−Removed: ImmunoTech Inc.
−Removed: and its subsidiaries (collectively, “AIM”, “Company”, “we” or “us”) are
−Removed: an immuno-pharma company headquartered in Ocala, Florida, and focused on the research and development of therapeutics to treat multiple
−Removed: types of cancers, viral diseases and immune-deficiency disorders.
−Removed: We have established a strong foundation of laboratory, pre-clinical
−Removed: and clinical data with respect to the development of nucleic acids and natural interferon to enhance the natural antiviral defense system
−Removed: of the human body, and to aid the development of therapeutic products for the treatment of certain cancers and chronic diseases.
−Removed: flagship products are Ampligen® (rintatolimod) — a first-in-class drug of large macromolecular RNA (ribonucleic acid) molecules
−Removed: — and Alferon N Injection® (Interferon alfa-n3).
−Removed: Ampligen has not been approved by the FDA or marketed in the United States.
−Removed: Ampligen is approved for commercial sale in the Argentine Republic for the treatment of severe CFS.
−Removed: primary present business focus involves Ampligen.
−Removed: Ampligen represents a dsRNA being developed for globally important cancers, viral diseases
−Removed: and disorders of the immune system.
−Removed: currently are proceeding primarily in four areas:
−Removed: a randomized, controlled study to evaluate efficacy and safety of Ampligen compared to a control group to treat locally advanced
−Removed: pancreatic cancer patients.
−Removed: Ampligen in other cancers, as a potential therapy that modifies the tumor microenvironment with the goal of increasing anti-tumor
−Removed: responses to check point inhibitors.
−Removed: Ampligen’s antiviral activities and potential use as a prophylactic or treatment for existing viruses, new viruses and mutated
−Removed: viruses thereof.
−Removed: Ampligen as a treatment for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (“ME/CFS”) and fatigue and/or Post-COVID
−Removed: conditions of fatigue.
−Removed: are prioritizing our activities in an order related to the stage of development, with those clinical activities such as pancreatic cancer,
−Removed: ME/CFS and Post-COVID conditions having priority over antiviral experimentation.
−Removed: We intend that priority clinical work be conducted in
−Removed: FDA- or EMA-authorized trials which could support a potential future NDA.
−Removed: However, our antiviral experimentation is designed to accumulate
−Removed: additional preliminary data supporting our hypothesis that Ampligen is a powerful, broad-spectrum prophylaxis and early-onset therapeutic
−Removed: that may confer enhanced immunity and cross-protection.
−Removed: Accordingly, we will conduct our antiviral programs in those venues most readily
−Removed: available and able to generate valid proof-of-concept data, including foreign venues.
−Removed: Immuno-Oncology .
−Removed: are focused on pancreatic cancer because testing results, to date, primarily conducted in the Netherlands, have been very promising.
−Removed: The Netherlands study generated statistically significant data indicating that Ampligen extended survival well beyond the Standard of
−Removed: Care (“SOC”), when compared to well-matched historical controls.
−Removed: These data support the proposition that Ampligen, when administered
−Removed: to either patients with locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer after systemic chemotherapy showed a statistically significant
−Removed: increase in survival rate.
−Removed: In October 2021, we and our Contract Research Organization, Amarex, submitted an Investigational New Drug
−Removed: (“IND”) application to the U.S.
−Removed: Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for a planned Phase 2 study of Ampligen
−Removed: as a therapy for locally advanced or metastatic late-stage pancreatic cancer.
−Removed: In August 2022, we received Institutional Review Board
−Removed: (“IRB”) approval of the trial protocol and so announced the trial’s commencement.
−Removed: Assuming this trial and subsequent
−Removed: planned clinical trials confirm the existing data, our goal is to then submit an NDA for use of Ampligen in pancreatic cancer patients.
−Removed: of the differences in the scale of necessary trials, our initial primary focus when it comes to pancreatic cancer will be cases that
−Removed: are locally advanced, rather than metastatic.
−Removed: The number of different approaches to treating metastatic pancreatic cancer — approaches
−Removed: which would be determined by treating physicians — would require a much larger, far more expensive trial than would a trial for
−Removed: locally advanced pancreatic cancer.
−Removed: Therefore, we are focusing on patients who have completed FOLFIRINOX and have stable disease.
−Removed: has also demonstrated in the clinic the potential for standalone efficacy in a number of other solid tumors.
−Removed: We have also seen success
−Removed: in increasing survival rates and efficacy in the treatment of animal tumors when Ampligen is used in combination with checkpoint blockade
−Removed: In fact, in March 2022 we announced interim data from an investigator-initiated, Phase 2, single-arm, efficacy/safety trial
−Removed: to evaluate the effectiveness of combining intensive locoregional intraperitoneal (IP) chemoimmunotherapy of cisplatin with IP Ampligen
−Removed: (TLR-3 agonist) and IV infusion of the checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab for patients with recurrent platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer.
−Removed: We believe that data from the study, which is being conducted by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and funded by a Merck grant,
−Removed: demonstrated that when combining three drugs – Ampligen and pembrolizumab, which are both immune therapies, with cisplatin, a chemotherapy
−Removed: – evidence of increased biomarkers associated with T cell chemotaxis and cytolytic function has been seen.
−Removed: Importantly, increases
−Removed: of these biomarkers in the tumor microenvironment have been correlated with favorable tumor responses.
−Removed: These successes in the field of
−Removed: immuno-oncology have guided our efforts toward the potential use of Ampligen as a combinational therapy for the treatment of a variety
−Removed: of solid tumor types.
−Removed: The first of our patent applications in this space was granted by the Netherlands on March 15, 2021.
−Removed: see “ Immuno-Oncology ” below.
−Removed: as an Antiviral .
−Removed: have a research and pre-clinical history that indicates broad-spectrum antiviral capability of Ampligen in animals.
−Removed: We hope to demonstrate
−Removed: that it has the same effect in humans.
−Removed: To do this, among other things, we need a population infected with a virus.
−Removed: That is why we have
−Removed: spent significant resources on COVID-19 (the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2) which is active and still infecting many subjects.
−Removed: would need to be done to get Ampligen to market as a broad-spectrum antiviral, we believe that it is important to focus our efforts first
−Removed: and foremost on thoroughly proving the concept, especially while there is still a large COVID-19-infected population.
−Removed: Previously, animal
−Removed: studies were conducted that yielded positive results utilizing Ampligen to treat numerous viruses, such as Western Equine Encephalitis
−Removed: Virus, Ebola, Vaccinia Virus (which is used in the manufacture of smallpox vaccine) and SARS-CoV-1.
−Removed: We have conducted experiments in
−Removed: SARS-CoV-2 showing Ampligen has a powerful impact on viral replication.
−Removed: The prior studies of Ampligen in SARS-CoV-1 animal experimentation
−Removed: may predict similar protective effects against SARS-CoV-2.
−Removed: FDA has requested that we provide additional data to assist the agency in evaluating the potential risks and benefits of administering
−Removed: Ampligen to asymptomatic and mild COVID-19 individuals.
−Removed: However, as discussed in more detail below, where the threat to the patient from
−Removed: COVID-19 is high, the FDA has already authorized Ampligen in a clinical trial of patients with COVID-19 who have a pre-existing cancer.
−Removed: We have also elected to explore studies (initially with healthy volunteers) outside the United States and have already conducted a study
−Removed: in the Netherlands to determine the safety profile of the intranasal delivery of Ampligen.
−Removed: this regard, CHDR, a foundation located in Leiden in the Netherlands, managed a Phase 1 randomized, double-blind study for us to evaluate
−Removed: the safety, tolerability and biological activity of repeated administration of Ampligen intranasally.
−Removed: A total of 40 healthy subjects
−Removed: received either Ampligen or a placebo in the trial, with the Ampligen given at four escalating dosages across four cohorts, to a maximum
−Removed: level of 1,250 micrograms.
−Removed: All patients had completed study by June 2021 and the study is completed.
−Removed: The Final Safety Report reported
−Removed: no Serious or Severe Adverse Events at any dosage level.
−Removed: over two years after COVID-19 first appeared, the world has a number of vaccines and some promising therapeutics.
−Removed: Our quest to prove
−Removed: the antiviral activities of Ampligen continues.
−Removed: If Ampligen has the broad-spectrum antiviral properties that we believe that it has,
−Removed: it could be a very valuable tool in treating variants of existing viral diseases, including COVID-19, or novel ones that arise in the
−Removed: Unlike most developing therapeutics which attack the virus, Ampligen works differently.
−Removed: We believe that it activates antiviral
−Removed: immune system pathways that fight not just a particular virus or viral variant, but other similar viruses as well.
−Removed: In October 2022, our IND application cleared the FDA
−Removed: approval process and we are proceeding with a Phase 2 study evaluating Ampligen as a therapeutic for patients with post-COVID conditions
−Removed: Additional comments were received from the FDA, which have been addressed in an amended protocol approved by
−Removed: the IRB on March 30, 2023.
−Removed: see “ Ampligen as a Potential Antiviral ” below.
−Removed: as a treatment for ME/CFS and Post-COVID Conditions
−Removed: have long been focused on seeking the FDA’s approval for the use of Ampligen to treat myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue
−Removed: syndrome (“ME/CFS”).
−Removed: In fact, in February 2013, we received a Complete Response letter (“CRL”) from the FDA for
−Removed: our Ampligen NDA for ME/CFS, stating that we should conduct at least one additional clinical trial, complete various nonclinical studies
−Removed: and perform a number of data analyses.
−Removed: developing a comprehensive response to the FDA and a plan for a confirmatory trial for the FDA NDA, we proceeded independently in Argentina
−Removed: and, in August 2016, we received approval of an NDA from ANMAT for commercial sale of Ampligen in the Argentine Republic for the treatment
−Removed: of severe CFS.
−Removed: In September 2019, we received clearance from the FDA to ship Ampligen to Argentina for the commercial launch and subsequent
−Removed: On June 10, 2020, we received import clearance from ANMAT to import the first shipment of commercial grade vials of Ampligen into
−Removed: The next steps in the commercial launch of Ampligen include ANMAT conducting a final inspection of the product and release
−Removed: tests before granting final approval to begin commercial sales.
