Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the MorphoSys second quarter 2021 financial results conference call. Please note that for the duration of the presentation, all participants will be in listen-only mode, and that the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Please note that we can only take your questions if you have registered by name. Should anyone need assistance during the conference call, they may signal this by pressing star and zero on their telephone. Now, I would like to turn the conference over to Dr. Julia Neugebauer. Please go ahead. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon or good morning. My name is Julia Neugebauer, Senior Director and Investor Relations at MorphoSys, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to our second quarter 2021 financial results conference call. Joining me on the call today are Jean-Paul Kress, Chief Executive Officer, Sung Lee, Chief Financial Officer, Roland Wandeler, Chief Operating Officer, and Malte Peters, Chief Research and Development Officer. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you on slide 2 that some of the statements made during the call today are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding our expectations for the commercialization of our products and our development plans, the impact of COVID-19 on our business and expectations for the compounds in our pipeline, as well as the development plans of our collaboration partners. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results to differ materially, including those described in MorphoSys' Form 20-F and annual report for the year ended December 31st, 2020, and from time to time in other SEC documents of MorphoSys. It is important to keep in mind that our statements on this webcast speak as of today. On slide three, you will find the agenda for today's call. Jean-Paul will begin with an overview of the second quarter and will give an outlook. Roland will then provide a commercial update, and Malte will provide an update on our development pipeline before turning the call to Sung for a summary of our second quarter and first half 2021 financial results. Following these prepared remarks, we'll open the call for your questions. With that, I now hand the call over to Jean-Paul. Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for our second quarter financial results and business update. I am particularly excited about the addition of Constellation Pharmaceuticals to MorphoSys and want to express a very warm welcome to our new team members. Together with Constellation, we have the great opportunity to bring new breakthrough therapies to patients. This is an exciting new chapter for our company as we significantly expand our pipeline and bolster our position in hematology oncology. Constellation's mid- to late-stage candidates fit well with our proven clinical development, regulatory, and commercial capabilities, and allow us to potentially expand into solid tumors. In short, we are uniquely positioned to unlock the value. Over the last several weeks, I've had the opportunity to spend time in Cambridge with the Constellation team, and there is tremendous excitement amongst both organizations. Integration is well underway and we are focused on what we can do together to bring Constellation's mid and late-stage candidates to market to meet the needs of patients. Key opinion leaders and physicians have also expressed their enthusiasm as we will enhance our presence in hematology oncology and increase our efforts to improve the lives of patients living with cancer. Moving to MONJUVI. We achieved EUR 18 million in sales and grew 16% quarter-over-quarter. With the vaccination rollout well underway in the U.S., we saw the positive impact to MONJUVI sales as we exited the second quarter and are encouraged to see that regained momentum continuing in July. While we anticipate increased MONJUVI uptake in the second half, we ended the first half with a lower number of patients on therapy than we had anticipated due to the challenging environment brought on by COVID for the majority of the first half. For that reason, we are narrowing our group revenue range guidance, which Sung will elaborate further on. Nevertheless, we are encouraged by MONJUVI's leading market share position and remain optimistic about the future trajectory, especially given the recent positive momentum. We are seeing a shift to more second-line patients, which will naturally lead to a longer duration of treatment. We have a broad development program for tafasitamab underway, and we believe tafasitamab has the potential to be a backbone therapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Alongside our partner, Incyte, we have initiated two pivotal trials this year in first-line DLBCL and relapsing refractory follicular and marginal zone lymphoma, respectively. We anticipate beginning a third pivotal trial in CLL later this year. We're also progressing with felzartamab, our anti-CD38 candidate for autoimmune membranous nephropathy, and we will be providing a proof of concept update at a scientific conference later this year. We also are on track to start a trial in IgA