GENB 10-K & 10-Q changes, risk factors and insider trading
Generate Biomedicines, Inc. · Nasdaq · Pharmaceutical Preparations · CIK 2100782 · All filings on SEC.gov
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Our future growth may depend, in part, on our ability to develop and commercialize our product candidates in foreign markets for which we may rely on collaboration with third-parties. Recent and ongoing changes in the United States trade policy with foreign countries, including the continued uncertainty surrounding U.S. tariffs and potential retaliatory measures by foreign governments may disrupt the global supply chain for biopharmaceutical products. For example, insee in full comparisonSeptemberJuly2025,2026, President Trumpannouncedimposedplansnew baseline tariffs generally ranging from 10% toimpose12.5%,100%and earlier imposed other tariffs onimportedcertainbrandedproducts from certain countries, in many cases equal to orpatentedexceedingpharmaceuticals,50%. President Trump also has imposed special tariffs on pharmaceutical products that generally range from 10% to 100%, unless the importing companyishas received U.S. government approval for building U.S. manufacturingcapacity.capacityItandisfornotcertainyetpricingcleararrangements.whetherWhile these tariffswouldgenerally apply only to FDA-approved pharmaceuticals, the importation of certain APIs and possibly bulk drug products that are intended for use in clinical trials and not for commercialsale,sale could be subject to these tariffs, which could increase the costs of materials for our clinical trials. Any direct tariffs, if imposed on relevant pharmaceutical products, may result in increased costs for raw materials and contract manufacturing services, reduced ability to source critical contract manufacturing organizations, and a delay in our development timelines.
Clinical testing is expensive, difficult to design and implement, can take many years to complete and is inherently uncertain as to outcome. The general approach for FDA approval of a new drug is dispositive data from two or more adequate and well-controlled clinical trials of the product candidate in the relevant patient population. In February 2026, the then-current FDA Commissioner publicly indicated that a single adequate and well-controlled pivotal clinical trial supported by confirmatory evidencesee in full comparisonwillwould be the FDA's default standard moving forward for novel products, rather than two suchtrials,trials;butthis statement was not a formal agency action, and the scope, implementation and durability of this policy position remainuncertainuncertain. In June 2026, the FDA issued revised draft guidance clarifying how sponsors can rely on one scientifically rigorous adequate and well-controlled clinical investigation with confirmatory evidence to satisfy the statutory substantial evidence of effectiveness standard. However, the FDA retains broad discretion to require additional clinical data for any product candidate, including a second adequate and well-controlled clinical trial. Regulatory Authorities may disagree with us about whether a clinical trial is adequate and well-controlled or may request that we conduct additional clinical trials prior to regulatory approval. We cannot guarantee that any clinical trials will be conducted as planned or completed on schedule, if at all. In addition, there is no assurance that the doses, endpoints and trial designs that we intend to use for our planned clinical trials, including those that we have developed based on feedback from Regulatory Authorities or those that have been used for the approval of similar drugs, will be acceptable for future approvals. The clinical development of our product candidates is also susceptible to the risk of failure inherent at any stage of development, including failure to demonstrate purity, potency or efficacy in a clinical trial or across a broad population of patients, the occurrence of adverse events that are severe or medically or commercially unacceptable, failure to comply with protocols or applicable regulatory requirements and determination by the Regulatory Authorities that a product candidate may not continue development or is not approvable. It is possible that even if our product candidates have a beneficial effect, that effect will not be detected during clinical evaluation as a result of one or more of a variety of factors, including the size, duration, design, measurements, conduct or analysis of our clinical trials. Conversely, as a result of the same factors, our clinical trials may indicate an apparent positive effect of such product candidate that is greater than the actual positive effect, if any. Similarly, in our clinical trials we may fail to detect toxicity of, or intolerability caused by, such product candidate, or mistakenly believe that our product candidates are toxic or not well tolerated when that is not in fact the case. Serious adverse events or other adverse events, as well as tolerability issues, could hinder or prevent market acceptance of the product candidate at issue.
We believe that any of our product candidates approved as a biological product under a BLA should qualify for the 12-year period of exclusivity. However, there is a risk that this exclusivity could be shortened due to Congressional action or otherwise, or that the FDA will not consider our product candidates to be reference products for competing products, potentially creating the opportunity for generic competition sooner than anticipated. Other aspects of the BPCIA, some of which may impact the BPCIA exclusivity provisions, have also been the subject of recent litigation. Moreover,see in full comparisonthebiosimilarsextentcompete with, and in some circumstances may be deemed under state law towhich a biosimilar, once approved, willbesubstitutedsubstitutable foranytheonepreviouslyof ourapproved referenceproductsproduct.inForaexample,wayFDAthat is similar to traditional generic substitution for non-biological products is not yet clear, and will depend on a number of marketplace and regulatory factors that are still developing, includingdiscussed the potential for sponsors under FDA draft guidance issued in 2024 to demonstrate interchangeability without conducting so-called “switching” studies and the potential for sponsors under FDA draft guidance issued in 2025 to demonstrate biosimilarity without conducting comparative efficacy studies. Although the FDA has yet to finalize these draft guidance documents, these or similar efforts may increase the risk of competition for our biologic product candidates, if approved. The approval of a biosimilar of our product candidate could have a material adverse impact on our business due to increased competition and pricing pressure.
Since our inception, we have incurred losses and we may never achieve profitability. As of December 31, 2025, we had U.S. federal NOL carryforwards of $331.8 million (which are not subject to expiration) and state NOL carryforwards of $287.6 million (which begin to expire insee in full comparisonvarious amounts in 20452042). We also had U.S. federal research and development tax credit carryforwards of $24.9 million available to offset future U.S. federal income taxes, which expire at various times through 2040. As of December 31, 2025, we had state tax credit carryforwards of $13.4 million which expire at various times through 2040. To the extent that we continue to generate taxable losses, under current law, our unused U.S. federal NOLs may be carried forward to offset a portion of future taxable income, if any. Additionally, we continue to generate business tax credits, including research and development tax credits, which generally may be carried forward to offset a portion of future taxable income, if any, subject to expiration of such credit carryforwards. Under Sections 382 and 383 of the Code, if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change,” generally defined as one or more shareholders or groups of shareholders who own at least five percent of the corporation’s equity increasing their equity ownership in the aggregate by more than 50 percentage points (by value) over a three-year period, the corporation’s ability to use its pre-change NOLs and other pre-change tax attributes (such as research and development tax credits) to offset its post-change income or taxes may be limited. Similar rules may apply under state tax laws. Our prior equity offerings and other changes in our stock ownership have resulted in such ownership changes in the past and on December 31, 2025, we have recorded a $207.8 million valuation allowance against deferred tax assets to reflect tax assets which may not be fully realized as a result of such ownership changes.InWeaddition,do not believe that ownership changes as defined by Sections 382 and 383 of the Code have occurred as a result of our IPO. However, we may experience ownership changes in the future as a result of shifts in our stock ownership, some of which are outside of our control. As a result, if we earn net taxable income, our ability to use our pre-change NOLs or other pre-change tax attributes to offset U.S. federal taxable income may be subject to limitations, which could potentially result in increased future tax liability to us. There is a risk that due to changes under the tax law, regulatory changes or other unforeseen reasons, our existing NOLs or business tax credits could expire or otherwise be unavailable to offset future income tax liabilities. At the state level, there may also be periods during which the use of NOLs or business tax credits is suspended or otherwise limited, which could accelerate or permanently increase state taxes. For these reasons, we may not be able to realize a tax benefit from the use of our NOLs or tax credits, even if we attain profitability.
Further, conducting clinical trials in foreign countries, as wesee in full comparisonintend to doare for GB-0895 and as we may continue to do so in the futureconductfor our product candidates, presents additional risks that may delay completion of our clinical trials. These risks include the failure of enrolled subjects in foreign countries to adhere to clinical protocols as a result of differences in healthcare services or cultural customs, managing additional administrative burdens associated with foreign regulatory schemes, and political and economic risks, including war, relevant to such foreign countries. Additionally, recent policy proposals in the U.S., if enacted in the future, may make acceptance by the FDA or inclusion in a marketing application of foreign data more difficult or costly.
“We are not permitted to market or promote any of our product candidates before we receive regulatory approval from the applicable foreign regulatory authority and may never receive such regulatory approval for any of our product candidates.”see in full comparison
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Since our inception in 2018, we have focused substantially all of our efforts and financial resources on developing ourThe Generate Platform and researching and developing programs and product candidates. All of our programs and product candidates are still in the research, preclinical development or clinical development stages. We have not yet demonstrated our ability to successfully complete Phase 3 or other pivotal clinical trials, obtain regulatory approvals, manufacture a commercial-scale product or arrange for a third-party to do so on our behalf, or conduct sales, marketing and distribution activities necessary for successful product commercialization. Additionally, we expect our financial condition and operating results to continue to fluctuate significantly from period to period due to a variety of factors, many of which are beyond our control. Consequently, any predictions made about our future success or viability may not be as accurate as they could be if we had a longer operating history.
We will require substantial additional capital to finance our operations in the future. If we are unable to raise such capital when needed, or on acceptable terms, we may be forced to delay, reduce or eliminate programs, product candidates (including clinical trials), investment in ourThe Generate Platform, or future commercialization efforts.
Developing biopharmaceutical products, including conducting preclinical studies and clinical trials, is a time-consuming, expensive and uncertain process that takes years to complete. We expect to spend substantial amounts to (i) continue our research and development activities, perform preclinical studies, and conduct clinical trials of our current and future programs and product candidates, (ii) continue to develop ourThe Generate Platform, (iii) seek regulatory approvals for our product candidates, including GB-0895 and (iv) launch and commercialize any product candidates for which we receive regulatory approval, including potentially building our own commercial sales, marketing and distribution organization.
