−Removed: ImmunoTech Inc.
−Removed: and its subsidiaries (collectively, “AIM”, “Company”, “we”
−Removed: or “us”)
−Removed: are an immuno-pharma company headquartered in Ocala, Florida and focused on the research and development of therapeutics to treat
−Removed: multiple types of cancers, various viruses and immune-deficiency disorders.
−Removed: We have established a strong foundation of laboratory,
−Removed: pre-clinical and clinical data with respect to the development of nucleic acids and natural interferon to enhance the natural
−Removed: antiviral defense system of the human body and to aid the development of therapeutic products for the treatment of certain cancers
−Removed: and chronic diseases.
−Removed: flagship products include Ampligen®
−Removed: (rintatolimod), a first-in-class drug of large macromolecular RNA (ribonucleic acid) molecules,
−Removed: and Alferon N Injection®
−Removed: (Interferon Alfa-N3).
−Removed: A first-in-class drug is also known as a new molecular entity that contains
−Removed: an active moiety.
−Removed: Ampligen has not been approved by the FDA or marketed in the US.
−Removed: the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, the novel virus that causes COVID-19, we have been actively engaged in determining whether Ampligen
−Removed: could be an effective treatment for this virus or could be part of a vaccine.
−Removed: We believe that Ampligen has the potential to be
−Removed: both an early-onset treatment for and prophylaxis against SARS-CoV-2.
−Removed: Ampligen also has potential as a COVID-19 vaccine strategy
−Removed: that combines Ampligen as an immune enhancer seeking to boost the efficacy of intranasal and other vaccines and, as to intranasal,
−Removed: also convey cross-reactivity and cross-protection against future mutations.
−Removed: We believe that prior studies of Ampligen in SARS-CoV-1
−Removed: animal experimentation may predict similar protective effects against the new virus.
−Removed: in April 2020, we entered into confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements with numerous companies for the potential outsourcing
−Removed: of the production of polymer, enzyme, placebo as well as Ampligen and one Contract Research Organization which may also assist
−Removed: with the planning, presentation and filing of documents with the FDA.
−Removed: These confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements are
−Removed: only the initial step in forging relationships with these entities to obtain contract manufacturers and research partners.
−Removed: assurance can be given as to how many of these, initial explorations, if any, will result in definitive arrangements or, with
−Removed: regard to potential research partners, what research arrangements will develop and thereafter prove fruitful.
−Removed: represents a dsRNA being developed for globally important cancers, viral diseases and disorders of the immune system.
−Removed: has in the clinic demonstrated the potential for standalone efficacy in a number of solid tumors.
−Removed: We have also seen success in
−Removed: increasing survival rates and efficacy in the treatment of animal tumors when Ampligen is used in combination with checkpoint
−Removed: blockade therapies.
−Removed: This success in the field of immuno-oncology has guided our focus toward the potential use of Ampligen as
−Removed: a combinational therapy for the treatment of a variety of solid tumor types.
−Removed: There are currently multiple Ampligen clinical trials
−Removed: testing Ampligen in humans —
−Removed: both underway and planned —
−Removed: at major cancer research centers.
−Removed: Ampligen was used as a
−Removed: monotherapy to treat pancreatic cancer patients in an Early Access Program (EAP) approved by the Inspectorate of Healthcare in
−Removed: the Netherlands at Erasmus Medical Center.
−Removed: In September, we reported receipt of statistically significantly results of positive
−Removed: survival benefit when using Ampligen in patients with locally advanced/metastatic pancreatic cancer after systemic chemotherapy.
−Removed: We will work with our Contract Research Organization, Amarex Clinical Research LLC, to seek FDA “fast-track”
−Removed: even FDA “breakthrough”
−Removed: designations and to obtain authorization to conduct a follow-up pancreatic cancer Phase 2/3
−Removed: clinical trial with sites in the Netherlands at Erasmus MC under Prof.
−Removed: van Eijck, and also at major cancer research centers in
−Removed: the United States.
−Removed: is also being evaluated for the treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
−Removed: We are currently sponsoring
−Removed: an expanded access program for ME/CFS patients in the U.S.
−Removed: In August 2016, we received approval of our New Drug Application (NDA)
−Removed: from Administracion Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnologia Medica (ANMAT) for commercial sale of Ampligen in the Argentine
−Removed: Republic for the treatment of severe CFS.
−Removed: With regulatory approval in Argentina, Ampligen is the world’s only approved therapeutic
−Removed: On June 10, 2020, we received import clearance from ANMAT to import the first shipment of commercial grade vials of
−Removed: Ampligen to Argentina.
−Removed: The next steps in the commercial launch of Ampligen include ANMAT conducting a final inspection of the
+Added: “Business”, Part I;
+Added: “Legal Proceedings” and Part II;
+Added: “Management’s Discussion
+Added: and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”.
+Added: statements, other than statements of historical fact, included or incorporated herein regarding our strategy, future operations, financial
+Added: position, future revenues, projected costs, plans, prospects and objectives are forward-looking statements.
+Added: Words such as “expect,”
+Added: “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “seek,” “estimate,”
+Added: “think,” “may,” “could,” “will,” “would,” “should,” “continue,”
+Added: “potential,” “likely,” “opportunity” and similar expressions or variations of such words are intended
+Added: to identify forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying forward-looking statements.
+Added: the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements are risks and
+Added: uncertainties inherent in our business including, without limitation:
+Added: our ability to adequately fund our projects as we will need additional
+Added: funding to proceed with our objectives, the potential therapeutic effect of our products, the possibility of obtaining regulatory approval,
+Added: our ability to find senior co-development partners with the capital and expertise needed to commercialize our products and to enter into
+Added: arrangements with them on commercially reasonable terms, our ability to manufacture and sell any products, our ability to enter into
+Added: arrangements with third party vendors, market acceptance of our products, our ability to earn a profit from sales or licenses of any
+Added: drugs, our ability to discover new drugs in the future, changing market conditions, changes in laws and regulations affecting our industry,
+Added: and issues related to our New Brunswick, New Jersey facility.
+Added: are in various stages of seeking to determine whether Ampligen will be effective in the treatment of multiple types of viral diseases,
+Added: cancers, and immune-deficiency disorders.
+Added: We discuss in this Report our current and anticipated future activities, all of which are subject
+Added: to change for a number of reasons.
+Added: Significant testing and trials will be required to determine whether Ampligen will be effective in
+Added: the treatment of these conditions.
+Added: Results obtained in animal models do not necessarily predict results in humans.
+Added: Human clinical trials
+Added: will be necessary to prove whether or not Ampligen will be efficacious in humans.
+Added: No assurance can be given as to whether current or
+Added: planned clinical trials will be successful or yield favorable data and the trials are subject to many factors including lack of regulatory
+Added: approval(s), lack of study drug, or a change in priorities at the institutions sponsoring other trials.
+Added: In addition, initiation of planned
+Added: clinical trials may not occur secondary to many factors including lack of regulatory approval(s) or lack of study drug.
+Added: Even if these
+Added: clinical trials are initiated, we cannot assure that the clinical studies will be successful or yield any useful data or require additional
+Added: the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus and our prior research into Ampligen’s antiviral activity against Severe Acute Respiratory
+Added: Syndrome, or SARS, we now are focusing on the potential of Ampligen to serve as a protective prophylaxis and an early-onset therapeutic
+Added: for severe respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.
+Added: Our beliefs rely on a number of studies.
+Added: No assurance can be given that future
+Added: studies will not result in findings that are different from those reported in the studies we refer to.
+Added: The pandemic is disrupting world
+Added: health and world economies and most likely will continue to do so for a long time.
+Added: While we are able to continue to operate, clearly,
+Added: like all businesses, we are unable to gauge how bad this pandemic will affect our operations in the future.
+Added: We reached out to numerous
+Added: foreign governments related to COVID-19 and, if successful, will be working in these countries.
+Added: Operating in foreign countries carries
+Added: with it a number of risks, including potential difficulties in enforcing intellectual property rights.
+Added: We cannot assure that our potential
+Added: operations in foreign countries will not be adversely affected by these risks.
+Added: We have filed provisional patent applications related
+Added: to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
+Added: However, these filings do not assure that patents will ultimately be granted.
+Added: February 2013, we received a Complete Response Letter (CRL) from the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, for our Ampligen New Drug
+Added: Application, or NDA, for the treatment of CFS.
+Added: The FDA communicated that we should conduct at least one additional clinical trial, complete
+Added: various nonclinical studies and perform a number of data analyses.
+Added: Accordingly, the remaining steps to potentially gain FDA approval
+Added: of the Ampligen NDA, the final results of these and other ongoing activities could vary materially from our expectations and could adversely
+Added: affect the chances for approval of the Ampligen NDA.
+Added: These activities and the ultimate outcomes are subject to a variety of risks and
+Added: uncertainties, including but not limited to risks that (i) the FDA may ask for additional data, information or studies to be completed
+Added: and (ii) the FDA may require additional work related to the commercial manufacturing process to be completed or may, in
+Added: the course of the inspection of manufacturing facilities, identify issues to be resolved.
+Added: A proposed confirmatory trial and
+Added: responses to the CRL are being worked on now by our R&D team and consultants.
+Added: August 2016, we received approval of our NDA from Administracion Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnologia Medica, or ANMAT, for
+Added: commercial sale of rintatolimod (U.S.
+Added: Ampligen®) in the Argentine Republic for the treatment of severe CFS.
+Added: will be marketed by GP Pharm, our commercial partner in Latin America.
+Added: We believe, but cannot assure, that this approval provides a platform
+Added: for potential sales in certain countries within the European Union under regulations that support cross-border pharmaceutical sales of
+Added: licensed drugs.
+Added: In Europe, approval in a country with a stringent regulatory process in place, such as Argentina, should add further
+Added: validation for the product as the Early Access Program, or EAP, as discussed below and underway in Europe in pancreatic cancer.
+Added: approval is only an initial, but important, step in the overall successful commercialization of our product.
+Added: There are a number of actions
+Added: that must occur before we could be able to commence commercial sales in Argentina.
+Added: In September 2019, we received clearance from the
+Added: FDA to ship Ampligen to Argentina for the commercial launch and subsequent sales.
+Added: We are currently working with GP Pharma on the commercial
+Added: launch of Ampligen in Argentina.
+Added: Commercialization in Argentina will require, among other things, an appropriate reimbursement level,
+Added: appropriate marketing strategies, completion of manufacturing preparations for launch and ANMAT conducting a final inspection of the
product and release tests before granting final approval to begin commercial sales.
−Removed: We have supplied GP Pharm with the Ampligen
−Removed: required for testing and ANMAT release.
−Removed: This testing and approval process is currently delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and
−Removed: ANMAT’s internal processes.
−Removed: Once final approval by ANMAT is obtained, GP Pharm will begin distributing Ampligen in Argentina.
−Removed: We continue to pursue our Ampligen NDA, for the treatment of CFS with the FDA.
−Removed: N Injection is approved for a category of sexually transmitted diseases infection and patients that are intolerant to recombinant
−Removed: interferon in Argentina.
−Removed: Alferon is the only natural-source, multi-species alpha interferon currently approved for sale in the
−Removed: for the intralesional treatment of refractory (resistant to other treatment) or recurring external condylomata acuminata/genital
−Removed: warts (GW) in patients 18 years of age or older.
−Removed: Certain types of human papilloma viruses cause GW.
−Removed: We also have approval from
−Removed: ANMAT for the treatment of refractory patients that failed or were intolerant to treatment with recombinant interferon in Argentina.
−Removed: operate a 30,000 sq.
−Removed: facility in New Brunswick, NJ, where we conduct testing and have produced limited quantities of active
−Removed: pharmaceutical ingredients (“API”) for our products.
−Removed: We have reviewed our operations at the facility and believe that
−Removed: some of the equipment most likely should be upgraded to realize greater efficiencies, when and if we require more API than is
−Removed: currently in storage.
−Removed: We are also exploring engaging a Contract Manufacturing Organization (“CMO”) to produce API.
−Removed: While we believe we have sufficient API to meet our current needs, we are also continually exploring new efficiencies so as to
−Removed: maximize our ability to fulfill future obligations.
+Added: This testing and approval process is currently delayed
+Added: due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ANMAT’s internal processes.
+Added: Approval of rintatolimod for severe CFS in the Argentine Republic
+Added: does not in any way suggest that the Ampligen NDA in the United States or any comparable application filed in the European Union or elsewhere
+Added: will obtain commercial approval.
+Added: May 2016, we entered into a five-year agreement with myTomorrows, a Netherlands based company, for the commencement and management of
+Added: an EAP in Europe and Turkey related to CFS.
+Added: Pursuant to the agreement, myTomorrows, as our exclusive service provider and distributor
+Added: in this territory, is performing EAP activities.
+Added: In January 2017, the EAP was extended to pancreatic cancer patients beginning in the
+Added: In February 2018, we signed an amendment to extend the territory to cover Canada to treat pancreatic cancer patients, pending
+Added: government approval.
+Added: In March 2018, we signed an amendment to which myTomorrows will be our exclusive service provider for special access
+Added: activities in Canada for the supply of Ampligen for the treatment of CFS.
+Added: MyTomorrows provides services related to the supply and distribution
+Added: of Ampligen to patients in Early Access Programs (EAP) which is initiated through a physician’s request;
+Added: there have been no physician
+Added: requests that have led to government approval, therefore no patients have been treated under an EAP for either pancreatic cancer or CFS
+Added: No assurance can be given that we can sufficiently supply product should we experience an unexpected demand for Ampligen in
+Added: our clinical studies, the commercial launch in Argentina or pursuant to the EAPs.
+Added: No assurance can be given that Ampligen will prove
+Added: effective in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
+Added: Ampligen clinical trials are underway, in various phases of development and activity, with a number of subjects enrolled at university
+Added: cancer centers testing whether tumor microenvironments can be reprogrammed to increase the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy, including
+Added: checkpoint blockade.
+Added: One site of clinical trials is Roswell Park and the other is the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
+Added: “Research and Development;
+Added: Immuno-oncology and Pancreatic Cancer”).
+Added: No assurance can be given as to the results of these
+Added: underway trials.
+Added: No assurance can be given as to whether some or all of the planned additional oncology clinical trials will occur and
+Added: they are subject to many factors, including lack of regulatory approval(s), lack of study drug, or a change in priorities at the sponsoring
+Added: universities or cancer centers.
+Added: Even if these additional clinical trials are initiated, as we are not the sponsor, we cannot assure that
+Added: these clinical studies or the studies underway will be successful or yield any useful data.
+Added: In addition, initiation of planned clinical
+Added: trials may not occur secondary to many factors including lack of regulatory approval(s) or lack of study drug.
+Added: Even if these clinical
+Added: trials are initiated, we cannot assure that the clinical studies will be successful or yield any useful data or require additional funding.
+Added: overall objectives include plans to continue seeking approval for commercialization of Ampligen in the United States and abroad as well
+Added: as seeking to broaden commercial therapeutic indications for Alferon N Injection presently approved in the United States and Argentina.
+Added: We continue to pursue senior co-development partners with the capital and expertise needed to commercialize our products and to enter
+Added: into arrangements with them on commercially reasonable terms.
+Added: Our ability to commercialize our products, widen commercial therapeutic
+Added: indications of Alferon N Injection and/or capitalize on our collaborations with research laboratories to examine our products are subject
+Added: to a number of significant risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to our, ability to enter into more definitive agreements
+Added: with some of the research laboratories and others that we are collaborating with, to fund and conduct additional testing and studies,
+Added: whether or not such testing is successful or requires additional testing and meets the requirements of the FDA and comparable foreign
+Added: regulatory agencies.
+Added: We do not know when, if ever, our products will be generally available for commercial sale for any indication.
+Added: strived to maximize the outsourcing of certain components of our manufacturing, quality control, marketing and distribution while maintaining
+Added: control over the entire process through our quality assurance and regulatory groups.
+Added: We cannot provide any guarantee that the facility
+Added: or our contract manufacturers will pass an FDA pre-approval inspection for Alferon N Injection manufacturing.
+Added: production of new Alferon N Injection Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient, or API, is currently on hold.
+Added: While the New Brunswick facility
+Added: is approved by the FDA under the Biological License Application, or BLA, for Alferon N Injection, and we intend to maintain a certain
+Added: amount of space at the to-be-sold facility, the sale of the facility — announced in March 2022 — will move up the timeline
+Added: for contracting with a CMO, or CMOs, capable of producing Alferon, and receiving FDA approval to do so, prior to commercial sale of newly
+Added: produced inventory product.
+Added: If and when we obtain a reaffirmation of FDA BLA status and have begun production of new Alferon N Injection
+Added: API, it will need FDA approval as to the quality and stability of the final product before commercial sales can resume.
+Added: We may need additional
+Added: funds to finance the validation process.
+Added: If we are unable to gain the necessary FDA approvals related to the manufacturing process and/or
+Added: final product of new Alferon N Injection inventory, our operations most likely will be materially and/or adversely affected.
+Added: of these contingencies, there can be no assurances that the approved Alferon N Injection product will be returned to production on a
+Added: timely basis, if at all, or that if and when it is again made commercially available, it will return to prior sales levels.
