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CURIS INC

For the period ended Sep 30, 2025. Filed Nov 6, 2025.

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Sep 30, 2025 · Filed Nov 6, 2025

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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

  1. Nature of Business

Curis, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on the development of emavusertib (CA-4948), an orally available, small molecule inhibitor of Interleukin-1 receptor associated kinase, or IRAK4. Throughout these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, Curis, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries are collectively referred to as the “Company” or “Curis”.

The Company is party to a collaboration agreement with Genentech Inc. (“Genentech”), a member of the Roche Group, under which Genentech and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd (“Roche”) are commercializing Erivedge® (vismodegib), a first-in-class orally administered small molecule Hedgehog signaling pathway antagonist. Erivedge is approved for the treatment of advanced basal cell carcinoma (“BCC”).

The Company is party to an exclusive collaboration agreement with Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited (“Aurigene”) for the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule compounds in the areas of immuno-oncology and precision oncology, including emavusertib.

The Company is subject to risks common to companies in the biotechnology industry as well as risks that are specific to the Company’s business, including, but not limited to: the Company’s ability to obtain adequate financing to fund its operations; the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern; the Company’s ability to regain compliance with Nasdaq's continued listing requirements; the Company’s ability to advance and expand its research and development program for emavusertib; the Company’s ability to establish strategic collaborations; the Company’s reliance on third parties to conduct clinical trials of emavusertib; the Company’s ability to execute on its overall business strategies; the Company’s ability to obtain and maintain necessary intellectual property protection; development by the Company’s competitors of new or better technological innovations; the Company’s ability to comply with regulatory requirements; the Company’s ability to obtain and maintain applicable regulatory approvals and commercialize any approved drug candidates; and the ability of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Curis Royalty, LLC (“Curis Royalty”), to satisfy the terms of the royalty interest purchase agreement (the “Oberland Purchase Agreement”) with TPC Investments I LP and TPC Investments II LP (the “Purchasers”), each of which is a Delaware limited partnership managed by Oberland Capital Management, LLC, and Lind SA LLC (the “Agent”), a Delaware limited liability company managed by Oberland Capital Management, LLC, as collateral agent for the Purchasers.

The Company’s future operating results will largely depend on the progress of emavusertib and the magnitude of payments that it may receive and make under its current and potential future collaborations. The results of the Company’s operations have varied and will likely continue to vary significantly from year to year and quarter to quarter and depend on a number of factors, including, but not limited to the timing, outcome and cost of the Company’s preclinical studies and clinical trials for its drug candidate.

The Company will require substantial funds in the immediate term to maintain its research and development program and support operations. The Company has incurred losses and cash outflows from operations since its inception. The Company had an accumulated deficit of $1.3 billion as of September 30, 2025, and incurred a net loss of $26.9 million and used $20.8 million of cash in operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2025. The Company expects to continue to generate operating losses in the foreseeable future.

In accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-15, Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40), the Company has concluded there are conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are issued. Based on the Company's $9.1 million of existing cash and cash equivalents at September 30, 2025, recurring losses and cash outflows from operations since inception, an expectation of continuing losses and cash outflows from operations for the foreseeable future and the need to raise substantial additional capital to finance the Company's future operations, the Company concluded it does not have sufficient cash on hand to support current operations within the next 12 months from the date of filing this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. These factors raise substantial doubt regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

The Company plans to seek additional funding through a number of potential avenues, including private or public equity financings, collaborations, or other strategic transactions. The Company has faced and expects to continue to face substantial difficulty in raising capital. The Company may not be able to obtain funding on acceptable terms, or at all. The terms of any financing may adversely affect the holdings or the rights of the Company’s stockholders. The Company’s ability to raise additional funds will depend on, among other factors, financial, economic and market conditions, as well as maintaining the Company's listing on Nasdaq, many of which are outside of its control, and it may be unable to raise financing when needed, or on terms favorable to the Company. If necessary funds are not available, the Company will have to delay, reduce the scope of, or eliminate its development of emavusertib, potentially delaying the time to market for or preventing the marketing of emavusertib, which would have a material adverse effect on the Company’s operations and future prospects. If the Company is unable to obtain sufficient capital, the Company would be unable to fund its operations and may be required to evaluate alternatives, which could include dissolving and liquidating its assets or seeking protection under the bankruptcy laws, and a determination to file for bankruptcy could occur at a time that is earlier than when the Company would otherwise exhaust its cash resources. If the Company decides to dissolve and liquidate its assets or to seek protection under the bankruptcy laws, it is unclear to what extent the Company would be able to pay its obligations, and, accordingly, it is further unclear whether and to what extent any resources would be available for distributions to stockholders.

