Company: LENZ
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001815776-25-000071
Chunk: 494

Company: LENZ Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
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 our common stockholders. In addition, any debt financing may subject us to fixed payment obligations and covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures or declaring dividends. If we raise additional capital through marketing and distribution arrangements or other collaborations, strategic alliances or licensing arrangements with third parties, we may have to relinquish certain valuable intellectual property or other rights to our product candidates, technologies, future revenue streams or research programs, or grant licenses on terms that may not be favorable to us. Even 

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if we were to obtain funding, there can be no assurance that it will be available on terms acceptable to us or our stockholders.

VIZZ is based on an active pharmaceutical ingredient (“API”), aceclidine, that has been previously approved and marketed outside of the United States, which exposes us to additional risks.

While VIZZ is the first and only FDA-approved aceclidine-based eye drop for the treatment of presbyopia in adults and, as such, obtained five years of new chemical entity (“NCE”) exclusivity in the United States, expiring in July 2030, aceclidine, the API in VIZZ, has been marketed in more than 12 countries throughout Europe for the treatment of glaucoma by decreasing intraocular pressure.

We anticipate that manufacturers in Europe could make and sell aceclidine in generic form in the future, which could compete with our ability to commercialize in Europe. Previously, aceclidine was used as a treatment for glaucoma at concentrations higher than the concentrations used in VIZZ. It is possible that if aceclidine is used again in Europe, it could be used at the wrong dosage and increase the possibility that patients experience adverse side effects related to aceclidine. Any adverse side effects that arise from the use of any form of aceclidine could prevent or inhibit the commercialization of VIZZ and seriously harm our business. Furthermore, if manufacturer demand for aceclidine increases in the future, particularly as a result of generic forms of aceclidine becoming available, we may not be able to continue to obtain aceclidine on commercially reasonable terms, which would seriously harm our business.

In addition, any approved or commercial drug product having the same API, including off-label use of such approved drug products, such as Glaucostat and other generic forms of the API, could reduce the profitability of VIZZ in the United States and even if we obtain marketing approval from regulatory authorities outside