−Removed: This testing and approval process is currently delayed due to ANMAT’s
−Removed: internal processes and the ongoing effects of COVID-19 and.
−Removed: Once final approval by ANMAT is obtained, GP Pharm will be responsible for
−Removed: distributing Ampligen in Argentina.
−Removed: FDA authorized an open-label treatment protocol (“AMP-511”) allowing patient access to Ampligen for treatment in a study
−Removed: under which severely debilitated CFS patients have the opportunity to be on Ampligen to treat this very serious and chronic condition.
−Removed: The data collected from the AMP-511 protocol through a consortium group of clinical sites provide safety information regarding the use
−Removed: of Ampligen in patients with CFS.
−Removed: The AMP-511 protocol is ongoing.
−Removed: In October 2020, we received IRB approval for the expansion of the
−Removed: AMP-511 protocol to include patients previously diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 following clearance of the virus, but who still demonstrate
−Removed: chronic fatigue-like symptoms that we refer to as Post-COVID conditions.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2022, there were 10 patients enrolled in
−Removed: this open-label expanded access treatment protocol (including two patients with Post-COVID-19 Conditions).
−Removed: As of January 31, 2023, there
−Removed: have been seven such Post-COVID patients treated in the study.
−Removed: AIM previously reported positive preliminary results based on data from
−Removed: the first four Post-COVID Condition patients enrolled in the study.
−Removed: The data show that, by week 12, compared to baseline, there was what
−Removed: the investigators considered a clinically significant decrease in fatigue-related measures.
−Removed: plan on a comprehensive follow through with the FDA regarding the use of Ampligen as a treatment for ME/CFS.
−Removed: We have learned a great
−Removed: deal since the FDA’s CRL and plan to adjust our approach to concentrate on specific ME/CFS symptoms.
−Removed: Responses to the CRL and a
−Removed: proposed confirmatory trial are being worked on now by our R&D team and consultants.
−Removed: see “ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) ” below.
−Removed: NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND SUMMARY RISK FACTORS
−Removed: statements in this Report contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E
−Removed: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which we refer to as the Exchange Act.
−Removed: These statements are based on our management’s
−Removed: current beliefs, expectations and assumptions about future events, conditions and results and on information currently available to us.
−Removed: Discussions containing these forward-looking statements may be found, among other places, in this Report in Part I, Item 7.
−Removed: “Management’s
−Removed: Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”;
−Removed: Part II, Item 1.
−Removed: “Legal Proceedings”;
−Removed: Part II, Item 1A.
−Removed: “Risk Factors”, as well as the following sections of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2021:
“Business”, Part I;
“Risk Factors”, Part I;
−Removed: “Legal Proceedings”,
−Removed: Part I and Part II;
+Added: “Legal Proceedings”, Part I
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”.
−Removed: statements, other than statements of historical fact, included or incorporated herein regarding our strategy, future operations, financial
−Removed: position, future revenues, projected costs, plans, prospects and objectives are forward-looking statements.
−Removed: Words such as “expect,”
−Removed: “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “seek,” “estimate,”
−Removed: “think,” “may,” “could,” “will,” “would,” “should,” “continue,”
−Removed: “potential,” “likely,” “opportunity” and similar expressions or variations of such words are intended
−Removed: to identify forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying forward-looking statements and their absence does
−Removed: not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
−Removed: Our forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance, and actual results
−Removed: could vary materially from those contained in or expressed by such statements due to risks and uncertainties.
−Removed: the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements are risks and
−Removed: uncertainties inherent in our business including, without limitation:
−Removed: our ability to adequately fund our projects as we will need additional
−Removed: funding to proceed with our objectives;
−Removed: the potential therapeutic effect of our products;
−Removed: the possibility of obtaining regulatory approval;
−Removed: our ability to find senior co-development partners with the capital and expertise needed to commercialize our products and to enter into
−Removed: arrangements with them on commercially reasonable terms;
−Removed: our ability to manufacture and sell any products;
−Removed: our ability to enter into
−Removed: arrangements with third party vendors;
−Removed: market acceptance of our products;
−Removed: our ability to earn a profit from sales or licenses of any
−Removed: our ability to discover new drugs in the future, changing market conditions, changes in laws and regulations affecting our industry;
−Removed: and future matters related to our New Jersey facility, which by definition we cannot define at this time.
−Removed: are in various stages of seeking to determine whether Ampligen will be effective in the treatment of multiple types of viral diseases,
−Removed: cancers, and immune-deficiency disorders.
−Removed: We discuss in this Report our current and anticipated future activities, all of which are subject
−Removed: to change for a number of reasons.
−Removed: Significant testing and trials will be required to determine whether Ampligen will be effective in
−Removed: the treatment of these conditions.
−Removed: Results obtained in animal models do not necessarily predict results in humans.
−Removed: Human clinical trials
−Removed: will be necessary to prove whether or not Ampligen will be efficacious in humans.
−Removed: No assurance can be given as to whether current or
−Removed: planned clinical trials will be successful or yield favorable data and the trials are subject to many factors including lack of regulatory
−Removed: approval(s), lack of study drug, or a change in priorities at the institutions sponsoring other trials.
−Removed: We cannot assure that the clinical
−Removed: studies will be successful or yield any useful data or require additional funding.
−Removed: the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus and our prior research into Ampligen’s antiviral activity against Severe Acute Respiratory
−Removed: Syndrome, or SARS, we have been focused on the potential role that Ampligen could play in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 — from a
−Removed: protective prophylaxis/early-onset therapeutic to a treatment for post-COVID conditions.
−Removed: Our beliefs rely on a number of studies.
−Removed: assurance can be given that future studies will not result in findings that are different from those reported in the studies we refer
−Removed: The pandemic is disrupting world health and world economies and most likely will continue to do so for a long time.
−Removed: able to continue to operate, clearly, like all businesses, we are unable to gauge how bad this pandemic will affect our operations in
−Removed: We reached out to numerous foreign governments related to COVID-19 and, if successful, may be working in these countries.
+Added: other things, for those statements, we claim the protection of safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities
+Added: Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
+Added: Any forward-looking statements set forth in this presentation speak only as of the date of this presentation.
+Added: We do not undertake to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date hereof.
+Added: We are in various stages of seeking to determine whether Ampligen® will be effective in the treatment of multiple types of viral
+Added: diseases, cancers, and immune-deficiency disorders and the presentation sets forth our current and anticipated future activities.
+Added: activities are subject to change for a number of reasons.
+Added: Significant additional testing and trials will be required to determine whether
+Added: Ampligen® will be effective in the treatment of these conditions.
+Added: Results obtained in animal models do not necessarily predict results
+Added: Human clinical trials will be necessary to prove whether or not Ampligen® will be efficacious in humans.
+Added: can be given as to whether current or planned clinical trials will be successful or yield favorable data and the trials are subject to
+Added: many factors including lack of regulatory approval(s), lack of study drug, or a change in priorities at the institutions sponsoring other
+Added: Even if these clinical trials are initiated, we cannot assure that the clinical studies will be successful or yield any useful
+Added: data or require additional funding.
+Added: Among the studies are clinical trials that provide only preliminary data with a small number of subjects,
+Added: and no assurance can be given that the findings in these studies will prove true or that the study or studies will yield favorable results.
+Added: Some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies and medical institutions are working on a treatment for COVID-19.
+Added: Ampligen® proves effective in combating the virus, no assurance can be given that our actions toward proving this will be given first
+Added: priority or that another treatment that eventually proves capable will not make our efforts ultimately unproductive, as multiple vaccines,
+Added: and some treatments, are now available and major pharma companies are working to develop their own disease treatments.
+Added: No assurance can
+Added: be given that future studies will not result in findings that are different from those reported in the studies referenced in this Report.
Operating in foreign countries carries with it a number of risks, including potential difficulties in enforcing intellectual property
−Removed: We cannot assure that our potential operations in foreign countries will not be adversely affected by these risks.
−Removed: We have filed
−Removed: provisional patent applications related to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
−Removed: However, these filings do not assure that patents will ultimately
−Removed: February 2013, we received a Complete Response Letter (CRL) from the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, for our Ampligen New Drug
−Removed: Application, or NDA, for the treatment of CFS.
−Removed: The FDA communicated that we should conduct at least one additional clinical trial, complete
−Removed: various nonclinical studies and perform a number of data analyses.
−Removed: Accordingly, the remaining steps to potentially gain FDA approval
−Removed: of the Ampligen NDA, the final results of these and other ongoing activities could vary materially from our expectations and could adversely
−Removed: affect the chances for approval of the Ampligen NDA.
−Removed: These activities and the ultimate outcomes are subject to a variety of risks and
−Removed: uncertainties, including but not limited to risks that (i) the FDA may ask for additional data, information or studies to be completed
−Removed: and (ii) the FDA may require additional work related to the commercial manufacturing process to be completed or may, in
−Removed: the course of the inspection of manufacturing facilities, identify issues to be resolved.
−Removed: A proposed confirmatory trial and responses
−Removed: to the CRL are being worked on now by our R&D team and consultants.
−Removed: August 2016, we received approval of our NDA from Administracion Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnologia Medica (“ANMAT”),
−Removed: for commercial sale of rintatolimod (U.S.
−Removed: Ampligen®) in the Argentine Republic for the treatment of severe CFS.
−Removed: will be marketed by GP Pharm, our commercial partner in Latin America.
−Removed: We believe, but cannot assure, that this approval provides a platform
−Removed: for potential sales in certain countries within the European Union under regulations that support cross-border pharmaceutical sales of
−Removed: licensed drugs.
−Removed: In Europe, approval in a country with a stringent regulatory process in place, such as Argentina, should add further
−Removed: validation for the product as the Early Access Program, or EAP, as discussed below and underway in Europe in pancreatic cancer.
−Removed: approval is only an initial, but important, step in the overall successful commercialization of our product.
−Removed: There are a number of actions
−Removed: that must occur before we could be able to commence commercial sales in Argentina.
−Removed: In September 2019, we received clearance from the
−Removed: FDA to ship Ampligen to Argentina for the commercial launch and subsequent sales.
