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UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20549
FORM
10-K
☒ ANNUAL REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For
the fiscal year ended
December 31,
2022
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 number:
0-53497
VIVOS INC
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware |
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80-0138937 |
(State
or other jurisdiction of |
|
(I.R.S.
Employer |
incorporation
or organization) |
|
Identification
No.) |
719 Jadwin Avenue ●
Richland,
Washington
99352
(Address
of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(509)
736-4000
Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code
Securities
registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None
Securities
registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
Common Stock, $0.001 Par Value
Indicate
by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as
defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☐
No ☒
Indicate
by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Act. Yes ☐
No ☒
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 ☒ No ☐
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically
every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to
Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for
such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such
files).
Yes ☒ 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 this Form 10-K.
☐
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer,
an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting
company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of
“large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting
company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act.
Large
Accelerated Filer |
☐ |
Accelerated
Filer |
☐ |
Non-Accelerated Filer |
☒ |
Smaller
Reporting Company |
☒ |
|
|
Emerging
growth company |
☐ |
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined
in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes ☐
No ☒
Securities
registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None
Title
of Each Class |
|
Trading
Symbol |
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Name
of Each Exchange on which registered |
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The
aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity
held by non-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which
the common equity was last sold, or the average bid and asked price
of such common equity, as of the last business day of the
registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter was
approximately $36,693,047. Shares of common
stock held by each executive officer and director and by each
person who owns 10% or more of the outstanding common stock of the
registrant have been excluded in that such persons may be deemed to
be affiliates. This determination of affiliate status is not
necessarily a conclusive determination for other purposes. Without
acknowledging that any individual director of registrant is an
affiliate, all directors have been included as affiliates with
respect to shares owned by them.
As of
March 1, 2023, there were
362,541,528 shares of the registrant’s common stock
outstanding, 2,071,007 shares of the registrant’s Series A
Convertible Preferred Stock outstanding, 200,363 of the
registrant’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock outstanding and
385,302 of the registrant’s Series C Convertible Preferred Stock
outstanding.
VIVOS
INC
Report
on Form 10-K
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
PART I
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
Except
for statements of historical fact, certain information described in
this Annual Report on Form 10-K (“Annual Report”) contains
“forward-looking statements” that involve substantial risks and
uncertainties. You can identify these statements by forward-looking
words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,”
“expect,” “intend,” “may,” “should,” “will,” “would” or similar
words. The statements that contain these or similar words should be
read carefully because these statements discuss the Company’s
future expectations, including its expectations of its future
results of operations or financial position, or state other
“forward-looking” information. Vivos Inc. believes that it is
important to communicate its future expectations to its investors.
However, there may be events in the future that the Company is not
able to accurately predict or to control. Further, the Company
urges you to be cautious of the forward-looking statements which
are contained in this Annual Report because they involve risks,
uncertainties and other factors affecting its operations, market
growth, service, products and licenses. The risk factors in the
section captioned “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of the Company’s Annual
Report, as well as other cautionary language in this Annual Report,
describe such risks, uncertainties and events that may cause the
Company’s actual results and achievements, whether expressed or
implied, to differ materially from the expectations the Company
describes in its forward-looking statements. The occurrence of any
of the events described as risk factors could have a material
adverse effect on the Company’s business, results of operations and
financial position.
ITEM 1. BUSINESS.
Vivos
Inc. is a radiation oncology medical device company engaged in the
development of its yttrium-90 (“Y-90”) based brachytherapy device,
RadioGel™, for the treatment of non-resectable tumors. A prominent
team of radiochemists, scientists and engineers, collaborating with
strategic partners, including national laboratories, universities
and private corporations, lead the Company’s development efforts.
The Company’s overall vision is to globally empower physicians,
medical researchers and patients by providing them with new isotope
technologies that offer safe and effective treatments for
cancer.
In
2013 the FDA issued the determination that RadioGel™ is a device
for human therapy for non-resectable cancers in humans. This should
result in a faster path than a drug for final approval.
In
January 2018, the Center for Veterinary Medicine Product
Classification Group ruled that RadioGelTM should be
classified as a device for animal therapy of feline sarcomas and
canine soft tissue sarcomas. Additionally, after a legal review,
the Company believes that the device classification obtained from
the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) Center for
Veterinary Medicine is not limited to canine and feline sarcomas,
but rather may be extended to a much broader population of
veterinary cancers, including all or most solid tumors in animals.
We expect the result of such classification and label review will
be that no additional regulatory approvals are necessary for the
use of IsoPet® for the treatment of solid tumors in
animals. The FDA does not have premarket authority over devices
with a veterinary classification, and the manufacturers are
responsible for assuring that the product is safe, effective,
properly labeled, and otherwise in compliance with all applicable
laws and regulations.
Based
on the FDA’s recommendation, RadioGelTM will be marketed
as “IsoPet®” for use by veterinarians to avoid any
confusion between animal and human therapy. The Company already has
trademark protection for the “IsoPet®” name.
IsoPet® and RadioGelTM are used synonymously
throughout this document. The only distinction between
IsoPet® and RadioGelTM is the FDA’s
recommendation that we use “IsoPet®” for veterinarian
usage, and reserve “RadioGelTM” for human therapy. Based
on these developments, the Company has shifted its primary focus to
the development and marketing of Isopet® for animal
therapy, through the Company’s IsoPet® Solutions
division.
The
Company’s IsoPet Solutions division was established in May 2016 to
focus on the veterinary oncology market, namely engagement of
university veterinarian hospital to develop the detailed therapy
procedures to treat animal tumors and ultimately use of the
technology in private clinics. The Company has worked with three
different university veterinarian hospitals on IsoPet®
testing and therapy. Washington State University treated five cats
for feline sarcoma and served to develop the procedures which are
incorporated in our label. They concluded that the product was safe
and effective in killing cancer cells. Colorado State University
demonstrated the CT and PET-CT imaging of IsoPet®. A
contract was signed with University of Missouri to treat canine
sarcomas and equine sarcoids starting in November 2017.
The
dogs were treated for canine soft tissue sarcoma. Response
evaluation criteria in solid tumors (“RECIST”) is a set of
published rules that define when tumors in cancer patients improve
(respond), stay the same (stabilize), or worsen (progress) during
treatment. The criteria were published by an international
collaboration including the European Organisation for Research and
Treatment of Cancer (“EORTC”), National Cancer Institute of the
United States, and the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical
Trials Group.
The
testing at the University of Missouri met its objective to
demonstrate the safety of IsoPet®. Using its advanced CT and PET
equipment it was able to demonstrate that the dose calculations
were accurate and that the injections perfused into the cell
interstices and did not stay concentrated in a bolus. This results
in a more homogeneous dose distribution. There was insignificant
spread of Y-90 outside the points of injection demonstrating the
effectiveness of the particles and the gel to localize the
radiation with no spreading to the blood or other organs nor to
urine or fecal material. This confirms that IsoPet® is safe for
same day therapy.
The
effectiveness of IsoPet® for life extension was not the prime
objective, but it resulted in valuable insights. Of the cases one
is still cancer-free but the others eventually recurred since there
was not a strong focus on treating the margins. The University of
Missouri has agreed to become a regional center to administer
IsoPet® therapy and will incorporate the improvements suggested by
the testing program.
The
Company anticipates that future profits, if any, will be derived
from direct sales of RadioGel™ (under the name IsoPet®)
and related services, and from licensing to private medical and
veterinary clinics in the U.S. and internationally. The Company
intends to report the results from the IsoPet® Solutions
division as a separate operating segment in accordance with
GAAP.
Commencing
in July 2019, the Company recognized its first commercial sale of
IsoPet®. A veterinarian from Alaska brought his cat with a
re-occurrent spindle cell sarcoma tumor on his face. The cat had
previously received external beam therapy, but now the tumor was
growing rapidly. He was given a high dose of 400Gy with heavy
therapy at the margins. This sale met the revenue recognition
requirements under ASC 606 as the performance obligation was
satisfied. The Company completed sales for an additional four
animals that received the IsoPet® during 2019.
Our
plan is to incorporate the data assembled from our work with
Isopet® in animal therapy to support the Company’s
efforts in the development of our RadioGel™ device candidate,
including obtaining approval from the FDA to market and sell
RadioGel™ as a Class II medical device. RadioGel™ is an injectable
particle-gel for brachytherapy radiation treatment of cancerous
tumors in people and animals. RadioGel™ is comprised of a hydrogel,
or a substance that is liquid at room temperature and then gels
when reaching body temperature after injection into a tumor. In the
gel are small, less than two microns, Y-90 phosphate particles.
Once injected, these inert particles are locked in place inside the
tumor by the gel, delivering a very high local radiation dose. The
radiation is beta, consisting of high-speed electrons. These
electrons only travel a short distance so the device can deliver
high radiation to the tumor with minimal dose to the surrounding
tissue. Optimally, patients can go home immediately following
treatment without the risk of radiation exposure to family members.
Since Y-90 has a half-life of 2.7 days, the radioactivity drops to
5% of its original value after ten days.
Recently,
the Company modified its Indication for Use from skin cancel to
cancerous tissue or solid tumors pathologically associated with
locoregional papillary thyroid carcinoma and recurrent papillary
thyroid carcinoma having discernable tumors associated with
metastatic lymph nodes or extranodal disease in patients who are
not surgical candidates or who have declined surgery, or patients
who require post-surgical remnant ablation (for example, after
prior incomplete radioiodine therapy). Papillary thyroid carcinoma
belongs to the general class of head and neck tumors for which
tumors are accessible by intraoperative direct needle injection.
The Company’s Medical Advisory Board felt that demonstrating
efficacy in clinical trials was much easier with this new
indication.
Intellectual Property
Our
original license with Battelle National Laboratory reached its end
of life in 2022. During the past several years, in anticipation of
this we have expanded our proprietary knowledge, our trademark and
patent protection.
Our
RadioGel trademark protection is in 17 countries. We have expanded
our trademark protection from RadioGel to now include IsoPet. We
obtained the International Certificate of Registration for ISOPET,
which is the first step to file in several
countries.
The
Company received the Patent Cooperation Treaty (“PCT”)
International Search Report on our patent application
(No.1811.191). Seven of our claims were immediately ruled as having
novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability. This gives us
the basis to extend for many years the patent protection for our
proprietary Yttrium-90 phosphate particles utilized in
Isopet® and Radiogel™.
Our
patent team filed our particle patent in more than ten patent
offices that collectively cover 63 countries throughout the world.
We filed a continuation-in-part applications number
1774054 in the USA to expand the claims on our particle patent.
The US Patent office recently gave us the Notice of
Allowance for our patent to produce our yttrium phosphate
microparticles, US Patent Application Serial No:
16-459,466. We also filed an amendment to correct the
wording on our claims at make them consistent with the USE claims.
Ref: 4207-0005; European Patent Application NO. 20 834 229.5; VIVOS
INC; Our Ref: FS/53791.
We
filed a hydrogel utility patent in the USA (16309:17/943,311) and
internationally (16389:PCT/US22/4374) based on the last eighteen
months of development work to optimize our hydrogel component.
These include reducing the polymer production time and increasing
the output by a factor of three. We have also further reduced the
level of trace contaminants to be well below the FDA
guidelines.
We
filed a provisional patent (Serial Number 63436562) to protect our
innovative improvements in our shipping container, our vial shield,
our syringe shield, and our Peltier chiller. Our objectives were to
reduce shipping costs, decrease radiation exposure, and enhance
sterility. These devices will be preferentially used at Mayo
Clinics for human clinical studies at and our IsoPet regional
treatment centers.
We
anticipate that Precison Radionuclide Therapy will become
increasingly important in the future and expand to other isotope
and other indications for use. Therefore, we filed an alternate
particle utility patent (Serial number 18/152,137). Vivos Inc will
focus its near-term effort on the Yttrium-90 therapy, which
we believe is the best beta emitter; however, we leveraged our
hydrogel utility patent to incorporate other promising isotopes and
compounds for a range of future applications. This includes gamma
and alpha particle emitters.
IsoPet
Regional Clinics
We
currently have four regional therapy clinics:
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Vista
Veterinary Hospital – Kennewick, WA |
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University
of Missouri – Columbia, MO |
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Johns
Hopkins University – Baltimore, MD |
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New
England Equine Practice – Patterson, NY |
Vista
Veterinary Hospital (“Vista”) was selected as the pilot
private clinic to initiate commercial sales of IsoPet®.
It is good management practice to implement and learn from a pilot
program before spreading to regional clinics across the country.
Vista is located in the Tri-Cities Washington area which is
convenient for interactions with key personnel of the Company. The
pilot is being used to
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Refine
the Memorandum of Understanding to define all the germane
interfaces, roles and liabilities between Vista Inc and the private
clinics, including the pilot responsivity to document and share the
key aspects of all therapies with the Company; |
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Create
and implement proprietary certification training
packages; |
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Amend
the production center radioactive material license at
IsoTherapeutics, the Company’s IsoPet® production
center, to allow distribution for commercial
applications; |
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Work
with the pilot program to obtain a radioactive material licensing
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Create
equipment and supplies list; |
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Create
and post regulatory signage; |
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Explore
different IsoPet® pricing options; |
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Evaluate
different approaches to obtain patients; |
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Optimize
patient scheduling practices to reduce cost to the pet
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Develop
communication material and a liability document for the pet owners;
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Vista
Veterinary Hospital has done well on two audits by the Washington
State Department of Health. The Company is working closely with the
Washington State Department of Health to refine and improve the
radioactive material license. The Company has added several
detailed procedures, which will benefit future regional clinics. In
addition, a second veterinarian has completed all the preliminary
requirements to become certified. All that remains is to
demonstrate proficiency in three therapies.
The
testing at the universities and at Vista Veterinary Hospital have
demonstrated that IsoPet® is effective on killing cancer
tissue near the injections. It is most effective in early cases
before the cancer has begun to spread. Later stage cancers are more
difficult to treat since the tendrils from the primary cancer site
are not well defined and therefore can lead to
recurrence.
There
have been 115 expressions of interest in IsoPet® therapy
from across the United States, but only about 10% of these were
treated and they were very advanced cases. The reasons are
instructive. Most of the cases were for so advanced that the pet
parents found out about IsoPet® on the Internet as a
last hope. Several others were internal cancers that could not be
reached, for example deep in the throat. Several cases were
treatable, but the pets weighed more than 20 pounds and the pet
parents were not willing to fly them in the “Safe Cargo” holds.
Those patients would have been treated by regional clinics once we
implement that strategy. Several cases were mast cell cancers. The
Company is confident that those tumors could have been treated, but
once killed they release mast cells in a process called
granulation. This could cause a shock to the animal’s system. The
Company will focus one of our clinical studies on the optimum
approach for those therapies.
Vista
Veterinary Hospital accepted advanced cancer cases and has gained
experience to extend the animal’s lives. The first cat was
terminally ill and had previously had external beam, surgery and
chemotherapy. The facial tumor was treated with 400 Gy and the
biopsy confirmed that the cancer was killed. In about seven months
the cancer returned in the throat and could not be treated so the
cat had to be put down. Dr. Bauder, the veterinarian pet parent,
was still elated about the life extension and is asking us to use
him as a reference. The other cases were also very advanced with
multiple tumors and they recurred since they had already spread
before therapy. One animal, Yukon had a large tumor on his leg that
was recommended for amputation. The tumor size decreased 50% after
the first treatment, but then stopped decreasing. For the first
time a second therapy was administered and the tumor has continued
to decrease in size. Yukon’s life was extended for more than a year
until she finally succumbed to metastatic cancer in another
location.
Since
IsoPet® has shown to be effective in killing cancer at
the site of injection the current focus is in optimizing the
techniques to help the pet resorb the necrotic tissue rapidly. In
addition, IsoPet® was used to treat a mast cell tumor.
When these cancers are destroyed, they release their mast cell. The
animal was treated with a steroid to counter this effect and to
date is doing well.
The
Company’s efforts are now to obtain more early-stage cancer
patients. The biggest obstacle is to convince the veterinarians of
the pet parents to agree with IsoPet® therapy rather
than using a more traditional method such as surgery. This is a
slow process due to the conservative nature of the veterinarian
professions. This is the prime motivation to continue with
additional clinical trials and to publish the results.
The
Company worked closely with FX Masse to develop nine certification
training modules for use in potential regional clinics. These
modules are necessary to satisfy the radioactive material handling
licenses. This approach is very cost effective.
Johns
Hopkins University VCTN, Veterinary Clinical Trials Network, is now
an Isopet® regional clinic. Additionally, Johns Hopkins
will also perform new Isopet® animal studies on various specific
cancers. They have the required radioactive material license and
have completed their training certification for Isopet®. This
important relationship will also help meet our objective of
obtaining high quality data on a range of cancers that can be
published in leading journals. These publications are the optimal
way to increase awareness of Isopet® and to gain broader acceptance
from the veterinarian/oncology community.
