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Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 202 3
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting
−Removed: To the Shareholders and Board of Directors
+Added: To the Stockholders and Board of Directors of
Xenetic Biosciences, Inc.
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(the “Company”) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements
−Removed: of comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2023, and
−Removed: the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”).
−Removed: In our opinion, the financial statements present
−Removed: fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations
−Removed: and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2023, in conformity with accounting principles generally
−Removed: accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2024, and the related
+Added: notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in
+Added: all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its
+Added: cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted
+Added: in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
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Critical Audit Matters
−Removed: The critical audit matters communicated below
−Removed: are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to
−Removed: the audit committee and that:
−Removed: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our
−Removed: especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments.
−Removed: The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion
−Removed: on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions
−Removed: on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
−Removed: Going Concern Assessment
−Removed: Description of the Matter
−Removed: We identified the Company’s assessment of
−Removed: its ability to continue as a going concern and related disclosures as a critical audit matter.
−Removed: The Company prepared future cash flow forecasts
−Removed: which involves judgement and estimation of key variables such as future expected revenue royalty proceeds and costs associated with progressing
−Removed: DNase technology.
−Removed: Auditing the Company’s going concern assessment described above involves a high degree of auditor judgment to
−Removed: assess the reasonableness of the cash flow forecasts and other assumptions used in the Company’s going concern analysis.
−Removed: As described in Note 1 to the consolidated financial
−Removed: statements, management believes that the Company has sufficient funding available to it at the date of approval of these financial statements
−Removed: and that it will be able to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from the date of these financial statements.
−Removed: In making this assessment, management has considered the Company’s existing resources.
−Removed: How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit
−Removed: We evaluated the assumptions used in the model
−Removed: to estimate the future cash flows for the next twelve months from the date of our opinion by comparing assumptions used by management
−Removed: against historical performance, budgets, and the Company’s strategic plans.
−Removed: We also assessed the key assumptions including those
−Removed: pertaining to revenue royalty proceeds and the timing of significant payments in the cash flow forecast by comparing them to historical
−Removed: data and the underlying agreements.
−Removed: We performed sensitivity analyses on key assumptions such as future expected costs to determine their
−Removed: impact on the projections of future cash flows.
−Removed: Further, we assessed the Company’s disclosures with respect to its going concern
−Removed: Revenue Recognition over Royalty Revenue
−Removed: Description of the Matter
−Removed: As described in Note 3 to the consolidated financial
−Removed: statements, the Company’s sources of revenue include royalty proceeds from a royalty agreement with a third-party based on potential
−Removed: net sales of approved commercial pharmaceutical products which is based on estimated variable consideration.
−Removed: The Company must use significant
−Removed: judgment to determine when the reported sales are reliably measurable, the Company has no remaining performance obligations, and all other
−Removed: revenue recognition criteria are met.
−Removed: The Company’s policy is to recognize expected royalties as revenue when they are reliably
−Removed: measurable, which is upon receipt of reports from the third-party.
−Removed: The Company typically receives these reports in the quarter subsequent
−Removed: to the actual sublicensee sales.
−Removed: The principal consideration for our determination
−Removed: that performing procedures relating to revenue recognition, specifically related to management’s estimate of the potential net sales
−Removed: as expected variable consideration, is a critical audit matter that requires significant judgment by management in determining the best
−Removed: estimate of the amount of expected variable consideration.
−Removed: This in turn led to a high degree of auditor judgment, subjectivity and effort
−Removed: in performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence related to management’s identification of expected variable consideration
−Removed: within the royalty contract with the third-party and the judgments made by management used to estimate the best estimate of variable consideration.
−Removed: How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit
−Removed: Addressing the matter involved performing procedures
−Removed: and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: These procedures
−Removed: included evaluating management’s best estimate of the potential net sales by the third-party to determine variable consideration.
−Removed: These procedures also included, among others, (i) evaluating and testing the reasonableness of the significant assumptions used by management,
−Removed: (ii) consideration of both historical or current trends, noting a relative lack of historical experience available in relation to expected
−Removed: amounts and (iii) obtaining and vouching evidence including reports received from the third-party.
+Added: Critical audit matters are matters arising from
+Added: the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and
+Added: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging,
+Added: subjective, or complex judgments.
+Added: We determined that there are no critical audit matters.
+Added: /s/ Marcum LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2015.
−Removed: Boston, Massachusetts
March 18, 2025
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1,804,394 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023
−Removed: Series A, $ 0.001 par value:
−Removed: 0 and 970,000 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively
Common stock, $ 0.001 par value;
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XENETIC BIOSCIENCES, INC.
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED
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Other income (expense):
−Removed: Other income (expense)
+Added: Other (expense) income
Interest income, net
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
+Added: Preferred Stock
+Added: Accumulated Deficit
Comprehensive
+Added: Treasury Stock
Stockholders'
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$ ( 5,281,180 )
−Removed: Issuance of common stock in connection with purchase of in-process research
−Removed: and development
−Removed: Exercise of purchase warrants
+Added: Issuance of common stock to adjust for reverse split rounding
+Added: Conversion of Series A preferred stock to shares of common stock
Share-based expense
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$ ( 5,281,180 )
−Removed: Issuance of common stock to adjust for reverse split rounding
−Removed: Conversion of Series A preferred stock to shares of common stock
+Added: Issuance of common stock in connection with restricted stock units
+Added: Exercise of purchase warrants
Share-based expense
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Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
−Removed: Acquired in-process research and development
−Removed: Amortization of right of use asset
Share-based expense
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( 4,114,219 )
−Removed: CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
−Removed: Net cash paid to acquire in-process research and development
−Removed: Net cash used in investing activities
Net change in cash
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SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULE OF NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
−Removed: Issuance of common stock to acquire in-process research and development
+Added: Issuance of common stock from cashless exercise of purchase warrants
Issuance of common stock to adjust for Reverse Stock Split
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or the “Company”), incorporated in the state of Nevada and based in Framingham, Massachusetts, is a biopharmaceutical company
−Removed: focused on advancing innovative immune-oncology technologies addressing hard to treat cancers.
+Added: focused on advancing innovative immune-oncology technologies addressing difficult to treat cancers.
The Company’s proprietary Deoxyribonuclease
−Removed: (“DNase”) platform is designed to improve outcomes of existing treatments, including immunotherapies, by targeting neutrophil
−Removed: extracellular traps (“NETs”), which have been implicated in cancer progression and resistance to cancer treatments.
−Removed: is currently focused on advancing its systemic DNase program into the clinic as an adjunctive therapy for pancreatic carcinoma and locally
−Removed: advanced or metastatic solid tumors.
−Removed: Additionally, Xenetic has partnered with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to develop its
−Removed: proprietary drug delivery platform, PolyXen ® , and receives royalty payments under an exclusive license arrangement in the
−Removed: field of blood coagulation disorders.
+Added: (“DNase”) technology is designed to improve outcomes of existing treatments, including immunotherapies, by targeting neutrophil
+Added: extracellular traps (“NETs”), which are involved in cancer progression.
+Added: Xenetic is currently focused on advancing its systemic
+Added: DNase program into the clinic as an adjunctive therapy for pancreatic carcinoma and locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors.
The Company, directly or indirectly, through its
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SymbioTec, GmbH (“SymbioTec”), own various United States (“U.S.”) federal trademark registrations and applications
−Removed: along with unregistered trademarks and service marks, including but not limited to XCART, OncoHist™, PolyXen, ErepoXen™, and
−Removed: ImuXen™, which are used throughout this Annual Report.
−Removed: All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies
−Removed: with which they are associated.
+Added: along with unregistered trademarks and service marks, including but not limited to XCART, OncoHist™, PolyXen ® , ErepoXen™,
+Added: and ImuXen™, which are used throughout this Annual Report.
+Added: All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective
+Added: companies with which they are associated.
Going Concern and Management’s Plan
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and expects to continue to incur operating losses in the near-term.
−Removed: These factors raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue
−Removed: as a going concern.
−Removed: The Company believes that it has access to capital resources through possible public or private equity offerings,
−Removed: debt financings, corporate collaborations, related party funding, or other means to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The Company believes
−Removed: that its existing resources will be adequate to fund the Company’s operations for a period of at least twelve months from the date
−Removed: of the issuance of these financial statements.
−Removed: However, the Company anticipates it may need additional capital in the long-term to pursue
−Removed: its business initiatives.
−Removed: The terms, timing and extent of any future financing will depend upon several factors, including the achievement
−Removed: of progress in its product development programs, its ability to identify and enter into licensing or other strategic arrangements, its
−Removed: continued listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”), and factors related to financial, economic, geo-political, industry
−Removed: and market conditions, many of which are beyond its control.
−Removed: The capital markets for the biotech industry can be highly volatile, which
−Removed: make the terms, timing and extent of any future financing uncertain.
−Removed: On June 3, 2022, the Company received a written
−Removed: notification (the “Notice”) from the Listing Qualifications Department of Nasdaq notifying the Company that the closing bid
−Removed: price for its common stock had been below $1.00 for 30 consecutive business days and that the Company therefore was not in compliance
−Removed: with the minimum bid price requirement for continued inclusion on Nasdaq under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) (the “Bid Price Requirement”).
−Removed: The Notice had no immediate effect on the listing of the Company’s common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market.