−Removed: In June 2020, we received import clearance from ANMAT
−Removed: to import the first shipment of commercial grade vials of Ampligen into Argentina.
−Removed: We are currently working with GP Pharma on the commercial
−Removed: launch of Ampligen in Argentina.
−Removed: Commercialization in Argentina will require, among other things, an appropriate reimbursement level,
−Removed: appropriate marketing strategies, completion of manufacturing preparations for launch and ANMAT conducting a final inspection of the
−Removed: product and release tests before granting final approval to begin commercial sales.
−Removed: This testing and approval process is currently delayed
−Removed: due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ANMAT’s internal processes.
−Removed: Approval of rintatolimod for severe CFS in the Argentine Republic
−Removed: 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
−Removed: will obtain commercial approval.
−Removed: May 2016, we entered into a five-year agreement with myTomorrows, a Netherlands based company, for the commencement and management of
−Removed: an EAP in Europe and Turkey related to CFS.
−Removed: Pursuant to the agreement, myTomorrows, as our exclusive service provider and distributor
−Removed: in this territory, is performing EAP activities.
−Removed: In January 2017, the EAP was extended to pancreatic cancer patients beginning in the
−Removed: In February 2018, we signed an amendment to extend the territory to cover Canada to treat pancreatic cancer patients, pending
−Removed: government approval.
−Removed: In March 2018, we signed an amendment to which myTomorrows will be our exclusive service provider for special access
−Removed: activities in Canada for the supply of Ampligen for the treatment of CFS.
−Removed: MyTomorrows provides services related to the supply and distribution
−Removed: of Ampligen to patients in Early Access Programs (EAPs) which are initiated through a physician’s request;
−Removed: there have been no physician
−Removed: requests that have led to government approval, therefore no patients have been treated under an EAP for either pancreatic cancer or CFS
−Removed: No assurance can be given that we can sufficiently supply product should we experience an unexpected demand for Ampligen in
−Removed: our clinical studies, the commercial launch in Argentina or pursuant to the EAPs.
−Removed: No assurance can be given that Ampligen will prove
−Removed: effective in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
−Removed: The agreement was automatically extended for one year periods on May 20, 2021 and 2022,
−Removed: and is anticipated to extend again on May 20, 2023.
−Removed: Ampligen clinical trials are underway, in various phases of development and activity, with subjects enrolled at university cancer centers
−Removed: testing whether tumor microenvironments can be reprogrammed to increase the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy, including checkpoint
−Removed: One site of clinical trials is Roswell Park and the other is the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
−Removed: and Development;
−Removed: Immuno-oncology”).
−Removed: No assurance can be given as to the results of these underway trials.
−Removed: No assurance can be given
−Removed: as to whether some or all of the planned additional oncology clinical trials will occur and they are subject to many factors, including
−Removed: lack of regulatory approval(s), lack of study drug, or a change in priorities at the sponsoring universities or cancer centers.
−Removed: if these additional clinical trials are initiated, as we are not the sponsor, we cannot assure that these clinical studies or the studies
−Removed: underway will be successful or yield any useful data.
−Removed: In addition, initiation of planned clinical trials may not occur secondary to many
−Removed: factors including lack of regulatory approval(s) or lack of study drug.
−Removed: overall objectives include plans to continue seeking approval for commercialization of Ampligen in the United States and abroad as well
−Removed: as seeking to broaden commercial therapeutic indications for Alferon N Injection presently approved in the United States and Argentina.
−Removed: We continue to pursue senior co-development partners with the capital and expertise needed to commercialize our products and to enter
−Removed: into arrangements with them on commercially reasonable terms.
−Removed: Our ability to commercialize our products, widen commercial therapeutic
−Removed: indications of Alferon N Injection and/or capitalize on our collaborations with research laboratories to examine our products are subject
−Removed: to a number of significant risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to our, ability to enter into more definitive agreements
−Removed: with some of the research laboratories and others that we are collaborating with, to fund and conduct additional testing and studies,
−Removed: whether or not such testing is successful or requires additional testing and meets the requirements of the FDA and comparable foreign
−Removed: regulatory agencies.
−Removed: We do not know when, if ever, our products will be generally available for commercial sale for any indication.
−Removed: strived to maximize the outsourcing of certain components of our manufacturing, quality control, marketing and distribution while maintaining
−Removed: control over the entire process through our quality assurance and regulatory groups.
−Removed: We cannot provide any guarantee that the facility
−Removed: or our contract manufacturers will pass an FDA pre-approval inspection for Alferon N Injection manufacturing.
−Removed: May 2021, we exercised our option to re-purchase the New Brunswick manufacturing facility, pursuant to the terms of the March 2018 sale
−Removed: and lease-back agreement.
−Removed: We thereafter sold certain equipment and machinery that we determined to be obsolete and no longer needed for
−Removed: current or future manufacturing.
−Removed: On March 3, 2022, we entered into an Agreement of Sale and Purchase with Acellories, Inc.
−Removed: the property for an estimated $3.9 million, with AIM’s intention to keep some space specifically for its Alferon activity.
−Removed: sale was finalized on November 1, 2022, for $3.7 million net of normal closing cost.
−Removed: June 2022 we entered into a lease agreement with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority for a 5,210 square-foot, state-of-the-art
−Removed: R&D facility at the New Jersey Bioscience Center (“NJBC”), primarily consisting of two separate laboratory suites.
−Removed: facility is AIM’s operations, research and development center.
−Removed: production of new Alferon N Injection Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient, or API, is currently on hold.
−Removed: The New Brunswick facility is approved
−Removed: by the FDA under the Biological License Application, or BLA, for Alferon N Injection.
−Removed: While we have sold the New Brunswick facility,
−Removed: we maintain a certain amount of space at that facility for Alferon activities, the sale of the facility will move up the timeline for
−Removed: contracting with a CMO, or CMOs, capable of producing Alferon, and receiving FDA approval to do so, prior to commercial sale of newly
−Removed: produced inventory product.
−Removed: If and when we obtain a reaffirmation of FDA BLA status and have begun production of new Alferon N Injection
−Removed: API, it will need FDA approval as to the quality and stability of the final product before commercial sales can resume.
−Removed: We may need additional
−Removed: funds to finance the validation process.
−Removed: If we are unable to gain the necessary FDA approvals related to the manufacturing process and/or
−Removed: final product of new Alferon N Injection inventory, our operations most likely will be materially and/or adversely affected.
−Removed: of these contingencies, there can be no assurances that the approved Alferon N Injection product will be returned to production on a
−Removed: timely basis, if at all, or that if and when it is again made commercially available, it will return to prior sales levels.
−Removed: December 2020, we added Pharmaceutics International Inc.
−Removed: (“Pii”) as a “Fill & Finish” provider to enhance
−Removed: our capacity to produce Ampligen.
−Removed: This addition amplifies our manufacturing capability by providing redundancy and cost savings.
−Removed: contracts augment our active and in-process fill and finish capacity.
−Removed: to continuing delays and other obstacles related to importing Ampligen to China, on August 10, 2022, we ended our contract with Shenzhen
−Removed: Smoore Technology for the development of an Ampligen delivery device for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2.
−Removed: believe, and are investigating, Ampligen’s potential role in enhancing the activity of influenza vaccines.
−Removed: While certain studies
−Removed: involving rodents, non-human primates (monkeys) and healthy human subjects indicate that Ampligen may enhance the activity of influenza
−Removed: vaccines by conferring increased cross-reactivity or cross-protection, further studies will be required and no assurance can be given
−Removed: that Ampligen will assist in the development of a universal vaccine for influenza or other viruses.
−Removed: forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified and some
−Removed: of which are beyond our control, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events.
−Removed: and circumstances reflected in our forward-looking statements may not be achieved or occur and actual results could differ materially
−Removed: from those projected in the forward-looking statements.
−Removed: Moreover, we operate in an evolving environment.
−Removed: New risk factors and uncertainties
−Removed: may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for management to predict all risk factors and uncertainties.
−Removed: Except as required
−Removed: by applicable law, we do not plan to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of
−Removed: any new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise.
−Removed: Report also refers to estimates and other statistical data made by independent parties and by us relating to market size and growth and
−Removed: other data about our industry.
−Removed: This data involves a number of assumptions and limitations, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight
−Removed: to such estimates.
−Removed: In addition, projections, assumptions and estimates of our future performance and the future performance of the markets
−Removed: in which we operate are necessarily subject to a high degree of uncertainty and risk.
+Added: In addition, many countries, including Argentina, are still dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks and have made that their primary
+Added: We believe that this may be delaying our commercialization of Ampligen® in Argentina until COVID-19 is more under control.
+Added: We cannot assure that our potential foreign operations will not be adversely affected by these risks.
+Added: filings are available at www.aimimmuno.com.
+Added: The information found on our website is not incorporated by reference into this Report and
+Added: is included for reference purposes only.
Risk Related to our Business
−Removed: COVID-19 coronavirus could adversely impact our business, including our clinical trials.
−Removed: We cannot predict the ultimate effects of
−Removed: the Covid-19 pandemic on our business
may require additional financing which may not be available.
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in a timely manner, or at all, our operations will be materially harmed and our stock adversely affected.
+Added: COVID-19 coronavirus or other global pandemics could adversely impact our business, including our clinical trials.
+Added: We cannot predict
+Added: the ultimate effects of the COVID-19 virus on our business.
may be subject to product liability claims from the use of Ampligen, Alferon N Injection, or other of our products which could negatively
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are risks of liabilities associated with handling and disposing of hazardous materials.
−Removed: rely upon information technology and any failure, inadequacy, interruption or security lapse of that technology, including any cyber
−Removed: security incidents, could harm our ability to operate our business effectively.
+Added: rely upon information technology and any failure, inadequacy, interruption, or security lapse of that technology, including any cybersecurity
+Added: incidents, could harm our ability to operate our business effectively.
loss of services of key personnel could hurt our chances for success.
−Removed: financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP.
GAAP requires estimates, judgements and assumptions which inherently contain
uncertainties.
