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developing products using both natural and engineered phage technologies designed to target and kill specific harmful bacteria associated
−Removed: with chronic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, or CF.
−Removed: Bacteriophage or phage are bacterial, species-specific, strain-limited viruses
−Removed: that infect, amplify and kill the target bacteria and are considered inert to mammalian cells.
−Removed: By utilizing proprietary combinations of
−Removed: naturally occurring phage and by creating novel phage using synthetic biology, we develop phage-based therapies intended to address both
−Removed: large-market and orphan diseases.
−Removed: In our therapeutic programs, we focus on using phage
−Removed: therapy to target specific strains of pathogenic bacteria that are associated with diseases.
−Removed: Our phage-based product candidates are developed
−Removed: utilizing our proprietary research and development platform named BOLT.
+Added: with chronic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, or CF and diabetic foot osteomyelitis, or DFO.
+Added: Bacteriophage or phage are bacterial, species-specific,
+Added: strain-limited viruses that infect, amplify and kill the target bacteria and are considered inert to mammalian cells.
+Added: By utilizing proprietary
+Added: combinations of naturally occurring phage and by creating novel phage using synthetic biology, we develop phage-based therapies intended
+Added: to address both large-market and orphan diseases.
+Added: Based on the urgency of treating the infection (whether acute or chronic),
+Added: the susceptibility of the target bacteria to phage (e.g.
+Added: the ability to identify a phage cocktail that would target a broad range of bacterial
+Added: strains) and other considerations, we offer two phage-based product types:
+Added: (1) Fixed cocktail therapy – in this approach a single product containing a fixed number of selected phages is developed to cover
+Added: a wide range of bacterial strains, thus allowing treatment of broad patient populations with the same product.
+Added: Fixed cocktails are developed
+Added: using our proprietary BOLT platform, in which high throughput screening, directed evolution, and bioinformatic approaches are leveraged
+Added: to produce an optimal phage cocktail.
+Added: (2) Personalized therapy – in this approach a large library of phages is developed, of which single optimal phages are personally
+Added: matched to treat specific patients.
+Added: Matching optimal phages with patients is carried out using a proprietary phage susceptibility testing,
+Added: or PST, where multiple considerations are analyzed simultaneously – allowing for an efficient screen of the phage library while
+Added: maintaining short turnaround times.
+Added: In our therapeutic programs, we focus on using
+Added: phage therapy to target specific strains of pathogenic bacteria that are associated with diseases.
+Added: Our phage-based product candidates
+Added: are developed utilizing our BOLT proprietary research and development platform.
The BOLT platform is unique, employing cutting edge methodologies
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such as broad target host range, ability to prevent resistance, biofilm penetration, stability and ease of manufacturing.
−Removed: Our goal is to develop multiple products based on the
−Removed: ability of phage to precisely target harmful bacteria and on our ability to screen, identify and combine different phage, both naturally
−Removed: occurring and created using synthetic engineering, to develop these treatments.
+Added: Our goal is to develop multiple products based
+Added: on the ability of phage to precisely target harmful bacteria and on our ability to screen, identify and combine different phage, both
+Added: naturally occurring and created using synthetic engineering, to develop these treatments.
Our Product Pipeline
−Removed: below identifies our product candidates’ pipeline, their current status and expected timing for the upcoming milestones.
−Removed: not have any products approved or available for sale, our product candidates are still in the preclinical and clinical development stages,
−Removed: and we have not generated any revenue from product sales.
+Added: below identifies our product candidates’ pipeline, their current status and expected timing for upcoming milestones.
+Added: We do not have
+Added: any products approved or available for sale, our product candidates are still in the preclinical and clinical development stages, and
+Added: we have not generated any revenue from product sales.
Ongoing Programs
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under development for chronic pulmonary infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or P.
−Removed: aeruginosa, a main contributor
−Removed: to morbidity and mortality in patients with CF.
−Removed: Enhanced resistance to antibiotics develops, particularly in CF patients, due to extensive
−Removed: drug use consisting of prolonged and repeated broad-spectrum antibiotic courses often beginning in childhood, and leading to the appearance
−Removed: of multidrug-resistant strains.
+Added: aeruginosa, a main contributor to morbidity
+Added: and mortality in patients with CF.
+Added: Enhanced resistance to antibiotics develops, particularly in CF patients, due to extensive drug use
+Added: consisting of prolonged and repeated broad-spectrum antibiotic courses often beginning in childhood, and leading to the appearance of
+Added: multidrug-resistant strains.
In preclinical in vitro studies, BX004 was shown to be active against antibiotic resistant strains
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respiratory infections caused by P.
−Removed: is comprised of two parts.
−Removed: The study design is based on recommendations from the
−Removed: Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutic Development Network.
+Added: was comprised of two parts.
+Added: The study design was based on recommendations from
+Added: the Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutic Development Network.
In February 2023, we announced positive results
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Part 1 evaluated the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, or PK, and microbiologic
−Removed: activity of BX004 over a 7-day treatment period in nine CF patients (7 on BX004, 2 on placebo) with chronic P.
−Removed: aeruginosa pulmonary infection
−Removed: in a single ascending dose and multiple dose design.
+Added: activity of BX004 over a 7-day ascending treatment period in nine CF patients (7 on BX004, 2 on placebo) with chronic P.
+Added: pulmonary infection in a single ascending dose and multiple dose design.
Results from Part 1 of the Phase 1b/2a trial included
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No safety events related to treatment with BX004 occurred;
−Removed: aeruginosa colony forming units (CFU) at Day
−Removed: 15 (compared to baseline):
+Added: aeruginosa colony forming units, or CFU, at
+Added: Day 15 (compared to baseline):
-1.42 log (BX004) vs.
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no phage were detected in patients receiving placebo;
−Removed: there was no emerging resistance to BX004 during or after
−Removed: treatment with BX004;
−Removed: and there was no detectable effect on % predicted FEV1.
−Removed: Part 2 of the Phase 1b/2a trial will evaluate the safety
−Removed: and efficacy of BX004 in 24 CF patients randomized to a treatment or placebo cohort in a 2:1 ratio.
−Removed: Results from Part 2 are expected in
−Removed: the third quarter of 2023.
−Removed: In January 2022, we announced that we received an award
−Removed: of up to $5 million from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, or CF Foundation, in two tranches.
−Removed: The first tranche of $3 million, was received
−Removed: on December 21, 2021, as an equity investment.
−Removed: Upon completion of patient dosing in Part 1 of our Phase 1b/2a study of BX004 we had the
−Removed: right to receive the second tranche of $2 million, also as an equity investment.
−Removed: Following the results from Part 1 of the ongoing
−Removed: Phase 1b/2a trial, the CF Foundation agreed to make its second tranche investment of $2 million through its participation in the Company’s
−Removed: $7.5 million private placement.
−Removed: The funding provided by the CF Foundation will be used to support the development of BX004.
+Added: there was no evidence of treatment-related resistance to
+Added: BX004 during or after treatment , compared to placebo;
+Added: and as expected due to the short duration of treatment, there was no detectable
+Added: effect on % predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 second, or FEV1.
+Added: In November 2023, we announced positive topline
+Added: results from Part 2 of the Phase 1b/2a trial evaluating BX004.
+Added: The objectives of Part 2 of the Phase 1b/2a trial were to evaluate the
+Added: safety and tolerability of BX004 in a larger number of CF patients dosed for a longer treatment duration than Part 1 of the study, with
+Added: the anticipation that the longer treatment might result in greater effects than in the Part 1.
+Added: In Part 2, 34 CF patients were randomized
+Added: in a 2:1 ratio with 23 CF patients receiving BX004 and 11 patients receiving placebo via nebulization twice daily for 10 days.
+Added: Key results from Part 2 of the Phase 1b/2a trial included the following
+Added: ● Study drug was safe and well-tolerated, with no related SAEs
+Added: (serious adverse events) or related APEs (acute pulmonary exacerbations) to study drug.
+Added: ● In the BX004 arm, 3 out of 21 (14.3%) patients with quantitative
+Added: CFU at baseline converted to sputum culture negative for P.
+Added: aeruginosa after 10 days of treatment (including 2 patients
+Added: after 4 days) compared to 0 out of 10 (0%) in the placebo arm.
+Added: placebo showed a positive clinical effect in a predefined
+Added: subgroup of patients with reduced baseline lung function (FEV1<70%).
+Added: Difference between groups at Day 17:
+Added: relative FEV1 improvement
+Added: of 5.67% (change from baseline +1.46 vs.
+Added: -4.21) and +8.87 points in Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire-Revised (CFQR) respiratory
+Added: symptom scale (change from baseline +2.52 vs.
+Added: ● In full population, BX004 vs.
+Added: aeruginosa levels
+Added: were more variable in sputum, potentially driven by aligning initiation of study drug administration with the initiation of standard
+Added: of care antibiotic treatment regimen.
+Added: In a prespecified subgroup of patients on standard of care inhaled antibiotics on continuous regimen,
+Added: placebo reduced sputum P.
+Added: aeruginosa levels at Day 10:
+Added: difference in change from baseline between groups of -2.8
+Added: log10 CFU/g sputum (change from baseline -2.91 vs -0.11), exceeding Part 1 results.
+Added: ● Alternating/cycling background antibiotic regimen likely associated
+Added: with fluctuations in P.
+Added: aeruginosa levels potentially confounding the ability to observe a P.
+Added: aeruginosa reduction
+Added: in this subgroup.
+Added: ● During the study period, based on current available data,
+Added: no evidence of treatment-related phage resistance was observed in patients treated with BX004 compared to placebo.
+Added: In August 2023, the FDA granted BX004 Fast Track
+Added: designation for the treatment of chronic respiratory infections caused by P.
+Added: aeruginosa bacterial strains in patients with CF.
+Added: In addition, in December 2023, BX004 received orphan drug designation from the FDA.
+Added: BiomX expects to initiate a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center
+Added: Phase 2b study in CF patients with chronic P.
+Added: aeruginosa pulmonary infections in the fourth quarter of 2024.
+Added: The study is designed
+Added: to enroll approximately 60 patients randomized at a 2:1 ratio to BX004 or placebo.
+Added: Treatment is expected to be administered via inhalation
+Added: twice daily for a duration of 8 weeks.
+Added: The study is designed to monitor the safety and tolerability of BX004 and is designed to demonstrate
+Added: improvement in microbiological reduction of P.
+Added: aeruginosa burden and evaluation of effects on clinical parameters such as
+Added: lung function measured by FEV1 and patient reported outcomes.