Our
objective is to open several regional clinics by the end of 2023
and to participate in a minimum of four conferences to spread the
word about IsoPet in the veterinarian community for treating tumors
in small animals and horses. We created a Marketing Steering Board
to provide advice on obtaining new pet patients.
Regulatory
History
Human
Therapy
RadioGel™
has a long regulatory history with the Food and Drug Administration
(“FDA”). Initially, the Company submitted a presubmission
(Q130140) to obtain FDA feedback about the proposed product. The
FDA requested that the Company file a request for designation with
the Office of Combination Products (RFD130051), which led to the
determination that RadioGel™ is a device for human therapy for
non-resectable cancers, which must be reviewed and ultimately
regulated by the Center for Devices and Radiological Health
(“CDRH”). The Company then submitted a 510(k) notice for
RadioGel™ (K133368), which was found Not Substantially Equivalent
due to the lack of a suitable predicate, and RadioGel™ was assigned
to the Class III product code NAW (microspheres). Class III
products or devices are generally the highest risk devices and are
therefore subject to the highest level of regulatory review,
control and oversight. Class III products or devices must typically
be approved by FDA before they are marketed. Class II devices
represent lower risk products or devices than Class III and require
fewer regulatory controls to provide reasonable assurance of the
product’s or device’s safety and effectiveness. In contrast, Class
I products and devices are deemed to be lower risk than Class I or
II, and are therefore subject to the least regulatory
controls.
A
pre-submission meeting (Q140496) was held with the FDA on June 17,
2014, during which the FDA maintained that RadioGel™ should be
considered a Class III device and therefore subject to pre-market
approval. On December 29, 2014, the Company submitted a de
novo petition for RadioGel™ (DEN140043). The de novo
petition was denied by the FDA on June 1, 2015, with the FDA
providing numerous comments and questions. On September 29, 2015,
the Company submitted a follow-up pre-submission informational
meeting request with the FDA (Q151569). This meeting took place on
November 9, 2015, at which time the FDA indicated acceptance of the
Company’s applied dosimetry methods and clarified the FDA’s
outstanding questions regarding RadioGel™. Following the November
2015 pre-submission meeting, the Company prepared a new
pre-submission package to obtain FDA feedback on the proposed
testing methods, intended to address the concerns raised by the FDA
staff and to address the suitability of RadioGel™ for de
novo reclassification. This pre-submission package was
presented to the FDA in a meeting on August 29, 2017. During the
August 2017 meeting, the FDA clarified their position on the
remaining pre-clinical testing needed for RadioGel™. Specifically,
the FDA addressed proposed dosimetry calculating techniques,
dosimetry distribution between injections, hydrogel viscoelastic
properties, and the details of the Company’s proposed animal
testing.
The
Company believes that its submissions to the FDA to date have
addressed all the FDA staff’s feedback over the past four years. Of
particular importance, the Company has provided corresponding
supporting data for proposed future testing of RadioGel™ to address
any remaining questions raised by the FDA. We believe, although no
assurances can be given, that the clinical testing modifications
presented to the FDA in August 2017 will result in a de novo
reclassification for RadioGel™ by the FDA. In addition, in previous
FDA submittals, the Company proposed applying RadioGel™ for a very
broad range of cancer therapies, referred to as Indication for Use.
The FDA requested that the Company reduce its Indications for Use.
To comply with that request, the Company expanded its Medical
Advisory Board (“MAB”) and engaged doctors from respected
hospitals who have evaluated the candidate cancer therapies based
on three criteria: (1) potential for FDA approval and successful
therapy; (2) notable advantage over current therapies; and (3)
probability of wide-spread acceptance by the medical
community.
In
November 2020 the Company submitted a request for a Breakthrough
Device Designation. Ultimately, this was denied, but the FDA
acknowledged, “The FDA does believe that RadioGel™ meets criterion
#2a: Device represents breakthrough technology. Your device does
meet this criterion because it is a novel application of a
brachytherapy device outside of the liver.” More importantly the
process resulted in a rapid review of our existing data and
approach. It led to a redirection of our efforts on writing the IDE
and saved the Company much time in the review of that future
application.
Based
on advice from the FDA the Company has scheduled a Pre-Submission
meeting on November 30, 2021 to discuss a draft of an
Investigational Device Exemptions (IDEs) for Early Feasibility
Medical Device Clinical Studies, Including Certain First in Human
(FIH) Studies. Using this process results in more rapid feedback to
prepare the final IDE.
The
FDA was very supportive and had suggested this Q-Submission path
for rapid turnaround and dialog. The Mayo Clinic physicians did an
excellent job presenting the need for Radiogel™ to treat
recurrent thyroid cancer and to answer a range of questions from
the new FDA review team. The FDA provided many helpful suggestions
on a range of subjects from labeling to dosimetry to the Mayo
protocol for clinical testing, and the need for some additional
specific testing. They suggested having another Q-Sub Review and
conference call dedicated to the details of the dosimetry
calculations.
In
May of 2022 the Company held another Pre-Sub meeting with the FDA.
They concurred with our dosimetry techniques and requested one more
animal test to confirm that the Y-90 stays at the injection site.
We will be proposed a Pre-Sub meeting to discuss this new animal
test of VX-2 tumors in rabbits at Johns Hopkins University. We have
a meeting scheduled with the FDA in October to obtain their
feedback on our new animal test plan. In the meantime, the Company
is working to complete all the other required pre-clinical testing,
such as biocompatibility since they are required for the submittal
of the IDE.
We
held another Pre-Sub meeting with the FDA on October 17, 2022 to
obtain detailed feedback on the proposed VX-2/Rabbit Animal Test
Plan and to submit the Risk Management Report. The RMR analyzed all
hypothetical scenarios and concluded that RadioGel is inherently
safe.
In
parallel the Company is working with the Mayo Clinic’s principal
investigators to improve the clinical trial protocol for their
Institutional Review Board.
The
MAB selected eighteen applications for RadioGel™, each of which
meet the criteria described above. This large number confirms the
wide applicability of the device and defines the path for future
business growth. The Company’s application establishes a single
Indication for Use - treatment of cancerous tissue or solid tumors
pathologically associated with locoregional papillary thyroid
carcinoma and recurrent papillary thyroid carcinoma.
We
anticipate that this initial application will facilitate each
subsequent application for additional s Indications for Use. After
the second indication for use we intend to applied for a broad
indication for use, which would target to obtain approval to treat
all solid tumors.
Financing
and Strategy
The
Company’s stock offering under Regulation A+ was qualified by the
Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on June 3, 2020. A
second Regulation A+ was qualified by the SEC on September 15, 2021
to raise capital for 50,000,000 shares at a price of $0.10 for a
maximum of $5,000,000. The Company amended this and was able to
raise $1,200,000 in July 2022 at $0.08 per share (15,000,0000
shares) and sold 20,000,000 warrants for $20,000. An amended
Regulation A+ was filed in October 2022 to raise the remaining
$3,800,000 of the $5,000,000.
The
Company’s Regulation A+’s raised approximately $5,200,000 from the
sale of shares and is using the proceeds generated as
follows:
For
the animal therapy market:
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Fund
the effort to communicate the benefits of IsoPet® to the
veterinary community and the pet parents. |
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Conduct
additional clinical studies to generate more data for the
veterinary community |
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Subsidize
some IsoPet® therapies, if necessary, to ensure that all
viable candidates are treated. |
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Assist
a new regional clinic with their license and certification
training. |
For
the human market:
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Enhance
the pedigree of the Quality Management System. |
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Complete
the previously defined pre-clinical testing and additional testing
on an animal model closely aligned with our revised indication for
use. Report the results to the FDA in a pre-submission
meeting. |
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Use
the feedback from that meeting to write the IDE (Investigational
Device Exemption), which is required to initiate clinical
trials. |
Research
and development of the Company’s brachytherapy product line has
been funded with proceeds from the sale of equity and debt
securities. The Company may require additional funding of
approximately $2 million annually to maintain current operating
activities. Over the next 12 to 24 months, the Company believes it
will cost approximately $9 million to: (1) fund the FDA approval
process to conduct human clinical trials, (2) conduct Phase I,
pilot, clinical trials, (3) activate several regional clinics to
administer IsoPet® across the county, (4) create an independent
production center within the current production site to create a
template for future international manufacturing, and (5) initiate
regulatory approval processes outside of the United States. The
proceeds to be raised from the recent qualified Regulation A+ will
be used to continue to fund this development.
The
continued deployment of the brachytherapy products and a worldwide
regulatory approval effort will require additional resources and
personnel. The principal variables in the timing and amount of
spending for the brachytherapy products in the next 12 to 24 months
will be the FDA’s classification of the Company’s brachytherapy
products as Class II or Class III devices (or otherwise) and any
requirements for additional studies which may possibly include
clinical studies. Thereafter, the principal variables in the amount
of the Company’s spending and its financing requirements would be
the timing of any approvals and the nature of the Company’s
arrangements with third parties for manufacturing, sales,
distribution and licensing of those products and the products’
success in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Company intends to fund its
activities through strategic transactions such as licensing and
partnership agreements or from proceeds to be raised from the
recent qualified Regulation A+.
Following
receipt of required regulatory approvals and financing, in the
U.S., the Company intends to outsource material aspects of
manufacturing, distribution, sales and marketing. Outside of the
U.S., the Company intends to pursue licensing arrangements and/or
partnerships to facilitate its global commercialization
strategy.
In
the longer-term, subject to the Company receiving adequate funding,
regulatory approval for RadioGel™ and other brachytherapy products,
and thereafter being able to successfully commercialize its
brachytherapy products, the Company intends to consider resuming
research efforts with respect to other products and technologies
intended to help improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and
other illnesses.
Based
on the Company’s financial history since inception, the Company’s
independent registered public accounting firm has expressed
substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a
going concern. The Company has limited revenue, nominal cash, and
has accumulated deficits since inception. If the Company cannot
obtain sufficient additional capital, the Company will be required
to delay the implementation of its business strategy and may not be
able to continue operations.
The
Company has been impacted from the effects of COVID-19. The
Company’s headquarters are in Northeast Washington however there
focus of the animal therapy market has been the Northwestern sector
of the United States. The Company continues their marketing to the
animal therapy market and attempt to increase the exposure to their
product and generate revenue accordingly.
As of
December 31, 2022, the Company has $1,706,065 cash on hand. There
are currently commitments to vendors for products and services
purchased. To continue the development of the Company’s products,
the current level of cash may not be enough to cover the fixed and
variable obligations of the Company.
There
is no guarantee that the Company will be able to raise additional
funds or to do so at an advantageous price.
Product
Features
The
Company’s RadioGel™ device has the following product
features:
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Beta
particles only travel a short distance so the device can deliver
high radiation to the tumor with minimal dose to the nearby normal
tissues. In medical terms Y-90 beta emitter has a high efficacy
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Benefitting
from the short penetration distance, the patient can go home
immediately with no fear of exposure to family members, and there
is a greatly reduced radiation risk to the doctor. A simple plastic
tube around the syringe, gloves and safety glasses are all that is
required. Other gamma emitting products require much more
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A
2.7-day half-life means that only 5% of the radiation remains after
ten days. This is in contrast to the industry-standard gamma
irradiation product, which has a half-life of 17 days; |
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The
short half-life also means that any medical waste can be stored for
thirty days then disposed as normal hospital waste; |
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RadioGel™
can be administered with small diameter needles (27-gauge) so there
is minimal damage to the normal tissue. This is in contrast to the
injection of metal seeds, which does considerable damage;
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After
about 120 days the gel resorbs by a normal biological cycle, called
the Krebs Cycle. The only remaining evidence of the treatment are
phosphate particles so small in diameter that it requires a
high-resolution microscope to find them. This is in contrast to
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Steps
from Production to Therapy
Device
Production
During
the next two years, the Company intends to outsource material
aspects of manufacturing and distribution. As future product volume
increases, the Company will reassess its make-buy decision on
manufacturing and will analyze the cost/benefit of a centrally
located facility.
Production
of the Hydrogel
RadioGel™
is manufactured with a proprietary process under ventilated sterile
hood by following strict Good Laboratory Practices (“GLP”)
procedures. It is made in large batches that are frozen for up to
three months. When the product is ready to ship, a small quantity
of the gel is dissolved in a sterile saline solution. It is then
passed through an ultra-fine filter to ensure sterility.
Production
of the Yttrium-90 Phosphate Particles
The
Y-90 particles are produced with simple ingredients via a
proprietary process, again following strict GLP procedures. They
are then mixed into a phosphate-buffered saline solution. They can
be produced in large batches for several shipments. The number of
particles per shipment is determined by the dose prescribed by the
doctor.
Pre-Mixing
– RTU, Ready to Use
Vivos
Inc now pre-mixes the particle solution and the hydrogel and places
the RTU IsoPet in standard size vials. This innovation is cost
effective and reduces the probability of any accidental spills or
biological contamination at the therapy sites. It also simplified
the certification training for new regional clinics.
Shipment
The
vials are shipped via FedEx or UPS by following the proper
protocols.
At
the User
The
quantities and activities are in the information on the product
label.
The
specific injection technique depends on the Indication for Use. For
small tumors, one centimeter in diameter or less, the cancer is
treated with a single injection. For larger tumors, the cancer is
treated with a series of small injections from the same syringe or
multiple syringes.
Principal
Markets
The
Company is currently pursuing two synergistic business sectors,
medical and veterinary, each of which are summarized
below.
Medical
Sector
RadioGel™
is currently fully developed, requiring only FDA approval before
commercialization.
Building
on the FDA’s ruling of RadioGel™ as a device, the
Company incorporated the FDA suggestions and has invested in the
pre-clinical testing required for IDE submittal. This included two
years of effort on biocompatibility testing. The last remaining
animal test has been designed and has begun the initial scoping
phase.
RadioGel™
is currently fully developed, requiring only FDA approval before
commercialization. The Company has been seeking FDA approval of
RadioGel™ for almost five years. Recent progress has been delayed
due to a lack of adequate funding. The principal issue preventing
approval is that the Company attempted to obtain regulatory
approval for a broad range of Indications for Use, including all
non-resectable cancers, without sufficient supporting
data.
Veterinary
Sector
There
are approximately 150 million pet dogs and cats in the United
States. Nearly one-half of dogs and one-third of cats are diagnosed
with cancer at some point in their lifetime. The Veterinary
Oncology & Hematology Center in Norwalk, Connecticut, reports
that cancer is the number one natural cause of death in older cats
and dogs, accounting for nearly 50 percent of pet deaths each year.
The American Veterinary Medical Association reports that half of
the dogs ten years or older will die because of cancer. The
National Cancer Institute reports that about six million dogs are
diagnosed with cancer each year, translating to more than 16,000 a
day.
The
Company’s IsoPet® operating division focuses on the
veterinary oncology market. Dr. Alice Villalobos, a founding member
of the Veterinary Cancer Society and the Chair of our Veterinary
Medicine Advisory Board, has been providing guidance to management
regarding this market. The Veterinary Medicine Advisory Board gives
us recommendations regarding the overall strategy for our animal
business sector. Specially, they recommended the university
veterinary hospitals for demonstration therapies, the specific
cancers to be treated, and have provided business contact
information to the private clinics.
Development
of the product and application techniques and animal testing is
allowed under FDA regulation. Commercial sales of
RadioGelTM for animals requires confirmation by the FDA
Center for Veterinary Medicine (“CVM”). In January 2018, the
Center for Veterinary Medicine Product Classification Group, the
entity within the CVM that is responsible for determining the
classification of a product, ruled that RadioGelTM
should be classified as a device for animal therapy of feline
sarcomas and canine soft tissue sarcomas.
Additionally,
after a legal review, the Company believes that the device
classification obtained from the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine
is not limited to canine and feline sarcomas, but rather may be
extended to a much broader population of veterinary cancers,
including all or most all solid tumors in animals. We expect the
result of such classification and label approval will be that no
additional regulatory approvals are necessary for the use of
RadioGelTM for the treatment of solid tumors in animals.
The FDA does not have premarket authority over devices with a
veterinary classification, and the manufacturers are responsible
for assuring that the product is safe, effective, properly labeled,
and otherwise in compliance with all applicable laws and
regulations.
The
Company currently intends to utilize university veterinary
hospitals for therapy development, given that veterinary hospitals
offer superior and plentiful veterinarians and students, a large
number of animal patients, radioactive material handling licenses,
and are respected by private veterinary centers and
hospitals.
Competitors
The
Company competes in a market characterized by technological
innovation, extensive research efforts, and significant
competition.