  1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

(a)Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. These statements, however, are condensed and do not include all disclosures required by accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. (“GAAP”) for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 31, 2025.

In the opinion of the management of the Company, the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements contain all adjustments (all of which were considered normal and recurring) necessary for a fair statement of the Company’s financial position at September 30, 2025; the results of operations for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024; stockholders' deficit for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024; and the cash flows for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024. The Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet at December 31, 2024 was derived from audited annual financial statements but does not contain all of the footnote disclosures from the annual financial statements.

The Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the ordinary course of business. In accordance with FASB ASU No. 2014-15, Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40), the Company has concluded there are conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are issued. The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

(b)Use of Estimates and Assumptions

The preparation of the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts and disclosure of revenue, expenses and certain assets and liabilities at the balance sheet date. Such estimates include the performance obligations under the Company’s collaboration agreements; the collectability of receivables; and the value of certain liabilities. Actual results may differ from such estimates. These interim results are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for a full year or subsequent interim periods.

(c) Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash

Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments purchased with original maturities of three months or less.

The Company classified $0.5 million of its cash as restricted cash as of both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. These amounts represent the security deposit associated with the Company’s Lexington, Massachusetts headquarters.

(d)Leases

The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at contract inception. The Company made an accounting policy election to not recognize leases with an initial term of 12 months or less within its Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and to recognize those lease payments on a straight-line basis in its Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss over the lease term. Operating lease assets represent the Company's right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and operating lease liabilities represent its obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Operating lease assets and liabilities are recognized at the commencement date of the lease based upon the present value of lease payments over the lease term. When determining the lease term, the Company includes options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the Company will exercise that option.

As the Company's lease does not provide an implicit interest rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate, which is based on rates that would be incurred to borrow on a collateralized basis over a term equal to the lease payments in a similar economic environment, in determining the present value of lease payments.

The lease payments used to determine the operating lease asset may include lease incentives and stated rent increases and are recognized as an operating lease right-of-use asset in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company's lease agreements may include both lease and non-lease components, which may be accounted for as a single lease component when the payments are fixed. Variable payments included in the lease agreement are expensed as incurred.

The Company's operating lease is reflected in operating lease right-of-use asset and operating lease liability in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. Lease expense for lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

(e)Other Assets

Other assets consist of long-term prepayments and deposits.

(f)Revenue Recognition

The Company applies the revenue recognition guidance in accordance with FASB Codification Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers.

The Company recognizes royalty revenues related to Genentech’s and Roche’s sales of Erivedge. For arrangements that include sales-based royalties, including milestone payments based on the level of sales, and where the license is deemed to be the predominant item to which the royalties relate, the Company recognizes revenue at the later of (i) when the related sales occur, or (ii) when the performance obligation to which some or all of the royalty has been allocated has been satisfied (or partially satisfied). The Company expects to continue recognizing royalty revenue from Genentech’s sales of Erivedge in the U.S. and Roche's sales of Erivedge outside of the U.S. (see Note 7, Research and Development Collaborations). However, a significant portion of Erivedge royalties will be paid to the Purchasers pursuant to the Oberland Purchase Agreement (see Note 6, Liability Related to the Sale of Future Royalties).

(g)Segment Reporting

The Company has determined that it operates in a single reportable segment, which is the research and development of innovative drug candidates for the treatment of human cancer.

(h)New Accounting Pronouncements

Issued, Not Yet Adopted

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which requires disclosure of disaggregated income taxes paid, prescribes standard categories for the components of the effective tax rate reconciliation, and modifies other income tax-related disclosures. ASU No. 2023-09 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024 and allows for adoption on a prospective basis, with a retrospective option. Early adoption is permitted. The Company will adopt the new standard for the year ended December 31, 2025 and is currently evaluating the impact ASU 2023-09 may have on its Consolidated Financial Statements and disclosures.