As of MarchJune 31,30, 2026, we had approximately $516.6$457.4 million in cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities. We believe, based on our current operating plan, that our existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, will be sufficient to fund our operationscurrent operating plan for at least twelve months from the date of issuance of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report. However, our operating plan may change as a result of many factors currently unknown to us, and we may need to seek additional funds sooner than planned, through public or private equity or debt financings, royalty financings, government or other third-party grants, asset sales, partnership, collaboration or licensing arrangements such as our collaborations with Amgen and Novartis, or a combination of these approaches. Even if we believe we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans, we may seek additional capital if market conditions are favorable or if we have specific strategic considerations. Our spending will vary based on new and ongoing research and development and corporate activities. Because the length of time and activities associated with research and development of our programs and product candidates are highly uncertain, we are unable to estimate the actual funds we will require for research, development, marketing and commercialization activities. Our future funding requirements, both near and long term, will depend on many factors, including, but not limited to the:
To date, we have financed our operations primarily through private placements of our convertible preferred stock, the issuance of convertible notes, payments from Amgen and Novartis, and cost-sharing payments from other partnership, collaboration or licensing arrangements. In December 2021, we entered into the Amgen Collaboration Agreement, and, in connection therewith, we received a non-refundable upfront payment of $50.0 million in January 2022, an equity investment of $25.0 million in October 2023 from the sale to Amgen of our Series C convertible preferred stock, an additional upfront payment of $5.0 million in December 2023 in connection with an amendment to the Amgen Collaboration Agreement, and a $5.0 million development milestone payment in August 2024. In September 2024, we entered into the “Novartis Collaboration Agreement, and, in connection therewith, we received a non-refundable upfront payment of $50.0 million in October 2024 and an equity investment of $15.0 million from the sale of our Series C convertible preferred stock. In addition, we have benefited from cost-sharing arrangements in our collaboration arrangements with MD Anderson, Roswell Park and PMCo. Upon execution of the underwriting agreement relating to our IPO on February 26, 2026, we acquired PMCo. At that time, our collaboration, including our cost-sharing arrangements, terminated and we became obligated to make certain payments to PMCo’s parent based on net sales. We cannot be certain that additional funding will be available on favorable terms, or at all. Until we can generate sufficient product, milestone or royalty revenue to finance our operations, which we may never do, we expect to finance our future cash needs through a combination of public or private equity or debt financings, government or other third-party grants, asset sales, royalty financings, and partnership, collaboration or licensing arrangements. Any fundraising efforts may divert our management from their day-to-day activities, which may adversely affect our ability to develop our programs, develop and commercialize our product candidates or develop ourThe Generate Platform. In addition, we cannot guarantee that future financing will be available in sufficient amounts, at the right time, on favorable terms or at all. Among other possibilities, negative clinical trial data or setbacks, or perceived setbacks, in our programs or product candidates, or with respect to ourThe Generate Platform, could impair our ability to raise additional financing or grants, or our ability to enter into partnership, collaboration and licensing arrangements, in each case, on favorable terms, or at all. Moreover, the terms of any equity or debt financing may adversely affect the holdings or the rights of our stockholders and the issuance of additional securities, or the possibility of such issuance, may cause the market price of our shares to decline. If we raise additional funds through public or private equity offerings, the terms of these securities may include liquidation or other preferences that may adversely affect our stockholders’ rights.
Further, to the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of common stock or securities convertible or exchangeable into common stock, our stockholders' ownership interest will be diluted. If we raise additional capital through debt financing, we would be subject to fixed payment obligations and may be subject to covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures or declaring dividends. If we raise additional capital from third-parties through public or private equity or debt financings, government or other third-party grants, asset sales, royalty financings, partnership, collaboration and licensing arrangements, or a combination of these approaches, we may have to relinquish certain valuable rights to our programs or product candidates, technologies or future revenue streams. We also could be required to seek collaboration partners for one or more of our current or future programs and product candidates at an earlier stage than otherwise would be desirable or relinquish our rights to programs and product candidates, or intellectual property that we otherwise would seek to develop or commercialize ourselves. If we are unable to raise additional capital in sufficient amounts, at the right time, on favorable terms, or at all, we may have to significantly delay, scale back or discontinue the development of one or more of our programs, or the development and commercialization of one or more of our product candidates, or one or more of our other research and development initiatives. Any of the above events could significantly harm our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations, cause the price of our common stock to decline, and negatively impact our ability to fund our operations.
We have no products approved for commercial sale and have not generated any revenue from product sales to date. We will continue to incur significant research and development and other expenses related to our programs, product candidates, Generate Platform, and ongoing operations. As a result, we are not profitable and have incurred losses in each period since our inception. Net losses and negative cash flows have had, and will continue to have, an adverse effect on our stockholders’ equity (deficit) and working capital. We have incurred net losses in each year since our inception in 2018, including net losses of $61.7$129.0 million and $44.3$101.1 million for the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 and 2025, respectively. As of MarchJune 31,30, 2026, we had an accumulated deficit of $737.7$805.0 million.
We have devoted most of our financial resources to research and development, including our clinical and preclinical development activities and the development of ourThe Generate Platform. To date, we have financed our operations primarily through private placements of our convertible preferred stock, the issuance of convertible notes, payments from Amgen and Novartis, and cost-sharing payments from other partnership, collaboration or licensing arrangements. The amount of our future net losses will depend, in part, on the rate of our future expenditures and our ability to obtain funding through public or private equity or debt financings, government or other third-party grants, asset sales, royalty financings, partnership, collaboration and licensing arrangements, or a combination of these approaches. We have not completed pivotal clinical trials for any of our product candidates, and it will be several years, if ever, before we or our collaboration partners have a product candidate ready for commercialization. Even if we or our collaboration partners obtain regulatory approval to market a product, our future revenues will depend upon the size of any markets in which such product have received approval, and our ability to achieve sufficient market acceptance, reimbursement from third-party payors, and adequate market share in those markets. We may never achieve profitability.
Our future success is dependent on our ability to timely obtain marketing approval for, and then successfully commercialize, our product candidates, including GB-0895, GB-4362 and GB-5267. We are investing a majority of our financial resources into the research and development of these product candidates including our ongoing Phase 3 clinical trials for GB-0895 and Phase 1 clinical trials for GB-4362 for which it has activated clinical trial sites haveand beendosed activatedinitial patients, and GB-5267, which is now recruiting and the first patient expected to be dosed in mid-2026, and GB-5267, for which the first patient is expected to be dosed in the second half of 2026.
The success of our product candidates will depend on a variety of factors. We do not have control over many of these factors, including certain aspects of clinical development and the regulatory submission and review process, potential threats to our intellectual property rights and our manufacturing, marketing, distribution and sales efforts ofor those of any current or future collaborator. In addition, we do not have control over whether products that target the same indications as our product candidates are introduced, which could impact the competitiveness of our product candidates. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that we will ever be able to generate revenue through the sale of these product candidates, even if approved. If we are not successful in commercializing GB-0895, GB-4362 or GB-5267, or any other product candidate, or are significantly delayed in doing so, our business will be materially harmed.
From time to time, we estimate the timing of the anticipated accomplishment of various scientific, clinical, regulatory and other product development goals, which we sometimes refer to as milestones. These milestones may include the commencementcommencement, progress towards completion, or completion of scientific studies and clinical trials, the submission of regulatory filings or commercialization objectives, such as the expected timing for the topline data from our Phase 3 clinical trials of GB-0895 for the treatment of severe asthma or Phase 1b clinical trial of GB-0895 in moderate-to-severe COPD. From time to time, we may publicly announce the expected timing of some of these milestones. All of these milestones are based on a variety of assumptions which, if not realized as expected, may cause the timing of achievement of the milestones to vary considerably from our estimates, in some cases for reasons beyond our control, including:
our receipt of approvals by the Regulatory AuthoritiesAuthorities, if at all, and the timing thereof;
our inability to develop promising programs;
Risks Related to OurThe Generate Platform and Our Use of Artificial Intelligence
Our approach to the engineering and development of our programs is unproven, and we may not be successful in our efforts to identify and develop any programs and product candidates of commercial value by leveraging ourThe Generate Platform.
Any drug engineering and development that we are conducting with ourThe Generate Platform may not be successful in identifying programs and product candidates that have commercial value or therapeutic utility. The Generate Platform may initially show promise in identifying potential programs and product candidates, yet fail to yield viable programs and product candidates for clinical development or potential commercialization for a number of reasons, including:
programs and product candidates engineered with ourThe Generate Platform may not demonstrate efficacy, safety or tolerability, including because they may demonstrate different chemical and pharmacological properties in patients than they do in laboratory studies, or otherwise may interact with human biological systems in unforeseen, ineffective or possibly harmful ways;
We are substantially dependent on the successful application of ourThe Generate Platform to develop programs and product candidates that can be commercialized by us or our current or future collaboration partners.