Nephropathy, another autoimmune disease with high unmet need. Turning now to our newly acquired clinical-stage assets from Constellation, starting with pelabresib. Pelabresib is being evaluated in the phase III trial, MANIFEST-2, for myelofibrosis in combination with ruxolitinib. There remains a large unmet need for patients with myelofibrosis, and we believe that pelabresib has the potential to change the treatment paradigm. Malte will give an update about how we will optimize the MANIFEST-2 trial for maximum success. Constellation's next compound is a second-generation EZH2 inhibitor, which is currently in phase II clinical trial and has best-in-class potential for treating both hematologic and solid tumors. The second-generation EZH2 inhibitor has shown promising preclinical data, we are looking forward to advancing it in the clinic. We see lots of promise in Constellation's overall pipeline. Together, we have the great opportunity to bring breakthrough therapies to patients and to write the next chapter in our company's history. With that, I will turn the call over to Roland for a commercial update. Thank you, Jean-Paul, and hello, everyone. We reported second quarter MONJUVI sales of EUR 18 million. This represents a 16% sequential increase over first quarter MONJUVI sales of EUR 15.5 million. The results were driven primarily by demand. The quarter also benefited from clinical trial orders of approximately $1 million. We are encouraged with the results, our leading market share, and especially the momentum we saw build throughout the quarter. After anticipated headwinds from COVID in April and May, we exited June with a positive uptick in demand, and we have seen this trend continue into the third quarter. We see incremental momentum in MONJUVI's growth in the community setting, with growth in academic centers holding steady. 70% of MONJUVI sales coming from the community setting. The relative ease of administration, safety profile, efficacy, and duration of response in second-line treatment for relapse refractory DLBCL are key drivers for adoption as we increase awareness and differentiation in this market with a large unmet patient need. Looking at demand in more detail, more than 700 accounts in aggregate have ordered MONJUVI since launch. During the second quarter, nearly 500 accounts ordered, with approximately 70% of those accounts representing repeat orders. The proportion of accounts that reordered in Q2 increased, and in June, we saw the highest level of repeat orders since launch. These trends are encouraging as we approach the one-year anniversary of MONJUVI's approval. Another important metric we are tracking is the penetration into the second line setting. We are observing increased usage in second-line therapy, which we are confident over time will lead to increased duration of response and enable patients to benefit and stay on treatment longer in the relapse refractory setting. We are also seeing an overall increase in patient treatments as restrictions continue to ease. We presented compelling three-year long-term L-MIND data at ASCO, where we received positive customer feedback. The data not only show a durable response and consistent safety profile, it also suggests that the combination with lenalidomide could potentially lead to durable remission. We expect to present additional data at SOHO and ASH in the coming months to continue to define the clinical profile of MONJUVI. Building on the momentum we were able to take into July, we remain optimistic for the second half of 2021. While there are still sites of care that are either closed or not fully up and running for industry to engage healthcare professionals due to the global pandemic, we are seeing an increase in physicians' ability to meet in person. The MorphoSys and Incyte teams are at the ready as sites of care continue to become more accessible. With that, I turn the call over to Malte. Thanks, Roland. We have made tremendous progress across our pipeline throughout the first half of 2021. With the acquisition of Constellation, we now have a robust pipeline of four advanced clinical programs, which we believe could change the way cancer is treated. For MONJUVI or tafasitamab, we dosed the first patients in two pivotal trials, extending the clinical development to frontline diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and relapsed refractory indolent lymphoma. Later this year or early next year, we plan to start an additional pivotal trial assessing tafasitamab in combination with Incyte's PI3K delta inhibitor, parsaclisib for CLL patients. We will also initiate MINDway, a study that will investigate an optimized treatment schedule with a reduced number of MONJUVI administrations for patients with NHL. Optimizing the treatment schedule is particularly important for patients with follicular lymphoma and relapsed refractory DLBCL. We are excited about developing pelabresib in myelofibrosis, and I will share some updates on how we will enhance the MANIFEST-2 trial in a minute. We are evaluating felzartamab for patients with autoimmune membranous nephropathy, or AMN, a disease with a significant unmet medical need in the M-PLACE study. We are