Alaunos Therapeutics Inc.

10/10/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/10/2024 06:31

Business/Financial Results Form 8 K

Item 1.02

Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement

As previously disclosed, on April 3, 2023, Alaunos Therapeutics, Inc. ("Alaunos" or the "Company") entered into an Amended and Restated License Agreement (the "A&R License Agreement") with Precigen, Inc. ("Precigen"), which A&R License Agreement amended and restated in entirety the License Agreement, dated October 5, 2018, by and among the same parties, for the grant of certain licenses by Precigen to Alaunos to develop Sleeping Beauty-transposed neoantigen T-cell receptors for the treatment of solid tumor cancers. On October 4, 2024, Alaunos provided written notice to Precigen to terminate the A&R License Agreement.

The decision to not renew the A&R License Agreement was made after a thorough review of our strategic priorities and business objectives, including recognizing that the non-viral Sleeping Beautygene transfer platform patent will expire in 2026. Alaunos continues to prosecute the intellectual property underlying the TCRs targeting driver mutations such as KRAS, TP53 and EGFR, and the hunTR TCR discovery platform used in the discovery of our proprietary TCR library. The Company continues to explore strategic alternatives, including, but not limited to, an acquisition, merger, reverse merger, sale of assets, strategic partnerships, capital raises or other transactions.