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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

 

(Mark One)

 

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2024

 

or

 

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the transition period from                      to

 

Commission File Number: 001-39619

 

Kiromic BioPharma, Inc.


(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

46-4762913

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

7707 Fannin Street, Suite 200, Houston, TX

 

77054

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

Zip Code

 

(832) 968-4888

(Registrant’s telephone number)

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of Each Class

 

Trading symbol

 

Name of Exchange on which registered

Common Shares, par value $0.001 per share

 

KRBP

 

The OTCQB Market

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes  ☒   No  ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).

 Yes  ☒   No  ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large-accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large-accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

 

Large Accelerated Filer  ☐

 

Accelerated Filer  ☐

 
 

Non-accelerated Filer  ☒

 

Smaller Reporting Company  

 
   

Emerging Growth Company   

 

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes      No  ☒

 

As of November 6, 2024, there were 1,545,920 shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding.

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PART I

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

     

Item 1.

Financial Statements

5

 

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2024 (Unaudited) and December 31, 2023

5

 

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 (Unaudited)

6

 

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Deficit for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 (Unaudited)

7

 

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 (Unaudited)

9

 

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

10

Item 2.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

21

Item 3.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

31

Item 4.

Controls and Procedures

31

     

PART II

OTHER INFORMATION

     

Item 1.

Legal Proceedings

31

Item 1A.

Risk Factors

31

Item 2.

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

31

Item 5.

Other Information

31

Item 6.

Exhibits

32

Signatures

32

 

 

 

 

Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements

 

Various statements made in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties. All statements that address activities, events or developments that we intend, expect or believe may occur in the future are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements give our current expectations or forecasts of future events and are not statements of historical or current facts. These statements include, among others, statements about:

 

 

Our goals and strategies.

 

Our future business development, financial condition and results of operations.

 

Our expected timing of human clinical trials and other related milestones.

 

Expected changes in our revenue, costs or expenditures.

 

Our ability to obtain financing in amounts sufficient to fund our operations and continue as a going concern and avoid seeking protection under Chapters 7 or 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.

 

Difficulties or delays in the product development process, including the results of preclinical studies or clinical trials.

 

Difficulties or delays in the regulatory approval process.

 

Manufacturing, sales, marketing and distribution of any of our products that may be successfully developed and approved for commercialization. 

 

Growth of and competition trends in our industry.

 

Our expectations regarding demand for, and market acceptance of, our products.

 

Our expectations regarding our relationships with investors, institutional funding partners and other parties we collaborate with.

 

Fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in the markets in which we operate.

 

Our ability to raise capital when needed.

 

Relevant government policies and regulations relating to our industry.

 

The outcome of any pending or threatened litigation.

  Our results from preclinical studies and early-stage clinical trials may not be predictive of results from late-stage or other clinical trials.

 

Forward-looking statements also include statements other than statements of current or historical fact, including, without limitation, all statements related to any expectations of revenues, expenses, cash flows, earnings or losses from operations, cash required to maintain current and planned operations, capital or other financial items; any statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations; any plans or expectations with respect to product research, development and commercialization, including regulatory approvals; any other statements of expectations, plans, intentions or beliefs; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. We often, although not always, identify forward-looking statements by using words or phrases such as “may," "could," "will," "should," "would," "expect," "plan," "intend," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential," "project" or "continue".

 

 

The following are some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed, anticipated or implied in our forward-looking statements:

 

 

The effectiveness and timeliness of our preclinical studies and clinical trials, and the usefulness of the data.

 

Our expectations regarding the timing and clinical development of our product candidates.

 

Our ability to achieve profitable operations and access to needed capital.

 

Fluctuations in our operating results.

 

The success of current and future license and collaboration agreements.

 

Our dependence on contract research organizations, vendors and investigators.

 

Effects of competition and other developments affecting development of products.

 

Market acceptance of our products.

 

Protection of intellectual property and avoiding intellectual property infringement.

 

Product liability.

 

Other factors described in our filings with the SEC.

 

We cannot guarantee that the results and other expectations expressed, anticipated or implied in any forward-looking statement will be realized. The risks set forth under Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, and subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q describe major risks to our business, and you should read and interpret any forward-looking statements together with these risks. A variety of factors, including these risks, could cause our actual results and other expectations to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed, anticipated or implied in our forward-looking statements. Should known or unknown risks materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove inaccurate, actual results could differ materially from past results and those anticipated, estimated or projected in the forward-looking statements. You should bear this in mind as you consider any forward-looking statements.

 

Our forward-looking statements speak only as of the dates on which they are made. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise our forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes makes it clear that any projected results expressed or implied in such statements will not be realized, except as may be required by law.

 

 

PART I FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Financial Statements

 

 

KIROMIC BIOPHARMA, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

 

  

September 30,

  

December 31,

 
  

2024

  

2023

 
         

Assets:

        

Current Assets:

        

Cash and cash equivalents

 $2,924  $3,204 

Restricted cash

  132    

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

  1,247   1,226 

Total current assets

  4,303   4,430 

Property and equipment, net

  4,847   6,175 

Operating lease right-of-use asset, net

  1,074   1,543 

Other assets

  21   21 

Total Assets

 $10,245  $12,169 
         

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Deficit:

        

Current Liabilities:

        

Senior secured convertible promissory notes

 $13,640  $14,000 

Accounts payable

  1,693   2,136 

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

  1,666   1,673 

Interest payable

  1,460   1,938 

Operating lease liability - short term

  670   631 

Total current liabilities

  19,129   20,378 

Operating lease liability - long term

  404   912 

Total Liabilities

  19,533   21,290 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 8)

          

Stockholders’ Deficit:

        

Preferred Stock, $0.0001 par value: 60,000,000 shares authorized, 33,835 and 14,000 issued and outstanding, with a liquidation preference of $40,312 and $16,205, as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively

      

Common stock, $0.001 par value: 300,000,000 shares authorized as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023; 1,545,920 and 1,258,460 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively

  1   1 

Additional paid-in capital

  134,015   113,775 

Accumulated deficit

  (143,304)  (122,897)

Total Stockholders’ Deficit

  (9,288)  (9,121)

Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Deficit

 $10,245  $12,169 

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements

 

 

 

KIROMIC BIOPHARMA, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 
  

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Operating expenses:

                

Research and development

 $4,228  $2,677  $11,385  $6,719 

General and administrative

  2,375   2,875   6,684   7,903 

Total operating expenses

  6,603   5,552   18,069   14,622 

Loss from operations

  (6,603)  (5,552)  (18,069)  (14,622)

Other expense:

                

Interest expense

  (935)  (440)  (2,957)  (1,219)

Litigation settlement

     40      (1,730)

Other income

  103   1,758   619   1,313 

Total other expense

  (832)  1,358   (2,338)  (1,636)

Net loss

 $(7,435) $(4,194) $(20,407) $(16,258)

Net loss per preferred share, basic and diluted

 $(272.82) $(254.26) $(963.64) $(1,294.31)

Net loss per common share, basic and diluted

 $(0.65) $(1.52) $(2.06) $(8.43)

Weighted average preferred shares outstanding, basic and diluted

  30,968   12,891   22,793   7,011 

Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted

  1,545,920   1,189,989   1,432,787   1,040,190 

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements

 

 

 

KIROMIC BIOPHARMA, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders Deficit

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except share amounts)

 

  

Preferred Stock

  

Common Stock

             
  

Number of

      

Number of

      

Additional

  

Accumulated

     
  

Shares

  

Amount

  

Shares

  

Amount

  

Paid-In Capital

  

Deficit

  

Total

 

Balance at December 31, 2023

  14,000  $   1,258,460  $1  $113,775  $(122,897) $(9,121)

Common stock discount amortization

              86      86 

Warrants underlying common stock issuance

              (86)     (86)

Released restricted stock units

        29,775             

Issuance of convertible preferred stock

  8,000            8,000      8,000 

Stock compensation expense

              57      57 

Net loss

                 (6,147)  (6,147)

Balance at March 31, 2024

  22,000  $   1,288,235  $1  $121,832  $(129,044) $(7,211)

Common stock discount amortization

              86      86 

Warrants underlying common stock issuance

              (86)     (86)

Released restricted stock awards

        254,185             

Issuance of convertible preferred stock

  8,838            8,838      8,838 

Stock compensation expense

              29      29 

Net loss

                 (6,825)  (6,825)

Balance at June 30, 2024

  30,838  $   1,542,420  $1  $130,699  $(135,869) $(5,169)

Common stock discount amortization

              70      70 

Warrants underlying common stock issuance

              (70)     (70)

Released restricted stock units

        3,500             

Issuance of convertible preferred stock

  2,997            2,997      2,997 

Stock compensation expense

              319      319 

Net loss

                 (7,435)  (7,435)

Balance at September 30, 2024

  33,835  $   1,545,920  $1  $134,015  $(143,304) $(9,288)

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements

 

 

KIROMIC BIOPHARMA, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders Deficit

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except share amounts)

 

  

Preferred Stock

  

Common Stock

             
  

Number of

      

Number of

      

Additional

  

Accumulated

     
  

Shares

  

Amount

  

Shares

  

Amount

  

Paid-In Capital

  

Deficit

  

Total

 

Balance at December 31, 2022

    $   648,384  $1  $96,172  $(101,948) $(5,775)

Common stock discount amortization

              85      85 

Warrants underlying common stock issuance

              (85)     (85)

Released restricted stock units

        1,773             

Conversion of subordinated convertible notes into shares of common stock

        329,086      2,914      2,914 

Stock compensation expense

              21      21 

Net loss

                 (5,300)  (5,300)

Balance at March 31, 2023

    $   979,243  $1  $99,107  $(107,248) $(8,140)

Common stock discount amortization

              86      86 

Warrants underlying common stock issuance

              (86)     (86)

Issuance of convertible preferred stock

  8,000            8,000      8,000 

Commitments shares issuance from standby equity purchase agreement

        197,017      659      659 

Stock issuance costs

              (85)     (85)

Stock compensation expense

              35      35 

Net loss

                 (6,764)  (6,764)

Balance at June 30, 2023

  8,000  $   1,176,260  $1  $107,716  $(114,012) $(6,295)

Common stock discount amortization

              87      87 

Warrants underlying common stock issuance

              (87)     (87)

Released restricted stock units

                     

Issuance of convertible preferred stock

  6,000            6,000      6,000 

Stock issuance costs

              (26)     (26)

Stock compensation expense

              26      26 

Net loss

                 (4,194)  (4,194)

Balance at September 30, 2023

  14,000  $   1,176,260  $1  $113,716  $(118,206) $(4,488)

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements

 

 

 

KIROMIC BIOPHARMA, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(Unaudited)

(In thousands)

 

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

 
  

2024

  

2023

 

Cash flows from operating activities:

        

Net loss

 $(20,407) $(16,258)

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used for operating activities:

        

Depreciation

  1,666   1,666 

Operating lease non-cash expense

  469   425 

Stock compensation expense

  405   83 

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

        

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

  (20)  (512)

Accounts payable

  (443)  (2,884)

Interest payable

  2,996   1,181 

Accrued litigation liability

     1,088 

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

  (7)  (168)

Operating lease liability

  (469)  (437)

Net cash used for operating activities

  (15,810)  (15,816)

Cash flows from investing activities:

        

Purchases of property and equipment

  (338)  (98)

Net cash used for investing activities

  (338)  (98)

Cash flows from financing activities:

        

Proceeds from senior secured convertible note payable

  16,000   19,600 

Proceeds from issuance of common stock

     659 

Stock issuance costs

     (110)

Borrowings from note payable

  400    

Repayments of note payable

  (400)  (500)

Net cash provided by financing activities

  16,000   19,649 

Net change in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash

  (148)  3,735 

Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash:

        

Beginning of period

  3,204   645 

End of period

 $3,056  $4,380 
         

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:

        

Cash paid for interest on note payable

 $13  $39 

Non-cash investing and financing activities:

        

Exchange of 25% senior convertible promissory notes and accrued interest into convertible preferred stock

 $17,600  $14,000 

Conversion of accrued interest into subordinated convertible promissory note

 $1,240  $ 

Conversion of accrued interest into convertible preferred stock

 $2,235  $ 

Conversion of subordinated convertible promissory notes into common stock

 $  $2,914 

Stock issuance costs in accounts payable

 $  $1 

Property and equipment in accounts payable

 $  $13 

Deferred financing costs forgiven

 $  $365 

 

The following table presents a reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash reported on the balance sheet that sums the total of the same such amounts shown in the statement of cash flows.

 

  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 
  

2024

  

2023

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 $2,924  $4,380 

Restricted cash

  132    

Total cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash

 $3,056  $4,380 

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements

 

 

KIROMIC BIOPHARMA, INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

(Unaudited)

 

 

1.         ORGANIZATION

 

Nature of Business

 

Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company" or “We”) are a clinical stage, fully integrated biotherapeutics company formed under the Texas Business Organizations Code in December 2012. We maintain offices in Houston, Texas. We have not generated any revenue to date.

 

We are an allogeneic Gamma Delta T-cell therapy company featuring unique, proprietary end-to-end bioinformatic, AI targeting and manufacturing technologies to address solid tumors. Our end-to-end approach consists of target discovery and validation, product development, and on-site current Good Manufacturing Practices (“cGMP”) which we believe will allow us to leverage a new framework for the next generation of cell therapies.

 

From a development standpoint, we utilize innovative non-engineered and engineered allogeneic Gamma Delta T (GDT) cell technologies and are developing proprietary, virus-free cell engineering methods to develop novel therapies for solid tumors that we believe will be effective and cost-efficient. Deltacel™ (Deltacel) is our first off-the-shelf, non-engineered GDT cell-based product currently in a Phase 1 clinical stage. Our Isocel™ ("Isocel") and Procel™ ("Procel") product candidates consist of allogeneic, engineered, off-the-shelf GDT cells and they are currently in the preclinical development stage. Our Isocel product candidate consists of engineered GDTs that target Mesothelin Isoform 2 (“Iso-Meso”), a target that we have discovered and prioritized using our Diamond AI bio-informatic platform. Our Procel product candidate consists of engineered GDTs that target PD-L1. Our Deltacel product candidate consists of non-engineered GDTs which we expand, enrich, and activate ex-vivo through a proprietary process, and it is intended to treat solid tumors regardless of the specific tumor antigen expression. Isocel consists of engineered GDTs targeting solid tumors expressing a tumor-specific variant (Isoform) of Mesothelin (“Iso-Meso”), while Procel consists of engineered GDTs targeting PD-L1 positive tumors.

 

We have a total of five clinical programs to study our key product candidates:

 

 

1)

Deltacel-01: This clinical trial is active, and will evaluate Deltacel in combination with low-dose targeted radiation for patients with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Deltacel was granted Fast-Track Designation status by the FDA in August 2024. This trial has entered the second part, dose-expansion phase, in September 2024.

 

 

2)

Isocel combination: This clinical trial will evaluate Isocel in combination with low-dose radiation for patients with Mesothelin Isoform 2 positive solid malignancies.

 

 

3)

Alexis-ISO-1: This clinical trial will evaluate Isocel in patients with Mesothelin Isoform 2 positive solid malignancies.

 

 

4)

Procel combination: This clinical trial will evaluate Procel in combination with low-dose radiation for patients with PD-L1 positive solid malignancies.

 

 

5)

Alexis-PRO-1: This clinical trial will evaluate Procel in patients with PD-L1 positive solid malignancies.

 

Depending on pre-clinical evidence, we might submit 1 IND for Isocel and 1 for Procel, for a total of two new INDs to study our product candidates either with or without low-dose radiation.

 

Going Concern These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles applicable to a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.

 

The Company has incurred significant losses and negative cash flows from operations since inception and expects to incur additional losses until such time that it can generate significant revenue from the commercialization of its product candidates. The Company had negative cash flow from operations of $15.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and an accumulated deficit of $143.3 million as of September 30, 2024. To date, the Company has relied on equity and debt financing to fund its operations. The Company’s product candidates are still in the early stages of clinical trials and development, and substantial additional financing will be needed by the Company to fund its operations and ongoing research and development efforts prior to the commercialization, if any, of its product candidates. The Company does not have sufficient cash on hand or available liquidity to meet its obligations through the twelve months following the date the condensed consolidated financial statements are issued. This condition raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

 

Given its projected operating requirements and its existing cash and cash equivalents, management’s plans include evaluating different strategies to obtain the required funding for future operations. These plans may include, but are not limited to, additional funding from private or public equity or debt offerings with current or new investors. However, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to secure such additional financing, or if available, that it will be sufficient to meet its needs or on favorable terms. Therefore, the plans cannot be deemed probable of being implemented. As a result, the Company has concluded management’s plans do not alleviate substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. In the event the Company is unable to secure financing sufficient to allow it to meet its obligations as they become due, the Company may need to file a voluntary petition for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code in order to implement a restructuring plan or liquidation.

 

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The condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

 

2.         SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information (Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 270, Interim Reporting) and with the instructions to Form 10‑Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information necessary for a full presentation of financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in conformity with GAAP. Operating results for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for the fiscal year as a whole. In the opinion of management, the condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for a fair presentation of the results of the Company for the periods presented.

 

Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted. These interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. The results of operations for the period ended September 30, 2024, are not necessarily indicative of the operating results that may be expected for a full year. The consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2023, contains financial information taken from the audited Company consolidated financial statements as of that date.

 

All intercompany balances were eliminated upon consolidation.

 

Use of Estimates—The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates include determination of the fair value of common stock and related stock-based compensation, warrants to purchase common stock underlying shares of Series B Preferred Stock and public offering common stock, and estimating services incurred by third-party service providers used to recognize research and development expense.

 

Concentrations of Credit Risk and Other Uncertainties—Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentration of credit risk consist of cash and cash equivalents. Substantially all of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents were deposited in accounts at a small number of national financial institutions. Account balances may at times exceed federally insured limits. The Company has not incurred losses related to these cash and cash equivalents deposited at financial institutions and management believes that the Company is not exposed to significant credit risk due to the financial strength of the depository institutions in which the cash is held.

 

The Company is subject to certain risks and uncertainties from changes in any of the following areas that the Company believes could have a material adverse effect on future financial position or results of operations: the ability to obtain regulatory approval and market acceptance of, and reimbursement for, the Company’s product candidates; the performance of third-party clinical research organizations and manufacturers; protection of the intellectual property; litigation or claims against the Company based on intellectual property, patent, product, regulatory or other factors; the Company’s ability to attract and retain employees necessary to support commercial success; and changes in the industry or customer requirements including the emergence of competitive products with new capabilities.

 

Restricted Cash— Restricted cash of $132 thousand and zero as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, consists primarily of bank deposits that collateralize our obligations to vendors.

 

Property and Equipment—Property and equipment are recorded at cost and depreciated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets ranging from 1 to 8 years. Major replacements and improvements are capitalized as leasehold improvements, while general repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred. Estimated useful lives of leasehold improvements are the shorter of the remaining lease term or the estimated useful economic life of the specific asset.

 

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets—The Company reviews its long-lived assets, including property and equipment, for impairment indicators. If indicators are noted, the Company compares the carrying amount of the asset to its estimated undiscounted cash flows. If the carrying amount exceeds its estimated undiscounted cash flows, an impairment loss is recognized to adjust the long-lived asset to fair value. There have been no impairment losses on the Company’s long-lived assets since inception.

