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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
−Removed: Research and Development
−Removed: Research and development costs are expensed as incurred.
−Removed: Research and development costs consist of scientific consulting
−Removed: fees and lab supplies, as well as fees paid to other entities that conduct certain research and development activities on behalf of our
−Removed: We have acquired and may continue
−Removed: to acquire the rights to develop and commercialize new product candidates from third parties.
−Removed: The upfront payments to acquire license,
−Removed: product or rights, as well as any future milestone payments, are immediately recognized as research and development expense provided that
−Removed: there is no alternative future use of the rights in other research and development projects.
Stock-Based Compensation.
−Removed: We maintain a stock-based compensation plan as a long-term incentive for employees, non-employee directors and consultants.
−Removed: plan allows for the issuance of incentive stock options, non-qualified stock options, restricted stock units, and other forms of equity
+Added: maintain a stock-based compensation plan as a long-term incentive for employees, non-employee directors and consultants.
+Added: The plan allows
+Added: for the issuance of incentive stock options, non-qualified stock options, restricted stock units, and other forms of equity awards.
We recognize stock-based compensation
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The risk-free interest rate is based on the U.S.
−Removed: Treasury zero
−Removed: coupon issues in effect at the time of grant for periods corresponding with the expected term of the option;
+Added: zero coupon issues in effect at the time of grant for periods corresponding with the expected term of the option.
· Expected Volatility.
−Removed: Because we do not have an extensive trading history for our common
−Removed: stock, the expected volatility was estimated based on the average volatility for comparable publicly traded life sciences companies over
−Removed: a period equal to the expected term of the stock option grants.
−Removed: Comparable companies were chosen based on the similar size, stage in life
−Removed: cycle or area of specialty.
−Removed: We will continue to apply this process until a sufficient amount of historical information regarding the volatility
−Removed: of our own stock price becomes available;
+Added: Because we do not have a sufficient trading history for our common
+Added: stock (“Common Stock”), the expected volatility was estimated based on the average volatility for comparable publicly traded
+Added: life sciences companies over a period equal to the expected term of the stock option grants.
+Added: The comparable companies were chosen based
+Added: on the similar size, stage in life cycle or area of specialty.
+Added: We will continue to apply this process until a sufficient amount of historical
+Added: information regarding the volatility of our own stock price becomes available.
· Expected Term.
−Removed: The expected term represents the period that the stock-based awards are expected
−Removed: to be outstanding and is determined using the simplified method (based on the mid-point between the vesting date and the end of the contractual
−Removed: term), as we do not have sufficient historical data to use any other method to estimate expected term;
+Added: The expected term represents the period that the stock-based awards
+Added: are expected to be outstanding and is determined using the simplified method (based on the mid-point between the vesting date and the
+Added: end of the contractual term), as we do not have sufficient historical data to use any other method to estimate expected term.
· Expected Dividend Yield.
−Removed: We have never paid dividends on our common stock and have no plans
−Removed: to pay dividends on our common stock.
+Added: We have never paid dividends on our Common Stock and have
+Added: no plans to pay dividends on our Common Stock.
Therefore, we used an expected dividend yield of zero.
−Removed: Certain of such assumptions
−Removed: involve inherent uncertainties and the application of significant judgment.
−Removed: As a result, if factors or expected outcomes change and we
−Removed: use significantly different assumptions or estimates, our stock-based compensation could be materially different.
+Added: Certain of these assumptions involve inherent uncertainties and the
+Added: application of significant judgment.
+Added: As a result, if factors or expected outcomes change and we use significantly different assumptions
+Added: or estimates, our stock-based compensation could be materially different.
Income Taxes.
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potentially mitigating the regulatory burden for safety data.
−Removed: On May 5, 2022, we initiated
−Removed: a multiple-dose, steady-state, double-blind, ascending dose safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetic clinical trial of AL001 in patients
−Removed: with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s and healthy subjects.
−Removed: We completed the Phase IIA clinical trial in March 2023 and announced positive
−Removed: topline data in June 2023.
+Added: May 5, 2022, we initiated a multiple-dose, steady-state, double-blind, ascending dose safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetic clinical trial
+Added: of AL001 in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s and healthy subjects.
+Added: We completed the Phase IIA clinical trial in March
+Added: 2023 and announced positive topline data in June 2023.
announced that we successfully identified a maximum tolerated dose (“MTD”) for development of AL001 from a multiple-ascending
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Lithium is a commonly prescribed
−Removed: drug for manic episodes in BP type 1 as well as maintenance therapy of BP in patients with a history of manic episodes.
+Added: drug for manic episodes in BD type 1 as well as maintenance therapy of BD in patients with a history of manic episodes.
Lithium is also
−Removed: prescribed off-label for MDD, BP and treatment of PTSD, among other disorders.
−Removed: Lithium was the first mood stabilizer approved by the FDA
−Removed: and is still a first-line treatment option (considered the “gold standard”) but is underutilized perhaps because of the need
−Removed: Lithium was the first drug that required TDM by regulatory authorities in product labelling because the effective and safe range
−Removed: of therapeutic drug blood concentrations is narrow and well defined for treatment of BP when using lithium salts.
−Removed: Excursions above this
−Removed: range can be toxic, and below can impair effectiveness.
−Removed: on the results from our Phase IIA MAD study, we plan to initiate two safety and efficacy clinical trials in subjects with mild to moderate
−Removed: dementia of the Alzheimer’s type.
−Removed: Additionally, we are investigating the potential of AL001 for patients suffering from BD, MDD
−Removed: and PTSD, and submitted IND applications to the FDA for these indications.
−Removed: The IND for BD was submitted in August 2023 and we received
−Removed: a “study may proceed” letter from the FDA in September 2023.
−Removed: The IND for MDD was submitted in October 2023 and we received
−Removed: a “study may proceed” letter from the FDA in November 2023.