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU-2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Topic 220): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. The ASU requires additional disclosures of the nature of the expenses included in the income statement, including disaggregation of the expense captions presented on the Consolidated Statements of Operations into specific categories. ASU No. 2024-03 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and for interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027 and allows for adoption on a prospective basis, with a retrospective option. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the ASU on the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statement disclosures.

In July 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBB”) was enacted in the U.S. The OBBB includes significant provisions, such as the permanent extension of certain expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, restoration of favorable tax treatment for certain business provisions including the expensing of domestic research and development expenditures, and modifications to the international tax framework. Certain provisions will take effect beginning in 2026, while others apply retroactively to January 1, 2025. The impacts of OBBB are not expected to be material to the 2025 Consolidated Financial Statements, however, the Company will continue to evaluate impacts to future periods.

  1. Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The Company applies the provisions of FASB Codification 820, Fair Value Measurements (“ASC 820”) for its financial assets and liabilities that are re-measured and reported at fair value each reporting period and the non-financial assets and liabilities that are re-measured and reported at fair value on a non-recurring basis. Fair value is the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining fair value, the Company considers the principal or most advantageous market in which it would transact and considers assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or liability. ASC 820 establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements. Financial assets and liabilities are categorized within the valuation hierarchy based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the measurement of fair value. The three levels of the hierarchy are defined as follows:

Level 1Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
Level 3Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

In accordance with the fair value hierarchy, the following tables show the fair value as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 of those financial assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis, according to the valuation techniques the Company used to determine their fair value.

(in thousands)Quoted Prices inActive Markets(Level 1)Other ObservableInputs (Level 2)UnobservableInputs (Level 3)Fair Value
As of September 30, 2025:
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds$368$—$—$368
Total$368$—$—$368
(in thousands)Quoted Prices inActive Markets(Level 1)Other ObservableInputs (Level 2)UnobservableInputs (Level 3)Fair Value
As of December 31, 2024:
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds$17,201$—$—$17,201
Total$17,201$—$—$17,201
  1. Accrued Liabilities

Accrued liabilities consisted of the following:

(in thousands)September 30, 2025December 31, 2024
Employee related costs$2,520$3,255
Research and development costs3,9383,049
Professional and legal fees815771
Other1536
Total$7,288$7,111
  1. Lease

The Company has a single lease for real estate, including laboratory and office space, and certain equipment, in Lexington, Massachusetts which commenced on May 1, 2020. The lease will expire on April 30, 2027.

As of September 30, 2025, the Company had an operating lease liability of $2.0 million and related right-of-use asset of $2.2 million related to its operating lease. As of December 31, 2024, the Company had an operating lease liability of $3.0 million and related right-of-use asset of $3.2 million related to its operating lease.

The Company recorded lease cost of $0.4 million for each of the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024. The Company recorded lease cost of $1.1 million and $1.2 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The Company paid $0.4 million in rent during each of the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024. The Company paid $1.2 million and $1.1 million in rent during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The discount rate associated with the Company’s right-of-use asset is 10%.

  1. Liability Related to the Sale of Future Royalties

In March 2019, the Company and Curis Royalty entered into the Oberland Purchase Agreement with the Purchasers and Agent. The Company sold to the Purchasers a substantial portion of its rights to receive royalties from Genentech on potential net sales of Erivedge. As upfront consideration for the purchase of the royalty rights, the Purchasers paid to Curis Royalty $65.0 million less certain transaction expenses.

The Oberland Purchase Agreement provides that after the occurrence of an event of default as defined under the security agreement by Curis Royalty, the Purchasers shall have the option, for a period of 180 days, to require Curis Royalty to repurchase a portion of certain royalty and royalty related payments, excluding a portion of non-U.S. royalties retained by Curis Royalty (referred to as the “Purchased Receivables”), at a price (referred to as the “Put/Call Price”), equal to 250% of the sum of the upfront purchase price and any portion of the milestone payments paid in a lump sum by the Purchasers, if any, minus certain payments previously received by the Purchasers with respect to the Purchased Receivables. The Company concluded that this put option is an embedded derivative that requires bifurcation from the deferred royalty obligation and evaluates the fair value of the put option each reporting period. The estimated fair value of the put option is immaterial as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. Additionally, Curis Royalty shall have the option at any time to repurchase the Purchased Receivables at the Put/Call Price as of the date of such repurchase. No events of default have occurred as of September 30, 2025.

