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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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FORM 10-K
FOR ANNUAL AND TRANSITION REPORTS
PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
(MARK ONE)
/X/ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED: DECEMBER 31, 2001
OR
/ / TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM ________________ TO ________________
COMMISSION FILE NO. 000-30981
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GENAISSANCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE 06-1338846
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
incorporation or organization)
FIVE SCIENCE PARK 06511
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT (Zip Code)
(Address of principal executive offices)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (203) 773-1450
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: NONE
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: COMMON STOCK, $.001
PAR VALUE
(Title of each class)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports
required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the
registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such
filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes /X/ No / /
Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item
405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the
best of registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements
incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to the
Form 10-K. /X/
The aggregate market value of voting Common Stock held by non-affiliates of
the registrant was $62,253,905 based on the last reported sale price of the
Common Stock on the Nasdaq consolidated transaction reporting system on
March 5, 2002.
Number of shares of the registrant's class of Common Stock outstanding as of
March 5, 2002: 22,782,987.
Documents Incorporated By Reference:
Items 10, 11, 12 and 13 of Part III (except for information required with
respect to our executive officers which is set forth under "Executive Officers"
in Item 1 of Part I of this report) have been omitted from this report, since we
expect to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, not later than
120 days after the close of our fiscal year, a definitive proxy statement. The
information required by Items 10, 11, 12 and 13 of this report, which will
appear in the definitive proxy statement, is incorporated by reference into
Part III of this report.
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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Our goal is to create personalized medicines through the integration of gene
variation into drug development. We discover inherited differences, or genomic
markers, that exist in human genes. We use our technological capabilities and
methods and our clinical genetics development skills to identify the genomic
markers that appear to define a patient population that responds best to a
medication and has a superior safety profile. We intend to create new
therapeutic products for these patient populations by changing the formulation
of existing drugs and also by completing the development of drugs through joint
ventures and license agreements. In addition, we market our technology and our
genomic markers to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry as a means to
improve the development, marketing and prescribing of drugs.
INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
The pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industry faces intense
pressure to become more productive and deliver more cost effective healthcare.
Two of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry's most challenging issues
are the high cost and low success rate of developing drugs and the need to
differentiate approved drugs in highly competitive markets. At the same time,
healthcare providers and payers are spending a growing proportion of their
resources on prescription drugs.
The drug development process is costly and subject to a high failure rate.
The average cost of developing a drug is estimated to be $500 million, including
the cost of unsuccessful drug candidates. Even with recent technological
advances, including advances in areas such as genomics, the failure rate of
clinical trials remains very high. In the United States, only one in five drug
candidates that enters clinical trials reaches the market. Seventy percent of
the drug candidates that enter clinical trials successfully complete phase I,
33% complete phase II, 25% complete phase III and only 20% achieve regulatory
approval. The decision to enter phase III, the most costly phase of clinical
trials, is generally based upon the results obtained from the limited number of
individuals, often fewer than 200, typically studied in phases I and II. The
typical patient population in phase III is between 1,000 and 5,000 individuals,
and the average amount of money spent in a single phase III clinical trial is
estimated to be greater than $40 million.
Approved drugs often face intense competition. The period of market
exclusivity for the first drug in a new therapeutic class is typically much
shorter today than it was a few years ago. Consequently, marketing expenditures
have increased rapidly as companies attempt to maintain or increase market
share. Of the approximately $50 billion spent in 1999 on U.S.-based drug
discovery, development and marketing, the pharmaceutical industry spent over
$25 billion on marketing drugs. Marketing departments are also under pressure to
maximize the revenue generated from approved products in order to meet
corporate-wide revenue and earnings goals. In addition, the Boston Consulting
Group reports that it expects large pharmaceutical companies to lose a
substantial portion of their present revenues by 2003 due to the expiration of
patents on existing drugs and the effect of generic drugs on competition. Thus,
in order to maintain revenue growth rates and profitability, pharmaceutical
companies must both improve the success rate of clinical trials and
differentiate their drugs in a crowded market place.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the cost for
prescription drugs in the United States increased from $37.7 billion in 1990 to
$100.6 billion in 1999. In addition, during this same period of time, the
overall percentage of healthcare costs for prescribed drugs increased from 5.4%
to 8.2%. In an attempt to contain the rising cost of drug expenditures,
healthcare providers and payers face the difficult task of deciding which drugs
should be prescribed to specific patients and are suitable for reimbursement.
Healthcare providers make these decisions using medical outcome studies and
economic benefit factors but they do not have any knowledge of which individual
patients are most
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likely to benefit from a specific drug, if at all. Thus, healthcare providers
and patients would benefit from using drugs that are targeted for a patient
population that would have the best drug response and safety profile, and, thus,
allow for more appropriate and safer intervention.
POPULATION GENOMICS
The medical community generally acknowledges that most drugs work more
effectively for some patients than for other patients. The pharmaceutical and
biotechnology industry often poorly understands this variability in patient
response. Consequently, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies may
unnecessarily discontinue further drug development, fail to obtain regulatory
approval for promising drug candidates, or, even if a drug obtains approval, be
unable to market an approved drug effectively or to obtain approval for third
party reimbursement.
Scientists have known for a long time that genomic differences influence how
patients respond to drugs. However, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies
generally have not considered genomic differences between patients in developing
and implementing clinical trials or in the marketing of approved drugs. If, in
clinical trials, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies were able to use
genomic markers to identify patient populations that would have different drug
responses, they could improve the drug development and marketing process. For
example, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies could use the genomic
markers, which are identified in phase I and phase II clinical trials as being
predictive of a clinical outcome, to determine the size of the patient
population that would likely benefit from the drug under development. They would
also know the size of the clinical group needed for a phase III clinical trial
to obtain statistically significant data to support the clinical development
program. In addition, if pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies could
identify the patients most likely to have a side effect, they could more closely
monitor these patients or eliminate them from participating in clinical trials
and receiving the drug and, hence, increase the safety profile of a drug. The
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies would, therefore, have a better
understanding of the cost required to complete the development of a drug and the
likely economic return on their investment before proceeding to a phase III
clinical trial. In addition, if pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies could
use genomic markers to predict a drug response, they would be able to improve
the marketing of their drugs by identifying those patient populations for which
particular drugs are likely to be most effective with the least likelihood of
having an adverse reaction. Furthermore, healthcare providers and payers would
likely benefit economically from predictive information that would enable a
physician to prescribe the most appropriate and safest medication at the
earliest possible time.
Population genomics is the analysis of genomic variation within groups of
people. The genomic blueprint each person inherits from his or her biological
parents determines differences, such as height, hair color, and eye color. As
scientists better understand variation at the molecular or genomic level, they
are more certain that an individual's response to a drug is dependent upon that
individual's unique DNA sequence and that more than one gene is probably
involved in a drug response. Scientists know that every drug generally
interacts, directly and indirectly, with a variety of different proteins
produced by different genes. Therefore, in order to predict a specific drug
response, scientists must analyze genomic variation in multiple genes.
A practical approach to understanding why individuals have different
responses to the same drug is to define which genomic differences, if any, are
responsible for this differential drug response. The genomic differences, which
are responsible for defining a specific drug response, can occur in unrelated
individuals from different geographic regions. Thus, the patient population,
which responds best to a drug with a superior safety profile, is probably
defined by a small number of inherited genomic differences and not necessarily
by the ethnic population with which a patient is identified.
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Any approach to commercialize the use of population genomics must:
- take into account that each individual has two versions of every gene;
- recognize that multiple genes are involved in an individual's response to
a drug;
- measure accurately and efficiently substantial genomic variation between
individuals from diverse groups; and
- identify, with sophisticated software programs, the genomic variation that
defines different patient populations with different drug responses.
SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS AND HAPLOTYPES
At the DNA level, genomic variation occurs mainly as a result of variation
at a single position in the DNA sequence, commonly referred to as a single
nucleotide polymorphism or SNP. Several international efforts have served as the
starting point for understanding genomic variation. One is the Human Genome
Project whose scientists have made publicly available a rough draft of a
sequence of a single composite human genome. This sequence provides a starting
point to identify SNPs. Another effort was the SNP Consortium, an industry
sponsored initiative that, together with the Human Genome Project, has
identified a reference sample of approximately 1.8 million SNPs distributed
throughout the human genome. However, geneticists believe that only a small
portion of the human genome constitutes gene information. Thus, only a small
number of the SNPs that have been identified fall within these gene regions of
DNA.
Geneticists historically studied genetic variation by analyzing the
inheritance of traits within an extended family. Classical population
geneticists coined the term haplotype to describe the physical organization of
genetic variation as it occurs in an individual. The haplotype is the standard
for measuring genetic variation. At the molecular level, a haplotype consists of
multiple, individual SNPs that are organized into one of the limited number of
combinations that actually exists as units of inheritance in humans. Each
haplotype contains significantly more information than individual, unorganized
SNPs. As a result, clinicians need fewer patients to define a patient population
with a different drug response if they use haplotypes rather than individual,
unorganized SNPs.
Haplotypes provide:
- an accurate measurement of the genomic variation in each individual's two
genomes;
- a practical method of organizing this genomic variation information;
- an efficient tool for measuring this genomic variation in diverse groups
of people; and
- enough information to allow clinicians to extract statistically accurate
data from small populations.
Both the Human Genome Project and the SNP Consortium have produced basic
information for use by academic and industrial researchers. However, these
efforts did not:
- determine how SNPs are organized within a gene to constitute a haplotype;
- determine the frequency with which SNPs or haplotypes are found in various
populations; or
- create an informatics interface for using this information in a clinical
setting.
Through the use of haplotypes, together with sophisticated software
programs, drug developers could identify, with statistical accuracy in a small
population of the size commonly seen in phases I and II of clinical trials, the
genomic variation that defines different patient populations with different drug
responses and, therefore, make better informed decisions on whether or not to
enter phase III clinical trials. In addition, defining the patient population
with the desired clinical outcome would enable drug
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developers to improve the marketing of their drugs by identifying those patients
for whom particular drugs are likely to have the best safety profile and be most
effective. Furthermore, healthcare providers and payers would likely benefit
economically from predictive information that would enable a physician to
prescribe the appropriate medication at the earliest possible time.
THE GENAISSANCE SOLUTION
We have developed a combination of technologies and expertise, which we call
our HAP-TM- Technology, that allows population genomics to be integrated into
the development, marketing and prescribing of new and existing medicines.
The key components of our HAP Technology are:
- a database of highly informative, proprietary measures of genomic
variation, or haplotypes, which we call HAP-TM- Markers, for
pharmaceutically relevant genes;
- a proprietary informatics system, which we call
DECOGEN-Registered Trademark-, including unique algorithms, for defining
patient populations with different drug responses;
- a cost effective, efficient process for measuring genomic variation in
clinical DNA samples, which we call HAP-TM- Typing; and
- clinical genetics development skills.
We designed our HAP Technology to permit pharmaceutical and biotechnology
companies to use population genomics in a variety of ways for drug development
and commercialization.
DRUG DEVELOPMENT. We designed our HAP Technology to improve the success
rate of drugs in clinical trials by:
- assessing efficiently the genomic variation among the patients involved in
a clinical trial, thereby permitting pharmaceutical and biotechnology
companies to incorporate genomic variation information into all decisions
required during the course of a clinical trial;
- creating better informed, or "smarter," clinical trials through the design
of protocols, which result in the inclusion of those patients most likely
to benefit, with a superior safety profile, from the proposed therapeutic
product;
- facilitating earlier "go/no-go" decisions on whether to proceed to the
next phase of clinical trial testing, which should result in a more
efficient use of clinical resources; and
- reducing the size and, hence, the cost of late-stage clinical trials by
enrolling a group of patients, who are most likely to respond to a drug
and are least likely to suffer an adverse reaction.
DRUG MARKETING AND PRESCRIBING. We also designed our HAP Technology to help
maximize the value of an approved drug by:
- identifying which of our HAP Markers define the patient population with
the best response and with a superior safety profile;
- integrating genomic variation information into marketing strategies to
sustain and enhance a market leading position or to address problems such
as poor market penetration, competitive pricing issues, safety, risk of
therapeutic substitution, and limited patent life; and
- targeting new markets and obtaining approval for new indications.
Our HAP Technology could also be useful for improving the drug discovery
process through the selection and validation of drug targets. In addition,
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies could incorporate data obtained
during clinical trials into the drug discovery process to develop second-
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generation drugs. If widely adopted, our HAP Technology could enable the
healthcare system to personalize treatment based upon an individual's unique
genome.
We are also applying our HAP Technology to identify which of our HAP Markers
define patient populations that have the best response, with a superior safety
profile, to a marketed drug. To do so, we have created a clinical genetics
development group, which consists of the following:
- physicians experienced in clinical trial development and pathways of
disease;
- clinical operations personnel experienced in the management of large
parallel clinical trials;
- bio-statisticians experienced in the analysis of clinical trial data; and
- regulatory affairs personnel experienced in global product approval
processes.
OUR STRATEGY
We intend to:
- make our HAP Technology the industry standard for using genomic variation
information throughout the pharmaceutical development, marketing and
prescribing process and
- use our HAP Technology on drugs currently in the market or under clinical
development to create new drugs for specific patient populations that are
defined by our HAP Markers and respond best to the medication and/or
exhibit a superior safety profile.
The key elements of our strategy include the following:
COMMERCIALIZE OUR HAP TECHNOLOGY THROUGH OUR HAP-TM- PARTNERSHIP
PROGRAM. We currently have a HAP Partnership program with three pharmaceutical
companies and one biotechnology company. In November 2000, we entered into our
first partnership program with Janssen Research Foundation, an affiliate of
Johnson & Johnson, in which the Janssen Research foundation and the R.W. Johnson
Pharmaceutical Research Institute, another member of the Johnson & Johnson
family of companies, gained a license to our HAP Technology. In October 2001, we
entered into an agreement with Pfizer, Inc., in which Pfizer gained access to a
selected group of our HAP Markers. Effective as of November 2001, we entered
into an agreement with AstraZeneca UK Limited, in which AstraZeneca gained
access to both a selected group of our HAP Markers and our
DECOGEN-Registered Trademark- Informatics System for application to one of
AstaZeneca's target discovery programs. In December 2001 and in January 2002, we
entered into two agreements with Biogen, Inc., to provide Biogen access to a
limited group of our HAP Markers for use with drug targets under investigation
and to apply our HAP Technology to drugs currently in development, respectively.
We are in discussions and negotiations with additional pharmaceutical and
biotechnology companies to enter into our HAP Partnership program. Our HAP
Partnership program offers access to any or all components of our HAP Technology
for application to drug target discovery and validation, drugs in clinical
development, and drugs on the market. In return, we seek annual subscription
fees and payments for our collaborative contributions to specific drug
development or marketing projects and for our HAP Typing services. In addition,
we expect license fees, as well as milestone and royalty payments for the
commercial use of our HAP Markers.
COMMERCIALIZE OUR HAP TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF HAP-TM-
DRUGS. We intend to develop a product pipeline of personalized medicines, which
we intend to call HAP Drugs, that are approved for specific populations defined
by our HAP Markers. Our goal is to use our HAP Technology and our clinical
genetics development expertise to create new therapeutic products from drugs
that were previously undifferentiated, that had unpredictable side effects, that
had a narrow therapeutic application or whose patent had expired. Our process
starts with identifying drugs in development or off-patent compounds, which meet
these criteria and for which we believe there is a meaningful market opportunity
if specific patient populations could be identified with our HAP Markers. We
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gain access to patented compounds, which we identify as candidates for our HAP
Drug program, through joint ventures and license agreements. We will start the
development process by conducting a phase II clinical trial to identify which of
our HAP Markers are predictive of safety and efficacy for the candidate HAP Drug
or by obtaining blood samples from patients that have experienced a severe
adverse reaction with the candidate HAP Drug. We may also formulate the
candidate HAP Drug in a manner that enhances further its performance. We will
then seek to confirm and validate our findings in a prospective clinical trial.
We intend to co-market or to co-develop the HAP Drug with a pharmaceutical
company or a specialty pharmaceutical company. Compared to traditional drug
development, we believe that selecting compounds that are ready for entry into
late phase clinical trials is a rapid, low cost-risk process for developing new
therapeutic products. Our first two product candidates are HAP-TM--Clozapine for
schizophrenia and HAP-TM--Statin for cholesterol management. Clozapine and
statin compounds are the active ingredients in currently marketed drugs that are
used to treat disease areas in large markets with multiple approved drugs having
significant annual sales.
DISCOVER AND PATENT HAP MARKERS FOR ALL OF THE PHARMACEUTICALLY RELEVANT
GENES AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS WITH CLINICAL APPLICATIONS. We are seeking to
discover and file patent applications on HAP Markers for all of the
pharmaceutically relevant genes. We also intend to file patent applications on
the associations that we discover between these HAP Markers and specific
clinical outcomes, such as drug response, side effects and disease risk.
CONTINUE TO IMPROVE AND EXPAND OUR DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- INFORMATICS
SYSTEM. We are continually expanding the capability of our
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System with the goal of establishing
it as the industry standard for integrating genomic variation into the
pharmaceutical development and marketing process. We believe that our
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System is the only platform available
that combines sophisticated genomic variation analysis tools with
state-of-the-art clinical statistics in an intuitive, graphical user interface.
INCREASE AWARENESS OF THE IMPACT OF GENE VARIATION ON THE FUTURE PRACTICE OF
MEDICINE. We are working with regulatory agencies, legislators, third party
payers, the medical community and healthcare consumers to build awareness about
the benefits of using genomic variation data in the development, marketing and
prescribing of new and existing drugs. Our goal is to establish our HAP
Technology as the industry standard in the healthcare field for evidence-based
medicine.
OUR COMMERCIAL PROGRAMS
HAP PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
We have developed a program intended to give pharmaceutical and
biotechnology companies access to our HAP Technology and our clinical genetics
development expertise throughout each phase of drug development and marketing.
Potential partners are offered access to our proprietary HAP Markers, our
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System, our HAP Typing facility, which
we use to measure HAP Markers from individual patient samples, and our clinical
genetics development expertise. While we expect to retain all intellectual
property rights in HAP Markers discovered during the partnership, we offer our
partners an option to obtain multiple exclusive licenses for the use of these
HAP Markers for the development of therapeutic and diagnostic products within
specified drug classes and for particular disease indications.
HAP DRUGS
In our HAP Drug program, we are applying our clinical genetics development
expertise and our HAP Technology to drugs currently marketed by third parties.
Through joint ventures and license agreements, we also intend to obtain access
to and include, in our HAP Drug program, patented drugs that are still under
clinical development. We seek to find which of our HAP Markers define patient
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populations that have the best response to a candidate HAP Drug and/or are least
susceptible to side effects and adverse reactions. We choose genes to analyze
based upon knowledge of the candidate HAP Drug, the candidate HAP Drug's known
or likely target and manner of metabolism, and the disease to be treated. We
intend to increase the number of genes we analyze as the cost for HAP Typing
decreases. If we fail to define a patient population using HAP Markers for a
given gene, we eliminate that gene from further consideration and analyze
additional genes. In a prospective study, we will test the ability of the
identified HAP Markers to define a patient population with the predicted
clinical outcome.
Our clinical development process consists of an initial discovery phase, in
which we obtain blood samples from patients in clinical trials or from
individuals who have used a marketed drug, to discover which of our HAP Markers
appear to define a patient population with a specific clinical outcome. We
expect to enroll approximately 150 patients for treatment with a candidate HAP
Drug or obtain blood samples from 40 to 100 individuals who have taken a
marketed drug, depending upon whether we seek to define a patient population
with the best efficacy profile or best safety profile, respectively. The
clinical discovery phase will take from one to one and one-half years, depending
on the disease area and the candidate HAP Drug being tested. At the conclusion
of this phase, we expect that we will have identified which of our HAP Markers
appear to define a patient population with the desired clinical response, such
as efficacy or safety of a drug at varying doses as well as disease
susceptibility and progression.
Next, in a clinical development phase, we will then seek to confirm and
validate that the identified HAP Markers define a patient population with the
desired clinical outcome. We intend to perform prospective clinical trials, in
which the identity of a patient's HAP Markers is unknown to the clinical
investigators. We intend to enroll 150 to 300 patients for treatment with the
candidate HAP Drug. We expect that the clinical development phase will take from
one to two years, depending on the disease area and the candidate HAP Drug being
tested. At the conclusion of this phase, we expect that we will have produced
validated HAP Markers that define a patient population with a specific clinical
response. We do not currently expect to manufacture any resulting HAP Drugs and
their associated diagnostic products ourselves. Instead, we intend to co-develop
and/or to co-market them with pharmaceutical companies and/or specialty
pharmaceutical companies.
