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Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
On May 15, 2024, Cullinan Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. A copy of the press release is being furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
The information in this Item 2.02 and Exhibit 99.1 attached hereto is intended to be furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On May 9, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company appointed David Meek as a Class I director, effective May 15, 2024. Mr. Meek has also been appointed to the Audit Committee of the Board (the “Audit Committee”). In connection with the director appointment, the Board increased the size of the Board from six members to seven members.
Mr. Meek, age 60, previously served as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors of Mirati Therapeutics, Inc., a commercial-stage oncology biotech company, from September 2021 to August 2023. He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and board member of FerGene, Inc., a private biotechnology company, from January 2020 to March 2021. From July 2016 to January 2020, Mr. Meek served as Chief Executive Officer and board member of Ipsen S.A. (“Ipsen”), a public global biopharmaceutical company based in France. Prior to joining Ipsen, Mr. Meek held executive leadership roles including serving as Executive Vice President and President of Oncology at Baxalta Incorporated from 2014 to 2016 leading up to the acquisition by Shire plc, and serving as Chief Commercial Officer of Endocyte, Inc. from 2012 to 2014. He also served in executive leadership roles at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation and Novartis Oncology from 2005 to 2012, after beginning his career at Johnson & Johnson, Inc. and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 1989 to 2004. Mr. Meek currently serves on the board of directors of Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc., a public biotech company, and uniQure N.V., a public biotech company. From 2016 to 2020, Mr. Meek served on the boards of Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America and European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries & Associations. He also previously served on the board of directors of Entasis Therapeutics Inc. from June 2019 to July 2022, when it was acquired by Innoviva, Inc. Mr. Meek holds a B.A. from the University of Cincinnati. We believe Mr. Meek is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his extensive experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
Pursuant to the Company’s non-employee director compensation policy (the “Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy”), upon his appointment as a director, Mr. Meek was granted an option on May 15, 2024, with a grant date fair value of $275,000. These options will vest as to one-third of the shares underlying such award on each of the first, second and third anniversaries of the date of grant of the award, subject to Mr. Meek’s continued service as a director through the applicable vesting date. All options issued to non-employee directors under the Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy will become exercisable in full upon a change in control of the Company. Additionally, Mr. Meek will receive the cash retainers provided under the Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy for his service on the Board and the Audit Committee.
Also in connection with Mr. Meek’s election to the Board, Mr. Meek will enter into the Company’s standard form of indemnification agreement for directors, a copy of which was filed as Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-251512) filed with the SEC on December 18, 2020. Pursuant to the terms of this agreement, the Company may be required, among other things, to indemnify Mr. Meek for some expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by him in any action or proceeding arising out of his service as a director.
There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Meek and any other person pursuant to which he was appointed as a director of the Company. Mr. Meek was not involved in any transactions with the Company in an amount exceeding $120,000 since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year and there are no such currently proposed transactions.
Additionally, on May 9, 2024, Thomas Ebeling notified the Board of his intention to serve out his current term and resign as a director effective as of June 26, 2024. Mr. Ebeling’s decision to resign was not the result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to our operations, policies or practices.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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99.1 |
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Press release issued by Cullinan Therapeutics, Inc. on May 15, 2024, furnished herewith |
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Cover page from this Current Report on Form 8-K, formatted in Inline XBRL |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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Cullinan Therapeutics, Inc. |
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May 15, 2024 |
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/s/ Mary Kay Fenton |
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Mary Kay Fenton |
Exhibit 99.1
Cullinan Therapeutics Provides Corporate Update and Reports First Quarter 2024 Financial Results
Combination and monotherapy solid tumor dose escalation data for CLN-619 to be presented in a poster session at ASCO 2024 Annual Meeting
CLN-978 development to focus exclusively on autoimmune diseases, starting with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) as the first indication
Cash and investments of $434.8 million as of March 31, 2024, plus gross proceeds of $280 million from April private placement extends cash runway into 2028
Company appoints David Meek to its Board of Directors
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. May 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cullinan Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CGEM; “Cullinan”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing modality-agnostic targeted therapies, today reported recent and upcoming business highlights and announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024.
