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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)


☒	QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2026


☐	TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from_______________ to _______________

Commission File Number: 001-39103

CABALETTA BIO, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)


Delaware	82-1685768
(State or other jurisdiction of	(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)	Identification No.)
2929 Arch Street, Suite 600	19104
Philadelphia, PA
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (267) 759-3100

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

      Title of each class

      Trading
Symbol(s)

      Name of each exchange on which registered

      Common Stock, par value $0.00001 per share

      CABA

      The Nasdaq Global Select Market

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒

As of May 7, 2026, the registrant had 163,054,796 shares of common stock, $0.00001 par value per share, outstanding.

Table of Contents


		Page
PART I.	FINANCIAL INFORMATION	4
Item 1.	Financial Statements (Unaudited)	4
	Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets	4
	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss	5
	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity	6
	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows	8
	Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements	9
Item 2.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	23
Item 3.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	35
Item 4.	Controls and Procedures	35
PART II.	OTHER INFORMATION	36
Item 1.	Legal Proceedings	36
Item 1A.	Risk Factors	36
Item 2.	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities, Use of Proceeds and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities	99
Item 3.	Defaults Upon Senior Securities	99
Item 4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	99
Item 5.	Other Information	99
Item 6.	Exhibits	100
Signatures		101

Summary of the Material and Other Risks Associated with Our Business

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We are a clinical-stage company with a limited operating history, have incurred significant losses since our inception, and anticipate that we will continue to incur significant losses for the foreseeable future.

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We are highly dependent on our relationships with Minaris Advanced Therapies, LLC, or Minaris (f/k/a WuXi Advanced Therapies, Inc) and/or Lonza Houston Inc., or Lonza, and/or Cellares Corporation, or Cellares, for our current manufacturing needs for our Phase 1/2 RESET, or Restoring Self-Tolerance, clinical trials for resecabtagene autoleucel, or rese-cel (formerly referred to as CABA-201), and if manufacturing capacity at any of these manufacturing partners is reduced or otherwise delayed or limited, including due to legislative action, or if we, Minaris, Lonza, Cellares or any third-party manufacturers encounter difficulties in manufacturing our product candidates, this could adversely impact the supply of product candidates for and enrollment in our trials.

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We are reliant on intellectual property licensed to us by Nanjing IASO Biotherapeutics Co., Ltd., or IASO, and termination of this license agreement would result in the loss of significant rights, which would have a material adverse effect on our business.

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If we are unable to obtain and maintain sufficient intellectual property protection for our current product candidates and technologies or any future product candidates, we may not be able to compete effectively in our markets.

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We will need to raise substantial additional funding before we can expect to complete development of any of our product candidates or generate any revenues from product sales.

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Our limited operating history may make it difficult for you to evaluate the success of our business to date and to assess our future viability.

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If we are unable to successfully develop our current programs into a portfolio of product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, we may not realize the full commercial potential of our current and future product candidates.

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If we encounter difficulties enrolling patients in our RESETTM clinical trials for rese-cel or future clinical trials, these clinical development activities could be delayed or otherwise adversely affected.

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If we are unable to advance our product candidates through clinical development, obtain regulatory approval and ultimately commercialize our product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed.

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Results of earlier studies may not be predictive of future study or trial results, and we may fail to establish an adequate safety and efficacy profile to conduct clinical trials or obtain regulatory approval for our product candidates.

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If serious adverse events, undesirable side effects or unexpected characteristics are identified during the development of any of our product candidates, we may need to delay, abandon or limit our further clinical development of those product candidates.

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Manufacturing and administering our product candidates is complex and we may encounter difficulties in technology transfer to a contract manufacturing organization.

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We may be unable to reach agreement with the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities on the methodologies for, and assessment of, comparability of different versions of a product candidate used in non-pivotal studies, pivotal studies and for intended commercial use or may be unable to establish such comparability.

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We face substantial competition, which may result in others discovering, developing or commercializing products before or more successfully than we do.

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We may establish our own manufacturing facility and infrastructure in addition to, or in lieu of, relying on third parties for the manufacture of our product candidates, which will be costly and time-consuming and may not be successful.

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Our future success depends in part upon our ability to retain our key employees, consultants and advisors and to attract, retain and motivate other qualified personnel.

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We have identified conditions that raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. If we are unable to secure additional funding beyond our current cash position that enables our operations into mid-2027, we may be forced to delay, reduce or discontinue our product development programs efforts or other operations.

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including the sections entitled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” contains express or implied forward-looking statements that are based on our management’s belief and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, these statements relate to future events or our future operational or financial performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q include, but are not limited to, statements about:

•

the success, cost and timing and conduct of our clinical trial programs, including our Phase 1/2 RESETTM clinical trials for rese-cel, and any other product candidates, including statements regarding the timing of initiation, enrollment and completion of the clinical trials and the period during which the results of the clinical trials will become available;

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the expected timing and significance around the announcement of safety, biologic activity and/or any additional clinical data from our RESETTM clinical trials for rese-cel;

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the timing of and our ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of our product candidates, including rese-cel, and any other product candidates, in any of the indications for which we plan to develop them, and any related restrictions, limitations, and/or warnings in the label of an approved product candidate;

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our expectations for the tolerability and clinical activity of rese-cel and our ability to advance this product candidate through our license agreement with IASO;

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the potential benefits of our Orphan Drug, Rare Pediatric Disease and Fast Track designations;

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our expected use of proceeds from sales of our common stock in "at-the-market" offerings and other offerings, and the period over which such proceeds, together with existing cash, will be sufficient to extend our current cash runway beyond our current expectations into mid-2027 and meet our operating needs, including our ability to continue as a going concern;

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our plans to pursue research and development of other product candidates;

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the potential advantages of our proprietary Cabaletta Approach for B cell Ablation platform, called our CABA® platform, and our product candidates;

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the extent to which our scientific approach and CABA® platform may potentially address a broad range of diseases;

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the potential benefits and success of our arrangements with IASO, Oxford, Minaris, Lonza and Cellares;

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our ability to successfully leverage our research and translational insights;

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our expectations regarding the results observed with the similarly-designed construct employed in recent academic publications, including the dosing regimen, and the implications on rese-cel;

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our ability to successfully commercialize our product candidates, including rese-cel and any other product candidates;

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the potential receipt of revenue from future sales of rese-cel and any other product candidates, if approved;

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the rate and degree of market acceptance and clinical utility of rese-cel and any other product candidates;

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our estimates regarding the potential market opportunity for rese-cel and any other product candidates, and our ability to serve those markets;

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our sales, marketing and distribution capabilities and strategy, whether alone or with potential future collaborators;

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our ability to establish and maintain arrangements or a facility for manufacture of rese-cel and any other product candidates;

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our ability to obtain funding for our operations, including funding necessary to initiate and complete our RESETTM clinical trials of rese-cel and any ongoing preclinical studies of other product candidates;

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our expectations for the efficiency of the trial design for our RESETTM clinical trials for rese-cel and the potential success and therapeutic benefits of rese-cel, including our belief that rese-cel may enable an “immune system reset” and provide deep and durable responses in patients across an increasing number of autoimmune diseases;

•

the potential achievement of milestones and receipt of payments under our collaborations;

•

our ability to enter into additional collaborations with existing collaborators or other third parties;

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our expectations regarding our ability to obtain and maintain intellectual property protection for our product candidates and our ability to operate our business without infringing on the intellectual property rights of others;

•

our expectations regarding international expansion and the results of our efforts to do so;

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the success of competing therapies that are or become available, and our competitive position;

•

the accuracy of our estimates regarding expenses, future revenues, capital requirements and needs for additional financing;

•

the impact of government laws and regulations in the United States and foreign countries, including any newly introduced legislation;

•

the effect of any geopolitical conflicts or new or increased international tariffs, including mitigation efforts and economic effects, on any of the foregoing or other aspects of our business operations, including but not limited to any preclinical studies or research and development efforts, ongoing clinical trials and future clinical trials; and

•

our ability to attract and retain key scientific or management personnel.

These factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The forward-looking statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are made as of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and we undertake no obligations to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. Therefore, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements.

CABALETTA BIO, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)


	March 31,			December 31,
	2026			2025
Assets	(unaudited)
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	116,635		$	82,982
Short-term investments		—			50,617
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		5,681			5,272
Total current assets		122,316			138,871
Property and equipment, net		1,585			1,922
Finance lease right-of-use assets		16,519			15,700
Operating lease right-of-use assets		2,453			3,431
Other assets		5,273			5,159
Total assets	$	148,146		$	165,083
Liabilities and stockholders’ equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	$	6,382		$	6,636
Accrued and other current liabilities		12,009			19,298
Finance lease liabilities, current portion		20,631			20,758
Operating lease liabilities, current portion		2,485			3,461
Total current liabilities		41,507			50,153
Finance lease liabilities, net of current portion		3,334			2,879
Total liabilities		44,841			53,032
Commitments and contingencies (see Notes 5 and 6)
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock, $0.00001 par value: 10,000,000 shares authorized as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025; no shares issued or outstanding at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025		—			—
Voting and non-voting common stock, $0.00001 par value: 300,000,000 (293,590,481 voting and 6,409,519 non-voting) shares authorized as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025; 111,324,796 voting shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2026 and 100,479,323 voting shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2025		1			1
Additional paid-in capital		663,776			628,982
Accumulated other comprehensive income		—			25
Accumulated deficit		(560,472	)		(516,957	)
Total stockholders’ equity		103,305			112,051
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	$	148,146		$	165,083

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

CABALETTA BIO, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss

(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

(unaudited)


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026			2025
Operating expenses:
Research and development	$	37,353		$	29,018
General and administrative		6,943			8,118
Total operating expenses		44,296			37,136
Loss from operations		(44,296	)		(37,136	)
Other income (expense):
Interest income		1,076			1,487
Interest expense		(636	)		(294	)
Other income, net		341			—
Net loss	$	(43,515	)	$	(35,943	)
Other comprehensive income:
Net unrealized loss on available-for-sale investments, net of tax		(25	)		—
Net comprehensive loss	$	(43,540	)	$	(35,943	)
Net loss per common stock share, basic and diluted	$	(0.39	)	$	(0.71	)
Weighted-average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted		112,025,474			50,743,101

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

CABALETTA BIO, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity

(in thousands, except share amounts)

(unaudited)


	Common Stock
	Shares		Amount		Additional Paid-in Capital		Accumulated Deficit			Total Stockholders’ Equity
Balance—December 31, 2024		50,743,101	$	1	$	501,435	$	(349,101	)	$	152,335
Stock-based compensation		—		—		5,161		—			5,161
Net loss		—		—		—		(35,943	)		(35,943	)
Balance—March 31, 2025		50,743,101	$	1	$	506,596	$	(385,044	)	$	121,553

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

CABALETTA BIO, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity

(in thousands, except share amounts)

(unaudited)


	Common Stock
	Shares		Amount		Additional Paid-in Capital		Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)			Accumulated Deficit			Total Stockholders’ Equity
Balance—December 31, 2025		100,479,323	$	1	$	628,982	$	25		$	(516,957	)	$	112,051
Issuance of common stock from ATM offering, net of sales agent commission and fees		8,055,260		—		22,568		—			—			22,568
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of common stock warrants		2,775,100		—		6,938		—			—			6,938
Issuance of common stock in connection with exercise of stock options		15,113		—		32		—			—			32
Stock-based compensation		—		—		5,256		—			—			5,256
Net unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities		—		—		—		(25	)		—			(25	)
Net loss		—		—		—		—			(43,515	)		(43,515	)
Balance—March 31, 2026		111,324,796	$	1	$	663,776	$	—		$	(560,472	)	$	103,305

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

CABALETTA BIO, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

(unaudited)


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026			2025
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net loss	$	(43,515	)	$	(35,943	)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Stock-based compensation		5,256			5,161
Depreciation		337			485
Non-cash finance lease expense		4,022			1,465
Non-cash operating lease expense		978			881
Accretion of operating lease liabilities		81			167
Amortization of discount on investments		(368	)		—
Loss on foreign currency exchange rates		19			29
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		(409	)		(53	)
Other assets		(114	)		(76	)
Accounts payable		(269	)		1,591
Accrued and other current liabilities		(7,281	)		(3,538	)
Lease liabilities		(1,057	)		(1,057	)
Accrued interest payable under finance lease		(241	)		86
Net cash used in operating activities		(42,561	)		(30,802	)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchases of property and equipment		—			(785	)
Proceeds from maturities of investments		50,960			—
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities		50,960			(785	)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Issuance of common stock from ATM offering, net of sales agent commission and fees		22,568			—
Proceeds from issuance of common stock upon exercise of common stock warrants		6,938			—
Proceeds from issuance of common stock in connection with the exercise of stock options		32			—
Principal payments on finance leases		(4,271	)		(552	)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities		25,267			(552	)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents		(13	)		7
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents		33,653			(32,132	)
Cash and cash equivalents—beginning of period		82,982			163,962
Cash and cash equivalents—end of period	$	116,635		$	131,830
Supplemental disclosures
Cash paid for interest	$	877		$	208
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for finance lease obligations	$	4,841		$	14,930

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

CABALETTA BIO, INC.

Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

1. Basis of Presentation

Cabaletta Bio, Inc. (the Company or Cabaletta) was incorporated in April 2017 in the State of Delaware as Tycho Therapeutics, Inc. and, in August 2018, changed its name to Cabaletta Bio, Inc. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Cabaletta and its wholly owned subsidiaries: Cabaletta Bio GmbH and Cabaletta Bio (Germany) GmbH.

The Company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cabaletta is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of engineered T cell therapies for autoimmune diseases. Principal operations commenced in April 2018.

Risks and Uncertainties

The Company does not expect to generate revenue from sales of engineered T cell therapies for autoimmune diseases or any other revenue unless and until the Company completes preclinical and clinical development and obtains regulatory approval for one or more product candidates. If the Company seeks to obtain regulatory approval for any of its product candidates, the Company expects to incur significant commercialization expenses.

The Company is subject to risks common to companies in the biotechnology industry including, but not limited to, new technological innovations, protection of proprietary technology, dependence on key personnel, compliance with government regulations and the need to obtain additional financing. As a result, the Company is unable to predict the timing or amount of increased expenses or when or if the Company will be able to achieve or maintain profitability. Further, the Company is dependent on third parties for certain research and development activities, including manufacturing services (Note 5 and Note 6). Product candidates currently under development will require significant additional research and development efforts, including extensive preclinical and clinical testing and regulatory approval, prior to commercialization. Even if the Company is able to generate revenues from the sale of its product candidates, if approved, it may not become profitable. If the Company fails to become profitable or is unable to sustain profitability on a continuing basis, then it may be unable to continue its operations at planned levels and be forced to reduce its operations.

Liquidity and Going Concern

In accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 205-40, Going Concern, (ASC 205-40) the Company evaluated whether there are conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company has sustained annual operating losses since inception and expects to continue to generate operating losses for the foreseeable future. As of March 31, 2026, the Company has incurred an accumulated deficit of $560,472 and has cash and cash equivalents of $116,635. In May 2026, the Company raised aggregate net proceeds of approximately $141,000 (Note 9).

The Company expects that its current cash and cash equivalents may be sufficient to fund operations for at least the next twelve months from the date of issuance of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements; however, the Company's cash forecast contains estimates and assumptions with significant variability and management cannot predict the amount or timing of all expenditures with certainty. The Company’s ultimate success depends on the outcome of its research and development activities. Management expects to incur additional losses in the future as it continues its research and development and will need to raise additional capital to fully implement its business plan and to fund its operations. The Company intends to raise such additional capital through a combination of equity offerings, debt financings, government funding arrangements, strategic alliances or other sources. However, if such financing is not available at adequate levels and on a timely basis, or such agreements are not available on favorable terms, or at all, as and when needed, the Company will need to reevaluate its operating plan and may be required to delay or discontinue the development of one or more of its product candidates or operational initiatives. Accordingly, the Company has concluded that substantial doubt exists about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The accompanying financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the ordinary course of business.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Unaudited Interim Financial Information

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC regarding interim financial reporting. Any reference in these notes to applicable guidance is meant to refer to GAAP as found in the Accounting Standards Codification and Accounting Standards Updates (ASU) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). As permitted under these rules, certain footnotes and other financial information that are normally required by GAAP have been condensed or omitted. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include all normal and recurring adjustments (which consist primarily of accruals and estimates that impact the financial statements) considered necessary to present fairly the Company’s financial position as of March 31, 2026 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the interim periods ended March 31, 2026 and 2025. The results for the three months ended March 31, 2026 are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2026, any other interim periods, or any future year or period. The balance sheet as of December 31, 2025 included herein was derived from the audited financial statements as of that date. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, presented herein, do not contain the required disclosures under GAAP for annual financial statements. These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited financial statements, which are included in the Company’s 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on March 23, 2026 (2025 Annual Report).

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period. Significant estimates and assumptions made in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include but are not limited to advance payments and accruals related to the Company’s research and development expenses. The Company evaluates its estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis using historical experience and other factors and adjusts those estimates and assumptions when facts and circumstances dictate. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Off-Balance Sheet Risk and Concentrations of Credit Risk

Financial instruments, which potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk, consist of cash and cash equivalents, which are invested in U.S. treasury-based money market funds, and available-for-sale debt securities, which are invested in U.S. treasury securities. A portion of the Company’s cash is maintained at federally insured financial institutions, and account balances may at times exceed federally insured limits. The Company has not experienced any losses in such accounts and management believes that the Company is not exposed to significant credit risk. The Company has no off‑balance sheet risk, such as foreign exchange contracts, option contracts, or other foreign hedging arrangements.

The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with original maturities of three months or less from the purchase date to be cash equivalents. Cash equivalents consist primarily of amounts invested in money market accounts and U.S. treasury securities.

Significant Accounting Policies

There have been no significant changes to the Company’s accounting policies during the three months ended March 31, 2026, as compared to the significant accounting policies described in Note 2 of the “Notes to the Financial Statements” in the Company’s audited financial statements included in its 2025 Annual Report.

Fair Value Measurement

Assets and liabilities recorded at fair value on a recurring basis in the balance sheets are categorized based upon the level of judgment associated with the inputs used to measure their fair values. Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or an exit price that would be paid to transfer a liability in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. Valuation techniques used to measure fair value must

maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. The authoritative guidance on fair value measurements establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements as follows:

Level 1—Observable inputs such as unadjusted, quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities at the measurement date.

Level 2—Inputs (other than quoted prices included in Level 1) that are either directly or indirectly observable for the asset or liability. These include quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets and quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active.

Level 3—Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement (Subtopic 220-40): Reporting Comprehensive Income-Expense Disaggregation Disclosures. ASU 2024-03 requires enhanced disclosures about components of expense captions on the face of the income statement. This standard will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026. Early adoption is permitted. ASU 2024-03 applies on a prospective basis for periods beginning after the effective date. However, retrospective application to any or all prior periods presented is permitted. The Company is currently planning to adopt this guidance when effective and is assessing the impact of the adoption on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and accompanying footnotes.