+Added: Study results are expected in the third quarter 2025.
+Added: BX211 – Treatment of Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis (DFO)
+Added: BX211 is a personalized phage therapy for the treatment
+Added: of DFO associated with Staphylococcus aureus, or S.
+Added: The personalized phage treatment tailors a specific phage selected
+Added: from a proprietary phage-bank according to the specific strain of S.
+Added: aureus biopsied and isolated from each patient.
+Added: DFO is a bacterial
+Added: infection of the bone that usually develops from an infected foot ulcer and is a leading cause of amputation in patients with diabetes.
+Added: We believe that scientific literature demonstrating the potential benefit in treating osteomyelitis using phage in animal models as well
+Added: as numerous successful compassionate cases using phage therapy to treat DFO patient support our approach of using phage therapy to treat
+Added: The ongoing randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled,
+Added: multi-center phase 2 study investigating the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of BX211 for subjects with DFO associated with S.
+Added: is expected to enroll approximately 45 subjects randomized at a 2:1 ratio to BX211 or placebo.
+Added: BX211 or placebo is designed to be administered
+Added: weekly, by topical and intravenous, or IV route at week 1 and by the topical route only at each of weeks 2-12.
+Added: Over the 12-week treatment
+Added: period, all subjects are expected to continue to be treated in accordance with standard of care which will include antibiotic treatment
+Added: as appropriate.
+Added: A first readout of study topline results is expected at week 13 evaluating healing of the wound associated with osteomyelitis,
+Added: followed by a second readout at week 52 evaluating amputation rates and resolution of osteomyelitis based on X-ray, clinical assessments,
+Added: and established biomarkers (Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate, or ESR, and C-Reactive Protein, or CRP).
+Added: These readouts are expected in the
+Added: first quarter of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026, respectively.
+Added: National Institutes of Health, or NIH study in Cystic Fibrosis
+Added: We are supporting a study conducted by the NIH and The Antibacterial
+Added: Resistance Leadership Group targeting P.
+Added: Aeruginosa infections in CF patients under FDA emergency Investigational New Drug, or
+Added: eIND allowance.
+Added: The Phase 1b/2, multi-centered, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial is assessing the safety and microbiological
+Added: activity of a single IV dose of bacteriophage therapy in cystic fibrosis subjects colonized with P.
+Added: Programs on hold
BX005 – Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis
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aureus strains (120 strains isolated from skin of subjects from the
−Removed: We are currently supporting a range of pre-clinical
−Removed: activities to move this program forward and working on evaluating timelines for a clinical trial.
−Removed: On April 8, 2022, the FDA approved the Company’s
−Removed: IND application for BX005.
−Removed: In October 2021, we entered into a stock purchase
−Removed: agreement with a subsidiary of Maruho Co.
−Removed: Ltd., or Maruho, a leading dermatology-focused pharmaceutical company in Japan, pursuant to
−Removed: which we issued to Maruho 375,000 shares of our common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, or Common Stock, at a price of $8.00 per share
−Removed: for gross proceeds of $3 million.
−Removed: We also granted Maruho a right of first offer to license BX005, in Japan.
−Removed: The right of first offer will
−Removed: commence following the availability of results from the Phase 1/2 study.
−Removed: Programs on hold
−Removed: BX003 – Treatment of IBD and PSC
−Removed: In November 2020, we combined our inflammatory bowel
−Removed: disease, or IBD and primary sclerosing cholangitis, or PSC programs to create a single product candidate called BX003, which targets K.
−Removed: pneumoniae to treat both diseases.
−Removed: Previously, we had separate candidates named BX002 and BX003.
−Removed: In February 2021, a Phase 1a pharmacokinetic
−Removed: study of BX002 demonstrated that it was safe and well-tolerated with no serious adverse events, and with high concentrations of viable
−Removed: phage delivered to the gastrointestinal tract.
−Removed: On November 15, 2021, we announced that we have paused
−Removed: development efforts for BX003 due to prioritizing resources towards our CF and AD programs, and we cannot provide guidance on resuming
−Removed: its development.
−Removed: We are developing synthetically engineered phage to
−Removed: target bacteria found in colorectal tumors.
−Removed: We observed in vitro and in vivo that phage can be used to target Fusobacterium nucleatum,
−Removed: which is commonly found in colorectal tumors.
−Removed: Our goal is to use phage to deliver payload genes, such as those encoding immunostimulatory
−Removed: proteins, to tumors and eradicate the bacteria.
−Removed: We have successfully engineered an IL-15 gene into F.
−Removed: nucleatum phage.
−Removed: On November 15, 2021, we announced that we have paused
−Removed: development efforts for this program due to prioritizing resources towards our CF and AD programs, and we cannot provide guidance on resuming
+Added: On April 8, 2022, the FDA approved the Company’s IND application for BX005.
+Added: As of the date of this Annual Report, we have paused
+Added: development efforts for BX005 due to prioritizing resources towards our CF and DFO programs, and we cannot provide guidance on resuming
its development.
−Removed: Discontinued programs
−Removed: BX001 – Treatment of Acne
−Removed: BX001 is a topical gel developed to modify skin appearance
−Removed: in a range of skin types, including acne-prone skin, using naturally occurring phage that target Cutibacterium acnes, or C.
−Removed: A 4-week Phase 1 clinical study demonstrated that BX001 was safe, well-tolerated, and significantly reduced C.
−Removed: acnes levels for
−Removed: the high dose compared to the placebo.
−Removed: A 12-week Phase 2 clinical study on 140 women with mild-to-moderate acne vulgaris found that BX001
−Removed: was well-tolerated, and a statistically significant improvement in the appearance of acne-prone skin was observed.
−Removed: However, there was
−Removed: no meaningful difference demonstrated compared to the placebo arm of the study.
−Removed: As a result, we decided to discontinue the program.
−Removed: Our goal is to develop multiple products based on the
−Removed: ability of phage to precisely target harmful bacteria and on our ability to screen, identify and optimally combine different phage, both
−Removed: naturally occurring and generated using synthetic engineering, to develop these treatments.
+Added: Prosthetic Joint Infections, or PJI
+Added: Our personalized phage therapy for treating PJI
+Added: targets multiple bacterial organisms such as Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis and Enterococcus faecium.
+Added: This treatment
+Added: was granted Orphan-drug designation by the FDA in July 2020.
+Added: As of the date of this Annual Report, we have paused development efforts
+Added: of this program due to prioritizing resources towards our CF and DFO programs, and we cannot provide guidance on resuming its development.
+Added: Our goal is to develop multiple products based
+Added: on the ability of phage to precisely target harmful bacteria and on our ability to screen, identify and optimally combine different phage,
+Added: both naturally occurring and generated using synthetic engineering, to develop these treatments.
We intend to continue to:
● Investigate clinical safety
−Removed: and efficacy of our lead phage-based product candidates in CF;
+Added: and efficacy of our lead phage-based product candidates to treat CF and DFO;
Identify new pathogenic bacteria to be targeted by phage therapy for our existing indications and possible new indications;
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to treat conditions and diseases by precisely targeting pathogenic bacteria without disrupting elements of the healthy microbiota.
−Removed: Our phage-based product candidates are developed
−Removed: utilizing our proprietary research and development platform named BOLT.
−Removed: The BOLT platform is unique, employing cutting edge methodologies
−Removed: and capabilities across disciplines including computational biology, microbiology, synthetic engineering of phage and their production
−Removed: bacterial hosts, bioanalytical assay development, manufacturing and formulation, to allow agile and efficient development of natural or
−Removed: engineered phage combinations, or cocktails.
−Removed: BOLT is designed to allow the rapid development of
−Removed: optimized phage cocktails.
+Added: Our phage-based product candidates, either fixed
+Added: phage cocktails or personalized phage treatments, are developed utilizing our proprietary research and development platforms, named BOLT
+Added: The BOLT, platform is unique, employing cutting edge methodologies and capabilities across disciplines including computational
+Added: biology, microbiology, synthetic engineering of phage and their production bacterial hosts, bioanalytical assay development, manufacturing
+Added: and formulation, to allow agile and efficient development of natural or engineered phage combinations, or cocktails.
+Added: The PST platform utilizes proprietary assays to
+Added: allow us to screen extensive phage libraries in search of optimal phage for treatment of the specific target bacteria isolated from a
+Added: given patient.
+Added: BOLT is designed to allow the rapid development
+Added: of optimized phage cocktails.
These cocktails may be comprised of naturally-occurring or synthetically engineered phage.
−Removed: The cocktail contains
−Removed: phage with complementary features and is optimized for multiple characteristics such as broad target host range, ability to prevent resistance,
−Removed: biofilm penetration, stability and ease of manufacturing.
−Removed: Pre-clinical development of the optimized phage cocktail is anticipated to require
−Removed: combine multiple technologies that originate from the laboratories of our scientific founders and that were developed internally.
−Removed: that were developed by its scientific founders are described in leading scientific journals.
−Removed: One of our scientific founders, Professor
−Removed: Rotem Sorek, a Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, or WIS, is a world leader in phage
−Removed: genomics and bacterial defense mechanisms.
−Removed: Another scientific founder, Professor Eran Elinav, a Professor in the Department of Immunology
−Removed: at the WIS, is an expert in investigating the link between the microbiome and human health and disease.
−Removed: Our third scientific founder,
−Removed: Professor Timothy K.
−Removed: Lu, is a world leader in synthetic biology approaches to engineering gene circuits and phage, leading the Synthetic
−Removed: Biology Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts
−Removed: Institute of Technology.
+Added: contains phage with complementary features and is optimized for multiple characteristics such as broad target host range, ability to prevent
+Added: resistance, biofilm penetration, stability and ease of manufacturing.
+Added: Pre-clinical development of the optimized phage cocktail is anticipated
+Added: to require 1-2 years.
+Added: We combine multiple technologies that originate
+Added: from the laboratories of our scientific founders and that were developed internally.
+Added: Technologies that were developed by our scientific
+Added: founders are described in leading scientific journals.
+Added: One of our scientific founders, Professor Rotem Sorek, a Professor in the Department
+Added: of Molecular Genetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, or WIS, is a world leader in phage genomics and bacterial defense mechanisms.
+Added: Another scientific founder, Professor Eran Elinav, a Professor in the Department of Immunology at the WIS, is an expert in investigating
+Added: the link between the microbiome and human health and disease.
+Added: Our third scientific founder, Professor Timothy K.
+Added: Lu, is a world leader
+Added: in synthetic biology approaches to engineering gene circuits and phage, leading the Synthetic Biology Group in the Department of Electrical
+Added: Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
addition, through the acquisition of the privately held Israel-based company, RondinX Ltd.