The
pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are intensely
competitive and subject to rapid and significant technological
changes. A number of companies are pursuing the development of
pharmaceuticals and products that target the same diseases and
conditions that our products target. We cannot predict with
accuracy the timing or impact of the introduction of potentially
competitive products or their possible effect on our sales. Certain
potentially competitive products to our products may be in various
stages of development. Also, there may be many ongoing studies with
currently marketed products and other developmental products, which
may yield new data that could adversely impact the use of our
products in their current and potential future Indications for Use.
The introduction of competitive products could significantly reduce
our sales, which, in turn would adversely impact our financial and
operating results.
There
are a wide variety of cancer treatments approved and marketed in
the U.S. and globally. General categories of treatment include
surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and immunotherapy. These
products have a diverse set of success rates and side effects. The
Company’s products, including RadioGel™, fall into the
brachytherapy treatment category. There are a number of
brachytherapy devices currently marketed in the U.S. and globally.
The traditional iodine-125 (I-125) and palladium-103 (Pd-103)
technologies for brachytherapy are well entrenched with powerful
market players controlling the market. The industry-standard
I-125-based therapy was developed by Oncura, which is a unit of
General Electric Company. Additionally, C.R. Bard, a major industry
player competes in the I-125 brachytherapy marketplace. These
market competitors are also involved in the distribution of Pd-103
based products. Cs-131 brachytherapy products are sold by IsoRay.
Several Y-90 therapies have been FDA approved including SIR-Spheres
by Sirtex, TheraSphere by Biocompatibles UK and Zevalin by Spectrum
Pharmaceuticals.
Raw
Materials
The
Company currently subcontracts the manufacturing of
RadioGelTM at IsoTherapeutics. Prior to 2021, Eckert and
Ziegler was the only supplier of Y-90 in the United States, and was
the sole supplier of the Y-90 used by IsoTherapeutics to
manufacture the Company’s RadioGel™. The Company obtains
supplies, hardware, handling equipment and packaging from several
different U.S. suppliers.
During
2021, the Company engaged Akina, Inc. as an alternate supplier of
its hydrogel polymer component. We have now expanded to include
SciPoly as another alternate polymer supplier.
In
the future we will be looking to qualify an alternative particle
supplier.
Customers
The
Company anticipates that potential customers for our potential
brachytherapy products likely would include those institutions and
individuals that currently purchase brachytherapy products or other
oncology treatment products.
Government
Regulation
The
Company’s present and future intended activities in the
development, manufacturing and sale of cancer therapy products,
including RadioGel™, are subject to extensive laws,
regulations, regulatory approvals and guidelines. Within the United
States, the Company’s therapeutic radiological devices must comply
with the U.S. Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which is
enforced by FDA. The Company is also required to adhere to
applicable FDA Quality System Regulations, also known as the Good
Manufacturing Practices, which include extensive record keeping and
periodic inspections of manufacturing facilities.
In
the United States, the FDA regulates, among other things, new
product clearances and approvals to establish the safety and
efficacy of these products. We are also subject to other federal
and state laws and regulations, including the Occupational Safety
and Health Act and the Environmental Protection Act.
The
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and other federal statutes and
regulations govern or influence the research, testing, manufacture,
safety, labeling, storage, record keeping, approval, distribution,
use, reporting, advertising and promotion of such products.
Noncompliance with applicable requirements can result in civil
penalties, recall, injunction or seizure of products, refusal of
the government to approve or clear product approval applications,
disqualification from sponsoring or conducting clinical
investigations, preventing us from entering into government supply
contracts, withdrawal of previously approved applications, and
criminal prosecution.
In
the United States, medical devices are classified into three
different categories over which the FDA applies increasing levels
of regulation: Class I, Class II, and Class III. Most Class I
devices are exempt from premarket notification 510(k); most Class
II devices require premarket notification 510(k); and most Class
III devices require premarket approval. RadioGel™ is
currently classified as a Class III device.
Approval
of new Class III medical devices is a lengthy procedure and can
take a number of years and require the expenditure of significant
resources. There is a shorter FDA review and clearance process for
Class II medical devices, the premarket notification or 510(k)
process, whereby a company can market certain Class II medical
devices that can be shown to be substantially equivalent to other
legally marketed devices.
The
Company intends to apply for a de novo with an anticipated
expenditure of $10.0 million over the next four years. This
expenditure estimate includes anticipated costs associated with in
vitro and in vivo pre-clinical testing, our application for an
Investigational Device Exemption, Phase I and Phase II clinical
trials and our application for a de novo.
As a
registered medical device manufacturer with the FDA, we are subject
to inspection to ensure compliance with FDA’s current Good
Manufacturing Practices, or cGMP. These regulations require that we
and any of our contract manufacturers design, manufacture and
service products, and maintain documents in a prescribed manner
with respect to manufacturing, testing, distribution, storage,
design control, and service activities. Modifications or
enhancements that could significantly affect the safety or
effectiveness of a device or that constitute a major change to the
intended use of the device require a new 510(k) premarket
notification for any significant product modification.
The
Medical Device Reporting regulation requires that we provide
information to the FDA on deaths or serious injuries alleged to be
associated with the use of our devices, as well as product
malfunctions that are likely to cause or contribute to death or
serious injury if the malfunction were to recur. Labeling and
promotional activities are regulated by the FDA and, in some
circumstances, by the Federal Trade Commission.
As a
medical device manufacturer, we are also subject to laws and
regulations administered by governmental entities at the federal,
state and local levels. For example, our facility is licensed as a
medical device manufacturing facility in the State of Washington
and is subject to periodic state regulatory inspections. Our
customers are also subject to a wide variety of laws and
regulations that could affect the nature and scope of their
relationships with us.
In
the United States, as a manufacturer of medical devices and devices
utilizing radioactive byproduct material, we are subject to
extensive regulation by not only federal governmental authorities,
such as the FDA and FAA, but also by state and local governmental
authorities, such as the Washington State Department of Health, to
ensure such devices are safe and effective. In Washington State,
the Department of Health, by agreement with the federal Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (“NRC”), regulates the possession,
use, and disposal of radioactive byproduct material as well as the
manufacture of radioactive sealed sources to ensure compliance with
state and federal laws and regulations. RadioGel™
constitutes both medical devices and radioactive sealed sources and
are subject to these regulations.
Moreover,
our use, management, and disposal of certain radioactive substances
and wastes are subject to regulation by several federal and state
agencies depending on the nature of the substance or waste
material. We believe that we are in compliance with all federal and
state regulations for this purpose.
Environmental Regulation
Our
business does not require us to comply with any extraordinary
environmental regulations. Our RadioGel™ product is
manufactured in an independently owned and operated facility. Any
environmental effects or contamination event that could result
would be from the shipping company during shipment and misuse by
the treatment facility upon arrival.
Human Capital
As of
December 31, 2022, the Company had one full-time personnel. The
Company utilizes several independent contractors to assist with its
operations. The Company does not have a collective bargaining
agreement with any of its personnel and believes its relations with
its personnel are good.
Available Information
The
Company prepares and files annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly
reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and certain other
information with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”). The SEC maintains an Internet site
that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other
information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC
at http://www.sec.gov. Moreover, the Company maintains a website at
http://www.RadioGel.com that contains important information about
the Company, including biographies of key management personnel, as
well as information about the Company’s business. This information
is publicly available and is updated regularly. The content on any
website referred to in this Annual Report is not incorporated by
reference into this Annual Report, unless (and only to the extent)
expressly so stated herein.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS.
Investing
in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should
carefully consider the risks described below, as well as the other
information in this Annual Report, including our financial
statements and the related notes and “Management’s Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” before
deciding whether to invest in our securities. The occurrence of any
of the events or developments described below could harm our
business, financial condition, operating results, and growth
prospects. In such an event, the market price of our common stock
could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment.
Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or
that we currently deem immaterial also may impair our business
operations.
RISKS
ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY’S BUSINESS
Our independent registered public accounting firms’ reports on its
financial statements questions the Company’s ability to continue as
a going concern.
The
Company’s independent registered public accounting firms’ reports
on the Company’s financial statements for the years ended December
31, 2022 and 2021 express substantial doubt about the Company’s
ability to continue as a going concern. The reports include an
explanatory paragraph stating that the Company has suffered
recurring losses, used significant cash in support of its operating
activities and based on its current operating levels, require
additional capital or restructuring to sustain its operation for
the foreseeable future. There is no assurance that the Company will
be able to obtain sufficient additional capital to continue its
operations and to alleviate doubt about its ability to continue as
a going concern. If the Company obtains additional financing, such
funds may not be available on favorable terms and likely would
entail considerable dilution to existing shareholders. Any debt
financing, if available, may involve restrictive covenants that
restrict its ability to conduct its business. It is extremely
remote that the Company could obtain any financing on any basis
that did not result in considerable dilution for shareholders.
Inclusion of a “going concern qualification” in the report of its
independent accountants or in any future report may have a negative
impact on its ability to obtain debt or equity financing and may
adversely impact its stock price.
A combination of our current financial condition and the FDA’s
determinations to date regarding our brachytherapy products raise
material concerns about ability to continue as a going
concern.
The
Company will not be able to continue as a going concern unless the
Company obtains financing. Depending upon the amount of financing,
if any, the Company is able to obtain, the Company may not receive
adequate funds to continue the approval process for RadioGel™ or
other brachytherapy products with the FDA.
The Company has generated operating losses since inception, which
are expected to continue, and has increasing cash requirements,
which it may be unable to satisfy.
The
Company has generated material operating losses since inception.
The Company has had recurring net losses since inception which has
resulted in an accumulated deficit of $79,556,028 and $77,085,867
as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively including net losses
of $2,470,161 and $2,527,766 for the years ended December 31, 2022
and 2021. Historically, the Company has relied upon investor funds
to maintain its operations and develop its business. The Company
needs to raise additional capital from investors for working
capital as well as business expansion, and there is no assurance
that additional investor funds will be available on terms
acceptable to the Company, or at all. If the Company is unable to
unable to obtain additional financing to meet its working capital
requirements, the Company likely would cease operations.
The
Company requires funding of at least $5 million per year to
maintain current operating activities. Over the next 24 months, the
Company believes it will cost approximately $9 million to fund: (1)
fund the FDA approval process to conduct human clinical trials, (2)
conduct Phase I, pilot, clinical trials, (3) activate several
regional clinics to administer IsoPet® across the
county, (4) create an independent production center within the
current production site to create a template for future
international manufacturing, and (5) initiate regulatory approval
processes outside of the United States.
The
principal variables in the timing and amount of spending for the
brachytherapy products in the next 12 to 24 months will be the
FDA’s classification of the Company’s brachytherapy products as
Class II or Class III devices (or otherwise) and any requirements
for additional studies, which may possibly include clinical
studies. Thereafter, the principal variables in the amount of the
Company’s spending and its financing requirements would be the
timing of any approvals and the nature of the Company’s
arrangements with third parties for manufacturing, sales,
distribution and licensing of those products and the products’
success in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Company intends to fund its
activities through strategic transactions such as licensing and
partnership agreements or additional capital raises.
Recent
economic events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the inherent
instability in global capital markets, as well as the lack of
liquidity in the capital markets, could adversely impact the
Company’s ability to obtain financing and its ability to execute
its business plan.
The Company has a limited operating history, which may make it
difficult to evaluate its business and
prospects.
The
Company has a limited operating history upon which one can base an
evaluation of its business and prospects. As a company in the
development stage, there are substantial risks, uncertainties,
expenses and difficulties to which its business is subject. To
address these risks and uncertainties, the Company must do the
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There
is no assurance that the Company will achieve or maintain
profitable operations or that the Company will obtain or maintain
adequate working capital to meet its obligations as they become
due. The Company cannot be certain that its business strategy will
be successfully developed and implemented or that the Company will
successfully address the risks that face its business. In the event
that the Company does not successfully address these risks, its
business, prospects, financial condition, and results of operations
could be materially and adversely affected.
The Company’s products are regulated and require appropriate
clearances and approvals to be marketed in the U.S. and
globally.
There
is no assurance the FDA or other global regulatory authorities will
grant the Company permission to market the Company’s brachytherapy
Y-90 RadioGel™ device.
The
Company has been working with the FDA to obtain clearance for its
brachytherapy Y-90 RadioGelTM device, but no assurances
have been received. On December 23, 2014, the Company announced
that it submitted a de novo to the FDA for marketing
clearance for its patented Y-90 RadioGelTM device
pursuant to Section 513(f)(2) of the U.S. Food, Drug and Cosmetic
Act (the “Act”). In June 2015, the FDA notified the Company
the de novo was not granted. In February 2014, the FDA found
the same device under Section 510(k) of the Act not substantially
equivalent and concluded that the device is classified by statute
as a Class III medical device, unless the device is reclassified.
The Company is seeking reclassification of the product to Class II.
If the Company is successful in seeking reconsideration of the
Company’s de novo application, as a regulatory matter, the
device could be on an easier and faster path to market in the
United States. However, there would still be the requirements to
complete the in vitro and in vivo testing, and then some human
clinical trials. That testing date is submitted in a de novo
pre-market application and if accepted we could then go to market.
As a practical matter, the Company would still need to secure
funding and commercial arrangements before marketing could
commence. If the de novo is declined and if the Company
obtains funding to permit it to continue operations, the Company
will explore steps toward seeking approval for the device as a
Class III medical device. Generally, the time period and cost of
seeking approval as a Class III medical device is materially
greater than the time period and cost of seeking approval as a
Class II medical device. If the Company seeks approval as a Class
III device, human clinical trials will be necessary. Generally,
human trials for Class III products are larger, of longer duration
and costlier than those for Class II devices.
If
human clinical trials are necessary, there will be additional cost
and time to reach marketing clearance or approval. Unless the
Company obtains sufficient funding, it will be unable to do the
foregoing activities. There can be no assurance that the product
will be approved as either a Class II or Class III device by the
FDA even if additional data is provided. In August 2017, the
Company met again with the FDA in a pre-submission meeting to once
again go through the requirements for pre-clinical testing and to
answer the previous FDA questions submitted years before. There can
be no assurance that the Company will receive FDA approval, or if
it does, the timing thereof.
If the Company is successful in increasing the size of its
organization, the Company may experience difficulties in managing
growth.
The
Company is a small organization with a minimal number of employees.
If the Company is successful, it may experience a period of
significant expansion in headcount, facilities, infrastructure and
overhead and further expansion may be required to address potential
growth and market opportunities. Any such future growth will impose
significant added responsibilities on members of management,
including the need to improve the Company’s operational and
financial systems and to identify, recruit, maintain and integrate
additional managers. The Company’s future financial performance and
its ability to compete effectively will depend, in part, on the
ability to manage any future growth effectively.
The Company’s business is dependent upon the continued services of
the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Michael Korenko. Should the
Company lose the services of Dr. Korenko, the Company’s operations
will be negatively impacted.
The
Company’s business is dependent upon the expertise of its Chief
Executive Officer, Michael Korenko. Dr. Korenko is essential to the
Company’s operations. Accordingly, an investor must rely on Dr.
Korenko’s management decisions that will continue to control the
Company’s business affairs. The Company does not maintain key man
insurance on Dr. Korenko’s life. The loss of the services of Dr.
Korenko would have a material adverse effect upon the Company’s
business. To mitigate this risk, David Swanberg has been groomed as
a replacement candidate. He has extensive experience as a
co-founder of IsoRay and has been actively working with Dr. Korenko
as a consultant for the last two years.
The Company is heavily dependent on consultants for many of the
services necessary to continue operations. The loss of any of these
consultants could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s
business, results of operations and financial
condition.
The
Company’s success is heavily dependent on the continued active
participation of certain consultants and collaborating scientists.
Certain key employees and consultants have no written employment
contracts. Loss of the services of any one or more of its
consultants could have a material adverse effect upon the Company’s
business, results of operations and financial condition.
If the Company is unable to hire and retain additional qualified
personnel, the business and financial condition may
suffer.
The
Company’s success and achievement of its growth plans depend on its
ability to recruit, hire, train and retain highly qualified
technical, scientific, regulatory and managerial employees,
consultants and advisors. Competition for qualified personnel among
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies is intense, and an
inability to attract and motivate additional highly skilled
personnel required for the expansion of the Company’s activities,
or the loss of any such persons, could have a material adverse
effect on its business, results of operations and financial
condition.
The Company’s revenues have historically been derived from sales
made to a small number of customers. The Company has discontinued
prior operations related to its core business. To succeed, we will
need to recommence our operations and achieve sales to a materially
larger number of customers.
The
Company’s consulting revenues relate to their commercializing of
its products or expanding the number of customers purchasing its
products and services. The Company had $36,499 and $14,887 in
operating revenues, net of discounts for the years ended December
31, 2022 and 2021, respectively as they have commenced sales of
IsoPet®.