As a result of the obligation to pay future royalties to the Purchasers, the Company recorded the proceeds as a liability on its Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. It accounts for the liability and interest expense using the interest method over the expected life of the Oberland Purchase Agreement. As a result, the Company imputes interest on the transaction and records imputed interest expense at the estimated interest rate. The Company’s estimate of the interest rate under the Oberland Purchase Agreement is based on the amount of royalty payments expected to be received by the Purchasers over the life of the Oberland Purchase Agreement. The projected amount of royalty payments expected to be paid to the Purchasers involves the use of significant estimates and assumptions with respect to the revenue growth rate in the Company’s projections of sales of Erivedge. The Company periodically assesses the expected royalty payments to Curis Royalty from Genentech using a combination of historical results and forecasts from market data sources. To the extent such payments are greater or less than the current estimates or the timing of such payments is materially different than the original estimates, the Company prospectively adjusts the amortization of the liability.

The Company determined the fair value of the liability related to the sale of future royalties at the time of the Oberland Purchase Agreement to be $65.0 million, with a current effective annual imputed interest rate of 11.2%. The Company incurred $0.6 million of transaction costs in connection with the Oberland Purchase Agreement. These transaction costs are being amortized to imputed interest expense over the estimated term of the Oberland Purchase Agreement. The carrying value of the liability related to the sale of future royalties approximates fair value as of September 30, 2025 and is based on the Company’s current estimates of future royalties expected to be paid to the Purchasers over the life of the arrangement, which are considered Level 3 inputs.

The following table shows the activity with respect to the liability related to the sale of future royalties during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.

(in thousands)
Carrying value of liability related to the sale of future royalties at December 31, 2024$34,174
Imputed interest expense1,875
Other(4)
Less: payments to the Purchasers(7,414)
Carrying value of liability related to the sale of future royalties at September 30, 202528,631
Less current portion6,951
Carrying value of liability related to the sale of future royalties at September 30, 2025, net of current portion$21,680
  1. Research and Development Collaborations

(a)Genentech

In June 2003, the Company licensed its proprietary Hedgehog pathway antagonist technologies to Genentech for human therapeutic use. Erivedge is being commercialized by Genentech in the U.S. and by Genentech’s parent company, Roche, outside of the U.S. for the treatment of advanced BCC.

Pursuant to the collaboration agreement, the Company is entitled to a royalty on net sales of Erivedge that ranges from 5% to 7.5%. The royalty rate applicable to Erivedge may be decreased by 2% on a country-by-country basis in certain specified circumstances. Cost of royalties comprises payments to university licensors and was not material for each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.

The Company had account receivables from Genentech under this collaboration of $3.2 million and $3.3 million as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, in its Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

As previously discussed in Note 6, Liability Related to the Sale of Future Royalties, a significant portion of royalty revenues received from Genentech on net sales of Erivedge will be paid to the Purchasers pursuant to the Oberland Purchase Agreement.

(b)Aurigene

The Company is party to an exclusive collaboration agreement with Aurigene for the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule compounds in the areas of immuno-oncology and selected precision oncology targets. Under the collaboration agreement, Aurigene granted the Company an option to obtain exclusive, royalty-bearing licenses to relevant Aurigene technology to develop, manufacture and commercialize products containing certain of such compounds anywhere in the world, except for India and Russia, which are territories retained by Aurigene. Additionally, Aurigene retains the rights to develop and commercialize CA-170 worldwide, and the Company is entitled to receive royalty payments on potential future sales of CA-170 at percentage rates ranging from the high single digits up to 10%, subject to specified reductions.

As of September 30, 2025, the Company has licensed the following programs under the collaboration:

  1. IRAK4 Program - a precision oncology program of small molecule inhibitors of IRAK4. The development candidate is emavusertib.