about to start another trial in IgA nephropathy. IgA nephropathy is an autoimmune disease with high unmet need, with about 8,000 new patients per year in the United States, and about 11,000 new patients per year in the EU. These clinical trials, which run in parallel, highlight our confidence and commitment to develop felzartamab broadly in autoimmune diseases. CPI-0209 is a potentially best-in-class EZH2 inhibitor. It is currently in a phase II clinical trial investigating its potential in hematological and solid tumors. In addition, we are excited about pre-clinical data showing that CPI-0209 is synergistic with lenalidomide. These data suggest that this molecule could have the potential to offer long-term treatment for patients with this disease. Now let's take a look at some exciting news for tafasitamab. We received the positive CHMP opinion much earlier than we had hoped for, and it is a pivotal step towards bringing this important treatment to patients in Europe as soon as possible. The three-year long-term follow-up data were included in the European submission dossier, and we are now eagerly awaiting the European Commission's decision. We are very encouraged by the confirmation of the orphan drug designation status by the COMP mid-July, confirming that MONJUVI may be of potential significant benefit compared to the existing therapy in this setting, lerixafor. At ASCO, EHA, and ICML, we shared strong three-year follow-up data from our L-MIND trial. We are encouraged by the maturing L-MIND data and that it continues to show durable responses and a consistent safety profile. The median overall survival is 33.5 months, and at four years, 42% of patients are still alive, suggesting that this regimen could offer a functional cure for certain patients. We are excited that there is significant benefits for patients with second-line and also third-line DLBCL, which is demonstrated by the Kaplan-Meier curves on slide 11. Pelabresib, a potential first-in-class and best-in-class BET inhibitor, may have the potential to become the new standard of care for patients with myelofibrosis, a type of bone marrow cancer with high unmet medical need. It may be the only therapy that impacts all four hallmarks of myelofibrosis: bone marrow fibrosis, spleen volume, anemia, and constitutional symptoms. In the U.S. and Europe, there are an estimated 30,000-35,000 patients with myelofibrosis that are considered intermediate or high risk. Only about half of these patients are receiving ruxolitinib therapy, a JAK inhibitor, and many patients are experiencing a suboptimal response, so there is a high unmet need. Pelabresib has shown a strong response rate in combination with ruxolitinib, achieving a spleen volume reduction in 67% of first-line myelofibrosis patients. It has also shown strong data in the second-line or third-line myelofibrosis. This data makes us very confident about the success of the ongoing global phase III study, MANIFEST-2. It is a randomized study comparing pelabresib plus ruxolitinib against ruxolitinib alone in frontline myelofibrosis. During our due diligence process, prior to the acquisition, we looked carefully into every aspect of Constellation's clinical development programs, specifically the MANIFEST-2 study. Based on our detailed assessment, we decided to optimize the trial design to raise its overall probability of success by increasing the number of trial participants to approximately 400 patients. We will also improve the speed of enrollment and have already launched a mitigation plan ensuring operational excellence. This includes adding additional CROs, improving interaction with investigators, expanding the number of countries and sites, and other measures. With all activities in place, we expect to report top-line data from this study in the first half of 2024. MorphoSys enters the second half of 2021 with a stronger position than ever to achieve its goal to develop transformative medicines and potential cures for people living with cancer. Throughout the remainder of the year and beyond, we expect to achieve key clinical milestones that will advance this mission. For felzartamab, we expect to share exciting clinical data in AMN at a medical conference later this year, and we are excited to start a study in a second immune indication, namely IgA Nephropathy. For pelabresib, we expect to provide data of a new data cutoff of the MANIFEST phase II study at a medical conference later this year. Next year will be the year where we will start several combination studies combining tafasitamab with novel agents in CLL and in non-Hodgkin lymphoma. We also expect data from our phase III study in frontMIND in 2023. In 2024 and 2025, we will see pivotal studies reading out, namely MANIFEST-2 and frontMIND, offering potentially clinical benefit to first-line patients with myelofibrosis and DLBCL. You can see that there is exciting news coming at the horizon, and we are looking forward to sharing this news. With that, I turn the call over to Sung for a review of the financials. Thank you, Malte. We're pleased to share our financial results for the second quarter and first half of 2021. Moving to slide 16. Total revenues for