+Added: December 2020, we added Pharmaceutics International Inc.
+Added: (“Pii”) as a “Fill & Finish” provider to enhance
+Added: our capacity to produce Ampligen.
+Added: This addition amplifies our manufacturing capability by providing redundancy and cost savings.
+Added: contracts augment our active and in-process fill and finish capacity.
+Added: have been delays related to importing Ampligen to China.
+Added: We are working with Smoore to alleviate these issues and to identify a mutually
+Added: beneficial course of action that would allow us to move forward with the proposed testing of Ampligen.
+Added: We will announce when the shipment
+Added: for testing purposes has been completed.
+Added: AIM and Smoore signed a two-year extension of their MTA in May 2021.
+Added: We are exploring avenues
+Added: to further test Ampligen as an inhalation therapy in the United States and Europe, while Smoore continues to work toward receiving authorization
+Added: to import Ampligen to China.
+Added: believe, and are investigating, Ampligen’s potential role in enhancing the activity of influenza vaccines.
+Added: While certain studies
+Added: involving rodents, non-human primates (monkeys) and healthy human subjects indicate that Ampligen may enhance the activity of influenza
+Added: vaccines by conferring increased cross-reactivity or cross-protection, further studies will be required and no assurance can be given
+Added: that Ampligen will assist in the development of a universal vaccine for influenza or other viruses.
+Added: forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified and some
+Added: of which are beyond our control, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events.
+Added: and circumstances reflected in our forward-looking statements may not be achieved or occur and actual results could differ materially
+Added: from those projected in the forward-looking statements.
+Added: Moreover, we operate in an evolving environment.
+Added: New risk factors and uncertainties
+Added: may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for management to predict all risk factors and uncertainties.
+Added: Except as required
+Added: by applicable law, we do not plan to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of
+Added: any new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise.
+Added: Report also refers to estimates and other statistical data made by independent parties and by us relating to market size and growth and
+Added: other data about our industry.
+Added: This data involves a number of assumptions and limitations, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight
+Added: to such estimates.
+Added: In addition, projections, assumptions and estimates of our future performance and the future performance of the markets
+Added: in which we operate are necessarily subject to a high degree of uncertainty and risk.
+Added: COVID-19 coronavirus could adversely impact our business, including our clinical trials.
+Added: We cannot predict the ultimate effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our business
+Added: COVID-19 coronavirus could force the closure of our offices and require workers to work from
+Added: may require additional financing which may not be available.
+Added: may continue to incur substantial losses and our future profitability is uncertain.
+Added: drug and related technologies are investigational and subject to regulatory approval.
+Added: we are unable to obtain regulatory approval in a timely manner, or at all, our operations
+Added: will be materially harmed and our stock adversely affected.
+Added: may be subject to product liability claims from the use of Ampligen, Alferon N Injection,
+Added: or other of our products which could negatively affect our future operations.
+Added: We have limited
+Added: product liability and clinical trial insurance.
+Added: ● Uncertainty
+Added: of health care reimbursement for our products.
+Added: are risks of liabilities associated with handling and disposing of hazardous materials.
+Added: rely upon information technology and any failure, inadequacy, interruption or security lapse
+Added: of that technology, including any cyber security incidents, could harm our ability to operate
+Added: our business effectively.
+Added: loss of services of key personnel could hurt our chances for success.
+Added: Associated with Our Products
+Added: side effects from the use of Ampligen or Alferon N Injection could adversely affect potential
+Added: revenues and physician/patient acceptability of our product.
+Added: Related to our activities associated with Ampligen’s potential effectiveness as a treatment for SARS-CoV-2
+Added: is not possible to predict the future of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic or the development
+Added: of potential treatments.
+Added: No assurance can be given that Ampligen will aid in or be applied
+Added: to the treatment of this virus.
+Added: in foreign countries carries with it many risks.
+Added: Associated with Our Intellectual Property
+Added: may not be profitable unless we can protect our patents and/or receive approval for additional
+Added: pending patents.
+Added: patent position of biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms is highly uncertain and involves
+Added: complex legal and factual questions.
+Added: can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain necessary licenses if we cannot enforce
+Added: patent rights we may hold.
+Added: In addition, the failure of third parties from whom we currently
+Added: license certain proprietary information or from whom we may be required to obtain such licenses
+Added: in the future, to adequately enforce their rights to such proprietary information, could
+Added: adversely affect the value of such licenses to us.
+Added: is no guarantee that our trade secrets will not be disclosed or known by our competitors.
+Added: Associated with Our R&D
+Added: cannot predict what additional studies and/or additional testing or information may be required
+Added: Accordingly, we are unable to estimate the nature, timing, costs and necessary
+Added: efforts to complete these projects nor the anticipated completion dates.
+Added: In addition, we
+Added: have no basis for estimating when material net cash inflows may commence.
+Added: We have yet to
+Added: generate significant revenues from the sale of these developmental products.
+Added: Associated with Our Manufacturing
+Added: Alferon N Injection Commercial Sales were halted due to lack of finished goods inventory.
+Added: If we are unable to gain the necessary FDA approvals related to Alferon N Injection, or if
+Added: we are unable to identify a CMO or CMOs that meet our requirements, then our operations would
+Added: most likely be materially and/or adversely affected.
+Added: are no long-term agreements with suppliers of required materials and services for Ampligen
+Added: and there are a limited number of raw material suppliers.
+Added: If we are unable to obtain the
+Added: required raw materials and/or services, we may not be able to manufacture Ampligen.
+Added: are a limited number of organizations in the United States available to provide the final
+Added: manufacturing steps of formulation, fill, finish and packing sets for Alferon N Injection
+Added: and Ampligen.
+Added: is no assurance that upon successful manufacture of a drug on a limited scale basis for investigational
+Added: use will lead to a successful transition to commercial, large-scale production.
+Added: have limited manufacturing experience for Ampligen and Alferon N Injection.
+Added: We may not be
+Added: profitable unless we can produce Ampligen, Alferon N Injection or other products in commercial
+Added: quantities at costs acceptable to us.
+Added: Associated with Our Licensing/Collaborations/Joint Ventures
+Added: we are unable to achieve licensing, collaboration and/or joint ventures, our marketing strategy
+Added: for Ampligen will be part of the differing health care systems around the world along with
+Added: the different marketing and distribution systems that are used to supply pharmaceutical products
+Added: to those systems.
+Added: Associated with Our Marketing and Distribution
+Added: have limited marketing and sales capability.
+Added: If we are unable to obtain additional distributors
+Added: and our current and future distributors do not market our products successfully, we may not
+Added: generate significant revenues or become profitable.
+Added: Associated with Our Competition
+Added: technological change may render our products obsolete or non-competitive.
+Added: products may be subject to substantial competition.
+Added: Associated with an Investment in Our Common Stock
+Added: market price of our stock may be adversely affected by market volatility
+Added: of a significant number of shares of our common stock in the public markets, or the perception
+Added: that such sales could occur, could depress the market price of our common stock.
+Added: of our Certificate of Incorporation and Delaware law could defer a change of our Management
+Added: which could discourage or delay offers to acquire us.
are subject to the information and periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and, in accordance therewith, we file periodic
reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC.
−Removed: Such periodic reports, proxy statements and other information are
−Removed: available for inspection and copying at the website of the SEC www.sec.com.
−Removed: You also may obtain a free copy of our annual reports
−Removed: on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and amendments to those reports on
−Removed: the day of filing with the SEC on our website at http://www.aimimmuno.com under the Investor Relations tab for SEC Filings or
−Removed: by contacting the Investor Relations Department by calling 888-557-6480 or (352) 448-7797 or sending an e-mail message to ir@aimimmuno.com .
−Removed: Our Internet website and the information contained on that website, or accessible from our website, is not intended to be incorporated
−Removed: into this Annual Report on Form 10-K or any other filings we make with the SEC.
−Removed: primary pharmaceutical product platform consists of Ampligen®, a first-in-class drug of large macromolecular double-stranded
−Removed: (ds) RNA (ribonucleic acid) molecules, and our FDA-approved natural alpha-interferon product, Alferon N Injection®.
−Removed: Ampligen®
−Removed: is approved for sale in Argentina for severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and is an experimental drug in the United States
−Removed: currently undergoing clinical development for the treatment of certain cancers and ME/CFS.
−Removed: Over its developmental history,
−Removed: Ampligen has received various designations, including Orphan Drug Product Designation (FDA and European Medicines Agency
−Removed: (“EMA”)), Treatment protocol (e.g., “Expanded Access”
−Removed: or “Compassionate”
−Removed: authorization) with Cost Recovery Authorization (FDA) and “promising”
−Removed: clinical outcome recognition based on the
−Removed: evaluation of certain summary clinical reports (“AHRQ”
+Added: Such periodic reports, proxy statements and other information are available
+Added: for inspection and copying at the website of the SEC www.sec.gov .
+Added: You also may obtain a free copy of our annual reports on Form
+Added: 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and amendments to those reports on the day of filing
+Added: with the SEC on our website at http://www.aimimmuno.com under the Investor Relations tab for SEC Filings or by contacting the
+Added: Investor Relations Department by calling (833) 475-8247 or (352) 448-7797 or sending an e-mail message to AIM@jtcir.com.
+Added: website and the information contained on that website, or accessible from our website, is not intended to be incorporated into this Annual
+Added: Report on Form 10-K or any other filings we make with the SEC.
+Added: primary pharmaceutical product platform consists of Ampligen (rintatolimod), a first-in-class drug of large macromolecular double-stranded
+Added: (ds) RNA (ribonucleic acid) molecules, and our FDA-approved natural alpha-interferon product, Alferon N Injection.
+Added: is approved for sale in Argentina (to 2026) for severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (“CFS”) and is an experimental drug
+Added: in the United States currently undergoing clinical development for the treatment of certain cancers and ME/CFS.
+Added: Over its developmental
+Added: history, Ampligen has received various designations, including Orphan Drug Product Designation (FDA and European Medicines Agency [“EMA”]),
+Added: Treatment protocol (e.g., “Expanded Access” or “Compassionate” use authorization) with Cost Recovery Authorization
+Added: (FDA) and “promising” clinical outcome recognition based on the evaluation of certain summary clinical reports (“AHRQ”
or Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality).
−Removed: represents the first drug in the class of large (macromolecular) dsRNA molecules to apply for NDA review.
−Removed: results of published, peer reviewed pre-clinical studies and clinical trials, we believe that Ampligen may have
−Removed: broad-spectrum anti-viral and anti-cancer properties.
−Removed: We believe that nucleic acid compounds represent a potential new class
−Removed: of pharmaceutical products designed to act at the molecular level for treatment of many human diseases.
−Removed: There are two forms
−Removed: of nucleic acids, deoxyribonucleic acid (“DNA”) and ribonucleic acid (“RNA”).
−Removed: DNA is a group of
−Removed: naturally occurring molecules found in chromosomes, the cell’s genetic machinery.
−Removed: RNA is a group of naturally occurring
−Removed: informational molecules which orchestrate a cell’s behavior which, in turn, regulates the action of groups of cells,
−Removed: including the cells which compromise the body’s immune system.
−Removed: RNA directs the production of proteins and regulates
−Removed: certain cell activities including the activation of an otherwise dormant cellular defense against viruses and tumors.
−Removed: drug technology utilizes specifically-configured RNA and is a selective Toll-like Receptor 3 (TLR3) agonist that is
−Removed: administered intravenously.
−Removed: Ampligen has been assigned the generic name rintatolimod by the United States Adopted Names
−Removed: Council (USANC) and has the chemical designation poly(I):poly(C 12 U).
−Removed: trials of Ampligen that have been conducted or that are ongoing include studies of the potential treatment of patients with renal
−Removed: cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma, non-small cell lung, ovarian, breast, colorectal, prostate and pancreatic cancer, ME/CFS,
−Removed: Hepatitis B and HIV.
−Removed: have received approval of our NDA from ANMAT for commercial sale of rintatolimod (U.S.
−Removed: Ampligen) in the Argentine Republic
−Removed: for the treatment of severe CFS.
+Added: Based on the results of published, peer-reviewed pre-clinical studies and clinical trials,
+Added: we believe that Ampligen may have broad-spectrum antiviral and anti-cancer properties.
+Added: believe that nucleic acid compounds represent a potential new class of pharmaceutical products designed to act at the molecular level
+Added: for treatment of many human diseases.
+Added: Ampligen represents the first drug in the class of large (macromolecular) dsRNA molecules to apply
+Added: for NDA review.
+Added: There are two forms of nucleic acids:
+Added: deoxyribonucleic acid (“DNA”) and ribonucleic acid (“RNA”).
+Added: DNA is a group of naturally occurring molecules found in chromosomes, the cell’s genetic machinery.
+Added: RNA is a group of naturally
+Added: occurring informational molecules which orchestrate a cell’s behavior which, in turn, regulates the action of groups of cells,
+Added: including the cells which comprise the body’s immune system.
+Added: RNA directs the production of proteins and regulates certain cell
+Added: activities including the activation of an otherwise dormant cellular defense against viruses and tumors.
+Added: Our drug technology utilizes
+Added: specifically configured RNA and is a selective Toll-like Receptor 3 (“TLR3”) agonist that can be administered intravenously,
+Added: intranasally and intraperitoneally.
+Added: Ampligen has been assigned the generic name rintatolimod by the United States Adopted Names Council
+Added: (“USANC”) and has the chemical designation poly(I):poly(C 12 U).
+Added: Access Program/Early Access Programs/clinical trials of Ampligen that have been conducted or that are ongoing include studies of the
+Added: potential treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer,
+Added: colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, ME/CFS, Hepatitis B, HIV, COVID-19 and Post-COVID conditions.
+Added: have received approval of our NDA from ANMAT for the commercial sale of Ampligen in the Argentine Republic for the treatment of severe
The product will be marketed by GP Pharm, our commercial partner in Latin America.
−Removed: 19, 2019, we received clearance from the FDA to ship Ampligen to Argentina for the commercial launch and subsequent sales.
−Removed: are currently working with GP Pharm on the commercial launch of Ampligen in Argentina.
−Removed: Commercialization in Argentina will require,
−Removed: among other things, GP Pharm to establish disease awareness, medical education, creation of an appropriate reimbursement level,
−Removed: design of marketing strategies and completion of manufacturing preparations for launch and ANMAT conducting a final inspection
−Removed: of the product and release tests before granting final approval to begin commercial sales.
−Removed: This testing and approval process is
−Removed: currently delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ANMAT’s internal processes.
−Removed: Once final approval by ANMAT is obtained,
−Removed: GP Pharm will begin distributing Ampligen in Argentina.
−Removed: We continue to pursue our Ampligen NDA, for the treatment of CFS with
−Removed: FDA has authorized an open-label expanded access treatment protocol, (“AMP-511”), allowing patient access to Ampligen
−Removed: in an open-label safety study under which severely debilitated CFS patients have the opportunity to be on Ampligen to treat this
−Removed: very serious and chronic condition.
−Removed: The data collected from the AMP-511 protocol through clinical sites provide safety information
−Removed: regarding the use of Ampligen in patients with CFS.
−Removed: We are establishing an enlarged data base of clinical safety information which
−Removed: we believe will provide further documentation regarding the absence of autoimmune disease associated with Ampligen treatment.
−Removed: We believe that continued efforts to understand existing data, and to advance the development of new data and information, will
−Removed: ultimately support our future filings for Ampligen and/or the design of future clinical studies that the FDA requested in a complete
−Removed: response letter.
−Removed: The FDA approved the increase reimbursement level from $200 to $345 per 200 mg vial of Ampligen, due to increased
−Removed: production costs;
−Removed: which was re-authorized in 2020.
−Removed: At this time, we do not plan on passing this adjustment along to the patients
−Removed: in this program.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2020, there are 10 patients enrolled in this open-label expanded access treatment protocol.
−Removed: In October 2020, we received Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for the expansion of the AMP-511 Expanded Access Program
−Removed: (EAP) clinical trial for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) to include patients previously diagnosed
−Removed: with SARS-CoV-2 following clearance of the virus, but who still demonstrate chronic fatigue-like symptoms.
−Removed: May 2016, we entered into a five-year agreement with myTomorrows, a Netherlands based company, for the commencement and management
−Removed: of an Early Access Program (“EAP”) in Europe and Turkey (the “Territory”) related to ME/CFS.
−Removed: to the agreement, as amended, myTomorrows also will manage all Early Access Programs and Special Access Programs in Europe, Canada
−Removed: and Turkey to treat pancreatic cancer and ME/CFS patients.
−Removed: April 2018, we completed data analysis of an intranasal human safety study of Ampligen plus FluMist®
−Removed: known as AMP-600.
−Removed: study was previously closed after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) recommended against the
−Removed: use of FluMist®.
−Removed: Intranasal Ampligen in combination with FluMist®
−Removed: was generally well-tolerated in the study.
