−Removed: are a biotech innovation company with a mission of prolonging life and enhancing its quality by improving the health of the immune
−Removed: are developing biotechnologies specifically focused on improving the health of the immune system through immune reprogramming
−Removed: and monitoring.
−Removed: Our immune reprogramming technologies are currently at the pre-clinical stage and are designed to retrain the
−Removed: immune system to induce tolerance with an objective of addressing rejection of transplanted organs, autoimmune diseases, and allergies.
−Removed: Our immune monitoring technologies are designed to provide a personalized comprehensive profile of the immune system and we plan
−Removed: to utilize them in our upcoming reprogramming clinical trials to monitor subjects’
−Removed: immune response before, during and after
−Removed: drug administration.
−Removed: Reprogramming
−Removed: discovery of immunosuppressive (anti-rejection and monoclonal) drugs over 40 years ago has made possible life-saving organ transplantation
−Removed: procedures and blocking of unwanted immune responses in autoimmune diseases.
−Removed: However, immune suppression leads to significant
−Removed: undesirable side effects, such as increased susceptibility to life-threatening infections and cancers, because it indiscriminately
−Removed: and broadly suppresses immune function throughout the body.
−Removed: While the use of these drugs has been justifiable because they prevent
−Removed: or delay organ rejection, their use for treatment of autoimmune diseases and allergies may not be acceptable because of the above-mentioned
−Removed: side effects.
−Removed: Furthermore, transplanted organs often ultimately fail despite the use of immune suppression, and about 40% of transplanted
−Removed: organs survive no more than 5 years.
−Removed: focused therapeutic approaches are needed that modulate only the small portion of immune cells that are involved in rejection
−Removed: of the transplanted organ, as this approach can be safer for patients than indiscriminate immune suppression.
−Removed: Such approaches
−Removed: are referred to as immune tolerance, and when therapeutically induced, may be safer for patients and also potentially allow long-term
−Removed: survival of transplanted tissues and organs.
−Removed: the late 1990s, academic research on these approaches was conducted at the Transplant Center at Loma Linda University in connection
−Removed: with a project that secured initial grant funding from the U.S.
+Added: We are a biotech innovation
+Added: company with a mission of prolonging life and enhancing its quality by improving the health of the immune system.
+Added: We are developing biotechnologies
+Added: specifically focused on improving the health of the immune system through immune mapping and reprogramming.
+Added: Our immune mapping technologies
+Added: are designed to provide a personalized comprehensive profile of the immune system and we plan to utilize them in our upcoming reprogramming
+Added: clinical trials to monitor subjects’ immune response before, during and after drug administration.
+Added: Our immune reprogramming technologies
+Added: are designed to retrain the immune system to induce tolerance with the objectives of addressing rejection of transplanted organs as well
+Added: as ameliorate autoimmune diseases and allergies.
+Added: These programs are currently in the pre-clinical stage with one product candidate slated
+Added: for GMP manufacturing (clinical grade material) and toxicology studies in preparation for clinical trials.
+Added: Immune Reprogramming – Immune Modulation
+Added: The discovery of immunosuppressive
+Added: (anti-rejection and monoclonal) drugs over 40 years ago has made possible life-saving organ transplantation procedures and blocking of
+Added: unwanted immune responses in autoimmune diseases.
+Added: However, immune suppression leads to significant undesirable side effects, such as increased
+Added: susceptibility to life-threatening infections and cancers, because it indiscriminately and broadly suppresses immune function throughout
+Added: While the use of these drugs has been justifiable because they prevent or delay organ rejection, their use for treatment of
+Added: autoimmune diseases and allergies may not be acceptable because of the above-mentioned side effects.
+Added: Furthermore, transplanted organs
+Added: often ultimately fail despite the use of immune suppression, and about 40% of transplanted organs survive no more than 5 years.
+Added: New, focused therapeutic approaches
+Added: are needed that modulate only the small portion of immune cells that are involved in rejection of the transplanted organ, as this approach
+Added: can be safer for patients than indiscriminate immune suppression.
+Added: Such approaches are referred to as immune tolerance, and when therapeutically
+Added: induced, may be safer for patients and also potentially allow long-term survival of transplanted tissues and organs.
+Added: In the late 1990s, academic
+Added: research on these approaches was conducted at the Transplant Center at Loma Linda University in connection with a project that secured
+Added: initial grant funding from the U.S.
Department of Defense.
−Removed: The focus of that project was for
−Removed: skin grafting for burn victims.
−Removed: Twenty years of research at LLU and an affiliated incubator led to a series of discoveries
−Removed: that have been translated into a large patent portfolio of therapeutic approaches that may be applied to the modulation of the
−Removed: immune system in order to induce tolerance to self and transplanted organs.
−Removed: have an exclusive worldwide license from LLU for commercializing this nucleic acid-based technology (which is currently at the
−Removed: pre-clinical stage), called Apoptotic DNA Immunotherapy™
−Removed: (ADi™), which utilizes a novel approach that mimics the way
−Removed: our bodies naturally induce tolerance to our own tissues (“therapeutically induced immune tolerance”).
−Removed: suppression requires continuous administration to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ, induction of tolerance has the potential
−Removed: to retrain the immune system to accept the organ for longer periods of time.
−Removed: Thus, ADi™
−Removed: may allow patients to live with
−Removed: transplanted organs with significantly reduced immune suppression.
−Removed: is a technology platform, which we believe can be
−Removed: engineered to address a wide variety of indications.
−Removed: are developing ADi™
−Removed: products for organ transplantation including skin grafting, autoimmune diseases, and allergies, with the initial
−Removed: focus on skin allografts and psoriasis, as we believe these indications will be most efficient in providing safety and efficacy data
−Removed: in clinical trials.
−Removed: To submit a Biologics License Application (“BLA”) for a biopharmaceutical product, clinical safety and
−Removed: efficacy must be demonstrated in a series of clinical studies conducted with human subjects.
−Removed: For products in our class of drugs, the
−Removed: first-in-human trials will be a combination of Phase I (safety/tolerability) and Phase II (efficacy) in affected subjects.
−Removed: approval to initiate the Phase I/IIa studies, an Investigational New Drug Application will be submitted to compile non-clinical efficacy
−Removed: data as well as manufacturing and pre-clinical safety/toxicology data.
−Removed: To date, we have conducted non-clinical studies in a stringent
−Removed: model of skin transplantation using genetically mismatched donor and recipient animals demonstrating a 3-fold increase in the survival
−Removed: of the skin graft in animals that were tolerized with ADi™
−Removed: compared to animals that receive immune suppression alone.
−Removed: of graft life was observed despite discontinuation of immune suppression after the first 5 weeks.
−Removed: Additionally, in an induced non-clinical
−Removed: model for psoriasis, ADi™
−Removed: treatment resulted in a 69% reduction in skin thickness and a 38% decrease in skin flaking (two clinical
−Removed: parameters for assessment of psoriasis skin lesions).
−Removed: The Phase I/IIa studies in psoriasis will evaluate the safety/tolerability of ADi™
−Removed: in patients diagnosed with psoriasis.
−Removed: Since the drug will be administered in subjects diagnosed with psoriasis, effectiveness of the
−Removed: drug to improve psoriatic lesions will also be evaluated.
−Removed: In another Phase I/IIa study, patients requiring skin allografts will receive
−Removed: weekly intra-dermal injections of ADi™
−Removed: in combination with standard immune suppression to assess safety/tolerability and possibility
−Removed: of reducing levels of immunosuppressive drugs as well as prolongation of graft life.
−Removed: Later phase trials are planned after successful
−Removed: completion of these studies in preparation for submission for a BLA to regulatory agencies.
−Removed: is a nucleic acid-based technology ( e.g.
−Removed: , plasmid DNA-based) which we believe selectively suppresses only those immune
−Removed: cells involved in the rejection of tissue and organ transplants.
−Removed: It does so by tapping into the body’s natural process of
−Removed: cell death (apoptosis) to reprogram the immune system to stop unwanted attacks on self or transplanted tissues.
−Removed: Apoptosis is a
−Removed: natural process of “immune tolerance”
−Removed: used by the body to clear dying cells and to allow recognition and tolerance
−Removed: to self-tissue.
−Removed: triggers this process enabling the natural immune system cells to recognize the targeted tissues as
−Removed: “self”.
−Removed: Conceptually, it is designed to retrain the immune system to become accepting of the organ similar to how
−Removed: natural apoptosis reminds our immune system to be tolerant to our own “self”
−Removed: efforts have been made by various groups to promote tolerance through cell therapies and ex vivo manipulation
−Removed: of patient cells (takes place outside the body typically requiring hospitalization), to our knowledge, we will be unique in our
−Removed: approach of using in-body induction of apoptosis to promote tolerance to specific tissues.
−Removed: In addition, ADi™
−Removed: itself will not require hospitalization, only an injection in minute amounts into the skin.
−Removed: Chronic Rejection
−Removed: immunosuppressants control acute rejection during the early time-period after receiving an organ, chronic rejection of the organ
−Removed: that occurs one or more years after the transplant procedure continues to pose a major challenge for organ recipients.
−Removed: rejection has been likened to autoimmunity (a misdirected immune response that occurs when the immune system goes awry), where
−Removed: specific tissues in the transplanted organ are attacked by the immune system.
−Removed: In other words, chronic rejection may not be
−Removed: caused just by differences between the donor and the recipient, but rather by an immune response by the recipient to specific
−Removed: tissues in the organ.
−Removed: Our pre-clinical studies suggest that ADi™
−Removed: has the ability to tolerize to specific tissues in
−Removed: a transplanted organ, and conceivably, reducing incidences of chronic rejection.
−Removed: preclinical studies have demonstrated that ADi™
−Removed: treatment significantly and substantially prolongs graft survival, in addition
−Removed: to successfully “reversing”
+Added: The focus of that project was for skin grafting for burn victims.
+Added: years of research at LLU and an affiliated incubator led to a series of discoveries that have been translated into a large patent portfolio
+Added: of therapeutic approaches that may be applied to the modulation of the immune system in order to induce tolerance to self and transplanted
+Added: We have an exclusive worldwide
+Added: license from LLU for commercializing this nucleic acid-based technology (which is currently at the pre-clinical stage), called Apoptotic
+Added: DNA Immunotherapy™ (ADI™), which utilizes a novel approach that mimics the way our bodies naturally induce tolerance to our
+Added: own tissues (“therapeutically induced immune tolerance”).
+Added: While immune suppression requires continuous administration to prevent
+Added: rejection of a transplanted organ, induction of tolerance has the potential to retrain the immune system to accept the organ for longer
+Added: periods of time.
+Added: Thus, ADI™ may allow patients to live with transplanted organs with significantly reduced immune suppression.
+Added: is a technology platform, which we believe can be engineered to address a wide variety of indications.