  2. PD1/TIM3 Program - an immuno-oncology program of small molecule antagonists of PD1 and TIM3 immune checkpoint pathways. The development candidate is CA-327.

  3. An immuno-oncology program.

For each of the IRAK4, PD1/TIM3, and the immuno-oncology programs, the Company is obligated to use commercially reasonable efforts to develop, obtain regulatory approval for, and commercialize at least one product in each of the U.S., specified countries in the European Union and Japan. Aurigene is obligated to use commercially reasonable efforts to perform its obligations under the development plan for its licensed programs.

For each of the IRAK4, PD1/TIM3, and the immuno-oncology programs, the Company has remaining unpaid or unwaived payment obligations of $42.5 million per program, related to regulatory approval and commercial sales milestones, plus specified additional payments for approvals for additional indications, if any.

  1. Stockholders' Deficit

(a)Charter Amendment

In May 2025, the Company's stockholders approved an increase to the number of authorized shares of its common stock from 34,171,875 shares to 68,343,750 shares.

(b)Sales Agreement with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. and JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC

In February 2024, the Company entered into an amended and restated sales agreement with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. (“Cantor”) and JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC (“JonesTrading”) (the “2024 Sales Agreement”). Pursuant to the 2024 Sales Agreement, the Company can sell from time to time up to $100.0 million shares of the Company’s common stock through an “at-the-market offering” program under which Cantor and JonesTrading act as sales agents. The aggregate compensation payable to each of Cantor and JonesTrading is 3% of the gross proceeds from sales of the common stock sold by Cantor or JonesTrading, as applicable.

The Company didnot sell any shares of common stock under the 2024 Sales Agreement during the nine months ended September 30, 2025. As of September 30, 2025, $98.8 million of shares of common stock remained available for sale under the

2024 Sales Agreement. On July 1, 2025, the Company notified Cantor and JonesTrading that it terminated the prospectus, dated April 12, 2024, related to the 2024 Sales Agreement. On August 8, 2025, the Company filed a new prospectus relating to the shares of common stock to be issued and sold pursuant to the 2024 Sales Agreement. As long as the Company’s public float is under $75.0 million, it is restricted from selling shares of its common stock under its shelf registration statement on Form S-3, including those sold under the 2024 Sales Agreement to an amount, in aggregate, that is no more than one-third of the Company’s public float during the 12 month period immediately prior to, and including, any such sale.

(c)October 2024 Offerings

In October 2024, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional investors, pursuant to which the Company issued and sold: (i) in a registered direct offering,2,398,414 shares of the Company's common stock and (ii) in a concurrent private placement, warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,398,414 shares of the Company's common stock (the “October 2024 Common Warrants”), at an exercise price of $4.92 per share. The registered direct offering and concurrent private placement are collectively referred to as the “October 2024 Offerings”. The October 2024 Common Warrants were exercisable immediately upon closing on October 30, 2024 and will expire five years following the issuance date. The combined purchase price forone share of common stock and the associated October 2024 Common Warrant was $5.045. The net proceeds to the Company from the October 2024 Offerings were approximately $10.8 million, excluding the proceeds from any exercise of the October 2024 Common Warrants.

The Company concluded the October 2024 Common Warrants meet the equity scope exception under ASC 815-40. The total net proceeds were allocated to the common stock and the October 2024 Common Warrants based on the relative fair value. The relative fair value of the common stock and October 2024 Common Warrants were $6.0 million and $4.8 million, respectively.