Since our formation, we have focused on investing in ourThe Generate Platform to unlock a new way of developing programs and product candidates for development and, if approved, potential commercialization by us and our collaboration partners. The biotechnology industry is capital intensive, and our success depends significantly on our ability to apply ourThe Generate Platform to develop programs and engineer and develop product candidates that can be further developed by us or our current or future collaboration partners. Our ability to engineer and develop product candidates and increase revenue depends in large part on our ability to continue to enhance and improve ourThe Generate Platform. We have invested, and expect to continue to invest, in research and development efforts, acquisitions and licensing agreements that further enhance ourThe Generate Platform. These investments may involve significant time, risks and uncertainties, including the risks that any new software or hardware enhancement or the integration of software or hardware from an acquired company or third-party licensor may not be introduced in a timely or cost-effective manner; may not keep pace with technological developments; or may not achieve the functionality necessary to generate significant revenues. The success of any enhancement to ourThe Generate Platform depends on several factors, including (i) the development of more advanced models and algorithms; (ii) the generation of additional high quality and relevant data; (iii) high quality and high-throughput biohardware, including laboratory analysis and structural solutions from our cryogenic electron microscopy (“Cryo-EM”) core; (iv) innovation in other experimental, computational and/or infrastructure technologies; and (v) increased computational storage and processing capacity.
If we are unable to successfully enhance ourThe Generate Platform, or if there are any defects or disruptions in ourThe Generate Platform that are not timely resolved, our ability to develop new innovations and ultimately gain market acceptance of our products and ourThe Generate Platform, could be materially and adversely impacted, and our reputation, business, operating results and prospects could be materially harmed.
We have limited clinical data on product candidates that were computationally engineered with ourThe Generate Platform demonstrating whether they are safe or effective for long-term treatment in humans. The long-term safety and efficacy of product candidates computationally engineered with ourThe Generate Platform is unknown. Our approach may not result in time savings, higher success rates or reduced costs as we expect it to, and if not, we may not attract collaborators or develop new product candidates as quickly or cost effectively as expected and we therefore may not be able to execute on our strategic approach as originally expected.
Product candidates engineered with ourThe Generate Platform require substantial technical, financial and human resources to develop and potentially commercialize. We may not be able to maintain sufficient resources and expertise to discover additional programs and product candidates. If we are unable to identify successful programs and product candidates for preclinical and clinical development and regulatory approval in a timely mattermanner or at all, we could experience significant delays or an inability to successfully pursue strategic alternatives, including identifying and consummating transactions with third-party partners, to further develop, obtain marketing approval for and/or commercialize our product candidates, which could harm our business.
We incorporate AI solutions, among other technologies and capabilities, into ourThe Generate Platform. There are risks involved in utilizing AI, including that AI-generated content, analyses, or recommendations we utilize could be deficient, that our competitors may more quickly or effectively adopt AI capabilities, or that our use of AI or other emerging technologies increases regulatory, cybersecurity and other significant risks. If our AI systems fail to achieve their intended purposes – such as identifying viable therapeutic candidates or targets, predicting biological outcomes, producing reproducible results, and other similar or related purposes – our product development efforts may be delayed or unsuccessful. If we are unable to successfully integrate and manage AI within our business, or if AI fails to deliver the expected benefits, our ability to develop our programs and product candidates could be materially adversely affected.
The legal landscape and subsequent legal protection for the use of AI remains uncertain, and the increasing use of AI in drug discovery and development introduces new and evolving risks related to ownership, inventorship and protection of intellectual property generated by or with the assistance of AI technologies. For example, generative AI may be used improperly or inappropriately, which could lead to the tainting of our proprietary information and render us unable to qualify for certain patent or trade secret protection. Moreover, if our vendors, employees, suppliers or contractors with access to our proprietary and confidential information and know-how were to disclose such information as inputs to third-party AI tools this could lead to loss of trade secret protection and otherwise impact our ability to realize the benefit of our intellectual property. If we do not have sufficient rights to collect or use the data on which our AI relies or to the outputs produced by ourThe Generate Platform, we may incur liability through the alleged violation of certain laws, third-party privacy rights, online terms of service or other contracts to which we or our data providers are a party. In addition, we rely on third-party software and hardware for ourThe Generate Platform. If the relevant software or hardware, or updates to such software or hardware, were to become unavailable to us in the future on reasonable commercial terms, or if they became the subject of allegations of intellectual property infringement, our ability to continue to use ourThe Generate Platform could be affected. We also rely on public sources of data, such as the Protein Data Bank, which, if they became unavailable to us on reasonable terms, could affect ourThe Generate Platform. Regulatory and legal frameworks governing inventions created with or using AI are still developing and may create uncertainty regarding our ability to secure and enforce rights in such inventions.
Issues in the development and use of AI, combined with an uncertain regulatory environment, may result in reputational harm, liability or other adverse consequences to our business operations. As with many technological innovations, AI presents risks and challenges that could impact our business. In addition to ourThe Generate Platform, we have adopted and integrated, and in the future may adopt and integrate additional generative AI tools into our systems for specific use cases reviewed by our legal department and information technology department. Our vendors may incorporate generative AI tools into their offerings without disclosing this use to us, and the providers of these generative AI tools may not meet existing or rapidly evolving regulatory or industry standards with respect to privacy and data protection and may inhibit our or our vendors’ ability to maintain an adequate level of service and experience. If we, our vendors or our third-party partners experience an actual or perceived breach or privacy or security incident because of the use of generative AI, we may lose valuable intellectual property and confidential information and our reputation and the public perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed. Further, bad actors around the world use increasingly sophisticated methods, including the use of AI, to engage in illegal activities involving the theft and misuse of personal information, confidential information and intellectual property. Any of these outcomes could damage our reputation, result in the loss of valuable property and information, and adversely impact our business.
Preclinical and clinical development is inherently lengthy and uncertain. Preclinical and clinical trials of our product candidates may be delayed, and certain programs may never advance in the clinic or may be more costly to conduct than we anticipate, any of which would have a material adverse impact on ourThe Generate Platform or our business.
Further, conducting clinical trials in foreign countries, as we intend to doare for GB-0895 and as we may continue to do so in the future conduct for our product candidates, presents additional risks that may delay completion of our clinical trials. These risks include the failure of enrolled subjects in foreign countries to adhere to clinical protocols as a result of differences in healthcare services or cultural customs, managing additional administrative burdens associated with foreign regulatory schemes, and political and economic risks, including war, relevant to such foreign countries. Additionally, recent policy proposals in the U.S., if enacted in the future, may make acceptance by the FDA or inclusion in a marketing application of foreign data more difficult or costly.
We are currently enrolling patients in two global Phase 3 clinical trials for GB-0895 in patients with severe asthma across more than 50 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific, and we expect to continue to conduct trials for our current and future product candidates internationally in the future. The acceptance of data from clinical trials conducted outside the United States or another jurisdiction by the Regulatory Authorities may be subject to certain conditions or may not be accepted at all. In cases where data from foreign clinical trials are intended to serve as the basis for marketing approval in the United States, regardless of whether such trials were conducted under an IND, the FDA will generally not approve the application on the basis of foreign data alone unless the data are applicable to the U.S. population and U.S. medical practice, the trials were performed by clinical investigators of recognized competence and pursuant to Good Clinical Practice (“GCP”) regulations, and the FDA can validate the data through on-site inspections or other appropriate means. Many foreign regulatory authorities have similar approval requirements, including in relation to the use of data from clinical trials conducted in foreign jurisdictions. In addition, such foreign trials are subject to the applicable local laws of the foreign jurisdictions where the trials are conducted. There can be no assurance that the Regulatory Authorities will accept data from trials conducted outside of the United States or the applicable jurisdiction. If the Regulatory Authorities do not accept such data, it would result in the need for additional trials, which could be costly and time-consuming, and which may result in any product candidates that we develop being delayed or halted in development or not receiving approval for commercialization in the applicable jurisdiction. Additionally, recent policy proposals in the United States may make acceptance by the FDA or inclusion in a marketing application of foreign data more difficult or costly.
Delays or difficulties in enrollment may result in increased costs or otherwise affect the timing or outcome of the planned clinical trials, which could prevent completion of these trials and adversely affect our ability to advance the development of our product candidates, or result in termination of the clinical trials altogether. For example, in order to enroll a sufficient number of participants in our Phase 3 clinical trials for GB-0895 in patients with severe asthma, we planare toin contractthe process of contracting with sites across more than 50 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
We believe that any of our product candidates approved as a biological product under a BLA should qualify for the 12-year period of exclusivity. However, there is a risk that this exclusivity could be shortened due to Congressional action or otherwise, or that the FDA will not consider our product candidates to be reference products for competing products, potentially creating the opportunity for generic competition sooner than anticipated. Other aspects of the BPCIA, some of which may impact the BPCIA exclusivity provisions, have also been the subject of recent litigation. Moreover, thebiosimilars extentcompete with, and in some circumstances may be deemed under state law to which a biosimilar, once approved, will be substitutedsubstitutable for anythe onepreviously of ourapproved reference productsproduct. inFor aexample, wayFDA that is similar to traditional generic substitution for non-biological products is not yet clear, and will depend on a number of marketplace and regulatory factors that are still developing, includingdiscussed the potential for sponsors under FDA draft guidance issued in 2024 to demonstrate interchangeability without conducting so-called “switching” studies and the potential for sponsors under FDA draft guidance issued in 2025 to demonstrate biosimilarity without conducting comparative efficacy studies. Although the FDA has yet to finalize these draft guidance documents, these or similar efforts may increase the risk of competition for our biologic product candidates, if approved. The approval of a biosimilar of our product candidate could have a material adverse impact on our business due to increased competition and pricing pressure.
