On May 6, 2025 TScan Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TCRX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of T cell receptor (TCR)-engineered T cell (TCR-T) therapies for the treatment of patients with cancer, reported financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2025, and provided a corporate update (Press release, TScan Therapeutics, MAY 6, 2025, View Source [SID1234652597]).
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"This is an exciting year for TScan as we advance our mission of bringing life-changing T-cell therapies to patients with both heme and solid tumor malignancies," said Gavin MacBeath, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer. "In the first quarter, we continued to enroll into singleplex dose levels in our PLEXI-T solid tumor trial. We look forward to dosing our first patient with multiplex therapy soon, and to sharing safety and efficacy data later this year. With respect to our heme program, we remain on track to initiate a registrational trial of TSC-101 in the latter half of the year. We continue to investigate TSC-101 in patients with AML, ALL, and MDS and plan to provide an update on the ALLOHA Phase 1 study, including two-year follow-up on initial patients, by year-end."
Recent Corporate Highlights
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The Company recently announced an upcoming poster presentation: "CD45 as a Universal Target for Adjuvant TCR-T Cell Therapy Following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation" at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) (Free ASGCT Whitepaper) 28th Annual Meeting, being held May 13-17 in New Orleans. Details on the presentation can be found here.
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In March, the Company appointed Stephen Camiolo as Senior Vice President, Market Access. Mr. Camiolo brings to TScan over 25 years of experience in market access, reimbursement, pricing strategy, sales, marketing, and account management across the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
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The Company will participate in a fireside chat at the upcoming Bank of America 2025 Health Care Conference being held in Las Vegas, NV on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 3:40 p.m. Pacific Time. A webcast of the fireside chat will be available on the "Events and Presentations" section of the Company’s website at ir.tscan.com. An archived replay of the webcast will be available on the Company’s website following the event.
Upcoming Anticipated Milestones
Heme Malignancies Program: TScan’s lead TCR-T therapy candidate, TSC-101, is designed to treat residual disease and prevent relapse in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) (the ALLOHA trial, NCT05473910).
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Plans to initiate a registrational trial for TSC-101, pending further feedback from regulatory authorities, in the second half of 2025.
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Expects to file an investigational new drug (IND) application for TSC-102-A0301, a TCR-T targeting an HLA-A*03:01-restricted epitope on CD45, in the second half of 2025.
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Plans to present additional data from the ALLOHA Phase 1 trial by the end of the year, including two-year relapse data on the initial patients.
Solid Tumor Program: TScan continues to develop the ImmunoBank, a collection of TCR-T therapy candidates that target different cancer-associated antigens presented on diverse HLA types. TScan’s strategy is to treat patients with multiple TCR-T therapy candidates to overcome tumor heterogeneity and resistance that may arise from either target or HLA loss (the PLEXI-T trial, NCT05973487).
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On track to dose first patient with multiplex TCR-T therapy in the first half of 2025.
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Safety and response data for multiplex TCR-T therapy anticipated by the end of the year.
First Quarter 2025 Financial Results
Revenue: Revenue for the first quarter of 2025 was $2.2 million, compared to $0.6 million for the first quarter of 2024. The increase was primarily due to timing of research activities pursuant to the Company’s collaboration agreement with Amgen.
R&D Expenses: Research and development (R&D) expenses for the first quarter of 2025 were $29.8 million, compared to $24.9 million for the first quarter of 2024. The increase of $4.9 million was primarily driven by an increase in laboratory supplies, research materials and studies expense due to start-up activities with a CDMO, as well as an increase in facility-related and personnel expenses associated with continued expansion of manufacturing capabilities. R&D expenses included non-cash stock compensation expense of $1.7 million and $1.1 million for the first quarter of 2025 and 2024, respectively.
G&A Expenses: General and administrative (G&A) expenses for the first quarter of 2025 were $8.6 million, compared to $7.1 million for the first quarter of 2024. The increase of $1.5 million was primarily driven by an increase in personnel expenses due to increased headcount to support business activities. G&A expenses included non-cash stock compensation expense of $1.7 million and $0.9 million for the first quarter of 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Net Loss: Net loss was $34.1 million for the first quarter of 2025, compared to $30.1 million for the first quarter of 2024, and included net interest income of $2.1 million and $1.2 million, respectively.
Cash Position: Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities as of March 31, 2025, were $251.7 million, excluding $5.0 million of restricted cash. The Company believes that its existing cash resources will be sufficient to fund its current operating plan into the first quarter of 2027.
Share Count: As of March 31, 2025, the Company had 56,590,627 shares of common stock outstanding, consisting of 52,314,039 shares of voting common stock and 4,276,588 shares of non-voting common stock. In addition, the Company had 73,087,945 of pre-funded warrants outstanding to purchase shares of voting common stock at an exercise price of $0.0001 per share. Pro forma outstanding shares as of March 31, 2025, inclusive of both common stock and pre-funded warrants, were 129,678,572.