−Removed: On May 15, 2023, the
−Removed: Company effected a reduction, on a 1-for-10 basis, in its authorized common stock, par value $ 0.001 , along with a corresponding and proportional
−Removed: decrease in the number of shares issued and outstanding (the “Reverse Stock Split”).
−Removed: On May 30, 2023, the Company received
−Removed: a letter from Nasdaq notifying the Company that it has regained compliance with the Bid Price Requirement as a result of the closing bid
−Removed: price of the Company’s common stock being at $ 1.00 per share or greater for the 10 consecutive business days from May 15, 2023 through
−Removed: May 26, 2023 and that this matter is closed.
+Added: The Company believes that its existing resources will be adequate
+Added: to fund the Company’s operations for a period of at least twelve months from the date of the issuance of these financial statements.
+Added: However, the Company anticipates it will need additional capital in the long-term to pursue its business initiatives.
+Added: While the Company
+Added: believes that it has access to capital resources through possible public or private equity offerings, debt financings, corporate collaborations,
+Added: related party funding, or other means to continue as a going concern, the terms, timing and extent of any future financing will depend
+Added: upon several factors, including the achievement of progress in its product development programs, its ability to identify and enter into
+Added: licensing or other strategic arrangements, its continued listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”), and factors related
+Added: to financial, economic, geo-political, industry and market conditions, many of which are beyond its control.
+Added: The capital markets for the
+Added: biotech industry can be highly volatile, which make the terms, timing and extent of any future financing uncertain.
Risks and Uncertainties
−Removed: Global Conflicts on Operations
+Added: Impact of Global
+Added: Conflicts on Operations
The short and long-term
−Removed: implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and conflict in the Middle East are difficult to predict at this time.
−Removed: The imposition
−Removed: of current and future sanctions and counter sanctions may have an adverse effect on the economic markets generally and could impact our
−Removed: business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: implications of the conflicts in the Ukraine and Middle East are difficult to predict at this time.
+Added: The imposition of current and future
+Added: sanctions and counter sanctions may have an adverse effect on the economic markets generally and could impact our business, financial
+Added: condition, and results of operations.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Preparation of Financial Statements
−Removed: On May 15, 2023, the Company effected the Reverse
−Removed: On the effective date of the Reverse Stock Split, (i) every 10 shares of common stock were reduced to one share of common
−Removed: stock, with any fractional amounts rounded up to one share;
−Removed: (ii) the number of shares of common stock into which each outstanding warrant,
−Removed: restricted stock unit, or option to purchase common stock was convertible into was proportionately reduced on the same basis as the common
−Removed: (iii) the exercise price of each outstanding warrant or option to purchase common stock was proportionately increased on a 1-to-10
−Removed: and (iv) the number of shares of common stock into which each share of preferred stock was convertible into was proportionately
−Removed: reduced on the same basis as the common stock.
−Removed: Unless otherwise indicated, all of the share numbers, share prices, and exercise prices
−Removed: have been adjusted in this Annual Report, on a retroactive basis, to reflect this 1-for-10 Reverse Stock Split.
+Added: On May 15, 2023, the Company effected a reduction,
+Added: on a 1-for-10 basis , in its authorized common stock, par value $0.001, along with a corresponding and proportional decrease in the number
+Added: of shares issued and outstanding (the “Reverse Stock Split”).
+Added: On the effective date of the Reverse Stock Split, (i) every
+Added: 10 shares of common stock were reduced to one share of common stock, with any fractional amounts rounded up to one share;
+Added: (ii) the number
+Added: of shares of common stock into which each outstanding warrant, restricted stock unit (“RSU”), or option to purchase common
+Added: stock was convertible into was proportionately reduced on the same basis as the common stock;
+Added: (iii) the exercise price of each outstanding
+Added: warrant or option to purchase common stock was proportionately increased on a 1-to-10 basis;
+Added: and (iv) the number of shares of common stock
+Added: into which each share of preferred stock was convertible into was proportionately reduced on the same basis as the common stock.
+Added: otherwise indicated, all of the share numbers, share prices, and exercise prices have been adjusted in this Annual Report, on a retroactive
+Added: basis, to reflect this 1-for-10 Reverse Stock Split.
Principles of Consolidation
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and SymbioTec.
−Removed: All material intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
−Removed: Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified
−Removed: in this Annual Report to conform to the presentation for the current period.
+Added: Certain of the Company’s subsidiaries require guarantees of support from Xenetic.
+Added: While all intercompany balances
+Added: and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation, the Company has $0.2 million of cash collateralizing these guarantees.
Use of Estimates
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from foreign currency transactions arising from exchange rate fluctuations on balances denominated in currencies other than the functional
−Removed: currencies are recognized in “Other income (expense)” in the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss.
−Removed: Monetary assets
−Removed: and liabilities that are denominated in a currency other than the functional currency are re-measured to the functional currency using
−Removed: the exchange rate at the balance sheet date and gains or losses are recorded in the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss.
+Added: currencies are recognized in “Other (expense) income” in the consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: Monetary assets and liabilities
+Added: that are denominated in a currency other than the functional currency are re-measured to the functional currency using the exchange rate
+Added: at the balance sheet date and gains or losses are recorded in the consolidated statements of operations.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
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relationship with one large financial institution and all cash on deposit is covered under federally insured limits.
−Removed: Property and Equipment
−Removed: The Company records property and equipment at
−Removed: cost less accumulated depreciation.
−Removed: Expenditures for major renewals and improvements which extend the life or usefulness of the asset
−Removed: are capitalized.
−Removed: Items of an ordinary repair or maintenance nature are charged directly to operating expense as incurred.
−Removed: calculates depreciation using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets:
−Removed: Schedule of estimated useful life of assets
−Removed: Asset Classification
−Removed: Estimated Useful Life
−Removed: Office and computer equipment
−Removed: Leasehold improvements
−Removed: 5 years or the remaining term of the lease, if shorter
−Removed: Furniture and fixtures
−Removed: The Company eliminates the cost of assets retired
−Removed: or otherwise disposed of, along with the corresponding accumulated depreciation, from the related accounts, and the resulting gain or
−Removed: loss is reflected in the results of operations.
Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets
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the IPR&D assets will be amortized over their estimated useful lives.
−Removed: IPR&D is not amortized but is reviewed for
−Removed: impairment at least annually or when events or changes in the business environment indicate that it is more likely than not that the carrying
−Removed: value may be impaired.
−Removed: The Company also has the option to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether the existence of events
−Removed: or circumstances leads the Company to determine that it is more likely than not (that is, a likelihood of more than 50%) that the acquired
−Removed: IPR&D is impaired.
−Removed: If the Company chooses to first assess the qualitative factors and it is determined that it is not more likely
−Removed: than not acquired IPR&D is impaired, the Company is not required to take further action to test for impairment.
−Removed: The Company also has
−Removed: the option to bypass the qualitative assessment and perform only the quantitative impairment test, which the Company may choose to perform
−Removed: in some periods but not in others.
−Removed: The impairment loss, if any, is measured as the excess of the carrying value of the intangible asset
−Removed: over its fair value.
+Added: Indefinite-lived intangible assets are not amortized
+Added: but are reviewed for impairment at least annually or when events or changes in the business environment indicate that it is more likely
+Added: than not that the carrying value may be impaired.
+Added: The Company also has the option to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether
+Added: the existence of events or circumstances leads the Company to determine that it is more likely than not (that is, a likelihood of more
+Added: than 50%) that the acquired indefinite-lived intangible assets are impaired.
+Added: If the Company chooses to first assess the qualitative factors
+Added: and it is determined that it is not more likely than not acquired indefinite-lived intangible assets are impaired, the Company is not
+Added: required to take further action to test for impairment.
+Added: The Company also has the option to bypass the qualitative assessment and perform
+Added: only the quantitative impairment test, which the Company may choose to perform in some periods but not in others.
+Added: The impairment loss,
+Added: if any, is measured as the excess of the carrying value of the intangible asset over its fair value.
Intangible assets are highly vulnerable to impairment
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Considering the high risk nature of research and development and the industry’s
−Removed: success rate of bringing developmental compounds to market, IPR&D impairment charges are likely to occur in future periods.
−Removed: the fair value of IPR&D for potential impairment is highly sensitive to changes in projections and assumptions and changes to assumptions
−Removed: could potentially lead to impairment.
−Removed: The Company believes its estimates and assumptions are reasonable and otherwise consistent with
−Removed: assumptions market participants would use in their estimates of fair value.
−Removed: However, if future results are not consistent with the Company’s
−Removed: estimates and assumptions, then the Company may be exposed to an impairment charge, which could be material.
−Removed: Use of different estimates
−Removed: and judgments could yield materially different results in the Company’s analysis and could result in materially different asset
−Removed: values or expense.
−Removed: Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
−Removed: The Company reviews long-lived assets to be held
−Removed: and used, including property and equipment, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount
−Removed: of the assets or asset group may not be fully recoverable.
−Removed: Evaluation of recoverability
−Removed: is based on an estimate of undiscounted future cash flows resulting from the use of the asset or asset group and its eventual disposition.
−Removed: Impairment, if any, is calculated as the amount by which an asset’s carrying value exceeds its fair value, typically using discounted
−Removed: cash flows to determine fair value.
−Removed: No such impairments were recorded during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
+Added: success rate of bringing developmental compounds to market, indefinite-lived intangible asset impairment charges are likely to occur in
+Added: future periods.