HAP-STATIN: STRENGTH TRIALS (STATIN RESPONSE EXAMINED BY GENETIC HAP
MARKERS). We are currently applying our HAP Technology and our clinical
genetics development skills to the statin class of drugs, which doctors use to
treat patients with high cholesterol and lipid levels and who are, therefore, at
risk for cardiovascular disease. This market is highly competitive with multiple
approved products seeking to gain increased market share. In 2001, the National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, an institute of the National Institutes of
Health, issued the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program
Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol
in Adults, which included new guidelines that increase, nearly three-fold to an
estimated 36 million people, the number of patients in the United States who
need prescription therapy to lower their cholesterol level. Currently, the
market is approximately $11 billion worldwide and experts forecast that the
market will at least double in size by 2005.
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We are examining five statins in our two prospective STRENGTH clinical
trials. The goal of these two trials is to identify which of our HAP Markers
define a patient population that has the best therapeutic response to one or
more of these statins with a superior safety profile. In April 2001, we began
enrollment for the first of our two STRENGTH trials, in which patients were
randomized and then enrolled into one of four treatment arms, in which a patient
was treated with one of four statins. The four drugs used were atorvastatin
(sold by Pfizer, Inc. as Lipitor-Registered Trademark-), cerivastatin (sold by
Bayer AG as Baycol-Registered Trademark-), pravastatin (sold by Bristol-Myers
Squibb Company as Pravacol-Registered Trademark-), and simvastatin (sold by
Merck as Zocor-Registered Trademark-). Following the withdrawal of cerivastatin
from the market in August 2001, we discontinued treating all of the patients who
were taking this product. In October 2001, we began enrollment in our second
STRENGTH trial, in which enrolled patients are receiving lovastatin (sold by
Merck as Mevacor-Registered Trademark-). The trial protocol for both STRENGTH
trials is to treat each patient for eight weeks with the lowest dose recommended
on the drug label followed by then treating each patient for eight weeks with
the highest dose recommended on the drug label. At least 149 patients were
enrolled into each treatment arm. Enrollment was completed for STRENGTH I in
July 2001 with the last patient receiving the last examination in
November 2001. Enrollment was completed for STRENGTH II in November 2001 with
the last patient anticipated to receive the last examination in March 2002. The
data from STRENGTH I are expected to be available in the first quarter of 2002
and from STRENGTH II in the second half of 2002. Based upon the results of our
data, we intend to choose a statin, which would not have patent protection, for
development as our HAP-Statin.
HAP-CLOZAPINE: HAP MARKER DISCOVERY STUDY. We intend to initiate a study
designed to identify which of our HAP Markers define the patients who are most
likely to develop agranulocytosis, a potentially life-threatening depletion of
white blood cells, if treated with clozapine. Clozapine, which is no longer
under patent protection, is a highly effective therapeutic for treating patients
with schizophrenia. However, because of the risk of agranulocytosis, the
currently approved clozapine products are restricted by their labels to only
those patients who have failed to improve after being treated with two other
drugs. Also, during the first six months of treatment with clozapine, a patient
must undergo weekly blood monitoring, a requirement that results in poor patient
compliance. We believe that clozapine's third-line therapy status and the
requirement for repeated blood testing are the primary reasons that the market
share for all clozapine products is only approximately $350 million in the
United States. Currently, the antipsychotic market in the United States is
approximately $3.5 billion and experts estimate that the market in the United
States could reach $8 billion by 2005.
ASTHMA CLINICAL STUDY
To demonstrate how the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry and
healthcare providers could use our HAP Technology, we conducted a clinical study
to determine whether we could use HAP Markers or SNPs to define an asthma
patient population that responded to the drug albuterol (sold by GlaxoSmithKline
as Ventolin-Registered Trademark-), a standard treatment for persons with
asthma. We conducted the study in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Liggett, our
executive medical advisor and a professor of medicine at the University of
Cincinnati Medical Center. We examined genomic variation in the target of the
drug, the b(2)-adrenergic receptor (b(2)-AR). We determined the sites of
variation in a region spanning most of the b(2)-AR gene and then used our
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System to organize the SNPs into HAP
Markers. We found 13 SNPs in the b(2)-AR gene, which were organized into only 12
HAP Markers out of a theoretical possibility of 8,192 (2(13)) haplotypes. We
collapsed the 12 HAP Markers into five major groups using our proprietary
methods of population genomics to increase the likelihood of defining a patient
population with the desired clinical outcome.
Dr. Liggett recruited 121 asthmatic individuals for clinical treatment.
Dr. Liggett made a large number of standard pulmonary measurements, after which
he treated the patients with albuterol in a controlled setting. Approximately 30
minutes after treatment, Dr. Liggett repeated the pulmonary measurements. The
response to the drug differed significantly from patient to patient and the drug
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clinically effective in only 40% of these patients as measured by generally
accepted clinical criteria. Dr. Liggett and his staff drew blood samples and
extracted DNA for HAP Typing of the b(2)-AR gene. We did the HAP Typing and
entered the clinical information and the results from HAP Typing into our
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System. The search engine of our
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System analyzed the data for
identifying combinations of HAP Markers as well as individual SNPs that appeared
to be predictive of a patient's response to albuterol.
Our DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System identified specific
pairs of HAP Markers in the b( 2)-AR receptor gene that were carried by patients
that exhibited a positive drug response and specific pairs of HAP Markers that
were carried by patients that exhibited a poor drug response. By contrast, no
individual SNP was found to have such predictive power in this study. This
study, which was similar in sample size used for a phase II clinical trial,
showed that a patient's response to albuterol correlated, in a statistically
significant manner, with specific HAP Markers. We filed a patent application on
the finding and published a more detailed description of this study in a peer
reviewed scientific journal in September 2000.
OUR TECHNOLOGY
OVERVIEW
Our process for discovering HAP Markers eliminates the need, which is
inherent in family-based approaches, to find and then test large numbers of
families or related individuals to determine genomic variation. Initially, we
discover individual SNPs by high-throughput sequencing of DNA samples of
unrelated and related individuals that are representative of the individuals who
constitute the major pharmaceutical markets of the world. We use our proprietary
algorithms to organize the SNPs into HAP Markers. Using these algorithms, we
find that the number of actual HAP Markers per gene is significantly less than
the theoretically large number of ways in which SNPs could be organized.
Our DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System contains a number of
components. Our HAP-TM- Database contains our HAP Markers, including information
about their sequence, frequency and distribution. Our
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System also contains a proprietary
collection of algorithms and a search engine that correlates a patient's HAP
Markers with a particular response to a drug. Using our
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System, we can determine with
statistical accuracy the correlation between HAP Markers and drug response in a
small population of the size commonly seen in phase I and phase II of a clinical
trial.
HAP Typing is our process for measuring which HAP Marker pairs are present
in a patient's DNA sample. Our HAP Typing facility uses proprietary software,
robotics and Sequenom's MassARRAY-TM- platform to determine, on a
high-throughput basis, which two HAP Markers for a gene are present in a
patient's DNA sample. We integrate the resulting data into our
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System to search for a correlation
with a patient's drug response.
The following outlines the components of our HAP Technology and how we use
our HAP Technology to define a patient population with a specific drug response.
GENE SELECTION
Our goal is to discover HAP Markers for all of the pharmaceutically relevant
genes. We prioritize these genes for HAP Marker discovery based upon the needs
of our HAP Partnership program members and our HAP Drug program. We obtain
genomic information relevant for gene selection from publicly available sources,
such as the Human Genome Project, and from proprietary databases. We are
discovering HAP Markers for genes that:
- are, or will likely become, drug targets;
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- are associated with drug target pathways;
- are involved in how drugs modify cell communication or regulate other
genes; and
- are involved in the metabolic process by which the body absorbs a drug and
breaks it down.
INDEX REPOSITORY
We use our Index Repository, a collection of diverse DNA samples, to
discover the SNPs that are present in genes. We designed our Index Repository
to:
- contain genomic information that would be representative of the people who
constitute the major pharmaceutical markets of the world;
- aid in the quality control analysis of the SNPs we discover; and
- facilitate the organization of SNPs into HAP Markers.
To build our Index Repository, we recruited nearly 500 individuals whose
parents and grandparents came from specified geographical regions. We obtained
personal information from each individual, including sex, date of birth, and
general medical information, as well as a detailed family history and drew blood
samples so that we could create continually multiplying cells from the white
cells present in the blood. The resulting cells, called permanent cell lines,
provide us with a supply of DNA from which to discover SNPs. We store frozen
samples of each cell line at multiple locations to ensure that all of these cell
lines are available in the future. To supply sufficient DNA for the production
process, we routinely grow the cell lines in our cell culture facility. We
employ quality control procedures that permit each DNA sample to be
unambiguously matched to its corresponding cell line. We store all of the
information about a cell line in our proprietary HAP Database that is a
component of our DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System.
DISCOVERING SNPS
We use a subset of our Index Repository to discover SNPs. We employed
principles of population statistics to determine the minimum number of unrelated
individuals that we needed to have a 99% probability of detecting a SNP or HAP
Marker that occurs:
- in at least 5% of the general population or
- in at least 10% of a population from a specific geographical region.
We sequence individual samples of DNA so that we can accurately determine
the frequency of a SNP in the population. Our procedure allows us to detect SNPs
that are present at lower frequencies than if we were to analyze a mixture of
DNA from different individuals, as is done by some companies.
We sequence 93 individual, human DNA samples, or 186 individual genomes,
from our Index Repository in the following genomic regions for each selected
gene:
- the region responsible for controlling when a gene is active, the control
region;
- the regions containing coding information that is found in the protein
product of the gene, the coding regions;
- the boundaries between the genomic regions containing coding information
and those interspersed regions that do not contain coding information, the
non-coding regions; and
- the region at the end of a gene immediately after the last region
containing coding information.
Our sequencing process is highly automated, from picking the regions to be
sequenced through loading the samples onto one of our sequencing machines. We
designed the process in a modular
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fashion so that we can easily update procedures with improved technology without
the need to shut down the entire production process. We operate our sequencing
facility 24 hours a day, seven days a week and have 59 ABI
Prism-Registered Trademark- 3700 capillary sequencers, manufactured by Applied
Biosystems, a division of Applera Corporation.
We have also developed a proprietary laboratory information management
system to track genes as they progress through the production pipeline. We use
this system to monitor the overall quality of data we produce to ensure that the
sequencing process is operating according to our established standards. The
sequence information undergoes two forms of quality control analysis. We use
electronic procedures and established population genomic principles to identify
and validate that a SNP exists at a given position.
HAP MARKERS AND HAP DATABASE
Geneticists use the term haplotype to describe how SNPs are organized on a
chromosome. They study the inheritance of genetic variability in extended
families in order to determine haplotypes. Family studies allow a geneticist to
differentiate which of the two copies of a chromosome an individual inherited
from each parent. The haplotype is the standard for describing genetic
variability.
We do not need to conduct family studies to discover haplotypes. Rather than
relying on family studies, we have developed an entirely computerized process
for discovering haplotypes. Our proprietary method works because we analyze a
large number of individual samples and we have members of extended families in
our sample set. We have validated the accuracy of our computerized process by
conventional family studies and molecular techniques. We use our proprietary
computational methods and algorithms to determine how the SNPs in a gene are
organized on each of the two chromosomes in each sample we sequence from our
Index Repository. We use the term HAP Marker, derived from haplotype, to
describe the organization of SNPs we find for a gene. Without our
high-throughput computerized process, the discovery of our HAP Markers would not
be commercially feasible.
Our computerized process assigns a confidence value to each HAP Marker we
discover. If the HAP Markers we discover for a gene fall below a defined
confidence level, we subdivide the gene into regions. We reexamine each region
until we identify HAP Markers that meet our acceptance level. We then enter each
HAP Marker into our proprietary HAP Database. We also enter other relevant
population information, such as the distribution and frequency of each HAP
Marker among people from different geographical regions. We also include, in our
HAP Database, other genomic markers that others have identified and are
available in public databases.
As of February 15, 2002, we had processed in excess of 5,300
pharmaceutically relevant genes through our production process and deposited
their HAP Markers and associated information into our HAP Database. All of the
nearly 500 current drug targets, with identified genomic structure, have gone
through our production process. We intend to use some of our sequencing capacity
to examine certain genes in more than 93 individuals in order to obtain
additional population variability information for specialized applications, such
as the identification of HAP Markers for the human genes that are involved in
the adsorption, deposition, metabolism and excretion of drugs. We also intend to
use some of our sequencing capacity to examine genes in specific populations
with and without a defined drug response in order to identify predictive HAP
Markers for the specified drug response. To date, we have found an average of
approximately 15 SNPs per gene. There are generally two possible forms of a SNP
that are found at a site of genomic variation. Therefore, these 15 SNPs could
theoretically be organized into 2(15) or 32,768 potential HAP Markers. Using our
proprietary algorithms, we found that these SNPs are organized into an average
of only approximately 18 HAP Markers per gene.
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THE DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- INFORMATICS SYSTEM
We have constructed a proprietary informatics system, called
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK-(), which contains the proprietary database of
population information for our Index Repository and our proprietary HAP Database
of HAP Markers. These databases can accommodate information from a variety of
populations, including individuals suffering from a specific disease and
patients in clinical trials, as well as associated data such as detailed medical
histories, including responses to drugs. The portal to these databases is the
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System's search engine, which we
designed with an intuitive, graphical user interface so that drug development
clinicians can easily manage their data to find a correlation between HAP
Markers and a drug response.
We have constructed the graphical interface to display a series of views
that contain information, beginning with a summary and extending down into
details. For example, in each project, we define a set of candidate genes for
use in the clinical study. This collection of genes can generally be organized
into a series of biochemical pathways, which we graphically display in our
DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System. The user can point and click
on any gene in the pathway and obtain detailed information about that gene. One
view provides information on the structure of a gene and the physical location
of the SNPs, along with the limited number of ways in which these SNPs are
organized into HAP Markers. This view also displays the frequency of each HAP
Marker in the different sub-populations. With another view, a user can see the
HAP Markers for individual patients in a clinical trial alongside of their
demographic and clinical data.
Our DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System provides more detailed
views for experts in various areas. For example, population genomic data are
available at the click of a mouse. We also provide views that show the
statistics behind any correlation found between HAP Markers and a drug response.
Our DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System can use either qualitative
or quantitative clinical measurements as a clinical endpoint to search for a
correlation with our HAP Markers. Our DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics
System has the ability to exchange information with standard software packages
used in the pharmaceutical industry.
Additional tools are available in our DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK-
Informatics System to help in the design and operation of clinical trials. To
avoid introducing a bias, clinicians take into account factors such as age and
sex when they randomize patients between the drug and placebo arms of a clinical
trial. Clinicians can use our HAP Markers to compare the genomic background of
the patients in the two arms of a clinical trial. This function allows the
clinician to determine retrospectively whether the two patient populations were
genetically comparable. Clinicians can also use this function to match patients
for assignment to the two arms of a trial to ensure that the genomic backgrounds
are comparable.
HAP TYPING
We use the term HAP Typing to describe the process of determining which HAP
Marker is present for each of the two versions of each gene in a patient's
clinical sample. The first step in searching for a clinical correlation is to do
HAP Typing on the clinical samples we receive from a HAP Partnership program
member or obtain for a HAP Drug program. Because of the information content in
our HAP Markers, we can detect a correlation between a HAP Marker and a drug
response with statistical accuracy in a small population, such as is used in
phase II clinical trials. Other companies propose using numerous, unorganized
SNPs to detect a correlation. Our analysis of the genes, which we have examined,
demonstrated that, in general, haplotypes have more predictive power than do
individual SNPs. In addition, our analysis showed that one would obtain a
significant number of spurious correlations if one uses individual, unorganized
SNPs. Thus, if clinicians use individual SNPs as genomic markers, they would
need a large number of patients, similar to what pharmaceutical companies
generally use in phase III trials, to find a correlation with similar
statistical accuracy.
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Our DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System contains a proprietary
computational tool that facilitates the use of HAP Markers for HAP Typing. Our
SNP discovery process identifies the positions of variation within a gene. Thus,
we examine only these variable positions in a clinical sample. Our proprietary
algorithms determine the minimal number and combination of variable sites, which
we must analyze in order to identify, with high confidence, the two HAP Markers
that are present for each gene in a clinical sample of DNA. This proprietary
tool exploits an established genetic principle. That is, the presence of a given
form of genomic variation at one position can be highly predictive of the form
of genomic variation present at another site in a gene. This predictability
reduces the complexity of the information needed to identify a HAP Marker in a
genomic sample. We can determine this predictability, however, only if we
already know the haplotype or the organization of SNPs in a gene. Our HAP
Markers contain this needed information.
We use our HAP Typing capabilities to support our HAP Partnership program
members and our HAP Drug program and to obtain additional population information
for certain HAP Markers. We have a customized 8,000 square foot facility,
dedicated to HAP Typing, which became registered in December 2001 under the
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) when we submitted our
application to the Connecticut Department of Public Health. During the second
quarter of 2002, we anticipate that inspectors will visit our facility to
determine whether the facility is CLIA compliant. We designed this facility to
handle initially at least three million genomic tests per year. We have adopted
Sequenom's MassARRAY high-throughput technology to do our HAP Typing. We expect
additional shifts of technicians and MassARRAY systems to increase the capacity
to at least 18 million genomic tests per year. We have developed genomic tests
for a number of our HAP Markers and have used these tests for clinical studies
with one of our HAP Partnership program members and in our STRENGTH trials.
OUR COLLABORATIONS
To date, we have entered into the following licenses and collaborations:
INTEC WEB & GENOME INFORMATICS
Effective February 4, 2002, we entered into a two-year agreement with Intec
Web and Genome Informatics Corporation, referred to as Intec W&G, in which we
appointed Intec W&G as a non-exclusive, authorized sales representative with
responsibility for the Japanese market. We agreed to pay Intec W&G a fixed
commission on all payments, excluding royalties, we receive from agreements
concluded through Intec W&G with Japanese companies.
BIOGEN
Effective December 21, 2001, we entered into an agreement with
Biogen, Inc., in which Biogen gained non-exclusive access to selected HAP
Markers from our HAP Database solely for research and development purposes. We
receive payments based upon the HAP Markers that Biogen selects.
Effective January 31, 2002, we entered into a second agreement with
Biogen, Inc., in which we are applying our HAP Technology to a study of the
pharmacogenetic basis of variability in response to a biologic that Biogen is
developing as a therapeutic product. We granted Biogen an exclusive, fee-bearing
license to use our HAP Markers, which are shown to be predictive of response to
this biologic, to develop diagnostic tests for use in connection with marketing
this therapeutic product. We also granted Biogen an exclusive option, for a
limited time, to acquire an exclusive license to use particular HAP Markers for
developing and commercializing other products. Biogen agreed to pay us a
non-refundable initial fee, research funding and milestone payments based upon
the achievement of predetermined goals, as well as payments for the commercial
use of our HAP Markers in conjunction with the sale of the therapeutic product.
The agreement will automatically terminate after a defined
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period of years. Biogen received certain early termination rights and either
party may terminate the agreement early if the other party breaches the
agreement.
ASTRAZENECA
Effective November 29, 2001, we entered into an agreement with AstraZeneca
UK Limited, in which AstraZeneca gained limited access to our HAP Technology to
investigate associations between our HAP Markers and disease susceptibility, in
exchange for a specified fee. We granted AstraZeneca an exclusive license to use
certain HAP Markers that are shown to have a predictive association with a
disease, for discovering, developing, manufacturing, marketing and selling
drugs. We also granted AstraZeneca a co-exclusive license, with us, to use the
predictive HAP Markers for discovering, developing, manufacturing, marketing and
selling prognostic products intended for use in connection with the sale or
prescription of AstraZeneca drugs. AstraZeneca granted us the option to obtain
licenses under its intellectual property for making, using, marketing and
selling prognostic and diagnostic products that detect these predictive HAP
Markers.
PFIZER
Effective August 31, 2001, we entered into a one-year agreement with
Pfizer, Inc., in which Pfizer gained non-exclusive access to selected data from
our HAP Database. We receive payments based upon the HAP Markers that Pfizer
selects.
JANSSEN RESEARCH FOUNDATION, A JOHNSON & JOHNSON COMPANY
Effective November 22, 2000, we entered into a multi-year collaboration
agreement with Janssen Research Foundation, referred to as JRF, under which we
have granted JRF a non-exclusive license to our HAP Technology in exchange for
the payment of annual subscription fees and other fees described below. We have
installed our DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System at The R.W.
Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, a member of the Johnson & Johnson
family of companies. We are collaborating with JRF in research projects to
identify HAP Markers associated with a patient's response to certain JRF drugs
and with disease susceptibility and progression. For each of the first two years
of the agreement, we will receive a minimum fee for providing HAP Typing
services and an additional payment for any services provided beyond the minimum
commitment. In addition, JRF has the option to acquire an exclusive license for
HAP Markers that are shown to have a predictive association in a research
project in exchange for product license fees, milestone and royalty payments.
For the first three research projects, we have defined product license fees,
milestone and royalty payments for drug and diagnostic products that result from
these research projects. The agreement will automatically terminate after a
defined period of time unless JRF elects to exercise its option to terminate at
a specified date. Either party may terminate the agreement early if the other
party breaches the agreement.
