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on currently available information as of January 16, 2024, we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments
−Removed: will be sufficient to fund our activities for the next 12 months.
−Removed: However, our projections of future cash needs and cash flows may differ
−Removed: from actual results.
−Removed: If current cash on hand, cash equivalents and short-term investments are insufficient to continue to operate our
−Removed: business, or if we elect to invest in or acquire a company or companies that are synergistic with or complementary to our technologies,
−Removed: we may be required to obtain more working capital.
−Removed: We may seek to obtain working capital through sales of our equity securities, including
−Removed: through our current “at the market offering” program, or through bank credit facilities or public or private debt from various
+Added: will be sufficient to fund our activities for at least the next 12 months.
+Added: However, our projections of future cash needs and cash flows
+Added: may differ from actual results.
+Added: If current cash on hand, cash equivalents and short-term investments are insufficient to continue to
+Added: operate our business, or if we elect to invest in or acquire a company or companies that are synergistic with or complementary to our
+Added: technologies, we may be required to obtain more working capital.
+Added: We may seek to obtain working capital through sales of our equity securities,
+Added: including through our current at-the-market offering program, or through bank credit facilities or public or private debt from various
financial institutions where possible.
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source of cash to meet our future capital requirements, which may include the expensive process of obtaining FDA approvals for our CAR-T
−Removed: ovarian cancer therapeutic, our breast and ovarian cancer vaccines and our COVID-19 therapy.
−Removed: We do not expect to generate significant
−Removed: revenues for the foreseeable future, which would leave us without resources to continue
−Removed: our operations and force us to resort to raising additional capital in the form of equity or debt financings, which may not be available
−Removed: We may have difficulty raising needed capital in the near or longer term as a result of, among other factors, the very early stage
−Removed: of our therapeutics and vaccine businesses and our lack of revenues as well as the inherent business risks associated with an early stage,
−Removed: biotechnology company and present and future market conditions.
−Removed: Also, we may consume available resources more rapidly than currently
−Removed: anticipated, resulting in the need for additional funding sooner than anticipated.
−Removed: Our inability to raise funds could lead to decreases
−Removed: in the price of our common stock and the failure of our therapeutics and vaccine businesses which would have a material adverse effect
−Removed: on the Company.
+Added: ovarian cancer therapeutic and our breast and ovarian cancer vaccines.
+Added: We do not expect to generate significant revenues for the foreseeable
+Added: future, which would leave us without resources to continue our operations and force us to resort to raising additional capital in the
+Added: form of equity or debt financings, which may not be available to us.
+Added: We may have difficulty raising needed capital in the near or longer
+Added: term as a result of, among other factors, the very early stage of our therapeutics and vaccine businesses and our lack of revenues as
+Added: well as the inherent business risks associated with an early stage, biotechnology company and present and future market conditions.
+Added: we may consume available resources more rapidly than currently anticipated, resulting in the need for additional funding sooner than
+Added: Our inability to raise funds could lead to decreases in the price of our common stock and the failure of our therapeutics
+Added: and vaccine businesses which would have a material adverse effect on the Company.
to effectively manage our potential growth could place strains on our managerial, operational and financial resources and could adversely
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Therefore, we are subject
−Removed: to all the risks and uncertainties inherent in a new business, in particular new businesses engaged in CAR-T cancer therapeutics, cancer
−Removed: vaccines and anti-viral therapeutics, as well as whether our current business plan is sound.
−Removed: Our CAR-T ovarian cancer therapeutic, our breast and ovarian cancer vaccines and our COVID-19 treatment
−Removed: are in their early stages of development, and we still must establish and implement many important functions necessary to commercialize
−Removed: the technologies.
+Added: to all the risks and uncertainties inherent in a new business, in particular new businesses engaged in CAR-T cancer therapeutics and
+Added: cancer vaccines, as well as whether our current business plan is sound.