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is critical in enabling us to focus on treating complex human diseases and conditions by precise manipulation of the microbiome.
+Added: Additionally, we developed proprietary assays and
+Added: screening technology for robust and high throughput testing PST.
+Added: The PST platform combines state of the art automation with advanced microbiology
+Added: The output is a reproducible conclusive decision for optimal phage matching, based on multiple factors, including success of phage
+Added: infection, suppression of resistant mutants, and antibiofilm activity.
Manufacturing
−Removed: We have developed a manufacturing process that
−Removed: utilizes state of the art industrial methods for the manufacturing of our product candidates.
−Removed: This process is designed to comply with
+Added: We have developed manufacturing processes that
+Added: utilize state of the art industrial methods for the manufacturing of our product candidates.
+Added: These processes are designed to comply with
current Good Manufacturing Practice, or cGMP, with the appropriate scale to meet our clinical study needs, and to fulfill the requirements
of regulators for human studies.
−Removed: We currently operate a manufacturing model that combines an in-house process development and manufacturing
−Removed: suite with the flexibility to outsource to third-party manufacturing organizations when needed.
−Removed: As such, for BX004 we have engaged an
−Removed: additional third-party provider to supplement our in-house process development activities.
−Removed: We have selected this organization based on
−Removed: its experience, capability, capacity and regulatory status.
−Removed: Projects are managed by a specialist team of our internal staff, who assure
−Removed: compliance with the technical aspects and regulatory requirements of the manufacturing process.
−Removed: We maintain service agreements with multiple manufacturers.
−Removed: These service agreements generally are short-term in nature and can be extended or renewed.
−Removed: The production amounts identified in our current
−Removed: service agreements are sufficient to support our current clinical study needs.
−Removed: In March 2021, we moved into a new 6,500 square
−Removed: foot manufacturing facility in our headquarters, in Ness Ziona, Israel.
−Removed: Our facility is designed with the capacity to produce clinical
−Removed: quantities of our product candidates required for future early-stage clinical development.
−Removed: Our facility consists of two suites for drug
−Removed: substance phage production/development as well as formulation and final drug product production rooms to support topical, oral, inhaled
−Removed: and injectable phage-based products in a liquid, cream, semi-solid or dry form.
−Removed: While we do not have a current need for a commercial
−Removed: scale manufacturing capacity, at the appropriate time we intend to evaluate building large scale cGMP internal manufacturing capabilities,
−Removed: which may include expansion of our operations.
+Added: In February 2021, we consolidated our U.S.
+Added: Manufacturing Practice, or GMP, manufacturing, testing and development into a 6,100 square feet space in our Gaithersburg facility and
+Added: in March 2021, we moved into a new 6,500 square feet manufacturing facility in our headquarters, in Ness Ziona, Israel.
+Added: Both facilities
+Added: are designed to produce clinical quantities of our product candidates required for early-stage clinical development with compliance suitable
+Added: for this stage of development and to support eIND.
+Added: The Ness Ziona facility consists of two suites
+Added: for drug substance phage production/development as well as formulation and final drug product production rooms to support topical, oral,
+Added: inhaled and injectable phage-based products in a liquid, cream, semi-solid or dry form.
+Added: The Gaithersburg facility consists of three manufacturing
+Added: suites, one for upstream seed banking, one for drug substance phage production, and one for formulation and fill of the final drug product.
+Added: This facility is also equipped with in-house quality control testing laboratories to support the release of injectable phage-based products
+Added: in a liquid form.
+Added: Additional laboratory space is allocated for process development and there are laboratory and office spaces available
+Added: that can be repurposed for future GMP expansion.
+Added: We currently operate a manufacturing model that
+Added: combines in-house process development, manufacturing and testing with the flexibility to outsource to third-party development, manufacturing,
+Added: testing, and logistics organizations, when needed.
+Added: We maintain service agreements with multiple manufacturers, testing laboratories and
+Added: a third-party logistics warehouse for product candidate distribution.
+Added: These service agreements are generally short-term in nature and
+Added: can be extended or renewed.
+Added: As such, for BX004, we have engaged a third-party to supplement our in-house process development activities.
+Added: We selected this organization based on its experience, capability, capacity and regulatory status.
+Added: Manufacturing and development projects
+Added: are managed by a team of internal staff who assure compliance with the technical aspects and regulatory requirements of the manufacturing
+Added: Additional phage bank product candidates collectively
+Added: known as BX211 are manufactured at our in-house GMP facility in Gaithersburg.
+Added: Such product candidates are produced and released by internal
+Added: staff in compliance with cGMPs.
+Added: We perform release testing in house for most release assays and also outsource testing to qualified laboratories.
+Added: In addition, we utilize a third-party logistics warehouse for product storage and distribution to clinical sites.
+Added: We are considering consolidation of the two GMP
+Added: sites into one based on future needs.
+Added: While we do not have a current need for a commercial scale manufacturing capacity, at the appropriate
+Added: time we intend to evaluate building large scale cGMP internal manufacturing capabilities, which may include expansion of our operations.
Intellectual Property
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We co-own one US patent family with Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, or Keio, one international patent family (United
−Removed: States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, European Patent Office national filings) with Yeda Research and Development Company Limited, or Yeda,
−Removed: and one international patent family (United States, Europe) with both Keio and Yeda.
−Removed: We have an exclusive license from Yeda and Keio for
−Removed: these co-owned patent applications.
−Removed: We have exclusive licenses from Yeda or Keio for the rest of the patents and patent applications in
−Removed: its portfolio.
+Added: States, Australia, Canada, European Patent Office national filings) with Yeda Research and Development Company Limited, the technology
+Added: transfer office of the WIS, or Yeda, and one international patent family (United States, Europe) with both Keio and Yeda.
+Added: We have an exclusive
+Added: license from Yeda and Keio for these co-owned patent applications.
+Added: We have exclusive licenses from Yeda or Keio for the rest of the patents
+Added: and patent applications in its portfolio.
A significant portion of our portfolio is directed
to our product candidates, specifically:
−Removed: CF, AD, IBD, PSC and CRC, as well as to our bacterial target discovery and bacteriophage discovery
−Removed: technology platforms.
−Removed: Prosecution has yet to commence for most of the pending patent applications covering our product candidates.
−Removed: is a lengthy process, during which the scope of the claims initially submitted for examination by the USPTO are often significantly narrowed
−Removed: by the time they issue, if they issue at all.
−Removed: We expect this to be the case with respect to our licensed and co-owned patent applications,
−Removed: described briefly below.
−Removed: We solely own one patent family (PCT stage) containing
−Removed: claims directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising combinations of bacteriophage to treat chronic Pseudomonas lung infections,
−Removed: especially common in CF patients, methods of use for these bacteriophage combinations, and methods of identifying patients who will respond
−Removed: to these bacteriophage combinations.
−Removed: Any United States patents issuing from the pending application covering our lead bacteriophage combination
−Removed: in this program, if issued, are expected to expire in 2042.
−Removed: Patent term adjustments or patent term extensions could result in later expiration
−Removed: We solely own one patent family (PCT stage) containing
−Removed: claims directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising combinations of bacteriophage to treat skin infections, especially common in
−Removed: AD patients, methods of use for these bacteriophage combinations, and methods of identifying patients who will respond to these bacteriophage
−Removed: combinations.
−Removed: Any United States patents issuing from the pending application covering our lead bacteriophage combination in this program,
−Removed: if issued, are expected to expire in 2042.
−Removed: Patent term adjustments or patent term extensions could result in later expiration dates.
−Removed: We solely own one patent family (PCT stage), co-own
−Removed: with Keio one US patent family and co-own with Keio and Yeda one international patent family (United States, Europe), containing claims
−Removed: directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising combinations of bacteriophage useful to treat IBD and other diseases of the gastrointestinal
−Removed: tract, methods of use for these bacteriophage combinations, methods of identifying patients who will respond to these bacteriophage combinations,
−Removed: and methods of treating IBD by targeting bacterial strains discovered to cause or contribute to that disease.
−Removed: We also have an exclusive license from Keio for
−Removed: an international patent family including patent applications in the United States, Australia, Canada, China, Europe and Japan.
−Removed: These applications
−Removed: are directed to methods of use for these bacteriophage combinations, methods of identifying patients who will respond to these bacteriophage
−Removed: combinations, and methods of treating IBD by targeting a bacterial strain discovered to cause or contribute to that disease.
−Removed: States patents issuing from the pending applications covering our lead bacteriophage combination in this program, if issued, are expected
−Removed: to expire in 2037, 2038 or 2042.
−Removed: Patent term adjustments or patent term extensions could result in later expiration dates.
−Removed: We have an exclusive license to one United States
−Removed: national patent application and two Japanese patent applications with claims directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising bacterial
−Removed: strains discovered to be beneficial in the treatment of PSC and methods of using the same, and to methods of treating PSC by reducing
−Removed: the level of certain bacterial strains discovered to contribute to PSC.
−Removed: Any United States patents issuing from the pending applications
−Removed: in this program, if issued, are expected to expire in 2038 or 2039.
−Removed: Patent term adjustments or patent term extensions could result in
−Removed: later expiration dates.
−Removed: We solely own one patent family (PCT stage), containing
−Removed: claims directed to pharmaceutical compositions and formulations comprising combinations of bacteriophage (both synthetic and naturally
−Removed: occurring) useful to treat cancer.
−Removed: patent issuing from the pending application covering our lead bacteriophage combination in
−Removed: this program, if issued, are expected to expire in 2041.
−Removed: Patent term adjustments or patent term extensions could result in later expiration
+Added: CF and atopic dermatitis as well as product candidates relevant to programs which we have stopped
+Added: their development such as:
+Added: inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, primary sclerosing cholangitis and colorectal cancer, or CRC, as well as
+Added: to our bacterial target discovery and bacteriophage discovery technology platforms.
+Added: Prosecution has yet to commence for most of the pending
+Added: patent applications covering our product candidates.
+Added: Prosecution is a lengthy process, during which the scope of the claims initially
+Added: submitted for examination by the USPTO are often significantly narrowed by the time they issue, if they issue at all.
+Added: We expect this to
+Added: be the case with respect to our licensed and co-owned patent applications, described briefly below.
+Added: In connection with the Acquisition, we further
+Added: enhanced our intellectual property portfolio with the addition of APT’s portfolio comprising of 7 issued or allowed patents, 19
+Added: patent families (including applications in United States, Europe, Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Korea, Israel, Brazil, and
+Added: South Africa).