the second quarter of 2021 were EUR 38.2 million compared to EUR 18.4 million for the comparable period in 2020. MONJUVI sales in Q2 were EUR 14.9 million, reflecting 16% growth quarter-over-quarter. Royalties from net sales of Tremfya in the second quarter were EUR 13.7 million, an increase of 18% quarter-over-quarter. Cost of sales were EUR 10.1 million in the second quarter, compared to a credit of EUR 7.2 million from the second quarter of 2020 due to a reversal of impairment charges. Turning to operating expenses, R&D expenses in the second quarter were EUR 40.5 million, compared to EUR 30.9 million in the same period of 2020. The growth primarily reflects the increased investment to support the advancement of our proprietary programs. Selling expenses were slightly down at EUR 28.5 million in the second quarter, compared to EUR 29.3 million in the second quarter of last year. G&A expenses in the second quarter were EUR 30.5 million compared to EUR 13.8 million for the second quarter of 2020. This increase was driven by EUR 18.8 million in transaction costs related to our recent acquisition of Constellation and partnership with Royalty Pharma. For the second quarter, we reported a consolidated net profit of EUR 20.9 million compared to a consolidated net loss of EUR 53.1 million in the second quarter of 2020. In the second quarter, finance income of EUR 102.4 million was recognized, mainly due to a decline of the financial liability from collaborations. Overall, the financial liabilities from collaborations declined by EUR 101.7 million quarter-over-quarter and finished at EUR 445.9 million. Recall that the balance in financial liabilities from collaborations reflects an accounting view of expected profits from the net product sales of MONJUVI in the U.S. in the relapse refractory DLBCL setting owed to our partner Incyte. The recognition of finance income and reduction of liability, both related to the Incyte collaboration, do not have any impact on cash. Moving to slide 17 for the results for the first half of 2021. Total revenues for the first half of 2021 were EUR 85.4 million compared to EUR 269.7 million for the comparable period in 2020. The year-over-year decline was entirely driven by the recognition of EUR 236.1 million as part of the upfront consideration from our partner Incyte in the first half of 2020. Cost of sales were EUR 15.2 million in the first half of 2021, compared to a credit of EUR 4 million in the first half of 2020 due to a reversal of impairment charges. Turning to operating expenses, R&D expenses in the first half were EUR 73.8 million compared to EUR 52.4 million for the same period of 2020. Selling expenses were EUR 56.6 million in the first half, compared to EUR 42.1 million in the first half of last year. Recall that the second quarter of 2020 was the first full quarter impacted by expenses for services provided by our partner Incyte in connection with MONJUVI. G&A expenses in the first half were EUR 40.8 million compared to EUR 23.9 million for the first half of 2020. As previously mentioned, the second quarter of 2021 was impacted by transaction costs related to Constellation and Royalty Pharma. For the first half of 2021, we reported a consolidated net loss of EUR 20.7 million compared to a consolidated net profit of EUR 179.8 million in the first half of 2020. As mentioned earlier, 2020 benefited from the recognition of EUR 236.1 million as part of the upfront consideration from our partner Incyte. Turning to the balance sheet. We ended the second quarter with cash and investments of EUR 1.13 billion compared to EUR 1.24 billion as of the end of 2020. Pro forma cash and investments following the completion of the Constellation acquisition and the recent equity purchase by Royalty Pharma was EUR 1.17 billion. We have closed our transactions with Constellation and Royalty Pharma, I'd like to walk you through some key elements of these agreements. Recall that Royalty Pharma made an upfront payment of $1.425 billion. MorphoSys will pass on 100% of Tremfya royalties to Royalty Pharma, starting with royalties earned for the second quarter of 2021 and thereafter. MorphoSys will also pass on 80% of future royalties and 100% of future milestone payments on otilimab, 60% of future royalties on gantenerumab, and 3% on future net sales of Constellation's clinical assets, pelabresib and CPI-0209. All of these royalty payments will be recorded in the MorphoSys income statement. We will record a financial liability in the third quarter for the future royalty payments that Royalty Pharma is entitled to. The measurement of the financial liability is initially at fair value, and subsequently based on the effective interest method. Following the close of the Constellation acquisition, Royalty Pharma purchased MorphoSys shares in the aggregated amount of $100 million as part of the funding agreement. They acquired 1,337,552 new ordinary shares at a price of EUR 63.35 per share. The volume-weighted average price of MorphoSys shares five trading days prior to the acquisition of Constellation. Pro forma shares outstanding on a diluted basis is 34,128,053 following the purchase. Turning to our guidance for 2021 