Company: PGEN
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001356090-25-000007
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Company: PRECIGEN, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 12
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ar ("Exemplar").Precigen's other historical operating subsidiary, Precigen ActoBio, Inc. ("ActoBio") ceased operations during 2024. Actobio utilized a proprietary class of microbe-based biopharmaceuticals that enable expression and local delivery of disease-modifying therapeutics, with its primary operations were located in Ghent, Belgium. As part of a continuing effort to strategically prioritize the application of resources to particular development efforts, in 2024, the Company initiated a shutdown of ActoBio's operations.  This included terminating leases and employees, and the disposition of certain of its assets and obligations with a focus on the preservation of ActoBio's intellectual property. See Notes 8 and 9 for further discussion related to non-cash impairment charges recorded during 2024, and Note 12 for discussion of cumulative translation losses reclassified into operations in the year ended 2024 in relation to these activities. During the year ended 2024, the Company also recorded a charge related to employee severance and termination benefits related to ActoBio employees of $2,100, fully paid during 2024, of which $1,700 is included in research and development expenses and $400 is included in selling, general and administrative expenses included in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2024.In addition to the actions taken at ActoBio noted above, in August 2024 the Company also began undertaking a strategic prioritization of its clinical portfolio and streamlining of its resources, including a reduction of over 20% of its workforce, to focus on the potential commercialization of the PRGN-2012. These strategic changes are designed to reduce required resources for non-priority programs and enable the Company to focus on pre-commercialization efforts regarding PRGN-2012, including supporting the submission of a rolling biologics license application ("BLA") under an accelerated approval pathway which was filed in the fourth quarter of 2024, conducting a confirmatory clinical trial, and manufacturing commercial product.  Additionally, the Company continues the acceleration of commercial readiness efforts for a potential launch in 2025. As a result of the actions taken related to this reduction in its workforce, the Company recorded a charge related to employee severance and termination benefits of $1,639, of which $594 is included in research and development expenses and $1,045 is included in selling, general and administrative expenses included in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December