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Table of Contents
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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND INDUSTRY DATA
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). These statements may be identified by such forward-looking terminology as “may,” “should,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continue” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Our forward-looking statements are based on a series of expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about our company, are not guarantees of future results or performance and involve substantial risks and uncertainty. We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in these forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in these forward-looking statements. Our business and our forward-looking statements involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including the risks and uncertainties inherent in our statements regarding:
| ● | Our plans to initiate clinical trials for our product candidates; | |
| ● | Our plans to research, develop and commercialize our product candidates; |
| ● | Our ability to comply with the provisions of our license agreements with Loma Linda University and Leland Stanford Junior University; |
| ● | The results of clinical testing and trial activities of our product candidates; |
| ● | Our ability to obtain regulatory approval and market acceptance of, and reimbursement for our products; |
| ● | Our ability to protect our intellectual property and to develop, maintain and enhance a strong brand; |
| ● | Our ability to compete and succeed in a highly competitive and evolving industry; |
| ● | Our lack of operating history on which to judge our business prospects and management; |
| ● | Our ability to raise capital and the availability of future financing; |
| ● | Our ability to manage our research, development, expansion, growth, and operating expenses; |
| ● | Our reliance on third parties to conduct our research, preclinical studies and expected clinical trials; |
| ● | the impacts of COVID-19, or other future pandemics on our business; and |
| ● | the impact of government laws and regulation. |
All of our forward-looking statements are as of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q only. In each case, actual results may differ materially from such forward-looking information. We can give no assurance that such expectations or forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. An occurrence of, or any material adverse change in, one or more of the risk factors or risks and uncertainties referred to in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or included in our other public disclosures or our other periodic reports or other documents or filings filed with or furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) could materially and adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition, and results of operations. Except as required by law, we do not undertake or plan to update or revise any such forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in plans, assumptions, estimates or projections or other circumstances affecting such forward-looking statements occurring after the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, even if such results, changes, or circumstances make it clear that any forward-looking information will not be realized. Any public statements or disclosures by us following this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that modify or impact any of the forward-looking statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q will be deemed to modify or supersede such statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q may include market data and certain industry data and forecasts, which we may obtain from internal company surveys, market research, consultant surveys, publicly available information, reports of governmental agencies and industry publications, articles, and surveys. Industry surveys, publications, consultant surveys, and forecasts generally state that the information contained therein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but the accuracy and completeness of such information is not guaranteed. While we believe that such studies and publications are reliable, we have not independently verified market and industry data from third-party sources.
References to Aditxt, Inc.
Throughout this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, the “Company,” “Aditxt,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refers to Aditxt, Inc. and “our board of directors” refers to the board of directors of Aditxt, Inc.
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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements
ADITXT, INC.
BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited)
| June 30, | December 31, | |||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||||
| ASSETS | ||||||||
| CURRENT ASSETS: | ||||||||
| Cash | $ | $ | ||||||
| Prepaid expenses | ||||||||
| ROU asset - short term | ||||||||
| TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS | ||||||||
| Fixed assets | ||||||||
| Intangible assets | ||||||||
| ROU asset - long term | ||||||||
| Deposits | ||||||||
| Other assets | ||||||||
| TOTAL ASSETS | $ | $ | ||||||
| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | ||||||||
| CURRENT LIABILITIES: | ||||||||
| Accounts payable and accrued expenses | $ | $ | ||||||
| Convertible note payable, net of discount – short term – Note 8 | ||||||||
| Financing of fixed asset – short term | ||||||||
| Deferred rent | ||||||||
| Lease liability - short term | ||||||||
| TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES | ||||||||
| Convertible note payable, net of discount - long term – Note 8 | ||||||||
| Financing of fixed asset - long term | ||||||||
| Lease liability - long term | ||||||||
| TOTAL LIABILITIES | ||||||||
| STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | ||||||||
| Preferred stock, $ | ||||||||
| Common stock, $ | ||||||||
| Treasury stock, | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Additional paid-in capital | ||||||||
| Accumulated deficit | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | ||||||||
| TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | $ | $ | ||||||
See accompanying notes to the financial statements.
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ADITXT, INC.
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)
| Three Months Ended | Three Months Ended | Six Months Ended | Six Months Ended | |||||||||||||
| June 30, 2021 | June 30, 2020 | June 30, 2021 | June 30, 2020 | |||||||||||||
| OPERATING EXPENSES | ||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative expenses, including $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Research and development expenses, including $ | ||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing expenses, including $ | ||||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | ||||||||||||||||
| NET LOSS FROM OPERATIONS | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| OTHER EXPENSE | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Interest income | ||||||||||||||||
| Gain on forgiveness of debt | ||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of debt discount | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Total other expense | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Net loss before income taxes | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Income tax provision | ||||||||||||||||
| NET LOSS | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||||
| Net loss per share - basic and diluted | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||||
| Weighted average number of shares outstanding during the period - basic and diluted | ||||||||||||||||
See accompanying notes to the financial statements.
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ADITXT, INC.
STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)
THREE AND SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2021 AND 2020
(Unaudited)
Preferred Outstanding | Preferred Shares Par | Common Outstanding | Common Par | Treasury Stock | Additional Paid-in Capital | Accumulated Deficit | Total Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance December 31, 2020 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exercise of warrants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of shares for services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of shares for employee compensation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock option and warrant compensation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fair value of warrants issued with convertible note payable | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Warrant consideration for convertible note offering costs | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | - | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance March 31, 2021 (unaudited) | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of shares for services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of shares for employee compensation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock option and warrant compensation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | - | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance June 30, 2021 (unaudited) | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Preferred Shares | Preferred Shares | Common | Treasury | Additional Paid-in | Accumulated | Total Stockholders’ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outstanding | Par | Shares | Par | Stock | Capital | Deficit | Deficit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance December 31, 2019 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of shares for services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock option and warrant compensation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Treasury stock | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | - | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance March 31, 2020 (unaudited) | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Exercise of warrants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock option and warrant compensation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of shares for services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adjustment to Common Shares due to reverse stock split | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | - | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance June 30, 2020 (unaudited) | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
See accompanying notes to the financial statements.
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ADITXT, INC.