GENE LOGIC
Effective June 28, 2000, as amended in December 2001, we entered into a
collaboration agreement with Gene Logic, Inc., under which we have licensed
their gene expression databases on a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free
basis, in exchange for the payment by us of annual access fees. Gene Logic has
licensed from us on a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free basis certain of
our SNP data in exchange for their payment to us of annual access fees. Gene
Logic will use our SNP data to indicate, in their gene expression databases, the
amount of genomic variability that we found in certain genes. We will use their
gene expression information to indicate, in our HAP Database, the expression
level that Gene Logic observed for a gene in different tissues under different
circumstances. We will also use their data to help select genes for analysis in
our HAP Drug program. Furthermore, Gene Logic will analyze the level of gene
expression in various samples, which we will provide to them during
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the term of the agreement. Either party may terminate the agreement early if the
other party breaches the agreement. Unless extended, the agreement expires on
December 31, 2002.
SEQUENOM
Effective May 28, 2000, we entered into a three-year collaboration agreement
with Sequenom, Inc., under which we have committed to use Sequenom's MassARRAY
system as our exclusive equipment platform for high-throughput SNP analysis in
our HAP Typing facility. In return, Sequenom will provide equipment and
supplies, as well as ongoing access to information about new technology and
products in development by Sequenom, so that we can adapt such new technologies
and products for use at our HAP Typing facility in the shortest possible time.
In addition, we have the option to be a test site for these new technologies and
products. The agreement requires us to purchase a minimum number of MassARRAY
systems and allows for predetermined pricing of consumables. The agreement will
automatically terminate after three years, but either party may terminate the
agreement early if the other party breaches the agreement or if the terminating
party is able to meet certain criteria.
VISIBLE GENETICS
Effective November 21, 1996, we granted to Visible Genetics, Inc. a
worldwide, exclusive sublicense to our patented technology relating to the
coupled amplification and sequencing, or CAS, of DNA for diagnostic use. This
technology is licensed to us and is not part of our HAP Technology. Under the
terms of the agreement, Visible Genetics paid us a one-time licensing fee and
continues to pay us royalties based on global sales of products using the
licensed technology. Visible Genetics incorporated the CAS technology in its
TruGene-TM- HIV diagnostic kit, which they designed to perform pharmacogenomic
analysis of HIV and to customize HIV and AIDS therapy for particular patient
sub-groups. The FDA granted market clearance for the TruGene HIV diagnostic kit
on September 26, 2001. In March 2000, we amended the agreement to, among other
things, reduce the amount of royalties payable under the agreement and expand
the field of the license to the research products market. In return for the
reduction of royalties and broadening of the field, Visible Genetics paid us an
additional one-time fee of $2 million. The term of the agreement extends until
the last of the patents covered by the agreement expires. Either party may
terminate the agreement early if the other party breaches the agreement, and we
can terminate the agreement early if Visible Genetics fails to make any
payments.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
We are pursuing an active program of intellectual property development and
acquisition. In particular, we have developed a system to file patent
applications rapidly on the discoveries from our HAP Technology. We rely on
patents, trade secrets, non-disclosure agreements, copyrights and trademarks to
protect our proprietary technologies and information. In addition, our goal is
to license to third parties certain components of our intellectual property that
are peripheral to our core products and services.
As of February 15, 2002, our patent portfolio included a total of six issued
patents, which we own or for which we are the exclusive licensee. Our pending
patent applications include those for:
- HAP Markers for pharmaceutically important genes;
- correlations between specific HAP Markers and response to albuterol and
statins;
- components of our DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Informatics System,
including the process for assembling HAP Markers and for determining
clinical associations;
- our approach for developing HAP Drugs; and
- processes for integrating personalized medicines into the healthcare
system.
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We also rely upon unpatented trade secrets and improvements, unpatented
know-how and continuing technological innovation to develop and maintain our
competitive position. We generally protect this information with reasonable
security measures, including confidentiality agreements that provide that all
confidential information developed or made known to others during the course of
the employment, consulting or business relationship shall be kept confidential
except in specified circumstances. Agreements with employees provide that all
inventions conceived by the individual while employed by us are our exclusive
property.
COMPETITION
There is significant competition among entities attempting to use genomic
variation data and informatics tools to develop and market new and existing
medicines. We expect the intensity of the competition to increase. We face, and
will continue to face, competition from pharmaceutical, biotechnology and
diagnostic companies, both in the United States and abroad. Several entities are
attempting to identify and assemble SNP and haplotype databases for use as a
measure of genomic variation. These databases are based on various technologies
and approaches, including the sequencing of either cDNA or genomic DNA and a
genome-wide approach or a candidate gene approach. In addition, some of these
entities are providing or intend to provide informatics tools for integrating
the use of SNPs and haplotypes into the drug development process. These entities
include, among others, Celera Genomics Group, Incyte Genomics, Inc., National
Human Genome Research Institute, Perlegen Sciences and Variagenics, Inc. In
addition, numerous pharmaceutical companies are developing internal capabilities
for identifying and utilizing gene variation data. In order to compete
successfully against existing and future entities, we must demonstrate the value
of our HAP Technology and that our informatics technologies and capabilities are
superior to those of our competitors. Many of our competitors have greater
resources, gene variation discovery capabilities and informatics development
capabilities than we do. Therefore, our competitors may succeed in identifying
gene variation and applying for patent protection more rapidly than we do.
We expect that our ability to compete will be based on a number of factors,
including:
- the speed with which we can identify HAP Markers and develop the next
generation of our DECOGEN-Registered Trademark- Informatics System;
- our ability and the ability of our partners to develop and commercialize
therapeutic and diagnostic products based upon our HAP Technology;
- our ability to attract partners;
- our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel;
- our ability to obtain patent protection for our HAP Technology and HAP
Drugs; and
- our ability to secure sufficient resources to fund our HAP Drug program.
GOVERNMENT REGULATION
Regulation by governmental entities in the United States and other countries
will be a significant factor in the development, manufacturing and marketing of
any product that our partners or we develop. Various federal and, in some cases,
state statutes and regulations govern or influence the development,
manufacturing, safety, labeling, storage, record keeping and marketing of human
therapeutic and diagnostic products. The extent to which these regulations may
apply to our partners or us will vary depending on the nature of the product.
Currently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, referred to as the FDA, does
not require companies seeking product approvals to provide data regarding the
correlation between therapeutic response and genomic variation.
Virtually all of the pharmaceutical products developed by our partners or us
will require regulatory approval by governmental agencies prior to
commercialization. In particular, the FDA and similar
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health authorities in foreign countries will impose on these products an
extensive regulatory review process before they can be marketed. This regulatory
process typically involves, among other requirements, preclinical studies,
clinical trials, and often post-marketing surveillance of each compound. This
process can take many years and requires the expenditure of substantial
resources. Delays in obtaining marketing clearance could delay the
commercialization of any therapeutic or diagnostic products developed by our
partners, impose costly procedures on our partners' activities, diminish any
competitive advantages that our partners may attain and lessen our potential
royalties. Any products our partners or we develop may not receive regulatory
approval in a timely fashion or at all.
The FDA regulates human therapeutic and diagnostic products in one of three
broad categories: drugs, biologics, or medical devices. Products developed using
our HAP Technology could potentially fall into any of these three categories.
The FDA generally requires the following steps for pre-market approval of a
new drug or biologic product:
- preclinical laboratory and animal tests;
- submission to the FDA of an investigational new drug application, which
must become effective before clinical trials may begin;
- adequate and well-controlled human clinical trials to establish the safety
and efficacy of the product for its intended indication;
- submission to the FDA of a new drug application, or NDA, if the FDA
classifies the product as a new drug, or a biologic license application,
or BLA, if the FDA classifies the product as a biologic; and
- FDA review of the NDA or BLA in order to determine, among other things,
whether the product is safe and effective for its intended uses.
The FDA classifies medical devices, which include diagnostic products, as
class I, class II or class III, depending on the nature of the medical device
and the existence in the market of any similar devices. Class I medical devices
are subject to general controls, including labeling, premarket notification and
good manufacturing practice requirements. Class II medical devices are subject
to general and special controls, including performance standards, postmarket
surveillance, patient registries and FDA guidelines. Class III medical devices
are those which must receive premarket approval, or PMA, by the FDA to ensure
their safety and effectiveness, typically including life-sustaining,
life-supporting, or implantable devices or new devices which have been found not
to be substantially equivalent to currently marketed medical devices. It is
impossible to say at this time, which of these categories, will apply to any
diagnostic product incorporating our HAP Technology.
Before a new device can be introduced into the U.S. market, it must, in most
cases, receive either premarket notification clearance under section 510(k) of
the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or approval pursuant to the more costly and
time-consuming PMA process. A PMA application must be supported by valid
scientific evidence to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of the device,
typically including the results of clinical trials, bench tests, laboratory and
animal studies. A 510(k) clearance will be granted if the submitted information
establishes that the proposed device is "substantially equivalent" to a legally
marketed class I or class II medical device or a class III medical device for
which the FDA has not called for PMAs. While less expensive and time-consuming
than obtaining PMA clearance, securing 510(k) clearance may involve the
submission of a substantial volume of data, including clinical data, and may
require a lengthy substantive review.
Even if regulatory clearance is obtained, a marketed product and its
manufacturer are both subject to continuing review. Discovery of previously
unknown problems with a product may result in withdrawal of the product from the
market, which could reduce our revenue sources and hurt our
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financial results. Violations of regulatory requirements at any stage during the
process, including preclinical studies and clinical trials, the review process,
post-marketing approval or in manufacturing practices or manufacturing
requirements, may result in various adverse consequences to us, including:
- the FDA's delay in granting marketing clearance or refusal to grant
marketing clearance of a product;
- withdrawal of a product from the market; or
- the imposition of civil or criminal penalties against the manufacturer and
holder of the marketing clearance.
Generally, similar regulatory requirements apply to products intended for
marketing outside the United States.
We use clinical samples of blood from individuals in developing our Index
Repository and in our HAP Drug program. In some cases, a CRO, with which we have
a contract, collects these blood samples, plus personal and medical information
about each individual. In other cases, we collect blood samples, plus personal
and medical information without the assistance of a CRO. Our CRO prepares,
subject to our approval, the sample collection protocol and the patient informed
consent form, as well as identifying the clinical laboratories, which collect
the samples. The individual clinical sites recruit the patients for each
clinical study and, following the study protocol, explain and obtain the signed
and witnessed informed consent documents from each patient. The informed consent
form includes the patient's authorization to use the patient's blood sample and
data derived from it for developing commercial products. Our contract with the
CRO requires an independent institutional review board to approve the study
protocol, the patient informed consent form, and the transmission of the samples
to us. Either we do not know the identity or we have in place procedures to
maintain the confidentiality of any of the individuals from whom we receive
clinical samples. We believe that these procedures comply with all applicable
federal, state, and institutional regulations.
While the FDA does not currently regulate our HAP Typing facility, CLIA
defines standards that constitute good clinical laboratory practice. Although
this is a federal law, each state is responsible for administering the statute.
In December 2001, we submitted our CLIA application to the Connecticut
Department of Public Health. As a result, our facility is now a molecular
diagnostics laboratory registered under CLIA. With CLIA registration, our HAP
Typing facility can now report patient specific test results in support of
diagnostic, therapeutic or medical interventions. Inspectors from the
Connecticut Department of Health are scheduled to inspect our HAP Typing
facility for the first time during the second quarter of 2002. We cannot predict
whether we will pass this inspection. After the first inspection, which we
scheduled in cooperation with the inspectors, subsequent inspections are
unannounced. In addition to this inspection, auditors from the New York State
Department of Health will be invited to inspect our HAP Typing facility. Experts
consider this agency to have formulated the most comprehensive standards for
defining what constitutes good laboratory practices.
HUMAN RESOURCES
As of February 15, 2002, we had 159 full-time employees, 117 of whom were
engaged in research and development activities, 12 of whom were engaged in
clinical development activities, 9 of whom were engaged in business development,
and 21 of whom conducted general and administrative functions. Of the 117
employees engaged in research and development, 56 were engaged in informatics,
54 were engaged in industrial genomics, and 7 were engaged in intellectual
property. Forty-two of our employees hold Ph.D. or M.D. degrees, and 25 hold
other advanced degrees.
None of our employees are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and
we consider our relations with our employees to be good.
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ITEM 1A. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Set forth below is certain information regarding our current executive
officers, including their respective ages as of February 15, 2002:
NAME AGE POSITION
- ---- -------- ----------------------------------
Gualberto Ruano, M.D., Ph.D....... 42 Chief Executive Officer and
Director
Kevin Rakin....................... 41 President, Chief Financial Officer
and Director
Gerald F. Vovis, Ph.D............. 59 Senior Vice President, Chief
Technology Officer
Richard S. Judson, Ph.D........... 43 Senior Vice President of
Informatics
GUALBERTO RUANO, M.D., PH.D. Dr. Ruano co-founded Genaissance and has
served as Chief Executive Officer and a Director since 1995. Prior to founding
Genaissance, Dr. Ruano was involved in developing genetic mapping products and
services for BIOS Laboratories, Inc. and engaged in research at Yale University,
where he focused on haplotyping technologies for profiling genome diversity
stemming from population genetics. Dr. Ruano holds a B.A. in biophysics from The
Johns Hopkins University and a M.D. and a Ph.D. in population genetics from Yale
University, where he was a fellow of the Medical Scientist Training Program and
the Ford Foundation.
KEVIN RAKIN. Mr. Rakin co-founded Genaissance and has served as President
since October 2000 and as Chief Financial Officer and a Director since 1995.
From January 1997 to October 2000, Mr. Rakin also served as our Executive Vice
President. Prior to 1998, Mr. Rakin was also a Principal at the Stevenson Group,
a consulting firm, where he provided financial and strategic planning services
to high-growth technology companies and venture capital firms. Prior to this,
Mr. Rakin was a manager with Ernst & Young's entrepreneurial services group.
Mr. Rakin holds a B.S. in business, a M.S. in finance from the University of
Cape Town and a M.B.A. from Columbia University. He is a chartered accountant.
GERALD F. VOVIS, PH.D. Dr. Vovis has served as our Chief Technology Officer
and a Senior Vice President since October 2000. From April 1999 to
October 2000, Dr. Vovis was our Senior Vice President of Genomics. From 1980 to
1999, Dr. Vovis was affiliated with Genome Therapeutics Corporation, a genomics
company, most recently as Senior Vice President of Scientific Affairs.
Dr. Vovis has twenty-two years of experience in the management of genetic
research and in the development and management of collaborative research
programs with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Dr. Vovis holds a B.A.
in chemistry from Knox College and a Ph.D. in biology from Case Western Reserve
University.
RICHARD S. JUDSON, PH.D. Dr. Judson has been our Senior Vice President of
Informatics since April 2000. From November 1999 to April 2000, Dr. Judson was
our Vice President of Informatics. Dr. Judson joined Genaissance in
February 1999 as Associate Director, Bioinformatics. From January 1997 to
February 1999, Dr. Judson served as Group Leader in the Bioinformatics
Department of CuraGen Corporation, a genomics company, where he was responsible
for developing software for protein-protein interactions and DNA sequence
analysis. From January 1990 to December 1996, Dr. Judson served as Senior Member
of the Technology Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, leading modeling
projects in several areas, including computational drug design, protein modeling
and sequence analysis. Dr. Judson holds a B.A. in chemistry and physics from
Rice University and a M.A. and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton University.
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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
Our executive offices and laboratories are located at Five Science Park, New
Haven, Connecticut. We lease nearly 72,000 square feet of space, under a lease
expiring on September 30, 2006, which we may extend for 10 years. We believe our
current facilities and the space available to us under a lease extension are
suitable to meet our current requirements and that suitable additional space
will be available on commercially reasonable terms, if required.
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
We are not a party to any material legal proceedings.
ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
No matters were submitted to stockholders for a vote during the fourth
quarter of 2001.
PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT'S COMMON STOCK AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
Our common stock is currently quoted on the Nasdaq National Market under the
symbol "GNSC."
Our common stock began trading on August 1, 2000 and the high and low
closing sale prices, as reported on the Nasdaq National Market for the periods
indicated, were as follows:
HIGH LOW
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2000
Third Quarter (beginning on August 1, 2000)............... $23.50 $13.25
Fourth Quarter............................................ $33.31 $10.50
HIGH LOW
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2001
First Quarter............................................. $17.50 $5.50
Second Quarter............................................ $14.04 $7.69
Third Quarter............................................. $12.92 $3.89
Fourth Quarter............................................ $ 5.99 $2.90
As of March 5, 2002, there were 315 holders of record of our common stock.
As of March 5, 2002, the last reported sale price of our common stock on the
Nasdaq National Market was $3.07 per share.
We have never paid cash dividends on our common stock and we do not
anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. We currently
intend to retain future earnings, if any, for use in our business.
ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
The following selected financial data should be read in conjunction with our
financial statements and related notes and "Management's Discussion and Analysis
of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" appearing elsewhere in this
Annual Report on Form 10-K. The selected balance sheet data set forth below, as
of December 31, 2001 and 2000 and the statements of operations data for each of
the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2001, are derived from our
financial statements, which have been audited by Arthur Andersen LLP,
independent public accountants, and are included elsewhere in this Annual Report
on Form 10-K. The selected balance sheet data as of December 31,
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1999, 1998 and 1997 and selected statements of operations data for the years
ended December 31, 1998 and 1997, are derived from audited financial statements
not included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The historical results are not
necessarily indicative of the results we expect for future periods. This data is
in thousands, except per share data.
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
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2001 2000 1999 1998 1997
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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS DATA:
Revenues.......................................... $ 5,345 $ 753 $ 680 $ 1,343 $1,505
Operating expenses:
Research and development (1).................... 45,982 25,680 6,259 3,017 1,643
General and administrative (1).................. 11,786 8,837 2,714 894 415
Sublicense royalty fees......................... 54 530 20 68 19
Stock-based compensation........................ 498 5,256 766 473 106
-------- -------- -------- ------- ------
Total operating expenses.......................... 58,320 40,303 9,759 4,452 2,183
-------- -------- -------- ------- ------
Operating loss.................................... (52,975) (39,550) (9,079) (3,109) (678)
Interest income (expense), net.................... 1,319 2,784 (370) (30) (125)
State income tax benefit.......................... 4,074 -- -- -- --
Realized gains on investments..................... -- -- -- 259 --
-------- -------- -------- ------- ------
Net loss.......................................... (47,582) (36,766) (9,449) (2,880) (803)
Preferred stock dividends and accretion........... -- (6,327) (2,082) (741) --
Beneficial conversion feature of Series B, KBH and
C preferred stock............................... -- (50,180) -- -- --
-------- -------- -------- ------- ------
Net loss applicable to common stockholders........ $(47,582) $(93,273) $(11,531) $(3,621) $ (803)
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Net loss per common share, basic and diluted...... $ (2.09) $ (8.55) $ (4.24) $ (1.67) $(0.40)
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Shares used in computing net loss per common
share, basic and diluted........................ 22,753 10,908 2,719 2,165 1,983
======== ======== ======== ======= ======
Pro forma net loss per common share, basic and
diluted......................................... $ (5.16) $ (1.79) $ (.76)
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Pro forma weighted average shares used in
computing net loss per common share, basic and
diluted......................................... 16,790 5,202 3,807
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(1) Excludes non-cash, stock based compensation
expense as follows:
Research and development.................... $ 351 $ 1,694 $ 499 $ 427 $ 64
Selling, general and administrative......... 147 3,562 267 46 42
-------- -------- -------- ------- ------
$ 498 $ 5,256 $ 766 $ 473 $ 106
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DECEMBER 31,
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2001 2000 1999 1998 1997
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BALANCE SHEET DATA:
Cash, cash equivalents and investments..... $ 59,673 $ 110,376 $ 3,666 $ 7,419 $ 1,420
Total assets............................... 92,277 143,892 11,514 8,946 1,899
Long-term liabilities...................... 18,150 24,305 11,407 2,896 1,405
Redeemable convertible preferred stock..... -- -- 11,247 9,945 750
Accumulated deficit........................ (160,509) (112,927) (19,654) (8,122) (4,501)
Total stockholders' equity (deficit)....... 58,979 105,675 (14,832) (4,624) (1,369)
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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS
OF OPERATIONS
THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF OUR FINANCIAL CONDITION AND THE
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS SHOULD BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE "SELECTED FINANCIAL
DATA" AND OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND RELATED NOTES APPEARING ELSEWHERE IN THIS
ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K.
THIS ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K CONTAINS FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS WITHIN
THE MEANING OF SECTION 21E OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED.
FOR THIS PURPOSE, STATEMENTS CONTAINED HEREIN THAT ARE NOT STATEMENTS OF
HISTORICAL FACT MAY BE DEEMED TO BE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. WITHOUT LIMITING
THE FOREGOING, THE WORDS "BELIEVES," "ANTICIPATES," "PLANS," "EXPECTS" AND
SIMILAR EXPRESSIONS ARE INTENDED TO IDENTIFY FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. THESE
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS INVOLVE RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES AND ARE NOT
GUARANTEES OF FUTURE PERFORMANCE. ACTUAL RESULTS MAY DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM
THOSE INDICATED IN SUCH FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AS A RESULT OF CERTAIN
FACTORS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE SET FORTH UNDER THE HEADING
"FACTORS AFFECTING FUTURE OPERATING RESULTS".