+Added: Our CAR-T ovarian cancer therapeutic and our breast and ovarian
+Added: cancer vaccines are in their early stages of development, and we still must establish and implement many important functions necessary
+Added: to commercialize the technologies.
you should consider the Company’s prospects in light of the costs, uncertainties, delays and difficulties frequently encountered
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Shareholders should carefully consider
−Removed: the risks and uncertainties that a business with no operating history will face.
−Removed: In particular, shareholders should consider that there
−Removed: is a significant risk that we will not be able to:
−Removed: studies that successfully identify one or more clinical candidates to treat COVID-19;
−Removed: complete animal studies necessary to submit an IND application to the FDA for our COVID-19 treatment;
+Added: the risks and uncertainties that a business with limited operating history will face.
+Added: In particular, shareholders should consider that
+Added: there is a significant risk that we will not be able to:
enroll sufficient numbers of qualified patients to participate in our clinical trials;
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Over the next several quarters, we will
−Removed: need to broaden our focus from a research and development company to a company capable of supporting clinical trials and commercial activities,
−Removed: or enter into collaborations with partners that may provide those capabilities.
−Removed: We may not be able to reach such achievements, which
−Removed: would have a material adverse effect on our Company.
+Added: need to continue broadening our focus from a research and development company to a company capable of supporting clinical trials and
+Added: commercial activities, or enter into collaborations with partners that may provide those capabilities.
+Added: We may not be able to reach such
+Added: achievements, which would have a material adverse effect on our Company.
current business model relies on strategic collaborations with commercial partners to provide the resources and infrastructure to manufacture
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never be profitable.
−Removed: are in the discovery stage of developing our COVID-19 treatment and our ovarian cancer vaccine technology and in the clinical stage with
−Removed: our CAR-T therapeutic technology and with our breast cancer vaccine technology.
−Removed: Our ability to generate revenue depends in large part
−Removed: on our ability, alone or with partners, to successfully complete the development of, obtain the necessary regulatory approvals for, and
−Removed: commercialize, product candidates.
+Added: are in the pre-clinical stage of developing our ovarian cancer vaccine technology and in the clinical stage with our CAR-T therapeutic
+Added: technology and with our breast cancer vaccine technology.
+Added: Our ability to generate revenue depends in large part on our ability, alone
+Added: or with partners, to successfully complete the development of, obtain the necessary regulatory approvals for, and commercialize, product
We do not anticipate generating revenues from sales of such products for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: ability to generate future revenues from product sales of our technologies depends heavily on our success in:
+Added: Our ability to generate
+Added: future revenues from product sales of our technologies depends heavily on our success in:
our discovery stage programs into pre-clinical testing;
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guarantee that there is no FSH-Receptor on any other healthy tissue in the human body.
−Removed: is no guarantee that our collaboration with MolGenie will produce a successful anti-viral drug for COVID-19.
−Removed: April 2020, we entered into a collaboration agreement with OntoChem, such agreement subsequently assigned to MolGenie, for the purpose
−Removed: of discovering and ultimately developing anti-viral drug candidates for COVID-19.
−Removed: Through this collaboration, we utilized advanced computational
−Removed: methods, machine learning and molecular modeling techniques to perform in silico screening of over 1.2 billion compounds in OntoChem’s
−Removed: chemistry and gene ontology database (including publicly available compounds and OntoChem’s proprietary libraries) to evaluate
−Removed: if any of these compounds could disrupt one of two key enzymes of COVID-19.
−Removed: While, to date, we have synthesized several potential COVID-19
−Removed: compounds and have performed in vitro and in vivo analyses of such compounds, there is no guarantee that any of these compounds
−Removed: (or any other future compounds that we may identify) will demonstrate sufficient potency as predicted by the molecular modeling algorithms.
−Removed: Further, even if these compounds do demonstrate sufficient potency, there is no guarantee that the compounds will be effective in animal
−Removed: or human testing and that they will ultimately be effective anti-viral drugs for COVID-19.
−Removed: is significant competition in the search for a treatment for COVID-19.
−Removed: is significant competition, including from other companies and governmental organizations, to find treatments for COVID-19.
−Removed: Many of these
−Removed: entities have substantially greater resources (including capital and personnel) than we do and many of these entities are much further
−Removed: ahead in pursuit of a treatment than we are.