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
| Six Months Ended | Six Months Ended | |||||||
| June 30, 2021 | June 30, 2020 | |||||||
| CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||||
| Net loss | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities | ||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | ||||||||
| Depreciation expense | ||||||||
| Amortization of intangible assets | ||||||||
| Amortization of debt discount | ||||||||
| Changes in operating assets and liabilities: | ||||||||
| Security deposit | ( | ) | ||||||
| Prepaid expenses | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Accounts payable and accrued expenses | ||||||||
| Accrued compensation to related parties | ||||||||
| Net cash used in operating activities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||||
| Purchase of fixed assets | ( | ) | ||||||
| TI allowance receivable | ( | ) | ||||||
| Net cash used in investing activities | ( | ) | ||||||
| CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||||
| Proceeds from convertible note payable | ||||||||
| Discount on convertible note payable from offering costs | ( | ) | ||||||
| Offering costs | ( | ) | ||||||
| Proceeds from exercise of warrants | ||||||||
| Payments on financing of fixed asset | ( | ) | ||||||
| Net cash provided by financing activities | ||||||||
| NET (DECREASE) INCREASE IN CASH | ( | ) | ||||||
| CASH AT BEGINNING OF PERIOD | ||||||||
| CASH AT END OF PERIOD | $ | $ | ||||||
| Supplemental cash flow information: | ||||||||
| Cash paid for income taxes | $ | $ | ||||||
| Cash paid for interest expense | $ | $ | ||||||
| NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||||
| Liabilities assumed for common stock | $ | $ | ||||||
| Original offering discount on convertible note payable | $ | $ | ||||||
| Lease liability recognized from right of use asset | $ | $ | ||||||
| Original offering discount on note payable | $ | $ | ||||||
| Debt Discount from warrants issued with convertible note payable | $ | $ | ||||||
| Debt Discount from warrant consideration for convertible debt offering costs | $ | $ | ||||||
| Liability recognized for financed assets | $ | $ | ||||||
See accompanying notes to the financial statements.
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ADITXT, INC.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(unaudited)
NOTE 1 – ORGANIZATION AND NATURE OF BUSINESS
Company Background
Overview
Aditxt, Inc. (“Aditxt” or the “Company”), formally known as Aditx Therapeutics Inc., was incorporated in the State of Delaware on September 28, 2017 and the Company’s headquarters are located in Richmond, VA. The Company is a biotech innovation company with a mission of prolonging life and enhancing its quality by improving the health of the immune system.
The Company is developing biotechnologies specifically focused on improving the health of the immune system through immune reprogramming and monitoring. The Company’s immune reprogramming technologies are currently at the pre-clinical stage and are designed to retrain the immune system to induce tolerance with an objective of addressing rejection of transplanted organs, autoimmune diseases, and allergies. The Company’s immune monitoring technologies are designed to provide a personalized comprehensive profile of the immune system and the Company plans to utilize them in its upcoming reprogramming clinical trials to monitor subjects’ immune response before, during and after drug administration.
Offerings
On
July 2, 2020, the Company completed its initial public offering (“IPO”). In connection therewith, the Company issued
On
September 10, 2020, the Company completed a follow-on public offering (“September 2020 Offering”). In connection therewith,
the Company issued
Risks and Uncertainties
The Company has a limited operating history and has not generated revenue from intended operations. The Company’s business and operations are sensitive to general business and economic conditions in the U.S. and worldwide along with local, state, and federal governmental policy decisions. A host of factors beyond the Company’s control could cause fluctuations in these conditions. Adverse conditions may include: changes in the biotechnology regulatory environment, technological advances that render our technologies obsolete, availability of resources for clinical trials, acceptance of technologies into the medical community, and competition from larger, more well-funded companies. These adverse conditions could affect the Company’s financial condition and the results of its operations.
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On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 novel coronavirus outbreak a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” and on March 10, 2020, declared it to be a pandemic. Actions taken around the world to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus include restrictions on travel, and quarantines in certain areas, and forced closures for certain types of public places and businesses. The COVID-19 coronavirus and actions taken to mitigate it have had and are expected to continue to have an adverse impact on the economies and financial markets of many countries, including the geographical area in which the Company operates. While it is unknown how long these conditions will last and what the financial impact will be to the Company, it is reasonably possible that future capital raising efforts and additional development of our technologies may be negatively affected.
NOTE 2 – GOING CONCERN ANALYSIS
Management Plans
The
Company was incorporated on September 28, 2017 and has not generated revenues to date. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the
Company had a net loss of $
The financial statements included in this report do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that may result from the matters discussed herein. While we believe in the viability of our strategy to generate sufficient revenue, control costs, and raise additional funds when necessary, there can be no assurances to that effect. The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the ability to complete clinical studies and implement the business plan, generate sufficient revenues and to control operating expenses.
NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). In the opinion of the Company’s management, the accompanying financial statements reflect all adjustments, consisting of normal, recurring adjustments, considered necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods ended June 30, 2021 and June 30, 2020. Although management believes that the disclosures in these unaudited financial statements are adequate to make the information presented not misleading, certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements that have been prepared in accordance U.S. GAAP have been omitted pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC.
The accompanying unaudited financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s financial statements and notes related thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, filed with the SEC on March 25, 2021. The interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2021 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ended December 31, 2021 or for any future interim periods.
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Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expense during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates underlying the financial statements include the fair value of stock options and warrants.
Fair Value Measurements and Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The Company adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements. ASC Topic 820 clarifies the definition of fair value, prescribes methods for measuring fair value, and establishes a fair value hierarchy to classify the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows:
| Level 1 - | Inputs are unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities available at the measurement date. |
| Level 2 - | Inputs are unadjusted quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets and liabilities in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable, and inputs derived from or corroborated by observable market data. |
| Level 3 - | Inputs are unobservable inputs which reflect the reporting entity’s own assumptions on what assumptions the market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best available information. |
The Company did not identify any assets or liabilities that are required to be presented on the balance sheets at fair value in accordance with ASC Topic 820.
Due to the short-term nature of all financial assets and liabilities, their carrying value approximates their fair value as of the balance sheet dates.
Concentrations of Credit Risk
The Company maintains its cash accounts at financial institutions which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. At times, the Company may have deposits in excess of federally insured limits.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents include short-term, liquid investments.
Fixed Assets
Fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. Cost includes expenditures for furniture, office equipment, laboratory equipment, and other assets. Maintenance and repairs are charged to expense as incurred. When assets are sold, retired, or otherwise disposed of, the cost and accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts and any resulting gain or loss is reflected in operations. The costs of fixed assets are depreciated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives or lease life of the related assets.