 

Income Taxes—The Company files federal and state income tax returns, utilizing the accrual basis of accounting. Income taxes are provided for the tax effects of transactions reported in the condensed consolidated financial statements and consist of taxes currently due and deferred taxes. Certain transactions of the Company may be subject to accounting methods for income tax purposes, which differ from the accounting methods used in preparing these condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP. Accordingly, the net income or loss of the Company reported for income tax purposes may differ from the balances reported for those same items in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax basis. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which such temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The Company records valuation allowances to reduce deferred income tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized.

 

The Company records uncertain tax positions in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC 740”), Income Taxes, on the basis of a two-step process in which (1) the Company determines whether it is more-likely-than-not that the tax positions will be sustained on the basis of the technical merits of the position and (2) for those tax positions that meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold, the Company recognizes the largest amount of tax benefit that is more than 50 percent likely to be realized upon ultimate settlement with the related tax authority. The Company recognizes interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits on the income tax expense line in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations. No such interest or penalties were recognized during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 or 2023.

 

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Research and Development Expense—The Company expenses research and development costs as incurred. Research and development expenses include personnel and personnel-related costs, costs associated with the Company’s pre-clinical development activities including costs of outside consultants and contractors, the submission and maintenance of regulatory filings, equipment and supplies used in developing products prior to market approval and an allocation of certain overhead costs such as facility and related expenses.

 

The Company accrues and expenses costs of services provided by contract research organizations in connection with preclinical studies and contract manufacturing organizations engaged to manufacture clinical trial material, costs of licensing technology, and costs of services provided by research organizations and service providers. Upfront payments and milestone payments made for the licensing of technology are expensed as research and development in the period in which they are incurred if the technology is not expected to have any alternative future uses other than the specific research and development project for which it was intended. Nonrefundable advance payments for goods or services to be received in the future for use in research and development activities are recorded as prepaid expenses. The prepaid amounts are expensed as the related goods are delivered or the services are performed rather than when the payment is made.

 

Nonvested Stock Options, Restricted Stock Units and Awards—Pursuant to the Company’s 2017 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2017 Plan”) and the Omnibus 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”), the Company has the ability to issue a variety of share-based payments and incentives to board members, employees, and non-employees through grants of nonvested stock options, restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and restricted stock awards (“RSAs”).

 

The vesting conditions for stock options and RSUs include annual and monthly vesting. Annual vesting conditions are for three years or more. Monthly vesting conditions range from 10 to 48 months. When nonvested options are vested, they become exercisable over a 10-year period from grant date.

 

The vesting conditions for RSAs include cliff vesting conditions. Certain RSUs vest with a range of 6 to 12 months. When RSUs vest, they are released to the grantee within sixty days.

 

Stock-Based Compensation—The Company records stock compensation expense related to the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2017 Plan”) and the Omnibus 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”) in accordance with ASC 718, CompensationStock Compensation. The Company measures and recognizes stock compensation expense for all stock‑based awards, including stock options, based on estimated fair values recognized using cliff vesting or the straight‑line method over the requisite service period. The fair value of stock options is estimated on the grant date using the Black‑Scholes option‑valuation model (the “Black‑Scholes model”). The calculation of stock‑based compensation expense requires that the Company make assumptions and judgments about the variables used in the Black‑Scholes model, including the fair value of the Company’s common stock, expected term, expected volatility of the underlying common stock, and risk‑free interest rate. Forfeitures are accounted for when they occur.

 

The Company estimates the grant date fair value of stock options using the Black‑Scholes model and the assumptions used to value such stock options are determined as follows:

 

Expected Term. The expected term represents the period that the Company’s stock options are expected to be outstanding. Due to limitations on the sale or transfer of the Company’s common stock under the lock-up agreements and market standoff components of the stock option agreements, the Company does not believe its historical exercise pattern is indicative of the pattern it will experience after restricted periods expire. The Company uses the simplified method to calculate the expected term, which is the average of the contractual term and vesting period.

 

RiskFree Interest Rate. The Company bases the risk‑free interest rate used in the Black‑Scholes model on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero‑coupon issues with a term equivalent to that of the expected term of the stock options for each stock option group.

 

Volatility. The Company determines the price volatility based on the historical volatilities of industry peers as it has limited trading history for its common stock price. The Company intends to continue to consistently apply this process using the same or a similar peer group of public companies, until a sufficient amount of historical information regarding the volatility of its own common stock price becomes available, or unless circumstances change such that the identified peer companies are no longer similar, in which case other suitable peer companies whose common stock prices are publicly available would be utilized in the calculation.

 

Dividend Yield. The expected dividend assumption is based on the Company’s current expectations about its anticipated dividend policy. To date, the Company has not declared any dividends and, therefore, the Company has used an expected dividend yield of zero.

 

Common Stock Valuations. The closing price listed on the OTCQB Capital Market or previously the NASDAQ Capital Market for the Company’s common stock on the date of the grant is used as the common stock valuation.

 

Segment Data—The Company manages its operations as a single segment for the purposes of assessing performance and making operating decisions.

 

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements—From time to time, Accounting Standards Updates (“ASU”) are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) or other standard setting bodies and adopted by the Company as of the specified effective date.

 

Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted

 

Segments. In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-07, “Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures (Topic 280)”. ASU 2023-07 modifies reportable segment disclosure requirements, primarily through enhanced disclosures about segment expenses categorized as significant or regularly provided to the Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM). In addition, the amendments enhance interim disclosure requirements, clarify circumstances in which an entity can disclose multiple segment measures of profit or loss, and contain other disclosure requirements. The purpose of the amendments is to enable investors to better understand an entity’s overall performance and assess potential future cash flows. This ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company currently operates as one reportable segment and does not believe there will be a material impact on the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.

 

Income Taxes. In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, “Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (Topic 740)”. ASU 2023-09 requires enhanced disclosures on income taxes paid, adds disaggregation of continuing operations before income taxes between foreign and domestic earnings and defines specific categories for the reconciliation of jurisdictional tax rate to effective tax rate. This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, and can be applied on a prospective basis. The Company is currently evaluating the impact this new standard will have on the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.

 

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3.         NET LOSS PER COMMON STOCK SHARE

 

Basic and diluted net loss per common share is determined by dividing net loss less deemed dividends by the weighted-average common shares outstanding during the period. For all periods presented the common shares underlying the stock options, RSUs and warrants have been excluded from the calculation because their effect would be anti-dilutive. Therefore, the weighted-average common shares outstanding used to calculate both basic and diluted loss per common shares is the same. The following table illustrates the computation of basic and diluted loss per share:

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Net loss

 $(7,435) $(4,194)  (20,407)  (16,258)

Less: Initial Public Offering Common Stock discount amortization

  (8)  (25)  (58)  (75)

Less: Public Offering Common Stock discount amortization

  (62)  (62)  (184)  (183)

Less: Undeclared dividends attributable to convertible preferred stock

  (1,951)  (808)  (4,272)  (1,323)

Net loss attributable to common shareholders

 $(9,457) $(5,089)  (24,922)  (17,839)

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Three Months Ended

 
  

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

 

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

 

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

  

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

 

Net loss per share, basic and diluted

                

Allocation of undistributed net loss

 $(1,008) $(8,449) $(1,811) $(3,278)

Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted

  1,545,920   30,968   1,189,989   12,891 

Basic and diluted net loss per share

 $(0.65) $(272.82) $(1.52) $(254.26)

 

  

Nine Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

 
  

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

  

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

 

Net loss per share, basic and diluted

                

Allocation of undistributed net loss

 $(2,957) $(21,965) $(8,765) $(9,074)

Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted

  1,432,787   22,793   1,040,190   7,011 

Basic and diluted net loss per share

 $(2.06) $(963.64) $(8.43) $(1,294.31)

 

For the three months ended September 30, 2024, there were 56,239 restricted stock units and 15,416 warrants that were excluded from the computations of diluted weighted-average shares of common stock because they were anti-dilutive.

 

During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company entered into three exchange agreements (the "Exchange Agreements"). The first agreement reclassified convertible promissory notes with $8.0 million of principal into 8,000 shares of Series D convertible voting preferred stock (the “Series D Stock”). The second agreement reclassified (i) convertible promissory notes with $7.2 million of principal and (ii) accrued interest of $1.63 million for a total of $8.8 million into 8,837.58 shares of Series D Stock. The third agreement reclassified (i) convertible promissory notes with $2.4 million of principal and (ii) accrued interest of $0.59 million for a total of $3.0 million into 2,997 shares of Series E Stock. See Note 10 - Stockholder’s Equity for details concerning the Series D and Series E Stock.

 

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4.         PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET

 

Property and equipment, net consisted of the following:

 

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 

Equipment

 $3,336  $3,126 

Leasehold improvements

  7,372   7,372 

Office furniture, fixtures, and equipment

  137   137 

Software

  589   360 

Construction in progress

     101 
   11,434   11,096 

Less: Accumulated depreciation

  (6,587)  (4,921)

Total

 $4,847  $6,175 

 

Depreciation expense was $552 thousand and $560 thousand for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Depreciation expense was $1,666 thousand and $1,666 thousand for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Depreciation expense is allocated between research and development and general and administrative operating expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations.

 

 

5.         ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES

 

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following as of:

 

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 

Accrued litigation and settlements

 $130  $448 

Accrued compensation

  1,116   865 

Accrued consulting and outside services

  420   360 

Total

 $1,666  $1,673 

 

 

6.         NOTE PAYABLE

 

In January 2024, the Company entered into a financing arrangement for its Director and Officer Insurance policy. The total amount financed was approximately $400 thousand with an annual interest rate of 4.93%, to be paid over a period of eleven months. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the payable balance on the financed amount was zero.

 

 

7.         SENIOR SECURED CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY NOTE

 

The Company began issuing senior secured convertible promissory notes (each a “CPN” and together the “Notes”) during 2022.

 

Through September 30, 2024, the Company has issued twenty-two notes totaling $45.2 million, of which $17.2 million were issued during the nine months ended September 30, 2024. The notes are each 25% Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes with largely consistent terms including a stated interest rate of 25% per year; and a one-year maturity. The Notes are convertible at varying conversion prices.

 

The stated interest rates for these notes increase to 27% per annum or the highest rate then allowed under applicable law (whichever is lower) upon the occurrence of an event of default, including the failure by the Company to make payment of principal or interest due under the related note on the respective maturity date, and any commencement by the Company of a case under any applicable bankruptcy or insolvency law.

 

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In April 2023, July 2023, March 2024,  June 2024 and September 2024, the Company executed an exchange agreement to reclassify $8.0 million, $6.0 million, $8.0 million of the Notes' principal, and $8.8 million and $3.0 million of the Notes' principal and interest into shares of convertible preferred stock, respectively. See Note 10— Stockholders' Equity for further discussion.

 

Senior secured convertible promissory notes consisted of the following:

 

(In thousands)

          

Issue Date

 

Maturity Date

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 

06/26/2023

 

06/26/2024

 $  $2,400 

07/25/2023

 

07/25/2024

     2,400 

08/25/2023

 

08/25/2024

     2,400 

09/27/2023

 

09/27/2024

     2,400 

11/02/2023

 

11/02/2024

  2,400   2,400 

12/12/2023

 

12/12/2024

     2,000 

04/02/2024

 

04/02/2025

  2,000    

05/02/2024

 

05/02/2025

  2,000    

06/03/2024

 

06/03/2025

  2,000    

06/21/2024

 

06/21/2025

  1,240    

07/03/2024

 

07/03/2025

  2,000    

08/01/2024

 

08/01/2025

  2,000    

Total senior secured convertible promissory notes

 $13,640  $14,000 
 

8.         COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

License Agreements

 

The Company has entered into a number of licensing arrangements for various intellectual property and licensed patent rights for technologies being developed for commercial sale. As part of these arrangements, the Company is subject to contingent milestone payments in accordance with agreed-upon development objectives, as well as future royalty payments on product sales of the underlying assets. As of September 30, 2024, and December 31, 2023, the Company has not incurred any milestone or royalty liabilities related to these license agreements.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

Jason Terrel Claim

 

On March 22, 2021, Jason Terrell (“Terrell”), a former consultant and director of the Company, commenced an action against us in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, C.A. No. 2021-0248-MTZ (the “Action”). In the Action, Terrell seeks a declaratory judgment that we are obligated to issue him (i) options to purchase 16,667 shares of our common stock at a price of $15.00 per share pursuant to an alleged 2014 consulting agreement, and (ii) options to purchase an additional 16,667 shares of common stock at a price of $5.10 per share pursuant to an alleged January 2017 non-employee director options agreement.

 

On January 31, 2024, the Chancery Court issued a letter opinion that dismissed Terrell’s claims based on the contract-interpretation grounds the Company originally advanced back in 2021, as well as the Delaware Supreme Court’s determination that the third options agreement was not unconscionable. On March 11, 2024, the Chancery Court entered a stipulated form of Final Order and Judgment, dismissing Terrell’s claims consistent with the Chancery Court’s January 31, 2024, letter opinion. Terrell thereafter commenced an appeal of the dismissal to the Delaware Supreme Court. Pursuant to the briefing schedule ordered by the Delaware Supreme Court, Terrell filed its opening appellate brief on May 9, 2024; and the Company filed its answering brief on June 25, 2024. Oral argument in the Delaware Supreme Court appeal took place on October 30, 2024, and the parties are awaiting the Court's decision.

 

Karp and Podmore Class Actions

 

On August 5, 2022, Ronald H. Karp, filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Karp Class Action”) in connection with a public offering by the Company that closed on or about July 2, 2021, and asserting claims against the Company and certain current and former officers and directors of the Company for alleged violations of Sections 11, 12, and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 in connection with the purchase of common stock through the Company’s public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 and Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder in connection with the certain statements and acts made by the defendants between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021. On October 3, 2022, Joseph Podmore filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Podmore Class Action”) raising similar claims.

 

The Karp Class Action and the Podmore Class Action were consolidated and are collectively referred to as the “Class Action”. Please refer to the Settlement of the Class Action described more fully below.

 

Settlement in Principle of the Class Action

 

On August 7, 2023, we entered into a term sheet with the plaintiffs in the Class Action, to settle in principle (and globally resolve) the Class Action. We subsequently reached agreement with the plaintiffs in the Class Action on all settlement materials and terms including with respect to payment of up to $2,300,000 and, on September 29, 2023, counsel for plaintiffs submitted the proposed settlement materials to the Court for approval. Of this amount, insurance covered $570,000, resulting in a net settlement of $1,730,000 owed by the Company. As of September 30, 2024, we have paid the totality of the settlement into an escrow account, of which $448,000 was payable as of December 31, 2023

 

The Company regularly assesses all contingencies and believes, based on information presently known, the Company is not involved in any other matters that would have a material effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows. 

 

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9.         LEASES

 

The Company leases real estate for office and warehouse space under non-cancelable operating leases, with a total rentable space of 149,000 square feet. The Company intends to use the full lease term under the existing lease agreement which is currently set to expire on April 30, 2026. As of September 30, 2024, the Company is not able to determine if any renewal options will be exercised.

 

There are no variable payments associated with the lease agreements, as the rent payments are predetermined on a fixed schedule.

 

The following table indicates the balance sheet line items that include the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for our operating lease:

 

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 
  

Operating lease

  

Operating lease

 

Right-of-Use Asset

        

Operating lease, net

 $1,074  $1,543 

Total right-of use asset, net

 $1,074  $1,543 
         

Lease Liabilities

        

Operating lease - short term

 $(670) $(631)

Operating lease - long term

  (404)  (912)

Total lease liabilities

 $(1,074) $(1,543)

 

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, the components of lease expense were as follows:

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

  

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

 

Operating lease cost allocated to research and development expense

 $113  $109  $338  $288 

Operating lease cost allocated to general and administrative expense

  66   70   199   249 

Total lease expense

 $179  $179  $537  $537 

Weighted-average remaining lease term

  1.59   2.59   1.59   2.59 

Weighted-average discount rate

  7.12%  7.12%  7.12%  7.12%

 

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As of September 30, 2024, the maturities of the Company’s operating lease liabilities were as follows:

 

Maturity of Lease Liabilities (In thousands)

 

Operating lease

 

2024 (remaining)

 $179 

2025

  725 

2026

  242 

Total lease payments

  1,146 

Less: imputed interest

  (72)

Present value of lease payments

 $1,074 

 

 

10.         STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY

 

Common Stock— The Company has one class of common shares outstanding. Refer to the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets for shares authorized, issued and outstanding as of the balance sheet dates.

 

Preferred Stock— As of September 30, 2024, and December 31, 2023, the Company was authorized to issue 60,000,000 shares of preferred stock (24,000,000 shares designated as Series A-1 Preferred Stock and 16,500,000 shares designated as Series B Preferred stock), none of which were issued or outstanding. Additionally, as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company authorized the issuance of 14,000 and 14,000 shares of Series C Convertible Voting Preferred Stock (the “Series C Stock”), respectively, 20,000 and 0 shares of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock, 6,000 and 0 shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series E Stock”, the “Series D Stock” and together with the Series C Stock, the “Preferred Shares”), respectively. The Company issued 8,000 shares of Series C Stock on April 2, 2023, 6,000 shares of Series C Stock on July 18, 2023, 8,000 shares of Series D Stock on March 28, 2024, 8,837.58 shares of Series D Stock on June 21, 2024, and 2,997 shares of Series E Stock on September 27, 2024, as part of five agreements to reclassify convertible preferred notes for Preferred Shares.

 

As discussed in Note 3, the Company reclassified certain CPNs into convertible preferred shares by executing the Exchange Agreements. This reclassification resulted in two new classes of convertible preferred shares in 2024, the Series D and Series E Stock. The Company has three classes of convertible preferred shares issued and outstanding for both balance sheet dates presented - Series C Stock, Series D Stock and Series E Stock. The Preferred Shares are convertible, upon a notice of conversion by the holder, into shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.001 per share at an exchange price of $6.50 per share for the Series C Stock, $2.50 for the Series D Stock and a price equal to 80% of the 5-day VWAP for the Common Stock beginning on the fifth day preceding the date of the Notice of Conversion for the Series E Stock, subject to a beneficial ownership maximum of 19.99%. The Preferred Shares are voting stock and holders are entitled to vote together with the Common Stock on an as-if-converted-to-Common-Stock basis as determined by dividing the Liquidation Preference with respect to such shares of Preferred Shares by their conversion price. Holders of Common Stock are entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders. Accordingly, holders of Preferred Shares are entitled to one vote for each whole share of Common Stock into which their Preferred Shares are convertible on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders.

 

Cumulative Rights of Series C, D and E Stock Shareholders— The Preferred Shares accumulate undeclared dividends at an annual rate of 25%. Unpaid dividends and undeclared dividends are added to the aggregated Liquidation Preference which also includes the face value of the Preferred Shares outstanding. In the event of any liquidation of the Company, holders of Preferred Shares then outstanding shall be entitled to be paid the Liquidation Preference out of the assets of the Company available for distribution to its stockholders, before any payment shall be made to the holders of any other shares of capital.

