UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
(Mark One)
For the fiscal year ended December 31,2024
or
| ☐ | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
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For the transition period from _______________________ to ___________________
Commission File Number:001-38207
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 82-2863566 |
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| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
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| 16305 36th Avenue North, Suite 100 Minneapolis, MN | 55446 |
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| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
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Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:(763) 392-0767
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered |
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| Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share | CELC | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
None
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.☐ Yes ☒No
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.☐ Yes ☒No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. ☒Yes ☐ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). ☒Yes ☐ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.:
| Large accelerated filer ☐ | Accelerated filer ☐ |
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| Non-accelerated filer ☒ | Smaller reporting company ☒ |
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| Emerging growth company ☐ |
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act☐
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Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b).☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).☐ Yes☒ No
The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant, based on $16.38, the closing price of the shares of common stock on June 28, 2024 (the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter) as reported by The Nasdaq Capital Market on such date, was approximately $530,223,434.
As of March 24, 2025, there were 37,839,392 shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED IN PART BY REFERENCE
Portions of the registrant’s definitive proxy statement relating to its 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K
Table of Contents
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| PART I |
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| Item 1. | Business | 5 |
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| Item 1A. | Risk Factors | 21 |
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| Item 1B. | Unresolved Staff Comments | 37 |
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| Item 1C. | Cybersecurity | 37 |
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| Item 2. | Properties | 38 |
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| Item 3. | Legal Proceedings | 38 |
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| Item 4. | Mine Safety Disclosures | 38 |
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| PART II |
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| Item 5. | Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities | 39 |
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| Item 6. | Reserved | 40 |
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| Item 7. | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 40 |
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| Item 7A. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk | 47 |
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| Item 8. | Financial Statements and Supplementary Data | 48 |
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| Item 9. | Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosures | 67 |
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| Item 9A. | Controls and Procedures | 67 |
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| Item 9B. | Other Information | 67 |
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| Item 9C. | Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections | 67 |
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| PART III |
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| Item 10. | Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance | 68 |
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| Item 11. | Executive Compensation | 70 |
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| Item 12. | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters | 70 |
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| Item 13. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence | 70 |
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| Item 14. | Principal Accountant Fees and Services | 70 |
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| PART IV |
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| Item 15. | Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules | 71 |
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| Signatures | 72 |
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a “safe harbor” for forward-looking statements. This Annual Report on Form 10-K (this “Annual Report”) contains forward-looking statements regarding us, our business prospects and our results of operations that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual business, prospects and results of operations to differ materially from those that may be anticipated by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those described in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Annual Report. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this Annual Report. We expressly disclaim any intent or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made by us in this Annual Report and in our other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) that advise interested parties of the risks and uncertainties that may affect our business.
All statements, other than statements of historical facts, contained in this Annual Report, including statements regarding our plans, objectives and expectations for our business, operations and financial performance and condition, are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the following words: “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “target,” “ongoing,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would,” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the information expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements in this Annual Report. Additionally, our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures or investments that we may make. Forward-looking statements may include, among other things, statements relating to:
| ● | our clinical trial plans and the estimated timelines and costs for such trials; |
| ● | our plans to develop and commercialize our products, and our expectations about the market opportunity for gedatolisib and our ability to serve that market; |
| ● | our expectations with respect to our competitive advantages, including the potential efficacy of gedatolisib in various patient types alone or in combination with other treatments; |
| ● | our expectations regarding the timeline of patient enrollment and results from clinical trials, including our existing Phase 3 VIKTORIA-1 clinical trial, upcoming Phase 3 VIKTORIA-2 clinical trial, and Phase 1b/2 clinical trial for gedatolisib; |
| ● | our expectations regarding our ability to obtain United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) approval to commercialize gedatolisib; |
| ● | our expectations regarding governmental laws and regulations affecting our operations, including, without limitation, developments in laws and regulations or their interpretation, including, among others, changes in tax laws and regulations internationally and in the U.S. and laws that affect our operations and our laboratory; |
| ● | our expectations with respect to the development, validation, required approvals, costs and timelines of our drug candidate gedatolisib; |
| ● | our beliefs related to the potential benefits resulting from Breakthrough Therapy designation for gedatolisib; |
| ● | our plans with respect to research and development and related expenses for the foreseeable future; |
| ● | our beliefs about our ability to capitalize on the exclusive global development and commercialization rights obtained from our license agreement with Pfizer with respect to gedatolisib; |