−Removed: Even if we are successful in identifying a compound that may act as an effective treatment
−Removed: for COVID-19, there is no guarantee that our treatment will be successful against competitors.
−Removed: pre-clinical testing of our product candidates has been positive, we may experience unfavorable results once we commence human clinical
−Removed: have not initiated clinical trials for our product candidates other than our breast cancer vaccine and our CAR-T ovarian cancer therapeutic,
−Removed: for which we have limited human clinical data, and we may not be able to commence clinical trials on the time frames we expect.
−Removed: discovery stage product candidates have only been tested in animals and our clinical stage candidates currently have limited human data,
−Removed: we face significant uncertainty regarding how effective and safe they will be in human patients and the results from pre-clinical studies
−Removed: may not be indicative of the results of clinical trials.
+Added: pre-clinical testing and the limited human clinical testing of our product candidates has been positive, we may experience unfavorable
+Added: results once we collect statistically significant data from human clinical trials.
+Added: have limited human clinical data from our breast cancer vaccine and our CAR-T ovarian cancer therapeutic, and we have not initiated clinical
+Added: trials for our ovarian cancer vaccine and we may not be able to commence clinical trials on the time frames we expect.
+Added: As our discovery
+Added: stage product candidate has only been tested in animals and our clinical stage candidates currently have limited human data, we face
+Added: significant uncertainty regarding how effective and safe they will be in human patients and the results from pre-clinical studies may
+Added: not be indicative of the results of clinical trials.
Pre-clinical and clinical data are often susceptible to varying interpretations
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depend and will continue to depend upon independent investigators and collaborators, such as universities, medical institutions, and
−Removed: strategic partners such as Moffitt for our CAR-T therapy, Cleveland Clinic for our breast and ovarian cancer vaccines and MolGenie, as
−Removed: well as other European partners, for our COVID-19 therapy to conduct our pre-clinical studies and clinical trials under agreements with
−Removed: Negotiations of budgets and contracts with study sites may result in delays to our development timelines and increased costs.
−Removed: will rely heavily on these third parties over the course of our clinical trials, and we control only certain aspects of their activities.
−Removed: Nevertheless, we are responsible for ensuring that each of our studies is conducted in accordance with applicable protocol, legal, regulatory
−Removed: and scientific standards, and our reliance on third parties does not relieve us of our regulatory responsibilities.
−Removed: We and these third
−Removed: parties are required to comply with current good clinical practices, or cGCPs, which are regulations and guidelines enforced by the FDA
−Removed: and comparable foreign regulatory authorities for product candidates in clinical development.
−Removed: Regulatory authorities enforce these cGCPs
−Removed: through periodic inspections of clinical trial sponsors, principal investigators and clinical trial sites.
−Removed: If we or any of these third
−Removed: parties fail to comply with applicable cGCP regulations, the clinical data generated in our clinical trials may be deemed unreliable
−Removed: and the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities could require us to perform additional clinical trials before approving our
−Removed: marketing applications.
−Removed: It is possible that, upon inspection, such regulatory authorities could determine that any of our clinical trials
−Removed: fail to comply with the cGCP regulations.
−Removed: In addition, our clinical trials must be conducted with biologic product produced under current
−Removed: good manufacturing practices, or cGMPs, and will require a large number of test patients.
−Removed: Our failure or any failure by these third parties
−Removed: to comply with these regulations or to recruit a sufficient number of patients may require us to repeat clinical trials, which would
−Removed: delay the regulatory approval process.
−Removed: Moreover, our business may be implicated if any of these third parties violates federal or state
−Removed: fraud and abuse or false claims laws and regulations or healthcare privacy and security laws.
+Added: strategic partners such as Moffitt for our CAR-T therapy and Cleveland Clinic for our breast and ovarian cancer vaccines to conduct our
+Added: pre-clinical studies and clinical trials under agreements with us.
+Added: Negotiations of budgets and contracts with study sites may result
+Added: in delays to our development timelines and increased costs.