 

  

Dividends Earned for the period Ended September 30, 2024

  

Liquidation Preference

 

(In thousands)

  Three Months Ended   Nine Months Ended   September 30, 2024   December 31, 2023 

Series C

 $882  $2,627  $18,833  $16,205 

Series D

  1,061   1,637   18,474   - 

Series E

  8   8   3,005   - 

Total

 $1,951  $4,272  $40,312  $16,205 

 

Participating Rights of Series C, D and E Stock Shareholders— In the event the Company declares a dividend, and all cumulative dividends have been distributed, the Preferred Shares participate in any remaining declared dividends to be paid equal to (on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock basis) and in the same form as dividends paid on shares of Common Stock.

 

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Warrants—Holders of warrants (the “Warrants”) grant the holder the right to purchase a specified number of shares of the Company at a specified price with an expiration date of five years. Holders of the Warrants may purchase 2,083 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $450.00 per share with an expiration date of October 14, 2025, or an additional 13,333 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $187.50 per share with an expiration date of July 1, 2026. All of the Warrants were outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023.

 

Standby Equity Purchase Agreement Financing

 

On October 13, 2022, the Company entered into a Standby Equity Purchase Agreement (the “SEPA”) with YA II PN, Ltd. (the “Investor”), pursuant to which the Company has the right to sell to the Investor up to $8.0 million (the “Commitment Amount”) of its shares of common stock, at the Company’s request any time during the commitment period commencing on October 13, 2022, and terminating on the earliest of (i) the first day of the month following the 24-month anniversary of the SEPA or (ii) the date on which the Investor has paid for shares of Common Stock equal to the Commitment Amount.

 

On May 24, 2023, we issued to the Investor 97,000 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $3.89, for an advance amount of $377,000.

 

On June 2, 2023, we issued to the Investor 100,000 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $2.82, for an advance amount of $282,100.

 

 

11.         STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

 

2017 Stock Incentive PlanRestricted Stock Units

 

The following table summarizes the activity for all RSUs outstanding under the 2017 Plan as of  September 30, 2024 and  2023:

 

  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted Average

      

Weighted Average

 
      

Grant Date

      

Grant Date

 
      

Fair Value

      

Fair Value

 
  

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Shares

  

Per Share

 

Outstanding RSUs at beginning of period

  605  $285.36   650  $259.50 

Granted

            

Vested

  (52)  259.97   (246)  255.85 

Cancelled and forfeited

  (537)  254.10   (45)  260.10 

Nonvested RSUs as of September 30

  16  $260.08   359  $285.36 

 

In addition, the weighted average remaining recognition period for the 2017 RSUs is 0.3 year as of September 30, 2024.

 

Total stock compensation expense recognized from stock-based compensation awards classified as restricted stock units were recognized in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, as follows:

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Research and development

 $  $6  $9  $21 

General and administrative

     9   15   23 

Total

 $  $15  $24  $44 

 

As of September 30, 2024, there was $3,200 unrecognized stock compensation expense related to unvested restricted stock units under the 2017 Plan.

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2017 Stock Incentive Plan Stock Options

 

The following table summarizes the activity for all stock options outstanding as of  September 30, 2024 and  2023 under the 2017 Plan:

 

  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted

      

Weighted

 
      

Average

      

Average

 
      

Exercise

      

Exercise

 
  

Shares

  

Price

  

Shares

  

Price

 

Options outstanding at beginning of period

  18,093  $101.04   32,706  $96.24 

Granted

            

Exercised

            

Cancelled and forfeited

        (14,613)  88.17 

Balance as of September 30

  18,093  $101.04   18,093  $101.04 

Options exercisable as of September 30:

  18,093  $101.04   18,093  $101.04 

 

The options have no intrinsic value as of September 30, 2024, or December 31, 2023, respectively.

 

There was no stock compensation expense recognized for stock options in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.

 

As of September 30, 2024, there was no unrecognized stock compensation expense related to unvested stock options.

 

2021 Stock Incentive PlanRestricted Stock Units

 

The following table summarizes the activity for all RSUs outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and 2023 under the 2021 Plan:

 

  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted Average

      

Weighted Average

 
      

Grant Date

      

Grant Date

 
      

Fair Value

      

Fair Value

 
  

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Shares

  

Per Share

 

Outstanding RSUs at beginning of period

  89,206  $1.56   684  $133.20 

Granted

  92,444   2.57   50,843   0.62 

Vested

  (29,775)  4.95   (13,483)  0.62 

Cancelled and forfeited

  (95,652)  1.89   (621)  126.60 

Nonvested RSUs as of September 30

  56,223  $3.74   37,423  $20.41 

 

In addition, the weighted average remaining recognition period for the 2021 RSUs is 2.88 years as of September 30, 2024.

 

Total stock compensation expense recognized from stock-based compensation awards classified as restricted stock units were recognized in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, as follows:

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Research and development

 $  $10  $24  $21 

General and administrative

     2   38   17 

Total

 $  $12  $62  $38 

 

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As of September 30, 2024, there was $197,800 unrecognized stock compensation expense related to unvested restricted stock units under the 2021 Plan.

 

2021 Stock Incentive PlanRestricted Stock Awards

 

In May 2024, the Company approved the grant of 254,185 restricted stock awards (RSAs) to Officers and certain directors. The RSAs were released to the participants when granted but were not vested yet as of  September 30, 2024.

 

The following table summarizes the activity for all RSAs outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and 2023 under the 2021 Plan:

 

  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted Average

      

Weighted Average

 
      

Grant Date

      

Grant Date

 
      

Fair Value

      

Fair Value

 
  

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Shares

  

Per Share

 

Nonvested RSAs at beginning of period

    $     $ 

Granted

  254,185   2.42       

Vested

            

Cancelled and forfeited

            

Nonvested RSAs as of September 30

  254,185  $2.42     $ 

 

In addition, the weighted average remaining recognition period for the RSAs is 0.49 years as of September 30, 2024.

 

Total stock compensation expense recognized from stock-based compensation awards classified as restricted stock awards were recognized in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, as follows:

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Research and development

 $107  $  $107  $ 

General and administrative

  212      212    

Total

 $319  $  $319  $ 

 

As of September 30, 2024, there was $297,000 unrecognized stock compensation expense related to unvested restricted stock awards.

 

12.         INCOME TAXES

 

The Company’s effective tax rate from continuing operations was 0% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023. The Company recorded no income tax provision for the three or nine months ended September 30, 2024.

 

The provision for income taxes during the interim reporting periods is calculated by applying an estimate of the annual effective tax rate for the full fiscal year to “ordinary” income or loss for the reporting period. Each quarter, the estimate of the annual effective tax rate is updated, and if the estimated effective tax rate changes, a cumulative adjustment is made. There is a potential for volatility of the effective tax rate due to several factors, including changes in the mix of the pre-tax income and the jurisdictions to which it relates, changes in tax laws, business reorganizations and settlements with taxing authorities.

 

The income tax rates vary from the US federal statutory rate of 21% primarily due to the full valuation allowance on the Company’s deferred tax assets. The Company has recorded the full valuation allowance based on an evaluation of both positive and negative evidence, including latest forecasts and cumulative losses in recent years. The Company has concluded that it was more likely than not that none of its deferred tax assets would be realized.

 

 

13.         SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

On November 1, 2024, the Company entered into an exchange agreement with the holder of promissory notes to reclassify $2.4 million of the Company's 25% Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note's principal and $600 thousand accrued interest into Series E convertible preferred shares, The Series E Stock are convertible to a price equal to 80% of the 5-day VWAP for the Common Stock beginning on the fifth day preceding the date of the Notice of Conversion, subject to a beneficial ownership maximum of 19.99%.

 

On November 3, 2024, our Standby Equity Purchase Agreement (the “SEPA”) with YA II PN, Ltd. expired.

 

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Item 2. Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

The following discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations provides information that management believes is relevant to an assessment and understanding of our plans and financial condition. The following financial information is derived from our unaudited financial statements and should be read in conjunction with such financial statements and notes thereto included in this report and with the audited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included in our Form 10-K.

 

Our Business

 

Overview

 

Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) is an allogeneic Gamma Delta T-cell therapy company featuring unique, proprietary, end-to-end bioinformatic, AI targeting, and manufacturing technologies to address solid tumors. Our end-to-end approach consists of target discovery and validation, product development, and on-site current Good Manufacturing Practices (“cGMP”), which we believe will allow us to leverage a new framework for the next generation of cell therapies.

 

We currently have three product candidates: 1) Deltacel, non-engineered GDTs, expanded and activated with proprietary technology; 2) Isocel GDTs engineered with an anti-Mesothelin isoform Chimeric Antigen Receptor; and 3) Procel, GDTs engineered with a PD-1 switch receptor.

 

We are developing a novel and virus-independent engineering method, which we believe will result in the submission of new IND applications. The first of these applications will study Isocel and is expected to be ready for submission to the FDA in the second half of 2025. The second will study Procel and is expected to be ready for submission to the FDA in 2026. The development of both technologies and their advancement to clinical stage are subject to sufficient financing. Depending on evidence from preclinical studies, we may study the new candidates in combination with low-dose radiation or as stand-alone therapies.

 

We have not generated any revenue from sales to date, and we continue to incur significant research and development and other expenses related to our ongoing operations. As a result, we are not and have never been profitable and have incurred losses in each period since we began principal business operations in 2012. As discussed in more detail below, we are currently in discussions with financing sources in an attempt to secure short-term financing to continue operations and fund other liquidity needs through the end of the year. In the absence of such financing, management anticipates that existing cash resources will not be sufficient to meet operating and liquidity needs beyond December 2024.

 

Recent Developments

 

Going Concern and Liquidity

 

We do not have sufficient cash on hand and available liquidity to meet our obligations through the twelve months following the date the condensed consolidated financial statements are issued. Therefore, this condition raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans were updated to evaluate different strategies to obtain the required funding for future operations. These plans may include, but are not limited to, additional funding from current or new investors, inclusive of a potential public offering of equity; however, if we are unable to raise additional funding to meet working capital needs, we will be forced to delay or reduce the scope of our research programs and/or limit or cease operations. The negative cash flows and lack of financial resources raised substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern, and that substantial doubt has not been alleviated. See Note 1 to the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, “Going Concern” for further details.

 

Our unrestricted cash and cash equivalents were $2.92 million as of September 30, 2024. We are currently in discussions with financing sources in an attempt to secure short-term financing to continue operations and fund other liquidity needs through 12 months after the date of the filing of this quarterly report on Form 10-Q. We are working with a financial advisor to assist us with our efforts to obtain financing. In the absence of such financing, management anticipates that existing cash resources as of September 30, 2024, will not be sufficient to meet our operating and liquidity needs beyond December 2024. However, management may further evaluate additional cost reduction actions, including additional reductions in our workforce and delay of research and development expenditures on one or more product candidates, in order to reduce our current expenditures and preserve cash. In addition, we are seeking to relist on to the NASDAQ or another major stock exchange in order to increase the liquidity of our stock. We are not able to predict whether any such cost reduction or major stock exchange listing actions will be successful.

 

As a result of our current liquidity position, management can provide no assurance that we will be able to obtain financing on acceptable terms, if at all. If financing is available, it may not be on favorable terms and may have a significant dilutive effect on our existing stockholders. In the event we are unable to secure financing sufficient to allow us to meet our obligations as they become due, we may need to file a voluntary petition for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code in order to implement a restructuring plan or liquidation. See Part II, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” for further details.

 

 

Financing Update

 

In 2024, we executed monthly CPNs to finance our operations and executed three Exchange Agreements to strengthen our balance sheet by reclassifying CPNs to preferred shares.  Please see Note 7 – Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note, Note 10 – Stockholders' Equity and Note 13 – Subsequent Events for more information.

 

Clinical Update

 

In the second half of 2022, we started the development of Deltacel, our novel, non-engineered GDT cell product based on a proprietary methodology of expanding and activating GDT cells from healthy donors. We submitted the IND application for the Deltacel-01 trial in March 2023. On April 28, 2023, the FDA authorized us to proceed with the study. We began the clinical trial activation process during the second quarter of 2023. On October 23, 2023, we entered into a clinical trial agreement with Beverly Hills Cancer Center (BHCC) to conduct our Deltacel-01 Phase 1 Study in patients with stage 4 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC).

 

On December 13, 2023, the first patient in the Deltacel-01 trial received the first dose of Deltacel at BHCC. So far, six patients received the Deltacel treatment. As of September 2024, we have registered a 6-month median Progression Free Survival (PFS) with a median length of follow-up of over 7 months and the longest PFS of 10 months.

 

None of the enrolled patients developed a dose-limiting toxicity. The Deltacel-01 study, encompassing long-term follow-up, spans up to 24 months. This trial consists of two parts: Part 1 is designed to identify the optimal dose of Deltacel. Following approval by the Safety Monitoring Committee (SMC), Part 2 (the Expansion Phase) is designed to further assess the therapy’s effectiveness at the optimal dose identified in Part 1. Based on the promising survival benefits in the absence of limiting toxicities, we activated the Expansion Phase in September 2024, and the first patient in this phase started treatment in October 2024. We expect that a total of approximately 9 patients will be enrolled in the expansion phase, and that enrollment will be completed by year-end.

 

The following table shows a summary of the results from the first 6 subjects enrolled in the Deltacel-01 clinical trial:

 

Patient Safety

Six Weeks Post-treatment 

Two Months Post-treatment Four Months Post-treatment Six Months Post-treatment Eight Months Post-treatment Ten Months Post-treatment
1 No dose limiting toxicities Stable disease

Tumor size reduction by 6.6% 

Tumor metabolism reduction by 20%

Stable disease (compared with two-month follow-up) Stable disease (compared with four-month follow-up)

Stable Disease

20% Tumor Size Reduction

Stable Disease

27% Tumor Size Reduction

2 No dose limiting toxicities

Stable disease

Complete resolution of brain lesions

Stable disease

Confirmed clean brain imaging

No new brain lesions

Disease progression 

Enrolled on emergency-use IND and re-treated

     
3 No dose limiting toxicities Stable disease Stable disease Stable disease Disease progression    
4 No dose limiting toxicities Stable disease Stable disease

Stable Disease 

3.6% Tumor Size Reduction

Stable Disease 

5.3% Tumor Size Reduction

   
5 No dose limiting toxicities Stable disease Disease progression        
6 No dose limiting toxicities Scan not done per new protocol calendar Stable disease        

 

Throughout 2024, we have activated an additional four testing sites:

 

 

February 28, 2024, Virginia Oncology Associates, PC, located in Norfolk, VA;

 

April 8, 2024, Texas Oncology, located in Tyler, TX;

 

May 8, 2024, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center located in Pittsburgh, PA;

  September 19, 2024, the University of Arizona Cancer Center located in Tucson, Arizona.

 

On June 18, 2024, we submitted a Fast-Track Designation (FTD) Application to the FDA. The FTD status was granted on August 9, 2024. We believe this is a significant milestone for the clinical development of our Deltacel product candidate, as FTD facilitates and expedites the development and review of drugs that treat serious conditions and address unmet medical needs. This is achieved through benefits such as Accelerated Approval, Rolling Review, and Priority Review, which collectively accelerate the approval process. Therefore, we believe that  receiving an FTD for our Deltacel product will significantly accelerate our pathway to approval, as FTD status can give us access to the following:

 

 

More frequent meetings with FDA to discuss our clinical development plan and ensure the collection of appropriate data needed to support drug approval

 

More frequent written communication from FDA about the design of the proposed clinical trials and use of biomarkers

 

Eligibility for Accelerated Approval

  Eligibility for Priority Review
 

Rolling Review, which means that we will be allowed to submit completed sections of its Biologic License Application (BLA) for review by FDA, rather than waiting until every section of the BLA is completed before the entire application can be reviewed. Without Rolling Review, BLA review does not begin until the entire application has been submitted to the FDA

 

On October 1, 2024, based upon our insights from the favorable results of the first phase of our trial, we submitted an IND protocol amendment to the FDA that includes changes in the study to further improve our therapeutic approach and the benefits for the patients. The changes became effective on November 1, 2024.

 

Depending on the response rates registered during our Deltacel-01 Phase 1 clinical trial, in the second half of 2025 we may be able to initiate a registrational Phase 2 trial to support a Biologics License Application (BLA) to accelerate the clinical development of Deltacel.

 

 

We plan to continue the development of Isocel and Procel once we gather sufficient financial support. We expect to be able to submit the Isocel IND in the second half of 2025, and the Procel IND in the second quarter of 2026.

 

Results from our Internal Review

 

On or about August 17 and 23, 2021, Tony Tontat, who at the time was the Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors (“the Board”), submitted substantially identical reports (the “Complaints”) through our complaint hotline. These Complaints, alleged, among other topics, risks associated with our public disclosures in our securities filings and in statements made to the public, investors, and potential investors regarding (i) the anticipated timing of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) authorization of our investigational new drug (“IND”) applications and (ii) the anticipated timing of human clinical trials. These Complaints were subsequently submitted to the Audit Committee of the Board.

 

After receiving the Complaints, the Audit Committee recommended that the Board form, and the Board did in turn form, a Special Committee comprised of three independent directors (the “Special Committee”) to review the Complaints and other related issues (the “Internal Review”). The Special Committee retained an independent counsel to assist it in conducting the Internal Review. As previously disclosed in the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, the Internal Review concluded on February 2, 2022, and the remedial actions taken by the Company in response to the Internal Review are set forth in the Form 10-K.

 

Upon completion of the Internal Review, we voluntarily contacted the SEC to report certain information about the Internal Review. Since that time, we have been voluntarily cooperating with requests for information from the SEC and intend to fully cooperate with any further requests from the SEC.

 

In November 2022, we received a Grand Jury Subpoena (the “Subpoena”) from the U.S. Department of Justice requesting certain information from the company in connection with an ongoing investigation being conducted by the Federal Grand Jury in the Southern District of Texas. We are not a target of this investigation at this time.

 

Principal Factors Affecting Our Financial Performance

 

Our operating results are primarily affected by the following factors:

 

 

Clinical trials discontinuation for any or a combination of the following reasons: commercial or strategic decision, lack of efficacy, poor recruitment.

 

 

Slow or delayed IND applications.

 

 

Slow or delayed clinical trial enrollment.

 

 

Patent reinforcement and prosecution.

 

 

Changes in laws or the regulatory environment affecting our company.

 

Emerging Growth Company

 

We qualify as an “emerging growth company” under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”). As a result, we are permitted to, and intend to, rely on exemptions from certain disclosure requirements. For so long as we are an emerging growth company, we will not be required to:

 

 

Have an auditor report on our internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act;

 

 

Comply with any requirement that may be adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information about the audit and the financial statements (i.e., an auditor discussion and analysis);

 

 

Submit certain executive compensation matters to stockholder advisory votes, such as “say-on-pay” and “say-on-frequency;” and

 

 

Disclose certain executive compensation related items such as the correlation between executive compensation and performance and comparisons of the chief executive officer’s compensation to median employee compensation.

 

 

In addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act also provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for complying with new or revised accounting standards. In other words, an emerging growth company can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. We have elected to take advantage of the benefits of this extended transition period. Our financial statements may therefore not be comparable to those of companies that comply with such new or revised accounting standards.