Many of the Company’s competitors have greater resources and
experience than the Company has.
Many
of the Company’s competitors have greater financial resources,
longer history, broader experience, greater name recognition, and
more substantial operations than the Company has, and they
represent substantial long-term competition for us. The Company’s
competitors may be able to devote more financial and human
resources than the Company can to research, new product
development, regulatory approvals, and marketing and sales. The
Company’s competitors may develop or market products that are
viewed by customers as more effective or more economical than the
Company’s products. There is no assurance that the Company will be
able to compete effectively against current and future competitors,
and such competitive pressures may adversely affect the Company’s
business and results of operations.
The Company’s future revenues depend upon acceptance of its current
and future products in the markets in which they
compete.
The
Company’s future revenues depend upon receipt of financing,
regulatory approval and the successful production, marketing, and
sales of the various isotopes the Company might market in the
future. The rate and level of market acceptance of each of these
products, if any, may vary depending on the perception by
physicians and other members of the healthcare community of its
safety and efficacy as compared to that of any competing products;
the clinical outcomes of any patients treated; the effectiveness of
its sales and marketing efforts in the United States, Europe, Far
East, Middle East, and Russia; any unfavorable publicity concerning
its products or similar products; the price of the Company’s
products relative to other products or competing treatments; any
decrease in current reimbursement rates from the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services or third-party payers; regulatory
developments related to the manufacture or continued use of its
products; availability of sufficient supplies to either purchase or
manufacture its products; its ability to produce sufficient
quantities of its products; and the ability of physicians to
properly utilize its products and avoid excessive levels of
radiation to patients. Any material adverse developments with
respect to the commercialization of any such products may adversely
affect revenues and may cause the Company to continue to incur
losses in the future.
The Company currently relies on a single supplier for Y-90
particles, and that supplier is the only supplier in the United
States. An inability to procure Y-90 particles will harm the
Company’s business.
There
is only one supplier of Y-90 particles in the United States,
requiring us to rely entirely on this supplier to provide the Y-90
particles needed to produce RadioGelTM. If we are unable
to obtain a sufficient supply of Y-90 particles, we will not be
able to proceed with our development of RadioGelTM and
our business may be materially harmed.
The
Company currently subcontracts the manufacturing of
RadioGelTM to IsoTherapeutics. PerkinElmer Inc. is the
sole supplier of the Y-90 particles used by IsoTherapeutics and is
the only supplier of Y-90 particles in the United States. In the
event PerkinElmer is unable to satisfy our supply requirements or
stope producing Y-90 particles, we will be unable to continue with
development of RadioGel™ and our business would be materially
harmed.
The Company will rely heavily on a limited number of suppliers for
the foreseeable future.
Some
of the products the Company might market, and components thereof
are currently available only from a limited number of suppliers,
several of which are international suppliers. Failure to obtain
deliveries from these sources could have a material adverse effect
on the Company’s ability to operate.
The Company may incur material losses and costs as a result of
product liability claims that may be brought against
it.
The
Company faces an inherent business risk of exposure to product
liability claims in the event that products supplied by the Company
fail to perform as expected or such products result, or is alleged
to result, in bodily injury. Any such claims may also result in
adverse publicity, which could damage the Company’s reputation by
raising questions about the safety and efficacy of its products and
could interfere with its efforts to market its products. A
successful product liability claim against the Company in excess of
its available insurance coverage or established reserves may have a
material adverse effect on its business. Although the Company
currently maintains liability insurance in amounts it believes are
commercially reasonable, any product liability the Company may
incur may exceed its insurance coverage.
The Company is subject to the risk that certain third parties may
mishandle the Company’s products.
If
the Company markets products, the Company likely will rely on third
parties, such as commercial air courier companies, to deliver the
products, and on other third parties to package the products in
certain specialized packaging forms requested by customers. The
Company thus would be subject to the risk that these third parties
may mishandle its product, which could result in material adverse
effects, particularly given the radioactive nature of some of the
products.
The Company is subject to uncertainties regarding reimbursement for
use of its products.
Hospitals
and freestanding clinics may be less likely to purchase the
Company’s products if they cannot be assured of receiving favorable
reimbursement for treatments using its products from third-party
payers, such as Medicare and private health insurance plans.
Third-party payers are increasingly challenging the pricing of
certain medical services or devices, and there is no assurance that
they will reimburse the Company’s customers at levels sufficient
for it to maintain favorable sales and price levels for the
Company’s products. There is no uniform policy on reimbursement
among third-party payers, and there is no assurance that the
Company’s products will continue to qualify for reimbursement from
all third-party payers or that reimbursement rates will not be
reduced. A reduction in or elimination of third-party reimbursement
for treatments using the Company’s products would likely have a
material adverse effect on the Company’s revenues.
The Company’s future growth is largely dependent upon its ability
to develop new technologies that achieve market acceptance with
appropriate margins.
The
Company’s business operates in global markets that are
characterized by rapidly changing technologies and evolving
industry standards. Accordingly, future growth rates depend upon a
number of factors, including the Company’s ability to (i) identify
emerging technological trends in the Company’s target end-markets,
(ii) develop and maintain competitive products, (iii) enhance the
Company’s products by adding innovative features that differentiate
the Company’s products from those of its competitors, and (iv)
develop, manufacture and bring products to market quickly and
cost-effectively. The Company’s ability to develop new products
based on technological innovation can affect the Company’s
competitive position and requires the investment of significant
resources. These development efforts divert resources from other
potential investments in the Company’s business, and they may not
lead to the development of new technologies or products on a timely
basis or that meet the needs of the Company’s customers as fully as
competitive offerings. In addition, the markets for the Company’s
products may not develop or grow as it currently anticipates. The
failure of the Company’s technologies or products to gain market
acceptance due to more attractive offerings by the Company’s
competitors could significantly reduce the Company’s revenues and
adversely affect the Company’s competitive standing and
prospects.
The Company may rely on third parties to represent it locally in
the marketing and sales of its products in international markets
and its revenue may depend on the efforts and results of those
third parties.
The
Company’s future success may depend, in part, on its ability to
enter into and maintain collaborative relationships with one or
more third parties, the collaborator’s strategic interest in the
Company’s products and the Company’s products under development,
and the collaborator’s ability to successfully market and sell any
such products.
The
Company intends to pursue collaborative arrangements regarding the
marketing and sales of its products; however, it may not be able to
establish or maintain such collaborative arrangements, or if it is
able to do so, the Company’s collaborators may not be effective in
marketing and selling its products. To the extent that the Company
decides not to, or is unable to, enter into collaborative
arrangements with respect to the sales and marketing of its
products, significant capital expenditures, management resources
and time will be required to establish and develop an in-house
marketing and sales force with technical expertise. To the extent
that the Company depends on third parties for marketing and
distribution, any revenues received by the Company will depend upon
the efforts and results of such third parties, which may or may not
be successful.
The Company may pursue strategic acquisitions that may have an
adverse impact on its business.
Executing
the Company’s business strategy may involve pursuing and
consummating strategic transactions to acquire complementary
businesses or technologies. In pursuing these strategic
transactions, even if the Company does not consummate them, or in
consummating such transactions and integrating the acquired
business or technology, the Company may expend significant
financial and management resources and incur other significant
costs and expenses. There is no assurance that any strategic
transactions will result in additional revenues or other strategic
benefits for the Company’s business. The Company may issue the
Company’s stock as consideration for acquisitions, joint ventures
or other strategic transactions, and the use of stock as purchase
consideration could dilute the interests of its current
stockholders. In addition, the Company may obtain debt financing in
connection with an acquisition. Any such debt financing may involve
restrictive covenants relating to capital-raising activities and
other financial and operational matters, which may make it more
difficult for the Company to obtain additional capital and pursue
business opportunities, including potential acquisitions. In
addition, such debt financing may impair the Company’s ability to
obtain future additional financing for working capital, capital
expenditures, acquisitions, general corporate or other purposes,
and a substantial portion of cash flows, if any, from the Company’s
operations may be dedicated to interest payments and debt
repayment, thereby reducing the funds available to the Company for
other purposes.
The Company will need to hire additional qualified accounting
personnel in order to remediate a material weakness in its internal
control over financial accounting, and the Company will need to
expend any additional resources and efforts that may be necessary
to establish and to maintain the effectiveness of its internal
control over financial reporting and its disclosure controls and
procedures.
As a
public company, the Company is subject to the reporting
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Company’s management is
required to evaluate and disclose its assessment of the
effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting as of each year-end, including disclosing any “material
weakness” in the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting. A material weakness is a control deficiency, or
combination of control deficiencies, that results in more than a
remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the annual or
interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected. As
a result of its assessment, management has determined that there is
a material weakness due to the lack of segregation of duties and,
due to this material weakness, management concluded that, as of
December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting was ineffective. This material weakness has the
potential of adversely impacting the Company’s financial reporting
process and the Company’s financial reports. Because of this
material weakness, management also concluded that the Company’s
disclosure controls and procedures were ineffective as of December
31, 2022 and 2021. The Company needs to hire additional qualified
accounting personnel in order to resolve this material weakness.
The Company also will need to expend any additional resources and
efforts that may be necessary to establish and to maintain the
effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting and disclosure controls and procedures.
The Company’s patented or other technologies may infringe on other
patents, which may expose it to costly
litigation.
It is
possible that the Company’s patented or other technologies may
infringe on patents or other rights owned by others. The Company
may have to alter its products or processes, pay licensing fees,
defend infringement actions or challenge the validity of the
patents in court, or cease activities altogether because of patent
rights of third parties, thereby causing additional unexpected
costs and delays to the Company. Patent litigation is costly and
time consuming, and the Company may not have sufficient resources
to pursue such litigation. If the Company does not obtain a license
under such patents, if it is found liable for infringement, or if
it is not able to have such patents declared invalid, the Company
may be liable for significant money damages, may encounter
significant delays in bringing products to market or may be
precluded from participating in the manufacture, use or sale of
products or methods of treatment requiring such
licenses.
Protecting the Company’s intellectual property is critical to its
innovation efforts.
The
Company owns or has a license to use several U.S. and foreign
patents and patent applications, trademarks and copyrights. The
Company’s intellectual property rights may be challenged,
invalidated or infringed upon by third parties, or it may be unable
to maintain, renew or enter into new licenses of third party
proprietary intellectual property on commercially reasonable terms.
In some non-U.S. countries, laws affecting intellectual property
are uncertain in their application, which can adversely affect the
scope or enforceability of the Company’s patents and other
intellectual property rights. Any of these events or factors could
diminish or cause the Company to lose the competitive advantages
associated with the Company’s intellectual property, subject the
Company to judgments, penalties and significant litigation costs,
or temporarily or permanently disrupt its sales and marketing of
the affected products or services.
The Company may not be able to protect its trade secrets and other
unpatented proprietary technology, which could give competitors an
advantage.
The
Company relies upon trade secrets and other unpatented proprietary
technology. The Company may not be able to adequately protect its
rights with regard to such unpatented proprietary technology, or
competitors may independently develop substantially equivalent
technology. The Company seeks to protect trade secrets and
proprietary knowledge, in part through confidentiality agreements
with its employees, consultants, advisors and collaborators.
Nevertheless, these agreements may not effectively prevent
disclosure of the Company’s confidential information and may not
provide the Company with an adequate remedy in the event of
unauthorized disclosure of such information, and as result the
Company’s competitors could gain a competitive
advantage.
The Company is subject to extensive government regulation in
jurisdictions around the world in which it does business.
Regulations address, among other things, environmental compliance,
import/export restrictions, healthcare services, taxes and
financial reporting, and those regulations can significantly
increase the cost of doing business, which in turn can negatively
impact operations, financial results and cash
flow.
If
the Company is successful in developing manufacturing capability,
the Company will be subject to extensive government regulation and
intervention both in the U.S. and in all foreign jurisdictions in
which it conducts business. Compliance with applicable laws and
regulations will result in higher capital expenditures and
operating costs, and changes to current regulations with which the
Company complies can necessitate further capital expenditures and
increases in operating costs to enable continued compliance.
Additionally, from time to time, the Company may be involved in
proceedings under certain of these laws and regulations. Foreign
operations are subject to political instabilities, restrictions on
funds transfers, import/export restrictions, and currency
fluctuation.
RISKS
RELATED TO THE COMPANY’S COMMON STOCK
The Company’s common stock is currently quoted on the OTCQB
Marketplace. Failure to develop or maintain a more active trading
market may negatively affect the value of the Company’s common
stock, may deter some potential investors from purchasing the
Company’s common stock or other equity securities, and may make it
difficult or impossible for stockholders to sell their shares of
common stock.
The
Company’s average daily volume of shares traded for the years ended
December 31, 2022 and 2021 was 496,720 and 2,074,138, respectively.
Failure to develop or maintain an active trading market may
negatively affect the value of the Company’s common stock, may make
some potential investors unwilling to purchase the Company’s common
stock or equity securities that are convertible into or exercisable
for the Company’s common stock, and may make it difficult or
impossible for the Company’s stockholders to sell their shares of
common stock and recover any part of their investment.
The Company’s outstanding securities, the stock or other securities
that it may become obligated to issue under existing agreements,
and certain provisions of those securities, may cause immediate and
substantial dilution to existing stockholders and may make it more
difficult to raise additional equity capital.
The
Company had 362,541,528 shares of common stock outstanding on March
1, 2023. The Company also had outstanding on that date dilutive
securities consisting of preferred stock, restricted stock units,
options, and warrants (collectively, “Common Stock
Equivalents”) that if they had been exercised and converted in
full on March 1, 2023, would have resulted in the issuance of up to
64,762,379 additional shares of common stock. The issuance of
shares upon the exercise of the Common Stock Equivalents may result
in substantial dilution to each stockholder by reducing that
stockholder’s percentage ownership of the Company’s total
outstanding shares of common stock. The issuance of some or all
those warrants and any exercise of those warrants will have the
effect of further diluting the percentage ownership of the
Company’s other stockholders.
Future sales of the Company’s securities, including sales following
exercise or conversion of derivative securities, or the perception
that such sales may occur, may depress the price of common stock
and could encourage short sales.
The
sale or availability for sale of substantial amounts of the
Company’s shares in the public market, including shares issuable
upon exercise of the Common Stock Equivalents, or the perception
that such sales may occur, may adversely affect the market price of
the Company’s common stock. Any decline in the price of the
Company’s common stock may encourage short sales, which could place
further downward pressure on the price of the Company’s common
stock.
The Company’s stock price is likely to be
volatile.
For
the year ended December 31, 2022, the reported low closing price
for the Company’s common stock was $0.04 per share, and the
reported high closing price was $0.1264 per share. For the year
ended December 31, 2021, the reported low closing price for the
Company’s common stock was $0.068 per share, and the reported high
closing price was $0.2592 per share. There is generally significant
volatility in the market prices, as well as limited liquidity, of
securities of early-stage companies, particularly early stage
medical product companies. Contributing to this volatility are
various events that can affect the Company’s stock price in a
positive or negative manner. These events include, but are not
limited to: governmental approvals, refusals to approve,
regulations or other actions; market acceptance and sales growth of
the Company’s products; litigation involving the Company or the
Company’s industry; developments or disputes concerning the
Company’s patents or other proprietary rights; changes in the
structure of healthcare payment systems; departure of key
personnel; future sales of its securities; fluctuations in its
financial results or those of companies that are perceived to be
similar to us; investors’ general perception of us; and general
economic, industry and market conditions. If any of these events
occur, it could cause the Company’s stock price to fall, and any of
these events may cause the Company’s stock price to be
volatile.
The Company’s common stock is subject to the “Penny Stock” rules of
the SEC and the trading market in its securities is limited, which
makes transactions in its common stock cumbersome and may reduce
the value of an investment in the Company’s
stock.
The
SEC has adopted Rule 3a51-1, which establishes the definition of a
“penny stock,” for the purposes relevant to us, as any equity
security that has a market price of less than $5.00 per share or
with an exercise price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to
certain exceptions. For any transaction involving a penny stock,
unless exempt, Rule 15g-9 requires that a broker or dealer approve
a person’s account for transactions in penny stocks and that the
broker or dealer receive from the investor a written agreement to
the transaction, setting forth the identity and quantity of the
penny stock to be purchased.
In
order to approve a person’s account for transactions in penny
stocks, the broker or dealer must obtain financial information and
investment experience and objectives of the person and must make a
reasonable determination that the transactions in penny stocks are
suitable for that person and that the person has sufficient
knowledge and experience in financial matters to be capable of
evaluating the risks of transactions in penny stocks.
The
broker or dealer must also deliver, prior to any transaction in a
penny stock, a disclosure schedule prescribed by the SEC relating
to the penny stock market, which sets forth the basis on which the
broker or dealer made the suitability determination, and that the
broker or dealer received a signed, written agreement from the
investor prior to the transaction.