OVERVIEW
Since our inception, we have incurred significant operating losses, and, as
of December 31, 2001, we had an accumulated deficit of $160.5 million. The
majority of our operating losses have resulted from costs we incurred developing
our HAP Technology and initiating our HAP Drug program. We expect to dedicate a
significant portion of our resources for the foreseeable future to develop
further and maintain our HAP Technology and to expand and intensify our
commercialization activities, including the development of our HAP Drugs. To
date, our revenue has been primarily from licensing and service fees from our
agreements with Janssen Research Foundation, Pfizer, Inc. and Gene Logic, Inc.,
and to a less extent, from a sublicensing agreement with Visible Genetics, Inc.
and government grants.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2001 AND 2000
Revenue consists primarily of proceeds received in connection with the
licensing of our HAP Technology, service revenue and sublicensing of patents.
Revenue increased to $5.3 million in 2001 from $753,000 in 2000. The increase in
license revenues is attributable to the commercialization of our HAP Partnership
program, including an agreement entered into with Pfizer during 2001, as well as
agreements entered into with Janssen Research Foundation and Gene Logic, Inc.
during 2000. Revenue from each of Janssen Research Foundation, Gene Logic, Inc.
and Pfizer, Inc. accounted for 10% or more of our total revenue in fiscal 2001.
Janssen Research Foundation, Gene Logic, Inc. and Visible Genetics, Inc. each
accounted for 10% or more of our total revenue in 2000. We are recognizing the
annual license and subscription fees over the term of the agreements and the
service fees as the services are performed. Future milestone and royalty
payments, when and if received, will be recognized when earned. Revenue also
includes the amortization, over the remaining life of the sublicensed patent, of
upfront payments received in connection with the sublicensing of a patent.
Research and development expenses consist primarily of payroll and benefits
for research and development personnel, materials and reagent costs, costs
incurred in connection with clinical trials, depreciation and maintenance costs
for equipment used for HAP Marker discovery and HAP Typing, and facility-related
costs. Research and development expenses increased to $46.0 million in 2001 from
$25.7 million in 2000. The increase in research and development expenses in 2001
is primarily attributable to an increase in expenditures related to our clinical
trials, the expansion of our HAP Typing process, and the increase in resources
dedicated to supporting and improving our proprietary
DECOGEN-Registered Trademark- Informatics System. The increase in expenses
includes a $7.9 million increase in costs related to our clinical trials, a
$2.7 million increase in payroll and related costs, a $2.3 million increase in
technology licenses and a $4.6 million increase in depreciation expense. We
expect to continue to
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devote substantial resources to research and development expenses in the near
future as we develop our candidate HAP Drugs, increase the use of our HAP Typing
facility, prosecute our patent applications, and continue to invest in ongoing
product development and improvements related to our
DECOGEN-Registered Trademark- Informatics System.
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of salary and related
costs for executive, business development, finance, public affairs and other
administrative personnel, as well as facility related costs and outside
professional fees incurred in connection with corporate development, general
legal and financial matters. General and administrative expenses increased to
approximately $11.8 million in 2001 from $8.8 million in 2000. The increase in
2001 is primarily due to increased salary and related costs as a result of the
expansion of our business development activities and the additional costs of
operating as a public company for a full fiscal year.
Sublicensing royalty expense represents royalty obligations incurred by us
on sublicensing fees that we receive. Sublicensing royalty expense decreased to
$54,000 in 2001 from $530,000 in 2000. This decrease relates primarily to a
nonrefundable cash payment received in 2000 in connection with an amendment to a
patent sublicensing agreement. We elected to recognize this expense in 2000 as
paid.
Stock based and other non-cash compensation expense relates to options
granted to employees, scientific advisory board members and consultants and a
sale of stock in 1996 in exchange for notes between two of our officers and a
former executive. We recognized the sale of stock between the officers and the
former executive as compensatory and accordingly recognized non-cash
compensation. We account for options granted to employees in accordance with
Accounting Principals Board Opinion, or APB No. 25. The accounting for
scientific advisory board members and consultants requires us to record periodic
charges for unvested options based on an increase in the fair value of our
common stock and the related vesting of the options. Stock based compensation
decreased to $498,000 in 2001 from $5.3 million in 2000. The decrease is
primarily due to our decision to vest fully all unvested options previously
granted to scientific advisory board members in March 2000, which resulted in a
one-time expense of approximately $1.4 million, as well as the recording of
approximately $2.9 million of expense related to the officer stock purchase
agreement due to the increase in the fair value of the stock through the date of
our initial public offering. Future unamortized compensation expense associated
with outstanding stock options at December 31, 2001 is approximately $977,000.
Interest income (expense), net decreased to approximately $1.3 million in
2001 from $2.8 million in 2000. The decrease is the result of higher cash, cash
equivalent and short-term investment balances in 2000 as a result of proceeds
received from our sale of Series B and Series C preferred stock in February and
March 2000, respectively, and our initial public offering in August 2000. The
decrease is also the result of an increase in interest expense as a result of
higher capital lease and other debt obligations to fund the acquisition of
equipment and partially fund the expansion of our facilities.
State income tax benefit of $4.1 million represents a net tax benefit from
the State of Connecticut as a result of recent legislation which allows
companies to receive cash refunds from the State at a rate of 65% of their
incremental research and development tax credit, as defined, in exchange for
foregoing the carryforward of the research and development tax credit.
YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2000 AND 1999
Revenue increased to $753,000 in 2000 from $680,000 in 1999. The increase in
revenues is due to a $555,000 increase in license fees from 1999 to 2000, offset
by a $557,000 decrease in grant research revenue. The increase in license
revenues is attributable to the commercialization of our HAP Partnership program
and agreements entered into with Janssen Research Foundation and Gene
Logic, Inc. Revenue from each of Janssen Research Foundation, Gene Logic, Inc.
and Visible Genetics accounted for 10% or more of our total revenue in 2000.
Visible Genetics also accounted for 10% or more of revenue in 1999.
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Research and development expenses increased to $25.7 million in 2000 from
$6.3 million in 1999. The increase in expenditures is primarily attributable to
the significant increase in the discovery of HAP Markers during 2000, the
initiation of our HAP Typing facility, the increase in informatics personnel
focused on improvements to our proprietary DECOGEN-Registered Trademark-
Informatics System, the costs of preparing to launch our first clinical trial
and an increase in patent personnel and patent applications. The increase in
expense includes a $6.6 million increase in laboratory supplies, a $5.7 million
increase in payroll and related costs and a $2.5 million increase in
depreciation expense.
General and administrative expenses increased to $8.8 million in 2000 from
$2.7 million in 1999. The increase was primarily attributable to a $2.6 million
increase in payroll and related costs and a $1.0 million increase in
professional fees.
Sublicensing royalty expense increased to $530,000 in 2000 from $20,000 in
1999. The increase primarily relates to a nonrefundable cash payment received in
2000 in connection with an amendment to a patent sublicensing agreement.
Stock based compensation expense increased to $5.3 million in 2000 from
$766,000 in 1999. The increase is primarily due to our decision to vest fully
all unvested stock options previously granted to scientific advisory board
members in March 2000, which resulted in a one-time expense of approximately
$1.4 million, as well as the recording of approximately $2.9 million of expense
related to the officer stock purchase agreement due to the increase in the fair
value of the stock through the date of our initial public offering.
Interest income (expense), net increased to income of $2.8 million in 2000
from expense of $370,000 in 1999. The increase in net income was due to proceeds
received from our sale of Series B and Series C preferred stock in February and
March 2000, respectively, and our initial public offering in August 2000.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
We have financed our operations primarily through the private and public
sale of common and preferred stock, government research grants, payments under
licensing agreements, loans and capital leases. From inception through
December 31, 2001, we have received aggregate gross proceeds of approximately
$163.1 million from issuance of common and preferred stock. In addition, through
December 31, 2001, we had received $4.5 million of government grant funding and
$9.7 million from license and service fees, royalties and research contracts. We
also have received $26.2 million from capital lease financing arrangements and
$8.2 million from other loans. Through December 31, 2001, we have acquired
$41.8 million of property and equipment. These assets were largely financed
through capital lease financing arrangements and other loans.
We expect to finance our operations, in the short-term, from cash we
received in 2000 from sales of our common and preferred stock and revenue from
our HAP Partnership program. Our business strategy depends on entering into
agreements with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for our HAP
Partnership program and to co-develop and/or co-market our HAP Drug candidates.
If we are unsuccessful in marketing our HAP Technology and our HAP Drugs, we may
not generate sufficient revenues to sustain our operations at planned levels.
Cash used in operations for the year ended December 31, 2001 was
$40.1 million compared with $21.3 million for the same period in 2000. For the
year ended December 31, 2001, our net loss of $47.6 million was partially offset
by non-cash charges of $498,000 for stock based compensation expense, non-cash
charges of $8.6 million for depreciation and amortization expense and by a
$2.8 million increase in accrued expenses. Cash used in operations was also
impacted by a $2.6 million decrease in accounts payable and a $1.5 million
increase in state income tax receivable. For the year ended December 31, 2000,
our net loss of $36.8 million was partially offset by non-cash charges of
$4.9 million for stock based compensation expense, non-cash charges of
$4.1 million for depreciation
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and amortization expense and increases of $4.4, $1.6 and $1.9 million in
accounts payable, accrued expenses and deferred revenue, respectively.
Cash provided by investing activities was $2.5 million in 2001 compared with
cash used for investing activities of $49.8 million in 2000. In 2001, we used
cash to purchase $4.3 million of property and equipment and received proceeds of
$6.8 million from the reduction of investments in marketable securities. In
2000, we used cash to purchase $8.7 million of property and equipment and
invested $41.1 million in marketable securities.
Cash used in financing activities was $6.4 million in 2001 compared to cash
provided by financing activities of $136.6 million in 2000. During 2001, we
repaid debt of approximately $7.1 million while, during 2000, we received net
proceeds of $136.7 million through issuance of preferred and common stock.
Our contractual cash obligations as of December 31, 2001, are as follows:
PAYMENTS DUE BY PERIOD
(IN THOUSANDS)
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CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS TOTAL AMOUNTS COMMITTED YEAR 1 YEARS 2 AND 3 YEARS 4 AND 5 YEAR 6 AND LATER
- ----------------------- ----------------------- -------- ------------- ------------- ----------------
Long-Term Debt.......... $ 5,601 $ 672 $ 823 $ 936 $3,170
Capital Lease
Obligations........... 18,637 8,055 10,527 55 --
Operating Leases........ 9,419 1,168 2,324 1,843 4,084
Minimum License
Obligations........... 3,632 3,205 201 226 --
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Total Contractual Cash
Obligations........... $37,289 $13,100 $13,875 $3,060 $7,254
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Long-term debt consists primarily of three financing agreements with
Connecticut Innovations Inc. (CII), a stockholder of ours, used to finance
certain leasehold improvements and other costs associated with our facility
expansion. The agreements provide for interest only with principal payments
based on a 120 month amortization beginning April 2001 through October 2002,
with balloon payments due in April 2007 through June 2011. Borrowings under the
agreements are secured by the related leasehold improvements.
Capital lease obligations, related to equipment, consist principally of
arrangements with four equipment leasing companies. The leases have terms
ranging from two to four years with installments ending between August 2003 and
October 2004, and bear interest at rates ranging from 8.15% to 12.46%. The
capital lease arrangements allow for the purchase of the related equipment at
the completion of the lease term, as defined in the agreements.
We lease our operating facilities located in New Haven, Connecticut. The
lease agreements require annual lease payments of $816,000 per year increasing
to $1.1 million per year over the original term, which expires in 2004. We have
two five-year renewal options to extend the lease agreements beyond the initial
term. We are recording the expense associated with the lease on a straight line
basis over the expected term of the lease. In addition to the operating lease
agreements for our current facility, we also have operating leases for various
office equipment.
In addition, we periodically enter into agreements with third parties to
obtain exclusive or non-exclusive licenses for certain technologies. The terms
of certain of these agreements require us to pay future royalty payments and
certain milestone payments based on product sales or sublicense income generated
from applicable technologies, if any. The amount of such payments will depend
upon successful commercialization of applicable technologies, if any. The future
minimum payments (assuming non-termination of these agreements) are included in
the minimum license contractual obligations above.
Capital expenditures are not expected to exceed $2 to $3 million for each of
fiscal 2002 and 2003.
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Our cash requirements will vary depending upon a number of factors, many of
which are beyond our control, including:
- the demand for our HAP Technology;
- the efforts and success of our HAP Partnership program;
- the results of our HAP Drug program;
- the commercialization of intellectual property derived from our HAP Drug
program;
- the level of competition we face;
- our ability to maintain and develop our HAP Technology; and
- our ability to manage effectively our operating expenses.
On December 31, 2001, cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments
totaled $59.7 million compared to $110.4 million at December 31, 2000. Our cash
reserves are held in interest-bearing, high-grade corporate bonds and money
market accounts. We believe that our existing cash reserves will be sufficient
to fund our expected net losses, debt obligations and capital expenditures for
at least 18 months. To execute our business plan, we will need to seek
additional funding through public or private equity offerings, debt financings
or commercial partners. Subject to market conditions and other factors, we
intend to pursue opportunities to raise additional funding during the remainder
of the current year. We cannot assure you that we will obtain additional
partners or capital funding on acceptable terms, if at all.
INCOME TAXES
We have not generated any taxable income to date and, therefore, have not
paid any federal income taxes since inception. On December 31, 2001, we had
available unused net operating loss carryforwards of approximately
$94.6 million and $93.6 million, which may be available to offset future federal
and state taxable income, respectively. Use of our federal and state net
operating loss carryforwards, which will begin to expire in 2007 and 2002,
respectively, may be subject to limitations. The future utilization of these
carryforwards may be limited due to changes within our current and future
ownership structure as defined within the income tax code. We have recorded a
full valuation allowance against our deferred tax asset, which consists
primarily of net operating loss carryforwards, because of uncertainty regarding
its recoverability, as required by Financial Accounting Standard No. 109
ACCOUNTING FOR INCOME TAXES.
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
Statement of Financial Accounting Standard, or SFAS, No. 133, ACCOUNTING FOR
DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND FOR HEDGING ACTIVITIES which, as amended by
SFAS 137, provides a comprehensive and consistent standard for the recognition
and measurement of derivatives and hedging activities, was required for fiscal
years beginning after January 1, 2001. The adoption of SFAS No. 133 did not have
an impact on the Company's results of operations or financial condition as the
Company holds no derivative financial instruments and does not currently engage
in hedging activities.
In July 2001, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, issued SFAS
No. 141, BUSINESS COMBINATIONS and SFAS No. 142, GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE
ASSETS. SFAS No. 141 and SFAS No. 142 significantly impact the accounting and
disclosures for business combinations. The adoption of SFAS No. 141, which was
required for all transactions completed after June 30, 2001, and SFAS No. 142,
which is required for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2001, will have
no historical impact on the Company's financial position or results of
operations.
In August 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 144, ACCOUNTING FOR THE IMPAIRMENT
OR DISPOSAL OF LONG-LIVED ASSETS. SFAS No. 144 modifies the rules for accounting
for the impairment or disposal of
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long-lived assets. The new rules become effective for fiscal years beginning
after December 15, 2001, with earlier application encouraged. The Company does
not believe that the adoption of this principle will have a material impact on
either the operating results or the financial position of the Company.
FACTORS AFFECTING FUTURE OPERATING RESULTS
THIS ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K CONTAINS "FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS" WITHIN
THE MEANING OF SECTION 21E OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED.
THESE STATEMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES AND ARE BASED ON THE
BELIEFS AND ASSUMPTIONS OF OUR MANAGEMENT BASED ON INFORMATION CURRENTLY
AVAILABLE TO OUR MANAGEMENT. USE OF WORDS SUCH AS "BELIEVES," "EXPECTS,"
"ANTICIPATES," "INTENDS," "PLANS," "ESTIMATES," "SHOULD," "LIKELY" OR SIMILAR
EXPRESSIONS, INDICATE A FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENT. FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
INVOLVE RISKS, UNCERTAINTIES AND ASSUMPTIONS. CERTAIN OF THE INFORMATION
CONTAINED IN THIS ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K CONSISTS OF FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS. IMPORTANT FACTORS THAT COULD CAUSE ACTUAL RESULTS TO DIFFER
MATERIALLY FROM THE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
WE ARE AN EARLY STAGE COMPANY THAT MAY NEVER BE PROFITABLE.
We have incurred substantial operating losses since our inception. As of
December 31, 2001, we have generated only minimal revenue from our HAP
Technology, and we do not expect to generate significant revenues for several
years, if ever. From inception through December 31, 2001, we had an accumulated
deficit of approximately $160.5 million. Our losses to date have resulted
principally from costs we incurred in the development of our HAP Technology, in
our clinical trials and from general and administrative costs associated with
operations. We expect to devote substantial resources to our HAP Drug program
and to maintain and develop further our HAP Technology.
We expect to incur additional losses this year and in future years, and we
may never achieve profitability. In addition, pharmaceutical and biotechnology
companies are only now beginning to use products such as ours in their drug
development or marketing efforts and, accordingly, they may not choose to use
our HAP Technology. We do not expect our losses to be substantially mitigated by
revenues from our HAP Partnership program or from our HAP Drug program for a
number of years, if ever.
TO GENERATE SIGNIFICANT REVENUES, WE MUST OBTAIN CUSTOMERS FOR OUR HAP
PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM AND SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOP OUR CANDIDATE HAP DRUGS.
Our strategy depends on entering into agreements with pharmaceutical and
biotechnology companies for our HAP Partnership program and finding partners to
co-develop and/or co-market our candidate HAP Drugs. To date, we have four
partners for our HAP Partnership program, and we may not obtain additional
partners for our HAP Partnership program or find partners to co-develop and/or
co-market our candidate HAP Drugs. We currently do not have any partners to
co-develop and/or co-market our two candidate HAP Drugs. If we are unsuccessful
in obtaining additional customers for our HAP Partnership program and finding
partners for our HAP Drug program, we may never generate sufficient revenues to
sustain our operations. In addition, we expect that some of our future HAP
Partnership program collaborations will be limited to specific, limited-term
projects. Accordingly, we must continually obtain new customers to be
successful.
IF WE ARE UNABLE TO IDENTIFY WHICH OF OUR HAP MARKERS ARE PREDICTIVE FOR SAFETY
AND/OR EFFICACY FOR A CANDIDATE HAP DRUG, WE MAY NOT GENERATE SUFFICIENT
REVENUES TO SUPPORT OUR OPERATIONS.
To be successful with our HAP Drug program, we must discover a correlation
between genomic variations and drug response. We may not have sufficient funds
to pursue our HAP Drug program and we may never discover any pharmaceutically
relevant correlations as a result of the program. Even if we discover
information on the correlation between drug response and genomic variation as a
result of
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our HAP Drug program, we may be unable to find a partner to co-develop and/or
co-market the candidate HAP Drug on terms sufficient to recover our costs.
OUR HAP TECHNOLOGY MAY NOT ALLOW OUR PARTNERS OR US TO DEVELOP COMMERCIAL
PRODUCTS OR TO INCREASE SALES OF THEIR CURRENTLY MARKETED PRODUCTS.
We base our HAP Technology on the assumption that information about gene
association and genomic variation may help drug development professionals better
understand the drug response of particular individuals and complex disease
processes. Although the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry is increasing
its use of genomics in analyzing drug response and diseases, we are unaware of
any successful drug development program applying population genomics.
The focus of our HAP Technology is the rapid discovery of HAP Markers for
all of the pharmaceutically relevant genes. If we are unable to find HAP Markers
for a significant portion of the pharmaceutically relevant genes in a timely
manner, our potential partners may lose confidence in our HAP Technology and our
company, and this loss in confidence could decrease our ability to generate
revenues. Even if we are able to discover the HAP Markers for all of the
pharmaceutically relevant genes, this information may not prove to be superior
to genomic variation information discovered by our competitors. Furthermore,
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies may not choose our HAP Technology
over competing technologies.
Our DECOGEN-Registered Trademark- Informatics System may also be less
effective than we expect or may not allow our partners or us to determine a
correlation between genomic variation and drug response. Furthermore, even if
our partners or we are successful in identifying a specific correlation between
genomic variation and drug response based on our HAP Technology, neither our
partners or us may be able to develop or sell commercially viable products nor
may our partners be able to increase the sales of their existing products.
Accordingly, our HAP Markers and HAP Technology may not improve the development,
marketing and prescribing of drugs developed by our HAP Partnership program
customers and the HAP Drugs, if any, that we co-develop and/or co-market with
partners.
WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO OBTAIN SUFFICIENT ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO MEET OUR CAPITAL
REQUIREMENTS.