+Added: We will rely heavily on these third parties over the course of our clinical
+Added: trials, and we control only certain aspects of their activities.
+Added: Nevertheless, we are responsible for ensuring that each of our studies
+Added: is conducted in accordance with applicable protocol, legal, regulatory and scientific standards, and our reliance on third parties does
+Added: not relieve us of our regulatory responsibilities.
+Added: We and these third parties are required to comply with current good clinical practices,
+Added: or cGCPs, which are regulations and guidelines enforced by the FDA and comparable foreign regulatory authorities for product candidates
+Added: in clinical development.
+Added: Regulatory authorities enforce these cGCPs through periodic inspections of clinical trial sponsors, principal
+Added: investigators and clinical trial sites.
+Added: If we or any of these third parties fail to comply with applicable cGCP regulations, the clinical
+Added: data generated in our clinical trials may be deemed unreliable and the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities could require
+Added: us to perform additional clinical trials before approving our marketing applications.
+Added: It is possible that, upon inspection, such regulatory
+Added: authorities could determine that any of our clinical trials fail to comply with the cGCP regulations.
+Added: In addition, our clinical trials
+Added: must be conducted with biologic product produced under current good manufacturing practices, or cGMPs, and will require a large number
+Added: of test patients.
+Added: Our failure or any failure by these third parties to comply with these regulations or to recruit a sufficient number
+Added: of patients may require us to repeat clinical trials, which would delay the regulatory approval process.
+Added: Moreover, our business may be
+Added: implicated if any of these third parties violates federal or state fraud and abuse or false claims laws and regulations or healthcare
+Added: privacy and security laws.
third parties conducting our clinical trials are not and will not be our employees and, except for remedies available to us under our
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clinical trials and approved therapies available for patients.
−Removed: impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: particular, our CAR-T ovarian cancer clinical trial is enrolling patients with late stage ovarian cancer who have failed conventional
+Added: particular, our Phase 1 CAR-T ovarian cancer clinical trial is enrolling patients with late-stage ovarian cancer who have failed conventional
treatment, and are willing and able to be treated at Moffitt.
−Removed: Our first breast cancer vaccine clinical trial is enrolling patients who
−Removed: have undergone standard of care treatment for TNBC.
−Removed: Our second breast cancer vaccine clinical trial is enrolling healthy women who, as
−Removed: a result of testing positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation which is a leading predictor of future incidence of breast cancer, have elected
−Removed: to have prophylactic mastectomies.
−Removed: These potential trial participants must be willing and able to undergo treatment at the Cleveland
+Added: Our Phase 1a breast cancer vaccine clinical trial is enrolling patients
+Added: who have undergone standard of care treatment for TNBC.
+Added: Our Phase 1b breast cancer vaccine clinical trial is enrolling healthy women
+Added: who, as a result of, among other things, testing positive for the BRCA1, BRCA2 or PALB2 gene mutations which are leading predictors of
+Added: future incidence of breast cancer, have elected to have prophylactic mastectomies.
+Added: Our Phase 1c breast cancer vaccine clinical trial
+Added: is enrolling post-operative TNBC patients who have residual disease following neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy and are being treated with
+Added: pembrolizumab (Keytruda®).
+Added: These potential trial participants must be willing and able to undergo treatment at the Cleveland Clinic.
clinical trials will compete with other companies’ clinical trials for product candidates that are in the same therapeutic areas
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biotechnology or gene therapy industries.
−Removed: Additionally,
−Removed: due to the design of our breast cancer vaccine trials it is unlikely that any of the trial participants will experience a positive therapeutic
−Removed: effect which may further reduce the number of patients who may enroll in our trials.
in patient enrollment may result in increased costs or may affect the timing or outcome of our planned clinical trials, which could prevent
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adverse developments that occur during any clinical trials conducted by academic investigators, our collaborators or other entities conducting
−Removed: clinical trials under independent INDs may negatively affect the conduct of our clinical trials or our ability to obtain regulatory approvals
−Removed: or commercialize our product candidates.
