−Removed: We are an innovation company with a mission of
−Removed: Making Promising Innovations Possible, Together.
−Removed: We develop, build, and grow innovations with a focus on monitoring and modulating the
−Removed: immune system.
−Removed: We take a socialized approach to innovation by engaging stakeholders into all aspects of the process.
−Removed: Our innovation portfolio includes
−Removed: the following programs:
−Removed: - Adimune™ - Immune modulation technologies which are
−Removed: currently at the pre-clinical stage and are designed to retrain the immune system to induce tolerance with an objective of addressing
−Removed: rejection of transplanted organs, autoimmune diseases, and allergies.
−Removed: - AditxtScore™ - Immune monitoring technologies designed
−Removed: to provide a personalized comprehensive profile of the immune system.
−Removed: ADI TM (Immune Modulation Program)
−Removed: The discovery of immunosuppressive
−Removed: (anti-rejection and monoclonal) drugs over 40 years ago has made possible life-saving organ transplantation procedures and blocking of
−Removed: unwanted immune responses in autoimmune diseases.
−Removed: However, immune suppression leads to significant undesirable side effects, such as increased
−Removed: susceptibility to life-threatening infections and cancers, because it indiscriminately and broadly suppresses immune function throughout
−Removed: While the use of these drugs has been justifiable because they prevent or delay organ rejection, their use for treatment of
−Removed: autoimmune diseases and allergies may not be acceptable because of the aforementioned side effects.
−Removed: Furthermore, transplanted organs often
−Removed: ultimately fail despite the use of immune suppression, and about 40% of transplanted organs survive no more than 5 years.
−Removed: New, focused therapeutic approaches
−Removed: are needed that modulate only the immune cells involved in rejection of the transplanted organ, as this approach can be safer for patients
−Removed: than indiscriminate immune suppression.
−Removed: Such approaches are referred to as immune tolerance, and when therapeutically induced, may be
−Removed: safer for patients and potentially allow long-termer survival of transplanted tissues and organs.
−Removed: In the late 1990s, academic
−Removed: research on these approaches was conducted at the Transplant Center in Loma Linda University (“LLU”) in connection with a
−Removed: project that secured initial grant funding from the U.S.
−Removed: Department of Defense.
−Removed: The focus of that project was induction of tolerance for
−Removed: skin allografting for burn victims.
−Removed: Twenty years of research at LLU and an affiliated incubator led to a series of discoveries that have
−Removed: been translated into a large patent portfolio of therapeutic approaches that may be applied to the modulation of the immune system to
−Removed: induce tolerance to self and transplanted organs.
−Removed: We have an exclusive worldwide
−Removed: license for commercializing Apoptotic DNA Immunotherapy™ (ADI™) nucleic acid-based technology (which is currently at the pre-clinical
−Removed: stage) from LLU, ADI™ which utilizes a novel approach that mimics the way the body naturally induces tolerance to our own tissues
−Removed: (“therapeutically induced immune tolerance”).
−Removed: While immune suppression requires continuous administration to prevent rejection
−Removed: of a transplanted organ, induction of tolerance has the potential to retrain the immune system to accept the organ for longer periods
−Removed: Thus, ADI™ may allow patients to live with transplanted organs with significantly reduced immune suppression.
−Removed: is a technology platform which we believe can be engineered to address a wide variety of indications.
−Removed: We are developing ADI™
−Removed: products for organ transplantation including skin allografting, autoimmune diseases, and allergies, with the initial focus on psoriasis,
−Removed: type 1 diabetes and skin allografting, indications for which we have compelling preclinical data.
−Removed: To submit a Biologics License Application
−Removed: (“BLA”) for a biopharmaceutical product, clinical safety and efficacy must be demonstrated in clinical studies conducted with
−Removed: human subjects.
−Removed: For products in our class of drugs, the first-in-human trials will be a combination of Phase I (safety/tolerability) and
−Removed: Phase II (efficacy) in affected subjects.
−Removed: To obtain approval to initiate the Phase I/IIa studies, an Investigational New Drug or Clinical
−Removed: Trial Application will be submitted that will include a compilation of non-clinical efficacy data as well as manufacturing and pre-clinical
−Removed: safety/toxicology data.
−Removed: To date, we have conducted non-clinical studies in a stringent model of skin transplantation using genetically
−Removed: mismatched donor and recipient animals demonstrating a 3-fold increase in the survival of the skin allograft in animals that were tolerized
−Removed: with ADI™ compared to animals that receive immune suppression alone.
−Removed: Prolongation of graft life was observed despite discontinuation
−Removed: of immune suppression after the first 5 weeks.
−Removed: In a non-obese diabetic mouse model of type 1 diabetes, we showed reversal of hyperglycemia
−Removed: with 80% of the animals showing durable glycemic control for the 40-week study period.
−Removed: Additionally, in an induced non-clinical model
−Removed: for psoriasis, ADI™ treatment resulted in a 69% reduction in skin thickness and a 38% decrease in skin flaking (two clinical parameters
−Removed: for assessment of psoriasis skin lesions).
−Removed: The Phase I/IIa studies in psoriasis will evaluate the safety/tolerability of ADI™ in
−Removed: patients diagnosed with psoriasis.
−Removed: Since the drug will be administered in subjects diagnosed with psoriasis, effectiveness of the drug
−Removed: to improve psoriatic lesions will also be evaluated.
−Removed: In the type 1 diabetes clinical studies, newly diagnosed subjects will receive ADI™
−Removed: treatment to evaluate safety and efficacy.
−Removed: In another Phase I/IIa study, patients requiring skin allografts will receive weekly intra-dermal
−Removed: injections of ADI™ in combination with standard immune suppression to assess safety/tolerability and possibility of reducing levels
−Removed: of immunosuppressive drugs as well as prolongation of graft life.
−Removed: ADI™ is a nucleic acid-based
−Removed: technology ( e.g.
−Removed: , DNA-based), which we believe selectively suppresses only those immune cells involved in attacking or rejecting
−Removed: self and transplanted tissues and organs.
−Removed: It does so by tapping into the body’s natural process of cell turnover (apoptosis) to
−Removed: retrain the immune system to stop unwanted attacks on self or transplanted tissues.
−Removed: Apoptosis is a natural process used by the body to
−Removed: clear dying cells and to allow recognition and tolerance to self-tissues.
−Removed: ADI™ triggers this process by enabling the cells of the
−Removed: immune system to recognize the targeted tissues as “self”.
−Removed: Conceptually, it is designed to retrain the immune system to accept
−Removed: the tissues, similar to how natural apoptosis reminds our immune system to be tolerant to our own “self” tissues.
−Removed: While efforts have been made
−Removed: by various groups to promote tolerance through cell therapies and ex vivo manipulation of patient cells (takes place
−Removed: outside the body), to our knowledge, we will be unique in our approach of using in-body induction of apoptosis to promote tolerance to
−Removed: specific tissues.
−Removed: In addition, ADI™ treatment itself will not require additional hospitalization, only an injection of minute
−Removed: amounts of the therapeutic drug into the skin.
−Removed: Reduce Chronic Rejection
−Removed: While immunosuppressants control
−Removed: acute rejection during the early time-period after receiving an organ, chronic rejection of the organ that occurs one or more years after
−Removed: the transplant procedure continues to pose a major challenge for organ recipients.
−Removed: Chronic rejection has been
−Removed: likened to autoimmunity (a misdirected immune response that occurs when the immune system goes awry), where specific tissues in the transplanted
−Removed: organ become targets of immune attack.
−Removed: In other words, chronic rejection may not be caused just by differences between the donor
−Removed: and the recipient, but rather by an immune response by the recipient to specific tissues in the organ.
−Removed: Our pre-clinical studies suggest
−Removed: that ADI™ has the ability to tolerize to specific tissues in a transplanted organ, and conceivably, reduce incidences of chronic
−Removed: Moreover, preclinical studies
−Removed: have demonstrated that ADI™ treatment significantly and substantially prolongs graft survival, in addition to successfully “reversing”
−Removed: other established immune-mediated inflammatory processes.
−Removed: Reduce immune suppression
−Removed: Studies in animal models have
−Removed: shown that conditioning/desensitizing the animals to receive the transplant, prolongs the survival of the transplanted tissue or organ.
−Removed: studies have used repeated exposure to low doses of protein components in specific organs to reduce immunologic recognition and attack
−Removed: on the transplanted organ.
−Removed: Based on some of our data,
−Removed: we believe that with ADI™ treatment, recipients can be conditioned/desensitized, thereby retraining the immune system to more readily
−Removed: accept the organ and also reduce the levels of immunosuppressive drugs needed post-transplantation.