Generally,
brokers may be less willing to execute transactions in securities
subject to the “penny stock” rules. This may make it more difficult
for investors to dispose of the Company’s common stock and may
cause a decline in the market value of its stock.
Disclosure
also has to be made about the risks of investing in penny stocks in
both public offerings and in secondary trading and about the
commissions payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered
representative, current quotations for the securities and the
rights and remedies available to an investor in cases of fraud in
penny stock transactions. Finally, monthly statements have to be
sent disclosing recent price information for the penny stock held
in the account and information on the limited market in penny
stocks.
As a result of the Company issuing preferred stock, the rights of
holders of the Company’s common stock and the value of the
Company’s common stock may be adversely
affected.
The
Company’s Board of Directors is authorized to issue classes or
series of preferred stock, without any action on the part of the
stockholders. The Company’s Board of Directors also has the power,
without stockholder approval, to set the terms of any such classes
or series of preferred stock, including voting rights, dividend
rights and preferences over the common stock with respect to
dividends or upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of its
business, and other terms. The Company has issued preferred stock
that has a preference over the common stock with respect to the
payment of dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or
winding-up, and with respect to voting rights. In accordance with
that and with the issuance of preferred stock, our common
stockholders voting rights have been diluted and it is possible
that the rights of holders of the common stock or the value of the
common stock have been adversely affected.
The Company does not expect to pay any dividends on common stock
for the foreseeable future.
The
Company has not paid any cash dividends on its common stock to date
and does not anticipate it will pay cash dividends on its common
stock in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, stockholders must be
prepared to rely on sales of their common stock after price
appreciation to earn an investment return, which may never occur.
Any determination to pay dividends in the future will be made at
the discretion of the Company’s board of directors and will depend
on the Company’s results of operations, financial conditions,
contractual restrictions, restrictions imposed by applicable law,
and other factors that the Company’s board deems
relevant.
Pandemics including COVID-19 may adversely affect our
business.
The
unprecedented events related to COVID-19 and the variants, the
disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), have had
significant health, economic, and market impacts and may have
short-term and long-term adverse effects on our business that we
cannot predict as the global pandemic continues to evolve. The
extent and effectiveness of responses by governments and other
organizations also cannot be predicted.
Our
ability to access the capital markets is unknown during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Any such limitation on available financing would
adversely affect our business.
GENERAL
RISK FACTORS
Volatility in raw material and energy costs, interruption in
ordinary sources of supply, and an inability to recover from
unanticipated increases in energy and raw material costs could
result in lost sales or could increase significantly the cost of
doing business.
Market
and economic conditions affecting the costs of raw materials,
utilities, energy costs, and infrastructure required to provide for
the delivery of the Company’s products and services are beyond the
Company’s control. Any disruption or halt in supplies, or rapid
escalations in costs, could adversely affect the Company’s ability
to manufacture products or to competitively price the Company’s
products in the marketplace. To date, the ultimate impact of energy
costs increases has been mitigated through price increases or
offset through improved process efficiencies; however, continuing
escalation of energy costs could have a negative impact upon the
Company’s business and financial performance.
General economic conditions in markets in which the Company does
business can impact the demand for the Company’s goods and
services. Decreased demand for the Company’s products and services
could have a negative impact on its financial performance and cash
flow.
Demand
for the Company’s products and services, in part, depends on the
general economic conditions affecting the countries and industries
in which the Company does business. A downturn in economic
conditions in a country or industry that the Company serves may
adversely affect the demand for the Company’s products and
services, in turn negatively impacting the Company’s operations and
financial results. Further, changes in demand for the Company’s
products and services can magnify the impact of economic cycles on
the Company’s businesses. Unanticipated contract terminations by
customers can negatively impact operations, financial results and
cash flow. The Company’s earnings, cash flow and financial position
are exposed to financial market risks worldwide, including interest
rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations and exchange rate
controls. Fluctuations in domestic and world financial markets
could adversely affect interest rates and impact the Company’s
ability to obtain credit or attract investors.
ITEM
1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS.
This
item is not applicable to the Company because the Company is a
smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
ITEM
2. PROPERTIES.
The
Company is headquartered in Richland, Washington. Our Chief
Executive Officer currently works from his home office in virtual
communication with key personnel. Cadwell Laboratories, which is
controlled by Carl Cadwell, a director of the Company, provides
office space to management on an as-needed basis until such time as
the Company leases permanent office space. Management believes that
the Company’s sites are adequate to support the business and
suitable for present purposes, and the properties and equipment
have been well maintained.
ITEM
3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
The
Company may, from time to time, be involved in various legal
proceedings incidental to the conduct of our business.
Historically, the outcome of all such legal proceedings has not, in
the aggregate, had a material adverse effect on our business,
financial condition, results of operations or liquidity. There are
no material pending or threatened legal proceedings at this
time.
ITEM
4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES.
Not
applicable.
PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED
STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY
SECURITIES.
Market
Information
The
Company’s common stock is traded on the OTCQB Marketplace under the
symbol “RDGL.” The following table sets forth, in U.S. dollars, the
high and low closing prices for each of the calendar quarters
indicated, as reported by the OTCQB Marketplace, for the past two
fiscal years. Such OTCQB Marketplace quotations reflect
inter-dealer prices, without markup, markdown or commissions and,
particularly because our common stock is traded infrequently, may
not necessarily represent actual transactions or a liquid trading
market.
|
|
High |
|
|
Low |
|
2022 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Quarter ended December
31 |
|
$ |
0.0695 |
|
|
$ |
0.04 |
|
Quarter ended September 30 |
|
$ |
0.0809 |
|
|
$ |
0.0461 |
|
Quarter ended June 30 |
|
$ |
0.1264 |
|
|
$ |
0.0555 |
|
Quarter ended March 31 |
|
$ |
0.0855 |
|
|
$ |
0.0405 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2021 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Quarter ended December 31 |
|
$ |
0.122 |
|
|
$ |
0.07 |
|
Quarter ended September 30 |
|
$ |
0.13 |
|
|
$ |
0.0882 |
|
Quarter ended June 30 |
|
$ |
0.1227 |
|
|
$ |
0.077 |
|
Quarter ended March 31 |
|
$ |
0.1179 |
|
|
$ |
0.0853 |
|
Holders
As of
March 1, 2023, we had 362,541,528 shares of common stock, par value
$0.001 per share, issued and outstanding, which were held by
approximately 223 shareholders of record. Our transfer agent is
Pacific Stock Transfer, 6725 Via Austi Pkwy, Suite 300, Las Vegas,
NV 89119.
Securities Authorized for
Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans
The
following table sets forth information as of December 31, 2022 with
respect to the Company’s equity compensation plans previously
approved by stockholders and equity compensation plans not
previously approved by stockholders.
|
|
Equity Compensation Plan Information |
|
Plan Category |
|
Number
of securities to be issued upon exercise of
outstanding
options,
warrants
and
rights
|
|
|
Weighted-average
exercise
price of
outstanding
options,
warrants
and rights
|
|
|
Number
of securities remaining available for future issuance
under
equity
compensation
plans
(excluding
securities
reflected in
column
(a))
|
|
|
(a) |
|
(b) |
|
|
(c) |
|
Equity compensation plans
approved by stockholders |
|
|
25,777,500 |
|
|
$ |
0.09 |
|
|
|
32,836,047 |
|
Equity compensation plans not approved
by stockholders |
|
|
34,115,309 |
|
|
$ |
0.07 |
|
|
|
- |
|
Total |
|
|
34,115,309 |
(1) |
|
$ |
0.07 |
(1) |
|
|
- |
|
(1) |
In
addition to the 2015 Plan (defined below), the Company has
individual compensation arrangements under which equity securities
are authorized for issuance in exchange for consideration in the
form of goods or services of certain individuals. |
2015
Omnibus Securities and Incentive Plan
In
October 2015, our Board of Directors and stockholders approved the
adoption of the 2015 Omnibus Securities and Incentive Plan (the
“2015 Plan”). The 2015 Plan authorizes an aggregate number
of shares of common stock for issuance to all employees of the
Company or any subsidiary of the Company, any non-employee
director, consultants and independent contractors of the Company or
any subsidiary, and any joint venture partners (including, without
limitation, officers, directors and partners thereof) of the
Company or any subsidiary. The aggregate number of shares that may
be issued under the Plan shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) of
the issued and outstanding shares of common stock on an as
converted primary basis on a rolling basis. For calculation
purposes, the As Converted Primary Shares (as defined in the 2015
Plan) shall include all shares of common stock and all shares of
common stock issuable upon the conversion of outstanding preferred
stock and other convertible securities, but shall not include any
shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options,
warrants and other convertible securities issued pursuant to the
2015 Plan. As of December 31, 2022, the Converted Primary Shares
calculation results in 32,836,047 aggregate shares that may be
issued under the 2015 Plan. The 2015 Plan is administered by the
Company’s Compensation Committee, who may issue awards in the form
of stock options and/or restricted stock awards. Effective December
31, 2022, an aggregate total of 44,462,500 restricted stock units
(“RSUs”) under the 2015 Plan were authorized, but as of
March 1, 2023, 18,085,000 had been issued.
Recent Sales of
Unregistered Securities
Below
is a description of all unregistered securities issued by the
Company during and subsequent to the quarter ended December 31,
2022, through the date of this report. Each of the issuances
identified below were issued in transactions exempt from
registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, in
reliance on Section 3(a)(9) and/or 4(2) thereof.
Issuances
During the Quarter Ended December 31, 2022
During
the month of December 2022, the Company issued 2,650,273 shares of
common stock in the cashless exercise of 3,333,333
warrants.
Issuances
Subsequent to December 31, 2022
Through
March 1, 2023, there have been no shares of common or preferred
stock issued.
ITEM
6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA.
This
item is not applicable to the Company because the Company is a
smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
ITEM
7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.
The
following discussion and analysis is intended as a review of
significant factors affecting the Company’s financial condition and
results of operations for the periods indicated. The discussion
should be read in conjunction with the Company’s financial
statements and the notes presented herein. In addition to
historical information, the following Management’s Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations contains
forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
The Company’s actual results could differ significantly from those
anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of the
risk factors set forth above in Item 1A and other factors discussed
in this Annual Report.
Results of Operations
Comparison for the Year
Ended December 31, 2022 and December 31,
2021
The
following table sets forth information from our statements of
operations for the years ended December 31, 2022 and
2021:
|
|
Year
Ended
December 31, 2022 |
|
|
Year
Ended
December 31, 2021 |
|
Revenues |
|
$ |
36,499 |
|
|
$ |
14,887 |
|
Cost of goods
sold |
|
|
(28,779 |
) |
|
|
(12,000 |
) |
Gross profit |
|
|
7,720 |
|
|
|
2,887 |
|
Operating
expenses |
|
|
(2,525,469 |
) |
|
|
(2,504,685 |
) |
Operating loss |
|
|
(2,517,749 |
) |
|
|
(2,501,798 |
) |
Non-operating
income (expense) |
|
|
47,588 |
|
|
|
(25,968 |
) |
Net loss |
|
$ |
(2,470,161 |
) |
|
$ |
(2,527,766 |
) |
Revenues and Cost of Goods
Sold
Revenue
was $36,499 and $14,887 for the year ended December 31, 2022 and
2021, respectively. All revenue recognized in the years ended
December 31, 2022 and 2021 relate to consulting income with respect
to the IsoPet® therapies.
Management
does not anticipate that the Company will generate sufficient
revenue to sustain operations until such time as the Company
secures multiple revenue-generating arrangements with respect to
RadioGel™ and/or any of our other brachytherapy
technologies.
Operating
Expenses
Operating
expenses for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021,
respectively consists of the following:
|
|
Year
Ended
December 31, 2022 |
|
|
Year
Ended
December 31, 2021 |
|
Professional fees,
including stock-based compensation |
|
$ |
1,755,316 |
|
|
$ |
1,838,323 |
|
Payroll expenses |
|
|
275,240 |
|
|
|
267,477 |
|
Research and development |
|
|
343,802 |
|
|
|
286,848 |
|
General and
administrative expenses |
|
|
151,111 |
|
|
|
112,037 |
|
Total operating
expenses |
|
$ |
2,525,469 |
|
|
$ |
2,504,685 |
|
Operating
expenses for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 was
$2,525,469 and $2,504,685, respectively. The increase in operating
expenses from 2021 to 2022 can be attributed to the decrease in
professional fees ($1,755,316 for the year ended December 31, 2022
versus $1,838,323 for the year ended December 31, 2021) as the
Company utilized more services due to amending their Regulation A+
and the fees incurred for the consultants engaged in 2021 including
stock-based compensation; the increase in general and
administrative expense ($151,111 for the year ended December 31,
2022 versus $112,037 for the year ended December 31, 2021); the
increase in research and development ($343,802 for the year ended
December 31, 2022 versus $286,848 for the year ended December 31,
2021) as the Company ramped up the development of their products
with the recent raising of capital, and an increase in payroll
expenses ($275,240 for the year ended December 31, 2022 versus
$267,477 for the year ended December 31, 2021) related to the CEOs
employment contract taking effect.
Non-Operating Income
(Expense)
Non-operating
income (expense) for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021,
respectively consists of the following:
|
|
Years
Ended
December 31, 2022 |
|
|
Years
Ended
December 31, 2021 |
|
Interest expense |
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
(25,375 |
) |
Forgiveness of debt |
|
|
47,588 |
|
|
|
136,445 |
|
Loss on debt
extinguishment |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(137,038 |
) |
Non-operating
income (expense) |
|
$ |
47,588 |
|
|
$ |
(25,968 |
) |
Non-operating
income (expense) for the year ended December 31, 2022 varied from
the year ended December 31, 2021 primarily due to a decrease in
interest expense from $25,375 for the year ended December 31, 2021
to $0 for the year ended December 31, 2022 as a result of
conversions and repayments of notes payable. In addition, the
Company converted a note in January 2021 which resulted in a loss
on conversion and recognized a gain on forgiveness of debt on old
payables as they satisfied agreements with vendors to pay a portion
of the payable with the remaining amount forgiven in both 2021 and
2022.
Net
Loss
Our
net loss for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 was
$(2,470,161) and $(2,527,766), respectively.
Liquidity and Capital
Resources
At
December 31, 2022, the Company had working capital of $1,661,044,
as compared to working capital of $1,467,383 at December 31, 2021.
During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company experienced
negative cash flow from operations of $1,120,058 and realized
$1,220,000 of cash flows from financing activities. As of December
31, 2022, the Company did not have any commitments for capital
expenditures.
Cash
used in operating activities increased from $963,819 for the year
ended December 31, 2021 to $1,120,058 for the year ended December
31, 2022. Cash used in operating activities was primarily a result
of the Company’s non-cash items, such as loss from operations, loss
on conversion of debt and share based compensation offset by
forgiveness of debt. Cash provided from financing activities
decreased from $1,666,238 for the year ended December 31, 2021 to
$1,220,000 for the year ended December 31, 2022. In 2021, the
Company raised $1,811,238 from sales of common stock and warrants
offset by repayments of convertible notes of $50,000 and related
party notes of $100,000. In 2022, the Company raise $1,220,000 from
sales of common stock and warrants.
The
Company has generated material operating losses since inception.
The Company had a net loss of $2,470,161 for the year ended
December 31, 2022, and a net loss of $2,527,766 for the year ended
December 31, 2021. The Company expects to continue to experience
net operating losses for the foreseeable future. Historically, the
Company has relied upon investor funds to maintain its operations
and develop the Company’s business. The Company anticipates raising
additional capital within the next twelve months for working
capital as well as business expansion, although the Company can
provide no assurance that additional capital will be available on
terms acceptable to the Company, if at all. If the Company is
unable to obtain additional financing to meet its working capital
requirements, it may have to curtail its business or cease all
operations.
The
Company requires funding of at least $5 million per year to
maintain current operating activities. Over the next 24 months, the
Company believes it will cost approximately $9 million to fund: (1)
fund the FDA approval process to conduct human clinical trials, (2)
conduct Phase I, pilot, clinical trials, (3) activate several
regional clinics to administer IsoPet® across the
county, (4) create an independent production center within the
current production site to create a template for future
international manufacturing, and (5) initiate regulatory approval
processes outside of the United States.
The
principal variables in the timing and amount of spending for the
brachytherapy products in the next 12 to 24 months will be the
FDA’s classification of the Company’s brachytherapy products as
Class II or Class III devices (or otherwise) and any requirements
for additional studies, which may possibly include clinical
studies. Thereafter, the principal variables in the amount of the
Company’s spending and its financing requirements would be the
timing of any approvals and the nature of the Company’s
arrangements with third parties for manufacturing, sales,
distribution and licensing of those products and the products’
success in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Company intends to fund its
activities through strategic transactions such as licensing and
partnership agreements or additional capital raises.
