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+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2024, no director or officer of the Company adopted or terminated a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or non-Rule
+Added: 10b5-1 trading arrangement, as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.
+Added: Termination of Clinical Co-Development Agreement with AgonOx
+Added: On May 8, 2024, we notified
+Added: (“ AgonOx ”) of our election to terminate the Clinical Co-Development Agreement, dated February 26, 2021,
+Added: by and between the Company and AgonOx (the “ Clinical Co-Development Agreement ”), effective immediately.
+Added: to terminate the Clinical Co-Development Agreement pursuant to Section 12.2.3.3 of the Clinical Co-Development Agreement due to enrollment
+Added: delays in the Phase 1 clinical trial described below.
+Added: On February 26, 2021, we entered
+Added: into the Clinical Co-Development Agreement with AgonOx to develop a T cell-based therapy using our lead product candidate, PH-762, and
+Added: AgonOx’s “double positive” tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (“ DP TIL ”) technology.
+Added: Per the terms of
+Added: the Clinical Co-Development Agreement, we agreed to reimburse AgonOx up to $4,000,000 in expenses incurred to conduct a Phase 1 clinical
+Added: trial of PH-762 treated DP TIL in patients with advanced melanoma and other advanced solid tumors.
+Added: We were also eligible to receive certain
+Added: future development milestones and low single-digit sales-based royalty payments from AgonOx’s licensing of its DP TIL technology.
+Added: Prior to the termination of
+Added: the Clinical Co-Development Agreement with AgonOx, PH-762 treated DP TIL was being evaluated in a Phase 1 clinical trial in the United
+Added: States with up to 18 patients with advanced melanoma and other advanced solid tumors by AgonOx.
+Added: The primary trial objectives were to evaluate
+Added: the safety and to study the potential for enhanced therapeutic benefit from the administration of PH-762 treated DP TIL.
+Added: As of the effective
+Added: date of the termination, AgonOx had treated three patients.
+Added: The first two patients were treated with DP TIL only and the third patient
+Added: was treated with a combination of DP TIL and PH-762.
+Added: Effective as of the date of
+Added: termination, the Clinical Co-Development Agreement and our continuing obligations and those of AgonOx thereunder will be terminated in
+Added: their entirety.
+Added: We will no longer be required to provide financial support for the development costs incurred under the Clinical Co-Development
+Added: Agreement or entitled to certain future development milestones and low single-digit sales-based royalty payments from AgonOx’s licensing
+Added: of its DP TIL technology.
+Added: We will pay to AgonOx all payment obligations that have accrued prior to the termination of the Clinical Co-Development
+Added: We intend to pay to AgonOx future fees to be incurred for patients that were treated in the Phase 1 clinical trial as of the
+Added: date of termination.
+Added: We estimate that such payments will amount to approximately $388,000, which primarily relate to the Company’s
+Added: accrued obligations under the Clinical Co-Development Agreement as of March 31, 2024, as well as future fees to be incurred for patients
+Added: that were being treated in the Phase 1 clinical trial and other miscellaneous costs as of the date of termination.
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the
+Added: Clinical Co-Development Agreement, we and AgonOx shall meet and discuss the orderly wind-down of the Phase 1 clinical trial.
+Added: and AgonOx shall be responsible for its own costs and expenses incurred in connection with the wind-down of the Phase 1 clinical trial.
+Added: The foregoing summary of the
+Added: Clinical Co-Development Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, reference to the
+Added: full text of the Clinical Co-Development Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.2 to our Form 10-K for the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2023 and incorporated herein by reference.
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−Removed: Long Term Incentive Plan, as amended and restated.
−Removed: Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Award under the Company’s 2020 Long Term Incentive Plan.
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