−Removed: Preformed Antibodies
−Removed: Studies have shown that presence
−Removed: of preformed antibodies prior to transplantation procedures increases the rate of organ rejection.
−Removed: Preformed antibodies can develop in
−Removed: previously transplanted patients, patients who have given birth, and patients who have previously received blood transfusions.
−Removed: than 113,000 patients on transplant waiting lists in the U.S.
−Removed: alone, patients with pre-existing antibodies have much lower chances of
−Removed: qualifying to receive organs due to their increased risk of rejection – even with immune suppression.
−Removed: Sadly, transplanted patients
−Removed: have a probability of needing re-transplantation at some point due to eventual chronic rejection of their transplanted organ, with the
−Removed: possible exception of some newborn recipients.
−Removed: With increased incidence of preformed antibodies, these patients may never have the opportunity
−Removed: to receive another organ.
−Removed: Based on experimental data, we believe that ADI™ may have the potential to address this issue providing
−Removed: these individuals better opportunities for receiving an organ.
−Removed: Technology Platform
−Removed: ADI™ utilizes a novel
−Removed: approach that mimics the way our bodies naturally induce tolerance to our own tissues.
−Removed: It is a technology platform, which we believe
−Removed: can be engineered to address a wide variety of indications.
−Removed: ADI™ includes two DNA molecules which are designed to deliver signals
−Removed: to induce tolerance.
−Removed: The first DNA molecule encodes a pro-apoptotic protein, which induces ‘programmed’ cell death (apoptosis).
−Removed: is a core component of the technology because it is intended to greatly increase the recruitment of dendritic cells, which are implicated
−Removed: in regulating the immune system.
−Removed: The second DNA molecule encodes the protein of interest (guiding antigen), which is modified to
−Removed: promote a path of tolerance.
−Removed: The guiding antigen is intended to result in tolerance induction specific to the tissue where the protein
−Removed: ADI™ has shown efficacy
−Removed: in several preclinical models (skin allografting, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes, alopecia areata and others) and its efficacy can be attributed
−Removed: to multiple factors:
−Removed: does not rely on a single mechanistic approach.
−Removed: It has multiple components (interchangeable target antigen, apoptosis, methylated
−Removed: plasmid DNA) that affect different arms of the immune system, which may collectively play a role in rejecting self or transplanted tissues.
−Removed: activates key immune cells known to maintain tolerance in test animals and humans.
−Removed: has been successfully applied to several autoimmune models and a stringent transplantation model.
−Removed: lends itself to repeat dosing, which may be required to achieve its full potential therapeutic effect.
−Removed: Proof of Concept:
−Removed: Skin Grafting
−Removed: Results shown are 5 weeks
−Removed: post-transplantation
−Removed: The proof-of-concept experiment
−Removed: performed in transplantation was a skin allograft transplantation procedure in which the donor skin was obtained from white BALB/c mice
−Removed: and transplanted to black C57BL/6 mice.
−Removed: The experiment was designed to address a more challenging scenario where the donor tissue was
−Removed: obtained from a donor which is genetically mismatched with the recipient.
−Removed: This is unlike clinical scenarios where the donor and recipient
−Removed: are genetically matched as much as possible.
−Removed: While these experiments were repeated in several separate experiments, the results shown
−Removed: here were obtained from a study conducted with 14 mice in the ADI™ treatment group and 7 mice in the control group.
−Removed: Prior to submission
−Removed: of an Investigational New Drug or Clinical Trial Application, additional non-clinical studies will be conducted to establish the precise
−Removed: protocol (e.g.
−Removed: timing of vaccine administration, dosing, and appropriate immunosuppressive agents that will be used in combination with
−Removed: ADI™) that will be used in the clinical trials.
−Removed: Pre-clinical safety/toxicology studies have already been conducted by a GLP lab
−Removed: to ensure product safety for clinical testing.
−Removed: These studies have shown no signs of toxicity to ADI™ treatment in mice.
−Removed: Proof of Concept:
−Removed: causes increased skin thickness and scaling in an established 10-day psoriasis model
−Removed: treatment resulted in a 69% reduction in skin thickening and 38% reduction in scaling over the 10-day study period
−Removed: Proof of Concept:
−Removed: Type 1 Diabetes
−Removed: Typically, 90% of female NOD
−Removed: mice develop spontaneous autoimmune diabetes if left untreated.
−Removed: Disease progression may be different for individual animals much like
−Removed: the clinical scenario in human patients.
−Removed: ADI™ was administered
−Removed: once a week for 8 weeks after each animal developed hyperglycemia.
−Removed: All animals responded with 80% showing durable response for the entire
−Removed: 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 in diminished
−Removed: production of insulin, a hormone that is required for regulation of glucose
−Removed: incorporates an antigen (GAD) expressed in the pancreas
+Added: believe the world needs—and deserves—a new approach to innovating that harnesses the power of large groups of stakeholders
+Added: who work together to ensure that the most promising innovations make it into the hands of people who need them most.
+Added: were incorporated in the State of Delaware on September 28, 2017, and our headquarters are in Richmond, Virginia.
+Added: The company was founded
+Added: with a mission of bringing stakeholders together, to transform promising innovations into products and services that could address some
+Added: of the most challenging needs.
+Added: The socialization of innovation through engaging stakeholders in every aspect of it, is key to transforming
+Added: more innovations, more rapidly, and more efficiently.
+Added: inception, the first innovation we took on was an immune modulation technology titled ADI/Adimune with a focus on prolonging life and
+Added: enhancing life quality of patients that have undergone organ transplants.
+Added: Since then, we expanded our portfolio of innovations, and we
+Added: continue to evaluate a variety of promising health innovations.
+Added: is not about a single idea or a single molecule.
+Added: It is about making sure the right innovation is made possible.
+Added: Our business model has
+Added: three main components as follows:
+Added: Securing an Innovation:
+Added: Our process begins with identifying and securing innovations through licensing or acquisition of an innovation asset.
+Added: from a variety of sources including research institutions, government agencies, and private organizations.
+Added: Growing an Innovation:
+Added: Once an innovation is secured, we surround it with activation resources that take a systemized approach to bringing that idea to
+Added: Our activation resources include innovation, operations, commercialization, finance, content and engagement, personnel, and
administration.
−Removed: of ADI™ using GAD as the guiding antigen over an 8-week period in animals with T1D restores insulin production and reverses hyperglycemia
−Removed: License Agreement with Loma Linda University
−Removed: On March 8, 2018, we entered
−Removed: into an Assignment Agreement (the “Assignment Agreement”) with Sekris Biomedical, Inc.
−Removed: a party to a license agreement with LLU, entered and made effective on May 25, 2011, and amended on June 24, 2011, July 16, 2012 and December
−Removed: 27, 2012 (the “Original Agreement,” and together with the Assignment Agreement, the “Sekris Agreements”).
−Removed: to the Assignment Agreement, Sekris transferred and assigned all of its rights, obligations and liabilities under the Original Agreement,
−Removed: of whatever kind or nature, to us.
−Removed: In exchange, on March 8, 2018, we issued a warrant to Sekris to purchase up to 10,000 shares of our
−Removed: common stock (the “Sekris Warrant”).
−Removed: The warrant was immediately exercisable and has an exercise price of $200.00 per share.
−Removed: The expiration 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
−Removed: directly with Loma Linda University, which amends and restates the Sekris Agreements.
+Added: Monetizing an Innovation:
+Added: Our goal is for each innovation to become commercial-stage and financially and operationally self-sustainable, to create shareholder
+Added: engage various stakeholders for each of our programs on every level.
+Added: This includes identifying researchers and research institution partners,
+Added: such as Stanford University;
+Added: leading health institutions to get critical trials underway, such as Mayo Clinic;
+Added: manufacturing partners
+Added: who enable us to take innovations from preclinical to clinical;
+Added: municipalities and governments, such as the city of Richmond and the
+Added: state of Virginia and public health agencies who work with us to launch our program, Pearsanta’s laboratory;
+Added: and thousands of shareholders
+Added: around the globe.
+Added: We seek to enable promising innovation to become purposeful products that have the power to change lives.
+Added: Value Proposition
+Added: believe that far too often, promising treatment or technology does not reach commercialization due to lack of expertise, key resources,
+Added: or efficiency.
+Added: As a result, potentially life-changing and lifesaving treatments are not available to the individuals who so desperately
+Added: seeks to bring the holistic concept of an efficient, socialized ecosystem for advancing and accelerating innovations.
+Added: seek to license or acquire promising innovations.
