Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
−Removed: Forward-Looking
−Removed: quarterly report on Form 10-Q contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform
−Removed: Act of 1995 and other Federal securities laws, and is subject to the safe-harbor created by such Act and laws.
Forward-Looking Statements
−Removed: may include statements regarding our goals, beliefs, strategies, objectives, plans, including product and technology developments, future
−Removed: financial conditions, results or projections or current expectations.
−Removed: In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology
−Removed: such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,”
−Removed: “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential” or “continue,”
−Removed: the negative of such terms, or other variations thereon or comparable terminology.
−Removed: These statements are merely predictions and therefore
−Removed: inherently subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause actual results, performance
−Removed: levels of activity, or our achievements, or industry results to be materially different from those contemplated by the forward-looking
−Removed: Such forward-looking statements appear in this Item 2 – “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
−Removed: Condition and Results of Operations,” and may appear elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and include, but are not limited
−Removed: to, statements regarding the following:
−Removed: the expected development
−Removed: and potential benefits from our products in treating various medical conditions;
−Removed: our entering into certain
−Removed: contracts with third parties;
−Removed: the prospects of entering
−Removed: into additional license agreements, or other forms of cooperation with other companies, research organizations and medical institutions;
−Removed: our pre-clinical and clinical
−Removed: trials plans, including timing of initiation, expansion, enrollment and conclusion of trials;
−Removed: achieving regulatory approvals,
−Removed: including under accelerated paths;
−Removed: receipt of future funding
−Removed: from the Israel Innovation Authority, or IIA, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program, as well as grants from other independent
−Removed: third parties;
−Removed: the receipt of funds pursuant
−Removed: to our finance agreement, or the EIB Finance Agreement, with the European Investment Bank, or the EIB, and whether we will achieve
−Removed: the milestones necessary to receive funds thereunder;
−Removed: developing capabilities
−Removed: for new clinical indications of placenta expanded, or PLX, cells and new products;
−Removed: the progress of our regulated
−Removed: clinical multinational trial program for the potential use of PLX cells in the treatment of patients suffering from ARDS associated
−Removed: with COVID-19;
−Removed: our expectation to demonstrate
−Removed: a real-world impact and value from our pipeline, technology platform and commercial-scale manufacturing capacity;
−Removed: our expectations regarding
−Removed: our short- and long-term capital requirements;
−Removed: our outlook for the coming
−Removed: months and future periods, including but not limited to our expectations regarding future revenue and expenses;
−Removed: information with respect
−Removed: to any other plans and strategies for our business;
−Removed: our expectation regarding
−Removed: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including on our clinical trials and operations.
−Removed: business and operations are subject to substantial risks, which increase the uncertainty inherent in the forward-looking statements contained
−Removed: in this report.
−Removed: addition, historic results of scientific research, clinical and preclinical trials do not guarantee that the conclusions of future research
−Removed: or trials would not suggest different conclusions.
−Removed: Also, historic results referred to in this periodic report would be interpreted differently
−Removed: in light of additional research, clinical and preclinical trials results.
−Removed: Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to release
−Removed: publicly the result of any revision to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the
−Removed: date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
−Removed: Further information on potential factors that could affect our business
−Removed: is described under the heading “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A, of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
−Removed: June 30, 2021, or the 2021 Annual Report, as well as Item 1A of this Quarterly Report.
−Removed: Readers are also urged to carefully review and
−Removed: consider the various disclosures we have made in that report.
−Removed: used in this quarterly report, the terms “we”, “us”, “our”, the “Company” and “Pluristem”
−Removed: mean Pluristem Therapeutics Inc.
+Added: This quarterly report on Form
+Added: 10-Q contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other
+Added: Federal securities laws, and is subject to the safe-harbor created by such Act and laws.
+Added: Forward-looking statements may include statements
+Added: regarding our goals, beliefs, strategies, objectives, plans, including product and technology developments, future financial conditions,
+Added: results or projections or current expectations.
+Added: In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,”
+Added: “will,” “should,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,”
+Added: “estimate,” “predict,” “potential” or “continue,” the negative of such terms, or other
+Added: variations thereon or comparable terminology.