Clinical testing is expensive, difficult to design and implement, can take many years to complete and is inherently uncertain as to outcome. The general approach for FDA approval of a new drug is dispositive data from two or more adequate and well-controlled clinical trials of the product candidate in the relevant patient population. In February 2026, the then-current FDA Commissioner publicly indicated that a single adequate and well-controlled pivotal clinical trial supported by confirmatory evidence willwould be the FDA's default standard moving forward for novel products, rather than two such trials,trials; butthis statement was not a formal agency action, and the scope, implementation and durability of this policy position remain uncertainuncertain. In June 2026, the FDA issued revised draft guidance clarifying how sponsors can rely on one scientifically rigorous adequate and well-controlled clinical investigation with confirmatory evidence to satisfy the statutory substantial evidence of effectiveness standard. However, the FDA retains broad discretion to require additional clinical data for any product candidate, including a second adequate and well-controlled clinical trial. Regulatory Authorities may disagree with us about whether a clinical trial is adequate and well-controlled or may request that we conduct additional clinical trials prior to regulatory approval. We cannot guarantee that any clinical trials will be conducted as planned or completed on schedule, if at all. In addition, there is no assurance that the doses, endpoints and trial designs that we intend to use for our planned clinical trials, including those that we have developed based on feedback from Regulatory Authorities or those that have been used for the approval of similar drugs, will be acceptable for future approvals. The clinical development of our product candidates is also susceptible to the risk of failure inherent at any stage of development, including failure to demonstrate purity, potency or efficacy in a clinical trial or across a broad population of patients, the occurrence of adverse events that are severe or medically or commercially unacceptable, failure to comply with protocols or applicable regulatory requirements and determination by the Regulatory Authorities that a product candidate may not continue development or is not approvable. It is possible that even if our product candidates have a beneficial effect, that effect will not be detected during clinical evaluation as a result of one or more of a variety of factors, including the size, duration, design, measurements, conduct or analysis of our clinical trials. Conversely, as a result of the same factors, our clinical trials may indicate an apparent positive effect of such product candidate that is greater than the actual positive effect, if any. Similarly, in our clinical trials we may fail to detect toxicity of, or intolerability caused by, such product candidate, or mistakenly believe that our product candidates are toxic or not well tolerated when that is not in fact the case. Serious adverse events or other adverse events, as well as tolerability issues, could hinder or prevent market acceptance of the product candidate at issue.
staffing changeschanges, leadership changes, and backlogs at the Regulatory Authorities may create unexpected delays in the review and approval of any applications we may submit; and the approval policies or regulations of the Regulatory Authorities may significantly change in a manner rendering our clinical data insufficient for approval.
For example, we currently plan to beginbegan our pivotal Phase 3 trials of GB-0895 using a syringe and vial presentation, similar to the presentation used in prior trials of GB-0895. We intend to submit the PFS presentation to Regulatory Authorities in our marketing submissions, including our BLA submission to the FDA. During the course of the Phase 3 trials, we also intend to conduct trials of a separate autoinjector pen device using GB-0895; it is our intention to amend our BLA submission at some point in the future to include the future autoinjector pen presentation; as a result, we may be required to gather additional data before we are able to submit a marketing application for GB-0895 or any of our other current or future product candidates, if ever. Any delay of clinical trials, the repetition of one or more clinical trials, or any Regulatory Authority's need for additional data to support a combination biologic-device presentation could cause delays in approval of our product candidates, increase our costs, and could jeopardize our ability to commence sales and generate revenue.
Although we are initially focused on developing and commercializing GB-0895 for the treatment of severe asthma, we also plan to evaluate developing GB-0895 for the treatment of COPD, such evaluation to take into account expected clinical timelines, regulatory feedback, costs and the clinical data from our Phase 1b trial. Expansion into new indications will require additional, time-consuming development efforts and significant additional expense prior to commercial sale, including preclinical studies, clinical trials and approval by the Regulatory Authorities. In addition, we plan to focus on continuing to developdevelop, evaluate and potentially commercialize GB-4362 and GB-5267. All product candidates are prone to the risks of failure that are inherent in biopharmaceutical product development, including the possibility that the product candidate will not be shown to be sufficiently safe and effective for approval by regulatory authorities. In addition, there can be no assurance that any such products that are approved will be manufactured or produced economically, successfully commercialized or widely accepted in the marketplace or be more effective than other commercially available alternatives.
If any of the foregoing events occur or if one or more of our product candidates prove to be unsafe, our entire pipeline or ourThe Generate Platform could be affected, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
We have activated clinical trial sites and expect to dosedosed the firstinitial patient in mid-2026patients as part of our Phase 1 clinical trial of GB-4362 in patients receiving enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab to assess GB-4362’s potential as an adjunct therapy for reduction in peripheral neuropathy, while preserving antibody-drug conjugate ("ADC") anti-tumor efficacy. The use of our product candidates in combination with each other and/or in patients already receiving other companies’ treatments may subject us to risks that we would not face if our product candidates were to be administered as monotherapies.
In addition, because GB-4362 is expected to be administered as a commercial product, if approved, in combination with other therapies, payors may assess the overall cost of the treatment regimen, not solely the cost or value proposition of our licensed product. Combination regimens are subject to heightened reimbursement risk, as payors may:
Disruptions at the FDA and other government agencies caused by, funding shortages, staffing limitations, leadership changes, or global health concerns could hinder their ability to hire, retain or deploy key leadership and other personnel, prevent new or modified products from being developed, review, approved or commercialized in a timely manner or at all, which could negatively impact our business.
If a prolonged government shutdown occurs, or if renewed global health concerns, funding shortages orshortages, staffing limitations or leadership changes hinder or prevent the FDA or other Regulatory Authorities from conducting their regular inspections, reviews, or other regulatory activities, it could significantly impact the ability of the FDA or other such regulatory authorities to timely review and process our regulatory submissions, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
We do not currently have long-term supply contracts with all of our suppliers and they are not obligated to supply materials to us for any period, in any specified quantity or at any certain price beyond the delivery contemplated by the relevant purchase orders. As a result, our suppliers could stop selling to us at commercially reasonable prices, or at all. While we intend to enter into long-term master supply agreements with certain of our suppliers and manufacturers in the future as we advance our clinical trials or commercialization plans, we may not be successful in negotiating such agreements on favorable terms or at all. Our failure to secure these arrangements as needed could have a material adverse effect on our ability to complete the development of our product candidates or,or to commercialize them, if approved. If we do enter into such long-term master supply agreements, or enter into such agreements on less favorable terms than we currently have with such manufacturers, we could be subject to binding long-term purchase obligations that may be harmful to our business, including in the event that we do not conduct our trials on planned timelines or utilize the materials that we are required to purchase.
Furthermore, any of the sole source and limited source suppliers upon whom we rely could stop producing our supplies, cease operations or be acquired by, or enter into exclusive arrangements with, our competitors. In addition, geopolitical tensions may impact our suppliers. For example, the U.S. BIOSECURE Act, which was enacted in December 2025, prohibits federal agencies from procuring or using any biotechnology equipment or services from “biotechnology companies of concern,” or entering into, extending, or renewing any contracts with entities that use such biotechnology equipment or services from “biotechnology companies of concern.” The BIOSECURE Act defines “biotechnology companies of concern” to include (i) entities on the U.S. Department of Defense’s 1260H (the “DoD 1260H list”) list of Chinese military companies operating in the United States and (ii) entities separately designated by OMB as subject to foreign adversary control and posing a national security risk based on factors including multiomic data collection. While the U.S. BIOSECURE Act provides a five-year grandfathering period (measured from the date the Federal Acquisition Regulation is revised with respect to a particular biotechnology company of concern), for certain contracts entered into before the applicable effective date, and including a provision protecting manufacturers’ eligibility for federal drug rebate agreements under the Medicaid program from being precluded solely as a result of BIOSECURE-driven disruptions to Department of Veterans Affairs contracting, the impact of the U.S. BIOSECURE Act on the biotechnology industry is uncertain. This and similar laws could have the potential to restrict the ability of companies to work with certain Chinese biotechnology companies of concern without losing the ability to contract with, or otherwise receive funding from, the U.S. government. It is possible some of our contractual counterparties, could be designated as biotechnology companies of concern in the future. While neither WuXi nor Lonza are currently on the DoD 1260H list or otherwise designated as a biotechnology company of concern at this time, an affiliate of WuXi was recently added to the DoD 1260H list, and either companyof the companies or their respective affiliates could be impacted by suchthe same or similar future legislation or government policies. If WuXi, Lonza or any of the other third-parties that we engage to supply any materials or manufacture products for our preclinical studies and clinical trials should cease to continue to do so, or if we are prevented or restricted from using their services for any reason, we could experience delays in advancing these studies and trials while we identify and qualify replacement suppliers.
The manufacturing processes for our product candidates are complex and, if not developed and manufactured under well-controlled conditions, can adversely impact pharmacological activity. We may encounter difficulties in manufacturing, product release, shelf life, testing, storage and supply chain management or shipping. These difficulties could be due to any number of reasons, including, but not limited to, complexities of producing batches at larger scale, equipment failure, choice and quality of raw materials and excipients, analytical testing technology and product instability. Moreover, we are currently conducting, and will in the future conduct, our clinical trials internationally. For example, we are currently enrolling patients inconducting two global clinical trials for GB-0895 in patients with severe asthma, which are expected to include clinical trials across more than 50 countries.asthma. Logistical issues associated with shipping our product candidates and other materials globally from manufacturing sites to clinical sites, such as errors or improper handling by third-party carriers, transportation restrictions, or interruptions caused by natural disasters or force majeure events, could result in loss or destruction of, or damage to, our clinical supply, which may in turn cause delays in initiating or completing clinical trials.