+Added: We will then form and build out a subsidiary around each innovation and support the
+Added: subsidiaries through innovation, operation, commercialization, content and engagement, finance, personnel, and administration to thrive
+Added: and grow as a successful, monetizable business.
+Added: our inception, we have built infrastructure consisting of innovation, operation, commercialization, content and engagement, finance,
+Added: personnel, and administration, to support the rapid transformation of untapped innovations.
+Added: Each of the main components of our infrastructure
+Added: has established global access to partnerships with industry leaders, top-rated research and medical institutions, universities, manufacturing
+Added: and distribution companies, and critical infrastructure such as CLIA-certified state-of-the art labs and GMP manufacturing.
+Added: Shifting Landscape of Innovation
+Added: in general, and health innovations specifically, require significant resources.
+Added: The convergence of biotech, high-tech, and media offers
+Added: new possibilities of accelerating breakthrough innovations faster and more efficiently.
+Added: This approach reflects our mission of “Making
+Added: Promising Innovations Possible, Together”.
+Added: deserve innovative solutions, which have never been more within reach.
+Added: We believe the best idea, best product and the best solution will
+Added: come from creating an ecosystem where all stakeholders, such as vendors, customers, municipalities, and shareholders contribute.
+Added: we disrupt the way we’re innovating, through our collaborative model, we believe we can move faster and more efficiently to activate
+Added: viable solutions that have the potential to make a measurable impact.
+Added: Growth Strategy
+Added: believe that the era of precision and personalized medicine is here and that people around the globe would benefit from health diagnostics
+Added: and treatments that more accurately pinpoint the problems and more precisely treat the condition.
+Added: In addition to our current programs,
+Added: Adimune and Pearsanta, we look to bring in future health innovations in the areas of software and AI, medical devices, therapeutics,
+Added: and other technologies that take a fundamentally different approach to health because they prioritize personalized precision medicine,
+Added: timely disease root cause analysis, and targeted treatments.
+Added: over year, we plan to continue building our infrastructure and securing more personalized and precision health innovations that align
+Added: with our mission.
+Added: These opportunities may come in different forms such as IP, an early-stage company, or a late-stage company.
+Added: continue to scale our systemized approach to the innovation process, making large-scale automation and enterprise systems available to
+Added: our portfolio companies at every stage of their growth.
+Added: Specifically, certain subsidiaries will need to grow through further M&A
+Added: activities, operational infrastructure implementation, and development or acquisition of critical technologies.
+Added: is led by an entrepreneurial team with passion for transforming promising innovations into successful businesses.
+Added: Our leadership come
+Added: from a variety of different industries, with collective expertise in founding startup innovation companies, developing and marketing
+Added: biopharmaceutical and diagnostic products, designing clinical trials, manufacturing, and management of private and public companies.
+Added: We have deep experience in identifying and accessing promising health innovations and developing them into products and services with
+Added: the ability to scale.
+Added: We understand the capital markets, both public and private, as well as M&A and facilitating complex IPOs.
+Added: following are profiles of three subsidiaries we have formed, including the terms of the intellectual property licenses that have been
+Added: sublicensed from Aditxt to help build each of the businesses.
+Added: ADITXT PROGRAMS
+Added: in January 2023, Adimune™, Inc.
+Added: (“Adimune”) is focused on leading our immune modulation therapeutic programs.
+Added: proprietary immune modulation product Apoptotic DNA Immunotherapy™, or ADI-100™, utilizes a novel approach that mimics the
+Added: way our bodies naturally induce tolerance to our own tissues.
+Added: It includes two DNA molecules designed to deliver signals to induce tolerance.
+Added: ADI-100 has been successfully tested in several preclinical models (e.g., skin grafting, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis).
+Added: May 2023, Adimune entered into a clinical trial agreement with Mayo Clinic to advance clinical studies targeting autoimmune diseases
+Added: of the central nervous system (“CNS”) with the initial focus on the rare, but debilitating, autoimmune disease Stiff Person
+Added: Syndrome (“SPS”).
+Added: According to the National Organization of Rare Diseases, the exact incidence and prevalence of SPS is unknown;
+Added: however, one estimate places the incidence at approximately one in one million individuals in the general population.
+Added: approval by the International Review Board and U.S.
+Added: Food and Drug Administration, a human trial for SPS is expected get underway in 2024
+Added: with enrollment of 10-15 patients, some of whom may also have type 1 diabetes.
+Added: ADI-100 will initially be tested for safety and efficacy.
+Added: ADI-100 is designed to tolerize against an antigen known as glutamic acid decarboxylase (“GAD”), which is implicated in type-1
+Added: diabetes, psoriasis, and in many autoimmune diseases of the CNS.
+Added: IND-enabling work is also near completion in support of a Clinical
+Added: Trial Application submission to the Paul Ehrlich Institute, the regulatory agency in Germany, to initiate clinical trials in psoriasis
+Added: and type 1 diabetes.
+Added: discovery of immunosuppressive (anti-rejection and monoclonal) drugs over 40 years ago has made possible life-saving organ transplantation
+Added: procedures and blocking of unwanted immune responses in autoimmune diseases.
+Added: However, immune suppression leads to significant undesirable
+Added: side effects, such as increased susceptibility to life-threatening infections and cancers, because it indiscriminately and broadly suppresses
+Added: immune function throughout the body.
+Added: While the use of these drugs has been justifiable because they prevent or delay organ rejection,
+Added: their use for treatment of autoimmune diseases and allergies may not be acceptable because of the aforementioned side effects.
+Added: often transplanted organs ultimately fail despite the use of immune suppression, and about 40% of transplanted organs survive no more
+Added: than five years.
+Added: Aditxt, Adimune has the right of use to the exclusive worldwide license for commercializing ADI nucleic acid-based technology (which
+Added: is currently at the pre-clinical stage) from Loma Linda University.
+Added: ADI uses a novel approach that mimics the way the body naturally
+Added: induces tolerance to our own tissues (“therapeutically induced immune tolerance”).
+Added: While immune suppression requires continuous
+Added: administration to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ, induction of tolerance has the potential to retrain the immune system to
+Added: accept the organ for longer periods of time.
+Added: ADI may allow patients to live with transplanted organs with significantly reduced immune
+Added: ADI is a technology platform which we believe can be engineered to address a wide variety of indications.
+Added: is a nucleic acid-based technology ( e.g.
+Added: , DNA-based), which we believe selectively suppresses only those immune cells involved
+Added: in attacking or rejecting self and transplanted tissues and organs.
+Added: It does so by tapping into the body’s natural process of cell
+Added: turnover (i.e., apoptosis) to retrain the immune system to stop unwanted attacks on self or transplanted tissues.
+Added: Apoptosis is a natural
+Added: process used by the body to clear dying cells and to allow recognition and tolerance to self-tissues.
+Added: ADI triggers this process by enabling
+Added: the cells of the immune system to recognize the targeted tissues as “self.” Conceptually, it is designed to retrain the immune
+Added: system to accept the tissues, similar to how natural apoptosis reminds our immune system to be tolerant to our own “self”
+Added: various groups have promoted tolerance through cell therapies and ex vivo manipulation of patient cells (i.e., takes
+Added: place outside the body), to our knowledge, we will be unique in our approach of using in-body induction of apoptosis to promote tolerance
+Added: to specific tissues.
+Added: In addition, ADI treatment itself will not require additional hospitalization but only an injection of minute
+Added: amounts of the therapeutic drug into the skin.
+Added: preclinical studies have demonstrated that ADI treatment significantly and substantially prolongs graft survival, in addition to successfully
+Added: “reversing” other established immune-mediated inflammatory processes.
+Added: Agreement with Loma Linda University (“LLU”)
+Added: March 15, 2018, we entered into a License Agreement with LLU, which was subsequently amended on July 1, 2020.
Pursuant to the LLU License
−Removed: Agreement, we obtained the exclusive royalty-bearing worldwide license in and to all intellectual property, including patents, technical
−Removed: information, trade secrets, proprietary rights, technology, know-how, data, formulas, drawings, and specifications, owned or controlled
−Removed: by LLU and/or any of its affiliates (the “LLU Patent and Technology Rights”) and related to therapy for immune-mediated inflammatory
−Removed: diseases (the ADI™ technology).
+Added: Agreement, we obtained the exclusive royalty-bearing worldwide license to all intellectual property, including patents, technical information,
+Added: trade secrets, proprietary rights, technology, know-how, data, formulas, drawings, and specifications, owned or controlled by LLU and/or
+Added: any of its affiliates (the “LLU Patent and Technology Rights”) and related to therapy for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
+Added: (the Adi™ technology).
In consideration for the LLU License Agreement, we issued 625 shares of Common Stock to LLU.
