Sutro Biopharma today reported its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2019.
| SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sutro Biopharma, Inc., Inc. (NASDAQ: STRO), a clinical-stage drug discovery, development and manufacturing company focused on the application of precise protein engineering and rational design to create next-generation oncology therapeutics, today reported its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2019 and provided a preview of its planned activities for 2020. “We were looking forward to sharing updated safety and efficacy data from our Phase 1 trial for STRO-002 during the AACR Annual Meeting 2020 as a follow up to the encouraging interim safety data we presented at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics Conference in late October 2019,” said Bill Newell, Sutro’s Chief Executive Officer. “With the cancellation of the AACR meeting, we are considering alternative opportunities to present these data in the second quarter. STRO-002 and STRO-001 are our two proprietary antibody drug conjugate (ADC) product candidates progressing in Phase 1 clinical trials. Additionally, each of our three current collaborations has yielded novel oncology product candidates in three distinct therapeutic protein formats that are either in clinical development or in the late stages of preclinical development. All of these candidates are based on our proprietary and integrated cell-free protein synthesis platform XpressCF® and site-specific conjugation platform XpressCF+™, which allows us to rapidly and precisely create optimally designed, next-generation protein therapeutics candidates.” Recent Business Highlights and Developments STRO-002 Clinical Program
STRO-001 Clinical Program
Cytokine-Derivative Programs (Collaboration with Merck & Co.)
BCMA ADC Clinical Program (Collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb; formerly Celgene)
Bispecific ADC Clinical Development Candidate (Collaboration with EMD Serono)
24-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (SutroVax Relationship)
Sutro Unveiled Innovative Cancer Therapy Approach Using Precise Tumor Targeted Immunostimulant ADCs at World ADC London
Full 2019 Financial Highlights Cash, Cash Equivalents and Marketable Securities As of December 31, 2019, Sutro had cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $133.5 million, as compared to $204.5 million as of December 31, 2018, which represents net cash usage of $16.9 million and $71.0 million during the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2019, respectively. On February 28, 2020, Sutro entered into a loan and security agreement, under which Sutro borrowed $25.0 million, with approximately $9.6 million of such amount used to repay the outstanding principal, interest and final payment fees under a prior loan with the same lenders. Revenue Revenue was $42.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, compared to $38.4 million for 2018, principally related to the Merck, BMS, and EMD Serono collaborations. On January 1, 2019, Sutro adopted Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Accounting Standards Codification Topic 606). For more information on the impact of the adoption of the new revenue standard, see “Notes to Financial Statements” contained in Part II, Item 8 of Sutro’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2020. Future collaboration revenue from Merck, BMS, and EMD Serono, and from any future collaboration partners, will fluctuate as a result of the amount and timing of revenue recognition of upfront, milestones and other collaboration agreement payments. Operating Expenses Total operating expenses for the year ended December 31, 2019, were $98.2 million, compared to $75.6 million in 2018, including non-cash stock-based compensation of $10.3 million and $2.9 million, and depreciation and amortization expense of $4.8 million and $4.5 million, in 2019 and 2018, respectively. Total operating expenses for 2019 were comprised of research and development expenses of $65.6 million and general and administrative expenses of $32.6 million, with both expense types expected to increase in 2020 as Sutro’s internal product candidates advance in clinical development and additional general and administrative expenses are incurred as a public company. About Sutro Biopharma Sutro’s proprietary and integrated cell-free protein synthesis platform XpressCF® and site-specific conjugation platform, XpressCF+™, led to the discovery of STRO-001 and STRO-002, Sutro’s first two internally-developed ADCs. STRO-001 is a CD74-targeting ADC currently being investigated in a Phase I clinical trial of patients with advanced B-cell malignancies, including multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. STRO-001 was granted Orphan Drug Designation by the FDA for multiple myeloma in October 2018. STRO-002 FolRα-targeting ADC, currently being investigated in a Phase I clinical trial of patients with ovarian and endometrial cancers. This is the second product candidate to be evaluated in clinical trials resulting from Sutro’s XpressCF® and XpressCF+™ technology platforms. A third program, CC-99712 (BCMA-targeting ADC), which is part of Sutro’s collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb (formerly Celgene Corporation), recently began enrolling patients for its Phase I clinical trial of patients with multiple myeloma. Sutro’s proprietary technology was responsible for the discovery and manufacturing of CC-99712, for which Bristol-Myers Squibb has worldwide development and commercialization rights. Sutro is entitled to development and regulatory milestone payments and tiered royalties from Bristol-Myers Squibb for this BCMA ADC. Sutro is dedicated to transforming the lives of cancer patients by creating medicines with improved therapeutic profiles for areas of unmet need. To date, Sutro has designed cytokine-based immuno-oncology therapies, ADCs, vaccines and bispecific antibodies primarily directed at clinically-validated targets for which the current standard of care is suboptimal. Sutro’s platform allows it to accelerate discovery and development of potential first-in-class and best-in-class molecules through rapid and systematic evaluation of protein structure-activity relationships to create optimized homogeneous product candidates. In addition to developing its own oncology pipeline, Sutro is collaborating with select pharmaceutical and biotech companies to discover and develop novel, next-generation therapeutics. As the pace of clinical development accelerates, Sutro and its partners are developing therapeutics designed to more efficiently kill tumors without harming healthy cells. Additional multimedia content from Sutro regarding STRO-001 and STRO-002 can be found here and here. Follow Sutro on Twitter, @Sutrobio, and at www.sutrobio.com to learn more about our passion for changing the future of oncology. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, anticipated clinical development activities, potential benefits of the company’s product candidates and platform and anticipated financial trends. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, the company cannot guarantee future events, results, actions, levels of activity, performance or achievements, and the timing and results of biotechnology development and potential regulatory approval is inherently uncertain. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause the company’s actual activities or results to differ significantly from those expressed in any forward-looking statement, including risks and uncertainties related to the company’s cash forecasts, the company’s and its collaborators’ ability to advance its product candidates, the receipt and timing of potential regulatory submissions, designations, approvals and commercialization of product candidates, the company’s ability to maintain and recognize the benefits of certain designations received by product candidates, the timing and results of preclinical and clinical trials, the timing of announcements and updates relating to our clinical trials and related data, the company’s ability to enroll patients into its clinical trials, the occurrence of health epidemics or contagious diseases, such as the novel coronavirus, and potential effects on our business, clinical trial sites, supply chain and manufacturing facilities, the potential therapeutic benefits of the company’s product candidates, the company’s ability to fund development activities and achieve development goals, the company’s ability to protect intellectual property, and the company’s commercial collaborations with third parties and other risks and uncertainties described under the heading “Risk Factors” in documents the company files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. Investor Contacts
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