Company: VRCA
Filing Date: 2025-11-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001660334-25-000006
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Company: Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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&D Funding Liability is with a collaborator and the interest rate is below market, the Company is imputing interest expense using a 12% market rate of interest, and the difference between the market rate of interest and the rate being charged by Torii will reduce research and development expense. Interest expense of $74,000 was recognized during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.  As part of the Program, the Company will also directly contract with third parties for certain clinical supply and distribution services that will be reimbursed by Torii and those reimbursements will be recognized as contra-research and development expense once incurred. As of September 30, 2025, the Company has recorded $0.5 million as contra-research and development expense.  Lytix AgreementIn August 2020, the Company entered into an exclusive license agreement with Lytix Biopharma AS ("Lytix") for the use of licensed technology, referred to as VP-315, to research, develop, manufacture, have manufactured, use, sell, have sold, offer for sale, import, and otherwise commercialize products for use in all malignant and pre-malignant dermatological indications, other than metastatic melanoma and metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (the "Lytix Agreement"). As part of the Lytix Agreement, the Company has paid Lytix milestone fees of $3.6 million in previous periods. The Company is also obligated to pay up to $111.0 million contingent on achievement of specified development, regulatory, and sales milestones, as well as tiered royalties based on worldwide annual net sales ranging in the low double digits to the mid-teens, subject to certain customary reductions. The Company’s obligation to pay royalties expires on a country-by-country and product-by-product basis on the later of the expiration or abandonment of the last to expire licensed patent covering VP-315 anywhere in the world and expiration of regulatory exclusivity for VP-315 in such country. Additionally, all upfront fees and milestone-based payments received by the Company from a sublicensee will be treated as net sales and will be subject to the royalty payment obligations under the Lytix Agreement, and all royalties received by the Company from a sublicensee shall be shared with Lytix at a rate that is initially 50% but decreases based on the stage of development of VP-315 at the time such sublicense is granted.

Note 12 – Related Parties

Our Chief Executive Officer, Jayson Rieger, and our Chief Operating Officer