+Added: These statements are merely predictions and therefore inherently subject to known and unknown
+Added: risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause actual results, performance levels of activity, or our achievements,
+Added: or industry results to be materially different from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements.
+Added: Such forward-looking statements
+Added: appear in this Item 2 – “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,”
+Added: and may appear elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the following:
+Added: expected development and potential benefits from our products in treating various medical
+Added: entering into certain contracts with third parties;
+Added: prospects of entering into additional license agreements, or other forms of cooperation with
+Added: other companies, research organizations and medical institutions, including, without limitation
+Added: Tnuva (as defined below);
+Added: pre-clinical and clinical trials plans, including timing of initiation, expansion, enrollment,
+Added: results, and conclusion of trials;
+Added: regulatory approvals, including under accelerated paths;
+Added: of future funding from the Israel Innovation Authority, or IIA, the European Union’s
+Added: Horizon programs, as well as grants from other independent third parties;
+Added: receipt of additional funds pursuant to our finance agreement, or the EIB Finance Agreement,
+Added: with the European Investment Bank, or the EIB, and whether we will achieve further milestones
+Added: necessary to receive additional funds thereunder;
+Added: capabilities for new clinical indications of placenta expanded, or PLX, cells and new products;
+Added: progress of our multinational Phase III trial program for the potential use of PLX cells
+Added: in the treatment of muscle injury following arthroplasty for hip fracture;
+Added: expectation to demonstrate a real-world impact and value from our pipeline, technology platform
+Added: and commercial-scale manufacturing capacity;
+Added: possible impacts of cybersecurity incidents on our business and operations;
+Added: expectations regarding our short- and long-term capital requirements;
+Added: outlook for the coming months and future periods, including but not limited to our expectations
+Added: regarding future revenue and expenses;
+Added: ● information
+Added: with respect to any other plans and strategies for our business;
+Added: expectations regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including on our clinical trials
+Added: and operations.
+Added: Our business and operations
+Added: are subject to substantial risks, which increase the uncertainty inherent in the forward-looking statements contained in this report.
+Added: In addition, historic
+Added: results of scientific research, clinical and preclinical trials do not guarantee that the conclusions of future research or trials would
+Added: not suggest different conclusions.
+Added: Also, historic results referred to in this periodic report would be interpreted differently in light
+Added: of additional research, clinical and preclinical trials results.
+Added: Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to release publicly
+Added: the result of any revision to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof
+Added: or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
+Added: Further information on potential factors that could affect our business is described
+Added: under the heading “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A, of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30,
+Added: 2021, or the 2021 Annual Report, as well as Item 1A of this Quarterly Report.
+Added: Readers are also urged to carefully review and consider
+Added: the various disclosures we have made in that report.
+Added: As used in this quarterly
+Added: report, the terms “we”, “us”, “our”, the “Company” and “Pluristem” mean Pluristem
+Added: Therapeutics Inc.
and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Pluristem Ltd.
−Removed: and Pluristem GmbH, unless otherwise indicated or
−Removed: as otherwise required by the context.
−Removed: are a biotechnology company focused in the field of regenerative medicine, and a leading developer of placenta-based cell therapy product
−Removed: candidates for the treatment of multiple inflammatory, muscle injuries and hematologic conditions.
−Removed: Our operations are focused on the
−Removed: research, development, manufacturing, conducting clinical studies and business development of cell therapeutics and related technologies.
−Removed: develop, and intend to commercialize, cell therapy production technologies and products that are derived from the human placenta after
−Removed: a full-term delivery of a healthy baby.
−Removed: Our placental expanded, or PLX, cells are adherent stromal cells that are expanded using a proprietary
−Removed: three-dimensional, or 3D, process.
−Removed: This system utilizes a synthetic scaffold to create an artificial 3D environment where placental-derived
−Removed: stromal cells can grow.
−Removed: Our PLX cells can be administered to patients off-the-shelf, without blood or tissue matching or additional
−Removed: manipulation prior to administration.
−Removed: PLX cells are believed to release a range of therapeutic proteins in response to the patient’s
−Removed: condition such as inflammation, muscle trauma, hematological disorders and radiation damage.