+Added: We are developing ADI™
+Added: product candidates for organ transplantation including skin grafting, autoimmune diseases including psoriasis and type 1 diabetes (T1D),
+Added: and allergies, with an initial focus on psoriasis, T1D, and skin allografting., To submit a Biologics License Application (“BLA”)
+Added: for a biopharmaceutical product, clinical safety and efficacy must be demonstrated in a series of clinical studies conducted with human
+Added: For products in our class of drugs, the first-in-human trials will be a combination of Phase I (safety/tolerability) and Phase
+Added: II (efficacy) in affected subjects.
+Added: To obtain approval to initiate the Phase I/II studies, an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application
+Added: will be submitted compiling non-clinical efficacy data as well as manufacturing and pre-clinical or clinical toxicology data.
+Added: we have conducted non-clinical studies in a stringent model of skin transplantation using genetically mismatched donor and recipient animals
+Added: demonstrating a 3-fold increase in the survival of the skin graft in animals that were tolerized with ADI™ compared to animals that
+Added: receive immune suppression alone.
+Added: Prolongation of graft life was observed despite discontinuation of immune suppression after the first
+Added: Additionally, in an induced non-clinical model for psoriasis, ADI™ treatment resulted in a 69% reduction in skin thickness
+Added: and a 38% decrease in skin flaking (two clinical parameters for assessment of psoriasis skin lesions).
+Added: The Phase I/II studies in psoriasis
+Added: will evaluate the safety/tolerability of ADI™ in patients diagnosed with psoriasis.
+Added: Since the drug will be administered in subjects
+Added: diagnosed with psoriasis, effectiveness of the drug to improve psoriatic lesions will also be evaluated.
+Added: In another Phase I/II study,
+Added: patients requiring skin allografts will receive weekly intra-dermal injections of ADI™ in combination with standard immune suppression
+Added: to assess safety/tolerability and possibility of reducing levels of immunosuppressive drugs as well as prolongation of graft life.
+Added: ADI™ Advantages
+Added: ADI™ is a nucleic acid-based
+Added: technology ( e.g.
+Added: , DNA-based) which we believe selectively suppresses only those immune cells involved in the rejection of tissues
+Added: and transplanted organs.
+Added: It does so by tapping into the body’s natural process of cell death (apoptosis) to reprogram the immune
+Added: system to stop unwanted attacks on self or transplanted tissues.
+Added: Apoptosis is a natural process used by the body to clear dying cells
+Added: and to allow recognition and tolerance to self-tissues.
+Added: ADI™ triggers this process enabling the cells of the immune system to recognize
+Added: the targeted tissues as “self”.
+Added: Conceptually, it is designed to retrain the immune system to become accepting of the organ
+Added: similar to how natural apoptosis reminds our immune system to be tolerant to our own “self” tissues.
+Added: While efforts have been made
+Added: by various groups to promote tolerance through cell therapies and ex vivo manipulation of patient cells (takes place
+Added: outside the body typically requiring hospitalization), to our knowledge, we will be unique in our approach of using in-body induction
+Added: of apoptosis to promote tolerance to specific tissues.
+Added: In addition, ADI™ treatment itself will not require additional hospitalization,
+Added: only an injection of minute amounts of the therapeutic drug into the skin.
+Added: Reduce Chronic Rejection
+Added: While immunosuppressants control
+Added: acute rejection during the early time-period after receiving an organ, chronic rejection of the organ that occurs one or more years after
+Added: the transplant procedure continues to pose a major challenge for organ recipients.
+Added: Chronic rejection has been
+Added: likened to autoimmunity (a misdirected immune response that occurs when the immune system goes awry), where specific tissues in the transplanted
+Added: organ are attacked by the immune system.
+Added: In other words, chronic rejection may not be caused just by differences between the donor
+Added: and the recipient, but rather by an immune response by the recipient to specific tissues in the organ.
+Added: Our pre-clinical studies suggest
+Added: that ADI™ has the ability to tolerize to specific tissues in a transplanted organ, and conceivably, reducing incidences of chronic
+Added: Moreover, preclinical studies
+Added: have demonstrated that ADI™ treatment significantly and substantially prolongs graft survival, in addition to successfully “reversing”
other established immune-mediated inflammatory processes.
−Removed: immune suppression
−Removed: in animal models have shown that conditioning/desensitizing the animals to receive the transplant, prolongs the survival of the
−Removed: transplanted tissue or organ.
−Removed: These studies have used repeated exposure to low doses of protein components in specific organs
−Removed: to reduce immunologic recognition and attack on the transplanted organ.
−Removed: on some of our data, we believe that with ADi™
−Removed: treatment, recipients can be conditioned/desensitized ahead of transplantation,
−Removed: thereby retraining the immune system to more readily accept the organ and also reduce the levels of immunosuppressive drugs needed
−Removed: post-transplantation.
−Removed: have shown that presence of preformed antibodies prior to transplantation procedures increases the rate of organ rejection.
−Removed: antibodies can develop in previously transplanted patients, patients who have given birth, and patients who have previously received
−Removed: blood transfusions.
−Removed: With more than 113,000 patients on transplant waiting lists in the U.S.
−Removed: alone, patients with pre-existing
−Removed: antibodies have much lower chances at qualifying to receive organs due to their increased risk of rejection –
−Removed: immune suppression.
−Removed: transplanted patients have a probability of needing re-transplantation at some point due to eventual chronic rejection of their
−Removed: transplanted organ, with the possible exception of some newborn recipients.
−Removed: With increased incidence of preformed antibodies,
−Removed: these patients may never have the opportunity to receive another organ.
−Removed: Based on experimental data, we believe that ADi™
−Removed: may have the potential to address this issue providing these individuals better opportunities at receiving an organ transplantation.
−Removed: Key Differentiators
−Removed: products are typically administered systemically (i.e., by mouth in pill form or injected intramuscularly/intravenously).
−Removed: requires repeated large doses of the drug to allow sufficient concentrations to reach the affected sites.
−Removed: is a DNA-based
−Removed: product that can be injected directly into the skin where the target cells of the immune system reside, thereby significantly
−Removed: simplifying the delivery of the product and reducing the amount of product needed.
−Removed: products are less likely to result in formation of neutralizing antibodies, which lend themselves to repeat dosing as may be required
−Removed: by ADi™
−Removed: of Goods Advantage
−Removed: products are DNA-based and cost-effective to manufacture.
−Removed: Furthermore, DNA-based products are very stable and do not require adherence
−Removed: to cold chain (temperature-controlled) protocols for shipping.
+Added: Reduce immune suppression
+Added: Studies in animal models have
+Added: shown that conditioning/desensitizing the animals to receive the transplant, prolongs the survival of the transplanted tissue or organ.
+Added: studies have used repeated exposure to low doses of protein components in specific organs to reduce immunologic recognition and attack
+Added: on the transplanted organ.
+Added: Based on some of our data,
+Added: we believe that with ADI™ treatment, recipients can be conditioned/desensitized ahead of transplantation, thereby retraining the
+Added: immune system to more readily accept the organ and also reduce the levels of immunosuppressive drugs needed post-transplantation.
+Added: Preformed Antibodies
+Added: Studies have shown that presence
+Added: of preformed antibodies prior to transplantation procedures increases the rate of organ rejection.
+Added: Preformed antibodies can develop in
+Added: previously transplanted patients, patients who have given birth, and patients who have previously received blood transfusions.
+Added: than 113,000 patients on transplant waiting lists in the U.S.
+Added: alone, patients with pre-existing antibodies have much lower chances at
+Added: qualifying to receive organs due to their increased risk of rejection – even with immune suppression.
+Added: Sadly, transplanted patients
+Added: have a probability of needing re-transplantation at some point due to eventual chronic rejection of their transplanted organ, with the
+Added: possible exception of some newborn recipients.
+Added: With increased incidence of preformed antibodies, these patients may never have the opportunity
+Added: to receive another organ.
+Added: Based on experimental data, we believe that ADI™ may have the potential to address this issue providing
+Added: these individuals better opportunities at receiving an organ transplantation.
+Added: ADI™ Key Differentiators
+Added: Ease of Delivery
+Added: Therapeutic products are typically
+Added: administered systemically (i.e., by mouth in pill form or injected intramuscularly/intravenously).
+Added: This requires repeated large doses
+Added: of the drug to allow sufficient concentrations to reach the affected sites.
+Added: ADI™ is a DNA-based product that can be injected directly
+Added: into the skin where the target cells of the immune system reside, thereby significantly simplifying the delivery of the product and reducing
+Added: the amount of product needed.
+Added: Repeat Dosing
+Added: DNA-based products are less
+Added: likely to result in formation of neutralizing antibodies, which lend themselves to repeat dosing as may be required by ADI™ products.
+Added: Cost of Goods Advantage
+Added: ADI™ products are DNA-based
+Added: and cost-effective to manufacture.
+Added: Furthermore, DNA-based products are very stable and do not require adherence to cold chain (temperature-controlled)
+Added: protocols for shipping.
This also makes the product ideal for global distribution.
−Removed: Therapy Delivery System
−Removed: believe that tolerance induction using ADi™
−Removed: may potentially obviate the need for hospitalization because it can simply be
−Removed: injected into the skin.
−Removed: This approach reduces treatment costs and complexities in treatment delivery.
−Removed: The anticipated administration
−Removed: of ADi™
−Removed: will include an initial priming regimen that will require injections administered once a week for several weeks.
−Removed: booster or maintenance doses will be provided on an individual basis as determined by immune and inflammation testing.
−Removed: treatments will be significantly more convenient and comfortable for patients because they do not require removal of patient cells
−Removed: for ex vivo manipulation.
−Removed: Technology Platform
−Removed: utilizes a novel approach that mimics the way our bodies naturally induce tolerance to our own tissues.
−Removed: It is a technology
−Removed: platform which we believe can be engineered to address a wide variety of indications.
−Removed: includes two DNA molecules which
−Removed: are designed to deliver signals to induce tolerance.
−Removed: The first DNA molecule encodes a pro-apoptotic protein, which induces
−Removed: ‘programmed’
−Removed: This is a core component of the technology because it is intended to greatly increase
−Removed: the recruitment of dendritic cells, which are implicated in regulating the immune system.
−Removed: The second DNA molecule encodes
−Removed: the protein of interest (guiding antigen), which is modified to promote a path of tolerance.
−Removed: The guiding antigen is intended
−Removed: to result in tolerance induction specific to the tissue where the protein is found.
−Removed: has been successfully tested in several preclinical models (skin grafting, psoriaris, type 1 diabetes, alopecia areata) and its
−Removed: efficacy can be attributed to multiple factors:
+Added: Simplified Therapy Delivery System
+Added: We believe that tolerance induction
+Added: using ADI™ may potentially obviate the need for hospitalization because it can simply be injected into the skin.
+Added: This approach reduces
+Added: treatment costs and complexities in treatment delivery.