Although we intend to design the clinical trials for certain of our product candidates, our collaboration partners may design the clinical trials that they are managing (in some cases, with our input) and in the case of clinical trials controlled by us, we expect that CROs will perform many of the activities required to conduct clinical trials. As a result, many important aspects of our development programs, including their conduct and timing, will, in many respects, be outside of our direct control. Our reliance on third-parties to conduct future preclinical studies and clinical trials will also result in less direct control over the management of data developed through preclinical studies and clinical trials than would be the case if we were relying entirely upon our own staff. Communicating with outside parties can also potentially lead to mistakes as well as difficulties in coordinating activities. Outside parties may: have staffing difficulties; fail to comply with contractual obligations; experience regulatory compliance issues; undergo changes in priorities or become financially distressed; form relationships with other entities, some of which may be our competitors; have human or system errors (e.g., inadvertent disclosure of confidential information) or be subject to cyber-attacks.
For example, we are party to collaboration arrangements with Amgen, Novartis, MD Anderson and Roswell Park, pursuant to which we agreed to collaborate to discover and develop protein therapeutics. We expect to enter into additional partnership, collaboration and licensing arrangements to take advantage of ourThe Generate Platform, including for purposes of accessing additional capabilities, expertise and funding in the future. Our existing partnership, collaboration and licensing arrangements, and any future partnership, collaboration and licensing arrangements we may enter into, could pose a number of risks, including the following:
Whether we reach a definitive agreement for a partnership, collaboration or licensing arrangement will depend, among other things, on our assessment of the collaboration partner’s resources and expertise, the terms and conditions of the proposed partnership, collaboration or licensing arrangement, and the potential collaboration partner’s evaluation of a number of factors. Those factors may include, among others: (i) our technologies and capabilities, including ourThe Generate Platform; (ii) our intellectual property position with respect to the subject program or product candidate; (iii) the design or results of clinical trials; (iv) the likelihood of approval by the Regulatory Authorities; (v) the potential market for the subject product candidate; (vi) potential competing products; and (vii) industry and market conditions generally. In addition, the significant number of business combinations among large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies has reduced the number of potential future collaboration partners with whom we can partner.
Given the nature of our relationships with our collaboration partners, we often do not fully control the progression, clinical development, regulatory strategy or eventual commercialization, if approved, of our jointly-developed product candidates. As a result, our future success and the potential to receive revenues under these partnership, collaboration and licensing arrangements are significantly dependent on our collaboration partners’ efforts, over which we have little control. If our partnership, collaboration and licensing arrangements do not result in the successful development and commercialization of product candidates, a collaboration partner determines not to proceed with the future development of a program or product candidate initially engineered or developed utilizing ourThe Generate Platform, a collaboration partner implements a clinical or regulatory strategy that ultimately does not enable the further development, approval or commercialization of the product candidate, or a collaboration partner terminates its arrangement with us, we may not receive any future research funding or milestone, earnout, royalty or other contingent payments under such arrangement, which may have a material and adverse effect on our business and revenues. In addition, our ability to monitor the achievement of clinical, regulatory and commercial milestones by our collaboration partners and enforce the payment of any corresponding fees is limited. If we do not receive the funding we expect under these agreements, the development of our and our other collaboration partners’ product candidates could be delayed and we may need additional resources to develop such product candidates.
In addition, in certain instances, our collaboration partners have the right to terminate their agreement with us for convenience. If one of our collaboration partners terminates its arrangement with us, we may find it more difficult to attract new partnership, collaboration and licensing arrangements and the perception of us in the business and financial communities could be adversely affected. We cannot assure investors that we will be able to maintain or expand our existing collaboration partners or that ourThe Generate Platform will achieve adequate market acceptance among new collaboration partners. Any failure to increase penetration in our existing markets or new markets would adversely affect our ability to improve our operating results from our collaboration, partnership and licensing strategy.
All of the risks relating to product development, regulatory approval and commercialization described in this Quarterly Report apply to the activities of our collaboration partners. If we and our collaboration partners do not receive regulatory approval for a sufficient number of product candidates originating from ourThe Generate Platform, we may not be able sustain our business model.
Because of the complexities and long development timelines inherent in the drug development business, it is difficult to predict the timing of payments under our partnership, collaboration and licensing arrangements. In particular, payments under our partnership, collaboration and licensing arrangements are, in some cases, subject to the achievement of milestones and royalties, and our collaboration partner’s decisions to initiate or continue the drug creation work, and any future downstream payments with respect to product candidates generated using ourThe Generate Platform will be subject to our collaboration partner’s advancement of our programs and product candidates, over which we have no control. As a result, our revenue for any particular period can be difficult to forecast. Our revenue may grow at a slower rate than in past periods or even decline on a year-over-year basis. Because of these factors, our operating results could vary materially from quarter to quarter from our forecasts. Also, due to the limited probability of success for advancement of a program or product candidate by a collaboration partner at any given stage of development and the unpredictability of when a collaboration partner may choose to continue development of a product candidate and whether any payments will be due to us, our revenue may be difficult to forecast on an absolute basis.
Additionally, we recognize revenue either as we perform our development activities, upon completion of performing our development activities or upon achieving certain clinical, regulatory, and commercialization milestones. As a result, much of our revenue is generated from agreements entered into during previous periods. Consequently, a decline in demand for ourThe Generate Platform, a decline in new or renewed business in any one quarter or any delays in the achievement, or any failure to achieve, development, regulatory and commercial milestones by our collaboration partners with respect to product candidates generated using ourThe Generate Platform, may not significantly reduce our revenue for that quarter but could negatively affect our revenue in future quarters. Our revenue recognition model also makes it difficult for us to rapidly increase our revenue through increased operations in any period, as revenue from collaboration partners is recognized over the course of their drug development and commercialization efforts.
Our collaboration partners have significant discretion in determining when and whether to make announcements about the status of our partnerships, including about preclinical and clinical developments and timelines for advancing product candidates generated using ourThe Generate Platform. We do not generally plan to disclose the development status and progress of individual product candidates of our collaboration partners, unless those collaboration partners have publicly disclosed such information or permit us to make such disclosures. Our collaboration partners may wish to report such information more or less frequently than we expect, or they may not report such information at all, in which case we would not report that information either, unless material to our financial statements. Certain of our collaboration partners may in the future make statements about their goals and expectations for collaborations with us. The actual timing of these events can vary dramatically due to a number of factors such as delays or failures in our or our current and future collaboration partners’ drug discovery and development programs, the amount of time, effort, and resources committed by us and our current and future collaboration partners, and the numerous uncertainties inherent in the development of drugs. In addition, if a collaboration partner chooses to announce a collaboration with us, there is no guarantee that we will receive payments related to collaboration revenue in that quarter or even the following quarter, as such payments are only payable to us in accordance with the terms of the agreements governing such collaborations. The price of our common stock may decline as a result of the public announcement of unexpected results or developments in our collaborations, or as a result of our collaboration partners withholding such information.
Our success depends, in large part, on our ability to obtain and maintain patents, trademarks, trade secrets, know-how and other intellectual property rights and proprietary technology relating to ourThe Generate Platform and our product candidates, as well as our ability to successfully enforce our rights against third-party infringers and/or defend our intellectual property against third-party challenges or misappropriation. If we (or our licensees or licensors who may have the right to prosecute or enforce certain patents within our portfolio) fail to appropriately prosecute or are unable to obtain and maintain patent protection for our product candidates (or aspects thereof), our ability to develop, license and/or commercialize these product candidates may be adversely affected and we may not be able to prevent competitors from making, using, selling or importing competing products. This failure or inability to properly or adequately protect the intellectual property rights relating to these product candidates could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and/or growth prospects.
The use of AI to engineer proteins is a relatively new scientific field, the continued development and potential use of which has resulted in many different patents and patent applications from organizations and individuals seeking to obtain intellectual property protection in the field. In general, patents are reserved for human inventors and significant and novel regulatory questions remain in flux about the contributory roles of AI versus the human inventors in securing intellectual property rights. We have obtained grants and issuances of certain patents relating to ourThe Generate Platform and some of our product candidates. The issued patents and pending patent applications that we own or in-license in the United States and in key markets around the world, claim different aspects relating to our product candidates and to the engineering, development, manufacture and commercialization of other potential product candidates including, but not limited to, compositions and methods of use.
patents that may be issued may not include claims that cover a broad enough scope to prevent alternative solutions by competitorscompetitors, including fast-follower products;
At present, we have rights to certain intellectual property, through licenses from third-parties and under patent filings that we own to develop our product candidates. Because our pipeline may involve additional product candidates that could require the use of proprietary rights held by third-parties, the growth of our business could depend in part on our ability to acquire, in-license or use these proprietary rights. In addition, our product candidates may require specific pharmaceutical formulations to work effectively and efficiently, and these rights may be held by others. We may be unable to acquire or in-license intellectual property rights that may be necessary to permit us to implement ourThe platformGenerate technologiesPlatform or develop, manufacture or use our product candidates. The licensing and acquisition of third-party intellectual property rights is a competitive area, and a number of more established companies are also pursuing strategies to license or acquire third-party intellectual property rights that we may consider attractive. These established companies may have a competitive advantage over us due to their size, cash resources and greater clinical development and commercialization capabilities. Further, we may be unable to negotiate a license within the specified time frame or under terms that are acceptable to us. If we are unable to do so, the third-party may offer the intellectual property rights to other parties, potentially blocking our ability to pursue our product candidate and enabling our competitors to compete with our product candidate.