+Added: Estimating the fair value of indefinite-lived intangible assets for potential impairment is highly sensitive to changes
+Added: in projections and assumptions and changes to assumptions could potentially lead to impairment.
+Added: The Company believes its estimates and
+Added: assumptions are reasonable and otherwise consistent with assumptions market participants would use in their estimates of fair value.
+Added: if future results are not consistent with the Company’s estimates and assumptions, then the Company may be exposed to an impairment
+Added: charge, which could be material.
+Added: Use of different estimates and judgments could yield materially different results in the Company’s
+Added: analysis and could result in materially different asset values or expense.
Revenue Recognition
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As part of the accounting for these arrangements,
−Removed: the Company must use significant judgment to determine:
−Removed: a) the number of performance obligations based on the determination under step
+Added: the Company must use judgment to determine:
+Added: a) the number of performance obligations based on the determination under step (ii) above;
b) the transaction price under step (iii) above;
−Removed: and c) the stand-alone selling price for each performance obligation identified
−Removed: in the contract for the allocation of transaction price in step (iv) above.
−Removed: The Company uses judgment to determine whether milestones
−Removed: or other variable consideration should be included in the transaction price as described further below.
−Removed: The transaction price is allocated
−Removed: to each performance obligation on a relative stand-alone selling price basis, for which the Company recognizes revenue as or when the
−Removed: performance obligations under the contract are satisfied.
−Removed: In developing the stand-alone price for a performance obligation, the Company
−Removed: considers applicable market conditions and relevant entity-specific factors, including factors that were contemplated in negotiating the
−Removed: agreement with the customer and estimated costs.
−Removed: The Company validates the stand-alone selling price for performance obligations by evaluating
−Removed: whether changes in the key assumptions used to determine the stand-alone selling prices will have a significant effect on the allocation
−Removed: of transaction price between multiple performance obligations.
−Removed: The Company recognizes a contract asset or liability for the difference
−Removed: between the Company’s performance (i.e., the goods or services transferred to the customer) and the customer’s performance
−Removed: (i.e., the consideration paid by, and unconditionally due from, the customer).
+Added: and c) the stand-alone selling price for each performance obligation identified in the
+Added: contract for the allocation of transaction price in step (iv) above.
+Added: The Company uses judgment to determine whether milestones or other
+Added: variable consideration should be included in the transaction price as described further below.
+Added: The transaction price is allocated to each
+Added: performance obligation on a relative stand-alone selling price basis, for which the Company recognizes revenue as or when the performance
+Added: obligations under the contract are satisfied.
+Added: In developing the stand-alone price for a performance obligation, the Company considers
+Added: applicable market conditions and relevant entity-specific factors, including factors that were contemplated in negotiating the agreement
+Added: with the customer and estimated costs.
+Added: The Company validates the stand-alone selling price for performance obligations by evaluating whether
+Added: changes in the key assumptions used to determine the stand-alone selling prices will have a significant effect on the allocation of transaction
+Added: price between multiple performance obligations.
+Added: The Company recognizes a contract asset or liability for the difference between the Company’s
+Added: performance (i.e., the goods or services transferred to the customer) and the customer’s performance (i.e., the consideration paid
+Added: by, and unconditionally due from, the customer).
The terms of the Company’s license agreements
−Removed: may include delivery of an IP license to a collaboration partner.
−Removed: The Company may be compensated under license arrangements through a
−Removed: combination of non-refundable upfront receipts, development and regulatory objective receipts and royalty receipts on future product sales
−Removed: The Company anticipates recognizing non-refundable upfront license payments and development and regulatory milestone payments
−Removed: received by the Company in license and collaboration arrangements that include future obligations, such as supply obligations, ratably
−Removed: over the Company’s expected performance period under each respective arrangement.
−Removed: The Company makes its best estimate of the period
−Removed: over which the Company expects to fulfill the Company’s performance obligations, which may include technology transfer assistance,
−Removed: research activities, clinical development activities, and manufacturing activities from development through the commercialization of the
−Removed: Given the uncertainties of these collaboration arrangements, significant judgment is required to determine the duration of the
−Removed: performance period.
+Added: may include delivery of an intellectual property license to a collaboration partner.
+Added: The Company may be compensated under license arrangements
+Added: through a combination of non-refundable upfront receipts, development and regulatory objective receipts and royalty receipts on future
+Added: product sales by partners.
+Added: The Company anticipates recognizing non-refundable upfront license payments and development and regulatory
+Added: milestone payments received by the Company in license and collaboration arrangements that include future obligations, such as supply obligations,
+Added: ratably over the Company’s expected performance period under each respective arrangement.
+Added: The Company makes its best estimate of
+Added: the period over which the Company expects to fulfill the Company’s performance obligations, which may include technology transfer
+Added: assistance, research activities, clinical development activities, and manufacturing activities from development through the commercialization
+Added: of the product.
+Added: Given the uncertainties of these collaboration arrangements, significant judgment is required to determine the duration
+Added: of the performance period.
When the Company enters into an arrangement to
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The Company expenses upfront, non-refundable payments made for research and development services as obligations are
−Removed: The value ascribed to intangible assets acquired but which have not met capitalization criteria is expensed as research and
−Removed: development at the time of acquisition.
−Removed: Upfront payments under license agreements are expensed upon receipt of the license.
−Removed: payments under license agreements are accrued, with a corresponding expense being recognized, in the period in which the milestone is
−Removed: determined to be probable of achievement and the related amount is reasonably estimable.
+Added: incurred, except when deposits are made for specifically identified future services.
+Added: The value ascribed to intangible assets acquired
+Added: but which have not met capitalization criteria is expensed as research and development at the time of acquisition.
+Added: Upfront payments under
+Added: license agreements are expensed upon receipt of the license.
+Added: Milestone payments under license agreements are accrued, with a corresponding
+Added: expense being recognized, in the period in which the milestone is determined to be probable of achievement and the related amount is reasonably
The Company is required to estimate accrued research
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This process involves reviewing open contracts and purchase orders, communicating with
−Removed: Company personnel to identify services that have been performed on its behalf and estimating the level of service performed and the associated
−Removed: cost incurred for the service when the Company has not yet been invoiced or otherwise notified of actual costs.
−Removed: The majority of the Company’s
−Removed: service providers invoice in arrears for services performed, on a pre-determined schedule or when contractual milestones are met.
−Removed: some require advanced payments.
−Removed: The Company makes estimates of accrued expenses as of each balance sheet date in the financial statements
−Removed: based on facts and circumstances known at that time.
−Removed: The Company periodically confirms the accuracy of the estimates with the service
−Removed: providers and makes adjustments, if necessary.
−Removed: Examples of estimated accrued research and development expenses include fees paid to:
+Added: Company personnel and consultants to identify services that have been performed on its behalf and estimating the level of service performed
+Added: and the associated cost incurred for the service when the Company has not yet been invoiced or otherwise notified of actual costs.
+Added: majority of the Company’s service providers invoice in arrears for services performed, on a pre-determined schedule or when contractual
+Added: milestones are met.
+Added: However, some require advanced payments.
+Added: The Company makes estimates of accrued expenses as of each balance sheet
+Added: date in the financial statements based on facts and circumstances known at that time.
+Added: The Company periodically confirms the accuracy of
+Added: the estimates with the service providers and makes adjustments, if necessary.
+Added: Examples of estimated accrued research and development expenses
+Added: include fees paid to:
Collaborative partners performing research and development and pre-clinical
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In addition, the Company had recorded accrued program expense of approximately $ 0.2 million
−Removed: as a component of accrued expenses as of each of December 31, 2023 and 2022.
+Added: and $ 0.1 million as a component of accrued expenses as of each of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Share-based Expense
The Company grants share-based payments in the
−Removed: form of options and restricted stock units (“RSUs”) to employees and non-employees to purchase shares of the Company’s
−Removed: common stock, Joint Share Ownership Plan (“JSOP”) awards to employees and agreements to issue common stock in exchange for
−Removed: services provided by non-employees.
+Added: form of options and RSUs to employees and non-employees to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock.
+Added: In addition, prior to
+Added: the Company relocating to the U.S.
+Added: in 2014, the Company had issued Joint Share Ownership Plan (“JSOP”) awards to employees
+Added: and entered into agreements to issue common stock in exchange for services provided by non-employees.
Share-based expense is based on the estimated
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is recognized on a straight-line basis over requisite vesting periods of the awards.
−Removed: In connection with certain
−Removed: financing, consulting and collaboration arrangements, the Company has issued warrants to purchase shares of its common stock.
−Removed: The outstanding
−Removed: warrants are standalone instruments that are not puttable or mandatorily redeemable by the holder and are classified as equity awards.
−Removed: The Company measures the fair value of the awards using the Black-Scholes option pricing model as of the measurement date.
−Removed: Warrants issued
−Removed: to collaboration partners in conjunction with the issuance of common stock are initially recorded at fair value as a reduction in additional
−Removed: paid-in capital of the common stock issued.
−Removed: All other warrants are recorded at fair value as expense on a straight-line basis over the
−Removed: requisite service period or at the date of issuance if there is not a service period or if service has already been rendered.
−Removed: granted in connection with ongoing arrangements are more fully described in Note 10, Stockholders’ Equity .
+Added: In connection with certain financing, consulting
+Added: and collaboration arrangements, the Company has issued warrants to purchase shares of its common stock.