+Added: clinical trials under independent IND applications may negatively affect the conduct of our clinical trials or our ability to obtain
+Added: regulatory approvals or commercialize our product candidates.
vaccines and other immuno-therapy technologies are being used by third parties in clinical trials for which we are collaborating or in
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complex and costly manufacturing and processing steps, the costs of which will be borne by us.
−Removed: one of our breast cancer vaccine clinical trials, we will treat healthy women who, as a result of testing positive for the BRCA1 gene
−Removed: mutation, have elected to have prophylactic mastectomies.
−Removed: Delivering an experimental treatment to a healthy individual is more complex
−Removed: and subject to more rigorous regulatory requirements and is more difficult to design and implement.
−Removed: In addition, in future clinical trials
−Removed: we will need to determine efficacy of the breast cancer vaccine as a cancer prevention which will be a considerably more complex clinical
−Removed: trial and will have significantly greater costs.
+Added: one of our breast cancer vaccine clinical trials, we will treat healthy women who, as a result of testing positive for certain gene mutations,
+Added: have elected to have prophylactic mastectomies.
+Added: Delivering an experimental treatment to a healthy individual is more complex and subject
+Added: to more rigorous regulatory requirements and is more difficult to design and implement.
+Added: In addition, in future clinical trials we will
+Added: need to determine efficacy of the breast cancer vaccine as a cancer prevention which will be a considerably more complex clinical trial
+Added: and will have significantly greater costs.
costs of our clinical trials may increase if the FDA does not agree with our clinical development plans or requires us to conduct additional
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ability to compete and to achieve sustained profitability will be impacted by our ability to protect our CAR-T cancer therapeutics technologies,
−Removed: our breast cancer vaccine technologies, our ovarian cancer vaccine technologies, our COVID-19 therapeutic technologies and other proprietary
−Removed: discoveries and technologies.
−Removed: We expect to rely on a combination of patent protection, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, know-how,
−Removed: and regulatory approvals to protect our technologies.
−Removed: Our intellectual property strategy is intended to help develop and maintain our
−Removed: competitive position.
−Removed: While we have been granted multiple patents related to our technologies, there is no assurance that we will be
−Removed: able to obtain further patent protection for our technologies or any other technologies, nor can we be certain that the steps we will
−Removed: have taken will prevent the misappropriation and unauthorized use of our technologies.
−Removed: If we are not able to obtain and maintain patent
−Removed: protection our competitive position may be harmed, including our ability to license any product if we choose to have other
−Removed: parties commercialize them.
+Added: our breast cancer vaccine technologies, our ovarian cancer vaccine technologies and other proprietary discoveries and technologies.
+Added: expect to rely on a combination of patent protection, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, know-how, and regulatory approvals to protect
+Added: our technologies.
+Added: Our intellectual property strategy is intended to help develop and maintain our competitive position.
+Added: While we have
+Added: been granted multiple patents related to our technologies, there is no assurance that we will be able to obtain further patent protection
+Added: for our technologies or any other technologies, nor can we be certain that the steps we will have taken will prevent the misappropriation
+Added: and unauthorized use of our technologies.
+Added: If we are not able to obtain and maintain patent protection our competitive position may be
+Added: harmed, including our ability to license any product if we choose to have other parties commercialize them.
parties may initiate legal proceedings alleging that we are infringing their intellectual property rights, the outcome of which would
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commercial success depends upon our ability to develop, manufacture, market and sell our CAR-T therapeutics, our breast cancer vaccine,
−Removed: our ovarian cancer vaccine, our COVID-19 treatment and other proprietary discoveries and technologies without infringing, misappropriating
−Removed: or otherwise violating the proprietary rights or intellectual property of third parties.
−Removed: We may become party to, or be threatened with,
−Removed: future adversarial proceedings or litigation regarding intellectual property rights with respect to our CAR-T therapeutics, our breast
−Removed: cancer vaccine, our ovarian cancer vaccine, our COVID-19 treatment and other proprietary discoveries and technologies.
