Seres Therapeutics Announces Receipt of Expected $50 Million Installment Payment Related to VOWST Sale
January 16 2025 - 6:00AM
Seres Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRB) (Seres or the Company), a
leading live biotherapeutics company, announced today the receipt
of a $50 million installment payment related to the Company’s
previously announced sale of its VOWST business to Société des
Produits Nestlé S.A (SPN, and with certain of its affiliates,
collectively, Nestlé Health Science). This installment payment was
expected as Seres is fulfilling its transition obligations.
As previously announced, based on the Company’s existing cash,
inclusive of this payment, a projected installment payment from
Nestlé Health Science in July 2025 of $25 million (less
up to approximately $1.5M in employment-related payments
to Nestlé Health Science), transaction-related obligations and
current operating plans, the Company expects to fund operations
into the first quarter of 2026.
About Seres Therapeutics Seres Therapeutics,
Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRB) is a clinical-stage company focused on
improving patient outcomes in medically vulnerable populations
through novel live biotherapeutics. Seres led the successful
development and approval of VOWST™, the first FDA-approved orally
administered microbiome therapeutic, which was sold to Nestlé
Health Science in September 2024. The Company is developing
SER-155, which has received both Breakthrough Therapy and Fast
Track designation, and which has demonstrated a significant
reduction in bloodstream infections and related complications (as
compared to placebo) in a Phase 1b clinical study in patients
undergoing allo-HSCT. SER-155 and the Company's other pipeline
programs are designed to target multiple disease-relevant pathways
and are manufactured from standard clonal cell banks via
cultivation, rather than from the donor-sourced production process
used for VOWST. In addition to allo-HSCT, the Company intends to
evaluate SER-155 and other cultivated live biotherapeutic
candidates in other medically vulnerable patient populations
including autologous-HSCT patients, cancer patients with
neutropenia, CAR-T recipients, individuals with chronic liver
disease, solid organ transplant recipients, as well as patients in
the intensive care unit and long-term acute care facilities. For
more information, please visit www.serestherapeutics.com.
Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release
contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements
contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of
historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements,
including statements about our anticipated financial performance,
the receipt of an additional installment payment, projected cash
runway, and other statements which are not historical fact.
These forward-looking statements are based on management’s
current expectations. These statements are neither promises nor
guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other important factors 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, including, but not limited to, the
following: (1) we have incurred significant losses, are not
currently profitable and may never become profitable; (2) our need
for additional funding; (3) our history of operating losses; (4)
our novel approach to therapeutic intervention; (5) our reliance on
third parties to conduct our clinical trials and manufacture our
product candidates; (6) the competition we will face; (7) our
ability to protect our intellectual property; (8) our ability to
retain key personnel and to manage our growth; (9) the effect of
the VOWST sale on our ability to retain and hire key personnel and
maintain relationships with our customers, suppliers, advertisers,
partners and others with whom we do business, or on our operating
results and businesses generally; (10) the risks associated with
the disruption of management’s attention from ongoing business
operations due to the obligation to provide transition services;
(11) our failure to receive the installment payments or the
milestone payments in the future; (12) the uncertainty of impact of
the 50/50 profit and loss sharing arrangement on our reported
results and liquidity; and (13) we may not be able to realize the
anticipated benefits of the VOWST sale. These and other important
factors discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in our Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), on November 13, 2024, and our other reports filed
with the SEC could cause actual results to differ materially from
those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this
press release. Any such forward-looking statements represent
management’s estimates as of the date of 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. These forward-looking
statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as
of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.
Investor and Media
Contacts:IR@serestherapeutics.com
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