3. Fair Value Measurements

Fair value of financial instruments

At March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the Company’s financial instruments included cash and cash equivalents, available-for-sale debt securities, accounts payable and accrued expenses. The carrying amounts for cash and cash equivalents, accounts payable and accrued expenses reported in the Company’s consolidated financial statements for these instruments approximate their respective fair values because of the short-term nature of these instruments.

The following tables present information about the Company’s financial assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis and indicate the level of the fair value hierarchy utilized to determine such fair values:


	March 31, 2026
	Total		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Financial assets
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds	$	114,506	$	114,506	$	—	$	—
Total	$	114,506	$	114,506	$	—	$	—


	December 31, 2025
	Total		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Financial assets
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds	$	81,470	$	81,470	$	—	$	—
Short-term investments:
U.S. Treasury securities		50,617		—		50,617		—
Total	$	132,087	$	81,470	$	50,617	$	—

Money market funds are measured at fair value on a recurring basis using quoted prices and are classified as Level 1 inputs. Investments are measured at fair value based on inputs other than quoted prices that are derived from observable market data and are classified as Level 2 inputs.

For debt securities classified as available-for-sale investments, the Company records unrealized gains or losses resulting from changes in fair value between measurement dates as a component of other comprehensive income. The Company did not hold any available-for-sale securities as of March 31, 2026.


	December 31, 2025
	Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized Gains		Fair value
Financial assets
Cash	$	1,512	$	—	$	1,512
Money market funds		81,470		—		81,470
Included in cash and cash equivalents		82,982		—		82,982
U.S. Treasury securities - due in one year or less
Included in short-term investments		50,592		25		50,617
Total	$	133,574	$	25	$	133,599

4. Accrued and Other Current Liabilities

Accrued and other current liabilities consist of the following:


	March 31, 2026		December 31, 2025
Compensation expense	$	3,639	$	9,716
Clinical trial research and development services		5,468		5,335
Manufacturing and other research and development services		2,515		3,774
General and administrative services		297		393
Other		90		80
	$	12,009	$	19,298

5. Collaborations, Licensing Agreements and Other Agreements

Amended and Restated License Agreement with the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

In August 2018, the Company entered into a license agreement with the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), as amended and restated in July 2019 to include the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) as a party, and as amended in May 2020 and October 2021 (the License Agreement) pursuant to which the Company obtained (a) a non-exclusive, non-sublicensable worldwide license to certain of Penn’s intellectual property to conduct research, product development, clinical trials, cell manufacturing and other activities, and (b) an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing right and license, with a right to sublicense, on a target-by-target basis, under certain of Penn’s intellectual property to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and otherwise commercialize products for the treatment of autoimmune and alloimmune diseases. Unless earlier terminated, the License Agreement expires on the expiration or abandonment or other termination of the last valid claim in Penn’s intellectual property licensed by the Company. The Company may terminate the License Agreement at any time for convenience upon 60 days' written notice. In the event of an uncured, material breach, Penn may terminate the License Agreement upon 60 days' written notice. Under the terms of the License Agreement, the Company was obligated to pay $2,000 annually for three years beginning August 2018 for funding to the laboratories of each of Drs. Milone and Payne. This was satisfied through completed sponsored research agreements with a total cost of $12,560. During the term of the License Agreement until the first commercial sale of the first product, the Company is obligated to pay Penn a non-refundable, non-creditable annual license maintenance fee of $10. In May 2020, the Company paid Penn an additional, non-refundable, non-creditable license fee of $33 under the amended License Agreement.

The Company is required to pay certain milestone payments upon the achievement of specified clinical and commercial milestones. Milestone payments are reduced by a certain percentage for the second product that achieves a milestone, by an additional percentage for the third product that achieves a milestone, and so on, for each subsequent product that achieves a milestone. In the event that the Company is able to successfully develop and launch multiple products under the License Agreement, total milestone payments could be approximately $21,000. Penn is also eligible to receive tiered royalties at percentage rates in the low single-digits, subject to an annual minimum royalty, on annual worldwide net sales of any products that are commercialized by the Company or its sublicensees that contain or incorporate, or are covered by, the intellectual property licensed by the Company. To the extent the Company sublicenses its license rights under the License Agreement, Penn would be eligible to receive tiered sublicense income at percentage rates in the mid-single to low double-digits. There were no amounts due under the License Agreement as of March 31, 2026.

Master Translational Research Services Agreements

In October 2018 and February 2023, the Company entered into services agreements (the CAART and CARTA Services Agreements) with Penn for research, development and manufacturing services from various laboratories within Penn. The activities are detailed in separately executed Penn organization-specific addenda. In May 2020, the Company amended its Addendum with the Center for Advanced Retinal and Ocular Therapeutics (CAROT) to expand access to vector manufacturing.

Research and development expense related to executed addenda under the master translational research service agreements with Penn recognized in the accompanying statements of operations was $762 and $1,042 for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. As of March 31, 2026, the Company had no remaining commitments under the CARTA Services Agreement.

Exclusive License Agreement with IASO Biotherapeutics

On October 7, 2022, the Company entered into an Exclusive License Agreement (the IASO Agreement) with Nanjing IASO Biotherapeutics Co., Ltd. (IASO). Pursuant to the IASO Agreement, the Company received an exclusive, worldwide license under certain IASO intellectual property to use a novel clinical-stage anti-CD19 binder to develop, manufacture, commercialize and otherwise exploit T cell products directed to CD19 for the purpose of diagnosis, prevention or treatment of any autoimmune or alloimmune indications in humans. As partial consideration for the exclusive license, IASO received an upfront payment of $2,500. IASO is also eligible to receive up to mid double digit millions in milestone payments based upon the achievement of specified pre-clinical, development and regulatory milestones, and up to an additional low triple digit millions in milestone payments based upon achievement of specified sales milestones, for a total consideration, inclusive of the upfront payment, of up to $162,000, along with tiered mid-single digit royalties on future net sales for licensed products that may result from the IASO Agreement. Upon the U.S. Food and Drug Association’s clearance of the rese-cel Investigational New Drug application for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus in March 2023, a milestone payment of $1,000 was recognized in the accompanying statements of operations. A milestone payment of $1,500 was paid to IASO in the first quarter of 2024 after the first patient in a rese-cel trial was dosed.

IASO has the right of first negotiation if the Company desires to grant a third party an exclusive license to develop, manufacture, commercialize or otherwise exploit the licensed products in the Greater China region. Pursuant to the IASO Agreement, each of IASO

and the Company have agreed, subject to certain exceptions, to refrain from engaging in certain competitive activities with respect to certain programs. The Company also may sublicense through multiple tiers the rights granted to it by IASO under the IASO Agreement at any time, however, it must pay IASO a low double-digit percentage of any revenue obtained from sublicenses or options to third parties, subject to certain customary exclusions. The IASO Agreement will continue on a country-by-country, licensed product-by-licensed product basis until the expiration of the royalty term as identified in the IASO Agreement, unless earlier terminated. Each of the Company and IASO may terminate the Agreement for a material, uncured breach or insolvency of the other party. The Company may also terminate the Agreement at will upon advance written notice and in the event IASO rejects the Agreement due to bankruptcy-related matters. IASO may also terminate the Agreement if the Company fails to achieve certain specified diligence milestones in a timely manner and/or if the Company commences any patent challenges with respect to the patents and patent applications relating to the licensed sequence, in each case upon advance written notice.

Licence and Supply Agreement with Oxford Biomedica

In December 2021, the Company entered into a Licence and Supply agreement (LSA) with Oxford Biomedica (UK) Limited (Oxford), wherein the LSA grants the Company a non-exclusive license to Oxford’s LentiVector® platform for its application in the Company’s DSG3-CAART program and put in place a multi-year vector supply agreement. Oxford is eligible to receive regulatory and sales milestones in the low tens of millions and royalties in the low single digits on net sales of products that incorporate the Oxford technology. In May 2023, the Company amended the LSA with Oxford to expand the license to include the Company's rese-cel program for an upfront fee of $500. In August 2023, the Company and Oxford entered into a vector supply agreement for rese-cel, and a related second amendment to the LSA, with a total cost under the vector supply agreement of up to approximately $5,000, which has been fully expensed as of December 31, 2024. In February 2024, the Company and Oxford entered into a third amendment to the LSA to update the patent schedule. In June 2024, the Company and Oxford entered into a fourth amendment to the LSA eliminating royalties on net sales of products that incorporate the Oxford technology if Oxford manufactures the vector. Starting in December 2024, the Company and Oxford entered into work orders with a cost of approximately $23,000 for certain process characterization and process performance qualification activities as part of commercial readiness activities. As of March 31, 2026, the Company has recognized project to date expense of $10,931 related to these activities. The Company can terminate the LSA or any work order under the LSA at will upon advance written notice and subject to certain cancellation fees.

Option and License Agreement with Autolus

In January 2023, the Company entered into an Option and License Agreement (Autolus Agreement) with Autolus Holdings (UK) Limited (Autolus), wherein the Autolus Agreement granted the Company a non-exclusive license to access Autolus' RQR8 technology in its CD19-CAR T cell therapy program, and subject to additional nominal option exercise fees, up to four additional targets. In January 2025, the Company and Autolus agreed to novate the Autolus Agreement with both Autolus and Autolus Limited jointly assuming the rights, obligations and liabilities of Autolus, under the Autolus Agreement. Under the terms of the Autolus Agreement, the Company was required to pay Autolus an upfront license fee of $1,200 that was recognized as expense in the first quarter of 2023 in the accompanying statements of operations, of which $1,100 was paid in 2023 and $100 was paid in January 2024. Autolus is also eligible to receive regulatory milestones of up to $12,000 for each licensed target, sales milestones of up to a total of $15,000 and royalties in the low single digits on net sales of all products that incorporate the RQR8 technology. The Autolus Agreement will continue on a country-by-country, licensed product-by-licensed product basis until the expiration of the royalty term as identified in the Autolus Agreement, unless earlier terminated. The Company can terminate the Autolus Agreement at will upon advance written notice. Each of the Company and Autolus may terminate the Agreement for a material, uncured breach or insolvency of the other party.

6. Commitments and Contingencies

Manufacturing Agreements

In January 2021, the Company entered into a Development and Manufacturing Services Agreement (Minaris Agreement) with Minaris Advanced Therapies, LLC, or Minaris (f/k/a WuXi Advanced Therapies, Inc.) to serve as a cell processing manufacturing partner for the MuSK-CAART Phase 1 clinical trial, or MusCAARTesTM trial. In August 2023, and as extended in August 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Minaris to serve as one of the Company's manufacturing partners for the RESETTM clinical trials through August 2026. The Company may terminate for convenience the Minaris Agreement or any work order with six months' prior written notice, subject to an early termination fee of up to $1,080 if it terminates both the rese-cel and MuSK-CAART work orders for any reason. Minaris may terminate for convenience the Minaris Agreement or any work order on 18 months' prior written notice, but such notice may not be effective prior to February 2028. In February 2026, the Company notified Minaris that it intended to permit the term to expire in August 2026.

In December 2024, the Company entered into a Development and Manufacturing Services Agreement (the Lonza Agreement) with Lonza Houston Inc. (Lonza) to serve as one of the Company's manufacturing partners for the global clinical development of rese-cel in multiple indications, including potential late-stage clinical trials and preparations for commercial readiness. The Lonza Agreement has a term of five years and can be extended for an additional three year term upon notice to Lonza at least 18 months prior to the expiration of the Lonza Agreement. The Company can terminate the Lonza Agreement at will upon nine months advance written notice to Lonza subject to the terms of the Lonza Agreement. Lonza can terminate the Lonza Agreement at will upon 24 months advance written notice to Cabaletta subject to the terms of the Lonza Agreement. Under the initial work order, Lonza will perform cell therapy manufacturing activities for Cabaletta’s CAR-T cell therapy product, rese-cel, for an initial term of 12 months with the ability to extend the manufacturing period on a rolling basis subject to the terms of the Lonza Agreement.

Other Purchase Commitments

In the normal course of business, the Company enters into various purchase commitments with third-party contract manufacturers for the manufacture and processing of its product candidates and related raw materials, contracts with contract research organizations for clinical trials and agreements with vendors for other services and products for operating purposes. These agreements generally provide for termination or cancellation, other than for costs already incurred.

Indemnification

The Company enters into certain types of contracts that contingently require the Company to indemnify various parties against claims from third parties. These contracts primarily relate to (i) the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws, as amended, (bylaws) under which the Company must indemnify directors and executive officers, and may indemnify other officers and employees, for liabilities arising out of their relationship, (ii) contracts under which the Company must indemnify directors and certain officers and consultants for liabilities arising out of their relationship, (iii) contracts under which the Company may be required to indemnify partners against certain claims, including claims from third parties asserting, among other things, infringement of their intellectual property rights, and (iv) procurement, consulting, or license agreements under which the Company may be required to indemnify vendors, consultants or licensors for certain claims, including claims that may be brought against them arising from the Company’s acts or omissions with respect to the supplied products, technology or services. From time to time, the Company may receive indemnification claims under these contracts in the normal course of business. In addition, under these contracts, the Company may have to modify the accused infringing intellectual property and/or refund amounts received.

In the event that one or more of these matters were to result in a claim against the Company, an adverse outcome, including a judgment or settlement, may have a material adverse effect on the Company’s future business, operating results or financial condition. It is not possible to determine the maximum potential amount under these contracts due to the limited history of prior indemnification claims and the unique facts and circumstances involved in each particular agreement.

Litigation

From time to time, the Company may become involved in litigation or legal proceedings. While the outcome of any such proceedings cannot be predicted with certainty, as of March 31, 2026, the Company is not involved in any material litigation or legal proceedings that it would expect to have a material adverse impact on its financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

7. Segment Information

Operating segments are defined as components of an entity for which separate financial information is available and that is regularly reviewed by the Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM) in deciding how to allocate resources to an individual segment and in assessing performance. The Company’s CODM is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The Company has determined it operates in a single operating segment and has one reportable segment. The segment consists of the development of clinical and preclinical product candidates for the discovery and development of innovative engineered T cell therapies and related administrative activities. The CODM assesses performance and allocates resources based on the Company’s consolidated statement of operations, which is reported on the income statement as consolidated net loss and considers forecast-to-actuals variances on a quarterly basis for expenses that are deemed significant. Further, the CODM reviews the segment’s assets based on the consolidated balance sheet to assess liquidity and funding capacity. The majority of the Company's assets are located in the United States.

The Company’s CODM views specific categories within expenses as significant given the direct correlation between cash burn and profitability as a pre-revenue company. Significant segment expenses, as provided to the CODM, are presented below. For additional information on the year over year change of segment expenses refer to Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026			2025
	(in thousands)
Research and development expenses:
Personnel	$	12,389		$	11,365
Clinical trials		10,604			8,511
Manufacturing of preclinical and clinical supplies		10,793			5,032
Development services		2,755			3,567
Other research and development costs (1)		812			543
General and administration expenses		6,943			8,118
Interest income		(1,076	)		(1,487	)
Interest expense		636			294
Other income, net		(341	)		—
Net loss	$	43,515		$	35,943

(1) Other research and development costs includes costs associated with information technology, travel, medical and scientific symposiums and conferences.

8. Leases

At the inception of an arrangement, the Company determines whether the arrangement is or contains a lease and assesses its classification based on the unique facts and circumstances present in the arrangement. The Company leases office and laboratory space and has two manufacturing agreements that have been determined to include embedded leases.

Operating lease commitments

The Company leases office and laboratory space which include rent escalations and are subject to additional variable charges, including common area maintenance, property taxes and property insurance. Given the variable nature of such costs, they are recognized as expense as incurred. Additionally, some of the Company’s leases are subject to certain fixed fees which the Company has determined to be non-lease components. The Company has elected the practical expedient to account for lease and non-lease components as a single-lease component and has included fixed payments related to non-lease components in calculating the operating lease liability.

Finance lease commitments - Embedded leases

As described further in Note 6, in August 2023, and as extended in August 2024, the Company entered into work orders under the Minaris Agreement for Minaris to serve as a cell processing manufacturing partner for the MusCAARTesTM trial and RESETTM clinical trials, for an initial term of 18 months. In February 2026, the Company notified Minaris that it intended to permit the term to expire in August 2026. The terms of the August 2023 work orders included a dedicated suite with fixed costs and contingent variable costs.

As described further in Note 6, in December 2024, the Company entered into the Lonza Agreement with Lonza to serve as one of the Company's cell processing manufacturing partners. Under the initial work order, Lonza will perform cell therapy manufacturing activities for the CAR-T cell therapy product rese-cel for a term of 12 months with the ability to extend the manufacturing period subject to the terms of the Lonza Agreement. The Lonza Agreement was evaluated under ASC 842 and determined to contain an embedded finance lease commencing in March 2025. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company extended the lease term in accordance with the Lonza Agreement resulting in an increase of the right-of-use asset and lease liability of $4,841.

Summary of leases under ASC 842

The following table contains information pertaining to the Company’s operating and finance leases for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026			2025
Cash paid in the measurement of lease liabilities
Operating cash flows used for operating leases	$	1,057		$	1,057
Operating cash flows used for finance leases		877			208
Financing cash flows for finance leases		4,271			552
Other information
Weighted average remaining lease term - finance leases (in years)		1.2			1.5
Weighted average discount rate - finance leases		10.2	%		11.0	%
Weighted average remaining lease term - operating leases (in years)		0.7			1.4
Weighted average discount rate - operating leases		10.3	%		11.0	%

For finance leases embedded in CDMO arrangements, interest expense is recognized using the effective interest method, applying the Company's incremental borrowing rate as required by ASC 842, and amortization expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the life of the asset or the term of the lease.

Future lease payments under the non-cancelable leases as of March 31, 2026 are as follows:


	Finance Leases			Operating Leases
2026	$	17,568		$	2,576
2027		7,950			—
Total undiscounted lease payments		25,518			2,576
Less imputed interest		(1,553	)		(91	)
Total lease liability	$	23,965		$	2,485

9. Common Stock

Common Stock

Pursuant to the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, the Company is authorized to issue 293,590,481 shares of voting common stock and 6,409,519 shares of non-voting common stock.

May 2026 Financing

In May 2026, the Company issued 51,725,000 shares of common stock at a price of $2.90 per share pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated May 4, 2026 to our shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-278126). The offering was underwritten by TD Securities (USA) LLC, Guggenheim Securities, LLC and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., as joint book-running managers, and H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, as lead manager. Aggregate net proceeds were approximately $141,000 after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses.

June 2025 Financing

In June 2025, the Company issued (i) 39,200,000 shares of its common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase an aggregate of 39,200,000 shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof) and (ii) in lieu of common stock, to certain investors, pre-funded warrants to purchase an aggregate of up to 10,800,000 shares of its common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase an aggregate of 10,800,000 shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof), at an exercise price of $0.00001 per pre-funded warrant. An additional 3,090,190 common stock warrants were issued in the financing for shares purchased by the underwriters in the market to cover overallotment demand. The combined offering price of each share of common stock and accompanying common stock warrant was $2.00. The combined offering price of each pre-funded warrant and accompanying common stock warrant was $1.99999. The pre-funded warrants are exercisable immediately. The common stock and pre-funded warrants were sold in combination

with an accompanying common stock warrant to purchase one share of common stock (or a pre-funded warrant in lieu thereof) for each share of common stock or pre-funded warrant sold. Each common stock warrant has an exercise price per share of $2.50. The common stock warrants are immediately exercisable from the date of issuance and will expire on September 12, 2026, fifteen months from the date of issuance. Aggregate net proceeds were $93,558 after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses. As of March 31, 2026, 4,800,000 pre-funded warrants had been exercised and 6,000,000 remain outstanding. In addition, as of March 31, 2026, 2,775,100 common stock warrants were exercised for proceeds of $6,938 and 50,315,090 common stock warrants remain outstanding.

