FDA Advisory Committee Meeting for Twirla® NDA Scheduled for October 30, 2019
Cash Expected to Enable Company to Fund Operations through end of First Quarter 2020
PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Agile Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGRX), a women's healthcare company, today reported financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and provided a corporate update.
Third quarter 2019 and other recent corporate developments:
Twirla® Update
Public Offering
Commercial Plans
“The third quarter of 2019 was another productive quarter for the Company” said Al Altomari, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Agile. “We raised much needed cash to fund our business and allow us to reactivate Corium to prepare for commercialization in the event that Twirla® is approved and to accomplish other precommercial activities. In addition, the FDA completed Corium’s facility pre-inspection and our team has been preparing to present the case for NDA approval of Twirla® at the Advisory Committee meeting. We continue to believe that Twirla, if approved, will provide women with a new, important contraception option they do not currently have.”
Third Quarter Financial Results
About Twirla® (AG200-15)
Twirla (ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel transdermal system) or AG200-15 is an investigational low-dose, once-weekly combined hormonal contraceptive (CHC) patch that contains the active ingredients ethinyl estradiol (EE), a type of estrogen, and levonorgestrel (LNG), a type of progestin. Twirla is designed to be applied once weekly for three weeks, followed by a week without a patch. The Company has completed its Phase 3 clinical trials of Twirla and is pursuing regulatory approval in the U.S. The Company resubmitted the Twirla NDA in the second quarter of 2019 and has been assigned a November 16, 2019 PDUFA goal date.
Xulane® is a registered trademark of Mylan N.V., and Ortho Evra® is a registered trademark of Johnson & Johnson.
About Agile Therapeutics, Inc.
Agile Therapeutics is a forward-thinking women's healthcare company dedicated to fulfilling the unmet health needs of today’s women. Our product candidates are designed to provide women with contraceptive options that offer freedom from taking a daily pill, without committing to a longer-acting method. Our lead product candidate, Twirla®, (ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel transdermal system), also known as AG200-15, is an investigational low-dose, non-daily prescription contraceptive. Twirla is based on our proprietary transdermal patch technology, called Skinfusion®, which is designed to allow drug delivery through the skin. For more information, please visit the company website at www.agiletherapeutics.com. The Company may occasionally disseminate material, nonpublic information on the Company’s website.
Forward-Looking Statement
Certain information contained in this press release includes “forward-looking statements”, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, related to our regulatory submissions and projected cash position. We may, in some cases use terms such as “predicts,” “believes,” “potential,” “continue,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,” “may,” “could,” “might,” “likely,” “will,” “should” or other words that convey uncertainty of the future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. Our forward-looking statements are based on current beliefs and expectations of our management team that involve risks, potential changes in circumstances, assumptions, and uncertainties, including statements regarding the approvability and subsequent availability of Twirla, the interpretation of data that supports the approval of Twirla, the timing of our advisory committee meeting and of the FDA’s review of the Twirla NDA, and the fact that our existing cash and cash equivalents likely will not be sufficient to fund our current and planned operations after the end of 2019, which raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern, and which, in turn, may create negative reactions to the price of our common stock making it more difficult to obtain financing in the future, our expectations about Twirla and its NDA. Any or all of the forward-looking statements may turn out to be wrong or be affected by inaccurate assumptions we might make or by known or unknown risks and uncertainties. These forward looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties including risks related to our available cash and our ability to obtain additional funding to fund our business plan without delay and to continue as a going concern, our ability to adequately respond to the deficiencies in the second Twirla CRL issued by the FDA on December 21, 2017, the potential that the FDA determines that our data do not support approval of Twirla NDA and requires us to conduct additional studies or reformulate Twirla to address the concerns raised in the 2017 CRL, our ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of Twirla, our ability to obtain a favorable advisory committee vote regarding the benefit and risk profile of Twirla, the accuracy of our estimates regarding expenses, future revenues, capital requirements and needs for additional financing, the inability of our third-party manufacturer, Corium International, Inc. (Corium), to complete any work or provide any data and other information necessary to support the approval of our Twirla NDA, our ability along with Corium to complete successfully the scale-up of the commercial manufacturing process for Twirla, including the qualification and validation of equipment related to the expansion of Corium's manufacturing facility and to pass a likely FDA pre-approval inspection, the performance and financial condition of Corium or any of the suppliers to our third-party manufacturer, the success and timing of our clinical trials or other studies, our inability to timely obtain from our third-party manufacturer, Corium, sufficient quantities or quality of our product candidates or other materials required for a clinical trial or other tests and studies, and the other risks set forth in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. For all these reasons, actual results and developments could be materially different from those expressed in or implied by our forward-looking statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are made only as of the date of this press release. We undertake no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
Source: Agile Therapeutics
Contact: Investor Relations -- 609-683-1880
Agile Therapeutics, Inc. Condensed Balance Sheets (in thousands) (Unaudited) | ||||||
September 30, 2019 | December 31, 2018 | |||||
Assets | ||||||
Current assets: | ||||||
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 18,370 | $ | 7,851 | ||
Prepaid expenses | 1,316 | 607 | ||||
Total current assets | 19,686 | 8,458 | ||||
Property and equipment, net | 13,932 | 13,916 | ||||
Right of use and other assets | 214 | 18 | ||||
Total assets | $ | 33,832 | $ | 22,392 | ||
Liabilities and stockholders’ equity | ||||||
Current liabilities: | ||||||
Accounts payable and accrued expenses | $ | 1,717 | $ | 2,218 | ||
Lease liability, current portion | 178 | - | ||||
Total current liabilities | 1,895 | 2,218 | ||||
Lease liability, long-term | 34 | - | ||||
Stockholders’ equity | ||||||
Common stock | 6 | 3 | ||||
Additional paid‑in capital | 286,246 | 261,722 | ||||
Accumulated deficit | (254,349 | ) | (241,551 | ) | ||
Total stockholders’ equity | 31,903 | 20,174 | ||||
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity | $ | 33,832 | $ | 22,392 |
Agile Therapeutics, Inc. Condensed Statements of Operations (in thousands, except share and per share amounts) (Unaudited) | ||||||||||||||
Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||||
2019 | 2018 | 2019 | 2018 | |||||||||||
Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||
Research and development | $ | 2,361 | $ | 1,549 | $ | 7,021 | $ | 7,921 | ||||||
General and administrative | 2,138 | 1,767 | 5,732 | 7,173 | ||||||||||
Restructuring costs | — | 299 | — | 715 | ||||||||||
Total operating expenses | 4,499 | 3,615 | 12,753 | 15,809 | ||||||||||
Loss from operations | (4,499 | ) | (3,615 | ) | (12,753 | ) | (15,809 | ) | ||||||
Other income (expense) | ||||||||||||||
Interest expense | — | (268 | ) | — | (955 | ) | ||||||||
Interest income | 67 | 91 | 168 | 289 | ||||||||||
Change in fair value of warrants | — | — | — | 29 | ||||||||||
Loss before benefit from income taxes | (4,432 | ) | (3,792 | ) | (12,585 | ) | (16,446 | ) | ||||||
Benefit from income taxes | — | — | — | 477 | ||||||||||
Net loss | $ | (4,432 | ) | $ | (3,792 | ) | $ | (12,585 | ) | $ | (15,969 | ) | ||
Net loss per share - basic and diluted | $ | (0.08 | ) | $ | (0.11 | ) | $ | (0.28 | ) | $ | (0.47 | ) | ||
Weighted‑average shares outstanding –basic and diluted | 53,609,511 | 34,377,329 | 40,957,809 | 34,295,240 |