−Removed: DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
−Removed: Research and Development
−Removed: We are a pharmaceutical company currently engaged
−Removed: in the research and development of innovative pharmaceutical solutions, including an oral insulin capsule to be used for the treatment
−Removed: of individuals with diabetes, and the use of orally ingestible capsules or pills for delivery of other polypeptides.
−Removed: Clinical Research Organizations, or CROs, to conduct our clinical studies.
−Removed: Oral insulin :
−Removed: We are seeking to
−Removed: transform the treatment of diabetes through our proprietary flagship product, an orally ingestible insulin capsule, or ORMD-0801.
−Removed: Our technology allows insulin to travel from the gastrointestinal tract via the portal vein to the bloodstream, revolutionizing
−Removed: the manner in which insulin is delivered.
−Removed: It enables the passage in a more physiological manner than current delivery methods of
−Removed: Our technology is a platform that has the potential to deliver medications and vaccines orally that today can only be
−Removed: delivered via injection.
−Removed: FDA Guidance:
−Removed: In August 2017, during
−Removed: a call with the U.S.
−Removed: Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, we were advised that the regulatory pathway for the submission of ORMD-0801
−Removed: would be a Biologics License Application, or BLA.
−Removed: If approved the BLA pathway would grant us 12 years of marketing exclusivity
−Removed: for ORMD-0801, from the approval date, and an additional six months of exclusivity may be granted to us if the product also receives
−Removed: approval for use in pediatric patients.
−Removed: The FDA confirmed that the approach to nonclinical toxicology, chemistry manufacturing
−Removed: controls and qualification of excipients would be driven by their published guidance documents.
+Added: and Development
+Added: are a pharmaceutical company currently engaged in the research and development of innovative pharmaceutical solutions, including
+Added: an oral insulin capsule to be used for the treatment of individuals with diabetes, and the use of orally ingestible capsules or
+Added: pills for delivery of other polypeptides.
+Added: We utilize Clinical Research Organizations, or CROs, to conduct our clinical studies.
+Added: our research and development efforts, we have successfully developed an oral dosage form intended to withstand the harsh environment
+Added: of the stomach and intestines and effectively deliver active insulin or other proteins, such as Glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1,
+Added: leptin, and others.
+Added: The excipients in the formulation are not intended to modify the proteins chemically or biologically, and
+Added: the dosage form is designed to be safe to ingest.
+Added: We plan to continue to conduct clinical trials to show the effectiveness of
+Added: our technology.
+Added: Our proprietary flagship product, an orally ingestible insulin capsule, or ORMD-0801, allows insulin to travel
+Added: from the gastrointestinal tract via the portal vein to the bloodstream, revolutionizing the manner in which insulin is delivered.
+Added: It enables the passage in a more physiological manner than current delivery methods of insulin.
+Added: In August 2017, the U.S.
+Added: Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, instructed us that the regulatory pathway for the
+Added: submission of ORMD-0801 would be a Biologics License Application, or BLA.
+Added: If approved the BLA pathway would grant us 12 years
+Added: of marketing exclusivity for ORMD-0801, from the approval date, and an additional six months of exclusivity may be granted to
+Added: us if the product also receives approval for use in pediatric patients.
Phase IIb Study:
−Removed: In May 2018, we initiated
−Removed: a three-month dose-ranging Phase IIb clinical trial of ORMD-0801.
−Removed: This placebo controlled, randomized, 90-day treatment clinical
−Removed: trial was conducted on 269 type 2 diabetic patients in multiple centers throughout the United States pursuant to an Investigational
−Removed: New Drug application, or IND, with the FDA.
−Removed: The primary endpoints of the trial were to assess the safety and evaluate the effect
−Removed: of ORMD-0801 on HbA1c levels over a 90-day treatment period.
−Removed: Secondary endpoints of the trial included measurements of fasting
−Removed: plasma glucose, or FPG, post-prandial glucose, or PPG levels, during a mixed-meal tolerance test, or MMTT, and weight.
−Removed: we began an extension of this protocol for approximately 75 type 2 diabetic patients, who were dosed using a lower dosage.
−Removed: In November 2019, we announced positive
−Removed: results from the initial cohort of the Phase IIb trial.
−Removed: Patients randomized in the trial to once-daily ORMD-0801 achieved a reduction
−Removed: in mean HbA1c of 0.60% from baseline, or a reduction of 0.54% adjusted for placebo (p value = 0.036).
−Removed: This 0.54% reduction in HbA1c
−Removed: is considered clinically meaningful, reflecting an improved glucose control that would result in reduced risk of developing diabetes-related
−Removed: complications.
−Removed: Treatment with ORMD-0801 demonstrated an excellent safety profile, with no serious drug-related adverse events and
−Removed: with no increased frequency of hypoglycemic episodes.
+Added: In May 2018, we initiated a three-month dose-ranging Phase IIb clinical trial of ORMD-0801 (Cohort A).
+Added: This placebo controlled,
+Added: randomized, 90-day treatment clinical trial was conducted on 269 type 2 diabetic patients in multiple centers throughout the United
+Added: States pursuant to an Investigational New Drug application, or IND, with the FDA.
+Added: The primary endpoints of the trial were to assess
+Added: the safety and evaluate the effect of ORMD-0801 on HbA1c levels over a 90-day treatment period.
+Added: Secondary endpoints of the trial
+Added: included measurements of fasting plasma glucose, or FPG, post-prandial glucose, or PPG levels, during a mixed-meal tolerance test,
+Added: or MMTT, and weight.
+Added: In May 2019, we initiated an extension of this protocol for approximately 75 type 2 diabetic patients, who
+Added: were dosed using a lower dosage of insulin (Cohort B).
+Added: In November 2019, we announced positive results from the initial cohort of the Phase IIb trial.
+Added: Patients randomized in the
+Added: trial to once-daily ORMD-0801 achieved a statistically significant (p-value 0.036) reduction from baseline in HbA1c of 0.60% (0.54%
+Added: with placebo adjustment).
+Added: This 0.54% reduction in HbA1c is clinically meaningful.
+Added: Treatment with ORMD-0801 demonstrated an excellent
+Added: safety profile, with no serious drug-related adverse events and with no increased frequency of hypoglycemic episodes when compared
In addition, during this 90-day trial, no weight gain was observed.
−Removed: initial cohort, 269 U.S.-based patients were enrolled and treated with a dose-increasing approach:
−Removed: 16 mg initial dose, titrated
−Removed: to 24 mg per dose, and then titrated to 32 mg per dose.
+Added: In the initial cohort, 269 U.S.-based patients
+Added: were enrolled and treated with a dose-increasing approach:
+Added: 16 mg initial dose, titrated to 24 mg per dose, and then titrated to
+Added: 32 mg per dose.
Patients were randomized into three groups to assess dosing frequency:
−Removed: once-daily (32 mg per day), twice-daily (64 mg per day), thrice daily (96 mg per day).
−Removed: There was a corresponding placebo for each
−Removed: treatment arm.
−Removed: Two hundred nine (209) patients completed treatment to the 12-week endpoint and were included in the data analysis
−Removed: (24 subjects did not complete the full 12 weeks of treatment).
−Removed: In addition, due to evidence of treatment-by-center interaction,
−Removed: two sites (36 patients (13.4% of enrolled subjects)) were excluded from the statistical analysis as they showed results opposite
−Removed: from the rest of the statistically significant results.
−Removed: We are still investigating the cause of this discrepancy.
−Removed: The once-daily
−Removed: and twice-daily arms achieved statistically significant (p-value 0.036 and 0.042, respectively) reductions from baseline in A1C
−Removed: of 0.60% (0.54% with placebo adjustment) and 0.59% (0.53% with placebo adjustment), respectively.
−Removed: The thrice-daily arm did not
−Removed: meet statistical significance (p-value 0.093).
−Removed: ORMD-0801 demonstrated an excellent safety profile with no serious drug-related
−Removed: adverse events.
−Removed: As our Phase IIb three-month dose-ranging clinical
−Removed: trial successfully met its primary endpoints, we anticipate initiating two six-month Phase III clinical trials on both type 1 and
−Removed: type 2 diabetic patients, following which we expect to file a BLA with potential FDA approval by the end of calendar year 2024.
−Removed: In June 2018, we initiated
−Removed: a glucose clamp study which will quantify insulin absorption in type 1 diabetic patients treated with ORMD-0801.
−Removed: The glucose clamp
−Removed: is a method for quantifying insulin absorption in order to measure a patient’s insulin sensitivity and how well a patient
−Removed: metabolizes glucose.
−Removed: This exploratory, randomized, double-blind glucose clamp study is evaluating exposure-response profiles of
−Removed: type 1 diabetic patients treated with ORMD-0801.
−Removed: Six patients with HbA1c levels of 10% or below, aged 18-50, are enrolled in the
−Removed: We expect to receive the results of this study in the first quarter of calendar year
−Removed: Food Effect Study:
−Removed: In June 2018, we also
−Removed: initiated a food effect trial in the United States for ORMD-0801.
−Removed: This single-blind, five period, randomized, placebo-controlled
−Removed: crossover trial is evaluating the pharmacokinetics, or PK, and pharmacodynamics of ORMD-0801 taken at different times in relation
−Removed: to meals in healthy volunteers and patients with type 1 diabetes.
−Removed: Forty-eight (48) patients are enrolled, including 24 healthy
−Removed: volunteers and 24 patients with type 1 diabetes.
−Removed: We expect to receive the results of this
−Removed: study in the first quarter of calendar year 2020.
−Removed: In October 2018, we initiated
−Removed: an exploratory clinical study of ORMD-0801 in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH.
−Removed: The three-month treatment study,
−Removed: which was approved by Israel’s Ministry of Health, will assess the effectiveness of ORMD-0801 in reducing liver fat content,
−Removed: inflammation and fibrosis in 30 patients with NASH.
−Removed: As requested by Israel’s Ministry of Health, the first part of the study
−Removed: will be conducted on 10 participants and is expected to be completed during first quarter of calendar year 2020.
−Removed: Toxicology Study (6 Months):
−Removed: 2019, we completed a six-month dosing toxicology study of ORMD-0801, which was initiated in September 2018 following the FDA’s
−Removed: We expect to receive the results of this study in the first quarter of calendar
−Removed: Type 1 Study:
−Removed: In November 2019 we initiated
−Removed: a crossover study of type 1 diabetic patients to compare the effects of ORMD-0801 given once daily versus the effects of ORMD-0801
−Removed: given three times daily.
−Removed: The study is anticipated to include 26 subjects and is expected to be completed in the second quarter
−Removed: of calendar year 2020.
−Removed: Oral Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 :
−Removed: Glucagon-Like Peptide-1, or GLP-1, is an incretin hormone, which is a type of gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion
−Removed: of insulin from the pancreas.
−Removed: The incretin concept was hypothesized when it was noted that glucose ingested by mouth (oral) stimulated
−Removed: two to three times more insulin release than the same amount of glucose administered intravenously.