−Removed: The IND for PTSD was submitted in November 2023 and we received
−Removed: a “study may proceed” from the FDA in December 2023.
−Removed: We intend to initiate clinical trials in 2025 at this MTD to determine
−Removed: relative increased lithium levels in the brain compared to a marketed lithium salt for Alzheimer’s, BD, MDD and PTSD, based on published
−Removed: mouse studies that predict that lithium can be given at lower doses for equivalent therapeutic benefit when treating with AL001.
−Removed: the goal is to replace a 300 mg TID lithium carbonate dose for treatment of BD with a 240 mg TID AL001 lithium equivalent, which represents
−Removed: a daily decrease of 20% of lithium given to a patient.
+Added: prescribed off-label for MDD, BD and treatment of PTSD, among other disorders.
+Added: Lithium was the first mood stabilizer approved by the U.S.
+Added: Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and is still a first-line treatment option (considered the “gold standard”)
+Added: but is underutilized perhaps because of the need for TDM.
+Added: Lithium was the first drug that required TDM by regulatory authorities in product
+Added: labelling because the effective and safe range of therapeutic drug blood concentrations is narrow and well defined for treatment of BD
+Added: when using lithium salts.
+Added: Excursions above this range can be toxic, and below can impair effectiveness.
+Added: Existing lithium drugs suffer
+Added: from chronic toxicity, poor physicochemical properties, and poor brain bioavailability.
+Added: Alzamend’s novel AL001 formulation, a lithium-salicylate/L-proline
+Added: engineered ionic cocrystal, is designed to overcome the toxicities associated with conventional lithium salts, promising a next-generation
+Added: lithium treatment with an enhanced safety profile and advantageous distribution to brain and brain structures.
+Added: on the results from our Phase IIA MAD study, we plan to initiate five clinical trials to determine relative increased lithium levels in
+Added: the brain compared to a marketed lithium salt for healthy subject and patients diagnosed with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s, BD,
+Added: MDD and PTSD, based on published mouse studies that predict that lithium can be given at lower doses for equivalent therapeutic benefit
+Added: when treating with AL001.
+Added: For example, the goal is to replace the amount of lithium needed for maintenance treatment of BD with a clinically
+Added: relevant, lower AL001 lithium carbonate equivalent lithium dose.
+Added: Such lithium dose mitigation could redefine the landscape of neuropsychiatric,
+Added: neurodegenerative, and neurological treatment practices.
+Added: In August 2024, we announced that we had partnered with Massachusetts General
+Added: Hospital to serve as the CRO for these clinical trials.
+Added: November 19, 2024, we announced a final full data set from a nonclinical study comparing brain and plasma lithium exposures between AL001
+Added: and lithium carbonate in Alzheimer’s transgenic mice.
+Added: The study was conducted at the University of South Florida and the bioanalytical
+Added: procedures for determination of lithium concentration in the brain and plasma samples were conducted under good laboratory practice standards
+Added: by Sannova Analytical LLC.
+Added: The study involved administering AL001, a good manufacturing practices-quality active pharmaceutical ingredient
+Added: (“API”) to 5XFAD mice, a recognized model for Alzheimer’s research, to compare its effects against lithium carbonate,
+Added: an FDA approved and marketed API.
+Added: Mice received either high or low doses scaled to humans of both AL001 and lithium carbonate over a 14-day
+Added: period to observe pharmacokinetic steady-state drug conditions.
+Added: On the 15 th day, the mice were analyzed to assess how the treatments
+Added: affected lithium concentrations in different brain regions and in their plasma.
+Added: Based on the study, both treatments
+Added: had no negative impact on the mice's body weight or clinical signs during the treatment period.
+Added: AL001 showed lower plasma lithium levels
+Added: than lithium carbonate, reducing the risk of adverse systemic effects, suggesting an expansion for safety of lithium’s therapeutic
+Added: Further, AL001 showed consistently higher lithium concentrations in brain tissues, particularly at lower doses, compared to lithium
+Added: Finally, the study found that different brain regions absorb and retain lithium differently.
+Added: This means treatments can potentially
+Added: be tailored to target specific brain areas, allowing for more precise treatment of various brain-related conditions when applied in human
+Added: results highlight the potential clinical advantages of AL001 for conditions like Alzheimer’s, BD, MDD and PTSD at low doses.
+Added: reducing the systemic burden, AL001 could lessen the risk of side effects such as thyroid and kidney complications often associated with
+Added: extant lithium therapies.
+Added: This positions AL001 as a promising candidate for safer long-term treatment options, without the need for TDM.
+Added: This innovation is specifically designed to address the needs of fragile populations, such as elderly and Alzheimer’s patients,
+Added: by offering a potentially more efficient and safer alternative to existing treatments.
+Added: The dosing level identified as optimal in this
+Added: robust nonclinical study will serve as the foundation for advancing the evaluation of AL001 in the comprehensive ‘Lithium in Brain’
+Added: Phase II clinical trials.
+Added: These trials, conducted in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, will encompass a diverse cohort
+Added: of both healthy subjects and patients diagnosed with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease, BD, MDD and PTSD.
+Added: In May 2025, we began
+Added: the trial and dosed the first healthy subject.