Intangible Assets
Intangible assets are stated at cost less accumulated amortization. For intangible assets that have finite lives, the assets are amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the related assets. For intangible assets with indefinite lives, the assets are tested periodically for impairment.
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Offering Costs
The Company accounts for offering costs in accordance with ASC 340, Other Assets and Deferred Costs. Prior to the completion of an offering, offering costs were capitalized as deferred offering costs on the balance sheet. The deferred offering costs are netted against the proceeds of the offering in stockholders’ equity (deficit) or the related debt, as applicable. Costs related to unsuccessful offerings are expensed.
Leases
Under Topic 842, adopted in 2020 with no impact related to adoption, operating lease expense is generally recognized evenly over the term of the lease. The Company has operating leases consisting of office space, laboratory space, and lab equipment.
Leases with an initial term of twelve months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet. For lease agreements entered or reassessed after the adoption of Topic 842, we combine the lease and non-lease components in determining the lease liabilities and right of use (“ROU”) assets.
Stock-Based Compensation
The Company accounts for stock-based compensation costs under the provisions of ASC 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation, which requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense related to the fair value of stock-based compensation awards that are ultimately expected to vest. Stock based compensation expense recognized includes the compensation cost for all stock-based payments granted to employees, officers, and directors based on the grant date fair value estimated in accordance with the provisions of ASC 718. ASC 718 is also applied to awards modified, repurchased, or cancelled during the periods reported. Stock-based compensation is recognized as expense over the employee’s requisite vesting period and over the nonemployee’s period of providing goods or services.
Patents
The
Company incurs fees from patent licenses, which are expensed as incurred. During the six months ended June 30, 2021 and June 30, 2020,
the Company had a licensing fee for the patents of $
Research and Development
Basic and Diluted Net Loss per Common Share
Basic
loss per common share is computed by dividing the net loss by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding for each
period. Diluted loss per share is computed by dividing the net loss by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding
plus the dilutive effect of shares issuable through the common stock equivalents. The weighted-average number of common shares outstanding
excludes common stock equivalents because their inclusion would be anti-dilutive. As of June 30, 2021,
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In December 2019, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update, or ASU, No. 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes, or ASU 2019-12, which is intended to simplify various aspects related to accounting for income taxes. ASU 2019-12 removes certain exceptions to the general principles in Topic 740 and also clarifies and amends existing guidance to improve consistent application. This guidance is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2020, with early adoption permitted. The adoption of ASU 2019-12 did not have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements.
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In August 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-06, which simplifies the guidance on the issuer’s accounting for convertible debt instruments by removing the separation models for convertible debt with a cash conversion feature and convertible instruments with a beneficial conversion feature. As a result, entities will not separately present in equity an embedded conversion feature in such debt and will account for a convertible debt instrument wholly as debt, unless certain other conditions are met. The elimination of these models will reduce reported interest expense and increase reported net income for entities that have issued a convertible instrument that is within the scope of ASU 2020-06. ASU 2020-06 is applicable for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, with early adoption permitted no earlier than fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020. The Company has elected to early adopt this ASU and the adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
The FASB issues ASUs to amend the authoritative literature in ASC. There have been several ASUs to date, including those above, that amend the original text of ASC. Management believes that those issued to date either (i) provide supplemental guidance, (ii) are technical corrections, (iii) are not applicable to us or (iv) are not expected to have a significant impact on our financial statements.
NOTE 4 – FIXED ASSETS
The Company’s fixed assets include the following on June 30, 2021:
| Cost Basis | Accumulated Depreciation | Net | ||||||||||
| Computers | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | |||||||
| Lab Equipment | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Office Furniture | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Other Fixed Assets | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Total Fixed Assets | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | |||||||
The Company’s fixed assets include the following on December 31, 2020:
| Cost Basis | Accumulated Depreciation | Net | ||||||||||
| Computers | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | |||||||
| Lab Equipment | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Office Furniture | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Other Fixed Assets | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Total Fixed Assets | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | |||||||
Depreciation
expense was $
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NOTE 5 – INTANGIBLE ASSETS
The Company’s intangible assets include the following on June 30, 2021:
| Cost Basis | Accumulated Amortization | Net | ||||||||||
| Proprietary Technology | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | |||||||
| Total Intangible Assets | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||
The Company’s intangible assets include the following on December 31, 2020:
| Cost Basis | Accumulated Amortization | Net | ||||||||||
| Proprietary Technology | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Total Intangible Assets | $ | $ | ||||||||||
Amortization
expense was $
NOTE 6 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
On
February 24, 2021, the Company granted
On
February 24, 2021, the Company granted
On
June 4, 2021, the Company granted
On
June 4, 2021, the Company granted
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NOTE 7 – AGREEMENTS
NOTE 8 – CONVERTIBLE NOTE PAYABLE
On January 25, 2021, the Company entered into a Securities
Purchase Agreement with an institutional accredited investor (the “Investor”) for the offering, sale, and issuance of a $
As
of June 30, 2021, the outstanding balance of the Convertible Note payable net of unamortized debt discount was $
As
of June 30, 2021 the outstanding balance of the Convertible Note payable was comprised of a short-term principal of $
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NOTE 9 – LEASES
Our lease agreements generally do not provide an implicit borrowing rate; therefore, an internal incremental borrowing rate is determined based on information available at lease commencement date for purposes of determining the present value of lease payments. We used the incremental borrowing rate on June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020 for all leases that commenced prior to that date. In determining this rate, which is used to determine the present value of future lease payments, we estimate the rate of interest we would pay on a collateralized basis, with similar payment terms as the lease and in a similar economic environment.