−Removed: Pursuant to the LLU License
−Removed: Agreement, we are required to pay an annual license fee to LLU.
−Removed: Also, we paid LLU $455,000 in July 2020 for outstanding milestone payments
−Removed: and license fees.
−Removed: We are also required to pay to LLU milestone payments in connection with certain development milestones.
−Removed: Specifically,
−Removed: we are required to make the following milestone payments to LLU:
−Removed: $175,000 on March 31, 2022;
−Removed: $100,000 on March 31, 2024;
−Removed: $500,000 on March
−Removed: and $500,000 on March 31, 2027.
−Removed: In lieu of the $175,000 milestone payment due on March 31, 2022, the Company paid LLU an extension
−Removed: fee of $100,000.
−Removed: Upon payment of this extension fee, an additional year will be added for the March 31, 2022 milestone.
+Added: Formed in January 2023, our majority owned subsidiary Pearsanta™,
+Added: (“Pearsanta”) seeks to take personalized medicine to a new level by delivering “Health by the Numbers.” On
+Added: November 22, 2023, Pearsanta entered into an assignment agreement with FirstVitals LLC, an entity controlled by Pearsanta’s CEO,
+Added: Ernie Lee (“FirstVitals”), pursuant to which FirstVitals assigned its rights in certain intellectual property and website
+Added: domain to Pearsanta in consideration of the issuance of 500,000 shares of Pearsanta common stock to FirstVitals.
+Added: On December 18, 2023,
+Added: the board of directors of Pearsanta adopted the Pearsanta 2023 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the “Pearsanta Omnibus Incentive Plan”),
+Added: pursuant to which it reserved 15 million shares of common stock of Pearsanta for future issuance under the Pearsanta Omnibus Incentive
+Added: Plan and the Pearsanta 2023 Parent Service Provider Equity Incentive Plan (the “Pearsanta Parent Service Provider Plan”) and
+Added: approved the issuance of 9.32 million options, exercisable into shares of Pearsanta common stock under the Pearsanta Parent Service Provider
+Added: Plan and the issuance of 4.0 million options, exercisable into shares of Pearsanta common stock, subject to vesting, and 1.0 million restricted
+Added: common stock shares under the Pearsanta Omnibus Incentive Plan.
+Added: its founding, Pearsanta has been building the platform for enabling our vision of lab quality testing, anytime, anywhere.
+Added: Pearsanta’s platform is for it to be the transactional backbone for sample collection, sample processing (on- and off-site), and
+Added: This will require the development and convergence of multiple components developed by Pearsanta, or through transactions with
+Added: third parties, including collection devices, “lab-on-a-chip” technologies, Lab Developed Test (LDT) assays, a data-driven
+Added: analysis engine, and telemedicine.
+Added: According to a comprehensive research report by Market Research Future, the clinical and consumer
+Added: diagnostic market is estimated to hit $429.3 billion by 2030.
+Added: believe that timely and personalized testing enables far more informed treatment decisions.
+Added: Pearsanta’s platform is being developed
+Added: as a seamless digital healthcare solution.
+Added: This platform will integrate at-location sample collection, Point-of-Care (“POC”)
+Added: and LDT assays, and an analytical reporting engine, with telemedicine-enabled visits with licensed physicians to review test results
+Added: and, if necessary, order a prescription.
+Added: Pearsanta’s goal of extending its platform to enable consumers to monitor their health
+Added: more proactively as the goal is to provide a more complete picture about someone’s dynamic health status, factoring in genetic
+Added: makeup and their response to medication.
+Added: The POC component of Pearsanta would enable diagnostic testing at-home, at work, in pharmacies,
+Added: and more to generate results quickly so that an individual can access necessary treatment faster.
+Added: With certain infections, prescribing
+Added: the most effective treatment according to one’s numbers can prevent hospital emergency room admissions and potentially life-threatening
+Added: consequences.
+Added: of indication-focused tests for the evaluation of advanced urinary tract infections (“UTIs”),
+Added: COVID-19/flu/respiratory syncytial virus, sexually transmitted infections, gut health, pharmacogenomics (i.e., how your genes affect
+Added: the way your body responds to certain therapeutics), and sepsis.
+Added: We believe that these offerings are novel and needed as the current
+Added: standard of care using broad spectrum antibiotic treatment can be ineffective and potentially life-threatening.
+Added: For example, improperly
+Added: prescribed antibiotics may approach 50% of outpatient cases.
+Added: Further, according to an article published in Physician’s Weekly,
+Added: only 1% of board-certified critical care medicine physicians are trained in infectious disease.
+Added: Technologies – AditxtScore TM
+Added: issued Pearsanta an exclusive worldwide sub-license for commercializing the AditxtScore™ technology which provides a personalized
+Added: comprehensive profile of the immune system.
+Added: AditxtScore is intended to detect individual immune responses to viruses, bacteria, peptides,
+Added: drugs, supplements, bone marrow and solid organ transplants, and cancer.
+Added: It has broad applicability to many other agents of clinical
+Added: interest impacting the immune system, including those not yet identified such as emerging infectious agents.
+Added: is being designed to enable individuals and their healthcare providers to understand, manage and monitor their immune profiles and to
+Added: stay informed about attacks on or by their immune system.
+Added: We believe AditxtScore can also assist the medical community and individuals
+Added: by being able to anticipate the immune system’s potential response to viruses, bacteria, allergens, and foreign tissues such as
+Added: transplanted organs.
+Added: This technology may be able to serve as a warning signal, thereby allowing for more time to respond appropriately.
+Added: Its advantages include the ability to provide simple, rapid, accurate, high throughput assays that can be multiplexed to determine the
+Added: immune status with respect to several factors simultaneously, in approximately 3-16 hours.
+Added: In addition, it can determine and differentiate
+Added: between distinct types of cellular and humoral immune responses (e.g., T and B cells and other cell types).
+Added: It also provides for simultaneous
+Added: monitoring of cell activation and levels of cytokine release (i.e., cytokine storms).
+Added: are actively involved in the regulatory approval process for AditxtScore assays for clinical use and securing manufacturing, marketing,
+Added: and distribution partnerships for application in the various markets.
+Added: To obtain regulatory approval to use AditxtScore as a clinical
+Added: assay, we have conducted validation studies to evaluate its performance in detection of antibodies and plan to continue conducting additional
+Added: validation studies for new applications in autoimmune diseases.
+Added: sophistication of the AditxtScore technology includes the following:
+Added: sensitivity/specificity.
+Added: higher dynamic range, greatly reducing signal to noise compared to conventional assays.
+Added: to customize assays and multiplex a large number of analytes with speed and efficiency.
+Added: to test for cellular immune responses (i.e., T and B cells and cytokines).
+Added: ● proprietary
+Added: reporting algorithm.
+Added: Agreement with Leland Stanford Junior University (“Stanford”)
+Added: February 3, 2020, we entered into an exclusive license agreement (the “February 2020 License Agreement”) with Stanford with
+Added: regard to a patent concerning a method for detection and measurement of specific cellular responses.
+Added: Pursuant to the February 2020 License
+Added: Agreement, we received an exclusive worldwide license to Stanford’s patent with regard to use, import, offer, and sale of Licensed
+Added: Products (as defined in the agreement).
+Added: The license to the patented technology is exclusive, including the right to sublicense, beginning
+Added: on the effective date of the agreement, and ending when the patent expires.
+Added: Under the exclusivity agreement, we acknowledged that Stanford
+Added: had already granted a non-exclusive license in the Nonexclusive Field of Use, under the Licensed Patents in the Licensed Field of Use
+Added: in the Licensed Territory (as those terms are defined in the “February 2020 License Agreement”).
+Added: However, Stanford agreed
+Added: not to grant further licenses under the Licensed Patents in the Licensed Field of Use in the Licensed Territory.
+Added: On December 29, 2021,
+Added: we entered into an amendment to the February 2020 License Agreement which extended our exclusive right to license the technology deployed
+Added: in AditxtScore TM and securing worldwide exclusivity in all fields of use of the licensed technology.
+Added: in April of 2023, Adivir™, Inc.
+Added: is a wholly owned subsidiary, dedicated to the clinical and commercial development of innovative
+Added: products, including anti-viral and other anti-infective products, for population health.
+Added: These products have the potential to address
+Added: a wide range of infectious diseases, including those that currently lack viable treatment options.
+Added: April 18, 2023, we entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Asset Purchase Agreement”) with Cellvera Global Holdings
+Added: LLC (“Cellvera Global”), Cellvera Holdings Ltd.
+Added: (“BVI Holdco”), Cellvera, Ltd.
