Company: LENZ
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001815776-25-000071
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Company: LENZ Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
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ffecting Comparability Between Periods

•License revenue increased during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 relative to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 as a result of upfront payments received under the Lotus and Théa Licenses, as well as the achievement of two regulatory milestones under the CORXEL License. We may generate future revenue from additional license and collaboration agreements to commercialize VIZZ outside the U.S. We have not recorded any product sales revenue for the periods presented.

•We expect that selling, general and administrative expenses will continue to increase in 2025, relative to 2024, as we have built a cross-functional commercial team consisting of marketing, commercial operations and an 88-territory sales force, and will continue to strategically support our sales and commercial infrastructure with capabilities designed to scale when necessary to support the commercial launch of VIZZ. These expenses increased during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, and we expect such expenses to continue to increase for the foreseeable future.

•Our research and development costs decreased during the three months ended September 30, 2025, relative to the comparative period in 2024 primarily due to FDA approval of VIZZ during the three months ended September 30, 2025. On a prospective basis subsequent to FDA approval on July 31, 2025, certain expenses that were historically classified as research and development expenses were and will be prospectively classified into sales, general and administrative expenses, including certain medical affairs and chemistry, manufacturing and controls expenses that indirectly support VIZZ. In addition, our research and development costs decreased during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, relative to the nine months ended September 30, 2024, primarily as a result of reduced clinical research expenses related to the substantial completion of our Phase 3 CLARITY trials in March 2024 and the prospective classifications noted above. We expect our research and development costs will continue to decrease over the remainder of 2025, relative to 2024, given the completion of the CLARITY trials, the subsequent reduction of clinical activities over 2024 and the FDA approval of VIZZ.

Recent Developments

FDA Approval and Commercial Launch of VIZZ

On July 31, 2025, the FDA approved VIZZ, the first and only aceclidine-based product