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2. LIQUIDITY AND MANAGEMENT PLANS

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2. LIQUIDITY AND MANAGEMENT PLANS
9 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2017
Liquidity And Management Plans  
LIQUIDITY AND MANAGEMENT PLANS

Liquidity

 

The Company's condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared using accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) applicable to a going concern which contemplates the realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities in the normal course of business. As of January 31, 2017, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $87,980,280 and incurred a net loss for the nine months ended January 31, 2017 of $3,288,663.

 

During the nine months ended January 31, 2017, approximately $3.1 million of funding was provided by investors to maintain and expand the Company’s operations. The remaining challenges, beyond the regulatory and clinical aspects, include accessing funding for the Company to cover its future cash flow needs. During the nine months ended January 31, 2017, the Company acquired funds through the Company’s S-3 Registration Statement pursuant to which its exclusive placement agent, Chardan Capital Markets, LLC (“Chardan”), sold shares of Common Stock “at-the-market” or in negotiated block trades in a program which is structured to provide up to $50 million dollars to the Company less certain commissions. The Company may continue to sell securities under its current S-3 Registration Statement for a period of three years from the original prospectus date, October 28, 2014. There is a grace period available of an additional 180 days following the 3-year anniversary, making the expiration date April 30, 2018.

 

The Company requires substantial additional capital to finance its planned business operations and expects to incur operating losses in future periods due to the expenses related to the Company’s core businesses. The Company has not realized material revenue since it commenced doing business in the biotechnology sector, and there can be no assurance that it will be successful in generating revenues in the future in this sector. The Company believes that its cash as of January 31, 2017, the ability to use the Company’s S-3 Registration Statement to raise capital through at-the-market sales and block trades, any sales of unregistered shares of Common Stock and any public offerings of Common Stock the Company may engage in will provide sufficient capital to meet its capital requirements and to fund its operations through January 31, 2018.

 

If the Company is not able to raise substantial additional capital in a timely manner, the Company may not be able to commence or complete its planned clinical trials and preclinical studies.

 

The Company will continue to be dependent on outside capital to fund its research and operating expenditures for the foreseeable future. If the Company fails to generate positive cash flows or fails to obtain additional capital when required, the Company may need to modify, delay or abandon some or all its business plans.

 

Management Goal and Strategies to Implement

 

The Company’s goal is to become an industry-leading biotechnology company using the Cell-in-a-Box® technology as a platform upon which therapies for cancer and diabetes are developed and obtain marketing approval for these therapies from regulatory agencies in the U.S., the European Union, Australia and Canada.

 

The Company’s strategies to achieve this goal consist of the following:

 

  · The completion of clinical trials in locally advanced, inoperable non-metastatic pancreas cancer and its associated pain;

 

  · The completion of preclinical studies and clinical trials that will demonstrate the effectiveness of the Company’s cancer therapy in reducing the production and accumulation of malignant ascites fluid in the abdomen that is characteristic of pancreas and other abdominal cancers;

 

  · The completion of preclinical studies and clinical trials that involve the encapsulation of the Melligen cells using the Cell-in-a-Box® technology to develop a treatment for Type 1 diabetes and insulin-dependent Type 2 diabetes;

 

  · The enhancement of the Company’s ability to expand into the biotechnology arena through further research and partnering agreements in cancer and diabetes;

 

  · The acquisition of contracts that generate revenue or provide research and development capital utilizing the Company’s sublicensing rights;

 

  · The further development of uses of the Cell-in-a-Box® technology platform through contracts, licensing agreements and joint ventures with other companies; and
     
  · The completion of testing, expansion and marketing of existing and newly derived product candidates.