+Added: The anticipated administration of ADI™ will include an initial priming
+Added: regimen that will require injections administered once a week for several weeks.
+Added: Thereafter, booster or maintenance doses will be
+Added: provided on an individual basis as determined by immune and inflammation testing.
+Added: ADI™ treatments will be significantly more
+Added: convenient and comfortable for patients because they do not require removal of patient cells for ex vivo manipulation.
+Added: ADI™ Technology Platform
+Added: ADI™ utilizes a novel
+Added: approach that mimics the way our bodies naturally induce tolerance to our own tissues.
+Added: It is a technology platform which we believe
+Added: can be engineered to address a wide variety of indications.
+Added: ADI™ includes two DNA molecules which are designed to deliver signals
+Added: to induce tolerance.
+Added: The first DNA molecule encodes a pro-apoptotic protein, which induces ‘programmed’ cell death.
+Added: is a core component of the technology because it is intended to greatly increase the recruitment of dendritic cells, which are implicated
+Added: in regulating the immune system.
+Added: The second DNA molecule encodes the protein of interest (guiding antigen), which is modified to
+Added: promote a path of tolerance.
+Added: The guiding antigen is intended to result in tolerance induction specific to the tissue where the protein
+Added: ADI™ has shown efficacy
+Added: in several preclinical models (skin grafting, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes, alopecia areata and multiple sclerosis) and its efficacy can
+Added: be attributed to multiple factors:
does not rely on a single mechanistic approach.
−Removed: It has multiple components (interchangeable target antigen, apoptosis,
−Removed: methylated plasmid DNA) that affect different arms of the immune system, which can be manipulated.
+Added: It has multiple components (interchangeable target antigen, apoptosis, methylated
+Added: plasmid DNA) that affect different arms of the immune system, which can be manipulated.
activates key immune cells known to maintain tolerance in test animals and humans.
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lends itself to repeat dosing, which may be required to achieve its full potential therapeutic effect.
+Added: Proof of Concept:
Skin Grafting
−Removed: shown are 5 weeks post-transplantation
−Removed: proof of concept experiment performed in transplantation was a skin allograft transplantation procedure in which the donor skin
−Removed: was obtained from white BALB/c mice and transplanted to black C57BL/6 mice.
−Removed: The experiment was designed to address a more challenging
−Removed: scenario where the donor tissue was obtained from a donor which is genetically mismatched with the recipient.
−Removed: This is unlike clinical
−Removed: scenarios where the donor and recipient are genetically matched as much as possible.
−Removed: While these experiments were repeated in
−Removed: several separate experiments, the results shown here were obtained from a study conducted with 14 mice in the ADi™
−Removed: group and 7 mice in the control group.
−Removed: Prior to submission of an Investigational New Drug Application, additional non-clinical
−Removed: studies will be conducted in a pig model to establish the precise protocol (e.g.
−Removed: timing of vaccine administration, dosing, and
−Removed: appropriate immunosuppressive agents that will be used in combination with ADi™) that will be used in the clinical trials.
−Removed: In addition, IND-enabling safety/toxicology studies will be conducted by a GLP lab to ensure product safety for clinical testing.
+Added: Results shown are 5 weeks
+Added: post-transplantation
+Added: The proof-of-concept experiment
+Added: performed in transplantation was a skin allograft transplantation procedure in which the donor skin was obtained from white BALB/c mice
+Added: and transplanted to black C57BL/6 mice.
+Added: The experiment was designed to address a more challenging scenario where the donor tissue was
+Added: obtained from a donor which is genetically mismatched with the recipient.
+Added: This is unlike clinical scenarios where the donor and recipient
+Added: are genetically matched as much as possible.
+Added: While these experiments were repeated in several separate experiments, the results shown
+Added: here were obtained from a study conducted with 14 mice in the ADI™ treatment group and 7 mice in the control group.
+Added: Prior to submission
+Added: of an Investigational New Drug Application, additional non-clinical studies will be conducted in a pig model to establish the precise
+Added: protocol (e.g.
+Added: timing of vaccine administration, dosing, and appropriate immunosuppressive agents that will be used in combination with
+Added: ADI™) that will be used in the clinical trials.
+Added: In addition, IND-enabling safety/toxicology studies will be conducted by a GLP lab
+Added: to ensure product safety for clinical testing.
+Added: Proof of Concept:
causes increased skin thickness and scaling in an established 10-day psoriasis model
treatment resulted in a 69% reduction in skin thickening and 38% reduction in scaling over the 10-day study period
+Added: Proof of Concept:
Type 1 Diabetes
−Removed: of female NOD mice developed spontaneous autoimmune diabetes.
+Added: 90% of female NOD mice developed
+Added: spontaneous autoimmune diabetes.
Disease progression may be different for individual animals.
−Removed: was administered once a week for 8 weeks after each animal developed hyperglycemia.
−Removed: All animals responded with 80% showing durable
−Removed: response for the entire 40-week study period.
−Removed: 1 or autoimmune diabetes is a condition where the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks cells in the pancreas resulting
−Removed: in diminished production of insulin
+Added: ADI™ was administered
+Added: once a week for 8 weeks after each animal developed hyperglycemia.
+Added: All animals responded with 80% showing durable response for the entire
+Added: 40-week study period.
+Added: 1 or autoimmune diabetes is a condition where the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks cells in the pancreas resulting in diminished
+Added: production of insulin
incorporates an antigen (GAD) expressed in the pancreas
● Administration
−Removed: of ADi™
−Removed: using GAD as the antigen over an 8-week period in animals with T1D restores insulin production and reverses hyperglycemia
−Removed: Alopecia Areata
−Removed: protects hair follicles from autoimmune attack
−Removed: believe that understanding the status of an individual’s immune system is key to developing and administering immunotherapies
−Removed: such as ADi™.
−Removed: We have secured an exclusive worldwide license for commercializing a technology platform which provides a
−Removed: personalized comprehensive profile of the immune system.
−Removed: It is intended to be informative for individual immune responses to viruses,
−Removed: bacterial antigens, peptides, drugs, bone marrow and solid organ transplants, and cancer.
−Removed: It has broad applicability to many other
−Removed: agents of clinical interest impacting the immune system, including those not yet identified such as future infectious agents.
−Removed: We plan to brand this technology, and other future licensed and/or in-house developed monitoring technologies collectively as
−Removed: AditxtScore™.
−Removed: AditxtScore™
−Removed: is being designed to allow individuals to understand, manage and monitor their immune profiles in order to be informed about attacks
−Removed: on or by their immune system.
−Removed: We believe AditxtScore™
−Removed: can also assist the medical community in anticipating possible immune
−Removed: responses and reactions to viruses, bacteria, allergens and transplanted organs.
−Removed: It can be useful in anticipating attacks on the
−Removed: body by having the ability to determine its potential response and for developing a plan to deal with an undesirable reaction
−Removed: by the immune system.
−Removed: Its advantages include the ability to provide a simple, rapid, accurate, high throughput, single platform
−Removed: assay that can be multiplexed to determine the immune status with respect to several factors simultaneously, in 3-16 hours, as
−Removed: well as detect antigen and antibody in a single test (i.e.
−Removed: infectious, recovered, immune).
−Removed: In addition, it can determine and differentiate
−Removed: between various types of cellular and humoral immune responses (T and B cells).
−Removed: It also provides for simultaneous monitoring of
−Removed: cell activation and levels of cytokine release (i.e., cytokine storms).
−Removed: plan to utilize AditxtScore™
−Removed: in our upcoming clinical trials to monitor subjects’
−Removed: immune response before, during and
−Removed: after ADi™
−Removed: drug administration.
−Removed: We are working with regulatory consultants with the objective to obtain FDA approval for
−Removed: AditxtScore™
−Removed: as a clinical assay.
−Removed: We are currently securing marketing and distribution partnerships for application of AditxtScore™
−Removed: in the infectious diseases market.
−Removed: To obtain FDA approval to use AditxtScore™
−Removed: as a clinical assay, we are performing validation
−Removed: studies to demonstrate AditxtScore™’s utility to evaluate various components of the immune system reproducibly.
−Removed: believe that these data will show AditxtScore™’s ability to measure various components of the immune system (e.g.
−Removed: humoral and cell-mediated immune responses) to provide a broader view of the immune system and its status in health and disease.
−Removed: Our plan is to submit a 510(K) application to the FDA after compilation of these data.
−Removed: Beyond infectious diseases, we plan to
−Removed: develop AditxtScore™
−Removed: for applications in additional markets such as organ rejection, allergies, drug/vaccine response, and
−Removed: disease susceptibility.
−Removed: The following are further descriptions of the applications of AditxtScore TM :
−Removed: by the time a transplanted or a native organ shows signs of failure, the damage is already done, and reversal of the tissue injury
−Removed: becomes challenging.
−Removed: Access to early warning signs of damage would be invaluable to reverse or even prevent the damage.
−Removed: are currently no practical, efficient assays available to measure cellular immune responses and available tools do not provide
−Removed: timely information for patients.
−Removed: AditxtScore™
−Removed: can be used to provide a sensitive and rapid tool to determine T cell response
−Removed: and to differentiate between various types of cellular immune responses.
−Removed: It can be multiplexed providing information about the
−Removed: number of cells responding as well as quantifying the amounts of various cytokines released by the cells in a single assay.
−Removed: Determination
−Removed: of cellular response has valuable applications for prediction, monitoring, early detection, and treatment of disease, including
−Removed: organ failure/rejection, as well as treatment efficacy.
−Removed: It can also reveal dysfunction of the immune system potentially contributing
−Removed: to more severe disease.
−Removed: immune system protects us by acting as a barrier against foreign substances and by eliminating them when they penetrate our bodies.
−Removed: Once the initial exposure has occurred, memory cells develop to prepare the body against a future exposure.
−Removed: is called immunity.
−Removed: In certain situations, however, instead of immunity, the immune system develops memory cells that result
−Removed: in a more severe reaction during a future exposure to the same substance.
−Removed: This type of response is called a hypersensitivity
−Removed: response, commonly known as an allergic response.
−Removed: AditxtScore™
−Removed: can be used to develop multiplex assays each designed to
−Removed: test and monitor immune response to allergens.
−Removed: Based on the ability of this technology to run multiple tests in a single assay,
−Removed: 100 or more substances can potentially be tested for simultaneously.
−Removed: Drug/Vaccine Response
−Removed: are currently no effective assays to predict and easily assess responses to vaccination.
−Removed: To determine whether an individual has
−Removed: responded to a particular vaccine, antibody titers are measured.
−Removed: This process may take several days.
−Removed: Furthermore, for vaccines
−Removed: that require a series of injections, titers are not measured between injections and may not be known for months.
−Removed: AditxtScore™
−Removed: can be used to determine whether a patient is a responder or non-responder.