−Removed: June 2018, Ampligen was cited as outperforming two other TLR3 agonists, poly IC and natural double stranded RNA, in creating an
−Removed: enhanced tumor microenvironment for checkpoint blockage therapy in the journal of Cancer Research ( http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2018/05/31/0008-5472.CAN-17-3985 ).
−Removed: In a head-to-head study in explant culture models, Ampligen activated the TLR3 pathway and promoted an accumulation of killer
−Removed: T cells but, unlike the other two TLR3 agonists, it did so without causing regulatory T cell (Treg) attraction.
−Removed: These findings
−Removed: were considered important because they indicate that Ampligen selectively reprograms the tumor microenvironment by inducing the
−Removed: beneficial aspects of tumor inflammation (attracting killer T cells), without amplifying immune suppressive elements such as regulatory
−Removed: The study was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh and Roswell Park as a part of the NIH-funded P01 CA132714 and
−Removed: Ovarian Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE).
−Removed: Based upon these findings we and Roswell Park expanded our
−Removed: existing scientific collaboration to advance the clinical development of Ampligen which has shown promise in preclinical studies
−Removed: when combined with checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs).
−Removed: The parties executed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) designed
−Removed: to further assess the clinical potential of Ampligen in treating certain cancers.
−Removed: This phase I/II study will evaluate the potential
−Removed: of Ampligen to enhance the immune mediated effects of CPIs in patients with advanced solid tumors including bladder, melanoma
−Removed: and renal cell carcinoma.
−Removed: At the moment, this study is on hold as we await updates and next steps from Roswell Park.
−Removed: 2018, we completed production of two commercial-size batches of more than 16,000 vials of Ampligen, following its “Fill
−Removed: & Finish”
+Added: Shipment of the drug product to Argentina was
+Added: initiated in 2018 to complete the release testing by ANMAT needed for commercial distribution.
+Added: In September 2019, we received clearance
+Added: from the FDA to ship Ampligen to Argentina for the commercial launch and subsequent sales.
+Added: In June 2020, we received import clearance
+Added: from ANMAT to import the first shipment of commercial grade vials of Ampligen into Argentina.
+Added: We are currently working with GP Pharm
+Added: on the commercial launch of Ampligen in Argentina.
+Added: Commercialization in Argentina will require, among other things, GP Pharm to establish
+Added: disease awareness, medical education, creation of an appropriate reimbursement level, design of marketing strategies and completion of
+Added: manufacturing preparations for launch and ANMAT conducting a final inspection of the product and release tests before granting final
+Added: approval to begin commercial sales.
+Added: AIM has supplied GP Pharm with the Ampligen required for testing and ANMAT release.
+Added: and approval process is currently delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ANMAT’s internal processes.
+Added: The ongoing impact of COVID-19
+Added: in Argentina is taxing the nation’s health care system and is, understandably, the main priority of its regulators.
+Added: approval by ANMAT is obtained, GP Pharm will begin distributing Ampligen in Argentina.
+Added: We continue to pursue our Ampligen NDA, for the
+Added: treatment of CFS with the FDA.
+Added: FDA has authorized an open-label expanded access treatment protocol (“AMP-511”) allowing patient access to Ampligen in a
+Added: study under which severely debilitated CFS patients have the opportunity to be on Ampligen to treat this very serious and chronic condition.
+Added: The AMP-511 protocol started in the 1990s and is ongoing.
+Added: The data collected from the AMP-511 protocol through clinical sites provide
+Added: safety information regarding the use of Ampligen in patients with CFS.
+Added: We are establishing an enlarged database of clinical safety information
+Added: which we believe will provide further documentation regarding the absence of autoimmune disease associated with Ampligen treatment.
+Added: believe that continued efforts to understand existing data, and to advance the development of new data and information, will ultimately
+Added: support our future filings for Ampligen and/or the design of future clinical studies that the FDA requested in a CRL.
+Added: The FDA approved
+Added: an increased reimbursement level from $200 to $345 per 200 mg vial of Ampligen, due to increased production costs;
+Added: which was re-authorized
+Added: At this time, we do not plan on passing this adjustment along to the patients in this program.
+Added: As of December 31, 2021, there
+Added: are 11 patients enrolled in this open-label expanded access treatment protocol (including 2 post-COVID-19 patients with cognitive dysfunction).
+Added: In October 2020, we received IRB approval for the expansion of the AMP-511 Expanded Access Program clinical trial for ME/CFS to include
+Added: patients previously diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 following clearance of the virus, but who still demonstrate chronic fatigue-like symptoms;
+Added: four of the 11 patients enrolled have post-COVID chronic-fatigue-like symptoms.
+Added: Early data from the ongoing AMP-511 Expanded Access
+Added: Program has indicated that patients with cognitive function deficiency have reported improvements in cognitive function after Ampligen
+Added: May 2016, we entered into a five-year agreement with myTomorrows, a Netherlands based company, for the commencement and management of
+Added: an Early Access Program (“EAP”) in Europe and Turkey (the “Territory”) related to ME/CFS.
+Added: Pursuant to the agreement,
+Added: as amended, myTomorrows also is managing all Early Access Programs and Special Access Programs in Europe, Canada and Turkey to treat
+Added: pancreatic cancer and ME/CFS patients.
+Added: The agreement was automatically extended for a period of 12 months on May 20, 2021, and will automatically
+Added: extend for an additional period of 12 months on May 20, 2022.
+Added: April 2018, we completed data analysis of an intranasal human safety study of Ampligen-plus-FluMist®, known as AMP-600.
+Added: was previously closed after the U.S.
+Added: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) made a general recommendation against
+Added: the use of FluMist® at that time.
+Added: Intranasal Ampligen in combination with FluMist® was generally well-tolerated in the study.
+Added: June 2018, Ampligen was cited as outperforming two other TLR3 agonists — poly IC and natural double stranded RNA — in creating
+Added: an enhanced tumor microenvironment for checkpoint blockage therapy in the journal of Cancer Research ( http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2018/05/31/0008-5472.CAN-17-3985 ).
+Added: In a head-to-head study in explant culture models, Ampligen activated the TLR3 pathway and promoted an accumulation of killer T cells
+Added: but, unlike the other two TLR3 agonists, it did so without causing regulatory T cell (Treg) attraction.
+Added: These findings were considered
+Added: important because they indicate that Ampligen selectively reprograms the tumor microenvironment by inducing the beneficial aspects of
+Added: tumor inflammation (attracting killer T cells), without amplifying immune-suppressive elements such as regulatory T cells.
+Added: was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh and Roswell Park as a part of the NIH-funded P01 CA132714 and Ovarian Cancer Specialized
+Added: Program of Research Excellence (“SPORE”).
+Added: 2018, we completed production of two commercial-size batches of more than 16,000 vials of Ampligen, following its “Fill & Finish”
at Jubilant HollisterStier, the Contract Manufacturing Organization.
−Removed: These lots passed all required testing
−Removed: for regulatory release for human use and are being used for multiple programs including the treatment of ME/CFS, the pancreatic
−Removed: cancer EAP in the Netherlands, and will continue to be used for ongoing and future clinical studies in oncology.
−Removed: Additionally,
−Removed: two lots of Ampligen were manufactured in December 2019 and January 2020 at Jubilant.
−Removed: The current manufactured lots of Ampligen
−Removed: have been fully tested and released for commercial product launch in Argentina and for clinical trials.
−Removed: Additionally, in December
−Removed: 2020, we added Pharmaceutics International Inc.
−Removed: (“Pii”) as a “Fill & Finish”
−Removed: provider to enhance our
−Removed: capacity to produce Ampligen.
−Removed: This addition amplifies our manufacturing capability by providing redundancy and cost savings.
−Removed: contracts augment our existing fill and finish capacity.
−Removed: N Injection®
+Added: These lots passed all required testing for regulatory release for
+Added: human use and are being used for multiple programs, including the treatment of ME/CFS, the pancreatic cancer EAP in the Netherlands,
+Added: and will continue to be used for ongoing and future clinical studies in oncology.
+Added: Additionally, two lots of Ampligen were manufactured
+Added: in December 2019 and January 2020 at Jubilant HollisterStier.
+Added: The current manufactured lots of Ampligen have been fully tested and released
+Added: for commercial product launch in Argentina and for clinical trials.
+Added: Additionally, in December 2020, we added Pharmaceutics International
+Added: (“Pii”) as a “Fill & Finish” provider to enhance our capacity to produce Ampligen.
+Added: This addition amplifies
+Added: our manufacturing capability by providing redundancy and cost savings.
+Added: The contracts augment our active and in-process fill and finish
N Injection is the registered trademark for our injectable formulation of natural alpha interferon.
−Removed: Alferon is the only natural-source,
−Removed: multi-species alpha interferon currently approved for sale in the U.S.
−Removed: and Argentina for the intralesional (within lesions) treatment
−Removed: of refractory (resistant to other treatment) or recurring external genital warts in patients 18 years of age or older.
−Removed: is also approved in Argentina for the treatment of refractory patients that failed or were intolerant to treatment with recombinant
−Removed: Certain types of human papilloma viruses (“HPV”) cause genital warts, a sexually transmitted disease
−Removed: (“STD”).
−Removed: According to the CDC, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection, with approximately 79 million
−Removed: Americans —
−Removed: most in their late teens and early 20s —
−Removed: infected with HPV.
−Removed: In fact, the CDC states that “HPV is
−Removed: so common that nearly all sexually active men and women get the virus at some point in their lives.”
−Removed: Although they do not
−Removed: usually result in death, genital warts commonly recur, causing significant morbidity and entail substantial health care costs.
+Added: Alferon N Injection is the only natural-source,
+Added: multi-species alpha interferon currently approved for sale in the United States and Argentina for the intralesional (within lesions)
+Added: treatment of refractory (resistant to other treatment) or recurring external genital warts in patients 18 years of age or older.
+Added: N Injection is also approved in Argentina for the treatment of refractory patients that failed or were intolerant to treatment with recombinant
+Added: Certain types of human papilloma viruses (“HPV”) cause genital warts, a sexually transmitted disease (“STD”).
+Added: According to the CDC, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection, with approximately 79 million Americans — most in
+Added: their late teens and early 20s — infected with HPV.
+Added: In fact, the CDC states that “HPV is so common that nearly all sexually
+Added: active men and women get the virus at some point in their lives.” Although they do not usually result in death, genital warts commonly
+Added: recur, causing significant morbidity and entail substantial health care costs.
are a group of proteins produced and secreted by cells to combat diseases.
−Removed: Researchers have identified four major classes of human
+Added: Researchers have identified four major classes of human interferon:
alpha, beta, gamma and omega.
Alferon N Injection contains a multi-species form of alpha interferon.
−Removed: The world-wide
−Removed: market for injectable alpha interferon-based products has experienced rapid growth and various alpha interferon injectable products
−Removed: are approved for many major medical uses worldwide.
+Added: The worldwide market for injectable
+Added: alpha interferon-based products has experienced rapid growth and various alpha interferon injectable products are approved for many major
+Added: medical uses worldwide.
Alpha interferons are manufactured commercially in three ways:
−Removed: engineering, by cell culture, and from human white blood cells.
−Removed: All three of these types of alpha interferon are or were approved
−Removed: for commercial sale in the U.S.
+Added: by genetic engineering, by cell culture, and from
+Added: human white blood cells.
+Added: All three of these types of alpha interferon are or were approved for commercial sale in the United States.
Our natural alpha interferon is produced from human white blood cells.
−Removed: potential advantages of natural alpha interferon over recombinant (synthetic) interferon produced and marketed by other pharmaceutical
−Removed: firms may be based upon their respective molecular compositions.
−Removed: Natural alpha interferon is composed of a family of proteins
−Removed: containing many molecular species of interferon.
−Removed: In contrast, commercial recombinant alpha interferon products each contain only
−Removed: a single species.
−Removed: Researchers have reported that the various species of interferons may have differing antiviral activity depending
−Removed: upon the type of virus.
−Removed: Natural alpha interferon presents a broad complement of species, which we believe may account for its
−Removed: higher activity in laboratory studies.
−Removed: Natural alpha interferon is also glycosylated (partially covered with sugar molecules).
−Removed: Such glycosylation is not present on the currently U.S.
−Removed: marketed recombinant alpha interferons.
−Removed: We believe that the absence of
−Removed: glycosylation may be, in part, responsible for the production of interferon-neutralizing antibodies seen in patients treated with
−Removed: recombinant alpha interferon.
+Added: The potential advantages of natural alpha interferon over recombinant
+Added: (i.e., synthetic) interferon produced and marketed by other pharmaceutical firms may be based upon their respective molecular compositions.
+Added: Natural alpha interferon is composed of a family of proteins containing many molecular species of interferon.
+Added: In contrast, commercial
+Added: recombinant alpha interferon products each contain only a single species.
+Added: Researchers have reported that the various species of interferons
+Added: may have differing antiviral activity depending upon the type of virus.
+Added: Natural alpha interferon presents a broad complement of species,
+Added: which we believe may account for its higher activity in laboratory studies.
+Added: Natural alpha interferon is also glycosylated (i.e., partially
+Added: covered with sugar molecules).
+Added: Such glycosylation is not present on the currently U.S.-marketed recombinant alpha interferons.
+Added: that the absence of glycosylation may be in part responsible for the production of interferon-neutralizing antibodies seen in patients
+Added: treated with recombinant alpha interferon.
Although cell culture-derived interferon is also composed of multiple glycosylated alpha interferon
species, the types and relative quantity of these species are different from our natural alpha interferon.
−Removed: N Injection [Interferon alfa-n3 (human leukocyte derived)] is a highly purified, natural-source, glycosylated, multi-species alpha
−Removed: interferon product.
−Removed: There are essentially no neutralizing antibodies observed against Alferon N Injection to date and the product
−Removed: has a relatively low side-effect profile.
−Removed: The recombinant DNA derived alpha interferon formulations have been reported to have
−Removed: decreased effectiveness after one year of treatment, probably due to neutralizing antibody formation.
−Removed: “Manufacturing”
−Removed: and “Marketing/Distribution”
−Removed: sections below for more details on the manufacture and marketing/distribution
−Removed: of Alferon N Injection.
+Added: N Injection [Interferon alfa-n3 (human leukocyte derived)] is a highly purified, natural-source, glycosylated, multi-species alpha interferon
+Added: There are essentially no neutralizing antibodies observed against Alferon N Injection to date and the product has a relatively
+Added: low side-effect profile.
+Added: The recombinant DNA derived alpha interferon formulations have been reported to have decreased effectiveness
+Added: after one year of treatment, probably due to neutralizing antibody formation (See “Manufacturing” and “Marketing/Distribution”
+Added: sections below for more details on the manufacture and marketing/distribution of Alferon N Injection).
AND NON-PATENT EXCLUSIVITY RIGHTS
of December 31, 2021, we had 44 patents worldwide with 39 additional pending patent applications comprising our intellectual property.
−Removed: Please see “Note 5:
−Removed: Patents, Trademark Rights and Other Intangibles (FASB ASC 350 General Intangibles Other than Goodwill)”
+Added: Please see “Note 5:
+Added: Patents, Trademark Rights and Other Intangibles (FASB ASC 350 General Intangibles Other than Goodwill)”
under Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for more information on these patents.
−Removed: We continually review our patents’
−Removed: rights to determine whether they have continuing value.
−Removed: February 2020, we filed three provisional patent applications related to Ampligen in our efforts toward joining the global health
−Removed: community in the fight against SARS-CoV-2.
+Added: We continually review our patents’ rights
+Added: to determine whether they have continuing value.
+Added: February 2020, we filed three provisional patent applications related to Ampligen in our efforts toward joining the global health community
+Added: in the fight against SARS-CoV-2.
These include:
1) Ampligen as a therapy and prophylaxis for COVID-19;
−Removed: as part of a proposed intranasal universal coronavirus vaccine;
+Added: 2) Ampligen as part of a proposed
+Added: intranasal universal coronavirus vaccine;
and 3) a high-volume manufacturing process for Ampligen.
2016, we received a new Ampligen composition of matter patent in the US (#9,315,538).
−Removed: In 2015, we were granted a new composition
−Removed: of matter patent (#2340307) by the European Patent Office and we received twenty-eight new patents in various EU countries.
−Removed: 2014, we were granted a new composition of matter patent in the United States (#8722874) covering Ampligen formulations.
+Added: In 2015, we were granted a new composition of matter
+Added: patent (#2340307) by the European Patent Office and we received twenty-eight new patents in various EU countries.
+Added: In 2014, we were granted
+Added: a new composition of matter patent in the United States (#8722874) covering Ampligen formulations.
Ampligen U.S.
−Removed: CFS treatment patent (#6130206) expired October 10, 2017 (we believe that the expiration of this patent will have
−Removed: minimal impact on us;
+Added: CFS treatment patent (#6130206) expired October 10, 2017 (we believe that the expiration of this patent will have minimal
+Added: impact on us;
see details on U.S.
#9315538, U.S.
−Removed: #8722874 and the information from the FDA has granted “orphan drug
−Removed: status”
+Added: #8722874 and the information from the FDA has granted “orphan drug status”
to the drug for CFS below).
Ampligen Trademark (#73617687) has been renewed through December 6, 2028.
