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| Organization and Description of Business |
1. Organization and Description of Business Organization and Business ContraFect Corporation (the “Company”) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of direct lytic agents (“DLAs”), including lysins and amurin peptides, as new medical modalities for the treatment of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections. The Company intends to address antibiotic-resistant infections using product candidates from our lysin and amurin peptide platforms. DLAs are fundamentally different than antibiotics and offer a potential paradigm shift in the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections. The Company’s most advanced product candidate is exebacase, a lysin which targets Staph aureus , including methicillin-resistant strains, which causes serious infections such as bacteremia, pneumonia and osteomyelitis. Staph aureus is also a frequent source of biofilm-dependent infections of heart valves (endocarditis), prosthetic joints, indwelling devices and catheters. These infections result in significant morbidity and mortality despite current antibiotic therapy. Exebacase is being studied in a pivotal Phase 3 superiority study to evaluate its efficacy, safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics when used in addition to standard of care antibiotics for the treatment of Staph aureus bacteremia, including right-sided endocarditis in adults and adolescents. The Phase 2 data in patients with methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) bacteremia treated with exebacase, which demonstrated superior outcomes in clinical response at Day 14 and in 30-day all-cause mortality, as well as health economics benefits, provided the basis for the Phase 3 study design and designation as a Breakthrough Therapy from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The Company has incurred losses from operations since inception as a research and development organization and has an accumulated deficit of $245.5 million as of March 31, 2021. For the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Company used $9.1 million of cash in operations. The Company has relied on its ability to fund its operations through public and private debt and equity financings, and, to a lesser extent, grant funding. Management believes that its existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, will be sufficient to fund operations for at least 12 months from the issuance date of these financial statements. The Company expects operating losses and negative cash flows to continue at significant levels in the future as it continues its clinical trials. Transition to profitability is dependent upon the successful development, approval, and commercialization of its product candidates and achieving a level of revenues adequate to support the Company’s cost structure. The Company may never achieve profitability, and unless and until it does, the Company will continue to need to raise additional capital. Management intends to fund future operations through additional public or private debt and equity financings, and may seek additional capital through arrangements with strategic partners or from other sources. There can be no assurances that such financing will be available to the Company on satisfactory terms, or at all. On August 14, 2020, the Company filed a new shelf registration statement on Form
S-3 (the “Form S-3”) with the SEC. The Form S-3 was declared effective by the SEC on August 31, 2020. The Form S-3 allows the Company to offer and sell from time-to-time On March 22, 2021, the Company completed an underwritten public offering under the Form
S-3 of 11,500,000 shares of its common stock, including shares sold pursuant to the fully exercised overallotment option granted to the underwriters in connection with the offering, at a public offering price of $5.00 per share, resulting in net proceeds to the Company of approximately $53.8 million after underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by the Company. |