−Removed: It can provide an effective and rapid tool for potentially
−Removed: determining beneficial responses to a vaccine and can be used to monitor titer development post vaccination.
−Removed: It can allow evaluation
−Removed: of multiple vaccines in a single test (for memory B cell detection).
−Removed: This application can be useful for vaccines, cancer therapeutics
−Removed: anti-rejection drugs, anti-viral drugs, among others.
−Removed: Disease Susceptibility
−Removed: susceptibility can vary from one individual to another and it can be a function of various factors, including genetic variability
−Removed: and differences in human leukocyte antigens (HLA) encoded by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and responsible for regulation
−Removed: of the immune system in humans.
−Removed: People with certain HLA types may have higher or lower susceptibility to diseases.
−Removed: AditxtScore™
−Removed: can be used to develop assays to evaluate differences in HLA types in individuals to help elucidate the relationship between certain
−Removed: HLA types and susceptibility to various diseases.
−Removed: Infectious Diseases
−Removed: diseases can cause a major predicament for scientific and medical professionals, epidemiologists, and infectious disease specialists,
−Removed: among others, who need to determine how to treat patients in real time while efficacious therapies are still being developed.
−Removed: Proper decision making requires understanding why some affected individuals show minor or no symptoms, some recover, and others
−Removed: This is fundamental to creating effective targeted therapeutics which may differ depending on the underlying profile of the
−Removed: individual at risk for, or with, disease.
−Removed: The immune system plays a major role in how any given individual responds to the infectious
−Removed: This response can be inadequate or too robust or appropriately effective.
−Removed: Regardless, the kinetics of the response by the
−Removed: cellular and humoral (antibody) immune systems to the infectious agent are often unknown.
−Removed: A basic critical question, then, is
−Removed: what do the dynamics of the immune response look like from exposure to and through the disease period and during convalescence
−Removed: for those who survive and those who don’t;
−Removed: and how might vaccines and therapies alter these profiles such that predictions
−Removed: of vaccine/drug efficacy could be inferred prior to vaccination/treatment and/or disease severity or progression be prognosticated.
−Removed: AditxtScore™
−Removed: can be used to help address these questions with multiplex assays each designed to test and monitor the immune
−Removed: response to infectious agents.
−Removed: Based on the ability to run multiple tests in a single assay, 100 or more agents can potentially
−Removed: be tested for simultaneously.
+Added: of ADI™ using GAD as the antigen over an 8-week period in animals with T1D restores insulin production and reverses hyperglycemia
Agreement with Loma Linda University –
−Removed: March 8, 2018, we entered into an Assignment Agreement (the “Assignment Agreement”) with Sekris Biomedical, Inc.
−Removed: (“Sekris”).
−Removed: Sekris was a party to a License Agreement with Loma Linda University (“LLU”), entered into and made effective on May
−Removed: 25, 2011, and amended on June 24, 2011, July 16, 2012 and December 27, 2012 (the “Original Agreement,”
−Removed: with the Assignment Agreement, the “Sekris Agreements”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the Assignment Agreement, Sekris transferred
−Removed: and assigned all of its rights and obligations in and to and liabilities under the Original Agreement, of whatever kind or nature,
−Removed: In exchange, on March 8, 2018, we issued a warrant to Sekris to purchase up to 500,000 shares of our common stock (the
−Removed: “Sekris Warrant”).
−Removed: The warrant was immediately exercisable and has an exercise price of $4.00 per share.
−Removed: The expiration
−Removed: date of the warrant is March 8, 2023.
−Removed: On March 15, 2018, as amended on July 1, 2020, we entered into a LLU License Agreement directly
−Removed: with Loma Linda University, which amends and restates the Sekris Agreements.
−Removed: to the LLU License Agreement, we obtained the exclusive royalty-bearing worldwide license in and to all intellectual property,
−Removed: including patents, technical information, trade secrets, proprietary rights, technology, know-how, data, formulas, drawings, and
−Removed: specifications, owned or controlled by LLU and/or any of its affiliates (the “LLU Patent and Technology Rights”) and
−Removed: related to therapy for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (the ADi™
−Removed: In consideration for the LLU License
−Removed: Agreement, we issued 25,000 shares of common stock to LLU.
−Removed: to the LLU License Agreement, we are required to pay an annual license fee to LLU.
−Removed: Also, we paid LLU $455,000 in July
−Removed: 2020 for outstanding milestone payments and license fees.
−Removed: We are also required to pay to LLU milestone payments in connection
−Removed: with certain development milestones.
−Removed: Specifically, we are required to make the following milestone payments:
+Added: On March 8, 2018, we entered
+Added: into an Assignment Agreement (the “Assignment Agreement”) with Sekris Biomedical, Inc.
+Added: a party to a License Agreement with Loma Linda University (“LLU”), entered into and made effective on May 25, 2011, and amended
+Added: on June 24, 2011, July 16, 2012 and December 27, 2012 (the “Original Agreement,” and together with the Assignment Agreement,
+Added: the “Sekris Agreements”).
+Added: Pursuant to the Assignment Agreement, Sekris transferred and assigned all of its rights and obligations
+Added: in and to liabilities under the Original Agreement, of whatever kind or nature, to us.
+Added: In exchange, on March 8, 2018, we issued a warrant
+Added: to Sekris to purchase up to 500,000 shares of our common stock (the “Sekris Warrant”).
+Added: The warrant was immediately exercisable
+Added: and has an exercise price of $4.00 per share.
+Added: The expiration date of the warrant is March 8, 2023.
+Added: On March 15, 2018, as amended on July
+Added: 1, 2020, we entered into a LLU License Agreement directly with Loma Linda University, which amends and restates the Sekris Agreements.
+Added: Pursuant to the LLU License
+Added: Agreement, we obtained the exclusive royalty-bearing worldwide license in and to all intellectual property, including patents, technical
+Added: information, trade secrets, proprietary rights, technology, know-how, data, formulas, drawings, and specifications, owned or controlled
+Added: by LLU and/or any of its affiliates (the “LLU Patent and Technology Rights”) and related to therapy for immune-mediated inflammatory
+Added: diseases (the ADI™ technology).
+Added: In consideration for the LLU License Agreement, we issued 25,000 shares of common stock to LLU.
+Added: Pursuant to the LLU License
+Added: Agreement, we are required to pay an annual license fee to LLU.
+Added: Also, we paid LLU $455,000 in July 2020 for outstanding milestone payments
+Added: and license fees.
+Added: We are also required to pay to LLU milestone payments in connection with certain development milestones.
+Added: Specifically,
+Added: we are required to make the following milestone payments:
$175,000 on March 31, 2022;
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and $500,000 on March 31, 2027.
−Removed: Additionally, as consideration
−Removed: for prior expenses incurred by LLU to prosecute, maintain and defend the LLU Patent and Technology Rights, we made the following
−Removed: payments to LLU:, $70,000 due at the end of December 2018, and a final payment of $60,000 due at the end of March 2019.
−Removed: required to defend the LLU Patent and Technology Rights during the term of the LLU License Agreement.
−Removed: Additionally, we will owe
−Removed: royalty payments of (i) 1.5% of Net Product Sales and Net Service Sales on any Licensed Products (defined as any finished pharmaceutical
−Removed: products which utilizes the LLU Patent and Technology Rights in its development, manufacture or supply), and (ii) 0.75% of Net
−Removed: Product Sales and Net Service Sales for Licensed Products and Licensed Services not covered by a valid patent claim for technology
−Removed: rights and know-how for a three (3) year period beyond the expiration of all valid patent claims.
−Removed: We also are required to produce
−Removed: a written progress report to LLU, discussing our development and commercialization efforts, within 45 days following the end of
+Added: Additionally, as consideration for prior expenses incurred by LLU to prosecute, maintain and defend
+Added: the LLU Patent and Technology Rights, we made the following payments to LLU:
+Added: $70,000 due at the end of December 2018, and a final
+Added: payment of $60,000 due at the end of March 2019.
+Added: We are required to defend the LLU Patent and Technology Rights during the term of the
+Added: LLU License Agreement.
+Added: Additionally, we will owe royalty payments of (i) 1.5% of Net Product Sales and Net Service Sales on any Licensed
+Added: Products (defined as any finished pharmaceutical products which utilizes the LLU Patent and Technology Rights in its development, manufacture
+Added: or supply), and (ii) 0.75% of Net Product Sales and Net Service Sales for Licensed Products and Licensed Services not covered by a valid
+Added: patent claim for technology rights and know-how for a three (3) year period beyond the expiration of all valid patent claims.
+Added: are required to produce a written progress report to LLU, discussing our development and commercialization efforts, within 45 days following
+Added: the end of each year.
All intellectual property rights in and to LLU Patent and Technology Rights shall remain with LLU (other than improvements
developed by or on our behalf).
−Removed: LLU License Agreement shall terminate on the last day that a patent granted to us by LLU is valid and enforceable or the day
−Removed: that the last patent application licensed to us is abandoned.
−Removed: The LLU License Agreement may be terminated by mutual agreement
−Removed: or by us upon 90 days written notice to LLU.
−Removed: LLU may terminate the LLU License Agreement in the event of (i) non-payments or late
−Removed: payments of royalty, milestone and license maintenance fees not cured within 90 days after delivery of written notice by LLU,
−Removed: (ii) a breach of any non-payment provision (including the provision that requires us to meet certain deadlines for milestone events
−Removed: (each, a “Milestone Deadline”)) not cured within 90 days after delivery of written notice by LLU and (iii) LLU delivers
−Removed: notice to us of three or more actual breaches of the LLU License Agreement by us in any 12-month period.
−Removed: Additional Milestone
−Removed: Deadlines include:
−Removed: (i) the requirement to have regulatory approval of an IND application to initiate a first-in-human clinical
−Removed: trials on or before March 31, 2022, (ii) the completion of first-in-human (phase I/II) clinical trials by March 31, 2024, (iii)
+Added: The LLU License Agreement shall
+Added: terminate on the last day that a patent granted to us by LLU is valid and enforceable or the day that the last patent application licensed
+Added: to us is abandoned.
+Added: The LLU License Agreement may be terminated by mutual agreement or by us upon 90 days written notice to LLU.
+Added: terminate the LLU License Agreement in the event of (i) non-payments or late payments of royalty, milestone and license maintenance fees
+Added: not cured within 90 days after delivery of written notice by LLU, (ii) a breach of any non-payment provision (including the provision
+Added: that requires us to meet certain deadlines for milestone events (each, a “Milestone Deadline”)) not cured within 90 days after
+Added: delivery of written notice by LLU and (iii) LLU delivers notice to us of three or more actual breaches of the LLU License Agreement by
+Added: us in any 12-month period.
+Added: Additional Milestone Deadlines include:
+Added: (i) submission of an IND/clinical trial application to initiate first-in-human
+Added: clinical trials on or before March 31, 2022, (ii) the completion of first-in-human (phase I/II) clinical trials by March 31, 2024, (iii)
the completion of Phase III clinical trials by March 31, 2026 and (iv) biologic licensing approval by the FDA by March 31, 2027.