September 28, 2022, we submitted an IND application to the FDA for ALZN002 and received a “study may proceed” letter on October
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These DCs are pulsed with a novel amyloid-beta peptide (E22W) designed
−Removed: to bolster the ability of the patient’s immune system to combat Alzheimer’s;
−Removed: the goal being to foster tolerance to treatment
+Added: to bolster the ability of the patient’s immune system to combat Alzheimer’s, with the goal being to foster tolerance to treatment
for safety purposes while stimulating the immune system to reduce the brain’s beta-amyloid protein burden, resulting in reduced
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the results of our operations for the years ended April 30, 2025 and 2024:
−Removed: For the Year Ended April 30,
+Added: For the Years Ended April 30,
OPERATING EXPENSES
Research and development
+Added: $ (5,040,179 )
General and administrative
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Loss from operations
−Removed: (14,870,466 )
OTHER EXPENSE, NET
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Total other expense, net
+Added: Deemed dividend on warrant modification issued with preferred
+Added: NET LOSS ATTRIBURED TO COMMON SHARES
$ (4,988,062 )
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research and development expenses:
−Removed: For the Year Ended April 30,
+Added: For the Years Ended April 30,
Professional fees
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Total research and development expenses
+Added: $ (5,040,179 )
+Added: * Not meaningful
Professional Fees
During the years ended April
−Removed: 30, 2024 and 2023, we incurred professional fees of $2.9 million and $4.6 million, respectively, which were primarily comprised of professional
+Added: 30, 2025 and 2024, we incurred professional fees of $656,000 and $2.9 million, respectively, which were primarily comprised of professional
fees attributed to various types of scientific services, including FDA consulting services.
The decrease relates to lower professional
−Removed: fees incurred related to the preparation for the clinical trial for ALZN002 during the year ended April 30, 2024, compared to professional
−Removed: fees incurred for the Phase IIA clinical trial for AL001 during the year ended April 30, 2023.
+Added: fees incurred during the year ended April 30, 2025, compared to professional fees incurred for the preparation for clinical trials for
+Added: AL001 and ALZN002 during the year ended April 30, 2024.
Clinical Trial Fees
−Removed: During the years ended April
−Removed: 30, 2024 and 2023, we incurred clinical trial fees of $3.2 million and $2.5 million, respectively, Clinical trial fees for the year ended
−Removed: April 30, 2024, consisted of $1.9 million for our Phase IIA clinical trial for AL001 and $1.3 million for our Phase IIA clinical trial
−Removed: Clinical trial fees for the year ended April 30, 2023 were for our Phase I clinical trial for AL001.
+Added: During the years ended April 30, 2025 and
+Added: 2024, we incurred clinical trial fees of $716,000 and $3.2 million, respectively.
+Added: Clinical trial fees for the year ended April 30, 2025
+Added: were for our Phase IIA clinical trial for AL001.
+Added: Clinical trial fees for the year ended April 30, 2024 were $1.9 million for our Phase
+Added: IIA clinical trial for AL001 and $1.3 million for our Phase I clinical trial for ALZN002.
Stock-Based Compensation Expense
−Removed: During the years ended April
−Removed: 30, 2024 and 2023, we incurred $214,000 and $(43,000), respectively, in research and development stock-based compensation expense related
−Removed: to stock option grants to consultants.
−Removed: The increase in research and development stock-based compensation expense for the year ended April
−Removed: 30, 2024 was a result of the vesting of performance stock options grants.
+Added: During the year ended April
+Added: 30, 2024, we incurred $214,000 in research and development stock-based compensation expense related to stock option grants to consultants.
+Added: No such expense was incurred during the fiscal year ended April 30, 2025.
+Added: The decrease in research and development stock-based compensation
+Added: expense for the year ended April 30, 2025, was a result of all vested stock options grants having been expensed.
Other Research and Development Expenses
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general and administrative expenses primarily consisted of the following expense categories:
−Removed: stock-based compensation expense;
−Removed: and benefits;
+Added: salary and benefits;
professional fees;
+Added: stock-based compensation expense;
marketing fees;
−Removed: travel and entertainment;
−Removed: as well as Board fees.
+Added: and Board fees.
+Added: For the years ended April 30, 2025 and 2024, the remaining general and
+Added: administrative expenses of $347,000 and $381,000, respectively, primarily consisted of payments for advertising and promotion, transfer
+Added: agent fees, travel, and other office expenses, none of which is significant individually.
For the Years Ended April 30,
−Removed: 30, 2024 and 2023, the remaining general and administrative expenses of $381,000 and $514,000, respectively, primarily consisted of payments
−Removed: for advertising and promotion, transfer agent fees, travel, and other office expenses, none of which is significant individually.
−Removed: For the Year Ended April 30,
Salary and benefits
−Removed: Stock-based compensation expense
Professional fees
+Added: Stock-based compensation expense
Marketing fees
+Added: Board of director fees
Other general and administrative expenses
Total general and administrative expenses
−Removed: $ (3,942,071 )
Salary and Benefits
During the years ended April
−Removed: 30, 2024 and 2023, we incurred $836,000 and $1.0 million, respectively, in employee-related expenses.
+Added: 30, 2025 and 2024, we incurred $1.0 million and $836,000, respectively, in employee-related expenses.
As of April 30, 2025, we had four
full-time and three part-time employees.
−Removed: The decrease in salary and benefits expense was a result of lower bonuses earned during the year
−Removed: ended April 30, 2024.
−Removed: Stock-based Compensation Expense
−Removed: During the years ended April
−Removed: 30, 2024 and 2023, we incurred general and administrative stock-based compensation expense of $741,000 and $3.6 million, respectively,
−Removed: related to stock option grants to executives, employees and consultants.
−Removed: The decrease in stock-based compensation expense for the year
−Removed: ended April 30, 2024 was a result of fewer stock options vesting during the period compared to the prior year period.
+Added: The increase in salary and benefits expense was a result of higher bonuses earned during the
+Added: year ended April 30, 2025.
Professional Fees
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During the year ended April 30, 2025, we incurred
−Removed: $341,000 in audit and tax fees, $192,000 in investor relations, $104,000 in legal fees, $33,000 in related party consulting, $28,000 in
−Removed: Sarbanes-Oxley compliance fees and $38,000 in other professional fees.
−Removed: During the year ended April 30, 2023, we incurred $189,000 in Sarbanes-Oxley
−Removed: compliance fees, $187,000 in connection with a consulting agreement, $187,000 in audit and tax fees, $126,000 in legal fees, $50,000 in
−Removed: related party consulting and $23,000 in other professional fees.
