Company: RCUS
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001724521-25-000101
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Company: Arcus Biosciences, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 203
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 option to license each program at two separate, prespecified time points. For the first two research programs, Gilead has the right, on a program-by-program basis, either (i) to exercise its option upon our completion of certain IND-enabling activities for an option payment of $45 million or (ii) to extend its option and exercise it following the achievement of a clinical development milestone for an option payment of $150 million. If Gilead exercises its option at the earlier time point for the first two programs, we would be eligible to receive up to $375 million in regulatory and commercial milestone payments as well as tiered royalties for each optioned program. For any other program option exercise by Gilead, the parties would have rights to co-develop and share global development costs and to co-commercialize and share profits in the U.S. for that program. We received a total upfront payment of $35 million for an initial two research programs in 2023. Gilead’s options to the other two research programs, as amended under the Fourth Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment expired in May 2025.In the first quarter 2024, we entered into the Third Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment. The Third Gilead Collaboration Agreement Amendment, among other things, (i) requires Gilead to pay the $100 million option continuation payment due on the fourth anniversary of the Gilead Collaboration Agreement, which was received in the third quarter 2024 (ii) provides that we will operationalize and fund the Phase 3 PRISM-1 study evaluating quemliclustat in pancreatic cancer subject to Gilead's right to reinstate the study as part of the parties' joint development activities upon regulatory approval, (iii) provides that we will solely fund our share of PACIFIC-8, subject to Gilead’s right to reinstate PACIFIC-8 as part of the parties’ joint development activities for the TIGIT Program in the first quarter 2026, and (iv) provides that we will fund certain other activities. All other terms of the existing collaboration agreements, remain unchanged.As of June 30, 2025, Gilead has licenses to domvanalimab, AB308, quemliclustat and zimberelimab. In the second quarter 2025, Gilead returned its license to the adenosine receptor antagonist program, which includes etrumadenant. In the first quarter 2025, Gilead's time-limited exclusive