+Added: (“Cellvera Ltd.”),
+Added: Cellvera Development LLC (“Cellvera Development” and together with Cellvera Global, BVI Holdco, Cellvera Ltd.
+Added: Development (the “Sellers”), AiPharma Group Ltd.
+Added: (“Seller Owner” and collectively with the Sellers, “Cellvera”),
+Added: and the legal representative of Cellvera, pursuant to which, the Company will purchase Cellvera’s 50% ownership interest in G Response
+Added: Aid FZE (“GRA”), certain other intellectual property and all goodwill related thereto (the “Acquired Assets”).
+Added: expressly stated otherwise herein, capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to them in the Asset Purchase
+Added: Pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement, the consideration for the Acquired Assets consists of (A) $24.5 million,
+Added: comprised of:
+Added: (i) the forgiveness of the Company’s $14.5 million loan to Cellvera Global, and (ii) approximately $10 million in
+Added: cash, and (B) future revenue sharing payments for a term of seven years.
+Added: GRA holds an exclusive, worldwide license for the antiviral
+Added: medication, Avigan® 200mg, excluding Japan, China and Russia.
+Added: The other 50% interest in GRA is held by Agility, Inc.
Additionally,
−Removed: as consideration for prior expenses incurred by LLU to prosecute, maintain and defend the LLU Patent and Technology Rights, we made the
−Removed: following payments to LLU:
−Removed: $70,000 at the end of December 2018, and a final payment of $60,000 at the end of March 2019.
−Removed: We are required
−Removed: to defend the LLU Patent and Technology Rights during the term of the LLU License Agreement.
−Removed: Additionally, we will owe royalty payments
−Removed: of (i) 1.5% of Net Product Sales (as such terms are defined under the LLU License Agreement) and Net Service Sales on any Licensed Products
−Removed: (defined as any finished pharmaceutical products which utilizes the LLU Patent and Technology Rights in its development, manufacture or
−Removed: supply), and (ii) 0.75% of Net Product Sales and Net Service Sales for Licensed Products and Licensed Services (as such terms are defined
−Removed: under the LLU License Agreement) not covered by a valid patent claim for technology rights and know-how for a three (3) year period beyond
−Removed: the expiration of all valid patent claims.
−Removed: We also are required to produce a written progress report to LLU, discussing our development
−Removed: and commercialization efforts, within 45 days following the end of each year.
−Removed: All intellectual property rights in and to LLU Patent and
−Removed: Technology Rights shall remain with LLU (other than improvements developed by or on our behalf).
−Removed: The LLU License Agreement
−Removed: shall 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
−Removed: licensed to us is abandoned.
−Removed: The LLU License Agreement may be terminated by mutual agreement 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 payments of royalty, milestone and license maintenance
−Removed: fees not cured within 90 days after delivery of written notice by LLU, (ii) a breach of any non-payment provision (including the provision
−Removed: that requires us to meet certain deadlines for milestone events (each, a “Milestone Deadline”)) not cured within 90 days after
−Removed: 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
−Removed: us in any 12-month period.
−Removed: Additional Milestone Deadlines include:
−Removed: (i) the requirement to have regulatory approval of an IND application
−Removed: to initiate first-in-human clinical trials on or before March 31, 2022, which has been extended to March 31, 2023 due to payment of a
−Removed: $100,000 extension fee paid in March 2022, (ii) the completion of first-in-human (phase I/II) clinical trials by March 31, 2024, (iii)
−Removed: the completion of Phase III clinical trials by March 31, 2026 and (iv) biologic licensing approval by the FDA by March 31, 2027.
−Removed: Pre-clinical and Clinical Plans
−Removed: The resources and efforts
−Removed: used for the IND-enabling work summarized below supports both the psoriasis and TID clinical programs
−Removed: High-level objectives for
−Removed: psoriasis clinical program:
−Removed: Completion of IND-enabling work.
−Removed: Aditxt has completed GMP manufacturing of clinical grade drug substances (DNA plasmids) and initiated GMP formulation of clinical grade the drug product (ADI-100) that will be used for the first-in-human studies in subjects with psoriatic lesions.
−Removed: Included in the manufacturing program is stability studies;
−Removed: the regulatory agency requires one month of stability data for the GMP material for submission of the clinical trial application (CTA).
−Removed: Stability data will continue to be gathered while the clinical trials are ongoing and up to 24 months.
−Removed: Aditxt has also completed the in-life portion of the toxicology studies.
−Removed: Safety data have been recorded and Aditxt is now awaiting immunotoxicology data, which are forthcoming.
−Removed: Upon completion of GMP manufacturing and toxicology studies, a CTA will be submitted in Q2 2023 to initiate the Phase I/II FIH clinical trials.
−Removed: The FIH clinical studies will
−Removed: combine Phase I (designed to test clinical safety) and Phase IIa (designed to obtain proof of effectiveness in human subjects), in subjects
−Removed: with psoriatic skin lesions.
−Removed: We have selected this indication for several reasons, including:
−Removed: existing preclinical data have shown promising results in reducing scaling and skin thickness in the mouse model;
−Removed: relative ease of visualization of healing of psoriatic lesions;
−Removed: need for therapies that suitable and justifiable in individuals with mild to moderate psoriasis (current biologic therapies are primarily
−Removed: used in moderate to severe cases).
−Removed: We have identified a contract
−Removed: research organization with capabilities to conduct a multi-center study and ability to recruit the needed number of subjects to complete
−Removed: the clinical trials.
−Removed: Upon approval by the regulatory agency clinical trials will be initiated.
−Removed: High-level objectives for
−Removed: type 1 diabetes (T1D) clinical program:
−Removed: Completion of IND-enabling work.
−Removed: Aditxt has completed GMP manufacturing of clinical grade drug substances (DNA plasmids) and initiated formulation of the drug product (ADI-100) that will be used for the first-in-human studies in subjects with T1D.
−Removed: Included in the manufacturing program is stability studies;
−Removed: the regulatory agency requires one month of stability data for the GMP material for submission of the clinical trial application (CTA).
−Removed: Stability data will continue to be gathered while the clinical trials are ongoing and up to 24 months.
−Removed: Aditxt has also completed the in-life portion of the toxicology studies.
−Removed: Safety data have been recorded and Aditxt is now awaiting immunotoxicology data, which are forthcoming.
−Removed: Clinical Phase I/II Study to demonstrate safety and clinical proof-of-concept in T1D
−Removed: Our clinical studies will
−Removed: combine Phase I (designed to test clinical safety) and Phase II (designed to obtain proof of effectiveness in human subjects), in T1D
−Removed: We have selected this indication for several reasons, including:
−Removed: Our existing preclinical data have shown promising results using ADI™ to reverse hyperglycemia in the mouse model;
−Removed: There is currently no treatment for T1D and the only option for patients suffering from T1D is life-long insulin replacement therapy.
−Removed: We will be identifying clinical
−Removed: trial centers with adequate patients.
−Removed: Upon approval by the regulatory agency clinical trials will be initiated.
−Removed: High-level objectives for
−Removed: skin allograft clinical program:
−Removed: Completion of preclinical studies to identify the appropriate protocol for dosing and combination of ADI™ with immune suppression protocols.
−Removed: Completion of IND-enabling work including GMP manufacturing and toxicology studies.
−Removed: Clinical Phase I/II Study to demonstrate safety and clinical proof-of-concept in patients requiring skin allografts.
−Removed: Our clinical studies will
−Removed: combine Phase I (designed to test clinical safety) and Phase II (designed to obtain proof of effectiveness in human subjects), in patients
−Removed: requiring skin allografts.
−Removed: We have selected this indication for several reasons, including:
−Removed: Our existing preclinical data have shown promising results using ADI™ to prolong skin allograft survival in mismatched mouse model;
−Removed: The relative ease of visualization of graft quality without the need for biopsies.
−Removed: We will be identifying clinical
−Removed: trial centers with adequate patients.
−Removed: Upon approval by the regulatory agency clinical trials will be initiated.
−Removed: We are developing our immune
−Removed: monitoring platforms with the objective of utilizing them as clinical assays in pre-clinical and clinical studies.
−Removed: The multiplex technologies
−Removed: could potentially allow evaluation of more analytes with less tissue samples.
−Removed: Drug Approval Process
−Removed: In the United States, FDA
−Removed: approval is required before any new drugs can be introduced to the market.
−Removed: We currently have a product candidate for our first-in-human
−Removed: studies, but as of the date of report, we have not submitted an application to the regulatory agencies for approval.
−Removed: We are working with a contract
−Removed: manufacturer who has the knowledge, product ingredients including plasmid DNA molecules, and our patented methylating bacterial strain.