+Added: $243,000 in legal fees, $221,000 in audit and tax fees, $149,000 in investor relations and $5,000 in other professional fees.
+Added: year ended April 30, 2024, we incurred $341,000 in audit and tax fees, $192,000 in investor relations, $104,000 in legal fees, $33,000
+Added: in related party consulting, $28,000 in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance fees and $38,000 in other professional fees.
Insurance Expense
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30, 2025 and 2024, we incurred insurance expense of $259,000 and $382,000, respectively, which was primarily directors and officers insurance.
+Added: The decrease in insurance expense was due to lower negotiated pricing with the same amount of coverage.
+Added: Stock-based Compensation Expense
+Added: During the years ended April
+Added: 30, 2025 and 2024, we incurred stock-based compensation expense of $325,000 and $741,000, respectively, related to stock option grants
+Added: to executives, employees and consultants.
+Added: The decrease in stock-based compensation expense for the year ended April 30, 2025 was a result
+Added: of fewer stock options vesting during the period compared to the prior year period.
Marketing Fees
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30, 2025 and 2024, we incurred marketing fees of $347,000 and $247,000, respectively, which was primarily expenses related to the marketing
−Removed: and brand development agreement with AULT.
+Added: and branding of our company.
Current and Deferred Income Taxes
−Removed: As of April 30, 2024 and 2023,
−Removed: we had deferred tax assets totaling $15.8 million and $10.8 million, respectively.
−Removed: The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is
−Removed: dependent upon the existence, or generation, of taxable income in the periods when those temporary differences and net operating loss
−Removed: carryovers are deductible.
−Removed: Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities, taxes paid in carryover years, projected
−Removed: future taxable income, available tax planning strategies, and other factors in making this assessment.
−Removed: Based on available evidence, management
−Removed: believes it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
−Removed: Accordingly, we have established
−Removed: a 100% valuation allowance.
−Removed: As a result of the full valuation allowance, we did not record an income tax benefit for the years ended April
−Removed: 30, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: As of April 30, 2025 and 2024, we had deferred
+Added: tax assets totaling $15.2 million and $15.8 million, respectively.
+Added: The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the
+Added: existence, or generation, of taxable income in the periods when those temporary differences and net operating loss carryovers are deductible.
+Added: Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities, taxes paid in carryover years, projected future taxable income,
+Added: available tax planning strategies, and other factors in making this assessment.
+Added: Based on available evidence, management believes it is
+Added: more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
+Added: Accordingly, we have established a 100% valuation
+Added: As a result of the full valuation allowance, we did not record an income tax benefit for the years ended April 30, 2025 and
Liquidity and Capital Resources
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of recorded assets, or the amounts and classifications of liabilities that might be necessary should we be unable to continue as a going
−Removed: As of April 30, 2024, we had cash of $376,000 and an accumulated deficit of $54.0 million.
+Added: As of April 30, 2025, we had cash of $3.9 million and an accumulated deficit of $58.5 million.
We have incurred recurring losses
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when needed or on favorable terms, we would be forced to delay, reduce, or eliminate our research and development programs or future commercialization
−Removed: As previously disclosed, we had anticipated beginning Phase II clinical trials for AL001 additional indications in the first
−Removed: quarter of calendar 2024.
−Removed: Due to the Company’s inability to obtain significant additional financing, we have been unable to initiate
−Removed: those clinical trials and reduce the working capital deficiency.
Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including:
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On September 8, 2023, we entered
−Removed: into an At-the-Market Issuance Sales Agreement with Ascendiant Capital Markets, LLC, as sales agent to sell shares of our common stock,
−Removed: having an aggregate offering price of up to approximately $9.8 million from time to time, through an “at the market offering”
−Removed: (the “ATM Offering”) as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act.
−Removed: On September 8, 2023, we filed a prospectus supplement
−Removed: with the SEC relating to the offer and sale of up to approximately $9.8 million in shares of common stock in the ATM Offering.
+Added: into an At-the-Market Issuance Sales Agreement with Ascendiant Capital Markets, LLC (“Ascendiant”), as sales agent to sell
+Added: shares of our Common Stock, having an aggregate offering price of up to approximately $9.8 million from time to time, through an “at
+Added: the market offering” (the “ATM Offering”) as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act.
+Added: On September 8, 2023, we
+Added: filed a prospectus supplement with the SEC relating to the offer and sale of up to approximately $9.8 million in shares of Common Stock
+Added: in the ATM Offering.
During the year ended April
30, 2024, we sold an aggregate of 11,964 shares of Common Stock pursuant to the ATM Offering for proceeds of $1.3 million.
+Added: On May 6, 2024,
we terminated our ATM Offering.
+Added: On October 3, 2024, we entered
+Added: into a new At-the-Market Issuance Sales Agreement with Ascendiant, as sales agent to sell shares of our Common Stock, having an aggregate
+Added: offering price of up to approximately $6.5 million from time to time, through an “at the market offering” (the “New
+Added: ATM Offering”) as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act.
+Added: On October 3, 2024, we filed a prospectus supplement with the SEC
+Added: relating to the offer and sale of up to approximately $6.5 million in shares of Common Stock in the New ATM Offering.
+Added: During the year ended April
+Added: 30, 2025, we sold an aggregate of 235,904 shares of Common Stock pursuant to the New ATM Offering for proceeds of $2.7 million.
+Added: 7, 2025, we terminated our New ATM Offering.
Series B Preferred Financing
−Removed: On January 31, 2024, we entered into a securities
−Removed: purchase agreement with Ault Lending (“AL SPA”) whereby Ault Lending may purchase of up to 6,000 shares of series B convertible
−Removed: preferred stock (“Series B Convertible Preferred Stock”) and warrants to purchase shares up to 600,000 shares of our common
−Removed: The AL SPA provides that Ault Lending may purchase up to $6 million of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock in one or more closings.