We have used substantial amounts of cash to fund our research and
development activities. We will continue to spend funds to maintain and develop
further our HAP Technology and for our HAP Drug program. We plan to pay for
these activities with funds from:
- our existing cash and investment securities and
- income that we may receive from our HAP Partnership program.
We intend to rely on HAP Partnership program customers for significant
funding in the future to support our research efforts. We cannot be certain when
we will begin to receive additional income, if at all, from our HAP Partnership
program and income, if any, from our HAP Drug program. If we do not receive this
income or do not receive it as rapidly as we expect, we would spend our existing
cash and investment securities more rapidly than we currently plan. We believe
that existing cash and investment securities will be sufficient to fund our
expected net losses, debt obligations and capital expenditures for at least
18 months. We have based this belief on assumptions that may prove wrong.
To support the maintenance and further development of our HAP Technology and
our HAP Drug program, we need to seek additional funding through public or
private equity offerings, debt financings or commercial partners. Additional
financing may not be on terms favorable to our stockholders or us. Stockholders'
ownership will be diluted if we raise additional capital by issuing equity
securities. If we raise additional funds through partnerships and other
licensing arrangements, we may have to relinquish rights to some of our HAP
Technology or grant licenses on unfavorable terms. If adequate funds are not
available, we would have to scale back or terminate our HAP Drug program and the
maintenance and further development of our HAP Technology.
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IF WE ARE UNABLE TO OBTAIN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION FOR OUR HAP
TECHNOLOGY, TRADE SECRETS OR KNOW-HOW, WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO OPERATE OUR
BUSINESS PROFITABLY.
Our success depends, in part, on our ability to protect our HAP Technology,
and any other proprietary software, methods and technologies that we develop,
under the patent and other intellectual property laws of the United States and
other countries, so that we can prevent unauthorized entities from using our
inventions and proprietary information. Because patent applications that were
filed prior to November 29, 2000 in the United States are confidential until
patents issue, third parties may have filed patent applications for technology
covered by our pending patent applications without our being aware of those
applications, and our patent applications may not have priority over any patent
applications of others. We are aware that there are other firms or individuals
who have discovered, or are currently discovering, genomic variation information
similar to the information we are discovering, who may have filed, and in the
future are likely to file, patent applications covering genes, gene products,
SNPs, or haplotypes that are similar or identical to our HAP Technology.
Our pending patent applications may not result in issued patents. The patent
positions of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including ours, are
generally uncertain as a result of the uncertain state of the patent law in the
biotechnology field. There is no uniform, worldwide policy regarding the subject
matter and scope of claims granted or allowable in biotechnology patents,
particularly those involving genomics.
There is substantial uncertainty in the United States and abroad concerning
the patent ability of genes, gene fragments, SNPs, or haplotypes having no known
function or medical utility. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued new
examination guidelines that address the requirements for demonstrating the
utility and describing the structure of these substances. While the new
guidelines do not require phenotypic correlation data for issuance of patents
relating to human genomic variation, the guidelines have been in effect for only
a short period of time and it is possible that the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office may interpret them in a way that could delay or adversely affect our
ability or the ability of our partners to obtain patent protection. Similarly,
U.S. courts are addressing the requirements for demonstrating the utility and
describing the structure of these substances in patent infringement and
enforcement proceedings. The biotechnology patent situation outside the United
States is even more uncertain and is currently undergoing review and revision in
many countries. Accordingly, we do not know the degree of future protection for
our proprietary rights or the breadth of claims allowed in any patents issued to
us or to others. Furthermore, we must continually review our patent strategy and
patent applications to address the changing legal standards in the United States
and abroad.
Our strategy depends on our ability to identify rapidly and seek patent
protection for HAP Markers for all of the pharmaceutically relevant genes. In
order to do so, we must significantly increase our ability to prosecute the
substantial number of resulting patent applications, as well as patent
applications for the large number of discoveries we have made to date for which
we have not yet filed patent applications and for which we may not obtain
patents. In order to obtain ultimately a patent on a HAP Marker, we may need
both to discover the entire DNA sequence of the gene version defined by the HAP
Marker as well as to describe the utility of our HAP Marker for characterizing
genomic variation that is linked to a drug response or particular disease. This
process will be expensive and time consuming, and we may not be able to increase
sufficiently our patent prosecution capacity or to file and prosecute all
necessary or desirable patent applications at a reasonable cost or in a timely
manner.
IF WE ARE UNABLE TO PREVENT OTHERS FROM UNAUTHORIZED USE OF, OR ARE UNABLE TO
DEFEND OUR USE OF, OUR HAP TECHNOLOGY, TRADE SECRETS OR KNOW-HOW, WE MAY NOT BE
ABLE TO OPERATE OUR BUSINESS PROFITABLY.
Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties
may be able to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. The
mere issuance of a patent does not guarantee that it is valid or enforceable;
thus even if we obtain patents, they may not be valid or enforceable against
third parties.
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We also rely upon unpatented trade secrets and improvements, unpatented
know-how and continuing technological innovation to develop and maintain our
competitive position. We generally protect this information with reasonable
security measures, including confidentiality agreements signed by our employees,
academic collaborators and consultants that provide that all confidential
information developed or made known to others during the course of the
employment, consulting or business relationship will be kept confidential except
in specified circumstances. Agreements with employees, consultants and
collaborators provide that all inventions conceived by the individual while
employed by us are our exclusive property. If employees, consultants or
collaborators do not honor these agreements, we may not have adequate remedies
for breach. Furthermore, our trade secrets may otherwise become known or be
independently discovered by competitors.
Further, a patent does not provide the patent holder with freedom to operate
in a way that infringes the patent rights of others. A third party may sue us
for infringing on its patent rights. Likewise, we may need to resort to
litigation to enforce a patent issued to us or to determine the scope and
validity of third party proprietary rights. The cost to us of any litigation or
other proceeding relating to intellectual property rights, even if resolved in
our favor, could be substantial, and the litigation would divert our
management's efforts. Some of our competitors may be able to sustain the costs
of complex patent litigation more effectively than we can because they have
substantially greater resources. Uncertainties resulting from the initiation and
continuation of any litigation could limit our ability to continue our
operations.
If any party should successfully claim that the creation or use of our
DECOGEN-Registered Trademark- Informatics System or HAP Marker data infringes
upon their intellectual property rights, in addition to any damages we might
have to pay, a court could require us to stop the infringing activity or obtain
a license on unfavorable terms. Moreover, any legal action against us or our HAP
Partnership program customers or any HAP Drug co-development and/or co-marketing
partners claiming damages or seeking to enjoin commercial activities relating to
the affected products and processes could, in addition to subjecting us to
potential liability for damages, require us or our HAP Partnership program
customers or any of our HAP Drug co-development and/or co-marketing partners to
obtain a license in order to continue to manufacture or market the affected
products and processes. Any license required under any patent may not be made
available on commercially acceptable terms, if at all. In addition, some
licenses may be non-exclusive, and, therefore, our competitors may have access
to the same technology licensed to us. If we fail to obtain a required license
or are unable to design around a patent, we may be unable to market effectively
some of our HAP Technology and HAP Drugs, if any, which could limit our
profitability and possibly prevent us from generating revenue sufficient to
sustain our operations.
WE MAY BE UNABLE TO DEVELOP OR COMMERCIALIZE OUR HAP TECHNOLOGY AND CANDIDATE
HAP DRUGS IF WE CANNOT ESTABLISH COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS, AND WE WILL DEPEND
ON OUR PARTNERS TO DEVELOP OR TO CO-DEVELOP PRODUCTS.
We currently have four HAP Partnership program customers and no partners to
co-develop and/or co-market our two candidate HAP Drugs. Under our current
strategy, and for the foreseeable future, we do not expect to develop or market
pharmaceutical products on our own. As a result, our current and future revenues
will depend on payments from our current HAP Partnership program customers and
our future HAP Partnership program customers and the future co-developers and
co-marketers of our HAP Drugs, if any, for either the new products they may
develop, or for increased sales of their existing products, made possible
through the use of our HAP Technology, or from HAP Drugs, if any, that the
co-developers and co-marketers may sell. If we are unable to attract additional
HAP Partnership program customers or co-developers and/or co-marketers for our
candidate HAP Drugs, we may never generate sufficient revenues to sustain our
operations.
Our HAP Partnership program customers will be responsible and our HAP Drug
co-developers probably will be responsible for pre-clinical study and clinical
development of therapeutic and diagnostic products and for regulatory approval,
manufacturing and marketing of any products or
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enhanced marketing claims that result from the application of our HAP
Technology. We anticipate that our agreements with HAP Partnership program
customers and HAP Drug co-developers, if any, will allow them significant
discretion in pursuing these activities. We cannot control the amount and timing
of resources that our current HAP Partnership program customers and any future
HAP Partnership program customers will devote to our programs or potential
products. Our HAP Partnership program arrangements may also have the effect of
limiting the areas of research that we may pursue either alone or with others.
Because part of our revenues will be dependent on the successful
commercialization or development of our customers' products, if, for any reason,
a HAP Partnership program customer delays or abandons its development or
commercialization of a product developed using our HAP Technology, we may
receive reduced royalty or other payments or no royalty or other payments at
all. In addition, because part of our future revenues will be dependent on the
successful commercialization of our HAP Drugs, if any, with our co-developers
and/or co-marketers, if, for any reason, a HAP Drug co-developer and/or
co-marketer delays or abandons its development or commercialization of our HAP
Drug, we may receive reduced royalty or other payments or no royalty or other
payments at all.
Although we intend to retain the rights to all HAP Markers, which we
discover as well as to HAP Markers discovered jointly with our HAP Partnership
program customers, we may not always be able to negotiate the retention of these
rights. Furthermore, disputes may arise in the future over the ownership of
rights to HAP Markers as well as any other technology we develop with our HAP
Partnership program customers. These and other possible disagreements between
our HAP Partnership program customers and us could lead to delays in the
research, development or commercialization of their products. These
disagreements could also result in litigation or require arbitration to resolve.
Any of these events could prevent us from effectively marketing our HAP
Technology.
WE INVEST CONSIDERABLE AMOUNTS OF TIME, EFFORT, AND MONEY TO SELL OUR HAP
TECHNOLOGY AND CANDIDATE HAP DRUGS; AND IF WE ARE UNABLE TO SELL OUR HAP
TECHNOLOGY AND CANDIDATE HAP DRUGS, WE MAY NOT GENERATE SUFFICIENT REVENUE TO
SUSTAIN OUR OPERATIONS.
Our ability to obtain customers for our HAP Technology and candidate HAP
Drugs will depend in significant part upon the pharmaceutical and biotechnology
industry's acceptance that our HAP Technology can help accelerate or improve
their drug development and marketing efforts. To achieve this market acceptance,
we must continue to educate the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry and
the public in general as to the potential benefits of our HAP Technology and
candidate HAP Drugs. Most importantly, we must convince the research and
development, clinical and marketing departments of pharmaceutical and
biotechnology companies that our HAP Technology can accelerate and improve the
processes for developing, marketing, and prescribing drugs and that our
candidate HAP Drugs will be commercially viable. Given the amount of time and
effort necessary to educate our potential partners, if we fail to gain this
acceptance, we may never generate sufficient revenues to sustain our operations.
In addition, each of our HAP Partnership program agreements and our HAP Drug
co-development and/or co-marketing agreements, if any, will likely involve the
negotiation of agreements containing terms that may be unique to the partner
involved. We may expend substantial funds and management effort to market our
HAP Technology and candidate HAP Drugs, without any resulting sales.
REGULATORY OVERSIGHT OF OUR HAP TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC OPINION REGARDING ETHICAL
ISSUES SURROUNDING THE USE OF GENETIC INFORMATION MAY ADVERSELY AFFECT OUR
ABILITY TO MARKET OUR HAP TECHNOLOGY AND CANDIDATE HAP DRUGS.
The Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing, an advisory panel to
the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has
recommended that the FDA expand its regulation of genetic testing to require FDA
approval for all new genetic tests and labeling of genetic tests. Currently, the
FDA reviews only genetic tests that companies package and sell as kits. If the
FDA adopts this recommendation, it could require that we apply for FDA approval
as a prerequisite to
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marketing our HAP Technology. If the FDA were to deny any application of this
kind, we could not conduct our business and we would be unable to generate
sufficient revenues to sustain our operations.
In addition, the federal Centers for Disease Control and the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services are preparing a proposed rule that would
establish a genetics laboratory specialty under CLIA. When this rule is
finalized, our laboratory likely will be required to comply with it in order to
maintain its CLIA certification.
Moreover, our success will depend in part on the FDA's and other regulatory
agencies' acceptance of genomic variation analysis as part of the drug approval
process and, more specifically, the validity of our HAP Technology as a basis
for identifying genomic variation and for correlating drug response with genomic
variation. Without this acceptance, we may be unable to market effectively our
HAP Technology and we may not generate sufficient revenues to sustain our
operations. To date, the FDA has not required, in connection with approving any
drug, that a physician must have genomic variation information determined about
a patient before the doctor prescribes a drug. However, the FDA, in one
instance, has required that a physician must have gene expression information
about a patient before the doctor prescribes the drug.
Within the field of personalized health and medicine, governmental and other
entities may enact patient privacy and healthcare laws and regulations that may
limit the use of genomic variation data. To the extent that these laws and
regulations limit the use of our HAP Technology or impose additional costs on
our partners, we may be unable to market effectively our HAP Technology and
candidate HAP Drugs and we may not generate sufficient revenues to sustain our
operations.
Additionally, public opinion on ethical issues related to the
confidentiality and appropriate use of genetic testing results may influence
governmental authorities to call for limits on, or regulation of the use of,
genetic testing. In addition, governmental authorities or other entities may
call for limits on, or regulation of the use of, genetic testing or prohibit
testing for genetic predisposition to certain conditions, particularly for those
that have no known cure. The occurrence of any of these events could reduce the
potential markets for our HAP Technology, which could prevent us from generating
sufficient revenues to sustain our operations.
Furthermore, we may be directly subject to regulations as a provider of
diagnostic information. To the extent that these regulations restrict the sale
of our HAP Technology or impose other costs, we may be unable to provide our HAP
Technology to our customers on terms sufficient to recover our expenses.
IF OUR PARTNERS DO NOT SEEK, OR DO NOT RECEIVE, MARKETING APPROVAL FOR PRODUCTS
DEVELOPED, IF ANY, USING OUR HAP TECHNOLOGY, WE MAY RECEIVE DELAYED ROYALTY OR
OTHER PAYMENTS OR NO ROYALTY OR OTHER PAYMENTS AT ALL.
Any new drug, biologic, or new drug or biologic indication our partners or
we develop using our HAP Technology must undergo an extensive regulatory review
process in the United States and other countries before a new product or
indication of this kind could be marketed. This regulatory process can take many
years and require substantial expense. Changes in FDA policies and the policies
of similar foreign regulatory bodies can prolong the regulatory review of each
new drug or biologic license application or prevent approval of the application.
For a HAP Drug that contains an off-patent compound in a formulation that is not
significantly different than existing generic versions of the off-patent
compound, there can be no assurance that the HAP Drug, if approved, would have
sufficient marketing exclusivity granted by the FDA that would protect it from
indirect competition by others in the marketplace. We expect similar delays and
risks in the regulatory review process for any diagnostic product, whenever this
regulatory review is required. Even if a product obtains marketing clearance, a
marketed product and its manufacturer are subject to continuing review. A
manufacturer may be forced to withdraw a product from the market if a previously
unknown problem with a product becomes apparent. Because our revenues will be
largely dependent on the successful commercialization or development of products
using our HAP Technology, any delay in obtaining, failing to obtain, or failing
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to maintain regulatory approval for a product developed using our HAP Technology
may delay our receipt of royalty or other payments or prevent us from receiving
royalty or other payments sufficient to recover our expenses.
IF OUR PARTNERS OR WE ARE UNABLE TO OBTAIN FDA APPROVAL FOR THERAPEUTIC OR
DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCTS DEVELOPED USING OUR HAP TECHNOLOGY, THE LACK OF REGULATORY
APPROVAL WILL DIMINISH THE VALUE OF OUR HAP TECHNOLOGY AND ANY HAP DRUGS.
To date, no one has developed or commercialized any therapeutic or
diagnostic products using our HAP Technology. We expect to rely on our HAP
Partnership program customers and our HAP Drug co-developers, if any, to file
these applications and generally direct the regulatory review process and obtain
FDA acceptance of our HAP Technology and our HAP Drugs. Significant resources
for research, development, testing and regulatory approval of any drugs would be
necessary. Our HAP Partnership program customers or our HAP Drug co-developers,
if any, may not submit an application for regulatory review; even if they do
submit applications, they may not be able to obtain marketing clearance for any
products on a timely basis, if at all. If our partners fail to obtain required
governmental approvals for therapeutic or diagnostic products, they will not be
able to market these products unless and until they obtain these approvals.
Moreover, we do not expect to have the resources necessary to obtain and
generally direct the regulatory review process and to commercialize products, if
any, on our own. As a result, we may not receive royalty or other payments from
our customers. The occurrence of any of these events may prevent us from
generating revenues sufficient to sustain our operations.
IF WE DO NOT SUCCESSFULLY DISTINGUISH AND COMMERCIALIZE OUR HAP TECHNOLOGY, WE
MAY BE UNABLE TO COMPETE SUCCESSFULLY WITH OUR COMPETITORS OR TO GENERATE
REVENUES SIGNIFICANT TO SUSTAIN OUR OPERATIONS.
Numerous entities are attempting to identify genomic variation predictive of
specific diseases and drug response and to develop products and services based
on these discoveries. We face competition in these areas from pharmaceutical,
biotechnology and diagnostic companies, academic and research institutions and
government or other publicly-funded agencies, both in the United States and
abroad, most of which have substantially greater capital resources, research and
development staffs, facilities, manufacturing and marketing experience,
distribution channels and human resources than we do.
These competitors may discover, characterize or develop important
technologies applying population genomics before us or our HAP Partnership
program customers that are more effective than those technologies which we
develop or which our HAP Partnership program customers develop, or these
competitors may obtain regulatory approvals of their drugs more rapidly than our
HAP Partnership program customers do, any of which could limit our ability to
market effectively our HAP Technology.
Some companies and governments are marketing or developing a number of
databases and informatics tools to assist participants in the healthcare
industry and academic researchers in the management and analysis of genomic
data. Entities such as Celera Genomics Group, Incyte Genomics, Inc., National
Human Genome Research Institute, Perlegen Sciences and Variagenics, Inc. have
developed or plan to develop databases containing gene sequence, gene
expression, genomic variation or other genomic information and are marketing or
plan to market their data to pharmaceutical companies or plan to make freely
available their databases. In addition, numerous pharmaceutical companies, such
as GlaxoSmithKline plc, either alone or in partnership with our competitors, are
developing genomic research programs that involve the use of information that
can be found in these databases.
In order to compete against existing and future technologies, we will need
to demonstrate to potential HAP Partnership program customers the value of our
HAP Technology and that our HAP Technology and capabilities are superior to
competing technologies. Although we believe that our focus
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on gene-based HAP Markers, rather than random genomic SNPs, differentiates our
HAP Technology from other technologies our competitors are developing, any HAP
Technology improvements we create may fail to achieve greater market acceptance
than the technologies developed by our competitors.
Moreover, our competitors may obtain patent protection or other intellectual
property rights that would limit our rights or our partners' ability to use our
HAP Technology to commercialize therapeutic or diagnostic products. If we are
unable to protect our proprietary methods and our HAP Technology, we may not be
able to commercialize our HAP Technology and we may not be able to generate
sufficient revenue to sustain our operations. If the United States and foreign
patent offices do not grant patents for our applications, our competitors may
obtain rights to commercialize our discoveries, which would severely limit our
ability to compete.
Furthermore, if the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry accepts our
approach based on identifying HAP Markers, our competitors may adopt approaches
similar to ours. Also, our competitors' customers may be more successful than
our customers in their drug development and marketing efforts. If the
pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry does not accept our approach or if our
competitors are more successful than we are, we may be unable to market
effectively our HAP Technology and, as a result, we may be unable to generate
revenues sufficient to sustain our operations.
Genomic technologies have undergone, and are expected to continue to
undergo, rapid and significant change. Our future success will depend in large
part on maintaining a competitive position in the genomics field. Others may
rapidly develop new technologies that may result in products or technologies
becoming obsolete before we recover the expenses we incur in connection with our
development. Our HAP Technology could become obsolete if our competitors offer
less expensive or more effective drug discovery and development technologies,
including technologies that may be unrelated to genomics. We may not be able to
make the enhancements to our HAP Technology necessary to compete successfully
with newly emerging technologies.
IF WE FAIL TO MAINTAIN AND FURTHER DEVELOP OUR COMPUTER HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND
RELATED INFRASTRUCTURE, WE COULD EXPERIENCE LOSS OF, OR DELAY IN, REVENUES AND
MARKET ACCEPTANCE.