−Removed: In addition to stimulating
−Removed: insulin release, GLP-1 was found to suppress glucagon release (a hormone involved in the regulation of glucose) from the pancreas,
−Removed: slow gastric emptying to reduce the rate of absorption of nutrients into the blood stream and increase satiety.
−Removed: Other important
−Removed: beneficial attributes of GLP-1 are its effects of increasing the number of beta cells (cells that manufacture and release insulin)
−Removed: in the pancreas and, possibly, protection of the heart.
−Removed: In addition to our flagship product, the ORMD-0801 insulin capsule, we
−Removed: are using our technology for an orally ingestible GLP-1 capsule, or ORMD-0901.
−Removed: In February 2019, we completed a
−Removed: Phase I PK trial to evaluate the safety and the pharmacokinetics of ORMD-0901 compared to placebo.
−Removed: We expect to receive the results
−Removed: of this study in the first quarter of calendar year 2020.
−Removed: This study was conducted pursuant to an IND, which we expect to be
−Removed: followed by a Phase II trial on type 2 diabetic patients which will likely be conducted in the United States under an IND.
+Added: once-daily (32 mg per day), twice-daily
+Added: (64 mg per day), thrice daily (96 mg per day).
+Added: There was a corresponding placebo for each treatment arm.
+Added: Two hundred nine (209)
+Added: patients completed treatment to the 12-week endpoint and were included in the data analysis (24 subjects did not complete the full
+Added: 12 weeks of treatment).
+Added: The twice-daily arms achieved statistically significant (p-value 0.042) reductions from baseline in HbA1c
+Added: of 0.59% (0.53% with placebo adjustment).
+Added: The thrice-daily arm did not meet statistical significance (p-value 0.093).
+Added: due to evidence of treatment-by-center interaction, two sites (36 patients (13.4% of enrolled subjects)) were excluded from the
+Added: statistical analysis as they showed results opposite from the rest of the statistically significant results.
+Added: Our internal investigation
+Added: as well as an independent investigation did not find a cause for such discrepancy.
+Added: In February 2020, we announced positive topline data from the second and final cohort of the Phase IIb trial with a different
+Added: regimen across three daily dose ranges (8 mg, 16 mg, 32 mg).
+Added: Patients randomized in the trial treated with 8 mg of ORMD-0801 once-daily
+Added: achieved a statistically significant (p-value 0.028) observed mean reduction of 1.29% from baseline and a least square mean reduction
+Added: of 0.95% from baseline, or 0.81% adjusted for placebo.
+Added: Patients who had HbA1c readings above 9% at baseline and received 8 mg
+Added: of oral insulin once-daily experienced a 1.26% reduction in HbA1c by week 12.
+Added: Treatment with ORMD-0801 at all doses demonstrated
+Added: an excellent safety profile, with no serious drug-related adverse events and with no increased frequency of hypoglycemic episodes
+Added: or weight gain compared to placebo.
+Added: The primary efficacy endpoint was a reduction in HbA1c at week 12.
+Added: Phase III Study :
+Added: Based on guidance received from the FDA as part of the end-of-phase II meeting process for our oral insulin candidate, ORMD-0801,
+Added: we have submitted to the FDA the protocols for our upcoming pivotal Phase III studies.
+Added: In line with the FDA’s expectations
+Added: and recommendations, we intend to conduct two Phase III studies concurrently in patients with type 2 diabetes.
+Added: These studies involve
+Added: about 1,125 patients to provide evidence of ORMD-0801’s safety and efficacy in type 2 diabetic patients over a treatment
+Added: period of 6 to 12 months.
+Added: A geographically diverse patient population will be recruited from multiple sites throughout the United
+Added: States, European, and Israel.
+Added: Our phase III study will be composed from 2 protocols:
+Added: ORA-D-013-1 :
+Added: This study will treat type 2 diabetic patients with inadequate glycaemic control who are currently on 1, 2 or 3 oral glucose-lowering
+Added: study will recruit 675 patients from 75 clinical sites located throughout the U.S.
+Added: Patients will be randomized
+Added: 1:1:1 in this double-dummy study into cohorts of:
+Added: 8 mg ORMD-0801 once-daily at night and placebo 45 minutes before breakfast;
+Added: mg ORMD-0801 twice-daily, at night and 45 minutes before breakfast;
+Added: and placebo twice-daily, at night and 45 minutes before breakfast.
+Added: The primary endpoint of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of ORMD-0801 compared to placebo in improving glycaemic control as
+Added: assessed by HbA1c, with a secondary efficacy endpoint of assessing the change from baseline in fasting plasma glucose at 26 weeks.
+Added: We expect to initiate this trial on the fourth quarter of 2020.
+Added: ORA-D-013-2 :
+Added: This study will include type 2 diabetic patients with inadequate glycaemic control who are managing their condition with either
+Added: diet alone or with diet and metformin monotherapy.
+Added: A total of 450 patients will be recruited through 36 sites in the U.S.
+Added: sites in Western Europe and Israel.
+Added: Patients will be randomized 1:1 into two cohorts dosed with:
+Added: 8 mg ORMD-0801 at night;
+Added: The primary endpoint is to evaluate the efficacy of ORMD-0801 compared to placebo in improving glycaemic control as assessed
+Added: by HbA1c over a 26-week treatment period, with a secondary efficacy endpoint of assessing the change from baseline in fasting plasma
+Added: glucose at 26 weeks.
+Added: We expect to initiate this trial on the first half of 2021.
+Added: If we successfully
+Added: complete the pivotal studies, we expect to conduct a pre-BLA meeting with the FDA to finalize the plans and data for the BLA submission.
+Added: After BLA submission and review, if the BLA is approved by the FDA, a full 12 years of marketing exclusivity would be granted.
+Added: June 2020, we presented preliminary data from our open-label study of the first 8 patients of a planned 40-patient multi-center
+Added: (U.S., Europe and Israel) pilot study, aimed to assess the safety, tolerability, and early effects of 16 mg ORMD-0801 (2x8 mg capsules)
+Added: on liver fat in type 2 diabetic patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH.
+Added: The 12-week, once-daily treatment had no serious
+Added: adverse events, and induced an observed mean 6.9±6.8% reduction in liver fat content (p value:
+Added: 0.035), and the relative
+Added: reduction was 30%, as measured by MRI-derived proton density fat fraction.
+Added: In parallel, concentrations of gamma-glutamyltransferase
+Added: (GGT), a key marker of chronic hepatitis, were significantly lower after 12 weeks of treatment as compared to baseline (-14.6±13.1
+Added: In November 2019, we initiated a crossover study of type 1 diabetic patients to compare the effects of ORMD-0801
+Added: given once daily versus the effects of ORMD-0801 given three times daily.
+Added: This study showed no statistically significant, or clinically
+Added: meaningful differences in total exogenous insulin requirements, or plasma glucose levels in type 1 diabetic subjects treated with
+Added: ORMD-0801 8mg dosed once daily in the evening compared to those dosed with ORMD-0801 three times daily.
+Added: GLP-1 is an incretin hormone, which stimulates the secretion of insulin from the pancreas.
+Added: In addition to our flagship
+Added: product, the ORMD-0801 insulin capsule, we are using our technology for an orally ingestible GLP-1 capsule, or ORMD-0901.
+Added: In February 2019, we
+Added: completed a Phase I pharmacokinetic trial to evaluate the safety and pharmacokinetics of ORMD-0901 compared to placebo.
+Added: this trial results, we will conduct a follow-up Phase I trial in type 2 diabetic patients which will start its enrollment by the
+Added: end of 2020 in the United States under an IND submitted to the FDA.
+Added: following table gives an overview of the above described primary R&D pipeline:
+Added: clinical trials are planned in order to substantiate our results as well as for purposes of making future filings for drug approval.
+Added: We also plan to conduct further research and development by deploying our proprietary drug delivery technology for the delivery
+Added: of other polypeptides in addition to insulin, and to develop other innovative pharmaceutical products.
+Added: Other Products:
+Added: We are developing a new drug candidate, a weight loss treatment in the form of an oral leptin capsule.
+Added: We anticipate initiating
+Added: a proof of concept single dose study for this candidate to evaluate its pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (glucagon reduction)
+Added: in 10 type 1 adult diabetic patients.
+Added: During the third quarter of 2020, we finalized the study without any safety issues, and we
+Added: are waiting for the final lab results.
+Added: oral insulin capsule is currently manufactured by Fidelio Healthcare, a diversified European Contract Development and Manufacturing
+Added: Organization (CDMO) in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.
+Added: July 2010, Oramed Ltd.
+Added: entered into the Manufacturing and Supply Agreement, or MSA, with Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH, or Sanofi-Aventis.
+Added: According to the MSA, Sanofi-Aventis will supply Oramed Ltd.
+Added: with specified quantities of recombinant human insulin to be used
+Added: for clinical trials.
+Added: We also entered into an Insulin Supply Agreement in September 2020 with Hefei Tianmai Biological Technology
+Added: Development Limited, who will also supply Oramed Ltd.
+Added: with specified quantities of recombinant human insulin to be used for clinical
+Added: purchase, pursuant to separate agreements with third parties, the raw materials required for the manufacturing of our oral capsule.
+Added: We generally depend upon a limited number of suppliers for the raw materials.
+Added: Although alternative sources of supply for these
+Added: materials are generally available, we could incur significant costs and disruptions if we need to change suppliers.
+Added: The termination
+Added: of our relationships with our suppliers or the failure of these suppliers to meet our requirements for raw materials on a timely
+Added: and cost-effective basis could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.
Diabetes is a disease
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According to the International
−Removed: Diabetes Federation, or IDF, an estimated 425 million adults worldwide suffered from diabetes in 2017 and the IDF projects this
−Removed: number will increase to 629 million by 2045.
−Removed: Also, according to the IDF, in 2017, an estimated 4 million people died from diabetes.
−Removed: According to the American Diabetes Association, or ADA, in the United States there were approximately 30.3 million people with
−Removed: diabetes, or 9.4% of the United States population in 2015.
−Removed: Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attack,
−Removed: stroke and amputation.
−Removed: Intellectual property :
−Removed: a portfolio of patents and patent applications covering our technologies, and we are aggressively protecting these technology developments
−Removed: on a worldwide basis.
−Removed: We are led by an experienced
−Removed: management team knowledgeable in the treatment of diabetes.
−Removed: Our Chief Scientific Officer, Miriam Kidron, PhD, is a recognized pharmacologist
−Removed: and a biochemist and the innovator primarily responsible for our oral insulin technology development and know-how.
−Removed: Scientific Advisory Board :
−Removed: management team has access to our internationally recognized Scientific Advisory Board whose members are thought-leaders in their
−Removed: respective areas.
+Added: Diabetes Federation, or IDF, an estimated 463 million adults (20-79 years) worldwide suffered from diabetes in 2019 and the IDF
+Added: projects this number will increase to 700 million by 2045.
+Added: Also, according to the IDF, in 2019, an estimated 4.2 million people
+Added: died from diabetes.
+Added: According to the American Diabetes Association, or ADA, in the United States there were approximately 34.2
+Added: million people with diabetes, or 10.5% of the United States population in 2018.