Lease Costs
| Six Months Ended June 30, 2021 | Six Months Ended June 30, 2020 | |||||||
| Components of total lease costs: | ||||||||
| Operating lease expense | $ | $ | ||||||
| Total lease costs | $ | $ | ||||||
Lease Positions as of June 30, 2021
ROU lease assets and lease liabilities for our operating leases are recorded on the balance sheet as follows:
| June 30, 2021 | December 31, 2020 | |||||||
| Assets | ||||||||
| Right of use asset – short term | $ | $ | ||||||
| Right of use asset – long term | ||||||||
| Total right of use asset | $ | $ | ||||||
| Liabilities | ||||||||
| Operating lease liabilities – short term | $ | $ | ||||||
| Operating lease liabilities – long term | ||||||||
| Total lease liability | $ | $ | ||||||
Lease Terms and Discount Rate
| Weighted average remaining lease term (in years) – operating leases | ||||
| Weighted average discount rate – operating leases | % |
On May 4, 2021, the Company entered a triple net
lease (the “Lease”) for approximately
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NOTE 10 – STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Common Stock
On May 24, 2021, the Company increased the number
of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $
During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company
issued
During the six months ended June 30, 2020, the
Company issued
Preferred Stock
The Company is authorized to issue
Stock-Based Compensation
In October 2017, our Board of Directors adopted
the Aditx Therapeutics, Inc. 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2017 Plan”). The 2017 Plan provides for the grant of equity
awards to directors, employees, and consultants. The Company is authorized to issue up to
On February 24, 2021, our Board of Directors adopted
the Aditx Therapeutics, Inc. 2021 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”). The 2021 Plan provides for grants of nonqualified
stock options, incentive stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock and restricted stock units, and other stock-based
awards (collectively, the “Awards”). Eligible recipients of Awards include employees, directors or independent contractors
of the Company or any affiliate of the Company. The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Committee”) will
administer the 2021 Plan. A total of
During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company granted no new options.
During the six months ended June 30, 2020, the
Company granted
The following is an analysis of the stock option grant activity under the Plan:
| Vested and Nonvested Stock Options | Number | Weighted Average Exercise Price | Weighted Average Remaining Life | |||||||||
| Outstanding December 31, 2020 | $ | |||||||||||
| Granted | - | |||||||||||
| Exercised | - | |||||||||||
| Expired or forfeited | - | |||||||||||
| Outstanding June 30, 2021 | $ | |||||||||||
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| Nonvested Stock Options | Number | Weighted- Average Exercise Price | ||||||
| Nonvested on December 31, 2020 | $ | |||||||
| Granted | ||||||||
| Vested | ( | ) | ||||||
| Expired or forfeited | ||||||||
| Nonvested on June 30, 2021 | $ | |||||||
The Company recognized stock-based compensation
expense related to options issued and vesting of $
Warrants
For the six months ended June 30, 2021, the fair value of each warrant granted was estimated using the assumption ranges and/or factors in the Black-Scholes Model as follows:
| Exercise price | $ | |||
| Expected dividend yield | % | |||
| Risk free interest rate | % | |||
| Expected life in years | ||||
| Expected volatility | % |
The risk-free interest rate assumption for warrants granted is based upon observed interest rates on the United States Government Bond Equivalent Yield appropriate for the expected term of warrants.
The Company determined the expected volatility assumption for warrants granted using the historical volatility of comparable public companies’ common stock. The Company will continue to monitor peer companies and other relevant factors used to measure expected volatility for future warrant grants, until such time that the Company’s common stock has enough market history to use historical volatility.
The dividend yield assumption for warrants granted is based on the Company’s history and expectation of dividend payouts. The Company has never declared nor paid any cash dividends on its common stock, and the Company does not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
The Company recognizes warrant forfeitures as they occur as there is insufficient historical data to accurately determine future forfeitures rates.
A summary of warrant issuances are as follows:
| Vested and Nonvested Warrants | Number | Weighted Average Exercise Price | Weighted Average Remaining Life | |||||||||
| Outstanding December 31, 2020 | $ | |||||||||||
| Granted | - | |||||||||||
| Exercised | ( | ) | - | |||||||||
| Expired or forfeited | ( | ) | - | |||||||||
| Outstanding June 30, 2021 | $ | |||||||||||
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| Nonvested Warrants | Number | Weighted- Average Exercise Price | ||||||
| Nonvested on December 31, 2020 | $ | |||||||
| Granted | ||||||||
| Vested | ( | ) | ||||||
| Expired or forfeited | ||||||||
| Nonvested on June 30, 2021 | $ | |||||||
The Company recognized stock-based compensation
expense related to warrants issued and vesting of $
During the six months ended June 30, 2021,
On January 25, 2021, pursuant to the January
2021 Securities Purchase Agreement the Company issued a warrant to the Investor to purchase up to
NOTE 11 – INCOME TAXES
The Company has incurred losses since inception. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company did not provide any provision for income taxes as the Company incurred losses during such period. The Company accounts for income taxes using the asset and liability method in accordance with ASC 740, “Accounting for Income Taxes”. The asset and liability method provides that deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities and for operating loss and tax credit carry forwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using the currently enacted tax rates and laws that will be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse. In assessing the need for a valuation allowance, the Company has considered both positive and negative evidence related to the likelihood of realization of deferred tax assets using a “more likely than not” standard. In making such assessment, more weight was given to evidence that could be objectively verified, including recent cumulative losses. Based on the Company’s review of this evidence, the Company has recorded a full valuation allowance for its net deferred tax assets as of June 30, 2021.
As of June 30, 2021, the Company did not have any amounts recorded pertaining to uncertain tax positions.
NOTE 12 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
On July 6, 2021, the Company changed its corporate name from Aditx Therapeutics, Inc. to Aditxt, Inc. The name change was effective following approval by the Company’s Board of Directors through the filing of a Certificate of Amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. In accordance with Section 242(b)(1) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, stockholder approval of the name change was not required.
The name change does not affect the rights of the Company’s security holders, creditors, customers, or suppliers. The ticker symbol of the Company’s common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market will remain “ADTX.”
On July 7, 2021, the Company issued a press release announcing that it had relocated its corporate headquarters to Richmond, Virginia.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read together with the unaudited financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and the audited financial statements and related notes for the year ended December 31, 2020 included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. In addition to historical information, this discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors. We discuss factors that we believe could cause or contribute to these differences below and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including those factors set forth in the section entitled “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Industry Data” and in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in Part II, Item 1A.
Overview
We are a biotech innovation company with a mission of prolonging life and enhancing its quality by improving the health of the immune system. We are developing biotechnologies specifically focused on improving the health of the immune system through immune reprogramming and monitoring. Our immune reprogramming technologies are currently at the pre-clinical stage and are designed to retrain the immune system to induce tolerance with an objective of addressing rejection of transplanted organs, autoimmune diseases, and allergies. Our immune monitoring technologies are designed to provide a personalized comprehensive profile of the immune system and we plan to utilize them in our upcoming reprogramming clinical trials to monitor subjects’ immune response before, during and after drug administration.