+Added: The outstanding warrants are standalone
+Added: instruments that are not puttable or mandatorily redeemable by the holder and are classified as equity awards.
+Added: The Company measures the
+Added: fair value of the awards using the Black-Scholes option pricing model as of the measurement date.
+Added: Warrants issued to collaboration partners
+Added: in conjunction with the issuance of common stock are initially recorded at fair value as a reduction in additional paid-in capital of
+Added: the common stock issued.
+Added: All other warrants are recorded at fair value as expense on a straight-line basis over the requisite service
+Added: period or at the date of issuance if there is not a service period or if service has already been rendered.
+Added: Warrant arrangements are
+Added: more fully described in Note 9, Stockholders’ Equity .
The Company accounts for income taxes using the
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securities have not been included in the calculations of diluted net loss per share, as their inclusion would be anti-dilutive.
−Removed: December 31, 2023 and 2022, approximately 5,000 potentially dilutive securities were deemed anti-dilutive for each period.
+Added: December 31, 2024 and 2023, approximately 3,000 and 5,000 potentially dilutive securities were deemed anti-dilutive for each period.
Segment Information
−Removed: Operating segments are identified as components
−Removed: of an enterprise about which separate discrete financial information is available for evaluation by the chief operating decision maker,
−Removed: who is the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, in making decisions on how to allocate resources and assess performance.
−Removed: views its operations and manages its business in one operating segment.
+Added: In November 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards
+Added: Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No.
+Added: 2023-07, to improve reportable segment disclosure
+Added: requirements, primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant expenses.
+Added: Under this ASU, a company is required to enhance its
+Added: segment disclosures to include significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker (CODM),
+Added: a description of other segment items by reportable segment, and any additional measures of a segment's profit or loss used by the CODM
+Added: when deciding how to allocate resources.
+Added: This ASU was adopted effective for the Company’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 and
+Added: the adoption did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
+Added: The Company is principally engaged in
+Added: pre-clinical research and development activities to advance its DNase technology.
+Added: Operating segments are identified as components of
+Added: an enterprise about which separate discrete financial information is available for evaluation by the CODM, who is the
+Added: Company’s Chief Executive Officer, in making decisions on how to allocate resources and assess performance.
+Added: The Company views
+Added: its operations and manages its business as a single operating segment.
+Added: The Company’s measure of segment profit or loss is net
+Added: The CODM manages and allocates to the operations of the Company on a total company basis.
+Added: Managing and allocating resources on
+Added: a consolidated basis enables the CODM to assess the overall level of resources available and how best to deploy these resources
+Added: across functions, therapeutic areas and research and development projects that are in line with the Company’s long-term
+Added: company-wide strategic goals.
+Added: Consistent with this decision-making process, the CODM uses consolidated financial information for
+Added: purposes of evaluating performance, forecasting future period financial results, allocating resources and setting incentive targets.
+Added: The following table is representative of the significant expense categories regularly provided to the CODM when managing the
+Added: Company’s single reporting segment.
+Added: A reconciliation to the consolidated net loss for the years ended December 31, 2024 and
+Added: 2023 is as follows:
+Added: Schedule of consolidated net loss
+Added: Year Ended December 31,
+Added: Program expenses (1)
+Added: Non-program expenses (2)
+Added: Salaries and wages
+Added: Other segment items (3)
+Added: $ ( 3,960,275 )
+Added: $ ( 4,134,578 )
+Added: (1) Includes external research and development.
+Added: (2) Includes information technology, legal, intellectual property and other general and administrative expenses.
+Added: (3) Includes stock-based compensation expense, interest income and other expense (income).
The Company leases administrative facilities under
operating leases.
−Removed: Lease agreements may include rent holidays, rent escalation clauses and tenant improvement allowances.
−Removed: The Company recognizes
−Removed: a lease liability and a right-of-use asset for all leases, with the exception of short-term leases, at the commencement date.
−Removed: 13, Commitments and Contingencies for further information.
−Removed: The Company has a history of engaging in acquisition
−Removed: transactions that require the Company to evaluate whether the transaction meets the criteria of a business combination.
−Removed: If the transaction
−Removed: does not meet the business combination requirements, the transaction is accounted for as an asset acquisition or recapitalization and
−Removed: no goodwill is recognized.
−Removed: If the acquisition meets the definition of a business combination, the Company allocates the purchase price,
−Removed: including any contingent consideration, to the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed at their estimated fair values as of the date
−Removed: of the acquisition with any excess of the purchase price paid over the estimated fair value of net assets acquired recorded as goodwill.
−Removed: The fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed is typically determined by using either estimates of replacement costs or
−Removed: discounted cash flow valuation methods.
−Removed: When determining the fair value of tangible assets
−Removed: acquired, the Company estimates the cost to replace the asset with a new asset, taking into consideration such factors as age, condition
−Removed: and the economic useful life of the asset.
−Removed: When determining the fair value of intangible assets acquired, the Company uses judgment to
−Removed: estimate the applicable discount rate, growth rates and the timing and amount of future cash flows.
−Removed: The fair value of assets acquired
−Removed: and liabilities assumed is typically determined using the assistance of an independent third-party specialist.
−Removed: Business combination related costs are expensed
−Removed: in the period in which the costs are incurred.
−Removed: Asset acquisition related costs are generally capitalized as a component of cost of the
−Removed: assets acquired.
+Added: The Company recognizes a lease liability and a right-of-use asset for all leases, with the exception of short-term leases,
+Added: at the commencement date.
+Added: See Note 12, Commitments and Contingencies for further information.
Recent Accounting Standards
−Removed: In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards
−Removed: Board issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326):
−Removed: of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments .
−Removed: The guidance modified the measurement and recognition of credit losses for most financial
−Removed: assets and certain other instruments.
−Removed: The amendment updated the guidance for measuring and recording credit losses on financial assets
−Removed: measured at amortized cost by replacing the “incurred loss” model with an “expected loss” model.
−Removed: This may result
−Removed: in earlier recognition of allowance for losses.
−Removed: The Company adopted ASU 2016-13 as of January 1, 2023 and the adoption did not have a
−Removed: material effect on our consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Income Taxes - Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures
+Added: (Topic 740) .
+Added: In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No.
+Added: 2023-09, to improve income tax disclosure requirements, primarily through enhanced
+Added: disclosures related to the income tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid.
+Added: This ASU is effective for fiscal 2025, with early adoption
+Added: permitted, and may be applied retrospectively.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the effects that the adoption of this ASU will have
+Added: on its consolidated financial statements.
Significant Strategic Collaborations
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Royalty payments
−Removed: of approximately $ 2.5 million and $ 1.7 million were recorded as revenue by the Company during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022,
−Removed: respectively, and are based on single digit royalties on net sales of certain covered products.
−Removed: The Company’s policy is to recognize
−Removed: royalty payments as revenue when they are reliably measurable, which is upon receipt of reports from Takeda.
−Removed: The Company receives these
−Removed: reports in the quarter subsequent to the actual sublicensee sales.
−Removed: At the time the revenue was received, there were no remaining performance
−Removed: obligations and all other revenue recognition criteria were met.
+Added: of approximately $ 2.5 million were recorded as revenue for each year by the Company during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023
+Added: and are based on single digit royalties on net sales of certain covered products.
+Added: The Company’s policy is to recognize royalty payments
+Added: as revenue when they are reliably measurable, which is upon receipt of reports from Takeda.
+Added: The Company receives these reports in the
+Added: quarter subsequent to the actual sublicensee sales.
+Added: At the time the revenue was received, there were no remaining performance obligations
+Added: and all other revenue recognition criteria were met.
+Added: Belgian Volition SARL Limited (“Volition”)
+Added: Collaboration
+Added: On August 2, 2022, the Company announced a research
+Added: and development collaboration with Volition to develop NETs-targeted adoptive cell therapies for the treatment of cancer.
+Added: The collaboration
+Added: is an early exploratory program to evaluate the potential combination of Volition’s Nu.Q ® Technology Test and the
+Added: Company’s DNase-Armored CAR T platform to develop proprietary adoptive cell therapies potentially targeting multiple types of solid
+Added: Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, Volition will fund a research program and the two parties will share proceeds
+Added: from commercialization or licensing of any products arising from the collaboration.
+Added: To date, Volition has funded $ 26,000 under this agreement.
Catalent Pharma Solutions LLC (“Catalent”)
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provide certain services to the Company to perform cGMP manufacturing of the Company’s recombinant protein, Human DNase I.
−Removed: agreed to enter into a Master Services Agreement (“MSA”) that will contain terms and conditions to govern the project contemplated
−Removed: by the SOW and that will supersede the addendum to the SOW containing Catalent’s standard terms and conditions.
−Removed: In addition, in
−Removed: the event of any conflict between the project-specific terms and conditions set forth in the SOW and the MSA, the MSA terms and conditions
−Removed: shall govern.
−Removed: The estimated total cost of the project contemplated by the SOW was expected to be up to approximately $5 million (exclusive
−Removed: of certain fees and potential alternatives) for the manufacturing services over the course of the term of the project with each phase
−Removed: of the project invoiced separately in connection with the commencement of such phase.
−Removed: The Company has paid Catalent approximately $ 2.5
−Removed: million through December 31, 2023, of which $ 0.1 million has been recognized as an advance payment and is included in prepaid expenses
−Removed: and other current assets and $ 0.3 million has been recognized within other assets as of December 31, 2023.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2022, approximately
−Removed: $ 0.3 million had been recorded as an advance payment and was included in prepaid expenses and other current assets.
