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Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation

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Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation
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Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation

Note 1—Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation

 

OncoSec Medical Incorporated (together with its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise, being collectively referred to as the “Company”) began its operations as a biotechnology company in March 2011, following its completion of the acquisition of certain technology and related assets from Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Inovio”). The Company has not produced any revenues since its inception. The Company was incorporated in the State of Nevada on February 8, 2008 under the name of Netventory Solutions, Inc. and changed its name in March 2011 when it began operating as a biotechnology company.

 

The Company is a biotechnology company focused on designing, developing and commercializing innovative therapies and proprietary medical approaches to stimulate and guide an anti-tumor immune response for the treatment of cancer. Its core platform technology, ImmunoPulse®, is a drug-device therapeutic modality comprised of a proprietary intratumoral electroporation delivery device. The ImmunoPulse® platform is designed to deliver DNA-encoded drugs directly into a solid tumor and promote an immunological response against cancer. The ImmunoPulse® device can be adapted to treat different tumor types, and consists of an electrical pulse generator, a reusable handle and disposable applicators. The Company’s lead product candidate, ImmunoPulse® IL-12, uses its electroporation device to deliver a DNA-encoded interleukin-12 (“IL-12”), called tavokinogene telseplasmid (“tavo”), with the aim of reversing the immunosuppressive microenvironment in the treated tumor by triggering an appropriate inflammatory response which can drive a systemic anti-tumor response against untreated tumors in other parts of the body. In February 2017, the Company received Fast Track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for ImmunoPulse® IL-12, which could qualify ImmunoPulse® IL-12 for expedited FDA review, a rolling Biologics License Application review and certain other benefits.

 

The Company’s current focus is to pursue its registration-directed study of ImmunoPulse® IL-12 in combination with an approved therapy for melanoma in patients who are progressing or have progressed on prior anti-PD-1 therapies, which is referred to as the PISCES/KEYNOTE-695 study. Most of the Company’s present activities are, and it expects most of its near-term expenditures will be, directed toward advancing the PISCES/KEYNOTE-695 study. To this end, in May 2017, the Company entered into a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. (“Merck”) in connection with the PISCES/KEYNOTE-695 study, in which the Company has agreed to sponsor and fund the study and Merck has agreed to manufacture and supply its anti-PD-1 therapy KEYTRUDA® for use in the study. The PISCES/KEYNOTE-695 study is currently enrolling patients.

 

The Company also intends to continue to pursue other ongoing or potential new trials and studies related to ImmunoPulse® IL-12, all with the goal of obtaining requisite regulatory approvals from the FDA and comparable regulators in certain other jurisdictions to market and sell this product candidate. For instance, the Company has, in collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco (“UCSF”), sponsored a multi-center Phase II clinical trial evaluating ImmunoPulse® IL-12 in combination with Merck’s KEYTRUDA® for the treatment of advanced, metastatic melanoma in patients who are predicted to not respond to anti-PD-1 therapy alone. This study has been completed and data pertaining to the study was presented at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Annual Meeting 2017.

 

On May 8, 2018, the Company entered into a Clinical Trial Collaboration and Supply Agreement with Merck with respect to a Phase 2 study of ImmunoPulse® IL-12 in combination with KEYTRUDA® to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the combination in patients with inoperable locally advanced or metastatic triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) who have previously failed at least one systemic chemotherapy or immunotherapy. Pursuant to the terms of the Clinical Trial Collaboration and Supply Agreement, Merck is manufacturing and supplying KEYTRUDA® and each party will be responsible for their own internal costs. The Company will sponsor the study and be responsible for external costs. The study will be a Phase 2, Simon 2-stage minimax design, non-comparative, open-label, single-arm, multicenter study. The study is planned to enroll approximately 25 subjects (15 subjects in Stage 1 and, if appropriate, another 10 subjects in Stage 2).

  

In addition, the Company is pursuing a biomarker-focused pilot study of ImmunoPulse® IL-12 in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), which is focused on evaluating the ability of ImmunoPulse® IL-12 to alter the tumor microenvironment and promote a pro-inflammatory response. In January 2018, the Company reported observational data in two patients that showed clinical response with the sequential treatment of one cycle of ImmunoPulse IL-12 and an anti-PD1 checkpoint inhibitor. The study is currently enrolling patients.

 

In addition, the Company is developing its next-generation electroporation devices, including advancements toward prototypes, pursuing discovery research to identify other product candidates that, like IL-12, can be encoded into DNA, delivered intratumorally using electroporation and used to reverse the immunosuppressive mechanisms of a tumor, and aiming to expand our ImmunoPulse® pipeline beyond the delivery of plasmid-DNA encoding for cytokines to include other molecules that may compliment IL-12’s activity by limiting or enhancing key pathways associated with tumor immune subversion.

 

Basis of Presentation

 

In October 2016, the Company created an Australian corporation as its wholly-owned subsidiary. This corporation’s functional currency, the Australian dollar, is also its reporting currency, and its financial statements are translated to U.S. dollars, the Company’s reporting currency, prior to consolidation. The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiary, and all intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

 

Unaudited Interim Financial Information

 

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and with instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of April 30, 2018, and condensed consolidated statements of operations, condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss, and condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the nine months ended April 30, 2018 and 2017, are unaudited, but include all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) that the Company considers necessary for a fair presentation of the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented. The condensed consolidated results of operations for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2018 shown herein are not necessarily indicative of the consolidated results that may be expected for the year ending July 31, 2018, or for any other period. These condensed consolidated financial statements, and notes thereto, should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2017, included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “Annual Report”) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on October 25, 2017. The consolidated balance sheet at July 31, 2017 has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date, but does not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements.

 

Reclassifications

 

Certain amounts in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet for the year ended July 31, 2017 have been reclassified to conform to an interim presentation, but there was no effect on net loss for the year ended July 31, 2017.