+Added: APT’s patents and patent applications consist of patents and patent applications with respect to pharmaceutical compositions
+Added: and methods of treatment, methods of manufacture of such compositions and expire between June 2037 and October 2043.
+Added: We solely own one patent family (United States,
+Added: Australia, Canada, European Patent Office, Japan and China) containing claims directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising combinations
+Added: of bacteriophage to treat chronic Pseudomonas lung infections, especially common in CF patients, methods of use for these bacteriophage
+Added: combinations, and methods of identifying patients who will respond to these bacteriophage combinations.
+Added: Any United States patents issuing
+Added: from the pending application covering our lead bacteriophage combination in this program, if issued, are expected to expire in 2042.
+Added: term adjustments or patent term extensions could result in later expiration dates.
+Added: Atopic Dermatitis
+Added: We solely own one patent family (United States,
+Added: Australia, Canada, European Patent Office and Japan) containing claims directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising combinations
+Added: of bacteriophage to treat skin infections, especially common in atopic dermatitis patients, methods of use for these bacteriophage combinations,
+Added: and methods of identifying patients who will respond to these bacteriophage combinations.
+Added: Any United States patents issuing from the pending
+Added: application covering our lead bacteriophage combination in this program, if issued, are expected to expire in 2042.
+Added: Patent term adjustments
+Added: or patent term extensions could result in later expiration dates.
The term of individual patents depends upon the
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developing bacteriophage products to treat diseases.
−Removed: To our knowledge, several biotechnology companies, such as Adaptive Phage Therapeutics,
−Removed: Locus Biosciences, Inc., Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
−Removed: and SNIPR Biome, as well as academic institutions, have discovery stage or clinical
−Removed: programs utilizing naturally occurring phage or synthetic biology approaches.
−Removed: In addition, we are aware of several investigational and
−Removed: marketed products to treat the indications that we are targeting with our product candidates, including, but not limited to:
+Added: To our knowledge, several biotechnology companies, such as Locus Biosciences, Inc.,
+Added: Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
+Added: and SNIPR Biome, as well as academic institutions, have discovery stage or clinical programs utilizing naturally
+Added: occurring phage or synthetic biology approaches.
+Added: In addition, we are aware of several investigational and marketed products to treat the
+Added: indications that we are targeting with our product candidates, including, but not limited to:
Trikafta, Symdeco,
Pulmozyme, Tobramycin, Aztreonam
−Removed: Elidel, Eucrisa,
−Removed: Ruxolitinib, Dupixent
+Added: TP-102 being developed
+Added: by Technophage, a phage-based product being developed by Phaxiam
Many of our competitors, either alone or with their
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2021, we entered into a stock purchase agreement with a subsidiary of Maruho, a leading dermatology-focused pharmaceutical company in
−Removed: Japan, pursuant to which we issued to Maruho 375,000 shares of our Common Stock, at a price of $8.00 per share for gross proceeds of $3
−Removed: We also granted Maruho a right of first offer to license BX005 in Japan.
−Removed: The right of first offer will commence following the
−Removed: availability of results from the Phase 1/2 study.
+Added: Japan, pursuant to which we issued to Maruho 375,000 shares of Common Stock, at a price of $8.00 per share for gross proceeds of $3 million.
+Added: We also granted Maruho a right of first offer to license our BX005 product candidate for atopic dermatitis in Japan.
+Added: The right of first
+Added: offer will commence following the availability of results from a the Phase 1/2 study which is currently on hold.
Government Regulation
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of drug and biological products.
−Removed: Generally, before a new drug or biologic can be marketed, considerable data demonstrating its quality,
−Removed: safety, efficacy, purity, and/or potency must be obtained, organized into a format specific for each regulatory authority, submitted for
−Removed: review and approved by the regulatory authority where the product is intended to be marketed.
+Added: Generally, before a new drug or biologic can be studied in human clinical trials or marketed, considerable
+Added: data demonstrating its quality, safety, efficacy, purity, and/or potency must be obtained, organized into a format specific for each regulatory
+Added: authority, submitted for review and approved by the regulatory authority where the product is intended to be studied or marketed.
Biological Product Development Process
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The process generally involves the following:
−Removed: ● Completion of extensive preclinical
−Removed: studies in accordance with applicable regulations, including studies conducted in accordance with GLP requirements, if needed;
−Removed: ● Submission to the FDA of an
−Removed: IND, which must become effective before human clinical trials may begin;
−Removed: ● Approval by an institutional
−Removed: review board, or IRB, at each clinical trial site before each trial may be initiated;
−Removed: ● Performance of adequate and
−Removed: well-controlled human clinical trials in accordance with applicable IND regulations, good clinical practice, or GCP, requirements and
−Removed: other clinical trial-related regulations to establish the safety, purity, potency and efficacy of the investigational product for each
−Removed: proposed indication;
+Added: Completion of extensive preclinical studies in accordance with applicable regulations, including studies conducted in accordance with GLP requirements, if needed;
+Added: Submission to the FDA of an IND, which must become effective before human clinical trials may begin;
+Added: Approval by an institutional review board, or IRB, at each clinical trial site before each trial may be initiated;
+Added: Performance of adequate and well-controlled human clinical trials in accordance with applicable IND regulations, good clinical practice, or GCP, requirements and other clinical trial-related regulations to establish the safety, purity, potency and efficacy of the investigational product for each proposed indication;
Submission to the FDA of a BLA;
−Removed: ● A determination by the FDA within
−Removed: 60 days of its receipt of a BLA to accept the application for review;
−Removed: ● Satisfactory completion of an
−Removed: FDA pre-approval inspection of the manufacturing facility or facilities where the biologic will be produced to assess compliance with
−Removed: cGMP requirements to assure that the facilities, methods and controls are adequate to preserve the biologic’s identity, strength,
−Removed: quality and purity;
−Removed: ● Potential FDA audit of the clinical
−Removed: trial sites that generated the data in support of the BLA;
−Removed: ● Payment of user fees for FDA
−Removed: review of the BLA (unless a fee waiver applies);
−Removed: ● FDA review and approval of the
−Removed: BLA, including consideration of the views of any FDA advisory committee, prior to any commercial marketing or sale of the biologic in
−Removed: the United States.
+Added: A determination by the FDA within 60 days of its receipt of a BLA to accept the application for review;
+Added: Satisfactory completion of an FDA pre-approval inspection of the manufacturing facility or facilities where the biologic will be produced to assess compliance with cGMP requirements to assure that the facilities, methods and controls are adequate to preserve the biologic’s identity, strength, quality and purity;
+Added: Potential FDA audit of the clinical trial sites that generated the data in support of the BLA;
+Added: Payment of user fees for FDA review of the BLA (unless a fee waiver applies);
+Added: FDA review and approval of the BLA, including consideration of the views of any FDA advisory committee, prior to any commercial marketing or sale of the biologic in the United States.
Preclinical Studies and IND
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Clinical trials involve the administration of the
−Removed: biological product candidate to healthy volunteers or disease-affected patients under the supervision of qualified investigators, generally
−Removed: physicians not employed by, or under, the trial sponsor’s control.
−Removed: Clinical trials are conducted under protocols detailing, among
−Removed: other things, the objectives of the clinical trial, dosing procedures, subject selection and exclusion criteria, and the parameters to
−Removed: be used to monitor subject safety and efficacy, including stopping rules that assure a clinical trial will be stopped if certain adverse
+Added: drug or biological product candidate to healthy volunteers or disease-affected patients under the supervision of qualified investigators,
+Added: generally physicians not employed by, or under, the trial sponsor’s control.
+Added: Clinical trials are conducted under protocols detailing,
+Added: among other things, the objectives of the clinical trial, dosing procedures, subject selection and exclusion criteria, and the parameters
+Added: to be used to monitor subject safety and efficacy, including stopping rules that assure a clinical trial will be stopped if certain adverse
events should occur.
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sequential phases, known as Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3, and may overlap.
−Removed: ● Phase 1 clinical trials generally
−Removed: involve a small number of healthy volunteers or disease-affected patients who are initially exposed to a single dose and then multiple
−Removed: doses of the product candidate.
−Removed: The primary purpose of these clinical trials is to assess the metabolism, pharmacologic action, side
−Removed: effect tolerability and safety of the product candidate.
−Removed: ● Phase 2 clinical trials generally
−Removed: involve studies in disease-affected patients to evaluate proof of concept and/or determine the dosing regimen(s) for subsequent investigations.
−Removed: At the same time, safety and sometimes further pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic information is collected, possible adverse effects
−Removed: and safety risks are identified and a preliminary evaluation of efficacy is conducted.
−Removed: ● Phase 3 clinical trials generally
−Removed: involve a large number of patients at multiple sites and are designed to provide the data necessary to demonstrate the effectiveness
−Removed: of the product for its intended use, its safety in use and to establish the overall benefit/risk relationship of the product and provide
−Removed: an adequate basis for labeling for new drugs.
+Added: Phase 1 clinical trials generally involve a small number of healthy volunteers or disease-affected patients who are initially exposed to a single dose and then multiple doses of the product candidate.
+Added: The primary purpose of these clinical trials is to assess the metabolism, pharmacologic action, side effect tolerability and safety of the product candidate.
+Added: Phase 2 clinical trials generally involve studies in disease-affected patients to evaluate proof of concept and/or determine the dosing regimen(s) for subsequent investigations.
+Added: At the same time, safety and sometimes further pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic information is collected, possible adverse effects and safety risks are identified and a preliminary evaluation of efficacy is conducted.
+Added: Phase 3 clinical trials generally involve a large number of patients at multiple sites and are designed to provide the data necessary to demonstrate the effectiveness of the product for its intended use, its safety in use and to establish the overall benefit/risk relationship of the product and provide an adequate basis for labeling for new drugs.
Post-approval trials, sometimes referred to as
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Additionally, some clinical trials are overseen by an independent group of qualified experts organized by the clinical trial sponsor,
−Removed: known as a data safety monitoring board or committee.
−Removed: This group provides authorization for whether a trial may move forward at designated
−Removed: check points based on access to certain data from the trial.
+Added: or the Data Safety Monitoring Board.
+Added: This group provides authorization for whether a trial may move forward at designated check points
+Added: based on access to certain data from the trial.
Concurrent with clinical trials, companies may
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drug receives marketing approval for an indication broader than that which is designated, it may not be entitled to orphan drug exclusivity.
+Added: In December 2023, BX004, received orphan drug designation from the FDA.