 

We will remain an emerging growth company until the earliest of (i) the last day of the fiscal year (a) following the fifth anniversary of our initial public offering, which was October 15, 2020, (b) the date in which our total annual gross revenues exceed $1.07 billion, or (c) the date in which we become a “large accelerated filer” as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), which would occur if the market value of our common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the last business day of our most recently completed second fiscal quarter, or (ii) the date on which we have issued more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt during the preceding three year period.

 

Components of Results of Operations

 

Revenue

 

To date, we have not generated any revenue from product sales and do not expect to generate any revenue from product sales in the foreseeable future. We will record revenue from collaboration agreements, including amounts related to upfront payments, annual fees for licenses of our intellectual property and research and development funding. However, none of those agreements have been executed as of the issuance date of this report.

 

Research and Development Expenses

 

Research and development expenses consist primarily of costs incurred for our research activities, including our discovery efforts and the development of our product candidates. These include the following:

 

 

Salaries, benefits and other related costs, including stock-based compensation expense, for personnel engaged in research and development functions;

 

 

Expenses incurred under agreements with third parties, including contract research organizations and other third parties that conduct preclinical research and development activities and clinical trials on our behalf;

 

 

Costs of developing and scaling our manufacturing process and manufacturing drug products for use in our preclinical studies and future clinical trials, including the costs of contract manufacturing organizations, that will manufacture our clinical trial material for use in our preclinical studies and potential future clinical trials;

 

 

Costs of outside consultants, including their fees and related travel expenses;

 

 

Costs of laboratory supplies and acquiring, developing and manufacturing preclinical study and clinical trial materials;

 

 

License payments made for intellectual property used in research and development activities; and

 

 

Facility-related expenses, which include direct depreciation costs and expenses for rent and maintenance of facilities and other operating costs if specifically, identifiable to research activities.

 

Research and development activities are central to our business model. We expect that our research and development expenses will comprise a larger percentage of our total expenses as we initiate Phase 1 clinical trials for our Isocel and Procel product candidates and continue to discover and develop additional candidates. However, management is currently evaluating various cost reduction actions, including suspending research and development expenditures on one or more product candidates, in order to reduce our expenditures and preserve cash. As of the date of this quarterly report, we are not able to predict on what product candidates and how much expenditure we plan to reduce. However, we expect that our research and development and general and administrative costs will increase over the long-term, even if we are able to successfully reduce our costs in the short-term in order to preserve cash in light of our current liquidity situation.

 

 

We cannot determine with certainty the duration and costs of future clinical trials of our Deltacel, Procel, and Isocel product candidates, or any other product candidate we may develop or if, when or to what extent we will generate revenue from the commercialization and sale of any product candidate for which we obtain marketing approval. We may never succeed in obtaining marketing approval for any product candidate. The duration, costs and timing of clinical trials and development of our Isocel and Procel product candidates and any other our trial candidate we may develop will depend on a variety of factors, including:

 

 

The scope, rate of progress, expense and results of clinical trials of our Isocel and Procel trial candidates, as well as of any future clinical trials of other product candidates and other research and development activities that we may conduct;

 

 

Uncertainties in clinical trial design and patient enrollment rates;

 

 

The actual probability of success for our product candidates, including their safety and efficacy, early clinical data, competition, manufacturing capability and commercial viability;

 

 

Significant and changing government regulation and regulatory guidance;

 

 

the timing and receipt of any marketing approvals;

 

 

The expense of filing, prosecuting, defending and enforcing any patent claims and other intellectual property rights; and

 

 

Our ability to effectively address the deficiencies elucidated in the FDA’s clinical hold letters for our IND applications related to key chemical manufacturing and control components.

 

A change in the outcome of any of these variables with respect to the development of a product candidate could mean a significant change in the costs and timing associated with the development of that product candidate. For example, if the FDA or another regulatory authority were to require us to conduct clinical trials beyond those that we anticipate will be required for the completion of clinical development of a product candidate, or if we experience significant delays in our clinical trials due to slower than expected patient enrollment or other reasons, we would be required to expend significant additional financial resources and time on the completion of clinical development.

 

General and Administrative Expenses

 

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries and other related costs, including stock-based compensation for personnel in our executive, finance, business development, operations and administrative functions. General and administrative expenses also include legal fees relating to intellectual property and corporate matters; professional fees for accounting, auditing, tax and consulting services; insurance costs; travel expenses; and facility-related expenses, which include direct depreciation costs and expenses for rent and maintenance of facilities and other operating costs that are not specifically attributable to research activities.

 

We expect that our general and administrative expenses will increase in the future as we increase our personnel headcount to support our continued research activities, development, and manufacturing of product candidates. We also have incurred and expect to continue to incur increased expenses associated with being a public company, including costs of accounting, audit, legal, regulatory and tax-related services associated with maintaining compliance with OTCQB and SEC requirements; director and officer insurance costs; and investor and public relations costs.

 

 

Results of Operations

 

Comparison of the Three Months Ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 

 

The following table sets forth key components of our results of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.

 

     

Three Months Ended

                 
     

September 30,

   

Increase (Decrease)

 

(In thousands)

   

2024

   

2023

   

$

   

%

 

Operating expenses:

                                 

Research and development

  $ 4,228     $ 2,677     $ 1,551       58 %

General and administrative

    2,375       2,875       (500 )     (17 )%

Total operating expenses

    6,603       5,552       1,051       19 %

Loss from operations

    (6,603 )     (5,552 )     1,051       19 %

Other expense:

                                 

Interest expense

g

    (935 )     (440 )     495       113 %

Litigation settlement

          40       40       (100 )%

Other income (expense)

h

    103       1,758       1,655       (94 )%

Total other expense

    (832 )     1,358       2,190       (161 )%

Net loss

  $ (7,435 )   $ (4,194 )   $ 3,241       77 %

 

Research and development expenses.

 

The following table summarizes our change in research and development expenses by product candidate or development program:

 

   

Three Months Ended

                 
   

September 30,

   

Increase (Decrease)

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

   

2023

   

$

   

%

 

Direct research and development expenses by product candidate:

                               

Isocel development costs

a

$ 38     $ 258     $ (220 )     (85 )%

Platform development, early-stage research and unallocated expenses:

                               

Employee-related costs

b

  1,325       881       444       50 %

Laboratory supplies and services

c

  519       441       78       18 %

Outsourced research and development (net of reimbursements)

d

  1,501       219       1,282       585 %

Laboratory equipment and maintenance

e

  562       611       (49 )     (8 )%

Facility-related costs

f

  239       224       15       7 %

Intellectual property

  16       29       (13 )     (45 )%

Other research and development costs

  28       14       14       100 %

Total research and development expenses

$ 4,228     $ 2,677     $ 1,551       58 %

 

 

The primary drivers for the increase in research and development expenses are as follow:

 

 

a-

Isocel development cost decreased due to the leverage of full-time employees rather than outside consulting services.

 

 

b-

Employee related costs increased due to an increase in employee headcount, and executive bonuses.

 

 

c-

Laboratory supplies and services increased due to the prioritization of the Deltacel-01 development to support preclinical studies and clinical trials.

 

 

d-

Outsourced research and development also increased due to the prioritization of the Deltacel-01 development to support preclinical studies and clinical trials. 

 

 

e-

Laboratory equipment and maintenance decreased due to a decline in purchase of supplies and other lab related materials during the quarter.

 

 

f-

Facility-related costs increased due to repairs and maintenance expenses during the three months ended September 30, 2024.

 

General and administrative expenses.

 

The following table summarizes our change in general and administrative expenses:

 

   

Three Months Ended

                 
   

September 30,

   

Increase (Decrease)

 
   

2024

   

2023

   

$

   

%

 

Operating expenses:

                               

Employee Expenses

a

$ 1,017     $ 784     $ 233       30 %

Facilities Expenses

b

  314       378       (64 )     (17 )%

Legal Expenses

c

  717       675       42       6 %

Professional Fees

d

  327       1,038       (711 )     (69 )%

Total general and administrative expenses

$ 2,375     $ 2,875     $ (500 )     (17 )%

 

The primary drivers for the decrease in general and administrative expenses are as follow:

 

 

a-

Employee expenses increased due to the hiring of additional full-time employees, and executive bonuses.

 

 

b-

Facilities expenses decreased due to less repairs and maintenance expenses.

 

 

c-

Legal services increased due to ongoing legal proceedings. See Note 8— Commitment and Contingencies for more discussion.

 

 

d-

Professional fees decreased due to the decline in outside consulting fees as a result of the addition of full-time employees.

 

Other expenses. The primary drivers of the decrease in other expenses are as follow:

 

 

g-

Interest expense increased due to the issuance of additional convertible promissory notes subsequent to September 30, 2023. See Note 7—  Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note for more discussion.

 

 

h-

Other income decreased mainly due to a credit memo resulting from an engagement letter with a major vendor to facilitate the payment of the balance due for the three months ended September 30, 2023. 

 

 

Comparison of the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024 and 2023

 

The following table sets forth key components of our results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.

 

   

Nine Months Ended

                 
   

September 30,

   

Increase (Decrease)

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

   

2023

   

$

   

%

 

Operating expenses:

                               

Research and development

$ 11,385     $ 6,719     $ 4,666       69 %

General and administrative

  6,684       7,903       (1,219 )     (15 )%

Total operating expenses

  18,069       14,622       3,447       24 %

Loss from operations

  (18,069 )     (14,622 )     3,447       24 %

Other expense:

                               

Interest expense

g

  (2,957 )     (1,219 )     1,738       143 %

Litigation settlement

h

        (1,730 )     (1,730 )     (100 )%

Other income (expense)

i

  619       1,313       694       (53 )%

Total other expense

  (2,338 )     (1,636 )     702       43 %

Net loss

$ (20,407 )   $ (16,258 )   $ 4,149       26 %

 

Research and development expenses.

 

The following table summarizes our change in research and development expenses by product candidate or development program:

 

   

Nine Months Ended

                 
   

September 30,

   

Increase (Decrease)

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

   

2023

   

$

   

%

 

Direct research and development expenses by product candidate:

                               

Isocel development costs

a

$ 99     $ 942     $ (843 )     (89 )%

Platform development, early-stage research and unallocated expenses:

                               

Employee-related costs

b

  3,635       2,071       1,564       76 %

Laboratory supplies and services

c

  1,473       835       638       76 %

Outsourced research and development (net of reimbursements)

d

  3,710       466       3,244       696 %

Laboratory equipment and maintenance

e

  1,651       1,770       (119 )     (7 )%

Facility-related costs

f

  711       502       209       42 %

Intellectual property

  25       72       (47 )     (65 )%

Other research and development costs

  81       61       20       33 %

Total research and development expenses

$ 11,385     $ 6,719     $ 4,666       69 %

 

 

The primary drivers for the increase in research and development expenses are as follow:

 

 

a-

Isocel development cost decreased due to the leverage of full-time employees rather than outside consulting services.

 

 

b-

Employee related costs increased due to an increase in employee headcount, and executive bonuses.

 

 

c-

Laboratory supplies and services increased due to the prioritization of the Deltacel-01 development to support preclinical studies and clinical trials.

 

 

d-

Outsourced research and development increased due to the prioritization of the Deltacel-01 development to support preclinical studies and clinical trials. 

 

  e-

Laboratory equipment and maintenance decreased due to a decline in purchase of supplies and other lab related materials during the quarter.

 

 

f-

Facilities related costs increased due to repairs and maintenance expenses during the nine months ended September 30, 2024.

 

General and administrative expenses.

 

The following table summarizes our change in general and administrative expenses:

 

   

Nine Months Ended

                 
   

September 30,

   

Increase (Decrease)

 
   

2024

   

2023

   

$

   

%

 

Operating expenses:

                               

Employee Expenses

a

$ 2,860     $ 2,011     $ 849       42 %

Facilities Expenses

b

  1,042       1,241       (199 )     (16 )%

Legal Expenses

c

  1,520       1,657       (137 )     (8 )%

Professional Fees

d

  1,262       2,994       (1,732 )     (58 )%

Total general and administrative expenses

$ 6,684     $ 7,903     $ (1,219 )     (15 )%

 

The primary drivers for the decrease in general and administrative expenses are as follow:

 

 

a-

Employee expenses increased due to the hiring of additional full-time employees, and executive bonuses.

 

 

b-

Facilities expenses decreased due to less repairs and maintenance expenses.

 

 

c-

Legal services and other services decreased due to a significant decline in expenses related to the Settlement in Principle of the Class Action.

 

 

d-

Professional fees decreased due to the decline in outside consulting fees as a result of the addition of full-time employees.

 

Other expenses. The primary drivers of the decrease in other expenses are as follow:

 

 

g-

Interest expense increased due to the issuance of additional convertible promissory notes subsequent to September 30, 2023. See Note 7—  Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note for more discussion. 

 

 

h-

Litigation settlement decreased due to the settlement in principle of the class action of 1,730,000 in 2023. See Item 1—  Legal Proceedings for more discussion.

 

 

i-

Other income decreased mainly due to a credit memo resulting from an engagement letter with a major vendor to facilitate the payment of the balance due for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. 

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

As of September 30, 2024, we had cash and cash equivalents of $3.06 million, which included $132 thousand of restricted cash. We do not currently have any approved products and have never generated any revenue from product sales. To date, we have financed our operations primarily with proceeds from the sale of our convertible promissory notes, convertible preferred stock, common stock from the initial public offering and follow-on offering.

 

As of October 31, 2024, we had cash and cash equivalents of $2.15 million, which included $132 thousand of restricted cash. We have material contractual obligations which will require cash to meet their requirements. These applicable obligations include our facility lease agreement, our employment contracts, and our financing arrangement for our Director and Officer Insurance Policy. We also plan to deploy cash for other research and development and general and administrative operating expenses. Our ability to continue meeting these contractual obligations will be reliant upon our ability to secure significant additional capital funding.

 

As described above under “Going Concern and Liquidity,” in the absence of financing, management anticipates that existing cash resources combined with verbal, non-contractual commitments for additional financing will not be sufficient to meet operating and liquidity needs beyond December 2024. Management may further evaluate various cost reduction actions, including possible reductions in our workforce and suspending research and development expenditures on one or more product candidates, in order to reduce our expenditures and preserve cash. We are limited in our ability to reduce expenditures for known contractual obligations.  As a result, we are not able to predict whether any cost reduction actions will be successful or how much longer any such actions will allow us to continue to operate without financing.

 

 

As previously disclosed, we have incurred significant operating losses since inception, and we expect to incur significant expenses and operating losses for the foreseeable future as we advance the preclinical and clinical development of our product candidates. We expect that our research and development and general and administrative costs will increase over the long-term, even if we are able to successfully reduce our costs in the short-term in order to preserve cash in light of our current liquidity situation. These costs include conducting preclinical studies and clinical trials for our product candidates, contracting with clinical research organizations and building out internal capacity to have product candidates manufactured to support preclinical studies and clinical trials, expanding our intellectual property portfolio and providing general and administrative support for our operations. As a result, substantial doubt exists regarding the going concern assumption on our condensed consolidated financial statements. Therefore, these condition raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

 

We are currently seeking short-term financing to be able to continue our operations. If we are successful in obtaining short-term financing to fund our operations beyond the end of the year, we intend to seek significant additional capital funding to develop our platform, hire scientific professionals and other general and administrative employees, and for clinical trials. However, there can be no assurance that such efforts will be successful or that, in the event that they are successful, the terms and conditions of any such financings will be favorable. Further, there are other factors which may make financing our operations more difficult, including potential governmental investigation, continued elevated legal and accounting professional fees associated with litigation, and other risk factors listed in Item 1A. of Part II of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. In consideration of our plans, substantial doubt is not alleviated.

 

Summary of Cash Flow

 

The following table sets forth a summary of our cash flows for the periods presented:

 

   

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

   

2023

 

Net cash used in operating activities

  $ (15,810 )   $ (15,816 )

Net cash used in investing activities

    (338 )     (98 )

Net cash provided by financing activities

    16,000       19,649  

Net change in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash

    (148 )     3,735  

Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of the period

    3,204       645  

Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of the period

  $ 3,056     $ 4,380  

 

Cash flows from operating activities

 

Net cash used in operating activities was $15.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, as compared to $15.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase is driven primarily by the increase in overall spending in research and development due to the development of Deltacel combined with an overall increase in headcount. See our discussion in Results of Operations and our Statement of Cash Flows for more information.

 

Cash flows from investing activities

 

Net cash used in investing activities was $338 thousand for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, as compared to $98.0 thousand for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. Our net cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 primarily consisted of cash flows for purchases of property and equipment for our cGMP facilities located in our leased facility in Houston, Texas, and for the purchases of internal use software.

 

Cash flows from financing activities

 

Net cash provided by financing activities was $16.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, as compared to $19.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The change in cash flows from financing activities for the periods shown are driven by the issuance of $19.5 million of convertible notes for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.

 

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements for any of the periods presented.

 

ITEM 3.         QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.

 

We are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are not required to provide the information under this item.

 

ITEM 4.          CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Principal Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2024. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Under the supervision, and with the participation, of our current management, including our CEO and Principal Financial Officer, we evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, as of September 30, 2024. Based on this evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, our management, including our CEO and Principal Financial Officer, have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of September 30, 2024.

 

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.

 

PART II OTHER INFORMATION

 

ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

 

Information related to Item 1. Legal Proceedings is included in Note 8 – Commitments and Contingencies.

 

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS.

 

There have been no material changes from the risk factors disclosed in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 except as indicated below.

 

Our principal stockholder has significant influence over the election of our board of directors and approval of any significant corporate actions, including any sale of the company.

 

We have a principal stockholder who beneficially owns a substantial amount of our outstanding stock through securities convertible into our outstanding stock, consisting of certain convertible promissory notes and shares of our Series C Convertible Voting Preferred Stock, Series D Convertible Voting Preferred Stock and Series E Convertible Voting Preferred Stock. Each of these convertible securities contains beneficial ownership limitations equivalent to 19.99%. However, upon 61 days’ notice to the company, the principal stockholder can increase or remove the beneficial ownership limitations. If the principal stockholder were to remove the beneficial ownership limitations, the principal stockholder would beneficially own over 90% of our outstanding stock. This stockholder currently has, and likely will continue to have, significant influence with respect to the election of our board of directors and approval or disapproval of all significant corporate actions, including a potential merger or sale of the company or its assets, which may occur at times or on terms that are undesirable to other stockholders. The concentrated voting power of this stockholder could also have the effect of delaying or preventing an acquisition of the company or another significant corporate transaction. The interests of the principal stockholder may not always coincide with your interests or the interests of other stockholders, and the principal stockholder may act in a manner that advances its best interests and not necessarily those of other stockholders.

 

ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS.

 

None.

 

 

ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION.

 

None.

 

 

 

ITEM 6. EXHIBITS.

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description of Exhibit

3.1   Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of the Series E Convertible Voting Preferred Stock dated September 27, 2024 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 30, 2024)
10.1   Exchange Agreement dated as of September 27, 2024 between the Company and the holder of the Exchange Securities (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Form 8-K filed on September 30, 2024)

31.1

 

Certifications of Principal Executive Officer filed pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

31.2

 

Certifications of Principal Financial Officer filed pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

32.1

 

Certifications of Principal Executive Officer furnished pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

32.2

 

Certifications of Principal Financial Officer furnished pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: November 8, 2024

KIROMIC BIOPHARMA, INC.