The pre-funded warrants and common stock warrants were classified as a component of permanent stockholders’ equity within additional paid-in capital and were recorded at the issuance date using a relative fair value allocation method. The pre-funded warrants and common stock warrants are equity classified because they (i) are freestanding financial instruments that are legally detachable and separately exercisable from the equity instruments, (ii) are immediately exercisable, (iii) do not embody an obligation for the Company to repurchase its shares, (iv) permit the holders to receive a fixed number of shares of common stock upon exercise, (v) are indexed to the Company’s common stock and (vi) meet the equity classification criteria. In addition, such pre-funded warrants and common stock warrants do not provide any guarantee of value or return.

At-the-Market Offering

On March 31, 2025, the Company converted the Form S-3ASR to a Form S-3 (File No. 333-278126) by post-effective amendments. This Form S-3 was declared effective on March 31, 2025. The Company had a Sales Agreement with TD Securities (USA) LLC (as successor to Cowen and Company, LLC) (TD Cowen) to provide for the offering, issuance and sale of up to an aggregate amount of $200.0 million of common stock from time to time in “at-the-market” offerings (2024 ATM Program) pursuant to its S-3, and subject to the limitations thereof. On June 11, 2025, the 2024 ATM Program with TD Cowen was terminated. Prior to termination, the Company sold an aggregate of 2,609,865 shares pursuant to the 2024 ATM Program for total net proceeds of $7,724, consisting of $5,129 in 2024 and $2,595 in 2025.

On August 7, 2025, the Company filed a Registration Statement (File No. 333-289339) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which was declared effective on August 15, 2025 (2025 Shelf Registration Statement), in relation to the registration of common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, warrants and/or units of any combination thereof for the purposes of selling, from time to time, the Company’s common stock, debt securities or other equity securities in one or more offerings. The Company also simultaneously entered into a Sales Agreement with TD Cowen to provide for the offering, issuance and sale of up to an aggregate amount of $150.0 million of the Company's common stock from time to time in “at-the-market” offerings (the 2025 ATM Program) under the 2025 Shelf Registration Statement and subject to the limitations thereof (the 2025 Sales Agreement). During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company sold 4,160,176 shares pursuant to the 2025 ATM Program for net proceeds of $10,151. In the first quarter of 2026, the Company sold 8,055,260 additional shares, for net proceeds of $22,568.

2019 Stock Option and Incentive Plan

The 2019 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (2019 Plan) was approved by the Company’s board of directors on October 14, 2019, and became effective on October 23, 2019. The 2019 Plan provides for the grant of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock units, restricted stock awards, unrestricted stock awards, cash-based awards and dividend equivalent rights to the Company’s officers, employees, directors and consultants. The number of shares initially reserved for issuance under the 2019 Plan was 2,342,288, which will be increased each January 1 thereafter by 4% of the number of shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding on the immediately preceding December 31 or such lesser number of shares determined by the Company’s board of directors or compensation committee of the board of directors. On June 1, 2023, at the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company, the stockholders of the Company approved Amendment No. 1 to the 2019 Plan, increasing the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the 2019 Plan by 3,000,000 shares. On January 1, 2026, the total number of shares under the 2019 Plan was increased by 4,019,172 shares pursuant to the 2019 Plan Evergreen Provision. As of March 31, 2026, there were 1,315,540 shares remaining available for issuance under the 2019 Plan.

2025 Inducement Plan

In October 2025, the Company adopted the 2025 Inducement Plan (Inducement Plan). The Inducement Plan was adopted by the Compensation Committee of the Company’s board of directors without stockholder approval pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). In accordance with Rule 5635(c)(4), awards made under the Inducement Plan, including stock options and restricted stock units, may only be granted to newly hired employees as a material inducement to accept employment with the Company. Stock options granted under the Inducement Plan expire no later than ten years from the date of grant. The number of shares reserved for issuance under the Inducement Plan was 275,000 shares. As of March 31, 2026, there were no shares available for issuance under the Inducement Plan. Subsequent to March 31, 2026, the Company's board of directors authorized an increase in the number of shares of common stock

reserved for issuance under the Inducement Plan to 1,275,000 shares. As a result, 1,000,000 shares remain available for issuance under the Inducement Plan following the increase.

Stock Option Repricing

On May 19, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the repricing of certain outstanding vested and unvested stock options. Pursuant to the repricing, all options granted under the 2018 Plan and 2019 Plan held by current employees, non-employee directors and certain consultants were repriced to $1.92, the closing price of the Company’s common stock on May 19, 2025, to the extent such options had an exercise price in excess of 1.5x the $1.92 closing price per share. To exercise the repriced options at the reduced exercise price, eligible participants must remain employed with the Company through a retention period of 12 months that begins on May 19, 2025.

As a result of the repricing, 9,900,096 vested and unvested stock options outstanding as of May 19, 2025, with original exercise prices ranging from $2.88 to $23.97, were repriced. The repricing resulted in incremental stock-based compensation expense of $3,021, of which $1,813 related to vested stock option awards and is being amortized over the retention period, and $1,208 related to unvested stock option awards and is being amortized on a straight-line basis over the remaining vesting period of those awards.

Stock Option Activity

A summary of stock option activity is presented below:


	Number of Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price (1)		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term (years)		Aggregate Intrinsic Value (1)
Outstanding as of January 1, 2026		13,835,372		$	8.57		7.1	$	2,371
Granted		3,886,400			3.28
Exercised		(15,113	)		2.11				16
Forfeited/Cancelled		(116,297	)		4.63
Outstanding as of March 31, 2026		17,590,362		$	7.43		7.5	$	4,322
Options Exercisable at March 31, 2026		8,923,688		$	9.01		5.9	$	1,982

(1) The weighted average exercise prices and aggregate intrinsic values in this table will not reflect the impact of the May 2025 repricing until the retention period is complete in May 2026.

The aggregate intrinsic value of options is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the options and the fair value of the Company’s common stock. The weighted average grant-date fair value of stock options granted during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 was $2.83 and $1.45, respectively.

The fair value of each award is estimated using Black-Scholes based on the following assumptions:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026	2025
Risk-free interest rate	3.70%—3.91%	3.98%—4.46%
Expected term	6.1 years	6.1 years
Expected volatility	116%	112%
Expected dividend yield	0%	0%

Black-Scholes requires the use of subjective assumptions which determine the fair value of stock-based awards. These assumptions include:

Expected term—The expected term represents the period that stock-based awards are expected to be outstanding. The expected term for option grants is determined using the simplified method, which is the midpoint between the vesting period and the contractual term of the option.

Expected volatility—Expected volatility is estimated using the Company's stock price since its IPO in October 2019.

Risk-free interest rate—The risk-free interest rate is based on the U.S. Treasury zero coupon issues in effect at the time of grant for periods corresponding with the expected term of a stock-based award.

Expected dividend—The Company has never paid dividends on its common stock and has no plans to pay dividends on its common stock. Therefore, the Company used an expected dividend yield of zero.

Stock-based Compensation

The Company has recorded stock-based compensation in the accompanying statements of operations as follows:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
Research and development	$	2,939	$	2,666
General and administrative		2,317		2,495
Total	$	5,256	$	5,161

As of March 31, 2026, there was $40,021 of unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested option awards and vested option awards subject to the twelve month retention period, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.4 years.

2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

The 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (2019 ESPP) was approved by the Company’s board of directors on October 14, 2019, and became effective on October 23, 2019. A total of 234,229 shares of common stock were initially reserved for issuance under the 2019 ESPP, and such number of shares will be increased each January 1 thereafter through January 1, 2029 by the least of (i) 234,229 shares of common stock, (ii) 1% of the number of shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding on the immediately preceding December 31 or (iii) such lesser number of shares determined by the 2019 ESPP’s administrator. On January 1, 2026, the total number of shares available under the 2019 ESPP was increased by 234,229 shares pursuant to the 2019 Plan Evergreen Provision. As of March 31, 2026, there were 370,612 shares remaining available for issuance under the 2019 ESPP.

Employee contributions are made through payroll deductions of up to 15% of eligible compensation over the offering period. A participant may not accrue rights to purchase more than $25 worth of the Company’s common stock for each calendar year in which such right is outstanding. At the end of each offering period, shares of the Company’s common stock may be purchased at 85% of the lesser of the Company’s common stock on (i) the first trading day of the relevant offering period and (ii) the last trading day of the relevant offering period. Each offering period will be six months in duration and will commence on each December 1 and June 1.

10. Income Taxes

The Company did not record an income tax benefit in its statements of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 as it is more likely than not that the Company will not recognize the federal and state deferred tax benefits generated by its losses. The Company has provided a valuation allowance for the full amount of its net deferred tax assets and liabilities as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, as management has determined it is more likely than not that any future benefit from deductible temporary differences and net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards would not be realized. The Company has not recorded any amounts for unrecognized tax benefits as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025.

11. Net Loss Per Share

The Company calculates basic and diluted net loss per share in conformity with the two-class method required for participating securities. The Company has 6,409,519 authorized shares of non-voting common stock. None of these shares of non-voting common stock have been outstanding since May 2024. Since the rights of the voting and non-voting common stock are identical, except with respect to voting, the undistributed losses of the Company are allocated on a proportionate basis to the two classes in periods when non-voting stock is outstanding. Basic net loss per share of common stock is computed by dividing the net loss per share of common stock by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding for the period. The weighted-average shares of common stock outstanding as of March 31, 2026 included outstanding pre-funded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 6,000,000 shares of common stock. No pre-funded warrants were outstanding as of March 31, 2025.


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026			2025
	Voting common stock			Voting common stock
Basic and diluted net loss per share:
Net loss	$	(43,515	)	$	(35,943	)
Weighted average number of shares outstanding		112,025,474			50,743,101
Net loss per share, basic and diluted	$	(0.39	)	$	(0.71	)

The following outstanding potentially dilutive shares have been excluded from the calculation of diluted net loss per share, as their effect is anti-dilutive:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
Stock options to purchase common stock		17,590,362		14,066,205
Warrants to purchase common stock		50,315,090		—
Total		67,905,452		14,066,205

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with the section entitled “Risk Factors,” and our unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and with our audited financial statements and the notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2025 included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business and related financing, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. As a result of many factors, including those factors set forth in the section entitled “Risk Factors,” our actual results could differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis. You should carefully read the section entitled “Risk Factors” to gain an understanding of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our forward-looking statements.

Our Company

We are a late clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative engineered T cell therapies that have the potential to provide deep and durable, perhaps curative, responses with one-time administration for patients with autoimmune diseases. Our proprietary CABA®, or Cabaletta Approach to B cell Ablation, platform focuses on the CARTA, or Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cells for Autoimmunity, approach, which is designed to potentially reset the immune system. Based on clinical data reported to date, we believe our CABA® platform has the potential to safely enable complete and durable responses for a broad range of autoimmune diseases and that it has potential applicability across dozens of autoimmune diseases that we have identified, evaluated and prioritized.

Resecabtagene autoleucel (rese-cel, formerly referred to as CABA-201) is a 4-1BB co-stimulatory domain-containing fully human CD19-CAR T construct designed to treat patients with a broad range of autoimmune diseases and is our lead product candidate within the CARTA strategy. Rese-cel is designed to achieve transient and deep depletion of all B cells following a single, weight-based infusion of T cells that are engineered to express an antibody fragment that recognizes a B cell receptor expressed on the surface of all B cells. The construct is designed to allow for the deep elimination of all B cells, including all B cells that contribute to disease, with subsequent repopulation by healthy transitional, naïve B cells. This approach has demonstrated the potential to reset the immune system and result in meaningful clinical responses without chronic therapy requirements in patients. The efficacy and safety of rese-cel were recently reviewed, along with all other commercial and academic constructs in development in a February 2026 Nature Biotechnology publication. As of December 2025, in the first 40 patients dosed with rese-cel with preconditioning across four RESETTM trials, 95% of patients had either no cytokine release syndrome, or CRS, or Grade 1 CRS (transient fever) and 95% of patients experienced no immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome, or ICANS.

In December 2025, we initiated a registrational trial with rese-cel for patients with dermatomyositis or anti-synthetase syndrome. In addition, we have ongoing Phase 1/2 trials evaluating rese-cel with a standard preconditioning regimen, fludarabine and cyclophosphamide, in systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, in patients with active lupus nephritis, or LN, or active SLE without renal involvement, systemic sclerosis, or SSc, and generalized myasthenia gravis, or gMG.

In addition to our development program across multiple indications using standard preconditioning regimens, based on early data from a Phase 1/2 trial evaluating rese-cel without preconditioning in pemphigus vulgaris patients, we are evaluating rese-cel without preconditioning in non-renal SLE and LN patients. Longer-term data from the no-preconditioning SLE, LN and PV patients is expected to be presented in the second half of 2026.

In January 2026, we announced investigational new drug, or IND, clearance for rese-cel to be manufactured using an automated manufacturing platform - the Cell ShuttleTM from Cellares Corporation, or Cellares - offering the potential for scalability to produce rese-cel for thousands of patients per year with minimal capital investment by the Company. In April 2026, we entered into a commercial supply agreement with Cellares for the commercial supply of rese-cel using Cellares’ automated Cell ShuttleTM and through future implementation of Cellares’ Cell Q platform.

RESET-Myositis®

The three adult myositis subtypes, dermatomyositis, or DM, anti-synthetase syndrome, or ASyS, and immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy, or IMNM, being evaluated in the RESET-Myositis® Phase 1/2 clinical trial of rese-cel affect approximately 80,000 patients in the U.S. Myositis typically affects middle-aged individuals, particularly women, and the disease is often refractory, despite existing therapies. In the United States, we believe approximately 20% to 25% of the prevalent population, or 16,000 to 20,000 people, would be potentially eligible patients for rese-cel.

The RESET-Myositis® Phase 1/2 clinical trial is designed to treat at least six patients with DM or ASyS, at least six patients with IMNM, as well as at least six patients with juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathy, or JIIM, all in separate parallel cohorts, with a single weight-based dose of 1.0 x 106 cells/kg. We announced the FDA granted Fast Track Designation for rese-cel for the treatment of patients with dermatomyositis and Orphan Drug Designation for rese-cel for the treatment of myositis in January and February 2024, respectively. In March 2024, we announced the FDA granted Rare Pediatric Disease designation for rese-cel for juvenile dermatomyositis. In May 2025, we announced the FDA granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy, or RMAT, designation to rese-cel for the treatment of myositis. Based on clinical data presented in October 2025 at the American College of Rheumatology, or ACR, Convergence 2025, we initiated a DM/ASyS registrational cohort within the RESET-Myositis® trial. There are approximately 60,000 patients with DM in the U.S. who have IVIg as their only FDA-approved treatment option and approximately 15,000 patients with ASyS in the U.S. who have no FDA-approved treatment options. Our registrational trial design includes a 16-week primary endpoint of moderate or major TIS response while off immunomodulators and on no or low-dose steroids. Based on the safety data from the Phase 1/2 cohort, the protocol permits outpatient administration. In addition, we are planning for a pediatric submission in juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathy, or JIIM, based on data available at the time of adult submission from the ongoing Ph 1/2 cohort to support a pediatric label claim.

The planned size of 17 patients for the registrational cohort is based on the assumed treatment effect of rese-cel in DM/ASyS patients and an estimated background rate. The estimated background rate will be determined from a retrospective analysis of an external myositis patient registry and will include patients with similar inclusion criteria as those in the registrational DM/ASyS cohort. Based on comprehensive literature review to estimate the background rate, we estimate the likelihood of an active, refractory myositis patient achieving moderate or major TIS response within 16 weeks and concurrently discontinuing all immunomodulators to be less than 10%. Changes in the assumed background rate would result in a change in the number of rese-cel treated patients who would need to achieve the primary endpoint in the 17-patient registrational cohort.

The registrational cohorts will evaluate the same single, weight-based infusion of rese-cel at 1.0 x 106 cells/kg as used in the Phase 1/2 myositis cohorts with similar enrollment criteria. As presented at ACR Convergence 2025, all myositis patients in the Phase 1/2 DM/ASyS cohort with sufficient follow-up who met key registrational inclusion criteria exceeded the registrational primary endpoint, demonstrating major TIS responses with no immunomodulators. Based on discussions with the FDA, we plan to use pooled rese-cel safety data from across the entire RESETTM clinical trial program to supplement myositis-specific safety data for the Biologics License Application, or BLA, submission in myositis, and the required safety database is expected to be approximately 100 autoimmune disease patients treated with the same single weight-based dose. We initiated enrollment in the registrational DM/ASyS cohort in December 2025 and anticipate BLA submission in 2027.

RESET-SLETM

SLE is a chronic, potentially severe, autoimmune disease, most commonly impacting young women between the ages of 15 and 40 with higher frequency and more severity in people of color, where the immune system attacks healthy tissue throughout the body. SLE affects an estimated up to 320,000 patients in the U.S., with LN as the most common end-organ manifestation, affecting approximately 30-40% of SLE patients.

The RESET-SLETM Phase 1/2 clinical trial is designed to treat six SLE patients with active LN, and in a separate parallel cohort, six patients with active SLE without renal involvement, with a single weight-based dose of 1.0 x 106 cells/kg. In May 2023, we announced the FDA granted Fast Track Designation for rese-cel in patients with SLE and LN. In November 2025, we announced the FDA granted RMAT designation to rese-cel for treatment of SLE and LN. In January 2026, Cabaletta announced registrational cohort designs in RESET-SLETM to evaluate the current rese-cel weight-based dose of 1 million cells/kg in a single infusion with preconditioning, including two independent, single-arm cohorts, one consisting of patients with non-renal SLE and one consisting of patients with LN, each evaluating approximately 25 patients with unique endpoints in each cohort. Complete Phase 1/2 data from both cohorts is anticipated in the first half of 2026. Cabaletta will provide an update on next steps for these cohorts in 2026, subject to dose-ranging data evaluating rese-cel without preconditioning in lupus patients.

In the RESET-SLETM trial evaluating rese-cel without preconditioning in patients with lupus, the initial dose cohort is fully enrolled with initial data at the lowest dose anticipated in the first half of 2026 and longer-term durability data is expected to be presented in the second half of 2026.

RESET-SScTM

SSc is a rare and potentially fatal chronic autoimmune disease characterized by progressive skin and internal organ fibrosis that can be life-threatening, including interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, and scleroderma renal crisis. SSc affects approximately 90,000 patients in the U.S., typically middle-aged individuals, particularly women.

