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Nature of business and future operations | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2025
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Nature of business and future operations | Nature of business and future operations Description of the Business Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (“Arbutus” or the “Company”) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on infectious disease. The Company is currently developing imdusiran (AB-729), its proprietary, GalNAc-conjugated, subcutaneously-delivered ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) therapeutic, and AB-101, its proprietary oral PD-L1 inhibitor, for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (cHBV). The Company continues to protect and defend its intellectual property, which is the subject of its ongoing lawsuits against Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. (Moderna) and against Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE (collectively, Pfizer/BioNTech) for their use of the Company’s patented lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology in their COVID-19 messenger ribonucleic acid interference (mRNA)-LNP vaccines. With respect to the Moderna lawsuit in the United States, fact discovery, expert discovery and summary judgment briefing have been completed and a trial date has been set for March 2026. In March 2025, the Company, along with Genevant Sciences GmbH and/or its affiliates (collectively, Genevant), filed five international lawsuits against Moderna in connection with the use of the Company’s LNP technology in Moderna’s COVID-19 mRNA-LNP vaccines and, in the Unified Patent Court, also other Moderna products that use the same LNP technology, including Moderna’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines. Public oral hearings for the two cases in the Unified Patent Court are scheduled for May 2026, and the trial in the Canadian case is set to begin in September 2027. With respect to the Pfizer/BioNTech lawsuit, the court issued a claim construction ruling in September 2025, which construed the disputed claim terms in a manner the Company generally considers to be favorable. Liquidity At September 30, 2025, the Company had an aggregate of $93.7 million in cash, cash equivalents and investments in marketable securities. The Company had no outstanding debt as of September 30, 2025. The Company believes it has sufficient cash resources to fund its operations for at least the next 12 months.

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