−Removed: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
+Added: Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Report”) contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
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OF OPERATIONS
−Removed: months ended January 31, 2022 compared with three months ended January 31, 2021
−Removed: had no revenue during the three-month period ended January 31, 2022.
−Removed: the three months ended January 31, 2021, we recorded revenue of approximately $513,000 from one license agreement.
+Added: months ended April 30, 2022 compared with three months ended April 30, 2021
+Added: had no revenue during the three months ended April 30, 2022 and 2021.
+Added: the past several years, our revenue, if any, was derived from technology licensing and the sale of patented technologies, including revenue
+Added: from the settlement of litigation.
+Added: We have not generated any revenue to date from our therapeutics or vaccine programs.
+Added: while we pursue our therapeutics and vaccine programs, we may also make investments in and form new companies to develop additional emerging
+Added: technologies.
+Added: We do not expect to begin generating revenue with respect to any of our current therapy or vaccine programs in the near
+Added: We intend to achieve a profitable outcome by eventually licensing our technologies to large pharmaceutical companies that have
+Added: the resources and infrastructure in place to manufacture, market and sell our technologies as therapeutics or vaccines.
+Added: licensing of any of our technologies may take several years, if it is to occur at all, and may depend on positive results from human
+Added: clinical trials.
+Added: Royalties, Contingent Legal Fees, Litigation and Licensing Expenses
+Added: had no inventor royalties, contingent legal fees, litigation and licensing expenses during the three-month periods ended April 30, 2022
+Added: and Development Expenses
+Added: and development expenses are related to the development of our cancer therapeutics and vaccine programs and our anti-viral drug program,
+Added: and increased by approximately $713,000 to approximately $1,735,000 in the three months ended April 30, 2022, from approximately $1,022,000
+Added: in the three months ended April 30, 2021.
+Added: The increase in research and development expenses was primarily due to an increase in employee
+Added: stock option compensation expense of approximately $529,000, an increase in employee compensation and related costs, other than stock
+Added: option compensation expense, of approximately $254,000, an increase in outside research and development expense related to our anti-viral
+Added: drug program of approximately $81,000, offset by a decrease of approximately $158,000 in outside research and development related to
+Added: our CAR-T therapeutics program.
+Added: and development expenses incurred in the three months ended April 30, 2022 associated with each of our development programs consisted
+Added: of approximately $709,000 for CAR-T therapeutics, approximately $695,000 for cancer vaccines and approximately $331,000 for anti-viral
+Added: therapeutics.
+Added: and Administrative Expenses
+Added: and administrative expenses increased by approximately $439,000 to approximately $1,854,000 in the three months ended April 30, 2022,
+Added: from approximately $1,415,000 in the three months ended April 30, 2021.
+Added: The increase in general and administrative expenses was primarily
+Added: due to an increase in employee compensation and related costs, other than stock option compensation expense, of approximately $250,000,
+Added: an increase in investor and public relations expense of approximately $199,000, an increase in employee stock option compensation expense
+Added: of approximately $54,000, offset by a decrease of approximately $52,000 of consultant stock option and warrant expense.
+Added: income was approximately $1,000 and $0 in the three month periods ended April 30, 2022 and 2021.
+Added: Loss Attributable to Noncontrolling Interest
+Added: net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest, representing Wistar’s 5% ownership interest in Certainty’s net loss, was
+Added: approximately $44,000 and $38,000, respectively, in the three months ended April 30, 2022 and 2021.
+Added: months ended April 30, 2022 compared with six months ended April 30, 2021
+Added: had no revenue during the six months ended April 30, 2022.
+Added: the six months ended April 30, 2021, we recorded revenue of approximately $513,000 from one license agreement.
The license agreement
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generating revenue with respect to any of our current therapy or vaccine programs in the near term.
−Removed: We hope to achieve a profitable outcome
−Removed: by eventually licensing our technologies to large pharmaceutical companies that have the resources and infrastructure in place to manufacture,
−Removed: market and sell our technologies as therapeutics or vaccines.
−Removed: The eventual licensing of any of our technologies may take several years,
−Removed: if it is to occur at all, and may depend on positive results from human clinical trials.
+Added: We intend to achieve a profitable
+Added: outcome by eventually licensing our technologies to large pharmaceutical companies that have the resources and infrastructure in place
+Added: to manufacture, market and sell our technologies as therapeutics or vaccines.
+Added: The eventual licensing of any of our technologies may take
+Added: several years, if it is to occur at all, and may depend on positive results from human clinical trials.
Royalties, Contingent Legal Fees, Litigation and Licensing Expenses
−Removed: had no inventor royalties, contingent legal fees, litigation and licensing expenses during the three-month period ended January 31, 2022.
−Removed: royalties, contingent legal fees, litigation and licensing expenses for the three months ended January 31, 2021 were approximately $385,000.
+Added: had no inventor royalties, contingent legal fees, litigation and licensing expenses during the six-month period ended April 30, 2022.
+Added: royalties, contingent legal fees, litigation and licensing expenses for the six months ended April 30, 2021 were approximately $385,000.
Inventor royalties and contingent legal fees are expensed in the period that the related revenues are recognized.
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and development expenses are related to the development of our cancer therapeutics and vaccine programs and our anti-viral drug program,
−Removed: and increased by approximately $1,010,000 to approximately $1,838,000 in the three months ended January 31, 2022, from approximately
−Removed: $828,000 in the three months ended January 31, 2021.
