Company: RNAC
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001453687-25-000099
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Company: Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 82
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 marketing approval;

•the revenue, if any, from commercial sales of our product candidates for which we receive marketing approval;

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•the costs and timing of preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications, maintaining and enforcing our intellectual property rights and defending any intellectual property-related claims;

•the effect of competing technological and market developments; and

•the extent to which we acquire or invest in businesses, products and technologies, including entering into licensing or collaboration arrangements for product candidates.

Cash Requirements due to Contractual Obligations and Other Commitments

We are under agreement to lease approximately 32,294 square feet of laboratory and office space in Watertown, Massachusetts through May 2028. Remaining lease payments from June 30, 2025 through the end of the lease term total approximately $8.3 million. Payments made and remaining obligations on this lease liability were subject to potential reimbursement through deductions to CVR distributions as described in Note 7 to our unaudited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and were reimbursed in the March 2025 CVR distribution. 

In November 2023, in connection with the Merger, we acquired two leases for office and laboratory space in Gaithersburg, Maryland, which expire in January 2027. Annualized rent is approximately $0.3 million and remaining lease payments from June 30, 2025 through the end of the lease term total approximately $0.5 million.

In February 2024, we entered into an agreement to lease approximately 19,199 square feet of integrated manufacturing and office space in Frederick, Maryland. In May 2024, we entered into an amendment to lease an additional approximately 7,842 square feet at the same site. In August 2024, we entered into a second amendment to lease an additional approximately 2,009 square feet at the same site. In March 2025, we entered into a third amendment to lease an additional approximately 6,439 square feet at the same site. The leases expire coterminously in June 2031. Annualized base rent under the leases is approximately $1.2 million and is subject to annual increases in accordance with the terms of the lease agreement. The leases provide for a tenant improvement allowance of $0.8 million. Remaining lease payments total $9.4 million through the end of the lease term.

We are also party to certain license and collaboration agreements with Biogen, NCI, and Shenyang Sunshine Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., or