VYNE Therapeutics Inc

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

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

FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED MARCH 31, 2024

OR

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

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM ___ TO ___.

Commission file number 001-38356

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

685 Route 202/206 N, Suite 301

Bridgewater, New Jersey 08807

(Address of principal executive offices including zip code)

(800)775-7936

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

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

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As of May 2, 2024, there were 14,528,247 shares of the registrant’s Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, outstanding.

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements reflecting the current beliefs and expectations of management with respect to future events or to our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These statements are often identified by the use of words such as “aim,” “anticipate,” “assume,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “due,” “estimate,” “expect,” “goal,” “if,” “intend,” “may,” “objective,” “plan,” “predict,” “potential,” “positioned,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “until,” “will,” “would,” and similar expressions or variations.

These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the following matters:

•our ability to successfully execute our business strategy, including our ability to successfully develop our bromodomain and extra-terminal domain (“BET”) inhibitor platform for immuno-inflammatory conditions;

•the timing of commencement of future preclinical studies and clinical trials and timing of data from those studies and trials;

•our ability to enroll patients and successfully complete, and receive favorable results in, clinical trials for our product candidates;

•regulatory requirements or developments, and our ability to obtain necessary approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) or other regulatory authorities for our product candidates, including our ability to obtain approval from these authorities in order to commence our clinical trials;

•our pursuit of, and ability to successfully identify and execute, strategic transactions;

•estimates of our expenses, capital requirements, our needs for additional financing and our ability to obtain additional capital on acceptable terms or at all;

•the potential market size of treatments for any diseases and market adoption of our products, if approved or cleared for commercial use, by physicians and patients;

•disruptions related to macroeconomic conditions on our ability to initiate and retain patients in our clinical trials and progress preclinical studies and the ability of our suppliers to manufacture and provide materials for our product candidates;

•our ability to create or in-license intellectual property and the scope of protection we are able to establish and maintain for intellectual property rights covering our product candidates and programs, including the projected terms of patent protection;

•developments and projections relating to our competitors and the markets in which we compete, including competing drugs and therapies, particularly if we are unable to receive exclusivity;

•our ability to comply with various regulations applicable to our business;

•our ability to successfully challenge intellectual property claimed by others;

•our intentions and our ability to establish collaborations or obtain additional funding;

•our ability to attract and retain key scientific or management personnel;

•our defense of any future litigation that may be initiated against us;

•our expectations regarding licensing, business transactions and strategic operations; and

•our future financial performance and liquidity.

We caution you that the foregoing list may not contain all of the forward-looking statements made in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. We discuss these risks in greater detail in “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, as well as in our other filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") from time to time. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Also, forward-looking statements represent our management’s beliefs and assumptions only as of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.

COMPANY REFERENCES

Throughout this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, "VYNE," the "Company," "we," "us" and "our" refer to VYNE Therapeutics Inc. and its subsidiaries.

TRADEMARKS

The trademarks and registered trademarks of VYNE Therapeutics Inc. and our subsidiaries referred to in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q include VYNE Therapeutics, InhiBET, our logo and our name and logo used together. Third-party product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.