Company: PCRX
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001396814-25-000061
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Company: Pacira BioSciences, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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, the Company agreed with the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, on a Pediatric Investigation Plan as a prerequisite for submitting a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) in the E.U. Despite the U.K.’s withdrawal from the E.U., the agreed pediatric plan is applicable in the U.K.The Company has received notification from both the FDA and EMA that its pediatric studies requirement had been waived for the indications of brachial plexus interscalene nerve block, lower extremity nerve block, sciatic nerve block in the popliteal fossa and adductor canal block indications to produce postsurgical regional analgesia in pediatric patients. The Company is still working with the FDA, EMA and Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to finalize the regulatory pathways for its remaining pediatric commitments.Contingent Milestone PaymentsRefer to Note 10, Financial Instruments, for information on potential contingent milestone payments related to the Flexion Acquisition.PCRX-201PCRX-201 (enekinragene inzadenovec) is a novel, locally administered gene therapy vector platform product candidate that boosts cellular production of the anti-inflammatory protein interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) for treating OA pain in the knee and was added to the Company’s portfolio as part of the Flexion Acquisition in November 2021. In 2017, in an agreement between The Baylor College of Medicine, or BCM, and GQ Bio, the Company (through the Flexion Acquisition) became the direct licensee of certain underlying BCM patents and other proprietary rights related to PCRX-201. The license agreement grants the Company an exclusive, royalty-bearing, world-wide right and license under its patent and other proprietary rights directly related to PCRX-201. The license agreement with BCM includes a low single-digit royalty on net product sales of PCRX-201. Milestone payments range from $0.1 million up to $0.6 million based on the completion of a Phase 1 FDA trial up to a Phase 3 clinical trial. In February 2024, the FDA granted a Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to PCRX-201 for the treatment of OA pain of the knee.

NOTE 17—SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company is managed and operated as a single business focused on the development, manufacture, marketing, distribution and sale of non-opioid pain management and regenerative health solutions. The Company is managed by a single management team, and consistent with its organizational structure