Filed by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Pursuant to Rule 425 of the Securities Act of 1933
and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-6(b)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Form S-4 File No.: 333-229464
Subject Company: Celgene Corporation
SEC File No.: 001-34912
Explanatory Note: The following is a transcript of a video shared with the employees of Celgene Corporation on March 15, 2019.
R&D Overview for Celgene Content Series Transcript
Tom Lynch, Chief Scientific Officer, BMS
Voice Over for Slides: Bristol-Myers Squibb R&D is a
science-driven organization with a passion for the work that we do. Our mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. Medicines that have the potential to transform the lives of
patients’ lives and establish new standards of care in areas of high unmet need. Scientific discovery and the needs of patients’ are what drive us.
Our R&D organization has a history of scientific excellence. We helped transform HIV from a death sentence to a manageable disease; we helped to discover
a cure for HCV; we developed a novel medicine with proven benefit for atrial fibrillation. And delivered a break through medicine to treat newly diagnosed patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. We also pioneered the targeting of the immune system
in cancer research, breaking new ground in the science of immuno-oncology.
Today, we continue to transform the way certain cancers are treated. Our research is also focused on areas of high unmet need in cardiovascular disease,
autoimmune diseases and fibrosis. Our goal is to leave an enduring positive impact on society by making a meaningful difference in the lives of even more patients.
At a recent town hall, Chief Scientific Officer Tom Lynch offered employees an overview of where we are today in R&D and what to look forward to in 2019
and beyond.
Tom Lynch excerpt from January 29 Town Hall:
So, what we want to talk about today is where we are in R&D and what it means to be a BMS scientist. I would argue every single person in this company,
is a scientist.
They tell the story of the science at BMS. They help create the drugs that make an enormous difference for people. So, we had some major milestones in
2018. I’m not going to read through every one of them. I’m just going to point out a couple of highlights.
First, we saw the advancement of the TYK2 program, something we’re extremely proud of, because we think this could make a big difference in patients with
psoriasis, but not just psoriasis, maybe inflammatory bowel disease and lupus as well. Second, we saw the advancement of the FGF21 program in NASH, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
In both of those accomplishments together with what we saw with Factor XIa in patients with cardiovascular disease are great accomplishments of our Innovative
Medicines unit, and you think about what that unit has accomplished together just in the short time of two to three years that they’ve been together. I’m extremely proud of that productivity. And then in addition to that, we saw the continued
advancement of Opdivo-Yervoy in a number of different cancers.
Renal cell approvals in the United States and Europe made a big difference for how patients—we just got the approval in Europe just a few weeks ago—make a big
difference for patients who’ve got renal cell cancer. And you also see under approvals a number of other places. Last year, we became the first PD-1 to be approved in China, something we’re extremely proud of, excuse me, and we think that’s going
to bring great benefit to the Chinese patients as well.
And then you see the three pictures here, all of this happened just last year. You see the continued advancement of our scientific footprint. The first
picture is the picture of the final beam being put in at Lawrenceville in the new science building in Lawrenceville. The middle picture is the cutting of the ribbon at Redwood City and the opening of a brand new laboratory building in Redwood
City, which is spectacular, and then, finally, the picture at the bottom is the group at our group in Cambridge, our new facility in Cambridge where many of our people from Waltham and Wallingford are now located in a facility which is focusing
attention in discovery and translational medicine on the concept of IO resistance, because that’s really the next big question.
Yes, Opdivo-Yervoy work, but they don’t work for everybody, and how do we find ways to make Opdivo work better for patients who don’t respond initially, and
how do we find ways to be able to help patients who respond initially and then have a relapse? So, both types of resistance will be studied in Cambridge as we move forward.
So, let’s look ahead and think about where we’re going as a company. I want to just remind you we have a number of important readouts. I told you about the
three lung cancer readouts. We have a number of important readouts in other tumors. We have a hepatoma readout that you should be hearing about pretty soon. Again, we don’t know the results, but it should be coming out the next couple of months,
in brain tumors, stomach cancer, bladder, esophageal, mesothelioma. These are all areas where you’re going to see important readouts in the next 12 to 24 months.
I want to point out the opportunity in the adjuvant space, because I think this is a place where IO is going to make a big difference, and it’s a place where
BMS is clearly in the lead. We have the most comprehensive adjuvant program. Some of these adjuvant trials are using single-agent Opdivo. Some are using Opdivo-Yervoy, and some are using Opdivo with chemotherapy.
So, again, looking forward to seeing the results of what we can do in adjuvant therapy, which will come out as well. So, our IO readouts continue to be very
important for us as we move forward. And then, of course, it’s not just restricted to IO. We have a number of assets that will be reading out in innovative medicines. We talked about TYK2 and the importance of TYK2 as an agent. Orencia
continues to be important for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and we have data coming out in the beginning of this year in graft-versus-host disease that we look forward to seeing. We’ll get more data this year on pegylated FGF, but HSP47 and
LPA1, two agents directed against fibrosis, liver fibrosis for HSP47, LPA1 for lung fibrosis. Those will read out this year as well.
So, a number of very interesting readouts as we go forward in innovative medicines and in oncology, all the results of the efforts of everyone in this room
and BMS science.
So, I want to finish with two slides, but I think one of the things we’ve done and one of the things they’ve done that’s extremely similar is shown on these
next two slides, and it’s one of the reasons, and again, everyone in this room owns this slide. Everyone at BMS, for the past ten years, owns this slide because this slide is what it means to be a BMS scientist.
This is the kind of accomplishment we have made, and what does it—what am I trying to say here? What I’m trying to say here is we have completely changed the
outcome and treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma. If you go back to 1975 through the year 2000, chemotherapy, this is an incredibly generous number that says it increased by seven months, but it was a remarkably poor outcome with just
chemotherapy for melanoma, and as you can see now, by 2020, we’re getting median survivals of close to 45 months with Opdivo-Yervoy, and you’re seeing the fact that somebody who has metastatic melanoma, a significant percentage, maybe 20%, maybe
30% of those patients can go on and live normal lives with metastatic melanoma.
Stunning folks. Stunning accomplishment, and when things get hard, and when things are difficult, and when there’s a lot of setbacks that we might find in
other areas, keep remembering what we’ve done here, and keep remembering the families, the patients who have lives because of everybody in this room.
Now, what’s great about this, this is just a BMS story. Celgene has done the same thing in a different disease. So, what they’ve done is they’ve done it in
myeloma.
So, but the magnitude really, if you take apart the scale, the magnitude’s the same. Myeloma was a disease that had an extremely poor outcome if you go back
to 1975. A two-year typical survival was the outcome. We now have a situation where many people with myeloma have an eight-year median survival, and there are many people who can expect to live a normal lifespan and not die from their myeloma
because of what happened in Summit, New Jersey, and because of the scientists who work for Celgene.
That’s the kind of company we’re going to be working with. That’s the kind of company we’re going to be as we go forward.
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