+Added: Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, kidney
+Added: failure, heart attack, stroke and amputation.
+Added: The latest report of the ADA that analyzed the economic costs of diabetes in the
+Added: U.S in 2017 indicates that the total cost of diagnosed diabetes in the United States in 2017 was $327 billion.
+Added: own a portfolio of patents and patent applications covering our technologies, and we are aggressively protecting these technology
+Added: developments on a worldwide basis.
+Added: We are led by an experienced management team knowledgeable in the treatment of diabetes.
+Added: Our Chief Scientific Officer, Miriam
+Added: Kidron, PhD, is a recognized pharmacologist and a biochemist and the innovator primarily responsible for our oral insulin technology
+Added: development and know-how.
+Added: Advisory Board :
+Added: Our management team has access to our internationally recognized Scientific Advisory Board whose members
+Added: are thought-leaders in their respective areas.
The Scientific Advisory Board is comprised of Dr.
−Removed: Roy Eldor, Professor Ele Ferrannini, Dr.
−Removed: Henry, Professor
−Removed: Avram Hershko, Dr.
−Removed: Harold Jacob and Dr.
−Removed: Short Term Business Strategy
−Removed: We plan to conduct further research and development
−Removed: on the technology covered by the patent application “Methods and Composition for Oral Administration of Proteins,”
−Removed: which we acquired from Hadasit Medical Research Services and Development Ltd.
−Removed: in 2006, and which is granted in various foreign
−Removed: jurisdictions, as well as the other patents we have filed in various foreign jurisdictions since then, as discussed below under
−Removed: “—Patents and Licenses”
−Removed: and below under “Item 1A.
−Removed: Risk Factors”
−Removed: Through our research and development efforts,
−Removed: we have successfully developed an oral dosage form that is intended to withstand the harsh environment of the stomach and intestines
−Removed: and effectively deliver active insulin or other proteins, such as exenatide, for the treatment of diabetes.
−Removed: The excipients that
−Removed: are added to the proteins in the formulation process are not intended to modify the proteins chemically or biologically, and the
−Removed: dosage form is designed to be safe to ingest.
−Removed: We plan to continue to conduct clinical trials to show the effectiveness of our technology.
−Removed: As our oral insulin (ORMD-0801) Phase IIb three-month
−Removed: dose-ranging clinical trial successfully met its primary endpoints, we anticipate initiating two six-month Phase III clinical trials
−Removed: on both type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients, following which we expect to file a BLA with potential FDA approval by the end of
−Removed: calendar year 2024.
−Removed: In September 2018, the FDA cleared our IND application
−Removed: for human trials of our oral GLP-1 analog capsule ORMD-0901 and we initiated a Phase I PK
−Removed: trial which will evaluate the safety and the pharmacokinetics of ORMD-0901 compared to placebo.
−Removed: We expect to get the results of
−Removed: this study in the first calendar quarter of 2020.
−Removed: Clinical trials are planned in order to substantiate
−Removed: our results as well as for purposes of making future filings for drug approval.
−Removed: We also plan to conduct further research and development
−Removed: by deploying our proprietary drug delivery technology for the delivery of other polypeptides in addition to insulin, and to develop
−Removed: other innovative pharmaceutical products.
−Removed: The table below gives an overview of our primary
−Removed: product pipeline:
−Removed: Another component of our business strategy is
−Removed: to partner with other companies or medical institutions in order to further develop our technology and commence pre-commercialization
−Removed: On November 30, 2015, we, our Israeli subsidiary and HTIT entered into a Technology License Agreement, which was further
−Removed: amended, according to which we granted HTIT an exclusive commercialization license in the territory of the People’s Republic
−Removed: of China, Macau and Hong Kong, or the Territory, related to our oral insulin capsule, ORMD-0801.
−Removed: Pursuant to this license agreement,
−Removed: HTIT will conduct, at its own expense, certain pre-commercialization and regulatory activities with respect to our subsidiary’s
−Removed: technology related to the ORMD-0801 capsule, and will pay, upon the meeting of certain conditions, certain royalties and an aggregate
−Removed: of approximately $37.5 million (see “Out-Licensed Technology”
−Removed: We plan to seek additional partnerships or forms
−Removed: of cooperation with other companies or medical institutions.
−Removed: While our strategy is to partner with an appropriate party, no assurance
−Removed: can be given that we will in fact be able to reach an agreeable partnership with any third party.
−Removed: Under certain circumstances,
−Removed: we may determine to develop one or more of our oral dosage forms on our own, either world-wide or in select territories.
−Removed: Long Term Business Strategy
−Removed: We plan to ultimately seek a strategic commercial
−Removed: partner, or partners, with extensive experience in the development, commercialization, and marketing of insulin applications and/or
−Removed: other orally digestible drugs.
−Removed: We anticipate such partner or partners would be responsible for, or substantially support, late
−Removed: stage clinical trials (Phase III) to increase the likelihood of obtaining regulatory approvals and registrations in the appropriate
−Removed: markets in a timely manner.
−Removed: We further anticipate that such partner, or partners, would also be responsible for sales, marketing
−Removed: and support of our products in these markets.
−Removed: Such planned strategic partnership, or partnerships, may provide a marketing and
−Removed: sales infrastructure for our products as well as financial and operational support for global clinical trials, post marketing studies,
−Removed: label expansions and other regulatory requirements concerning future clinical development in the United States and elsewhere.
−Removed: future strategic partner, or partners, may also provide capital and expertise that would enable the partnership to develop new
−Removed: oral dosage forms for other polypeptides.
−Removed: While our strategy is to partner with an appropriate party, no assurance can be given
−Removed: that we will in fact be able to reach an agreeable partnership with any third party.
−Removed: Under certain circumstances, we may determine
−Removed: to develop one or more of our oral dosage forms on our own, either world-wide or in select territories.
−Removed: Other Planned Strategic Activities
−Removed: In addition to developing our own oral dosage
−Removed: form drug portfolio, we are, on an on-going basis, considering in-licensing and other means of obtaining additional technologies
−Removed: to complement and/or expand our current product portfolio.
−Removed: Our goal is to create a well-balanced product portfolio that will enhance
−Removed: and complement our existing drug portfolio.
−Removed: Product Development
−Removed: Combination Therapy
−Removed: In June 2012, we presented an abstract, which
−Removed: reported the impact of ORMD-0801 delivered in combination with ORMD-0901.
−Removed: The work assessed the safety and effectiveness of a combination
−Removed: of oral insulin and oral exenatide treatments delivered to pigs prior to food intake.
−Removed: The drug combination resulted in significantly
−Removed: improved blood glucose regulation when compared to administration of each drug separately.
−Removed: In the near term, we are focusing our efforts
−Removed: on the development of our flagship products, oral insulin and oral exenatide.
−Removed: Once these two products have progressed further in
−Removed: clinical trials, we intend to conduct additional studies with the oral combination therapy.
−Removed: Other Products
−Removed: During the first quarter of calendar year 2017,
−Removed: we began developing a new drug candidate, a weight loss treatment in the form of an oral leptin capsule.
−Removed: We anticipate initiating
−Removed: a proof of concept single dose study for our oral leptin drug candidate to evaluate its pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics (glucagon
−Removed: reduction) in 10 type 1 adult diabetic patients in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2019.
−Removed: We anticipate receiving the final
−Removed: report of this study in the first quarter of calendar year 2020.
−Removed: Raw Materials
−Removed: Our oral insulin capsule is currently manufactured
−Removed: by Swiss Caps AG, a member of Aenova Group GmbH .
−Removed: One of our oral capsule ingredients is being
−Removed: developed and produced by an Indian company.
−Removed: In July 2010, Oramed Ltd.
−Removed: entered into the Manufacturing
−Removed: and Supply Agreement, or MSA, with Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH, or Sanofi-Aventis.
−Removed: According to the MSA, Sanofi-Aventis will
−Removed: supply Oramed Ltd.
−Removed: with specified quantities of recombinant human insulin to be used for clinical trials.
−Removed: We purchase, pursuant to separate agreements
−Removed: with third parties, the raw materials required for the manufacturing of our oral capsule.
−Removed: We generally depend upon a limited number
−Removed: of suppliers for the raw materials.
−Removed: Although alternative sources of supply for these materials are generally available, we could
−Removed: incur significant costs and disruptions if we need to change suppliers.
−Removed: The termination of our relationships with our suppliers
−Removed: or the failure of these suppliers to meet our requirements for raw materials on a timely and cost-effective basis could have a
−Removed: material adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Patents and Licenses
−Removed: We maintain a proactive intellectual property
−Removed: strategy, which includes patent filings in multiple jurisdictions, including the United States and other commercially significant
−Removed: We hold 21 patent applications currently pending, with respect to various compositions, methods of production and oral
−Removed: administration of proteins and exenatide.
−Removed: Expiration dates for pending patents, if granted, will fall between 2026 and 2034.
−Removed: We hold 77 patents, 3 of which were issued during
−Removed: the fiscal year ended August 31, 2019, or fiscal 2019, including patents issued by the United States, Swiss, German, French, U.K.,
−Removed: Italian, Netherlands, Swedish, Spanish, Australian, Israeli, Japanese, New Zealand, South African, Russian, Canadian, Hong Kong,
−Removed: Chinese, European and Indian patent offices that cover a part of our technology, which allows for the oral delivery of proteins;
−Removed: patents issued by the Australian, Canadian, European, Austrian, Belgian, French, German, Irish, Italian, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands,
−Removed: Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss, U.K., Israeli, New Zealand, South African, Russian and Japanese patent offices that cover part
−Removed: of our technology for the oral delivery of exenatide;
−Removed: and patents issued by the European, Austrian, Belgian, Denmark, French, German,
−Removed: Irish, Italian, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss, U.K.
−Removed: and Japanese patent offices for treating
−Removed: Consistent with our strategy to seek protection
−Removed: in key markets worldwide, we have been and will continue to pursue the patent applications and corresponding foreign counterparts
−Removed: of such applications.
−Removed: We believe that our success will depend on our ability to obtain patent protection for our intellectual property.
−Removed: Our patent strategy is as follows:
−Removed: ● Aggressively protect all current and future technological developments to assure strong and broad protection by filing patents
−Removed: and/or continuations in part as appropriate,
−Removed: ● Protect technological developments at various levels, in a complementary manner, including the base technology, as well as
−Removed: specific applications of the technology, and
−Removed: ● Establish comprehensive coverage in the United States and in all relevant foreign markets in anticipation of future commercialization
−Removed: opportunities.
−Removed: We also rely on trade secrets and unpatentable
−Removed: know-how that we seek to protect, in part, by confidentiality agreements.
−Removed: Our policy is to require our employees, consultants,
−Removed: contractors, manufacturers, outside scientific collaborators and sponsored researchers, our board of directors, or our Board, technical
−Removed: review board and other advisors, to execute confidentiality agreements upon the commencement of employment or consulting relationships
−Removed: These agreements provide that all confidential information developed or made known to the individual during the course
−Removed: of the individual’s relationship with us is to be kept confidential and not disclosed to third parties except in specific
−Removed: limited circumstances.
