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Selecta Biosciences Announces Third Quarter 2016 Financial Results
and Provides Corporate Update
Watertown, Mass., November 10, 2016 - Selecta Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SELB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of targeted antigen-specific immune therapies, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016 and provided a corporate update.
"We have recently reported a series of scientific and clinical advances demonstrating the breadth of our Synthetic Vaccine Particles (SVP ) platform and culminating with the dosing of the first gout patients in our Phase 2 clinical trial of SEL-212," said Werner Cautreels, Ph.D, President, CEO and Chairman of Selecta. "SEL-212 is designed to dramatically lower serum uric acid levels, allowing for the elimination of inflammatory uric acid crystal deposits that cause debilitating pain and often serious damage to joints and organs. SEL-212 has the potential to address the large unmet need of patients suffering from chronic refractory and chronic tophaceous gout. This program exemplifies Selecta's focus on building a pipeline of product candidates that leverage the immune tolerance application of the SVP platform to prevent unwanted immunogenicity in biologics. We also have been emboldened by recent preclinical data demonstrating SVP's potential benefit in gene therapy and oncology indications, where undesired antibody and cellular immune responses have restricted otherwise beneficial therapies."
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Unaudited Third Quarter Financial Results:
a result of the company's operating expenditures, partially offset by cash received from collaborations and grants as well as the partial exercise by underwriters of the company's initial public offering (IPO) overallotment option.
Conference Call Reminder
Selecta management will host a conference call at 8:30 am ET today to review the company's third quarter 2016 financial results and provide a corporate update. Investors and the public can access a live and archived webcast of this call via the Investors & Media section of the company's website, http://selectabio.com. Individuals may also participate in the live call via telephone by dialing (844) 309-6574 (domestic) or (484) 747-6923 (international) and may access a teleconference replay for one week by dialing (855) 859-2056 (domestic) or (404) 537-3406 (international) and using confirmation code 2975242.
About Selecta Biosciences, Inc.
Selecta Biosciences, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing targeted therapies that use immunomodulators encapsulated in nanoparticles to induce antigen-specific immune responses to prevent and treat disease. Selecta's proprietary Synthetic Vaccine Particles (SVP) technology is a highly flexible nanoparticle platform, capable of incorporating a wide range of antigens and immunomodulators, allowing the SVP-based products to either induce antigen-specific tolerance or activate the immune system.
Selecta's focus and strategy is to leverage its SVP immune modulating platform to develop and commercialize highly differentiated life-sustaining biologic drugs that are uniquely capable of mitigating the formation of anti-drug antibodies (ADAs). Proprietary programs that use SVP-Rapamycin to enhance efficacy and safety of therapy include SEL-212, Selecta's lead Phase 2 clinical program in chronic refractory gout, and two gene therapies programs for genetic metabolic diseases. Tolerance-inducing SVP biological products also have potential applications in the treatment of allergies and autoimmune diseases.
Selecta is also developing SVP product candidates that activate the immune system to prevent and treat cancer, infections and other diseases.
Selecta is based in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA. For more information, please visit http://selectabio.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Any statements in this press release about the future expectations, plans and prospects of Selecta Biosciences, Inc. ("the company"), including without limitation, statements regarding the impact of the company's initial public offering on its financial position and the development of its pipeline, the progress of the Phase 1/2 clinical program of SEL-212 including the number of centers in the Phase 2 clinical trial of SEL-212 and the announcement of data, conference presentations, the ability of the company's SVP platform, including SVP-Rapamycin, to mitigate immune response and create better therapeutic outcomes, the potential treatment applications for products utilizing the SVP platform, any future development of the company's discovery programs in peanut allergy and celiac disease, the sufficiency of the company's cash, cash equivalents, investments, and restricted cash and other statements containing the words "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "hypothesize," "intend," "may," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "target," "would," and similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including, but not limited to, the following: the uncertainties inherent in the initiation, completion and cost of clinical trials including their uncertain outcomes, the availability and timing of data from ongoing and future clinical trials and the results of such trials, whether preliminary results from a particular clinical trial will be predictive of the final results of that trial or whether results of early clinical trials will be indicative of the results of later clinical trials, the unproven approach of the company's SVP technology, potential delays in enrollment of patients, undesirable side effects of the company's product candidates, its reliance on third parties to manufacture its product candidates and to conduct its clinical trials, the company's inability to maintain its existing or future collaborations or licenses, its inability to protect its proprietary technology and intellectual property, potential delays in regulatory approvals, the availability of funding sufficient for its foreseeable and unforeseeable operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements, substantial fluctuation in the price of its common stock, a significant portion of the company's total outstanding shares are eligible to be sold into the market in the near future, and other important factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of the company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, on August 9, 2016, and in other filings that the company makes with the SEC. In addition, any forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the company's views only as of the date of this release and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date. The company specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements included in this press release.
