Company: IMCR
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001671927-25-000009
Chunk: 74

Company: Immunocore Holdings plc
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 74
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 Expenses

Cost of revenue from sale of therapies

Cost of revenue from sale of therapies represents production costs including raw materials, external manufacturing costs, and other costs incurred in bringing inventories to their location and condition prior to sale. Cost of revenue from sale of therapies may also include costs related to manufacturing losses and excess or obsolete inventory costs. Overheads and internal costs of revenue from sale of therapies are minimal under our manufacturing arrangements. Due to the low costs involved in manufacturing KIMMTRAK, cost of revenue from sale of therapies is currently not material, and while these costs are expected to increase in future periods as inflationary pressures increase, we do not expect such costs to be material for the foreseeable future. 

Research and development expenses

Research and development ("R&D") expenses consist primarily of costs incurred for current or planned investigations undertaken with the prospect of gaining new scientific or technical knowledge and understanding and consist primarily of personnel-related costs, including salaries and share-based compensation expense, costs associated with clinical trial activities undertaken by contract research organizations, and external manufacturing costs associated with R&D undertaken by contract manufacturing organizations ("CMOs"), laboratory consumables, internal clinical trial expenses, payments for purchased rights and milestones in connection with third-party in-process R&D agreements, costs associated with maintaining laboratory equipment, costs associated with our R&D facilities, including a reasonable allocation of overhead costs, and reductions from expenses for R&D tax credits. R&D expenses are expensed as incurred, although the timing of expense recognition can vary with contractual and payment terms in order to determine when services are received.

R&D expenses incurred with external organizations to undertake R&D activities on our behalf typically relate to clinical programs and are assigned to the individual programs in tables further below. However, for certain preclinical programs and other research spend incurred externally, such spend is not assigned to individual programs. Internal R&D expenses primarily relate to personnel-related costs, facilities, information technology used in R&D activities and laboratory consumables. Due to the cross functional expertise of our people, it is not possible to provide a breakdown of internal costs by program.

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We expect our R&D expenses to increase in the future as we advance existing and future product candidates into and through clinical studies and pursue further regulatory approval. The process of conducting the necessary clinical studies to obtain regulatory approval is costly and time-consuming. We maintain our headcount at a level required to support our continued research activities and development of our product candidates. Clinical trials generally become larger and more costly to conduct as they advance into later stages. We cannot determine with certainty