Expedited Development and Review Programs
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Companion Diagnostics
−Removed: We may employ companion diagnostics to help it
−Removed: to more accurately identify patients within a particular bacterial strain, both during our clinical trials and in connection with the
−Removed: commercialization of our product candidates that we are developing or may in the future develop.
−Removed: Companion diagnostics can identify patients
−Removed: who are most likely to benefit from a particular therapeutic product;
−Removed: identify patients likely to be at increased risk for serious side
−Removed: effects as a result of treatment with a particular therapeutic product;
−Removed: or monitor response to treatment with a particular therapeutic
−Removed: product for the purpose of adjusting treatment to achieve improved safety or effectiveness.
−Removed: Companion diagnostics are regulated as medical
−Removed: devices by the FDA and, as such, require either clearance or approval prior to commercialization.
−Removed: The level of risk combined with available
−Removed: controls to mitigate risk determines whether a companion diagnostic device requires Premarket Approval Application approval or is cleared
−Removed: through the 510(k) premarket notification process.
−Removed: For a novel therapeutic product for which a companion diagnostic device is essential
−Removed: for the safe and effective use of the product, the companion diagnostic device should be developed and approved or 510(k)-cleared contemporaneously
−Removed: with the therapeutic.
−Removed: The use of the companion diagnostic device will be stipulated in the labeling of the therapeutic product.
+Added: We may employ companion diagnostics to identify
+Added: the most suitable phage to treat a specific patient under our personalized phage treatments and to help more accurately identify patients
+Added: sensitive to our phage cocktails, during our clinical trials and potentially also in connection with the commercialization of our product
+Added: candidates that we are developing or may in the future develop.
+Added: Companion diagnostics can identify patients who are most likely to benefit
+Added: from a particular therapeutic product;
+Added: identify patients likely to be at increased risk for serious side effects as a result of treatment
+Added: with a particular therapeutic product;
+Added: or monitor response to treatment with a particular therapeutic product for the purpose of adjusting
+Added: treatment to achieve improved safety or effectiveness.
+Added: Companion diagnostics are regulated as medical devices by the FDA and, as such,
+Added: require either clearance or approval prior to commercialization.
+Added: The level of risk combined with available controls to mitigate risk determines
+Added: whether a companion diagnostic device requires Premarket Approval Application approval or is cleared through the 510(k) premarket notification
+Added: For a novel therapeutic product for which a companion diagnostic device is essential for the safe and effective use of the product,
+Added: the companion diagnostic device should be developed and approved or 510(k)-cleared contemporaneously with the therapeutic.
+Added: the companion diagnostic device will be stipulated in the labeling of the therapeutic product.
Government Regulation Outside of the United States
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In the European Union, for example, a clinical trial application, or CTA, must be submitted
−Removed: for each clinical trial to the national health authority and an independent ethics committee in each country in which the trial is to
−Removed: be conducted, much like the FDA and an IRB, respectively.
−Removed: CTAs must be accompanied by an investigational medicinal product dossier with
−Removed: supporting information prescribed by the Clinical Trials Directive (and corresponding national laws of the member states) and further
−Removed: detailed in applicable guidance documents.
−Removed: Once the CTA is approved in accordance with a country’s requirements, the clinical trial
−Removed: A similar process to the one described for the European Union is required in Israel for initiation of clinical trials.
−Removed: requirements and process governing the conduct of clinical trials vary from country to country.
−Removed: In all cases, the clinical trials must
−Removed: be conducted in accordance with GCP and the applicable regulatory requirements and the ethical principles that have their origin in the
−Removed: Declaration of Helsinki.
+Added: for each clinical trial to the relevant national health authority and an independent ethics committee in each country in which the trial
+Added: is to be conducted through a single EU portal for harmonized assessment, much like the FDA and an IRB, respectively.
+Added: CTAs must be accompanied
+Added: by an investigational medicinal product dossier with supporting information prescribed by the Clinical Trials Directive (and corresponding
+Added: national laws of the member states) and further detailed in applicable guidance documents.
+Added: Once the CTA is approved in accordance with
+Added: a country’s requirements, the clinical trial may proceed.
+Added: A similar process to the one described for the European Union is required
+Added: in Israel for initiation of clinical trials.
+Added: The requirements and process governing the conduct of clinical trials vary from country to
+Added: In all cases, the clinical trials must be conducted in accordance with GCP and the applicable regulatory requirements and the
+Added: ethical principles that have their origin in the Declaration of Helsinki.
Approval Process
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the accelerated approval:
−Removed: EMA may reduce the maximum timeframe for the evaluation of an MAA from 210 days to 150 days when the future medicinal product is of major
−Removed: interest from the point of view of public health, in particular from the viewpoint of therapeutic innovation.
+Added: the EMA may reduce the maximum timeframe for the evaluation of an MAA from 210 days to 150 days when the future medicinal product is of major interest from the point of view of public health, in particular from the viewpoint of therapeutic innovation.
the conditional marketing authorization:
−Removed: as part of its marketing authorization process, the European Commission may grant marketing authorizations on the basis of less complete
−Removed: data than is normally required.
+Added: as part of its marketing authorization process, the European Commission may grant marketing authorizations on the basis of less complete data than is normally required.
A conditional marketing authorization may be granted
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been supplied, all the following requirements are met:
−Removed: ● the risk/benefit balance of
−Removed: the medicinal product is positive;
−Removed: ● it is likely that the applicant
−Removed: will be in a position to provide the comprehensive clinical data;
−Removed: ● unmet medical needs will be
−Removed: ● the benefit to public health
−Removed: of the immediate availability on the market of the medicinal product concerned outweighs the risk inherent in the fact that additional
−Removed: data is still required.
+Added: the risk/benefit balance of the medicinal product is positive;
+Added: it is likely that the applicant will be in a position to provide the comprehensive clinical data;
+Added: unmet medical needs will be addressed;
+Added: the benefit to public health of the immediate availability on the market of the medicinal product concerned outweighs the risk inherent in the fact that additional data is still required.
The granting of a conditional marketing authorization
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The laws that may affect our ability to operate include:
−Removed: ● the federal Anti-Kickback Statute,
−Removed: which prohibits, among other things, knowingly and willfully soliciting, receiving, offering or paying any remuneration (including any
−Removed: kickback, bribe, or rebate), directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in cash or in kind, to induce, or in return for, either the
−Removed: referral of an individual, or the purchase, lease, order or recommendation of any good, facility, item or service for which payment may
−Removed: be made, in whole or in part, under a federal healthcare program, such as the Medicare and Medicaid programs;
−Removed: a person or entity does
−Removed: not need to have actual knowledge of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation.
−Removed: In addition, the government may assert that a claim including items or services resulting from a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback
−Removed: Statute constitutes a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the federal False Claims Act or federal civil money penalties statute;
−Removed: ● federal civil and criminal false
−Removed: claims laws and civil monetary penalties laws, such as the federal False Claims Act, which impose criminal and civil penalties and authorize
−Removed: civil whistleblower or qui tam actions, against individuals or entities for, among other things:
−Removed: knowingly presenting, or causing to
−Removed: be presented, to the federal government, claims for payment that are false or fraudulent;
−Removed: making, using or causing to be made or used,
−Removed: a false statement or record material to a false or fraudulent claim or obligation to pay or transmit money or property to the federal
+Added: the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, which prohibits, among other things, knowingly and willfully soliciting, receiving, offering or paying any remuneration (including any kickback, bribe, or rebate), directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in cash or in kind, to induce, or in return for, either the referral of an individual, or the purchase, lease, order or recommendation of any good, facility, item or service for which payment may be made, in whole or in part, under a federal healthcare program, such as the Medicare and Medicaid programs;
+Added: a person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation.
+Added: In addition, the government may assert that a claim including items or services resulting from a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute constitutes a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the federal False Claims Act, or FCA, or federal civil money penalties statute;
+Added: federal civil and criminal false claims laws and civil monetary penalties laws, such as the FCA, which impose criminal and civil penalties and authorize civil whistleblower or qui tam actions, against individuals or entities for, among other things:
+Added: knowingly presenting, or causing to be presented, to the federal government, claims for payment that are false or fraudulent;
+Added: making, using or causing to be made or used, a false statement or record material to a false or fraudulent claim or obligation to pay or transmit money or property to the federal government;
or knowingly concealing or knowingly and improperly avoiding or decreasing an obligation to pay money to the federal government;
−Removed: ● the civil monetary penalties
−Removed: law, which prohibits, among other things, the offering or giving of remuneration, which includes, without limitation, any transfer of
−Removed: items or services for free or for less than fair market value (with limited exceptions), to a Medicare or Medicaid beneficiary that the
−Removed: person knows or should know is likely to influence the beneficiary’s selection of a particular supplier of items or services reimbursable
−Removed: by a federal or state governmental program;
−Removed: ● HIPAA, which created new federal
−Removed: criminal statutes that prohibit knowingly and willfully executing, or attempting to execute, a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit
−Removed: program or obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, any of the money or property owned by, or
−Removed: under the custody or control of, any healthcare benefit program, regardless of the payor (e.g., public or private) and knowingly and
−Removed: willfully falsifying, concealing or covering up by any trick or device a material fact or making any materially false statements in connection
−Removed: with the delivery of, or payment for, healthcare benefits, items or services relating to healthcare matters;
−Removed: similar to the federal Anti-Kickback
−Removed: Statute, a person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it in order to have committed
−Removed: ● the federal transparency requirements
−Removed: under the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, including the provision commonly referred to as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which requires
−Removed: manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologics and medical supplies for which payment is available under Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s
−Removed: Health Insurance Program to report annually to the U.S.
−Removed: Department of Health and Human Services information related to payments or other
−Removed: transfers of value made to physicians (defined to include doctors, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists and chiropractors), certain non-physician
−Removed: practitioners (physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, anesthesiologist assistants, certified registered
−Removed: nurse anesthetists and certified nurse midwives) and teaching hospitals, as well as ownership and investment interests held by the physicians
−Removed: described above and their immediate family members;
−Removed: ● federal government price reporting
−Removed: laws, which require us to calculate and report complex pricing metrics in an accurate and timely manner to government programs;
−Removed: ● federal consumer protection
−Removed: and unfair competition laws, which broadly regulate marketplace activities and activities that potentially harm consumers.
