Aduro Biotech Reports Second Quarter 2016 Financial Results

BERKELEY, Calif., August 3, 2016 – Aduro Biotech, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADRO) today reported financial results for the second quarter 2016. Net income for the three months ended June 30, 2016 was $2.3 million, or $0.04 per share, and for the six months ended June 30, 2016 net loss was $26.5 million, or $0.41 per share, compared to a net loss of $26.3 million, or $0.50 per share, and $42.9 million, or $1.61 per share respectively, for the same periods in 2015.  

Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities totaled $396.9 million at June 30, 2016, compared to $431.0 million at December 31, 2015.  

“We are uniquely positioned in the field of immunotherapy with three distinct, proprietary technology platforms, as well as a strong cash position,” said Stephen T. Isaacs, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Aduro. “As we continue to advance our programs, we anticipate a number of upcoming milestones across our three platforms, including data from our LADD platform in multiple tumor types, initial clinical results from ADU-S100, our first STING Pathway Activator, and IND-enabling studies for multiple B-select monoclonal antibodies.”

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Second Quarter 2016 Financial Results

Revenue was $39.0 million for the second quarter of 2016 and $43.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2016, compared to $9.9 million and $19.5 million, respectively, for the same periods in 2015. The increase was primarily due to the receipt of a $35.0 million milestone payment from Novartis in connection with the initiation of the Phase 1 ADU-S100 trial in the second quarter of 2016.

Research and development expenses were $26.9 million for the second quarter of 2016 and $47.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2016, compared to $13.5 million and $24.2 million, respectively, for the same periods in 2015. This increase was primarily due to clinical development expenses associated with our ongoing trials in pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer and mesothelioma, including manufacturing and personnel costs.

General and administrative expenses were $8.7 million for the second quarter of 2016 and $17.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2016, compared to $5.9 million and $12.1 million, respectively, for the same periods in 2015. This increase was primarily due to continued growth of the company and the associated increased expenses related to personnel, facilities and professional services.

There was no loss from remeasurement of fair value of warrants for either the second quarter of 2016 or six months ended June 30, 2016, compared to $16.7 million and $26.1 million, respectively, for the same periods in 2015. In April 2015, all such warrants ceased being liability-classified as the contingency surrounding the number of shares issuable upon the warrant exercise expired. All outstanding warrants were equity-classified and not subject to future remeasurement.

Provision for income taxes was $1.5 million for the second quarter of 2016 and $4.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2016. There was no provision for income taxes in the same periods in 2015. The income tax expense recorded for the second quarter of 2016 was primarily related to current and deferred federal income taxes.

About Aduro

Aduro Biotech, Inc. is an immunotherapy company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies that transform the treatment of challenging diseases. Aduro's technology platforms, which are designed to harness the body's natural immune system, are being investigated in cancer indications and have the potential to expand into autoimmune and infectious diseases. Aduro's LADD technology platform is based on proprietary attenuated strains of Listeria that have been engineered to express tumor-associated antigens to induce specific and targeted immune responses. This platform is being developed as a treatment for multiple indications, including mesothelioma, ovarian, pancreatic, lung and prostate cancers, and glioblastoma. Aduro's STING Pathway Activator platform is designed to activate the intracellular STING receptor, resulting in a potent tumor-specific immune response. ADU-S100 is the first STING Pathway Activator compound to enter the clinic and is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1 study in patients with cutaneously accessible metastatic solid tumors or lymphomas.  Aduro’s B-select monoclonal antibody platform includes a number of immune modulating assets in research and preclinical development. Aduro is collaborating with leading global pharmaceutical companies to expand its products and technology platforms. For more information, please visit www.aduro.com.

Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding our intentions or current expectations concerning, among other things, the potential for our technology, plans, timing and the availability of results of our clinical trials and the potential for eventual regulatory approval of our product candidates. In some cases you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as “may,” “will,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “could,” “project,” “expect” or the negative or plural of these words or similar expressions.  Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those anticipated, including, but not limited to, our history of net operating losses and uncertainty regarding our ability to achieve profitability, our ability to develop and commercialize our product candidates, our ability to use and expand our technology platforms to build a pipeline of product candidates, our ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of our product candidates, our inability to operate in a competitive industry and compete successfully against competitors that have greater resources than we do, our reliance on third parties, and our ability to obtain and adequately protect intellectual property rights for our product candidates.  We discuss many of these risks in greater detail under the heading “Risk Factors” contained in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2016 to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and our actual results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, and the development of the industry in which we operate, may differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Any forward-looking statements that we make in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. We assume no obligation to update our forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date of this press release.

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