We are dependent on patent rights, know-how and proprietary technology licensed or otherwise acquired from third parties, and we may also enter into additional agreements with third-parties in the future. Our current license agreements with third parties impose, and may in the future impose additional diligence, development and commercialization timelines, milestone payments, royalties, indemnification, insurance, non-competes or other obligations on us. If we fail to comply with our obligations to our licensors, collaborators or other third parties, our counterparties may have the right to terminate or take other actions under these agreements. Termination of these agreements or reduction or elimination of our rights under these agreements may result in us having to negotiate new or reinstated agreements with less favorable terms, or cause us to lose our rights under these agreements, including our rights to important intellectual property or technology that are necessary for our business. In particular, we depend substantially on the Flagship Agreement, pursuant to which we in-license patent rights, know-how and other rights that cover, among other things, GB-0895 and certain aspects of our proprietary AI models. As described elsewhere in thisour prospectus,final prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) under the Securities Act with the SEC on February 27, 2026, Flagship Pioneering may terminate the Flagship Agreement for cause under specified circumstances. In addition, under the Stock Purchase Agreement with PMCo, PM LLC, and Flagship Labs, we are subject to certain new diligence, non-compete and reporting obligations, including with respect to the development of product candidates in various countries. If we breach these obligations, PM LLC may have the right to acquire development and commercialization rights in the applicable country, which could have a material adverse effect on our competitive position, business, financial conditions, results of operations and prospects. For more information, please see Notes 14 and 15 in our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report.
In addition, the patent positions of companies in the development and commercialization of biopharmaceuticals are particularly uncertain. Recent rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have narrowed the scope of patent protection available in specified circumstances and weakened the rights of patent owners in specified situations. In addition to increasing uncertainty with regard to our ability to obtain patents in the future, this combination of events has created uncertainty with respect to the value of patents once obtained. Depending on decisions by the U.S. Congress, the federal courts and the USPTO, the laws and regulations governing patents could change in unpredictable ways that would weaken our ability to obtain new patents or to enforce our existing patents and patents that we might obtain in the future. In addition, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on several patent cases in recent years, either narrowing the scope of patent protection available in certain circumstances or weakening the rights of patent owners in certain situations. In addition to increasing uncertainty with regard to our ability to obtain patents in the future, this combination of events has created uncertainty with respect to the validity and enforceability of issued patents. Depending on future actions by the U.S. Congress, federal courts, the USPTO and the relevant law-making bodies in other countries, the laws and regulations governing patents could change in unpredictable ways that would weaken our or our licensors’ ability to obtain new patents and patents that we or our licensors might obtain in the future. We cannot predict how future decisions by the federal courts, the U.S. Congress or the USPTO may impact the value of our patents. Any similar adverse change in the patent laws of other jurisdictions could also adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
The USPTO has issued subject matter eligibility guidance instructing USPTO examiners on the ramifications of the Supreme Court rulings in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. and Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., and applied the Myriad ruling to natural products and principles including all naturally occurring molecules. In addition, the USPTO continues to provide updates to its guidance that may make it impossible for us to obtain similar patent claims in future patent applications. Currently, our patent portfolio contains claims of various types and scope, including methods of medical treatment. The presence of varying types of claims in our patent portfolio significantly reduces, but may not eliminate, our exposure to potential validity challenges alleging a lack of subject matter eligibility. Furthermore, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that an inventor on a U.S. patent must be a natural person and not a machine or AI. As a result, AI systems, regardless of their sophistication, cannot be named as inventors or joint inventors on a patent application as they are not natural persons. The USPTO has recently issued inventorship guidance for AI-assisted inventions. Given that we use AI in certain aspects of ourThe Generate Platform, certain AI-assisted inventions may be deemed ineligible for patent protection if it is determined that there is not a sufficient level of human inventive contribution.
Our future growth may depend, in part, on our ability to develop and commercialize our product candidates in foreign markets for which we may rely on collaboration with third-parties. Recent and ongoing changes in the United States trade policy with foreign countries, including the continued uncertainty surrounding U.S. tariffs and potential retaliatory measures by foreign governments may disrupt the global supply chain for biopharmaceutical products. For example, in SeptemberJuly 2025,2026, President Trump announcedimposed plansnew baseline tariffs generally ranging from 10% to impose12.5%, 100%and earlier imposed other tariffs on importedcertain brandedproducts from certain countries, in many cases equal to or patentedexceeding pharmaceuticals,50%. President Trump also has imposed special tariffs on pharmaceutical products that generally range from 10% to 100%, unless the importing company ishas received U.S. government approval for building U.S. manufacturing capacity.capacity Itand isfor notcertain yetpricing cleararrangements. whetherWhile these tariffs wouldgenerally apply only to FDA-approved pharmaceuticals, the importation of certain APIs and possibly bulk drug products that are intended for use in clinical trials and not for commercial sale,sale could be subject to these tariffs, which could increase the costs of materials for our clinical trials. Any direct tariffs, if imposed on relevant pharmaceutical products, may result in increased costs for raw materials and contract manufacturing services, reduced ability to source critical contract manufacturing organizations, and a delay in our development timelines.
We are not permitted to market or promote any of our product candidates before we receive regulatory approval from the applicable foreign regulatory authority and may never receive such regulatory approval for any of our product candidates.
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We are a clinical-stage generative biology company pioneering the AI revolution in biotechnology and drug design and development. Our vision is to program biology to generate optimal therapeutics for the greatest impact on human health. Central to our vision is theThe Generate Platform, designed to be a therapeutic area and protein modality agnostic system integrating computational innovation with scalable biohardware to address therapeutic challenges beyond the reach of traditional technologies. We have built ourThe Generate Platform to be a tight and fully-integrated loop (design–build–test–learn) to create proprietary, therapeutically relevant data and differentiated molecular solutions for the biological challenges we aim to address. In addressing these challenges, theThe Generate Platform can engineer solutions against therapeutic targets starting from either existing reference proteins or by suggesting completely novel ones without a reference starting point, also known as de novo design. The Generate Platform’s therapeutic potential has been demonstrated by successfully progressing three computationally engineered proteins into human clinical testing, the most advanced of which is GB-0895, an investigational long-acting anti-thymic stromal lymphopoietin (“TSLP”) monoclonal antibody, which is enrollingbeing patientsevaluated in pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials for severe asthma. Also, in connection with our Phase 1 clinical trial for GB-4362, an investigational Monomethylmonomethyl Auristatinauristatin E ("MMAE") neutralizer, we have activated clinical trial sites and expectdosed toinitial dose the first patient in mid-2026,patients, and, in connection with our planned Phase 1 clinical trial for GB-5267, an investigational armored CAR-T therapy in collaboration with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center ("Roswell Park"), wewhich expectis tonow doserecruiting and the first patient expected to be dosed in the second half of 2026.
Since our inception, we have devoted substantially all of our resources to drug discovery, the development of ourThe Generate Platform and the advancement of GB-0895 and our other product candidates, along with multiple preclinical programs in immunology and oncology. In addition to our research and development efforts, we have invested in establishing and protecting our intellectual property portfolio, raising capital and obtaining financing, organizing and staffing our company, and providing general and administrative support for these operations. We do not have any products approved for sale.
To date, we have not generated any revenue from product sales. On March 2, 2026, we closed our initial public offering ("IPO"), pursuant to which we issued and sold 25,000,000 shares of common stock, resulting in net proceeds of $369.3 million. Prior to our IPO, we had principally raised capital through the private placement of our Series A, Series B and Series C convertible preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share (collectively, the “convertible preferred stock”), the issuance of convertible notes, payments from Amgen Inc. (“Amgen”) and Novartis Pharma AG (“Novartis”), and cost-sharing payments from our other partnership, collaboration or licensing arrangements which resulted in aggregate gross cash proceeds in excess of $934.0 million. We also have benefited from cost-sharing arrangements in our collaboration arrangements with The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (“MD Anderson”), Roswell Park and Pioneering Medicines 02, Inc. (“PMCo”). DuringOn theFebruary period ended March 31,26, 2026, we acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of PMCo, thereby eliminating the non-controlling interest in PMCo.interest. At that time, our collaboration, including our cost-sharing arrangements, terminated and we became obligated to make certain payments to PMCo’s parent based on net sales.
We have incurred significant operating losses since inception, and we expect to continue to incur substantial losses for the foreseeable future. Our ability to generate product revenue sufficient to achieve profitability will depend heavily on the successful development and eventual commercialization of one or more of our product candidates and any additional product candidates we may develop. Our net losses were $61.7$129.0 million and $44.3$101.1 million, of which $0.3 million and $2.6$6.9 million were attributable to a non-controlling interest for the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 and 2025, respectively. As of MarchJune 31,30, 2026, we had an accumulated deficit of $737.7$805.0 million.
As a result, we will need substantial additional capital to support our continuing operations and pursue our strategy. As of MarchJune 31,30, 2026, we had cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $516.6$457.4 million. We believe, based upon our current operating plan, that these amounts will be sufficient to fund our operationscurrent operating plan into the first half of 2028. We expect to require additional capital to support our long-term operations.
Research and development expenses consist primarily of external and internal costs incurred for our research and development activities, including development of ourThe platform,Generate Platform, our product discovery efforts and the development of our future product candidates. These expenses include:
We use our personnel and infrastructure resources for our research and development efforts, including the advancement and development of ourThe platform,Generate Platform, product candidates and managing external research and development efforts. A significant portion of our research and development costs have been, and will continue to be, external costs. External expenses, which are specific to a program, are tracked on a program-by-program basis for partner programs or upon development candidate nomination. Due to our ability to use certain resources across several programs, personnel-related expenses and indirect or shared operating costs incurred for our research and development programs are not recorded or maintained on a program-by-program basis.