Because our business requires manipulating and analyzing large amounts of
data, we depend on the continuous, effective, reliable and secure operation of
our computer hardware, software and related infrastructure. To the extent that
our hardware or software malfunctions, we will experience reduced productivity.
We protect our computer hardware through physical and software safeguards.
However, our computer hardware is still vulnerable to fire, weather, earthquake,
or other natural disaster and power loss, telecommunications failures, physical
or software break-ins, and similar events. In addition, the software and
algorithmic components of our DECOGEN-Registered Trademark- Informatics System
are complex and sophisticated, and as such, could contain data, design or
software errors that could be difficult to detect and correct. Users of our
system may find software defects in current or future products. If we fail to
maintain and further develop the necessary computer capacity and data to support
our computational needs and our customers' drug discovery and development
efforts, we could experience a loss in revenues, or a delay in receiving
revenues, and a delay in obtaining market acceptance for our HAP Technology.
IF WE DO NOT EFFECTIVELY MANAGE OUR GROWTH, IT COULD AFFECT OUR ABILITY TO
PURSUE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPAND OUR BUSINESS.
We expect to continue to experience significant growth in the number of our
customers. This anticipated growth would place a significant strain on our
management and operations. We will need to continue to improve our operational
and financial systems and managerial controls and procedures. We will have to
maintain close coordination among our production, technical, accounting,
business development and research departments. Our ability to manage this
anticipated growth in the number of our customers will depend upon our ability
to broaden our management team and retain skilled employees. Our success will
also depend on the ability of our officers and key employees to continue to
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implement and improve our operational and other systems, to manage multiple,
concurrent HAP Partnership program relationships and candidates for our HAP Drug
program and to train and manage our employees. In addition, we must continue to
invest in customer support resources as the number of our partners and their
requests for support increase. Our partners are likely to have worldwide
operations and may require support at multiple U.S. and foreign sites. If we
cannot scale our business appropriately or otherwise adapt to anticipated growth
in this area, a key part of our strategy may not be successful.
OUR OPERATING RESULTS MAY FLUCTUATE SIGNIFICANTLY, AND ANY FAILURE TO MEET
FINANCIAL EXPECTATIONS MAY DISAPPOINT SECURITIES ANALYSTS OR INVESTORS AND
RESULT IN A DECLINE IN OUR COMMON STOCK PRICE.
Our operating results have fluctuated in the past and we expect they will
fluctuate in the future. These fluctuations could cause our common stock price
to decline. Some of the factors that could cause our operating results to
fluctuate include:
- recognition of non-recurring revenues due to receipt of license fees,
achievement of milestones, completion of contracts or other revenues;
- demand for and market acceptance of our HAP Partnership program and our
HAP Drug program;
- timing of the execution of agreements on our HAP Partnership program or
our HAP Drug program or other material contracts;
- our competitors' announcements or introduction of new products, services
or technological innovations;
- disputes regarding patents or other intellectual property rights;
- securities class actions or other litigation;
- adverse changes in the level of economic activity in the United States and
other major regions in which we do business; and
- general and industry-specific economic conditions, which may affect our
partners' use of our HAP Technology and our HAP Drug program.
Due to volatile and unpredictable revenues and operating expenses, we
believe that period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations may not
be a good indication of our future performance. It is possible that, in some
future periods, our operating results may be below the expectations of
securities analysts or investors. In this event, the market price of our common
stock could fluctuate significantly or decline.
ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Our exposure to market risk is principally confined to our cash equivalents
and investments, all of which have maturities of less than 18 months. We
maintain a non-trading investment portfolio of investment grade, liquid debt
securities that limit the amount of credit exposure to any one issue, issuer or
type of instrument. The weighted average interest rate on marketable securities
at December 31, 2001, was approximately 3.13%. In view of the nature and mix of
our total portfolio, a 10% movement in market interest rates would not have a
significant impact on the total value of our investment portfolio as of
December 31, 2001.
On December 31, 2001, we had aggregate fixed rate debt of approximately
$22.2 million, including borrowings outstanding under term loans and capital
lease obligations. The weighted average interest rate on this debt at
December 31, 2001, was approximately 8.9%. A 10% change in this interest rate
would cause a corresponding increase in our annual expense of approximately
$200,000.
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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
PAGE
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS.................... 38
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2001 and 2000........... 39
Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31,
2001, 2000 and 1999..................................... 40
Statements of Stockholders' Equity and Comprehensive Loss
for the Years Ended December 31, 2001, 2000 and 1999.... 41
Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31,
2001, 2000 and 1999..................................... 42
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS............................... 43
37
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Genaissance
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.:
We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Genaissance
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a Delaware corporation) as of December 31, 2001 and 2000,
and the related statements of operations, stockholders' equity and comprehensive
loss and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended
December 31, 2001. These financial statements are the responsibility of the
Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted
in the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit
to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free
of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence
supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit
also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates
made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in
all material respects, the financial position of Genaissance
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. as of December 31, 2001 and 2000, and the results of its
operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended
December 31, 2001 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in
the United States.
/s/ Arthur Andersen LLP
Hartford, Connecticut
January 25, 2002
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GENAISSANCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
BALANCE SHEETS
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
DECEMBER 31,
-------------------
2001 2000
-------- --------
ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS:
Cash and cash equivalents................................. $ 25,204 $ 69,204
Marketable securities..................................... 34,469 41,172
Accounts receivable....................................... 359 238
State income tax receivable............................... 1,500 --
Other current assets...................................... 1,391 1,421
-------- --------
Total current assets.................................... 62,923 112,035
-------- --------
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, net................................. 28,508 30,725
-------- --------
DEFERRED FINANCING COSTS, net of accumulated amortization of
$433 and $249 at December 31, 2001 and 2000,
respectively.............................................. 374 558
-------- --------
OTHER ASSETS................................................ 472 574
-------- --------
Total assets............................................ $ 92,277 $143,892
======== ========
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
Current portion of long-term debt, including amounts due
to related parties of $187 and $52 at December 31, 2001
and 2000, respectively.................................. $ 672 $ 795
Current portion of capital lease obligations.............. 6,759 5,549
Accounts payable.......................................... 2,607 5,251
Accrued expenses.......................................... 4,899 2,111
Current portion of deferred revenue....................... 211 206
-------- --------
Total current liabilities............................... 15,148 13,912
-------- --------
LONG-TERM LIABILITIES:
Long-term debt, including amounts due to related parties
of $4,929 and $4,752 at December 31, 2001 and 2000,
respectively, less current portion...................... 4,929 5,305
Capital lease obligations, less current portion........... 9,834 15,408
Deferred revenue, less current portion.................... 1,928 2,133
Royalty obligations....................................... 300 300
Accrued dividends......................................... 1,159 1,159
-------- --------
Total long-term liabilities............................. 18,150 24,305
-------- --------
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (Note 11)
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY:
Common stock, 58,000 authorized shares at December 31,
2001 and 2000; $.001 par value; 22,783, and 22,687
shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2001 and
2000.................................................... 23 23
Preferred stock, 1,000 authorized shares at December 31,
2001 and 2000; no shares issued or outstanding.......... -- --
Additional paid-in capital.................................. 219,348 218,525
Accumulated deficit......................................... (160,509) (112,927)
Net unrealized investment gains............................. 117 54
-------- --------
Total stockholders' equity.............................. 58,979 105,675
-------- --------
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity.............. $ 92,277 $143,892
======== ========
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
------------------------------
2001 2000 1999
-------- -------- --------
REVENUES:
License and service revenue............................... $ 5,345 $ 678 $ 123
Grant revenue............................................. -- 75 557
-------- -------- --------
5,345 753 680
-------- -------- --------
OPERATING EXPENSES:
Research and development (1).............................. 45,982 25,680 6,259
General and administrative (1)............................ 11,786 8,837 2,714
Sublicense royalty fees................................... 54 530 20
Stock-based compensation.................................. 498 5,256 766
-------- -------- --------
58,320 40,303 9,759
-------- -------- --------
Operating loss............................................ (52,975) (39,550) (9,079)
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE):
Interest expense.......................................... (2,599) (1,839) (637)
Interest income........................................... 3,918 4,623 267
-------- -------- --------
Loss before income taxes.................................. (51,656) (36,766) (9,449)
State income tax benefit.................................. 4,074 -- --
-------- -------- --------
Net loss.................................................. (47,582) (36,766) (9,449)
PREFERRED STOCK DIVIDENDS AND ACCRETION..................... -- (6,327) (2,082)
BENEFICIAL CONVERSION FEATURE OF SERIES B, KBH AND C
PREFERRED STOCK:.......................................... -- (50,180) --
-------- -------- --------
Net loss applicable to common shareholders................ $(47,582) $(93,273) $(11,531)
======== ======== ========
Net loss per common share, basic and diluted (Note 2)..... $ (2.09) $ (8.55) $ (4.24)
======== ======== ========
Shares used in computing basic and diluted net loss per
common share (Note 2)................................... 22,753 10,908 2,719
======== ======== ========
Pro forma net loss per common share, basic and diluted
(Note 2)................................................ $ (5.16) $ (1.79)
======== ========
Shares used in computing basic and diluted pro forma net
loss per common share (Note 2).......................... 16,790 5,202
======== ========
- ------------------------
(1) Excludes non-cash, stock-based compensation expense as
follows:
Research and development................................. $ 351 $ 1,694 $ 499
Selling, general and administrative...................... 147 3,562 267
-------- -------- --------
$ 498 $ 5,256 $ 766
======== ======== ========
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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GENAISSANCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS)
NET UNREALIZED TOTAL
COMMON STOCK ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT COMMON OTHER
------------------- PAID-IN ACCUMULATED GAINS STOCKHOLDERS' COMPREHENSIVE
SHARES AMOUNTS CAPITAL DEFICIT (LOSSES) EQUITY LOSS
-------- -------- ---------- ----------- -------------- ------------- -------------
Balance at December 31, 1998.... 2,482 $ 3 $ 3,501 $ (8,122) $ (6) $ (4,624)
Issuance of common stock in
settlement of obligation.... 71 -- 160 -- -- 160
Issuance of common stock from
exercise of stock options
and warrants................ 257 -- 265 -- -- 265
Compensation related to
issuance of options to
purchase common stock....... -- -- 766 -- -- 766
Warrants issued in connection
with debt financing......... -- -- 127 -- -- 127
Accretion in carrying value of
redeemable preferred
stock....................... -- -- -- (2,083) -- (2,083)
Net change in unrealized
investment loss............. -- -- -- -- 6 6 $ 6
Net loss...................... -- -- -- (9,449) -- (9,449) (9,449)
--------
Total comprehensive loss.... $ (9,443)
------ --- -------- --------- ---- -------- ========
Balance at December 31, 1999.... 2,810 $ 3 $ 4,819 $ (19,654) $ -- $(14,832)
Issuance of common stock from
exercise of stock options... 113 -- 452 -- -- 452
Issuance of common stock from
exercise of warrants........ 98 -- 230 -- -- 230
Compensation related to
issuance of options to
purchase common stock....... -- -- 4,936 -- -- 4,936
Warrants issued in connection
with debt financing and
preferred stock offering.... -- -- 3,320 -- -- 3,320
Accretion in carrying value of
redeemable preferred
stock....................... -- -- -- (6,327) -- (6,327)
Beneficial conversion feature
of Series B, KBH and C
preferred stock............. -- -- 50,180 (50,180) -- --
Conversion of preferred stock
in connection with initial
public offering............. 12,704 13 72,054 -- -- 72,067
Cashless exercise of warrants
in connection with initial
public offering............. 62 -- 501 -- -- 501
Sale of common stock in
connection with initial
public offering, net of
offering costs.............. 6,900 7 82,033 -- -- 82,040
Net change in unrealized
investment gain............. -- -- -- -- 54 54 $ 54
Net loss...................... -- -- -- (36,766) -- (36,766) (36,766)
--------
Total comprehensive loss.... $(36,712)
------ --- -------- --------- ---- -------- ========
Balance at December 31, 2000.... 22,687 $23 $218,525 $(112,927) $ 54 $105,675
Issuance of common stock from
exercise of stock options... 76 -- 157 -- -- 157
Issuance of common stock from
Employee Stock Purchase
Plan........................ 20 -- 168 -- -- 168
Compensation related to
issuance of options to
purchase common stock....... -- -- 498 -- -- 498
Net change in unrealized
investment gain............. -- -- -- -- 63 63 $ 63
Net loss...................... -- -- -- (47,582) -- (47,582) (47,582)
--------
Total comprehensive loss.... $(47,519)
------ --- -------- --------- ---- -------- ========
Balance at December 31, 2001.... 22,783 $23 $219,348 $(160,509) $117 $ 58,979
====== === ======== ========= ==== ========
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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GENAISSANCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS)
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
------------------------------
2001 2000 1999
-------- -------- --------
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net loss.................................................. $(47,582) $(36,766) $(9,449)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in
operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization........................... 8,559 4,052 816
Loss on disposal of equipment........................... -- 55 --
Stock-based compensation................................ 498 4,936 766
Non-cash interest expense............................... -- 376 125
Warrants issued in exchange for services................ -- 14 --
Changes in assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable................................... (121) (1,453) (116)
State income tax receivable........................... (1,500) -- --
Other assets.......................................... 132 (407) (149)
Accounts payable...................................... (2,644) 4,431 436
Accrued expenses...................................... 2,788 1,623 242
Deferred revenue...................................... (200) 1,878 (60)
-------- -------- -------
Net cash used in operating activities............... (40,070) (21,261) (7,389)
-------- -------- -------
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Purchases of property and equipment....................... (4,304) (8,702) (1,049)
Proceeds from (investment in) marketable securities....... 6,766 (41,118) 3,235
-------- -------- -------
Net cash provided by investing activities............. 2,462 (49,820) 2,186
-------- -------- -------
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Net proceeds from issuance of preferred stock............. -- 53,925 --
Net proceeds from issuance of common stock and from the
exercise of options and warrants........................ 325 682 265
Proceeds from initial public offering, net of issuance
costs................................................... -- 82,040 --
Proceeds from (repayment of) long-term debt, net.......... (863) (1,061) 1,452
Proceeds from long-term debt due to related parties....... 364 3,854 950
Proceeds from convertible promissory notes................ -- -- 3,500
Amounts payable under long term obligation................ -- -- (809)
Financing costs........................................... -- -- (114)
Repayment of capital leases............................... (6,218) (2,821) (564)
-------- -------- -------
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities... (6,392) 136,619 4,680
-------- -------- -------
NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS........ (44,000) 65,538 (523)
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, beginning of period.............. 69,204 3,666 4,189
-------- -------- -------
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, end of period.................... $ 25,204 $ 69,204 $ 3,666
======== ======== =======
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW ACTIVITIES:
Cash paid for interest.................................... $ 2,630 $ 1,308 $ 500
======== ======== =======
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF NON-CASH FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Conversion of liabilities into common or preferred
stock................................................... $ -- $ 3,561 $ 160
Acquisition of equipment pursuant to capital lease
obligations............................................. 1,745 18,735 5,582
Issuance of warrants in connection with financing
agreements.............................................. -- 3,320 127
Conversion of preferred stock into common stock........... -- 72,067 --
Cashless exercise of warrants............................. -- 501 --
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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GENAISSANCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
(1) ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS
Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the Company) is seeking to create
personalized medicines through the integration of gene variation into drug
development. The Company discovers inherited differences, or genomic markers,
that exist in human genes. The Company uses its technological capabilities and
methods as well as its clinical genetic development skills to identify the
genomic markers that appear to define a patient population that responds best to
a medication and has a superior safety profile. The Company intends to create
new therapeutic products for these patient populations by changing the
formulation of existing drugs and also by completing the development of drugs
through joint ventures and license agreements. In addition, the Company markets
its technology and its predictive genomic markers to the pharmaceutical and
biotechnology industries as a means to improve the development, marketing and
prescribing of drugs.
In addition to the normal risks associated with a business venture, there
can be no assurance that the Company's technologies will be successfully
commercialized, that the Company will be successful in using its technologies to
develop new drugs from existing drugs and drugs still in development, that the
Company will obtain adequate patent protection for its technologies, and that
any products will be commercially viable. In addition, the Company operates in
an environment of rapid change in technology and has substantial competition
from companies developing genomic related technologies. The Company expects to
incur substantial expenditures in the foreseeable future for its research and
development and commercialization of its products. The Company's management
believes, based upon its current business plans and existing financial
resources, that it will have the ability to fund its operations for at least
18 months.
(2) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
REVENUE RECOGNITION
The Company earns its revenues primarily through the licensing of its HAP
Technology and by HAP Typing services. The Company has also entered into
agreements which provide for future milestones and royalty payments. The Company
recognizes revenue in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101, REVENUE
RECOGNITION IN FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (SAB 101) and in accordance with Statement
of Position 97-2, SOFTWARE REVENUE RECOGNITION (SOP 97-2), as amended by
Statement of Position 98-9. In accordance therewith, the Company recognizes
annual license and subscription fees over the term of the agreement and service
fees as the services are performed. Future milestones and royalty payments, if
any, will be recognized when received provided that the milestone is substantive
and a culmination of the earnings process has occurred.
During 1996, the Company entered into a sublicense agreement with Visible
Genetics, Inc. (VGI) which provided VGI with the right to use the inventions
claimed in a patent in a defined field of use until the expiration of the patent
in June 2012 (License Term). In consideration thereof, the Company received
cash, equipment and VGI's common stock. In 2000, the Company amended the license
to expand the field of use and to reduce the royalty rate on product sales. In
consideration of such amendment, VGI paid the Company a nonrefundable fee of
$2,050. The Company is recognizing the payments from the agreement by amortizing
such payments into revenue, on a straight-line basis, over the License Term. The
Company recognizes the royalties when earned.
Amounts received in advance of revenue recognition are recorded as deferred
revenue.
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GENAISSANCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
(2) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
The Company considers all highly liquid debt instruments purchased with an
original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COSTS
The Company enters into agreements to license its HAP Technology, including
its DECOGEN-REGISTERED TRADEMARK- Information System, to third parties. The
Company evaluates the establishment of technological feasibility of its products
in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 86,
ACCOUNTING FOR THE COSTS OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE TO BE SOLD, LICENSED OR OTHERWISE
MARKETED. The Company has developed a product for a market that is subject to
rapid technological change, new product development, and changing customer
needs. In addition, the ability to continue to market the product is contingent
upon the Company's ability to successfully populate the database. The Company
has concluded that technological feasibility is established when a product
design and working model of the software product has been completed and the
completeness of the working model and its consistency with the product design
has been confirmed by testing. The time period during which costs could be
capitalized from the point of reaching technological feasibility until the time
of general product release is very short and, consequently, the amounts that
could be capitalized are not material to the Company's financial position or
results of operations. Therefore, the Company has charged all such costs to
research and development in the period incurred.
LONG-LIVED ASSETS
The Company accounts for its investments in long-lived assets in accordance
with SFAS No. 121, ACCOUNTING FOR THE IMPAIRMENT OF LONG-LIVED ASSETS AND
LONG-LIVED ASSETS TO BE DISPOSED OF. SFAS No. 121 requires a company to review
long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances
indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. The
Company has reviewed its long-lived assets and has determined that no
impairments currently exist.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Expenditures for research and development are charged to expense as
incurred.
PATENT AND LICENSED TECHNOLOGY COSTS
The Company expenses the costs of obtaining patents and licensed technology
until such point that the realization of the carrying value of these costs is
reasonably assured.
ROYALTY OBLIGATIONS
Included in the accompanying balance sheets is a $300 royalty obligation
related to a 1993 grant from the Department of Economic and Community
Development of the State of Connecticut (DECD). Under the terms of the
agreement, the Company is required to make royalty payments based upon the
greater of 2% of net product revenue, as defined, or $2 per month. The royalties
will be satisfied when total payments equal the original amount of the grant
plus interest calculated at 6.2% per annum.
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GENAISSANCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
(2) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)
During each of 2001, 2000 and 1999, the Company made payments of $19 in full
payment of the 6.2% per annum interest obligation during such years.
SEGMENT REPORTING
SFAS No. 131, DISCLOSURE ABOUT SEGMENTS OF AN ENTERPRISE AND RELATED
INFORMATION, establishes annual and interim reporting standards for an
enterprise's operating segments and related disclosures about its products,
services, geographic areas, and major customers. The Company has determined that
it operates in only one segment. In addition, all revenues are generated from
United States and Canadian entities, and all long-lived assets are maintained in
the United States.
FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, receivables,
marketable securities, and long-term debt. Cash and cash equivalents,
receivables, and marketable securities are carried at fair value. Long-term debt
is carried at cost, which management believes approximates fair value based upon
recent borrowing rates obtained over the past twelve months.
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
The Company presents its financial statements in accordance with SFAS
No. 130, REPORTING COMPREHENSIVE INCOME, which establishes standards for the
reporting and displaying of comprehensive income and its components in a full
set of general purpose financial statements. Accordingly, the Company has
included this presentation as a component of the statements of stockholders'
equity and comprehensive loss. The objective of the statement is to report a
measure of all changes in equity of an enterprise that result from transactions
and other economic events of the period other than transactions with owners
("comprehensive income"). This statement requires that financial statements
report unrealized gains or losses on investments as a component of other
comprehensive income or loss.