Although
the Company is seeking to raise additional capital and has engaged
in numerous discussions with investment bankers and investors, to
date, the Company has not received firm commitments for the
required funding. Based upon its discussions, the Company
anticipates that if the Company is able to obtain the funding
required to retire outstanding debt, pay past due payables and
maintain its current operating activities, that the terms
associated with such funding will result in material dilution to
existing shareholders.
Recent
geopolitical events, including the inherent instability and
volatility in global capital markets, as well as the lack of
liquidity in the capital markets, could impact the Company’s
ability to obtain financing and its ability to execute its business
plan.
Our
Chief Executive Officer currently works from his home office in
virtual communication with key personnel. Cadwell Laboratories,
which is controlled by Carl Cadwell, a director of the Company,
provides office space to management on an as-needed basis until
such time as the Company leases permanent office space.
Off-Balance Sheet
Arrangements
The
Company does not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that are
reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on the
Company’s financial condition, revenues, results of operations,
liquidity or capital expenditures.
Accounting
Policies
Use
of Estimates
The
preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles requires management to make
estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of
assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and
liabilities at the date of financial statements and the reported
amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
Estimates the Company considers include criteria for stock-based
compensation expense, and valuation allowances on deferred tax
assets. Actual results could differ from those
estimates.
Fixed
Assets
Fixed
assets are carried at the lower of cost or net realizable value.
Production equipment with a cost of $2,500 or greater and other
fixed assets with a cost of $1,500 or greater are capitalized.
Major betterments that extend the useful lives of assets are also
capitalized. Normal maintenance and repairs are charged to expense
as incurred. When assets are sold or otherwise disposed of, the
cost and accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts and
any resulting gain or loss is recognized in operations.
Depreciation
is computed using the straight-line method over the following
estimated useful lives:
Production
equipment: |
|
3 to
7 years |
Office
equipment: |
|
2 to
5 years |
Furniture
and fixtures: |
|
2 to
5 years |
Leasehold
improvements and capital lease assets are amortized over the
shorter of the life of the lease or the estimated life of the
asset.
Management
of the Company reviews the net carrying value of all of its
equipment on an asset by asset basis whenever events or changes in
circumstances indicate that its carrying amount may not be
recoverable. These reviews consider the net realizable value of
each asset, as measured in accordance with the preceding paragraph,
to determine whether impairment in value has occurred, and the need
for any asset impairment write-down.
License
Fees
License
fees are stated at cost, less accumulated amortization.
Amortization of license fees is computed using the straight-line
method over the estimated economic useful life of the
asset.
Patents
and Intellectual Property
While
patents are being developed or pending, they are not being
amortized. Management has determined that the economic life of the
patents to be ten years and amortization, over such ten-year period
and on a straight-line basis will begin once the patents have been
issued and the Company begins utilization of the patents through
production and sales, resulting in revenues.
The
Company evaluates the recoverability of intangible assets,
including patents and intellectual property on a continual basis.
Several factors are used to evaluate intangibles, including, but
not limited to, management’s plans for future operations, recent
operating results and projected and expected undiscounted future
cash flows.
Revenue
Recognition
In
May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”)
issued Accounting Standard Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09,
Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). This standard
provides a single set of guidelines for revenue recognition to be
used across all industries and requires additional disclosures. The
updated guidance introduces a five-step model to achieve its core
principal of the entity recognizing revenue to depict the transfer
of goods or services to customers at an amount that reflects the
consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in
exchange for those goods or services. The Company adopted the
updated guidance effective January 1, 2018 using the full
retrospective method.
Under
ASC 606, in order to recognize revenue, the Company is required to
identify an approved contract with commitments to preform
respective obligations, identify rights of each party in the
transaction regarding goods to be transferred, identify the payment
terms for the goods transferred, verify that the contract has
commercial substance and verify that collection of substantially
all consideration is probable. The adoption of ASC 606 did not have
an impact on the Company’s operations or cash flows.
The
Company recognized revenue as they (i) identified the contracts
with each customer; (ii) identified the performance obligation in
each contract; (iii) determined the transaction price in each
contract; (iv) were able to allocate the transaction price to the
performance obligations in the contract; and (v) recognized revenue
upon the satisfaction of the performance obligation. Upon the sales
of the product to complete the procedures on the animals, the
Company recognized revenue as that was considered the performance
obligation.
Net
Loss Per Share
The
Company accounts for its loss per common share by replacing primary
and fully diluted earnings per share with basic and diluted
earnings per share. Basic loss per share is computed by dividing
loss available to common stockholders (the numerator) by the
weighted-average number of common shares outstanding (the
denominator) for the period and does not include the impact of any
potentially dilutive common stock equivalents. The computation of
diluted earnings per share is similar to basic earnings per share,
except that the denominator is increased to include the number of
additional common shares that would have been outstanding if
potentially dilutive common shares had been issued. When the
Company incurs a loss, the denominator is not increased by the
potentially dilutive common shares as the effect would be
anti-dilutive.
Research
and Development Costs
Research
and developments costs, including salaries, research materials,
administrative expenses and contractor fees, are charged to
operations as incurred. The cost of equipment used in research and
development activities which has alternative uses is capitalized as
part of fixed assets and not treated as an expense in the period
acquired. Depreciation of capitalized equipment used to perform
research and development is classified as research and development
expense in the year computed.
Income
Taxes
The
Company accounts for income taxes under FASB ASC Topic 740-10-25
(“ASC 740-10-25”). Under ASC 740-10-25, deferred tax assets
and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences
attributable to differences between the financial statement
carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their
respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are
measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable
income in the years in which those temporary differences are
expected to be recovered or settled.
Under
ASC 740-10-25, the effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of
a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that
includes the enactment date.
The
Company files income tax returns in the U.S. federal
jurisdiction.
Interest
costs and penalties related to income taxes, if any, will be
classified as interest expense and general and administrative
costs, respectively, in the Company’s financial statements. For the
years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company did not
recognize any interest or penalty expense related to income taxes.
The Company believes that it is not reasonably possible for the
amounts of unrecognized tax benefits to significantly increase or
decrease within the next 12 months.
Fair
Value of Financial Instruments
The
Company adopted ASC Topic 820 (“Fair Value Measurements”) as
of January 1, 2008 for financial instruments measured as fair value
on a recurring basis. ASC Topic 820 defines fair value, established
a framework for measuring fair value in accordance with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States and expands
disclosures about fair value measurements.
Fair
value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an
asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction
between market participants at the measurement date. ASC Topic 820
established a three-tier fair value hierarchy which prioritizes the
inputs used in measuring fair value. The hierarchy gives the
highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for
identical assets or liabilities (level 1 measurements) and the
lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level 3 measurements).
These tiers include:
|
- |
Level
1, defined as observable inputs such as quoted prices for identical
instruments in active markets; |
|
|
|
|
- |
Level
2, defined as inputs other than quoted prices in active markets
that are either directly or indirectly observable such as quoted
prices for similar instruments in active markets or quoted prices
for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not
active; and |
|
|
|
|
- |
Level
3, defined as unobservable inputs in which little or no market data
exists, therefore requiring an entity to develop its own
assumptions, such as valuations derived from valuation techniques
in which one or more significant inputs or significant value
drivers are unobservable. |
Stock-Based
Compensation
The
Company recognizes compensation costs under FASB ASC Topic 718,
Compensation – Stock Compensation and ASU 2018-07. Companies are
required to measure the compensation costs of share-based
compensation arrangements based on the grant-date fair value and
recognize the costs in the financial statements over the period
during which employees are required to provide services. Share
based compensation arrangements include stock options, restricted
share plans, performance-based awards, share appreciation rights
and employee share purchase plans. As such, compensation cost is
measured on the date of grant at their fair value. Such
compensation amounts, if any, are amortized over the respective
vesting periods of the option grant.
ITEM
7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET
RISK.
This
item is not applicable to the Company because the Company is a
smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
ITEM
8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA.
All
financial information required by this Item is included on the
pages immediately following the Index to Financial Statements
appearing on page F-1 and is hereby incorporated by
reference.
ITEM
9. Changes in and
Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial
Disclosure.
None
ITEM
9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.
Disclosure Controls and
Procedures
Based
on an evaluation as of the date of the end of the period covered by
this report, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Interim
Chief Financial Officer conducted an evaluation of the
effectiveness of the design and operation of the Company’s
disclosure controls and procedures, as required by Exchange Act
Rule 13a-15. Based on that evaluation, the Company’s Chief
Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer concluded
that, because of the disclosed material weaknesses in the Company’s
internal control over financial reporting, the Company’s disclosure
controls and procedures were ineffective as of the end of the
period covered by this report to ensure that information required
to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that the Company
files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed,
summarized and reported within the time periods specified by the
SEC’s rules and forms.
Disclosure
controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are
designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the
Company’s reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is
recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time
periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls
and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures
designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the
Company’s reports filed under the Exchange Act is accumulated and
communicated to management, including the Company’s Chief Executive
Officer and the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer, to allow
timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Management’s Annual Report
on Internal Control Over Financial
Reporting
Management
is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal
control over financial reporting as defined in Exchange Act Rule
13a-15(f). Management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness
of the internal control over financial reporting as of December 31,
2022, using the criteria established in Internal Control –
Integrated Framework (2013 framework) issued by the Committee
of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission
(“COSO”). Because of its inherent limitations, internal
control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect
misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness
to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become
inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of
compliance with the policies or procedures may
deteriorate.
A
material weakness is a control deficiency, or combination of
control deficiencies, that results in more than a remote likelihood
that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial
statements will not be prevented or detected. As a result of
management’s assessment, management has determined that there are
material weaknesses due to the lack of segregation of duties and,
due to the limited resources based on the size of the Company. Due
to the material weaknesses management concluded that as of December
31, 2022, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting
was ineffective. In order to address and resolve the weaknesses,
the Company will endeavor to locate and appoint additional
qualified personnel to the board of directors and pertinent officer
positions as the Company’s financial means allow. To date, the
Company’s limited financial resources have not allowed the Company
to hire the additional personnel necessary to address the material
weaknesses.
Management’s Annual Report
on Internal Control Over Financial
Reporting
This
annual report does not include an attestation report of the
Company’s registered public accounting firm regarding internal
control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not
subject to attestation by the Company’s registered public
accounting firm pursuant to temporary rules of the Securities and
Exchange Commission that permit the Company to provide only
management’s report in this annual report.
Changes in Internal
Control Over Financial Reporting
There
have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting that occurred during the Company’s last fiscal
quarter (the Company’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an
annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably
likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting.
The
term “internal control over financial reporting” is defined as a
process designed by, or under the supervision of, the registrant’s
principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons
performing similar functions, and effected by the registrant’s
board of directors, management and other personnel, to provide
reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial
reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external
purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles and includes those policies and procedures
that:
(a) |
Pertain
to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately
and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets
of the registrant; |
|
|
(b) |
Provide
reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to
permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and
expenditures of the registrant are being made only in accordance
with authorizations of management and directors of the registrant;
and |
|
|
(c) |
Provide
reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of
unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the registrant’s
assets that could have a material effect on the financial
statements. |
ITEM
9B. OTHER INFORMATION.
None.
PART III
ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE.
The
Company’s current directors and executive officers are as
follows:
NAME |
|
AGE |
|
POSITION |
Michael
K. Korenko |
|
76 |
|
President,
Chief Executive Officer, and Director |
Michael
Pollack |
|
56 |
|
Interim
Chief Financial Officer |
Carlton
M. Cadwell |
|
78 |
|
Chairman
of the Board and Secretary |
Term
of Office
All
the Company’s directors hold office until the next annual meeting
of the stockholders or until their successors is elected and
qualified. The Company’s executive officers are appointed by the
Company’s board of directors and hold office until their
resignation, removal, death or retirement.
Background
and Business Experience
The
business experience during the past five years of each of the
Company’s directors and executive officers is as
follows:
Dr. Michael K. Korenko, President and Chief Executive
Officer of the Company since December 2016, and a member of the
Board of Directors since August 2017, joined the Company as an
Advisor to the Board of the Company during 2009 and served as
member of the Board from May 2009 to March 2010. Dr. Korenko has
also served on the Hanford Advisory Board since 2009. Dr. Korenko
served as Business Development Manager for Curtiss-Wright from 2006
to 2009, as Chief Operating Officer for Curtiss-Wright from 2000 to
2005 and was Executive Vice President of Closure for Safe Sites of
Colorado at Rocky Flats from 1994 to 2000. Dr. Korenko served as
Vice President of Westinghouse from 1987 to 1994 and was
responsible for the 300 and 400 areas, including the Fast Flux
Testing Facility (“FFTF”) and all engineering, safety
analysis, and projects for the Hanford site.
Dr.
Korenko is the author of 28 patents and has received many awards,
including the National Energy Resources Organization Research and
Development Award, the U.S. Steelworkers Award for Excellence in
Promoting Safety, and the Westinghouse Total Quality Award for
Performance Manager of the Year. Dr. Korenko has a Doctor of
Science from MIT, was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford
University, and was selected as a White House Fellow for the
Department of Defense, reporting to Secretary Cap
Weinberger.
Dr.
Korenko brings to the Board over seven years’ experience working
with and advising various small businesses, including companies
involved in turnarounds. Dr. Korenko has also been involved as an
advisor to the Company since 2009 in the development of medical
isotopes.
Carlton M. Cadwell, Chairman of the Board and
Secretary since December 2016, joined the Company as a director in
2006. Dr. Cadwell brings over 30 years of experience in business
management, strategic planning, and implementation. He co-founded
Cadwell Laboratories, Inc. in 1979 and has served as its President
since its inception. Cadwell Laboratories, Inc. is a major
international provider of neurodiagnostic medical devices. After
receiving his bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon in
1966 and a doctoral degree from the University of Washington in
1970, he began his career serving in the United States Army as a
dentist for three years. From 1973 to 1980, Dr. Cadwell practiced
dentistry in private practice and since has started several
businesses.
Mr.
Cadwell brings to the Board over ten years of service on the Board
and over forty-five years of experience as a successful
entrepreneur, as well as medical expertise.
Michael Pollack CPA, the Interim Chief Financial Officer,
joined the Company as interim Chief Financial Officer in December
2018. Mr. Pollack has been a partner in a certified public
accounting firm for the past fifteen years and specializes in
accounting and auditing for small public companies. Mr. Pollack has
approximately 30 years of experience in public accounting and
consulting to over 100 publicly traded and 250 private companies.
Mr. Pollack has also held CFO and Controller positions in an array
of industries. Mr. Pollack graduated from the University of
Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Mr. Pollack is a
member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants,
as well as licensed to practice in New Jersey, and New
York.
Identification of
Significant Consultants
David J. Swanberg, M.S., P.E. Mr. Swanberg has over 30
years’ experience in radiochemical processing, medical isotope
production, nuclear waste management, materials science, regulatory
affairs, and project management. Mr. Swanberg has worked in diverse
organizations ranging from small start-up businesses to
corporations with multi-billion dollar annual revenues. From 2005
to 2008, he served as Executive Vice President of Operations and as
a member of the Board of Directors for IsoRay Medical Inc. from
2005 to 2008 managing day-to-day operations, R&D, and New
Product Development. Mr. Swanberg was a co-founder of IsoRay and
led the initial Cs-131 brachytherapy seed product development, FDA
510(k) submission/clearance, and NRC Sealed Source review and
registration. Mr. Swanberg led the radiation dosimetry evaluations
to meet American Association of Physicists in Medicine guidelines
and is a current member of the AAPM. Mr. Swanberg and participated
in several capital financing rounds totaling over $30.0 million.
Mr. Swanberg also served as Assistant General Manager of IsoRay LLC
from 2000 to 2003, and in additionally in key management roles as
IsoRay transitioned from IsoRay LLC to IsoRay Medical, Inc. Mr.
Swanberg holds a BA in Chemistry from Bethel University (MN) and an
MS in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University. Mr.
Swanberg has numerous technical publications and holds several
patents.
Medical
and Veterinarian Advisory Boards
Dr. Barry D. Pressman MD, FACR - Chairman Medical Advisory
Board. Dr. Pressman is Professor and Chairman of the S.
Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Centre and Department, and Chief of
the Section of Neuroradiology and Head and Neck Radiology at
Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center, located in Los Angeles, California.
Dr.
Pressman is a past President of The American College of Radiology,
the Western Neuroradiological Society, as well as past President of
the California Radiological Society. Currently he is a member of
the American Society of Neuroradiology and the American Society of
Pediatric Neuroradiology.
Dr.
