OS Therapies Announces Closing of $6 Million Private Placement
31 Diciembre 2024 - 2:38PM
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- Funding expected to provide cash runway into 2026
- 98% of investment in private placement from Pre-IPO and/or IPO
investors
- Data update from OST-HER2 Phase 2b clinical trial in recurrent,
resected metastatic osteosarcoma to be announced during week of JP
Morgan Healthcare Conference 2025
- Company remains eligible to be awarded Priority Review Voucher
(PRV) by US FDA as a result of receiving rare pediatric designation
for OST-HER2 in osteosarcoma in 2021
OS Therapies, Inc. (NYSE-A: OSTX) (“OS Therapies” or the
“Company”), a clinical-stage cancer immunotherapy and antibody drug
conjugate biotechnology company, today announced the closing of a
private placement financing, raising approximately $6 million in
gross proceeds for the Company, before deducting offering-related
expenses. The Company intends to use the proceeds from the private
placement for working capital, primarily focused on the clinical
and regulatory milestones to support commercialization of the
Company’s lead therapeutic candidate OST-HER2 in the recurrent,
resected metastatic osteosarcoma in the United States in 2025, and
for general corporate purposes. The US FDA has granted OST-HER2
rare pediatric disease, fast track and orphan drug designations for
osteosarcoma.
“The Company expects the capital raised in this financing to
allow it to operate into 2026, by which time the Company believes
it will have delivered the necessary clinical data and other
Biologics License Authorization-enabling requirements to be granted
authorization by the US Food & Drug Administration to begin
commercialization of OST-HER2 for the prevention of recurrent,
resected metastatic osteosarcoma in the United States,” said Paul
Romness, MHP, Chairman & CEO of OS Therapies. “If we are
successful in achieving this mission, not only will we change the
lives of families afflicted by this devastating childhood cancer,
the Company would also be granted a priority review voucher (PRV),
currently valued at approximately $150 million, that would further
capitalize the Company to allow it expand the clinical development
of OST-HER2 into other HER2 positive cancers such as breast cancer
and/or colorectal cancer.”
The US FDA granted OST-HER2 rare pediatric disease designation
for osteosarcoma in 2021. The US FDA rare pediatric disease PRV
program aims to incentivize drug development for rare pediatric
diseases. Under this voucher program, a sponsor who receives an
approval for a drug or biological product for a rare pediatric
disease qualifies for a voucher that can be redeemed to receive
priority review for a different product. The sponsor may also
transfer or sell the voucher to another sponsor. OS Therapies
intends to sell the PRV it would earn upon receiving approval of
OST-HER2 for recurrent, resected metastatic osteosarcoma. The most
recent publicly disclosed sale price of a PRV was on November 27th,
2024 when PTC Therapeutics announced selling its PRV to Kebilidi
for $150M. With emerging scarcity in the PRV market, the Company
expects the value of PRVs to increase going forward. The maximum
sale price of a PRV was in 2015 when AbbVie bought a priority
review voucher from United Therapeutics for $350 million.
The most recent continuing resolution (CR) negotiations in the
US House of Representatives failed to reauthorize the PRV program
for pediatric cancers such as osteosarcoma. Despite this, as a
result of OS Therapies’ having been granted OST-HER2’s rare
pediatric disease designation prior to December 20, 2024 in
addition to the Company’s aim to receive an approval for OST-HER2
in the rare pediatric disease osteosarcoma in 2025, prior to the
September 30, 2026 deadline, OS Therapies remains eligible to
receive the PRV upon approval of OST-HER2 in recurrent, resected
metastatic osteosarcoma.
The Company sold 1.5 million units at a price of $4.00 per unit,
with each unit consisting of one share of Series A Senior
Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Stock”) convertible
into one share of common stock and one warrant to purchase one
share of common stock. The conversion price of the Preferred Stock
into shares of common stock is $4.00 and the exercise price of the
warrants is $4.40 per share.
Brookline Capital Markets, a division of Arcadia Securities,
LLC, served as placement agent and Ceros Financial Services, Inc.
was engaged as a selected dealer to the placement agent.
The securities sold in the private placement, as well as the
common stock into which the securities are convertible or
exercisable into, have not been registered under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or any state securities
laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States, except
pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable
exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
The Company has agreed to file a registration statement with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC”) registering the
resale of the shares of common stock underlying the securities
issued in this private placement (the “Resale Shares”).
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the
securities being offered in any state or other jurisdiction in
which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to
the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any
such state or jurisdiction. Any offering of the Resale Shares under
the resale registration statement will only be made by means of a
prospectus.
For more information, please see the Company's website at
www.ostherapies.com.
About OS Therapies
OS Therapies is a clinical stage oncology company focused on the
identification, development and commercialization of treatments for
Osteosarcoma (OS) and other solid tumors. OST-HER2, the Company’s
lead asset, is an immunotherapy leveraging the immune-stimulatory
effects of Listeria bacteria to initiate a strong immune response
targeting the HER2 protein. The Company has completed enrollment
for a 41-patient Phase 2b clinical trial of OST-HER2 in resected,
recurrent osteosarcoma, with results expected in the fourth quarter
of 2024. OST-HER2 has completed a Phase 1 clinical study primarily
in breast cancer patients, in addition to showing strong
preclinical efficacy data in various models of breast cancer.
OST-HER2 has been conditionally approved by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture for the treatment of canines with osteosarcoma. In
addition, OS Therapies is advancing its next generation Antibody
Drug Conjugate (ADC) platform, known as tunable ADC (tADC), which
features tunable, tailored antibody-linker-payload candidates. This
platform leverages the Company’s proprietary silicone linker
technology, enabling the delivery of multiple payloads per linker.
For more information, please visit www.ostherapies.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains “forward-looking statements” as
defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
All statements, other than statements of historical facts included
in this press release, including, but not limited to, the intended
uses of the proceeds from the private placement, are
forward-looking statements. OS Therapies cautions readers that
forward-looking statements are based on management’s expectations
and assumptions as of the date of this news release and are subject
to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially, including, but not limited to, uncertainties
related to the expected duration over which the Company’s cash,
cash equivalents and short-term investments balances will fund its
operations; the approval of OST-HER2 by the US FDA and grant of a
priority review voucher and other risks and uncertainties described
in “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in the Company’s
registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on November 12, 2024, as amended on
November 27, 2024, and other subsequent documents we file with the
SEC, including but not limited to our Quarterly Reports on Form
10-Q. Forward-looking statements reflect our analysis only on their
stated date, and OS Therapies takes no obligation to update or
revise these statements except as may be required by law.
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