−Removed: Associated with Our Products
+Added: currently, and may in the future, have assets held at financial institutions that may exceed the insurance coverage offered by the
+Added: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the loss of such assets would have a severe negative affect on our operations and liquidity.
+Added: Risks Associated with Our Products
+Added: The development of Ampligen is subject to significant risks.
+Added: The development of Alferon N Injection is subject to significant risks.
side effects from the use of Ampligen or Alferon N Injection could adversely affect potential revenues and physician/patient acceptability
of our product.
−Removed: Related to our activities associated with Ampligen’s potential effectiveness as a treatment for SARS-CoV-2
−Removed: is not possible to predict the future of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic or the development of potential treatments.
−Removed: are available a couple of treatments for COVID-19.
−Removed: No assurance can be given that Ampligen will aid in or be applied to the treatment
−Removed: of this virus.
+Added: Related to our activities associated with Ampligen’s potential effectiveness as a treatment for COVID-19 or Post-Covid Conditions
+Added: is not possible to predict the future of COVID-19, and related Post-COVID Conditions, as a global public health threat or the development
+Added: of related therapies.
+Added: No assurance can be given that Ampligen will aid in or be applied to the treatment of this virus.
in foreign countries carries with it many risks.
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we have no basis for estimating when material net cash inflows may commence.
−Removed: We have yet to generate significant revenues from the
−Removed: sale of these developmental products.
+Added: We have yet to generate significant revenues from the sale
+Added: of these developmental products.
Associated with Our Manufacturing
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If we are unable to obtain the required raw materials and/or services, we may not be able to manufacture Ampligen.
−Removed: are a limited number of organizations in the United States available to provide the final manufacturing steps of formulation, fill,
+Added: are limited number of organizations in the United States available to provide the final manufacturing steps of formulation, fill,
finish and packing sets for Alferon N Injection and Ampligen.
−Removed: is no assurance that upon successful manufacture of a drug on a limited scale basis for investigational use will lead to a successful
+Added: is no assurance that, upon success, manufacture of a drug on a limited-scale basis for investigational use would lead to a successful
transition to commercial, large-scale production.
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business, financial condition and operating results could be negatively affected as a result of actions by activist investors.
−Removed: this regard, an activist stockholder unsuccessfully attempted to take control of us by proposing director nominees at our last annual
−Removed: stockholders meeting.
file electronically with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports
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We make available on our website at www.ao-inc.com free of charge, copies of these reports
−Removed: as soon as reasonably practicable after filing these reports with, or furnishing them to, the SEC.We are subject to the information and
−Removed: periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and, in accordance therewith, we file periodic reports, proxy statements and other
−Removed: information with the SEC.
−Removed: Such periodic reports, proxy statements and other information are available for inspection and copying at the
−Removed: website of the SEC www.sec.gov.
−Removed: You also may obtain a free copy of our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form
−Removed: 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and amendments to those reports on the day of filing with the SEC on our website
+Added: as soon as reasonably practicable after filing these reports with, or furnishing them to, the SEC.
+Added: We are subject to the information
+Added: and periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and, in accordance therewith, we file periodic reports, proxy statements and
+Added: other information with the SEC.
+Added: Such periodic reports, proxy statements and other information are available for inspection and copying
+Added: at the website of the SEC www.sec.gov .
+Added: You also may obtain a free copy of our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on
+Added: Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and amendments to those reports on the day of filing with the SEC on our website
at http://www.aimimmuno.com under the Investor Relations tab for SEC Filings or by contacting the Investor Relations Department
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AIM has supplied GP Pharm with the Ampligen required for testing and ANMAT release.
−Removed: and approval process is currently delayed due to ANMAT’s internal processes and the ongoing effects of COVID-19.
−Removed: Once final approval
−Removed: by ANMAT is obtained, GP Pharm will be responsible for distributing Ampligen in Argentina.
−Removed: We continue to pursue our Ampligen NDA, for
−Removed: the treatment of CFS with the FDA.
−Removed: FDA has authorized an open-label expanded access treatment protocol (fAMP-511) allowing patient access to Ampligen in a study under which
−Removed: severely debilitated CFS patients have the opportunity to be on Ampligen to treat this very serious and chronic condition.
−Removed: protocol started in the 1990s and is ongoing.
−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 database of clinical safety information which we
−Removed: believe will provide further documentation regarding the absence of autoimmune disease associated with Ampligen treatment.
−Removed: that continued efforts to understand existing data, and to advance the development of new data and information, will ultimately support
−Removed: our future filings for Ampligen and/or the design of future clinical studies that the FDA requested in a CRL.
−Removed: The FDA approved an increased
−Removed: reimbursement level from $200 to $345 per 200 mg vial of Ampligen, due to increased production costs;
−Removed: which was re-authorized in 2021
−Removed: and again in 2022.
+Added: and approval process is ongoing due to ANMAT’s internal processes.
+Added: Once final approval by ANMAT is obtained, GP Pharm will begin
+Added: distributing Ampligen in Argentina.
+Added: We continue to pursue our Ampligen NDA, for the 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 study under which
+Added: severely debilitated CFS patients have the opportunity to be on Ampligen to treat this serious and chronic condition.
+Added: The AMP-511 protocol
+Added: started in the 1990s and is ongoing.
+Added: The data collected from the AMP-511 protocol through clinical sites provide safety information regarding
+Added: the use of Ampligen in patients with CFS.
+Added: We are establishing an enlarged database of clinical safety information which we believe will
+Added: provide further documentation regarding the absence of autoimmune disease associated with Ampligen treatment.
+Added: We believe that continued
+Added: efforts to understand existing data, and to advance the development of new data and information, will ultimately support our future filings
+Added: for Ampligen and/or the design of future clinical studies that the FDA requested in a CRL.
+Added: The FDA approved an increased reimbursement
+Added: level from $200 to $345 per 200 mg vial of Ampligen, due to increased production costs;
+Added: which was re-authorized in 2021 and again in
At this time, we do not plan on passing this adjustment along to the patients in this program.
−Removed: In October 2020, we
−Removed: received IRB approval for the expansion of the AMP-511 Expanded Access Program clinical trial for ME/CFS to include patients previously
−Removed: diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 following clearance of the virus, but who still demonstrate chronic fatigue-like symptoms that we refer to
−Removed: as Post-COVID conditions.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2022, there were 10 patients enrolled in this open-label expanded access treatment protocol),
−Removed: with seven Post-COVID patients receiving or having received treatment.
−Removed: AIM previously reported positive preliminary results based on
−Removed: data from the first four Post-COVID Condition patients enrolled in the study.
−Removed: The data show that, by week 12, compared to baseline, there
−Removed: was what the investigators considered a clinically significant decrease in fatigue-related measures.
+Added: In October 2020, we received IRB
+Added: approval for the expansion of the AMP-511 Expanded Access Program clinical trial for ME/CFS to include patients previously diagnosed
+Added: with SARS-CoV-2 following clearance of the virus, but who still demonstrate chronic fatigue-like symptoms that we refer to as Post-COVID
+Added: As of December 31, 2023, there are 10 patients enrolled in this open-label expanded access treatment protocol.
+Added: In July 2022,
+Added: AIM reported positive preliminary results based on data from the first four Post-COVID Condition patients enrolled in the study.
+Added: data show that, by week 12, compared to baseline, the investigators observed what they considered a clinically significant decrease in
+Added: fatigue-related measures.
+Added: To date, there have been eight such Post-COVID patients treated in this study.
May 2016, we entered into a five-year agreement with myTomorrows, a Netherlands based company, for the commencement and management of
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also is managing all Early Access Programs and Special Access Programs in Europe, Canada, and Turkey to treat pancreatic cancer and ME/CFS
−Removed: The agreement was automatically extended for a period of 12 months on May 20, 2021, and again for an additional period of 12
−Removed: months on May 20, 2022.
+Added: The agreement was automatically extended for a period of 12 months on May 20, 2021;
+Added: has been automatically extended for 12
+Added: months on each subsequent May 20;
+Added: and will continue to be automatically extended for periods of 12 months every May 20 until terminated
+Added: or the terms of the agreement are met.
June 2018, Ampligen was cited as outperforming two other TLR3 agonists — poly IC and natural double stranded RNA — in creating
−Removed: an enhanced tumor microenvironment for checkpoint blockade therapy in the journal of Cancer Research ( http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2018/05/31/0008-5472.CAN-17-3985 ).In
−Removed: a head-to-head study in explant culture models, Ampligen activated the TLR3 pathway and promoted an accumulation of killer T cells but,
−Removed: unlike the other two TLR3 agonists, it did so without causing regulatory T cell (Treg) attraction.
−Removed: These findings were considered important
−Removed: because they indicate that Ampligen selectively reprograms the tumor microenvironment by inducing the beneficial aspects of tumor inflammation
−Removed: (attracting killer T cells), without amplifying immune-suppressive elements such as regulatory T cells.
−Removed: The study was conducted at the
−Removed: University of Pittsburgh and Roswell Park as a part of the NIH-funded P01 CA132714 and Ovarian Cancer Specialized Program of Research
−Removed: Excellence (“SPORE”).
+Added: an enhanced tumor microenvironment for checkpoint blockade 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”).
2018, we completed production of two commercial-size batches of more than 16,000 vials of Ampligen, following its “Fill & Finish”
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Additionally, two lots of Ampligen were manufactured
−Removed: in December 2019 and January 2020 at Jubilant HollisterStier.
−Removed: The current manufactured lots of Ampligen have been fully tested and released
−Removed: for commercial product launch in Argentina and for clinical trials.
−Removed: Additionally, in December 2020, we added Pii as a “Fill &
−Removed: Finish” provider.
+Added: in December 2019 and January 2020 at Jubilant HollisterStier and we recently issued a purchase order for a total of $1,432,257 to manufacture
+Added: additional lots of Ampligen at Jubilant.
+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: Additionally, in December 2020, we added Pii as a “Fill & Finish”
+Added: provider to enhance our capacity to produce Ampligen.
+Added: This addition amplifies our manufacturing capability by providing redundancy and
+Added: cost savings.
The contracts augment our active and in-process fill and finish capacity.