−Removed: therapeutic use patent applications are pending.
+Added: New therapeutic use patent
+Added: applications are pending.
On May 13, 2014, the United States Patent Office issued patent U.S.
−Removed: titled “Double-Stranded Ribonucleic Acids with Rugged Physiochemical Structure and Highly Specific Biologic Activity,”
−Removed: with all rights assigned to us.
+Added: #8722874 titled “Double-Stranded
+Added: Ribonucleic Acids with Rugged Physiochemical Structure and Highly Specific Biologic Activity,” with all rights assigned to us.
The patent claims a novel form of rugged dsRNA.
−Removed: Rugged dsRNA are nucleic acids with a unique composition
−Removed: and physical characteristic identified with high specificity of binding to Toll-Like Receptor 3 (TLR3), thereby conveying an important
−Removed: range of therapeutic opportunities.
−Removed: The newly discovered form of dsRNA has increased bioactivity and binding affinity to the TLR
−Removed: 3 receptor because of its reduced tendency to form branched dsRNA which can inhibit receptor binding.
−Removed: Pharmaceutical formulations
−Removed: containing the newly discovered nucleic acid as active ingredients and methods of treatment with those formulations are also described
−Removed: in the issued patent.
−Removed: We believe that the issuance of U.S.
−Removed: Patents #9315538 and #8722874 will help ensure that we retain patent
−Removed: protection for novel formulations of Ampligen products until at least 2029.
+Added: Rugged dsRNA are nucleic acids with a unique composition and physical characteristic
+Added: identified with high specificity of binding to Toll-Like Receptor 3 (TLR3), thereby conveying an important range of therapeutic opportunities.
+Added: The newly discovered form of dsRNA has increased bioactivity and binding affinity to the TLR 3 receptor because of its reduced tendency
+Added: to form branched dsRNA which can inhibit receptor binding.
+Added: Pharmaceutical formulations containing the newly discovered nucleic acid as
+Added: active ingredients and methods of treatment with those formulations are also described in the issued patent.
+Added: We believe that the issuance
+Added: Patents #9315538 and #8722874 will help ensure that we retain patent protection for novel formulations of Ampligen products until
+Added: at least 2029.
September 2015, the European Patent Office granted the European version of U.S.
Patent #9315538, with all rights assigned to us.
−Removed: addition to our patent rights relating to Ampligen, the FDA has granted “orphan drug status”
−Removed: to the drug for CFS,
−Removed: HIV/AIDS, renal cell carcinoma, pancreatic cancer, and malignant melanoma.
−Removed: Orphan drug status grants us protection against the
−Removed: potential subsequent approval of other sponsors’
−Removed: versions of the drug for these uses for a period of seven years following
−Removed: FDA approval of Ampligen for each of these designated uses.
−Removed: The first NDA approval for Ampligen as a new chemical entity will
−Removed: also qualify for four or five years of non-patent exclusivity during which abbreviated new drug applications seeking approval
−Removed: to market generic versions of the drug cannot be submitted to the FDA.
−Removed: (See “Government Regulation”
−Removed: May 2011, a new United States Patent #7943147 was granted for the use of Ampligen as a vaccine adjuvant for use with seasonal
−Removed: influenza vaccine to induce an enhanced immune response against H5N1 avian influenza.
−Removed: respect to Alferon, the composition is a complex mixture of natural interferon species that is manufactured from human leukocytes
+Added: addition to our patent rights relating to Ampligen, the FDA has granted “orphan drug status” to the drug for CFS, HIV/AIDS,
+Added: renal cell carcinoma, pancreatic cancer, and malignant melanoma.
+Added: Orphan drug status grants us protection against the potential subsequent
+Added: approval of other sponsors’ versions of the drug for these uses for a period of seven years following FDA approval of Ampligen
+Added: for each of these designated uses.
+Added: The first NDA approval for Ampligen as a new chemical entity will also qualify for four or five years
+Added: of non-patent exclusivity during which abbreviated new drug applications seeking approval to market generic versions of the drug cannot
+Added: be submitted to the FDA.
+Added: (See “Government Regulation” below.)
+Added: May 2011, a new United States Patent #7943147 was granted for the use of Ampligen as a vaccine adjuvant for use with seasonal influenza
+Added: vaccine to induce an enhanced immune response against H5N1 avian influenza.
+Added: In March 2021, we were granted
+Added: a patent by the Netherlands Patent Office with granted patent claims that include, but are not limited to, the use of Ampligen as a combination
+Added: cancer therapy with checkpoint blockade inhibitors (e.g.
+Added: pembrolizumab, nivolumab).
+Added: respect to Alferon N Injection, the composition is a complex mixture of natural interferon species that is manufactured from human leukocytes
obtained from human blood donors.
−Removed: In addition, while it is the current standard by the FDA to treat biological drug products like
−Removed: interferon as “Well Characterized”
−Removed: biologics, a process for which chemical entities can have their identity, purity,
−Removed: impurities, potency, and quality controlled by chemical testing, Alferon, as a natural interferon, does not lend itself well to
−Removed: such testing.
−Removed: Moreover, FDA continues to require that each lot of Alferon we produce be tested and released by the FDA before
−Removed: it can be distributed for commercial sales.
−Removed: Because of the complexity of the Alferon manufacturing process and these additional
−Removed: regulatory requirements, we believe that potential manufacturers of generic, or so-called “bio-similar,”
−Removed: drug products
−Removed: are focused on developing recombinant interferon products, rather than natural interferon products.
−Removed: For these reasons, we believe
−Removed: that not having patent protection should have no or little impact on us.
−Removed: Additionally, at the receipt of the FDA certification
−Removed: for the revised Alferon manufacturing process and techniques in New Brunswick, NJ, it is our intention to file for additional
−Removed: patent protection.
−Removed: AND DEVELOPMENT (“R&D”)
−Removed: general focus during the past several fiscal years has been on the clinical development of new drug therapies based on natural
−Removed: immune system enhancing technologies for the treatment of immune-based disorders including cancer and CFS.
−Removed: While we have previously
−Removed: estimated milestone dates when significant progress could be reported, the reality of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic could mean
−Removed: the re-direction of resources away from ongoing clinical trials and toward the research and development of potential treatments
−Removed: for the coronavirus.
−Removed: In this regard, we have widened our focus to include research and development of potential therapeutic
−Removed: applications for the treatment of COVID-19, including the long-term effects of COVID-19.
−Removed: have been working with the University of Pittsburgh’s chemokine modulation research initiative which includes the use of
−Removed: Ampligen as a potential adjuvant to modify the tumor microenvironment (TME) with the goal of increasing anti-tumor responses to
+Added: In addition, while it is the current standard by the FDA to treat biological drug products like interferon
+Added: as “Well Characterized” biologics, a process for which chemical entities can have their identity, purity, impurities, potency,
+Added: and quality controlled by chemical testing, Alferon N Injection, as a natural interferon, does not lend itself well to such testing.
+Added: Moreover, FDA continues to require that each lot of Alferon N Injection we produce be tested and released by the FDA before it can be
+Added: distributed for commercial sales.
+Added: Because of the complexity of the Alferon N Injection manufacturing process and these additional regulatory
+Added: requirements, we believe that potential manufacturers of generic, or so-called “bio-similar,” drug products are focused on
+Added: developing recombinant interferon products, rather than natural interferon products.
+Added: For these reasons, we believe that not having patent
+Added: protection should have no or little impact on us.
+Added: Additionally, at the receipt of the FDA certification for the revised Alferon N Injection
+Added: manufacturing process and techniques in New Brunswick, NJ, it is our intention to file for additional patent protection.
+Added: AND DEVELOPMENT (“R&D”)
+Added: general focus during the past several fiscal years has been on the clinical development of new drug therapies based on natural immune
+Added: system enhancing technologies for the treatment of immune-based disorders including cancer and CFS.
+Added: While we have previously estimated
+Added: milestone dates when significant progress could be reported, the reality of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic could mean the re-direction
+Added: of resources away from ongoing clinical trials and toward the research and development of potential treatments for the coronavirus.
+Added: this regard, we have widened our focus to include research and development of potential prophylactic and therapeutic applications for
+Added: the treatment of COVID-19, including the long-term effects of COVID-19.
+Added: Immuno-Oncology
+Added: potential of Ampligen as an immuno-oncology therapeutic has been a major focus of AIM since our current leadership took over in 2016.
+Added: We have been working with the University of Pittsburgh’s chemokine modulation research initiative, which includes the use of Ampligen
+Added: as a potential adjuvant to modify the tumor microenvironment (“TME”) with the goal of increasing anti-tumor responses to
check point inhibitors (“CPI”).
−Removed: As part of this collaboration, we haves supplied Ampligen (rintatolimod) to the University.
−Removed: study, under the leadership of Robert P.
−Removed: Edwards, MD, chair of gynecologic services at Magee-Women’s Hospital of the University
−Removed: of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Professor of Surgery Pawel Kalinski, M.D., Ph.D., at Roswell Park, Buffalo, N.Y., involved
−Removed: the chemokine modulatory regimen developed by Dr.
−Removed: Kalinski’s group and successfully completed the Phase 1 dose escalation
−Removed: in patients with resectable colorectal cancer.
+Added: As part of this collaboration, we have supplied Ampligen to the University.
+Added: The study, under
+Added: the leadership of Robert P.
+Added: Edwards, MD, chair of gynecologic services at Magee-Women’s Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh
+Added: School of Medicine, and Professor of Surgery Pawel Kalinski, M.D., Ph.D., at Roswell Park, Buffalo, N.Y., involved the chemokine modulatory
+Added: regimen developed by Dr.
+Added: Kalinski’s group and successfully completed the Phase 1 dose escalation in patients with resectable
+Added: colorectal cancer.
In the 1st quarter of 2017, Dr.
−Removed: Kalinski relocated to Roswell Park in Buffalo,
−Removed: NY and has established a cancer program which will continue to require a supply of Ampligen.
−Removed: October 2018, we signed a clinical trial agreement with Roswell Park to evaluate Ampligen in combination with checkpoint inhibitors
−Removed: The Phase IIa clinical trial will evaluate the immune-mediated effects of cytokine modulation in combination with CPIs
−Removed: in patients with primary resistance to CPI therapy.
−Removed: The protocol will seek to evaluate the combination of Ampligen and CPIs in
−Removed: patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma and melanoma.
−Removed: Ampligen is our investigational immune-enhancing
−Removed: TLR3 agonist that has demonstrated a robust anti-cancer effect in preclinical models when combined with CPIs.
−Removed: This new agreement
−Removed: expands the extensive prior clinical and preclinical work into the clinical checkpoint blockade arena and offers the opportunity
−Removed: to begin evaluation of this combination therapy in patients with a variety of solid tumors where large numbers of patients do
−Removed: not respond or progress following treatment with standard CPI-based therapy.
−Removed: At the moment, this study is on hold as we
−Removed: await updates and next steps from Roswell Park.
−Removed: six Ampligen clinical trials are underway at university cancer centers testing whether tumor microenvironments can be reprogrammed
−Removed: to increase the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy, including checkpoint inhibitors:
−Removed: Recurrent Ovarian Cancer - Phase 1 / 2 study of intraperitoneal chemo-immunotherapy in advanced recurrent ovarian cancer;
−Removed: Phase 1 portion establishes intraperitoneal safety.
−Removed: Awaiting publication of Phase I results.
−Removed: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02432378
−Removed: Recurrent Ovarian Cancer - A follow-up Phase 2 study of advanced recurrent ovarian cancer using cisplatin, pembrolizumab,
−Removed: plus Ampligen;
+Added: Kalinski relocated to Roswell Park in Buffalo, NY and has established a cancer
+Added: program which will continue to require a supply of Ampligen.
+Added: Ampligen clinical trials are underway or recently completed at major university cancer centers testing whether tumor microenvironments
+Added: can be reprogrammed to increase the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy, including checkpoint inhibitors, The underway trials are:
+Added: Recurrent Ovarian Cancer - A follow-up Phase 2 study of advanced recurrent ovarian cancer
+Added: using cisplatin, pembrolizumab, plus Ampligen;
up to 45 patients to be enrolled;
−Removed: enrollment has commenced, and numerous patients have commenced treatment.
−Removed: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03734692
−Removed: 4 Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer - Phase 2 study of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer using chemokine
−Removed: modulation therapy, including Ampligen and pembrolizumab.
−Removed: All patients have been treated or are in treatment.
+Added: has commenced, and numerous patients have commenced treatment.
+Added: We recently announced interim
+Added: data from the study, which demonstrated that evidence of increased biomarkers associated
+Added: with T cell chemotaxis and cytolytic function was seen when combining Ampligen, pembrolizumab
+Added: and cisplatin.
+Added: Increases of these biomarkers in the tumor microenvironment have been correlated
+Added: with favorable tumor responses https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03734692
+Added: 4 Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer - Phase 1/2 study of metastatic triple-negative
+Added: breast cancer using chemokine modulation therapy, including Ampligen and pembrolizumab.
+Added: patients were enrolled and treated.
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03599453
−Removed: 4 Colorectal Cancer Metastatic to the Liver - Phase 2a study of Ampligen as component of chemokine modulatory regimen
−Removed: on colorectal cancer metastatic to liver;
−Removed: the majority of the 12 planned patients enrolled and treated.
+Added: 4 Colorectal Cancer Metastatic to the Liver - Phase 2a study of Ampligen as a component
+Added: of chemokine modulatory regimen on colorectal cancer metastatic to liver;
+Added: recruitment has
+Added: been completed;
+Added: 15 patients were enrolled and treated.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03403634
−Removed: Prostate Cancer - Phase 2 study investigating the effectiveness and safety of aspirin and Ampligen with or without interferon-alpha
−Removed: 2b (Intron A) compared to no drug treatments in a randomized three-arm study of patients with prostate cancer before undergoing
−Removed: radical prostatectomy.
−Removed: Patient enrollment has been initiated in this study designed for up to 45 patients.
+Added: ● Early-Stage
+Added: Prostate Cancer - Phase 2 study investigating the effectiveness and safety of aspirin
+Added: and Ampligen with or without interferon-alpha 2b (Intron A) compared to no drug treatments
+Added: in a randomized three-arm study of patients with prostate cancer before undergoing radical
+Added: prostatectomy.
+Added: Patient enrollment has been initiated in this study designed for up to 45
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03899987
−Removed: Triple Negative Breast Cancer - Phase 1 study of chemokine modulation plus neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early-stage
−Removed: triple negative breast cancer has received FDA authorization;
−Removed: the objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability
−Removed: of a combination of Ampligen, celecoxib with or without Intron A, when given along with chemotherapy;
−Removed: the goal of this approach
−Removed: is to increase survival.
−Removed: This study is recruiting patients designed for up to 24 patients.
+Added: ● Early-Stage
+Added: Triple Negative Breast Cancer - Phase 1 study of chemokine modulation plus neoadjuvant
+Added: chemotherapy in patients with early-stage triple negative breast cancer has received FDA
+Added: authorization;
+Added: the objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of
+Added: a combination of Ampligen, celecoxib with or without Intron A, when given along with chemotherapy;
+Added: the goal of this approach is to increase survival.
+Added: This study is recruiting patients designed
+Added: for up to 24 patients.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04081389
−Removed: Ampligen clinical trials are planned for initiation in 2021:
−Removed: Brain-Metastatic
−Removed: Breast Cancer —
−Removed: Phase 2 study to assess the effectiveness of a three-pronged strategy combining distinct immunotherapy
−Removed: approaches, including Ampligen.
−Removed: Roswell Park and Moffitt Cancer Center have both received “Breakthrough Awards”
−Removed: from the U.S.
−Removed: Department of Defense (DOD).
−Removed: Together, these separate but parallel proposed clinical trials are receiving approximately
−Removed: $15 million in DOD funding to study Ampligen.
−Removed: Roswell Park is currently working on its draft of the IND, which its study and
−Removed: Moffitt’s study require before next steps can be taken.
−Removed: 4 Refractory Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma —
−Removed: Phase 2 study that will evaluate Ampligen in combination with pembrolizumab
−Removed: in refractory metastatic colorectal carcinoma at Roswell Park.
−Removed: Up to 25 patients to be enrolled.
−Removed: This is expected to be funded
−Removed: by grants, testing Ampligen and pembrolizumab.
−Removed: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT04119830
−Removed: Melanoma —
−Removed: Phase 2 study that will evaluate polarized dendritic cell vaccine, interferon alpha-2, Ampligen and celecoxib
−Removed: for the treatment of HLA-A2+ refractory melanoma at Roswell Park.
−Removed: Up to 24 patients to be enrolled.
+Added: below Ampligen clinical trials and related activities are planned for initiation in 2022:
+Added: 2 Pancreatic Cancer Trial - In October 2021, AIM and Amarex submitted an IND application
+Added: with the FDA for a planned Phase 2 study of Ampligen as a therapy for locally advanced or
+Added: metastatic late-stage pancreatic cancer.
+Added: The FDA placed the study on Clinical Hold in November
+Added: 2021 and provided valuable feedback on the study design.
+Added: We submitted our response to the
+Added: Clinical Hold in February 2022.
