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Advanced Epigenetic Technology BIO-Europe Spring 2018 Amsterdam, The Netherlands March 13 th

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Zenith Profile

Founded Independent company spun out from Resverlogix in June 2013, Canada

Company Clinical stage, developing novel epigenetic and immune-oncology drugs for oncology

Status Private company, Full reporting issuer

Products and Technology

ZEN-3694 – BETi in Phase 1b clinical testing (single agent/ combination) Pre-clinical immuno-oncology and other solid tumors programs Epigenetic platform

Location Calgary and San Francisco

Financing 2014-2016

$ 44M from private investors @ $1.00 USD per share

Shares Outstanding 134.0 MM fully diluted

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Note: The Company continues to work on securing additional financing as previously disclosed.

Historical Timeline: Rapid & Efficient Progression

Clinical Candidate ZEN-3694 selected as DC, superior therapeutic index, mutiple back ups, IP published

Financing Raised $25M

Company formation (2013) Spun out of Resverlogix to focus on oncology and auto-immune indications

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Focused clinical strategy IND accepted MSKCC/UCSF selected as lead clincial sites (mCRPC)

FPI in single agent study, June 2016

Biology Expansion Immuno-Oncology, HRD, ER+ BC, next indications

Expanded Platform + 2500 compounds synthesized. Crystal structures, optimized PK/PD properties. BETi biology & rationale

• Phase 1b, FPI in combination trial in Jan 2017

• Single agent study completed in June 2017

• 50 patients dosed to date ZEN-3694 US patent issued in May 2017

BET Inhibitors Block Tumor Oncogene Expression

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Wnt5A VEGF NF-kB

Oncogenes of addiction

Oncogenes of immune evasion

Oncogenes of metastasis

MYC, BCL2 AR, ER

Immune checkpoints Regulatory cells

Zenith’s BETi Program is Clinically Differentiated, Leader in Combination Approach

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Other Clinical BETi Zenith’s BETi (ZEN-3694)

Developing Epigenetic Combination Therapies to Address Resistance & Significantly Increase Revenue of $B Franchises

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Current multi $B Markets • AR antagonists (lead program) • PD-1/PD-L1Mabs • CDK 4/6 inh. • PARPi

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Current market and unmet need Over $4B in sales in 2016 for enzalutamide /

abiraterone, Almost all patients become resistant, no effective

therapy in resistant patients Continuing high mortality rate in resistant mCRPC

(50% 1 year survival, 28% in 5 years)

Opportunity for ZEN-3694 Patients that progress on enza/abi

• ~80,000 eligible patients in US/EU alone Enza/abi now in pre-metastatic/pre-hormone

refractory setting • ZEN-3694 to move into 1st line mCRPC therapy, expanded

population and duration on therapy >$1B opportunity for ZEN-3694 in mCRPC, combination

The global prostate cancer market forecast to reach $13B by 2024 in US/EU/Japan, driven by Zytiga (abiraterone), Xtandi (enzalutamide), Erleada (aplalutamide), others

Prostate Cancer Market

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Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) Disease Progression and Treatment Algorithm

• Medical need for targeting patients resistant to AR targeted agents • Need for targeting downstream AR signaling and resistance pathways • AR antagonist moving to earlier stages of disease, ZEN-3694 also shifting left, expanded market

ZEN-3694 BETi

BETi+ AR antagonist

BETi+ AR antagonist

BETi

Zenith Has Recruited Leading Clinical Investigators for Phase 1b mCRPC Clinical Study

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Name Institution Comments Eric Small, MD Chief, Dept. of Medicine Rahul Aggarwal, MD Developmental Therapeutics Specialist, Genitourinary Oncologist

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Developed abiraterone, apalutamide

Howard Scher, MD Chief, Genitourinary Oncology Wassim Abida, MD, PhD Medical Oncologist

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)

Developed enzalutamide

Joshi Alumkal, MD Associate Professor

Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU)

Expert in epigenetics in prostate cancer research

Allan Pantuck, MD Professor, Dept. of Urology

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Involved in enzalutamide and Provenge development

Elisabeth Heath, MD Professor, Dept. Hematology/Oncology

Karmanos (Wayne State) Genitourinary oncology specialist

Michael Schweizer, MD Assistant Professor

University of Washington Experience with AR antagonists

David Nanus, MD Chief, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology

Weill Cornell University Genitourinary oncology specialist

ZEN-3694, Rapid mCRPC Clinical Progress

Single agent study (PK/PD, safety, MTD, RP2D, n=26 patients treated), completed

Combination study ongoing (Safety, PK/PD, n=23 patients treated, dose escalation ongoing)

MTD, RP2D (combination)

Clinical activity (combination)

POC, molecular characterization, patient stratification strategy (20X2 patients in expansion cohorts)

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ZEN-3694 Development in mCRPC: Combination With Enzalutamide: Dose Escalation Ongoing

Combination expansion ZEN-3694 + enzalutamide; Patients progressing on enzalutamide N~20

Combination dose escalation ZEN-3694 + enzalutamide; Patients progressing on abiraterone or enzalutamide N~30

Combination expansion ZEN-3694 + enzalutamide; Patients progressing on abiraterone N~20

• Dose escalation ongoing • Dose proportional PK , no drug-drug interaction • Very good safety profile, prolonged dosing without dose interruption/reduction is tolerated • Robust target modulation at safe doses • Antitumor activity, strong durable PSA responses • 6 patients per dose to increase n for determining RP2D, 24 patients dosed to date in

combination study

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Robust Target Modulation at Safe Doses

Clear exposure-dependent pharmacodynamic effect Similar trend for monotherapy and combination Broadly, 2-fold decrease in IL1RN or CCR1 associated with

plasma levels of >300 ng/ml (~1uM) Consistent with human ex-vivo spike data MYC has a low response range in whole blood - better in

hematological tumors (Yeh et al., 2017)

Ex-vivo spike data

Single agent Combination

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Strong PSA Response With ZEN-3694 + Enzalutamide in Patients With Poor Prior Response to Abiraterone

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Long Duration of ZEN-3694 + Enzalutamide Therapy Without Radiographic Progression in Primary Abi Refractory Patients

Potential signal in abiraterone primary resistance patients, historically these are poor responders to enzalutamide

Target SOC Primary Refractory

Data pending Data pending

Several patients with primary Abiraterone resistance remain on study > 46 weeks

2018 2019 2020

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ZEN-3694 Clinical Planning: Focus on Efficient Biomarker Driven and Combination Trials

Ph 1b/2a : ZEN-3694 +fulvestrant in ER+ breast cancer, patients progressing on CDK 4/6 inh./ER modulator

Phase 1b/2a: Combination with abiraterone in mCRPC, DE and DC (n~42) (planned to be executed as a separate arm in current study with protocol modification

Phase 2: Combination with Enzalutamide in mCRPC, patients progressing on abiraterone or enzalutamide randomized placebo controlled (n~150)

Phase 1B/2a: ZEN-3694 + PD1/PD-L1 Mab in Renal/Melanoma/HNSCC/NSCLC/Bladder, others, patients progressing on PD1/PD-L1 Mab

Phase 1b/2a: ZEN-3694 + PARPi in HRD+/ HRD- patients (breast, CRPC, ovarian), DE and DC

Additional Studies

Next mCRPC studies

ZEN-3694: Clinical Safety, PK/PD, and Activity Summary

• Robust target modulation at safe doses • Dose dependent exposure • Activity signal in primary ARi refractory patients • Comprehensive translational program in place, data analysis

ongoing • ZEN-3694 is clinically differentiated from other BETi

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