(d)March 2025 Offerings

In March 2025, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional investors, pursuant to which the Company issued and sold: (i) in a registered direct offering,1,974,432 shares of the Company’s common stock and (ii) in a concurrent private placement, (a) in lieu of shares to certain investors, pre-funded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,184,009 shares of common stock (the “March 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants”), at an exercise price of $0.01 per share, and (b) warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 8,316,882 shares of common stock (the “March 2025 Common Warrants”), at an exercise price of $2.41 per share. The March 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants and the March 2025 Common Warrants are collectively referred to as “March 2025 Warrants”. The registered direct offering and concurrent private placement are collectively referred to as the “March 2025 Offerings”. Each March 2025 Pre-Funded Warrant was exercisable immediately upon issuance and continuing through and including the date the March 2025 Pre-Funded Warrant is exercised in full. Each March 2025 Common Warrant was exercisable beginning on the effective date of stockholder approval of the issuance of the shares of common stock upon exercise of the March 2025 Common Warrants, which occurred on May 20, 2025, and has a term offive years from the date of issuance. The combined purchase price forone share of the Company's common stock and the associated March 2025 Common Warrant was $2.41. The combined purchase price forone March 2025 Pre-Funded Warrant and the associated March 2025 Common Warrant was $2.40. The net proceeds to the Company from the March 2025 Offerings were approximately $8.8 million, excluding the proceeds from any exercise of the March 2025 Warrants.

The Company concluded that both the March 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants and the March 2025 Common Warrants meet the equity scope exception under ASC 815-40. The total net proceeds were allocated to common stock, March 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants, and March 2025 Common Warrants based on their relative fair values. The relative fair value of the common stock, March 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants, and March 2025 Common Warrants were $2.2 million, $2.4 million, and $4.2 million, respectively.

During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025,487,000 and 709,255 shares of common stock, respectively, were issued upon the exercise of March 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants.

(e)July 2025 Offerings

In July 2025, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional investors, pursuant to which the Company issued and sold: (i) in a registered direct offering,1,538,460 shares of the Company's common stock and (ii) in a concurrent private placement, (a) in lieu of shares to certain investors, pre-funded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,538,461 shares of common stock (the “July 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants”), at an exercise price of $0.01 per share, and (b) warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 3,076,921 shares of common stock (the “July 2025 Common Warrants”), at an exercise price of $2.15 per share. The July 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants and the July 2025 Common Warrants are collectively referred to as “July 2025 Warrants”. The registered direct offering and concurrent private placement are collectively referred to as the “July 2025 Offerings”. Each July 2025 Pre-Funded Warrant was exercisable immediately upon issuance and continuing through and including the date the July 2025 Pre-Funded Warrant is exercised in full. Each July 2025 Common Warrant was exercisable immediately upon issuance and has a term offive years from the date of issuance. The combined purchase price forone share of the Company's common stock and the associated July 2025 Common Warrant was $2.275. The combined purchase price forone July 2025 Pre-Funded Warrant and the associated July 2025 Common Warrant was $2.265. The net proceeds to the Company from the July 2025 Offerings were approximately $6.1 million, excluding the proceeds from any exercise of the July 2025 Warrants.

The Company concluded that both the July 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants and the July 2025 Common Warrants meet the equity scope exception under ASC 815-40. The total net proceeds were allocated to common stock, July 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants, and July 2025 Common Warrants based on their relative fair values. The relative fair value of the common stock, July 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants, and July 2025 Common Warrants were $1.8 million, $1.8 million, and $2.5 million, respectively.

The Company calculated the fair value of the October 2024 Common Warrants, March 2025 Common Warrants, and July 2025 Common Warrants using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following weighted average inputs:

October 2024 Common WarrantsMarch 2025 Common WarrantsJuly 2025 Common Warrants
Stock price$4.92$2.41$2.15
Expected term (years)4.781.814.05
Risk-free interest rate4.1%4.1%3.9%
Expected volatility117%105%109%
Expected dividend yieldNoneNoneNone
  1. Stock Plans and Stock-Based Compensation

As of September 30, 2025, the Company hadtwo stockholder-approved, stock-based compensation plans: (i) the Fifth Amended and Restated 2010 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (“2010 Plan”) and (ii) the Amended and Restated 2010 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”). New employees are generally issued options as an inducement equity award under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4) outside of the 2010 Plan (“Inducement Awards”).