+Added: In March 2022, we received notification from the FDA that
+Added: the Clinical Hold was released and cleared, meaning that we are now able to proceed
+Added: with the study.
+Added: Cancer - A Phase 2 Cisplatin-Resistant Advanced Recurrent Ovarian Cancer Clinical Study
+Added: utilizing Ampligen is planned at the University of Pittsburgh.
+Added: Melanoma — Phase 2 study that will evaluate polarized dendritic cell vaccine, interferon
+Added: alpha-2, Ampligen and celecoxib for the treatment of HLA-A2+ refractory melanoma at Roswell
+Added: Up to 24 patients to be enrolled (See:
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT04093323 ).
−Removed: 4 Urothelial, Melanoma and Renal Cell Carcinoma —
−Removed: Phase 2 study of advanced urothelial (bladder), melanoma and renal
−Removed: cell carcinoma, resistant to checkpoint blockade, that will evaluate Ampligen in combination with a checkpoint blockade therapy
−Removed: at Roswell Park.
−Removed: Protocol design and funding currently being finalized.
−Removed: Cell Lung Cancer —
−Removed: First-line therapy for non-small cell lung cancer with SOC chemotherapy that will evaluate Ampligen
−Removed: in combination with pembrolizumab at University of Nebraska Medical Center.
−Removed: Study design and budget being
−Removed: However, we now anticipate an extended delay, as other studies with funding have moved ahead of the Ampligen project.
−Removed: Roswell Park is exploring a pilot study to establish proof of concept.
−Removed: Pancreatic Cancer —
−Removed: Phase 2 study in advanced pancreatic cancer using checkpoint blockade plus Ampligen at University
−Removed: of Nebraska Medical Center and Erasmus University.
−Removed: Protocol and budget being developed.
−Removed: This proposed study may be based on
−Removed: data from our Dutch EAP (see below) and UNMC animal experiment showing synergy between Ampligen and checkpoint therapy.
−Removed: second confirmatory animal trial has been completed;
−Removed: while it did not replicate the previous survival results, it did demonstrate
−Removed: a significant anti-tumor effect.
−Removed: addition, the National Cancer Institute awarded $14.5 million to Roswell Park to study Ampligen as part of five Roswell Park-led
−Removed: chemokine modulation clinical trials in melanoma, colorectal and ovarian cancers.
−Removed: January 2017, the EAP through our agreement with myTomorrows designed to enable access of Ampligen to ME/CFS patients was extended
−Removed: to pancreatic cancer patients beginning in the Netherlands.
−Removed: myTomorrows is our exclusive service provider in Europe and Turkey
−Removed: and will manage all EAP activities relating to the pancreatic cancer extension of the program.
−Removed: In February 2018, the agreement
−Removed: with myTomorrows was extended to cover Canada to treat pancreatic cancer patients, pending government approval.
−Removed: There have been
−Removed: no physician requests to date that would cause the program to move forward with the approval process.
−Removed: of the date of this Report, 42 pancreatic cancer patients have received treatment with Ampligen immuno-oncology therapy under
−Removed: the EAP program at Erasmus MC in the Netherlands.
+Added: part of this business and scientific strategy, and after lengthy discussions with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, we have determined
+Added: that it is not in our stockholders’ best interests to relinquish “Third-Party Beneficiary” rights to any of our pre-existing
+Added: intellectual property without appropriate compensation and licensing terms.
+Added: This business decision has created an impasse which means
+Added: we will not be moving forward with certain planned trials at Roswell Park.
+Added: These trials are:
+Added: colorectal carcinoma trial;
+Added: proposed brain metastatic triple-negative breast cancer trial;
+Added: proposed non-small cell lung cancer trial;
+Added: urothelial, melanoma and renal cell carcinoma trial.
+Added: unlike pancreatic cancer and advanced recurrent ovarian cancer, these previous planned studies are not on our near-term critical path
+Added: for future NDAs.
+Added: Therefore, these will only become a priority after we accomplish our near-term goals related to pancreatic cancer and
+Added: advanced recurrent ovarian cancer where data supports priority status.
+Added: Ovarian Cancer
+Added: of the Phase 1 portion of a Phase 1/2 study of intraperitoneal chemo- immunotherapy in advanced recurrent ovarian cancer were published
+Added: in the American Association for Cancer Research publication, Clinical Cancer Research (Clin Cancer Res January 19 2022 DOI:
+Added: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-21-3659).
+Added: The study results represent an important extension of prior studies using human tumor explants that showed Ampligen’s potentially
+Added: important role as a TLR3 agonist acting synergistically with high-dose IFNα and celecoxib to selectively enhance Teff cell-attractants
+Added: while suppressing Treg-attractants in the tumor microenvironment with a concomitant increase in the Teff/Treg ratio.
+Added: The importance of
+Added: boosting the Teff/Treg ratio in the tumor microenvironment is that it is associated with the conversion of ‘cold’ tumors
+Added: into ‘hot’ tumors, which have an increased sensitivity to chemo-immunotherapy and an improved chance of showing tumor regression.
+Added: The Phase 1 portion was designed to establish intraperitoneal safety.
+Added: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02432378
+Added: March 2021, we were granted a patent by the Netherlands Patent Office with granted patent claims that include, but are not limited to,
+Added: the use of Ampligen as a combination cancer therapy with checkpoint blockade inhibitors (e.g.
+Added: pembrolizumab, nivolumab).
+Added: from an investigator-initiated, Phase 2, single-arm, efficacy/safety trial demonstrated that evidence of increased biomarkers associated
+Added: with T cell chemotaxis and cytolytic function was seen when combining Ampligen, pembrolizumab and cisplatin.
+Added: It is critical to note that
+Added: increases of these biomarkers in the tumor microenvironment have been correlated with favorable tumor responses.
+Added: All told, the study
+Added: has seen a Clinical Benefit Rate of 61.6%;
+Added: a study of pembrolizumab alone in the treatment of advanced recurrent ovarian cancer found
+Added: Objective Response Rates of 7.4% and 9.9% across two cohorts.
+Added: positive data makes this patent have heightened potential.
+Added: Similar patents are pending in other counties.
+Added: January 2017, the EAP established under our agreement with myTomorrows to enable access of Ampligen to ME/CFS patients was extended to
+Added: pancreatic cancer patients beginning in the Netherlands.
+Added: myTomorrows is our exclusive service provider in Europe and Turkey and will
+Added: manage all EAP activities relating to the pancreatic cancer extension of the program.
+Added: In February 2018, the agreement with myTomorrows
+Added: was extended to cover Canada to treat pancreatic cancer patients, pending government approval.
+Added: There have been no physician requests
+Added: to date that would cause the program to move forward with the approval process.
+Added: total of 42 pancreatic cancer patients received treatment with Ampligen immuno-oncology therapy under the EAP program at Erasmus MC in
+Added: the Netherlands.
Supervised by Prof.
−Removed: Casper van Eijck, MD, the team at Erasmus MC found a statistically
−Removed: significantly positive survival benefit when using Ampligen in patients with locally advanced/metastatic pancreatic cancer after
−Removed: systemic chemotherapy.
−Removed: We will work with our Contract Research Organization, Amarex Clinical Research LLC, to seek FDA “fast-track”
−Removed: and possibly even FDA “breakthrough”
−Removed: designations and to obtain IND authorizations to conduct a follow-up pancreatic
−Removed: cancer Phase 2/3 clinical trial with sites in the Netherlands at Erasmus MC under Prof.
+Added: Casper van Eijck, MD, the team at Erasmus MC in September 2020 reported data which demonstrated
+Added: a statistically significant positive survival benefit when using Ampligen in patients with locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic
+Added: cancer after systemic chemotherapy, compared with historical control patients.
+Added: We are working with our Contract Research Organization,
+Added: Amarex Clinical Research LLC, to seek FDA “fast-track” and to obtain IND authorizations to conduct follow-up pancreatic cancer
+Added: Phase 2 clinical trials with potential sites in the Netherlands at Erasmus MC under Prof.
van Eijck, and also at major cancer research
−Removed: centers in the United States.
+Added: centers in the United States such as The Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).
Additionally:
−Removed: December 2020, the FDA granted Ampligen Orphan Drug Designation status for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
−Removed: Drug Designation program provides orphan status to drugs and biologics which are defined as those intended for the treatment,
−Removed: prevention or diagnosis of a rare disease or condition, which is one that affects less than 200,000 persons in the United
−Removed: States or meets cost recovery provisions of the act.
−Removed: The status helps incentivize the treatment of therapies to treat unmet
−Removed: medical needs by providing a company with seven years of exclusivity rights once a drug reaches market.
−Removed: February 2021, our subsidiary, NV Hemispherx Biopharma Europe, received formal notification from the European Commission (EC)
−Removed: approving the Orphan Medicinal Product Application for Ampligen as a treatment for pancreatic cancer.
−Removed: Orphan products, once
−Removed: commercially approved in the European Union (EU), receive benefits including up to ten years of protection from market competition
−Removed: from similar medicines with similar active component and indication for use that are not shown to be clinically superior.
−Removed: September, we reported receipt of statistically significant results of positive survival benefit when using Ampligen in patients
−Removed: with locally advanced/metastatic pancreatic cancer after systemic chemotherapy versus matched historical controls.
−Removed: Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (“ME/CFS”)
−Removed: Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (“ME/CFS”), also known as Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (“CFIDS”)
−Removed: and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (“CFS”), is a serious and debilitating chronic illness and a major public health problem.
−Removed: ME/CFS is recognized by both the government and private sector as a significant unmet medical need, including the U.S.
−Removed: Institutes of Health (“NIH”), FDA and the CDC.
−Removed: The CDC states on its website at https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/
−Removed: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a serious, long-term illness that affects many body
−Removed: People with ME/CFS are often not able to do their usual activities.
+Added: December 2020, the FDA granted Ampligen Orphan Drug Designation status for the treatment
+Added: of pancreatic cancer.
+Added: The Orphan Drug Designation program provides orphan status to drugs
+Added: and biologics which are defined as those intended for the treatment, prevention or diagnosis
+Added: of a rare disease or condition, which is one that affects less than 200,000 persons in the
+Added: United States or meets cost recovery provisions of the act.
+Added: The status helps incentivize
+Added: the treatment of therapies to treat unmet medical needs by providing a company with seven
+Added: years of exclusivity rights once a drug reaches market.
+Added: February 2021, our subsidiary, NV Hemispherx Biopharma Europe, received formal notification
+Added: from the European Commission (“EC”) granting Orphan Medicinal Product Designation
+Added: for Ampligen as a treatment for pancreatic cancer.
+Added: Orphan products, once commercially approved
+Added: in the European Union (“EU”), receive benefits including up to ten years of protection
+Added: from market competition from similar medicines with similar active component and indication
+Added: for use that are not shown to be clinically superior.
+Added: June 2021, Ampligen was featured in a publication containing state-of-the-art methodologies in the peer-reviewed medical journal Cancers
+Added: as a potential treatment option for cancer patients who are infected with SARS-CoV-2.
+Added: The study’s authors stated that Ampligen
+Added: has the potential to reduce the severity of the deadly respiratory disease COVID-19.
+Added: According to laboratory data presented in the publication,
+Added: “Rintatolimod [Ampligen] activated the innate and the adaptive immune systems by activating a cascade of actions in human pancreatic
+Added: cancer cells”, including:
+Added: ● Stimulation
+Added: of interferon regulatory factors and activation of the interferon signaling pathway,
+Added: of immunomodulatory activity and
+Added: of the expression of MHC class I and II histocompatibility
+Added: full journal article is titled:
+Added: “ Rintatolimod Induces Antiviral Activities in Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells:
+Added: Opening for an
+Added: Anti-COVID-19 Opportunity in Cancer Patients?
+Added: ” Cancers is a peer-reviewed, open access journal of oncology published
+Added: semimonthly online by MDPI.
+Added: The study’s authors include Prof.
+Added: van Eijck, MD, PhD, the lead investigator for an EAP at Erasmus
+Added: Medical Center in the Netherlands.
+Added: October 2021, we and Amarex submitted an IND application with the FDA for a planned Phase 2 study of Ampligen as a therapy for locally
+Added: advanced or metastatic late-stage pancreatic cancer.
+Added: In December 2021, the FDA responded with a Clinical Hold on the proposed study.
+Added: We submitted our response to the FDA in February 2022.
+Added: March 2022, we received notification from the FDA that the Clinical Hold was released and cleared, meaning that we are
+Added: now able to proceed with the study.
+Added: The AMP-270 clinical trial is planned to be a randomized, open-label, controlled, parallel-arm study
+Added: with the primary objective of comparing the efficacy of Ampligen versus a no treatment control group following FOLFIRINOX for subjects
+Added: with locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
+Added: Secondary objectives include comparing safety and tolerability.
+Added: We plan to enroll approximately
+Added: 90 subjects across up to 30 centers in the U.S.
+Added: The Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
+Added: and Erasmus MC in The Netherlands are expected to be the primary study sites.
+Added: Amarex Clinical Research will manage the AIM-sponsored
+Added: Phase 2 study.
+Added: Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (“ME/CFS”)
+Added: Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (“ME/CFS”), also known as Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (“CFIDS”)
+Added: and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (“CFS”), is a serious and debilitating chronic illness and a major public health problem.
+Added: is recognized by both the government and private sector as a significant unmet medical need, including the U.S.
+Added: National Institutes of
+Added: Health (“NIH”), FDA and the CDC.
+Added: The CDC states on its website at https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/ that “ Myalgic
+Added: encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a serious, long-term illness that affects many body systems.
+Added: People with ME/CFS
+Added: are often not able to do their usual activities.
At times, ME/CFS may confine them to bed.
−Removed: with ME/CFS have severe fatigue and sleep problems.
−Removed: ME/CFS may get worse after people with the illness try to do as much as they
−Removed: want or need to do.
−Removed: This symptom is known as post-exertional malaise (PEM).
−Removed: Other symptoms can include problems with thinking
−Removed: and concentrating, pain, and dizziness.
−Removed: severe ME/CFS patients become completely disabled or totally bedridden and are afflicted with severe pain and mental confusion
−Removed: even at rest.
−Removed: ME/CFS is characterized by incapacitating fatigue with profound exhaustion and extremely poor stamina, sleep difficulties
−Removed: and problems with concentration and short-term memory.
−Removed: It is also accompanied by flu-like symptoms, pain in the joints and muscles,
−Removed: tender lymph nodes, sore throat and new headaches.
−Removed: A distinctive characteristic of the illness is a worsening of symptoms following
−Removed: physical or mental exertion, which do not subside with rest.
−Removed: October 2016, an analysis of a subset of CFS patients from the AMP-516 Phase 3 study was performed and presented at the IACFS/ME
−Removed: annual meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
−Removed: The ITT Population (n=208) was separated into two subsets based primarily on baseline CFS
−Removed: symptom duration (2-8 years (n=75) and <2 years plus >8 years (n=133)).
−Removed: Responder analyses of the ITT Population and both
−Removed: subsets were performed.
−Removed: Responder analyses of Ampligen vs.
−Removed: placebo patients improving ET duration from baseline by ≥25% shows
−Removed: over twice the percentage of patients with clinical enhancement in ET effect in the Ampligen cohort compared to placebo for the
−Removed: 2-8-year subset vs.
−Removed: the ITT population.
−Removed: This subset may assist in the design of future clinical studies of Ampligen in the treatment
−Removed: for ME/CFS patients.
−Removed: high number of younger people being hospitalized for COVID-19 suggests considerable numbers of people in the prime of their lives
−Removed: may have a COVID-induced ME/CFS-like illness in their future.
−Removed: Individuals with CFS lost an estimated $20,000 in 2002, implying
−Removed: a total societal loss of $9.1 billion.
−Removed: Twenty-five percent ($2.3 billion) resulted from lost household productivity, and the remaining
−Removed: 75% ($6.8 billion) from lost labor force productivity.
+Added: People with ME/CFS have severe fatigue and
+Added: sleep problems.
+Added: ME/CFS may get worse after people with the illness try to do as much as they want or need to do.
+Added: This symptom is known
+Added: as post-exertional malaise (PEM).
+Added: Other symptoms can include problems with thinking and concentrating, pain, and dizziness.
+Added: severe ME/CFS patients become completely disabled or totally bedridden and are afflicted with severe pain and mental confusion even at
+Added: ME/CFS is characterized by incapacitating fatigue with profound exhaustion and extremely poor stamina, sleep difficulties and problems
+Added: with concentration and short-term memory.
+Added: It is also accompanied by flu-like symptoms, pain in the joints and muscles, tender lymph nodes,
+Added: sore throat and new headaches.
+Added: A distinctive characteristic of the illness is a worsening of symptoms following physical or mental exertion,
+Added: which do not subside with rest.
+Added: high number of younger people being hospitalized for COVID-19 suggests considerable numbers of people in the prime of their lives may
+Added: have a COVID-induced ME/CFS-like illness in their future.
+Added: According to a 2016 journal article, the estimated annual cost of lost productivity
+Added: related to ME/CFS was $9-37 billion in the United States, and for direct medical costs it was $9-14 billion.