   
 

/s/ Pietro Bersani

 

Name: Pietro Bersani

 

Title: Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

   
 

/s/ Brian Hungerford

 

Name: Brian Hungerford

 

Title: Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

32

Exhibit 31.1

 

CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

 ​

I, Pietro Bersani, certify that:

 ​

 

1.

I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Kiromic BioPharma, Inc.;

 

 

2.

Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

 

3.

Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

 

4.

The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

 

a)

Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

  b)

Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

  c)

Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 ​

 

d)

Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

 

5.

The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

 

a)

All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

 

b)

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.  

 ​

Date: November 8, 2024

 ​ 

/s/ Pietro Bersani

Pietro Bersani

Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

 ​​

 

Exhibit 31.2

 

CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

 

I, Brian Hungerford, certify that:

 ​

 

1.

I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Kiromic BioPharma, Inc.;

 ​

 

2.

Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

 

3.

Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 ​

 

4.

The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 ​

 

a)

Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

  b)

Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 ​

 

c)

Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

 

d)

Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 ​

 

5.

The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 ​

 

a)

All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

 

b)

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.  

 ​

Date: November 8, 2024

/s/ Brian Hungerford

Brian Hungerford

Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 ​​

 

Exhibit 32.1

 

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906
OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 ​

 ​

The undersigned Chief Executive Officer of KIROMIC BIOPHARMA, INC. (the “Company”), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY that:

 ​

1.  The Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2024 (the “Report”), fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

 ​

2.  Information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operation of the Company.

 ​

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this statement on November 8, 2024.

 ​

 ​

/s/ Pietro Bersani

Pietro Bersani

Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

 ​

 ​

A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. and will be retained by Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.

 ​

The forgoing certification is being furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to § 18 U.S.C. Section 1350.  It is not being filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and is not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.

 

 

Exhibit 32.2

 

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906
OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 ​

 ​

The undersigned Chief Financial Officer of KIROMIC BIOPHARMA, INC. (the “Company”), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY that:

 

1.  The Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2024 (the “Report”), fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

 ​

2.  Information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operation of the Company.  ​

 ​

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this statement on November 8, 2024.

 ​

 ​

/s/ Brian Hungerford

Brian Hungerford

Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 ​

 ​

A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. and will be retained by Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.

 ​

The forgoing certification is being furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to § 18 U.S.C. Section 1350.  It is not being filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and is not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.

 

 
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Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
Assets:    
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Accounts payable 1,693 2,136
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Interest payable 1,460 1,938
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Operating lease liability - long term 404 912
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Commitments and contingencies (Note 8)
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v3.24.3
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited) (Parentheticals) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
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Sep. 30, 2023
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v3.24.3
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited) - USD ($)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
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Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used for operating activities:    
Depreciation 1,666,000 1,666,000
Operating lease non-cash expense 469,000 425,000
Stock compensation expense 405,000 83,000
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Accounts payable (443,000) (2,884,000)
Interest payable 2,996,000 1,181,000
Accrued litigation liability 0 1,088,000
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities (7,000) (168,000)
Operating lease liability (469,000) (437,000)
Net cash used for operating activities (15,810,000) (15,816,000)
Cash flows from investing activities:    
Purchases of property and equipment (338,000) (98,000)
Net cash used for investing activities (338,000) (98,000)
Cash flows from financing activities:    
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Proceeds from issuance of common stock 0 659,000
Stock issuance costs 0 (110,000)
Borrowings from note payable 400,000 0
Repayments of note payable (400,000) (500,000)
Net cash provided by financing activities 16,000,000 19,649,000
Net change in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash (148,000) 3,735,000
Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash:    
Beginning of period 3,204,000 645,000
End of period 3,056,000 4,380,000
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:    
Cash paid for interest on note payable 13,000 39,000
Non-cash investing and financing activities:    
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Stock issuance costs in accounts payable 0 1,000
Property and equipment in accounts payable 0 13,000
Deferred financing costs forgiven 0 365,000
Exchange Agreement, Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note for Preferred Shares [Member]    
Non-cash investing and financing activities:    
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Conversion of Accrued Interest Into Preferred Stock [Member]    
Non-cash investing and financing activities:    
Exchange of 25% senior convertible promissory notes and accrued interest into convertible preferred stock 2,235,000 0
Conversion of Subordinated Convertible Promissory Notes to Common Stock [Member]    
Non-cash investing and financing activities:    
Conversion of subordinated convertible promissory notes into common stock $ 0 $ 2,914,000
v3.24.3
Statement of Cash Flows - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,924 $ 4,380
Restricted cash 132 0
Total cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash $ 3,056 $ 4,380
v3.24.3
Note 1 - Organization
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]

1.         ORGANIZATION

 

Nature of Business

 

Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company" or “We”) are a clinical stage, fully integrated biotherapeutics company formed under the Texas Business Organizations Code in December 2012. We maintain offices in Houston, Texas. We have not generated any revenue to date.

 

We are an allogeneic Gamma Delta T-cell therapy company featuring unique, proprietary end-to-end bioinformatic, AI targeting and manufacturing technologies to address solid tumors. Our end-to-end approach consists of target discovery and validation, product development, and on-site current Good Manufacturing Practices (“cGMP”) which we believe will allow us to leverage a new framework for the next generation of cell therapies.

 

From a development standpoint, we utilize innovative non-engineered and engineered allogeneic Gamma Delta T (GDT) cell technologies and are developing proprietary, virus-free cell engineering methods to develop novel therapies for solid tumors that we believe will be effective and cost-efficient. Deltacel™ (Deltacel) is our first off-the-shelf, non-engineered GDT cell-based product currently in a Phase 1 clinical stage. Our Isocel™ ("Isocel") and Procel™ ("Procel") product candidates consist of allogeneic, engineered, off-the-shelf GDT cells and they are currently in the preclinical development stage. Our Isocel product candidate consists of engineered GDTs that target Mesothelin Isoform 2 (“Iso-Meso”), a target that we have discovered and prioritized using our Diamond AI bio-informatic platform. Our Procel product candidate consists of engineered GDTs that target PD-L1. Our Deltacel product candidate consists of non-engineered GDTs which we expand, enrich, and activate ex-vivo through a proprietary process, and it is intended to treat solid tumors regardless of the specific tumor antigen expression. Isocel consists of engineered GDTs targeting solid tumors expressing a tumor-specific variant (Isoform) of Mesothelin (“Iso-Meso”), while Procel consists of engineered GDTs targeting PD-L1 positive tumors.

 

We have a total of five clinical programs to study our key product candidates:

 

 

1)

Deltacel-01: This clinical trial is active, and will evaluate Deltacel in combination with low-dose targeted radiation for patients with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Deltacel was granted Fast-Track Designation status by the FDA in August 2024. This trial has entered the second part, dose-expansion phase, in September 2024.

 

 

2)

Isocel combination: This clinical trial will evaluate Isocel in combination with low-dose radiation for patients with Mesothelin Isoform 2 positive solid malignancies.

 

 

3)

Alexis-ISO-1: This clinical trial will evaluate Isocel in patients with Mesothelin Isoform 2 positive solid malignancies.

 

 

4)

Procel combination: This clinical trial will evaluate Procel in combination with low-dose radiation for patients with PD-L1 positive solid malignancies.

 

 

5)

Alexis-PRO-1: This clinical trial will evaluate Procel in patients with PD-L1 positive solid malignancies.

 

Depending on pre-clinical evidence, we might submit 1 IND for Isocel and 1 for Procel, for a total of two new INDs to study our product candidates either with or without low-dose radiation.

 

Going Concern These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles applicable to a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.

 

The Company has incurred significant losses and negative cash flows from operations since inception and expects to incur additional losses until such time that it can generate significant revenue from the commercialization of its product candidates. The Company had negative cash flow from operations of $15.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and an accumulated deficit of $143.3 million as of September 30, 2024. To date, the Company has relied on equity and debt financing to fund its operations. The Company’s product candidates are still in the early stages of clinical trials and development, and substantial additional financing will be needed by the Company to fund its operations and ongoing research and development efforts prior to the commercialization, if any, of its product candidates. The Company does not have sufficient cash on hand or available liquidity to meet its obligations through the twelve months following the date the condensed consolidated financial statements are issued. This condition raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

 

Given its projected operating requirements and its existing cash and cash equivalents, management’s plans include evaluating different strategies to obtain the required funding for future operations. These plans may include, but are not limited to, additional funding from private or public equity or debt offerings with current or new investors. However, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to secure such additional financing, or if available, that it will be sufficient to meet its needs or on favorable terms. Therefore, the plans cannot be deemed probable of being implemented. As a result, the Company has concluded management’s plans do not alleviate substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. In the event the Company is unable to secure financing sufficient to allow it to meet its obligations as they become due, the Company may need to file a voluntary petition for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code in order to implement a restructuring plan or liquidation.

 

The condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

v3.24.3
Note 2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Significant Accounting Policies [Text Block]

2.         SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information (Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 270, Interim Reporting) and with the instructions to Form 10‑Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information necessary for a full presentation of financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in conformity with GAAP. Operating results for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for the fiscal year as a whole. In the opinion of management, the condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for a fair presentation of the results of the Company for the periods presented.

 

Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted. These interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. The results of operations for the period ended September 30, 2024, are not necessarily indicative of the operating results that may be expected for a full year. The consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2023, contains financial information taken from the audited Company consolidated financial statements as of that date.

 

All intercompany balances were eliminated upon consolidation.

 

Use of Estimates—The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates include determination of the fair value of common stock and related stock-based compensation, warrants to purchase common stock underlying shares of Series B Preferred Stock and public offering common stock, and estimating services incurred by third-party service providers used to recognize research and development expense.

 

Concentrations of Credit Risk and Other Uncertainties—Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentration of credit risk consist of cash and cash equivalents. Substantially all of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents were deposited in accounts at a small number of national financial institutions. Account balances may at times exceed federally insured limits. The Company has not incurred losses related to these cash and cash equivalents deposited at financial institutions and management believes that the Company is not exposed to significant credit risk due to the financial strength of the depository institutions in which the cash is held.

 

The Company is subject to certain risks and uncertainties from changes in any of the following areas that the Company believes could have a material adverse effect on future financial position or results of operations: the ability to obtain regulatory approval and market acceptance of, and reimbursement for, the Company’s product candidates; the performance of third-party clinical research organizations and manufacturers; protection of the intellectual property; litigation or claims against the Company based on intellectual property, patent, product, regulatory or other factors; the Company’s ability to attract and retain employees necessary to support commercial success; and changes in the industry or customer requirements including the emergence of competitive products with new capabilities.

 

Restricted Cash— Restricted cash of $132 thousand and zero as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, consists primarily of bank deposits that collateralize our obligations to vendors.

 

Property and Equipment—Property and equipment are recorded at cost and depreciated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets ranging from 1 to 8 years. Major replacements and improvements are capitalized as leasehold improvements, while general repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred. Estimated useful lives of leasehold improvements are the shorter of the remaining lease term or the estimated useful economic life of the specific asset.

 

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets—The Company reviews its long-lived assets, including property and equipment, for impairment indicators. If indicators are noted, the Company compares the carrying amount of the asset to its estimated undiscounted cash flows. If the carrying amount exceeds its estimated undiscounted cash flows, an impairment loss is recognized to adjust the long-lived asset to fair value. There have been no impairment losses on the Company’s long-lived assets since inception.

 

Income Taxes—The Company files federal and state income tax returns, utilizing the accrual basis of accounting. Income taxes are provided for the tax effects of transactions reported in the condensed consolidated financial statements and consist of taxes currently due and deferred taxes. Certain transactions of the Company may be subject to accounting methods for income tax purposes, which differ from the accounting methods used in preparing these condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP. Accordingly, the net income or loss of the Company reported for income tax purposes may differ from the balances reported for those same items in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax basis. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which such temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The Company records valuation allowances to reduce deferred income tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized.

 

The Company records uncertain tax positions in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC 740”), Income Taxes, on the basis of a two-step process in which (1) the Company determines whether it is more-likely-than-not that the tax positions will be sustained on the basis of the technical merits of the position and (2) for those tax positions that meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold, the Company recognizes the largest amount of tax benefit that is more than 50 percent likely to be realized upon ultimate settlement with the related tax authority. The Company recognizes interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits on the income tax expense line in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations. No such interest or penalties were recognized during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 or 2023.

 

Research and Development Expense—The Company expenses research and development costs as incurred. Research and development expenses include personnel and personnel-related costs, costs associated with the Company’s pre-clinical development activities including costs of outside consultants and contractors, the submission and maintenance of regulatory filings, equipment and supplies used in developing products prior to market approval and an allocation of certain overhead costs such as facility and related expenses.

 

The Company accrues and expenses costs of services provided by contract research organizations in connection with preclinical studies and contract manufacturing organizations engaged to manufacture clinical trial material, costs of licensing technology, and costs of services provided by research organizations and service providers. Upfront payments and milestone payments made for the licensing of technology are expensed as research and development in the period in which they are incurred if the technology is not expected to have any alternative future uses other than the specific research and development project for which it was intended. Nonrefundable advance payments for goods or services to be received in the future for use in research and development activities are recorded as prepaid expenses. The prepaid amounts are expensed as the related goods are delivered or the services are performed rather than when the payment is made.

 

Nonvested Stock Options, Restricted Stock Units and Awards—Pursuant to the Company’s 2017 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2017 Plan”) and the Omnibus 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”), the Company has the ability to issue a variety of share-based payments and incentives to board members, employees, and non-employees through grants of nonvested stock options, restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and restricted stock awards (“RSAs”).

 

The vesting conditions for stock options and RSUs include annual and monthly vesting. Annual vesting conditions are for three years or more. Monthly vesting conditions range from 10 to 48 months. When nonvested options are vested, they become exercisable over a 10-year period from grant date.

 

The vesting conditions for RSAs include cliff vesting conditions. Certain RSUs vest with a range of 6 to 12 months. When RSUs vest, they are released to the grantee within sixty days.

 

Stock-Based Compensation—The Company records stock compensation expense related to the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2017 Plan”) and the Omnibus 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”) in accordance with ASC 718, CompensationStock Compensation. The Company measures and recognizes stock compensation expense for all stock‑based awards, including stock options, based on estimated fair values recognized using cliff vesting or the straight‑line method over the requisite service period. The fair value of stock options is estimated on the grant date using the Black‑Scholes option‑valuation model (the “Black‑Scholes model”). The calculation of stock‑based compensation expense requires that the Company make assumptions and judgments about the variables used in the Black‑Scholes model, including the fair value of the Company’s common stock, expected term, expected volatility of the underlying common stock, and risk‑free interest rate. Forfeitures are accounted for when they occur.

 

The Company estimates the grant date fair value of stock options using the Black‑Scholes model and the assumptions used to value such stock options are determined as follows:

 

Expected Term. The expected term represents the period that the Company’s stock options are expected to be outstanding. Due to limitations on the sale or transfer of the Company’s common stock under the lock-up agreements and market standoff components of the stock option agreements, the Company does not believe its historical exercise pattern is indicative of the pattern it will experience after restricted periods expire. The Company uses the simplified method to calculate the expected term, which is the average of the contractual term and vesting period.

 

RiskFree Interest Rate. The Company bases the risk‑free interest rate used in the Black‑Scholes model on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero‑coupon issues with a term equivalent to that of the expected term of the stock options for each stock option group.

 

Volatility. The Company determines the price volatility based on the historical volatilities of industry peers as it has limited trading history for its common stock price. The Company intends to continue to consistently apply this process using the same or a similar peer group of public companies, until a sufficient amount of historical information regarding the volatility of its own common stock price becomes available, or unless circumstances change such that the identified peer companies are no longer similar, in which case other suitable peer companies whose common stock prices are publicly available would be utilized in the calculation.

 

Dividend Yield. The expected dividend assumption is based on the Company’s current expectations about its anticipated dividend policy. To date, the Company has not declared any dividends and, therefore, the Company has used an expected dividend yield of zero.

 

Common Stock Valuations. The closing price listed on the OTCQB Capital Market or previously the NASDAQ Capital Market for the Company’s common stock on the date of the grant is used as the common stock valuation.

 

Segment Data—The Company manages its operations as a single segment for the purposes of assessing performance and making operating decisions.

 

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements—From time to time, Accounting Standards Updates (“ASU”) are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) or other standard setting bodies and adopted by the Company as of the specified effective date.

 

Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted

 

Segments. In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-07, “Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures (Topic 280)”. ASU 2023-07 modifies reportable segment disclosure requirements, primarily through enhanced disclosures about segment expenses categorized as significant or regularly provided to the Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM). In addition, the amendments enhance interim disclosure requirements, clarify circumstances in which an entity can disclose multiple segment measures of profit or loss, and contain other disclosure requirements. The purpose of the amendments is to enable investors to better understand an entity’s overall performance and assess potential future cash flows. This ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company currently operates as one reportable segment and does not believe there will be a material impact on the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.

 

Income Taxes. In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, “Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (Topic 740)”. ASU 2023-09 requires enhanced disclosures on income taxes paid, adds disaggregation of continuing operations before income taxes between foreign and domestic earnings and defines specific categories for the reconciliation of jurisdictional tax rate to effective tax rate. This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, and can be applied on a prospective basis. The Company is currently evaluating the impact this new standard will have on the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.

 

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Note 3 - Net Loss Per Common Stock Share
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Earnings Per Share [Text Block]

3.         NET LOSS PER COMMON STOCK SHARE

 

Basic and diluted net loss per common share is determined by dividing net loss less deemed dividends by the weighted-average common shares outstanding during the period. For all periods presented the common shares underlying the stock options, RSUs and warrants have been excluded from the calculation because their effect would be anti-dilutive. Therefore, the weighted-average common shares outstanding used to calculate both basic and diluted loss per common shares is the same. The following table illustrates the computation of basic and diluted loss per share:

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Net loss

 $(7,435) $(4,194)  (20,407)  (16,258)

Less: Initial Public Offering Common Stock discount amortization

  (8)  (25)  (58)  (75)

Less: Public Offering Common Stock discount amortization

  (62)  (62)  (184)  (183)

Less: Undeclared dividends attributable to convertible preferred stock

  (1,951)  (808)  (4,272)  (1,323)

Net loss attributable to common shareholders

 $(9,457) $(5,089)  (24,922)  (17,839)

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Three Months Ended

 
  

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

 

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

 

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

  

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

 

Net loss per share, basic and diluted

                

Allocation of undistributed net loss

 $(1,008) $(8,449) $(1,811) $(3,278)

Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted

  1,545,920   30,968   1,189,989   12,891 

Basic and diluted net loss per share

 $(0.65) $(272.82) $(1.52) $(254.26)

 

  

Nine Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

 
  

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

  

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

 

Net loss per share, basic and diluted

                

Allocation of undistributed net loss

 $(2,957) $(21,965) $(8,765) $(9,074)

Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted

  1,432,787   22,793   1,040,190   7,011 

Basic and diluted net loss per share

 $(2.06) $(963.64) $(8.43) $(1,294.31)

 

For the three months ended September 30, 2024, there were 56,239 restricted stock units and 15,416 warrants that were excluded from the computations of diluted weighted-average shares of common stock because they were anti-dilutive.