+Added: the civil monetary penalties law, which prohibits, among other things, the offering or giving of remuneration, which includes, without limitation, any transfer of items or services for free or for less than fair market value (with limited exceptions), to a Medicare or Medicaid beneficiary that the person knows or should know is likely to influence the beneficiary’s selection of a particular supplier of items or services reimbursable by a federal or state governmental program;
+Added: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, which created new federal criminal statutes that prohibit knowingly and willfully executing, or attempting to execute, a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program or obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, any of the money or property owned by, or under the custody or control of, any healthcare benefit program, regardless of the payor (e.g., public or private) and knowingly and willfully falsifying, concealing or covering up by any trick or device a material fact or making any materially false statements in connection with the delivery of, or payment for, healthcare benefits, items or services relating to healthcare matters;
+Added: similar to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, a person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it in order to have committed a violation;
+Added: the federal transparency requirements under the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, including the provision commonly referred to as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which requires manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologics and medical supplies for which payment is available under Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program to report annually to the U.S.
+Added: Department of Health and Human Services information related to payments or other transfers of value made to physicians (defined to include doctors, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists and chiropractors), certain non-physician practitioners (physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, anesthesiologist assistants, certified registered nurse anesthetists and certified nurse midwives) and teaching hospitals, as well as ownership and investment interests held by the physicians described above and their immediate family members;
+Added: federal government price reporting laws, which require us to calculate and report complex pricing metrics in an accurate and timely manner to government programs;
+Added: federal consumer protection and unfair competition laws, which broadly regulate marketplace activities and activities that potentially harm consumers.
Additionally, we are subject to state and foreign
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the ability to bring actions on behalf of the U.S.
−Removed: government under the federal False Claims Act as well as under the false claims laws
−Removed: of several states.
+Added: government under the federal FCA, as well as under the false claims laws of several
Law enforcement authorities are increasingly focused
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civil or administrative sanctions, including exclusions from government funded healthcare programs, which may also adversely affect our
−Removed: Much like the Anti-Kickback Statute prohibition
−Removed: in the United States, the provision of benefits or advantages to physicians to induce or encourage the prescription, recommendation, endorsement,
+Added: Much like the federal Anti-Kickback Statute in
+Added: the United States, the provision of benefits or advantages to physicians to induce or encourage the prescription, recommendation, endorsement,
purchase, supply, order or use of medicinal products is also prohibited in the European Union.
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Innovation at the CMS to test innovative payment and service delivery models to lower Medicare and Medicaid spending.
−Removed: Since its enactment, there have been a number of significant
−Removed: changes to the ACA.
+Added: Since its enactment, there have been a number of
+Added: significant changes to the ACA.
On June 17, 2021, the U.S.
−Removed: Supreme Court dismissed the most recent judicial challenge to the ACA without specifically
−Removed: ruling on the constitutionality of the ACA.
−Removed: Prior to the Supreme Court’s decision, President Biden issued an executive order initiating
−Removed: a special enrollment period from February 15, 2021 through August 15, 2021 for purposes of obtaining health insurance coverage
−Removed: through the ACA marketplace.
−Removed: The executive order also instructed certain governmental agencies to review and reconsider their existing
−Removed: policies and rules that limit access to healthcare.
−Removed: More recently, on March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue
−Removed: Plan Act of 2021 into law, which eliminates the statutory Medicaid drug rebate cap, currently set at 100% of a drug’s average
−Removed: manufacturer price, beginning January 1, 2024.
−Removed: In addition, the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the
−Removed: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 led to aggregate reductions of Medicare payments to providers of 2% per fiscal year that will remain in
−Removed: effect through 2030, with the exception of a temporary suspension from May 1, 2020 through March 31, 2022 and a 1% reduction from April
−Removed: 1, 2022 through June 30, 2022, unless additional Congressional action is taken.
−Removed: Further, on January 2, 2013, the American Taxpayer Relief
−Removed: Act was signed into law, which, among other things, reduced Medicare payments to several types of providers, including hospitals, imaging
+Added: Supreme Court dismissed the most recent judicial challenge to the ACA
+Added: without specifically ruling on the constitutionality of the ACA.
+Added: Prior to the U.S.
+Added: Supreme Court’s decision, President Biden issued
+Added: an executive order initiating a special enrollment period from February 15, 2021 through August 15, 2021 for purposes of obtaining
+Added: health insurance coverage through the ACA marketplace.
+Added: The executive order also instructed certain governmental agencies to review and
+Added: reconsider their existing policies and rules that limit access to healthcare.
+Added: More recently, on March 11, 2021, President Biden signed
+Added: the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 into law, which eliminates the statutory Medicaid drug rebate cap, currently set at 100% of
+Added: a drug’s average manufacturer price, beginning January 1, 2024.
+Added: In addition, the Budget Control Act of 2011 and
+Added: the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 led to aggregate reductions of Medicare payments to providers of 2% per fiscal year that will remain
+Added: in effect through 2030, unless additional Congressional action is taken.
+Added: Further, on January 2, 2013, the American Taxpayer Relief Act
+Added: was signed into law, which, among other things, reduced Medicare payments to several types of providers, including hospitals, imaging
centers and cancer treatment centers, and increased the statute of limitations period for the government to recover overpayments to providers
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In the United States, numerous federal and state laws and regulations, including data
−Removed: breach notification laws, health information privacy and security laws, including Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
−Removed: of 1996, or HIPAA, and federal and state consumer protection laws and regulations (e.g., Section 5 of the FTC Act), that govern the collection,
−Removed: use, disclosure, and protection of health-related and other personal information could apply to our operations or the operations of our
+Added: breach notification laws, health information privacy and security laws, including HIPAA, and federal and state consumer protection laws
+Added: and regulations (e.g., Section 5 of the FTC Act), that govern the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of health-related and other
+Added: personal information could apply to our operations or the operations of our partners.
In addition, certain state and non-U.S.
−Removed: laws, such as the California Consumer Protection Act, the California Privacy Rights
−Removed: Act, and the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, govern the privacy and security of personal information, including health-related
−Removed: information in certain circumstances, some of which are more stringent than HIPAA and many of which differ from each other in significant
−Removed: ways and may not have the same effect, thus complicating compliance efforts.
−Removed: Failure to comply with these laws, where applicable, can
−Removed: result in the imposition of significant civil and/or criminal penalties and private litigation.
−Removed: Privacy and security laws, regulations,
−Removed: and other obligations are constantly evolving, may conflict with each other to complicate compliance efforts, and can result in investigations,
−Removed: proceedings, or actions that lead to significant civil and/or criminal penalties and restrictions on data processing.
+Added: as the California Consumer Protection Act, the California Privacy Rights Act, and the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, govern
+Added: the privacy and security of personal information, including health-related information in certain circumstances, some of which are more
+Added: stringent than HIPAA and many of which differ from each other in significant ways and may not have the same effect, thus complicating
+Added: compliance efforts.
+Added: Failure to comply with these laws, where applicable, can result in the imposition of significant civil and/or criminal
+Added: penalties and private litigation.
+Added: Privacy and security laws, regulations, and other obligations are constantly evolving, may conflict
+Added: with each other to complicate compliance efforts, and can result in investigations, proceedings, or actions that lead to significant civil
+Added: and/or criminal penalties and restrictions on data processing.
Material Agreements
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On June 22, 2015, BiomX Ltd.
−Removed: entered into the Research
−Removed: and License Agreement, with Yeda, or, as amended, the Yeda 2015 License Agreement, the technology transfer office of the WIS, pursuant
−Removed: to which BiomX Ltd.
−Removed: received an exclusive worldwide license to certain know-how and research information related to the development, testing,
−Removed: manufacturing, production and sale of microbiome-based therapeutic product candidates, including candidates specified in the agreement,
−Removed: which are used in our phage discovery platform, as well as patents, research and other rights to phage product candidates resulting from
−Removed: the work of the consultants identified in the agreement and further research conducted at the WIS which BiomX Ltd.
−Removed: In connection with this license, we are to pay a non-refundable
−Removed: license fee of $10,000 per year.
+Added: entered into a Research
+Added: and License Agreement, with Yeda , or, as amended, the Yeda 2015 License Agreement, pursuant to which BiomX Ltd.
+Added: received an exclusive
+Added: worldwide license to certain know-how and research information related to the development, testing, manufacturing, production and sale
+Added: of microbiome-based therapeutic product candidates, including candidates specified in the agreement, which are used in our phage discovery
+Added: platform, as well as patents, research and other rights to phage product candidates resulting from the work of the consultants identified
+Added: in the agreement and further research conducted at the WIS which BiomX Ltd.
+Added: In connection with this license, BiomX Ltd.
+Added: to pay a non-refundable license fee of $10,000 per year.
In addition, BiomX Ltd.
−Removed: contributed an aggregate of approximately $2.0 million to the research budget
−Removed: agreed upon in the Yeda 2015 License Agreement.
−Removed: We are also required to pay tiered royalties in the low single digits on net sales of
−Removed: products and diagnostic kits covered by the Yeda 2015 License Agreement, subject to reductions as described therein.
−Removed: The products and
−Removed: diagnostic kits covered by the license agreement include those directed to IBD, CRC, and any other indications that may be treated by
−Removed: phage-based therapies, as well as related technology platforms.
−Removed: If we sublicense our rights under this agreement we will be obligated
−Removed: to pay Yeda additional sublicense royalties expressed as a percentage of the sublicensing receipts described in the agreement received
−Removed: ranging from the mid-teens to the mid-twenties.
−Removed: We are obligated to pay filing and maintenance expenses in respect of patents licensed
−Removed: under the Yeda 2015 License Agreement.
+Added: contributed an aggregate of approximately $2.0 million
+Added: to the research budget agreed upon in the Yeda 2015 License Agreement.
+Added: BiomX Ltd is also required to pay tiered royalties in the low single
+Added: digits on net sales of products and diagnostic kits covered by the Yeda 2015 License Agreement, subject to reductions as described therein.
+Added: The products and diagnostic kits covered by the license agreement include those directed to CF and any other indication that may be treated
+Added: by phage-based therapies, as well as related technology platforms.
+Added: If BiomX Ltd.
+Added: sublicenses its rights under the Yeda 2015 License Agreement,
+Added: will be obligated to pay Yeda additional sublicense royalties expressed as a percentage of the sublicensing receipts described
+Added: in the agreement received ranging from the mid-teens to the mid-twenties.
+Added: is obligated to pay filing and maintenance expenses
+Added: in respect of patents licensed under the Yeda 2015 License Agreement.
In connection with the Yeda 2015 License Agreement, BiomX Ltd.
−Removed: also issued certain ordinary shares
−Removed: which were subsequently converted to 193,406 shares of our Common Stock as part of the Business Combination (as defined below).
