Company: INTS
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001567264-25-000103
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Company: INTENSITY THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements should be read together with the “Risk Factors” sections of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and the 2024 Annual Report, which discuss important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis. See “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements”. 

Overview

We are a late-stage clinical biotechnology company passionately committed to applying scientific leadership in the field of localized cancer reduction leading to anti-cancer immune activation. Our new approach involves the direct injection into tumors of a unique product created from our DfuseRxSM discovery platform.

Intratumoral (“IT”) treatment, or treatment designed to contain a drug inside a tumor without spreading to the rest of the body, has been an objective of clinicians since discovery of chemotherapeutic agents. The challenge with IT treatment approaches is that a tumor’s lipophilic, high fat, dense and pressurized microenvironment is incompatible with and does not absorb water-based products. We believe that this drug delivery challenge limits the effectiveness of prior and current IT treatments, which involve injecting aqueous drugs into a tumor without sufficient consideration of the tumor environment (regardless of the drug’s mechanism or approach, i.e. the stimulation of an inflammatory response or efforts to attract immune cells into a hostile live tumor). Accordingly, there remains a continued unmet need for the development of direct IT therapies for solid tumors that provide high local killing efficacy coupled with nontoxic systemic anti-cancer effects. We believe we have created a product candidate, using our non-covalent conjugation chemistry, with the necessary physical properties to overcome this local delivery challenge. Evidence shows the mechanism of tumor killing achieved by our drug candidate also leads to systemic immune activation and T-cell repertoire expansion in certain cancers.

Our platform creates patented anti-cancer product candidates comprising active anti-cancer agents and amphiphilic molecules. Amphiphilic molecules have two distinct components: one part is soluble in water and the other is soluble in fat or oils. When an amphiphilic compound is mixed with therapeutic agents, such as chemotherapies, the agents also become soluble in both fat and water. Our product candidates include novel formulations consisting of potent anti-cancer drugs mixed together with these amphiphilic agents.

Our lead product candidate, INT230-6, is primarily comprised of three components: (i) cisplatin, a proven anti-cancer cytotoxic agent, (