 

During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company entered into three exchange agreements (the "Exchange Agreements"). The first agreement reclassified convertible promissory notes with $8.0 million of principal into 8,000 shares of Series D convertible voting preferred stock (the “Series D Stock”). The second agreement reclassified (i) convertible promissory notes with $7.2 million of principal and (ii) accrued interest of $1.63 million for a total of $8.8 million into 8,837.58 shares of Series D Stock. The third agreement reclassified (i) convertible promissory notes with $2.4 million of principal and (ii) accrued interest of $0.59 million for a total of $3.0 million into 2,997 shares of Series E Stock. See Note 10 - Stockholder’s Equity for details concerning the Series D and Series E Stock.

 

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Note 4 - Property and Equipment, Net
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Property, Plant and Equipment Disclosure [Text Block]

4.         PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET

 

Property and equipment, net consisted of the following:

 

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 

Equipment

 $3,336  $3,126 

Leasehold improvements

  7,372   7,372 

Office furniture, fixtures, and equipment

  137   137 

Software

  589   360 

Construction in progress

     101 
   11,434   11,096 

Less: Accumulated depreciation

  (6,587)  (4,921)

Total

 $4,847  $6,175 

 

Depreciation expense was $552 thousand and $560 thousand for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Depreciation expense was $1,666 thousand and $1,666 thousand for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Depreciation expense is allocated between research and development and general and administrative operating expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations.

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Note 5 - Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Accounts Payable, Accrued Liabilities, and Other Liabilities Disclosure, Current [Text Block]

5.         ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES

 

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following as of:

 

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 

Accrued litigation and settlements

 $130  $448 

Accrued compensation

  1,116   865 

Accrued consulting and outside services

  420   360 

Total

 $1,666  $1,673 

 

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Note 6 - Note Payable
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Schedule of Short-Term Debt [Table Text Block]

6.         NOTE PAYABLE

 

In January 2024, the Company entered into a financing arrangement for its Director and Officer Insurance policy. The total amount financed was approximately $400 thousand with an annual interest rate of 4.93%, to be paid over a period of eleven months. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the payable balance on the financed amount was zero.

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Note 7 - Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Debt Disclosure [Text Block]

7.         SENIOR SECURED CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY NOTE

 

The Company began issuing senior secured convertible promissory notes (each a “CPN” and together the “Notes”) during 2022.

 

Through September 30, 2024, the Company has issued twenty-two notes totaling $45.2 million, of which $17.2 million were issued during the nine months ended September 30, 2024. The notes are each 25% Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes with largely consistent terms including a stated interest rate of 25% per year; and a one-year maturity. The Notes are convertible at varying conversion prices.

 

The stated interest rates for these notes increase to 27% per annum or the highest rate then allowed under applicable law (whichever is lower) upon the occurrence of an event of default, including the failure by the Company to make payment of principal or interest due under the related note on the respective maturity date, and any commencement by the Company of a case under any applicable bankruptcy or insolvency law.

 

In April 2023, July 2023, March 2024,  June 2024 and September 2024, the Company executed an exchange agreement to reclassify $8.0 million, $6.0 million, $8.0 million of the Notes' principal, and $8.8 million and $3.0 million of the Notes' principal and interest into shares of convertible preferred stock, respectively. See Note 10— Stockholders' Equity for further discussion.

 

Senior secured convertible promissory notes consisted of the following:

 

(In thousands)

          

Issue Date

 

Maturity Date

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 

06/26/2023

 

06/26/2024

 $  $2,400 

07/25/2023

 

07/25/2024

     2,400 

08/25/2023

 

08/25/2024

     2,400 

09/27/2023

 

09/27/2024

     2,400 

11/02/2023

 

11/02/2024

  2,400   2,400 

12/12/2023

 

12/12/2024

     2,000 

04/02/2024

 

04/02/2025

  2,000    

05/02/2024

 

05/02/2025

  2,000    

06/03/2024

 

06/03/2025

  2,000    

06/21/2024

 

06/21/2025

  1,240    

07/03/2024

 

07/03/2025

  2,000    

08/01/2024

 

08/01/2025

  2,000    

Total senior secured convertible promissory notes

 $13,640  $14,000 
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Note 8 - Commitments and Contingencies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Text Block]

8.         COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

License Agreements

 

The Company has entered into a number of licensing arrangements for various intellectual property and licensed patent rights for technologies being developed for commercial sale. As part of these arrangements, the Company is subject to contingent milestone payments in accordance with agreed-upon development objectives, as well as future royalty payments on product sales of the underlying assets. As of September 30, 2024, and December 31, 2023, the Company has not incurred any milestone or royalty liabilities related to these license agreements.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

Jason Terrel Claim

 

On March 22, 2021, Jason Terrell (“Terrell”), a former consultant and director of the Company, commenced an action against us in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, C.A. No. 2021-0248-MTZ (the “Action”). In the Action, Terrell seeks a declaratory judgment that we are obligated to issue him (i) options to purchase 16,667 shares of our common stock at a price of $15.00 per share pursuant to an alleged 2014 consulting agreement, and (ii) options to purchase an additional 16,667 shares of common stock at a price of $5.10 per share pursuant to an alleged January 2017 non-employee director options agreement.

 

On January 31, 2024, the Chancery Court issued a letter opinion that dismissed Terrell’s claims based on the contract-interpretation grounds the Company originally advanced back in 2021, as well as the Delaware Supreme Court’s determination that the third options agreement was not unconscionable. On March 11, 2024, the Chancery Court entered a stipulated form of Final Order and Judgment, dismissing Terrell’s claims consistent with the Chancery Court’s January 31, 2024, letter opinion. Terrell thereafter commenced an appeal of the dismissal to the Delaware Supreme Court. Pursuant to the briefing schedule ordered by the Delaware Supreme Court, Terrell filed its opening appellate brief on May 9, 2024; and the Company filed its answering brief on June 25, 2024. Oral argument in the Delaware Supreme Court appeal took place on October 30, 2024, and the parties are awaiting the Court's decision.

 

Karp and Podmore Class Actions

 

On August 5, 2022, Ronald H. Karp, filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Karp Class Action”) in connection with a public offering by the Company that closed on or about July 2, 2021, and asserting claims against the Company and certain current and former officers and directors of the Company for alleged violations of Sections 11, 12, and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 in connection with the purchase of common stock through the Company’s public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 and Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder in connection with the certain statements and acts made by the defendants between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021. On October 3, 2022, Joseph Podmore filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Podmore Class Action”) raising similar claims.

 

The Karp Class Action and the Podmore Class Action were consolidated and are collectively referred to as the “Class Action”. Please refer to the Settlement of the Class Action described more fully below.

 

Settlement in Principle of the Class Action

 

On August 7, 2023, we entered into a term sheet with the plaintiffs in the Class Action, to settle in principle (and globally resolve) the Class Action. We subsequently reached agreement with the plaintiffs in the Class Action on all settlement materials and terms including with respect to payment of up to $2,300,000 and, on September 29, 2023, counsel for plaintiffs submitted the proposed settlement materials to the Court for approval. Of this amount, insurance covered $570,000, resulting in a net settlement of $1,730,000 owed by the Company. As of September 30, 2024, we have paid the totality of the settlement into an escrow account, of which $448,000 was payable as of December 31, 2023

 

The Company regularly assesses all contingencies and believes, based on information presently known, the Company is not involved in any other matters that would have a material effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows. 

 

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Note 9 - Leases
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Lessee, Operating Leases [Text Block]

9.         LEASES

 

The Company leases real estate for office and warehouse space under non-cancelable operating leases, with a total rentable space of 149,000 square feet. The Company intends to use the full lease term under the existing lease agreement which is currently set to expire on April 30, 2026. As of September 30, 2024, the Company is not able to determine if any renewal options will be exercised.

 

There are no variable payments associated with the lease agreements, as the rent payments are predetermined on a fixed schedule.

 

The following table indicates the balance sheet line items that include the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for our operating lease:

 

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 
  

Operating lease

  

Operating lease

 

Right-of-Use Asset

        

Operating lease, net

 $1,074  $1,543 

Total right-of use asset, net

 $1,074  $1,543 
         

Lease Liabilities

        

Operating lease - short term

 $(670) $(631)

Operating lease - long term

  (404)  (912)

Total lease liabilities

 $(1,074) $(1,543)

 

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, the components of lease expense were as follows:

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

  

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

 

Operating lease cost allocated to research and development expense

 $113  $109  $338  $288 

Operating lease cost allocated to general and administrative expense

  66   70   199   249 

Total lease expense

 $179  $179  $537  $537 

Weighted-average remaining lease term

  1.59   2.59   1.59   2.59 

Weighted-average discount rate

  7.12%  7.12%  7.12%  7.12%

 

As of September 30, 2024, the maturities of the Company’s operating lease liabilities were as follows:

 

Maturity of Lease Liabilities (In thousands)

 

Operating lease

 

2024 (remaining)

 $179 

2025

  725 

2026

  242 

Total lease payments

  1,146 

Less: imputed interest

  (72)

Present value of lease payments

 $1,074 

 

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Note 10 - Stockholders' Equity
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Equity [Text Block]

10.         STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY

 

Common Stock— The Company has one class of common shares outstanding. Refer to the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets for shares authorized, issued and outstanding as of the balance sheet dates.

 

Preferred Stock— As of September 30, 2024, and December 31, 2023, the Company was authorized to issue 60,000,000 shares of preferred stock (24,000,000 shares designated as Series A-1 Preferred Stock and 16,500,000 shares designated as Series B Preferred stock), none of which were issued or outstanding. Additionally, as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company authorized the issuance of 14,000 and 14,000 shares of Series C Convertible Voting Preferred Stock (the “Series C Stock”), respectively, 20,000 and 0 shares of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock, 6,000 and 0 shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series E Stock”, the “Series D Stock” and together with the Series C Stock, the “Preferred Shares”), respectively. The Company issued 8,000 shares of Series C Stock on April 2, 2023, 6,000 shares of Series C Stock on July 18, 2023, 8,000 shares of Series D Stock on March 28, 2024, 8,837.58 shares of Series D Stock on June 21, 2024, and 2,997 shares of Series E Stock on September 27, 2024, as part of five agreements to reclassify convertible preferred notes for Preferred Shares.

 

As discussed in Note 3, the Company reclassified certain CPNs into convertible preferred shares by executing the Exchange Agreements. This reclassification resulted in two new classes of convertible preferred shares in 2024, the Series D and Series E Stock. The Company has three classes of convertible preferred shares issued and outstanding for both balance sheet dates presented - Series C Stock, Series D Stock and Series E Stock. The Preferred Shares are convertible, upon a notice of conversion by the holder, into shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.001 per share at an exchange price of $6.50 per share for the Series C Stock, $2.50 for the Series D Stock and a price equal to 80% of the 5-day VWAP for the Common Stock beginning on the fifth day preceding the date of the Notice of Conversion for the Series E Stock, subject to a beneficial ownership maximum of 19.99%. The Preferred Shares are voting stock and holders are entitled to vote together with the Common Stock on an as-if-converted-to-Common-Stock basis as determined by dividing the Liquidation Preference with respect to such shares of Preferred Shares by their conversion price. Holders of Common Stock are entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders. Accordingly, holders of Preferred Shares are entitled to one vote for each whole share of Common Stock into which their Preferred Shares are convertible on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders.

 

Cumulative Rights of Series C, D and E Stock Shareholders— The Preferred Shares accumulate undeclared dividends at an annual rate of 25%. Unpaid dividends and undeclared dividends are added to the aggregated Liquidation Preference which also includes the face value of the Preferred Shares outstanding. In the event of any liquidation of the Company, holders of Preferred Shares then outstanding shall be entitled to be paid the Liquidation Preference out of the assets of the Company available for distribution to its stockholders, before any payment shall be made to the holders of any other shares of capital.

 

  

Dividends Earned for the period Ended September 30, 2024

  

Liquidation Preference

 

(In thousands)

  Three Months Ended   Nine Months Ended   September 30, 2024   December 31, 2023 

Series C

 $882  $2,627  $18,833  $16,205 

Series D

  1,061   1,637   18,474   - 

Series E

  8   8   3,005   - 

Total

 $1,951  $4,272  $40,312  $16,205 

 

Participating Rights of Series C, D and E Stock Shareholders— In the event the Company declares a dividend, and all cumulative dividends have been distributed, the Preferred Shares participate in any remaining declared dividends to be paid equal to (on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock basis) and in the same form as dividends paid on shares of Common Stock.

 

Warrants—Holders of warrants (the “Warrants”) grant the holder the right to purchase a specified number of shares of the Company at a specified price with an expiration date of five years. Holders of the Warrants may purchase 2,083 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $450.00 per share with an expiration date of October 14, 2025, or an additional 13,333 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $187.50 per share with an expiration date of July 1, 2026. All of the Warrants were outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023.

 

Standby Equity Purchase Agreement Financing

 

On October 13, 2022, the Company entered into a Standby Equity Purchase Agreement (the “SEPA”) with YA II PN, Ltd. (the “Investor”), pursuant to which the Company has the right to sell to the Investor up to $8.0 million (the “Commitment Amount”) of its shares of common stock, at the Company’s request any time during the commitment period commencing on October 13, 2022, and terminating on the earliest of (i) the first day of the month following the 24-month anniversary of the SEPA or (ii) the date on which the Investor has paid for shares of Common Stock equal to the Commitment Amount.

 

On May 24, 2023, we issued to the Investor 97,000 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $3.89, for an advance amount of $377,000.

 

On June 2, 2023, we issued to the Investor 100,000 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $2.82, for an advance amount of $282,100.

v3.24.3
Note 11 - Stock-based Compensation
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Text Block]

11.         STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

 

2017 Stock Incentive PlanRestricted Stock Units

 

The following table summarizes the activity for all RSUs outstanding under the 2017 Plan as of  September 30, 2024 and  2023:

 

  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted Average

      

Weighted Average

 
      

Grant Date

      

Grant Date

 
      

Fair Value

      

Fair Value

 
  

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Shares

  

Per Share

 

Outstanding RSUs at beginning of period

  605  $285.36   650  $259.50 

Granted

            

Vested

  (52)  259.97   (246)  255.85 

Cancelled and forfeited

  (537)  254.10   (45)  260.10 

Nonvested RSUs as of September 30

  16  $260.08   359  $285.36 

 

In addition, the weighted average remaining recognition period for the 2017 RSUs is 0.3 year as of September 30, 2024.

 

Total stock compensation expense recognized from stock-based compensation awards classified as restricted stock units were recognized in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, as follows:

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Research and development

 $  $6  $9  $21 

General and administrative

     9   15   23 

Total

 $  $15  $24  $44 

 

As of September 30, 2024, there was $3,200 unrecognized stock compensation expense related to unvested restricted stock units under the 2017 Plan.

 

2017 Stock Incentive Plan Stock Options

 

The following table summarizes the activity for all stock options outstanding as of  September 30, 2024 and  2023 under the 2017 Plan:

 

  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted

      

Weighted

 
      

Average

      

Average

 
      

Exercise

      

Exercise

 
  

Shares

  

Price

  

Shares

  

Price

 

Options outstanding at beginning of period

  18,093  $101.04   32,706  $96.24 

Granted

            

Exercised

            

Cancelled and forfeited

        (14,613)  88.17 

Balance as of September 30

  18,093  $101.04   18,093  $101.04 

Options exercisable as of September 30:

  18,093  $101.04   18,093  $101.04 

 

The options have no intrinsic value as of September 30, 2024, or December 31, 2023, respectively.

 

There was no stock compensation expense recognized for stock options in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.

 

As of September 30, 2024, there was no unrecognized stock compensation expense related to unvested stock options.

 

2021 Stock Incentive PlanRestricted Stock Units

 

The following table summarizes the activity for all RSUs outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and 2023 under the 2021 Plan:

 

  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted Average

      

Weighted Average

 
      

Grant Date

      

Grant Date

 
      

Fair Value

      

Fair Value

 
  

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Shares

  

Per Share

 

Outstanding RSUs at beginning of period

  89,206  $1.56   684  $133.20 

Granted

  92,444   2.57   50,843   0.62 

Vested

  (29,775)  4.95   (13,483)  0.62 

Cancelled and forfeited

  (95,652)  1.89   (621)  126.60 

Nonvested RSUs as of September 30

  56,223  $3.74   37,423  $20.41 

 

In addition, the weighted average remaining recognition period for the 2021 RSUs is 2.88 years as of September 30, 2024.

 

Total stock compensation expense recognized from stock-based compensation awards classified as restricted stock units were recognized in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, as follows:

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Research and development

 $  $10  $24  $21 

General and administrative

     2   38   17 

Total

 $  $12  $62  $38 

 

As of September 30, 2024, there was $197,800 unrecognized stock compensation expense related to unvested restricted stock units under the 2021 Plan.

 

2021 Stock Incentive PlanRestricted Stock Awards

 

In May 2024, the Company approved the grant of 254,185 restricted stock awards (RSAs) to Officers and certain directors. The RSAs were released to the participants when granted but were not vested yet as of  September 30, 2024.

 

The following table summarizes the activity for all RSAs outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and 2023 under the 2021 Plan:

 

  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted Average

      

Weighted Average

 
      

Grant Date

      

Grant Date

 
      

Fair Value

      

Fair Value

 
  

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Shares

  

Per Share

 

Nonvested RSAs at beginning of period

    $     $ 

Granted

  254,185   2.42       

Vested

            

Cancelled and forfeited

            

Nonvested RSAs as of September 30

  254,185  $2.42     $ 

 

In addition, the weighted average remaining recognition period for the RSAs is 0.49 years as of September 30, 2024.

 

Total stock compensation expense recognized from stock-based compensation awards classified as restricted stock awards were recognized in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, as follows:

 

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Research and development

 $107  $  $107  $ 

General and administrative

  212      212    

Total

 $319  $  $319  $ 

 

As of September 30, 2024, there was $297,000 unrecognized stock compensation expense related to unvested restricted stock awards.

v3.24.3
Note 12 - Income Taxes
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Income Tax Disclosure [Text Block]

12.         INCOME TAXES

 

The Company’s effective tax rate from continuing operations was 0% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023. The Company recorded no income tax provision for the three or nine months ended September 30, 2024.

 

The provision for income taxes during the interim reporting periods is calculated by applying an estimate of the annual effective tax rate for the full fiscal year to “ordinary” income or loss for the reporting period. Each quarter, the estimate of the annual effective tax rate is updated, and if the estimated effective tax rate changes, a cumulative adjustment is made. There is a potential for volatility of the effective tax rate due to several factors, including changes in the mix of the pre-tax income and the jurisdictions to which it relates, changes in tax laws, business reorganizations and settlements with taxing authorities.

 

The income tax rates vary from the US federal statutory rate of 21% primarily due to the full valuation allowance on the Company’s deferred tax assets. The Company has recorded the full valuation allowance based on an evaluation of both positive and negative evidence, including latest forecasts and cumulative losses in recent years. The Company has concluded that it was more likely than not that none of its deferred tax assets would be realized.

 

v3.24.3
Note 13 - Subsequent Events
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements  
Subsequent Events [Text Block]

13.         SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

On November 1, 2024, the Company entered into an exchange agreement with the holder of promissory notes to reclassify $2.4 million of the Company's 25% Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note's principal and $600 thousand accrued interest into Series E convertible preferred shares, The Series E Stock are convertible to a price equal to 80% of the 5-day VWAP for the Common Stock beginning on the fifth day preceding the date of the Notice of Conversion, subject to a beneficial ownership maximum of 19.99%.