−Removed: are conducting several multinational clinical studies which consist of a Phase III clinical study in muscle recovery following surgery
−Removed: for hip fracture and two Phase II clinical studies in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or ARDS, associated with COVID-19 in the United
−Removed: States, Europe and Israel.
−Removed: In addition, we are focusing on other clinical programs in the hematological field such as a Phase I clinical
−Removed: study for incomplete recovery following bone marrow transplantation in the United States and Israel, an investigator-led Phase I/II Chronic
−Removed: Graft versus Host Disease study in Israel, and Acute Radiation Syndrome, or ARS, under the U.S.
−Removed: Food and Drug Administration, or FDA,
−Removed: We believe that each of these indications is a severe unmet medical need.
−Removed: July 8, 2021, we announced that we are bringing our COVID-19 complicated by ARDS Phase II studies in the United States, Europe and Israel
−Removed: to clinical readout.
−Removed: The analysis will be based on 89 patients enrolled.
−Removed: We expect to announce the topline results of the readout during
−Removed: the fourth calendar quarter of 2021.
−Removed: Our Phase III clinical study in muscle recovery following surgery for hip fracture has enrolled
−Removed: more than 95 percent of its patients and is expected to complete enrollment in November 2021.
−Removed: have completed enrollment in our first in human Phase I clinical study in incomplete hematopoietic recovery following hematopoietic cell
−Removed: transplantation, or HCT, in the United States and Israel.
−Removed: The study has completed enrollment of 21 patients and is designed to assess
−Removed: the safety of PLX-R18.
−Removed: We completed one year follow up for all patients during September 2021.
−Removed: On April 2021, we announced positive
−Removed: topline results of this study as disclosed in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the
−Removed: manufacturing facility complies with the European, Japanese, Israeli, South Korean and the FDA’s current Good Manufacturing Practice,
−Removed: or cGMP, requirements and has been inspected and approved by the European and Israeli regulators for production of PLX cells for late
−Removed: stage trials.
+Added: and Pluristem GmbH, unless otherwise indicated or as otherwise required
+Added: by the context.
+Added: We are a biotechnology company
+Added: with an advanced cell-based technology platform.
+Added: We have developed a unique three-dimensional, or 3D, technology platform for cell expansion
+Added: with an industrial scale in-house GMP cell manufacturing facility.
+Added: We are utilizing our technology in the field of regenerative medicine
+Added: and plan to utilize it in other industries and verticals that have a need for our mass scale and cost-effective cell expansion platform.
+Added: Our operations are focused
+Added: on the research, development and manufacturing of cells, conducting clinical studies and the business development of cell therapeutics
+Added: and cell based technologies, such as our recent collaboration with Tnuva Food Industries – Agricultural Cooperative in Israel Ltd.,
+Added: through its fully owned subsidiary, Tnuva Food-Tech Incubator (2019), Limited Partnership, or Tnuva, to use our technology to establish
+Added: a cultured food platform.
+Added: We use our advanced cell-based
+Added: technology platform in the field of regenerative medicine to develop placenta-based cell therapy product candidates for the treatment
+Added: of multiple inflammatory, muscle injuries and hematologic conditions.
+Added: We develop, and intend to commercialize, cell therapy production
+Added: technologies and products that are derived from the human placenta after a full-term delivery of a healthy baby.
+Added: Our placental expanded,
+Added: or PLX, cells are adherent stromal cells that are expanded using our 3D platform.
+Added: Our PLX cells can be administered to patients
+Added: off-the-shelf, without blood or tissue matching or additional manipulation prior to administration.
+Added: PLX cells are believed to release
+Added: a range of therapeutic proteins in response to the patient’s condition.
+Added: We intend to enhance the global
+Added: reach of our cell expansion technology and PLX product portfolio, enabling the development of various new cell-based products for multiple
+Added: applications, based on our innovative technology and manufacturing capabilities.
+Added: goal is to make significant progress with our clinical pipeline and clinical studies to ultimately bring innovative, potent therapies
+Added: to patients who need new treatment options.
+Added: In addition, we plan to continue leveraging our proprietary technology for other industries
+Added: and verticals that have a need for our mass scale and cost-effective cell expansion platform, such as the food tech industry.
+Added: to demonstrate a real-world impact and value from our cell based technology platform and PLX pipeline.