The RESET-SScTM Phase 1/2 clinical trial of rese-cel is designed to treat six patients with severe skin manifestations and six patients with severe organ involvement associated with SSc, each in separate parallel cohorts, with a single weight-based dose of 1.0 x 106 cells/kg. We announced the FDA granted Fast Track Designation for rese-cel for the treatment of patients with SSc to improve associated organ dysfunction and Orphan Drug Designation for rese-cel for the treatment of SSc in January and March 2024,

respectively. In January 2026, Cabaletta announced the FDA granted RMAT designation to rese-cel for treatment of SSc. Complete Phase 1/2 data from both cohorts is anticipated in the first half of 2026, and we anticipate announcing the registrational cohort design for SSc in the first half of 2026.

RESET-MGTM

MG is a rare autoimmune disease characterized by autoantibodies that interfere with signaling at the neuromuscular junction, leading to potentially life-threatening muscle weakness. The majority of patients with MG have autoantibodies known to be pathogenic based on their interference with proteins in the NMJ, of which the majority target AChR. gMG affects approximately 100,000 patients in the U.S. Symptoms of gMG include profound muscle weakness throughout the body, disabling fatigue, and potential shortness of breath due to respiratory muscle weakness, with risk for episodes of respiratory failure.

The RESET-MGTM Phase 1/2 clinical trial of rese-cel is designed to treat six patients with AChR-positive gMG and six patients with AChR-negative gMG, each in separate parallel cohorts, with a single weight-based dose of 1.0 x 106 cells/kg. In October 2025, we announced that rese-cel was generally well tolerated across two AChR-positive and two AChR-negative patients (both seronegative; no anti-MuSK or anti-LRP4 antibodies). No CRS occurred in three of four patients, and grade 2 CRS occurred in one AChR-positive patient that resolved with no sequelae. Both cohorts have been fully enrolled.

Complete Phase 1/2 data from both cohorts were presented at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting in April 2026. In the RESET-MG trial, 13 patients with active, refractory disease were treated with rese-cel with preconditioning with a data cut-off of March 6, 2026, and follow-up between 8 and 40 weeks. 7 patients were in the AChR-positive cohort, and 6 patients were in the AChR-negative cohort. 11 of 13 patients experienced no CRS and 13 of 13 patients experienced no ICANS. 10 of 13 patients experienced clinically meaningful improvements in MG-ADL scores off immunomodulators for MG while 3 patients received rescue medications for insufficient response. Of the 10 MG-ADL responders, 9 were off or tapering steroids, and one patient remained on chronic steroids for adrenal insufficiency. We anticipate announcing the registrational cohort design in MG in mid-2026.

RESET-PV®

Pemphigus vulgaris, or PV, is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system produces antibodies that attack a protein called desmoglein, or DSG. DSG normally enables skin cells and the cells lining the inside of your mouth, nose, throat, eyelids, etc. to bind tightly together. Disruption by the antibodies directed to DSG causes the painful blisters and erosions characteristic of PV. Approximately 15,000 patients in the U.S. are affected by PV.

The ongoing RESET-PV® trial is designed to evaluate rese-cel as a monotherapy without preconditioning in patients with mucosal pemphigus vulgaris, or mPV, and mucocutaneous pemphigus vulgaris, or mcPV. In October 2025, we announced that rese-cel exhibited similar CAR T cell expansion and contraction kinetics relative to translational data reported from other RESETTM trials with preconditioning. All three patients experienced substantial depletion of B cells within the first month post-infusion, with patients 2 and 3 achieving complete peripheral B cell depletion. Rese-cel was generally well tolerated with no ICANS reported as of the data cutoff. Durability data from the no-preconditioning PV patients is expected to be presented in the second half of 2026.

As of the data cutoff of April 2, 2026, in the RESET-PV® trial, 4 patients received rese-cel at the lowest dose without preconditioning and had follow-up between 24 and 36 weeks. 3 of 4 patients experienced no CRS (1 patient with Grade 1 CRS) and 4 of 4 patients experienced no ICANS. Complete peripheral B cell elimination was observed in 3 of 4 patients. 2 of 4 patients demonstrated compelling clinical activity through 6 months follow-up and 3 of 4 patients remained off all immunomodulators and steroids as of the data cut-off. We will present this data at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 2026 Annual Meeting in May 2026. Based on the safety profile observed at the lowest dose, multiple additional patients have been enrolled at a higher dose cohort in the RESET-PV trial® and longer-term data at the higher dose is anticipated in the second half of 2026.

Manufacturing

Our manufacturing strategy utilizes proven external suppliers, with a philosophy of maintaining redundant supply capability for cellular products.

We have established and implemented a phase-appropriate manufacturing supply strategy that includes Process A (early clinical phase), Process B (partially automated, commercially scalable process intended for initial commercial launch), and Process C (fully automated version of Process B). For cell manufacturing, we have partnered with Minaris Advanced Therapies, LLC, or Minaris, and Lonza Houston Inc., or Lonza, to serve as manufacturing partners for the global clinical development of rese-cel. For supply of lentiviral vector, we are working with Oxford Biomedica (UK) Limited, or Oxford.

In January 2026, we entered into a clinical supply agreement with Cellares to serve as a clinical supplier of rese-cel using Cellares’ automated manufacturing platform, the Cell Shuttle™, and we announced IND clearance for rese-cel to be manufactured using the Cellares Cell Shuttle™. We will present initial translational data from the first two autoimmune patients treated with rese-cel manufactured using the automated Cellares Cell Shuttle™ platform in the RESET™ clinical development program at ASGCT in May 2026.

In April 2026, we entered into a commercial supply agreement with Cellares under which Cellares would supply rese-cel using Cellares’ automated Cell ShuttleTM and through future implementation of Cellares’ Cell Q platform.

We were incorporated in April 2017 and started principal operations in August 2018. Our operations to date have been financed primarily by proceeds from the sale of convertible notes and convertible preferred stock prior to our initial public offering, or IPO, and proceeds from the sale of our common stock in public equity offerings, including our IPO, “at-the-market” offerings and follow-on offerings of shares of our common stock and pre-funded warrants. As of March 31, 2026, we had $116.6 million in cash and cash equivalents and through a follow-on offering in May 2026, we raised approximately $141.0 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses.

Key Agreements

IASO Agreement

On October 7, 2022, we entered into an Exclusive License Agreement, or the IASO Agreement, with IASO. Pursuant to the IASO Agreement, we received an exclusive, worldwide license under certain IASO intellectual property to use a novel clinical-stage anti-CD19 binder to develop, manufacture, commercialize and otherwise exploit T cell products directed to CD19 for the purpose of diagnosis, prevention or treatment of any autoimmune or alloimmune indications in humans. IASO has the right of first negotiation if we desire to grant a third party an exclusive license to develop, manufacture, commercialize or otherwise exploit the licensed products in the Greater China region. Pursuant to the IASO Agreement, we and IASO have agreed, subject to certain exceptions, to refrain from engaging in certain competitive activities with respect to certain programs. As partial consideration for the exclusive license, IASO received an upfront payment of $2.5 million. IASO is also eligible to receive up to mid double digit millions in milestone payments based upon the achievement of specified pre-clinical, development and regulatory milestones, and up to an additional low triple digit millions in milestone payments based upon achievement of specified sales milestones, for a total consideration, inclusive of the upfront payment, of up to $162 million, along with tiered mid-single digit royalties on future net sales for licensed products that may result from the IASO Agreement. We also may sublicense through multiple tiers the rights granted to it by IASO under the IASO Agreement at any time, however, we must pay IASO a low double-digit percentage of any revenue obtained from sublicenses or options to third parties, subject to certain customary exclusions. The IASO Agreement will continue on a country-by-country, licensed product-by-licensed product basis until the expiration of the royalty term as identified in the IASO Agreement, unless earlier terminated. We and IASO may terminate the IASO Agreement for a material, uncured breach or insolvency of the other party. We may also terminate the IASO Agreement at will upon advance written notice and in the event IASO rejects the IASO Agreement due to bankruptcy-related matters. IASO may also terminate the IASO Agreement if we fail to achieve certain specified diligence milestones in a timely manner and/or if we commence any patent challenges with respect to the patents and patent applications relating to the licensed sequence, in each case upon advance written notice. A milestone payment of $1.5 million was paid to IASO in the first quarter of 2024 after the first patient in a rese-cel trial was dosed.

Oxford Biomedica

In December 2021, we entered into the LSA with Oxford wherein the LSA grants us a non-exclusive license to Oxford’s LentiVector® platform for its application in our DSG3-CAART program and puts in place a multi-year vector supply agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, we were required to pay Oxford an upfront fee, as well as costs associated with initial vector manufacturing activities. Oxford, is eligible to receive regulatory and sales milestones in the low tens of millions and royalties in the low single digits on net sales of products that incorporate the Oxford technology. We can terminate the agreement at will upon advance written notice and subject to certain manufacturing slot cancellation fees. In May 2023, we amended the LSA with Oxford to expand the license to include our rese-cel program for an upfront fee of $0.5 million and in August 2023, we entered into a vector supply agreement with Oxford, and a related second amendment to the LSA, for rese-cel with a total cost of up to approximately $5.0 million under the vector supply agreement. In February 2024, we and Oxford entered into a third amendment to the LSA to update the patent schedule. In June 2024, we and Oxford entered into a fourth amendment to the LSA eliminating royalties on net sales of products that incorporate the Oxford technology if Oxford manufactures the vector. Starting in December 2024, we and Oxford entered into work orders for certain process characterization and process performance qualification activities as part of commercial readiness activities. We can terminate the LSA or any work order under the LSA at will upon advance written notice and subject to certain cancellation fees.

Minaris Manufacturing Agreement

In January 2021, we entered into a Development and Manufacturing Services Agreement (Minaris Agreement) with Minaris Advanced Therapies, LLC, or Minaris (f/k/a WuXi Advanced Therapies, Inc.) to serve as a cell processing manufacturing partner for the MuSK-CAART Phase 1 clinical trial, or MusCAARTesTM trial. In August 2023, and as extended in August 2024, we entered into an agreement with Minaris to serve as one of our manufacturing partners for the RESETTM clinical trials through August 2026. We may terminate for convenience the Minaris Agreement or any work order with six months' prior written notice, subject to an early termination fee of up to $1,080 if we terminate both the rese-cel and MuSK-CAART work orders for any reason. Minaris may terminate for

convenience the Minaris Agreement or any work order on 18 months' prior written notice, but such notice may not be effective prior to February 2028. In February 2026, we notified Minaris that we intended to permit the term to expire in August 2026.

Lonza Manufacturing Agreement

In December 2024, we entered into a Development and Manufacturing Services Agreement, or the Lonza Agreement, with Lonza to serve as one of our manufacturing partners for the global clinical development of rese-cel in multiple indications, including potential late-stage clinical trials and preparations for commercial readiness. The Lonza Agreement has a term of five years and can be extended for an additional three year term upon notice to Lonza at least 18 months prior to the expiration of the Lonza Agreement. We can terminate the Lonza Agreement at will upon nine months advance written notice to Lonza subject to the terms of the Lonza Agreement. Lonza can terminate the Lonza Agreement at will upon 24 months advance written notice to us subject to the terms of the Lonza Agreement. Under the initial work order, Lonza will perform cell therapy manufacturing activities for our CAR-T cell therapy product, rese-cel, for an initial term of 12 months with the ability to extend the manufacturing period on a rolling basis subject to the terms of the Lonza Agreement.

Cellares Agreement

In January 2026, we entered into a Development and Clinical Manufacturing Services Agreement, or the Cellares Agreement, with Cellares to serve as one of our manufacturing partners for the clinical development of rese-cel in multiple indications, including potential late-stage clinical trials and preparations for commercial readiness. The Cellares Agreement has a term of five years. We can terminate the Cellares Agreement at will by providing a certain advance written notice to Cellares subject to the terms of the Cellares Agreement. Cellares can terminate the Cellares Agreement at will by providing a certain advance written notice to us subject to the terms of the Cellares Agreement. Under the initial work order, Cellares will perform clinical cell therapy manufacturing activities for our CAR-T cell therapy product, rese-cel.

In April 2026, we announced the execution of a commercial agreement with Cellares to provide future commercial supply of rese-cel, pending FDA approval, using its automated manufacturing and quality control platforms. The agreement facilitates flexible, scalable automated production of rese-cel with minimal capital investment.

Amended and Restated License Agreement with the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

In August 2018, we entered into a license agreement with Penn, which was amended and restated in July 2019 to include CHOP, collectively, the Institutions, and collectively with such amendment, as amended in May 2020 and October 2021, the License Agreement, pursuant to which we obtained (a) a non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, worldwide research license to make, have made and use products in two subfields of use, (b) effective as of October 2018, an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing license, with the right to sublicense, under certain of the Institutions’ intellectual property to make, use, sell, offer for sale and import products in the same two subfields of use, and (c) effective as of October 2018, a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing license, with limited rights to sublicense, under certain of Penn’s know-how to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import and have imported products in the same two subfields of use. Our rights are subject to the rights of the U.S. government and certain rights retained by the Institutions.

Unless earlier terminated, the License Agreement expires on the expiration, abandonment or other termination of the last valid claim in Penn’s intellectual property licensed by us. We may terminate the License Agreement at any time for convenience upon 60 days' written notice. In the event of an uncured, material breach, Penn may terminate the License Agreement upon 60 days' written notice.

Components of Operating Results

Revenue

To date, we have not generated any revenue from product sales and do not expect to generate any revenue from the sales of products for several years, if at all. If our development efforts for our current or future product candidates are successful and result in marketing approval, we may generate revenue in the future from product sales. We cannot predict if, when or to what extent we will generate revenue from the commercialization and sale of our product candidates. We may never succeed in obtaining regulatory approval for any of our product candidates.

We may also in the future enter into license or collaboration agreements for our product candidates or intellectual property, and we may generate revenue in the future from payments as a result of such license or collaboration agreements.

Operating Expenses

Research and Development

Our research and development expenses include:

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personnel costs, which include salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation expense;

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expenses incurred under agreements with consultants and third-party contract organizations that conduct research and development activities on our behalf;

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costs related to sponsored research service agreements;

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costs related to production of preclinical and clinical materials, including fees paid to contract manufacturers;

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licensing fees for intellectual property and know-how;

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laboratory and vendor expenses related to the execution of preclinical studies and ongoing and planned clinical trials; and

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laboratory supplies and equipment used for internal research and development activities and related depreciation expense.

We have not reported program costs since inception because historically we have not tracked or recorded our research and development expenses on a pre-clinical program-by-program basis. We use our personnel and infrastructure resources across the breadth of our research and development activities, which are directed toward identifying and developing product candidates.

We expense all research and development costs in the periods in which they are incurred. Costs for certain research and development activities are recognized based on an evaluation of the progress to completion of specific tasks using information and data provided to us by our vendors and third-party service providers.

We expect our research and development expenses to increase substantially for the foreseeable future as we continue to invest in research and development activities related to developing our product candidates, including investments in manufacturing, as our programs advance and we conduct clinical trials. The process of conducting the necessary clinical research to obtain regulatory approval is costly and time-consuming, and the successful development of our product candidates is highly uncertain. As a result, we are unable to determine the duration and completion costs of our research and development projects or when and to what extent we will generate revenue from the commercialization and sale of any of our product candidates.

Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with product development, we cannot determine with certainty the duration and completion costs of the current or future preclinical studies and clinical trials or if, when, or to what extent we will generate revenues from the commercialization and sale of our product candidates. We may never succeed in achieving regulatory approval for our product candidates. The duration, costs and timing of preclinical studies and clinical trials and development of our product candidates will depend on a variety of factors, including:

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successful completion of preclinical studies and IND and/or CTA-enabling studies;

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development of chemistry, manufacturing and controls, or CMC, processes and procedures for purposes of IND and/or CTA applications;

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successful patient enrollment in, and the initiation and completion of, clinical trials;

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the impact of any business interruptions to our operations, including the timing and enrollment of patients in our ongoing and planned clinical trials, or to those of our clinical sites, manufacturers, suppliers, or other vendors resulting from public health crises;

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receipt of regulatory approvals from applicable regulatory authorities;

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establishing commercial manufacturing capabilities or arrangements with third-party manufacturers;

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obtaining and maintaining patent and trade secret protection and non-patent exclusivity;

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launching commercial sales of our product candidates, if and when approved, whether alone or in collaboration with others;

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acceptance of our product candidates, if and when approved, by patients, the medical community and third-party payors;

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effectively competing with other therapies and treatment options;

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a continued acceptable safety and efficacy profile following approval;

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enforcing and defending intellectual property and proprietary rights and claims; and

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achieving desirable medicinal properties for the intended indications.

We may never succeed in achieving regulatory approval for any of our product candidates. We may obtain unexpected results from our preclinical studies and clinical trials. We may elect to discontinue, delay or modify clinical trials of some product candidates or focus on others. A change in the outcome of any of these factors could mean a significant change in the costs and timing associated with the development of our current and future preclinical and clinical product candidates. For example, if the FDA or another regulatory authority, were to require us to conduct clinical trials beyond those that we currently anticipate will be required for the completion of clinical development, or if we experience significant delays in execution of or enrollment in any of our preclinical studies or clinical trials, we could be required to expend significant additional financial resources and time on the completion of preclinical and clinical development. We expect our research and development expenses to increase for the foreseeable future as we continue the development of product candidates.

General and Administrative Expenses

Our general and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel costs, costs related to maintenance and filing of intellectual property, depreciation expense and other expenses for outside professional services, including legal, human resources, information technology, audit and accounting services. Personnel costs consist of salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation expense. We expect our general and administrative expenses to increase over the next several years to support our continued research and development activities, manufacturing activities, increased costs of operating as a public company and the potential commercialization of our product candidates. We anticipate our general and administrative costs will increase with respect to the hiring of additional personnel, developing commercial infrastructure, fees to outside consultants, lawyers and accountants, and increased costs associated with being a public company such as expenses related to services associated with maintaining compliance with Nasdaq listing rules and SEC requirements, insurance and investor relations costs.

Other Income

Other income consists of interest earned on our cash, cash equivalents and investments and amortization of bond discount or premium.

Interest Expense

Interest expense consists primarily of interest expense associated with finance lease arrangements.

Other Income, net

Other income, net primarily consists of foreign currency gains and losses and proceeds received from the sale of our Pennsylvania research and development tax credits.

Results of Operations for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025

The following sets forth our results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026			2025			Change
	(in thousands)
Statements of Operations Data:
Operating expenses:
Research and development	$	37,353		$	29,018		$	8,335
General and administrative		6,943			8,118			(1,175	)
Total operating expenses		44,296			37,136			7,160
Loss from operations		(44,296	)		(37,136	)		(7,160	)
Other income (expense):
Interest income		1,076			1,487			(411	)
Interest expense		(636	)		(294	)		(342	)
Other income, net		341			—			341
Net loss	$	(43,515	)	$	(35,943	)	$	(7,572	)

Research and Development

Research and development expenses were $37.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to $29.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The table below summarizes our research and development expenses:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025		Change
	(in thousands)
Clinical trials	$	10,604	$	8,511	$	2,093
Manufacturing of preclinical and clinical supplies		10,793		5,032		5,761
Personnel		12,389		11,365		1,024
Development services		2,755		3,567		(812	)
Other		812		543		269
	$	37,353	$	29,018	$	8,335

Specific changes in our research and development expenses year over year include a:

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$5.8 million increase in manufacturing costs primarily due to expanded cell processing capabilities, including those for commercial readiness, and increased patient enrollment and related activities;

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$2.1 million increase in clinical trial costs primarily due to higher enrollment and clinical trial sites across multiple clinical studies for rese-cel;

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$1.0 million increase in personnel costs primarily driven by an increase in headcount to support overall growth related to our rese-cel program, including an increase of $0.3 million in stock-based compensation expense; partially offset by a

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$0.8 million decrease in development services primarily due to lower spend on external research activities.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses were $6.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to $8.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The decrease of $1.2 million is primarily driven by lower personnel related costs due to decreased headcount.