−Removed: contract manufacturer has completed GMP manufacturing of the plasmid DNA molecules also known as the drug substances.
−Removed: The drug substances
−Removed: are planned to be shipped to another GMP facility for formulation and fill/finish process in vials that will be used in the clinical trials.
−Removed: The product candidate selected
−Removed: for clinical trials must be subjected to pre-clinical safety/toxicology studies by an independent GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) laboratory
−Removed: to demonstrate its suitability for clinical testing in human patients.
−Removed: Upon completion of manufacturing and safety/toxicology testing,
−Removed: an Investigational New Drug (IND) or Clinical Trial Application will be prepared for submission to the regulatory agencies.
−Removed: Upon receipt of clearance
−Removed: to initiate clinical testing, the ADI™ product can be tested in human patients.
−Removed: Our product will be tested in clinical trials
−Removed: in patients with psoriasis, T1D and one in patients who require skin allografting.
−Removed: Therefore, our first-in-human studies will be combined
−Removed: Phase I/Phase II studies in which safety and efficacy data will be obtained.
−Removed: We plan to start with psoriasis and T1D.
−Removed: we will preparing for clinical trials in skin allografting.
−Removed: We are developing our immune monitoring platforms
−Removed: with the objective of utilizing them as clinical assays in pre-clinical and clinical studies.
−Removed: The multiplex technologies could potentially
−Removed: allow evaluation of more analytes with less tissue samples.
−Removed: Target Market
−Removed: Psoriasis affects close to
−Removed: 100 million people worldwide and presents a large market estimated at over $20 billion annually.
−Removed: Topical and systemic therapeutics including
−Removed: vitamin D analogs, steroids, retinoids, immunosuppressants and biologics (i.e.
−Removed: monoclonal antibodies).
−Removed: While in more recent years, several
−Removed: classes of biologics have entered the market, most are primarily used for patients suffering from moderate to severe psoriasis because
−Removed: of their impairment of systemic immune responsiveness to infections and cancers.
−Removed: Pre-clinical safety studies by Aditxt have shown that
−Removed: ADI™ does not impair resistance to a systemic infection using a bacterial species known as Listeria monocytogenes or the
−Removed: ability to suppress the growth of an implanted melanoma tumor.
−Removed: The absence of immune impairment is important for application of ADI™
−Removed: in patients suffering from mild to moderate psoriasis.
−Removed: T1D is one of the most common
−Removed: chronic disorders in children and affects nearly 2 million Americans with the incidence and prevalence increasing at alarming rates in
−Removed: industrialized countries.
−Removed: Current treatment consists of daily administration of insulin as replacement therapy, which can induce life-threatening
−Removed: hypoglycemia and does not completely prevent morbidity and mortality associated with the disease.
−Removed: Aditxt is leveraging the ADI™
−Removed: technology to develop a new class of immunotherapy designed to arrest the autoimmune destruction of the insulin producing beta cells of
−Removed: the pancreas.
−Removed: This will be the first therapy to achieve this elusive goal, which can increase the span and quality of life for up to 40,000
−Removed: of US citizens and about 300,000 people around the world who develop T1D each year, with a 3-5% increase in yearly incidence.
−Removed: alone, there are
−Removed: over 36,000 patients who receive organ transplantations each year, with more than 113,000 on transplant waiting lists.
−Removed: The field of organ transplantation
−Removed: has been made possible and continues to rely on broad-acting immunosuppressive drugs, high levels of which can result in a compromised
−Removed: immune system that renders organ recipients susceptible to cancer and potentially life-threatening infections including re-activation
−Removed: of latent viruses.
−Removed: In addition, immunosuppressants
−Removed: control acute rejection during the early time-period after receiving an organ but chronic rejection of the organ remains an unmet challenge
−Removed: for surgeons and transplant recipients.
−Removed: While efforts have been made
−Removed: by various groups to promote tolerance through cell therapies and ex vivo manipulation of patient cells, these procedures
−Removed: take place outside the body and may require hospitalization.
−Removed: Moreover, transplanted patients
−Removed: will need re-transplantation at some point, with the possible exception of some newborn recipients.
−Removed: With increased incidence of preformed
−Removed: antibodies, these patients may never have the opportunity to receive another organ.
−Removed: Preformed antibodies can develop in previously transplanted
−Removed: patients, patients who have given birth, and patients who have previously received blood transfusions.
−Removed: These patients have much lower
−Removed: chances of qualifying to receive organs due to their increased risk of rejection – even with immune suppression.
−Removed: The potential
−Removed: to reduce formation of preformed antibodies in these patients will provide better opportunities for them to receive another transplanted
−Removed: There are gaps between current
−Removed: approaches and what the market needs.
−Removed: We believe that ADI™ addresses these gaps.
−Removed: ADI™ is simple to administer (does
−Removed: not require ex-vivo treatment of patient cells), it does not appear to suppress the immune system, it may allow patients
−Removed: to live with transplanted organs with significantly reduced immune suppression, it may provide for longer-term survival of transplanted
−Removed: tissues and organs, may be more effective because it does not rely on a single immune pathway/mechanism, and potentially provides patients
−Removed: with pre-existing antibodies a chance to qualify to receive organs.
−Removed: While these advantages present
−Removed: opportunities for unmet medical needs in the field of organ transplantation, the industry in which we operate is highly competitive.
−Removed: small company such as us will meet significant challenges including regulatory requirements for approval of a new class of therapeutic
−Removed: agents, challenges in large scale manufacturing and marketing, cost of developing a novel therapeutic agent, which may require co-development
−Removed: partners who may or may not be willing to work with us, and the willingness of transplant surgeons to adopt our therapeutic vaccines in
−Removed: their existing immune suppression protocols.
−Removed: These challenges pose risks that we may not be able to overcome.
−Removed: AditxtScore TM (Immune Monitoring
−Removed: We believe that understanding
−Removed: the status of an individual’s immune system is key to understanding health by the numbers and for developing therapeutics that result
−Removed: in better outcomes for more individuals.
−Removed: We have secured an exclusive worldwide license for commercializing a technology platform named
−Removed: AditxtScore™, which provides a personalized comprehensive profile of the immune system.
−Removed: AditxtScore™ is intended to be informative
−Removed: for individual immune responses to viruses, bacteria, peptides, drugs, supplements, bone marrow and solid organ transplants and cancer.
−Removed: It has broad applicability to many other agents of clinical interest impacting the immune system, including those not yet identified such
−Removed: as emerging infectious agents.
−Removed: AditxtScore™ is being
−Removed: designed to allow individuals to understand, manage and monitor their immune profiles in order to be informed about attacks on or by their
−Removed: immune system.
−Removed: We believe AditxtScore™ can also assist the medical community in anticipating possible immune responses and reactions
−Removed: to viruses, bacteria, allergens and foreign tissues such as transplanted organs.
−Removed: This capability may be possible by having the ability
−Removed: to determine the body’s potential response and for developing a plan to deal with an undesirable reaction by the immune system.
−Removed: Its advantages include the ability to provide a simple, rapid, accurate, high throughput assays that can be multiplexed to determine the
−Removed: immune status with respect to several factors simultaneously, in 3-16 hours.
−Removed: In addition, it can determine and differentiate between various
−Removed: types of cellular and humoral immune responses (T and B cells and other cell types).
−Removed: It also provides for simultaneous monitoring of cell
−Removed: activation and levels of cytokine release (i.e., cytokine storms).
−Removed: We plan to utilize AditxtScore™
−Removed: in our upcoming pre-clinical and clinical studies to monitor subjects’ immune response before, during and after ADI™ drug
−Removed: administration.
−Removed: We are also evaluating plans to obtain regulatory approval for AditxtScore™’s use as a clinical assay and
−Removed: seeking to secure manufacturing, marketing and distribution partnerships for application in the various markets.
−Removed: To obtain regulatory
−Removed: approval to use AditxtScore™ as a clinical assay, we have conducted validation studies to evaluate its performance in detection
−Removed: of antibodies and plan to continue conducting additional validation studies for new applications in autoimmune diseases and transplantation.
−Removed: (1) Organ Rejection
−Removed: Typically, by the time a transplanted
−Removed: or a native organ shows signs of failure, the damage is already done, and reversal of the tissue injury becomes challenging.
−Removed: early warning signs of damage would be invaluable to reverse or even prevent the damage.
−Removed: There are currently no practical, efficient assays
−Removed: available to measure cellular immune responses and available tools do not provide timely information for patients.
−Removed: can be used to provide a sensitive and rapid tool for pre-transplant monitoring and to determine T and B cell response and to differentiate
−Removed: between various types of cellular immune responses.