−Removed: Third parties
−Removed: may assert infringement claims against us based on existing patents or patents that may be granted in the future.
−Removed: If we are found to
−Removed: infringe a third-party’s intellectual property rights, we could be required to obtain a license from such third-party to continue
−Removed: developing our CAR-T therapeutics, our breast cancer vaccine, our ovarian cancer vaccine, our COVID-19 treatment and other proprietary
−Removed: discoveries and technologies.
−Removed: However, we may not be able to obtain any required license on commercially reasonable terms or at all.
−Removed: Even if we were able to obtain a license, it could be non-exclusive, thereby giving our competitors access to the same technologies licensed
−Removed: We could be forced, including by court order, to cease developing the infringing technology or product.
−Removed: In addition, we could
−Removed: be found liable for monetary damages.
−Removed: Claims that we have misappropriated the confidential information or trade secrets of third parties
−Removed: can have a similar negative impact on our business.
+Added: our ovarian cancer vaccine and other proprietary discoveries and technologies without infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating
+Added: the proprietary rights or intellectual property of third parties.
+Added: We may become party to, or be threatened with, future adversarial proceedings
+Added: or litigation regarding intellectual property rights with respect to our CAR-T therapeutics, our breast cancer vaccine, our ovarian cancer
+Added: vaccine and other proprietary discoveries and technologies.
+Added: Third parties may assert infringement claims against us based on existing
+Added: patents or patents that may be granted in the future.
+Added: If we are found to infringe a third party’s intellectual property rights,
+Added: we could be required to obtain a license from such third party to continue developing our CAR-T therapeutics, our breast cancer vaccine,
+Added: our ovarian cancer vaccine and other proprietary discoveries and technologies.
+Added: However, we may not be able to obtain any required license
+Added: on commercially reasonable terms or at all.
+Added: Even if we were able to obtain a license, it could be non-exclusive, thereby giving our competitors
+Added: access to the same technologies licensed to us.
+Added: We could be forced, including by court order, to cease developing the infringing technology
+Added: In addition, we could be found liable for monetary damages.
+Added: Claims that we have misappropriated the confidential information
+Added: or trade secrets of third parties can have a similar negative impact on our business.
rely on licenses from Wistar for our CAR-T technology and Cleveland Clinic for our breast and ovarian cancer vaccine technologies, and
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We may need to obtain additional licenses from others to advance our research, development and commercialization activities.
−Removed: Our license agreement imposes, and we expect that future license agreements if necessary will impose, various development, diligence,
+Added: Our license agreements impose, and we expect that future license agreements if necessary will impose, various development, diligence,
commercialization and other obligations on us.
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companies have encountered significant problems in protecting and defending intellectual property in foreign jurisdictions.
−Removed: systems of certain countries, particularly China and certain developing countries, do not favor the enforcement of patents, trade
−Removed: secrets and other intellectual property, particularly those relating to biopharmaceutical products, which could make it difficult for
−Removed: us to stop the infringement of our patents or marketing of competing products in violation of our proprietary rights generally.
−Removed: we have not sought to enforce any issued patents in these foreign jurisdictions.
−Removed: Proceedings to enforce our patent rights in foreign
−Removed: jurisdictions could result in substantial costs and divert our efforts and attention from other aspects of our business, could put our
−Removed: patents at risk of being invalidated or interpreted narrowly and our patent applications at risk of not issuing and could provoke third
−Removed: parties to assert claims against us.
−Removed: We may not prevail in any lawsuits that we initiate, and the damages or other remedies awarded,
−Removed: if any, may not be commercially meaningful.
−Removed: The requirements for patentability may differ in certain countries, particularly developing
−Removed: Furthermore, generic drug manufacturers or other competitors may challenge the scope, validity or enforceability of our or
−Removed: our licensors’ patents, requiring us or our licensors to engage in complex, lengthy and costly litigation or other proceedings.
−Removed: Certain countries in Europe and developing countries, including China and India, have compulsory licensing laws under which a patent
−Removed: owner may be compelled to grant licenses to third parties.