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sections below for more details on the manufacture and marketing/distribution of Alferon N Injection).
+Added: The production of new Alferon
+Added: N Injection Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient, or API, is currently on hold.
+Added: We do not know when, if ever, our products will be generally
+Added: available for commercial sale for any indication.
+Added: Additionally, on May 9, 2023, we were granted a U.S.
+Added: Patent for a method for preventing
+Added: or reducing antigenic drift or viral reassortment in a host animal comprising determining if a host animal has been exposed to or infected
+Added: by an avian influenza virus and administering to the exposed host animal alpha-interferon.
AND NON-PATENT EXCLUSIVITY RIGHTS
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Please see “Note 4:
−Removed: Patents, Trademark Rights and Other
−Removed: Intangibles (FASB ASC 350 General Intangibles Other than Goodwill)” under Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for more
−Removed: information on these patents.
+Added: Patents, and Trademark Rights, Net”
+Added: under Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for more information on these patents.
are no current patent litigation proceedings involving us.
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(in vitro and in vivo) in different immune-based disorders including cancer and CFS.
−Removed: While we have previously estimated milestone dates
−Removed: when significant progress could be reported, the reality of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic could mean the re-direction of resources
−Removed: away from ongoing clinical trials and toward the research and development of potential treatments for the coronavirus.
−Removed: In this regard,
−Removed: we have widened our focus to include research and development of potential prophylactic and therapeutic applications for the treatment
−Removed: of COVID-19, including the long-term effects of COVID-19.
+Added: We also have focused on research and development
+Added: of potential prophylactic and therapeutic applications for the treatment of COVID-19, including the long-term effects of COVID-19.
Immuno-Oncology
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The underway trials include:
−Removed: Cancer Trial - The Phase 2 AMP-270 clinical trial is a randomized, open-label, controlled, parallel-arm study with the primary
−Removed: objective of comparing the efficacy of Ampligen versus a no treatment control group following FOLFIRINOX for subjects with locally
−Removed: advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
+Added: Cancer Trial - The Phase 2 AMP-270 clinical trial is a randomized, open-label, controlled,
+Added: parallel-arm study with the primary objective of comparing the efficacy of Ampligen versus
+Added: a no treatment control group following FOLFIRINOX for subjects with locally advanced pancreatic
+Added: adenocarcinoma.
Secondary objectives include comparing safety and tolerability.
−Removed: The AMP-270 is expected to enroll
−Removed: approximately 90 subjects in up to 30 centers across the U.S.
−Removed: The Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska
−Removed: Medical Center (UNMC) and Erasmus MC in the Netherlands are expected to be the primary study sites.
−Removed: In March 2022, the FDA granted
−Removed: clearance to proceed with the study.
−Removed: In April 2022, we executed a work order with Amarex to manage the clinical trial.
−Removed: 2022, we received IRB approval of the trial protocol and so announced the trial’s commencement.
+Added: is expected to enroll approximately 90 subjects in up to 30 centers across the U.S.
+Added: In March 2022, the FDA granted clearance to proceed with the study.
+Added: In April 2022, we executed
+Added: a work order with Amarex to manage the clinical trial.
+Added: In August 2022, we received IRB approval
+Added: of the trial protocol and so announced the trial’s commencement.
+Added: The authorization
+Added: to proceed with the Phase 2 pancreatic cancer clinical trial has been received with potential
+Added: sites in the Netherlands at Erasmus MC under Prof.
+Added: van Eijck, and also at major cancer
+Added: research centers in the United States such as The Buffett Cancer Center at the University
+Added: of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).
+Added: The study is recruiting patients.
(https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05494697).
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2022, we incurred expense of approximately $1,730,000.
−Removed: “Immuno-Oncology;
−Removed: Additional Progress and Analysis Related to Pancreatic Cancer” for more analysis.
Recurrent Ovarian Cancer
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All told, the study
−Removed: has seen an Objective Response Rate (ORR) 38.5%;
−Removed: a study of pembrolizumab alone in the treatment of advanced recurrent ovarian cancer
−Removed: found ORR of 8.1% and 9.9% across two cohorts.
+Added: has seen an Objective Response Rate (ORR) of 38.5%;
+Added: a study of pembrolizumab alone in the treatment of advanced recurrent ovarian
+Added: cancer found ORR of 8.1% and 9.9% across two cohorts.
We believe that the positive data makes this patent have heightened potential.
−Removed: patents are pending in other countries.
+Added: Similar patents are pending in other countries.
4 Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer - Phase 1 study of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer using chemokine modulation
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https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03599453 .
−Removed: The key findings announced April 2022 included:
+Added: The key findings announced in April 2022 included:
pre-determined primary endpoint of efficacy was met (increase in CD8 in TME).
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endpoint https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03403634 .
−Removed: The key findings announced April 2022 included:
+Added: The key findings announced in April 2022 included:
study’s primary endpoint was met, evidenced by increased CD8a expression post-treatment (p=0.046).
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Grade 3 or higher adverse events were rare (5%).
−Removed: ● Early-Stage
−Removed: Prostate Cancer - Phase 2 study investigating the effectiveness and safety of aspirin
−Removed: and Ampligen with or without interferon-alpha 2b (Intron A) compared to no drug treatments
−Removed: in a randomized three-arm study of patients with prostate cancer before undergoing radical
+Added: Prostate Cancer - Phase 2 study investigating the effectiveness and safety of aspirin and Ampligen with or without interferon-alpha
+Added: 2b (Intron A) compared to no drug treatments in a randomized three-arm study of patients with prostate cancer before undergoing radical
prostatectomy.
−Removed: Patient enrollment has been initiated in this study designed for up to 45
+Added: Patient enrollment has been initiated in this study designed for up to 45 patients.
+Added: The study is temporarily suspended
+Added: due to the Merck discontinuation of Intron-A production.
+Added: Roswell Park has had a Type-C meeting with the FDA and is currently performing
+Added: the necessary experiments to replace Intron-A with a generic alpha-interferon.
+Added: We expect this trial to resume in the near future.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03899987
−Removed: ● Early-Stage
−Removed: Triple Negative Breast Cancer - Phase 1 study of chemokine modulation plus neoadjuvant
−Removed: chemotherapy in patients with early-stage triple negative breast cancer has received FDA
−Removed: authorization;
−Removed: the objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of
−Removed: a combination of Ampligen, celecoxib with or without Intron A, when given along with chemotherapy;
−Removed: the goal of this approach is to increase survival.
−Removed: Interim results announced in March 2022
−Removed: detailed data gathered from evaluating paclitaxel’s impact on chemokine production
−Removed: in the human breast tumor microenvironment (TME) and the ability of a chemokine modulatory
−Removed: regimen (CKM) of Ampligen and Interferon-α to mitigate potentially undesirable aspects
−Removed: of taxane chemotherapy.
−Removed: Based on the results, we believe that the combination chemokine modulatory
−Removed: regimen including Ampligen has the potential to mitigate undesirable aspects of taxane chemotherapy.
−Removed: Investigators are currently analyzing data.
+Added: Triple Negative Breast Cancer - The objective of this Phase 1 study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of a combination
+Added: of Ampligen, celecoxib with or without Intron A, when given along with chemotherapy in patients with early-stage triple negative
+Added: breast cancer.
+Added: The now completed (as of September 2022) topline results from the study confirm
+Added: the positive findings that were previously presented at the 2022 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) 37 th
+Added: Annual Meeting in a poster presentation
+Added: titled Safety and efficacy of de-escalated neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) using
+Added: chemokine-modulating regimen (rintatolimod, IFN-α2b, celecoxib) .
+Added: primary endpoint of the study was safety and tolerability.
+Added: The results demonstrated that treatment was well-tolerated with mostly
+Added: grade 1 or 2 treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) without dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) or delayed or immune-related toxicities.
+Added: DLT was defined as grade 3 or higher toxicities within the first 3 weeks.
+Added: Secondary endpoints included pCR rate where 5/9 (56%) of
+Added: patients attained pCR and 1 more patient attained ypTmic.
+Added: Tumor and blood biomarkers were also analyzed in exploratory studies.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04081389
−Removed: Melanoma — Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (“Roswell Park”),
−Removed: in a clinical trial fully funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has commenced patient
−Removed: enrollment in its Phase 2 study in subjects with primary PD-1/PD-L1 resistant melanoma.
−Removed: Phase 2 study will evaluate type-1 polarized dendritic cell (αDC1) vaccine in combination
−Removed: with tumor-selective chemokine modulation (“CKM”) comprised of Interferon alpha
−Removed: 2b, Ampligen (rintatolimod) and Celecoxib.
−Removed: Up to 24 patients are to be enrolled (See:
+Added: Melanoma — Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (“Roswell Park”), in a clinical trial fully funded by the
+Added: National Cancer Institute (NCI), has commenced patient enrollment in its Phase 2 study in subjects with primary PD-1/PD-L1 resistant
+Added: The Phase 2 study will evaluate type-1 polarized dendritic cell (αDC1) vaccine in combination with tumor-selective
+Added: chemokine modulation (“CKM”) comprised of Interferon alpha 2b, Ampligen (rintatolimod) and Celecoxib.
+Added: Up to 24 patients
+Added: are to be enrolled.
+Added: The study was temporarily suspended due to the Merck discontinuation of Intron-A production but has since resumed
+Added: recruitment (See:
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT04093323 ).
+Added: or Unresectable Triple Negative Breast Cancer – This phase ½a trial tests the safety, side effects, and best dose
+Added: of chemokine modulation therapy (CKM) (rintatolimod, celecoxib, and interferon alpha 2b) in combination with pembrolizumab for the
+Added: treatment of patients with triple negative breast cancer that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places
+Added: in the body (metastatic) or that cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable).
+Added: The study is recruiting subjects.
+Added: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05756166
Progress and Analysis Related to Pancreatic Cancer
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to date that would cause the program to move forward with the approval process.
−Removed: total of 42 pancreatic cancer patients initially received treatment with Ampligen immuno-oncology therapy under the EAP program at Erasmus
−Removed: MC in the Netherlands;
−Removed: that initial program has since continued to expand and proceed with additional patients to be treated with Ampligen
−Removed: Supervised by Prof.