−Removed: It can be multiplexed providing information about the number of cells responding as
−Removed: well as quantifying the amounts of various cytokines released by the cells in the same assay.
−Removed: Determination of cellular response has valuable
−Removed: applications for prediction, monitoring, early detection, and treatment of disease, including organ failure/rejection, as well as treatment
−Removed: It can also reveal dysfunction of the immune system that can potentially contribute to more severe disease.
−Removed: (2) Autoimmunity
−Removed: Our immune system develops
−Removed: to differentiate self from non-self.
−Removed: In autoimmunity, the body’s ability to distinguish this difference is impaired.
−Removed: early signs of immune misrecognition may allow earlier intervention to reduce tissue destruction and to potential reverse the process
−Removed: more effectively.
−Removed: Better tools are needed to recognize immune responses to our own tissues earlier, and with more sensitivity and accuracy.
−Removed: AditxtScore™ harnesses the promise to develop such tools that can be used for early diagnosis, evaluation of treatment effectiveness
−Removed: and determination of the need for maintenance therapies when needed.
−Removed: (3) Allergies
−Removed: Our immune system protects
−Removed: us by acting as a barrier against foreign substances and by eliminating them when they penetrate our bodies.
−Removed: Once the initial exposure
−Removed: has occurred, memory cells develop to prepare the body against a future exposure.
−Removed: This process is called immunity.
−Removed: In certain situations,
−Removed: however, instead of immunity, the immune system develops memory cells that result in a more severe reaction during a future exposure to
−Removed: the same substance.
−Removed: This type of response is called a hypersensitivity response, commonly known as an allergic response.
−Removed: can be used to develop multiplex panels each designed to test and monitor immune response to allergens.
−Removed: Based on the ability of this technology
−Removed: to run multiple tests in a single assay, 100 or more substances can potentially be tested simultaneously.
−Removed: (4) Drug/Vaccine Response
−Removed: There are currently no effective
−Removed: assays to predict and easily assess responses to drugs or vaccines.
−Removed: To determine whether an individual has responded to a particular vaccine,
−Removed: antibody titers are measured.
−Removed: This process may take several days or even weeks.
−Removed: Furthermore, for vaccines that require a series of injections,
−Removed: titers are not measured between injections and may not be known for months.
−Removed: AditxtScore™ can be used to determine whether a patient
−Removed: is a responder or non-responder (e.g.
−Removed: individuals with a suppressed immune response may be non-responders).
−Removed: It can provide an effective
−Removed: and rapid tool for potentially determining beneficial responses to a vaccine and can be used to monitor levels of immune responsiveness
−Removed: post vaccination.
−Removed: It can allow evaluation of multiple vaccines in a single test (for memory B cell detection).
−Removed: This application can be
−Removed: useful for vaccines, cancer therapeutics anti-rejection drugs, anti-viral drugs, among others.
−Removed: (5) Disease Susceptibility
−Removed: Disease susceptibility can
−Removed: vary from one individual to another, and it can be a function of various factors, including genetic variability and differences in human
−Removed: leukocyte antigens (HLA) encoded by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and responsible for regulation of the immune system in humans.
−Removed: People with certain HLA types may have higher or lower susceptibility to diseases.
−Removed: AditxtScore™ can be used to develop assays to
−Removed: evaluate differences in HLA types in individuals to help elucidate the relationship between certain HLA types and susceptibility to various
−Removed: (6) Infectious Diseases
−Removed: Infectious diseases can cause
−Removed: a major predicament for scientific and medical professionals, epidemiologists, and infectious disease specialists, who need to determine
−Removed: how to treat patients in real-time while efficacious therapies are still being developed.
−Removed: Proper decision making requires understanding
−Removed: why some affected individuals show minor or no symptoms, some recover, and others die.
−Removed: This is fundamental to creating effective targeted
−Removed: therapeutics which may differ depending on the underlying profile of the individual at risk for, or with, disease.
−Removed: The immune system plays
−Removed: a major role in how any given individual responds to the infectious agent.
−Removed: This response can be inadequate or too robust or appropriately
−Removed: Regardless, the kinetics of the response by the cellular and humoral (antibody) immune systems to the infectious agent are
−Removed: often unknown.
−Removed: A basic critical question, then, is what do the dynamics of the immune response look like from exposure to and through
−Removed: the disease period and during convalescence for those who survive and those who don’t;
−Removed: and how might vaccines and therapies alter
−Removed: these profiles such that predictions of vaccine/drug efficacy could be inferred prior to vaccination/treatment and/or disease severity
−Removed: or progression be prognosticated.
−Removed: AditxtScore™ can be used to help address these questions with multiplex assays each designed to
−Removed: test and monitor the immune response to infectious agents.
−Removed: License Agreement with Leland Stanford Junior
−Removed: University (“Stanford”)
−Removed: On February 3, 2020, we entered
−Removed: into an exclusive license agreement (the “February 2020 License Agreement”) with Stanford regarding a patent concerning a
−Removed: method for detection and measurement of specific cellular responses.
−Removed: Pursuant to the February 2020 License Agreement, we received an exclusive
−Removed: worldwide license to Stanford’s patent regarding use, import, offer, and sale of Licensed Products (as defined in the agreement).
−Removed: The license to the patented technology is exclusive, including the right to sublicense, beginning on the effective date of the agreement,
−Removed: and ending when the patent expires.
−Removed: Under the exclusivity agreement, we acknowledged that Stanford had already granted a non-exclusive
−Removed: license in the Nonexclusive Field of Use, under the Licensed Patents in the Licensed Field of Use in the Licensed Territory (as those
−Removed: terms are defined in the February 2020 License Agreement”).
−Removed: However, Stanford agreed to not grant further licenses under the Licensed
−Removed: Patents in the Licensed Field of Use in the Licensed Territory.
−Removed: On December 29, 2021, we entered into an amendment to the February 2020
−Removed: License Agreement which extended our exclusive right to license the technology deployed in AditxtScore TM and securing
−Removed: worldwide exclusivity in all fields of use of the licensed technology.
−Removed: We were obligated to pay and
−Removed: paid a fee of $25,000 to Stanford within 60 days of February 3, 2020.
−Removed: We also issued 375 shares of the Company’s common stock to
−Removed: An annual licensing maintenance fee is payable by us on the first anniversary of the February 2020 License Agreement in the
−Removed: amount of $40,000 for 2021 through 2024 and $60,000 starting in 2025 until the license expires upon the expiration of the patent.
−Removed: Company is required to pay and has paid $25,000 for the issuances of certain patents.
−Removed: The Company will pay milestone fees of $50,000 on
−Removed: the first commercial sales of a licensed product and $25,000 at the beginning of any clinical study for regulatory clearance of an in
−Removed: vitro diagnostic product developed and a potential licensed product.
−Removed: The Company paid a milestone fee for a clinical study for regulatory
−Removed: clearance of an in vitro diagnostic product developed and a potential licensed product of $25,000 in March of 2022.
−Removed: We are also required
−Removed: (i) provide a listing of the management team or a schedule for the recruitment of key management positions by March 31, 2020 (which
−Removed: has been completed), (ii) provide a business plan covering projected product development, markets and sales forecasts, manufacturing and
−Removed: operations, and financial forecasts until at least $10,000,000 in revenue by June 30, 2020 (which has been completed), (iii) conduct validation
−Removed: studies by September 30, 2020 (which has been completed), (iv) hold a pre-submission meeting with the FDA by September 30, 2020 (which
−Removed: has been completed), (iv) submit a 510(k) application to the FDA, Emergency Use Authorization (“EUA”), or a Laboratory Developed
−Removed: Test (“LDT”) by March 31, 2021 (which has been completed), (vi) develop a prototype assay for human profiling by December
−Removed: 31, 2021 (which has been completed), (vii) execute at least one partnership for use of the technology for transplant, autoimmunity, or
−Removed: infectious disease purposes by March 31, 2022 (which has been completed) and (viii) provided further development and commercialization
−Removed: milestones for specific fields of use in writing prior to December 31, 2022.
−Removed: In addition to the annual
−Removed: license maintenance fees outlined above, we will pay Stanford royalties on Net Sales (as such term is defined in the February 2020 License
−Removed: Agreement) during the of the term of the agreement as follows:
−Removed: 4% when Net Sales are below or equal to $5 million annually or 6% when
−Removed: Net Sales are above $5 million annually.