Immune Reprogramming
The discovery of immunosuppressive (anti-rejection and monoclonal) drugs over 40 years ago has made possible life-saving organ transplantation procedures and blocking of unwanted immune responses in autoimmune diseases. However, immune suppression leads to significant undesirable side effects, such as increased susceptibility to life-threatening infections and cancers, because it indiscriminately and broadly suppresses immune function throughout the body. While the use of these drugs has been justifiable because they prevent or delay organ rejection, their use for treatment of autoimmune diseases and allergies may not be acceptable because of the aforementioned side effects. Furthermore, transplanted organs often ultimately fail despite the use of immune suppression, and about 40% of transplanted organs survive no more than 5 years.
New, focused therapeutic approaches are needed that modulate only the small portion of immune cells that are involved in rejection of the transplanted organ, as this approach can be safer for patients than indiscriminate immune suppression. Such approaches are referred to as immune tolerance, and when therapeutically induced, may be safer for patients and potentially allow long-term survival of transplanted tissues and organs.
In the late 1990s, academic research on these approaches was conducted at the Transplant Center in Loma Linda University (“LLU”) in connection with a project that secured initial grant funding from the U.S. Department of Defense. The focus of that project was for skin grafting for burn victims. Twenty years of research at LLU and an affiliated incubator led to a series of discoveries that have been translated into a large patent portfolio of therapeutic approaches that may be applied to the modulation of the immune system to induce tolerance to self and transplanted organs.
We have an exclusive worldwide license for commercializing this nucleic acid-based technology (which is currently at the pre-clinical stage), named Apoptotic DNA Immunotherapy™ (ADi™) from LLU, which utilizes a novel approach that mimics the way the body naturally induces tolerance to our own tissues (“therapeutically induced immune tolerance”). While immune suppression requires continuous administration to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ, induction of tolerance has the potential to retrain the immune system to accept the organ for longer periods of time. Thus, ADi™ may allow patients to live with transplanted organs with significantly reduced immune suppression. ADi™ is a technology platform which we believe can be engineered to address a wide variety of indications.
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We are developing ADi™ products for organ transplantation including skin grafting, autoimmune diseases, and allergies, with the initial focus on skin allografts and psoriasis, as we believe these indications will be most efficient in providing safety and efficacy data in clinical trials. To submit a Biologics License Application (“BLA”) for a biopharmaceutical product, clinical safety and efficacy must be demonstrated in a series of clinical studies conducted with human subjects. For products in our class of drugs, the first-in-human trials will be a combination of Phase I (safety/tolerability) and Phase II (efficacy) in affected subjects. To obtain approval to initiate the Phase I/IIa studies, an Investigational New Drug Application will be submitted to compile non-clinical efficacy data as well as manufacturing and pre-clinical safety/toxicology data. To date, we have conducted non-clinical studies in a stringent model of skin transplantation using genetically mismatched donor and recipient animals demonstrating a 3-fold increase in the survival of the skin graft in animals that were tolerized with ADi™ compared to animals that receive immune suppression alone. Prolongation of graft life was observed despite discontinuation of immune suppression after the first 5 weeks. Additionally, in an induced non-clinical model for psoriasis, ADi™ treatment resulted in a 69% reduction in skin thickness and a 38% decrease in skin flaking (two clinical parameters for assessment of psoriasis skin lesions). The Phase I/IIa studies in psoriasis will evaluate the safety/tolerability of ADi™ in patients diagnosed with psoriasis. Since the drug will be administered in subjects diagnosed with psoriasis, effectiveness of the drug to improve psoriatic lesions will also be evaluated. In another Phase I/IIa study, patients requiring skin allografts will receive weekly intra-dermal injections of ADi™ in combination with standard immune suppression to assess safety/tolerability and possibility of reducing levels of immunosuppressive drugs as well as prolongation of graft life. Later phase trials are planned after successful completion of these studies in preparation for submission for a BLA to regulatory agencies.
Immune Monitoring
We believe that understanding the status of an individual’s immune system is key to developing and administering immunotherapies such as ADi™. We have secured an exclusive worldwide license for commercializing a technology platform which provides a personalized comprehensive profile of the immune system. It is intended to be informative for individual immune responses to viruses, bacterial antigens, peptides, drugs, bone marrow and solid organ transplants, and cancer. It has broad applicability to many other agents of clinical interest impacting the immune system, including those not yet identified such as future infectious agents. We plan to brand this technology, and other future licensed and/or in-house developed monitoring technologies collectively as AditxtScore™.
AditxtScore™ is being designed to allow individuals to understand, manage and monitor their immune profiles in order to be informed about attacks on or by their immune system. We believe AditxtScore™ can also assist the medical community in anticipating possible immune responses and reactions to viruses, bacteria, allergens, and transplanted organs. It can be useful in anticipating attacks on the body by having the ability to determine its potential response and for developing a plan to deal with an undesirable reaction by the immune system. Its advantages include the ability to provide a simple, rapid, accurate, high throughput, single platform assay that can be multiplexed to determine the immune status with respect to several factors simultaneously, in 3-16 hours, as well as detect antigen and antibody in a single test (i.e., infectious, recovered, immune). In addition, it can determine and differentiate between various types of cellular and humoral immune responses (T and B cells). It also provides for simultaneous monitoring of cell activation and levels of cytokine release (i.e., cytokine storms).
We plan to utilize AditxtScore™ in our upcoming clinical trials to monitor subjects’ immune response before, during, and after ADi™ drug administration. We are working with regulatory consultants with the objective to obtain FDA approval for AditxtScore™ as a clinical assay. We are currently securing marketing and distribution partnerships for application of AditxtScore™ in the infectious diseases market. To obtain FDA approval to use AditxtScore™ as a clinical assay, we are performing validation studies to demonstrate AditxtScore™’s utility to evaluate various components of the immune system reproducibly. We believe that this data will show AditxtScore™’s ability to measure various components of the immune system (e.g., humoral and cell-mediated immune responses) to provide a broader view of the immune system and its status in health and disease. Our plan is to submit a 510(K) application to the FDA after compilation of these data. Beyond infectious diseases, we plan to develop AditxtScore™ for applications in additional markets such as organ rejection, allergies, drug/vaccine response, and disease susceptibility.