on slide 19. Starting with group revenues, we are updating the previously provided range of EUR 150 million to EUR 200 million to a range of EUR 155 million to EUR 180 million. The narrowing of the guidance range reflects updated MONJUVI product sales expectations. As mentioned previously, we will continue to record Tremfya revenues, and this is reflected in the guidance range. Moving to operating expenses, which is comprised of R&D and SG&A expenses, we expect 2021 operating expenses to be in the range of EUR 435 million-EUR 465 million, which include expenses for Constellation as of July 15th, 2021. The range also includes one-time transaction-related costs of EUR 36 million. We anticipate R&D expenses to comprise between 52%-57% of operating expenses, excluding the one-time transaction-related costs. With that, we would like to open the call for questions. Operator? Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press zero and one on your telephone keypad now. You will be advised when to ask your question. If you change your mind and wish to withdraw your question, please press zero and two. Participants are requested to use only handsets while asking a question. We've received the first question. It is from James Quigley, Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Hello. Thank you for taking my question. A couple. First of all, on MONJUVI, can you give us a bit more details on how the key launch metrics you're tracking are going since you've had a bit more of a reopening in the U.S. in terms of number of accounts that you've managed to have face-to-face interactions with, as well as some physician feedback in the last quarter. Also, speaking to some KOLs, there seems to be, I suppose, some reticence to maybe use MONJUVI, given the lack of efficacy or perceived lack of efficacy in double-hit patients or in primary refractory patients. What are the key sort of pushbacks or reasons to not prescribe MONJUVI that you're hearing from out in the field? That's question number one. Question number two, for pelabresib in the MANIFEST-2 trial. ClinicalTrials.gov had a September 2022 readout for the primary completion, with the trial starting in November 2020. Just under two years from start of the trial to primary readout. Adding 90 more patients and 18 more months in terms of potential readout. Is the original enrollment slower than anticipated? Are you looking for longer follow-up? What was the key decision to increase number of patients? Was it for more power for the primary endpoint on spleen volume reduction, or was it to power the secondary endpoints, particularly Total Symptom Score? Do you need to show a benefit on Total Symptom Score for either approval or uptake? Thank you. Thanks, James, for the question. Roland will answer the MONJUVI commercial questions. Malte will go for the MONJUVI KOL question and obviously the pelabresib question. Thank you, Jean-Paul, and hi, James. Regarding your questions on MONJUVI metrics, we of course tracked a range of metrics, some of which we outlined on slide 8 that you have in the presentation that we provided, where you see, just as one example, the number of accounts that are adopting MONJUVI. There, we are since launch now at a number of 700 accounts, 70% of which are in community with increasing traction there. We also just shared that we had close to 500 accounts ordering just in Q2, which we find very exciting. Your question to our ability to engage physicians in person, we had a tough first half of the year due to the pandemic, as everyone. We saw increasing possibilities for us to engage physicians in person as we execute too, and in fact, are now at about 70% of our own engagements with physicians being in person. Importantly, we see that whenever we are able to engage with healthcare professionals in person, that we see our three-year data and our message truly resonate and translate into adoption. When it comes to physician feedback, we are especially encouraged with what we hear with the three-year long-term data that we shared at ASCO, and especially the duration of therapy there, and as Malte explained, the potential that this could mean for patients to actually have durable remissions. In terms of what we hear from KOLs, it is actually that excitement around the three-year data and what this could mean for patients, also knowing that the study is still going on and patients are still continuing. We hear that as we look across subgroups, that KOLs actually appreciate that MONJUVI offers an option for many patients. Malte, perhaps you can just expand on that on some of the details. I think you had some questions on the double-hit and triple-hits patients. We published the L-MIND data several times, and we are aware that we had only a few patients with double and triple hits considerations in the study. The ones that we had enrolled did extremely well. We had one partial response, one complete response to a fairly long degree. I think, the few data points that we have actually point to a fairly high activity of the regimen in this setting. Maybe with that, I move to your second complex of pelabresib. You wanted to have some information on the trial execution. Let