Selecta Biosciences, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(In thousands, except for shares and par value)
| September 30, 2016 | December 31, 2015 | |||||||
| (unaudited) | ||||||||
| Assets | ||||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 59,488 | $ | 32,337 | ||||
| Short term deposits and investments | 19,788 | 4,125 | ||||||
| Restricted cash | 335 | 133 | ||||||
| Accounts receivable | 483 | 824 | ||||||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 3,303 | 1,494 | ||||||
| Total current assets | 83,397 | 38,913 | ||||||
| Property and equipment, net | 2,066 | 2,029 | ||||||
| Restricted cash and other deposits | 316 | 316 | ||||||
| Other assets | - | 1,566 | ||||||
| Total assets | $ | 85,779 | $ | 42,824 | ||||
| Liabilities, redeemable convertible preferred stock, and stockholders' equity (deficit) | ||||||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | 1,040 | $ | 2,179 | ||||
| Accrued expenses | 2,434 | 3,378 | ||||||
| Loans payable, current portion | 2,913 | - | ||||||
| Deferred revenue, current portion | 1,041 | 1,313 | ||||||
| Contingently repayable grant funding | 262 | 420 | ||||||
| Total current liabilities | 7,690 | 7,290 | ||||||
| Non current liabilities: | ||||||||
| Deferred rent and lease incentive | 234 | 105 | ||||||
| Loans payable, net of current portion | 9,064 | 11,855 | ||||||
| Deferred revenue, net of current portion | 3,348 | 2,295 | ||||||
| Other long term liabilities | - | 290 | ||||||
| Total liabilities | 20,336 | 21,835 | ||||||
| Commitments and contingencies (Notes 8 and 13) | ||||||||
| Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock: | ||||||||
| Series A redeemable convertible preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 0 and 2,589,868 shares authorized; 0 and 2,589,868 shares issued and outstanding; as of September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015 respectively. | - | 3,644 | ||||||
| Series B redeemable convertible preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 0 and 7,437,325 shares authorized; 0 and 7,437,325 shares issued and outstanding; as of September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015 respectively. | - | 21,448 | ||||||
| Series C redeemable convertible preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 0 and 5,000,002 shares authorized; 0 and 5,000,002 shares issued and outstanding; as of September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015 respectively. | - | 20,178 | ||||||
| Series D redeemable convertible preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 0 and 8,166,662 shares authorized; 0 and 8,099,994 shares issued and outstanding; as of September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015 respectively. | - | 42,902 | ||||||
| Series SRN redeemable convertible preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 0 and 5,611,112 shares authorized; 0 and 2,111,109 shares issued and outstanding; as of September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015 respectively. | - | 12,082 | ||||||
| Series E redeemable convertible preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 0 and 9,030,654 shares authorized; 0 and 8,888,888 shares issued and outstanding; as of September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015 respectively. | - | 37,228 | ||||||
| Total redeemable convertible preferred stock | - | 137,482 | ||||||
| Stockholders' equity (deficit): | ||||||||
| Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 10,000,000 and 0 shares authorized; 0 shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively. | - | - | ||||||
| Common stock, $0.0001 par value; 200,000,000 and 62,164,377 shares authorized at September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015 respectively; 18,190,180 and 2,180,976 shares issued, 18,188,313 and 2,173,399 shares outstanding as of September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively. | 1 | - | ||||||
| Additional paid-in capital | 207,489 | 1 | ||||||
| Accumulated deficit | (137,493 | ) | (111,508 | ) | ||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (4,554 | ) | (4,986 | ) | ||||
| Total stockholders' equity (deficit) | 65,443 | (116,493 | ) | |||||
| Total liabilities, redeemable convertible preferred stock and stockholders' equity | $ | 85,779 | $ | 42,824 |
Selecta Biosciences, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss
(Unaudited, amounts in thousands, except share and per share data)
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 2015 | 2016 | 2015 | |||||||||||||
| Grant and collaboration revenue | $ | 1,048 | $ | 1,607 | $ | 5,153 | $ | 3,877 | ||||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | 6,021 | 5,483 | 18,669 | 15,769 | ||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 2,495 | 2,195 | 7,294 | 6,305 | ||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 8,516 | 7,678 | 25,963 | 22,074 | ||||||||||||
| Loss from operations | (7,468 | ) | (6,071 | ) | (20,810 | ) | (18,197 | ) | ||||||||
| Investment income | 98 | 25 | 121 | 149 | ||||||||||||
| Foreign currency transaction gain (loss), net | (51 | ) | 668 | (429 | ) | 616 | ||||||||||
| Interest expense | (311 | ) | (334 | ) | (931 | ) | (843 | ) | ||||||||
| Other expense, net | 4 | (13 | ) | (78 | ) | (50 | ) | |||||||||
| Net loss | (7,728 | ) | (5,725 | ) | (22,127 | ) | (18,325 | ) | ||||||||
| Other comprehensive loss: | ||||||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustment | 15 | (800 | ) | 416 | (763 | ) | ||||||||||
| Unrealized gain (loss) on securities | 16 | - | 16 | - | ||||||||||||
| Comprehensive loss | $ | (7,697 | ) | $ | (6,525 | ) | $ | (21,695 | ) | $ | (19,088 | ) | ||||
| Net loss | (7,728 | ) | (5,725 | ) | (22,127 | ) | (18,325 | ) | ||||||||
| Accretion of redeemable convertible preferred stock | - | (1,836 | ) | (4,566 | ) | (4,959 | ) | |||||||||
| Net loss attributable to common stockholders | $ | (7,728 | ) | $ | (7,561 | ) | $ | (26,693 | ) | $ | (23,284 | ) | ||||
| Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders | ||||||||||||||||
| Basic and diluted | $ | (0.43 | ) | $ | (3.50 | ) | $ | (3.39 | ) | $ | (10.86 | ) | ||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding | ||||||||||||||||
| Basic and diluted | 18,108,014 | 2,159,658 | 7,881,625 | 2,144,731 |
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