 

On November 3, 2024, our Standby Equity Purchase Agreement (the “SEPA”) with YA II PN, Ltd. expired.

 

v3.24.3
Insider Trading Arrangements
3 Months Ended 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2024
Insider Trading Arr Line Items    
Material Terms of Trading Arrangement [Text Block]  

ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION.

 

None.

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v3.24.3
Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Basis of Accounting, Policy [Policy Text Block]

Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information (Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 270, Interim Reporting) and with the instructions to Form 10‑Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information necessary for a full presentation of financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in conformity with GAAP. Operating results for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for the fiscal year as a whole. In the opinion of management, the condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for a fair presentation of the results of the Company for the periods presented.

 

Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted. These interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. The results of operations for the period ended September 30, 2024, are not necessarily indicative of the operating results that may be expected for a full year. The consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2023, contains financial information taken from the audited Company consolidated financial statements as of that date.

 

All intercompany balances were eliminated upon consolidation.

 

Use of Estimates, Policy [Policy Text Block]

Use of Estimates—The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates include determination of the fair value of common stock and related stock-based compensation, warrants to purchase common stock underlying shares of Series B Preferred Stock and public offering common stock, and estimating services incurred by third-party service providers used to recognize research and development expense.

 

Concentration Risk, Credit Risk, Policy [Policy Text Block]

Concentrations of Credit Risk and Other Uncertainties—Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentration of credit risk consist of cash and cash equivalents. Substantially all of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents were deposited in accounts at a small number of national financial institutions. Account balances may at times exceed federally insured limits. The Company has not incurred losses related to these cash and cash equivalents deposited at financial institutions and management believes that the Company is not exposed to significant credit risk due to the financial strength of the depository institutions in which the cash is held.

 

The Company is subject to certain risks and uncertainties from changes in any of the following areas that the Company believes could have a material adverse effect on future financial position or results of operations: the ability to obtain regulatory approval and market acceptance of, and reimbursement for, the Company’s product candidates; the performance of third-party clinical research organizations and manufacturers; protection of the intellectual property; litigation or claims against the Company based on intellectual property, patent, product, regulatory or other factors; the Company’s ability to attract and retain employees necessary to support commercial success; and changes in the industry or customer requirements including the emergence of competitive products with new capabilities.

 

Cash and Cash Equivalents, Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Policy [Policy Text Block]

Restricted Cash— Restricted cash of $132 thousand and zero as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, consists primarily of bank deposits that collateralize our obligations to vendors.

 

Property, Plant and Equipment, Policy [Policy Text Block]

Property and Equipment—Property and equipment are recorded at cost and depreciated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets ranging from 1 to 8 years. Major replacements and improvements are capitalized as leasehold improvements, while general repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred. Estimated useful lives of leasehold improvements are the shorter of the remaining lease term or the estimated useful economic life of the specific asset.

 

Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets, Policy [Policy Text Block]

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets—The Company reviews its long-lived assets, including property and equipment, for impairment indicators. If indicators are noted, the Company compares the carrying amount of the asset to its estimated undiscounted cash flows. If the carrying amount exceeds its estimated undiscounted cash flows, an impairment loss is recognized to adjust the long-lived asset to fair value. There have been no impairment losses on the Company’s long-lived assets since inception.

 

Income Tax, Policy [Policy Text Block]

Income Taxes—The Company files federal and state income tax returns, utilizing the accrual basis of accounting. Income taxes are provided for the tax effects of transactions reported in the condensed consolidated financial statements and consist of taxes currently due and deferred taxes. Certain transactions of the Company may be subject to accounting methods for income tax purposes, which differ from the accounting methods used in preparing these condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP. Accordingly, the net income or loss of the Company reported for income tax purposes may differ from the balances reported for those same items in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax basis. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which such temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The Company records valuation allowances to reduce deferred income tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized.

 

The Company records uncertain tax positions in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC 740”), Income Taxes, on the basis of a two-step process in which (1) the Company determines whether it is more-likely-than-not that the tax positions will be sustained on the basis of the technical merits of the position and (2) for those tax positions that meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold, the Company recognizes the largest amount of tax benefit that is more than 50 percent likely to be realized upon ultimate settlement with the related tax authority. The Company recognizes interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits on the income tax expense line in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations. No such interest or penalties were recognized during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 or 2023.

 

Research and Development Expense, Policy [Policy Text Block]

Research and Development Expense—The Company expenses research and development costs as incurred. Research and development expenses include personnel and personnel-related costs, costs associated with the Company’s pre-clinical development activities including costs of outside consultants and contractors, the submission and maintenance of regulatory filings, equipment and supplies used in developing products prior to market approval and an allocation of certain overhead costs such as facility and related expenses.

 

The Company accrues and expenses costs of services provided by contract research organizations in connection with preclinical studies and contract manufacturing organizations engaged to manufacture clinical trial material, costs of licensing technology, and costs of services provided by research organizations and service providers. Upfront payments and milestone payments made for the licensing of technology are expensed as research and development in the period in which they are incurred if the technology is not expected to have any alternative future uses other than the specific research and development project for which it was intended. Nonrefundable advance payments for goods or services to be received in the future for use in research and development activities are recorded as prepaid expenses. The prepaid amounts are expensed as the related goods are delivered or the services are performed rather than when the payment is made.

 

Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Policy Text Block]

Nonvested Stock Options, Restricted Stock Units and Awards—Pursuant to the Company’s 2017 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2017 Plan”) and the Omnibus 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”), the Company has the ability to issue a variety of share-based payments and incentives to board members, employees, and non-employees through grants of nonvested stock options, restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and restricted stock awards (“RSAs”).

 

The vesting conditions for stock options and RSUs include annual and monthly vesting. Annual vesting conditions are for three years or more. Monthly vesting conditions range from 10 to 48 months. When nonvested options are vested, they become exercisable over a 10-year period from grant date.

 

The vesting conditions for RSAs include cliff vesting conditions. Certain RSUs vest with a range of 6 to 12 months. When RSUs vest, they are released to the grantee within sixty days.

 

Stock-Based Compensation—The Company records stock compensation expense related to the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2017 Plan”) and the Omnibus 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”) in accordance with ASC 718, CompensationStock Compensation. The Company measures and recognizes stock compensation expense for all stock‑based awards, including stock options, based on estimated fair values recognized using cliff vesting or the straight‑line method over the requisite service period. The fair value of stock options is estimated on the grant date using the Black‑Scholes option‑valuation model (the “Black‑Scholes model”). The calculation of stock‑based compensation expense requires that the Company make assumptions and judgments about the variables used in the Black‑Scholes model, including the fair value of the Company’s common stock, expected term, expected volatility of the underlying common stock, and risk‑free interest rate. Forfeitures are accounted for when they occur.

 

The Company estimates the grant date fair value of stock options using the Black‑Scholes model and the assumptions used to value such stock options are determined as follows:

 

Expected Term. The expected term represents the period that the Company’s stock options are expected to be outstanding. Due to limitations on the sale or transfer of the Company’s common stock under the lock-up agreements and market standoff components of the stock option agreements, the Company does not believe its historical exercise pattern is indicative of the pattern it will experience after restricted periods expire. The Company uses the simplified method to calculate the expected term, which is the average of the contractual term and vesting period.

 

RiskFree Interest Rate. The Company bases the risk‑free interest rate used in the Black‑Scholes model on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero‑coupon issues with a term equivalent to that of the expected term of the stock options for each stock option group.

 

Volatility. The Company determines the price volatility based on the historical volatilities of industry peers as it has limited trading history for its common stock price. The Company intends to continue to consistently apply this process using the same or a similar peer group of public companies, until a sufficient amount of historical information regarding the volatility of its own common stock price becomes available, or unless circumstances change such that the identified peer companies are no longer similar, in which case other suitable peer companies whose common stock prices are publicly available would be utilized in the calculation.

 

Dividend Yield. The expected dividend assumption is based on the Company’s current expectations about its anticipated dividend policy. To date, the Company has not declared any dividends and, therefore, the Company has used an expected dividend yield of zero.

 

Common Stock Valuations. The closing price listed on the OTCQB Capital Market or previously the NASDAQ Capital Market for the Company’s common stock on the date of the grant is used as the common stock valuation.

 

Segment Reporting, Policy [Policy Text Block]

Segment Data—The Company manages its operations as a single segment for the purposes of assessing performance and making operating decisions.

 

New Accounting Pronouncements, Policy [Policy Text Block]

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements—From time to time, Accounting Standards Updates (“ASU”) are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) or other standard setting bodies and adopted by the Company as of the specified effective date.

 

Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted

 

Segments. In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-07, “Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures (Topic 280)”. ASU 2023-07 modifies reportable segment disclosure requirements, primarily through enhanced disclosures about segment expenses categorized as significant or regularly provided to the Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM). In addition, the amendments enhance interim disclosure requirements, clarify circumstances in which an entity can disclose multiple segment measures of profit or loss, and contain other disclosure requirements. The purpose of the amendments is to enable investors to better understand an entity’s overall performance and assess potential future cash flows. This ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company currently operates as one reportable segment and does not believe there will be a material impact on the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.

 

Income Taxes. In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, “Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (Topic 740)”. ASU 2023-09 requires enhanced disclosures on income taxes paid, adds disaggregation of continuing operations before income taxes between foreign and domestic earnings and defines specific categories for the reconciliation of jurisdictional tax rate to effective tax rate. This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, and can be applied on a prospective basis. The Company is currently evaluating the impact this new standard will have on the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.

 

v3.24.3
Note 3 - Net Loss Per Common Stock Share (Tables)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes Tables  
Schedule of Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted [Table Text Block]
  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Net loss

 $(7,435) $(4,194)  (20,407)  (16,258)

Less: Initial Public Offering Common Stock discount amortization

  (8)  (25)  (58)  (75)

Less: Public Offering Common Stock discount amortization

  (62)  (62)  (184)  (183)

Less: Undeclared dividends attributable to convertible preferred stock

  (1,951)  (808)  (4,272)  (1,323)

Net loss attributable to common shareholders

 $(9,457) $(5,089)  (24,922)  (17,839)
  

Three Months Ended

  

Three Months Ended

 
  

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

 

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

 

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

  

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

 

Net loss per share, basic and diluted

                

Allocation of undistributed net loss

 $(1,008) $(8,449) $(1,811) $(3,278)

Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted

  1,545,920   30,968   1,189,989   12,891 

Basic and diluted net loss per share

 $(0.65) $(272.82) $(1.52) $(254.26)
  

Nine Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

 
  

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

  

Common Stock

  

Preferred Stock

 

Net loss per share, basic and diluted

                

Allocation of undistributed net loss

 $(2,957) $(21,965) $(8,765) $(9,074)

Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted

  1,432,787   22,793   1,040,190   7,011 

Basic and diluted net loss per share

 $(2.06) $(963.64) $(8.43) $(1,294.31)
v3.24.3
Note 4 - Property and Equipment, Net (Tables)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes Tables  
Property, Plant and Equipment [Table Text Block]

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 

Equipment

 $3,336  $3,126 

Leasehold improvements

  7,372   7,372 

Office furniture, fixtures, and equipment

  137   137 

Software

  589   360 

Construction in progress

     101 
   11,434   11,096 

Less: Accumulated depreciation

  (6,587)  (4,921)

Total

 $4,847  $6,175 
v3.24.3
Note 5 - Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities (Tables)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes Tables  
Schedule of Accrued Liabilities [Table Text Block]

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 

Accrued litigation and settlements

 $130  $448 

Accrued compensation

  1,116   865 

Accrued consulting and outside services

  420   360 

Total

 $1,666  $1,673 
v3.24.3
Note 7 - Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note (Tables)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes Tables  
Convertible Debt [Table Text Block]

(In thousands)

          

Issue Date

 

Maturity Date

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 

06/26/2023

 

06/26/2024

 $  $2,400 

07/25/2023

 

07/25/2024

     2,400 

08/25/2023

 

08/25/2024

     2,400 

09/27/2023

 

09/27/2024

     2,400 

11/02/2023

 

11/02/2024

  2,400   2,400 

12/12/2023

 

12/12/2024

     2,000 

04/02/2024

 

04/02/2025

  2,000    

05/02/2024

 

05/02/2025

  2,000    

06/03/2024

 

06/03/2025

  2,000    

06/21/2024

 

06/21/2025

  1,240    

07/03/2024

 

07/03/2025

  2,000    

08/01/2024

 

08/01/2025

  2,000    

Total senior secured convertible promissory notes

 $13,640  $14,000 
v3.24.3
Note 9 - Leases (Tables)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes Tables  
Lessee, Operating Lease [Table Text Block]

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

December 31, 2023

 
  

Operating lease

  

Operating lease

 

Right-of-Use Asset

        

Operating lease, net

 $1,074  $1,543 

Total right-of use asset, net

 $1,074  $1,543 
         

Lease Liabilities

        

Operating lease - short term

 $(670) $(631)

Operating lease - long term

  (404)  (912)

Total lease liabilities

 $(1,074) $(1,543)
Lease, Cost [Table Text Block]
  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 

(In thousands)

 

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

  

September 30, 2024

  

September 30, 2023

 

Operating lease cost allocated to research and development expense

 $113  $109  $338  $288 

Operating lease cost allocated to general and administrative expense

  66   70   199   249 

Total lease expense

 $179  $179  $537  $537 

Weighted-average remaining lease term

  1.59   2.59   1.59   2.59 

Weighted-average discount rate

  7.12%  7.12%  7.12%  7.12%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, to be Paid, Maturity [Table Text Block]

Maturity of Lease Liabilities (In thousands)

 

Operating lease

 

2024 (remaining)

 $179 

2025

  725 

2026

  242 

Total lease payments

  1,146 

Less: imputed interest

  (72)

Present value of lease payments

 $1,074 
v3.24.3
Note 10 - Stockholders' Equity (Tables)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes Tables  
Schedule of Stock by Class [Table Text Block]
  

Dividends Earned for the period Ended September 30, 2024

  

Liquidation Preference

 

(In thousands)

  Three Months Ended   Nine Months Ended   September 30, 2024   December 31, 2023 

Series C

 $882  $2,627  $18,833  $16,205 

Series D

  1,061   1,637   18,474   - 

Series E

  8   8   3,005   - 

Total

 $1,951  $4,272  $40,312  $16,205 
v3.24.3
Note 11 - Stock-based Compensation (Tables)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Notes Tables  
Schedule of Nonvested Restricted Stock Units Activity [Table Text Block]
  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted Average

      

Weighted Average

 
      

Grant Date

      

Grant Date

 
      

Fair Value

      

Fair Value

 
  

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Shares

  

Per Share

 

Outstanding RSUs at beginning of period

  605  $285.36   650  $259.50 

Granted

            

Vested

  (52)  259.97   (246)  255.85 

Cancelled and forfeited

  (537)  254.10   (45)  260.10 

Nonvested RSUs as of September 30

  16  $260.08   359  $285.36 
  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted Average

      

Weighted Average

 
      

Grant Date

      

Grant Date

 
      

Fair Value

      

Fair Value

 
  

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Shares

  

Per Share

 

Outstanding RSUs at beginning of period

  89,206  $1.56   684  $133.20 

Granted

  92,444   2.57   50,843   0.62 

Vested

  (29,775)  4.95   (13,483)  0.62 

Cancelled and forfeited

  (95,652)  1.89   (621)  126.60 

Nonvested RSUs as of September 30

  56,223  $3.74   37,423  $20.41 
Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Expensed and Capitalized, Amount [Table Text Block]
  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Research and development

 $  $6  $9  $21 

General and administrative

     9   15   23 

Total

 $  $15  $24  $44 
  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Research and development

 $  $10  $24  $21 

General and administrative

     2   38   17 

Total

 $  $12  $62  $38 
  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2024

  

2023

  

2024

  

2023

 

Research and development

 $107  $  $107  $ 

General and administrative

  212      212    

Total

 $319  $  $319  $ 
Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Option, Activity [Table Text Block]
  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted

      

Weighted

 
      

Average

      

Average

 
      

Exercise

      

Exercise

 
  

Shares

  

Price

  

Shares

  

Price

 

Options outstanding at beginning of period

  18,093  $101.04   32,706  $96.24 

Granted

            

Exercised

            

Cancelled and forfeited

        (14,613)  88.17 

Balance as of September 30

  18,093  $101.04   18,093  $101.04 

Options exercisable as of September 30:

  18,093  $101.04   18,093  $101.04 
Nonvested Restricted Stock Shares Activity [Table Text Block]
  

2024

  

2023

 
      

Weighted Average

      

Weighted Average

 
      

Grant Date

      

Grant Date

 
      

Fair Value

      

Fair Value

 
  

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Shares

  

Per Share

 

Nonvested RSAs at beginning of period

    $     $ 

Granted

  254,185   2.42       

Vested

            

Cancelled and forfeited

            