−Removed: Agreement with Leland Stanford Junior University (“Stanford”)
−Removed: February 3, 2020, we entered into an exclusive license agreement (the “February 2020 License Agreement”) with Stanford
−Removed: with regard to a patent concerning a method for detection and measurement of specific cellular responses.
−Removed: Pursuant to the February
−Removed: 2020 License Agreement, we received an exclusive worldwide license to Stanford’s patent with regard to use, import, offer,
−Removed: and sale of Licensed Products (as defined in the agreement).
−Removed: The license to the patented technology is exclusive, including the
−Removed: right to sublicense, beginning on the effective date of the agreement and ending when the patent expires.
−Removed: Under the exclusivity
−Removed: agreement, we acknowledged that Stanford had already granted a non-exclusive license in the Nonexclusive Field of Use, under the
−Removed: Licensed Patents in the Licensed Field of Use in the Licensed Territory (as those terms are defined in the February 2020 License
−Removed: Agreement”).
−Removed: However, Stanford agreed to not grant further licenses under the Licensed Patents in the Licensed Field of
−Removed: Use in the Licensed Territory.
−Removed: were obligated to pay and paid a fee of $25,000 to Stanford within 60 days of February 3, 2020.
−Removed: We also issued 18,750 shares of the Company’s
−Removed: common stock to Stanford.
−Removed: An annual licensing maintenance fee is payable by us on the first anniversary of the February 2020 License
−Removed: Agreement in the amount of $40,000 for 2021 through 2024 and $60,000 starting in 2025 until the license expires upon the expiration of
−Removed: The Company is required to pay and has paid $25,000 for the issuances of certain patents.
−Removed: The Company will pay milestone
−Removed: fees of $50,000 on the first commercial sales of a licensed product and $25,000 at the beginning of any clinical study for regulatory
−Removed: clearance of an in vitro diagnostic product developed and a potential licensed product.
+Added: Pre-clinical and Clinical Plans
+Added: The resources and efforts used
+Added: for the IND-enabling work summarized below supports both the psoriasis and TID clinical programs
+Added: High-level objectives for psoriasis
+Added: clinical program:
+Added: of IND-enabling work.
+Added: Aditxt has initiated GMP manufacturing of clinical grade material that will be used for the first-in-human studies
+Added: in subjects with psoriatic lesions.
+Added: Included in the manufacturing program is stability studies;
+Added: the regulatory agency requires
+Added: one month of stability data for the GMP material for submission of the clinical trial application (CTA).
+Added: Stability data will
+Added: continue to be gathered while the clinical trials are ongoing and up to 24 months.
+Added: Aditxt has also completed the in-life portion
+Added: of the toxicology studies.
+Added: Safety data have been recorded and Aditxt is now awaiting immunotoxicology data, which are forthcoming.
+Added: ● Upon completion of GMP manufacturing and toxicology studies, a CTA will be submitted in Q4 2022 to initiate the Phase I/II FIH clinical
+Added: The FIH clinical studies will
+Added: combine Phase I (designed to test clinical safety) and Phase IIa (designed to obtain proof of effectiveness in human subjects), in subjects
+Added: with psoriatic skin lesions.
+Added: We have selected this indication for several reasons, including:
+Added: Our existing preclinical data have shown promising results in reducing scaling and skin thickness in the mouse model;
+Added: The relative ease of visualization of healing of psoriatic lesions;
+Added: The need for therapies that suitable and justifiable in individuals with mild to moderate psoriasis (current biologic therapies are primarily used in moderate to severe cases).
+Added: We have identified a contract
+Added: research organization with capabilities to conduct a multi-center study and ability to recruit the needed number of subjects to complete
+Added: the clinical trials.
+Added: Upon approval by the regulatory agency clinical trials will be initiated.
+Added: High-level objectives for type
+Added: 1 diabetes (T1D) clinical program:
+Added: Completion of IND-enabling work.
+Added: Aditxt has initiated GMP manufacturing of clinical grade material that will be used for the first-in-human studies in subjects with psoriatic lesions.
+Added: Included in the manufacturing program is stability studies;
+Added: the regulatory agency requires one month of stability data for the GMP material for submission of the clinical trial application (CTA).
+Added: Stability data will continue to be gathered while the clinical trials are ongoing and up to 24 months.
+Added: Aditxt has also completed the in-life portion of the toxicology studies.
+Added: Safety data have been recorded and Aditxt is now awaiting immunotoxicology data, which are forthcoming.
+Added: Clinical Phase I/II Study to demonstrate safety and clinical proof-of-concept in T1D
+Added: Our clinical studies will combine
+Added: Phase I (designed to test clinical safety) and Phase II (designed to obtain proof of effectiveness in human subjects), in T1D patients.
+Added: We have selected this indication for several reasons, including:
+Added: Our existing preclinical data have shown promising results using ADI™ to reverse hyperglycemia in the mouse model;
+Added: There is currently no treatment for T1D and the only option for patients suffering from T1D is insulin replacement therapy.
+Added: We will be identifying clinical
+Added: trial centers with adequate patients.
+Added: Upon approval by the FDA and/or the applicable regulatory agency clinical trials will be initiated.
+Added: High-level objectives for skin
+Added: allograft clinical program:
+Added: Completion of preclinical studies to identify
+Added: the appropriate protocol for dosing and combination of ADI™ with immune suppression protocols.
+Added: of IND-enabling work including GMP manufacturing and toxicology studies.
+Added: Clinical Phase I/II Study to demonstrate safety and clinical proof-of-concept in patients requiring skin allografts.
+Added: Our clinical studies will combine
+Added: Phase I (designed to test clinical safety) and Phase II (designed to obtain proof of effectiveness in human subjects), in patients requiring
+Added: skin allografts.
+Added: We have selected this indication for several reasons, including:
+Added: Our existing preclinical data have shown promising results using ADI™ to prolong skin allograft survival in mismatched mouse model;
+Added: The relative ease of visualization of graft quality without the need for biopsies.
+Added: We will be identifying clinical
+Added: trial centers with adequate patients.
+Added: Upon approval by the FDA and/or the applicable regulatory agency clinical trials will be initiated.
+Added: We are developing our immune
+Added: monitoring platforms with the objective of utilizing them as clinical assays in pre-clinical and clinical studies.
+Added: The multiplex technologies
+Added: could potentially allow evaluation of more analytes with less tissue samples.
+Added: Drug Approval Process
+Added: In the United States, FDA approval
+Added: is required before any new drugs can be introduced to the market.
+Added: We currently have a product candidate for our first-in-human studies,
+Added: but as of the date of report, we have not submitted an application to the regulatory agencies for approval.
+Added: We are working with a contract
+Added: manufacturer who has the know-how, product ingredients including plasmid DNA molecules, and our patent-pending bacterial strain.
+Added: batch runs have been successfully completed to demonstrate our ability to produce the DNA plasmids in a GMP facility.
+Added: Based on validation
+Added: studies, we are reasonably confident in our ability to produce clinical grade product candidates at larger scales.
+Added: The contract manufacturer
+Added: has provided a proposal for manufacturing of our clinical grade material, which will be signed and accepted once we are ready to initiate
+Added: GMP manufacturing.
+Added: We are not currently party to an agreement with this contract manufacturer.
+Added: The product candidate selected
+Added: for clinical trials must be subjected to pre-clinical safety/toxicology studies by an independent GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) laboratory
+Added: to demonstrate its suitability for clinical testing in human patients.
+Added: Upon completion of manufacturing and safety/toxicology testing,
+Added: an Investigational New Drug (IND) application will be prepared for submission to the regulatory agencies.
+Added: Upon receipt of clearance to
+Added: initiate clinical testing, the ADI™ product can be tested in human patients.
+Added: Our product will be tested in clinical trials,
+Added: one in patients with psoriasis and one in patients who require skin allografting.
+Added: Therefore, our first-in-human studies will be combined
+Added: Phase I/Phase II studies in which safety and efficacy data will be obtained.
+Added: We plan to start with in skin indications (psoriasis
+Added: and skin allografting) because we believe these indications will be most efficient in providing safety and efficacy data in clinical trials.
+Added: parallel, we will continue to develop additional product formulations for other indications.
+Added: We are developing our immune
+Added: monitoring platforms with the objective of utilizing them as clinical assays in pre-clinical and clinical studies.
+Added: The multiplex technologies
+Added: could potentially allow evaluation of more analytes with less tissue samples.
+Added: In the U.S., FDA approval is required before any In
+Added: Vitro Diagnostic (“IVD”) device can be introduced to the market for clinical use (excluding research purposes).
+Added: process does not require clinical trials, but it does require validation data demonstrating accuracy of the device.
+Added: Target Market
+Added: Psoriasis affects close to
+Added: 100 million people worldwide and presents a large market estimated at over $20 billion annually.
+Added: Treatments range include topical and
+Added: systemic therapeutics including vitamin D analogs, steroids, retinoids, immunosuppressants and biologics (i.e.
+Added: monoclonal antibodies).
+Added: While in more recent years, several classes of biologics have entered the market, most are primarily used for patients suffering from
+Added: moderate to severe psoriasis because of their impairment of systemic immune responsiveness to infections and cancers.
+Added: Aditxt believes
+Added: that products based on the ADI™ platform will not be associated with similar side effects and can be targeted for use in mild to
+Added: moderate cases.
+Added: T1D is one of the most common
+Added: chronic disorders in children and affects nearly 2 million Americans, and has an incidence and prevalence increasing at alarming rates
+Added: in industrialized countries.
+Added: Current treatment consists of daily delivery of insulin as replacement therapy, but administration of the
+Added: hormone can induce life-threatening hypoglycemia and does not completely prevent morbidity and mortality associated with the disease.
+Added: Aditxt is leveraging the ADI™ technology to develop a new class of immunotherapy designed to arrest the autoimmune destruction of
+Added: the insulin producing beta cells of the pancreas.
+Added: This will be the first therapy to accomplish that long sought after goal, thus increasing
+Added: life span and quality of life for up to 40,000 of US citizens and about 300,000 people around the world who develop T1D each year, with
+Added: a 3-5% increase in yearly incidence.
+Added: alone, there are
+Added: over 36,000 patients who receive organ transplantations each year, with more than 113,000 on transplant waiting lists.
+Added: The field of organ transplantation
+Added: has been made possible and continues to rely on broad-acting immunosuppressive drugs, high levels of which can result in a compromised
+Added: immune system that renders organ recipients susceptible to cancer and potentially life-threatening infections including re-activation
+Added: of latent viruses.
+Added: In addition, immunosuppressants
+Added: control acute rejection during the early time-period after receiving an organ but chronic rejection of the organ remains an unmet challenge
+Added: for surgeons and transplant recipients.