−Removed: We also require signed confidentiality or material transfer agreements from any company that is to receive
−Removed: our confidential information.
−Removed: In the case of employees, consultants and contractors, the agreements provide that all inventions
−Removed: conceived by the individual while rendering services to us shall be assigned to us as the exclusive property of our Company.
−Removed: can be no assurance, however, that all persons who we desire to sign such agreements will sign, or if they do, that these agreements
−Removed: will not be breached, that we would have adequate remedies for any breach, or that our trade secrets or unpatentable know-how will
−Removed: not otherwise become known or be independently developed by competitors.
−Removed: Out-Licensed Technology
−Removed: In June 2010, Oramed Ltd.
−Removed: entered into a joint
−Removed: venture agreement with D.N.A Biomedical Solutions Ltd., or D.N.A, for the establishment of Entera Bio LTD, or Entera.
−Removed: Under the terms of a license agreement that
−Removed: was entered into between Oramed Ltd.
−Removed: and Entera in August 2010, we out-licensed technology to Entera, on an exclusive basis, for
−Removed: the development of oral delivery drugs for certain indications to be agreed upon between the parties.
−Removed: The out-licensed technology
−Removed: differs from our main delivery technology that is used for oral insulin and GLP-1 analog and is subject to different patent applications.
−Removed: Entera’s initial development effort is for an oral formulation for the treatment of osteoporosis.
−Removed: In March 2011, we entered
−Removed: into a patent transfer agreement, or the Patent Transfer Agreement, to replace the original license agreement pursuant to which
−Removed: assigned to Entera all of its right, title and interest in and to the patent application that it had licensed to Entera
−Removed: in August 2010.
+Added: Roy Eldor, Professor Ele Ferrannini,
+Added: Professor Avram Hershko, Dr.
+Added: Harold Jacob, Dr.
+Added: Julio Rosenstock and Dr.
+Added: plan to ultimately seek a strategic commercial partner, or partners, with extensive experience in the development, commercialization,
+Added: and marketing of insulin applications and/or other orally digestible drugs.
+Added: We anticipate such partner or partners would be responsible
+Added: for, or substantially support, late stage clinical trials (Phase III) to increase the likelihood of obtaining regulatory approvals
+Added: and registrations in the appropriate markets in a timely manner.
+Added: We further anticipate that such partner, or partners, would also
+Added: be responsible for sales, marketing and support of our products in these markets.
+Added: Such planned strategic partnership, or partnerships,
+Added: may provide a marketing and sales infrastructure for our products as well as financial and operational support for global clinical
+Added: trials, post marketing studies, label expansions and other regulatory requirements concerning future clinical development.
+Added: 2015 we successfully executed this strategy when we, Oramed Ltd.
+Added: and HTIT entered into a Technology License Agreement pursuant
+Added: to which we granted HTIT an exclusive commercialization license in the territory of the People’s Republic of China, Macau
+Added: and Hong Kong, or the Territory, related to our oral insulin capsule, ORMD-0801.
+Added: Any future strategic partner, or partners, may
+Added: also provide capital and expertise that would enable the partnership to develop new oral dosage forms for other polypeptides.
+Added: While our strategy is to partner with an appropriate party, no assurance can be given that we will in fact be able to reach an
+Added: agreeable partnership with any third party.
+Added: Under certain circumstances, we may determine to develop one or more of our oral dosage
+Added: forms on our own, either world-wide or in select territories.
+Added: addition to developing our own oral dosage form drug portfolio, we are, on an on-going basis, considering in-licensing and other
+Added: means of obtaining additional technologies to complement and/or expand our current product portfolio.
+Added: Our goal is to create a
+Added: well-balanced product portfolio that will enhance and complement our existing drug portfolio.
+Added: Material Impact of COVID-19
+Added: The COVID-19 pandemic
+Added: has negatively impacted the global economy, disrupted consumer spending and global supply chains and created significant volatility
+Added: and disruption of financial markets.
+Added: Although to date the COVID-19 pandemic has not had a material adverse effect on us, the COVID-19
+Added: pandemic may have a material adverse effect on our business and financial performance in the future.
+Added: The extent of the impact of
+Added: the COVID-19 pandemic, including our ability to execute our business strategies as planned, will depend on future developments,
+Added: including the duration and severity of the pandemic, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.
+Added: as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we do not expect any material impact on our long-term activity, the extent
+Added: to which COVID-19 impacts our business will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted,
+Added: including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of COVID-19 and the actions to contain COVID-19 or treat its
+Added: impact, among others.
+Added: maintain a proactive intellectual property strategy, which includes patent filings in multiple jurisdictions, including the United
+Added: States and other commercially significant markets.
+Added: We hold 26 patent applications currently pending, with respect to various compositions,
+Added: methods of production and oral administration of proteins and exenatide.
+Added: Expiration dates for pending patents, if granted, will
+Added: fall between 2026 and 2039.
+Added: We hold 79 patents,
+Added: 2 of which were issued during the fiscal year ended August 31, 2020, or fiscal 2020, including patents issued by the United States,
+Added: Swiss, German, French, U.K., Italian, Netherlands, Swedish, Spanish, Australian, Israeli, Japanese, New Zealand, South African,
+Added: Russian, Canadian, Hong Kong, Chinese, European and Indian patent offices that cover a part of our technology, which allows for
+Added: the oral delivery of proteins;
+Added: patents issued by the Australian, Canadian, European, Austrian, Belgian, French, German, Irish,
+Added: Italian, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss, U.K., Israeli, New Zealand, South African, Russian
+Added: and Japanese patent offices that cover part of our technology for the oral delivery of exenatide;
+Added: and patents issued by the European,
+Added: Austrian, Belgian, Denmark, French, German, Irish, Italian, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss, U.K.
+Added: and Japanese patent offices for treating diabetes.
+Added: with our strategy to seek protection in key markets worldwide, we have been and will continue to pursue the patent applications
+Added: and corresponding foreign counterparts of such applications.
+Added: We believe that our success will depend on our ability to obtain
+Added: patent protection for our intellectual property.
+Added: patent strategy is as follows:
+Added: ● Aggressively
+Added: protect all current and future technological developments to assure strong and broad protection by filing patents and/or continuations
+Added: in part as appropriate,
+Added: technological developments at various levels, in a complementary manner, including the base technology, as well as specific applications
+Added: of the technology, and
+Added: comprehensive coverage in the United States and in all relevant foreign markets in anticipation of future commercialization opportunities.
+Added: also rely on trade secrets and unpatentable know-how that we seek to protect, in part, by confidentiality agreements.
+Added: is to require our employees, consultants, contractors, manufacturers, outside scientific collaborators and sponsored researchers,
+Added: our board of directors, or our Board, technical review board and other advisors, to execute confidentiality agreements upon the
+Added: commencement of employment or consulting relationships with us.
+Added: These agreements provide that all confidential information developed
+Added: or made known to the individual during the course of the individual’s relationship with us is to be kept confidential and
+Added: not disclosed to third parties except in specific limited circumstances.
+Added: We also require signed confidentiality or material transfer
+Added: agreements from any company that is to receive our confidential information.
+Added: In the case of employees, consultants and contractors,
+Added: the agreements provide that all inventions conceived by the individual while rendering services to us shall be assigned to us
+Added: as the exclusive property of our Company.
+Added: There can be no assurance, however, that all persons who we desire to sign such agreements
+Added: will sign, or if they do, that these agreements will not be breached, that we would have adequate remedies for any breach, or
+Added: that our trade secrets or unpatentable know-how will not otherwise become known or be independently developed by competitors.
+Added: June 2010, Oramed Ltd.
+Added: entered into a joint venture agreement with D.N.A Biomedical Solutions Ltd., or D.N.A, for the establishment
+Added: of Entera Bio Ltd., or Entera.
+Added: Under the terms of
+Added: a license agreement, as amended, that was entered into between Oramed Ltd.
+Added: and Entera in August 2010, we out-licensed technology
+Added: to Entera, on an exclusive basis, for the development of oral delivery drugs for certain indications to be agreed upon between
+Added: The out-licensed technology differs from our main delivery technology that is used for oral insulin and GLP-1 analog
+Added: and is subject to different patent applications.
+Added: Entera’s initial development effort is for an oral formulation for the treatment
+Added: of osteoporosis.
+Added: In March 2011, we entered into a patent transfer agreement, or the Patent Transfer Agreement, to replace the original
+Added: license agreement pursuant to which Oramed Ltd.
+Added: assigned to Entera all of its right, title and interest in and to the patent application
+Added: that it had licensed to Entera in August 2010.
Under this agreement, Oramed Ltd.
−Removed: is entitled to receive from Entera royalties of 3% of Entera’s net revenues
−Removed: (as defined in the agreement) and a license back of that patent application for use in respect of diabetes and influenza.
−Removed: In March 2011, we also consummated a transaction
−Removed: with D.N.A, whereby we sold to D.N.A 47% of Entera’s outstanding share capital on an undiluted basis, retaining a 3% interest
−Removed: as of March 2011.
−Removed: In consideration for the shares sold to D.N.A, we received, among other payments, ordinary shares of D.N.A.
−Removed: D.N.A ordinary shares are traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and its quoted price is subject to market fluctuations, and may,
−Removed: at times, have a price below the value on the date we acquired such shares.
−Removed: In addition, the ordinary shares of D.N.A have historically
−Removed: experienced low trading volume;
−Removed: as a result, there is no guarantee that we will be able to resell the ordinary shares of D.N.A
−Removed: at the prevailing market prices.
−Removed: During the years ended August 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, we did not sell any of the D.N.A ordinary
−Removed: As of August 31, 2019, we held approximately 6.9% of D.N.A’s outstanding ordinary shares.
−Removed: As of August 31, 2019, Entera had not yet realized
−Removed: any revenues.
−Removed: In July 2018, Entera completed an initial public offering and became listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market, or Nasdaq.
−Removed: In August 2018, Entera announced that it completed the treatment of patients in the first part of the PK/pharmacodynamic study
−Removed: in hypoparathyroidism patients with its oral parathyroid hormone drug, EB612.
−Removed: On December 11, 2018, Entera announced that it had
−Removed: entered into a research collaboration and license agreement, or the Amgen License, with Amgen Inc.
−Removed: related to research of inflammatory
−Removed: disease and other serious illnesses.
−Removed: As reported by Entera, under the terms of the Amgen License, Entera will receive a modest
−Removed: initial technology access fee from Amgen and will be responsible for preclinical development at Amgen’s expense.
−Removed: be eligible to receive up to $270,000,000 in aggregate payments, as well as tiered royalties up to mid-single digits, upon achievement
−Removed: of various clinical and commercial milestones if Amgen decides to move all of these programs forward.
−Removed: Amgen is responsible for
−Removed: clinical development, manufacturing and commercialization of any of the resulting programs.
−Removed: To the extent the Amgen License results
−Removed: in net revenues as defined in the Patent Transfer Agreement, our Subsidiary will be entitled to the aforementioned royalties.