June of 2020, we filed a provisional patent application for, among other discoveries, the use of Ampligen as a potential early-onset
therapy for the treatment of COVID-19 induced chronic fatigue.
−Removed: survivors of the first SARS-CoV-1 epidemic in 2003 continued to report chronic fatigue, difficulty sleeping and shortness of breath
−Removed: months after recovering from the acute illness.
−Removed: “After one year, 17% of patients had not returned to work and 9% more had
−Removed: not returned to their pre-SARS work levels”
−Removed: ( Simmaron Research ).
−Removed: Now there is increasing evidence that patients with
−Removed: COVID-19 can develop a similar, ME/CFS-like illness.
−Removed: These patients are commonly referred to as “Long Haulers.”
−Removed: http://simmaronresearch.com/2020/04/will-covid-19-leave-an-explosion-of-me-cfs-cases-in-its-wake/
−Removed: October 2020, we received Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for the expansion of the AMP-511 Expanded Access Program (EAP)
−Removed: clinical trial for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) to include patients previously diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2
−Removed: following clearance of the virus, but who still demonstrate chronic fatigue-like symptoms.
−Removed: November 2, 2020, we announced the publication of statistically significant data detailing how Ampligen could have a considerable
−Removed: positive impact on people living with ME/CFS when administered in the early stages of the disease.
−Removed: The data were published in
−Removed: PLOS ONE , a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science.
−Removed: AIM researchers found
−Removed: that the TLR3 agonist Ampligen substantially improved physical performance in a subset of ME/CFS patients.
+Added: survivors of the first SARS-CoV-1 epidemic in 2003 continued to report chronic fatigue, difficulty sleeping and shortness of breath months
+Added: after recovering from the acute illness.
+Added: “After one year, 17% of patients had not returned to work and 9% more had not returned
+Added: to their pre-SARS work levels,” according to Simmaron Research .
+Added: Now there is increasing evidence that patients with COVID-19
+Added: can develop a similar, ME/CFS-like illness.
+Added: These patients are commonly referred to as “Long Haulers.”
+Added: October 2020, we received IRB approval for the expansion of the AMP-511 Expanded Access Program clinical trial for ME/CFS to include
+Added: patients previously diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 following clearance of the virus, but who still demonstrate chronic fatigue-like symptoms.
+Added: For more information on our AMP-511 Expanded Access Program, please see “OUR PRODUCTS:
+Added: Ampligen” above.
+Added: November 2020, we announced the publication of statistically significant data detailing how Ampligen could have a considerable positive
+Added: impact on people living with ME/CFS when administered in the early stages of the disease.
+Added: The data were published in PLOS ONE ,
+Added: a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science.
+Added: AIM researchers found that the TLR3 agonist
+Added: Ampligen substantially improved physical performance in a subset of ME/CFS patients.
+Added: as a Potential Antiviral
the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in 2002-03, Ampligen exhibited excellent antiviral properties and protective survival effect in NIH-contracted
−Removed: studies of SARS-infected mice, which is very similar to SARS-CoV-2, the novel virus that causes COVID-19.
−Removed: Barnard 2006 study ( https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095632020601700505 ) found that Ampligen reduced virus
−Removed: lung levels to below detectable limits.
−Removed: Day 2009 study ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2787736/ ) found that, instead of 100% mortality, there
−Removed: was 100% protective survival.
−Removed: compared key transcription regulatory sequences of SARS-CoV-1 to SARS-CoV-2 and found significant similarities, suggesting highly
−Removed: probable extension of the antiviral effects of Ampligen in the earlier NIH-contracted SARS experiments to COVID-19.
−Removed: SARS-CoV-2 virus –
−Removed: which causes COVID-19 –
−Removed: shares important genomic and pathogenic similarities with SARS-CoV-1 (hence
−Removed: Since Ampligen has shown antiviral activity against more distantly related coronaviruses, there was a reasonable probability
−Removed: that the antiviral effects of Ampligen against SARS-CoV-1 will likely extend to SARS-CoV-2, as discussed below, recently, Ampligen
−Removed: has demonstrated in vitro antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2.
−Removed: We believe that this creates a compelling case for clinical trials
−Removed: to evaluate Ampligen as a potential tool in the fight against COVID-19.
−Removed: the late 2019 outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, we have been actively engaged in determining whether Ampligen could be an effective treatment
−Removed: for this virus or could be part of a vaccine.
−Removed: We believe that Ampligen has the potential to be both an early-onset treatment for
−Removed: and prophylaxis against SARS-Cov-2.
−Removed: We believe that prior studies of Ampligen in SARS-CoV-1 animal experimentation may predict similar protective
−Removed: effects against the new virus.
−Removed: February 2020, we filed three provisional patent applications related to Ampligen in our efforts toward joining the global health
−Removed: community in the fight against the deadly coronavirus (See:
+Added: studies of SARS-CoV-1-infected mice, which is very similar to SARS-CoV-2, the novel virus that causes COVID-19.
+Added: Barnard 2006 study ( https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095632020601700505 )
+Added: found that Ampligen reduced virus lung levels to below detectable limits.
+Added: Day 2009 study ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682209005832
+Added: found that, instead of 100% mortality, there was 100% protective survival using Ampligen.
+Added: compared key transcription regulatory sequences of SARS-CoV-1 to SARS-CoV-2 and found significant similarities, suggesting highly probable
+Added: extension of the antiviral effects of Ampligen in the earlier NIH-contracted SARS experiments to COVID-19.
+Added: The SARS-CoV-2 virus –
+Added: which causes COVID-19 – shares important genomic and pathogenic similarities with SARS-CoV-1 (hence its name).
+Added: Since Ampligen has
+Added: shown antiviral activity against more distantly related coronaviruses, there was a reasonable probability that the antiviral effects
+Added: of Ampligen against SARS-CoV-1 will likely extend to SARS-CoV-2, and as discussed below, recently, Ampligen has demonstrated ex vivo
+Added: antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2.
+Added: We believe that this creates a compelling case for clinical trials to evaluate Ampligen as a potential
+Added: tool in the fight against COVID-19.
+Added: the late 2019 outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, we have been actively engaged in determining whether Ampligen could be an effective treatment for
+Added: this virus or could be part of a vaccine.
+Added: We believe that Ampligen has the potential to be both an early-onset treatment for and prophylaxis
+Added: against SARS-CoV-2.
+Added: We believe that prior studies of Ampligen in SARS-CoV-1 animal experimentation may predict similar protective effects
+Added: against the new virus.
+Added: February 2020, we filed three provisional patent applications related to Ampligen in our efforts toward joining the global health community
+Added: in the fight against the deadly coronavirus (See:
https://aimimmuno.com/press-release/aim-immunotech-files-provisional-patent-application-for-the-use-of-ampligenr-as-a-potential-therapy-for-covid-19-induced-chronic-
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1) Ampligen as a therapy for the coronavirus;
−Removed: 2) Ampligen as part
−Removed: of a proposed intranasal universal coronavirus vaccine that combines Ampligen with inactivated coronavirus, conveying immunity
−Removed: and cross-protection and;
+Added: 2) Ampligen as part of
+Added: a proposed intranasal universal coronavirus vaccine that combines Ampligen with inactivated coronavirus, conveying immunity and cross-protection
3) a high-volume manufacturing process for Ampligen.
−Removed: Under the Patent Cooperation Treaty of 1970, which
−Removed: provides international protections for patents, these three provisional patent applications were converted in to two international
−Removed: patent applications based on the date of their filings.
−Removed: early April 2020, we entered into a Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) with Shenzhen Smoore Technologies located in Shenzhen China,
−Removed: the world’s largest manufacturer of inhalation devices.
−Removed: Pursuant to this agreement, Smoore has agreed to run preliminary
−Removed: tests in China to the efficacy of Smoore’s inhalation delivery device using Ampligen.
−Removed: Initial testing will include evaluation
−Removed: of Ampligen with regards to safety and characterization of the inhaler vapor properties.
−Removed: Additional testing will study the particle
−Removed: size of various Ampligen concentrations in aqueous solutions obtainable using Smoore’s technology.
−Removed: The goal of these studies
−Removed: is to establish a reproducible method to obtain an Ampligen-containing atomized mist that can deliver biologically active Ampligen
−Removed: deep into the lung airways of humans.
−Removed: There have been delays related to importing Ampligen to China.
−Removed: We are working with Smoore
−Removed: to alleviate these issues and to identify a mutually beneficial course of action that would allow us to move forward with the
−Removed: proposed testing of Ampligen.
−Removed: We will announce when the shipment for testing purposes has been completed.
−Removed: The MTA with Smoore
−Removed: expires on April 1, 2021, with the possibility of continued cooperation between us and Smoore under ongoing consideration.
−Removed: August 6, 2020, we contracted Amarex Clinical Research LLC (“Amarex”) to act as our Clinical Research Organization
−Removed: and provide regulatory support with regard to a clinical trial testing Ampligen’s potential as a COVID-19 prophylaxis via
−Removed: intranasal delivery.
−Removed: We anticipate conducting the Phase I study using the Centre for Human Drug Research (CHDR) in The Netherlands.
−Removed: Amarex is expected to help provide monitoring support.
−Removed: For the subsequent Phase II/III studies we expected to incur clinical
−Removed: trial costs of up to $4-5 million.
−Removed: We expect that Phase I will consist of 40 test subjects and cost about $1 million.
−Removed: In March 2020, the
−Removed: Japanese National Institute of Infectious Diseases (“NIID”) initiated preliminary laboratory testing of Ampligen as
−Removed: a potential treatment for COVID-19.
−Removed: On July 1, 2020, we entered into a trilateral material transfer and research agreement with
−Removed: the NIID and Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“Shionogi”), one of Japan’s premier pharma companies, to test the Company’s
−Removed: drug Ampligen as a potential vaccine adjuvant for COVID-19.
−Removed: Per this agreement, the details of all preclinical and clinical results
−Removed: will remain confidential until released by NIID and Shionogi.
−Removed: The Company was notified by Shionogi on November 17, 2020 that Shionogi
−Removed: intends to utilize a TLR agonist other than AIM’s Ampligen as Shionogi’s designated adjuvant in its ongoing efforts
−Removed: to develop a potential Shionogi vaccine for COVID-19.
−Removed: in April 2020, we entered into confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements with numerous companies for the potential outsourcing
−Removed: of the production of polymer, enzyme, placebo as well as Ampligen, and one Contract Research Organization, Amarex, which will
−Removed: provide regulatory support related to a clinical trial testing Ampligen’s potential as a COVID-19 prophylaxis via intranasal
−Removed: addition, we joined with ChinaGoAbroad (CGA) to facilitate the entry of Ampligen into the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
−Removed: for use as a prophylactic/early-onset therapeutic against COVID-19.
−Removed: CGA is a member-based online information platform and offline
−Removed: advisory firm serving to facilitate two-way international transactions relating to the PRC in collaboration with the China Overseas
−Removed: Development Association (CODA).
−Removed: The relationship with ChinaGoAbroad is ongoing.
−Removed: May 11, 2020, the FDA authorized an IND for Roswell Park to conduct a Phase 1/2a study of a regimen of Ampligen and interferon
−Removed: alpha in cancer patients with mild or moderate COVID-19 infections.
−Removed: This new clinical trial, sponsored by the Roswell Park in
−Removed: collaboration with us, will test the safety of this combination regimen in patients with cancer and mild to moderate COVID-19,
−Removed: and the extent to which this therapy will promote clearance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the upper airway.
−Removed: It is planned that
−Removed: the phase 1/2a study will enroll up to 44 patients in two stages.
−Removed: Phase 1 will see 12-24 patients receiving both Ampligen and
−Removed: interferon alfa-2b at escalating doses.
−Removed: Once that initial phase is complete, further study participants will be randomized to
−Removed: one receiving the two-drug combination and a control group who will not receive Ampligen or interferon alfa but will
−Removed: receive best available care.
−Removed: We intend to be a financial sponsor of the study and will provide Ampligen at no charge for this
−Removed: July 6, 2020, we entered into a clinical trial agreement with Roswell Park pursuant to which Roswell Park will conduct a Phase
−Removed: 1/2a trial of Ampligen (rintatolimod) in combination with interferon alfa, in cancer patients with COVID-19, the disease caused
−Removed: by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
+Added: Under the Patent Cooperation Treaty of 1970, which provides international protections
+Added: for patents, these three provisional patent applications were converted in to two international patent applications based on the date
+Added: of their filings.
+Added: April 2020, we entered into a Material Transfer and Research Agreement (“MTA”) with Shenzhen Smoore Technology to study the
+Added: utilization of an innovative Smoore inhalation delivery device and Ampligen as a potential treatment approach for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
+Added: The MTA was extended for two years in May 2021.
+Added: There have been obstacles related to importing Ampligen to China.
+Added: We have been working
+Added: with Smoore to alleviate these issues and to identify a mutually beneficial course of action that would allow us to move forward with
+Added: the proposed testing of Ampligen outside of China.
+Added: On parallel paths, over the past year, Smoore focused on the development of a personal
+Added: inhalation device designed to administer Ampligen, given temperature parameters of dsRNA.
+Added: Contemporaneously, we have studied the safety
+Added: and efficacy of Ampligen using an ex vivo 3D model in primary human respiratory epithelial cells at Utah State University, which showed
+Added: that Ampligen was able to decrease SARS-CoV-2 infectious viral yields by 90% at clinically achievable intranasal Ampligen dosage levels,
+Added: and conducted intranasal safety testing.
+Added: AIM and Smoore signed a two-year extension of the MTA in May 2021.
+Added: We are exploring avenues
+Added: to further test Ampligen as an inhalation therapy in the United States and Europe, while Smoore continues to work toward receiving authorization
+Added: to import Ampligen to China.
+Added: However, progress in this area is stymied, and due to an inability to import the drug we are considering
+Added: August 2020, we contracted Amarex Clinical Research LLC (“Amarex”) to act as our Clinical Research Organization and provide
+Added: regulatory support with regard to a possible clinical trial testing Ampligen’s potential as a COVID-19 prophylaxis via intranasal
+Added: in April 2020, we entered into confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements with numerous companies for the potential outsourcing of
+Added: the production of polymer, enzyme, placebo as well as Ampligen, and one Contract Research Organization, Amarex, which will provide regulatory
+Added: and monitoring support related to a clinical trial testing Ampligen’s intranasal safety and potential as a COVID-19 prophylaxis
+Added: via intranasal delivery.
+Added: addition, in February 2020 we joined with ChinaGoAbroad (“CGA”) to facilitate the entry of Ampligen into the People’s
+Added: Republic of China (“PRC”) for use as a prophylactic/early-onset therapeutic against COVID-19.
+Added: CGA is a member-based online
+Added: information platform and offline advisory firm serving to facilitate two-way international transactions relating to the PRC in collaboration
+Added: with the China Overseas Development Association (“CODA”).
+Added: While this relationship is currently inactive, we remain open to
+Added: utilizing ChinaGoAbroad if and when an opportunity arises.
+Added: May 2020, the FDA authorized an IND for Roswell Park to conduct a Phase 1/2a study of a regimen of Ampligen and interferon alpha in cancer
+Added: patients with COVID-19 infections.
+Added: This clinical trial, sponsored by Roswell Park in collaboration with us, will test the safety of this
+Added: combination regimen in patients with cancer and COVID-19, and the extent to which this therapy will promote clearance of the SARS-CoV-2
+Added: virus from the upper airway.
+Added: Several subjects have been treated and recruitment continues.
+Added: It is planned that the phase 1/2a study will
+Added: enroll up to 44 patients in two stages.
+Added: Phase 1 will see 12-24 patients receiving both Ampligen and interferon alpha-2b at escalating
+Added: Once that initial phase is complete, further study participants will be randomized to two arms:
+Added: one receiving the two-drug combination
+Added: and a control group who will not receive Ampligen or interferon alpha but will receive best available care.
+Added: We are a financial sponsor
+Added: of the study and will provide Ampligen at no charge for this study.
+Added: July 2020, we entered into a clinical trial agreement with Roswell Park pursuant to which Roswell Park will conduct a Phase 1/2a trial
+Added: of Ampligen (rintatolimod) in combination with interferon alpha, in cancer patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2
We and the National Cancer Institute are supporting this trial.
−Removed: We reported in September 2020 that
−Removed: recruitment in the trial had begun.
−Removed: clinicaltrials.gov/NCT04379518.
−Removed: On November 25, 2020, the first patient in the study
−Removed: had been enrolled and treated.
−Removed: also entered into a material transfer agreement with the University of Rochester for a series of in vitro experiments to test
−Removed: the direct antiviral activity of Ampligen on SARS-CoV-2, as well as the mechanism of action.
−Removed: They are currently engaged in experiments
−Removed: with multiple cell lines as they work to establish the study model system.
−Removed: We also entered into a specialized services agreement
−Removed: with Utah State University and have supplied Ampligen to support the University’s Institute for Viral Research in its research
−Removed: into SARS-CoV-2.
−Removed: The Utah State results show that Ampligen was able to decrease SARS-CoV-2 infectious viral yields by 90% at clinically
−Removed: achievable intranasal Ampligen dosage levels.
