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Organization, Description of the Business and Liquidity
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Organization, Description of the Business and Liquidity

1. Organization, Description of the Business and Liquidity

 

Oncocyte Corporation (“Oncocyte” or the “Company”), incorporated in 2009 in the state of California, is a precision diagnostics company focused on developing and commercializing proprietary tests in three areas: DetermaIO is a gene expression test that assesses the tumor microenvironment to predict response to immunotherapies, VitaGraft is a blood-based solid organ transplantation monitoring test and DetermaCNI is a blood-based monitoring tool for monitoring therapeutic efficacy in cancer patients.

 

Oncocyte’s first product for commercial release was a proprietary treatment stratification test called DetermaRx that identifies which patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer may benefit from chemotherapy, resulting in a significantly higher, five-year survival rate. Beginning in September 2019 through February 23, 2021, Oncocyte held a 25% equity interest in Razor Genomics, Inc. (“Razor”), a privately held company, that has developed and licensed to Oncocyte the lung cancer treatment stratification laboratory test that Oncocyte is commercializing as DetermaRx. On February 24, 2021, Oncocyte completed the purchase of all the remaining issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Razor. As a result of the purchase of the Razor common stock, Oncocyte became the sole shareholder of Razor.

 

On December 15, 2022, the Company, entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Razor Stock Purchase Agreement”) with Dragon Scientific, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Dragon”) and Razor. Pursuant to the Razor Stock Purchase Agreement, Oncocyte agreed to sell to Dragon, 3,188,181 shares of common stock of Razor, which constitutes approximately 70% of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Razor on a fully-diluted basis, and transfer to Razor all of the assets and liabilities related to DetermaRx (the “Razor Sale Transaction”).

 

Certain amounts in prior periods have been reclassified to reflect the impact of the discontinued operations treatment of Razor in order to conform to the current period presentation.

 

As a result of the divestiture of Razor, the Company has retrospectively revised the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the period ended March 31, 2022 and the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2022, to reflect the operations and cash flows of Razor as discontinued operations and the related assets and liabilities disposed. See Note 16 for additional information about assets held for sale and discontinued operations.

 

On February 16, 2023, Oncocyte completed the Razor Sale Transaction (the “Razor Closing”). In connection with the Razor Closing, Oncocyte transferred to Razor all of the assets and liabilities related to DetermaRx. While no monetary consideration was received for the sale of 70% of the equity interests of Razor, the transaction allows the Company to eliminate all development and commercialization costs with respect to DetermaRx. Following the Razor Closing, Oncocyte continues to own 1,366,364 shares of common stock of Razor, which constitutes approximately 30% of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Razor on a fully-diluted basis. See Note 16 for a full discussion of the Razor Sale Transaction.

 

 

Liquidity

 

Oncocyte has incurred operating losses and negative cash flows since inception and had an accumulated deficit of $257.6 million as of March 31, 2023. Oncocyte expects to continue to incur operating losses and negative cash flows for the foreseeable future. Oncocyte did not generate revenues from its operations prior to the first quarter of 2020, and revenues since that period through the issuance of this quarterly filing were not sufficient to cover Oncocyte’s operating expenses. Since its formation, Oncocyte has financed its operations primarily through the sale of shares of its common stock, convertible preferred stock and warrants to acquire common stock.

 

As of March 31, 2023, Oncocyte had $11.8 million of cash and cash equivalents and held shares of Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (“Lineage”) and AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. (“AgeX”) common stock as marketable equity securities with a combined fair market value of $0.6 million.

 

On June 11, 2021, Oncocyte entered into an at-the-market sales agreement with BTIG, LLC as sales agent and/or principal (the “Agent” or “BTIG”) pursuant to which Oncocyte may sell up to an aggregate of $50,000,000 of shares of Oncocyte common stock from time to time through the Agent (the “ATM Offering”).

 

Between July 1, 2021 and March 31, 2023, Oncocyte sold 1,123,337 shares of common stock at an average offering price of $5.58 per share, for gross proceeds of approximately $6.27 million through the ATM Offering. Oncocyte will need to raise additional capital to finance its operations, including the development and commercialization of its cancer diagnostic and other tests, until such time as it is able to generate sufficient revenues from the commercialization of one or more of its laboratory tests and other tests, and performing Pharma Services to cover its operating expenses.