“We have already made significant progress in the first quarter of 2024, continuing the momentum we demonstrated in 2023,” said Nadim Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer of Cullinan Therapeutics. “With our recently announced strategic expansion into immunology, we will develop our CD19xCD3 T cell engager (TCE), CLN-978, in autoimmune diseases starting with SLE as our first indication. We are further encouraged by recent clinical data validating the CD19-directed TCE approach, which is significantly differentiated from CAR T based approaches, while we actively evaluate additional autoimmune indications for CLN-978. We also remain keenly focused on advancing our deep pipeline of clinical-stage oncology programs, with multiple data catalysts through this year and early 2025. With the gross proceeds of $280 million from our recently completed private placement, we believe we are well positioned to execute on our near- and long-term strategic and operational objectives. Additionally, we are pleased to welcome David Meek as a new director to Cullinan’s Board. David brings notable experience in scaling organizations towards successful commercialization. Thomas Ebeling has decided to resign from the Board at the end of his term. We appreciate Thomas’s contributions to Cullinan from the inception of the company to the clinical-stage organization we are today.”
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Corporate Updates
First Quarter 2024 Financial Results
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About Cullinan Therapeutics
Cullinan Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CGEM) is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to creating new standards of care for patients. We have strategically built a diversified portfolio of clinical-stage assets that inhibit key drivers of disease or harness the immune system to eliminate diseased cells in both oncology and autoimmune diseases. Our portfolio encompasses a wide range of modalities, each with the potential to be best and/or first in class. Anchored in a deep understanding of oncology, immunology, and translational medicine, we create differentiated ideas, identify the most appropriate targets, and select the optimal modality to develop transformative therapeutics across a wide variety of cancer and autoimmune indications. We push conventional boundaries from candidate selection to differentiated therapeutic, applying rigorous go/no go criteria at each stage of development to fast-track only the most promising molecules to the clinic and, ultimately, commercialization. With deep scientific expertise, our teams exercise creativity and urgency to deliver on our promise to bring new therapeutic solutions to patients. Learn more about our Company at www.cullinantherapeutics.com, and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, express or implied statements regarding the company’s beliefs and expectations regarding: our preclinical and clinical developments plans and timelines, the clinical and therapeutic potential of our product candidates, the strategy of our product candidates, our research and development activities, our cash runway and our plans regarding future data presentations. The words “believe,” “continue,” “expect,” “plan,” “potential,” “pursue,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
Any forward-looking statements in this press release are based on management's current expectations and beliefs of future events and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to, the following: uncertainty regarding the timing and results of regulatory submissions, including the IND that we intend to file for CLN-978; the risk that any INDs we may file are not cleared by the United States Food and Drug Administration or are not cleared on our expected timelines, or at all; success of our clinical trials and preclinical studies; risks related to our ability to protect and maintain our intellectual property position; risks related to manufacturing, supply, and distribution of our product candidates; the risk that any one or more of our product candidates, including those that are co-developed, will not be successfully developed and commercialized; the risk that the results of preclinical studies or clinical studies will not be predictive of future results in connection with future studies; and success of any collaboration, partnership, license or similar agreements. These and other important risks and uncertainties discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including under the caption “Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the SEC, could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we disclaim any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change, except to the extent required by law. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press
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release. Moreover, except as required by law, neither the company nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the forward-looking statements included in this press release. Any forward-looking statement included in this press release speaks only as of the date on which it was made.
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Cullinan Therapeutics, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
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March 31, 2024 |
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December 31, 2023 |
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Cash, cash equivalents, investments, and interest receivable |
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$ |
434,827 |
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468,264 |
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Total assets |
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449,430 |
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484,182 |
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Total current liabilities |
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21,925 |
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28,137 |
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Total liabilities |
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23,765 |
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30,287 |
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Total stockholders’ equity |
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425,665 |
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453,895 |
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Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity |
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449,430 |
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$ |
484,182 |
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Cullinan Therapeutics, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
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Three Months Ended |
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March 31, 2024 |
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March 31, 2023 |
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Operating expenses: |
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Research and development |
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30,646 |
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52,096 |
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General and administrative |
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12,343 |
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10,660 |
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Total operating expenses |
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42,989 |
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62,756 |
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Loss from operations |
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(42,989 |
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(62,756 |
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Interest income |
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5,693 |
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4,508 |
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Other income (expense), net |
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(44 |
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107 |
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Net loss |
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(37,340 |
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(58,141 |
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Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests |
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(192 |
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(179 |
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Net loss attributable to common stockholders of Cullinan |
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$ |
(37,148 |
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(57,962 |
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Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders of Cullinan: |
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Basic and diluted |
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(0.86 |
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(1.42 |
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Basic and diluted |
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43,011 |
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40,682 |
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Contacts:
Investors
Chad Messer
+1 203.464.8900
cmesser@cullinantx.com
Media
Rose Weldon
+1 215.801.7644
rweldon@cullinantx.com
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