−Removed: October 6, 2020, we received Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for the expansion of the AMP-511 Expanded Access Program
−Removed: (EAP) clinical trial for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) to include patients previously diagnosed
−Removed: with SARS-CoV-2, but who still demonstrate chronic fatigue-like symptoms.
−Removed: Patients in the trial are treated with our flagship
−Removed: pipeline drug Ampligen.
−Removed: On January 6, 2021, we commenced with the treatment of the first previously diagnosed COVID-19
−Removed: patient with long-COVID symptoms in the AMP-511 study.
−Removed: November 29, 2020, we entered into a Material Transfer and Research Agreement with Leyden Laboratories, B.V., (“Leyden Lab”)
+Added: We reported in September 2020 that recruitment in the trial
+Added: had begun (See clinicaltrials.gov/NCT04379518 ).
+Added: In November 2020, the first patient in the study had been enrolled and treated.
+Added: This study was amended to add 20 patients, with 10 randomized to receive a single dose of Ampligen and 10 patients to receive current
+Added: best therapies.
+Added: also entered into a specialized services agreement with Utah State University and have supplied Ampligen to support the University’s
+Added: Institute for Viral Research in its research into SARS-CoV-2.
+Added: The Utah State results show that Ampligen was able to decrease SARS-CoV-2
+Added: infectious viral yields by 90% at clinically achievable intranasal Ampligen dosage levels.
+Added: October 2020, we received IRB approval for the expansion of the AMP-511 Expanded Access Program clinical trial for ME/CFS to include
+Added: patients previously diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2, but who still demonstrate chronic fatigue-like symptoms.
+Added: Patients in the trial are treated
+Added: with our flagship pipeline drug Ampligen.
+Added: In January 2021, we commenced with the treatment of the first previously diagnosed COVID-19
+Added: patient with long-COVID symptoms (i.e., Long Hauler) in the AMP-511 study.
+Added: Enrollment of Long Hauler patients continues in the study.
+Added: November 2020, we entered into a Material Transfer and Research Agreement with Leyden Laboratories, B.V., (“Leyden Lab”)
to facilitate two proposed studies/research projects:
−Removed: assessment of protective potential of intranasal administration of Ampligen in SARS-CoV-2 Syrian hamster challenge model;
−Removed: assessment of protective potential of intranasal Ampligen in lethal influenza mouse challenge model.
−Removed: January 11, 2021, we entered into a Sponsor Agreement with the Centre for Human Drug Research (CHDR), a foundation located in
−Removed: the Leiden in the Netherlands, to manage a proposed Phase 1 randomized, double-blind study to evaluate the safety and activity
−Removed: of repeated intranasal administration of Ampligen.
−Removed: In February 2021, the Ethics Committee in the Netherlands issued its approval
−Removed: for commencement of the study.
−Removed: The current study plans call for the enrollment of eight healthy subjects in each of four Ampligen
−Removed: treatment groups and eight placebo subjects, for a total of 40 healthy subjects.
−Removed: This will assess the safety, tolerability and
−Removed: biological activity of repeated administration of Ampligen intranasally.
−Removed: The subjects will receive intranasal dosing every other
−Removed: day for 13 days, for a total of seven doses each.
−Removed: We are funding the clinical study.
−Removed: We consider such a study to be an important
−Removed: part of our ongoing efforts to develop an intranasal COVID-19 treatment.
−Removed: Europe, the EMA has approved the Orphan Medicinal Products Designation for rintatolimod (Ampligen) as a potential treatment of
−Removed: Ebola virus disease and for Alferon N Injection, also known as interferon alfa-n3, as a potential treatment of MERS.
−Removed: concluded our series of collaborations designed to determine the potential effectiveness of Ampligen and Alferon N as potential
−Removed: preventative and/or therapeutic treatments for Ebola related disorders.
−Removed: Although we believe that the threat of both MERS and Ebola
−Removed: globally may reemerge in the future, it appears that the spread of these disorders has somewhat diminished.
−Removed: As a result, we have
−Removed: elected to focus our research and development efforts on other areas at this time.
−Removed: MANUFACTURING
−Removed: Administracion Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnologia Medica (ANMAT) in Argentina approved Ampligen for commercial distribution
−Removed: for the treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in 2016.
−Removed: Shipment of the drug product to Argentina was initiated in 2018 to
−Removed: complete the release testing by ANMAT needed for commercial distribution.
−Removed: On September 19, 2019, we received clearance from the
−Removed: FDA to ship Ampligen to Argentina for the commercial launch and subsequent sales.
−Removed: We are currently working with GP Pharma on the
−Removed: commercial launch of Ampligen in Argentina See “Our Products;
−Removed: Ampligen”
−Removed: HollisterStier (Jubilant) is our authorized CMO for Ampligen for our approval in Argentina.
−Removed: Since the 2017 engagement of Jubilant
−Removed: to manufacture Ampligen, two lots of Ampligen consisting of more than 16,000 units have been manufactured and released in year
−Removed: The first lot was designated for human use in the US in the cost recovery CFS program and for expanded oncology clinical
−Removed: The second lot has been designated for these programs in addition to commercial distribution in Argentina for the treatment
−Removed: The production of additional polymer (Ampligen intermediates) took place in 2019 at our New Brunswick facility.
+Added: assessment of protective potential of intranasal administration of Ampligen in SARS-CoV-2
+Added: Syrian hamster challenge model;
+Added: assessment of protective potential of intranasal Ampligen in lethal influenza mouse challenge
+Added: January 2021, we entered into a Sponsor Agreement with the Centre for Human Drug Research (“CHDR”), a foundation located
+Added: in the Leiden in the Netherlands, to manage a Phase 1 randomized, double-blind study to evaluate the safety and activity of repeated
+Added: intranasal administration of Ampligen.
+Added: AIM funded and sponsored the study.
+Added: This study was designed to assess the safety, tolerability
+Added: and biological activity of repeated administration of Ampligen intranasally.
+Added: A total of 40 healthy subjects received either Ampligen
+Added: or a placebo in the trial, with the Ampligen given at four escalating dosages across four cohorts, to a maximum level of 1,250 micrograms.
+Added: All patients had completed treatment by June 2021 and the interim results reported no Serious or Severe Adverse Events at any dosage
+Added: We believe that the trial is a critical step in our ongoing efforts to develop Ampligen as a potential prophylaxis or treatment
+Added: for COVID-19 and other respiratory viral diseases.
+Added: Amarex provided us with monitoring support during the trial.
+Added: the completion of the Phase 1 dosing, and based on its positive interim results in June 2021 (which have since been publicly supported
+Added: in a CHDR-created data visualization published in October 2021), we signed a Reservation and Start-Up Agreement with hVIVO, reserving
+Added: space in hVIVO’s quarantine facility to sponsor a Phase 2a Human Challenge Trial (“HCT”) to test Ampligen as a potential
+Added: intranasal antiviral therapy using a human Rhinovirus hRV (common cold virus) and Influenza.
+Added: This antiviral study was to be conducted
+Added: by hVIVO, a subsidiary of Open Orphan plc.
+Added: We submitted a study protocol to the Oxford Research Ethics Committee (“REC”)/Medicines
+Added: and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”) in September 2021.
+Added: The REC approved the protocol, but the MHRA provided
+Added: a response outlining areas of the submission where it requires additional information.
+Added: A response was submitted to MHRA in October 2021.
+Added: The REC provided a “favorable opinion” to proceed, but the MHRA issued a Non-Acceptance response in November 2021.
+Added: revised application was resubmitted in December 2021.
+Added: The MHRA issued Grounds for Non-Acceptance and requested additional data before
+Added: moving forward.
+Added: As the request would require us to first conduct an animal experiment that we believe would take approximately six months
+Added: to complete, we determined that continuing with the HCT application process would not be a prudent use of our resources, so we terminated
+Added: our agreement with hVIVO and officially notified the MHRA of our decision to withdraw our application.
+Added: As the MHRA’s Grounds for
+Added: Non-Acceptance had already been issued, our withdrawal was technically recognized as a rejection of the proposed study.
Additionally,
−Removed: two lots of Ampligen were manufactured in December 2019 and January 2020 at Jubilant.
−Removed: The current manufactured lots of Ampligen
−Removed: have been fully tested and released for commercial product launch in Argentina and for clinical trials.
+Added: we filed two COVID-19-related provisional patent applications in the third quarter of 2021.
+Added: In August, we filed an application for Ampligen
+Added: as both an intranasal and an intravenous therapy for what we describe as Post-COVID conditions.
+Added: The people suffering from Post-COVID
+Added: conditions, including some young adults, can be afflicted with severe difficulties in concentrating;
+Added: serious memory problems;
+Added: inability to live an active lifestyle, to work and even to perform everyday tasks.
+Added: Early data has demonstrated that patients with symptoms
+Added: of Post-COVID conditions being treated with Ampligen in the ongoing AMP-511 Expanded Access Program have reported improvements in cognitive
+Added: Similarly, in ME/CFS, data supports the claim that Ampligen improves cognitive function.
+Added: Then in September, we filed a patent
+Added: application for Ampligen as a potential early-onset intranasal therapy designed to enhance and expand infection-induced immunity, epitope
+Added: spreading, cross-reactivity and cross-protection in patients exposed to a wide range of RNA respiratory viruses, such as influenza, Rhinoviruses
+Added: and SARS-CoV-2.
+Added: addition to securing these two provisional patent
+Added: applications, we also moved forward with proposed studies in these areas and with Pre-Investigational New Drug Applications
+Added: in September.
+Added: One pre-IND was for a Phase 2, two-arm, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study to evaluate the
+Added: efficacy and safety of Ampligen in patients experiencing Post-COVID conditions.
+Added: Eighty subjects will be randomized 1:1 to receive twice
+Added: weekly infusions of Ampligen or placebo for a period of 12 weeks.
+Added: Amarex Clinical Research, an NSF International company, is managing
+Added: the FDA submission and will manage the clinical trial.
+Added: The pre-IND meeting request was transferred to the FDA’s Division of Neurology
+Added: by the FDA’s Covid Scientific Technical Triage Team.
+Added: In November, the FDA responded that there was insufficient information to
+Added: support the proposed indication of post-COVID cognitive dysfunction.
+Added: We are working with Amarex to revise the study and resubmit it to
+Added: September 2021, we submitted another pre-IND meeting request for two separate Phase 2 clinical studies to study the potential of Ampligen
+Added: as both an infusion and an intranasal therapy for early-onset COVID-19.
+Added: The two clinical trials would be Phase 2, randomized, double-blind,
+Added: placebo-controlled studies to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Ampligen as an:
+Added: ● Intravenous
+Added: therapy – 200 mg of Ampligen or placebo, with five doses over a treatment period of
+Added: therapy – 1,250 μg spray (625 μg per nostril), with seven doses over a treatment
+Added: period of 15 days.
+Added: FDA responded that it was premature and denied our meeting request, noting the primary reason that we first needed to address its comments
+Added: on two prior similar pre-IND submissions related to the potential risks of administering Ampligen to patients with asymptomatic or mildly
+Added: symptomatic COVID-19 were justified by potential benefits.
+Added: We plan to respond to the FDA regarding the early onset COVID-19 submission.
+Added: The FDA has already authorized Ampligen for a clinical trial in cancer patients, and subjects have been and will be treated in the investigator-sponsored
+Added: Phase 2 trial at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
+Added: Our plans to study Ampligen in asymptomatic and mild COVID-19 cases await
+Added: further consideration of the different risks and benefits associated with those trials.
+Added: Europe, the EMA has approved the Orphan Medicinal Products Designation for Ampligen as a potential treatment of Ebola virus disease and
+Added: for Alferon N Injection as a potential treatment of MERS.
+Added: concluded our series of collaborations designed to determine the potential effectiveness of Ampligen and Alferon N Injection as potential
+Added: preventive and/or therapeutic treatments for Ebola-related disorders.
+Added: Although we believe that the threat of both MERS and Ebola globally
+Added: may reemerge in the future, it appears that the spread of these disorders has diminished.
+Added: As a result, we have elected to focus our research
+Added: and development efforts on other areas at this time.
+Added: April 2021, we entered into an MTA with the University of Cagliari Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente (“UNICA”),
+Added: an educational institution, under the laws of Italy, located in Monserrato (Cagliari), Italy.
+Added: The MTA relates to the research and development
+Added: of the effects of Ampligen and its ability to induce interferon production in several cell lines, and also on the ability of the Ebola
+Added: virus protein VP35 to bind to viral dsRNA and impede interferon’s upregulation and activity, and on Ampligen’s ability to
+Added: reverse VP35 inhibition of interferon production in biological systems.
+Added: The research is active and ongoing.
+Added: May 2021, we filed a U.S.
+Added: Provisional Patent Application for Ampligen as a potential therapeutic to possibly slow, halt, or reverse the
+Added: progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
+Added: MANUFACTURING
+Added: Administracion Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnologia Medica (“ANMAT”) in Argentina approved Ampligen for commercial
+Added: distribution for the treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (“CFS”) in 2016.
+Added: Shipment of the drug product to Argentina was
+Added: initiated in 2018 to complete the release testing by ANMAT needed for commercial distribution.
+Added: In September 2019, we received clearance
+Added: from the FDA to ship Ampligen to Argentina for the commercial launch and subsequent sales.
+Added: OI June 2020, we received import clearance
+Added: from ANMAT to import the first shipment of commercial grade vials of Ampligen into Argentina.
+Added: We are currently working with GP Pharm
+Added: on the commercial launch of Ampligen in Argentina (See “Our Products;
+Added: Ampligen” above).
+Added: our approval in Argentina, in 2017 we engaged Jubilant HollisterStier (“Jubilant”) to be our authorized CMO for Ampligen.
+Added: Two lots of Ampligen consisting of more than 16,000 units were manufactured and released in 2018;
+Added: these lots have been designated for
+Added: human use in the United States in the cost recovery CFS program and for expanded oncology clinical trials.
+Added: The production of additional
+Added: polymer (Ampligen intermediates) took place in 2019 at our New Brunswick facility.
+Added: Additionally, Jubilant manufactured two more lots
+Added: of Ampligen in December 2019 and January 2020.
+Added: The current manufactured lots of Ampligen have been fully tested and released for commercial
+Added: product launch in Argentina and for clinical trials.
+Added: In addition, we have supplied GP Pharm with the Ampligen required for testing and
+Added: ANMAT release.
+Added: Once final approval by ANMAT is obtained, we anticipate that GP Pharm will begin distributing Ampligen in Argentina.
December 2020, we added Pharmaceutics International Inc.
−Removed: (“Pii”) as a “Fill & Finish”
−Removed: enhance our capacity to produce the drug Ampligen.
−Removed: This addition amplifies our manufacturing capability by providing redundancy
−Removed: and cost savings.
−Removed: The contracts augment our existing fill and finish capacity.
−Removed: is approved by the FDA for commercial sales in the US for the treatment of genital warts.
−Removed: It is also approved by ANMAT in Argentina
−Removed: for commercial sales for the treatment of genital warts and in patients who are refractory to treatment with recombinant interferons.
−Removed: sales of Alferon in the United States will not resume until new batches of commercial filled and finished product are produced
−Removed: and released by the FDA.
−Removed: While our facility is approved by the FDA under the Biologics License Application (“BLA”)
−Removed: for Alferon, this status will need to be reaffirmed by an FDA pre-approval inspection.
−Removed: We will also need the FDA’s approval
−Removed: to release commercial product once we have submitted satisfactory stability and quality release data.
−Removed: Currently, the manufacturing
−Removed: process is on hold and there is no definitive timetable to have the facility back online.
−Removed: have reviewed our operations at the facility and believe that some of the equipment most likely should be upgraded to realize
−Removed: greater efficiencies, when and if we require more API than is currently in storage.
−Removed: We are also exploring engaging a Contract
−Removed: Manufacturing Organization (“CMO”) to produce API.
−Removed: While we believe we have sufficient API to meet our current needs,
−Removed: we are also continually exploring new efficiencies so as to maximize our ability to fulfill future obligations.
+Added: (“Pii”) as a “Fill & Finish” provider to enhance
+Added: our capacity to produce Ampligen.
+Added: This addition amplifies our manufacturing capability by providing redundancy and cost savings.
+Added: contracts augment our existing fill and finish capacity.
+Added: We are prepared to initiate the production of additional Ampligen when and if
+Added: May 2021, we exercised our option to re-purchase the New Brunswick manufacturing facility, pursuant to the terms of the March 2018 sale
+Added: and lease-back agreement.
+Added: We thereafter sold certain equipment and machinery that we determined to be obsolete and no longer needed for
+Added: current or future manufacturing.
+Added: Then, on March 3, 2022, we entered into an Agreement of Sale and Purchase with Acellories, Inc.
+Added: pursuant to which we will sell our property for $3.9 million.
+Added: Among other things, the purchaser has a 45-day right of due diligence
+Added: and has the right to terminate the agreement within that period.
+Added: forward, we will require one or more Contract Manufacturing Organizations (“CMO”) to produce Ampligen API.