Utilization of our NOL carryforwards may be subject to a substantial annual limitation due to ownership change limitations that have occurred previously or that could occur in the future in accordance with Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), as well as similar state provisions. These “ownership changes,” as defined by Section 382 of the Code, may limit the amount of NOL and research and development credit carryforwards that can be utilized annually to offset future taxable income and taxes, respectively. In general, an ownership change as defined by Section 382 of the Code results from transactions increasing the ownership of certain stockholders or public groups in the stock of a corporation by more than 50% over a three-year period. In the third quarter of 2021, we had an ownership change as defined by Sections 382 and 383 of the Code. InWe addition,do not believe that ownership changes as defined by Sections 382 and 383 of the Code have occurred as a result of our IPO. However, if we engage in connection with our IPO and otherfuture equity transactions, we may have experienced, or may in the future experience,experience additional ownership changes that could further limit our ability to utilize our NOL carryforwards and other tax attributes. Accordingly, we may be subject to additional limitations that could be material and could significantly reduce or potentially eliminate our ability to utilize a portion of our NOL carryforwards and other tax attributes in the future.
We have not yet completed a comprehensive analysis to determine whether ownership changes as defined by Sections 382 and 383 of the Code have occurred as a result of our initial public offering or the extent of any resulting limitations. Accordingly, we may be subject to additional limitations that could be material and could significantly reduce or potentially eliminate our ability to utilize a portion of our NOL carryforwards and other tax attributes in the future.
In connection with our agreement with PMCo prior to its termination and our acquisition of all of the outstanding capital stock of PMCo on February 26, 2026, we determined that we were the primary beneficiary of PMCo, and therefore we consolidated PMCo. However, prior to such acquisition, we did not have any equity interest in PMCo, therefore all net losses associated with PMCo were attributable to the the Company as the sole non-controlling interest holders.holder. The net losses attributable to the non-controlling interest holdersholder iswas the loss absorbed by the previous holders of the ownership interest of PMCo, which consist primarily of research and development costs that were reimbursed by PMCo under our collaboration agreement with PMCo. On February 4, 2026, we entered into a stock purchase agreement (the “Stock Purchase Agreement”) with PMCo, PM LLC and Flagship Labs to acquire the non-controlling interest of PMCo, contingent upon the execution of the underwriting agreement relating to our IPO. Upon the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Stock Purchase Agreement on February 26, 2026, we no longer allocated net income (loss) to thesuch non-controlling interest, as we thereafter owned 100% of the equity of PMCo.
Comparison of the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 and 2025
Collaboration revenue consistsconsisted entirely of revenue from the Novartis Collaboration Agreement and Amgen Collaboration Agreement. Revenue under these agreements iswas recognized as we conductconducted research activities related to the research program or target program within the respective agreements based on costs incurred to conduct those activities relative to the total estimated costs. Collaboration revenue decreased to $7.2$6.3 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 compared to $8.8$10.1 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. Total revenue recognized underpursuant to the Novartis Agreement was $6.5$5.6 million during the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 compared to $6.7 million during the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. Additionally, underpursuant to the Amgen Collaboration Agreement we recognized revenue of $0.7 million from Amgen during the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 compared to $2.1$3.4 million during the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. The decrease was due to us nearing completion of our performance obligations under theboth Amgen Agreement,agreements, which we expect will be completed in 2026.2027.
Research and development expenses increased to $57.8$64.3 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 compared to $46.8$59.7 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. The $11.0$4.6 million increase in research and development expenses for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 compared to the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025 was primarily due to an increase of $11.8$7.2 million in spending on GB-0895 and an increase in personnel-related costs of $1.8$1.1 million offset by a decrease in external discovery and other program related costs of $2.2$4.7 million.
External research and development expenses related to the GB-0895 program for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 and 2025 were $15.6$20.5 million and $3.8$13.3 million, respectively. The increase of $11.8$7.2 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 compared to the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025 was primarily driven by expenses attributable to the continued advancement of our GB-0895 program,program including our Phase 1b clinical trial in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ("COPD") and the commencement of our global Phase 3 clinical trial in severe asthma duringin the threefirst monthsquarter endedof March2026 31,and 2026,Chemistry, includingManufacturing relatedand Controls ("CMC") costs.expenses.
External discovery and other program costs in the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 decreased by $2.2$4.7 million from the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, primarily driven by ana decrease in Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls ("CMC") and toxicology activities for development candidates.
Personnel-related expenses and stock-based compensation expense increased by $1.8$1.1 million and $0.3$0.6 million in the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, respectively, compared to the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025,2025. These increases related to salaries, benefits and other compensation costs relatedattributable to the hiring of additional full-time employees in order to support the growth of our research and development programs. Depreciation expense decreased by $0.1 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 compared to the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, primarily due to certain property and equipment becoming fully depreciated and a decrease in purchases of property and equipment during the period.depreciated.
General and administrative expenses increased to $13.5$13.6 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, from $10.1$10.5 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. The $3.4$3.1 million increase in general and administrative expenses for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, compared to the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, was primarily due to an increase of stock-based compensation expense of $1.4$2.2 million anddriven by stock options granted to employees in the first quarter upon completion of initial public offering, an increase in professional fees of $1.9 million, which was offset by a $0.1$0.6 million decreaseand an increase in other costs.costs of $0.1 million.
Other income (expense), net decreasedincreased to $2.4$4.4 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 from $3.9$3.5 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. The $1.5$1.0 million decreaseincrease for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 compared to the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025 in other income (expense), net was primarily related to aan decreaseincrease in interest income of $1.4$0.8 million due to decreasesincreases in our average cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities balance, which was offset by a $0.2 million decrease in interest expense due to the expiration of certain financing leases during the three months ended March 31, 2026.balance.
Loss attributable to non-controlling interest decreased to $0.3zero for the three months ended June 30, 2026, from $4.3 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31, 2026, from $2.6 million for the three months ended March 31,30, 2025. The $2.4$4.3 million decrease for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 compared to the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025,2025 was a result of no longer allocating net income (loss) to the non-controlling interest in PMCo as we own 100% of the equity of PMCo upon the closingas of the transactions contemplated by the Stock Purchase Agreement in February 2026.
Comparison of the six months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025
The following table summarizes our results of operations for the periods presented (in thousands):
Collaboration Revenue
Collaboration revenue consisted entirely of revenue from the Novartis Collaboration Agreement and Amgen Collaboration Agreement. Revenue under these agreements was recognized as we conducted research activities related to the research program or target program within the respective agreements based on costs incurred to conduct those activities relative to the total estimated costs. Collaboration revenue decreased to $13.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to $18.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Total revenue recognized pursuant to the Novartis Agreement was $12.1 million during the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to $13.4 million during the six months ended June 30, 2025. Additionally, pursuant to the Amgen Collaboration Agreement we recognized revenue of $1.4 million from Amgen during the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to $5.5 million during the six months ended June 30, 2025. This decrease in revenue was due to us nearing completion of our performance obligations pursuant to the Novartis and Amgen agreements, both of which we expect will be completed in 2027.
Research and Development Expense
The following table summarizes our research and development expenses for the periods presented (in thousands):
Research and development expenses increased to $122.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to $106.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. The $15.6 million increase in research and development expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2025 was primarily due to an increase of $19.0 million in spending on GB-0895 and an increase in personnel-related costs of $2.9 million offset by a decrease in external discovery and other program related costs of $6.9 million.
External research and development expenses related to the GB-0895 program for the six months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025 were $36.1 million and $17.1 million, respectively. The increase of $19.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2025 was primarily driven by expenses attributable to the continued advancement of our GB-0895 program, including expenses attributable to our Phase 1b clinical trial in COPD and expenses attributable to the commencement of our global Phase 3 clinical trial in severe asthma in the first quarter of the 2026 fiscal year, including related CMC costs.
External discovery and other program costs in the six months ended June 30, 2026 decreased by $6.9 million from the six months ended June 30, 2025, primarily driven by a decrease in CMC and toxicology activities for development candidates.
Personnel-related expenses and stock-based compensation expense increased by $2.9 million and $0.8 million in the six months ended June 30, 2026, respectively, compared to the six months ended June 30, 2025. This increase related to salaries, benefits and other compensation costs attributable to the hiring of additional full-time employees in order to support the growth of our research and development programs.
General and Administrative Expenses
The following table summarizes our general and administrative expenses for the periods presented (in thousands):
General and administrative expenses increased to $27.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, from $20.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. The $6.4 million increase in general and administrative expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2026, compared to the six months ended June 30, 2025, was primarily due to an increase of stock-based compensation expense of $3.6 million, driven by stock options granted to employees in the first quarter of 2026 upon completion of IPO, and an increase in professional fees of $2.5 million.
Other Income (Expense), Net
Other income (expense), net decreased to $6.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, from $7.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. The $0.5 million decrease for the six months ended June 30, 2026, compared to the six months ended June 30, 2025 in other income (expense), net was primarily related to a decrease in interest income of $0.5 million due to decreases in our average cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities balance.
Loss Attributable to Non-Controlling Interest
Loss attributable to non-controlling interest decreased to $0.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, from $6.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. The $6.6 million decrease for the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2025, was a result of no longer allocating net income (loss) to the non-controlling interest in PMCo as we own 100% of the equity of PMCo as of February 2026.