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License Agreement with Loma Linda University
On March 8, 2018, we entered into an Assignment Agreement (the “Assignment Agreement”) with Sekris Biomedical, Inc. (“Sekris”). Sekris was a party to a license agreement with LLU, entered and made effective on May 25, 2011, and amended on June 24, 2011, July 16, 2012 and December 27, 2012 (the “Original Agreement,” and together with the Assignment Agreement, the “Sekris Agreements”). Pursuant to the Assignment Agreement, Sekris transferred and assigned all of its rights, obligations and liabilities under the Original Agreement, of whatever kind or nature, to us. In exchange, on March 8, 2018, we issued a warrant to Sekris to purchase up to 500,000 shares of our common stock (the “Sekris Warrant”). The warrant was immediately exercisable and has an exercise price of $4.00 per share. The expiration date of the warrant is March 8, 2023. On March 15, 2018, as amended on July 1, 2020, we entered into a LLU License Agreement directly with Loma Linda University, which amends and restates the Sekris Agreements.
Pursuant to the LLU License Agreement, we obtained the exclusive royalty-bearing worldwide license in and to all intellectual property, including patents, technical information, trade secrets, proprietary rights, technology, know-how, data, formulas, drawings, and specifications, owned or controlled by LLU and/or any of its affiliates (the “LLU Patent and Technology Rights”) and related to therapy for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (the ADi™ technology). In consideration for the LLU License Agreement, we issued 25,000 shares of common stock to LLU.
Pursuant to the LLU License Agreement, we are required to pay an annual license fee to LLU. Also, we paid LLU $455,000 in July 2020 for outstanding milestone payments and license fees. We are also required to pay to LLU milestone payments in connection with certain development milestones. Specifically, we are required to make the following milestone payments to LLU: $175,000 on March 31, 2022; $100,000 on March 31, 2024; $500,000 on March 31, 2026; and $500,000 on March 31, 2027. Additionally, as consideration for prior expenses incurred by LLU to prosecute, maintain and defend the LLU Patent and Technology Rights, we made the following payments to LLU: $70,000 at the end of December 2018, and a final payment of $60,000 at the end of March 2019. We are required to defend the LLU Patent and Technology Rights during the term of the LLU License Agreement. Additionally, we will owe royalty payments of (i) 1.5% of Net Product Sales (as such terms are defined under the LLU License Agreement) and Net Service Sales on any Licensed Products (defined as any finished pharmaceutical products which utilizes the LLU Patent and Technology Rights in its development, manufacture or supply), and (ii) 0.75% of Net Product Sales and Net Service Sales for Licensed Products and Licensed Services (as such terms are defined under the LLU License Agreement) not covered by a valid patent claim for technology rights and know-how for a three (3) year period beyond the expiration of all valid patent claims. We also are required to produce a written progress report to LLU, discussing our development and commercialization efforts, within 45 days following the end of each year. All intellectual property rights in and to LLU Patent and Technology Rights shall remain with LLU (other than improvements developed by or on our behalf).
The LLU License Agreement shall terminate on the last day that a patent granted to us by LLU is valid and enforceable or the day that the last patent application licensed to us is abandoned. The LLU License Agreement may be terminated by mutual agreement or by us upon 90 days written notice to LLU. LLU may terminate the LLU License Agreement in the event of (i) non-payments or late payments of royalty, milestone and license maintenance fees not cured within 90 days after delivery of written notice by LLU, (ii) a breach of any non-payment provision (including the provision that requires us to meet certain deadlines for milestone events (each, a “Milestone Deadline”)) not cured within 90 days after delivery of written notice by LLU and (iii) LLU delivers notice to us of three or more actual breaches of the LLU License Agreement by us in any 12-month period. Additional Milestone Deadlines include: (i) the requirement to have regulatory approval of an IND application to initiate first-in-human clinical trials on or before March 31, 2022, (ii) the completion of first-in-human (phase I/II) clinical trials by March 31, 2024, (iii) the completion of Phase III clinical trials by March 31, 2026 and (iv) biologic licensing approval by the FDA by March 31, 2027.
License Agreement with Leland Stanford Junior University (“Stanford”)
On February 3, 2020, we entered into an exclusive license agreement (the “February 2020 License Agreement”) with Stanford regarding a patent concerning a method for detection and measurement of specific cellular responses. Pursuant to the February 2020 License Agreement, we received an exclusive worldwide license to Stanford’s patent regarding use, import, offer, and sale of Licensed Products (as defined in the agreement). The license to the patented technology is exclusive, including the right to sublicense, beginning on the effective date of the agreement, and ending when the patent expires. Under the exclusivity agreement, we acknowledged that Stanford had already granted a non-exclusive license in the Nonexclusive Field of Use, under the Licensed Patents in the Licensed Field of Use in the Licensed Territory (as those terms are defined in the February 2020 License Agreement”). However, Stanford agreed to not grant further licenses under the Licensed Patents in the Licensed Field of Use in the Licensed Territory.
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We were obligated to pay and paid a fee of $25,000 to Stanford within 60 days of February 3, 2020. We also issued 18,750 shares of the Company’s common stock to Stanford. An annual licensing maintenance fee is payable by us on the first anniversary of the February 2020 License Agreement in the amount of $40,000 for 2021 through 2024 and $60,000 starting in 2025 until the license expires upon the expiration of the patent. The Company is required to pay and has paid $25,000 for the issuances of certain patents. The Company will pay milestone fees of $50,000 on the first commercial sales of a licensed product and $25,000 at the beginning of any clinical study for regulatory clearance of an in vitro diagnostic product developed and a potential licensed product. We are also required to: (i) provide a listing of the management team or a schedule for the recruitment of key management positions by March 31, 2020 (which has been completed), (ii) provide a business plan covering projected product development, markets and sales forecasts, manufacturing and operations, and financial forecasts until at least $10,000,000 in revenue by June 30, 2020 (which has been completed), conduct validation studies by September 30, 2020 (which has been completed), (iii) hold a pre-submission meeting with the FDA by September 30, 2020 (which has been completed), (iv) submit a 510(k) application to the FDA, Emergency Use Authorization (“EUA”), or a Laboratory Developed Test (“LDT”) by March 31, 2021, (v) obtain FDA approval by December 31, 2021, (vi) complete a prototype assay kit by December 31, 2021, and (vii) have a written agreement with Stanford on further development and commercialization milestones for specific fields of use by December 31, 2021.