+Added: believe we have sufficient Ampligen API to meet our current needs, we are also continually exploring new efficiencies so as to
+Added: maximize our ability to fulfill future obligations.
+Added: In this regard, in April 2021, we approved a proposal from Polysciences Inc.
+Added: (“Polysciences”)
+Added: for the manufacture of our Poly I and Poly C 12 U polynucleotides and associated test methods at Polysciences’ Warrington,
+Added: PA location to enhance our capacity to produce the polymer precursors to the drug Ampligen.
+Added: We are utilizing Polysciences’s expertise
+Added: to refine our approach to polymer production.
+Added: Additionally, we continue to be open to the possibility of agreements with other CMOs,
+Added: so as to create redundancy and to meet the potential need for larger quantities of API.
+Added: second product, Alferon N Injection, is approved by the FDA for commercial sales in the United States for the treatment of genital warts.
+Added: It is also approved by ANMAT in Argentina for commercial sales for the treatment of genital warts and in patients who are refractory
+Added: to treatment with recombinant interferons.
+Added: Commercial sales of Alferon N Injection in the United States will not resume until new batches
+Added: of commercial filled and finished product are produced and released by the FDA.
+Added: While our New Brunswick facility has FDA approval under
+Added: the Biologics License Application (“BLA”) for Alferon N Injection, and we intend to maintain a certain amount of space at
+Added: the to-be-sold facility, we will need the FDA’s approval to release commercial product once we have identified our new manufacturing approach and submitted
+Added: satisfactory stability and quality release data;
+Added: the FDA has conducted any required inspections;
+Added: and the FDA has approved our new manufacturing
+Added: Currently, we are not manufacturing Alferon N Injection and there is no definitive timetable to resume production.
Licensing/Collaborations/Joint
−Removed: maximize the availability of Ampligen to patients on a worldwide basis, we have embarked on a strategy to license the product
−Removed: and/or to collaborate and/or create a joint venture with companies that have the demonstrated capabilities and commitment to successfully
−Removed: gain approval and commercialize Ampligen in their respective territories of the world.
−Removed: Ideal partners would have the following
−Removed: characteristics:
−Removed: well established global and regional experience and coverage, robust commercial infrastructure, strong track
−Removed: record of successful development and registration of in-licensed products, as well as a therapeutic area fit (ME/CFS, immuno-oncology,
+Added: enable potential availability of Ampligen to patients on a worldwide basis, we have embarked on a strategy to license the product and/or
+Added: to collaborate and/or create a joint venture with companies that have the demonstrated capabilities and commitment to successfully gain
+Added: approval and commercialize Ampligen in their respective global territories of the world.
+Added: Ideal partners would have the following characteristics:
+Added: well-established global and regional experience and coverage;
+Added: robust commercial infrastructure;
+Added: a strong track record of successful development
+Added: and registration of in-licensed products;
+Added: and a therapeutic area fit (ME/CFS, immuno-oncology, e.g.).
MARKETING/DISTRIBUTION
−Removed: May 2016, we entered into a five-year exclusive Renewed Sales, Marketing, Distribution and Supply Agreement (the “Agreement”)
+Added: May 2016, we entered into a five-year exclusive Renewed Sales, Marketing, Distribution and Supply Agreement (the “Agreement”)
with GP Pharm.
−Removed: Under this Agreement, GP Pharm was responsible for gaining regulatory approval in Argentina for Ampligen to treat
−Removed: severe CFS in Argentina and for commercializing Ampligen for this indication in Argentina.
−Removed: We granted GP Pharm the right to expand
−Removed: rights to sell this experimental therapeutic into other Latin America countries based upon GP Pharm achieving certain performance
−Removed: We also granted GP Pharm an option to market Alferon N Injection in Argentina and other Latin America countries.
−Removed: “Our Products;
−Removed: Ampligen”
−Removed: January 2017, the ANMAT granted a five-year extension to a previous approval to sell and distribute Alferon N Injection (under
−Removed: the brand name “Naturaferon”) in Argentina.
+Added: Under this Agreement, GP Pharm was responsible for gaining regulatory approval in Argentina for Ampligen to treat severe
+Added: CFS in Argentina and for commercializing Ampligen for this indication in Argentina.
+Added: We granted GP Pharm the right to expand rights to
+Added: sell this experimental therapeutic into other Latin America countries based upon GP Pharm achieving certain performance milestones.
+Added: also granted GP Pharm an option to market Alferon N Injection in Argentina and other Latin America countries (See “Our Products;
+Added: Ampligen” above).
+Added: The GP Pharm contract was extended in May 2021, and will now end on May 24, 2024.
+Added: May 2016, we entered into a five-year agreement (the “Impatients Agreement”) with Impatients, N.V.
+Added: (“myTomorrows”),
+Added: a Netherlands-based company, for the commencement and management of an EAP in Europe and Turkey (the “Territory”) related
+Added: Pursuant to the agreement, myTomorrows, as our exclusive service provider and distributor in the Territory, is performing
+Added: EAP activities.
+Added: These activities will be directed to (a) the education of physicians and patients regarding the possibility of early
+Added: access to innovative medical treatments not yet the subject of a Marketing Authorization (regulatory approval) through named-patient
+Added: use, compassionate use, expanded access and hospital exemption, (b) patient and physician outreach related to a patient-physician platform,
+Added: (c) the securing of Early Access Approvals (exemptions and/or waivers required by regulatory authorities for medical treatments prior
+Added: to Marketing Authorization) for the use of such treatments, (d) the distribution and sale of such treatments pursuant to such Early Access
+Added: Approvals, (e) pharmacovigilance (drug safety) activities and/or (f) the collection of data such as patient-reported outcomes, doctor-reported
+Added: experiences and registry data.
+Added: We are supporting these efforts and supplying Ampligen to myTomorrows at a predetermined transfer price.
+Added: In the event that we receive Marketing Authorization in any country in the Territory, we will pay myTomorrows a royalty on products sold.
+Added: Pursuant to the Impatients Agreement, the royalty would be a percentage of Net Sales (as defined in the Impatients Agreement) of Ampligen
+Added: sold in the Territory where Marketing Authorization was obtained.
+Added: The formula to determine the percentage of Net Sales will be based
+Added: on the number of patients that are entered into the EAP.
+Added: We believe that disclosure of the exact maximum royalty rate and royalty termination
+Added: date could cause competitive harm.
+Added: However, to assist the public in gauging these terms, the actual maximum royalty rate is somewhere
+Added: between 2% and 10% and the royalty termination date is somewhere between five and fifteen years from the First Commercial Sale of a product
+Added: within a specific country.
+Added: The parties established a Joint Steering Committee comprised of representatives of both parties to oversee
+Added: No assurance can be given that activities under the EAP will result in Marketing Authorization or the sale of substantial amounts
+Added: of Ampligen in the Territory.
+Added: The agreement was automatically extended for a period of 12 months on May 20, 2021.
+Added: January 2017, the ANMAT granted a five-year extension to a previous approval to sell and distribute Alferon N Injection (under the brand
+Added: name “Naturaferon”) in Argentina.
This extends the approval until 2022.
−Removed: In February 2013, we received the
−Removed: ANMAT approval for the treatment of refractory patients that failed or were intolerant to treatment with recombinant interferon,
−Removed: with Naturaferon in Argentina.
−Removed: May 2016, we entered into a five-year agreement (the “Impatients Agreement”) with Impatients, N.V.
−Removed: (“myTomorrows”),
−Removed: a Netherlands based company, for the commencement and management of an EAP in Europe and Turkey (the “Territory”)
−Removed: related to ME/CFS.
−Removed: Pursuant to the agreement, myTomorrows, as our exclusive service provider and distributor in the Territory,
−Removed: is performing EAP activities.
−Removed: These activities will be directed to (a) the education of physicians and patients regarding the
−Removed: possibility of early access to innovative medical treatments not yet the subject of a Marketing Authorization (regulatory approval)
−Removed: through named-patient use, compassionate use, expanded access and hospital exemption, (b) patient and physician outreach related
−Removed: to a patient-physician platform, (c) the securing of Early Access Approvals (exemptions and/or waivers required by regulatory
−Removed: authorities for medical treatments prior to Marketing Authorization) for the use of such treatments, (d) the distribution and
−Removed: sale of such treatments pursuant to such Early Access Approvals, (e) pharmacovigilance (drug safety) activities and/or (f) the
−Removed: collection of data such as patient-reported outcomes, doctor-reported experiences and registry data.
−Removed: We are supporting these efforts
−Removed: and supplying Ampligen to myTomorrows at a predetermined transfer price.
−Removed: In the event that we receive Marketing Authorization
−Removed: in any country in the Territory, we will pay myTomorrows a royalty on products sold.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Impatients Agreement, the
−Removed: royalty would be a percentage of Net Sales (as defined in the Impatients Agreement) of Ampligen sold in the Territory where Marketing
−Removed: Authorization was obtained, and the maximum royalty would be a percentage of Net Sales.
−Removed: The formula to determine the percentage
−Removed: of Net Sales will be based on the number of patients that are entered into the EAP.
−Removed: We believe that disclosure of the exact maximum
−Removed: royalty rate and royalty termination date could cause competitive harm.
−Removed: However, to assist the public in gauging these terms,
−Removed: the actual maximum royalty rate is somewhere between 2% and 10% and the royalty termination date is somewhere between five and
−Removed: fifteen years from the First Commercial Sale of a product within a specific country.
−Removed: The parties established a Joint Steering
−Removed: Committee comprised of representatives of both parties to oversee the EAP.
−Removed: No assurance can be given that activities under the
−Removed: EAP will result in Marketing Authorization or the sale of substantial amounts of Ampligen in the Territory.
−Removed: January 2017, the EAP through our agreement with myTomorrows designed to enable access of Ampligen to ME/CFS patients has been
−Removed: extended to pancreatic cancer patients beginning in the Netherlands.
−Removed: myTomorrows is our exclusive service provider in the Territory
−Removed: and will manage all EAP activities relating to the pancreatic cancer extension of the program.
+Added: A request to extend the approval beyond 2022 has
+Added: been filed and is under review.
+Added: In February 2013, we received the ANMAT approval for the treatment of refractory patients that failed
+Added: or were intolerant to treatment with recombinant interferon, with Naturaferon in Argentina.
+Added: January 2017, the EAP through our agreement with myTomorrows designed to enable access of Ampligen to ME/CFS patients was extended to
+Added: pancreatic cancer patients beginning in the Netherlands.
+Added: myTomorrows is our exclusive service provider in the Territory and will manage
+Added: all EAP activities relating to the pancreatic cancer extension of the program.
+Added: August 2017, we extended our agreement with Asembia LLC, formerly Armada Healthcare, LLC, to undertake the marketing, education and sales
+Added: of Alferon N Injection throughout the United States.
+Added: This agreement has expired and we are currently in discussions with Asembia exploring
+Added: the continuation and expansion of this relationship.
February 2018, we signed an amendment to the EAP with myTomorrows.
−Removed: This amendment extended the territory to cover Canada to treat
−Removed: pancreatic cancer patients, pending government approval.
−Removed: March 2018, we signed an amendment to the EAP with myTomorrows, pursuant to which myTomorrows will be our exclusive service provider
−Removed: for special access activities in Canada for the supply of Ampligen for the treatment of ME/CFS.
−Removed: December 2020, we entered into a signed Letter of Agreement with myTomorrows for the delivery of Ampligen for the treatment of
−Removed: up to 16 pancreatic cancer patients.
−Removed: August 2017, we extended our agreement with Asembia LLC, formerly Armada Healthcare, LLC, to undertake the marketing, education
−Removed: and sales of Alferon N Injection throughout the United States.
−Removed: We are currently exploring an expansion of this relationship.
+Added: This amendment extended the territory to cover Canada to treat pancreatic
+Added: cancer patients, pending government approval.
+Added: In March 2018, we signed an amendment to the EAP with myTomorrows, pursuant to which myTomorrows
+Added: will be our exclusive service provider for special access activities in Canada for the supply of Ampligen for the treatment of ME/CFS.
+Added: December 2020, we entered into a signed Letter of Agreement with myTomorrows for the delivery of Ampligen for the treatment of up to
+Added: 16 pancreatic cancer patients.
+Added: In November 2021, we entered into a signed Letter of Agreement with myTomorrows for the delivery of Ampligen
+Added: for the treatment of up to an additional 5 pancreatic cancer patients.
major pharmaceutical competitors for Ampligen include Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Novartis and AstraZeneca.
−Removed: competitors include Baxter International, Fletcher/CSI, AVANT Immunotherapeutics, AVI BioPharma and Genta.
−Removed: When we recommence
−Removed: sales of Alferon N Injection, it will compete with Intron®
−Removed: A, an injectable from Merck & Co.
+Added: Biotech competitors
+Added: include Baxter International, Fletcher/CSI, AVANT Immunotherapeutics, AVI BioPharma and Genta.
+Added: When we recommence sales of Alferon N
+Added: Injection, it may compete with Intron® A, an injectable from Merck & Co.
by governmental authorities in the U.S.
−Removed: and foreign countries is and will be a significant factor in the manufacture and marketing
−Removed: of Alferon products and our ongoing research and product development activities.
−Removed: Ampligen and other products developed from the
−Removed: ongoing research and product development activities will require regulatory clearances prior to commercialization.
+Added: and foreign countries is and will be a significant factor in the manufacture and marketing of
+Added: Alferon N Injection products and our ongoing research and product development activities.
+Added: Ampligen and other products developed from
+Added: the ongoing research and product development activities will require regulatory clearances prior to commercialization.
In particular,
−Removed: new drug products for humans are subject to rigorous pre-clinical and clinical testing as a condition for clearance by the FDA
−Removed: and by similar authorities in foreign countries.
−Removed: The process of seeking these approvals, and the ongoing process of compliance
−Removed: with applicable statutes and regulations, has and will continue to require the expenditure of substantial resources.
−Removed: by us or our collaborators or licensees to obtain, or any delay in obtaining, regulatory approvals could materially adversely
−Removed: affect the marketing of any products developed by us and our ability to receive product or royalty revenue.
−Removed: We have received Orphan
−Removed: Drug designation for certain therapeutic indications, which we believe might under certain conditions help to accelerate the process
−Removed: of drug development and commercialization.
−Removed: Alferon N Injection is only approved for use in intralesional treatment of refractory
−Removed: or recurring external genital warts in patients 18 years of age or older.
−Removed: Use of Alferon N Injection for other applications requires
−Removed: regulatory approval.
−Removed: are subject to various federal, state and local laws, regulations and recommendations relating to such matters as safe working
−Removed: conditions, laboratory and manufacturing practices, the experimental use of animals and the use of and disposal of hazardous or
−Removed: potentially hazardous substances, including infectious disease agents, used in connection with our research work.
−Removed: more information about the current status of Alferon N Injection and Ampligen, please see “Our Products”
−Removed: of December 31, 2020, we had personnel consisting of twenty-one (21) full-time employees and two (2) part-time employees.
−Removed: (5) of the combined personnel are engaged in our research, development, clinical, and manufacturing effort with eighteen (18)
−Removed: performing regulatory, general administration, data processing, including bio-statistics, financial and investor relations functions.
+Added: new drug products for humans are subject to rigorous pre-clinical and clinical testing as a condition for clearance by the FDA and by
+Added: similar authorities in foreign countries.
+Added: The process of seeking these approvals, and the ongoing process of compliance with applicable
+Added: statutes and regulations, has and will continue to require the expenditure of substantial resources.
+Added: Any failure by us or our collaborators
+Added: or licensees to obtain, or any delay in obtaining, regulatory approvals could materially adversely affect the marketing of any products
+Added: developed by us and our ability to receive product or royalty revenue.
+Added: We have received Orphan Drug designation for certain therapeutic
+Added: indications, which we believe might under certain conditions help to accelerate the process of drug development and commercialization.
+Added: Alferon N Injection is only approved for use in intralesional treatment of refractory or recurring external genital warts in patients
+Added: 18 years of age or older.
+Added: Use of Alferon N Injection for other applications requires regulatory approval.
+Added: are subject to various federal, state and local laws, regulations and recommendations relating to such matters as safe working conditions,
+Added: laboratory and manufacturing practices, the experimental use of animals and the use of and disposal of hazardous or potentially hazardous
+Added: substances, including infectious disease agents, used in connection with our research work.
+Added: more information about the current status of Alferon N Injection and Ampligen, please see “Our Products” above.
+Added: of December 31, 2021, we had personnel consisting of 21 full-time employees and two part-time employees.
+Added: Five of the combined personnel
+Added: are engaged in our research, development, clinical, and manufacturing effort with 18 performing regulatory, general administration, data
+Added: processing, including bio-statistics, financial and investor relations functions.
We have no union employees.
−Removed: we have been successful in attracting skilled and experienced scientific personnel, there can be no assurance that we will be
−Removed: able to attract or retain the necessary qualified employees and/or consultants in the future.
+Added: we have been successful in attracting skilled and experienced scientific personnel, there can be no assurance that we will be able to
+Added: attract or retain the necessary qualified employees and/or consultants in the future.
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