−Removed: On November 30, 2015, we, our Israeli subsidiary
−Removed: and HTIT entered into a Technology License Agreement, and on December 21, 2015, these parties entered into an Amended and Restated
−Removed: Technology License Agreement that was further amended by the parties on June 3, 2016 and July 24, 2016, or the License Agreement.
−Removed: According to the License Agreement, we granted HTIT an exclusive commercialization license in the Territory, related to our oral
−Removed: insulin capsule, ORMD-0801, or the Product.
−Removed: Pursuant to the License Agreement, HTIT will conduct, at its own expense, certain pre-commercialization
−Removed: and regulatory activities with respect to our subsidiary’s technology and ORMD-0801 capsule, and will pay (i) royalties of
−Removed: 10% on net sales of the related commercialized products to be sold by HTIT in the Territory, or Royalties, and (ii) an aggregate
−Removed: of $37.5 million, of which $3 million was payable immediately, $8 million will be paid subject to our entry into certain agreements
−Removed: with certain third parties, and $26.5 million will be payable upon achievement of certain milestones and conditions.
−Removed: that we will not meet certain conditions, the Royalties rate may be reduced to a minimum of 8%.
−Removed: Following the final expiration
−Removed: of our patents covering the technology in the Territory in 2033, the Royalties rate may be reduced, under certain circumstances,
−Removed: The royalty payment obligation shall apply during the period of time beginning upon the first commercial sale of the Product
−Removed: in the Territory, and ending upon the later of (i) the expiration of the last-to-expire licensed patents in the Territory;
−Removed: (ii) 15 years after the first commercial sale of the Product in the Territory, or the Royalty Term.
−Removed: The License Agreement shall
−Removed: remain in effect until the expiration of the Royalty Term.
−Removed: The License Agreement contains customary termination provisions.
−Removed: August 31, 2019, we received aggregate milestone payments of $20.5 million.
−Removed: We also entered into a separate securities
−Removed: purchase agreement with HTIT, or the SPA, pursuant to which HTIT invested $12 million in us in December 2015 (see –
−Removed: “Liquidity
−Removed: and capital resources”
−Removed: In connection with the License Agreement and the SPA, we received a non-refundable payment
−Removed: of $500,000 as a no-shop fee.
−Removed: Government Regulation
−Removed: The Drug Development Process
−Removed: Regulatory requirements for the approval of
−Removed: new drugs vary from one country to another.
−Removed: In order to obtain approval to market our drug portfolio, we need to go through a different
−Removed: regulatory process in each country in which we apply for such approval.
−Removed: In some cases, information gathered during the approval
−Removed: process in one country can be used as supporting information for the approval process in another country.
−Removed: As a strategic decision,
−Removed: we decided to first explore the FDA regulatory pathway.
−Removed: The following is a summary of the FDA’s requirements.
−Removed: The FDA requires that pharmaceutical and certain
−Removed: other therapeutic products undergo significant clinical experimentation and clinical testing prior to their marketing or introduction
−Removed: to the general public.
−Removed: Clinical testing, known as clinical trials or clinical studies, is either conducted internally by life science,
−Removed: pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies or is conducted on behalf of these companies by CROs.
−Removed: The process of conducting clinical studies is
−Removed: highly regulated by the FDA, as well as by other governmental and professional bodies.
−Removed: Below we describe the principal framework
−Removed: in which clinical studies are conducted, as well as describe a number of the parties involved in these studies.
−Removed: Before commencing human clinical
−Removed: studies, the sponsor of a new drug or therapeutic product must submit an IND application to the FDA.
−Removed: The application contains,
−Removed: among other documents, what is known in the industry as a protocol.
−Removed: A protocol is the blueprint for each drug study.
−Removed: sets forth, among other things, the following:
−Removed: ● Who must be recruited as qualified participants,
−Removed: ● How often to administer the drug or product,
−Removed: ● What tests to perform on the participants, and
−Removed: ● What dosage of the drug or amount of the product to give to the participants.
−Removed: Institutional Review Board.
−Removed: An institutional
−Removed: review board is an independent committee of professionals and lay persons which reviews clinical research studies involving human
−Removed: beings and is required to adhere to guidelines issued by the FDA.
−Removed: The institutional review board does not report to the FDA, but
−Removed: its records are audited by the FDA.
−Removed: Its members are not appointed by the FDA.
−Removed: All clinical studies must be approved by an institutional
+Added: is entitled to receive from Entera royalties of
+Added: 3% of Entera’s net revenues and a license back of that patent application for use in respect of diabetes and influenza.
+Added: March 2011, we also consummated a transaction with D.N.A, whereby we sold to D.N.A 47% of Entera’s outstanding share capital
+Added: on an undiluted basis, retaining a 3% interest as of March 2011.
+Added: In consideration for the shares sold to D.N.A, we received, among
+Added: other payments, ordinary shares of D.N.A.
+Added: The D.N.A ordinary shares are traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and its quoted price
+Added: is subject to market fluctuations, and may, at times, have a price below the value on the date we acquired such shares.
+Added: the ordinary shares of D.N.A have historically experienced low trading volume;
+Added: as a result, there is no guarantee that we will
+Added: be able to resell the ordinary shares of D.N.A at the prevailing market prices.
+Added: During the years ended August 31, 2020, 2019 and
+Added: 2018, we did not sell any of the D.N.A ordinary shares.
+Added: As of August 31, 2020, we held approximately 5.6% of D.N.A’s outstanding
+Added: ordinary shares.
+Added: As of August 31, 2020,
+Added: Entera had not yet realized any revenues.
+Added: On December 11, 2018, Entera announced that it had entered into a research collaboration
+Added: and license agreement, or the Amgen License, with Amgen Inc.
+Added: related to research of inflammatory disease and other serious illnesses.
+Added: As reported by Entera, under the terms of the Amgen License, Entera will receive a modest initial technology access fee from Amgen
+Added: and will be responsible for preclinical development at Amgen’s expense.
+Added: Entera will be eligible to receive up to $270,000,000
+Added: in aggregate payments, as well as tiered royalties up to mid-single digits, upon achievement of various clinical and commercial
+Added: milestones if Amgen decides to move all of these programs forward.
+Added: To the extent the Amgen License results in net revenues as defined
+Added: in the Patent Transfer Agreement, Oramed Ltd.
+Added: will be entitled to the aforementioned royalties.
+Added: November 30, 2015, we, Oramed Ltd.
+Added: and HTIT entered into a Technology License Agreement, or TLA, and on December 21, 2015, these
+Added: parties entered into an Amended and Restated Technology License Agreement that was further amended by the parties on June 3, 2016
+Added: and July 24, 2016, or the License Agreement.
+Added: According to the License Agreement, we granted HTIT an exclusive commercialization
+Added: license in the Territory, related to our oral insulin capsule, ORMD-0801, or the Product.
+Added: Pursuant to the License Agreement, HTIT
+Added: will conduct, at its own expense, certain pre-commercialization and regulatory activities with respect to our subsidiary’s
+Added: technology and ORMD-0801 capsule, and will pay (i) royalties of 10% on net sales of the related commercialized products to be
+Added: sold by HTIT in the Territory, or Royalties, and (ii) an aggregate of $37.5 million, of which $3 million was payable immediately,
+Added: $8 million will be paid subject to our entry into certain agreements with certain third parties, and $26.5 million will be payable
+Added: upon achievement of certain milestones and conditions.
+Added: In the event that we will not meet certain conditions, the Royalties rate
+Added: may be reduced to a minimum of 8%.
+Added: Following the final expiration of our patents covering the technology in the Territory in 2033,
+Added: the Royalties rate may be reduced, under certain circumstances, to 5%.
+Added: The royalty payment obligation shall apply during the period
+Added: of time beginning upon the first commercial sale of the Product in the Territory, and ending upon the later of (i) the expiration
+Added: of the last-to-expire licensed patents in the Territory;
+Added: and (ii) 15 years after the first commercial sale of the Product in the
+Added: Territory, or the Royalty Term.
+Added: The License Agreement shall remain in effect until the expiration of the Royalty Term.
+Added: Agreement contains customary termination provisions.
+Added: Through August 31, 2020, we received aggregate milestone payments of $20.5
+Added: On August 21, 2020, we received a
+Added: letter from HTIT, disputing certain pending payment obligations of HTIT under the TLA.
+Added: The payment obligation being disputed is
+Added: $4 million, out of which only an amount of $2 million has been received and has been included in Deferred revenue in each of the
+Added: consolidated balance sheets as of the fiscal years ended August 31, 2020, and 2019.
+Added: In addition, the dispute includes a payment
+Added: obligation of $2 million for certain milestones that we assert it met under the TLA subsequent to the fiscal year ended August
+Added: We wholly dispute the claims made by HTIT and has been engaged in discussions and exchanges with HTIT in an attempt to
+Added: clarify and resolve disagreements between the parties regarding milestone payments and work plan implementation.
+Added: also entered into a separate securities purchase agreement with HTIT, or the SPA, pursuant to which HTIT invested $12 million
+Added: in us in December 2015.
+Added: In connection with the License Agreement and the SPA, we received a non-refundable payment of $500,000
+Added: as a no-shop fee.
+Added: Drug Development Process
+Added: requirements for the approval of new drugs vary from one country to another.
+Added: In order to obtain approval to market our drug portfolio,
+Added: we need to go through a different regulatory process in each country in which we apply for such approval.
+Added: In some cases, information
+Added: gathered during the approval process in one country can be used as supporting information for the approval process in another
+Added: As a strategic decision, we decided to first explore the FDA regulatory pathway.
+Added: The following is a summary of the FDA’s
+Added: requirements.
+Added: FDA requires that pharmaceutical and certain other therapeutic products undergo significant clinical experimentation and clinical
+Added: testing prior to their marketing or introduction to the general public.
+Added: Clinical testing, known as clinical trials or clinical
+Added: studies, is either conducted internally by life science, pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies or is conducted on behalf of
+Added: these companies by CROs.
+Added: process of conducting clinical studies is highly regulated by the FDA, as well as by other governmental and professional bodies.
+Added: Below we describe the principal framework in which clinical studies are conducted, as well as describe a number of the parties
+Added: involved in these studies.
+Added: Before commencing human clinical studies, the sponsor of a new drug or therapeutic product must submit an IND application to the
+Added: The application contains, among other documents, what is known in the industry as a protocol.
+Added: A protocol is the blueprint
+Added: for each drug study.
+Added: The protocol sets forth, among other things, the following:
+Added: must be recruited as qualified participants,
+Added: often to administer the drug or product,
+Added: tests to perform on the participants, and
+Added: dosage of the drug or amount of the product to give to the participants.
+Added: Institutional
Review Board.
−Removed: The institutional review board’s role is to protect the rights of the participants in the clinical studies.
−Removed: It approves the protocols to be used, the advertisements which the company or CRO conducting the study proposes to use to recruit
−Removed: participants, and the form of consent which the participants will be required to sign prior to their participation in the clinical
−Removed: Clinical Trials.