The Company's other comprehensive income (loss) amounted to $63, $54, and
$6, for the years ended December 31, 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively. These
amounts resulted from the net appreciation of marketable securities, net of
gains recognized in income during the applicable year.
NET LOSS PER COMMON SHARE
The Company computes and presents net loss per common share in accordance
with SFAS No. 128, EARNINGS PER SHARE. There is no difference in basic and
diluted net loss per common share as the effect of convertible preferred stock,
stock options and warrants would be anti-dilutive for all periods presented. The
outstanding convertible preferred stock, stock options and warrants (prior to
application of the treasury stock method) would entitle holders to acquire
3,611, 3,039, and 3,678, shares of common stock at December 31, 2001, 2000 and
1999, respectively.
Upon the consummation of the Company's initial public offering in
August 2000 (Note 8), all of the Company's then outstanding preferred stock
automatically converted into 12,704 shares of common stock and certain of the
Company's then outstanding common stock warrants were automatically exercised
for 62 shares of common stock.
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
(2) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)
The following table sets forth the pro forma net loss per share for the
years ended December 31, 2000 and 1999, assuming conversion of outstanding
shares of preferred stock and automatic exercise of warrants from date of
original issuance (Note 8).
2000 1999
-------- --------
Numerator--
Net loss applicable to common shareholders............ $(93,273) $(11,531)
Preferred stock dividends and accretion............... 6,327 2,082
Puttable warrant interest expense..................... 376 125
-------- --------
Pro forma net loss applicable to common
shareholders........................................ $(86,570) $ (9,324)
======== ========
Denominator--
Weighted average common shares........................ 10,908 2,719
Weighted average effect of pro forma securities--
Series A and KBL.................................... 1,429 2,438
Series B and KBH.................................... 3,809 --
Series C............................................ 607 --
Warrants............................................ 37 45
-------- --------
Denominator for pro forma basic and diluted
calculation........................................... 16,790 5,202
======== ========
Net loss per share--
Basic and diluted..................................... $ (8.55) $ (4.24)
Pro forma basic and diluted............................. (5.16) (1.79)
RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING STANDARDS
SFAS No. 133, ACCOUNTING FOR DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND FOR
HEDGING ACTIVITIES, which, as amended by SFAS No. 137, provides a comprehensive
and consistent standard for the recognition and measurement of derivatives and
hedging activities and was required for fiscal years beginning after January 1,
2001. The adoption of SFAS No. 133 did not have an impact on the Company's
results of operations or financial condition as the Company holds no derivative
financial instruments and does not currently engage in hedging activities.
In July 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 141, BUSINESS COMBINATIONS and SFAS
No. 142, GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS. SFAS No. 141 and SFAS No. 142
significantly impact the accounting and disclosures for business combinations.
The adoption of SFAS No. 141, which was required for all transactions completed
after June 30, 2001, and SFAS No. 142, which is required for fiscal years
beginning after December 15, 2001, will have no historical impact on the
Company's financial position or results of operations.
In August 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 144, ACCOUNTING FOR THE IMPAIRMENT
OR DISPOSAL OF LONG-LIVED ASSETS. SFAS No. 144 modifies the rules for accounting
for the impairment or disposal of long-lived assets. The new rules become
effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2001, with earlier
application encouraged. The Company does not believe that the adoption of this
principle will have a material impact on either the operating results or the
financial position of the Company.
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GENAISSANCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
(2) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)
USE OF ESTIMATES IN THE PREPARATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and
disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial
statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the
reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
(3) MARKETABLE SECURITIES AND EQUITY INVESTMENTS
The Company classifies its marketable securities as "available for sale"
and, accordingly, carries these investments at their aggregate fair value.
Unrealized gains or losses on these investments are included as a separate
component of stockholders' equity (deficit) and comprehensive loss (Note 2). The
Company's marketable securities as of December 31, 2001 and 2000, consisted
principally of corporate bonds. As of December 31, 2001, these securities had a
maximum maturity of less than 18 months and carried a weighted average interest
rate of approximately 3.13%. The amortized cost of these securities differed by
their fair values by $117 and $54 as of December 31, 2001 and 2000,
respectively.
(4) PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
Property and equipment consists of the following:
DECEMBER 31,
-------------------
2001 2000
-------- --------
Equipment, computers and software........................ $ 6,684 $ 3,844
Equipment under capital leases........................... 25,988 24,243
Leasehold improvements and office equipment.............. 9,080 7,507
-------- -------
41,752 35,594
Less--accumulated depreciation and amortization.......... (13,244) (4,869)
-------- -------
Total property and equipment, net.................... $ 28,508 $30,725
======== =======
These assets are stated at cost and are being depreciated and amortized over
the shorter of their lease term or their estimated useful lives on a
straight-line basis as follows:
Equipment, computers and software........................... 3-4 years
Office equipment............................................ 5 years
Leasehold improvements...................................... 10 years
Equipment under capital lease............................... 3-5 years
Accumulated depreciation related to equipment under capital leases was
$9,618 and $3,535 at December 31, 2001 and 2000, respectively.
The Company accounts for internal use software in accordance with Statement
of Position 98-1 (SOP 98-1), ACCOUNTING FOR THE COSTS OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE
DEVELOPED OR OBTAINED FOR INTERNAL USE. SOP
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GENAISSANCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
(AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
(4) PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT (CONTINUED)
98-1 requires the capitalization of direct costs incurred in connection with
developing or obtaining software for internal use, including external direct
costs of materials and services and payroll and payroll-related costs for
employees who are directly associated with and devote time to an internal use
software development project. The Company's policy is to capitalize all such
costs and to amortize such costs over the estimated useful life of the software.
Net capitalized costs associated with this software were $43 and $78 as of
December 31, 2001 and 2000, respectively.
Expenditures for maintenance and repairs, which do not improve or extend the
useful lives of the respective assets, are expensed as incurred.
(5) FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS
Long-term debt consists of the following:
DECEMBER 31,
-------------------
2001 2000
-------- --------
Notes payable to Connecticut Innovations, Inc. (CII) bearing
interest at 6.5%, payments of interest only for a defined
period and monthly payments of principal and interest
thereafter................................................ $5,116 $4,804
Note payable to TransAmerica Business Corp. (TBCC) bearing
interest at 12.98%, monthly payments of principal and
interest of $72 are payable through August 2002........... 485 1,296
------ ------
Total long-term debt...................................... 5,601 6,100
Less -- current portion................................... (672) (795)
------ ------
Total long-term debt, less current portion................ $4,929 $5,305
====== ======
The Company has entered into three financing agreements (the Agreements)
with Connecticut Innovations, Inc. (CII), a stockholder of the Company, to
finance certain leasehold improvements and other costs associated with the
Company's facility expansion. The Agreements provide for interest only with
principal payments based on a 120 month amortization beginning April, 2001
through October, 2002, with final balloon payments due in April, 2007 through
June, 2011. Borrowings under the Agreements are secured by the related leasehold
improvements.
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(5) FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS (CONTINUED)
Aggregate future maturities of the notes payable are as follows:
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31
----------------------
2002........................................................ $ 672
2003........................................................ 398
2004........................................................ 425
2005........................................................ 453
2006........................................................ 483
Thereafter.................................................. 3,170
------
$5,601
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(6) CAPITAL LEASES
Capital lease obligations related to equipment consist of the following:
DECEMBER 31,
-------------------
2001 2000
-------- --------
Capital lease obligations to Finova Capital Credit Corp.
payable in varying installments through August 2004,
bearing interest from 8.15% to 10.07%, secured by the
related equipment....................................... $ 9,725 $13,453
Capital lease obligations to Newcourt Financial USA, Inc.
payable in varying installments through November 2003,
bearing interest from 10.5% to 11.8%, secured by the
related equipment....................................... 1,052 1,550
Capital lease obligations to Oxford Venture Finance LLC
payable in varying installments through October 2004,
bearing interest from 10.85% to 12.46%, secured by the
related equipment....................................... 5,112 5,833
Capital lease obligation to IBM Credit Corp., payable in
varying installments through October 2003 bearing
interest at 11.77%, secured by the related equipment.... 661 --
Other..................................................... 43 121
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Total capital lease obligations........................... $16,593 $20,957
======= =======
Aggregate future maturities under these capital leases are as follows:
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
-----------------------
2002...................................................... $ 8,055
2003...................................................... 7,280
2004...................................................... 3,247
2005...................................................... 55
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18,637
Less -- amount representing interest........................ 2,044
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Total capital lease obligations......................... 16,593
Less -- current portion..................................... 6,759
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Total capital lease obligations, less current
portion............................................. $ 9,834
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(6) CAPITAL LEASES (CONTINUED)
During 2000 and 1999, in connection with entering into certain leasing
arrangements, the Company granted warrants to purchase an aggregate of 80 shares
of common stock at a weighted average exercise price of $8.39 per share.
Deferred financing costs of $439, which approximated the fair value of these
warrants at the date of issuance, are being amortized into interest expense over
the term of the related leases (Note 9).
The Company's capital lease arrangements allow it to purchase the related
equipment at the completion of the lease term as defined in the agreements.
(7) CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY NOTE
In November 1999, the Company borrowed $3,500 under convertible promissory
notes, which bore interest at 8% per annum. The convertible promissory notes
were converted into preferred stock in 2000 in connection with the issuance of
the Series B and KBH preferred stock (Note 8) based upon the fair value of the
preferred stock at the time of conversion.
(8) PREFERRED STOCK
In March 2000, the Company sold 1,539 shares of Series C Redeemable
Convertible Preferred Stock (Series C) at $8.25 per share resulting in proceeds
of $11,883, net of issuance expenses of $817.
In February and March 2000, the Company sold 8,728 shares of Series B and
Series KBH Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock (collectively, Series B) for
$5.50 per share resulting in proceeds of $42,042, net of cash issuance costs of
$2,375 and net of the conversion of $3,500 of convertible promissory notes, and
related interest, which were issued in 1999 (Note 7) and which were converted
into 636 shares of Series B based upon a per share conversion price of $5.50 per
share. In connection with this offering, the investment banker was issued a
warrant (which is exercisable through February 2005) to purchase 400 shares of
common stock at $6.05 per share (Note 9). The Company recorded additional
issuance costs of $2,892, which approximated the fair value of the warrant at
the date of issuance.
In 1998, the Company sold 2,250 shares of Series A and Series KBL Redeemable
Convertible Preferred Stock (collectively, Series A) at $4.00 per share
resulting in aggregate proceeds of $8,769, net of issuance costs of $231.
Upon the completion of the Company's initial public offering in
August 2000, all preferred stock was automatically converted into 12,704 shares
of common stock.
While outstanding, the Company's Series A, B and C shares (collectively, the
Preferred) earned dividends at 8% per annum. In addition, the holders of the
Preferred had certain rights which could have required that the Company
repurchase such shares, commencing in 2005, at the greater of the original
purchase price plus accrued but unpaid dividends or fair value, as defined. As a
result of such dividend and redemption rights, during 2000 and 1999, the Company
recognized $6,327 and $2,083, respectively, of accretion in the carrying value
of the redeemable preferred stock which is reflected in the accompanying 2000
and 1999 statements of stockholders' equity (deficit) and comprehensive loss.
As a result of the Company's initial public offering, dividends earned
subsequent to the Series B and C issuance dates were no longer required to be
paid. Included in long-term liabilities of the accompanying balance sheets is
$1,159 of accrued dividends earned on the Series A prior to the issuance of the
Series B and C, which continue to be payable.
In connection with the sale of Series B and C, the Company also recorded a
charge to accumulated deficit of $50,180, which represented the beneficial
conversion feature of this stock. This
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(8) PREFERRED STOCK (CONTINUED)
amount was accounted for in 2000 as a dividend to these preferred stockholders
and as a result, increased the Company's paid in capital, net loss applicable to
common shareholders and the related net loss per common share.
(9) COMMON STOCK, STOCK OPTIONS AND WARRANTS
COMMON STOCK
At December 31, 2001, the Company has authorized 58,000 shares of common
stock. As of December 31, 2001, 4,334 shares have been reserved for issuance
under warrants and the Company's stock options and employee stock purchase
plans.
In August 2000, the Company issued 6,900 shares of common stock in
connection with its initial public offering.
In August 1999, the Company issued 71 shares of common stock in full
satisfaction of an $160 outstanding obligation.
STOCK OPTION PLAN
In 1993, the Board of Directors and stockholders approved the Stock Option
Plan (the Plan) which provides for both incentive and nonqualified stock
options. As of December 31, 2001, under the terms of the amended Plan, stock
options may be granted for up to a maximum of 3,557 shares. Options granted
under the Plan are exercisable for a period determined by the Company, but in no
event longer than ten years from date of grant. In the event of certain capital
stock changes, the options are subject to adjustment in accordance with
anti-dilution provisions.
The Company has adopted the provisions of SFAS No. 123, ACCOUNTING FOR
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION. This pronouncement requires the measurement of the
fair value of stock options to be included in the statement of operations or
disclosed in the notes to financial statements. The Company accounts for
stock-based compensation for employees under Accounting Principles Board Opinion
No. 25 and has elected the disclosure-only alternative under SFAS No. 123.
A summary of the status of the Company's stock option plan at December 31,
2001, 2000 and 1999 and changes during the periods then ended is presented
below:
2001 2000 1999
------------------- ------------------- -------------------
WEIGHTED WEIGHTED WEIGHTED
AVERAGE AVERAGE AVERAGE
EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE
OPTIONS PRICE OPTIONS PRICE OPTIONS PRICE
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Outstanding, January 1........................... 2,512 $8.58 990 $2.37 514 $2.07
Granted.......................................... 788 6.24 1,691 11.82 542 2.80
Cancelled or expired............................. (140) 10.32 (56) 5.03 (61) 2.73
Exercised........................................ (76) 2.05 (113) 4.02 (5) 1.50
----- ----- ---
Outstanding, December 31......................... 3,084 $8.06 2,512 $8.58 990 $2.37
===== ===== ===
Options exercisable at December 31............... 1,385 $7.11 836 $4.83 268 $2.01
===== ===== ===
Weighted average fair value of options granted
during the year................................ $5.58 $6.26 $1.70
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(9) COMMON STOCK, STOCK OPTIONS AND WARRANTS (CONTINUED)
The following table summarizes information about stock options at
December 31, 2001:
OPTIONS OUTSTANDING OPTIONS EXERCISABLE
------------------------------------- ----------------------
WEIGHTED
AVERAGE WEIGHTED WEIGHTED
RANGE OF REMAINING AVERAGE AVERAGE
EXERCISE NUMBER CONTRACTUAL EXERCISE NUMBER EXERCISE
PRICES OUTSTANDING LIFE (YEARS) PRICE EXERCISABLE PRICE
- --------------------- ----------- ------------ -------- ----------- --------
0.01$-$1.50....... 250 6.4 $1.26 250 $1.26
1.51$-$3.00....... 513 6.8 2.88 378 2.83
$ 3.01-$8.25 841 9.0 5.32 150 5.60
8.26$-$12.51...... 1,313 7.3 11.83 550 11.86
12.5$2-$32.20..... 167 8.7 18.38 57 19.21
----- ----- ----- ----- -----
3,084 7.7 $8.06 1,385 $7.11
===== ===== ===== ===== =====
During 2001, 2000 and 1999, options to purchase 703, 1,362 and 381 shares,
respectively, of common stock were granted at an exercise price equal to the
fair value of the common stock on the date of grant at weighted average exercise
prices of $6.00, $12.80 and $3.00, respectively, per share. The weighted average
fair value of these options at the date of grant, as prescribed by SFAS
No. 123, was $4.86, $7.77 and $2.32 during 2001, 2000, and 1999, respectively.
In addition, options to purchase 85, 329 and 161 shares, respectively, of common
stock were granted at an exercise price less than the fair value of the common
stock on the date of grant at weighted average exercise prices of $8.25, $7.77
and $2.32, respectively, per share. The weighted average fair values of these
options at the date of grant, as prescribed by SFAS No. 123, was $11.42, $5.78
and $1.27, during 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively.
Total compensation expense recorded in the accompanying statements of
operations associated with employee stock options is $391, $381, and $12 for the
years ended December 31, 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively. Unamortized
compensation expense associated with outstanding stock options at December 31,
2001 is approximately $977,000.
The Company accounts for options granted to consultants, which include
scientific advisory board members, using the Black-Scholes method prescribed by
SFAS No. 123 and in accordance with Emerging Issues Task Force Consensus
No. 96-18. During the year ended December 31, 2000, the Company elected to fully
vest all unvested options previously granted to scientific advisory board
members. Accordingly, the Company recorded a compensation charge in the quarter
ended March 31, 2000 based upon the incremental fair value and previously
recognized compensation expense associated with these options at the time of
vesting. Total compensation expense recorded in the accompanying statements of
operations associated with these consultant options is $107, $1,675 and $434 for
the years ended December 31, 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively.
In 1996, in connection with a change in management of the Company, the
Company's current Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer (the
Officers) entered into a stock purchase agreement (Officer Stock Purchase
Agreement) with a then officer and major shareholder of the Company (Former
CEO). The Officer Stock Purchase Agreement permitted the Officers to purchase
shares of common stock from the Former CEO in exchange for notes payable
aggregating $320 (Officer Stock Notes). The notes were collateralized by the
stock and were payable at the earlier of August 31, 2001 or an initial public
offering or change in control, as defined. The Company recognized this
transaction as a compensatory arrangement between the Company and the Officers
and accordingly recognized a non-cash compensation expense of $2,880 and $320 in
2000 and 1999, respectively.
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(9) COMMON STOCK, STOCK OPTIONS AND WARRANTS (CONTINUED)
In 2000, upon successful completion of the initial public offering, the
Company's board of directors elected to assume the $320 of Officer Stock Notes.
The Company recognized compensation expense of $320 during 2000 as a result of
the assumption of such Officer Stock Notes. Such forgiveness is included in
stock based compensation in the accompanying statement of operations.
The Company has computed the pro forma disclosures required under SFAS
No. 123 for options granted to employees using the Black-Scholes option pricing
model. The weighted average assumptions used are as follows:
2001 2000 1999
-------- ------------- --------
Risk free interest rate..................... 4.24% 6.1% 6.0%
Expected dividend yield..................... None None None
Expected lives.............................. 5 years 7 years 7 years
Expected volatility......................... 117% 0% and 145% None
Had compensation cost for the Company's stock option plan been determined
consistent with SFAS No. 123, the Company's pro forma net loss would have been
as follows:
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,
---------------------------------
2001 2000 1999
--------- --------- ---------
Net (loss) applicable to common stockholders:
As reported.................................. $(47,582) $(93,273) $(11,531)
Pro forma.................................... (50,748) (95,157) (11,625)
Net (loss) per common share, basic and diluted:
As reported.................................. (2.09) (8.55) (4.24)
Pro forma.................................... (2.23) (8.72) (4.27)
EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
During fiscal 2000, the board of directors adopted the Employee Stock
Purchase Plan 2000 (ESPP). Under the ESPP, eligible employees may purchase
common stock at not less than 85% of fair value, as defined. Under the ESPP, the
Company's compensation committee grants rights to purchase the shares under the
ESPP. The Company has reserved 250 shares of common stock for issuance under the
ESPP. As of December 31, 2001, 20 shares have been issued under the ESPP.
STOCK WARRANTS
The Company has issued warrants in connection with certain of its financing
and capital raising activities.
As of December 31, 2001, the Company had warrants outstanding to purchase
527 shares of common stock of the Company at a weighted average exercise price
of $6.08. The warrants expire from November, 2003 through April, 2006. Certain
warrants include anti-dilutive provisions, as defined.
(10) INCOME TAXES
The Company accounts for income taxes under the provisions of SFAS No. 109,
ACCOUNTING FOR INCOME TAXES. This statement requires the Company to recognize
deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of
events that have been previously recognized in the Company's financial
statements or tax returns. Under this method, deferred tax liabilities and
assets are determined based on the difference between the financial statement
carrying amounts and the tax basis
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(10) INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED)
of the assets and liabilities and the net operating loss carryforwards available
for tax reporting purposes, using applicable tax rates for the years in which
the differences are expected to reverse.
The reconciliation of the statutory Federal income tax rate to the Company's
effective income tax rate for the years ended December 31, 2001, 2000 and 1999,
is as follows:
FOR THE YEARS ENDED
DECEMBER 31,
------------------------------
2001 2000 1999
-------- -------- --------
Statutory rate.......................................... 34.0% 34.0% 34.0%
State tax benefit, net of Federal taxes................. 12.6 4.9 4.8
Other................................................... (1.0) 2.0 (1.5)
Increase in deferred tax valuation allowance............ (37.7) (40.9) (37.3)
----- ----- -----
7.9% --% --%
===== ===== =====
The Company has available, at December 31, 2001, unused net operating loss
carryforwards of approximately $94.6 million and $93.6 million which may be
available to offset future Federal and state taxable income, respectively, if
any. The future utilization of these carryforwards may be limited on a permanent
basis due to changes within the Company's current and future ownership structure
as defined within the internal revenue code. Federal carryforwards are scheduled
to expire beginning in 2007 through 2021. State carryforwards are scheduled to
expire from 2002 through 2021.