+Added: agreed to enter into a Master Services Agreement that will contain terms and conditions to govern the project contemplated by the SOW
+Added: and that will supersede the addendum to the SOW containing Catalent’s standard terms and conditions.
+Added: The Company has paid Catalent approximately $ 2.5 million through December 31, 2024, of which $ 28,000 and $ 0.1 million has been recognized
+Added: as an advance payment and is included in prepaid expenses and other current assets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and
+Added: approximately $ 0.1 million has been recognized as a liability and is included in accrued expenses and other current liabilities as of
+Added: December 31, 2024.
+Added: There was no accrual as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: In addition, approximately $ 0.3 million has been recognized within other
+Added: assets as of both December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Scripps Research
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entered into a Research Funding and Option Agreement (the “Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company has agreed to provide
−Removed: Scripps Research an aggregate of up to $ 938,000 to fund research relating to advancing the pre-clinical development of the Company’s
−Removed: DNase oncology platform technology.
−Removed: The research funding is payable by the Company to Scripps Research on a monthly basis in accordance
−Removed: with a negotiated budget, which provides for an initial payment of approximately $ 78,000 on the date of the Agreement and subsequent monthly
−Removed: payments of approximately $ 78,000 over a 12-month period.
−Removed: Under the Agreement, the Company has the option to acquire a worldwide exclusive
−Removed: license to Scripps Research’s rights in the Technology or Patent Rights (as defined in the Agreement), as well as a non-exclusive,
−Removed: royalty-free, non-transferrable license to make and use TSRI Technology (as defined in the Agreement) solely for the Company’s internal
−Removed: research purposes during the performance of the research program contemplated by the Agreement.
−Removed: Unless earlier terminated, the term of the Agreement
−Removed: continues from the date of the Agreement for fifteen (15) months.
−Removed: The Agreement may be terminated by the Company with 30 days advance
−Removed: written notice to Scripps Research beginning six (6) months after the Effective Date (as defined in the Agreement) or by Scripps Research
−Removed: if the Company fails to make timely payments due under the Agreement, subject to 30 days’ written notice to cure such nonpayment.
−Removed: The Agreement may further be terminated by either party in the event of the other party’s uncured failure to perform any obligations
−Removed: under the Agreement or the bankruptcy of the other party.
−Removed: The Company has paid Scripps Research approximately
−Removed: $ 0.8 million under the Agreement through December 31, 2023, of which approximately $ 0.4 million has been recognized as an advance payment
−Removed: and is included in prepaid expenses and other current assets as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: Scripps Research an aggregate of up to $ 0.9 million to fund research relating to advancing the pre-clinical development of the Company’s
+Added: DNase technology.
+Added: Under the Agreement, the Company has the option to acquire a worldwide exclusive license to Scripps
+Added: Research’s rights in the Technology or Patent Rights (as defined in the Agreement), as well as a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferrable
+Added: license to make and use TSRI Technology (as defined in the Agreement) solely for the Company’s internal research purposes during
+Added: the performance of the research program contemplated by the Agreement.
+Added: During the second quarter of 2024, the Company amended the Agreement
+Added: to extend the term to October 31, 2024 with no additional funding required.
+Added: On November 1, 2024, the Company and Scripps Research
+Added: entered into a Second Amendment to the Agreement (the “Second Amendment”) extending the term of the Agreement for an additional
+Added: twelve (12) month period and to provide Scripps Research additional funding in an aggregate amount of up to approximately $400,000 to
+Added: fund continuing research.
+Added: The research funding is payable by the Company to Scripps Research on a monthly basis in accordance with a negotiated
+Added: budget, which provides for an initial payment of approximately $65,000 on the date of the Amendment and subsequent monthly payments of
+Added: approximately $65,000 over a 5-month period.
+Added: All other terms of the Original Agreement remain unchanged.
+Added: The Company paid Scripps Research approximately
+Added: $ 0.9 million under the Agreement through December 31, 2024, of which approximately $ 0.4 million had been recognized as an advance payment
+Added: and was included in prepaid expenses and other current assets as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: There was no amount prepaid as of December 31,
University of Virginia (“UVA”)
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Under the terms of the UVA Agreement, i n
−Removed: addition to advancing our existing intellectual property, we have an option to acquire an exclusive license to any new intellectual property
−Removed: arising from the DNase research program.
−Removed: Allan Tsung, MD, a member of the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board and Chair of
−Removed: the Department of Surgery at the UVA School of Medicine, will oversee the research conducted under
−Removed: the UVA Agreement.
−Removed: As a surgical oncologist and scientist, Dr.
−Removed: Tsung is internationally recognized for leading substantial research on
−Removed: the role of NETs in tumor growth, metastasis, and resistance to existing cancer therapies.
+Added: addition to advancing our existing intellectual property, the Company has an option to acquire an exclusive license to any new intellectual
+Added: property arising from the DNase research program.
+Added: Allan Tsung, MD, a member of the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board and Chair
+Added: of the Department of Surgery at the UVA School of Medicine, will oversee the research conducted
+Added: under the UVA Agreement.
+Added: In November 2024, the Company and UVA entered into an amendment to extend the UVA Agreement through December
+Added: Pursuant to the UVA agreement, as amended, UVA will build on the preclinical and translational data produced to date and continue
+Added: to investigate combinations of DNase I with immunotherapies in models of primary and metastatic colorectal cancer.
+Added: paid UVA approximately $ 0.4 million under the UVA Agreement through December 31, 2024, of which $ 0.1 million has been recognized as an
+Added: advance payment and is included within prepaid expenses and other current assets as of December 31, 2024.
+Added: There were no amounts incurred
+Added: as of December 31, 2023.
PJSC Pharmsynthez
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Pharmsynthez directly, and indirectly through
−Removed: its wholly-owned subsidiary, SynBio, LLC (“SynBio”), had a share ownership in the Company of approximately 3.4 % and 2.9 % of
−Removed: the total outstanding common stock as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
+Added: its wholly-owned subsidiary, SynBio, LLC (“SynBio”), had a share ownership in the Company of approximately 3.4 % of the total
+Added: outstanding common stock as of both December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
In addition to its common stock ownership, Pharmsynthez
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exclusive license to SynBio to develop, market and commercialize certain drug candidates utilizing molecules based on SynBio’s technology
−Removed: and the Company’s proprietary technologies (PolyXen, OncoHist and ImuXen) in Russia and CIS, collectively referred to herein as
−Removed: the SynBio Market.
−Removed: In return, SynBio granted an exclusive license to the Company to use the preclinical and clinical data generated by
−Removed: SynBio in certain agreed products and to engage in the development of commercial candidates in any territory outside of the SynBio Market.
+Added: and the Company’s proprietary technologies (PolyXen, OncoHist and ImuXen) in Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States, collectively
+Added: referred to herein as the SynBio Market.
+Added: In return, SynBio granted an exclusive license to the Company to use the preclinical and clinical
+Added: data generated by SynBio in certain agreed products and to engage in the development of commercial candidates in any territory outside
+Added: of the SynBio Market.
SynBio is solely responsible for funding and conducting
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PolyXen technology.
−Removed: In February 2021, Pharmsynthez reported in a press release that it had started the registration phase of Epolong by
−Removed: filing a registration dossier to obtain approval in Russia.
−Removed: Pharmsynthez had reported in its press release that it expected that the Russian
−Removed: stage of registration activities would be completed in 2021 and that it would be able to start production of the product as early as the
−Removed: first quarter of 2022.
−Removed: Pharmsynthez has informed the Company that it has received a response letter indicating certain deficiencies in
−Removed: the dossier and continues to develop a gap mitigation strategy with the intent of refiling the registration upon correction.
−Removed: did not recognize revenue in connection with the Co-Development Agreement during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
+Added: Pharmsynthez filed a registration dossier to obtain approval in Russia and informed the Company that it has received
+Added: a response letter indicating certain deficiencies in the dossier.
+Added: Pharmsynthez further informed the Company that it developed a gap mitigation
+Added: strategy and is currently determining next steps.
+Added: The Company did not recognize revenue in connection with the Co-Development Agreement
+Added: during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Serum Institute of India Limited
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payments due under the collaborative arrangement.
−Removed: Through December 31, 2023, no commercial products
−Removed: were developed and no royalty revenue or expense was recognized by the Company related to the arrangement.
−Removed: Serum Institute had a share
−Removed: ownership of less than 1% of the total outstanding common stock of the Company as of each of December 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: Licensing Arrangements
−Removed: Exclusive Sublicense Agreement
−Removed: On April 26, 2022, the Company entered into an
−Removed: Exclusive Sublicense Agreement (the “Sublicense Agreement”) with CLS Therapeutics Ltd.
−Removed: (“CLS”) pursuant to which
−Removed: the Company received an exclusive license, under certain patent rights and know-how owned or controlled by CLS, to develop and commercialize
−Removed: pharmaceutical products and methods incorporating DNase enzyme for use in treatment of cancer (the “Sublicensed Products”).
−Removed: Under the terms of the Sublicense Agreement, the Company will have sole responsibility for, and shall use commercially reasonable efforts
−Removed: to, among other things, research, develop and obtain marketing approval for the Sublicensed Products in the U.S.
−Removed: and certain European
−Removed: markets, and to commercialize such Sublicensed Products in the relevant market once marketing approval is obtained.