+Added: Our business model for commercialization
+Added: and revenue generation includes, but is not limited to, licensing deals, joint ventures, direct sale of our products and partnerships.
+Added: Clinical Studies
+Added: We are conducting several
+Added: multinational clinical studies which consist of a Phase III clinical study in muscle recovery following surgery for hip fracture and two
+Added: Phase II clinical studies in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or ARDS, associated with COVID-19 in the United States, Europe and Israel.
+Added: In addition, we are focusing on other clinical programs in the hematological field such as a Phase I clinical study for incomplete recovery
+Added: following bone marrow transplantation in the United States and Israel, an investigator-led Phase I/II Chronic Graft versus Host Disease
+Added: study in Israel, and Acute Radiation Syndrome, or ARS, under the U.S.
+Added: Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, animal rule.
+Added: We believe that
+Added: each of these indications is a severe unmet medical need.
+Added: On November 15, 2021, we announced
+Added: that we fully completed the enrollment of 240 patients for our Phase III clinical study in muscle recovery following surgery for hip fracture.
+Added: The multinational clinical study includes patients from the U.S., Europe, and Israel, and we expect to announce topline results in the
+Added: third calendar quarter of 2022.
+Added: On December 27, 2021, we announced
+Added: topline results for our COVID-19 studies based on 89 patients enrolled.
+Added: The primary efficacy endpoint was the number of ventilator free
+Added: days, or VFD, from day 1 through day 28 of the studies.
+Added: VFD at day 60 and all-cause mortality at days 28 and 60 were part of the secondary
+Added: efficacy endpoints in the studies.
+Added: The studies did not meet the primary efficacy endpoint of statistically significant improvement of
+Added: VFD at 28 days.
+Added: Taking into consideration the baseline risk factors of the ARDS patients, no differences in the safety profile were observed
+Added: between PLX-PAD and placebo.
+Added: We have completed enrollment
+Added: in our first in human Phase I clinical study in incomplete hematopoietic recovery following hematopoietic cell transplantation, or HCT,
+Added: in the United States and Israel.
+Added: The study has completed enrollment of 21 patients and is designed to assess the safety of PLX-R18.
+Added: completed one year follow up for all patients during September 2021.
+Added: In April 2021, we announced positive topline results of this
+Added: study and we plan to announce final results following a one year follow up during the first calendar quarter of 2022.
+Added: Our manufacturing facility
+Added: complies with the European, Japanese, Israeli, South Korean and the FDA’s current Good Manufacturing Practice, or cGMP, requirements
+Added: and has been inspected and approved by the European Qualified Person, or QP, and Israeli MoH for production of PLX cells for late stage
We have also been granted manufacturer/importer authorization and cGMP Certification by the Israeli Ministry of Health.
−Removed: If we obtain FDA and other regulatory approvals to market PLX cells, we expect to have in-house production capacity to grow PLX cells
−Removed: in commercial quantities.
−Removed: goal is to make significant progress with our clinical pipeline and our clinical studies in order to ultimately bring innovative, potent
−Removed: therapies to patients who need new treatment options.
−Removed: We expect to demonstrate a real-world impact and value from our pipeline, technology
−Removed: platform and commercial-scale manufacturing capacity.
−Removed: Our business model for commercialization and revenue generation includes, but is
−Removed: not limited to, licensing deals, joint ventures with pharmaceutical companies, direct sale of our products, and partnerships.
−Removed: RESULTS OF OPERATIONS – THREE MONTHS
−Removed: ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 COMPARED TO THREE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2020.
−Removed: We had no revenues during the
−Removed: three-month periods ended September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2020.
+Added: obtain FDA and other regulatory approvals to market PLX cells, we expect to have in-house production capacity to grow PLX cells in commercial
+Added: On January 5, 2022, we entered
+Added: a joint venture with Tnuva and through our fully owned subsidiary Pluristem Ltd.
+Added: Under the joint venture agreement, we established a new
+Added: company, Plurinuva Ltd.
+Added: (which name may be changed from time to time), an Israeli company, or NewCo, with the purpose of developing cultured
+Added: meat products of all types and kinds.
+Added: NewCo is intended to be engaged in the development, manufacturing and commercialization of technology,
+Added: know-how and products that will be based on licensed products relating to the field of cultured meat, or the Field.