+Added: A total of 42 pancreatic cancer patients initially
+Added: received treatment with Ampligen immuno-oncology therapy under the EAP program at Erasmus MC in the Netherlands;
+Added: that initial program
+Added: has since continued to expand and proceed with additional patients to be treated with Ampligen supervised by Prof.
van Eijck, MD.
−Removed: The team at Erasmus MC in September 2020 reported data which demonstrated a statistically significant
−Removed: positive survival benefit when using Ampligen in patients with locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer after systemic chemotherapy,
−Removed: compared with historical control patients.
−Removed: We are working with our Contract Research Organization, Amarex Clinical Research LLC, to seek
−Removed: FDA “fast-track.” We have applied for fast-track status;
+Added: In March 2024, the team at Erasmus MC published a thorough data analysis in an article titled “ Rintatolimod in Advanced Pancreatic
+Added: Cancer enhances Anti-Tumor Immunity through Dendritic Cell-Mediated T Cell Responses ” in the journal Clinical Cancer
+Added: The positive clinical findings relate to changes in the tumor microenvironment after Ampligen use.
+Added: We are working with our
+Added: Contract Research Organization, Amarex Clinical Research LLC, to seek FDA “fast-track.” We have applied for fast-track status;
have received denials to date;
−Removed: and are currently working through
−Removed: the FDA process to provide all the materials and information required to achieve fast-track status.
−Removed: The IND authorization to proceed
−Removed: with the Phase 2 pancreatic cancer clinical trial has been received with potential sites in the Netherlands at Erasmus MC under Prof.
−Removed: van Eijck, and also at major cancer research centers in the United States such as The Buffett Cancer Center at the University
−Removed: of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).
+Added: and are currently working through the FDA process to provide all the materials and information required
+Added: to achieve fast-track status.
January 2023, we entered into an external sponsored collaborative clinical research agreement with Erasmus MC and AstraZeneca.
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checkpoint inhibitor durvalumab with TLR-3 agonist rintatolimod in patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma for therapy
−Removed: DURIPANC Study,” in which it will use both study drugs provided by AstraZeneca and AIM ImmunoTech.
+Added: DURIPANC Study,” in which it will use study drugs provided by both AstraZeneca and us.
+Added: In June 2023 we received the required
+Added: approvals from the Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects, which is the Competent Authority for the review of clinical
+Added: trials in the Netherlands, and the Medical Ethics Review Committee Erasmus MC, which is the governing ethics board.
+Added: The study is open
+Added: and has dosed its first subject.
Additionally:
−Removed: December 2020, the FDA granted Ampligen Orphan Drug Designation status for the treatment
−Removed: of pancreatic cancer.
−Removed: The Orphan Drug Designation program provides orphan status to drugs
−Removed: and biologics which are defined as those intended for the treatment, prevention or diagnosis
−Removed: of a rare disease or condition, which is one that affects less than 200,000 persons in the
−Removed: United States or meets cost recovery provisions of the act.
−Removed: The status helps incentivize
−Removed: the treatment of therapies to treat unmet medical needs by providing a company with seven
+Added: December 2020, the FDA granted Ampligen Orphan Drug Designation status for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
+Added: The Orphan Drug Designation
+Added: program provides orphan status to drugs 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 United States or meets cost recovery provisions
+Added: The status helps incentivize the treatment of therapies to treat unmet 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
−Removed: from the European Commission (“EC”) granting Orphan Medicinal Product Designation
−Removed: for Ampligen as a treatment for pancreatic cancer.
−Removed: Orphan products, once commercially approved
−Removed: in the European Union (“EU”), receive benefits including up to ten years of protection
−Removed: from market competition from similar medicines with similar active component and indication
−Removed: for use that are not shown to be clinically superior.
+Added: February 2021, our subsidiary, NV Hemispherx Biopharma Europe, received formal notification from the European Commission (“EC”)
+Added: granting Orphan Medicinal Product Designation for Ampligen as a treatment for pancreatic cancer.
+Added: Orphan products, once commercially
+Added: approved in the European Union (“EU”), receive benefits including up to ten years of protection from market competition
+Added: from similar medicines with similar active component and indication for use that are not shown to be clinically superior.
June 2021, Ampligen was featured in a publication containing state-of-the-art methodologies in the peer-reviewed medical journal Cancers
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cancer cells”, including:
−Removed: ● Stimulation
of interferon regulatory factors and activation of the interferon signaling pathway,
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In August 2022, we received IRB approval of the trial protocol and so announced the trial’s commencement.
+Added: recruiting patients.
data was published in March 2022 in a manuscript titled, “ Rintatolimod (Ampligen®) enhances numbers of peripheral B cells
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Ampligen may have a direct anti-tumor effect in pancreatic cancer cells expressing TLR-3.
−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
−Removed: by both the government and private sector as a significant unmet medical need, including the U.S.
−Removed: National Institutes of Health (“NIH”),
−Removed: FDA and the CDC.
−Removed: The CDC states on its website at https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/ that “ Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic
−Removed: fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a serious, long-term illness that affects many body systems.
−Removed: People with ME/CFS are often not able to do
−Removed: their usual activities.
−Removed: At times, ME/CFS may confine them to bed.
−Removed: People with ME/CFS have severe fatigue and sleep problems.
−Removed: get worse after people with the illness try to do as much as they want or need to do.
−Removed: This symptom is called post-exertional malaise
−Removed: Other symptoms can include problems with thinking 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 even at
−Removed: ME/CFS is characterized by incapacitating fatigue with profound exhaustion and extremely poor stamina, sleep difficulties and problems
−Removed: with concentration and short-term memory.
−Removed: It is also accompanied by flu-like symptoms, pain in the joints and muscles, tender lymph nodes,
−Removed: sore throat and new headaches.
−Removed: A distinctive characteristic of the illness is a worsening of symptoms following physical or mental exertion,
−Removed: which do not subside with rest.
−Removed: high number of younger people being hospitalized for COVID-19 suggests considerable numbers of people in the prime of their lives may
−Removed: have a COVID-induced ME/CFS-like illness in their future.
−Removed: According to a 2016 journal article, the estimated annual cost of lost productivity
−Removed: related to ME/CFS was $9-37 billion in the United States, and for direct medical costs it was $9-14 billion.
−Removed: June of 2020, we filed a provisional patent application for, among other discoveries, the use of Ampligen as a potential early-onset
−Removed: 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 months
−Removed: after recovering from the acute illness.
−Removed: “After one year, 17% of patients had not returned to work and 9% more had not returned
−Removed: to their pre-SARS work levels,” according to Simmaron Research.
−Removed: Now there is increasing evidence that patients with COVID-19 can
−Removed: develop a similar, ME/CFS-like illness.
−Removed: These patients are commonly referred to as “Long Haulers.”
−Removed: October 2020, we received IRB approval for the expansion of the AMP-511 Expanded Access Program clinical trial for ME/CFS to include
−Removed: patients previously diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 following clearance of the virus, but who still demonstrate chronic fatigue-like symptoms.
−Removed: For more information on our AMP-511 Expanded Access Program, please see “ OUR PRODUCTS:
−Removed: Ampligen ” above.
−Removed: November 2020, we announced the publication of statistically significant data detailing how Ampligen could have a considerable positive
−Removed: impact on people living with ME/CFS when administered in the early stages of the disease.
−Removed: The data were published in PLOS ONE ,
−Removed: a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science.
−Removed: AIM researchers found that the TLR3 agonist
−Removed: Ampligen substantially improved physical performance in a subset of ME/CFS patients.
−Removed: noted above in Overview;
−Removed: Ampligen as a treatment for ME/CFS and Post-COVID Conditions , we have long been focused on seeking
−Removed: the FDA’s approval for the use of Ampligen to treat ME/CFS.
−Removed: In fact, in February 2013, we received a CRL from the FDA for our Ampligen
−Removed: NDA for ME/CFS, stating that we should conduct at least one additional clinical trial, complete various nonclinical studies and perform
−Removed: a number of data analyses.
−Removed: developing a comprehensive response to the FDA and a plan for a confirmatory trial for the FDA NDA, we proceeded independently in Argentina
−Removed: and, in August 2016, we received approval of an NDA from ANMAT for commercial sale of Ampligen in the Argentine Republic for the treatment
−Removed: of severe CFS.
−Removed: In September 2019, we received clearance from the FDA to ship Ampligen to Argentina for the commercial launch and subsequent
−Removed: On June 10, 2020, we received import clearance from ANMAT to import the first shipment of commercial grade vials of Ampligen into
−Removed: The next steps in the commercial launch of Ampligen include ANMAT conducting a final inspection of the product and release
−Removed: tests before granting final approval to begin commercial sales.
−Removed: This testing and approval process is currently delayed due to the COVID-19
−Removed: pandemic and ANMAT’s internal processes.
−Removed: The ongoing impact of COVID-19 in Argentina is taxing the nation’s health care system
−Removed: and is, understandably, the main priority of its regulators.
−Removed: Once final approval by ANMAT is obtained, GP Pharm will begin distributing
−Removed: Ampligen in Argentina.
−Removed: plan on a comprehensive follow through with the FDA regarding the use of Ampligen as a treatment for ME/CFS.
−Removed: We have learned a great
−Removed: deal since the FDA’s CRL and plan to adjust our approach to concentrate on specific ME/CFS symptoms.
−Removed: Responses to the CRL and a
−Removed: proposed confirmatory trial are being worked on now by our R&D team and consultants.
as a Potential Antiviral
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studies of SARS-CoV-1-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 )
−Removed: found that Ampligen reduced virus lung levels to below detectable limits.
−Removed: Day 2009 study ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682209005832 )
−Removed: found that, instead of 100% mortality, there was 100% protective survival using Ampligen.
+Added: Barnard 2006 study ( https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095632020601700505 ) found that Ampligen reduced virus lung
+Added: levels to below detectable limits.