−Removed: In those countries, we and our licensors may have limited remedies if patents
−Removed: are infringed or if we or our licensors are compelled to grant a license to a third party, which could materially diminish the value
−Removed: of those patents.
−Removed: This could limit our potential revenue opportunities.
−Removed: Accordingly, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property
−Removed: rights around the world may be inadequate to obtain a significant commercial advantage from the intellectual property that we develop
+Added: systems of certain countries, particularly China and certain developing countries, do not favor the enforcement of patents, trade secrets
+Added: and other intellectual property, particularly those relating to biopharmaceutical products, which could make it difficult for us to stop
+Added: the infringement of our patents or marketing of competing products in violation of our proprietary rights generally.
+Added: To date, we have
+Added: not sought to enforce any issued patents in these foreign jurisdictions.
+Added: Proceedings to enforce our patent rights in foreign jurisdictions
+Added: could result in substantial costs and divert our efforts and attention from other aspects of our business, could put our patents at risk
+Added: of being invalidated or interpreted narrowly and our patent applications at risk of not issuing and could provoke third parties to assert
+Added: claims against us.
+Added: We may not prevail in any lawsuits that we initiate, and the damages or other remedies awarded, if any, may not be
+Added: commercially meaningful.
+Added: The requirements for patentability may differ in certain countries, particularly developing countries.
+Added: generic drug manufacturers or other competitors may challenge the scope, validity or enforceability of our or our licensors’ patents,
+Added: requiring us or our licensors to engage in complex, lengthy and costly litigation or other proceedings.
+Added: Certain countries in Europe and
+Added: developing countries, including China and India, have compulsory licensing laws under which a patent owner may be compelled to grant
+Added: licenses to third parties.
+Added: In those countries, we and our licensors may have limited remedies if patents are infringed or if we or our
+Added: licensors are compelled to grant a license to a third party, which could materially diminish the value of those patents.
+Added: This could limit
+Added: our potential revenue opportunities.
+Added: Accordingly, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights around the world may be inadequate
+Added: to obtain a significant commercial advantage from the intellectual property that we develop or license.
Related to Our Common Stock
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of assets, as consideration for receipt of goods or services, to pay for the development of our CAR-T cancer therapeutics, to pay for
−Removed: the development of our breast cancer vaccine, to pay for the development of our ovarian cancer vaccine, to pay for the development of
−Removed: our COVID-19 therapeutic and for acquisitions of companies.
−Removed: We have an at-the-market equity offering under which, as of January 4,
−Removed: 2022 we may issue up to approximately $100 million of common stock, which is currently effective and under which we have not yet sold
−Removed: any shares, and which may remain available to us in the future.
−Removed: We also have and in the future may issue securities convertible into
−Removed: our common stock.
−Removed: Any of these events may dilute stockholders’ ownership interests in our company and have an adverse impact on
−Removed: the price of our common stock.
+Added: the development of our breast cancer vaccine, to pay for the development of our ovarian cancer vaccine and for acquisitions of companies.
+Added: We have an at-the-market equity offering under which, as of January 16, 2024 we may issue up to approximately $98 million of common stock,
+Added: which is currently effective, and which may remain available to us in the future.
+Added: We also have, and in the future may, issue securities
+Added: convertible into our common stock.
+Added: Any of these events may dilute stockholders’ ownership interests in our company and have an
+Added: adverse impact on the price of our common stock.
addition, sales of a substantial amount of our common stock in the public market, or the perception that these sales may occur, could
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reported revenues and operating results have fluctuated in the past and may continue to fluctuate significantly from quarter to quarter
−Removed: in the future, specifically as we continue to devote our resources towards our CAR-T cancer therapeutics, our breast and ovarian cancer
−Removed: vaccines and our COVID-19 therapeutic.
−Removed: It is possible that in future periods, we will have no revenue or, in any event, revenues could
−Removed: fall below or expenses could rise above the expectations of securities analysts or investors, which could cause the market price of our
−Removed: common stock to decline.
