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CRISPR Collaboration Agreement | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2025
Collaboration Agreement [Abstract] |
CRISPR Collaboration Agreement | 8. CRISPR Collaboration Agreement On May 5, 2021, the Company entered into a research collaboration agreement (as amended, the "CRISPR Agreement") with CRISPR Therapeutics AG ("CRISPR") to co-develop and co-commercialize an allogeneic, off-the-shelf CAR NK product candidate targeting the CD70 tumor antigen ("NKX070") and an allogeneic, off-the-shelf product candidate that comprises both engineered NK cells and engineered T cells ("NK+T"). The Company and CRISPR have entered into a number of amendments to the CRISPR Agreement to, among other things, revise the transfer of materials, nomination provisions, permit Nkarta's advancement of CRISPR-licensed product candidates targeting a specified tumor antigen (the "Specified TA"), and incorporate associated development and regulatory approval milestones and sales based royalties. In addition, the Company has received licenses from CRISPR for five CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing targets that can be engineered into an unlimited number of its own NK cell products. CRISPR also has an option to co-develop and co-commercialize a future CAR NK program. Subsequently, pursuant to terms of the CRISPR Agreement, CRISPR elected to exercise its right to opt-out of continuing the research of the initial collaboration product, NKX070. The opt-out became effective in September 2025. The Company retains a license to the initial collaboration product, subject to the same potential future milestone and royalty payments owed to CRISPR as described below for non-collaboration products. Currently, Nkarta is not performing any work on this initial collaboration product and no milestones have been achieved or are probable. Under the terms of the CRISPR Agreement now, the Company and CRISPR share equally in all research and development costs and potential profits worldwide related to the NK+T product candidate and the potential future CAR NK program. The Company has deprioritized further development of NKX070 and NK+T. For each non-collaboration product candidate incorporating a genome editing target licensed from CRISPR (a "CRISPR-Licensed Product Candidate"), other than those targeting the Specified TA, the Company would retain worldwide rights and may be required to make potential future payments based on the achievement of development and regulatory approval milestones totaling less than mid-twenty million dollars, as well as tiered royalties up to the mid-single digits on net product sales of such product candidate. For each CRISPR-Licensed Product Candidate targeting the Specified TA, the Company would retain worldwide rights and may be required to make potential future payments based on the achievement of development and regulatory approval milestones totaling less than high-forty million dollars, as well as tiered royalties up to the mid-single digits on net product sales of such product candidate. As of September 30, 2025, the Company has no t paid any amounts no r are any amounts owed by the Company under the CRISPR Agreement, and no milestones have been achieved or are probable.

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