+Added: While efforts have been made
+Added: by various groups to promote tolerance through cell therapies and ex vivo manipulation of patient cells, these procedures
+Added: take place outside the body and typically require hospitalization.
+Added: Moreover, transplanted patients
+Added: will need re-transplantation at some point, with the possible exception of some newborn recipients.
+Added: With increased incidence of preformed
+Added: antibodies, these patients may never have the opportunity to receive another organ.
+Added: Preformed antibodies can develop in previously transplanted
+Added: patients, patients who have given birth, and patients who have previously received blood transfusions.
+Added: These patients have much lower
+Added: chances at qualifying to receive organs due to their increased risk of rejection – even with immune suppression.
+Added: The potential
+Added: to reduce formation of preformed antibodies in these patients will provide better opportunities for them to receive another transplanted
+Added: There are gaps between current
+Added: approaches and what the market needs.
+Added: We believe that ADI™ addresses these gaps.
+Added: ADI™ is easy to administer (does
+Added: not require ex-vivo treatment of patient cells), it does not appear to suppress the immune system, it may allow patients
+Added: to live with transplanted organs with significantly reduced immune suppression, it may provide for long-term survival of transplanted
+Added: tissues and organs, may be more effective because it does not rely on a single immune pathway/mechanism, and potentially provides patients
+Added: with pre-existing antibodies a chance to qualify to receive organs.
+Added: While these advantages present
+Added: opportunities for unmet medical needs in the field of organ transplantation, the industry in which we operate is highly competitive.
+Added: small company such as us will meet significant challenges including regulatory requirements for approval of a new class of therapeutic
+Added: agents, challenges in large scale manufacturing and marketing, cost of developing a novel therapeutic agent, which may require co-development
+Added: partners who may or may not be willing to work with us, and the willingness of transplant surgeons to adopt our therapeutic vaccines in
+Added: their existing immune suppression protocols.
+Added: These challenges pose risks that we may not be able to overcome.
+Added: Immune Mapping - Immune Monitoring
+Added: We believe that understanding
+Added: the dynamic status of an individual’s immune system is key to developing and administering precision immunotherapies such as ADI™.
+Added: We have secured an exclusive worldwide license for commercializing a technology platform which provides a personalized comprehensive profile
+Added: of the immune system.
+Added: It is intended to be informative for individual immune responses to viruses, bacterial antigens, peptides, drugs,
+Added: bone marrow and solid organ transplants, and cancer.
+Added: It has broad applicability to many other agents of clinical interest impacting the
+Added: immune system, including those not yet identified such as future infectious agents.
+Added: We plan to brand this technology, and other future
+Added: licensed and/or in-house developed monitoring technologies collectively as AditxtScore™.
+Added: AditxtScore™ is being
+Added: designed to allow individuals to understand, manage and monitor their immune profiles in order to be informed about attacks on or by their
+Added: immune system.
+Added: We believe AditxtScore™ can also assist the medical community in anticipating possible immune responses and reactions
+Added: to viruses, bacteria, allergens and transplanted organs.
+Added: It can be useful in anticipating attacks on the body by having the ability to
+Added: determine its potential response and for developing a plan to deal with an undesirable reaction by the immune system.
+Added: Its advantages include
+Added: the ability to provide a simple, rapid, accurate, high throughput, single platform assay that can be multiplexed to determine the immune
+Added: status with respect to several factors simultaneously, in 3-16 hours, as well as detect antigen and antibody in a single test (i.e.
+Added: recovered, immune).
+Added: In addition, it can determine and differentiate between various types of cellular and humoral immune responses (T
+Added: and B cells).
+Added: It also provides for simultaneous monitoring of cell activation and levels of cytokine release (i.e., cytokine storms).
+Added: We plan to utilize AditxtScore™
+Added: in our upcoming clinical trials to monitor subjects’ immune response before, during and after ADI™ drug administration.
+Added: are working with regulatory consultants with the objective to obtain FDA approval for AditxtScore™ as a clinical assay.
+Added: We are currently
+Added: securing marketing and distribution partnerships for application of AditxtScore™ in the infectious diseases market.
+Added: To obtain FDA
+Added: approval to use AditxtScore™ as a clinical assay, we are performing validation studies to demonstrate AditxtScore™’s
+Added: utility to evaluate various components of the immune system reproducibly.
+Added: We believe that these data will show AditxtScore™’s
+Added: ability to measure various components of the immune system (e.g.
+Added: humoral and cell-mediated immune responses) to provide a broader view
+Added: of the immune system and its status in health and disease.
+Added: Our plan is to submit a 510(K) application to the FDA after compilation of
+Added: Beyond infectious diseases, we plan to develop AditxtScore™ for applications in additional markets such as organ rejection,
+Added: allergies, drug/vaccine response, and disease susceptibility.
+Added: The following are further descriptions of the applications of AditxtScore TM :
+Added: (1) Organ Rejection
+Added: Typically, by the time a transplanted
+Added: or a native organ shows signs of failure, the damage is already done, and reversal of the tissue injury becomes challenging.
+Added: early warning signs of damage would be invaluable to reverse or even prevent the damage.
+Added: There are currently no practical, efficient assays
+Added: available to measure cellular immune responses and available tools do not provide timely information for patients.
+Added: can be used to provide a sensitive and rapid tool to determine T cell response and to differentiate between various types of cellular
+Added: immune responses.
+Added: It can be multiplexed providing information about the number of cells responding as well as quantifying the amounts
+Added: of various cytokines released by the cells in a single assay.
+Added: Determination of cellular response has valuable applications for prediction,
+Added: monitoring, early detection, and treatment of disease, including organ failure/rejection, as well as treatment efficacy.
+Added: It can also reveal
+Added: dysfunction of the immune system potentially contributing to more severe disease.
+Added: (2) Allergies
+Added: Our immune system protects
+Added: us by acting as a barrier against foreign substances and by eliminating them when they penetrate our bodies.
+Added: Once the initial exposure
+Added: has occurred, memory cells develop to prepare the body against a future exposure.
+Added: This process is called immunity.
+Added: In certain situations,
+Added: however, instead of immunity, the immune system develops memory cells that result in a more severe reaction during a future exposure to
+Added: the same substance.
+Added: This type of response is called a hypersensitivity response, commonly known as an allergic response.
+Added: can be used to develop multiplex assays each designed to test and monitor immune response to allergens.
+Added: Based on the ability of this technology
+Added: to run multiple tests in a single assay, 100 or more substances can potentially be tested for simultaneously.
+Added: (3) Drug/Vaccine Response
+Added: There are currently no effective
+Added: assays to predict and easily assess responses to vaccination.
+Added: To determine whether an individual has responded to a particular vaccine,
+Added: antibody titers are measured.
+Added: This process may take several days.
+Added: Furthermore, for vaccines that require a series of injections, titers
+Added: are not measured between injections and may not be known for months.
+Added: AditxtScore™ can be used to determine whether a patient is
+Added: a responder or non-responder.
+Added: It can provide an effective and rapid tool for potentially determining beneficial responses to a vaccine
+Added: and can be used to monitor titer development post vaccination.
+Added: It can allow evaluation of multiple vaccines in a single test (for memory
+Added: B cell detection).
+Added: This application can be useful for vaccines, cancer therapeutics anti-rejection drugs, anti-viral drugs, among others.
+Added: (4) Disease Susceptibility
+Added: Disease susceptibility can
+Added: vary from one individual to another, and it can be a function of various factors, including genetic variability and differences in human
+Added: leukocyte antigens (HLA) encoded by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and responsible for regulation of the immune system in humans.
+Added: People with certain HLA types may have higher or lower susceptibility to diseases.
+Added: AditxtScore™ can be used to develop assays to
+Added: evaluate differences in HLA types in individuals to help elucidate the relationship between certain HLA types and susceptibility to various
+Added: (5) Infectious Diseases
+Added: Infectious diseases can cause
+Added: a major predicament for scientific and medical professionals, epidemiologists, and infectious disease specialists, among others, who need
+Added: to determine how to treat patients in real time while efficacious therapies are still being developed.
+Added: Proper decision making requires
+Added: understanding why some affected individuals show minor or no symptoms, some recover, and others die.
+Added: This is fundamental to creating effective
+Added: targeted therapeutics which may differ depending on the underlying profile of the individual at risk for, or with, disease.
+Added: system plays a major role in how any given individual responds to the infectious agent.
+Added: This response can be inadequate or too robust
+Added: or appropriately effective.
+Added: Regardless, the kinetics of the response by the cellular and humoral (antibody) immune systems to the infectious
+Added: agent are often unknown.
+Added: A basic critical question, then, is what do the dynamics of the immune response look like from exposure to and
+Added: through the disease period and during convalescence for those who survive and those who don’t;
+Added: and how might vaccines and therapies
+Added: alter these profiles such that predictions of vaccine/drug efficacy could be inferred prior to vaccination/treatment and/or disease severity
+Added: or progression be prognosticated.
+Added: AditxtScore™ can be used to help address these questions with multiplex assays each designed to
+Added: test and monitor the immune response to infectious agents.
+Added: Based on the ability to run multiple tests in a single assay, 100 or more agents
+Added: can potentially be tested for simultaneously.
+Added: License Agreement with Leland Stanford Junior
+Added: University (“Stanford”)
+Added: On February 3, 2020, we entered
+Added: into an exclusive license agreement (the “February 2020 License Agreement”) with Stanford with regard to a patent concerning
+Added: a method for detection and measurement of specific cellular responses.
+Added: Pursuant to the February 2020 License Agreement, other than as
+Added: described below, we received an exclusive worldwide license to Stanford’s patent with regard to use, import, offer, and sale of
+Added: Licensed Products (as defined in the agreement).
+Added: The license to the patented technology is exclusive, including the right to sublicense,
+Added: beginning on the effective date of the agreement and ending when the patent expires.
+Added: Under the exclusivity agreement, we acknowledged
+Added: that Stanford had already granted a non-exclusive license in the Nonexclusive Field of Use, under the Licensed Patents in the Licensed
+Added: Field of Use in the Licensed Territory (as those terms are defined in the February 2020 License Agreement”).
+Added: However, Stanford
+Added: agreed to not grant further licenses under the Licensed Patents in the Licensed Field of Use in the Licensed Territory.
+Added: On December 29,
+Added: 2021, we entered into an amendment to the February 2020 License Agreement which extended our exclusive right to license the technology
+Added: deployed in AditxtScore TM and securing worldwide exclusivity in all fields of use of the licensed technology.
+Added: We were obligated to pay and
+Added: paid a fee of $25,000 to Stanford within 60 days of February 3, 2020.
+Added: We also issued 18,750 shares of the Company’s common stock
+Added: An annual licensing maintenance fee is payable by us on the first anniversary of the February 2020 License Agreement in the
+Added: amount of $40,000 for 2021 through 2024 and $60,000 starting in 2025 until the license expires upon the expiration of the patent.