−Removed: Human clinical studies or testing
−Removed: of a potential product are generally done in three stages known as Phase I through Phase III testing.
−Removed: The names of the phases are
−Removed: derived from the regulations of the FDA.
−Removed: Generally, there are multiple studies conducted in each phase.
−Removed: Phase I studies involve testing a drug
−Removed: or product on a limited number of healthy or patient participants, typically 24 to 100 people at a time.
−Removed: Phase I studies determine
−Removed: a product’s basic safety and how the product is absorbed by, and eliminated from, the body.
−Removed: This phase lasts an average of
−Removed: six months to a year.
−Removed: Phase II trials involve testing of
−Removed: no more than 300 participants at a time who may suffer from the targeted disease or condition.
−Removed: Phase II testing typically lasts
−Removed: an average of one to two years.
−Removed: In Phase II, the drug is tested to determine its safety and effectiveness for treating a specific
−Removed: illness or condition.
+Added: An institutional review board is an independent committee of professionals and lay persons which reviews clinical
+Added: research studies involving human beings and is required to adhere to guidelines issued by the FDA.
+Added: The institutional review board
+Added: does not report to the FDA, but its records are audited by the FDA.
+Added: Its members are not appointed by the FDA.
+Added: All clinical studies
+Added: must be approved by an institutional review board.
+Added: The institutional review board’s role is to protect the rights of the
+Added: participants in the clinical studies.
+Added: It approves the protocols to be used, the advertisements which the company or CRO conducting
+Added: the study proposes to use to recruit participants, and the form of consent which the participants will be required to sign prior
+Added: to their participation in the clinical studies.
+Added: Human clinical studies or testing of a potential product are generally done in three stages known as Phase I through Phase
+Added: The names of the phases are derived from the regulations of the FDA.
+Added: Generally, there are multiple studies conducted
+Added: in each phase.
+Added: Phase I studies involve testing a drug or product on a limited number of healthy or patient participants, typically 24 to 100
+Added: people at a time.
+Added: Phase I studies determine a product’s basic safety and how the product is absorbed by, and eliminated
+Added: from, the body.
+Added: This phase lasts an average of six months to a year.
+Added: Phase II trials involve testing of no more than 300 participants at a time who may suffer from the targeted disease or condition.
+Added: Phase II testing typically lasts an average of one to two years.
+Added: In Phase II, the drug is tested to determine its safety and effectiveness
+Added: for treating a specific illness or condition.
Phase II testing also involves determining acceptable dosage levels of the drug.
−Removed: Phase II studies may be
−Removed: split into Phase IIa and Phase IIb sub-studies.
−Removed: Phase IIa studies may be conducted with patient volunteers and are exploratory
−Removed: (non-pivotal) studies, typically designed to evaluate clinical efficacy or biological activity.
−Removed: Phase IIb studies are conducted
−Removed: with patients defined to evaluate definite dose range and evaluate efficacy.
−Removed: If Phase II studies show that a new drug has an acceptable
−Removed: range of safety risks and probable effectiveness, a company will generally continue to review the substance in Phase III studies.
−Removed: Phase III studies involve testing
−Removed: large numbers of participants, typically several hundred to several thousand persons.
−Removed: The purpose is to verify effectiveness and
−Removed: long-term safety on a large scale.
+Added: Phase II studies may be split into Phase IIa and Phase IIb sub-studies.
+Added: Phase IIa studies may be conducted with patient volunteers
+Added: and are exploratory (non-pivotal) studies, typically designed to evaluate clinical efficacy or biological activity.
+Added: studies are conducted with patients defined to evaluate definite dose range and evaluate efficacy.
+Added: If Phase II studies show that
+Added: a new drug has an acceptable range of safety risks and probable effectiveness, a company will generally continue to review the
+Added: substance in Phase III studies.
+Added: Phase III studies involve testing large numbers of participants, typically several hundred to several thousand persons.
+Added: purpose is to verify effectiveness and long-term safety on a large scale.
These studies generally last two to three years.
−Removed: Phase III studies are conducted at multiple
−Removed: locations or sites.
−Removed: Like the other phases, Phase III requires the site to keep detailed records of data collected and procedures
−Removed: Biological License Application.
−Removed: of the clinical trials for a biological product are submitted to the FDA as part of a BLA.
−Removed: Following the completion of Phase III
−Removed: studies, assuming the sponsor of a potential product in the United States believes it has sufficient information to support the
−Removed: safety and effectiveness of its product, the sponsor will generally submit a BLA to the FDA requesting that the product be approved
−Removed: for marketing.
−Removed: The application is a comprehensive, multi-volume filing that includes the results of all clinical studies, information
−Removed: about the drug’s composition, and the sponsor’s plans for producing, packaging and labeling the product.
−Removed: The FDA’s
−Removed: review of an application can take a few months to many years, with the average review lasting 18 months.
−Removed: Once approved, drugs and
−Removed: other products may be marketed in the United States, subject to any conditions imposed by the FDA.
−Removed: Approval of a BLA provides 12
−Removed: years of exclusivity in the U.S.
−Removed: The FDA may require that the sponsor
−Removed: conduct additional clinical trials following new drug approval.
−Removed: The purpose of these trials, known as Phase IV studies, is to monitor
−Removed: long-term risks and benefits, study different dosage levels or evaluate safety and effectiveness.
−Removed: In recent years, the FDA has
−Removed: increased its reliance on these trials.
−Removed: Phase IV studies usually involve thousands of participants.
−Removed: Phase IV studies also may be
−Removed: initiated by the company sponsoring the new drug to gain broader market value for an approved drug.
−Removed: Similar to the U.S., a European sponsor of a
−Removed: biological product may submit a Marketing Approval Application to the EMA for the registration of the product.
−Removed: The approval process
−Removed: in Europe consists of several stages, which together are summed up to 210 days from the time of submission of the application (net,
−Removed: without periods in which the sponsor provides answers to questions raised by the agency) following which, a Marketing Approval
−Removed: may be granted.
−Removed: During the approval process, the sponsor’s manufacturing facilities will be audited in order to assess Good
−Removed: Manufacturing Practice compliance.
−Removed: The drug approval process is time-consuming,
−Removed: involves substantial expenditures of resources, and depends upon a number of factors, including the severity of the illness in
−Removed: question, the availability of alternative treatments, and the risks and benefits demonstrated in the clinical trials.
−Removed: Other Regulations
−Removed: Various federal, state and local laws, regulations,
−Removed: and recommendations relating to safe working conditions, laboratory practices, the experimental use of animals, the environment
−Removed: and the purchase, storage, movement, import, export, use, and disposal of hazardous or potentially hazardous substances, including
−Removed: radioactive compounds and infectious disease agents, used in connection with our research are applicable to our activities.
−Removed: include, among others, the U.S.
−Removed: Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act,
−Removed: the National Environmental Policy Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and Resources Conservation and Recovery Act, national
−Removed: restrictions on technology transfer, import, export, and customs regulations, and other present and possible future local, state,
−Removed: or federal regulation.
−Removed: The compliance with these and other laws, regulations and recommendations can be time-consuming and involve
−Removed: substantial costs.
−Removed: In addition, the extent of governmental regulation which might result from future legislation or administrative
−Removed: action cannot be accurately predicted and may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations
−Removed: and prospects.
−Removed: Competition in General
−Removed: Competition in the area of biomedical and pharmaceutical
−Removed: research and development is intense and significantly depends on scientific and technological factors.
−Removed: These factors include the
−Removed: availability of patent and other protection for technology and products, the ability to commercialize technological developments
−Removed: and the ability to obtain regulatory approval for testing, manufacturing and marketing.
−Removed: Our competitors include major pharmaceutical,
−Removed: medical products, chemical and specialized biotechnology companies, many of which have financial, technical and marketing resources
−Removed: significantly greater than ours.
−Removed: In addition, many biotechnology companies have formed collaborations with large, established companies
−Removed: to support research, development and commercialization of products that may be competitive with ours.
−Removed: Academic institutions, governmental
−Removed: agencies and other public and private research organizations are also conducting research activities and seeking patent protection
−Removed: and may commercialize products on their own or through joint ventures.
−Removed: We are aware of certain other products manufactured or under
−Removed: development by competitors that are used for the treatment of the diseases and health conditions that we have targeted for product
−Removed: We can provide no assurance that developments by others will not render our technology obsolete or noncompetitive,
−Removed: that we will be able to keep pace with new technological developments or that our technology will be able to supplant established
−Removed: products and methodologies in the therapeutic areas that are targeted by us.
−Removed: The foregoing factors could have a material adverse
−Removed: effect on our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: These companies, as well as academic institutions,
−Removed: governmental agencies and private research organizations, also compete with us in recruiting and retaining highly qualified scientific
−Removed: personnel and consultants.
−Removed: Competition within our sector is increasing,
−Removed: so we will encounter competition from existing firms that offer competitive solutions in diabetes treatment solutions.
−Removed: These competitive
−Removed: companies could develop products that are superior to, or have greater market acceptance, than the products being developed by
−Removed: We will have to compete against other biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies with greater market recognition and greater
−Removed: financial, marketing and other resources.
−Removed: Our competition will be determined in part by
−Removed: the potential indications for which our technology is developed and ultimately approved by regulatory authorities.
−Removed: the first product to reach the market in a therapeutic or preventive area is often at a significant competitive advantage relative
−Removed: to later entrants to the market.
−Removed: Accordingly, the relative speed with which we, or our potential corporate partners, can develop
−Removed: products, complete the clinical trials and approval processes and supply commercial quantities of the products to the market are
−Removed: expected to be important competitive factors.
−Removed: Our competitive position will also depend on our ability to attract and retain qualified
−Removed: scientific and other personnel, develop effective proprietary products, develop and implement production and marketing plans, obtain
−Removed: and maintain patent protection and secure adequate capital resources.
−Removed: We expect our technology, if approved for sale, to compete
−Removed: primarily on the basis of product efficacy, safety, patient convenience, reliability, value and patent position.
−Removed: Competition for Our Oral Insulin Capsule
−Removed: We anticipate the oral insulin capsule to be
−Removed: a competitive diabetes drug because of its anticipated efficacy and safety profile.
−Removed: The following are some of the treatment options
−Removed: for type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients:
−Removed: ● Insulin injections,
−Removed: ● Insulin pumps, or
−Removed: ● A combination of diet, exercise and oral medication which improve the body’s response to insulin or cause the body to
−Removed: produce more insulin.
−Removed: Scientific Advisory Board
−Removed: We maintain a Scientific Advisory Board consisting
−Removed: of internationally recognized scientists who advise us on scientific and technical aspects of our business.
−Removed: The Scientific Advisory
−Removed: Board meets periodically to review specific projects and to assess the value of new technologies and developments to us.
−Removed: individual members of the Scientific Advisory Board meet with us periodically to provide advice in their particular areas of expertise.
−Removed: The Scientific Advisory Board consists of the following members, information with respect to whom is set forth below:
−Removed: Professor Ele Ferrannini, Dr.
