LA JOLLA, Calif., May 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- INmune Bio, Inc. (NASDAQ: INMB), an immunology company focused on developing treatments that harness the patient’s innate immune system to fight disease, today reported its financial results and is providing a business update for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019.
Corporate Highlights in 2019:
- First biotechnology company to close initial public offering in 2019 and commence trading on The Nasdaq Capital Market.
- Received the Part the Cloud Award from the Alzheimer’s Association, including a $1 million grant to advance XPro1595, a novel therapy targeting neuroinflammation as a cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
“2019 has marked a transformative period for INmune Bio, as the first biotech of the year to close its IPO and list on the Nasdaq,” stated RJ Tesi, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of INmune Bio. “We are focused on advancing our clinical programs for the foreseeable future.”
Our clinical programs continue to advance:
- INB03, our program targeting resistance to immunotherapy caused by myeloid derived suppressor ells (MDSC), completing a monotherapy Phase I trial in patients with advanced solid tumors, will transition into a combination therapy clinical program this summer in preparation for a Phase II trial in patients resistant to checkpoint inhibitors due to increased MDSC that should begin in 2020. INB03 targets MDSC - one of the causes of resistance to checkpoint inhibitors. Treatment with INB03 should eliminate the MDSC in the tumor microenvironment to allow CPI to be therapeutically effective.
- INKmune, our NK cell therapy focused on eliminating residual disease after cancer therapy will start enrolling patients in a Phase I/II trial in women with relapsed refractory ovarian cancer later this year. In many patients, cancer relapse after seemingly effective cancer therapy is due to a failure of their NK cells to eliminate minimal residual disease (MRD). INKmune, by priming the patient’s NK cells to attack their tumor, should eliminate MRD to prevent relapse.
- The Phase I clinical trial in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) should enroll its first patient this summer. The open label dose escalation trial in patients with mild to moderate AD has a novel biomarker strategy to determine if XPro1595 will eliminate neuroinflammation in patients after 3 months of therapy. XPro1595 targets microglial cells, the immune cells of the brain, that are activated in many patients with AD and is a cause of neuroinflammation that can kill nerve cells and promote synaptic dysfunction – the cause of dementia in AD. If successful, the company will consider initiating a Phase II trial in AD patients who have neuroinflammation as a cause of their dementia.
Financial Results for the First Quarter Ended March 31, 2019:
Net loss attributable to common stockholders for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019 was $1.9 million, compared to $2.8 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2018. Net loss incurred during the quarter ended March 31, 2019 included noncash stock-based compensation expense of $1.0 million.
Research and development expense totaled approximately $0.1 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019, compared with approximately $0.1 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2018. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, research and development expense included $0.4 million of research and development expense incurred for our clinical trials, partially offset by a grant received from the Alzheimer’s Association of which $0.3 million was recorded as contra-research and development expense.
General and administrative expense was approximately $1.8 million in the quarter ended March 31, 2019, compared to approximately $2.7 million in the quarter ended March 31, 2018. The $0.9 million decline in general and administrative expense is due to lower noncash stock-based compensation ($1.0 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2019 compared to $2.5 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2018), partially offset by higher general and administrative expenses including professional fees and payroll expense.
At March 31, 2019, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $6.0 million with no debt. Subsequently, the Company received proceeds of $4.7 million at a purchase price of $9.00 per share led by RJ Tesi, CEO, David Moss, CFO, and existing shareholders.
As of May 10, 2019 the Company had 10.3 million common and 13.3 million fully diluted shares outstanding.
About INmune Bio, Inc.
INmune Bio, Inc. is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: INMB) clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapies targeting the innate immune system to fight disease. INmune Bio is developing three product platforms: two products that reengineer the patient’s innate immune system’s response to cancer and one product to treat neuroinflammation that is currently focused on Alzheimer’s disease. INKmune is a natural killer (NK) cell therapeutic that primes the patient’s NK cells to attack minimal residual disease, the remaining cancer cells that are difficult to detect, which often cause relapse. INB03 inhibits myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSC), which often cause resistance to immunotherapy, such as anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors. XPro1595 targets neuroinflammation, which causes microglial activation and neuronal cell death. INmune Bio’s product platforms utilize a precision medicine approach for the treatment of a wide variety of hematologic malignancies, solid tumors and chronic inflammation. To learn more, please visit www.inmunebio.com.
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INmune Bio Contact:
David Moss, CFO
(858) 964-3720
Media Contact:
Antenna Group
Sharon Golubchik
(201) 465-8008
Investor Contact:
KCSA Strategic Communications
Valter Pinto / Scott Eckstein
PH: (212) 896-1254 / (212) 896-1210
The following table summarizes our results of operations for the periods indicated:
| Three Months Ended March 31, |
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| 2019 |
2018 |
Change | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 101,592 | $ | 104,011 | $ | ( 2,419 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 1,809,495 | 2,742,373 | (932,878 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 1,911,087 | 2,846,384 | (935,297 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (1,911,087 | ) | (2,846,384 | ) | (935,297 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other income | 10,042 | - | 10,042 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (1,901,045 | ) | $ | (2,846,384 | ) | $ | (945,339 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods indicated:
| Three Months Ended March 31, |
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| 2019 |
2018 |
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| Net cash and cash equivalents (used in) provided by: | |||||||||
| Operating activities | $ | (1,387,702 | ) | $ | (328,841 | ) | |||
| Financing activities | 7,251,142 | 900,000 | |||||||
| Change in cash and cash equivalents | 5,863,440 | 571,159 | |||||||
| Impact on cash from foreign currency translation | (722 | ) | 14,430 | ||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period | 186,204 | 1,370,711 | |||||||