Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (VKTX) Presents at Jefferies Global Healthcare Conference 2026 Transcript

Jiale Song
Jefferies LLC, Research Division

All right. Welcome, everyone, to Jefferies’ 2026 Global Healthcare Conference. My name is Roger Song, senior analyst covering SMID cap biotech. It is my pleasure to have the fireside chat with our next company, Viking Therapeutics. We have the full group here, but welcome, gentlemen, and then Brian.

And yes, maybe, Brian, why don’t you start with some company overview and the state of hour for Viking? You have a lot going on in the coming months and years. So let’s start with that.

Brian Lian
President, CEO & Director

Yes, yes, sure. Sure. Thanks, Roger. Thanks to Jefferies for the invitation. Really appreciate it. We’ve got a great schedule. And I’m joined here by Greg Zante, our Chief Financial Officer; and Neil Aubuchon, our Chief Commercial Officer, as well.

A lot going on at Viking, it’s a busy year. We have — our obesity program is in Phase III development. We have 2 Phase III trials ongoing called VANQUISH-1 and VANQUISH-2. VANQUISH-1 is in obese patients, VANQUISH-2 is in obese patients with type 2 diabetes, both studies fully enrolled. And moving forward, we’re expecting to read out the data — right now, second half ’27 seems like the time frame for those studies.

We also have an oral formulation of the same compound in Phase II. It showed a very nice weight loss trajectory, and we will be moving into 2 Phase III trials later this year with the oral tablet formulation. And that would represent, we think, the first — if it’s successful, the