−Removed: In consideration for the license and other rights
−Removed: granted to the Company under the Sublicense Agreement, the Company issued to CLS 37,500 shares of the Company’s common stock (the
−Removed: “Sublicense Agreement Shares”), of which 25,000 Sublicense Agreement Shares were issued directly to OPKO Health, Inc.
−Removed: in lieu of transfer indirectly from CLS to EirGen Pharma Ltd.
−Removed: (“EirGen”), a wholly owned subsidiary of OPKO, in satisfaction
−Removed: of certain third-party contractual obligations between CLS and EirGen.
−Removed: Additionally, the Company is obligated to pay to CLS up to $13,000,000
−Removed: in cash in potential milestone payments for the achievement of certain clinical and regulatory milestones, as well as issue an additional
−Removed: 95,000 shares of the Company’s common stock to CLS based on the achievement of certain regulatory milestones.
−Removed: In addition, the Company
−Removed: is obligated to pay tiered royalties ranging from the mid-single to low-double digits on net sales of licensed products falling within
−Removed: the scope of the license during the Royalty Term (as defined in the Sublicense Agreement), as well as pay a percentage share in the low-to-mid
−Removed: teens of certain consideration received by the Company from any sublicensees.
−Removed: Exclusive License Agreement
−Removed: On April 26, 2022, the Company entered into an
−Removed: Exclusive License Agreement (the “License Agreement”) with CLS, pursuant to which the Company received an exclusive license
−Removed: under certain patent rights and know-how owned or controlled by CLS to develop and commercialize pharmaceutical products and methods incorporating
−Removed: DNase in conjunction with CAR T therapies (the “Licensed Products”).
−Removed: Under the terms of the License Agreement, the Company
−Removed: will have sole responsibility for, and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to, among other things, research, develop and obtain
−Removed: marketing approval for the Licensed Products in the U.S.
−Removed: and certain European markets, and to commercialize such Licensed Products in
−Removed: the relevant market once marketing approval is obtained.
−Removed: In consideration for the license and other rights
−Removed: granted to the Company under the License Agreement, the Company paid CLS a one-time fee of $ 500,000 in cash, issued to CLS 50,000 shares
−Removed: of the Company’s common stock, and is obligated to pay up to $13,000,000 in cash in potential milestone payments for the achievement
−Removed: of certain clinical and regulatory milestones for each Licensed Product.
−Removed: In addition, the Company is obligated to pay tiered royalties
−Removed: ranging from the mid-single to low-double digits on net sales of licensed products falling within the scope of the license during the
−Removed: Royalty Term (as defined in the License Agreement), as well as pay a percentage share in the mid-teens to low double digits of certain
−Removed: consideration received by the Company from any sublicensees.
−Removed: The total consideration for the Sublicense and
−Removed: License Agreements was approximately $ 1.3 million , which consisted of a $ 0.5 million cash payment and the fair value of the 87,500 common
−Removed: shares issued of $ 0.8 million utilizing the closing market price of the Company’s stock price at the closing date.
−Removed: no future alternative use for the sublicense and license, the Company recorded an expense of $ 1.3 million to research and development
−Removed: expense during the year ended December 31, 2022.
−Removed: No milestone or other contingent consideration was recognized in 2023 and 2022 as there
−Removed: were no development, regulatory or sales milestones that were probable of being achieved as of each of December 31, 2023 and December
−Removed: Patent Assignment and Volition Collaboration
−Removed: On August 2, 2022, the Company announced a research
−Removed: and development collaboration with Volition to develop NETs-targeted adoptive cell therapies for the treatment of cancer.
−Removed: The collaboration
−Removed: is an early exploratory program to evaluate the potential combination of Volition’s Nu.Q ® technology Test and the
−Removed: Company’s DNase-Armored CAR T platform to develop proprietary adoptive cell therapies potentially targeting multiple types of solid
−Removed: Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, Volition will fund a research program and the two parties will share proceeds
−Removed: from commercialization or licensing of any products arising from the collaboration.
−Removed: On July 10, 2023, the Company entered into the first
−Removed: Collaborator Statement of Work as part of this collaboration with Volition.
−Removed: Volition has funded approximately $ 0.1 million under this
−Removed: research program through December 31, 2023.
−Removed: The Company has recorded this funding as a reduction in research and development costs during
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2023.
−Removed: On October 4, 2022, the Company completed a patent
−Removed: assignment related to its collaboration with Belgian Volition SARL Limited (“Volition”) and CLS.
−Removed: In connection with the patent
−Removed: assignment, the Company entered into a Subscription Agreement with CLS Therapeutics, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“CLS
−Removed: LLC ”) on October 12, 2022, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue to CLS LLC, and CLS LLC agreed to subscribe for, 85,000
−Removed: shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Shares”) as consideration for the assignment by CLS and its affiliates to
−Removed: the Company of certain patent rights owned by CLS and its affiliates.
−Removed: The total consideration for the patent assignment
−Removed: was approximately $0.5 million, representing the fair value of the 85,000 common shares issued utilizing the closing market price of
−Removed: the Company’s stock price at the closing date.
−Removed: As there was no future alternative use for the patent rights, the Company recorded
−Removed: an expense of approximately $ 0.5
−Removed: million to research and development expense for the year ended December 31, 2022.
−Removed: No milestone or other contingent consideration
−Removed: was recognized in 2023 and 2022 as there were no development, regulatory or sales milestones that were probable of being achieved as
−Removed: of each of December 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, CLS owned approximately
−Removed: 9.6 % of the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: The Company incurred approximately $ 0.4 million of transaction costs in connection with the
−Removed: licensing of the DNase technology for the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: Serum Institute has informed the Company that it is not actively pursuing this program
+Added: but may seek to leverage Pharmsynthez’ trial data and potential Russian marketing authorization to request a waiver for a Phase
+Added: III clinical trial in India, subject to local regulatory authority approval.
+Added: Through December 31, 2024, no commercial products were developed
+Added: and no royalty revenue or expense was recognized by the Company related to the arrangement.
+Added: Serum Institute had a share ownership of less
+Added: than 1% of the total outstanding common stock of the Company as of each of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
In 2016, the Company
−Removed: entered into an agreement with Serum Institute for the prepayment of clinical PSA supply in exchange for the
−Removed: Company’s common stock .
−Removed: As of each of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company has classified $ 0.7 million of prepaid clinical
−Removed: supply as long-term as it does not anticipate utilizing the majority of the PSA supply within the next 12 months.
−Removed: No clinical supply was
−Removed: utilized during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: See also Note 14, Related
−Removed: Party Transactions for a description of the Pharmsynthez Loan.
−Removed: Accrued Expenses
−Removed: Accrued expenses consist of the following:
+Added: entered into an agreement with Serum Institute for the prepayment of clinical polysialic acid (“PSA’) supply in exchange for
+Added: the Company’s common stock .
+Added: As of December 31, 2023 the Company had classified $ 0.7
+Added: million of prepaid clinical supply as long-term as it did not anticipate utilizing the majority of the PSA supply within the next 12 months.
+Added: No clinical supply was utilized during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: Long-lived assets to be held and used are tested for
+Added: impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable.
+Added: While the prepayment remains
+Added: a valid claim for future PSA supply, the Company concluded that the following factors indicated that the long-lived asset was impaired:
+Added: the failure to identify potential third-party partners to develop, sell or license the PSA technology;
+Added: a change in both the Company’s
+Added: management and the Board of Directors (the “Board”);
+Added: and a decision by the Company and the Board to no longer pursue development
+Added: of the PSA supply and allow current patent protection for the PSA technology to lapse.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: recorded an asset impairment charge of $ 0.7 million, which is presented within research and development expenses in the consolidated statements
+Added: of operations, representing the excess of the long-lived asset’s carrying value over its estimated fair value.
+Added: As a result, there
+Added: was no clinical supply recorded as of December 31, 2024.
+Added: No long-lived asset impairment was recorded during the year ended December 31,
+Added: Accrued Expenses and other current liabilities
+Added: Accrued expenses and other current liabilities
+Added: consist of the following:
Schedule of accrued expenses
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Total accrued expenses
+Added: On June 19, 2024, the Company entered into a confidential separation
+Added: agreement and general release with each of Jeffrey F.
+Added: Eisenberg, the Company’s former Chief Executive Officer (the “Eisenberg
+Added: Separation Agreement”), and Curtis Lockshin, the Company’s former Chief Scientific Officer (together, the “Separation
+Added: Agreements”) pursuant to which Messrs.
+Added: Eisenberg and Lockshin were each eligible for certain severance payments and benefits consistent
+Added: with the terms of their existing employment agreements as described under “Employment Agreements with our Named Executive Officers”
+Added: in our Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed by the Company with the SEC on October 31, 2024.
+Added: In addition, the Eisenberg Separation Agreement
+Added: provided for accelerated vesting of all of the unvested stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Eisenberg as of May 16, 2024.
+Added: During the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2024, the Company expensed approximately $ 0.8 million of accrued payroll and benefits related to the Separation Agreements.
