value of lorandirostat is well understood. We have also expanded our medical communications capabilities to support data dissemination through peer-reviewed publications, scientific meetings, and our field-based medical science liaisons. These efforts are central to ensuring commercial readiness for this potentially transformative treatment and the successful launch of lorandirostat. As we near the end of 2025, we’ve seen significant advances in the ASI space, including multiple trial readouts.

As we reflect on these data and their clinical relevance, we are more confident than ever in lorundrostat’s best-in-class profile based on the meaningful blood pressure reduction, the demonstrated 24-hour control, its benefit across the spectrum of difficult-to-treat patients, and its safety and tolerability. As we move forward with our NDA submission, we do so with confidence in the strength of our data, our team, and our mission to develop lorundrostat as a potential best-in-class therapy for the high-risk, often difficult-to-treat patients living with uncontrolled or resistant hypertension. I will now turn the call over to Adam to review our financial results for the third quarter of 2025. Adam.

Adam Levy, Chief Financial Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Thank you, Jon. Good afternoon, everyone. Today, I will discuss select portions of our third quarter 2025 financial results. Additional details can be found in our Form 10-Q, which will be filed with the SEC later today, November 10th. We ended the quarter with cash, cash equivalents, and investments of $593.6 million as of September 30th, 2025, compared to $198.2 million as of December 31st, 2024. We believe that our current cash, cash equivalents, and investments will be sufficient to fund our planned clinical trials and regulatory activities, as well as support corporate operations into 2028. R&D expenses for the quarter ended September 30th, 2025, were $31.5 million, compared to $54 million for the quarter ended September 30th, 2024.

The decrease in R&D expenses was primarily due to a decrease of $26.8 million in preclinical and clinical costs, primarily impacted by the conclusion of the lorandirostat pivotal program in the second quarter of 2025, partially offset by increases of $3.2 million in higher compensation expense resulting from additions to headcount, increases in salaries and accrued bonuses, and increased stock-based compensation, and $1.1 million in higher clinical supply manufacturing, regulatory, and other costs. G&A expenses were $9.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2025, compared to $6.1 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2024. The increase in G&A expenses was primarily due to $2.2 million in higher compensation expense resulting from additions to headcount, increases in salaries and accrued bonuses, and increased stock-based compensation, $1.3 million in higher professional fees, and $0.1 million in other administrative expenses.

Total other income net was $4.2 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2025, compared to $3.8 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2024. The increase was primarily attributable to increased interest earned on investments in money market funds and U.S. Treasuries as a result of higher average cash balances invested during the quarter ended September 30, 2025. Net loss was $36.9 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2025, compared to $56.3 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2024. The decrease was primarily attributable to the factors impacting our expenses that I described earlier. With that, I will ask the operator to open up the call for questions. Operator.

Conference Operator: Thank you. At this time, we’ll be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you’d like to ask a question, please press Star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press Star 2 if you’d like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the Star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Our first question comes from Uma Ravid with Evercore. Please proceed with your question.

Uma Ravid, Analyst, Evercore: Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my question. I have a question on your resistant hypertension population. My question specifically is, if you do not adjust for the discontinuations, basically no amputations involved, what would your minus 9 millimeter mercury have been? Presumably something in the teens, but is that a number you guys have evaluated if you were to not do any amputations and only look at completers like Astra did?

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Thanks for the question. Maybe Dave can opine on this, but we have not done that analysis. It was not part of the plan. From our standpoint, you have to account for all subjects enrolled and account for the execution within the study, discontinuations and patient outcomes as well. Dave, do you want to give some comment to that?

Adam Levy, Chief Financial Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Yeah. So you’re right, Jon. We did exactly what we negotiated with the FDA should be done in the situation of missing data. As you probably know, numbers above 15% and certainly 20% are extremely problematic, and sometimes those trials can’t be evaluated by the agency. We wanted to make sure. We really didn’t do that. I will caution you that it’s complicated to do any kind of estimates on amputation because you need the raw data. You can’t take, say, the least square means and try to figure out what it would be. It can be a reasonably substantial reduction. You’re right. It can go up or down three to five millimeters of mercury depending on what sort of amputation you do, etc.