−Removed: Henry, Professor Avram Hershko, Dr.
−Removed: Harold Jacob and Dr.
−Removed: Roy Eldor , MD, PhD,
−Removed: joined the Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in July 2016.
−Removed: He is an endocrinologist, internist and researcher with over twenty years
−Removed: of clinical and scientific experience.
−Removed: He is currently Director of the Diabetes Unit at the Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism
−Removed: & Hypertension, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
+Added: III studies are conducted at multiple locations or sites.
+Added: Like the other phases, Phase III requires the site to keep detailed
+Added: records of data collected and procedures performed.
+Added: License Application.
+Added: The results of the clinical trials for a biological product are submitted to the FDA as part of a BLA.
+Added: the completion of Phase III studies, assuming the sponsor of a potential product in the United States believes it has sufficient
+Added: information to support the safety and effectiveness of its product, the sponsor will generally submit a BLA to the FDA requesting
+Added: that the product be approved for marketing.
+Added: The application is a comprehensive, multi-volume filing that includes the results
+Added: of all clinical studies, information about the drug’s composition, and the sponsor’s plans for producing, packaging
+Added: and labeling the product.
+Added: The FDA’s review of an application can take a few months to many years, with the average review
+Added: lasting 18 months.
+Added: Once approved, drugs and other products may be marketed in the United States, subject to any conditions imposed
+Added: Approval of a BLA provides 12 years of exclusivity in the U.S.
+Added: The FDA may require that the sponsor conduct additional clinical trials following new drug approval.
+Added: The purpose of these
+Added: trials, known as Phase IV studies, is to monitor long-term risks and benefits, study different dosage levels or evaluate safety
+Added: and effectiveness.
+Added: In recent years, the FDA has increased its reliance on these trials.
+Added: Phase IV studies usually involve thousands
+Added: of participants.
+Added: Phase IV studies also may be initiated by the company sponsoring the new drug to gain broader market value for
+Added: an approved drug.
+Added: to the U.S., a European sponsor of a biological product may submit a Marketing Approval Application to the EMA for the registration
+Added: of the product.
+Added: The approval process in Europe consists of several stages, which together are summed up to 210 days from the time
+Added: of submission of the application (net, without periods in which the sponsor provides answers to questions raised by the agency)
+Added: following which, a Marketing Approval may be granted.
+Added: During the approval process, the sponsor’s manufacturing facilities
+Added: will be audited in order to assess Good Manufacturing Practice compliance.
+Added: drug approval process is time-consuming, involves substantial expenditures of resources, and depends upon a number of factors,
+Added: including the severity of the illness in question, the availability of alternative treatments, and the risks and benefits demonstrated
+Added: in the clinical trials.
+Added: federal, state and local laws, regulations, and recommendations relating to safe working conditions, laboratory practices, the
+Added: experimental use of animals, the environment and the purchase, storage, movement, import, export, use, and disposal of hazardous
+Added: or potentially hazardous substances, including radioactive compounds and infectious disease agents, used in connection with our
+Added: research are applicable to our activities.
+Added: They include, among others, the U.S.
+Added: Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean
+Added: Water Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and
+Added: Resources Conservation and Recovery Act, national restrictions on technology transfer, import, export, and customs regulations,
+Added: and other present and possible future local, state, or federal regulation.
+Added: The compliance with these and other laws, regulations
+Added: and recommendations can be time-consuming and involve substantial costs.
+Added: In addition, the extent of governmental regulation which
+Added: might result from future legislation or administrative action cannot be accurately predicted and may have a material adverse effect
+Added: on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
+Added: in the area of biomedical and pharmaceutical research and development is intense and significantly depends on scientific and technological
+Added: These factors include the availability of patent and other protection for technology and products, the ability to commercialize
+Added: technological developments and the ability to obtain regulatory approval for testing, manufacturing and marketing.
+Added: Our competitors
+Added: include major pharmaceutical, medical products, chemical and specialized biotechnology companies, many of which have financial,
+Added: technical and marketing resources significantly greater than ours.
+Added: In addition, many biotechnology companies have formed collaborations
+Added: with large, established companies to support research, development and commercialization of products that may be competitive with
+Added: Academic institutions, governmental agencies and other public and private research organizations are also conducting research
+Added: activities and seeking patent protection and may commercialize products on their own or through joint ventures.
+Added: We are aware of
+Added: certain other products manufactured or under development by competitors that are used for the treatment of the diseases and health
+Added: conditions that we have targeted for product development.
+Added: We can provide no assurance that developments by others will not render
+Added: our technology obsolete or noncompetitive, that we will be able to keep pace with new technological developments or that our technology
+Added: will be able to supplant established products and methodologies in the therapeutic areas that are targeted by us.
+Added: The foregoing
+Added: factors could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: companies, as well as academic institutions, governmental agencies and private research organizations, also compete with us in
+Added: recruiting and retaining highly qualified scientific personnel and consultants.
+Added: within our sector is increasing, so we will encounter competition from existing firms that offer competitive solutions in diabetes
+Added: treatment solutions.
+Added: These competitive companies could develop products that are superior to, or have greater market acceptance,
+Added: than the products being developed by us.
+Added: We will have to compete against other biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies with
+Added: greater market recognition and greater financial, marketing and other resources.
+Added: competition will be determined in part by the potential indications for which our technology is developed and ultimately approved
+Added: by regulatory authorities.
+Added: In addition, the first product to reach the market in a therapeutic or preventive area is often at
+Added: a significant competitive advantage relative to later entrants to the market.
+Added: Accordingly, the relative speed with which we, or
+Added: our potential corporate partners, can develop products, complete the clinical trials and approval processes and supply commercial
+Added: quantities of the products to the market are expected to be important competitive factors.
+Added: Our competitive position will also
+Added: depend on our ability to attract and retain qualified scientific and other personnel, develop effective proprietary products,
+Added: develop and implement production and marketing plans, obtain and maintain patent protection and secure adequate capital resources.
+Added: We expect our technology, if approved for sale, to compete primarily on the basis of product efficacy, safety, patient convenience,
+Added: reliability, value and patent position.
+Added: for Our Oral Insulin Capsule
+Added: anticipate the oral insulin capsule to be a competitive diabetes drug because of its anticipated efficacy and safety profile.
+Added: The following are some of the treatment options for type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients:
+Added: combination of diet, exercise and oral medication which improve the body’s response to insulin or cause the body to produce
+Added: more insulin.
+Added: Advisory Board
+Added: maintain a Scientific Advisory Board consisting of internationally recognized scientists who advise us on scientific and technical
+Added: aspects of our business.
+Added: The Scientific Advisory Board meets periodically to review specific projects and to assess the value
+Added: of new technologies and developments to us.
+Added: In addition, individual members of the Scientific Advisory Board meet with us periodically
+Added: to provide advice in their particular areas of expertise.
+Added: The Scientific Advisory Board consists of the following members, information
+Added: with respect to whom is set forth below:
+Added: Roy Eldor, Professor Ele Ferrannini, Professor Avram Hershko, Dr.
+Added: Harold Jacob, Dr.
+Added: Julio Rosenstock and Dr.
+Added: Roy Eldor , MD, PhD, joined the Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in July 2016.
+Added: He is an endocrinologist, internist
+Added: and researcher with over twenty years of clinical and scientific experience.
+Added: He is currently Director of the Diabetes Unit at
+Added: the Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Hypertension, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
Prior to that, Dr.
−Removed: Eldor served as Principal Scientist at Merck Research
−Removed: Laboratories, Clinical Research - Diabetes & Endocrinology, Rahway, New Jersey.
−Removed: He has previously served as a senior physician
−Removed: in internal medicine at the Diabetes Unit in Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel;
−Removed: and the Diabetes Division
−Removed: at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas (under the guidance of Dr.
−Removed: a recognized expert, with over 35 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and has been a guest speaker at numerous international
−Removed: Professor Ele Ferrannini , MD, joined
−Removed: the Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in February 2007.
−Removed: He is a past President to the European Association for the Study of Diabetes,
−Removed: which supports scientists, physicians and students from all over the world who are interested in diabetes and related subjects
−Removed: in Europe, and performs functions similar to that of the ADA in the United States.
−Removed: Professor Ferrannini has worked with various
−Removed: institutions including the Department of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa School of Medicine, and CNR (National
−Removed: Research Council) Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy;
−Removed: and the Diabetes Division, Department of Medicine, University
−Removed: of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas.
−Removed: He has also had extensive training in internal medicine and endocrinology,
−Removed: and has specialized in diabetes studies.
−Removed: Professor Ferrannini has received a Certificate of the Educational Council for Foreign
−Removed: Medical Graduates from the University of Bologna, and with cum laude honors completed a subspecialty in Diabetes and Metabolic
−Removed: Diseases at the University of Torino.
−Removed: He has published over 500 original papers and 50 book chapters and he is a “highly
−Removed: cited researcher,”
+Added: as Principal Scientist at Merck Research Laboratories, Clinical Research - Diabetes & Endocrinology, Rahway, New Jersey.
+Added: has previously served as a senior physician in internal medicine at the Diabetes Unit in Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital,
+Added: Jerusalem, Israel;
+Added: and the Diabetes Division at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas (under the
+Added: guidance of Dr.
+Added: Eldor is a recognized expert, with over 35 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and has
+Added: been a guest speaker at numerous international forums.
+Added: Ele Ferrannini , MD, joined the Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in February 2007.
+Added: He is a past President to the
+Added: European Association for the Study of Diabetes, which supports scientists, physicians and students from all over the world who
+Added: are interested in diabetes and related subjects in Europe, and performs functions similar to that of the ADA in the United States.
+Added: Professor Ferrannini has worked with various institutions including the Department of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, University
+Added: of Pisa School of Medicine, and CNR (National Research Council) Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy;
+Added: and the Diabetes
+Added: Division, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas.
+Added: He has also had extensive training
+Added: in internal medicine and endocrinology, and has specialized in diabetes studies.
+Added: Professor Ferrannini has received a Certificate
+Added: of the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates from the University of Bologna, and with cum laude honors completed a
+Added: subspecialty in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Torino.
+Added: He has published over 500 original papers and 50
+Added: book chapters and he is a “highly cited researcher,”
according to the Institute for Scientific Information.
−Removed: Henry, MD , joined
−Removed: the Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in February 2018 and is a leader in diabetes research.
−Removed: As a past President of the ADA and
−Removed: recipient of its Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, among other international recognitions, his basic and clinical research
−Removed: funded by the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, has resulted in more than 400 journal articles, chapters and books.
−Removed: is currently Chief of the Section of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes, Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in San Diego,
−Removed: California, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego and Chief of the Center for Metabolic Research in
−Removed: San Diego, California.
−Removed: In addition to studying the metabolic and cardiovascular effects of human skeletal muscle and adipose tissue
−Removed: signaling and interactions, his current clinical research interests involve the study and development of new therapies for type
−Removed: 1 and type 2 diabetes and obesity.
−Removed: Professor Avram Hershko, MD, PhD ,
−Removed: joined the Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in July 2008.