+Added: In addition, the Company recorded approximately $ 13,000 of share-based expense for the accelerated vesting of unvested stock options.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, approximately $ 0.2 million was accrued within accrued expenses and other current liabilities related to these
Fair Value Measurements
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Enhanced research and development tax credits
−Removed: ( 5,120,196 )
Net benefit for income taxes
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state net operating loss carryforwards
−Removed: Lease liability
Total deferred tax assets before valuation allowance
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Deferred tax liabilities:
−Removed: Right of use asset – leases
Total deferred tax liabilities
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being issued to existing holders of the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: Authorized Share
−Removed: On December 21, 2022,
−Removed: shareholders of the Company voted to approve an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to increase the authorized
−Removed: shares of common stock to 10,000,000 shares (the “Authorized Share Increase”).
−Removed: The Company filed a Certificate of Amendment
−Removed: to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of the State of Nevada to effect the Authorized Share Increase as
−Removed: of December 21, 2022.
At the Market (“ATM”) Offering
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pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, from time to time through Wainwright, shares of its common stock, par value $ 0.001 per
−Removed: The offer and sale of the shares will be made pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No.
−Removed: 333-260201) and
−Removed: the related prospectus, filed with the SEC on October 12, 2021 and declared effective on October 22, 2021, and is currently limited to
−Removed: a number of securities it can sell under the ATM Agreement of up to $4 million, provided that the Company may be limited in the amount
−Removed: of securities that it can sell pursuant to General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3.
−Removed: Pursuant to the ATM Agreement, Wainwright may
−Removed: sell the shares in sales deemed to be “at-the-market” equity offerings as defined in Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities
−Removed: Act, including sales made directly on or through the Nasdaq Capital Market.
−Removed: If agreed to in a separate terms agreement, the Company may
−Removed: sell shares to Wainwright as principal, at a purchase price agreed upon by Wainwright and the Company.
−Removed: Wainwright may also sell shares
−Removed: in privately negotiated transactions with the Company’s prior approval.
−Removed: Sales of the shares through Wainwright, if any, will be
−Removed: made in amounts and at times to be determined by the Company from time to time, but the Company has no obligation to sell any of the shares
−Removed: and either the Company or Wainwright may at any time suspend offers under the agreement or terminate the agreement.
−Removed: Actual sales will
−Removed: depend on a variety of factors to be determined by the Company from time to time, including (among others) market conditions, the trading
−Removed: price of the Company’s common stock and determinations by the Company of the appropriate sources of funding for the Company.
−Removed: offer and sale of the shares pursuant to the ATM Agreement will terminate upon the earlier of (a) the issuance and sale of all of the
−Removed: shares subject to the ATM Agreement or (b) the termination of the ATM Agreement by Wainwright or the Company pursuant to the terms thereof.
+Added: The offer and sale of the shares will be made pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 and the related prospectus,
+Added: and is limited to a number of securities the Company can sell pursuant to General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3.
+Added: In October 2024, the
+Added: Company filed a new shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (the “2024 Shelf Registration”) replacing the previously filed
+Added: shelf registration statement.
+Added: The ATM Offering was not updated in connection the 2024 Shelf Registration and, as a result, is not currently
No shares were sold under the ATM Agreement during
the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
−Removed: The Company incurred approximately $ 0.2 million of costs associated with the ATM which were
−Removed: expensed during the year ended December 31, 2023.
−Removed: These costs were recorded within prepaid expenses and other current assets as of December
+Added: The Company incurred approximately $ 0.2 million of costs associated with the ATM offering
+Added: which were expensed during the year ended December 31, 2023.
Series A Preferred Stock
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A Preferred Stock”).
−Removed: The following is a summary of the material terms of the Series A Preferred Stock.
−Removed: Liquidation .
−Removed: any dissolution, liquidation or winding up, whether voluntary or involuntary, holders of Series A Preferred Stock will be entitled to
−Removed: receive distributions out of the Company’s assets, of an amount equal to the stated value per share of Series A Preferred Stock
−Removed: (as adjusted for stock splits, combinations, reorganizations and the like) plus any accrued and unpaid dividends thereon before any distributions
−Removed: shall be made on the common stock or any series of preferred stock ranked junior to the Series A Preferred Stock.
−Removed: of the Series A Preferred Stock are entitled to receive a non-cumulative cash dividend at an annual rate of 5 % of the stated value per
−Removed: share of Series A Preferred Stock, when and if declared by the Company’s Board, out of the Company’s assets legally available
−Removed: No dividends or other distribution will be made on the common stock or any series of preferred stock ranked junior to the Series
−Removed: A Preferred Stock unless the dividend on the Series A Preferred Stock has been paid current and a reserve has been made for the next calendar
−Removed: The Company’s ability to pay dividends on Series A Preferred Stock is subject to restrictions in the Company’s Series
−Removed: B Preferred Stock, which ranks senior to the Series A Preferred Stock in right of payment.
−Removed: A Preferred Stock is convertible, at any time and from time to time at the option of the holder thereof, with a minimum of 61 days’
−Removed: advance notice to the Company, at a rate of one hundred twenty shares of Series A Preferred Stock to one share of common stock basis.
−Removed: 30 days’ prior written notice, the Company may require the holder of any Series A Preferred Stock to convert any or all of such
−Removed: holder’s Series A Preferred Stock to common stock at a rate of one hundred twenty shares of Series A Preferred Stock to one share
−Removed: of common stock basis.
−Removed: The Series A Preferred
−Removed: Stock has additional terms covering stock dividends and splits, voting rights, fractional shares and fundamental transactions.
−Removed: of December 31, 2022, there were approximately 1.0 million shares of Series A Preferred Stock issued and outstanding.
−Removed: During 2023, the
−Removed: holder of the Series A Preferred Stock converted all of their shares into 8,084 shares of Company common stock.
−Removed: As a result, there was
−Removed: no Series A Preferred Stock outstanding as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: During 2023, the holder of the Series A Preferred Stock converted all of their shares into 8,084 shares of
+Added: Company common stock.
+Added: As a result, there was no Series A Preferred Stock outstanding as of both December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Series B Preferred Stock
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or liquidated damages then due and owing thereon under the amended and restated certificate of designation before any distributions shall
−Removed: be made on the common stock or any series of preferred stock ranked junior to the Series B Preferred Stock, which includes Series A Preferred
−Removed: A fundamental transaction or change of control under the amended and restated certificate of designation shall constitute a liquidation
−Removed: for purposes of this right.
−Removed: Xenetic will give each holder of Series B Preferred Stock written notice of any liquidation at least 30 days
−Removed: before any meeting of stockholders to approve such liquidation or at least 45 days before the date of such liquidation if no meeting is
+Added: be made on the common stock or any series of preferred stock ranked junior to the Series B Preferred Stock.
+Added: A fundamental transaction
+Added: or change of control under the amended and restated certificate of designation shall constitute a liquidation for purposes of this right.
+Added: Xenetic will give each holder of Series B Preferred Stock written notice of any liquidation at least 30 days before any meeting of stockholders
+Added: to approve such liquidation or at least 45 days before the date of such liquidation if no meeting is to be held.
to any preferential rights of any outstanding series of preferred stock created by the Company’s Board from time to time, the holders
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The Company shall not directly or indirectly pay or declare any dividend or make any distribution upon, nor shall any distribution
−Removed: be made in respect of, any junior securities, including Series A Preferred Stock, as long as any dividends due on the Series B Preferred
−Removed: Stock remain unpaid, nor shall any monies be set aside for or applied to the purchase or redemption of any junior securities or shares
−Removed: pari passu with the Series B Preferred Stock.
+Added: be made in respect of, any junior securities as long as any dividends due on the Series B Preferred Stock remain unpaid, nor shall any
+Added: monies be set aside for or applied to the purchase or redemption of any junior securities or shares pari passu with the Series B Preferred
Series B Preferred Stock is convertible, at any time and from time to time at the option of the holder thereof, at a rate of one preferred
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Warrants Related to Financing Arrangements
−Removed: In connection
−Removed: with its July 2021 private placement, the Company issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of 462,963 shares of the Company’s common
−Removed: stock (the “Series A Warrants”).
−Removed: The Series A Warrants are immediately exercisable at a price of $ 33.00 per share of common
−Removed: stock and expire on February 23, 2025 .
−Removed: No Series A Warrants were exercised or forfeited during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: In addition, the Company has publicly traded warrants
−Removed: to purchase approximately 2,100 shares of common stock outstanding as of both December 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: These warrants have an exercise
−Removed: price of $ 130.00 per share and expire on July 17, 2024 .
−Removed: The warrants trade on Nasdaq under the symbol “XBIOW.” The warrants
−Removed: also provide that if the weighted-average price of common stock on any trading day on or after 30 days after issuance is lower than the
−Removed: then-applicable exercise price per share, each warrant may be exercised, at the option of the holder, on a cashless basis for one share
−Removed: of common stock.
−Removed: None of these warrants were exercised during the year ended December 31, 2023.
−Removed: Warrants to purchase approximately 200
−Removed: shares of common stock were exercised on a cashless, one-for-one basis during the year ended December 31, 2022.
−Removed: None of these warrants
−Removed: were forfeited during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: The Company also has outstanding warrants to purchase
−Removed: approximately 800 shares of the Company’s common stock as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: These warrants have an exercise price of
−Removed: $ 29.09 per share and expire on July 3, 2026 .
−Removed: None of these warrants were exercised or forfeited during the years ended December 31, 2023
+Added: has warrants to purchase approximately 462,963 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Series A Warrants”) outstanding
+Added: as of both December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023.
+Added: The Series A Warrants are immediately exercisable at a price of $ 33.00 per share of
+Added: common stock and expire on February 23, 2025 .
