Company: ARTL
Filing Date: 2025-08-13
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001640334-25-001429
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Company: ARTELO BIOSCIENCES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-08-13
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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xia. ART27.13 is a peripherally-selective high-potency dual CB1 and CB2 full-receptor agonist, which was originally invented at AstraZeneca plc (“AstraZeneca”). We exercised our option to exclusively license this product candidate through the NEOMED Institute (“NEOMED”), a Canadian not-for-profit corporation, renamed adMare Bioinnovations (“adMare”) in June 2019, which had obtained rights to ART27.13 from AstraZeneca.

We commenced enrollment and dosed the first patient in CAReS, our Phase 1b/2a clinical study of cancer-related anorexia with ART27.13, in April 2021 and completed enrolling patients in the Phase 1b during the first quarter of 2023. We initiated the Phase 2a portion of CAReS during April 2023. As of June 20, 2025, 15 clinical sites across five countries were open to enrollment. We are on track to report initial data from the Phase 2 CAReS study of ART27.13, its peripherally acting cannabinoid receptor agonist, in Q3 2025. 

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Our second in-licensed patented program is being advanced from our platform of small-molecule inhibitors of fatty acid binding proteins, notably FABP5. FABP5 is believed to specifically target and regulate one of the body’s endogenous cannabinoids, anandamide (“AEA”). We licensed the rights to world-wide intellectual property in all fields and certain know-how to these inhibitors from Stony Brook University (“SBU”). 

We are developing our product candidates in accordance with traditional regulated drug development standards and expect to make them available to patients via prescription or physician orders only after obtaining marketing authorization from a country’s regulatory authority, such as the FDA. Our management team has experience developing, commercializing, and partnering ethical pharmaceutical products, including several first-in-class therapeutics. Based upon our current management’s capabilities and the future talent we may attract, we plan to retain rights to internally develop and commercialize products; however, we may seek collaborations with partners in the biopharmaceutical industry when a partnering strategy serves to maximize value for our stockholders. 

Since our inception, we have not generated any revenue from product sales and have incurred significant operating losses and negative cash flows from our operations. Our net loss was $5.6 million for the six months