+Added: Company is required to pay and has paid $25,000 for the issuances of certain patents.
+Added: The Company will pay milestone fees of $50,000 on
+Added: the first commercial sales of a licensed product and $25,000 at the beginning of any clinical study for regulatory clearance of an in
+Added: vitro diagnostic product developed and a potential licensed product.
We are also required to:
−Removed: (i) provide a listing
−Removed: of the management team or a schedule for the recruitment of key management positions by March 31, 2020 (which has been completed), (ii)
−Removed: provide a business plan covering projected product development, markets and sales forecasts, manufacturing and operations, and financial
−Removed: forecasts until at least $10,000,000 in revenue by June 30, 2020 (which has been completed), (iii) conduct validation studies by September
−Removed: 30, 2020 (which has been completed), (iv) hold a pre-submission meeting with the FDA by September 30, 2020 (which has been completed),
−Removed: (v) submit a 510(k) application to the FDA, Emergency Use Authorization (“EUA”), or a Laboratory Developed Test (“LDT”)
−Removed: by March 31, 2021, (vi) obtain FDA approval by December 31, 2021, (vii) complete a prototype assay kit by December 31, 2021 and (viii)
−Removed: have a written agreement with Stanford on further development and commercialization milestones for specific fields of use by December
−Removed: addition to the annual license maintenance fees outlined above, we will pay Stanford royalties on Net Sales (as such term is defined
−Removed: in the February 2020 License Agreement) during the of the term of the agreement as follows:
−Removed: 4% when Net Sales are below or equal
−Removed: to $5 million annually or 6% when Net Sales are above $5 million annually.
−Removed: The February 2020 License Agreement may be terminated
−Removed: upon our election on at least 30 days advance notice to Stanford, or by Stanford if we:
+Added: (i) provide a listing of the management
+Added: team or a schedule for the recruitment of key management positions by March 31, 2020 (which has been completed), (ii) provide a business
+Added: plan covering projected product development, markets and sales forecasts, manufacturing and operations, and financial forecasts until
+Added: at least $10,000,000 in revenue by June 30, 2020 (which has been completed), (iii) conduct validation studies by September 30, 2020 (which
+Added: has been completed), (iv) hold a pre-submission meeting with the FDA by September 30, 2020 (which has been completed), (v) submit a 510(k)
+Added: application to the FDA, Emergency Use Authorization (“EUA”), or a Laboratory Developed Test (“LDT”) by March 31,
+Added: 2021, (which has been completed), (vi) develop a prototype assay for human profiling by December 31, 2021 (which has been completed),
+Added: (vii) execute at least one partnership for use of the technology for transplant, autoimmunity, or infectious disease purposes by March
+Added: 31, 2022and (viii) will provide further development and commercialization milestones for specific fields of use in writing by December
+Added: In addition to the annual license
+Added: maintenance fees outlined above, we will pay Stanford royalties on Net Sales (as such term is defined in the February 2020 License Agreement)
+Added: during the of the term of the agreement as follows:
+Added: 4% when Net Sales are below or equal to $5 million annually or 6% when Net Sales are
+Added: above $5 million annually.
+Added: The February 2020 License Agreement may be terminated upon our election on at least 30 days advance notice
+Added: to Stanford, or by Stanford if we:
(i) are delinquent on any report or payment;
−Removed: (ii) are not diligently developing and commercializing Licensed Product;
+Added: (ii) are not diligently developing and commercializing
+Added: Licensed Product;
(iii) miss certain performance milestones;
−Removed: breach of any provision of the February 2020 License Agreement;
+Added: (iv) are in breach of any provision of the February 2020 License Agreement;
or (v) provide any false report to Stanford.
−Removed: Should any events
−Removed: in the preceding sentence occur, we have a thirty (30) day cure period to remedy such violation.
−Removed: of Operations –
−Removed: Immune Reprogramming
−Removed: objectives for skin allograft clinical program:
−Removed: optimization to determine optimum dose/ratio of product candidate in human subjects requiring skin and other organ and/or
−Removed: tissue allografts
−Removed: Clinical Phase I/IIa
−Removed: First-In-Human (FIH) Study to demonstrate safety and clinical proof-of-concept in human subjects requiring skin allografts
−Removed: FIH clinical studies will combine Phase I (designed to test clinical safety) and Phase IIa (designed to obtain proof of effectiveness
−Removed: in human subjects), in subjects requiring skin and other organ and/or tissue allografts.
−Removed: We have selected this indication for
−Removed: several reasons, including:
−Removed: existing preclinical data has shown promising results of ADi™
−Removed: in prolonging skin allografts;
−Removed: relative ease of visualization of the graft without the need for biopsies;
−Removed: need for therapies that allow reduction of levels of immune suppression that are currently used for skin allografts to prevent
−Removed: rejection of skin, which is highly antigenic.
−Removed: have already identified a clinical trial center with adequate patients, which we believe will simplify and reduce the time required
−Removed: for patient recruitment.
−Removed: Upon approval by the FDA and/or the applicable regulatory agency, and once the exact protocol has been
−Removed: determined in the preclinical studies, clinical trials will be initiated.
−Removed: objectives for psoriasis clinical program:
−Removed: optimization to determine optimum dose of product candidate in psoriasis subjects
−Removed: Clinical Phase I/IIa
−Removed: FIH Study to demonstrate safety and clinical proof-of-concept in psoriasis
−Removed: FIH clinical studies will combine Phase I (designed to test clinical safety) and Phase IIa (designed to obtain proof of effectiveness
−Removed: in human subjects), in psoriasis patients.
−Removed: We have selected this indication for several reasons, including:
−Removed: existing preclinical data has shown promising results of ADi™
−Removed: in reducing scaling and skin thickness in the mouse model;
−Removed: The relative ease
−Removed: of visualization of the lesions to determine clinical effectiveness of the test article.
−Removed: will be identifying clinical trial centers with adequate patients.
−Removed: Upon approval by the FDA and/or the applicable regulatory agency
−Removed: clinical trials will be initiated.
−Removed: are developing our immune monitoring platforms with the objective of utilizing them as clinical assays in pre-clinical and clinical
−Removed: The multiplex technologies could potentially allow evaluation of more analytes with less tissue samples.
−Removed: Approval Process
−Removed: the United States, FDA approval is required before any new drugs can be introduced to the market.
−Removed: We currently have a product
−Removed: candidate for our first-in-human studies, but as of the date of report, we have not submitted an application to the regulatory
−Removed: agencies for approval.
−Removed: are working with a contract manufacturer who has the know-how, product ingredients including plasmid DNA molecules, and our patent-pending
−Removed: bacterial strain.
−Removed: Several batch runs have been successfully completed to demonstrate our ability to produce the DNA plasmids
−Removed: in a GMP facility.
−Removed: Based on validation studies, we are reasonably confident in our ability to produce clinical grade product candidates
−Removed: at larger scales.
−Removed: The contract manufacturer has provided a proposal for manufacturing of our clinical grade material, which will
−Removed: be signed and accepted once we are ready to initiate GMP manufacturing.
−Removed: We are not currently party to an agreement with this contract
−Removed: manufacturer.
−Removed: product candidate selected for clinical trials must be subjected to pre-clinical safety/toxicology studies by an independent GLP
−Removed: (Good Laboratory Practice) laboratory to demonstrate its suitability for clinical testing in human patients.
−Removed: Upon completion
−Removed: of manufacturing and safety/toxicology testing, an Investigational New Drug (IND) application will be prepared for submission to
−Removed: the regulatory agencies.
−Removed: receipt of clearance to initiate clinical testing, the ADi™
−Removed: product can be tested in human patients.
−Removed: Our product will
−Removed: be tested in clinical trials, one in patients with psoriasis and one in patients who require skin allografting.
−Removed: Therefore, our
−Removed: first-in-human studies will be combined Phase I/Phase IIa studies in which safety and efficacy data will be obtained.
−Removed: plan to start with in skin indications (psoriasis and skin allografting) because we believe these indications will be most efficient
−Removed: in providing safety and efficacy data in clinical trials.
−Removed: In parallel, we will continue to develop additional product formulations
−Removed: for other indications.
−Removed: are developing our immune monitoring platforms with the objective of utilizing them as clinical assays in pre-clinical and clinical
−Removed: The multiplex technologies could potentially allow evaluation of more analytes with less tissue samples.
−Removed: U.S., FDA approval is required before any In Vitro Diagnostic (“IVD”) device can be introduced to the market for clinical
−Removed: use (excluding research purposes).
−Removed: This process does not require clinical trials, but it does require validation data demonstrating
−Removed: accuracy of the device.
−Removed: alone, there are over 36,000 patients who receive organ transplantations each year, with more than 113,000 on transplant
−Removed: waiting lists.
−Removed: field of organ transplantation has been made possible and continues to rely on broad-acting immunosuppressive drugs, high levels
−Removed: of which can result in a compromised immune system that renders organ recipients susceptible to cancer and potentially life-threatening
−Removed: infections including re-activation of latent viruses.
−Removed: addition, immunosuppressants control acute rejection during the early time-period after receiving an organ but chronic rejection
−Removed: of the organ remains an unmet challenge for surgeons and transplant recipients.
−Removed: efforts have been made by various groups to promote tolerance through cell therapies and ex vivo manipulation
−Removed: of patient cells, these procedures take place outside the body and typically require hospitalization.
−Removed: transplanted patients will need re-transplantation at some point, with the possible exception of some newborn recipients.
−Removed: increased incidence of preformed antibodies, these patients may never have the opportunity to receive another organ.
−Removed: antibodies can develop in previously transplanted patients, patients who have given birth, and patients who have previously received
−Removed: blood transfusions.
−Removed: These patients have much lower chances at qualifying to receive organs due to their increased risk of
−Removed: rejection –
−Removed: even with immune suppression.
−Removed: The potential to reduce formation of preformed antibodies in these patients
−Removed: will provide better opportunities for them to receive another transplanted organ.
−Removed: are gaps between current approaches and what the market needs.
−Removed: We believe that ADi™
−Removed: addresses these gaps.
−Removed: is easy to administer (does not require ex-vivo treatment of patient cells), it does not appear to suppress the
−Removed: immune system, it may allow patients to live with transplanted organs with significantly reduced immune suppression, it may provide
−Removed: for long-term survival of transplanted tissues and organs, may be more effective because it does not rely on a single immune pathway/mechanism,
−Removed: and potentially provides patients with pre-existing antibodies a chance to qualify to receive organs.
−Removed: these advantages present opportunities for unmet medical needs in the field of organ transplantation, the industry in which we
−Removed: operate is highly competitive.