−Removed: The following are among the factors that could cause our operating results to fluctuate significantly from period
+Added: in the future, specifically as we continue to devote our resources towards our CAR-T cancer therapeutics and our breast and ovarian cancer
+Added: It is possible that in future periods, we will have no revenue or, in any event, revenues could fall below or expenses could
+Added: rise above the expectations of securities analysts or investors, which could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
+Added: following are among the factors that could cause our operating results to fluctuate significantly from period to period:
enrollment rates for our clinical trials;
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of pre-clinical studies relating to our ovarian cancer vaccine;
−Removed: of pre-clinical studies relating to our COVID-19 therapeutic;
−Removed: with regulatory authorities towards the certification/approval of our CAR-T cancer therapeutics, our breast cancer vaccine, our ovarian
−Removed: cancer vaccine or our COVID-19 therapeutic;
+Added: with regulatory authorities towards the certification/approval of our CAR-T cancer therapeutics, our breast cancer vaccine or our
+Added: ovarian cancer vaccine;
related to acquisitions, alliances and licenses.
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announcements
−Removed: of developments in the fields of CAR-T therapeutics, cancer vaccines or COVID-19 treatments;
+Added: of developments in the fields of CAR-T therapeutics or cancer vaccines;
in relationships with third party vendors and laboratories;
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The vesting and,
−Removed: if applicable, exercise of these securities and the sale of the shares of common stock issuable thereunder may dilute your percentage
−Removed: ownership interest and may also result in downward pressure on the price of our common stock.
+Added: if applicable, exercise of these securities and the sale of the shares of common stock issuable thereunder may dilute stockholders’
+Added: percentage ownership interest and may also result in downward pressure on the price of our common stock.
of the date of this Report, we have issued and outstanding options to purchase 12,735,000 shares of our common stock with a weighted
average exercise price of $3.68.
−Removed: Further, as of the date of this Report, our Board of Directors and Compensation Committee have the
−Removed: authority to issue awards totaling an additional 875,000 shares of our common stock which is replenished on a yearly basis in accordance
−Removed: with the provisions of our plan.
−Removed: Additionally, we have registered for resale all of the shares of common stock issuable under our incentive
+Added: Further, as of the date of this Report, our Board of Directors and Compensation Committee have the authority
+Added: to issue awards totaling an additional 665,000 shares of our common stock which is replenished on a yearly basis in accordance with the
+Added: provisions of our plan.
+Added: Additionally, we have registered for resale all of the shares of common stock issuable under our incentive plans.
Because the market for our common stock is thinly traded, the sales and/or the perception that those sales may occur, could adversely
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stock may be less valuable to you because a return on your investment will only occur if our stock price appreciates.
−Removed: related to the COVID-19 pandemic
−Removed: business activities may be adversely affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacts our business, operations and financial results will depend on numerous evolving factors
−Removed: that we may not be able to accurately predict, including:
−Removed: the duration and scope of the pandemic;
−Removed: governmental, business and individuals’
−Removed: actions that have been and continue to be taken in response to the pandemic;
−Removed: the impact of the pandemic on economic activity and actions
−Removed: taken in response;
−Removed: our ability to continue daily operations, including as a result of travel restrictions and people working from home;
−Removed: the effect the pandemic may have on the ability to recruit patients to participate in our clinical trials;
−Removed: and any closures of our and
−Removed: our business partners’ offices and facilities.
−Removed: the Company and its partners are not currently experiencing significant negative impact of COVID-19, there can be no assurance that the
−Removed: current situation will continue.
−Removed: Further, events such as natural disasters and public health emergencies divert our attention away from
−Removed: normal operations and limited resources.
−Removed: Our inability to timely resume normal operations following any pandemic disruption could adversely
−Removed: affect our business, financial condition or results of operations in a material manner.
−Removed: of these events could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and/or stock price.
Unresolved Staff Comments.
+Added: Cybersecurity.
+Added: will provide the disclosure required under this Item 1C in our annual report for the year ended October 31, 2024 which is the first annual
+Added: report for a fiscal year ending on or after December 15, 2023, the date on which disclosure under Item 106 of Regulation S-K is required.
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