| ● | our expectations regarding the future payments that may be owed to Pfizer under our license agreement with them; |
| ● | our beliefs with respect to the potential rate and degree of market acceptance, both in the United States and internationally, and clinical utility of gedatolisib; |
| ● | our revenue expectations; |
| ● | our expectations regarding business development activities, including collaborations with pharmaceutical companies; |
| ● | our plans with respect to pricing in the United States and internationally, and our ability to obtain reimbursement for our drug candidate, gedatolisib, including expectations as to our ability or the amount of time it will take to achieve successful reimbursement from third-party payors, such as commercial insurance companies and health maintenance organizations, and from government insurance programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid; |
| ● | our expectations as to the use of proceeds from our financing activities; |
| ● | our expectations with respect to availability of capital, including accessing our current debt facility or any other debt facility or other capital sources in the future, and our assumption that we will have adequate authorized shares for future equity issuances; |
| ● | our beliefs regarding the adequacy of our cash on hand to fund our clinical trials, capital expenditures, working capital, and other general corporate expenses, as well as the increased costs associated with being a public company; |
| ● | our plans with respect to potentially raising capital; and |
| ● | our expectations regarding our ability to obtain and maintain intellectual property protection for our product candidates, including our gedatolisib drug candidate and our CELsignia platform and tests. |
These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our results or our industry’s actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from the information expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Certain risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, our limited operating history; our potential inability to develop, validate and commercialize gedatolisib on a timely basis or at all; the uncertainties and costs associated with clinical studies and with developing and commercializing biopharmaceuticals; the complexity and difficulty of demonstrating the safety and sufficient magnitude of benefit to support regulatory approval of gedatolisib and other products we may develop; challenges we may face in developing and maintaining relationships with pharmaceutical company partners; the uncertainty and costs associated with clinical trials; the uncertainty regarding market acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors and others in the medical community, and with the size of market opportunities available to us; difficulties we may face in managing growth, such as hiring and retaining a qualified sales force and attracting and retaining key personnel; changes in government regulations; tightening credit markets and limitations on access to capital; stock market volatility or other factors that may affect our ability to access capital on favorable terms or at all; and obtaining and maintaining intellectual property protection for our technology and time and expense associated with defending third-party claims of intellectual property infringement, investigations or litigation threatened or initiated against us. See “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report for additional risks, uncertainties and other factors applicable to the Company.
SUMMARY OF RISK FACTORS
Below is a summary of the material factors that make an investment in our common stock speculative or risky. This summary does not address all of the risks that we face. Additional discussion of the risks summarized in this risk factor summary, and other risks that we face, can be found in the “Risk Factors” section of Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report and should be carefully considered, together with other information in this Annual Report and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission before making investment decisions regarding our common stock.
| ● | We have a limited operating history and we may never generate revenue or profit; |
| ● | Our inability to raise additional capital on acceptable terms in the future may limit our ability to develop and commercialize our drug candidate, gedatolisib; |
| ● | Future financing activities could dilute the percentage ownership of our stockholders and could cause our stock price to fall, or could result in operating or other restrictions; |
| ● | We are currently conducting and will continue to conduct clinical trials. Clinical trials are expensive and complex with uncertain outcomes, which may prevent or delay commercialization of our products; |
| ● | Our near-term revenue prospects depend on the success of our initial drug product, gedatolisib. If we are unable to successfully complete clinical development of, obtain regulatory approval for, or commercialize, gedatolisib, or if we experience delays in doing so, our business will be materially and adversely impacted; |
| ● | The successful development and commercialization of our products is highly uncertain; |
| ● | We were not involved in the early development of gedatolisib, so we are dependent on third parties having accurately generated, collected, interpreted and reported data from certain preclinical and clinical trials; |
| ● | We have not yet successfully completed any registrational clinical trials, and we may be unable to do so for any drug candidates we may develop; |
| ● | For a new drug to be approved for marketing, the FDA in the United States and health authorities in other countries must determine that the drug is safe and effective. Because all drugs can have adverse effects, the data from our Phase 3 clinical study must demonstrate to the satisfaction of the FDA and other health authorities that the benefits of gedatolisib in combination with palbociclib and fulvestrant, or gedatolisib in combination with fulvestrant, outweigh its risks. Failure to demonstrate sufficient magnitude of benefit, even if the benefit is found to be statistically significant, may not support regulatory approval; |
| ● | We must navigate lengthy, uncertain, and expensive regulatory approval processes to be able to market our products in the U.S. and other jurisdictions; |
| ● | If we encounter difficulties enrolling patients in any of our clinical trials, our clinical development activities could be delayed or otherwise adversely affected; |
| ● | We depend on intellectual property licensed from third parties, including from Pfizer for our lead product candidate, gedatolisib, and termination of this license could result in the loss of significant rights, which would materially and adversely impact our business; |
| ● | If we and our business partners are unable to obtain and maintain intellectual property protection for our products and technology, or if the scope of the intellectual property protection obtained is not sufficiently broad, our competitors could develop and commercialize drug candidates similar or identical to ours, and our ability to successfully commercialize our drug candidate may be impaired; |
| ● | If we fail to comply with our obligations under our patent license with Pfizer, we could lose certain license rights that are important to our business; |
| ● | We rely on third parties to conduct certain aspects of our preclinical studies and clinical trials and to formulate and manufacture our drug product. If these third parties do not successfully carry out their contractual duties, meet expected deadlines or comply with regulatory requirements, we may not be able to obtain regulatory approval for, or commercialize, any potential product candidates; |
| ● | We will be dependent on our ability to attract and retain key personnel; |
| ● | We may encounter difficulties in scaling production, commercializing, marketing and distributing our products, including in hiring and retaining a qualified sales force; |
| ● | Our estimate of the market opportunity for our drug candidate may not prove to be accurate; |
| ● | We face significant competition from other pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies; and |
| ● | The price of our common stock may be volatile and fluctuate substantially. |