Interest Income

Interest income decreased by $0.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025, primarily due to lower cash, cash equivalents and investment balances earning interest during 2026 as prior financing proceeds were utilized to fund operating activities, as well as reductions in interest rates on government securities.

Interest Expense

Interest expense increased $0.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025, as a result of finance lease arrangements from embedded leases within our manufacturing agreements with Minaris and Lonza.

Other Income, net

Other Income, net increased $0.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025, due to proceeds received from the sale of our Pennsylvania research and development tax credits.

Liquidity, Capital Resources and Going Concern

From our inception in April 2017 to the time of our initial public offering, or IPO, our operations were financed by proceeds of $86.4 million from the sale of convertible notes and our convertible preferred stock and proceeds of $71.0 million from the sale of common stock in our IPO. Since our IPO and through March 31, 2026, we have generated cash from public offerings of our common stock and pre-funded warrants to purchase our common stock resulting in aggregate net proceeds of approximately $413.0 million. Our cash and cash equivalents balance of $116.6 million as of March 31, 2026, along with net proceeds of approximately $141.0 million

from our May 2026 financing, should enable us to fund our operations and capital expenditures into mid-2027. Cash in excess of immediate requirements is invested in accordance with our investment policy, primarily with a view to liquidity and capital preservation.

We have incurred losses since our inception and, as of March 31, 2026, we had an accumulated deficit of $560.5 million. Our primary use of cash is to fund operating expenses, which consist primarily of research and development expenditures, and to a lesser extent, general and administrative expenditures. Cash used to fund operating expenses is impacted by the timing of when we pay these expenses, as reflected in the change in our outstanding prepaid expenses and other current assets, accounts payable and accrued expenses.

Any product candidates we may develop may never achieve commercialization and we anticipate that we will continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future. We expect that our research and development expenses, general and administrative expenses, and capital expenditures will continue to increase. As a result, until such time, if ever, as we can generate substantial product revenue, we expect to finance our cash needs through a combination of equity offerings, debt financings or other capital sources, including potentially collaborations, licenses and other similar arrangements. Our primary uses of capital are, and we expect will continue to be, compensation and related expenses, third-party clinical research, manufacturing and development services, office and laboratory, laboratories and manufacturing facility, license payments or milestone obligations that may arise, laboratory and related supplies, clinical costs, manufacturing costs, legal and other regulatory expenses and general overhead costs.

We evaluated whether there are conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements are issued. We expect that our current cash and cash equivalents may be sufficient to fund our operations for at least the next twelve months from the date of issuance of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements; however, our cash forecast contains estimates and assumptions with significant variability and we cannot predict the amount or timing of all expenditures with certainty. Our ultimate success depends on the outcome of our research and development activities. We expect to incur additional losses in the future as we continue our research and development and we will need to raise additional capital to fully implement our business plan and to fund our operations. Accordingly, we have concluded that substantial doubt exists about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. We will continue to seek funds through equity offerings, debt financings or other capital sources, including potentially collaborations, licenses and other similar arrangements. However, we may be unable to raise additional funds or enter into such other arrangements when needed on favorable terms or at all. If we do raise additional capital through public or private equity offerings, the ownership interest of our existing stockholders will be diluted, and the terms of these securities may include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect our stockholders’ rights. If we raise additional capital through debt financing, we may be subject to covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures or declaring dividends. Any failure to raise capital as and when needed could have a negative impact on our financial condition and on our ability to pursue our business plans and strategies. If we are unable to raise capital, we will need to delay, reduce or terminate certain planned activities to reduce costs.

At-The-Market Offering Sales Agreement

On March 31, 2025, we converted the Form S-3ASR to a Form S-3 (File No. 333-278126) by post-effective amendments. This Form S-3 was declared effective on March 31, 2025. We had a Sales Agreement with TD Securities (USA) LLC, as successor to Cowen and Company, LLC, or TD Cowen, to provide for the offering, issuance and sale of up to an aggregate amount of $200.0 million of common stock from time to time in “at-the-market” offerings, or the 2024 ATM Program, pursuant to its S-3, and subject to the limitations thereof. On June 11, 2025, the 2024 ATM Program with TD Cowen was terminated. Prior to termination, we sold an aggregate of 2,609,865 shares pursuant to the 2024 ATM Program for total net proceeds of $7.7 million, consisting of $5.1 million in 2024 and $2.6 million in 2025.

On August 7, 2025, we filed a Registration Statement (File No. 333-289339) with the SEC, which was declared effective on August 15, 2025, or the 2025 Shelf Registration Statement, in relation to the registration of common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, warrants and/or units of any combination thereof for the purposes of selling, from time to time, our common stock, debt securities or other equity securities in one or more offerings. We also simultaneously entered into a Sales Agreement with TD Cowen to provide for the offering, issuance and sale of up to an aggregate amount of $150.0 million of our common stock from time to time in “at-the-market” offerings, or the 2025 ATM Program, under the 2025 Shelf Registration Statement and subject to the limitations thereof, or the 2025 Sales Agreement. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we sold 4,160,176 shares pursuant to the 2025 ATM Program for net proceeds of $10.2 million. During the first quarter of 2026, we sold 8,055,260 shares of common stock pursuant to the 2025 ATM Program for net proceeds of $22.6 million.

May 2026 Financing

In May 2026, we issued 51,725,000 shares of our common stock at a price of $2.90 per share pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated May 4, 2026 to our shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-278126). The offering was underwritten by TD Securities (USA) LLC, Guggenheim Securities, LLC and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., as joint book-running managers, and H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, as lead manager. Aggregate net proceeds were approximately $141.0 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses.

June 2025 Financing

In June 2025, we issued (i) 39,200,000 shares of our common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase an aggregate of 39,200,000 shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof) and (ii) in lieu of common stock, to certain investors, pre-funded warrants to purchase an aggregate of up to 10,800,000 shares of our common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase an aggregate of 10,800,000 shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof), at an exercise price of $0.00001 per pre-funded warrant. The combined offering price of each share of common stock and accompanying common stock warrant was $2.00. The combined offering price of each pre-funded warrant and accompanying common stock warrant was $1.99999. The pre-funded warrants were exercisable immediately. The common stock and pre-funded warrants were sold in combination with an accompanying common stock warrant to purchase one share of common stock (or a pre-funded warrant in lieu thereof) for each share of common stock or pre-funded warrant sold. Each common stock warrant has an exercise price per share of $2.50. The common stock warrants are immediately exercisable from the date of issuance and will expire fifteen months from the date of issuance. Aggregate net proceeds were $93.6 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses. As of March 31, 2026, 4,800,000 pre-funded warrants had been exercised and 6,000,000 remain outstanding. In addition, as of March 31, 2026, 2,775,100 common stock warrants were exercised for proceeds of $6.9 million and 50,315,090 common stock warrants remain outstanding.

Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with research, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products, we are unable to estimate the exact amount of our operating capital requirements. Our future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including, but not limited to:

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the scope, progress, results and costs of researching, developing and manufacturing our lead product candidates or any future product candidates, and conducting preclinical studies and clinical trials;

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the timing of, and the costs involved in, obtaining regulatory approvals or clearances for our lead product candidates or any future product candidates;

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the impact of any business interruptions to our operations or to those of our clinical sites, manufacturers, suppliers, or other vendors resulting from public health crises;

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the number and characteristics of any additional product candidates we develop or acquire;

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the timing of any cash milestone payments if we successfully achieve certain predetermined milestones;

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the cost of manufacturing our lead product candidate or any future product candidates and any products we successfully commercialize, including costs associated with building-out our manufacturing capabilities;

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our ability to establish and maintain strategic collaborations, licensing or other arrangements and the financial terms of any such agreements that we may enter into;

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the expenses needed to attract and retain skilled personnel;

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the costs associated with being a public company; and

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the timing, receipt and amount of sales of any future approved or cleared products, if any.

Further, our operating plans may change, and we may need additional funds to meet operational needs and capital requirements for clinical trials and other research and development activities. We currently have no credit facility or committed sources of capital. Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with the development and commercialization of our product candidates, we are unable to estimate the amounts of increased capital outlays and operating expenditures associated with our current and anticipated product development programs.

Cash Flows

The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods indicated:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026			2025
	(in thousands)
Net cash provided by (used in):
Operating activities	$	(42,561	)	$	(30,802	)
Investing activities		50,960			(785	)
Financing activities		25,267			(552	)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents		(13	)		7
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents	$	33,653		$	(32,132	)

Operating Activities

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, cash used in operating activities of $42.6 million was attributable to our net loss of $43.5 million and a net change of $9.4 million in our net operating assets and liabilities, partially offset by non-cash charges of $10.3 million for stock-based compensation charges, amortization of finance lease, non-cash operating lease expense, depreciation, accretion of operating lease liabilities and foreign currency exchange rates.

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, cash used in operating activities of $30.8 million was attributable to our net loss of $35.9 million, partially offset by non-cash charges of $8.2 million for stock-based compensation charges, amortization of finance lease, non-cash operating lease expense, depreciation, accretion of operating lease liabilities and foreign currency exchange rates and a net change of $3.1 million in our net operating assets and liabilities.

Investing Activities

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, cash provided by investing activities of $51.0 million was attributable to the maturity of short-term investments.

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, cash used in investing activities of $0.8 million was attributable to purchases of property and equipment.

Financing Activities

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, cash provided by financing activities of $25.3 million was attributable to $22.6 million in sales of common stock under our 2025 ATM Program, net of sales agent commission and fees and $6.9 million from the exercise of common stock warrants, offset by $4.3 million in principal payments on finance leases.

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, cash used by financing activities of $0.6 million was attributable to principal payments on finance leases.

Contractual Obligations and Commitments

For a discussion of contractual obligations and other commitments affecting us, see the discussion under the heading “Management Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Contractual obligations and other commitments” included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, as filed with the SEC on March 23, 2026.

There have been no material changes to the Company’s contractual obligations and other commitments since December 31, 2025.

Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates

The Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, as filed with the SEC on March 23, 2026, have not materially changed.

Smaller Reporting Company Status

We are a “smaller reporting company,” as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. We would cease to be a smaller reporting company if we have a public float in excess of $250 million, or have annual revenues in excess of $100 million and a public float in excess of $700 million, determined on an annual basis. This status allows us to take advantage of many of the same exemptions from disclosure requirements including not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

For a discussion of recently issued accounting pronouncements please read Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in this report.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

We are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of our business. These risks primarily include interest rate sensitivities. We held cash and cash equivalents of $116.6 million as of March 31, 2026. We generally hold our cash in interest-bearing money market treasury fund accounts. Our primary exposure to market risk is interest rate sensitivity, which is affected by changes in the general level of U.S. interest rates. Due to the short-term maturities of our cash equivalents, an immediate 100 basis point change in interest rates would not have a material effect on the fair market value of our cash equivalents. Declines in interest rates, however, would reduce future investment income.

We do not have any foreign currency or derivative financial instruments. Inflation generally affects us by increasing our cost of labor and program costs. Although we do not believe that inflation has had a material impact on our financial position or results of operations to date, we may experience some effect in the near future (especially if inflation rates continue to rise) due to an impact on the costs to conduct clinical trials, labor costs we incur to attract and retain qualified personnel, and other operational costs. Inflationary costs could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report were effective at a reasonable assurance level in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act (i) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and (ii) accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely discussions regarding required disclosure. We believe that a control system, no matter how well designed and operated, cannot provide absolute assurance that the objectives of the control system are met, and no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within a company have been detected.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that occurred during the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2026 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II—OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings.

From time to time, our company may become involved in litigation or legal proceedings. While the outcome of any such proceedings cannot be predicted with certainty, as of March 31, 2026, we are not involved in any material litigation or legal proceedings that we would expect to have a material adverse impact on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

Our business involves material and other risks, some of which are summarized and described below. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and the condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes. If any of the following risks actually occur, it could harm our business, prospects, operating results and financial condition and future prospects. In such event, the market price of our common stock could decline and you could lose all or part of your investment. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impair our business operations. This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q also contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of factors that are described below and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report.

The risk factors denoted with a "*", if any, are newly added or have been materially updated from our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025.

Risks Related to Our Business, Technology and Industry

Risks Related to Clinical Development

We are early in our development efforts. If we are unable to advance our product candidates through clinical development, obtain regulatory approval and ultimately commercialize our product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed.

We are early in our development efforts and we have not yet completed any clinical trials. Our ability to generate product revenues, which we do not expect will occur for many years, if ever, will depend heavily on the successful development and eventual commercialization of one or more of our product candidates. Even if we are able to develop and commercialize a marketable product, we may face challenges generating revenue from product sales. The success of our product candidates will depend on several factors, including the following:

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successful completion of preclinical studies resulting in data that is supportive of advancing to an investigational new drug, or IND, or clinical trial application, or CTA submission;

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successful submission and acceptance of INDs, CTAs or comparable applications;

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successful initiation of clinical trials;

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demonstration of adequate safety to progress to a therapeutic dose level;

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successful patient enrollment in and completion of clinical trials;

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receipt and related terms of regulatory and marketing approvals and licensures from applicable regulatory authorities;

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establishing commercial manufacturing capabilities or making arrangements with third-party manufacturers for clinical supply and commercial manufacturing of our product candidates;

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making arrangements with various medical divisions across hospitals for administration of our product candidates, including with cancer treatment centers to conduct leukapheresis and with the relevant hospital divisions to perform infusion;

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obtaining and maintaining patent and trade secret protection and regulatory exclusivity for our product candidates;

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establishing sales, marketing and distribution and patient administration capabilities and launching commercial sales of our products, if and when licensed, whether alone or in collaboration with others;

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acceptance of our products, if and when licensed, by patients, the medical community and third-party payors;

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effectively competing with established and emerging therapies targeting the same indications as our product candidates;

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obtaining and maintaining third-party coverage and adequate reimbursement; and

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maintaining a continued acceptable safety profile of our products following licensure.

If we do not achieve one or more of these factors in a timely manner or at all, we could experience significant delays or be unable to successfully commercialize our product candidates, which would materially harm our business. If we do not receive regulatory approvals for our product candidates, we may not be able to continue our operations.

Cellular therapies, including our engineered chimeric antigen receptor T cell, or CAR T, chimeric autoantibody receptor T cell, or CAAR T, product candidates, represent a novel approach to the treatment of autoimmune diseases, which creates significant challenges for us. Negative perception or increased regulatory scrutiny of any product candidates that we develop could adversely affect our ability to conduct our business or obtain regulatory approvals for such product candidates.

Cellular therapies are a novel approach to the treatment of autoimmune diseases, and negative perception or increased regulatory scrutiny of any product candidates that we develop could adversely affect our ability to conduct our business or obtain regulatory approvals for such product candidates. There are no cellular immunotherapies licensed to date in the United States or the European Union to treat autoimmune diseases or alloimmune responses. CAR T or CAAR T cell therapies for autoimmune or alloimmune diseases may not gain the acceptance of the public or the medical community. For example, CAR Ts and other cellular therapies have in some cases caused severe side effects, including death, and their broader use may therefore be limited. In the future, in the event such severe side effects are observed with other CAR T therapies (including those with a CD19 binder), it may increase negative perception of, and regulatory scrutiny on, our product candidates. For example, in November 2023, the FDA announced that it would be conducting an investigation into reports of T cell malignancies following treatment with BCMA-directed or CD19-directed autologous CAR T cell immunotherapies. The FDA also stated that patients and clinical trial participants receiving treatment with such approved products should be monitored life-long for new malignancies. In January 2024, the FDA determined that new safety information related to T cell malignancies should be included in the labeling with boxed warning language on these malignancies for all BCMA- and CD19-directed genetically modified autologous T cell immunotherapies. Public perception may be influenced by claims that gene therapy, including the insertion of a transgene, is unsafe, and products incorporating gene therapy may not gain the acceptance of the public or the medical community. The patient populations targeted by our product candidates are also typically not at risk of near-term death, even if they may suffer life-threatening symptoms, so patients will need to deem the benefits of cell therapy to be worth the risk of unknown potential adverse side effects. Our success will depend upon physicians who specialize in the treatment of autoimmune diseases targeted by our product candidates prescribing treatments that involve the use of our product candidates in lieu of, or in addition to, existing treatments with which they are more familiar and for which greater clinical data may be available. Adverse events in clinical trials of our product candidates, in clinical trials of others developing similar products or in the post-approval setting and the resulting publicity, as well as any other adverse events in the field of cellular therapies, could result in a decrease in demand for any product that we may develop.

We are developing a pipeline of CAR T and CAAR T product candidates that are intended for use in treating individuals with autoimmune diseases. Advancing these novel product candidates creates significant challenges for us, including:

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manufacturing our product candidates to our specifications and in a timely manner to support our clinical trials, and, if licensed, commercialization;

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sourcing clinical and, if licensed, commercial supplies for the materials used to manufacture our product candidates;

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understanding and addressing variability in the quality and quantity of a subject’s T cells, which could ultimately affect our ability to manufacture clinical supply and, if licensed, commercial supply of our product candidates in a reliable and consistent manner;

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educating medical personnel regarding the potential side effect profile of our product candidates, if licensed, such as the potential adverse side effects related to worsening of systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM), or myositis, systemic sclerosis, or SSc, muscle-specific kinase myasthenia gravis, or MuSK MG, generalized myasthenia gravis, or gMG, pemphigus vulgaris, or PV, multiple sclerosis, or MS, adverse effects related to infusion of activated T cells or medication taper, including cytokine release syndrome, or CRS, immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome, or ICANS, or other unexpected adverse effects of therapy with our product candidates or potential class-wide side effects, such as those related to CD19-directed autologous CAR T cell immunotherapies;

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facilitating patient access to the limited number of facilities able to administer our product candidates, if licensed;

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using medicines to manage adverse side effects of our product candidates that may not adequately control the side effects and/or may have a detrimental impact on the efficacy of the treatment;

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utilizing preconditioning agents in patients to enhance engraftment in advance of administering our product candidates, which may increase the risk of adverse side effects and potentially reduce the population eligible for therapy;

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obtaining and maintaining regulatory approval for our product candidates, as the FDA and other regulatory authorities have limited or no experience with development of engineered T cell therapies for the treatment of autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease;

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establishing sales and marketing capabilities upon obtaining any regulatory approval to gain market acceptance of a novel therapy; and

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managing costs of inputs and other supplies while scaling production.