−Removed: He earned his MD degree (1965) and PhD degree (1969) from the Hebrew
−Removed: University-Hadassah Medical School of Jerusalem.
−Removed: Professor Hershko served as a physician in the Israel Defense Forces from 1965
−Removed: After a post-doctoral fellowship with Gordon Tomkins at the University of San Francisco (1969 - 72), he joined the
−Removed: faculty of the Haifa Technion becoming a professor in 1980.
−Removed: He is now Distinguished Professor in the Unit of Biochemistry in the
+Added: Avram Hershko, MD, PhD , joined the Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in July 2008.
+Added: He earned his MD degree (1965) and PhD
+Added: degree (1969) from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School of Jerusalem.
+Added: Professor Hershko served as a physician in the
+Added: Israel Defense Forces from 1965 to 1967.
+Added: After a post-doctoral fellowship with Gordon Tomkins at the University of San Francisco
+Added: (1969 - 72), he joined the faculty of the Haifa Technion becoming a professor in 1980.
+Added: He is now Distinguished Professor
+Added: in the Unit of Biochemistry in the B.
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion.
−Removed: Professor Hershko’s main research interests concern the mechanisms by which
−Removed: cellular proteins are degraded, a formerly neglected field of study.
−Removed: Professor Hershko and his colleagues showed that cellular
−Removed: proteins are degraded by a highly selective proteolytic system.
−Removed: This system tags proteins for destruction by linkage to a protein
−Removed: called ubiquitin, which had previously been identified in many tissues, but whose function was previously unknown.
−Removed: Subsequent work
−Removed: by Professor Hershko and many other laboratories has shown that the ubiquitin system has a vital role in controlling a wide range
−Removed: of cellular processes, such as the regulation of cell division, signal transduction and DNA repair.
−Removed: Professor Hershko was awarded
−Removed: the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004) jointly with his former PhD student Aaron Ciechanover and their colleague Irwin Rose.
−Removed: honors include the Israel Prize for Biochemistry (1994), the Gairdner Award (1999), the Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research
−Removed: (2000), the Wolf Prize for Medicine (2001) and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Award (2001).
−Removed: Professor Hershko is a member of the Israel
−Removed: Academy of Sciences (2000) and a Foreign Associate of the U.S.
+Added: Professor Hershko’s main research interests
+Added: concern the mechanisms by which cellular proteins are degraded, a formerly neglected field of study.
+Added: Professor Hershko and his
+Added: colleagues showed that cellular proteins are degraded by a highly selective proteolytic system.
+Added: This system tags proteins for
+Added: destruction by linkage to a protein called ubiquitin, which had previously been identified in many tissues, but whose function
+Added: was previously unknown.
+Added: Subsequent work by Professor Hershko and many other laboratories has shown that the ubiquitin system has
+Added: a vital role in controlling a wide range of cellular processes, such as the regulation of cell division, signal transduction and
+Added: Professor Hershko was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004) jointly with his former PhD student Aaron Ciechanover
+Added: and their colleague Irwin Rose.
+Added: His many honors include the Israel Prize for Biochemistry (1994), the Gairdner Award (1999), the
+Added: Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research (2000), the Wolf Prize for Medicine (2001) and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Award (2001).
+Added: Professor Hershko is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences (2000) and a Foreign Associate of the U.S.
Academy of Sciences
−Removed: Harold Jacob, MD , joined the
−Removed: Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in November 2016.
+Added: Harold Jacob, MD , joined the Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in November 2016.
Since 1998, Dr.
−Removed: Jacob has served as the president of Medical Instrument Development
−Removed: Inc., a company which provides a range of support and consulting services to start-up and early stage companies as well as patenting
−Removed: its own proprietary medical devices.
+Added: Jacob has served as the
+Added: president of Medical Instrument Development Inc., a company which provides a range of support and consulting services to start-up
+Added: and early stage companies as well as patenting its own proprietary medical devices.
Since 2011, Dr.
−Removed: Jacob has also served as an attending physician at Hadassah University Medical
−Removed: Center, where he has served as the director of the gastrointestinal endoscopy unit since September 2013.
−Removed: Jacob has advised
−Removed: a spectrum of companies in the past and he served as a consultant and then as the Director of Medical Affairs at Given Imaging
−Removed: Ltd., from 1997 to 2003, a company that developed the first swallowable wireless pill camera for inspection of the intestine.
−Removed: has licensed patents to a number of companies including Kimberly-Clark Corporation.
+Added: Jacob has also served as an
+Added: attending physician at Hadassah University Medical Center, where he has served as the director of the gastrointestinal endoscopy
+Added: unit since September 2013.
+Added: Jacob has advised a spectrum of companies in the past and he served as a consultant and then as
+Added: the Director of Medical Affairs at Given Imaging Ltd., from 1997 to 2003, a company that developed the first swallowable wireless
+Added: pill camera for inspection of the intestine.
+Added: He has licensed patents to a number of companies including Kimberly-Clark Corporation.
Since 2014, Dr.
−Removed: Jacob has served as the Chief
−Removed: Medical Officer and a director of NanoVibronix, Inc., a medical device company using surface acoustics to prevent catheter acquired
−Removed: infection as well as other applications, where he served as Chief Executive Officer from 2004 to 2014.
−Removed: He practiced clinical gastroenterology
−Removed: in New York and served as Chief of Gastroenterology at St.
−Removed: John’s Episcopal Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital
−Removed: from 1986 to 1995, and was a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at SUNY from 1983 to 1990.
−Removed: Jacob founded and served as
−Removed: Editor in Chief of Endoscopy Review and has authored numerous publications in the field of gastroenterology.
−Removed: Reusch, MD , joined
−Removed: the Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in February 2018.
−Removed: She is a distinguished academic physician-scientist-diabetologist committed
−Removed: to understanding and treating the vascular complications of diabetes.
−Removed: She is currently Professor of Medicine and Associate Director,
−Removed: Center for Women’s Health, at the University of Colorado at Denver and Director of the Diabetes Care Team at the Veteran’s
−Removed: Administration Medical Center in Denver, Colorado.
−Removed: Reusch has been awarded numerous NIH Research Project Grant (R01) and VA
−Removed: Merit grants for both basic and clinical research, leading to more than 100 peer-reviewed publications on diabetes and diabetic
−Removed: vascular complications.
−Removed: In a continuation of her life-long service to the diabetes community, Dr.
−Removed: Reusch is a previous ADA President
−Removed: for Medicine and Science.
−Removed: We have been successful in retaining experienced
−Removed: personnel involved in our research and development program.
−Removed: In addition, we believe we have successfully recruited the clinical/regulatory,
−Removed: quality assurance and other personnel needed to advance through clinical studies or have engaged the services of experts in the
−Removed: field for these requirements.
−Removed: As of August 31, 2019, we have contracted with thirteen individuals for employment or consulting
−Removed: arrangements.
−Removed: Of our staff, four are senior management, five are engaged in research and development work, and the remaining four
−Removed: are involved in administration work.
−Removed: Additional Information
−Removed: Additional information about us is contained
−Removed: on our Internet website at www.oramed.com.
−Removed: Information on our website is not incorporated by reference into this report.
−Removed: website, under “Investors”, “SEC Filings”, we make available free of charge our Annual Reports on Form
−Removed: 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant
−Removed: to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, as soon as reasonably practicable after
−Removed: we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC.
−Removed: Reports filed with the SEC are made available on its
−Removed: website at www.sec.gov.
−Removed: The following Corporate Governance documents are also posted on our website:
−Removed: Code of Ethics, Whistleblowing
−Removed: Policy and the Charters for each of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee of our Board.
+Added: Jacob has served as the Chief Medical Officer and a director of NanoVibronix, Inc., a medical device company using
+Added: surface acoustics to prevent catheter acquired infection as well as other applications, where he served as Chief Executive Officer
+Added: from 2004 to 2014.
+Added: He practiced clinical gastroenterology in New York and served as Chief of Gastroenterology at St.
+Added: Episcopal Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital from 1986 to 1995, and was a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
+Added: at SUNY from 1983 to 1990.
+Added: Jacob founded and served as Editor in Chief of Endoscopy Review and has authored numerous publications
+Added: in the field of gastroenterology.
+Added: Julio Rosenstock, MD , joined the Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in January 2020.
+Added: Rosenstock is the current Director
+Added: of the Dallas Diabetes Research Center at Medical City Dallas and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas
+Added: Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
+Added: He received his medical degree from the University of Costa Rica School of Medicine and completed
+Added: Fellowships in Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK, and at the
+Added: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
+Added: His clinical research efforts focus on exploring novel agents and therapeutic
+Added: strategies to improve glycemic control.
+Added: Over the last 30 years, he has participated in hundreds of clinical trials and has had
+Added: an active role in the development of new oral agents and insulin preparations acting often as a lead clinical investigator and
+Added: scientific advisor.
+Added: He has authored or co-authored 296 peer-reviewed manuscripts and numerous abstracts.
+Added: Rosenstock is a member
+Added: of the National Board of Directors of the ADA and is currently an Associate Editor of Diabetes Care.
+Added: Jay Skyler, MD, MCAP , joined the Oramed Scientific Advisory Board in January 2020.
+Added: Skyler is Professor of Medicine,
+Added: Pediatrics, & Psychology in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of
+Added: Miami Leonard M.
+Added: Miller School of Medicine.
+Added: He previously held the position of Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes
+Added: & Metabolism.
+Added: In addition, Dr.
+Added: Skyler is Deputy Director of Clinical Research and Academic Programs at the Diabetes Research
+Added: Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado at
+Added: Skyler’s research focuses on the clinical aspects of diabetes, specifically the conduct of randomized controlled
+Added: clinical trials.
+Added: From 1993 until 2015, he was Chairman of the NIH (NIDDK)-sponsored Diabetes Prevention Trial - Type 1 (DPT-1)
+Added: and its successor Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet, a nationwide (and global) network conducting clinical trials to prevent type 1 diabetes.
+Added: have been successful in retaining experienced personnel involved in our research and development program.
+Added: In addition, we believe
+Added: we have successfully recruited the clinical/regulatory, quality assurance and other personnel needed to advance through clinical
+Added: studies or have engaged the services of experts in the field for these requirements.
+Added: As of August 31, 2020, we have contracted
+Added: with twelve individuals for employment or consulting arrangements.
+Added: Of our staff, four are senior management, four are engaged
+Added: in research and development work, and the remaining four are involved in administration work.
+Added: information about us is contained on our Internet website at www.oramed.com.
+Added: Information on our website is not incorporated by
+Added: reference into this report.
+Added: On our website, under “Investors”, “SEC Filings”, we make available free of
+Added: charge our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports
+Added: filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, as soon
+Added: as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the U.S.
+Added: Securities and Exchange
+Added: Commission, or the SEC.
+Added: Reports filed with the SEC are made available on its website at www.sec.gov.
+Added: The following Corporate Governance
+Added: documents are also posted on our website:
+Added: Code of Ethics, Whistleblowing Policy and the Charters for each of the Audit Committee,
+Added: Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee of our Board.
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