−Removed: Ault Lending has the right to purchase up to $2 million of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, on or before March 31, 2024, and the
−Removed: right to purchase up to $4 million of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock after March 31, 2024, but on or before March 31, 2025 (the
−Removed: “Termination Date”).
−Removed: The Agreement will automatically terminate if the final closing has not occurred prior to the Termination
−Removed: On January 31, 2024, we sold
−Removed: 1,220 shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase 122,000 shares of common stock with an exercise price of
−Removed: $12.00, for a total purchase price of $1.22 million.
−Removed: The purchase price was paid by the cancellation
−Removed: of $1.15 million of cash advances made by Ault Lending to us between November 9, 2023 and January 31, 2024 and a subscription receivable
−Removed: On March 26, 2024, we sold 780 shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase 78,000 shares
−Removed: of common stock with an exercise price of $12.00, for a total purchase price of $780,000.
−Removed: 29, 2024, we sold 100 shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase 10,000 shares of common stock with
−Removed: an exercise price of $12.00, for a total purchase price of $100,000.
+Added: On January 31, 2024, we and
+Added: Ault Lending entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “AL SPA”) for the purchase of up to 6,000 shares of Series
+Added: B Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase shares up to 66,667 shares of Common Stock.
+Added: The AL SPA provided that Ault Lending
+Added: could have purchased up to $6 million of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock in one or more closings.
+Added: Ault Lending had the right to purchase
+Added: up to $2 million of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, on or before March 31, 2024, and the right to purchase up to $4 million of Series
+Added: B Convertible Preferred Stock after March 31, 2024, but on or before March 31, 2025 (the “Termination Date”).
+Added: The final closing
+Added: did not occur prior to the Termination Date and the AL SPA automatically terminated.
+Added: Between January 31, 2024 and
+Added: April 29, 2024, we sold an aggregate of 2,100 shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase 23,333 shares of
+Added: common stock with an exercise price of $108.00, for a total purchase price of $2.1 million.
+Added: purchase price was paid by the cancellation of $1.15 million of cash advances made by Ault Lending to us between November 9, 2023 and
+Added: January 31, 2024 and a subscription receivable of $70,000 and further cash proceeds of $8 80,000.
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock has a stated value of $1,000 per share (“Series
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Price then in effect, as well as upon customary stock splits, stock dividends, combinations or similar events.
−Removed: For the period ended January
−Removed: 31, 2024, we recorded the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock as mezzanine equity and the warrant as a liability.
−Removed: On March 21, 2024,
−Removed: we amended our Amended and Restated Certificate of Designations for our Series B Convertible Preferred Stock to remove certain change
−Removed: of control language that could be interpreted to require either debt or equity classification of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
−Removed: As a result, we classified both the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and warrant as equity for the period ended April 30, 2024.
Series A Preferred Financing
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and warrants to purchase shares up to 277,778 shares of common stock in several tranche closings.
−Removed: On May 10, 2024, we sold 100
−Removed: shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase 80,000 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $12.50,
−Removed: for a total purchase price of $1.0 million.
−Removed: The purchase price was paid by the surrender and cancellation
−Removed: of a term note issued by us to Orchid of $311,356, consisting of $310,000 of principal and $1,356 of accrued and unpaid interest, $100,000
−Removed: discount and net cash of $588,644.
−Removed: On June 25, 2024, we sold 150 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants to
−Removed: purchase 120,000 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $12.50, for a total purchase price of $1.5 million.
−Removed: purchase price was paid in cash.
−Removed: to the Orchid SPA, Orchid has agreed to purchase the remaining 2,250 Preferred Shares based on our achievement of the milestones set forth
−Removed: below (the “Milestones”):
−Removed: 250 Preferred Shares, for $2,500,000, within 30 days of the effectiveness of a resale registration statement (the “Registration Statement”);
−Removed: 200 Preferred Shares, for $2,000,000, within 60 days of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and the execution of a partnership agreement with a nationally renowned research facility for a clinical trial (the “Fourth Tranche”);
−Removed: 100 Preferred Shares, for $1,000,000, on each monthly anniversary of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement until all remaining 1,800 Preferred Shares have been sold (each, a “Final Tranche”).
−Removed: Notwithstanding
−Removed: the foregoing Milestones, Orchid has the ability to invest any amount in its sole discretion in advance of the dates that the foregoing
−Removed: Milestones shall have been met.
−Removed: In the event that the average closing price of the common stock during the three trading days preceding
−Removed: the date of a tranche closing shall not be equal to or greater than $2.50 a share (the “Floor Price”), then the applicable
−Removed: closing shall be delayed until such time as the price meets the required threshold.
−Removed: pay Ault Lending an origination fee of five percent (5%) of the total gross proceeds we receive from Orchid upon each purchase of Series
+Added: Between May 10, 2024 and September
+Added: 11, 2024, we sold an aggregate of 800 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase an aggregate of 71,109 shares
+Added: of Common Stock with an exercise price of $112.50, for a total purchase price of $8.0 million.
+Added: purchase price was paid by the surrender and cancellation of a term note issued by us to Orchid of $311,356, consisting of $310,000 of
+Added: principal and $1,356 of accrued and unpaid interest, $200,000 discount and net cash of $7.5 million.
+Added: to the Orchid SPA, Orchid had agreed to purchase the remaining 1,700 Preferred Shares on each monthly anniversary of the effectiveness
+Added: of a registration statement until all remaining 1,700 Preferred Shares had been sold (“Milestones”).
+Added: Orchid had the ability
+Added: to invest any amount in its sole discretion in advance of the Milestone dates.
+Added: In the event that the average closing price of the Common
+Added: Stock during the three trading days preceding the date of a tranche closing was not equal to or greater than $22.50 a share (the “Floor
+Added: Price”), then the applicable closing would be delayed until such time as the price meet the required threshold.
