Company: EDSA
Filing Date: 2025-12-12
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001171843-25-007914
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Company: Edesa Biotech, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-12
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 eligible for reimbursement from the Government of Canada under a 2023 grant and funding award. We are also pursuing additional uses for paridiprubart in chronic diseases.

Competitive Strengths

We believe that we possess a number of competitive strengths that position us to become a leading biopharmaceutical company focused on immuno-inflammatory diseases, including:

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			Validated technology and drug development capabilities. We believe that the strength of our technologies and our drug development capabilities have been validated by our favorable clinical data, our multiple arrangements with third parties to develop and commercialize their clinical-stage drug candidates, more than C$37 million in competitive government grant and funding awards, and selection for a U.S. government-funded clinical study by experts from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (“BARDA”), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Defense, FDA and National Institutes of Health.

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			Innovative pipeline addressing large underserved markets. Our product candidates include novel clinical-stage compounds and antibodies that have significant scientific rationale for effectiveness. By initially targeting large markets that have significant unmet medical needs, we believe that we can drive adoption of new products and improve our competitive position. For example, vitiligo affects up to 2% of the world’s population and ARDS is associated with approximately 10% of ICU admissions globally, yet both diseases have limited treatment options.

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			Intellectual property protection and market exclusivity. We have opportunities to develop our competitive position through patents, trade secrets, technical know-how and continuing technological innovation. We have exclusive license rights in our target indications to multiple patents and pending patent applications in the U.S. and in various foreign jurisdictions. In addition to patent protection, we intend to utilize trade secrets and market exclusivity afforded to new chemical entities and biologics, where applicable, to enhance or maintain our competitive position.

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			Experienced leadership. Our leadership team possesses core capabilities in dermatology, infectious diseases, gastrointestinal medicine, drug development and commercialization, chemistry, manufacturing and controls, and finance. Our founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pardeep Nijhawan, MD, FRCPC, AGAF, is a board-certified gastroenterologist and hepatologist with a successful track record of building life science businesses, including Exzell Pharma Inc., which was sold to BioLab Pharma in 2022, and Medical Futures, Inc., which was sold to Tribute Pharmaceuticals in 2015. In addition