+Added: Pursuant to the joint venture,
+Added: Tnuva entered into a Share Purchase Agreement, or the SPA, with NewCo and Pluristem Ltd., pursuant to which NewCo shall issue, on the
+Added: closing date of the SPA, 15.79% of its share capital to Tnuva, as well as a warrant to purchase additional shares of Newco, in consideration
+Added: of an aggregate of $7,500,000 in cash.
+Added: In addition, pursuant to the SPA, in the event the Company decides to use its technology for the
+Added: development of cultured milk or fish products, Tnuva shall also have the right, for a period of seven (7) years following the Closing
+Added: Date, to participate in the formation of additional separate joint ventures for the development of those products.
+Added: Prior to the Closing Date,
+Added: the Subsidiary and NewCo also agreed to execute a Technology License Agreement, or the License Agreement, and at the Closing, the Subsidiary
+Added: and NewCo shall execute a Transitional Services Agreement, or the Services Agreement.
+Added: Pursuant to the License Agreement, the Subsidiary
+Added: shall grant NewCo an exclusive, royalty bearing, perpetual and irrevocable, worldwide, non-transferable (except under specific circumstances
+Added: specified thereunder), sublicensable license to its technology for the use in the development of the Licensed Products.
+Added: In addition, NewCo
+Added: shall grant the Subsidiary, pursuant to the License Agreement, an exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable, worldwide, sublicensable, royalty-free,
+Added: license to use, make, exploit and develop the improvements made by NewCo to the licensed technology outside of the Field.
+Added: In consideration
+Added: for the license, NewCo agreed to grant the Subsidiary royalties in the mid-single digits.
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the Services Agreement,
+Added: the Subsidiary shall provide NewCo transitional services to support its commercial efforts on a cost basis, for an initial term of eighteen
+Added: (18) months, subject to mutual extension for an additional six (6) months.
+Added: Pursuant to the SPA, Tnuva
+Added: and NewCo agreed to enter into a Commercialization Agreement within twelve (12) months pursuant to which Tnuva shall be granted exclusive
+Added: marketing, distribution and sale rights of the Licensed Products in Israel.
+Added: Tnuva’s exclusivity in the region will be subject to
+Added: achieving and maintaining specific milestones.
+Added: NewCo shall retain exclusive worldwide marketing, distribution, and sale rights for the
+Added: Licensed Products worldwide, except in Israel.
+Added: RESULTS OF OPERATIONS – THREE AND SIX
+Added: MONTHS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021 COMPARED TO THREE AND SIX MONTHS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020.
+Added: We had no revenues for either
+Added: the six or three-month periods ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020.
Research and Development Expenses, Net
Research and development expense,
−Removed: net (costs less participation and grants by the Horizon 2020 program, the IIA and other parties) for the three-month period ended September
−Removed: 30, 2021 increased by 7% from $5,938,000 for the three-month period ended September 30, 2020 to $6,353,000.
−Removed: The increase is mainly attributed
−Removed: (1) an increase in payroll expenses related to payroll adjustments and the strength of the New Israel Shekel, or NIS, against the
−Removed: dollar and (2) a decrease in participation by the EU with respect to the Horizon 2020 program, as a result of our utilizing the entirety
−Removed: of the grant under such program during the three month period ended September 30, 2020.
−Removed: The increase was partially offset by lower clinical
−Removed: trial subcontractor expenses associated with our CLI clinical trial that was terminated and a decrease in materials expenses.
+Added: net (costs less participation and grants by the Horizon 2020 program, the IIA and other parties) for the six-month period ended December
+Added: 31, 2021 decreased by 8% from $13,915,000 for the six-month period ended December 31, 2020 to $12,860,000.
+Added: The decrease is mainly attributed
+Added: to a decrease in clinical trial subcontractor expenses following the termination of our prior study relating to the use of our PLX-PAD
+Added: cells for the treatment of critical limb ischemia, or CLI, and the progress of our Phase II studies of ARDS associated with COVID-19.
+Added: The decrease was partially offset by higher payroll expenses related to payroll adjustments and the strength of the New Israel Shekel,
+Added: or NIS, against the U.S.