−Removed: event of certain mergers and acquisitions we are party to, we are obligated to pay Yeda an amount equivalent to 1% of the consideration
−Removed: received under such transaction.
+Added: issued certain ordinary shares which were subsequently converted to 193,406 shares of our Common Stock as part of the Business Combination.
+Added: In the event of certain mergers and acquisitions we are party to, we are obligated to pay Yeda an amount equivalent to approximately 1%
+Added: of the consideration received under such transaction.
Unless terminated earlier by either party, the
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a first commercial sale of any product in any country.
−Removed: Yeda may also terminate the agreement if we fail to observe certain diligence and
−Removed: development requirements and milestones as described in the agreement.
−Removed: We or Yeda may terminate the agreement for the material uncured
−Removed: breach of the other party after a notice period, or the other party’s winding up, bankruptcy, insolvency, dissolution or other similar
−Removed: discontinuation of business.
−Removed: Upon termination of the agreement, other than due to the passage of time, we are required to grant to Yeda
−Removed: a non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, fully paid-up, sublicensable, worldwide license in respect of our rights in know-how and research
−Removed: results as described in the Yeda 2015 License Agreement, provided that if Yeda subsequently grants a license to a third party that utilizes
−Removed: our rights, we are entitled to share in the net proceeds actually received by Yeda arising out of that license, subject to a cap based
−Removed: on the development expenses that we incur in connection with the Yeda 2015 License Agreement.
−Removed: We consult with Yeda with respect to patent prosecution
−Removed: and maintenance decisions.
−Removed: Yeda is primarily responsible for prosecution and maintenance with respect to Licensed Information (as defined
−Removed: in the license) and we are responsible for prosecution and maintenance with respect to Subsequent Results (as defined in the license).
−Removed: We and Yeda are both entitled to consultation rights.
−Removed: We are responsible for costs associated with prosecution and maintenance of all
−Removed: patents and applications.
−Removed: We are entitled to enforce the patent rights under
−Removed: the license upon approval by Yeda.
+Added: Yeda may also terminate the agreement if BiomX Ltd.
+Added: fails to observe certain diligence
+Added: and development requirements and milestones as described in the Yeda 2015 License Agreement.
+Added: or Yeda may terminate the Yeda
+Added: 2015 License Agreement for the material uncured breach of the other party after a notice period, or the other party’s winding up,
+Added: bankruptcy, insolvency, dissolution or other similar discontinuation of business.
+Added: Upon termination of the Yeda 2015 License Agreement,
+Added: other than due to the passage of time, BiomX Ltd.
+Added: is required to grant to Yeda a non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, fully paid-up,
+Added: sublicensable, worldwide license in respect of our rights in know-how and research results as described in the Yeda 2015 License Agreement,
+Added: provided that if Yeda subsequently grants a license to a third party that utilizes our rights, BiomX Ltd.
+Added: is entitled to share in the
+Added: net proceeds actually received by Yeda arising out of that license, subject to a cap based on the development expenses that BiomX incurs
+Added: in connection with the Yeda 2015 License Agreement.
+Added: consults with Yeda with respect to patent
+Added: prosecution and maintenance decisions.
+Added: Yeda is primarily responsible for prosecution and maintenance with respect to Licensed Information
+Added: (as defined in the license) and we are responsible for prosecution and maintenance with respect to Subsequent Results (as defined in the
+Added: and Yeda are both entitled to consultation rights.
+Added: BiomX is responsible for costs associated with prosecution and
+Added: maintenance of all patents and applications.
+Added: is entitled to enforce the patent rights
+Added: under the license upon approval by Yeda.
Yeda may elect to join the lawsuit, but we are responsible for all litigation-related expenses.
−Removed: reserves the right to bring its own actions if we do not notify Yeda of our intent to enforce a right or bring an action after we initially
−Removed: notified Yeda of the potential action.
−Removed: Exclusive Patent License Agreement with Keio
−Removed: and JSR Corporation, or JSR, for IBD
−Removed: entered into an Exclusive Patent License
−Removed: Agreement with Keio, and JSR on December 15, 2017, as amended, pursuant to which BiomX Ltd.
−Removed: was granted an exclusive, royalty-bearing,
−Removed: worldwide, perpetual sublicense by JSR to certain patent rights related to our IBD program.
−Removed: Specifically, these patent rights relate to
−Removed: bacterial targets that have been observed to be related to IBD and the phage that were observed to eradicate these bacterial targets.
−Removed: We paid JSR a license issue fee of $10,000 and
−Removed: have agreed to pay annual fees ranging from $15,000 to $25,000 in each subsequent year.
−Removed: In addition to the license fees, we have agreed
−Removed: to make payments upon the satisfaction of certain clinical and regulatory milestones up to an aggregate of $3.2 million, of which $40,000
−Removed: was paid in February 2021.
−Removed: We are also required to pay tiered royalties expressed as a percentage of annual net sales of products developed
−Removed: under the agreement in the low single digits.
−Removed: If we sublicense our rights under this agreement, we will be obligated to pay sublicense
−Removed: royalties expressed as a percentage of sublicense income received, including any license signing fee, license maintenance fee, distribution
−Removed: or joint marketing fee and milestone payments, ranging in the high single digits to the low teens.
−Removed: Our payments under this agreement are
−Removed: subject to reductions as set forth therein.
−Removed: Unless earlier terminated, this agreement will
−Removed: expire on the later of the date on which all issued patents and filed patent applications have expired (which is expected to be in 2039),
−Removed: or been abandoned, withdrawn, rejected, revoked or invalidated, and five years from the date of first commercial sale of a product developed
−Removed: under the agreement in any country or, if later, when the product ceases to be covered by a valid claim in the United States, European
−Removed: Union or Japan.
−Removed: JSR may terminate this agreement if we fail to pay the amounts due under this agreement, or upon our winding up, bankruptcy,
−Removed: insolvency, dissolution or other similar discontinuation of business, or if we breach the material terms of this agreement and such breach
−Removed: We may terminate this agreement at any time upon three months’ advance written notice to JSR.
−Removed: We, Keio and JSR are responsible for maintenance
−Removed: and prosecution of patents that are to be jointly owned by the parties.
−Removed: JSR is entitled to the opportunity to advise and approve decisions
−Removed: that would have a material adverse impact on the scope of the claims.
−Removed: JSR is responsible for patents that are listed in such agreement
−Removed: and we are entitled to advise with respect to patent counsel, scope of claims, and other matters.
−Removed: We are entitled to bring enforcement
−Removed: actions (in our name alone and at our own expense).
−Removed: We are required to obtain JSR’s prior written consent for each action we bring
−Removed: with respect to the Patent Rights only.
−Removed: Exclusive Patent License Agreement with Keio
−Removed: and JSR for PSC
−Removed: We entered into an additional Exclusive Patent
−Removed: License Agreement with Keio and JSR on April 22, 2019, pursuant to which we were granted an exclusive, royalty-bearing, worldwide, perpetual
−Removed: sublicense by JSR to certain patent rights related to our PSC program.
−Removed: Specifically, these patent rights relate to bacterial targets that
−Removed: have been observed to be related to PSC and the phage that were observed to eradicate these bacterial targets.
−Removed: We paid JSR a license issue fee of $20,000 and
−Removed: have agreed to pay annual fees ranging from $15,000 to $25,000 in each subsequent year.
−Removed: In addition to the license fees, we have agreed
−Removed: to make payments upon the satisfaction of certain clinical and regulatory milestones up to an aggregate amount of $3.2 million.
−Removed: also required to pay tiered royalties expressed as a percentage of annual net sales of products developed under the agreement in the
−Removed: low single digits.
−Removed: If we sublicense our rights under this agreement, we will be obligated to pay sublicense royalties expressed as a
−Removed: percentage of sublicense income received, including any license signing fee, license maintenance fee, distribution or joint marketing
−Removed: fee and milestone payments, ranging in the high single digits to the low teens.
−Removed: Our payments under this agreement are subject to reductions
−Removed: as set forth therein.
−Removed: Unless earlier terminated, this agreement will
−Removed: expire on the later of the date on which all issued patents and filed patent applications have expired (which is expected to be in 2039),
−Removed: or been abandoned, withdrawn, rejected, revoked or invalidated, and five years from the date of first commercial sale of a product developed
−Removed: in connection with this agreement in any country or, if later, when the product ceases to be covered by a valid claim in the United States,
−Removed: European Union or Japan.
−Removed: JSR may terminate this agreement if we fail to pay the amounts due under this agreement, or upon our winding
−Removed: up, bankruptcy, insolvency, dissolution or other similar discontinuation of business, or if we breach the material terms of this agreement
−Removed: and such breach is uncured.
−Removed: We may terminate this agreement at any time upon three months’ advance written notice to JSR.
−Removed: We, Keio and JSR are responsible for maintenance
−Removed: and prosecution of patents that are to be jointly owned by the parties.
−Removed: JSR is entitled to the opportunity to advise and approve decisions
−Removed: that would have a material adverse impact on the scope of the claims.
−Removed: JSR is responsible for patents that fall under Patent Rights and
−Removed: we are entitled to advise with respect to patent counsel, scope of claims, and other matters.
−Removed: We are entitled to bring enforcement actions
−Removed: (in our name alone and at our own expense).
+Added: Yeda reserves the right to bring its own actions if we do not notify Yeda of our intent to enforce a right or bring an action after we
+Added: initially notified Yeda of the potential action.
+Added: Exclusive License with United States Navy
+Added: On March 16, 2017, APT entered into an exclusive
+Added: license (as amended on January 10, 2019, or the USN License Agreement, with the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary
+Added: of the Navy or the USN, pursuant to which APT received an exclusive license throughout the territory encompassing the United States, Canada
+Added: and Europe to an invention entitled “Bacteriophage Compositions and Method of Selection of Components Against Specific Bacteria
+Added: or the USN Licensed Patent, as well as associated materials, including approximately 350 phage (or collectively with the USN Licensed
+Added: Patent, the USN Materials), in the field of treating and/or eliminating multi-drug resistant bacteria for all uses, including industrial
+Added: or medical uses.
+Added: Pursuant to the USN License Agreement, APT agreed to carry out a commercial development plan or the Commercial Development
+Added: Plan, for the development and marketing of an invention claimed or disclosed in the USN Licensed Patent or a Licensed Invention, to bring
+Added: a Licensed Invention to practical application consistent with the milestones provided in the Commercial Development Plan by December 31,
+Added: 2022, and, thereafter, to continue to make the benefits of a Licensed Invention reasonably accessible to the public for the remainder
+Added: of the term of the USN License Agreement.