+Added: No Series A Warrants were exercised or forfeited during the year ended December 31, 2024
+Added: The Company also has warrants to purchase approximately
+Added: 800 shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding as of both December 31, 2024 and
+Added: December 31, 2023.
+Added: These warrants have an exercise price of $ 29.09 per share of common stock and expire
+Added: on July 3, 2026 .
+Added: None of these warrants were exercised or forfeited during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: In addition, the Company had publicly traded warrants
+Added: to purchase approximately 2,100 shares of common stock outstanding as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: These warrants had an exercise price of $ 130.00
+Added: per share of common stock and expired on July 19, 2024 .
+Added: The warrants ceased trading on Nasdaq under the symbol “XBIOW” upon
+Added: The warrants also provided that if the weighted-average price of common stock on any trading day on or after 30 days after
+Added: issuance is lower than the then-applicable exercise price per share, each warrant may be exercised, at the option of the holder, on a
+Added: cashless basis for one share of common stock, as adjusted for the Reverse Stock Split.
+Added: Warrants to purchase approximately 1,038 shares
+Added: of common stock were exercised on a cashless, one-for-one basis during the year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: None of these warrants were exercised
+Added: or forfeited during the year ended December 31, 2023.
+Added: All of the remaining public warrants outstanding as of July 19, 2024 expired, and
+Added: no public warrants were outstanding at December 31, 2024.
Share-Based Expense
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RSUs and common stock awards was approximately $ 0.2 million and $ 0.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: Share-based expense is classified in the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss as follows:
+Added: Share-based expense is classified in the consolidated statements of operations as follows:
Schedule of share-based compensation expense
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life of the option.
−Removed: The expected volatility rates are estimated based on the actual volatility of the Company.
−Removed: To the extent Company data
−Removed: is not available for the full expected term of the awards the Company uses a price volatility based on a blended rate of the Company’s
−Removed: historical volatility with that of comparable publicly traded companies with drug candidates in similar therapeutic areas and stages of
−Removed: nonclinical and clinical development to the Company’s drug candidates.
−Removed: The Company has applied an expected dividend yield of 0%
−Removed: as the Company has not historically declared a dividend and does not anticipate declaring a dividend during the expected life of the options.
−Removed: The Company accounts for forfeitures as they occur.
Employee Stock Options
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grant date fair value per option was $ 3.41 and $ 3.49 , respectively.
−Removed: No employee stock options were exercised and none expired during the
−Removed: years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
+Added: No employee stock options were exercised during the years ended December
+Added: 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, 32,535 shares having a weighted average grant date fair value of $ 40.07 per
+Added: option were forfeited.
+Added: No employee stock options were forfeited or expired during the year ended December 31, 2023.
During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023,
−Removed: 33,333 and 37,503 total stock options vested, respectively, with total fair values of approximately $ 0.3 million and $ 0.6 million , respectively.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, there was approximately $ 0.3 million of unrecognized share-based payments related to employee stock options that
−Removed: are expected to vest.
+Added: 53,750 and 33,333 total stock options vested, respectively, with total fair values of approximately $ 0.3 million in both periods.
+Added: December 31, 2024, there was approximately $ 0.1 million of unrecognized share-based payments related to employee stock options that are
+Added: expected to vest.
The Company expects to recognize this expense over a weighted-average period of approximately 2.1 years.
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years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023:
−Removed: Schedule of option activity
+Added: of option activity
Outstanding as of January 1, 2023
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Exercisable as of December 31, 2024
−Removed: A summary of the
−Removed: status of the Company’s non-vested employee stock option shares as of December 31, 2023, and the changes during the year ended December
+Added: A summary of the status
+Added: of the Company’s non-vested employee stock option shares as of December 31, 2024, and the changes during the year ended December
31, 2024, is as follows:
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Restricted Stock
−Removed: There are 417 RSUs outstanding
−Removed: as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
−Removed: The RSUs are fully vested and had a grant date fair value of $ 253.70 per share.
−Removed: were granted or expired during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
+Added: There were 417 RSUs outstanding
+Added: as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: The RSUs were fully vested and had a grant date fair value of $ 253.70 per share.
+Added: No RSUs were granted or expired
+Added: during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company issued 417 shares of common stock
+Added: representing the exercise of all outstanding RSUs.
+Added: As a result, no RSUs were outstanding at December 31, 2024.
Non-Employee Stock
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stock options is more reliably measurable than the fair value of the services received.
−Removed: No stock options to purchase shares of common
−Removed: stock were granted by the Company to non-employees during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: non-employee stock options were
−Removed: exercised during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: compensation expense related to non-employee options during the years
−Removed: ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 as all non-employee stock options were fully vested as of December 31, 2020.
+Added: No non-employee stock options to purchase shares
+Added: of common stock were granted or exercised during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: No compensation expense related to non-employee
+Added: options during the years ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023 as all non-employee stock options were fully vested as of December
The following is a summary of non-employee stock
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is a lease at inception.
−Removed: On October 1, 2020, the Company entered into a two-year lease for its corporate headquarters in Framingham, Massachusetts.
−Removed: This lease called for total future minimum rent payments of approximately $ 78,000 at inception and had a termination date of September
−Removed: The Company recorded a right-of-use (“ROU”) asset and corresponding lease liability on the consolidated balance
−Removed: The Company did not have options to extend, termination options or material residual value guarantees.
−Removed: The lease was not renewed
−Removed: and the Company entered into a 12-month lease for office space in a shared office location effective October 1, 2022.
−Removed: As this lease has
−Removed: a term of 12 months at inception, the Company did not apply the provisions of ASU 2016-02 and will account for it as an operating lease.
+Added: The Company leases office space in a shared office location in Framingham, Massachusetts.
+Added: As this lease had a
+Added: term of 6 months at inception, the Company did not apply the provisions of ASU 2016-02 and will account for it as an operating lease.
As of December 31, 2024, total minimum lease payments on this lease were approximately $ 3,000 .
−Removed: Supplemental cash flow information and non-cash
−Removed: activity related to our operating leases are as follows:
−Removed: Cash flow information regarding leases
−Removed: Operating cash flow information:
−Removed: Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities
The Company did not apply the provisions of ASU
−Removed: 2016-02 to the lease of its office space in Miami, Florida.
−Removed: Effective November 1, 2023, the Company renewed its Miami office lease for
−Removed: twelve-months to November 2024.
−Removed: As this lease has a term of 12 months at inception, the Company accounts for it as an operating lease.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, total minimum lease payments on this lease were approximately $ 15,000 .
+Added: 2016-02 to the lease of its office space in Miami, Florida as this lease had a term of 12 months at inception.
+Added: As a result, the Company
+Added: accounts for it as an operating lease.
+Added: This lease was terminated in November 2024 and no further minimum lease payments are due.
+Added: Letter of Credit
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, the Company has an outstanding
+Added: letter of credit of approximately $ 0.1 million in support of an intercompany loan with its Hesperix subsidiary.
+Added: As the intercompany loan
+Added: is eliminated in consolidation, the letter of credit has no effect on the consolidated financial statements.
Related Party Transactions
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obligations due under the Pharmsynthez Loan in May 2023, and no further amounts are due under the Pharmsynthez Loan.
−Removed: As a result, the
−Removed: Company recognized approximately $ 65,000 of income related to interest and fees associated with the Pharmsynthez Loan including approximately
−Removed: $ 40,000 related to interest income during the twelve months ended December 31, 2023.
−Removed: The Company recognized approximately $ 9,000 of interest
−Removed: income related to the Pharmsynthez Loan during the year ended December 31, 2022.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2022, approximately $ 0.4 million was
−Removed: included in other assets on the consolidated balance sheet.
−Removed: No amounts were outstanding as of December 31, 2023.
−Removed: In April 2022, the Company entered into certain
−Removed: agreements with CLS as described in Note 5.
−Removed: One of the Company’s directors, Roger Kornberg, is a member of the scientific advisory
−Removed: board of CLS.
−Removed: Kornberg does not own any equity of CLS and is not receiving any economic benefit as a result of the transactions
−Removed: contemplated by such agreements.
−Removed: Adam Logal, one of our directors, is Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting
−Removed: Officer and Treasurer of OPKO.
−Removed: Dmitry Genkin is a significant shareholder of CLS.
−Removed: Genkin was elected to our board of directors
−Removed: on December 6, 2023.
+Added: As a result, no amounts
+Added: were outstanding as of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023.
+Added: The Company did not recognize any interest income related to the Pharmsynthez
+Added: Loan during the year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: The Company recognized approximately $ 65,000 of income related to interest and fees associated
+Added: with the Pharmsynthez Loan including approximately $ 40,000 related to interest income during the twelve months ended December 31, 2023.
+Added: During the fourth quarter of 2024, the Company
+Added: entered into a clinical trial services agreement with PeriNess Ltd.
+Added: (“PeriNess”) to advance the Company’s development
+Added: program for its systemic DNase I technology in Israeli medical centers.
+Added: One of our directors, Dr.
+Added: Dmitry Genkin, is a significant shareholder
+Added: of PeriNess and another of our directors, Mr.
+Added: Moshe Mizrahy, is a majority shareholder and director of PeriNess.
+Added: The Company expensed
+Added: approximately $ 50,000 related to this agreement during the year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, approximately $ 45,000
+Added: was recorded as an advanced payment and included in Prepaid expenses and other on the December 31, 2024 consolidated balance sheet.
Subsequent Events
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