 

On April 13, 2022, Oncocyte entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with institutional accredited investors (the “Investors”), including Broadwood Partners, L.P. (“Broadwood”), Oncocyte’s largest shareholder, in a registered direct offering of 11,765 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), which are convertible into a total of 7,689,542 shares of common stock, at a conversion price of $1.53 (the “Series A Preferred Stock Offering”). The purchase price of each share of Series A Preferred Stock was $850, which included an original issue discount to the stated value of $1,000 per share. The Securities Purchase Agreement provides that the closing of the Series A Preferred Stock Offering will occur, subject to the satisfactory of certain closing conditions, in two equal tranches of $5,000,000 each for aggregate gross proceeds from both closings of $10,000,000. The first closing occurred on June 1, 2022, and Oncocyte received net proceeds of approximately $4.9 million from the Series A Preferred Stock issued from the first tranche. The second closing would occur, subject to the satisfactory of certain closing conditions (including but not limited to a requirement that the Company has not received, in the 12 months preceding the second closing, a notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) that the Company is not in compliance with the listing and maintenance and listing requirements of Nasdaq), on the earlier of (a) the second trading day following the date that Oncocyte receives notice from an Investor to accelerate the second closing and (b) a date selected by Oncocyte on or after October 8, 2022 and on or prior to March 8, 2023 (the “Outside Date”). On August 9, 2022, Oncocyte received a letter from Nasdaq indicating that the Company no longer meets the minimum bid price requirement of Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) of the Nasdaq continued listing requirements. As a result, no additional proceeds were received from the second closing of the Securities Purchase Agreement prior to the Outside Date. See Note 15 for additional information about the Series A Preferred Stock Offering.

 

Further, on April 13, 2022, Oncocyte entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with BTIG, LLC, as representative of the underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), pursuant to which Oncocyte agreed to issue and sell to the Underwriters an aggregate of 26,266,417 shares of common stock, and 26,266,417 warrants to purchase up to 13,133,208.5 shares of common stock (“April 2022 Warrants”) (the “Underwritten Offering,” and collectively with the Series A Preferred Stock Offering, the “April 2022 Offerings”). The Underwritten Offering closed on April 19, 2022. Pursuant to the Underwritten Offering, Broadwood acquired from us (i) 5,220,654 shares of common stock, and (ii) 6,003,752 April 2022 Warrants to purchase up to 3,001,876 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.53 per share. Pura Vida acquired from us (i) 4,984,093 shares of common stock, and (ii) 5,731,707 April 2022 Warrants to purchase up to 2,865,853 shares of common stock. On April 19, 2022, Oncocyte received net proceeds of approximately $32.8 million from the Underwritten Offering of 26,266,417 shares of common stock and 26,266,417 April 2022 Warrants to purchase up to 13,133,208.5 shares of common stock. See Note 15 for additional information about the Underwritten Offering.

 

As of March 31, 2023, Oncocyte is completing clinical development and planning commercialization of DetermaIO, although DetermaIO is currently available for biopharma diagnostic development and research use only as a companion test in immunotherapy drug development to select patients for clinical trials; and the clinical launch of VitaGraft. While Oncocyte plans to primarily market its laboratory tests in the United States through its own sales force, it is also beginning to make marketing arrangements with distributors in other countries. In order to reduce capital needs and to expedite the commercialization of any new laboratory tests that may become available for clinical use, Oncocyte may also pursue marketing arrangements with other diagnostic companies through which Oncocyte might receive licensing fees and royalty on sales, or through which it might form a joint venture to market its tests and share in net revenues, in the United States or abroad.

 

Management believes that its cash, cash equivalents and marketable equity securities are sufficient to carry out operations through at least twelve months from the issuance date of the unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements included in this Report. However, the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern is dependent on the Company’s ability to implement or revise its current business plan, generate sufficient revenue and raise additional capital.

 

Due to the inherent uncertainty in predicting future revenues and certain variable costs, management plans to reduce cash flows beyond the nonrecurrence of one-time costs incurred during the three months ended March 31, 2023 that are not expected to repeat or repeat at the same level (i.e., Razor related carrying costs). Efforts to reduce cash flows include but are not limited to the following:  (i) continue to re-evaluate investments in our fixed capital and infrastructure (ii) minimize the use of external consultants and contract resources; (iii) re-evaluate scope and timing of our clinical trial expenses,  (iv) continue to optimize operating burn by materially deferring or limiting the Company’s spending on capital equipment.

 

In addition to general economic and capital market trends and conditions, Oncocyte’s ability to raise sufficient additional capital to finance its operations from time to time will depend on a number of factors specific to Oncocyte’s operations such as operating revenues and expenses, progress in development of, or in obtaining reimbursement coverage from Medicare for DetermaIO and other future laboratory tests that Oncocyte may develop or acquire. See “Risk Factors”.

 

 

The unavailability or inadequacy of financing or revenues to meet future capital needs could force Oncocyte to modify, curtail, delay, or suspend some or all aspects of planned operations. Sales of additional equity securities could result in the dilution of the interests of its shareholders. Oncocyte cannot assure that adequate financing will be available on favorable terms, if at all.