Uma Ravid, Analyst, Evercore: Got it. Thank you very much.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Thanks, Umar.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Rich Law with Goldman Sachs. Please proceed with your question.

Rich Law, Analyst, Goldman Sachs: Hey, guys. Congrats on the progress. One advantage that AstraZeneca has been highlighting for BACs is the longer half-life. In the BACs 24 presentation over the weekend, I think we saw, I mean, it was interesting to see that the BACs show 14 millimeter placebo-adjusted SBP reduction for both day and night. Have you guys looked at that, the day and night, for Advance HTN, and was there any difference between the two? I have questions later on, follow-up.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Yeah. Rich, yeah, Rich, the 24-hour control, long-term acceptable tolerability profile, these are all things that physicians are looking for as they’re treating a chronic condition like hypertension. With four studies completed, we’re very confident in the 50 milligram and the 25 milligram once daily, providing that 24-hour control and with a profile that’s going to really aid long-term adherence compliance. I noted it in our prepared remarks. I think it’s worth repeating. We have always measured blood pressure in the morning before that day’s dose, so we’re measuring it at trough. Lorandirostat and Mineralys as the sponsor were the first to look at 24-hour ambulatory metrics with an ASI with our target HTN study.

We’re very comfortable with daytime and nighttime blood pressure reduction, Advance HTN, and the most rigorous study done in a truly confirmed population, which is distinct from any other study population of at least temporal current ASI studies, again, validated the 24-hour control. We’ve yet to publish or disclose the nighttime, but we’re comfortable with what we’re seeing from target HTN, Advance, and really for the entire program in providing 24-hour control for patients.

Rich Law, Analyst, Goldman Sachs: I see. Got it. And then want to follow up to your previous discussion on the data, the missing data, and how to handle that. Based on your understanding of FDA’s requirement, can you exclude any missing data or invalid baseline measurements in the primary analysis, or do you have to consider the entire population, the ITT population, and then perform imputation to it? Just curious to see what your thoughts are in terms of what the FDA requires in these scenarios.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: As Dave noted, and I’ll have him add some color to this. In the case of Advance HTN, this was prediscussed with the FDA and set in the SAP. Dave, do you want to maybe add some color to Rich’s question?

Adam Levy, Chief Financial Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Yeah. Thanks for the question, Rich. One thing I’m going to mention is you can’t go back and do it. It needs to be in the statistical analysis plan and spelled out. Depending on what the circumstances are, you will probably have to do a number of different ones. One is called jump to reference. That means you have to assume every single person randomized to active actually behaved like placebo. That’s obviously the most conservative, but it’s also the one that they’re going to want to look at. There are other ones that are more complex. You have to negotiate all that in advance. Generally speaking, you would do that by looking ahead and seeing what your missing numbers are and then decide whether a conversation like that is needed.

We did that when we had a risk of missing data and were able to handle the problem. It is complicated, but if you have not already done it before database lock, you cannot just do it later and try to make up for it.

Rich Law, Analyst, Goldman Sachs: Okay. Got it. Thanks, guys.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Thanks, Rich.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Tim Anderson with Bank of America. Please proceed with your question.

Alice, Analyst, Bank of America: Hi, this is Alice on for Tim. Thank you for taking our questions. You mentioned there were no surprises in the pre-NDA feedback, but are you able to provide any more color on this feedback? Could you update us on any final steps before filing? I have a follow-up as well. Thank you.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Yeah, Alice, we haven’t really disclosed that, but we’re comfortable with the feedback. As I noted, there were no surprises. We’re very confident in the data set we’ve put together across Advance HTN, Launch HTN, and Explore CKD. As I noted in the past, in public statements, the other critical part is the open label extension, having sufficient long-term safety data, including the randomized treatment withdrawal. All of that is progressing well. We’re comfortable with the guidance that we’ve given, and that is submission by the end of this year or into Q1 of next year.