+Added: to pay Ault Lending an origination fee of five percent (5%) of the total gross proceeds we receive from Orchid upon each purchase of Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock.
We also agreed to pay Orchid a fee of $100,000 upon the first closing, which occurred on May 10, 2024,
−Removed: the Fourth Tranche and the third, eighth and thirteenth closings constituting parts of the Final Tranche.
−Removed: Registration Statement registering for resale the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred
−Removed: Stock and exercise of the warrants was declared effective on July 9, 2024.
−Removed: In addition, we agreed to use our best efforts to hold a special
−Removed: meeting of our stockholders within 90 days of the execution date of the Orchid SPA for purposes of seeking stockholder approval of the
−Removed: issuance of all the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and the exercise of the
−Removed: warrants in excess of the “Nasdaq Limit”, which is 19.99% of our shares of common stock issued and outstanding on the execution
−Removed: date of the Orchid SPA.
−Removed: We held a special meeting of stockholders on July 8, 2024, at which time, the stockholders approved the issuance
−Removed: of all the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and the exercise of the warrants
−Removed: in excess of the “Nasdaq Limit”.
−Removed: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock has a stated value of $10,000 per share (“Series
−Removed: A Stated Value”) and accrues dividends at the rate of 15% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears in cash or paid-in-kind
+Added: and on the closing which occurred on August 21, 2024.
+Added: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock had a stated value of $10,000 per share (“Series
+Added: A Stated Value”) and accrued dividends at the rate of 15% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears in cash or paid-in-kind
shares, in Orchid’s sole discretion.
−Removed: Each share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock is convertible into a number of shares of
−Removed: common stock determined by dividing the Series A Stated Value by (y)
+Added: Each share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock was convertible into a number of shares
+Added: of Common Stock determined by dividing the Series A Stated Value by (y)
the greater of (i) the Floor Price and (ii) the lesser of (A) $135.00 and (B) 80% of the lowest closing price of our Common Stock during
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A Conversion Price”).
−Removed: The Series A Conversion Price is subject to adjustment
+Added: The Series A Conversion Price was subject to adjustment
in the event of an issuance of Common Stock at a price per share lower than the Series A Conversion
Price then in effect, as well as upon customary stock splits, stock dividends, combinations or similar events.
−Removed: The holders of the Series
−Removed: A Convertible Preferred Stock are entitled to vote with the common stock as a single class on an as-converted basis, subject to applicable
−Removed: law provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law and Nasdaq, provided however, that for purposes of complying with Nasdaq regulations,
−Removed: the conversion price, for purposes of determining the number of votes the holder of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock is entitled to
−Removed: cast, shall not be lower than $5.63 (the “Series A Voting Floor Price”), which represents the closing sale price of the common
−Removed: stock on the trading day immediately prior to the date of execution of the Orchid SPA.
−Removed: The Series A Voting Floor Price shall be adjusted
−Removed: for stock dividends, stock splits, stock combinations and other similar transactions.
−Removed: The warrants have an exercise
−Removed: price of $12.50 (the “ Series A Exercise Price”) and are exercisable upon issuance
−Removed: and have a five-year term, expiring on the fifth anniversary of issuance.
+Added: The warrants had an exercise
+Added: price of $112.50 (the “ Series A Exercise Price”) and were exercisable upon issuance
+Added: and had a five-year term, expiring on the fifth anniversary of issuance.
The Series A Exercise
−Removed: Price is subject to adjustment in the event of an issuance of common stock at a price per share lower than the Series
+Added: Price were subject to adjustment in the event of an issuance of Common Stock at a price per share lower than the Series
A Exercise Price then in effect, as well as upon customary stock splits, stock dividends, combinations or similar events.
−Removed: are exercisable on a cashless basis in the event that there is not then an effective resale registration statement for the common stock
+Added: were exercisable on a cashless basis in the event that there is not then an effective resale registration statement for the Common Stock
issuable upon exercise of the warrants.
+Added: During the year ended April
+Added: 30, 2025, Orchid converted 712.0133 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock into 420,809 shares of Common Stock.
+Added: On February 28, 2025, we and
+Added: Orchid terminated the Orchid SPA and entered into the Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement (the “Orchid SPEA”).
+Added: the termination, 97.7511 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock were converted to 97.7511 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred
+Added: Stock and warrants to purchase 71,111 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $112.50 issued were cancelled.
+Added: Series C Preferred Financing
+Added: February 28, 2025, we and Orchid entered into the Orchid SPEA for the purchase of up to 500 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred
+Added: Stock in several tranche closings and warrants to purchase shares up to 111,111 shares of Common Stock with an exercise price of $8.29
+Added: (the “ Series C Exercise Price”) and are exercisable upon issuance and have a
+Added: five-year term, expiring on the fifth anniversary of issuance.
+Added: The Series C Exercise Price
+Added: is subject to adjustment in the event of an issuance of Common Stock at a price per share lower than the Series
+Added: C Exercise Price then in effect, as well as upon customary stock splits, stock dividends, combinations or similar events.
+Added: 97.7511 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock were converted to 97.7511 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock.
+Added: Between April 28, 2025 and
+Added: June 13, 2025, we sold an aggregate of 500 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock for an aggregate purchase price of $5 million.
+Added: Effective June 13, 2025, the Orchid SPEA was terminated as all the shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock were sold.
+Added: registration statement registering for resale the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series C Convertible Preferred
+Added: Stock and exercise of the warrants was declared effective on April 8, 2025.
+Added: In addition, we agreed to use our best efforts to hold a meeting
+Added: of our stockholders within 90 days of the execution date of the Orchid SPEA for purposes of seeking stockholder approval of the issuance
+Added: of all the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock and the exercise of the warrants
+Added: in excess of the “Nasdaq Limit”, which is 19.99% of the shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the execution date
+Added: of the Orchid SPEA.