In addition, preclinical murine and other animal models may not exist or be adequate for some or all of the autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease we choose to pursue in our programs, and because we are early in the clinical development process, we are unable to predict whether there may be short-term or long-term effects from treatment with any product candidates that we develop. In developing our product candidates, we have not exhaustively explored different options in the method for manufacturing CAR T or CAAR T cells. We may find our existing manufacturing process may be substantially improved with future design or process changes, necessitating further clinical testing, delaying commercial launch of our first products, and causing us to incur additional expenses. For example, while we have used a lentiviral vector in our manufacturing process, we may in the future find that another viral vector or non-viral vector-based process offers advantages. Switching from one lentiviral vector to another or switching from lentiviral to another delivery system would necessitate additional process development and clinical testing, and this may delay the development of existing product candidates.

In addition, for certain RESETTM trials, we do not know the doses to be evaluated in pivotal trials or, if licensed, commercially. Finding a suitable dose may delay our anticipated clinical development timelines, and we may elect to pause clinical trials to find a suitable dose or make assessments ahead of continuing a trial. Our expectations with regard to our scalability and costs of manufacturing may vary significantly as we develop our product candidates and understand these critical factors. We may experience delays in developing a sustainable, reproducible and scalable manufacturing process or transferring that process to commercial partners, which may prevent us from completing our clinical studies or commercializing our product candidates on a timely or profitable basis, if at all.

Moreover, our product candidates may not perform successfully in clinical trials or may be associated with adverse events that distinguish them from the CAR T therapies that have previously been licensed. For instance, subjects in our CAAR T clinical trials have been infused with our proposed therapies, and may possess strongly activating soluble antibodies, which are not present in oncology patients, and when they interact with our infused product candidates, could result in potential adverse side effects, such as CRS or ICANS, which have been observed in our clinical trials. Additionally, adverse side effects caused by even one of our CAR T or CAAR T product candidates could negatively affect our ability to develop future product candidates based on our CABA® platform. Unexpected side effects or clinical outcomes from any of our products candidates would significantly impact our business.

Further, the clinical study requirements of the FDA, the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, and other regulatory agencies and the criteria they use to determine the safety, potency and purity of a product candidate are determined according to the type, complexity, novelty and intended use and market of the potential products. The regulatory approval process for novel product candidates such as ours is less clear, and can be more complex and consequently have higher development risk, be more expensive and take longer than for other, better known or extensively studied pharmaceutical or other product candidates. Approvals by the FDA for existing cell therapies treating B cell-mediated diseases, such as Kymriah (Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation) and Yescarta® (Gilead Sciences, Inc.) in oncology indications, may not be indicative of what the FDA may require for approval of our therapies in autoimmune indications. Approvals by any regulatory agency may not be indicative of what any other regulatory agency may require for approval or what such regulatory agencies may require for approval in connection with new product candidates. As we advance our product candidates, we will be required to consult with these regulatory agencies and comply with applicable requirements and guidelines. If we fail to do so, we may be required to delay or discontinue development of such product candidates. These additional processes may result in a review and approval process that is longer than we otherwise would have expected. More restrictive statutory regimes, government regulations or negative public opinion would have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects and may delay or impair the development and commercialization of our product candidates or demand for any products we may develop.

In addition, responses by agencies at the federal and state level to negative public perception or ethical concerns may result in new legislation or regulations that could limit our ability to develop or commercialize any product candidates, obtain or maintain regulatory approval or otherwise achieve profitability. The FDA has expressed interest in further regulating biotechnology products, such as cellular therapies. Agencies at both the federal and state level in the United States, as well as the U.S. Congressional committees and other government entities or governing agencies have also expressed interest in further regulating the biotechnology industry. Such action may delay or prevent commercialization of some or all of our product candidates. Adverse developments in clinical trials of cellular therapy products conducted by others or in the post-approval setting may cause the FDA or other oversight bodies to change the requirements for approval of any of our product candidates. These regulatory review agencies and committees and the new requirements or guidelines they promulgate may lengthen the regulatory review process, require us to perform additional studies or trials, increase our development costs, lead to changes in regulatory positions and interpretations, delay or prevent approval and commercialization of our product candidates or lead to significant post-approval limitations or restrictions.

Patients receiving T cell-based immunotherapies, such as our product candidates, have in the past and may in the future experience serious adverse events, including ICANS, CRS and killing of cells other than the intended B cells that express the autoantibodies. If our product candidates are revealed to have high and unacceptable severity and/or prevalence of side effects or unexpected characteristics, their clinical development, regulatory approval, and commercial potential will be negatively impacted, which will significantly harm our business, financial condition and prospects.

Our product candidates are CAR T or CAAR T cell-based immunotherapies. In our clinical trials and clinical trials of other similarly designed cellular immunotherapies to treat cancer, there have been life threatening events related to ICANS and/or CRS requiring intense medical intervention, such as intubation or medications to support blood pressure, and in several cases in clinical trials of other similarly situated clinical trials and of other similarly designed immunotherapies to treat cancer resulted in death. We have observed events of CRS and ICANS in our ongoing rese-cel REstoring SElf-Tolerance, or RESET, trial. ICANS is a condition that is currently defined clinically by cerebral edema, confusion, drowsiness, speech impairment, tremors, seizures or other central nervous system side effects, when such side effects are serious enough to lead to intensive care. CRS is a condition that is currently defined clinically by certain symptoms related to the release of cytokines, which can include fever, chills and low blood pressure, when such side effects are serious enough to lead to intensive care with mechanical ventilation or significant medications to support blood pressure. There is a possibility that our product candidates could have similarly life threatening serious adverse side effects, such as ICANS and CRS.

Our product candidates may have serious and potentially fatal consequences due to the targeting of cells within the body due to unexpected protein interactions with the CAR or CAAR. Although we have completed multiple preclinical studies designed to screen for toxicity caused by unintended off-target recognition by the cell binding domain of the DSG3 CAAR, MuSK CAAR and rese-cel and intend to screen future CAR candidates not yet tested in patients through preclinical studies, our product candidates may still recognize and react with one or more proteins unrelated to the intended surface immunoglobin target protein to which it is designed to link. If unexpected binding occurs in normal tissue, our product candidates may target and kill the normal tissue in a patient, leading to serious and potentially fatal adverse events, undesirable side effects, toxicities or unexpected characteristics. Detection of any unexpected targeting may halt or delay any ongoing clinical trials for our product candidates and prevent or delay regulatory approval. While we have developed a preclinical screening process to identify cross-reactivity of our product candidates, we cannot be certain that this process will identify all potential tissue that our product candidates may target. For example, a membrane protein array with DSG3-CAART yielded one weak signal against a protein that is designed to bind to glycoproteins and which was detected in both the test and control conditions. Further analysis of this protein in confirmatory cell-based assays repeatedly demonstrated that DSG3-CAART does not recognize nor activate against this protein. We performed similar preclinical studies for rese-cel and did not observe any confirmed off target activity for rese-cel. However, this further analysis may prove to be inaccurate. Any unexpected targeting that impacts patient safety could materially impact our ability to advance our product candidates into clinical trials or to proceed to marketing approval and commercialization. Furthermore, in the event subjects are re-treated, they may respond differently than other subjects given the same dose, and may not tolerate the dose or develop safety concerns.

Results of our studies could reveal a high and unacceptable severity and prevalence of side effects or unexpected characteristics. Undesirable side effects caused by our product candidates could cause us or regulatory authorities to interrupt, delay or halt clinical trials and could result in a more restrictive label or the delay or denial of regulatory approval by the FDA or other regulatory agencies. Our clinical trials of rese-cel represent the first evaluation of this product candidate in patients and rese-cel is directed against all B cells expressing CD19; therefore, there is a risk for prolonged B cell aplasia and/or hypogammaglobulinemia, which may predispose patients to infections. Given that the autoimmune and alloimmune diseases we are seeking to treat are, in some cases, less serious than the later stage cancers being treated with other immunotherapy products, we believe the FDA and other regulatory authorities likely will apply a different benefit-risk assessment thresholds such that even if our product candidate demonstrated a similar safety profile as current CAR T therapies, the FDA may ultimately determine that the harmful side effects outweigh the benefits and require us to cease clinical trials or deny approval of our product candidates. We believe tolerance for adverse events in the patient population being pursued with our CAAR T and CAR T cell therapies in autoimmune and alloimmune indications will be lower than it is in oncology, and the risks of negative impact from these toxicities may therefore be higher for us than for CAR T programs in oncology.

Furthermore, treatment-related side effects could also affect patient recruitment or the ability of enrolled patients to complete the studies or result in potential product liability claims. In addition, these side effects may not be appropriately recognized or managed by the treating medical staff, as toxicities resulting from T cell-based immunotherapies are not normally encountered in routine medical care. Medical personnel may need additional training regarding T cell-based immunotherapy product candidates to understand their side effects. Inadequate training in recognizing or failure to effectively manage the potential side effects of T cell-based immunotherapy product candidates could result in patient deaths. Any of these occurrences may harm our business, financial condition and prospects significantly. In addition to side effects caused by our product candidates, any preconditioning, administration process or related procedures, which we evaluate from time to time as part of our process improvement and optimization efforts, may also cause adverse side effects. For example, prolonged or persistent cytopenias and ICANS have been noted to be associated with the use of certain lymphodepleting regimens and CAR T therapies.

Preconditioning regimens, as currently implemented in several of our clinical trials, may increase the risk of adverse side effects and impact our ability to accurately assess the efficacy of our product candidates.

In oncology patients receiving CAR T cell therapy, a lymphodepleting preconditioning regimen is typically used to condition the patient prior to CAR T cell infusion in order to improve tumor immunogenicity and to promote the expansion of the infused CAR T cells. Together, these effects have been shown to enhance the clinical activity of CAR T cells in oncology patients. These regimens often include cyclophosphamide and fludarabine and are usually administered within the week prior to infusion of CAR T cells. We implemented a preconditioning regimen in the DesCAARTesTM trial where certain subjects were pre-treated with IVIg and cyclophosphamide, and other patients were pre-treated with IVIg, cyclophosphamide, and fludarabine prior to DSG3-CAART infusion, have included planned dosing cohorts in the MusCAARTesTM trial where subjects were pre-treated with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide prior to MuSK-CAART infusion, and we have incorporated a lymphodepleting preconditioning regimen of fludarabine and cyclophosphamide in our RESETTM clinical trials. We are evaluating rese-cel without preconditioning in our RESET-PV® trial in patients with mPV and mcPV, as well as in a subset of patients enrolled in our RESET-SLETM trial. Serious adverse events have been observed in some patients following CAR T cell infusion, and these include infection, cytokine release syndrome and ICANS. The lymphodepleting and immunomodulatory preconditioning regimen may contribute to the occurrence and severity of these adverse events due to its role in inducing leukopenia, or low levels of white blood cells in the blood, including lymphopenia, or low levels of lymphocytes in the blood, and regulating the activation and effector functions of other immune cells and antibodies, and enhanced CAR T cell activity.

In addition, a lymphodepleting regimen may eliminate pathogenic B cells targeted by our CAAR T cell product candidates. As a result, any lymphodepleting regimen for preconditioning that we use may delay or otherwise adversely affect our ability to use DSG3 or MuSK autoantibody titers, a standard clinical assay, to assess the activity of DSG3-CAART and MuSK-CAART, respectively. An inability to use DSG3 or MuSK autoantibody levels to demonstrate the specific activity of our CAAR T cell product candidates may require us to rely on the subjective measurement of blister formation in patients in the DesCAARTesTM trial or muscle weakness in the MusCAARTesTM trial, which can be a less sensitive and accurate measurement of CAAR T cell activity. This therefore could delay a signal of potential biologic activity attributable to CAAR and therefore may slow clinical development. We are not actively enrolling patients in the MusCAARTesTM trial at this time.

In addition to lymphodepleting preconditioning, other preconditioning regimens with immunomodulatory effects may be considered to prepare the body for CAR T or CAAR T infusion. For example, if autoantibody is found to reduce or inhibit function of CAAR T in the body, then pretreatment of patients with antibody reducing therapies, such as FcRN inhibitors, IVIg, plasmapheresis, or treatment of post rituximab patients may be considered. Some of these types of preconditioning are standard of care for this autoimmune population and therefore are already considered to have a beneficial risk profile in this patient population. These other preconditioning regimens may cause serious adverse events, including hypotension, thromboembolism, and opportunistic infections.

Subjects in our RESETTM trials, except for our RESET-PV® trial and a subset of patients enrolled in our RESET-SLETM trial, will be treated with a standard preconditioning regimen consisting of fludarabine and cyclophosphamide prior to rese-cel infusion. In addition, the lymphodepleting regimen may eliminate some of the pathogenic B cells targeted by rese-cel. As a result, the lymphodepleting regimen may contribute to the initial clinical response that may be observed after rese-cel, which may make interpretation of early efficacy difficult to assess and may also delay our ability to characterize the activity of rese-cel independent of the effects of fludarabine and cyclophosphamide. We intend to evaluate this potential impact of preconditioning in our CAAR and rese-cel studies, through the comparison to non-lymphodepletion arms.

Our clinical patients may experience increased or more severe adverse effects specifically related to the preconditioning regimens, such as severe allergic reactions, difficulty breathing, severe headaches, fevers and chills, serious infections, low blood counts, inflammation of the colon with bleeding, bladder irritation, blood clots, development of certain cancers, damage to the heart, lung or kidneys, and even death. These undesirable side effects, whether associated with the preconditioning regimen alone or in combination with our CAR T cell product candidates or CAAR T cell product candidates, could cause delays in patient enrollment in our clinical trials, could cause us or regulatory authorities to interrupt, delay or halt clinical trials and could result in a change to our clinical trial design, a more restrictive label or the delay or denial of regulatory approval by the FDA. Any of the foregoing may increase the duration

and expense of the clinical development of our product candidates or limit market acceptance of such product candidates, if approved, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial condition.

Our business is highly dependent on the success of our initial product candidates targeting autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease. All of our product candidates will require significant additional preclinical and/or clinical development before we can seek regulatory approval for and launch a product commercially.

Our business and future success depend on our ability to obtain regulatory approval of, and then successfully launch and commercialize our initial product candidates targeting autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease. There is no guarantee that we will be able to advance our product candidates through clinical development or obtain marketing approval for any of our product candidates. The process for obtaining marketing approval for any product candidate is very long and risky and there will be significant challenges for us to address in order to obtain marketing approval as planned, if at all.

The initial clinical results we have observed may not be predictive of results of subsequent cohorts in this clinical trial, or of any future clinical trials. Because rese-cel is the first CAR T product candidate that we are testing in the clinic, we may experience preliminary complications surrounding trial design, protocol establishment and execution, establishing trial protocols, patient recruitment and enrollment, quality and supply of clinical doses, or safety issues.

Additionally, a failure of our rese-cel RESETTM clinical trial could influence physicians’ and regulators’ opinions with regard to the viability of our CABA® platform more broadly, particularly if treatment-related side effects are observed. The occurrence of any of these risks could significantly harm our development plans and business prospects. If treatment-related side effects are observed with the administration of rese-cel, or if they are viewed as less safe, potent or pure than other therapies, our ability to develop other CAR T cell therapies may be significantly harmed.

We have never successfully completed any clinical trials, and we may be unable to do so for any product candidates we develop.

We have not yet demonstrated our ability to successfully complete any clinical trials, including large-scale, pivotal clinical trials, obtain regulatory approvals, manufacture a commercial scale product, or arrange for a third party to do so on our behalf, or conduct sales and marketing activities necessary for successful commercialization. Although our key employees have significant experience in leading clinical development programs, our experience conducting clinical trials with our product candidates is limited. We may not be able to file INDs or CTAs for any of our other product candidates on the timelines we expect, if at all. For example, we cannot be certain that the IND-enabling or CTA-enabling studies for our future product candidates will be completed in a timely manner or be successful or that the manufacturing process will be validated in a timely manner. Even if we submit an IND or CTA for a future product candidate, the FDA, the EMA, or other foreign regulatory authorities may not clear the IND or CTA and allow us to begin clinical trials in a timely manner or at all. The timing of submissions on future product candidates will be dependent on further preclinical and manufacturing success. Moreover, we cannot be sure that submission of an IND or a CTA will result in the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities allowing further clinical trials to begin, or that, once begun, issues will not arise that require us to suspend or terminate clinical trials. Commencing each of these clinical trials is subject to finalizing the trial design based on discussions with the FDA and other foreign regulatory authorities. Any guidance we receive from the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities is subject to change. These regulatory authorities could change their position, including, on the acceptability of our trial designs or selection of comparator or clinical endpoints, which may require us to complete additional clinical trials or impose stricter approval conditions than we currently expect. If the FDA disagrees with, or subsequently revises or withdraws its prior feedback regarding our clinical endpoints or how to measure clinically meaningful significance, then even if we meet clinical endpoints we may be prevented or delayed in obtaining marketing approval for such product candidates.

If we are required to conduct additional clinical trials or other testing of our product candidates beyond those that we currently contemplate, if we are unable to successfully complete clinical trials of our product candidates or other testing, if the results of these trials or tests are not positive or are only modestly positive or if there are safety concerns, we may:

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be delayed in obtaining marketing approval for our product candidates;

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not obtain marketing approval at all;

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obtain approval for indications or patient populations that are not as broad as intended or desired;

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be subject to post-marketing testing requirements; or

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have the product removed from the market after obtaining marketing approval.

Our registrational trials may rely on a single-arm design and an external control; if regulatory authorities determine that the external control is unsuitable, we may be unable to obtain approval on our anticipated timelines, or at all.

We plan to conduct registrational trials using an open-label, single-arm design with an external comparator(s) rather than a blinded, randomized controlled trial. As a result, data generated from these studies may be subject to heightened FDA scrutiny regarding potential bias, confounding variables, and the overall reliability of treatment-effect estimates. In externally controlled trials, outcomes for patients who receive the investigational therapy according to the trial protocol are compared with outcomes from individuals who did not receive the investigational therapy and who are external to the trial. External controls may be historical (from an earlier time period) or concurrent (collected during the same time period in a different setting), and may be derived from real‑world data sources such as patient registries, electronic health records, or medical claims. For example, in our RESET-Myositis® program for rese-cel, we intend to conduct a single-arm registrational trial in patients with dermatomyositis or antisynthetase syndrome evaluating a 16-week primary endpoint—defined as achievement of a moderate or major Total Improvement Score while off immunomodulators and on no or low‑dose steroids—and we intend to rely on a retrospective analysis of a myositis patient registry to estimate control response rates.

Use of a registry dataset introduces risks, including whether the dataset is sufficiently comparable to our trial population and whether key clinical and demographic variables are assessed consistently. If the FDA disagrees with, or subsequently revises or withdraws its prior feedback regarding the suitability of our trial design, analytical methods, or the external control dataset, the FDA may require additional data, extended follow-up, alternative endpoints, or a randomized controlled trial. Any of these outcomes could substantially delay or prevent regulatory approval. The FDA has highlighted multiple risks associated with the use of external controls, including the potential for confounding and bias arising from, among other factors: temporal changes in standard of care; geographic differences in treatment practices or access to care; heterogeneity in diagnostic criteria; differences in prognostic indicators; variations in background therapies; differing clinical characteristics and responses to standard of care among patients with different disease subtypes; differing assessment schedules or endpoint definitions; missing data; and selection bias in the external dataset. The FDA also generally expects patient-level access to external datasets and robust, pre-specified statistical analysis plans. Even with such plans, as well as propensity methods and sensitivity analyses, these approaches may insufficiently mitigate confounding and bias in the view of the FDA.