+Added: dollar and a decrease in participation by the EU with respect to the Horizon 2020 program, as a result of our
+Added: utilizing the entirety of the grant under such program during the six-month period ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: Research and development expense,
+Added: net (costs less participation and grants by the Horizon 2020 program, the IIA and other parties) for the three-month period ended December
+Added: 31, 2021 decreased by 18% from $7,977,000 for the three-month period ended December 31, 2020 to $6,507,000.
+Added: The decrease is mainly attributed
+Added: to a decrease in clinical trial subcontractor expenses following the termination of the CLI and the progress of our Phase II studies of
+Added: ARDS associated with COVID-19.
+Added: The decrease was partially offset by higher payroll expenses related to payroll adjustments and the strength
+Added: of the NIS against the U.S.
General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative
−Removed: expenses for the three-month period ended September 30, 2021 increased by 82% from $2,799,000 for the three-month period ended September
+Added: expenses for the six-month period ended December 31, 2021 increased by 19% from $7,896,000 for the six-month period ended December 31,
2020 to $9,376,000.
−Removed: The increase is mainly attributed to:
−Removed: (1) an increase in share-based compensation expenses related to the restricted
−Removed: stock units, or RSUs, granted, as a result of the fair value of such grants at the time they were made and the expected vesting periods,
−Removed: including the RSU grants to our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman, and (2) an increase in directors and officers insurance
−Removed: premium expenses.
−Removed: The increase was partially offset by a decrease in payroll expenses related to the entitlement of Mr.
−Removed: Aberman, our Executive
−Removed: Chairman, to certain adjustment fees pursuant to his amended consulting agreement recorded in the three months ended September 30, 2020.
+Added: The increase is mainly attributed to an increase in share-based compensation expenses related to granted restricted
+Added: stock units, or RSUs, an increase in payroll expenses related to payroll adjustments, an increase in head count in general and administrative
+Added: departments and the strength of the NIS against the U.S.
+Added: General and administrative
+Added: expenses for the three-month period ended December 31, 2021 decreased by 16% from $5,097,000 for the three-month period ended December
+Added: 31, 2020 to $4,288,000.
+Added: The decrease is mainly attributed to a decrease in share-based compensation expenses related to granted RSUs.
+Added: The decrease was partially offset by an increase in payroll expenses related to new employees and payroll adjustments, and provision for
+Added: losses due to cyber event as mentioned in the Risk Factors below.
Financial Income
Financial income decreased
−Removed: from a financial income of $301,000 for the three-month period ended September 30, 2020 to a financial income of $263,000 for the three-month
−Removed: period ended September 30, 2021.
−Removed: This decrease is mainly attributable to decrease in income from exchange rate differences, partially
−Removed: offset by an increase in interest income as a result of an increase in deposits.
+Added: from a financial income of $947,000 for the six-month period ended December 31, 2020 to a financial income of $419,000 for the six-month
+Added: period ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: This decrease is mainly attributable to a decrease in income from exchange rate differences on deposits
+Added: linked to the NIS, partially offset by an increase in interest income on deposits linked to the Euro.
+Added: Financial income decreased
+Added: from a financial income of $646,000 for the three-month period ended December 31, 2020 to a financial income of $156,000 for the three-month
+Added: period ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: This decrease is mainly attributable to a decrease in income from exchange rate differences on deposits
+Added: linked to the NIS, partially offset by an increase in interest income on deposits linked to the Euro.
Financial Expenses
Financial expenses increased
−Removed: from a financial expense of $53,000 for the three-month period ended September 30, 2020 to a financial expense of $254,000 for the three-month
−Removed: period ended September 30, 2021.
+Added: from financial expense of $179,000 for the six-month period ended December 31, 2020 to financial expenses of $555,000 for the six-month
+Added: period ended December 31, 2021.
This increase is mainly attributable to interest expenses related to the EIB loan provided to us pursuant
to the EIB Finance Agreement.
−Removed: Net loss for the three-month
−Removed: period ended September 30, 2021 was $11,432,000 as compared to net loss of $8,489,000 for the three-month period ended September 30, 2020.
−Removed: The increases in net loss were mainly due to increases in research and development expenses and general and administrative expenses, as
−Removed: described above.