In addition to the annual license maintenance fees outlined above, we will pay Stanford royalties on Net Sales (as such term is defined in the February 2020 License Agreement) during the of the term of the agreement as follows: 4% when Net Sales are below or equal to $5 million annually or 6% when Net Sales are above $5 million annually. The February 2020 License Agreement may be terminated upon our election on at least 30 days advance notice to Stanford, or by Stanford if we: (i) are delinquent on any report or payment; (ii) are not diligently developing and commercializing Licensed Product; (iii) miss certain performance milestones; (iv) are in breach of any provision of the February 2020 License Agreement; or (v) provide any false report to Stanford. Should any events in the preceding sentence occur, we have a thirty (30) day cure period to remedy such violation.
Our Team
We have assembled a team of experts from a variety of scientific fields and commercial backgrounds, with many years of collective experience that ranges from founding startup biotech companies, to developing and marketing biopharmaceutical products, to designing clinical trials, and to management of private and public companies.
Going Concern
We were incorporated on September 28, 2017 and have not generated revenues to date. During the six months ended June 30, 2021 we had a net loss of $12,558,103 and cash of $8,610,125. The Company will require significant additional capital to operate in the normal course of business and fund clinical studies in the long-term. As a result of the IPO, the September 2020 Offering and the January 2021 Securities Purchase Agreement, we received net proceeds of approximately $23,000,000 during the last twelve months. We believe that the funds raised will be sufficient to fund our operations for at least the next 12 months. As a result, these conditions have alleviated the doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern beyond one year.
Financial Results
We have a limited operating history. Therefore, there is limited historical financial information upon which to base an evaluation of our performance. Our prospects must be considered in light of the uncertainties, risks, expenses, and difficulties frequently encountered by companies in their early stages of operations. Our financial statements as of June 30, 2021, show a net loss of $12,558,103. We expect to incur additional net expenses over the next several years as we continue to maintain and expand our existing operations. The amount of future losses and when, if ever, we will achieve profitability are uncertain.
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Results of Operations
Results of operations for the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020
During the three months ended June 30, 2021, we incurred a loss from operations of $5,775,007. This is due to general and administrative expenses of $4,798,313, which includes $772,430 in stock-based compensation, research and development of $932,751, and sales and marketing expenses of $43,943. The $932,751 in research and development is comprised of $3,185 in licensing fees, $470,325 in product development, and $459,241 in other research and development expense.
During the three months ended June 30, 2020, we incurred a loss from operations of $398,480. This is due to general and administrative expenses of $367,338, which includes $160,329 in stock-based compensation, research and development of $28,294, and sales and marketing expenses of $2,848. The $28,294 in research and development is comprised of $625 in licensing fees, $13,500 in product development, and $14,169 in other research and development expense.
The increase in expenses during the three months ended June 30, 2021 compared to the three months ended June 30, 2020 was due to the Company continuing to execute its business plan and incur costs of being a public company.
Results of operations for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020
During the six months ended June 30, 2021, we incurred a loss from operations of $11,868,039. This is due to general and administrative expenses of $9,896,830, which includes $2,237,332 in stock-based compensation, research and development of $1,868,703, and sales and marketing expenses of $102,506. The $1,868,703 in research and development is comprised of $72,545 in licensing fees, $975,889 in product development, and $820,269 in other research and development expense.
During the six months ended June 30, 2020, we incurred a loss from operations of $1,455,278. This is due to general and administrative expenses of $1,223,765, which includes $689,766 in stock-based compensation, research and development of $228,665, and sales and marketing expenses of $2,848. The $228,665 in research and development is comprised of $126,670 in licensing fees, $27,000 in product development, and $74,995 in other research and development expense.
The increase in expenses during the six months ended June 30, 2021 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2020 was due to the Company continuing to execute its business plan and incurring costs of being a public company.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
We have incurred substantial operating losses since inception and expect to continue to incur significant operating losses for the foreseeable future and may never become profitable. As of June 30, 2021, we had an accumulated deficit of $33,437,281. We had working capital of $4,698,662 as of June 30, 2021. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, we purchased $1,540,287 in fixed assets, for which we made cash payments of $718,425 and financed $821,862. These fixed assets were purchased to continue the buildout of our operations. Approximately $1,341,000 of these purchased fixed assets were lab equipment, approximately $153,000 was for computers and approximately $46,000 was for office furniture.
Our financial statements have been prepared assuming that we will continue as a going concern.
We have funded our operations from proceeds from the sale of equity and debt securities. On July 2, 2020, we completed our IPO and raised approximately $9.5 million in net proceeds. At the time of the IPO, we believed that these funds would be sufficient to fund our operations for the foreseeable future.
On September 10, 2020, we completed a follow-on public offering. In connection therewith, we issued 2,400,000 units, or Follow-On Units, excluding the underwriters’ option to cover overallotments, at an offering price of $4.00 per Follow-On Unit, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $9.6 million.
On January 25, 2021, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement for the sale of a $6,000,000 Convertible Note. The Convertible Note has a term of 24 months, converts at a price of $4.00 per share, and has an original issuance discount of $1,000,000.
We may need to raise significant additional capital to continue to fund our operations and the clinical trials for our product candidates. We may seek to sell common stock, preferred stock or convertible debt securities, enter into a credit facility or another form of third-party funding or seek other debt financing. In addition, we may seek to raise cash through collaborative agreements or from government grants. The sale of equity and convertible debt securities may result in dilution to our stockholders and certain of those securities may have rights senior to those of our common shares. If we raise additional funds through the issuance of preferred stock, convertible debt securities, or other debt financing, these securities or other debt could contain covenants that would restrict our operations. Any other third-party funding arrangement could require us to relinquish valuable rights.
The source, timing, and availability of any future financing will depend principally upon market conditions, and, more specifically, on the progress of our clinical development program. Funding may not be available when needed, at all, or on terms acceptable to us. Lack of necessary funds may require us to, among other things, delay, scale back or eliminate expenses including some or all our planned development, including our clinical trials. While we may need to raise funds in the future, we believe the current cash reserves should be sufficient to fund our operation for the foreseeable future. Because of these factors, we believe that this alleviates the issues about our ability to continue as a going concern.