If our external control dataset, its pre-specification, or our planned analyses are viewed as inadequate, the FDA may determine that our single-arm registrational trial does not constitute an “adequate and well‑controlled” investigation under applicable regulations, and may make such determination even where we believe that we have previously aligned with the FDA on the design of the registrational trial. The FDA may also determine that any patient registry we use—including the myositis registry supporting our RESET-Myositis® cohort—is unsuitable as an external control. In March 2026, FDA noted that concerns with the use of a registry include potential differences between the enrolled study population and registry population for the RESET-Myositis® cohort (e.g. diagnosis classification and refractory definition) and missing data as well as other criteria established by FDA guidance for industry, and that such details are needed in order to assess suitability of the proposed registry as an external control. In addition, FDA has recently issued Complete Response Letters or changed its feedback to sponsors in pre-BLA meetings citing concerns with external controls such as potential bias and design flaws, including eligibility criteria, endpoints, and timing of assessments not being closely aligned between trial population and the external dataset. If the FDA reaches similar conclusions in our case, it could reject our comparative analyses, request confirmatory data, or require a randomized trial, resulting in significant delays, increased costs, or failure to obtain approval.

Even if our clinical data and statistical analyses comparing our data to an external control—such as a myositis registry—demonstrate favorable evidence of the investigational candidate’s effectiveness, the FDA may still determine that such evidence is insufficient to support approval. This could occur for a variety of reasons, including unfavorable interpretation of comparative analyses, perceived differences between the clinical and external datasets, questions regarding the adequacy of our sensitivity analyses, or concerns about the absence of additional control sources.

If product liability lawsuits are brought against us, we may incur substantial liabilities and may be required to limit commercialization of our product candidates.

We face an inherent risk of product liability as a result of the clinical testing of our product candidates and will face an even greater risk if we commercialize any products. For example, we may be sued if our product candidates cause or are perceived to cause injury or are found to be otherwise unsuitable during clinical testing, manufacturing, marketing or sale. Any such product liability claims may include allegations of defects in manufacturing, defects in design, a failure to warn of dangers inherent in the product, negligence, strict liability or a breach of warranties. Claims could also be asserted under state consumer protection acts. If we cannot successfully defend ourselves against product liability claims, we may incur substantial liabilities or be required to limit commercialization of our product candidates. Even successful defense would require significant financial and management resources. Regardless of the merits or eventual outcome, liability claims may result in:

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inability to bring our product candidates to the market;

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decreased demand for our product candidates;

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injury to our reputation;

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withdrawal of clinical trial participants;

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initiation of investigations by regulators;

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costs to defend the related litigation;

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a diversion of management’s time and our resources;

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substantial monetary awards to trial participants or patients;

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product recalls, withdrawals or labeling, marketing or promotional restrictions;

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loss of revenue;

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exhaustion of any available insurance and our capital resources;

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the inability to commercialize any product candidate; and

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a decline in our share price.

Since we have not yet commenced marketing of any products, we do not yet hold product liability insurance for commercialization of our product candidates. Our inability to obtain sufficient product liability insurance at an acceptable cost to protect against potential product liability claims could prevent or inhibit the commercialization of products we develop, alone or with corporate collaborators. Our insurance policies may also have various exclusions, and we may be subject to a product liability claim for which we have no coverage. Assuming we obtained clinical trial insurance for our clinical trials, we may have to pay amounts awarded by a court or negotiated in a settlement that exceed our coverage limitations or that are not covered by our insurance, and we may not have, or be able to obtain, sufficient capital to pay such amounts. Even if our agreements with any future corporate collaborators entitle us to indemnification against losses, such indemnification may not be available or adequate should any claim arise.

Risks Related to the Industry

Our product candidates may cause undesirable side effects or have other properties that could halt their clinical development, prevent their regulatory approval, limit their commercial potential or result in significant negative consequences.

Undesirable or unacceptable side effects caused by our product candidates could cause us or regulatory authorities to interrupt, delay or halt clinical trials and could result in a more restrictive label or the delay or denial of regulatory approval by the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities. Further, clinical trials by their nature utilize a sample of the potential patient population. With a limited number of subjects and limited duration of exposure, rare and severe side effects of our product candidates may only be uncovered with a significantly larger number of patients exposed to the drug. Undesirable side effects could also result in an expansion in the size of our clinical trials, increasing the expected costs and timeline of our clinical trials. Additionally, results of our clinical trials could reveal a high and unacceptable severity and prevalence of side effects or unexpected characteristics.

Licensed CAR T cell therapies and those under development have shown frequent rates of CRS and ICANS, and adverse events have resulted in the death of patients. Similar adverse events have occurred and could occur during treatment with our current or future CAR T or CAAR T cell product candidates. For example, activation of CAAR T cells by patient autoantibodies or alloantibodies could stimulate CRS. When CAAR T cells are infused and the CAAR binds to soluble antibodies in the blood or tissues of treated patients, these soluble antibodies may cause the CAAR T cells to proliferate, resulting in an activation of the immune system that is too high, leading to CRS. Further, it is possible that patients will exhibit acute rejection of the CAAR T cells because of preexisting immunity to the antigen within the CAAR. This could render our product candidates ineffective.

If unacceptable toxicities or health risks, including risks inferred from other unrelated immunotherapy trials, arise in the development of our product candidates, we could suspend or terminate our trials or the FDA, the Safety Monitoring Boards for our trials (e.g. Data Safety Monitoring Board, or DSMB, or Independent Data Safety Monitoring Committee, or IDMC), or local regulatory authorities such as institutional review boards, or IRBs, or independent ethics commits, or IECs, as applicable, could recommend or order us to cease clinical trials. Regulatory authorities, such as the FDA, could also deny approval of our product candidates for any or all targeted indications. Treatment-related side effects could also affect patient recruitment or the ability of enrolled subjects to complete the trial or result in potential product liability claims. In addition, these side effects may not be appropriately recognized or managed by the treating medical staff, as toxicities resulting from T cell therapy are not normally encountered in the general patient population and by medical personnel. We expect to have to train medical personnel using CAR T or CAAR T cell product candidates to understand the side effect profile of our product candidates for both our preclinical studies and clinical trials and upon any commercialization of any of our product candidates, if licensed. Inadequate training in recognizing or managing the potential side effects of our product candidates could result in patient deaths. Any of these occurrences may harm our business, financial condition and prospects significantly.

Our preclinical studies and clinical trials may fail to demonstrate the safety, potency and purity of any of our product candidates, which would prevent or delay regulatory approval and commercialization.

Before obtaining regulatory approvals for the commercial sale of any of our product candidates, we must demonstrate through lengthy, complex and expensive preclinical testing and clinical trials that our product candidates are safe, potent and pure for use in each target indication. Clinical trials are expensive and can take many years to complete, and their outcomes are inherently uncertain. Failure can occur at any time during the clinical trial process. The results of preclinical studies and early clinical trials of our product candidates may not be predictive of the results of later-stage clinical trials, including in any post-approval studies of our product candidates. In addition, initial success in any clinical trials may not be indicative of results obtained when such trials are completed. There is typically an extremely high rate of attrition from the failure of product candidates proceeding through clinical trials. Product candidates in later stages of clinical trials may fail to show the desired safety, potency and purity profile despite having progressed through preclinical studies and initial clinical trials. Similarly, while we believe rese-cel has a similar overall design to the construct used for the patients in the Nature Medicine, Lancet, Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, and Rheumatology publications, those studies involved a small number of patients, and a different product candidate, and the initial clinical results observed in those studies may not be predictive of clinical trial results with rese-cel or any of our other product candidates. Additionally, because those studies are not our own, we may not have access to accurate follow-up information or peer-reviewed results.

A number of companies in the biopharmaceutical industry have suffered significant setbacks in advanced clinical trials due to lack of potency or efficacy, insufficient durability of potency or efficacy or unacceptable safety issues, notwithstanding promising results in earlier trials, and we cannot be certain that we will not face similar setbacks. These setbacks have been caused by, among other things, preclinical and other nonclinical findings made while clinical trials were underway, or safety or efficacy observations made in preclinical studies and clinical trials, including previously unreported adverse events. Moreover, preclinical and clinical data are often susceptible to varying interpretations and analyses and many companies that believed their product candidates performed satisfactorily in preclinical studies and clinical trials nonetheless failed to obtain FDA or European Commission approval. Most product candidates that commence clinical trials are never approved as products.

Any preclinical studies or clinical trials that we may conduct may not demonstrate the safety, potency and purity necessary to obtain regulatory approval to market our product candidates. If the results of our ongoing or future preclinical studies and clinical trials are inconclusive with respect to evaluations of efficacy, the safety, potency and purity of our product candidates, if we do not meet the clinical endpoints with statistical and clinically meaningful significance, or if there are safety concerns associated with our product candidates, we may be prevented or delayed in obtaining marketing approval for such product candidates. In some instances, there can be significant variability in evaluations of efficacy, safety, potency or purity results between different preclinical studies and clinical trials of the same product candidate due to numerous factors, including changes in trial procedures set forth in protocols, differences in the size and type of the patient populations, changes in and adherence to the clinical trial protocols and the rate of dropout among clinical trial participants. For example, because our CAAR T cell product candidates only target approximately 0.01% to 1% of the B cells in a patient, they may not engage enough of the target to achieve adequate engraftment necessary for elimination of all pathogenic B cells. Insufficient safety or potency in clinical trials may delay product development to enable time to modify the product candidate for next generation approaches or make manufacturing changes or may lead us to discontinue development of the product candidate.

Additionally, our ongoing clinical trials utilize, and our planned trials may utilize, an “open-label” trial design. An “open-label” clinical trial is one where both the patient and investigator know whether the patient is receiving the investigational product candidate or either an active drug or placebo. Most typically, open-label clinical trials test only the investigational product candidate and sometimes may do so at different dose levels. Open-label clinical trials are subject to various limitations that may exaggerate any therapeutic effect as patients in open-label clinical trials are aware when they are receiving treatment. Open-label clinical trials may be subject to a “patient bias” where patients perceive their symptoms to have improved merely due to their awareness of receiving an experimental treatment. In addition, open-label clinical trials may be subject to an “investigator bias” where those assessing and reviewing the physiological outcomes of the clinical trials are aware of which patients have received treatment and may interpret the information of the treated group more favorably given this knowledge. The results from an open-label trial may not be predictive of future clinical trial results with any of our product candidates for which we include an open-label clinical trial when studied in a controlled environment with a placebo or active control.

In addition, we cannot guarantee that the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities will interpret the results of any of our ongoing or planned clinical trials as we do, and more trials could be required before we submit our product candidates for approval. To the extent that the results of the trials are not satisfactory to the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities to support a marketing application, approval of our product candidates may be significantly delayed, or we may be required to expend significant additional resources, which may not be available to us, to conduct additional trials in support of potential approval of our product candidates.

In order to market any product outside of the United States, a company must also comply with numerous and varying regulatory requirements of other countries and jurisdictions regarding quality, safety and efficacy and governing, among other things, clinical trials, marketing authorization, commercial sales and distribution of products. Whether or not it obtains FDA approval for a product, an applicant must obtain the necessary approvals by the comparable foreign regulatory authorities before commencing clinical trials or marketing of the product in those countries or jurisdictions. For example, the process governing approval of medicinal products in the European Union generally follows the same lines as in the United States but can differ in significant ways. It entails the satisfactory completion of preclinical studies and adequate and well-controlled clinical trials to establish the safety and efficacy of the product for each proposed indication. It also requires the submission of a marketing authorization application to the EMA (for products within the scope of the centralized marketing authorization procedure) and the granting of a marketing authorization by the European Commission before the product can be marketed and sold in the European Union.

Interim, topline or preliminary data from any preclinical studies or clinical trials that we conduct may change as more data become available and are subject to audit and verification procedures that could result in material changes in the final data.

Our RESETTM trials in SLE, myositis, SSc, gMG, MS and PV are designed as open-label trials. From time to time, we may publicly disclose interim, preliminary or topline data from our preclinical studies and clinical trials, including safety data and evaluations of efficacy, which will be based on a preliminary analysis of then-available data, and the results and related findings and conclusions are subject to change following our receipt of additional data or a more comprehensive review of the data related to the particular study or trial. We also make assumptions, estimations, calculations and conclusions as part of our analyses of data, and we may not have received or had the opportunity to fully and carefully evaluate all data.

As a result, the topline results that we report may differ from future results of the same studies, or different conclusions or considerations may qualify such results, once additional data have been received and fully evaluated. Topline data also remain subject to audit and verification procedures that may result in the final data being materially different from the preliminary data we previously published. As a result, topline data should be viewed with caution until the final data are available. From time to time, we may also disclose interim data from planned interim analyses in our clinical trials. Interim data from clinical trials that we may complete are subject to the risk that one or more of the clinical outcomes may materially change as patient enrollment continues and more patient data become available. Adverse differences between preliminary or interim data and final data could significantly harm our business prospects. Further, disclosure of interim data by us or our competitors, or by patients or caregivers who are aware that a patient is receiving investigational product, due to the open-label design of the trial, could result in volatility in the price of our common stock.

Regulatory agencies, including the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities, may not accept or agree with our assumptions, estimates, calculations, conclusions or analyses or may interpret or weigh the importance of data differently, which could impact the value of the particular program, the approvability or commercialization of the particular product candidate or product and our company in general.

If the interim, topline or preliminary data that we report differ from actual results, or if others, including regulatory authorities, disagree with the conclusions reached, our ability to obtain approval for, and commercialize, our product candidates may be harmed, which could harm our business, operating results, prospects or financial condition.

The increasing use of social media platforms presents new risks and challenges.

Social media is increasingly being used to communicate about our clinical development programs and the diseases our product candidates are being developed to treat. We intend to utilize appropriate social media in connection with communicating about our development programs. Social media practices in the biopharmaceutical industry continue to evolve and regulations relating to such use are not always clear. This evolution creates uncertainty and risk of noncompliance with regulations applicable to our business. For example, patients may use social media channels to report an alleged adverse event during a clinical trial, or public news outlets and opinion pieces relating to our industry or CAR T therapies more generally may be published and/or disseminated. When such disclosures occur, there is a risk that we fail to monitor and comply with applicable adverse event reporting obligations, or we may not be able to defend our business or the public’s legitimate interests in the face of the political and market pressures generated by social media due to restrictions on what we may say about our investigational products and/or the industry in which we operate. There is also a risk of inappropriate disclosure of sensitive information or negative or inaccurate posts or comments about us on any social networking website, or a risk that a post on a social networking website by any of our employees may be construed as inappropriate promotion. If any of these events were to occur or we otherwise fail to comply with any applicable regulations, we could incur liability, face regulatory actions, or incur other harm to our business such as reputational damage.

We may encounter substantial delays in our clinical trials or may not be able to conduct our trials on the timelines we expect or at all.

Clinical testing is expensive, time consuming and subject to uncertainty. We cannot guarantee that any clinical trials will be conducted as planned or completed on schedule, if at all. Even if these trials begin as planned, issues may arise that could suspend or terminate such clinical trials. A failure of one or more clinical trials can occur at any stage of testing, and our ongoing and future clinical trials may not be successful. Events that may prevent successful or timely completion of clinical development include:

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inability to generate sufficient preclinical, toxicology or other in vivo or in vitro data to support the initiation of clinical trials;

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delays in sufficiently developing, characterizing or controlling a manufacturing process suitable for clinical trials;

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delays in developing suitable assays for screening patients for eligibility for clinical trials with respect to certain product candidates;

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delays in reaching a consensus with the FDA and other regulatory agencies on trial design;

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delays in reaching agreement on acceptable terms with prospective CMOs, CROs and clinical study sites, the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation and may vary significantly among different CMOs, CROs and clinical trial sites;

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delays in obtaining required institutional review board, or IRB, approval at each clinical trial site;

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imposition of a temporary or permanent clinical hold by regulatory agencies for a number of reasons, including after review of an IND submission or amendment, or equivalent application or amendment; as a result of a new safety finding that presents unreasonable risk to clinical trial participants; a negative finding from an inspection of our clinical study operations or study sites; developments on trials conducted by competitors for related technology or by those that rely on a similar construct, design and/or third-party research that raise FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities concerns about risk to patients of the technology or construct broadly, and/or negative public perception of the same; or if FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities find that the investigational protocol or plan is clearly deficient to meet its stated objectives;

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delays in recruiting eligible patients to participate in our clinical trials, including pediatric patients who need parental consent;

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delays in treating one or more patients, once enrolled, due to a patient’s inability to accommodate parts of the complex study procedures schedule;

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difficulty collaborating with patient groups and investigators;

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failure by our CROs, other third parties or us to adhere to clinical trial requirements and the potential termination of ongoing agreements with our CROs;

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failure to perform in accordance with the FDA’s Good Clinical Practice, or GCP, requirements or applicable regulatory guidelines in other countries;

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transfer of manufacturing processes to any new CMO or our own manufacturing facilities or any other development or commercialization partner for the manufacture of product candidates;

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delays in having patients complete participation in a trial or return for post-treatment follow-up;

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patients dropping out of a trial;

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occurrence of adverse events associated with the product candidate that are viewed to outweigh its potential benefits;

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changes in regulatory requirements and guidance that require amending or submitting new clinical protocols;

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changes in the standard of care on which a clinical development plan was based, which may require new or additional trials;

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the cost of clinical trials of our product candidates being greater than we anticipate;

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clinical trials of our product candidates producing negative or inconclusive results, which may result in our deciding, or regulators requiring us, to conduct additional clinical trials or abandon product development programs;

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delays or failure to secure supply agreements with suitable raw material suppliers, or any failures by suppliers to meet our quantity or quality requirements for necessary raw materials; and

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delays in manufacturing or inability to manufacture sufficient clinical supply (for example, due to capacity constraints, supply interruption, or the need to engineer the process to meet higher dose requirements), testing, releasing, validating or importing/exporting sufficient stable quantities of our product candidates for use in clinical trials or the inability to do any of the foregoing.

Any inability to successfully complete preclinical and clinical development could result in additional costs to us or impair our ability to generate revenue. If we make manufacturing or formulation changes to our product candidates, we may be required to, or we may elect to, conduct additional trials to bridge our modified product candidates to earlier versions. Clinical trial delays could also shorten any periods during which our product candidates and products, if licensed, have patent protection and may allow our competitors to bring products to market before we do, which could impair our ability to successfully commercialize our product candidates and may harm our business and results of operations.

We could also encounter delays if a clinical trial is suspended or terminated by us, the FDA or other regulatory authority, or if the IRBs of the institutions in which such trials are being conducted suspend or terminate the participation of their clinical investigators and sites subject to their review. Such authorities may suspend or terminate a clinical trial due to a number of factors, including failure to conduct the clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical protocols, inspection of the clinical trial operations or trial site by the FDA or other regulatory authorities resulting in the imposition of a clinical hold, unforeseen safety issues or adverse side effects, failure to demonstrate a benefit from using a product candidate, changes in governmental regulations or administrative actions or lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial.