−Removed: Net loss per share for the three-month period ended September 30, 2021 was $0.36 as compared to $0.33 for the three-month
−Removed: period ended September 30, 2020.
−Removed: For the three-month periods
−Removed: ended September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2020, we had weighted average common shares outstanding of 32,000,789 and 25,535,593, respectively,
−Removed: which were used in the computations of net loss per share for the three-month periods.
+Added: Financial expenses increased
+Added: from a financial expense of $126,000 for the three-month period ended December 31, 2020 to financial expenses of $301,000 for the three-month
+Added: period ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: This increase is mainly attributable to interest expenses related to the EIB loan provided to us pursuant
+Added: to the EIB Finance Agreement.
+Added: Net loss for the six and three-month
+Added: periods ended December 31, 2021 was $22,372,000 and $10,940,000 respectively, as compared to net loss of $21,043,000 and $12,554,000 for
+Added: the six and three-month periods ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: For the six-month period, the increase was mainly due to increases in general
+Added: and administrative expenses, and for the three-month period the decrease was due to a decrease in general and administrative expenses
+Added: and research and development expenses, as described above.
+Added: Net loss per share for the six and three-month periods ended December 31, 2021
+Added: was $0.70 and $0.34 as compared to $0.82 and $0.49 for the six and three-month periods ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: For the six and three-month
+Added: periods ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, we had weighted average common shares outstanding of 32,068,271, 32,136,352, and
+Added: 25,599,008, 25,662,752, respectively, which were used in the computations of net loss per share for the six and three-month periods.
increase in weighted average common shares outstanding reflects the issuance of additional shares mainly related to the issuances of shares
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
−Removed: As of September 30, 2021,
−Removed: our total current assets were $62,826,000 and total current liabilities were $10,365,000.
−Removed: On September 30, 2021, we had a working capital
−Removed: surplus of $52,461,000, shareholders’ equity of $48,907,000 and an accumulated deficit of $341,453,000.
+Added: As of December 31, 2021, our
+Added: total current assets were $60 , 153,000 and total current liabilities were $9 , 595,000.
+Added: On December 31, 2021, we had a working
+Added: capital surplus of $50,558,000, shareholders’ equity of $39 , 840 , 000 and an accumulated deficit of $352 , 393,000.
Our cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: as of September 30, 2021 amounted to $14,611,000, compared to $6,625,000 as of September 30, 2020, and compared to $31,241,000 as of June
−Removed: Cash balances changed in the three months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 for the reasons presented below.
+Added: as of December 31, 2021 amounted to $18,715,000, compared to $7,824,000 as of December 31, 2020, and compared to $31,241,000 as of June
+Added: Cash balances changed in the six months ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 for the reasons presented below.
Operating activities used
−Removed: cash of $8,789,000 in the three months ended September 30, 2021, compared to $6,141,000 in the three months ended September 30, 2020.
−Removed: Cash used in operating activities in the three months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 consisted primarily of payments of fees to our
−Removed: suppliers, subcontractors, professional services providers and consultants, including the costs of our clinical studies, and payments
−Removed: of salaries to our employees, partially offset by grants from the IIA, the EU’s Horizon 2020 program, Israel’s Ministry of
−Removed: Economy and other research grants.
−Removed: Investing activities used
−Removed: cash of $7,240,000 in the three months ended September 30, 2021, compared to cash provided of $4,199,000 for the three months ended September
−Removed: The investing activities in the three-month period ended September 30, 2021 consisted primarily of the investment of $12,084,000
−Removed: in short-term deposits and payments of $15,000 related to investment in property and equipment, partially offset by the withdrawal of
−Removed: $4,859,000 of long-term deposits.
−Removed: The investing activities in the three-month period ended September 30, 2020 consisted primarily of the
−Removed: withdrawal of $3,754,000 of short-term deposits and the withdrawal of $522,000 of long-term deposits, partially offset by payments of
+Added: cash of $18 , 652,000 in the six months ended December 31, 2021, compared to $13 , 984,000 in the six months ended December
+Added: The increase is manly attributed to payments made to our suppliers, an increase in payments to our employees and the strength
+Added: of the NIS against the U.S.