Alice, Analyst, Bank of America: Thank you. And then just following the now that you’re on track for submission, can you provide any updates on any partnering discussions you may be having? Thank you.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Thanks, Alice. No, we continue, as we’ve said in the past, believing that partnering is going to be a key component of the Mineralys story. That is for ex-U.S. commercialization opportunity maximization value, but also in the United States. We feel very confident in the best-in-class profile that exists with lorundrostat right now. We want to make sure that we give it the appropriate commercial lift in the United States as well as the rest of the world, as well as looking at co-development partnerships. I think we have a well-characterized molecule at this point on the cusp of an NDA submission, and I think that continues to support the partnering dialogues that we’re having. Where at the end of the day, we’re focused on how do we maximize the value of lorundrostat for patients, for physicians, and certainly for investors.

Conference Operator: Our next question is from Annabelle Semimi with Stifel. Please proceed with your question.

Diane Amon, Analyst, Stifel: Hi, this is Diane Amon for Annabelle. Just two questions. The first one is around the open label extension trial. What are your expectations there, and when can we expect an update on the data?

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Yeah. We continue to progress well with the open label extension. There’s been no surprises as we’ve continued. It’s open label, obviously, so we can see data within that. The DSMB continues to review it. We can continue to be confident with the safety profile that we’re seeing. We will certainly look to publish the results of the open label as well as the randomized treatment withdrawal when the last subject has completed that aspect.

Diane Amon, Analyst, Stifel: Got it. And then one more on the ongoing EXPLORE-OSA trial. How do you expect to leverage the data that comes out of that trial?

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Yeah. Our goal with Explore CKD and Explore OSA is really an acknowledgment that lorundrostat has a benefit that extends beyond just the reduction of blood pressure. We know there are comorbid conditions that hypertension patients are dealing with chronically, whether it’s proteinuria, whether it’s CKD, whether it’s OSA, and the basically related cardiovascular risk that each carry. From our standpoint, adding further data beyond blood pressure reduction to the profile of lorundrostat is going to help its image and view within the prescribing population. It’s going to help inform how they think about providing benefit to their patients that do not just deal with blood pressure, but are dealing with the related comorbidities. I think it really fully rounds out the profile of lorundrostat and shows the promise of this molecule for addressing hypertension, but again, for those related comorbidities.

Diane Amon, Analyst, Stifel: Great. Got it. Thank you so much.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Thank you.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Mohit Bencel with Wells Fargo. Please proceed with your question.

Mohit Bencel, Analyst, Wells Fargo: Great. Thank you very much for taking my question, and congrats on all the progress. I have two questions. One is, overall, Jon, based on the data we have seen so far with lorundrostat and BACs so far, do you see any major differences between the two at this point, or do you think it kind of validates all those data that. The class? The related question is that AstraZeneca has talked about this being a multi-billion dollar opportunity. Some of it is unlocked, or some of it would be unlocked with the combination and all those trials. To help enable those trials, what kind of partnerships you as a company would be looking at, and what kind of partner would be the better partner for you to collaborate with at this point? Thank you.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Yeah. Thank you, Mohit. I would say, in going back to my remarks, we’ve seen a lot of data in 2025 from us with lorundrostat as well as competing ASIs in the space. We feel very comfortable with our best-in-class profile at this point. Clearly, the ASIs are going to be a differential class in addressing the significant unmet need of a population of 20 million just in the U.S. alone that could benefit from a drug that’s targeting the dysregulated aldosterone that we believe is probably accounting for a significant portion of those patients not being able to get to their ideal goal and basically risking poor cardiovascular outcomes if they do not.

At this stage where we have a complete data set from Advance HTN, where we are truly looking at the most difficult to manage because they are confirmed hypertensive to the really broad study, Launch HTN, as well as Explore CKD. We feel very confident in the consistent effect that we’re seeing, the magnitude of reduction of systolic blood pressure that builds over time. We see a nice response within two weeks that continues to grow out to the 12-week period of these studies. The safety profile, clearly the on-target safety signals with electrolytes. We believe we’ve got best-in-class molecule as far as the really modest increase in potassium that’s transient upon reducing or discontinuing the drug, and the tolerability of the profile. I think this is an exciting time for us. I think it’s going to be informative for our partnering dialogues.