Nonvested RSAs as of September 30

  254,185  $2.42     $ 
v3.24.3
Note 1 - Organization (Details Textual) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
9 Months Ended 142 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax     $ 0  
Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities $ (15,810) $ (15,816)    
Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit) $ (143,304)   $ (143,304) $ (122,897)
v3.24.3
Note 2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Details Textual)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended 9 Months Ended 142 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
USD ($)
Sep. 30, 2023
USD ($)
Sep. 30, 2024
USD ($)
Sep. 30, 2023
USD ($)
Sep. 30, 2024
USD ($)
Dec. 31, 2023
USD ($)
Restricted Cash, Current $ 132 $ 0 $ 132 $ 0 $ 132 $ 0
Impairment, Long-Lived Asset, Held-for-Use         0  
Unrecognized Tax Benefits, Income Tax Penalties and Interest Expense 0 $ 0 0 $ 0    
Dividends Payable $ 0   $ 0   $ 0  
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Dividend Rate 0.00%          
Number of Reportable Segments 1          
Restricted Stock [Member]            
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Award Vesting Period (Year) 3 years          
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Expiration Period (Year) 10 years          
Minimum [Member]            
Property, Plant and Equipment, Useful Life (Year) 1 year   1 year   1 year  
Minimum [Member] | Restricted Stock [Member]            
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Award Vesting Period (Year) 10 months          
Minimum [Member] | Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member]            
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Award Vesting Period (Year) 6 months          
Maximum [Member]            
Property, Plant and Equipment, Useful Life (Year) 8 years   8 years   8 years  
Maximum [Member] | Restricted Stock [Member]            
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Award Vesting Period (Year) 48 months          
Maximum [Member] | Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member]            
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Award Vesting Period (Year) 12 months          
v3.24.3
Note 3 - Net Loss Per Common Stock Share (Details Textual) - USD ($)
1 Months Ended 3 Months Ended 9 Months Ended
Mar. 28, 2024
Jul. 18, 2023
Apr. 02, 2023
Sep. 30, 2024
Jun. 30, 2024
Mar. 31, 2024
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Exchange Agreement, Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note for Preferred Shares [Member]                  
Debt Conversion, Original Debt, Amount $ 8 $ 6 $ 8   $ 7,200,000 $ 8 $ 2,400,000 $ 17,600,000 $ 14,000,000
Debt Conversion, Converted Instrument, Shares Issued (in shares)         8,837.58 8,000 2,997    
Debt Conversion, Original Accrued Interest, Amount         $ 1,630,000   $ 0.59    
Debt Conversion, Original Debt and Accrued Interest, Amount       $ 3 $ 8.8   $ 3    
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member]                  
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share, Amount (in shares)             56,239    
Warrant [Member]                  
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share, Amount (in shares)             15,416    
v3.24.3
Note 3 - Net Loss Per Common Stock Share - Schedule of Earnings Per Share (Details) - USD ($)
$ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands
3 Months Ended 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Jun. 30, 2024
Mar. 31, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Jun. 30, 2023
Mar. 31, 2023
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Net loss $ (7,435) $ (6,825) $ (6,147) $ (4,194) $ (6,764) $ (5,300) $ (20,407) $ (16,258)
Less: Undeclared dividends attributable to convertible preferred stock (1,951)     (808)     (4,272) (1,323)
Net loss attributable to common shareholders (9,457)     (5,089)     (24,922) (17,839)
IPO [Member]                
Less: Public Offering Common Stock discount amortization (8)     (25)     (58) (75)
Public Offering [Member]                
Less: Public Offering Common Stock discount amortization (62)     (62)     (184) (183)
Common Stock [Member]                
Net loss 0 0 0 0 0 0    
Allocation of undistributed net loss $ (1,008)     $ (1,811)     $ (2,957) $ (8,765)
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted (in shares) 1,545,920     1,189,989     1,432,787 1,040,190
Basic and diluted net loss per share (in dollars per share) $ (0.65)     $ (1.52)     $ (2.06) $ (8.43)
Preferred Stock [Member]                
Net loss $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0    
Allocation of undistributed net loss $ (8,449)     $ (3,278)     $ (21,965) $ (9,074)
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted (in shares) 30,968     12,891     22,793 7,011
Basic and diluted net loss per share (in dollars per share) $ (272.82)     $ (254.26)     $ (963.64) $ (1,294.31)
v3.24.3
Note 4 - Property and Equipment, Net (Details Textual) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Depreciation $ 552 $ 560 $ 1,666 $ 1,666
v3.24.3
Note 4 - Property and Equipment, Net - Schedule of Property and Equipment, Net (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
Equipment $ 3,336 $ 3,126
Leasehold improvements 7,372 7,372
Office furniture, fixtures, and equipment 137 137
Software 589 360
Construction in progress 0 101
Property, Plant and Equipment, Gross 11,434 11,096
Less: Accumulated depreciation (6,587) (4,921)
Total $ 4,847 $ 6,175
v3.24.3
Note 5 - Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities - Schedule of Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
Accrued litigation and settlements $ 130 $ 448
Accrued compensation 1,116 865
Accrued consulting and outside services 420 360
Total $ 1,666 $ 1,673
v3.24.3
Note 6 - Note Payable (Details Textual) - Insurance Policy Financing Arrangement [Member] - Notes Payable [Member]
$ in Millions
1 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2024
USD ($)
Debt Instrument, Face Amount $ 0.4
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Stated Percentage 4.93%
Debt Instrument, Term (Month) 11 months
v3.24.3
Note 7 - Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note (Details Textual)
1 Months Ended 3 Months Ended 4 Months Ended 9 Months Ended
Mar. 28, 2024
USD ($)
Jul. 18, 2023
USD ($)
Apr. 02, 2023
USD ($)
Sep. 30, 2024
USD ($)
Jun. 30, 2024
USD ($)
Mar. 31, 2024
USD ($)
Sep. 30, 2024
USD ($)
Sep. 30, 2024
USD ($)
Sep. 30, 2024
USD ($)
Sep. 30, 2023
USD ($)
Exchange Agreement, Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note for Preferred Shares [Member]                    
Debt Conversion, Original Debt, Amount $ 8 $ 6 $ 8   $ 7,200,000 $ 8 $ 2,400,000   $ 17,600,000 $ 14,000,000
Debt Conversion, Original Debt and Accrued Interest, Amount       $ 3 $ 8.8   $ 3      
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note [Member]                    
Debt Instrument, Convertible, Number Issued       22     22 22 22  
Debt Instrument, Face Amount       $ 17,200,000     $ 17,200,000 $ 17,200,000 $ 17,200,000  
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Stated Percentage       25.00%     25.00% 25.00% 25.00%  
Debt Instrument, Term (Month)               1 year    
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note [Member] | Maximum [Member]                    
Debt Instrument, Face Amount       $ 45,200,000     $ 45,200,000 $ 45,200,000 $ 45,200,000  
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Stated Percentage       27.00%     27.00% 27.00% 27.00%  
v3.24.3
Note 7 - Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note - Schedule of Convertible Notes (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
Convertible promissory note $ 13,640 $ 14,000
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 1 [Member]    
Maturity date Jun. 26, 2024  
Convertible promissory note $ 0 2,400
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 2 [Member]    
Maturity date Jul. 25, 2024  
Convertible promissory note $ 0 2,400
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 3 [Member]    
Maturity date Aug. 25, 2024  
Convertible promissory note $ 0 2,400
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 4 [Member]    
Maturity date Sep. 27, 2024  
Convertible promissory note $ 0 2,400
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 5 [Member]    
Maturity date Nov. 02, 2024  
Convertible promissory note $ 2,400 2,400
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 6 [Member]    
Maturity date Dec. 12, 2024  
Convertible promissory note $ 0 2,000
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 7 [Member]    
Maturity date Apr. 02, 2025  
Convertible promissory note $ 2,000 0
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 8 [Member]    
Maturity date May 02, 2025  
Convertible promissory note $ 2,000 0
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 9 [Member]    
Maturity date Jun. 03, 2025  
Convertible promissory note $ 2,000 0
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 10 [Member]    
Maturity date Jun. 21, 2025  
Convertible promissory note $ 1,240 0
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 11 [Member]    
Maturity date Jul. 03, 2025  
Convertible promissory note $ 2,000 0
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes 12 [Member    
Maturity date Aug. 01, 2025  
Convertible promissory note $ 2,000 $ 0
v3.24.3
Note 8 - Commitments and Contingencies (Details Textual) - USD ($)
Sep. 29, 2023
Jul. 07, 2023
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
Mar. 22, 2021
Estimated Litigation Liability, Current     $ 130,000 $ 448,000  
Karp and Podmore Class Actions [Member]          
Litigation Settlement, Amount Awarded to Other Party $ 1,730,000 $ 2,300,000      
Insurance Settlements Receivable $ 570,000        
Estimated Litigation Liability, Current       448,000  
Licensing Agreements [Member] | Other Commitments, Contingent Milestone Payments [Member]          
Other Commitment     $ 0 $ 0  
The 2014 Consulting Agreement [Member] | Jason Terrel Claim [Member]          
Loss Contingency, Damages Sought, Shares (in shares)         16,667
Share Price (in dollars per share)         $ 15
The January 2017 Options Agreement [Member] | Jason Terrel Claim [Member]          
Loss Contingency, Damages Sought, Shares (in shares)         16,667
Share Price (in dollars per share)         $ 5.1
v3.24.3
Note 9 - Leases (Details Textual)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
USD ($)
ft²
Net Rentable Area (Square Foot) | ft² 149,000
Variable Lease, Payment | $ $ 0
v3.24.3
Note 9 - Leases - Schedule of Operating Lease Assets and Liabilities (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
Operating lease right-of-use asset, net $ 1,074 $ 1,543
Operating lease - short term (670) (631)
Operating lease - long term (404) (912)
Total lease liabilities $ (1,074) $ (1,543)
v3.24.3
Note 9 - Leases - Schedule of Components of Operating Lease Expense (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Operating lease expense $ 179 $ 179 $ 537 $ 537
Weighted-average remaining lease term (Year) 1 year 7 months 2 days 2 years 7 months 2 days 1 year 7 months 2 days 2 years 7 months 2 days
Weighted-average discount rate 7.12% 7.12% 7.12% 7.12%
Research and Development Expense [Member]        
Operating lease expense $ 113 $ 109 $ 338 $ 288
General and Administrative Expense [Member]        
Operating lease expense $ 66 $ 70 $ 199 $ 249
v3.24.3
Note 9 - Leases - Schedule of Maturity (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
2024 (remaining) $ 179  
2025 725  
2026 242  
Total lease payments 1,146  
Less: imputed interest (72)  
Present value of lease payments $ 1,074 $ 1,543
v3.24.3
Note 10 - Stockholders' Equity (Details Textual) - USD ($)
9 Months Ended
Jun. 02, 2023
May 24, 2023
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 27, 2024
Jun. 21, 2024
Mar. 28, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
Jul. 18, 2023
Apr. 02, 2023
Oct. 13, 2022
Preferred Stock, Shares Authorized (in shares)     60,000,000       60,000,000      
Preferred Stock, Shares Issued (in shares)     33,835       14,000      
Common Stock, Par or Stated Value Per Share (in dollars per share)     $ 0.001       $ 0.001      
Preferred Stock, Dividend Rate, Percentage     25.00%              
Standby Equity Purchase Agreement [Member]                    
Stock Purchase Agreement, Value of Shares Authorized for Issuance                   $ 8
Stock Issued During Period, Shares, New Issues (in shares) 100,000 97,000                
Shares Issued, Price Per Share (in dollars per share) $ 2.82 $ 3.89                
Stock Issued During Period, Value, Issued for Services $ 282,100 $ 377,000                
Warrant [Member]                    
Warrants and Rights Outstanding, Term (Year)     5 years              
Class of Warrant or Right, October 14, 2025 Expiration [Member]                    
Class of Warrant or Right, Number of Securities Called by Warrants or Rights (in shares)     2,083              
Class of Warrant or Right, Exercise Price of Warrants or Rights (in dollars per share)     $ 450              
Class of Warrant or Right, July 1, 2026 Expiration [Member]                    
Class of Warrant or Right, Number of Securities Called by Warrants or Rights (in shares)     13,333              
Class of Warrant or Right, Exercise Price of Warrants or Rights (in dollars per share)     $ 187.5              
Series A-1 Preferred Stock [Member]                    
Preferred Stock, Shares Authorized (in shares)     24,000,000       24,000,000      
Series B Preferred Stock [Member]                    
Preferred Stock, Shares Authorized (in shares)     16,500,000       16,500,000      
Series C Convertible Voting Preferred Stock [Member]                    
Preferred Stock, Shares Authorized (in shares)     14,000       14,000      
Preferred Stock, Shares Issued (in shares)               6,000 8,000  
Series D Convertible Voting Preferred Stock [Member]                    
Preferred Stock, Shares Authorized (in shares)     20,000       0      
Preferred Stock, Shares Issued (in shares)         8,837.58 8,000        
Series E Convertible Preferred Stock [Member]                    
Preferred Stock, Shares Authorized (in shares)     6,000       0      
Price of Convertible Preferred Stock to Common Stock, Percentage     80.00%              
Series E Convertible Voting Preferred Stock [Member]                    
Preferred Stock, Shares Issued (in shares)       2,997            
Series C Preferred Stock [Member]                    
Preferred Stock, Convertible, Conversion Price (in dollars per share)     $ 6.5              
Series D Preferred Stock [Member]                    
Preferred Stock, Convertible, Conversion Price (in dollars per share)     $ 2.5              
Series C & D Preferred Stock [Member] | Kiromic BioPharma Inc [Member]                    
Subsidiary, Ownership Percentage, Noncontrolling Owner     19.99%              
v3.24.3
Note 10 - Stockholders' Equity - Preferred Shares (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2024
Dec. 31, 2023
Dividends $ 1,951 $ 4,272  
Liquidation preference 40,312 40,312 $ 16,205
Series C Convertible Voting Preferred Stock [Member]      
Dividends 882 2,627  
Liquidation preference 18,833 18,833 16,205
Series D Convertible Voting Preferred Stock [Member]      
Dividends 1,061 1,637  
Liquidation preference 18,474 18,474 0
Series E Convertible Voting Preferred Stock [Member]      
Dividends 8 8  
Liquidation preference $ 3,005 $ 3,005 $ 0
v3.24.3
Note 11 - Stock-based Compensation (Details Textual) - USD ($)
3 Months Ended 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Jun. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Dec. 31, 2023
The 2017 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]            
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Options, Outstanding, Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term (Year)       3 months 18 days    
Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Nonvested Award, Excluding Option, Cost Not yet Recognized, Amount $ 3,200     $ 3,200    
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Options, Outstanding, Intrinsic Value 0     0   $ 0
The 2017 Stock Incentive Plan [Member] | Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Option [Member]            
Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Nonvested Award, Excluding Option, Cost Not yet Recognized, Amount 0     0    
Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Expense   $ 0 $ 0 0 $ 0  
The 2021 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]            
Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Nonvested Award, Excluding Option, Cost Not yet Recognized, Amount 197,800     $ 197,800    
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Outstanding, Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Terms (Year)       2 years 10 months 17 days    
The 2021 Stock Incentive Plan [Member] | Restricted Stock [Member]            
Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Nonvested Award, Excluding Option, Cost Not yet Recognized, Amount 297,000     $ 297,000    
Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Expense $ 319,000   $ 0 $ 319,000 $ 0  
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Outstanding, Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Terms (Year)       5 months 26 days    
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period (in shares)       254,185 0  
Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Vested in Period (in shares)       0    
v3.24.3
Note 11 - Stock-based Compensation - Schedule of Restricted Stock Units (Details) - Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member] - $ / shares
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
The 2017 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]    
Nonvested, shares (in shares) 605 650
Nonvested, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) $ 285.36 $ 259.5
Granted, shares (in shares) 0 0
Granted, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) $ 0 $ 0
Vested, shares (in shares) (52) (246)
Vested, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) $ 259.97 $ 255.85
Cancelled and forfeited, shares (in shares) (537) (45)
Cancelled and forfeited, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) $ 254.1 $ 260.1
Nonvested, shares (in shares) 16 359
Nonvested, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) $ 260.08 $ 285.36
The 2021 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]    
Nonvested, shares (in shares) 89,206 684
Nonvested, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) $ 1.56 $ 133.2
Granted, shares (in shares) 92,444 50,843
Granted, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) $ 2.57 $ 0.62
Vested, shares (in shares) (29,775) (13,483)
Vested, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) $ 4.95 $ 0.62
Cancelled and forfeited, shares (in shares) (95,652) (621)
Cancelled and forfeited, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) $ 1.89 $ 126.6
Nonvested, shares (in shares) 56,223 37,423
Nonvested, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) $ 3.74 $ 20.41
v3.24.3
Note 11 - Stock-based Compensation - Schedule of Stock Compensation Expense (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member] | The 2017 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]        
Stock compensation expense $ 0 $ 15 $ 24 $ 44
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member] | The 2021 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]        
Stock compensation expense 0 12 62 38
Restricted Stock [Member] | The 2021 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]        
Stock compensation expense 319 0 319 0
Research and Development Expense [Member] | Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member] | The 2017 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]        
Stock compensation expense 0 6 9 21
Research and Development Expense [Member] | Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member] | The 2021 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]        
Stock compensation expense 0 10 24 21
Research and Development Expense [Member] | Restricted Stock [Member] | The 2021 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]        
Stock compensation expense 107 0 107 0
General and Administrative Expense [Member] | Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member] | The 2017 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]        
Stock compensation expense 0 9 15 23
General and Administrative Expense [Member] | Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member] | The 2021 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]        
Stock compensation expense 0 2 38 17
General and Administrative Expense [Member] | Restricted Stock [Member] | The 2021 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]        
Stock compensation expense $ 212 $ 0 $ 212 $ 0
v3.24.3
Note 11 - Stock-based Compensation - Schedule of Stock Options (Details) - The 2017 Stock Incentive Plan [Member] - $ / shares
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Options outstanding, balance (in shares) 18,093 32,706
Options outstanding, balance, weighted average exercise price (in dollars per share) $ 101.04 $ 96.24
Granted (in shares) 0 0
Granted, weighted average exercise price (in dollars per share) $ 0 $ 0
Exercised (in shares) 0 0
Exercised, weighted average exercise price (in dollars per share) $ 0 $ 0
Cancelled and forfeited (in shares) 0 (14,613)
Cancelled and forfeited, weighted average exercise price (in dollars per share) $ 0 $ 88.17
Options outstanding, balance (in shares) 18,093 18,093
Options outstanding, balance, weighted average exercise price (in dollars per share) $ 101.04 $ 101.04
Options exercisable as of September 30: (in shares) 18,093 18,093
Options exercisable, weighted average exercise price (in dollars per share) $ 101.04 $ 101.04
v3.24.3
Note 11 - Stock-based Compensation - Schedule of Restricted Stock (Details) - The 2021 Stock Incentive Plan [Member]
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
$ / shares
shares
Sep. 30, 2023
$ / shares
shares
Options outstanding, balance (in shares) 0 0
Options outstanding, balance, weighted average exercise price (in dollars per share) | $ / shares $ 0 $ 0
Vested (in shares) 0 0
Vested, weighted average exercise price 0 0
Options outstanding, balance (in shares) 254,185 0
Options outstanding, balance, weighted average exercise price (in dollars per share) | $ / shares $ 2.42 $ 0
Restricted Stock [Member]    
Granted, shares (in shares) 254,185 0
Granted, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares $ 2.42 $ 0
Cancelled and forfeited, shares (in shares) 0 0
Cancelled and forfeited, weighted average grant date fair value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares $ 0 $ 0
v3.24.3
Note 12 - Income Taxes (Details Textual) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended 6 Months Ended 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation, Percent 0.00% 0.00%   0.00% 0.00%
Income Tax Expense (Benefit) $ 0 $ 0   $ 0 $ 0
Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation, at Federal Statutory Income Tax Rate, Percent     21.00%   21.00%
v3.24.3
Note 13 - Subsequent Events (Details Textual) - USD ($)
1 Months Ended 3 Months Ended 9 Months Ended
Nov. 02, 2024
Mar. 28, 2024
Jul. 18, 2023
Apr. 02, 2023
Sep. 30, 2024
Jun. 30, 2024
Mar. 31, 2024
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2024
Sep. 30, 2023
Series E Convertible Preferred Stock [Member]                    
Price of Convertible Preferred Stock to Common Stock, Percentage         80.00%     80.00% 80.00%  
Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note [Member]                    
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Stated Percentage         25.00%     25.00% 25.00%  
Subsequent Event [Member] | Series E Convertible Preferred Stock [Member]                    
Price of Convertible Preferred Stock to Common Stock, Percentage 80.00%                  
Subsequent Event [Member] | Series E Convertible Preferred Stock [Member] | Kiromic BioPharma Inc [Member]                    
Subsidiary, Ownership Percentage, Noncontrolling Owner 19.99%                  
Subsequent Event [Member] | Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note [Member]                    
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Stated Percentage 25.00%                  
Exchange Agreement, Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note for Preferred Shares [Member]                    
Debt Conversion, Original Debt, Amount   $ 8 $ 6 $ 8   $ 7,200,000 $ 8 $ 2,400,000 $ 17,600,000 $ 14,000,000
Debt Conversion, Original Debt and Accrued Interest, Amount         $ 3 $ 8.8   $ 3    
Exchange Agreement, Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note for Preferred Shares [Member] | Subsequent Event [Member]                    
Debt Conversion, Original Debt, Amount $ 2,400,000                  
Debt Conversion, Original Debt and Accrued Interest, Amount $ 600                  

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