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Contractual Obligations
The following table shows our contractual obligations as of June 30, 2021:
| Payment Due by Year | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lease | $ | 4,639,699 | $ | 417,127 | $ | 1,064,882 | $ | 1,030,660 | $ | 934,503 | $ | 708,804 | $ | 483,723 | ||||||||||||||
| Financed asset | 1,201,171 | 398,341 | 728,489 | 74,341 | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total contractual obligations | $ | 5,840,870 | $ | 815,468 | $ | 1,793,371 | $ | 1,105,001 | $ | 934,503 | $ | 708,804 | $ | 483,723 | ||||||||||||||
Critical Accounting Polices and Estimates
Our financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. The preparation of our financial statements and related disclosures requires us to make estimates, assumptions and judgments that affect the reported amount of assets, liabilities, revenue, costs and expenses, and related disclosures. We believe that our critical accounting policies described under the heading “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Plan of Operations—Critical Accounting Policies” in our Prospectus, dated September 1, 2020, filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b), are critical to fully understanding and evaluating our financial condition and results of operations. The following involve the most judgment and complexity:
| ● | Research and development |
| ● | Stock-based compensation expense |
| ● | Fair value of common stock |
Accordingly, we believe the policies set forth above are critical to fully understanding and evaluating our financial condition and results of operations. If actual results or events differ materially from the estimates, judgments and assumptions used by us in applying these policies, our reported financial condition and results of operations could be materially affected.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We did not have during the periods presented, and we do not currently have, any off-balance sheet arrangements, as defined in the rules and regulations of the SEC.
JOBS Act
On April 5, 2012, the JOBS Act was enacted. Section 107 of the JOBS Act 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, 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.
When favorable, we have chosen to take advantage of the extended transition periods available to emerging growth companies under the JOBS Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies provided under the JOBS Act.
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We are in the process of evaluating the benefits of relying on other exemptions and reduced reporting requirements provided by the JOBS Act. Subject to certain conditions set forth in the JOBS Act, as an “emerging growth company,” we intend to rely on certain of these exemptions, including without limitation, (i) providing an auditor’s attestation report on our system of internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and (ii) complying with any requirement that may be adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information about the audit and the financial statements, known as the auditor discussion and analysis. We will remain an “emerging growth company” until the earliest of (i) the last day of the fiscal year in which we have total annual gross revenues of $1.07 billion or more; (ii) the last day of our fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the date of the completion of our IPO (December 31, 2025); (iii) the date on which we have issued more than $1 billion in nonconvertible debt during the previous three years; or (iv) the date on which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer under the rules of the SEC.
Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 3 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to the accompanying financial statements for a description of other accounting policies and recently issued accounting pronouncements.
Recent Developments
See Note 12 – Subsequent Event to the accompanying financial statements for a description of material recent developments.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
We are not required to provide the information required by this Item as we are a “smaller reporting company,” as defined in Rule 229.10(f)(1).
Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
In accordance with Rules 13a-15(b) and 15d-15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), we, under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and Rule 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Based on the foregoing, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were (a) designed to ensure that the information we are required to disclose in our reports under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, and reported in an accurate manner and on a timely basis and the information that we are required to disclose in our Exchange Act reports is accumulated and communicated to management to permit timely decisions with respect to required disclosure and (b) operating in an effective manner.
Change in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
No change occurred in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended June 30, 2021 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
From time to time, we may become involved in various lawsuits and legal proceedings which arise in the ordinary course of business. However, litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties, and an adverse result in these or other matters may arise from time to time that may harm our business.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
Our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows may be impacted by a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control, including those set forth in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and in our other filings with the SEC, the occurrence of any one of which could have a material adverse effect on our actual results. There have been no material changes to the Risk Factors previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and our other filings with the SEC.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
(a) Sales of Unregistered Securities
On January 1, 2021, the Company issued a consultant 6,000 shares of common stock for services rendered.
On March 1, 2021, the Company issued a consultant 12,000 shares of common stock for services rendered.
On April 1, 2021, the Company issued a consultant 6,000 shares of common stock for services rendered.
On May 11, 2021, the Company issued a consultant 50,000 shares of common stock for services rendered.
On June 8, 2021, the Company issued a consultant 12,000 shares of common stock for services rendered.
The issuances above were made pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.
(b) Use of Proceeds
On July 2, 2020, the Company completed its initial public offering (“IPO”). In connection therewith, the Company issued 1,226,668 Units (the “Units”), excluding the underwriters’ option to cover overallotments (the underwriter did not exercise their overallotment), at an offering price of $9.00 per Unit, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $11.0 million. The Units issued in the IPO consisted of one share of common stock, one Series A warrant, and one Series B warrant. The Series A warrants originally had an exercise price of $9.00 and a term of 5 years. In addition, the Company issued a Unit Purchase Option at an exercise price of $11.25 per unit to the underwriters to purchase up to 67,466 units, with each unit consisting of (i) one share of common stock and (ii) one Series A Warrant. On August 19, 2020, the Company modified the exercise price of the Series A Warrants from $9.00 per share to $4.50 per share. The term of the Series A Warrants was not modified. The Series B warrants have an exercise price of $11.25 per share, a term of 5 years and contain a cashless exercise option upon certain criteria being met. As of September 30, 2020, substantially all of the Series B warrants issued in the IPO have been exercised pursuant to a cashless provision therein.
We received net proceeds of $9.5 million in the IPO, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and issuance expenses borne by us. No payments were made by us to directors, officers or persons owning ten percent or more of our common stock or to their associates, or to our affiliates, other than payments in the ordinary course of business to officers for salaries and to non-employee directors pursuant to our director compensation policy. Dawson James Securities, Inc. acted as lead book-running manager of the offering and as representative of the underwriters for the offering.
There has been no material change in the planned use of proceeds from our IPO from that described in the final prospectus related to the offering, dated June 29, 2020 as filed with the SEC.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
None.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
Item 5. Other Information
On August 12, 2021, the Board of Directors of the Company approved the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws to reflect the change in the Company’s corporate name from Aditx Therapeutics, Inc. to Aditxt, Inc. The Amended and Restated Bylaws contain no other changes other than the change in name.
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Item 6. Exhibits
| * | This certification is deemed not filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Exchange Act), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act. |
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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.
| Aditxt, Inc. | ||
| Date: August 12, 2021 | By: | /s/ Amro Albanna |
| Amro Albanna | ||
| Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) | ||
| Date: August 12, 2021 | By: | /s/ Corinne Pankovcin |
| Corinne Pankovcin | ||
| Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) | ||
| Date: August 12, 2021 | By: | /s/ Thomas J. Farley |
| Thomas J. Farley | ||
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Controller (Principal Accounting Officer) | ||
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