As a result of recent legislation, the State of Connecticut provides
companies with the opportunity to exchange certain research and development
credit carryforwards for a cash payment in exchange for foregoing the
carryforward of the research and development credits. The program provides for
the exchange of research and development credits at a rate of 65% of the annual
incremental research and development tax credit, as defined. During 2001, the
Company filed a claim to sell their 2000 incremental research and development
credit and, as a result, recognized a state income tax benefit of approximately
$2.6 million. In addition, as of December 31, 2001, the Company has recorded an
income tax receivable of $1.5 million for the estimated proceeds from selling of
their the 2001 research and development tax credit. The components of deferred
income tax assets as of December 31, 2001 and 2000 are as follows:
FOR THE YEARS ENDED
DECEMBER 31,
-------------------
2001 2000
-------- --------
Deferred tax assets:
Net operating loss carryforwards and tax credits.......... $40,816 $16,850
Other..................................................... 2,256 4,140
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Total deferred tax assets................................... 43,072 20,990
Less--valuation allowance for deferred tax assets........... (43,072) (20,990)
------- -------
Net deferred tax assets..................................... $ -- $ --
======= =======
The Company has not yet achieved profitable operations. Accordingly,
management believes the tax benefits as of December 31, 2001 do not satisfy the
realization criteria set forth in SFAS No. 109 and has recorded a valuation
allowance for the entire deferred tax asset.
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(11) COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
401(K) RETIREMENT PLAN
The Company has a 401(k) defined contribution retirement plan covering
substantially all full-time employees. The Company matches 25% of employee
contributions, up to 8% of employee compensation. The Company contributed $122,
$60 and $25 to the plan during 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively.
ROYALTY AND OTHER COMMITMENTS
The Company periodically enters into agreements with third parties to obtain
exclusive or non-exclusive licenses for certain technologies management believes
important to the Company's overall business strategy. The terms of certain of
these agreements provide for the Company to pay future royalty payments based on
product sales or sublicense income generated from the applicable technologies,
if any. Additionally, certain agreements call for future payments upon
achievement of certain milestones. The Company recorded expenses of $4,728,
$2,417 and $202 during 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively. The aggregate future
annual minimum payments (assuming non-termination of these agreements) is as
follows:
2002........................................................ $3,205
2003........................................................ 88
2004........................................................ 113
2005........................................................ 113
2006........................................................ 113
In connection with the Company's initial license of a patent from a
University, the Company is obligated to pay both the University and the inventor
of the technology a sublicense royalty fee. The inventor of the technology
subsequently joined the Company and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of
the Company. The Company has elected to recognize this expense as incurred.
Future royalty payments from the Licensor, if any, will also be subject to a
sublicense royalty fee. Included in the accompanying statements of operations
for the years ended December 31, 2001, 2000 and 1999, are $54, $530 and $20,
respectively, of related sublicensing fees.
OPERATING LEASES
The Company leases its operating facilities located in New Haven,
Connecticut. The lease agreements require annual lease payments of $816 per year
increasing to $1,101 per year over the original term, which expires in 2004. The
Company has two five-year renewal options to extend the lease beyond its initial
term. The Company is recording the expense associated with the lease on a
straight line basis over the expected term of the lease.
In addition to the operating lease for the Company's current facility, the
Company also has operating leases for various office equipment.
Rental expense for all operating leases for the years ended December 31,
2001, 2000 and 1999 was $1,055, $549 and $213, respectively.
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Future minimum payments under all non-cancelable operating leases in effect
as of December 31, 2001 are as follows:
2002........................................................ $1,168
2003........................................................ 1,178
2004........................................................ 1,146
2005........................................................ 1,085
2006........................................................ 758
Thereafter.................................................. 4,084
(12) SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMERS AND FOREIGN BASED REVENUES
For fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999, a foreign based customer accounted for
approximately 6%, 34% and 18% of revenues, respectively. The following is a
breakdown of revenue by major customers exceeding ten percent (10%) of revenue
for the respective periods:
FOR THE YEAR ENDED: CUSTOMER A CUSTOMER B CUSTOMER C CUSTOMER D
- ------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
December 31, 2001.............................. 41% 34% 19% --
December 31, 2000.............................. 29% 27% -- 34%
December 31, 1999.............................. -- -- -- 18%
(13) QUARTERLY DATA--UNAUDITED
2001
-----------------------------------------------------
1ST QUARTER 2ND QUARTER 3RD QUARTER 4TH QUARTER
----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
Revenues........................................ $ 997 $ 1,069 $ 1,083 $ 2,196
Operating expenses.............................. 12,958 14,741 15,629 14,992
Operating loss.................................. (11,961) (13,672) (14,546) (12,796)
Net loss applicable to common shareholders...... (11,192) (13,209) (11,801) (11,380)
Net loss per common share:
Basic and diluted............................... (.49) (.58) (0.52) (0.50)
2000
-----------------------------------------------------
1ST QUARTER 2ND QUARTER 3RD QUARTER 4TH QUARTER
----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
Revenues........................................ $ 63 $ 57 $ 67 $ 566
Operating expenses.............................. 8,483 7,465 11,018 13,337
Operating loss.................................. (8,420) (7,408) (10,951) (12,771)
Net loss applicable to common shareholders...... (60,438) (10,094) (11,408) (11,333)
Net loss per common share:
Basic and diluted............................... (21.49) (3.57) (0.74) (0.50)
ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES
NONE.
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PART III
Items 10, 11, 12 and 13 of Part III (except for information required with
respect to our executive officers which is set forth under "Executive Officers"
in Item 1 of Part I of this report) have been omitted from this report, since we
expect to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, not later than
120 days after the close of our fiscal year, a definitive proxy statement. The
information required by Items 10, 11, 12 and 13 of this report, which will
appear in the definitive proxy statement, is incorporated by reference into
Part III of this report.
PART IV
ITEM 14. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULE AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K
(a) 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The financial statements are listed under Item 8 of this report.
2. FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
The financial statement schedules listed under Item 8 of this report are
omitted because they are not applicable or required information and are
shown in the financial statements of the footnotes thereto.
(b) REPORTS ON FORM 8-K
No reports on Form 8-K were filed during the fourth quarter of 2001.
(c) EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT
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3.1(1)............... Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
3.3(2) Amended and Restated By-laws of Genaissance Pharmaceuticals,
Inc.
4.1(3) Form of Common Stock Certificate.
4.2(3) Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant, together with a list
of warrant holders.
10.1*(3) 2000 Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan.
10.1A*(3) Stock Option Plan.
10.2*(3) Employee Stock Purchase Plan 2000.
10.3(3) Form of Indemnification Agreement between Genaissance and
its directors.
10.4(3) Lease Agreement between Genaissance and Science Park
Development Corporation dated September 15, 1998.
10.5(3) Amendment No. 1 to Lease Agreement between Genaissance and
Science Park Development Corporation dated December 1, 1999.
10.6(3) Amendment No. 2 to Lease Agreement between Genaissance and
Science Park Development Corporation dated December 16,
1999.
10.7*(3) Genaissance 401(k) Plan.
10.8(3)+ Collaboration Agreement between Genaissance and Telik, Inc.
dated February 11, 1998.
10.9(3) First Amendment to the Collaboration Agreement between
Genaissance and Telik, Inc. dated February 11, 1999.
10.10(3)+ License Agreement between Genaissance and Visible Genetics,
Inc. dated November 21, 1996.
10.11(3)+ Patent License Amending Agreement between Genaissance and
Visible Genetics, Inc. dated March 16, 2000.
10.12(3) Loan Agreement between Genaissance and Connecticut
Innovations, Incorporated dated September 15, 1998.
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EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT
- ------- ------------------------------------------------------------
10.13(3) Loan Agreement between Genaissance and Connecticut
Innovations, Incorporated dated December 1, 1999.
10.14(3) Master Lease Agreement between Genaissance and Finova
Technology Finance dated September 1998, and attached
Schedules.
10.15(3) Letter Agreement with Finova Capital Corporation dated
January 24, 2000.
10.16(3) Master Equipment Lease Agreement between Genaissance and
Oxford Venture Finance dated June 10, 1999, and attached
Schedules.
10.17(3) Master Lease Agreement between Genaissance and Newcourt
Financial USA Inc. dated March 26, 1999, and attached
Schedules.
10.18*(3) Employment Agreement with Gualberto Ruano dated August 24,
1998.
10.19*(3) Employment Agreement with Kevin Rakin dated August 24, 1998.
10.20*(3) Employment Agreement with Gerald F. Vovis dated April 15,
1999.
10.21*(3) Confidentiality and Non-Competition Agreement with Richard
Judson dated November 16, 1999.
10.22(3)+ Strategic Alliance Agreement between Genaissance and
Sequenom, Inc. dated as of May 3, 2000.
10.23(3) Letter Agreement with Finova Capital Corporation dated June
7, 2000.
10.24(3) Letter Agreement with Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated
dated June 2, 2000.
10.25(3)+ Collaboration Agreement with Gene Logic, Inc. dated June 28,
2000.
10.26(3) Second Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement
with the purchasers of Series A and Series KBL Non-voting
Preferred Stock dated March 10, 2000.
10.27(3) Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement with the
purchasers of Series B and Series KBH Preferred Stock dated
March 10, 2000.
10.28(3) Registration Rights Agreement with purchasers of Series C
Preferred Stock dated March 10, 2000.
10.29(3) Amendment No. 3 to Lease Agreement between Genaissance and
Science Park Development Corporation dated June 1, 2000.
10.30(3) Purchase Agreement with Connecticut Innovations,
Incorporated dated March 10, 1994.
10.31(3) Financing Agreement with Connecticut Innovations,
Incorporated dated November 16, 1994.
10.32(3) Financing Agreement with Connecticut Innovations,
Incorporated dated September 10, 1996.
10.33(3) Agreement Concerning Conversion of Convertible Note and
Connecticut Presence with Connecticut Innovations,
Incorporated dated August 24, 1998.
10.34(3) Supplemental Agreement to Agreement Concerning Conversion of
Convertible Note and Connecticut Presence with Connecticut
Innovations, Incorporated dated November 23, 1999.
10.35(3) Letter Agreement with Connecticut Innovations Incorporated
dated February 17, 2000.
10.36(3) Loan and Security Agreement and Promissory Note with
Transamerica Business Credit Corporation dated April 30,
1999.
10.37*(4) Employment Agreement with Kenneth B. Kashkin dated September
13, 2000.
10.38*(4) Promissory Note with Gualberto Ruano dated August 7, 2000.
10.39*(4) Promissory Note with Kevin Rakin dated August 7, 2000.
10.39*(4) Promissory Note with Kevin Rakin dated August 1, 2000.
10.41(5)+ Collaboration Agreement with Janssen Research Foundation
dated November 22, 2000.
10.42(5) Third Loan Agreement with Connecticut Innovations,
Incorporated dated July 26, 2000.
10.43+ Agreement with Pfizer Inc. dated August 29, 2001. Filed
herewith.
10.44+ HAP-TM- Focus Trial License Agreement with AstraZeneca UK
Limited dated as of November 29, 2001. Filed herewith.
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EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT
- ------- ------------------------------------------------------------
10.45+ Mednostics-TM- Collaboration and License Agreement with
Biogen, Inc. dated as of January 31, 2002. Filed herewith.
10.46+ International Sales Representative Agreement with Intec Web
and Genome Informatics Corporation dated as of February 4,
2002. Filed herewith.
10.47+ Amendment, dated December 27, 2001, to Collaboration
Agreement with Gene Logic, Inc., dated June 28, 2000. Filed
herewith.
10.48+ HAP-TM- Focus Trial License Agreement with Biogen, Inc.
dated December 21, 2001. Filed herewith.
10.49 Form of Registration Rights Agreement Waiver dated
February 18, 2002. Filed herewith.
10.50 Employment Agreement with Richard Judson dated November 20,
2001. Filed herewith.
10.51 Fourth Amendment to Lease between Science Park Development
Corporation and Genaissance dated September 30, 2001. Filed
herewith.
23.1 Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP. Filed herewith.
99.1 Factors Affecting Future Operating Results. Filed herewith.
- ------------------------
* Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan.
+ Confidential treatment requested as to certain portions, which portions have
been filed separately with the Commission.
(1) Filed as Exhibit 3.2 to Genaissance's Registration Statement on Form S-1
(File No. 333-35314) and incorporated herein by reference.
(2) Filed as Exhibit 3.4 to Genaissance's Registration Statement on Form S-1
(File No. 333-35314) and incorporated herein by reference.
(3) Filed as an exhibit with the same number to Genaissance's Registration
Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-35314) and incorporated herein by
reference.
(4) Filed as an exhibit to Genaissance's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (File
No. 000-30981) for the quarter ended September 30, 2000.
(5) Filed as an exhibit to Genaissance's Annual Report on Form 10-K (File No.
000-30981) for the year ended December 31, 2000.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of New
Haven, Connecticut, on March 7, 2002.
GENAISSANCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
By: /s/ GUALBERTO RUANO, M.D., PH.D
-----------------------------------------
Gualberto Ruano, M.D., Ph.D
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this
report has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on
the dates indicated.
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE
--------- ----- ----
/s/ GUALBERTO RUANO, M.D., PH.D.
-------------------------------------- Chief Executive Officer and Director March 7, 2002
Gualberto Ruano, M.D., Ph.D. (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ KEVIN RAKIN President, Chief Financial Officer
-------------------------------------- (Principal Financial and Accounting March 7, 2002
Kevin Rakin Officer) and Director
/s/ JURGEN DREWS, M.D.
-------------------------------------- Chairman of the Board March 7, 2002
Jurgen Drews, M.D.
/s/ HARRY H. PENNER, JR.
-------------------------------------- Director March 7, 2002
Harry H. Penner, Jr.
/s/ SETH RUDNICK, M.D.
-------------------------------------- Director March 7, 2002
Seth Rudnick, M.D.
/s/ CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT
-------------------------------------- Director March 7, 2002
Christopher Wright
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EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT
- ------- ------------------------------------------------------------
3.1(1)............... Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
3.3(2) Amended and Restated By-laws of Genaissance Pharmaceuticals,
Inc.
4.1(3) Form of Common Stock Certificate.
4.2(3) Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant, together with a list
of warrant holders.
10.1*(3) 2000 Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan.
10.1A*(3) Stock Option Plan.
10.2*(3) Employee Stock Purchase Plan 2000.
10.3(3) Form of Indemnification Agreement between Genaissance and
its directors.
10.4(3) Lease Agreement between Genaissance and Science Park
Development Corporation dated September 15, 1998.
10.5(3) Amendment No. 1 to Lease Agreement between Genaissance and
Science Park Development Corporation dated December 1, 1999.
10.6(3) Amendment No. 2 to Lease Agreement between Genaissance and
Science Park Development Corporation dated December 16,
1999.
10.7*(3) Genaissance 401(k) Plan.
10.8(3)+ Collaboration Agreement between Genaissance and Telik, Inc.
dated February 11, 1998.
10.9(3) First Amendment to the Collaboration Agreement between
Genaissance and Telik, Inc. dated February 11, 1999.
10.10(3)+ License Agreement between Genaissance and Visible Genetics,
Inc. dated November 21, 1996.
10.11(3)+ Patent License Amending Agreement between Genaissance and
Visible Genetics, Inc. dated March 16, 2000.
10.12(3) Loan Agreement between Genaissance and Connecticut
Innovations, Incorporated dated September 15, 1998.
10.13(3) Loan Agreement between Genaissance and Connecticut
Innovations, Incorporated dated December 1, 1999.
10.14(3) Master Lease Agreement between Genaissance and Finova
Technology Finance dated September 1998, and attached
Schedules.
10.15(3) Letter Agreement with Finova Capital Corporation dated
January 24, 2000.
10.16(3) Master Equipment Lease Agreement between Genaissance and
Oxford Venture Finance dated June 10, 1999, and attached
Schedules.
10.17(3) Master Lease Agreement between Genaissance and Newcourt
Financial USA Inc. dated March 26, 1999, and attached
Schedules.
10.18*(3) Employment Agreement with Gualberto Ruano dated August 24,
1998.
10.19*(3) Employment Agreement with Kevin Rakin dated August 24, 1998.
10.20*(3) Employment Agreement with Gerald F. Vovis dated April 15,
1999.
10.21*(3) Confidentiality and Non-Competition Agreement with Richard
Judson dated November 16, 1999.
10.22(3)+ Strategic Alliance Agreement between Genaissance and
Sequenom, Inc. dated as of May 3, 2000.
10.23(3) Letter Agreement with Finova Capital Corporation dated June
7, 2000.
10.24(3) Letter Agreement with Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated
dated June 2, 2000.
10.25(3)+ Collaboration Agreement with Gene Logic, Inc. dated June 28,
2000.
10.26(3) Second Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement
with the purchasers of Series A and Series KBL Non-voting
Preferred Stock dated March 10, 2000.
10.27(3) Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement with the
purchasers of Series B and Series KBH Preferred Stock dated
March 10, 2000.
10.28(3) Registration Rights Agreement with purchasers of Series C
Preferred Stock dated March 10, 2000.
10.29(3) Amendment No. 3 to Lease Agreement between Genaissance and
Science Park Development Corporation dated June 1, 2000.
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EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT
- ------- ------------------------------------------------------------
10.30(3) Purchase Agreement with Connecticut Innovations,
Incorporated dated March 10, 1994.
10.31(3) Financing Agreement with Connecticut Innovations,
Incorporated dated November 16, 1994.
10.32(3) Financing Agreement with Connecticut Innovations,
Incorporated dated September 10, 1996.
10.33(3) Agreement Concerning Conversion of Convertible Note and
Connecticut Presence with Connecticut Innovations,
Incorporated dated August 24, 1998.
10.34(3) Supplemental Agreement to Agreement Concerning Conversion of
Convertible Note and Connecticut Presence with Connecticut
Innovations, Incorporated dated November 23, 1999.
10.35(3) Letter Agreement with Connecticut Innovations Incorporated
dated February 17, 2000.
10.36(3) Loan and Security Agreement and Promissory Note with
Transamerica Business Credit Corporation dated April 30,
1999.
10.37*(4) Employment Agreement with Kenneth B. Kashkin dated September
13, 2000.
10.38*(4) Promissory Note with Gualberto Ruano dated August 7, 2000.
10.39*(4) Promissory Note with Kevin Rakin dated August 7, 2000.
10.39*(4) Promissory Note with Kevin Rakin dated August 1, 2000.
10.41(5)+ Collaboration Agreement with Janssen Research Foundation
dated November 22, 2000.
10.42(5)............. Third Loan Agreement with Connecticut Innovations,
Incorporated dated July 26, 2000.
10.43+ Agreement with Pfizer Inc. dated August 29, 2001. Filed
herewith.
10.44+ HAP-TM- Focus Trial License Agreement with AstraZeneca UK
Limited dated as of November 29, 2001. Filed herewith.
10.45+ Mednostics-TM- Collaboration and License Agreement with
Biogen, Inc. dated as of January 31, 2002. Filed herewith.
10.46+ International Sales Representative Agreement with Intec Web
and Genome Informatics Corporation dated as of February 4,
2002. Filed herewith.
10.47+ Amendment, dated December 27, 2001, to Collaboration
Agreement with Gene Logic, Inc., dated June 28, 2000. Filed
herewith.
10.48+ HAP-TM- Focus Trial License Agreement with Biogen, Inc.
dated December 21, 2001. Filed herewith.
10.49 Form of Registration Rights Agreement Waiver, dated
February 18, 2002. Filed herewith.
10.50 Employment Agreement with Richard Judson dated November 20,
2001. Filed herewith.
10.51 Fourth Amendment to Lease between Science Park Development
Corporation and Genaissance dated September 30, 2001. Filed
herewith.
23.1 Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP. Filed herewith.
99.1 Factors Affecting Future Operating Results. Filed herewith.
- ------------------------
* Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan.
+ Confidential treatment requested as to certain portions, which portions have
been filed separately with the Commission.
(1) Filed as Exhibit 3.2 to Genaissance's Registration Statement on Form S-1
(File No. 333-35314) and incorporated herein by reference.
(2) Filed as Exhibit 3.4 to Genaissance's Registration Statement on Form S-1
(File No. 333-35314) and incorporated herein by reference.
(3) Filed as an exhibit with the same number to Genaissance's Registration
Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-35314) and incorporated herein by
reference.
(4) Filed as an exhibit to Genaissance's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (File
No. 000-30981) for the quarter ended September 30, 2000.
(5) Filed as an exhibit to Genaissance's Annual Report on Form 10-K (File No.
000-30981) for the year ended December 31, 2000.
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