+Added: For the term of the license, any Licensed Invention or product produced through the use of a
+Added: Licensed Invention for use or sale in the United States must be manufactured substantially in the United States.
+Added: The Company uses the
+Added: phage provided in connection with the USN License Agreement as a potential source of phage for the development of its phage treatments.
+Added: In connection with the USN License Agreement, APT
+Added: paid the USN a license execution royalty of $5,000.
+Added: We are also required to pay royalties expressed as a percentage in the high single
+Added: digits on net sales of products, or Royalty-Bearing Products (i) defined by or containing a composition defined by any claim of the USN
+Added: Licensed Patent, (ii) made by a method claimed in a Licensed Invention, (iii) based on, originating from or containing USN Materials,
+Added: or (iv) based on, originating from or supported by USN-created information not found within the USN Licensed Patent and used to support
+Added: the commercialization or regulatory approval of a Royalty-Bearing Product, including, DNA sequence data, clinical trial data and detailed
+Added: laboratory methods, related to the Licensed Invention.
+Added: APT agreed to pay minimum annual royalties in the
+Added: amount of $5,000 from 2018 to 2020 and $20,000 thereafter.
+Added: APT also agreed to pay (a) a regulatory approval royalty in the low $100,000s
+Added: within 180 days of receiving FDA approval to market a Royalty-Bearing Product and (b) a revenue milestone royalty in the low $100,000s
+Added: when certain revenue thresholds have been met.
+Added: Additionally, we agreed to pay royalties expressed as a percentage in the mid-twenties
+Added: of all revenue received from sublicensing any Royalty-Bearing Product.
+Added: We are responsible for controlling and diligently
+Added: prosecuting the USN Licensed Patent and paying all costs associated with prosecuting and maintaining the USN Licensed Patent in the United
+Added: States and in foreign jurisdictions.
+Added: We agreed to submit annual progress reports on our efforts to achieve a practical application of
+Added: the Licensed Invention by January 1, 2021, and thereafter until such practical application has been received.
+Added: We may terminate the USN License Agreement upon
+Added: 120 days’ written notice, and the USN may terminate the USN License Agreement if (i) the USN determines we are not executing the
+Added: Commercial Development Plan, (ii) the USN determines such termination is necessary to meet requirements for public use specified by U.S.
+Added: federal regulations issued after the date of the USN License Agreement and not reasonably satisfied by us, (iii) in the event we willfully
+Added: made a material false statement or omitted a material fact in our application for the USN License Agreement or any report required thereby,
+Added: or (iv) we commit a substantial material breach of the USN License Agreement that has not been remedied within 30 days of written notice.
+Added: License Agreement with Walter Reed Army Institute
+Added: On August 24, 2021, APT entered into a Biological
+Added: Materials License Agreement (or, as modified on August 31, 2022, the WRAIR License Agreement) with Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
+Added: or WRAIR, pursuant to which APT received a nonexclusive worldwide license to certain materials and information, including approximately
+Added: 100 phage, or WRAIR Materials, to develop and commercialize phage products to treat/prevent Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Acinebactor
+Added: baumannii , Staphylococcus aureus , Klebsiella pneumonia , wound and UTI Escherichia coli and Enterobacter cloacae
+Added: bacterial infections.
+Added: The Company uses the phage provided in connection with the WRAIR License Agreement as a potential source of
+Added: phage for the development of its phage treatments.
+Added: In connection with the WRAIR License Agreement,
+Added: APT paid WRAIR an initial execution fee in the mid-thousands of dollars and agreed to pay a maintenance fee in the mid-thousands of dollars
+Added: We are also required to pay royalties expressed as a percentage in the low single digits on net sales of products that incorporate
+Added: the WRAIR Materials, or the WRAIR Licensed Products, subject to reductions as described in the WRAIR License Agreement.
+Added: In addition, if
+Added: we sublicense our rights under the WRAIR License Agreement we are obligated to pay WRAIR additional sublicense royalties expressed as
+Added: a percentage in the low teens of the sublicensing receipts we receive from any such sublicense royalties.
+Added: In addition, additional royalties
+Added: in the low teens may be assessed on any overdue royalty payments.
+Added: We are obligated to make written annual progress
+Added: reports to WRAIR, detailing our efforts to bring any inventions licensed under WRAIR License Agreement to the point of practical application,
+Added: together with any additional information requested by WRAIR or as contemplated or required under the development plan.
+Added: As part of our
+Added: performance under the WRAIR License Agreement, we have agreed to dose the first patient in a clinical trial with a WRAIR Licensed Product
+Added: within four years from the effective date of the WRAIR License Agreement.
+Added: In the event WRAIR files a non-provisional patent
+Added: application covering the WRAIR Materials and/or the use thereof, provided as part of this License Agreement, WRAIR is obligated to notify
+Added: us, and we and WRAIR will assess the need and/or desirability of a patent license.
+Added: In such case, we will have the first right of refusal
+Added: to negotiate a non-exclusive or exclusive license.
+Added: The WRAIR License Agreement will expire as to each
+Added: WRAIR Material ten years from the date that such WRAIR Material was added to the WRAIR License Agreement unless earlier terminated in
+Added: accordance with its terms.
+Added: We may terminate the WRAIR License Agreement upon 60 days’ written notice, and WRAIR may terminate if
+Added: we are in default and such default has not been remedied within 90 days after written notice of such default.
As of December 31, 2023, we had 58 full-time
employees and 13 part time employees.
−Removed: Sixteen of our employees have Ph.D.
−Removed: degrees and 50 of our employees are currently engaged
−Removed: in research and development and clinical activities.
+Added: 21 of our employees have Ph.D.
+Added: degrees and 53 of our employees are currently engaged in
+Added: research and development and clinical activities.
None of our employees is represented by labor unions or covered by collective bargaining
−Removed: We consider our relationship with our employees to be very strong.
−Removed: In May 2022, we announced, as part of our corporate restructuring plan,
−Removed: our intention to reduce our operating costs, including a 50% reduction in personnel, while prioritizing our ongoing CF program.
−Removed: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we implemented
−Removed: significant changes designed to ensure the safety and well-being of our employees as well as the communities in which we operate.
−Removed: not laid off any employees due to the pandemic.
−Removed: We implemented additional safety measures including masks and social distancing protocols
−Removed: in our offices and encouraged remote working arrangements for employees.
−Removed: To date, our remote working arrangements have not significantly
−Removed: affected our ability to maintain critical business operations.
+Added: We consider our relationship with our employees to be strong.
Corporate Information
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is www.biomx.com.
−Removed: The content of our website is not intended to be incorporated by reference into this report or in any other report or
−Removed: document we file and any references to these websites are intended to be inactive textual references only.
−Removed: Information About Our Executive Officers
−Removed: The following table sets forth information regarding
−Removed: our executive officers as of the date of this Annual Report:
−Removed: Jonathan Solomon
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer and Director
−Removed: Chief Business Officer
−Removed: Chief Development Officer
−Removed: Marina Wolfson
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer
−Removed: Jonathan Solomon has served as the
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer and as a director of the Company since October 2019.
−Removed: Solomon served as Board member of BiomX Ltd.
−Removed: from February
−Removed: 2016 and also as Chief Executive Officer from February 2017 to October 2019.
−Removed: From July 2007 to December 2015, Mr.
−Removed: Solomon was a co-founder,
−Removed: President, and Chief Executive Officer of ProClara Biosciences Inc.
−Removed: (formerly NeuroPhage Pharmaceuticals Inc.), a biotechnology company
−Removed: pioneering an approach to treating neurodegenerative diseases.
−Removed: Prior to joining ProClara, he served for ten years in a classified military
−Removed: unit of the Israeli Defense Forces.
−Removed: Solomon holds B.Sc.
−Removed: magna cum laude in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University, an
−Removed: summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School.
−Removed: Assaf Oron has served as the Chief
−Removed: Business Officer of the Company since October 2019.
−Removed: Oron served as Chief Business Officer of BiomX Ltd.
−Removed: from January 2017 to October
−Removed: Prior to this position, he served in various roles at Evogene Ltd.
−Removed: (Nasdaq:EVGN), an agriculture biotechnology company, which utilizes
−Removed: a proprietary integrated technology infrastructure to enhance seed traits underlying crop productivity, from March 2006 to December 2016,
−Removed: including Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development.
−Removed: joining Evogene, Mr.
−Removed: Oron served as Chief Executive Officer of ChondroSite Ltd., a biotechnology company that develops engineered tissue
−Removed: products in the field of orthopedics and as a senior project manager and strategic consultant at Israeli management consulting company
−Removed: Oron holds an M.Sc.
−Removed: in Biology (bioinformatics) and a B.Sc.
−Removed: in Chemistry and Economics, both from Tel Aviv University.
−Removed: Merav Bassan has served as the
−Removed: Chief Development Officer of the Company since October 2019.
−Removed: Prior to this position, she served in various development roles at Teva Pharmaceutical
−Removed: Industries Limited between 2005 and 2019, including Vice President, Head of Translational Sciences, Specialty Clinical Development R&D
−Removed: from 2017 to 2019, Vice President, Pain and Global Internal Medicine, Project Leadership, Innovative Product Development, Global IR&D
−Removed: from 2015 to 2017, and Project Champion, Senior Director, Innovative Product Development, Global IR&D from 2009 to 2015.
−Removed: holds a B.Sc.
−Removed: in Biology, a M.Sc.
−Removed: in Human Genetics and a Ph.D.
−Removed: in Neurobiology from Tel Aviv University, and she completed a Post-Doctoral
−Removed: Fellowship in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School at Harvard University.
−Removed: Marina Wolfson has served as the Chief
−Removed: Financial Officer of the Company since April 2022.
−Removed: Wolfson served in several finance and operations roles in the Company from December
−Removed: 2019 to March 2022.
−Removed: Wolfson’s experience includes working with large pharmaceutical and hi-tech companies, as well as venture
−Removed: capital funds.
−Removed: Prior to joining the Company, Ms.
−Removed: Wolfson worked as Vice President of Finance at BioView Ltd.
−Removed: (TASE:BIOV) from 2010 to
−Removed: 2019 and a senior auditor at Ernst & Young, from 2007 to 2010.
−Removed: Wolfson is a certified public accountant in Israel and holds
−Removed: a B.A in Economics and Accounting (with honors) and an MBA (with honors, specializing in finance) from Ben-Gurion University.
+Added: The content of our website is not intended to be incorporated by reference into this Annual Report or in any other report
+Added: or document we file and any references to these websites are intended to be inactive textual references only.
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