−Removed: The February 2020 License Agreement may be terminated upon our election on at least 30 days advance
−Removed: notice to Stanford, or by Stanford if we:
−Removed: (i) are delinquent on any report or payment;
−Removed: (ii) are not diligently developing and commercializing
−Removed: Licensed Product;
−Removed: (iii) miss certain performance milestones;
−Removed: (iv) are in breach of any provision of the February 2020 License Agreement;
−Removed: or (v) provide any false report to Stanford.
−Removed: Should any events in the preceding sentence occur, we have a thirty (30) day cure period
−Removed: to remedy such violation.
−Removed: Plan of Operations
−Removed: The initial application of
−Removed: the platform was AditxtScore™ for COVID-19 which was designed to provide a more complete assessment of an individual’s infection
−Removed: and immunity status with respect to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
−Removed: Infection status is determined by evaluating the presence or absence of the
−Removed: virus, and immunity status by measuring levels of antibodies against viral antigens and their ability to neutralize the virus.
−Removed: In early 2021, we established
−Removed: our AditxtScore™ Immune Monitoring Center in Richmond, Virginia (the “Center”).
−Removed: The Center operates as a Clinical Laboratory
−Removed: Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certified facility for the processing of our AditxtScore™ for COVID-19 Lab Developed Test (LDT) for
−Removed: our prospective channel partners, including labs and hospitals.
−Removed: In August 2020, we filed for
−Removed: an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) with the FDA with the ultimate objective of filing a 510(K) application.
−Removed: On January 14, 2022, we
−Removed: submitted requests to obtain two EUAs for our antibody and neutralizing tests following an announcement on November 15, 2021 by the Department
−Removed: of Health and Human Services that COVID-19 related tests will require FDA review and FDA’s position that COVID-19 tests that have
−Removed: been in use prior to the announcement must submit applications for EUAs but can continue to operate unless informed otherwise.
−Removed: meantime, we are providing AditxtScore™ as a service as a Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) to assess immunity status to COVID-19.
−Removed: The public health emergency
−Removed: is planned to be ending in May 2023.
−Removed: Thus, COVID-related assays are no longer considered as priority for review by FDA and will not be
−Removed: considered for EUAs.
−Removed: In May, FDA may provide more guidance regarding whether COVID-related assays will revert back to pre-pandemic review
−Removed: process or whether they will require full regulatory review (e.g.
−Removed: Assays that are not developed for evaluation of infection or
−Removed: immunity status to SARS-CoV-2 will continue to be offered as LDTs.
−Removed: Intellectual Property (IP)
−Removed: We strive to protect and
−Removed: enhance the proprietary technology, inventions, and improvements that are commercially important to our business, including seeking,
−Removed: maintaining and defending patent rights, whether developed internally or licensed from third parties.
−Removed: Our policy is to seek to protect
−Removed: our proprietary position by, among other methods, filing patent applications in the United States and in jurisdictions outside of the
−Removed: United States, to protect our proprietary technology, inventions, improvements and product candidates that are important to the development
−Removed: and implementation of our business.
−Removed: We also rely on trade secrets and know-how relating to our proprietary technology and product candidates,
−Removed: continuing innovation, and in-licensing opportunities to develop, strengthen and maintain our proprietary position in the field of immuno-therapy.
−Removed: We also plan to rely on data exclusivity, market exclusivity, and patent term extensions when available.
−Removed: Our commercial success will
−Removed: depend in part on our ability to obtain and maintain patent and other proprietary protection for our technology, inventions, and improvements;
−Removed: to preserve the confidentiality of our trade secrets;
−Removed: to obtain and maintain licenses to use intellectual property owned by third parties;
−Removed: to defend and enforce our proprietary rights, including any patents that we may own in the future;
−Removed: and to operate without infringing
−Removed: on the valid and enforceable patents and other proprietary rights of third parties.
−Removed: Our innovation portfolio
−Removed: (1) ADI™ immune modulation technologies, which 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: and (2) AditxtScore™ immune monitoring technologies designed to provide a personalized comprehensive profile of the immune system.
−Removed: Both categories are protected by multiple families of patents and patent applications, including several issued U.S.
−Removed: The projected expiration
−Removed: dates for the ADI™ patents and patents issuing from pending applications extend until 2043 for some patents.
−Removed: As of the date of
−Removed: this report, our patent portfolio for ADI™ includes both patents and patent applications licensed from LLU or Stanford and patent
−Removed: applications owned solely by Aditxt, including 120 granted patents, 2 allowed patent applications and 30 pending patient applications
−Removed: and other regions.
−Removed: These patents and patent applications cover three different technical aspects of ADI™, treatment of
−Removed: autoimmune diseases and type 1 diabetes, treatment of organ transplantation, and development of a new class of immunotherapeutics for
−Removed: various indications.
−Removed: The patents and patent applications cover both methods of treatment for these indications as well as compositions
−Removed: of matter including plasmids that are able to induce tolerance to antigens or prevention of immune attack on antigens, depending on the
−Removed: indication, along with methods of producing such plasmids.
−Removed: The AditxtScore™ technology
−Removed: is also protected by multiple families of patents and patent applications, including several issued U.S.
−Removed: The projected
−Removed: expiration dates for these AditxtScore™ patents and patents issuing from pending applications ranges from 2037 to 2043.
−Removed: date of this report, our patent portfolio for AditxtScore™ includes both patents and patent applications licensed from Stanford
−Removed: and patent applications owned solely by Aditxt, including granted patents and 12 applications.
−Removed: These patents and patent applications
−Removed: encompass methods, systems and kits for detection and measurement of specific immune responses.
−Removed: We also possess and/or in-license
−Removed: substantial know-how and trade secrets relating to the development and commercialization of our product candidates, including related
−Removed: manufacturing processes and technology.
−Removed: We plan to continue expanding and strengthening our IP portfolio with additional patent applications
−Removed: in the future.
−Removed: In March 2021, Aditxt signed
−Removed: an agreement with a regulatory consultant based in Munich, Germany, which will play a central role in navigating the first ADI™ therapeutic
−Removed: program through the clinical trial and regulatory process.
−Removed: The firm has been working with the Aditxt’s ADI™ team to
−Removed: submit a clinical trial application to the regulatory agency in Germany.
−Removed: Psoriasis is the first indication being targeted for clinical
−Removed: trial in the ADI™ therapeutics pipeline.
−Removed: Other candidates that are advancing toward clinical trials include ADI™ for
−Removed: type 1 diabetes and skin allografting.
−Removed: We have sixty-one (61) full
−Removed: time employees as of December 31, 2022.
−Removed: We consider the relations with our employees to be good.
+Added: upon the closing, the Share Exchange Agreement previously entered into as of December 28, 2021, between Cellvera Global Holdings, LLC
+Added: f/k/a AiPharma Global Holdings, LLC (together with other affiliates and subsidiaries) and the Company, and all other related agreements
+Added: will be terminated.
+Added: obligations of the Company to consummate the Closing are subject to the satisfaction or waiver, at or prior to the Closing of certain
+Added: conditions, including but not limited to, the following:
+Added: (i) Satisfactory
+Added: completion of due diligence;
+Added: (ii) Completion
+Added: by the Company of financing sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Asset Purchase Agreement;
+Added: (iii) Receipt
+Added: by the Company of all required Consents from Governmental Bodies for the Acquisition, including but not limited to, any consents required
+Added: to complete the transfer and assignment of Cellvera’s membership interests in GRA;
+Added: of executed payoff letters reflecting the amount required to be fully pay all of each of Seller’s and Seller Owner’s Debt
+Added: to be paid at Closing;
+Added: by the Company of a release from Agility;
+Added: (vi) Execution
+Added: of an agreement acceptable to the Company with respect to the acquisition by the Company of certain intellectual property presently held
+Added: by a third party;
+Added: (vii) Execution
+Added: of an amendment to an asset purchase agreement previously entered into by Cellvera with a third party that effectively grants the Company
+Added: the rights to acquire the intellectual property from the third party under such agreement;
+Added: (viii) Receipt
+Added: of a fairness opinion by the Company with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Asset Purchase Agreement;
+Added: by the Company from the Seller Owner of written consent, whether through its official liquidator or the Board of Directors of Seller
+Added: Owner, to the sale and purchase of the Acquired Assets and Assumed Liabilities pursuant to the Assert Purchase Agreement.
+Added: can be no assurance that the conditions to closing will be satisfied or that the proposed acquisition will be completed as proposed or
+Added: Our commitment to building
+Added: our antiviral portfolio is strategic and timely.
+Added: We believe that there has never been a more important time to address the growing global
+Added: need to uncover new treatments or commercialize existing ones that treat life-threatening global viral infections.
+Added: have forty-seven (47) full time employees as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: We consider the relations
+Added: with our employees to be good.
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