It’s very easy at this point to say this molecule has been de-risked as an aldosterone-reducing agent and doing so safely and effectively. We know that aldosterone plays a critical role in conditions beyond hypertension such as CKD, such as OSA, conditions like heart failure. We believe that it’s that breadth of opportunity that will continue to inform those partnering dialogues. That is why it’s critical for us. We’ve said it early on. We’ve not had a for-sale sign in front of this company. We’ve been developing this molecule to make sure that we maximize the value for that. I think at this stage we’ve done so. We think there’s continued value that we can unlock on our own, but certainly a partner, both in the commercial and the developmental perspective, would help inform that and drive that even further.

Diane Amon, Analyst, Stifel: Excellent. Thanks.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Thanks, Mohit.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Rami Kahouda with Lifestyle Capital. Please proceed with your question.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my questions as well. AstraZeneca seems to have only enrolled a small number of African-American patients in BACs24, at least for the primary endpoint analysis, which does not seem super representative of the resistant hypertensive population. Do you think this could have affected the results? Can you remind us how large of a difference in efficacy you see with lorundrostat in this patient population? Secondly, have you noted what percentage of patients get to goal with lorundrostat in Advance or Launch?

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Yeah. Rami, thanks for the question. It was with intent that we really wanted to ensure that we had a good diverse representation of patients within our clinical program. We know that Black or African-American patients tend to be underrepresented in studies. We also know they carry some of the largest cardiovascular risk for uncontrolled hypertension. I was really proud of what the team did across the program. In Advance HTN, over 50% of those studied were Black or African-American descent. In the larger global study, Launch HTN, we were nearly at 30%. We have a really clear understanding of the benefit that lorundrostat can provide these patients. In the case of both trials, when we look at forest plots, we see that race is not a determinant of response.

In other words, whether you’re White or Black or African-American, you’re going to respond to lorundrostat and have a significant opportunity to get to your respective goal. It was important for us to have that population within our clinical program to be able to speak to the effect of lorundrostat to that at-risk population that typically is underrepresented. As to the % that get to goal, what we have shown in the past was, I believe, 44% in Launch got to goal at week six, and I believe it was 42% got to goal at week four with Advance. I want to make sure I got that right. 44% with Launch, 42% with Advance. I believe for the placebo groups, they were about half. I do know the odds ratio of getting to goal was over three in each study within those time frames that I described.

I hope that answered your question, Rami.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Definitely. Thank you, guys.

Adam Levy, Chief Financial Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Yeah. I’ll just add, Rami and Tarek, yeah, I’ll just add that the definition of goal was different when you’re looking at that BACs24 data where they used a 130. We used a more stringent 125. I’ll also say that it wasn’t just BACs24 that didn’t have a high quantity of Black or African-American patients. It was also BACsHTN where they were about 8%.

Diane Amon, Analyst, Stifel: This is Dave. As long as we’re all jumping on this question because it’s such an important question, as a developer, my perspective is this: there’s a reason why we had a high % of people in the Advance HTN trial of confirmed uncontrolled and resistant hypertension. Black African-Americans have a higher % of not being able to respond to the generic drugs as well as Caucasian patients. We have a higher % there. The need is higher. Yet we showed that the response once they get on our drug is just as good as the Caucasian population. I think that’s an important distinction because, as we’ve said many times, doing that trial and getting established confirmed hypertension is what the experts ask us to do, and it’s what the real gold standard is to know what this drug can do beyond generics.

In African-Americans, it’s obviously an extremely effective drug there.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Thanks, Dave.

Conference Operator: We have reached the end of the question and answer session. I’d like to turn the floor back over to Jon for closing comments.

Jon Congleton, Chief Executive Officer, Mineralys Therapeutics: Thank you, operator. We believe the strength of the clinical results from lorundrostat show the potential benefit for uncontrolled and resistant hypertension and related comorbidities such as CKD. We look forward to our upcoming NDA submission and results from EXPLORE-OSA. This is an exciting time for our team, the uncontrolled and resistant hypertension patients who may benefit from treatment with lorundrostat, the physicians and researchers that have worked so hard and supported bringing lorundrostat through our clinical trial program, and our shareholders. We’re excited for upcoming key milestones and look forward to sharing updates with you in the upcoming quarters. With that said, I’ll thank everyone. Thank you for joining us today, and we’ll close the call now. Thank you.

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