me just say, when we performed our due diligence with Constellation Pharmaceuticals, we did a really very thorough analysis of the situation. We knew what the situation was with the trial. Yes, the study was planned to be open in November, and we knew it took until April, until actually the first patient became enrolled. We were, from day one, certain that we could pay more attention on optimizing the clinical execution. As I said in my prepared remarks, we have already a full fleshed-out plan in place to do exactly that. With respect to the increase of the number of trial participants, we will increase the number because we feel that we want to give the trial the highest probability of success. We want to be successful on both endpoints, on the primary endpoints, spleen volume reduction 35%, and also on the key secondary endpoint, TSS50. To accomplish that, and also understanding a bit the current healthcare, health authority feedback, we decided that it's the best decision to increase the sample size. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. The next question is from Zhiqiang Shu. Your line is now open, please go ahead. Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. The first question is around MONJUVI. Particularly, I want to understand your decision to run a trial to optimize the dosing schedule. I wonder, is that something based on the feedback you received from physicians or something else? The second question related to MONJUVI is around the peak sales guidance. I recall you mentioned about $500 million-$750 million peak sales in the U.S. Are you confirming this guidance? The third question is related to felzartamab. In the Q4 data release, what should we expect to see in this initial data release, and what's your plan in terms of going forward for this drug? Thanks very much. Okay, thank you for the question. I'll start by your second question on the peak sales. Yes, we still think it's possible to achieve this range of peak sales, and it's our goal to achieve it in the U.S. RR setting. Given the start we had, it may take us longer to get there. As we just mentioned, we are very encouraged with the Q2 exit trends that are continuing so far in Q3. Again, for instance, we have a leading share in the second line. What I'd like also to emphasize here is that, keep in mind, it's just the beginning of the tafasitamab opportunity. The tafasitamab opportunity is bigger than our DLBCL. We just detailed the number of trials, phase IIIs included, to broaden the development plan and improve our label with new indications, with multiple studies underway to move, for instance, in first-line DLBCL and other indications. That also goes back to the backbone strategy, so we are pursuing. Yes, we still think it's achievable, but I would put that in the context of the much larger opportunity we have, for instance, with first-line. You probably saw some numbers that some other company have thrown out there recently on the first-line opportunity. It's significant. There is a high unmet need, and we have high confidence in our clinical development and our trial to compete very effectively in this space. On that, I'd like to transition to the other questions for Malte. I think the first question was on the IV optimization study. This study is called MINDway. It is aiming at reducing the number of intravenous administrations of MONJUVI by 50%, which will increase significantly the comfort for the patients, particularly those undergoing longer treatment durations. We had already very successful feedback from health authorities on the study design. You can expect, once you see the details in clinicaltrials.gov, which will appear shortly, that this trial design has already been vetted and agreed upon with the health authorities. Felza? Remind me, what was the question again? The question was, we said we would publish some results and when. Yeah. On the M-PLACE study. Okay. Yeah, sorry for forgetting. We have already submitted an abstract to a conference which will happen in November this year. We will be excited to share some data from the ongoing study in autoimmune membranous nephropathy at that conference, including data with respect to the autoantibody changes, but also proteinuria changes. Great. Just for Felza, what's the plan in terms of going to other autoimmune indications? Yeah. Remember, we just spoke about the second indication that we are going to start probably any week now. The second indication is IgA Nephropathy, which is autoimmune kidney disease with a significant unmet need. We are basically developing two indications in parallel. Based on these results, we will take further decisions regarding future development plans. Great. Thanks very much. Mm-hmm. You're welcome. Thank you. The next question is from Jason Butler of JMP Securities. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Hi, it's Roy in for Jason. Thanks for taking the questions. I guess the first one, with the imminent approval in Europe for Monjuvi, how do you guys see the competitive landscape there as being different from the U.S., and how does the peak opportunity compare to that $500 million-$750 million you've mentioned for the U.S.? Yeah. Roy, thanks for the question. We'd like to be able to elaborate on this question, but as you know well, Incyte is handling the ex-US operations and commercial market access. We defer to them to comment on the uptake, the plans for market access, and obviously, the forecast question. Malte, Yeah, I was just- Approval, yeah. I was just going to say, first of all, maybe just two quick remarks. The approval came really much earlier than we anticipated and showed us a high interest at the level of the EMA. The second important remark is that we succeeded to maintain the orphan status for MONJUVI. In the orphan designation, there is a statement by the authorities that MONJUVI in combination with lenalidomide provides significant additional benefit over existing therapies, which is, in this case, Polivy. I think these are two remarks that will help you maybe to put our product into perspective. Okay, great. Just on the upfront from Royalty, where are you guys recognizing that? Presumably all in the third quarter, and also that EUR 36 million one-time expense for the Constellation acquisition. Where is that going to be recognized? Thanks. Yeah. On your last part, we did recognize part of the transaction-related costs already, about 18.8 million EUR in Q2. There will be subsequent amounts in Q3 as well as Q4, all totaling 36 million EUR for this year. In terms of revenue recognition in Q3, the transaction closed in Q3 with Royalty Pharma. We would expect for IFRS purposes, that would be recognized in Q3. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. The next question is from Etzer Darout of Guggenheim Securities. Please go ahead. Your line is now open. Great. Thanks for taking the question. First one, just wanted to know if you had any updates on the design of the IgA Nephropathy study. You've mentioned multiple dose schedules in placebo-controlled study. I guess, any additional color based on any read-throughs from the M-PLACE POC study that you'll be announcing data on in the fourth quarter? I have a second question. Yeah. For the design of the IgA Nephropathy study, we have not disclosed the design, and I would like to ask you for a little bit of patience until that information is publicly available. With respect to the preliminary data that we will show at the conference later this year, I can only say that we took a very informed decision to submit an abstract with exciting data, both on the autoantibody level and on proteinuria. We are hoping that the field, the medical community, will agree with us that this data is clinically meaningful. Got it. Thank you. I guess, given sort of the news around the Alzheimer's space, just wondered if you had any recent communication with Roche on gantenerumab, given sort of all the news around Alzheimer's. We typically don't have contacts with our royalty partners. We've not heard much versus what you've seen publicly. We remain obviously very interested by progress that Roche is making as we retain 40% of the royalties on gantenerumab. Got it. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The next question from Graig Suvannavejh of Goldman Sachs. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Yeah. Good afternoon or good morning, and thanks for taking my questions. I've got several. My first is just on pelabresib. Thanks for sharing the update on the clinical trial timelines there. Could you just maybe remind us of your current powering assumptions on the phase III trial relative to the data that you saw in phase II? A follow-up on pelabresib is, I believe that when you first announced the acquisition of Constellation, you had guided to a significant revenue contribution from Constellation assets beginning in the period of about 2026. Given today's update on the clinical trial timelines, is there a revision to that prior statement that you made? I've got another question separately just on current cash. I'm wondering if you could comment on your anticipated cash runway. In other words, given current cash, how long does that take you out to? Secondly, given that you just completed the Constellation deal, does your current cash give you the optionality of considering additional business development transactions? Thanks. Thanks, Graig, for your questions. Let's start by the financial questions. I might start by the BD strategic question. We'll come on to the cash runway. We have our hands very full now with lots of programs going on, the two mid- to late-stage assets from Constellation, in addition to our very comprehensive development plan with tafasitamab and felzartamab. We have to focus the organization on execution. We grow excited day after day on pelabresib with our discussions with the KOLs. Malte will elaborate on that in his answers to your power assumption question. I'd like to say that never say never. Our cash position will allow us. Our optionality in the future to trigger more financing will allow us to make potential moves if it makes sense. It's not the same focus that it was a couple of months ago when we had our discussions pre-Constellation. Sung? Great. Graig, you had a few questions on Well, I'll start with the significant revenue in 2026. That