Since our inception, we have incurred significant operating losses and negative cash flows from operations. We have not yet commercialized any of our product candidates, which are in clinical or preclinical development, and we do not expect to generate revenue from sales of any products for several years, if at all. On March 2, 2026, we closed our IPO, pursuant to which we issued and sold 25,000,000 shares of common stock, resulting in net proceeds of $369.3 million. Prior to our IPO, we had principally raised capital through the private placement of our convertible preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share, the issuance of convertible notes, payments from Amgen and Novartis, and cost-sharing payments from our other partnership, collaboration or licensing arrangements which resulted in aggregate gross cash proceeds in excess of $934.0 million. In addition, we have benefited from cost-sharing arrangements in our collaboration arrangements with MD Anderson, Roswell Park and PMCo. DuringOn theFebruary period ended March 31,26, 2026, we acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of PMCo, thereby eliminating the non-controlling interest in PMCo.interest. At that time, our collaboration, including our cost-sharing arrangements, terminated and we became obligated to make certain payments to PMCo’s parent based on net sales.
Our cash flows from operating activities arewere greatly influenced by our use of cash for operating expenses and working capital requirements to support our business. We have historically experienced negative cash flows from operating activities as we invested in research and development of ourThe platform,Generate Platform, product candidates, including preclinical studies, clinical trials, manufacturing and manufacturing process development. The cash used in operating activities resulted primarily from our net losses adjusted for non-cash charges, which arewere generally due to stock-based compensation, depreciation and amortization and non-cash lease expense, as well as changes in components of operating assets and liabilities, which arewere generally due to deferred revenue, increased expenses and timing of vendor payments.
For the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, operating activities used $80.4$138.3 million of cash, primarily resulting from a net loss of $61.7$129.0 million and changes in operating assets and liabilities that used $30.7$35.1 million in cash partially offset by changes in net non-cash expenses of $12.0$25.7 million.
For the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, operating activities used $53.2$101.9 million of cash, primarily resulting from a net loss of $44.3$101.1 million and changes in operating assets and liabilities that used $18.8 million of $17.4 million,cash, which was partially offset by changes$17.9 inmillion of net non-cash expenses of $8.6 million.expenses.
During the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, net cash used in investing activities was $259.9$226.6 million, which primarily consisted of purchases of marketable securities with the net proceeds of our IPO as well as purchases of equipment, offset by sales of marketable securities.
During the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, net cash provided by investing activities was $75.5$58.5 million, which primarily consisted of sales and maturities of marketable securities, offset by purchases of marketable securities and equipment.
During the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, net cash provided by financing activities of $378.9$378.3 million primarily related to proceeds received from issuance of our common stock, net of issuance costs and contributions from our non-controlling interest, offset by payments on finance lease obligations.
During the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, net cash provided by financing activities of $20.6$20.3 million primarily related to proceeds received from issuance of our Series C convertible preferred stock, net of issuance costs and contributions from our non-controlling interest,interest in PMCo, offset by payments on finance lease obligations.
We expect our future capital requirements to increase substantially over time in connection with our ongoing research and development activities, particularly as we advance our current and planned clinical development of GB-0895 and our other product candidatescandidates, and maintain theour research efforts and preclinical activities associated with The Generate Platform and our other existing programs and discovery platform.programs. In addition, if we obtain regulatory approval for any of our product candidates, we expect to incur significant expenses related to product sales, marketing and distribution to the extent that such sales, marketing and distribution are not the responsibility of potential collaborators. Further, we expect to incur additional costs associated with operating as a public company. As a result, we expect to incur substantial operating losses and negative operating cash flows for the foreseeable future.
Inflation generally affects us by increasing our cost of labor and certain products and services. We do not believe that inflation had a material effect on our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. However, the United States has recently experienced historically high levels of inflation. If the inflation rate continuesincreases, toour expenses may increase, itincluding mayexpenses affectattributable our expenses, such asto employee compensation and external research and development charges due to, for example, increases in the costs of labor and supplies.activities.
As of MarchJune 31,30, 2026, we had total cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $516.6$457.4 million. We believe, based on our current operating plan, our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities will be sufficient to fund our operationscurrent operating plan into the first half of 2028. We have based this estimate on assumptions that may prove to be wrong, and we could exhaust our available capital resources sooner than we expect. However,Furthermore, our forecast for the period of time through which our financial resources will be adequate to support our operations is a forward-looking statement that involves risks and uncertainties and actual results could vary materially. Additionally, the process of conducting preclinical studies and testing product candidates in clinical trials is costly, and the timing of progress and expenses inassociated with these studies and trials is often uncertain. We willexpect to need to raise substantial additional capital in the future.
the costs associated with maintaining and improving ourThe Generate Platform;
We lease office space in Somerville, Massachusetts under a non-cancelable operating lease that expires in June 2032 and lease office and laboratory space in Andover, Massachusetts under a non-cancelable operating lease, as amended, that expires in December 2034. Our operating lease in Andover, Massachusetts includes an option of early termination allowing us to terminate the lease on or after December 31, 2031. We also entered into a finance lease agreement for the purchase of lab equipment. Additionally, we have entered into a service agreement with a CRO in relation to the conduct of our phase 3 clinical studies for GB-0895, which contains embedded leases for certain equipment. Future minimum commitments under these leases are $90.7$86.1 million as of MarchJune 31,30, 2026. These commitments are also recognized as operating lease liabilities and finance lease liabilities on our balance sheet as of MarchJune 31,30, 2026.
We enter into contracts in the normal course of business with third-party CROs, CDMOs and other third-party vendors for preclinical, clinical trials and testing and manufacturing services. These contracts generally do not contain minimum purchase commitments and are cancellable by us upon written notice. Payments due upon cancellation generally consist of payments for services provided or expenses incurred up to the date of cancellation, including non-cancelable obligations of our service providers and, in some cases, wind-down costs. For further information regarding certain of our license agreements and amounts that could become payable in the future under those agreements, please see Note 5 in our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report.
On September 19, 2024, we entered into the Novartis Collaboration Agreement to discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize protein therapeutics using ourThe Generate Platform. The collaboration covers multiple collaboration targets, conducted under applicable research plans during defined research terms. As consideration for the collaboration, we received a $50.0 million upfront payment. Novartis also purchased 1,265,822 shares of our Series C convertible preferred stock for $15.0 million. We are eligible to receive up to $1.0 billion across all programs upon the achievement of certain performance-based milestones, including $130.0 million in development and regulatory milestones and $210.0 million in commercial milestones per research program. None of such milestones have been achieved to date. Novartis is also obligated to pay, on a licensed product-by-licensed product and on a country-by-country basis, tiered royalties ranging from a mid-single digit to a low tens percentage on worldwide net sales of any licensed product, subject to specified reductions and offsets.
On December 24, 2021, we entered into the Amgen Collaboration Agreement, with Amgen to identify biologic proteins and antibodies directed against specified targets. The Amgen Collaboration Agreement initially covered five collaboration targets. In addition, Amgen has the option to nominate up to five additional collaboration targets, at additional cost, the first of which was exercised in December 2023 related to the sixth target. As consideration for the collaboration, we received a $50.0 million upfront payment. In connection with the Second Amendment, which added an additional collaboration target, we received an additional payment of $5.0 million. We are eligible to receive up to $370.0 million for each program upon the achievement of certain milestones, including $160.0 million in development and regulatory milestones and $210.0 million in commercial milestones per program. We received a $5.0 million development milestone payment in August 2024. Amgen is also obligated to pay, on a licensed product-by-licensed product and on a country-by-country basis, tiered royalties ranging from a mid-single digit up to a low tens percentage on worldwide net sales of any licensed product, subject to customary reductions and offsets.
On February 4, 2026, we entered into athe stock purchase agreement (“Stock Purchase Agreement”) with PMCo, PM LLC,LLC and Flagship Labs, pursuant to which we agreed to purchase, and PM LLC agreed to sell, all of the issued and outstanding capital stock in PMCo. In consideration for such sale, PMCo, PM LLC and we agreed to terminate the Prior PMCo Agreement and the Drag-Along Agreement, and we agreed to pay PM LLC a portion of our net sales, if any, arising from the sale of certain products covered by certain patents or containing certain know-how (“Generate Products”) developed underpursuant to the Prior PMCo Agreement. The termination of the Prior PMCo Agreement and the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Stock Purchase Agreement occurred on February 26, 2026.
GENB insider buying and selling (Form 4)
Since 2026-04-11, insiders reported open-market purchases in 0 Form 4 filings and open-market sales in 1 filing (1 insider, 1 trade date, 1,000 shares, about $16.0K; 1 of these filings say the sales were made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan). Net open-market shares: -1,000 (purchases minus sales); net value about -$16.0K.Totals add up every open-market (code P and S) line in those filings, using the prices reported in the filings. Awards, option exercises, tax withholding and gifts are listed below but not counted.
| Trade date | Insider | Transaction | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | Arnold Frances |
Open-market sale |
1,000 | $16.00 | $16.0K |
Well-known investors holding GENB (13F)
| Investor | Quarter | Shares | Reported value | % of their 13F | Change vs prior quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARK Investment Management (Cathie Wood) | 2026-06-30 | 1,284,617 | $21.7M | 0.14% | Added 158% |
| D. E. Shaw & Co. | 2026-06-30 | 95,000 | $1.2M | — | Sold out |
| Renaissance Technologies | 2026-06-30 | 39,685 | $669.5K | 0.0% | New position |
| Millennium Management (Israel Englander) | 2026-06-30 | 21,926 | $369.9K | 0.0% | Reduced 94% |
| Two Sigma Investments | 2026-06-30 | 18,374 | $310.0K | 0.0% | New position |