−Removed: A small company such as us will meet significant challenges including regulatory requirements for
−Removed: approval of a new class of therapeutic agents, challenges in large scale manufacturing and marketing, cost of developing a novel
−Removed: therapeutic agent, which may require co-development partners who may or may not be willing to work with us, and the willingness
−Removed: of transplant surgeons to adopt our therapeutic vaccines in their existing immune suppression protocols.
−Removed: These challenges pose
−Removed: risks that we may not be able to overcome.
−Removed: lease laboratory space in Mountain View, CA, located near resources including Stanford University (“Stanford”).
−Removed: plan is to work with strategic partners to leverage common resources to accomplish milestones over the next 3 years and potentially
−Removed: get access to expertise, materials, and infrastructure (such as laboratory space) which we believe can be advantageous to our
−Removed: We hope that this strategy will reduce costs by obviating the need to duplicate resources.
−Removed: Property (IP)
−Removed: strive to protect and enhance the proprietary technology, inventions, and improvements that are commercially important to our
−Removed: business, including seeking, maintaining and defending patent rights, whether developed internally or licensed from third parties.
−Removed: Our policy is to seek to protect our proprietary position by, among other methods, filing patent applications in the United States
−Removed: and in jurisdictions outside of the United States, to protect our proprietary technology, inventions, improvements and product
−Removed: candidates that are important to the development and implementation of our business.
−Removed: We also rely on trade secrets and know-how
−Removed: relating to our proprietary technology and product candidates, continuing innovation, and in-licensing opportunities to develop,
−Removed: strengthen and maintain our proprietary position in the field of immuno-therapy.
−Removed: We also plan to rely on data exclusivity, market
−Removed: exclusivity, and patent term extensions when available.
−Removed: Our commercial success will depend in part on our ability to obtain and
−Removed: maintain patent and other proprietary protection for our technology, inventions, and improvements;
−Removed: to preserve the confidentiality
−Removed: of our trade secrets;
−Removed: to obtain and maintain licenses to use intellectual property owned by third parties;
−Removed: to defend and enforce
−Removed: our proprietary rights, including any patents that we may own in the future;
−Removed: and to operate without infringing on the valid and
−Removed: enforceable patents and other proprietary rights of third parties.
−Removed: technology and its various components are protected by multiple families of patents and patent applications, including
−Removed: issued patents.
−Removed: As of the date of this report, our patent portfolio licensed from LLU includes 8 U.S.
−Removed: patents, 3 U.S.
−Removed: pending patent applications, 87 foreign patents, and 14 foreign pending patent applications directed to ADi™
−Removed: and related technologies.
−Removed: The ADi™
−Removed: patents are broadly categorized into three groups, one for autoimmune diseases and type
−Removed: one for organ transplantation and a method of producing plasmid DNA that is mammalian-like to prevent immune activation;
−Removed: and one providing patent protection for a composition of matter for a tolerance delivery system for antigens of interest that
−Removed: would be relevant for various given indications.
−Removed: The third group is the basis for a platform allowing development of a new class
−Removed: of immunotherapeutics for various indications.
−Removed: The projected expiration dates for these ADi™
−Removed: patents ranges from 2021 to
−Removed: The AditxtScore™
−Removed: technology licensed from Stanford is protected by a U.S.
−Removed: patent which encompasses methods, systems
−Removed: and kits for detection and measurement of specific immune responses.
−Removed: The patent has been issued by the USPTO and expires on December
−Removed: We also possess and/or in-license substantial know-how and trade secrets relating to the development and commercialization
−Removed: of our product candidates, including related manufacturing processes and technology.
−Removed: We plan to continue expanding and strengthening
−Removed: our IP portfolio with additional patent applications in the future.
−Removed: March 2021, Aditxt has signed an agreement with a regulatory consultant based in Munich, Germany, which will play a central
−Removed: role in navigating the first AditxtReprogramming TM therapeutic program through the clinical trial and regulatory
−Removed: The firm will work with the Aditxt's AditxtReprogramming TM team to submit an Investigational New Drug
−Removed: application (IND) to the regulatory agency in Germany.
−Removed: Psoriasis is the first indication being targeted for clinical trial in
−Removed: the AditxtReprogramming TM therapeutics pipeline.
−Removed: Other candidates that are advancing toward clinical trials include
−Removed: for type 1 diabetes and skin allografting.
−Removed: Plan of Operations –
−Removed: Immune Monitoring
−Removed: As previously announced
−Removed: on August 6, 2020, the initial application of the platform will be AditxtScore™
−Removed: for COVID-19 which has been designed to provide
−Removed: a more complete assessment of an individual’s infection and immunity status with respect to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
−Removed: status will be determined by evaluating the presence or absence of the virus, and immunity status by measuring levels of antibodies
−Removed: against viral antigens and their ability to neutralize the virus.
−Removed: We will soon be expanding the panel to measure other components
−Removed: of the immune response such as cellular immunity.
+Added: Should any events in the preceding sentence occur, we have a thirty (30) day cure period
+Added: to remedy such violation.
+Added: Plan of Operations – Immune Monitoring
+Added: As previously announced on
+Added: August 6, 2020, the initial application of the platform will be AditxtScore™ for COVID-19 which has been designed to provide a more
+Added: complete assessment of an individual’s infection and immunity status with respect to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
+Added: Infection status will
+Added: be determined by evaluating the presence or absence of the virus, and immunity status by measuring levels of antibodies against viral
+Added: antigens and their ability to neutralize the virus.
+Added: We will soon be expanding the panel to measure other components of the immune response
+Added: such as cellular immunity.
August 2020, we filed for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) with the FDA with the ultimate objective of filing a 510(K) application.
−Removed: We are in the process of filing an amended application to incorporate additional data and information about the use of the assay.
−Removed: the meantime, we are providing AditxtScore™
−Removed: as a service as a Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) to assess immunity status to COVID-19.
+Added: On January 14, 2022, we submitted requests to obtain two EUAs for our antibody and neutralizing tests following an on November 15, 2021
+Added: by the Department of Health and Human Services that COVID-19 related tests will require FDA review and FDA’s position that COVID-19 tests
+Added: that have been in use prior to the announcement must submit applications for EUAs but can continue to operate unless informed otherwise.
+Added: In the meantime, we are providing AditxtScore™ as a service as a Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) to assess immunity status to COVID-19.
In early 2021, we established
−Removed: our AditxtScore™
−Removed: Immune Monitoring Center in Richmond, Virginia (the “Center”).
+Added: our AditxtScore™ Immune Monitoring Center in Richmond, Virginia (the “Center”).
The Center operates as a Clinical Laboratory
−Removed: Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certified facility for the processing of our AditxtScore™
−Removed: for COVID-19 Lab Developed Test (LDT) for
+Added: Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certified facility for the processing of our AditxtScore™ for COVID-19 Lab Developed Test (LDT) for
our prospective channel partners, including labs and hospitals.
−Removed: We have forty-three (43)
−Removed: full time employees.
+Added: Intellectual Property (IP)
+Added: We strive to protect and enhance
+Added: the proprietary technology, inventions, and improvements that are commercially important to our business, including seeking, maintaining
+Added: and defending patent rights, whether developed internally or licensed from third parties.
+Added: Our policy is to seek to protect our proprietary
+Added: position by, among other methods, filing patent applications in the United States and in jurisdictions outside of the United States, to
+Added: protect our proprietary technology, inventions, improvements and product candidates that are important to the development and implementation
+Added: of our business.
+Added: We also rely on trade secrets and know-how relating to our proprietary technology and product candidates, continuing
+Added: innovation, and in-licensing opportunities to develop, strengthen and maintain our proprietary position in the field of immuno-therapy.
+Added: We also plan to rely on data exclusivity, market exclusivity, and patent term extensions when available.
+Added: Our commercial success will depend
+Added: in part on our ability to obtain and maintain patent and other proprietary protection for our technology, inventions, and improvements;
+Added: to preserve the confidentiality of our trade secrets;
+Added: to obtain and maintain licenses to use intellectual property owned by third parties;
+Added: to defend and enforce our proprietary rights, including any patents that we may own in the future;
+Added: and to operate without infringing on
+Added: the valid and enforceable patents and other proprietary rights of third parties.
+Added: The ADi™ technology
+Added: falls in two main categories, the AditxtReprogramming™ therapeutic program (which includes Apoptotic DNA Immunotherapy™
+Added: also known as ADi™) and the AditxtScore™ diagnostic technology.
+Added: Both categories are protected by multiple families of patents
+Added: and patent applications, including several issued U.S.
+Added: The projected expiration dates
+Added: for the AditxtReprogramming™ patents and patents issuing from pending applications extend until 2043 for some patents.
+Added: date of this report, our patent portfolio for AditxtReprogramming™ includes both patents and patent applications licensed from LLU
+Added: or Stanford and patent applications owned solely by Aditxt, including 7 U.S.
+Added: patents, 6 U.S.
+Added: applications, 88 foreign patents, and 13
+Added: foreign applications.
+Added: These patents and patent applications cover three different technical aspects of AditxtReprogramming™, treatment
+Added: of autoimmune diseases and type 1 diabetes, treatment of organ transplantation, and development of a new class of immunotherapeutics for
+Added: various indications.
+Added: The patents and patent applications cover both methods of treatment for these indications as well as a compositions
+Added: of matter including plasmids that are able to induce tolerance of antigens or immune attack on antigens, depending on the indication,
+Added: along with methods of producing such plasmids.
+Added: The AditxtScore™ technology
+Added: is also protected by protected by multiple families of patents and patent applications, including several issued U.S.
+Added: The projected expiration dates for these AditxtScore™ patents and patents issuing from pending applications ranges from 2037 to
+Added: As of the date of this report, our patent portfolio for AditxtScore™ includes both patents and patent applications licensed
+Added: from Stanford and patent applications owned solely by Aditxt, including 2 U.S.
+Added: patents, 4 U.S.
+Added: applications, and 2 foreign applications.
+Added: These patents and patent applications encompass methods, systems and kits for detection and measurement of specific immune responses.
+Added: We also possess and/or in-license
+Added: substantial know-how and trade secrets relating to the development and commercialization of our product candidates, including related
+Added: manufacturing processes and technology.
+Added: We plan to continue expanding and strengthening our IP portfolio with additional patent applications
+Added: in the future.
+Added: In March 2021, Aditxt signed
+Added: an agreement with a regulatory consultant based in Munich, Germany, which will play a central role in navigating the first AditxtReprogramming™ therapeutic
+Added: program through the clinical trial and regulatory process.
+Added: The firm will work with the Aditxt’s AditxtReprogramming™ team to
+Added: submit a clinical trial application to the regulatory agency in Germany.
+Added: Psoriasis is the first indication being targeted for clinical
+Added: trial in the AditxtReprogramming™ therapeutics pipeline.
+Added: Other candidates that are advancing toward clinical trials include
+Added: ADi™ for type 1 diabetes and skin allografting.
+Added: We have fifty-eight (58) full
+Added: time employees.
We consider the relations with our employees to be good.
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