−Removed: The increase in research and development expenses was primarily due to an increase
−Removed: in employee stock option compensation expense of approximately $918,000, an increase in employee compensation and related costs, other
−Removed: than stock option compensation expense, of approximately $86,000, an increase in outside research and development expense related to
−Removed: our ovarian cancer vaccine program of approximately $71,000 and an increase in consultant stock option expense of approximately $68,000,
−Removed: offset by a decrease in license fees of approximately $130,000.
−Removed: and development expenses incurred in the three months ended January 31, 2022 associated with each of our development programs consisted
−Removed: of approximately $743,000 for CAR-T therapeutics, approximately $708,000 for cancer vaccines and approximately $387,000 for anti-viral
+Added: and increased by approximately $1,723,000 to approximately $3,573,000 in the six months ended April 30, 2022, from approximately $1,850,000
+Added: in the six months ended April 30, 2021.
+Added: increase in research and development expenses was primarily due to an increase in employee stock option compensation expense of approximately
+Added: $1,446,000, an increase in employee compensation and related costs, other than stock option compensation expense, of approximately $340,000,
+Added: an increase in outside research and development expense related to our anti-viral drug program of approximately $96,000, an increase
+Added: in outside research and development expense related to ovarian cancer program of approximately $71,000, an increase of approximately
+Added: $59,000 of consultant stock option and warrant expense, offset by a decrease of approximately $180,000 in outside research and development
+Added: related to our CAR-T therapeutics program and a decrease in license fees of approximately $110,000.
+Added: and development expenses incurred in the six months ended April 30, 2022 associated with each of our development programs consisted of
+Added: approximately $1,452,000 for CAR-T therapeutics, approximately $1,403,000 for cancer vaccines and approximately $718,000 for anti-viral
therapeutics.
and Administrative Expenses
−Removed: and administrative expenses increased by approximately $509,000 to approximately $2,042,000 in the three months ended January 31, 2022,
−Removed: from approximately $1,533,000 in the three months ended January 31, 2021.
−Removed: The increase in general and administrative expenses was primarily
−Removed: due to an increase in employee stock option compensation expense of approximately $496,000, an increase in investor and public relations
−Removed: expense, excluding warrant expense, of approximately $123,000 and an increase in warrant expense of approximately $53,000, offset by
−Removed: a decrease in director compensation of approximately $177,000.
−Removed: income was approximately $1,000 in each of the three month periods ended January 31, 2022 and 2021.
+Added: and administrative expenses increased by approximately $948,000 to approximately $3,896,000 in the six months ended April 30, 2022, from
+Added: approximately $2,948,000 in the six months ended April 30, 2021.
+Added: increase in general and administrative expenses was primarily due to an increase in employee stock option compensation expense of approximately
+Added: $550,000, an increase in investor and public relations expense of approximately $432,000, an increase employee compensation and related
+Added: costs, other than stock option compensation expense, of approximately $226,000, offset by a decrease in directors stock option expense
+Added: of approximately $154,000 and as decrease in consultant stock option and warrant expense of approximately $124,000.
+Added: income was approximately $2,000 and $1,000 in the six month periods ended April 30, 2022 and 2021.
Loss Attributable to Noncontrolling Interest
net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest, representing Wistar’s 5% ownership interest in Certainty’s net loss, was
−Removed: approximately $50,000 and $24,000, respectively, in the three months ended January 31, 2022 and 2021.
+Added: approximately $94,000 and $62,000, respectively, in the six months ended April 30, 2022 and 2021.
AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
primary sources of liquidity are cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments.
−Removed: on currently available information as of March 11, 2022, we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments
+Added: on currently available information as of June 10, 2022, we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments
and expected cash flows will be sufficient to fund our activities for at least the next twelve months.
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harm the business and development of operations.
−Removed: the three months ended January 31, 2022, cash used in operating activities was approximately $1,197,000.
+Added: the six months ended April 30, 2022, cash used in operating activities was approximately $3,503,000.
Cash provided by investing activities
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was offset by the purchase of short term investments totaling approximately $4,249,000.
−Removed: As a result, our cash, cash equivalents, and
−Removed: short-term investments at January 31, 2022 decreased approximately $1,197,000 to approximately $34,530,000 from approximately $35,727,000
−Removed: at the end of fiscal year 2021.
+Added: Cash provided by financing activities was approximately
+Added: As a result, our cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments at April 30, 2022 decreased approximately $3,496,000 to approximately
+Added: $32,231,000 from approximately $35,727,000 at the end of fiscal year 2021.
ACCOUNTING POLICIES
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For employee options vesting if the trading
−Removed: price of the Company’s common stock exceeds certain price targets, we use a Monte Carlo Simulation in estimating the fair
−Removed: value at grant date and recognize compensation cost over the implied service period.
+Added: price of the Company’s common stock exceeds certain price targets, we use a Monte Carlo Simulation in estimating the fair value
+Added: at grant date and recognize compensation cost over the implied service period.
stock awards granted to employees and directors that vest at date of grant, we recognize expense based on the grant date market price
of the underlying common stock.
−Removed: For restricted stock awards vesting upon achievement of a price target of our common stock, we
−Removed: use a Monte Carlo Simulation in estimating the fair value at grant date and recognize compensation cost over the implied service period
−Removed: (median time to vest).
+Added: For restricted stock awards vesting upon achievement of a price target of our common stock, we use a
+Added: Monte Carlo Simulation in estimating the fair value at grant date and recognize compensation cost over the implied service period (median
+Added: time to vest).
Black-Scholes pricing model and the Monte Carlo Simulation we use to estimate fair value requires valuation assumptions of expected term,
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