factored in the timeline and design plans we had for MANIFEST-2. As Malte said, this was well known to us during our due diligence process. When we made that comment about significant revenue contribution in 2026, at the time of the deal announcement, that would not be the first year of revenues, potentially, for pelabresib. That would be the first full year of revenues in 2026, and you would expect a partial revenue contribution from pelabresib in 2025. Okay. In terms of cash runway, obviously, we're sitting on a very comfortable balance here, but recognizing our operating expense run rate has increased with the acquisition of Constellation. As I mentioned, on a pro forma basis, we have EUR 1.17 billion. We believe this will take us for multiple years into the future, the ability to invest not only in tafasitamab pivotal studies, but MANIFEST as well. We're going to go through a portfolio review this fall, and pending the outcome of that, this would impact the cash runway, but from the current vantage point, it would be multiple years. I know your follow-up question may be how do you define multiple years? The way I look at it right here, it's at least two and a half years, potentially longer. We have some options in terms of credit facilities, et cetera. I'll leave it at that. Malte. Yeah. Maybe just a couple of comments on how we see pelabresib. We have very good rapport with leading KOLs. I had two calls with some of the leaders in the field yesterday. I think we are hearing that the medical community is really excited about pelabresib. They may see it as the most exciting compound compared to other investigational agents. We have not changed a bit our assessment regarding probability of success of the product. I think in the past, we have done a very good job in finding the right middle ground between being aggressive and achieving a high probability of success. We want to do the same thing with pelabresib again. That was the reason why we adapted the trial design to give it the highest probability of success. Our assessment of pelabresib as a future drug in myelofibrosis remains completely unchanged and is super bullish. The 2026 revenue assumption. Oh, yes. Okay. Thank you. Sorry. All right. Next question. Next question, please. Okay, thank you. A reminder for everyone, if you would like to ask a question, please press zero and one on your telephone keypad now. The next question is from James Gordon, JP Morgan. The line is now open. Please go ahead. Hello, James Gordon, JPMorgan. Thanks for taking the questions and apologies if I'm repeating the questions. I unfortunately missed the very beginning because of too many overlapping calls. I just wanted to confirm two points. On the PELA phase III data, is it definitive that we couldn't see anything before 2024, or is there any possibility that you should do some sort of interim analysis? That would be the first question, please. The second one was just confirming that there was previously the $500 million-$750 million peak potential for MONJUVI in the U.S. in relapsed refractory DLBCL. Has that come down by 20% in the same way that the Incyte liability has come down? If not, why is it not moved by the same amount? Thank you. James, thanks for the questions. Let me start by the second one. It's a bit echoing the previous question on the peak sales range being still achievable. We see it as a long-term opportunity that we still very much believe in and are very much focusing on. We see all the endeavors and the studies and the capital we're allocating to development of the product. I think I would encourage everyone to keep in mind the large long-term opportunity beyond RR DLBCL. I think the space is also starting to recognize that there are other indications, like first line, which are very much into play here. That's why the short term, I would say, adjustments we're making now are not really a reflection on the long term, I would say. Yeah. Question on the PELA study. On the PELA study, yeah, I think, of course, there are always opportunities to accelerate. I think with the plans I alluded to earlier, we are really confident that we can execute on the trial as quickly and as aggressively as we can. I think I would prefer to have maybe six or nine months of time and see how our measures are taking off, then we can give maybe a bit of more updates on how we think we end up in our timelines. With respect to interim analysis, I really prefer not to touch on this because we want to keep the integrity of the trial design intact. Commenting on the interim analysis is possibly introducing a bias, I would like to leave it as that. Thank you. Thank you. We have no further questions coming through. I would like to hand back to Julia Neugebauer to wrap up today's call. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. If any of you would like to follow up, the investor relations team of MorphoSys is available for the remainder of the day. Once again, thank you for joining our call. Have a good day and goodbye. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your attendance. This call has been concluded. You may disconnect.
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