Pressman earned his medical degree Cum Laude from Harvard Medical
School after graduating Summa Cum Laude from Dartmouth College.
After a surgical internship at Harvard’s Peter Bent Brigham
Hospital in Boston, he completed a diagnostic radiology residency
at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and a
Neuroradiology fellowship at George Washington University Hospital.
During this period, he wrote many original papers for Computer
Tomography (CT).
Dr. Albert S. DeNittis MD, MS, FCPP - Medical Advisory
Board. Dr. Albert S. DeNittis is currently is the Chief of
Radiation Oncology at Lankenau Medical Center and Clinical
Professor at Lankenau Institute for Medical Research in Wynnewood,
Pennsylvania and the Director of Radiation Oncology at Brodesseur
Cancer Center in New Jersey. He is also the Principal Investigator
and in charge of a grant awarded by the NIH for its National Cancer
Oncology Research Program (NCORP) at Main Line Health. Dr.
DeNittis’ practice experience includes image-guided radiosurgery,
stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), intensity modulated
radiation therapy (IMRT), image guided radiation therapy (IGRT),
high-dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy, cranial and extracranial
stereotactic radiosurgery, respiratory gating, and
Cyberknife.
Dr.
DeNittis has served on numerous regional, national and government
committees related to key issues in Dr. DeNittis earned a BA and a
MS at Rutgers University and a MD from the Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New
Jersey. He completed postdoctoral training internships and
residency at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. DeNittis is board certified
by the American Board of Radiology and Licensed in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
Dr. Alice Villalobos, DVM, FNAP - Chair of the Veterinary Medicine
Advisory Board. Dr. Alice Villalobos is a well-known
pioneer in the field of cancer care for companion animals and a
founding member of the Veterinary Cancer Society. A 1972 graduate
of UC Davis, she completed Dr. Gordon Theilen’s first mock
residency program in oncology and has served the profession by
consulting, writing and lecturing in the rapidly growing field of
veterinary oncology and end of life care.
Dr.
Alice Villalobos is President Emeritus of the Society for
Veterinary Medical Ethics, Past President of the American
Association of Human Animal Bond Veterinarians and Chair of the
Veterinary Academy for the National Academies of Practice. She
operated Coast Pet Clinic/Animal Cancer Center for 25 years, which
is now VCA Coast Animal Hospital. She is the author of numerous
articles, papers, and including her classic veterinarian textbook,
Canine and Feline Geriatric Oncology: Honoring the Human-Animal
Bond. She has lectured worldwide on oncology, quality of life, the
human-animal bond and end of life care and bioethics. She founded
Pawspice, an end of life care program that embraces kinder, gentler
palliative cancer medicine and integrative care for pets with
cancer and terminal illness (www.Pawspice.com). Dr. Alice is
Director of Animal Oncology Consultation Service in Woodland Hill,
California and Pawspice at VCA Coast Animal Hospital in Hermosa
Beach, California. Dr. Alice was elected 2016 Hermosa Beach Woman
of the Year.
Dr.
Villalobos’ role with the Company is to support the
commercialization of the Company’s yttrium-90 brachytherapy
products for use in companion animals.
Dr. Richard Weller, DVM, DACVIM (Internal Medicine; Oncology) DipMS
- Veterinary Medicine Advisory Board Member. Prior to his
retirement in 2014, Dr. Weller was a Senior Program Manager in the
Radiation Biology Group of the Biological Sciences Division at
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he was involved
in the development of RadioGel. A 1973 graduate of Washington State
University. Dr. Weller has extensive experience in designing and
executing clinical studies, treatment planning, mechanisms of
carcinogenesis, radiation biology, targeted delivery systems for
chemotherapeutic and radio-therapeutic agents, bio-markers of
disease, and comparative oncology; as well as over 30 years of
experience developing and using animal models, including the use of
spontaneous tumors in companion animals, for bio-medical
applications.
Dr.
Weller is board-certified by the American College of Veterinary
Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine (1980) and Oncology (1987),
Past Chairperson of the Organizing Committee for the Specialty of
Veterinary Medical Oncology, Past Chairperson of the Board of
Regents of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine,
Past President of the Board of Regents of the American College of
Veterinary Internal Medicine, Past President of the Specialty of
Oncology, and a Charter Member of the Veterinary Cancer Society
which he served as Treasurer for 16 years. He is an Honorary
Professor of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Dr. Weller has lectured and trained veterinarians worldwide and has
authored or co-authored over 250 articles, technical reports, book
chapters, and presentations in his fields of expertise.
Section 16(a) Beneficial
Ownership Reporting Compliance
Section
16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires the Company’s
executive officers, directors and persons who own more than 10% of
the Company’s common stock to file with the SEC initial reports of
beneficial ownership on Form 3, changes in beneficial ownership on
Form 4, and an annual statement of beneficial ownership on Form 5.
Such executive officers, directors and greater than 10%
stockholders are required by SEC rules to furnish the Company with
copies of all such forms that they have filed.
Based
solely on its review of such forms filed with the SEC and received
by the Company and representations from certain reporting persons,
the Company believes that all reports required to be filed by each
of each of its executive officers, directors and 10% stockholders
were filed during the year ended December 31, 2022 and that such
reports were timely.
Code of
Ethics
The
Company’s Board of Directors has not adopted a code of ethics that
applies to the principal executive officer, principal financial
officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons
performing similar functions, because of the Company’s limited
number of executive officers and employees that would be covered by
such a code and the Company’s limited financial resources. The
Company anticipates that it will adopt a code of ethics after it
increases the number of executive officers and employees and obtain
additional financial resources.
Audit Committee and Audit
Committee Financial Expert
As of
the date of this report, the Company has not established an audit
committee, and therefore, the Company’s full board of directors
performs the functions that customarily would be undertaken by an
audit committee. The Company’s board of directors during 2022 and
2021 was comprised of two directors, one of whom the Company had
determined satisfied the general independence standards of the
NASDAQ listing requirements.
The
Company’s Board of Directors has determined that none of its
current members qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert,”
as defined by the rules of the SEC. In the future, the Company
intends to establish board committees and to appoint such persons
to those committees as are necessary to meet the corporate
governance requirements imposed by a national securities exchange,
although it is not required to comply with such requirements until
the Company elects to seek listing on a national securities
exchange.
Board of Directors; Attendance at Meetings
The
Board held no meetings and acted by unanimous written consent two
times during the year ended December 31, 2022. In 2021, we
conducted no board of director meetings and acted by unanimous
written consent two times. We have no formal policy with respect to
the attendance of Board members at annual meetings of shareholders
but encourage all incumbent directors and director nominees to
attend each annual meeting of shareholders.
ITEM
11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.
Summary Compensation
Table
The
following table sets forth the compensation paid to the Company’s
Chief Executive Officer and those executive officers that earned in
excess of $100,000 during the year ended December 31, 2022
(collectively, the “Named Executive Officers”):
Name
and Principal Position (1) |
|
Year |
|
|
Salary
($) |
|
|
Bonus
($) |
|
|
Stock
Awards ($) |
|
|
Option
Awards
($)(2)
|
|
|
Total
($) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dr. Michael K.
Korenko |
|
|
2022 |
|
|
$ |
230,625 |
|
|
$ |
30,000 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
260,625 |
|
CEO, President and Director |
|
|
2021 |
|
|
$ |
225,000 |
|
|
$ |
30,000 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
255,000 |
|
|
(1) |
Michael
Pollack began serving as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial
Officer in December 2018 and was paid no compensation directly in
2021 or 2022. Accordingly, he has not been included in this
table. |
|
|
|
|
(2) |
The
amounts in this column represent the grant date fair value of stock
option awards, computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic
718. |
Narrative Disclosure to
Summary Compensation Table
Dr.
Michael K. Korenko. On October 24, 2018, Mr. Korenko entered
into an employment agreement with the Company (the “Old
Employment Agreement”), which was scheduled to terminate on
December 31, 2019. On June 4, 2019, Mr. Korenko and the Company
entered into a new employment agreement, effective June 11, 2019,
which shall terminate on December 31, 2020 and December 31 of
subsequent years (the “Termination Date”) if the agreement
is extended pursuant to its terms. Under the terms of his
employment agreement, the Company may terminate Dr. Korenko’s
employment either with or without cause prior to the Termination
Date, but in the event of a termination without cause, Dr. Korenko
shall be entitled to receive monthly payments of his base salary
for a period of six months thereafter, all of Dr. Korenko’s
outstanding options, if any, shall vest, and Dr. Korenko shall be
entitled to receive all past due compensation within three weeks of
the date of termination.
The
Company shall pay to Dr. Korenko an annual base compensation of
$180,000, which is payable in equal monthly intervals. Of the
$180,000 in annual base salary, $60,000 of annual pay shall be
deferred and accrued until the Company’s cash balance exceeds
$1,000,000, which occurred in December 2020. Dr. Korenko’s
employment agreement provides that he shall receive a stock option
grant issued under the Company’s 2015 Omnibus Securities and
Incentive Plan in an amount equal to 21 million options ten days
after the Company’s 1-for-8 reverse split, which was consummated in
late June 2019. The options shall have a seven-year term, shall be
exercisable at a price of $0.024 per share, and shall vest as
follows: 50% shall vest in equal amounts at the end of each quarter
for the two quarters after grant date, 25% shall vest upon the
Company filing for a patent, and the remaining 25% shall vest upon
the first commercial sale of IsoPet. In December 2020, Mr. Korenko
exercised 2,500,000 of these options for $60,000.
The
Company paid bonuses to certain employees based on their
performance, the Company’s need to retain such employees, and funds
available. All bonus payments were approved by the Company’s Board
of Directors.
On
June 4, 2019, the Company entered into an Executive Employment
Agreement (“Employment Agreement”) with Dr. Michael K. Korenko, the
Company’s Chief Executive Officer. The employment term under the
Employment Agreement commenced with an effective date of June 11,
2019 and expires on December 31, 2020, and December 31 of each
successive year if the Employment Agreement is extended, unless
terminated earlier as set forth in the Employment Agreement. The
Company on December 31, 2020 extended this agreement through
December 31, 2021 while renegotiating terms of a new Employment
Agreement. On May 3, 2021, the Company and the Chief Executive
Officer agreed the terms of a new Employment Agreement with an
effective date of January 1, 2021 that has a term of three years
and expires December 31, 2023.
Under
the terms of the Employment Agreement, the Company shall pay to Dr.
Korenko a base compensation of $225,000. In addition, there is a
discretionary bonus to be earned in the amount of $7,500 per
quarter upon the satisfaction of conditions to be determined by the
Board of Directors of the Company.
Outstanding Equity Awards
at Fiscal Year-End Table
The
following table sets forth all outstanding equity awards held by
the Company’s Named Executive Officers as of the end of last fiscal
year.
|
|
Option
Awards |
|
Name |
|
Number
of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options(#)
Exercisable |
|
|
Number
of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Unexercisable |
|
|
Option
Exercise
Price ($) |
|
|
Option
Exercise Date |
|
NONE |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Compensation of
Directors
During
the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company’s non-employee
directors were not paid any compensation.
The
following table sets forth, for each of the Company’s non-employee
directors who served during 2022, the aggregate number of stock
awards and the aggregate number of stock option awards that were
outstanding as of December 31, 2022:
|
|
Outstanding |
|
|
Outstanding |
|
|
|
Stock |
|
|
Stock |
|
Name |
|
Awards (#) |
|
|
Options (#) |
|
Carlton M. Cadwell |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
During
June 2016, the Company granted to Mr. Cadwell options to purchase
12,500 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $8.00 per
share, which options expired June 21, 2019. These options had a
grant date fair value of $34,771, which amounts were calculated in
accordance with ASC Topic 718.
Additionally,
the Company granted warrants to purchase 6,425,503 shares of
Company common stock to Carlton Cadwell in 2018 as a result of the
Path Forward Agreements and conversion of his advances to the
Company. These warrants expired in October 2020.
There
are no employment contracts or compensatory plans or arrangements
with respect to any director that would result in payments by the
Company to such person because of his or her resignation as a
director or any change in control of the Company.
Compensation Committee
Interlocks and Insider Participation
None
of our officers currently serves, or has served during the last
completed fiscal year, on the compensation committee or board of
directors of any other entity that has one or more officers serving
as a member of our board of directors.
ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND
MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.
Beneficial Ownership of
the Company’s Common Stock
The
following table sets forth, as of March 1, 2023, the number of
shares of common stock beneficially owned by the following persons:
(i) all persons the Company knows to be beneficial owners of at
least 5% of the Company’s common stock, (ii) the Company’s current
directors, (iii) the Company’s current executive officers, and (iv)
all current directors and executive officers as a group.
As of
March 1, 2023, there were 362,541,528 shares of common stock
outstanding and up to 64,762,379 shares issuable upon exercise of
common stock equivalents, assuming exercise and conversion occurred
as of that date, for a total of 427,303,907 shares.
Name
and Address of Beneficial Owner(1) |
|
Amount
and
Nature
of
Beneficial Ownership(2)
|
|
|
Percent of Class |
|
Cadwell Family
Irrevocable Trust |
|
|
26,912 |
|
|
|
* |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Carlton
M. Cadwell (3) |
|
|
15,406,979 |
|
|
|
3.61 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Michael
K. Korenko (4) |
|
|
24,885,090 |
|
|
|
5.83 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Michael Pollack |
|
|
16,000 |
|
|
|
* |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All Current
Directors and Executive Officers as a group (3 individuals) |
|
|
40,334,981 |
|
|
|
9.44 |
% |
*Less
than 1%
(1) |
The
address of each of the beneficial owners above is c/o Vivos Inc,
719 Jadwin Avenue, Richland, WA 99336, except that the address of
the Cadwell Family Irrevocable Trust (the “Cadwell Trust”)
is 909 North Kellogg Street, Kennewick, WA 99336. |
|
|
(2) |
In
determining beneficial ownership of the Company’s common stock as
of a given date, the number of shares shown includes shares of
common stock which may be acquired upon exercise of the common
stock equivalents within 60 days of that date. In determining the
percent of common stock owned by a person or entity on March 1,
2023, (a) the numerator is the number of shares of the class
beneficially owned by such person or entity, including shares which
may be acquired within 60 days on exercise of the common stock
equivalents, and (b) the denominator is the sum of (i) the total
shares of common stock outstanding on March 1, 2023, and (ii) the
total number of shares that the beneficial owner may acquire upon
conversion of the common stock equivalents. Subject to community
property laws where applicable, the Company believes that each
beneficial owner has sole power to vote and dispose of its shares,
except that under the terms of the Cadwell Trust, Dr. Cadwell does
not have or share voting or investment power over the shares
beneficially owned by the Cadwell Trust. |
|
|
(3) |
Includes
1,136,137 shares issuable upon conversion of Series A Preferred;
and 4,816,275 shares issuable upon conversion of Series C
Preferred, and 2,316,830 shares of common stock issued to AMIC
Gift, LLC, an LLC controlled by Carlton and his wife. |
|
|
(4) |
Includes
15,000,000 shares issuable for vested RSUs. |
Beneficial Ownership of
the Company’s Series A Convertible Preferred
Stock
As of
March 1, 2023, there were 2,071,007 shares of Series A Preferred
issued and outstanding, convertible into 2,588,758 shares of the
Company’s common stock.
The
following table sets forth, as of March 1, 2023, the number of
shares of Series A Preferred beneficially owned by the following
persons: (i) all persons the Company known to be beneficial owners
of at least 5% of the Company’s Series A Preferred, (ii) the
Company’s current directors, (iii) the Company’s current executive
officers, and (iv) all current directors and executive officers as
a group.
Name
and Address of Beneficial Owner (1) |
|
Amount
and
Nature
of
Beneficial
Ownership
(2)
|
|
|
Percent of Class |
|
Cadwell Family
Irrevocable Trust |
|
|
148,309 |
|
|
|
7.16 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Carlton M. Cadwell |
|
|
908,910 |
|
|
|
43.89 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Michael K. Korenko |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All
Current Directors and Executive Officers as a group (2
individuals)(3) |
|
|
1,057,219 |
|
|
|
51.05 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Major
Shareholder(s): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
L. Bruce Jolliff |
|
|
197,979 |
|
|
|
9.56 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stoel Rives |
|
|
133,333 |
|
|
|
6.44 |
% |
(1) |
The
address of each of the beneficial owners above is c/o Vivos Inc,
719 Jadwin Avenue, Richland, WA 99336, except that the address of
(i) the Cadwell Family Irrevocable Trust (the “Cadwell
Trust”) is 909 North Kellogg Street, Kennewick, WA 99336; (ii)
L. Bruce Jolliff is 206 N 41st St. Unit 1, Yakima, WA 98901; and
(iii) Stoel Rives is One Union Square, 600 University Street, Suite
3600, Seattle, WA 98101. |
|
|
(2) |
Subject
to community property laws where applicable, the Company believes
that each beneficial owner has sole power to vote and dispose of
its shares, except that Dr. Cadwell under the terms of the Cadwell
Trust does not have or share voting or investment power over the
Series A Convertible Preferred beneficially owned by the Cadwell
Trust. |
|
|
(3) |
Michael
Pollack, the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer, does not
hold any Company Series A Convertible Preferred, and has therefore
been omitted from this table. |
Beneficial Ownership of
the Company’s Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock
As of
March 1, 2023, there were 200,363 shares of Series B Preferred
issued and outstanding, convertible into 2,504.538 shares of the
Company’s common stock.
