1. Accelerated Medical Diagnostics,
Inc.
George D. Cimino, Paul T. Henderson, William Hope, Maike Zimmermann
PlatinDx
Diagnostic test to predict sensitivity towards
platinum based chemotherapeutics
Customers Interviews: 100
3. Market Opportunity Assessment
Resegmented Market
Total Available Market (TAM): $5B
Solid Cancers treated with Chemo Worldwide
Served Available Market (SAM): $1B
Cancers in the US
Target Market (TM): $250M
Bladder Cancer US
TAM
SAM
TM
5. AMD activity before UCSF LLP
Idea To
IPO
AMD
Formed
2008
SBIR
P1
Business
Plan v1
SBIR
P2
Business
Plan v2
2010
UCSF
LLP
2012
IND/IRB
Approvals
(lung, bladder)
2014
IND/IRB
Approvals
(breast)
1st Patient
Microdosed
LLP program led to a focus on
bladder cancer
7. Out of the Building Learning & Focus
Hypothesis
Reality
Oncologists and patients make
the treatment decision
Surgeons make the treatment
decision
Physician follow Standard of
Care set by ASCO and NCCN
Only 10% of patients are treated
with chemotherapy before
surgery
All initial value propositions are
equally important (saving
money, reducing toxic exposure,
improving reputation)
Minimizing unnecessary toxicity
and saving lives through
improving utilization of standard
of care are most important
FDA approval is important for
physician adoption
No, but may still be important for
reimbursement
9. Model to visualize the improvement of live
expectancy with our test
100%
Chemo responders
90%
80%
% Survival
70%
60%
Overall survival
50%
(responders/non-responders)
40%
No chemo
30%
Current practice
10% patients with Chemo
20%
60 months median
survival extension
10%
0%
0
12 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 132 144 156 168
Months after Randomization
10. Next Steps
Tool provides a dynamic display of changing
diagnostic assay parameters on survival curves
Use the model to obtain desired performance
parameters from physicians for their adoption of
PlatinDx
Creating a pharmacoeconomic model of the effect
of PlatinDx usage to validate value added pricing
13. Investment Readiness Level
Level Dx 7- 8
Reimbursement and IP strategies
understood but not fully implemented
Left side of canvas hypotheses tested
with some interviews
Revenue model validated
Market size validated
Right side of the canvas completed
and validated
Fund raising and clinical trials in
progress
LLP focused us on bladder cancer MVP as initial product
16. Out of the Building Learning & Focus
Surgeons decide how patients are treated
Bladder cancer is under treated with chemotherapy
because of low response rates (40%)
A 50-60% response rate is sufficient to change surgeon
adherence to SOC
Surgeons and oncologists rely more on peer reviewed
clinical studies compared to FDA approval for adoption
of new procedures
17. PlatinDx how it works
Microdose of
[14C]chemo drug( )
Blood Test or Tumor Test
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Blood/ Tumor
Samples
Treatment decision
DNA
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Accelerator Mass
Spectrometry (AMS)
Results
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Resistant Sensitive
18.
19. Customer relationship “get, keep, grow”
PlatinDx
price
structure
What is your customer lifetime value?
• Urologist: $200,000 (US)
• 8000 specialists in the US
• 72,500 new bladder cancer cases per year
• assumed 5 year product lifetime
Customer Acquisition Cost $12,500
• Marketing and Sales budget / Customer
Segment Physician
Our test works fairly simple. The patient gets an infusion of a radiolabeled chemo drug. 24h later, DNA is extracted from blood and a biopsy samples. We then determine via ultrasensitive Accelerator Mass Spectrometry the amount of drug that is bound to the DNA. The more drug is bound the better the therapy is killing the tumor. Based on the level of bound drug, the physician can make better treatment decisions. Out test takes the guesswork out of the picture.First, a patient sees his doctor. The hospital receives our assay kit, including the labeled drug, tissue and blood collection tubes. After then we receive the patients sample and send a detailed report back to the trending physician to make a superior treatment choice.
So initially we went out of the building (even though I was told there might be a zombie apocalypse out there right now) and interviewed people to confirm our hypotheses about value proposition and actual customers.
After talking to several physicians and patients, we found that we were on to something good and also got the ballpark right, but the devil was in the details. Fist we underestimated the role surgeons play in the decision making process for bladder cancer treatment. This finding came with a twist attached. We thought we understood how patients are treated in the real world, of course by following standard of care recommendations, but we found that in the recommended chemotherapy for bladder cancer patients is much under prescribed. This lead us to overthink our value propositions, that we thought were equally important, but actually that we could save lives strikes us as the most valuable of them all. In addition, we found that other thing were not as important then we thought, like the actual need to FDA approval for a diagnostic test.
With new and improved Ideas we went to talk to Key Opinion Leaders at UC Davis and UCLA and came up with a visual tool for Surgeonsto get them to tell us how our test need to perform in order to change their approach towards chemotherapy.
We used published patient data to model the outcome with or with out our test. As you can see here. In this model the red line represents the actual current outcome probability with a bladder cancer diagnosis. This line includes everyone, patients receiving chemo and patients that do not. Separating out the patients that do respond to chemotherapy leads only to a small difference in survival difference as shown in the blue line. But patient that are actually responding to chemotherapy have a much improved outcome, see the blue line. Currently only 10% of all eligible patients receive chemo, even they might response. Our test could change this behavior and could improve the overall survival by more the 14 years.
This class made us really go into the details of the value of our test. We believe that we largely nailed the right side of the canvas and have a very good product marked fit and a better understanding of our customer segments. On the other side we started validating the Key partners as well as activities we need to get our test launched, as soon as possible.
As everybody else, we were asked to assess our investment readiness level. Of course I would like to say we are a 9, but we have to see the reality in the eye. After taking this class and doing through all the additional slides Todd made us prepare and talk to so many experts, we judge our readiness level around 7 to 8, depending on how strict you define the boundaries.
Our test works fairly simple. The patient gets an infusion of a radiolabeled chemo drug. 24h later, DNA is extracted from blood and a biopsy samples. We then determine via ultrasensitive Accelerator Mass Spectrometry the amount of drug that is bound to the DNA. The more drug is bound the better the therapy is killing the tumor. Based on the level of bound drug, the physician can make better treatment decisions. Out test takes the guesswork out of the picture.
AMD needs to provide information for the reimbursement (clinical utility and feasibility).