Item 5. Other Information
ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION
On July 29, 2024, our Board of Directors took action, effective August 1, 2024, to streamline the organization to focus our efforts on advancing the clinical development of imdusiran and AB-101, and therefore ceased all discovery efforts and discontinued our IM-PROVE III clinical trial. In taking these steps to streamline the organization, we are implementing a 40% reduction in our workforce, primarily affecting the discovery and general and administrative functions. As a result, we will incur a one-time restructuring charge in the third quarter of 2024 of approximately $3.0 million to $4.0 million, which includes approximately $2.9 million of cash severance and continued benefits payments, a non-cash impairment charge for laboratory equipment of approximately $0.5 million and approximately $0.2 million to $0.4 million of cash payments to vendors for close-out activities in connection with the cessation of discovery efforts and the discontinuation of our IM-PROVE III clinical trial. With these organizational changes and our ongoing cost management efforts, we now expect our current cash, cash equivalents and investments in marketable securities will be sufficient to fund our operations into the fourth quarter of 2026.
Trading Plans
During the quarter ended June 30, 2024, none of our directors or officers adopted , modified or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or a “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” as such terms are defined under Item 408 of Regulation S-K.
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ITEM 6. EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT INDEX
Number Description
3.1 Notice of Articles and Articles of the Company, as amended (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, filed with the SEC on March 16, 2018).
3.2 Amendment to Articles of the Company (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2018, filed with the SEC on November 7, 2018).
10.1 Arbutus Biopharma Corporation 2016 Omnibus Share and Incentive Plan, as supplemented and amended (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on May 28, 2024).
31.1* Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2* Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1** Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.2** Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101 The following materials from Arbutus Biopharma Corporation’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2024, formatted in inline XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language): (i) Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets; (ii) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations; (iii) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss; (iv) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity; (v) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows; and (vi) Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
104 Cover page interactive data file (embedded within the inline XBRL document and included in Exhibit 101).
* Filed herewith.
** Furnished herewith.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized on August 8, 2024.
ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION
By: /s/ Michael J. McElhaugh
Michael J. McElhaugh
Interim President and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
By: /s/ David C. Hastings
David C. Hastings
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
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