The Fifth Amended and Restated 2010 Stock Incentive Plan

The 2010 Plan permits the granting of incentive and non-qualified stock options and stock awards to employees, officers, directors, and consultants of the Company and its subsidiaries at prices determined by the Company’s board of directors. In May 2025, the Company's stockholders approved an amendment to the 2010 Plan to reserve an additional 1,255,000 shares of common stock for issuance under the 2010 Plan. The Company can issue up to 3,356,600 shares of its common stock pursuant to awards granted under the 2010 Plan. Options vest and become exercisable based on a schedule determined by the board of directors and expire up toten years from the date of grant. The 2010 Plan uses a “fungible share” concept under which each share of stock subject to awards granted as options and stock appreciation rights (“SARs”) will causeone share per share under the award to be removed from the available share pool, while each share of stock subject to awards granted as restricted stock, restricted stock units, other stock-based awards or performance awards where the price charged for the award is less than 100% of the fair market value of the Company’s common stock will cause 1.3 shares per share under the award to be removed from the available share pool.

As of September 30, 2025, the Company granted options to employees, executive officers, and non-employee directors with an exercise price equal to the closing price of the Company's common stock on the grant date. The Company granted employees restricted stock awards ("RSAs") and restricted stock units ("RSUs") at no cost. As of September 30, 2025,784,892 shares remained available for grant under the 2010 Plan.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company’s board of directors granted options to purchase 1,108,400 shares of the Company’s common stock to executive officers and employees of the Company under the 2010 Plan. These options vest and become exercisable as to 25% of the shares underlying the award after the first year and as to an additional 6.25% of the shares underlying the award in each subsequent quarter, based upon continued employment over afour year period.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company’s board of directors granted 350,600 RSUs to employees of the Company under the 2010 Plan. These RSUs vest and become exercisable as to 25% of the shares underlying the award annually on the date of grant, based upon continued employment over afour year period.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company’s board of directors granted options to its non-employee directors to purchase 80,000 shares of common stock under the 2010 Plan, which will vest and become exercisableone year from the date of grant.

Inducement Awards

The Company grants Inducement Awards to certain new employees. These options generally vest as to 25% of the shares underlying the option on the first anniversary of the grant date, and as to an additional 6.25% of the shares underlying the option on each successive quarter thereafter. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company’s board of directors granted Inducement Awards to purchase 200,000 shares of common stock. These options were granted at an exercise price that equaled the closing market price of the Company’s common stock on the grant date.

Stock Options

A summary of stock option activity under the 2010 Plan and Inducement Awards are summarized as follows:

Number ofSharesWeightedAverageExercisePrice perShareWeightedAverageRemaining Contractual LifeAggregate Intrinsic Value
Outstanding, December 31, 20241,160,251$33.447.19$—
Granted1,388,4003.04
Exercised——
Canceled/Forfeited(178,825)14.17
Outstanding, September 30, 20252,369,826$17.197.94$—
Exercisable at September 30, 2025795,029$43.645.55$—
Vested and unvested expected to vest at September 30, 20252,369,826$17.197.94$—

The weighted average grant date fair values of the stock options granted during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 were $2.13 and $9.50, respectively, and were calculated usingthe following estimated assumptions under the Black-Scholes option pricing model:

Nine Months Ended September 30,
20252024
Expected term (years)6.06.0
Risk free interest rate3.9% - 4.4%3.9% - 4.5%
Expected volatility113% - 114%114% - 116%
Expected dividendsNoneNone

As of September 30, 2025, there was $5.0 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested employee stock option awards outstanding, which is expected to be recognized as expense over a weighted average period of 2.5 years. There wereno employee stock options exercised during each of the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.

Restricted Stock Awards

The following table presents a summary of RSAs under the 2010 Plan as of September 30, 2025:

Number of SharesWeighted Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested, December 31, 202440,137$18.20
Awarded——
Vested(39,637)18.20
Forfeited(500)18.20
Unvested, September 30, 2025—$—

Restricted Stock Units

The following table presents a summary of RSUs under the 2010 Plan as of September 30, 2025:

Number of SharesWeighted Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested, December 31, 2024—$—
Awarded350,6003.13
Vested—
Forfeited(87,200)3.13
Unvested, September 30, 2025263,4003.13

As of September 30, 2025, there was $0.7 million of unrecognized compensation costs related to RSUs, which are expected to be recognized as expense over a remaining weighted average period of 3.3 years.