The
following table sets forth, as of March 1, 2023, the number of
shares of Series B Preferred beneficially owned by the following
persons: (i) all persons the Company known to be beneficial owners
of at least 5% of the Company’s Series B Preferred, (ii) the
Company’s current directors, (iii) the Company’s current executive
officers, and (iv) all current directors and executive officers as
a group.
Name
and Address of Beneficial Owner (1) |
|
Amount
and
Nature of Beneficial Ownership (2) |
|
|
Percent of Class |
|
All
Current Directors and Executive Officers as a group (3
individuals) |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
* |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Major
Shareholder(s): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jason
Adelman(3) |
|
|
200,000 |
|
|
|
99 |
% |
*Less
than 1%
(1) |
None
of the Company’s directors and executive officers hold any shares
of the Company’s Series B Convertible Preferred, and they have
therefore been omitted from this table. The address of the
beneficial owners is as follows: (i) Jason Adelman (JTA Resources
LLC. is 40 East 66th St., New York, NY 10065. |
|
|
(2) |
Subject
to community property laws where applicable, the Company believes
that each beneficial owner has sole power to vote and dispose of
its shares. |
|
|
(3) |
Represents
200,000 shares of Series B Preferred held by JTA Resources
LLC. |
Beneficial Ownership of the Company’s Series C Convertible
Preferred Stock
As of
March 1, 2023, there were 385,302 shares of Series C Preferred
issued and outstanding, convertible into 4,816,275 shares of the
Company’s common stock.
The
following table sets forth, as of March 1, 2023, the number of
shares of Series C Preferred beneficially owned by the following
persons: (i) all persons the Company known to be beneficial owners
of at least 5% of the Company’s Series C Preferred, (ii) the
Company’s current directors, (iii) the Company’s current executive
officers, and (iv) all current directors and executive officers as
a group.
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner (1) |
|
Amount
and
Nature
of
Beneficial
Ownership
(2)
|
|
|
Percent
of
Class
|
|
Carlton M. Cadwell |
|
|
385,302 |
|
|
|
100 |
% |
All
Current Directors and Executive Officers as a group (3 individuals)
(3) |
|
|
385,302 |
|
|
|
100 |
% |
(1) |
The
address of each of the beneficial owners above is c/o Vivos Inc,
719 Jadwin Avenue, Richland, WA 99336., |
|
|
(2) |
Subject
to community property laws where applicable, the Company believes
that each beneficial owner has sole power to vote and dispose of
its shares, except that Dr. Cadwell under the terms of the Cadwell
Trust does not have or share voting or investment power over the
Series C Preferred beneficially owned by the Cadwell
Trust. |
|
|
(3) |
Neither
Michael Korenko, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, nor Michael
Pollack, the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer, hold any
shares of the Company’s Series C Preferred, and they have therefore
been omitted from this table. |
Changes in
Control
The
Company does not know of any arrangements, including any pledges of
the Company’s securities that may result in a change in control of
the Company.
ITEM
13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR
INDEPENDENCE.
Indebtedness from Related
Parties
On
January 24, 2019, the Company entered into a note payable with a
trust related to Mr. Cadwell in the amount of $60,000. The note is
for a one-year period maturing January 24, 2020 and bears interest
at an annual rate of 8.0%. This note was converted into shares of
common stock in December 2021.
On
March 27, 2019 the Company entered into a note payable with a trust
related to Mr. Cadwell in the amount of $48,000. The note is for a
one-year period maturing March 27, 2020 and bears interest at an
annual rate of 8.0%. This note was repaid in December
2021.
On
April 29, 2019, the Company entered into a note payable with a
trust related to Mr. Cadwell in the amount of $29,000. The note is
for a one-year period maturing April 29, 2020 and bears interest at
an annual rate of 8.0%. This note was repaid in December
2021.
On
May 20, 2019 and May 23, 2019, Mr. Korenko advanced $20,000
collectively to the Company. Mr. Korenko is not charging interest
on these amounts advanced and they are short-term advances, due on
demand. Of this amount $5,000 was repaid and the balance of $15,000
was converted into a convertible note payable at an annual interest
rate of 8% due January 15, 2020. This note was converted in April
2020.
On
July 5, 2019, the Company entered into a note payable with a trust
related to Mr. Cadwell in the amount of $50,000. The note is for a
one-year period maturing July 5, 2020 and bears interest at an
annual rate of 8.0%. Of this amount, $23,000 was paid in December
2021, and the balance was converted into shares of common stock in
December 2021.
On
November 25, 2019, the Company entered into a note payable with a
trust related to Mr. Cadwell in the amount of $50,000. The note is
for a one-year period maturing November 25, 2020 and bears interest
at an annual rate of 8.0%. This note was converted into shares of
common stock in December 2021.
The
Company borrowed $107,000 in the year ended December 31, 2020 from
its CEO and repaid these amounts in full.
Independent
Directors
The
Company’s common stock is traded on the OTCQB Marketplace, which
does not impose any independence requirements on the Board of
Directors or the board committees of the companies whose stock is
traded on that market. The Company has decided to adopt the
independence standards of the Nasdaq listing rules in determining
whether the Company’s directors are independent. Generally, under
those rules a director does not qualify as an independent director
if the director or a member of the director’s immediate family has
had in the past three years certain relationships or affiliations
with the Company, the Company’s auditors, or other companies that
do business with the Company. The Company’s Board of Directors has
determined that Mr. Cadwell is qualified as an independent director
under those Nasdaq rules, and accordingly, would have been
qualified under those rules to serve on a compensation committee or
a nominating committee, if the Company had established such
committees of the Company’s Board of Directors. Dr. Korenko is not
an independent director due to his employment by the Company as an
executive officer.
ITEM
14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES.
Audit
Fees
The
aggregate fees incurred by the Company’s principal accountant for
the audit of the Company’s annual financial statements, review of
financial statements included in the quarterly reports and other
fees that are normally provided by the accountant in connection
with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements for the years
ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 were $42,250 and $36,000,
respectively, all of which was paid to Fruci & Associates II,
PLLC.
Audit Related
Fees
The
aggregate fees billed for professional services that are reasonably
related to the performance of the audit or review of the Company’s
financial statements but are not reported “Audit Fees” for the
years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 in the amounts of $0 and
$2,250, respectively. All services performed by the Company’s
Registered Public Accounting Firm, Fruci & Associates II, PLLC
have been pre-approved by the Company’s Board of
Directors.
Tax
Fees
The
aggregate fees billed for professional services rendered by
principal accountant for tax compliance, tax advice and tax
planning during the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 were
$3,250 and $3,250, respectively, all of which was paid to Fruci
& Associates II, PLLC.
All Other
Fees
Other
fees billed for products or services provided by the Company’s
principal accountant during the years ended December 31, 2022 and
2021 There were no fees incurred to Fruci & Associates II, PLLC
related to all other fees.
PART IV
ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT
SCHEDULES.
(a)
Documents filed as part of this Report.
1. |
Financial
Statements. The Vivos Inc. Balance Sheets as of
December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Statements of Operations for the
years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Statements of Changes
in Stockholders’ Deficit for the years ended December 31, 2022 and
2021, and the Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December
31, 2022 and 2021, together with the notes thereto and the reports
of Fruci & Associates II, PLLC as required by Item 8 are
included in this 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K as set forth in
Item 8 above. |
|
|
2. |
Financial Statement
Schedules. All financial statement schedules have
been omitted since they are either not required or not applicable,
or because the information required is included in the financial
statements or the notes thereto. |
|
|
3. |
Exhibits.
The following exhibits are either filed as a part hereof or are
incorporated by reference. Exhibit numbers correspond to the
numbering system in Item 601 of Regulation S-K. |
Exhibit
Number
|
|
Description |
3.1 |
|
Certificate of Incorporation of
Savage Mountain Sports Corporation, dated January 11, 2000
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s
Registration Statement on Form 10-12G (File No. 000-53497) filed on
November 12, 2008). |
3.2 |
|
By-Laws (incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 10-12G
(File No. 000-53497) filed on November 12, 2008). |
3.3 |
|
Certificate of Amendment of
Certificate of Incorporation changing the name of the Company to
Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation, dated May 23, 2006
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.5 to the Company’s
Registration Statement on Form 10-12G (File No. 000-53497) filed on
November 12, 2008). |
3.4 |
|
Certificate of Amendment of
Certificate of Incorporation increasing authorized capital dated
September 26, 2006 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.6 to the
Company’s Registration Statement on Form 10-12G (File No.
000-53497) filed on November 12, 2008). |
3.5 |
|
Certificate of Amendment to the
Certificate of Incorporation increasing authorized common stock and
authorizing preferred stock, dated May 18, 2011 (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form
8-K filed on May 18, 2011). |
3.6 |
|
Certificate of Amendment to the
Certificate of Incorporation authorizing a series of Preferred
Stock to be named “Series A Convertible Preferred Stock”,
consisting of 2,500,000 shares, which series shall have specific
designations, powers, preferences and relative and other special
rights, qualifications, limitations and restrictions as outlined in
the Certificate of Designations, filed June 30, 2015 (incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form
8-K filed on July 7, 2015). |
3.7 |
|
Certificate of Amendment to the
Certificate of Incorporation increasing the authorized series of
“Series A Convertible Preferred Stock” to 5,000,000 shares, filed
March 31, 2016 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 7,
2016). |
3.8 |
|
Certificate of Amendment to the
Certificate of Incorporation authorizing a series of Preferred
Stock to be named “Series B Convertible Preferred Stock”,
consisting of 5,000,000 shares, which series shall have specific
designations, powers, preferences and relative and other special
rights, qualifications, limitations and restrictions as outlined in
the Certificate of Designations, filed October 10, 2018
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current
Report on Form 8-K filed on October 17, 2018). |
4.1 |
|
Form of Warrant (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form
8-K filed on October 17, 2018). |
10.1 |
|
Agreement and Plan of Reorganization,
dated as of December 15, 1998, by and among HHH Entertainment, Inc.
and Earth Sports Products, Inc. (incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 10-12G
(File No. 000-53497) filed on November 12, 2008). |
10.2 |
|
Agreement and Plan of Merger of HHH
Entertainment, Inc. and Savage Mountain Sports Corporation, dated
as of January 6, 2000 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to
the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 10-12G (File No.
000-53497), filed on November 12, 2008). |
10.3 |
|
Agreement and Plan of Acquisition by
and between Neu-Hope Technologies, Inc., UTEK Corporation and
Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation, dated September 22, 2006
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s
Registration Statement on Form 10-12G (File No. 000-53497), filed
on November 12, 2008). |
10.4 |
|
Agreement and Plan of Acquisition by
and between Isonics Corporation and Advanced Medical Isotope
Corporation dated June 13, 2007 (incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 10-12G
(File No. 000-53497), filed on November 12, 2008). |
10.5 |
|
Form of Non-Statutory Stock Option
Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 15,
2012). |
10.6 |
|
Promissory Note dated December 16,
2008 between Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation and Carlton M.
Cadwell (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to the
Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 3,
2012). |
10.7 |
|
2015 Omnibus Securities and Incentive
Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to the Company’s
Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed May 25, 2016). |
10.8 |
|
Washington State University Sub-Award
Agreement for the period December 15, 2017 through January 31,
2018.(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the Company’s
Annual report on Form 10-K, filed April 2, 2018). |
10.9 |
|
The Curators of the University of
Missouri Sponsored Research Contract for the period November 1,
2017 through October 31, 2018. (incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 10.14 to the Company’s Annual report on Form 10-K, filed
April 2, 2018). |
10.10 |
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Form of Securities Purchase Agreement
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current
Report on Form 8-K filed on October 17, 2018). |
10.11 |
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Employment Agreement by and between
Vivos Inc. and Michael Korenko, dated June 4, 2019 (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 6.18 to the Company’s Offering Statement on
Form 1-A filed on July 29, 2019). |
23 |
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Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting
Firm |
31.1* |
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Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Sec. 302 of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (4) |
31.2* |
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Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Sec. 302 of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (4) |
32.1* |
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Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial
Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 (4) |
101.INS* |
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Inline
XBRL Instance Document |
101.SCH* |
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Inline
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema |
101.CAL* |
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Inline
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase |
101.DEF* |
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Inline
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase |
101.LAB* |
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Inline
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase |
101.PRE* |
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Inline
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase |
104 |
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Cover
Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained
in Exhibit 101) |
*
Filed herewith.
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.
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VIVOS
INC. |
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Date:
March 1, 2023 |
By: |
/s/
Michael K. Korenko |
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Name: |
Michael
K. Korenko |
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Title: |
Chief
Executive Officer |
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this
report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of
the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
Date:
March 1, 2023 |
By: |
/s/
Michael K. Korenko |
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Name: |
Michael
K. Korenko |
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Title: |
Chief
Executive Officer
(Principal
Executive Officer)
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Date:
March 1, 2023 |
By: |
/s/
Michael Pollack |
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Name: |
Michael
Pollack |
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Title: |
Interim
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal
Financial and Accounting Officer)
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Date:
March 1, 2023 |
By: |
/s/
Carlton M. Cadwell |
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Name: |
Carlton
M. Cadwell |
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Title: |
Secretary
and Chairman of the Board |
Vivos Inc.
Index
to Financial Statements

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING
FIRM
To
the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Vivos, Inc.
Opinion
on the Financial Statements
We
have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Vivos, Inc. (“the
Company”) as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, and the related
statements of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash
flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December
31, 2022, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the
financial statements). In our opinion, the financial statements
present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of
the Company as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 and the results of its
operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the two-year
period ended December 31, 2022, in conformity with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of
America.
Going
Concern
The
accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that
the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note
1 to the financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring
losses, has utilized significant cash in operations, and its cash
position is not sufficient to support operations. These factors,
among others, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability
to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in regard to
these matters are also described in Note 1. The financial
statements do not include any adjustments that might result from
the outcome of this uncertainty.
Basis
for Opinion
These
financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the
Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public
accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be
independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of
the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We
conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to
obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements
are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to
perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding
of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the
purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly,
we express no such opinion.
Our
audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of
material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to
error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those
risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis,
evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial
statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting
principles used and significant estimates made by management, as
well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial
statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis
for our opinion.
Critical
Audit Matters
The
critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from
the current period audit of the financial statements that were
communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee
and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material
to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially
challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of
critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the
financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by
communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate
opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or
disclosures to which they relate.
Equity Transactions (Notes 4 and 5 to the financial
statements)
Description
of the Critical Audit Matter
The
Company’s evaluation of common shares issuances, including in
exchange for stock warrants involved complexity and judgement in
applying the relevant accounting standards when auditing
management’s conclusions on the classification and recognition of
warrants on issuance and on exercise and equity transactions upon
issuance.
How
the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit
Our
principal audit procedures to evaluate management’s calculation and
recording of common share issuances included the
following:
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We
evaluated the appropriateness and consistency of management’s
methods and assumptions used in the identification, recognition,
measurement, and disclosure of considerations of the underlying
warrants and share issuances during the year, including the
classification with respect to the terms and in considering
applicable generally accepted accounting standards. |
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We
read the applicable agreements and compared the key terms to
management’s analysis of the transaction. |
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We
read, evaluated, and tested the reasonableness of management’s
calculation utilized in the determination of common shares issued,
including exchange for stock warrants. |
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We
evaluated whether management had appropriately considered new
information that could significantly change the measurement or
disclosure of common shares issued including exchange for stock
warrants, and evaluated the disclosures related to the financial
statement impacts of the transactions. |
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We
reviewed current and subsequent period accounting records and
third-party documentation to identify unrecorded equity
transactions. |

Fruci & Associates II,
PLLC
We
have served as the Company’s auditor since 2016.
Spokane, Washington
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March
1, 2023 |
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VIVOS INC
CONDENSED
BALANCE SHEETS
DECEMBER
31, 2022 AND 2021
VIVOS INC
STATEMENTS
OF OPERATIONS
FOR
THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2022 AND 2021
VIVOS INC
STATEMENT
OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
FOR
THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2022 AND 2021