+Added: We held our annual meeting of stockholders on April 25, 2025, at which time, the stockholders approved the issuance
+Added: of all the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock and the exercise of the warrants
+Added: in excess of the “Nasdaq Limit”.
+Added: Series C Convertible Preferred Stock has a stated value of $10,000 per share (“Series
+Added: C Stated Value”) and accrued dividends at the rate of 15% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears in cash or paid-in-kind
+Added: shares, in Orchid’s sole discretion.
+Added: Each share of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock is convertible into a number of shares of
+Added: Common Stock determined by dividing the Series C Stated Value by (y)
+Added: the greater of (i) $0.90 per share (“Series C Floor Price”) and (ii) the lesser of (A) $135.00 and (B) 80% of the lowest closing
+Added: price of our Common Stock during the three trading days immediately prior to the date of conversion into conversion shares (the “ Series
+Added: C Conversion Price”).
+Added: The Series C Conversion Price was subject to adjustment
+Added: in the event of an issuance of Common Stock at a price per share lower than the Series C Conversion
+Added: Price then in effect, as well as upon customary stock splits, stock dividends, combinations or similar events.
+Added: The holders of the Series
+Added: C Convertible Preferred Stock were entitled to vote with the Common Stock as a single class on an as-converted basis, subject to applicable
+Added: law provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law and Nasdaq, provided however, that for purposes of complying with Nasdaq regulations,
+Added: the conversion price, for purposes of determining the number of votes the holder of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock is entitled to
+Added: cast, shall not be lower than $7.5375 (the “Series C Voting Floor Price”), which represents the closing sale price of the
+Added: Common Stock on the trading day immediately prior to the date of execution of the Orchid SPEA.
+Added: The Series C Voting Floor Price shall be
+Added: adjusted for stock dividends, stock splits, stock combinations and other similar transactions.
+Added: During the year ended April 30, 2025, Orchid
+Added: converted 23.9712 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock into 44,444 shares of Common Stock.
+Added: From May 1, 2025 to July 22, 2025,
+Added: subsequent to our fiscal year end, Orchid converted 575.7176 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock into 2,117,699 shares of Common
The following table summarizes our cash flows for
the years ended April 30, 2025 and 2024:
−Removed: For the Year Ended April 30,
+Added: For the Years Ended April 30,
Net cash provided by (used in):
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Financing activities
−Removed: Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: $ (4,764,811 )
+Added: Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
$ (4,764,811 )
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30, 2025, net cash used in operating activities was $6.6 million.
+Added: This consisted primarily of a net loss of $4.5 million and a decrease
+Added: in our net operating assets and liabilities of $2.4 million, partially offset by stock-based compensation of $325,000.
+Added: The decrease in
+Added: our net operating assets and liabilities was primarily due to a decrease in accounts payable and accrued liabilities and an increase in
+Added: prepaid expenses.
+Added: During the year ended April
+Added: 30, 2024, net cash used in operating activities was $8.3 million.
This consisted primarily of a net loss of $9.9 million, partially offset
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and a decrease in prepaid expenses.
−Removed: During the year ended April
−Removed: 30, 2023, net cash used in operating activities was $8.9 million.
−Removed: This consisted primarily of a net loss of $14.9 million, partially offset
−Removed: by non-cash charges of $3.6 million in stock-based compensation expense and an increase in our net operating assets and liabilities of
−Removed: $2.3 million.
−Removed: The increase in our net operating assets and liabilities was primarily due to an increase in accounts payable and accrued
−Removed: liabilities and a decrease in prepaid expenses – related party.
Investing Activities
During the year ended April
−Removed: 30, 2024, net cash used in investing activities was $147,000, from the purchase of equipment and machinery to be used in our ALZN002 Phase
−Removed: I/IIA clinical trial.
+Added: 30, 2025, net cash used in investing activities was $300,000, from the purchase of equipment and machinery being used in our AL001 Phase
+Added: II clinical trials.
Financing Activities
During the year ended April
+Added: 30, 2025, net cash provided by financing activities was $7.7 million from the sale of convertible preferred stock and $2.7 million from
+Added: proceeds from the New ATM Offering.
+Added: During the year ended April
30, 2024, net cash provided by financing activities was $2.1 million from the sale of convertible preferred stock to Ault Lending, a related
party, $1.3 million from proceeds from the ATM Offering and $300,000 from a promissory note.
−Removed: During the year ended April 30, 2023, net cash
−Removed: provided by financing activities was $200 from the exercise of stock options.
Contractual Obligations
−Removed: On July 2, 2018, we entered
−Removed: into two Standard Exclusive License Agreements with Sublicensing Terms for AL001 with the Licensor and its affiliate, the University of
−Removed: South Florida (the “AL001 Licenses”), pursuant to which the Licensor granted us a royalty bearing exclusive worldwide licenses
−Removed: limited to the field of Alzheimer’s, under United States Patent Nos.
−Removed: (i) 9,840,521, entitled “Organic Anion Lithium Ionic
−Removed: Cocrystal Compounds and Compositions”, filed September 24, 2015 and granted December 12, 2017, and (ii) 9,603,869, entitled “Lithium
−Removed: Co-Crystals for Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders”, filed May 21, 2016 and granted March 28, 2017.
−Removed: On February 1, 2019, we
−Removed: entered into the First Amendments to the AL001 Licenses, on March 30, 2021, we entered into the Second Amendments to the AL001 Licenses
−Removed: and on June 8, 2023, we entered into the Third Amendments to the AL001 Licenses (collectively, the “AL001 License Agreements”).
−Removed: The Third Amendments to the AL001 Licenses modified the timing of the payments for the license fees.