Amended and Restated 2010 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

The Company has reserved 500,000 shares of common stock for issuance under the ESPP. Eligible employees may purchase shares of the Company’s common stock at 85% of the lower closing market price of the common stock at the beginning of the enrollment period or ending date of the purchase period within atwo-year enrollment period, as defined. The Company hasfour six-month purchase periods per eachtwo-year enrollment period. If, within any one of thefour purchase periods in an enrollment period, the purchase period ending stock price is lower than the stock price at the beginning of the enrollment period, thetwo-year enrollment resets at the new lower stock price. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024,36,649 and 11,307 shares, respectively, were issued under the ESPP. No shares were issued under the ESPP during the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024. As of September 30, 2025, there were 357,814 shares available for future purchase under the ESPP.

Stock-Based Compensation Expense

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Company recorded stock-based compensation expense to the following line items in its costs and expenses section of the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss:

Three Months Ended September 30,Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands)2025202420252024
Research and development$368$624$1,452$2,168
General and administrative5567601,7712,479
Total stock-based compensation expense$924$1,384$3,223$4,647
  1. Loss Per Common Share

Basic and diluted loss per common share is computed by dividing net loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net loss per common share is the same as basic net loss per common share for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, because the effect of adjusting the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period for the potential dilutive effect of common stock equivalents would be antidilutive due to the Company’s net loss position for these periods. The 1,474,754 shares of common stock underlying the outstanding March 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants and the 1,538,461 shares of common stock underlying the outstanding July 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants have been included in the weighted-average number of shares of common stock used to calculate net loss per share, basic and diluted, attributable to common stockholders because the shares may be issued for little or no consideration, they are fully vested, and the March 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants and the July 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants are immediately exercisable upon their issuance date.

The following common stock equivalents were excluded from the calculation of diluted net loss per share applicable to common stockholders for the periods indicated because including them would have had an anti-dilutive effect:

As of September 30,
20252024
Anti-dilutive common stock equivalents:
October 2024 Common Warrants2,398,414—
March 2025 Common Warrants8,316,882—
July 2025 Common Warrants3,076,921—
Stock options outstanding2,369,8261,160,251
Unvested RSAs—40,137
Unvested RSUs263,400—
Total anti-dilutive common stock equivalents16,425,4431,200,388
  1. Segment Information

The Company has determined that it operates in a single reportable segment, which is the research and development of innovative drug candidates for the treatment of human cancer. Resources are allocated and performance is assessed by the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, whom the Company has determined to be its Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM).

The CODM considers actual operating results on an annual basis on a consolidated basis, including consolidated net loss, when making decisions about allocating capital and personnel to the segment in the annual budgeting and forecasting process, which includes comparison of budget to actual and current period to prior period variances. The CODM assesses performance for the operating segment and decides, in part, how to allocate resources based on net loss that also is reported on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations as net loss. The measure of segment assets is reported on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as total assets.

In addition to the significant categories included within net loss presented on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations, the following table is representative of the significant expense categories for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, including a reconciliation to Net loss:

Three Months Ended September 30,Nine Months Ended September 30,
2025202420252024
Revenues, net$3,176$2,931$8,305$7,563
Direct research and development costs3,6356,02912,91016,537
Research and development employee related costs2,4443,2688,34511,637
General and administrative employee related costs1,8071,9855,6546,985
Professional, legal, and consulting costs1,1649793,2463,893
Other segment items (1)1,8557625,0882,282
Net loss$7,729$10,092$26,938$33,771

(1) Other operating expenses for the reportable segment include cost of royalties, facility related costs, insurance costs, and other income (expense).

  1. Subsequent Event

On November 6, 2025, the Company sold to TPC Investments Royalty LLC, a Delaware limited liability company managed by Oberland Capital Management, LLC ("Oberland"), its interest in Curis Royalty LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary. The sale includes the Erivedge intellectual property, other assets associated with Erivedge and the collaboration agreement with Genentech, in exchange for upfront consideration of $2.5 million and a release of the Company’s liability related to sale of future royalties to Oberland. As a result of executing the sale of the wholly owned subsidiary to Oberland, in the fourth quarter of 2025, the Company will recognize a gain within its statement of operations and comprehensive loss and the liability related to sale of future royalties will be extinguished. Following the sale, the Company will no longer be entitled to revenues under the collaboration agreement with Genentech.

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