+Added: Cash used in operating activities in the six months ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 consisted primarily
+Added: of payments of fees to our suppliers, subcontractors, professional services providers and consultants, including the costs of our clinical
+Added: studies, and payments of salaries to our employees, partially offset by grants from the IIA, the EU’s Horizon 2020 program, Israel’s
+Added: Ministry of Economy and other research grants.
+Added: Investing activities provided
+Added: cash of $7,075,000 in the six months ended December 31, 2021, compared to cash provided of $11,771,000 for the six months ended December
+Added: The investing activities in the six-month period ended December 31, 2021 consisted primarily of the withdrawal of $12,658,000
+Added: of long-term deposits, partially offset by the investment of $5,539,000 in short-term deposits and payments of $44,000 related to investments
+Added: in property and equipment.
+Added: The investing activities in the six-month period ended December 31, 2020, consisted primarily of the withdrawal
+Added: of $2 , 445,000 of short-term deposits and the withdrawal of $9,533,000 of long-term deposits, partially offset by payments of $207,000
related to investment in property and equipment.
Financing activities did not
−Removed: generate cash during the three months ended September 30, 2021, compared to $300,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2020.
−Removed: cash generated in the three months ended September 30, 2020 from financing activities was related to net proceeds of $300,000 from the
−Removed: exercise of warrants.
+Added: generate cash during the six months period ended December 31, 2021, compared to $1,284,000 for the six months ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: The cash generated in the six months ended December 31, 2020 from financing activities was related to net proceeds of $920,000 related
+Added: to issuances made under the ATM Agreement and net proceeds of $364,000 from the exercise of warrants.
On July 16, 2020, we entered
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of approximately $8,506,000.
−Removed: During the three-months ended September 30, 2021, we did not sell any of our common shares under the
+Added: During the six-months ended December 31, 2021, we did not sell any of our common shares under the
ATM Agreement.
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be repaid on June 1, 2026 and bears annual interest of 4% to be paid together with the principal of the loan.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2021,
+Added: As of December 31, 2021,
the interest accrued was in the amount of $522,000 (€462,000).
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In the absence of such sales, no payment
−Removed: Through September 30, 2021, total grants obtained from the IIA aggregated to approximately $27,743,000 and total royalties
+Added: Through December 31, 2021, total grants obtained from the IIA aggregated to approximately $27,743,000 and total royalties
paid and accrued amounted to $169,000.
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CRISPR-IL is funded by the IIA with a total budget of approximately
−Removed: $10,000,000 of which, an amount of approximately $480,000 is a direct grant allocated to us, for the initial period of 18 months.
−Removed: Through September 30,
−Removed: 2021, we received total grants of approximately $443,000 in cash from the IIA pursuant to the CRISPR-IL consortium program, out of which
−Removed: an amount of $42,000 was received during the three-months ended September 30, 2021.During October 2021, we received an approval for an
−Removed: additional grant of approximately $583,000 from the IIA pursuant to the CRISPR-IL consortium program, for an additional period of 18 months.
+Added: $10,000,000 of which, an amount of approximately $480,000 was a direct grant allocated to us, for the initial period of 18 months.
+Added: October 2021, we received an approval for an additional grant of approximately $583,000 from the IIA pursuant to the CRISPR-IL consortium
+Added: program, for an additional period of 18 months.
+Added: December 31, 2021, we received total grants of approximately $646,000 in cash from the IIA pursuant to the CRISPR-IL consortium program,
+Added: out of which an amount of $245,000 was received during the six-months ended December 31, 2021.
The currency of our financial
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- “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk” in the 2021 Annual
−Removed: Report on form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021.
We have an effective Form
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to purchase common shares, and units of two or more of such securities in one or more offerings up to a total dollar amount of $250,000,000.
−Removed: As of November 4, 2021, other than the $75,000,000 of common shares we are eligible to sell pursuant to the ATM Agreement, and the $30,000,000
−Removed: of common shares we sold in the registered direct offering in February 2021, no securities have been sold pursuant to our effective Form
+Added: As of February 4, 2022, other than the $75,000,000 of common shares we are eligible to sell pursuant to the ATM Agreement, and the $30,000,000
+Added: of common shares we sold in a registered direct offering in February 2021, no securities have been sold pursuant to our effective Form
S-3 registration statement.
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