+Added: Day 2009 study ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682209005832 ) found that, instead of 100% mortality,
+Added: there was 100% protective survival using Ampligen.
compared key transcription regulatory sequences of SARS-CoV-1 to SARS-CoV-2 and found significant similarities, suggesting highly probable
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in the fight against the deadly coronavirus (See:
−Removed: 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-
+Added: 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-fatigue/).
Our three provisional patent applications include:
1) Ampligen as a therapy for the coronavirus;
−Removed: 2) Ampligen as part of
−Removed: a proposed intranasal universal coronavirus vaccine that combines Ampligen with inactivated coronavirus, conveying immunity and cross-protection
−Removed: 3) a high-volume manufacturing process for Ampligen.
+Added: 2) Ampligen as part of a proposed intranasal
+Added: universal coronavirus vaccine that combines Ampligen with inactivated coronavirus, conveying immunity and cross-protection and;
+Added: high-volume manufacturing process for Ampligen.
Under the Patent Cooperation Treaty of 1970, which provides international protections
−Removed: for patents, these three provisional patent applications were converted in to two international patent applications based on the date
+Added: for patents, these three provisional patent applications were converted into two international patent applications based on the date
of their filings.
−Removed: April 2020, we entered into a Material Transfer and Research Agreement (“MTA”) with Shenzhen Smoore Technology to study the
−Removed: utilization of an innovative Smoore inhalation delivery device and Ampligen as a potential treatment approach for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
−Removed: The MTA was extended for two years in May 2021.
−Removed: Due to continuing delays and other obstacles related to importing Ampligen to China,
−Removed: we ended our contract with Smoore on August 10, 2022.
August 2020, we contracted Amarex to act as our Clinical Research Organization and provide regulatory support with regard to a possible
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via intranasal delivery.
−Removed: 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
−Removed: cancer patients with COVID-19 infections.
−Removed: This clinical trial, sponsored by Roswell Park in collaboration with us, will test the
−Removed: safety of this combination regimen in patients with cancer and COVID-19, and the extent to which this therapy will promote clearance
−Removed: of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the upper airway.
+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.
Several subjects have been treated.
−Removed: It is planned that the phase 1/2a study will
−Removed: enroll up to 44 patients in two stages.
−Removed: Phase 1 will see 12-24 patients receiving both Ampligen and interferon alpha-2b at
−Removed: escalating doses.
−Removed: Once that initial phase is complete, further study participants will be randomized to two arms:
−Removed: one receiving the
−Removed: two-drug combination and a control group who will not receive Ampligen or interferon alpha but will receive best available care.
−Removed: are a financial sponsor of the study and will provide Ampligen at no charge for this study.
−Removed: In November 2020, the first patient in
−Removed: the study had been enrolled and treated.
−Removed: This study was amended to add 20 patients, with 10 randomized to receive a single dose of
−Removed: Ampligen and 10 patients to receive current best therapies.
+Added: It is planned that the phase 1/2a study will enroll up to 44 patients
+Added: in two stages.
+Added: Phase 1 will see 12-24 patients receiving both Ampligen and interferon alpha-2b at escalating doses.
+Added: Once that initial
+Added: phase is complete, further study participants will be randomized to two arms:
+Added: one receiving the two-drug combination and a control group
+Added: who will not receive Ampligen or interferon alpha but will receive best available care.
+Added: We are a financial sponsor of the study and will
+Added: provide Ampligen at no charge for this study.
+Added: In November 2020, the first patient in the study had been enrolled and treated.
+Added: was amended to add 20 patients, with 10 randomized to receive a single dose of Ampligen and 10 patients to receive current best therapies.
(See clinicaltrials.gov/NCT04379518 ).
−Removed: Due to a shortage of
−Removed: qualifying subjects with COVID-19 and cancer as a result of the positive impact of vaccinations and treatments for COVID-19, Roswell
−Removed: is seeking approval to expand the qualifying subject criteria to include other diseases lethal to immuno-compromised cancer
−Removed: patients, such as influenza.
−Removed: Accordingly, the study is temporarily suspended while seeking said approvals.
+Added: Due to a shortage of qualifying subjects with COVID-19 and cancer as a result of the positive
+Added: impact of vaccinations and treatments for COVID-19, Roswell is seeking approval to expand the qualifying subject criteria to include
+Added: other diseases lethal to immuno-compromised cancer patients, such as influenza.
+Added: Accordingly, the study is temporarily suspended while
+Added: seeking said approvals.
also entered into a specialized services agreement with Utah State University and have supplied Ampligen to support the University’s
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level of 1,250 micrograms.
−Removed: All patients had completed the study by June 2021 and the study is completed.
−Removed: The Final Safety Report reported
−Removed: no Serious or Severe Adverse Events at any dosage level.
−Removed: We believe that the trial is a critical step in our ongoing efforts to develop
−Removed: Ampligen as a potential prophylaxis or treatment for COVID-19 and other respiratory viral diseases.
−Removed: Amarex provided us with monitoring
−Removed: support during the trial.
+Added: The study was completed, and the Final Safety Report 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.
Additionally,
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study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Ampligen in patients experiencing Post-COVID conditions (originally referred to as Post-COVID
−Removed: Cognitive Dysfunction (PCCD) and being revised to Post-COVID conditions).
−Removed: In October 2022, our IND application cleared the FDA
−Removed: approval process and we are proceeding with a Phase 2 study evaluating Ampligen as a therapeutic for patients with post-COVID conditions
−Removed: Additional comments were received from the FDA, which have been addressed in an amended protocol approved by
−Removed: the IRB on March 30, 2023.
+Added: Cognitive Dysfunction (PCCD) and has been revised to Post-COVID conditions).
+Added: as a Treatment for Post-COVID Conditions
+Added: July 2023, we enrolled and dosed the first patient in our Phase 2 study evaluating Ampligen® as a potential therapeutic for people
+Added: with post-COVID conditions (“AMP-518”).
+Added: We announced in August 2023 that the study had met the planned enrollment of 80 subjects
+Added: ages 18 to 60 years who have been randomized 1:1 to receive twice-weekly intravenous infusions of Ampligen or placebo for 12 weeks, with
+Added: a follow-up phase of two weeks.
+Added: All patients have completed the study and topline data was reported in February 2024.
+Added: May 9, 2023, we were granted a U.S.
+Added: Patent for a method for preventing or reducing antigenic drift or viral reassortment in a host animal
+Added: comprising determining if a host animal has been exposed to or infected by an avian influenza virus and administering to the exposed
+Added: host animal alpha-interferon.
+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: ME/CFS is recognized
+Added: by both the government and private sector as a significant unmet medical need, including the U.S.
+Added: National Institutes of Health (“NIH”),
+Added: FDA and the CDC.
+Added: The CDC states on its website at https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/ that “ Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic
+Added: fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a serious, long-term illness that affects many body systems.
+Added: People with ME/CFS are often not able to do
+Added: their usual activities.
+Added: At times, ME/CFS may confine them to bed.
+Added: People with ME/CFS have severe fatigue and sleep problems.
+Added: get worse after people with the illness try to do as much as they want or need to do.
+Added: This symptom is called post-exertional malaise
+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.
+Added: June of 2020, we filed a provisional patent application for, among other discoveries, the use of Ampligen as a potential early-onset
+Added: therapy for the treatment of COVID-19 induced chronic fatigue.
+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 can
+Added: 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: noted above in Overview;
+Added: Ampligen as a treatment for ME/CFS , we have long been focused on seeking the FDA’s approval
+Added: for the use of Ampligen to treat ME/CFS.
+Added: In fact, in February 2013, we received a CRL from the FDA for our Ampligen NDA for ME/CFS, stating
+Added: that we should conduct at least one additional clinical trial, complete various nonclinical studies and perform a number of data analyses.
+Added: developing a comprehensive response to the FDA and a plan for a confirmatory trial for the FDA NDA, we proceeded independently in Argentina
+Added: and, in August 2016, we received approval of an NDA from ANMAT for commercial sale of Ampligen in the Argentine Republic for the treatment
+Added: of severe CFS.
+Added: In September 2019, we received clearance from the FDA to ship Ampligen to Argentina for the commercial launch and subsequent
+Added: On June 10, 2020, we received import clearance from ANMAT to import the first shipment of commercial grade vials of Ampligen into
+Added: The next steps in the commercial launch of Ampligen include ANMAT conducting a final inspection of the product and release
+Added: tests before granting final approval to begin commercial sales.
+Added: This testing and approval process is currently delayed due to ANMAT’s
+Added: internal processes.
+Added: Once final approval by ANMAT is obtained, GP Pharm will begin distributing Ampligen in Argentina.
+Added: plan on a comprehensive follow through with the FDA regarding the use of Ampligen as a treatment for ME/CFS.
+Added: We have learned a great
+Added: deal since the FDA’s CRL and plan to adjust our approach to concentrate on specific ME/CFS symptoms.
+Added: Responses to the CRL and a
+Added: proposed confirmatory trial are being worked on now by our R&D team and consultants.
Europe, the EMA has approved the Orphan Medicinal Products Designation for Ampligen as a potential treatment of Ebola virus disease and
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reverse VP35 inhibition of interferon production in biological systems.
−Removed: The research is active and ongoing.
+Added: The data analysis was published in the peer-reviewed journal
+Added: Antiviral Research , in a manuscript titled “Ebola virus disease:
+Added: In vivo protection provided by the PAMP restricted TLR3
+Added: agonist rintatolimod and its mechanism of action.” We believe that the analysis supports a dual mechanism of action when Ampligen
+Added: is used as a prophylactic therapy against Ebola Virus Disease.
May 2021, we filed a U.S.
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November 2022, we received notice that the FDA had granted Orphan Drug Designation to Ampligen for the treatment of Ebola virus disease.
−Removed: N Injection is the registered trademark for our injectable formulation of natural alpha interferon.
−Removed: Alferon N Injection is the only natural-source,
−Removed: multi-species alpha interferon currently approved for sale in the United States and Argentina for the intralesional (within lesions)
−Removed: treatment of refractory (resistant to other treatment) or recurring external genital warts in patients 18 years of age or older.
−Removed: N Injection 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 (“STD”).
−Removed: According to the CDC, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection, with approximately 79 million Americans — most in
−Removed: their late teens and early 20s — infected with HPV.