−Removed: The AL001 License Agreements
−Removed: require that we pay combined royalty payments of 4.5% on net sales of products developed from the licensed technology for AL001.
−Removed: already paid an initial license fee of $200,000 for AL001.
−Removed: As an additional licensing fee for the license of the AL001 technologies, the
−Removed: Licensor received 14,853 shares of our common stock.
−Removed: Minimum royalties for AL001 License Agreements are $40,000 on the first anniversary
−Removed: of the first commercial sale, $80,000 on the second anniversary of the first commercial sale and $100,000 on the third anniversary of
−Removed: the first commercial sale and every year thereafter, for the life of the AL001 License Agreements.
−Removed: On May 1, 2016, we entered
−Removed: into a Standard Exclusive License Agreement with Sublicensing Terms for ALZN002 with the Licensor (the “ALZN002 License”),
−Removed: pursuant to which the Licensor granted us a royalty bearing exclusive worldwide license limited to the field of Alzheimer’s Immunotherapy
−Removed: and Diagnostics, under United States Patent No.
−Removed: 8,188,046, entitled “Amyloid Beta Peptides and Methods of Use”, filed April
−Removed: 7, 2009 and granted May 29, 2012.
−Removed: On August 18, 2017, we entered into the First Amendment to the ALZN002 License, on May 7, 2018, we entered
−Removed: into the Second Amendment to the ALZN002 License, on January 31, 2019, we entered into the Third Amendment to the ALZN002 License, on
−Removed: January 24, 2020, we entered into the Fourth Amendment to the ALZN002 License, on March 30, 2021, we entered into the Fifth Amendment
−Removed: to the ALZN002 License, on April 17, 2023, we entered into the Sixth Amendment to the ALZN002 License and on December 11, 2023, we entered
−Removed: into the Seventh Amendment to the ALZN002 License (collectively, the “ALZN002 License Agreement”).
−Removed: The Seventh Amendment to
−Removed: the ALZN002 License modified the timing of the payments for the license fees.
−Removed: The ALZN002 License Agreement
−Removed: requires us to pay royalty payments of 4% on net sales of products developed from the licensed technology for ALZN002.
−Removed: We have already
−Removed: paid an initial license fee of $200,000 for ALZN002.
−Removed: As an additional licensing fee for the license of ALZN002, the Licensor received
−Removed: 24,012 shares of our common stock.
−Removed: Minimum royalties for ALZN002 are $20,000 on the first anniversary of the first commercial sale, $40,000
−Removed: on the second anniversary of the first commercial sale and $50,000 on the third anniversary of the first commercial sale and every year
−Removed: thereafter, for the life of the ALZN002 License Agreement.
−Removed: On November 19, 2019, we entered
−Removed: into two Standard Exclusive License Agreements with Sublicensing Terms for two additional indications of AL001 with the Licensor (the
−Removed: “November AL001 License”), pursuant to which the Licensor granted us a royalty bearing exclusive worldwide licenses limited
−Removed: to the fields of (i) neurodegenerative diseases excluding Alzheimer’s and (ii) psychiatric diseases and disorders.
−Removed: 2021, we entered into the First Amendments to the November AL001 License and on April 17, 2023, we entered into the Second Amendments
−Removed: to the November AL001 License (collectively, the “November AL001 License Agreements”).
−Removed: The Second Amendments to the November
−Removed: AL001 License modified the timing of the payments for the license fees.
−Removed: The November AL001 License
−Removed: Agreements require us to pay royalty payments of 3% on net sales of products developed from the licensed technology for AL001 in those
−Removed: We paid an initial license fee of $20,000 for the additional indications.
−Removed: Minimum royalties for November AL001 License Agreements
−Removed: are $40,000 on the first anniversary of the first commercial sale, $80,000 on the second anniversary of the first commercial sale and
−Removed: $100,000 on the third anniversary of the first commercial sale and every year thereafter, for the life of the November AL001 License Agreements.
−Removed: These license agreements have
−Removed: an indefinite term that continue until the later of the date no licensed patent under the applicable agreement remains a pending application
−Removed: or enforceable patent, the end date of any period of market exclusivity granted by a governmental regulatory body, or the date on which
−Removed: the licensee’s obligations to pay royalties expire under the applicable license agreement.
−Removed: Under our various license agreements,
−Removed: if we fail to meet a milestone by its specified date, Licensor may terminate the license agreement.
−Removed: The Licensor was also granted a preemptive
−Removed: right to acquire such shares or other equity securities that may be issued from time to time by us while the Licensor remains the owner
−Removed: of any equity securities of our company.
−Removed: Additionally, we are required
−Removed: to pay milestone payments on the due dates to the Licensor for the license of the AL001 technologies and for the ALZN002 technology, as
−Removed: Original AL001 Licenses:
−Removed: Completed September 2019
−Removed: Pre-IND meeting
−Removed: Completed June 2021
−Removed: IND application filing
−Removed: Completed December 2021
−Removed: Upon first dosing of patient in a clinical trial
−Removed: Completed March 2022
−Removed: Upon completion of first clinical trial
−Removed: Upon first patient treated in a Phase III clinical trial
−Removed: 8 years from the effective date of the agreement
−Removed: Upon FDA NDA approval
−Removed: * Milestone met and completed
−Removed: ALZN002 License:
−Removed: Upon IND application - completed January 2022
−Removed: Upon first dosing of patient in first Phase I clinical trial
−Removed: Upon completion of first Phase IIB clinical trial
−Removed: Upon first patient treated in a Phase III clinical trial
−Removed: Upon first commercial sale
−Removed: * Milestone met and completed
−Removed: Additional AL001 Licenses:
−Removed: Upon first patient treated in a Phase III clinical trial
−Removed: August 1, 2029
−Removed: First commercial sale
+Added: See the “Intellectual Property and Licensing
+Added: Agreements” sub-section under Item 1.
+Added: Business of this Annual Report.
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