−Removed: In fact, the CDC states that “HPV is so common that nearly all sexually
−Removed: active men and women get the virus at some point in their lives.” Although they do not usually result in death, genital warts commonly
−Removed: recur, causing significant morbidity and entail substantial health care costs.
−Removed: are a group of proteins produced and secreted by cells to combat diseases.
−Removed: Researchers have identified four major classes of human interferon:
−Removed: alpha, beta, gamma and omega.
−Removed: Alferon N Injection contains a multi-species form of alpha interferon.
−Removed: The worldwide market for injectable
−Removed: alpha interferon-based products has experienced rapid growth and various alpha interferon injectable products are approved for many major
−Removed: medical uses worldwide.
−Removed: Alpha interferons are manufactured commercially in three ways:
−Removed: by genetic engineering, by cell culture, and from
−Removed: human white blood cells.
−Removed: All three of these types of alpha interferon are or were approved for commercial sale in the United States.
−Removed: Our natural alpha interferon is produced from human white blood cells.
−Removed: The potential advantages of natural alpha interferon over recombinant
−Removed: (i.e., synthetic) interferon produced and marketed by other pharmaceutical firms may be based upon their respective molecular compositions.
−Removed: Natural alpha interferon is composed of a family of proteins containing many molecular species of interferon.
−Removed: In contrast, commercial
−Removed: recombinant alpha interferon products each contain only a single species.
−Removed: Researchers have reported that the various species of interferons
−Removed: may have differing antiviral activity depending upon the type of virus.
−Removed: Natural alpha interferon presents a broad complement of species,
−Removed: which we believe may account for its higher activity in laboratory studies.
−Removed: Natural alpha interferon is also glycosylated (i.e., partially
−Removed: covered with sugar molecules).
−Removed: Such glycosylation is not present on the currently U.S.-marketed recombinant alpha interferons.
−Removed: that the absence of glycosylation may be in part responsible for the production of interferon-neutralizing antibodies seen in patients
−Removed: treated with recombinant alpha interferon.
−Removed: Although cell culture-derived interferon is also composed of multiple glycosylated alpha interferon
−Removed: 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 interferon
−Removed: There are essentially no neutralizing antibodies observed against Alferon N Injection to date and the product has a relatively
−Removed: low side-effect profile.
−Removed: The recombinant DNA derived alpha interferon formulations have been reported to have decreased effectiveness
−Removed: after one year of treatment, probably due to neutralizing antibody formation (See “Manufacturing” and “Marketing/Distribution”
−Removed: sections below for more details on the manufacture and marketing/distribution of Alferon N Injection).
−Removed: The production of new Alferon
−Removed: N Injection Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient, or API, is currently on hold.
−Removed: We do not know when, if ever, our products will be generally
−Removed: available for commercial sale for any indication.
MANUFACTURING
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We are prepared to initiate the production of additional Ampligen when and if needed.
−Removed: May 2021, we exercised our option to re-purchase the New Brunswick manufacturing facility, pursuant to the terms of the March 2018 sale
−Removed: and lease-back agreement.
−Removed: We thereafter sold certain equipment and machinery that we determined to be obsolete and no longer needed for
−Removed: current or future manufacturing.
−Removed: On March 3, 2022, we entered into an Agreement of Sale and Purchase with Acellories, Inc.
−Removed: pursuant to which we would sell our property for $3.9 million;
−Removed: we have kept some space specifically for Alferon activity.
−Removed: completed on November 1, 2022 for $3.7 million net of normal closing cost.
June 2022 we entered into a lease agreement with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority for a 5,210 square-foot, state-of-the-art
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to meet our current needs, we are also continually exploring new efficiencies so as to maximize our ability to fulfill future obligations.
−Removed: In this regard, in April 2021, we approved a proposal from Polysciences for the manufacture of our Poly I and Poly C 12 U polynucleotides
−Removed: and associated test methods at Polysciences’ Warrington, PA location to enhance our capacity to produce the polymer precursors
−Removed: to the drug Ampligen.
−Removed: We are utilizing Polysciences’ expertise to refine our approach to polymer production.
−Removed: Additionally, we continue
−Removed: to be open to the possibility of agreements with other CMOs, so as to create redundancy and to meet the potential need for larger quantities
+Added: In this regard, on December 5, 2022, we entered into a Master Service Agreement and a Quality Agreement with Sterling Pharma Solutions
+Added: (“Sterling”) for the manufacture of our Poly I and Poly C12U polynucleotides and transfer of associated test methods at Sterling’s
+Added: Dudley, UK location to produce the polymer precursors to manufacture the drug Ampligen.
+Added: We are utilizing Sterling’s expertise to
+Added: refine our approach to polymer production.
+Added: While we believe we have sufficient Ampligen API to meet current needs, we are also continually
+Added: exploring new efficiencies in order to maximize its ability to fulfill future obligations.
+Added: In March 2023, we submitted a work order for
+Added: a total of $1,432,257 to manufacture additional lots of Ampligen at Jubilant.
second product, Alferon N Injection, is approved by the FDA for commercial sales in the United States for the treatment of genital warts.
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of commercial filled and finished product are produced and released by the FDA.
−Removed: While our New Brunswick facility has FDA approval under
−Removed: the Biologics License Application (“BLA”) for Alferon N Injection, and we maintain a certain amount of space at this facility,
−Removed: we will need the FDA’s approval to release commercial product once we have identified our new manufacturing approach and submitted
−Removed: satisfactory stability and quality release data;
−Removed: the FDA has conducted any required inspections;
−Removed: and the FDA has approved our new manufacturing
−Removed: Currently, we are not manufacturing Alferon N Injection and there is no definitive timetable to resume production.
+Added: We will need the FDA’s approval to release commercial
+Added: product once we have identified our new manufacturing approach and submitted satisfactory stability and quality release data.
+Added: we are not manufacturing Alferon N Injection and there is no definitive timetable to resume production.
Licensing/Collaborations/Joint
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and registration of in-licensed products;
−Removed: and a therapeutic area fit (ME/CFS, immuno-oncology, e.g.).
+Added: and a therapeutic area fit (e.g., ME/CFS, immuno-oncology).
MARKETING/DISTRIBUTION
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of Ampligen in the Territory.
−Removed: The agreement was automatically extended for a period of 12 months on May 20, 2021, and again for an additional
−Removed: 12 months on May 20, 2022.
+Added: The agreement was automatically extended for a period of 12 months on May 20, 2021;
+Added: has been automatically
+Added: extended for 12 months on each subsequent May 20;
+Added: and will continue to be automatically extended for periods of 12 months every May 20
+Added: until terminated or the terms of the agreement are met.
January 2017, ANMAT granted a five-year extension to a previous approval to sell and distribute Alferon N Injection (under the brand
name “Naturaferon”) in Argentina.
−Removed: This extends the approval until 2022.
+Added: This extended the approval until 2022.
A request to extend the approval beyond 2022 has
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This agreement has expired.
−Removed: We are in discussions with Asembia about the possibility
+Added: We were in discussions with Asembia about the possibility
of continuing the relationship, while also exploring the possibility of working with other, similar companies.
−Removed: However, we do not foresee
−Removed: an immediate need for this service and so may push this search further out in our expected timeline.
+Added: However, we still do not
+Added: foresee an immediate need for this service and continue to push this search further out in our expected timeline.
February 2018, we signed an amendment to the EAP with myTomorrows.
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and foreign countries is and will be a significant factor in the manufacture and marketing of
−Removed: Alferon N Injection products and our ongoing research and product development activities.
−Removed: Ampligen and other products developed from
−Removed: the ongoing research and product development activities will require regulatory clearances prior to commercialization.
−Removed: 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 and by
−Removed: similar authorities in foreign countries.
−Removed: The process of seeking these approvals, and the ongoing process of compliance with applicable
−Removed: statutes and regulations, has and will continue to require the expenditure of substantial resources.
−Removed: Any failure by us or our collaborators
−Removed: or licensees to obtain, or any delay in obtaining, regulatory approvals could materially adversely affect the marketing of any products
−Removed: developed by us and our ability to receive product or royalty revenue.
−Removed: We have received Orphan Drug designation for certain therapeutic
−Removed: indications, which we believe might under certain conditions help to accelerate the process of drug development and commercialization.
−Removed: Alferon N Injection is only approved for use in intralesional treatment of refractory or recurring external genital warts in patients
−Removed: 18 years of age or older.
+Added: our products and our ongoing research and product development activities.
+Added: Ampligen and other products developed from the ongoing research
+Added: and product development activities will require regulatory clearances prior to commercialization.
+Added: In particular, new drug products for
+Added: humans are subject to rigorous pre-clinical and clinical testing as a condition for clearance by the FDA and by similar authorities in
+Added: foreign countries.
+Added: The process of seeking these approvals, and the ongoing process of compliance with applicable statutes and regulations,
+Added: has and will continue to require the expenditure of substantial resources.
+Added: Any failure by us or our collaborators or licensees to obtain,
+Added: or any delay in obtaining, regulatory approvals could materially adversely affect the marketing of any products developed by us and our
+Added: ability to receive product or royalty revenue.
+Added: We have received Orphan Drug designation for certain therapeutic indications, which we
+Added: believe might under certain conditions help to accelerate the process of drug development and commercialization.
+Added: Alferon N Injection
+Added: is only approved for use in intralesional treatment of refractory or recurring external genital warts in patients 18 years of age or
Use of Alferon N Injection for other applications requires regulatory approval.
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more information about the current status of Alferon N Injection and Ampligen, please see “Our Products” above.
+Added: “ Our drug and related technologies are investigational and subject to regulatory approval.
+Added: If we are unable to obtain regulatory
+Added: approval in a timely manner, or at all, our operations will be materially harmed and our stock adversely affected ” in Part
+Added: Item 1A “Risk Factors”.
of December 31, 2023, we had personnel consisting of 26 full-time employees and two part-time employees.
−Removed: Five of the combined personnel
+Added: Six of the combined personnel
are engaged in our research, development, clinical and manufacturing efforts, with 22 performing regulatory, general administration,
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