Delays in the initiation, conduct or completion of any clinical trial of our product candidates will increase our costs, slow down our product candidate development and approval process and delay or potentially jeopardize our ability to commence product sales and generate revenue. In addition, many of the factors that cause, or lead to, a delay in the commencement or completion of clinical trials may also ultimately lead to the denial of regulatory approval of our product candidates. In the event we identify any additional product candidates to pursue, we cannot be sure that submission of an IND or comparable foreign regulatory submission will result in the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities allowing clinical trials to begin in a timely manner, if at all.

In addition, from time to time, we may publicly announce the expected timing of various scientific, clinical, regulatory, manufacturing and other product development milestones. These milestones may include the commencement, completion or development of data from our preclinical studies and clinical trials or the submission of regulatory filings, such as an IND or a CTA. All of these milestones are, and will be, based on a variety of assumptions. If any of the foregoing events impact our ability to meet the publicly announced timing of our milestones, we may experience adverse effects on our business, financial condition and prospects and the price of our common stock could decline.

Monitoring safety of patients receiving our product candidates will be challenging, which could adversely affect our ability to obtain regulatory approval and commercialize our product candidates.

For our RESETTM and other planned clinical trials, we expect to continue to contract with academic medical centers and hospitals experienced in the assessment and management of toxicities arising during clinical trials. In the future, we may also contract with non-academic medical centers and hospitals with similar capabilities. Nonetheless, these centers and hospitals may have difficulty observing patients, including due to failure by patients to comply with post-clinical trial follow-up programs, and treating toxicities, which may be more challenging due to personnel changes, inexperience, inadequate institutional safety procedures, shift changes, house staff coverage or related issues. This could lead to more severe or prolonged toxicities or even patient deaths, which could result in us or the FDA delaying, suspending or terminating one or more of our clinical trials, and which could jeopardize regulatory approval. We also expect the centers using rese-cel and our other product candidates, if licensed, on a commercial basis could have similar difficulty in managing adverse events. Medicines used at centers to help manage adverse side effects of rese-cel, DSG3-CAART, MuSK-CAART

and our other product candidates may not adequately control the side effects and/or may have a detrimental impact on the efficacy of the treatment.

If we encounter difficulties enrolling patients in our clinical trials, our clinical development activities could be delayed or otherwise adversely affected.

We may experience difficulties in patient enrollment in our clinical trials for a variety of reasons. The timely completion of clinical trials in accordance with their protocols depends, among other things, on our ability to enroll a sufficient number of patients who remain in the trial until its conclusion. The enrollment of patients depends on many factors, including:

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the size and nature of the patient population;

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the patient eligibility criteria defined in the protocol;

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the size of the patient population required for analysis of the trial’s primary endpoints;

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recruiting an adequate number of suitable patients to participate in a clinical trial;

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reaching agreement on acceptable terms with prospective CROs and clinical trial sites, the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation and may vary significantly among different CROs and clinical trial sites;

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obtaining IRB and other required reviewing body approval at each clinical trial site;

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the proximity of patients to trial sites;

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the design of the trial and whether the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities agree to the design and implementation of the trial;

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our ability to identify clinical trial sites and recruit clinical trial investigators with the appropriate capabilities, competencies and experience;

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clinicians’, patients’ and parents' (for juvenile patients) perceptions as to the potential advantages and risks of the product candidate being studied in relation to other available therapies, including any new drugs that may be approved for the indications we are investigating, or with CAR T cell therapies broadly following the FDA’s investigation into reports of T cell malignancies for approved BCMA- and CD19-directed CAR T cell immunotherapies;

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the occurrence of dose-limiting toxicity in the clinical trial;

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the efforts to facilitate timely enrollment in clinical trials;

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the patient referral practices of physicians;

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the ability to monitor patients adequately during and after treatment;

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our ability to obtain and maintain patient consents;

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the risk that patients enrolled in clinical trials will drop out of the trials before the infusion of our product candidates or trial completion; and

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the ability of patients to meet the complex follow-up requirements of the clinical trial.

In addition, our clinical trials will compete with other clinical trials for product candidates that are in the same therapeutic areas as our product candidates, and this competition will reduce the number and types of patients available to us because some patients who might have opted to enroll in our trials may instead opt to enroll in a trial being conducted by one of our competitors. Since the number of qualified clinical investigators is limited, some of our clinical trial sites may also be used by some of our competitors, which may reduce the number of patients who are available for our clinical trials in that clinical trial site.

Moreover, because our product candidates represent a departure from more commonly used methods for autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease treatment, potential patients and their doctors may be inclined to use conventional therapies, such as corticosteroids or systemic immunosuppressive medications, rather than enroll patients in our clinical trial. Delays in patient enrollment may result in increased costs or may affect the timing or outcome of our ongoing and planned clinical trials, which could prevent completion of these trials and adversely affect our ability to advance the development of our product candidates.

Our RESETTM trials in SLE, myositis, SSc, gMG, PV and MS and any additional expected clinical trials for each of our product candidates will enroll a limited number of patients. The activity and toxicity data from these clinical trials of our product candidates may differ from future results of subsequent clinical trials that enroll a larger number of patients. Since the number of patients that we plan to dose in our RESETTM trials in SLE, myositis, SSc, gMG, PV and MS is small, and the number of patients in clinical trials for any future product candidates may be small, the results from such clinical trials, once completed, may be less reliable than results achieved in larger clinical trials, which may hinder our efforts to obtain regulatory approval for our product candidates. In a subset of our RESET-SLETM trial, our RESET-PV® trial and our RESET-MSTM trial, we plan to evaluate the toxicity profile of our product candidates and establish the recommended dose for the next clinical trial. The preliminary results of clinical trials with smaller sample sizes, such as our RESETTM trials, as well as any clinical trials for future product candidates, can be disproportionately influenced by various biases associated with the conduct of small clinical trials, such as the potential failure of the smaller sample size to accurately depict the features of the broader patient population, which limits the ability to generalize the results across a broader community, thus making the clinical trial results less reliable than clinical trials with a larger number of patients. As a result, there may be less certainty that such product candidates would achieve a statistically significant effect in any future clinical trials. If we conduct any future clinical trials of rese-cel, we may not achieve a statistically significant result or the same level of statistical significance, if any, that we might have anticipated based on the results observed in our RESETTM trials.

Risks Related to Sales, Marketing and Competition

The market opportunities for our product candidates may be limited to those patients who are ineligible for or have failed prior treatments and may be small.

Our projections of both the number of people who have autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease we are targeting, as well as the subset of people with these diseases in a position to receive second or later lines of therapy and who have the potential to benefit from treatment with our product candidates, are based on our beliefs and estimates. These estimates have been derived from a variety of sources, including scientific literature, surveys of clinics, patient foundations, or market research and may prove to be incorrect. Further, new studies may change the estimated incidence or prevalence of these autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease. The number of patients may turn out to be lower than expected. Additionally, the potentially addressable patient population for our product candidates may be limited or may not be amenable to treatment with our product candidates.

We face significant competition from other biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and our operating results will suffer if we fail to compete effectively.

The biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industries are characterized by rapidly advancing technologies, intense competition and a strong focus on intellectual property. We face competition from many different players, including large and specialty pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academic research organizations and governmental agencies. Any therapeutic candidates we successfully develop and commercialize will compete with the existing standard of care as well as novel therapies that may gain regulatory approval in the future. Many of our competitors have substantially greater financial, technical and other resources, such as larger research and development staff and experienced marketing and manufacturing organizations and well-established sales forces. Smaller or early-stage companies may also prove to be significant competitors, particularly through collaborative arrangements with large, established companies. Mergers and acquisitions in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries may result in even more resources being concentrated in our competitors. We are one of several companies developing CAR T drug candidates for the treatment of autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease. Additionally, despite the significant differences in discovery, development and target populations between oncology and autoimmune targets, we recognize that companies with an investment and expertise in CAR T cell development for oncology indications could also attempt to leverage their expertise into autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease affected populations. Competition may increase further as a result of advances in the commercial applicability of technologies and greater availability of capital for investment in these industries. Our competitors, either alone or with collaborative partners, may succeed in developing, acquiring or licensing on an exclusive basis drug or biologic products that are more effective, safer, more easily commercialized or less costly than our product candidates or may develop proprietary technologies or secure patent protection that we may need for the development of our technologies and products.

We are aware of several other biopharmaceutical companies developing therapies for SLE, myositis, SSc, gMG and PV. Some product candidates may be directly competitive to our product candidates, such that even if we obtain regulatory approval of our product candidates, the availability and price of these other products, whether directly competitive or not, could limit the demand and the price we are able to charge for our product candidates. We may not be able to implement our business plan if the acceptance of our product candidates is inhibited by price competition or the reluctance of physicians to switch from existing methods of treatment to our product candidates, or if physicians switch to other new drug or biologic products or choose to reserve our product candidates for use in limited circumstances.

Even if we obtain regulatory approval of our product candidates, the products may not gain the market acceptance among physicians, patients, hospitals, treatment centers and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success.

The use of engineered T cells as a potential treatment for B cell-mediated autoimmune diseases is a recent development and may not become broadly accepted by physicians, patients, hospitals, treatment centers and others in the medical community. We expect physicians to be particularly influential and we may not be able to convince them to use our product candidates for many reasons. Additional factors will influence whether our product candidates are accepted in the market, including:

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the clinical indications for which our product candidates are licensed;

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physicians, hospitals, treatment centers and patients considering our product candidates as a safe and effective treatment;

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the potential and perceived advantages of our product candidates over alternative treatments;

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the prevalence and severity of any side effects;

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product labeling or product insert requirements of the FDA or other regulatory authorities;

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limitations or warnings contained in the labeling approved by the FDA or other regulatory authorities;

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the timing of market introduction of our product candidates as well as competitive products;

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the cost of treatment in relation to alternative treatments;

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the availability of coverage and adequate reimbursement and pricing by third-party payors and government authorities;

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the willingness of patients to pay out-of-pocket in the absence of coverage and adequate reimbursement by third-party payors and government authorities;

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relative convenience and ease of administration, including as compared to alternative treatments and competitive therapies; and

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the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts.

The product candidates we plan to develop and commercialize are premised on offering a potential cure for autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease, which may result in a high degree of uncertainty related to pricing and long-term demand for our product. Our target patient populations are relatively small. Because of this pricing and demand for our product candidates, if licensed, may not be adequate to support an extended period of commercial viability, which could adversely affect our continued ability to successfully produce and market our product or any follow-on products.

In addition, if our product candidates are licensed but fail to achieve market acceptance among physicians, patients, hospitals, treatment centers or others in the medical community, we will not be able to generate significant revenue. Even if our products achieve market acceptance, we may not be able to maintain that market acceptance over time if new products or technologies are introduced that are more favorably received than our products, are more cost effective or render our products obsolete.

Risks Related to Business Development

We may not be successful in our efforts to identify additional product candidates. Due to our limited resources and access to capital, we must prioritize development of certain product candidates, which may prove to be wrong and may adversely affect our business.

Although we intend to explore other therapeutic opportunities, in addition to the product candidates that we are currently developing, we may fail to identify viable new product candidates for clinical development for a number of reasons. If we fail to identify additional potential product candidates, our business could be materially harmed.

Research programs to pursue the development of our existing and planned product candidates for additional indications and to identify new product candidates and disease targets require substantial technical, financial and human resources whether or not they are ultimately successful. Our research programs may initially show promise in identifying potential indications and/or product candidates, yet fail to yield results for clinical development for a number of reasons, including:

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the research methodology used may not be successful in identifying potential indications and/or product candidates;

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potential product candidates may be identified but may not be able to be expressed on T cells in a manner that enables product activity;

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potential product candidates may, after further study, be shown to have harmful adverse effects or other characteristics that indicate they are unlikely to be effective drugs; or

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it may take greater human and financial resources than we will possess to identify additional therapeutic opportunities for our product candidates or to develop suitable potential product candidates through internal research programs, thereby limiting our ability to develop, diversify and expand our product portfolio.

Because we have limited financial and human resources, we intend to initially focus on research programs and product candidates for a limited set of indications. As a result, we may forego or delay pursuit of opportunities with other product candidates or for other indications that later prove to have greater commercial potential or a greater likelihood of success. Our resource allocation decisions may cause us to fail to capitalize on viable commercial products or profitable market opportunities.

Accordingly, there can be no assurance that we will ever be able to identify additional therapeutic opportunities for our product candidates or to develop suitable potential product candidates through internal research programs, which could materially adversely affect our future growth and prospects. We may focus our efforts and resources on potential product candidates or other potential programs that ultimately prove to be unsuccessful.

If we fail to develop additional product candidates, our commercial opportunity will be limited.

One of our core strategies is to pursue clinical development of additional product candidates beyond rese-cel. Developing, obtaining regulatory approval and commercializing additional product candidates will require substantial additional funding and is prone to the risks of failure inherent in medical product development. We cannot provide you any assurance that we will be able to successfully advance any of these additional product candidates through the development process.

Even if we receive FDA or other foreign regulatory authority approval to market additional product candidates for the treatment of autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease, we cannot assure you that any such product candidates will be successfully commercialized, widely accepted in the marketplace or more effective than other commercially available alternatives. If we are unable to successfully develop and commercialize additional product candidates, our commercial opportunity will be limited. Moreover, a failure in obtaining regulatory approval of additional product candidates may have a negative effect on the approval process of any other, or result in losing approval of any approved, product candidate.

We are highly dependent on our key personnel, and if we are not successful in attracting and retaining highly qualified personnel, we may not be able to successfully implement our business strategy.

Our ability to compete in the highly competitive biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries depends upon our ability to attract and retain highly qualified managerial, scientific and medical personnel. We are highly dependent on our management, scientific, and medical personnel, including our Chief Executive Officer and President, our Scientific Advisory Board members, our President, Science and Technology, our Chief Medical Officer, our Chief Financial Officer and our Chief Commercial Officer. The loss of the services of any of our executive officers, other key employees, and other scientific and medical advisors, and our inability to find suitable replacements could result in delays in product development and harm our business.

Competition for skilled personnel in our market is intense and may limit our ability to hire and retain highly qualified personnel on acceptable terms or at all. To induce valuable employees to remain at our company, in addition to salary and cash incentives, we have provided stock options that vest over time. The value to employees of stock options that vest over time may be significantly affected by movements in our stock price that are beyond our control and may at any time be insufficient to counteract more lucrative offers from other companies. Despite our efforts to retain valuable employees, members of our management, scientific and development teams may terminate their employment with us on short notice. Although we have employment agreements with our key employees, these employment agreements provide for at-will employment, which means that any of our employees could leave our employment at any time, with or without notice. We do not maintain “key person” insurance policies on the lives of these individuals or the lives of any of our other employees. Our success also depends on our ability to continue to attract, retain and motivate highly skilled junior, mid-level and senior managers as well as junior, mid-level and senior scientific and medical personnel.

We expect to grow the size of our organization, and we may experience difficulties in managing this growth.

As of March 31, 2026, we had 156 full-time employees and two part-time employees. As our development and commercialization plans and strategies develop, and as we continue to broaden our operational capabilities, we expect to expand our employee base and continue to add managerial, operational, sales, research and development, marketing, financial and other personnel. Current and future growth imposes significant added responsibilities on members of management, including:

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identifying, recruiting, integrating, retaining and motivating additional employees in an increasingly competitive, inflationary market;

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managing our internal development efforts effectively, including the clinical and FDA or other regulatory authority review process for our product candidates, while complying with our contractual obligations to contractors and other third parties; and

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improving our operational, financial and management controls, reporting systems and procedures.

Our future financial performance and our ability to commercialize our product candidates will depend, in part, on our ability to effectively manage our growth, and our management may also have to divert a disproportionate amount of its attention away from day-to-day activities in order to devote a substantial amount of time to managing these growth activities.

We currently rely, and for the foreseeable future will continue to rely, in substantial part on certain independent organizations, advisors and consultants to provide certain services, including certain research and development as well as general and administrative support, pursuant to agreements which expire after a certain period of time. There can be no assurance that the services of independent organizations, advisors and consultants will continue to be available to us on a timely basis when needed, or that we can find qualified replacements. In addition, if we are unable to effectively manage our outsourced activities or if the quality or accuracy of the services provided by consultants is compromised for any reason, our clinical trials may be extended, delayed or terminated, and we may not be able to obtain regulatory approval of our product candidates or otherwise advance our business. There can be no assurance that we will be able to manage our existing consultants or find other competent outside contractors and consultants on economically reasonable terms, or at all.

If we are not able to effectively expand our organization by hiring new employees and expanding our groups of consultants and contractors, or if we are not able to raise sufficient funds in the future to support our hiring efforts beyond our research and development personnel, we may not be able to successfully implement the tasks necessary to further develop and commercialize our product candidates and, accordingly, may not achieve our research, development and commercialization goals.

Business disruptions, including due to natural disasters, global conflicts or political unrest, could seriously impact our operations, research and trials and harm our future revenue and financial condition.

Our operations, Minaris Advanced Therapies, LLC, or Minaris', operations, Lonza Houston Inc., or Lonza's, operations, Cellares Corporation, or Cellares, and those of any CMOs, CROs and other contractors and consultants that we may engage could be subject to earthquakes, power shortages, telecommunications failures, water shortages, floods, hurricanes, typhoons, fires, extreme weather conditions, medical epidemics and other natural or man-made disasters or business interruptions, for which we are predominantly self-insured. Further, global conflicts or political unrest, such as the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, and the conflict in the Middle East may disrupt our global clinical trials and increase the likelihood of supply interruptions. Additionally, the effect of global financial and economic conditions and geopolitical events, including the consequences of the current administration in the United States, events or changes related thereto, including reductions in force at administrative agencies and tariffs, or political unrest or otherwise, or similar events, may have an impact on our business. Sanctions imposed by the U.S. and other countries in response to geopolitical events and conflicts may also adversely impact the financial markets and the global economy, and any economic countermeasures by the affected countries or others could exacerbate market and economic instability. The occurrence of any of these business disruptions could seriously harm our research, clinical trials, operations and financial condition and increase our costs and expenses. Our ability to obtain clinical supplies of our product candidates could be disrupted if the operations of these suppliers are affected by a man-made or natural disaster or other business interruption.

There are also geopolitical tensions with China. For example, in December, 2025, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, or the NDAA, was enacted, which includes Section 851, commonly referred to as the “BIOSECURE Act.” The BIOSECURE Act restricts U.S. government agencies from procuring biotechnology equipment or services from, or entering into contracts with, entities that use biotechnology equipment or services from, designated “biotechnology companies of concern”, or BCCs, and from expending federal loan or grant funds for such equipment or services. If our current or future vendors with which we work are designated as BCCs in the future, or if our collaborators, customers, investors, or future commercial partners become subject to BIOSECURE-related restrictions as a result of their relationships with such vendors, we could be required to terminate or restructure existing arrangements, transition manufacturing or other services to alternative suppliers, or delay or suspend development activities, subject to a grace period of 5 years during which time a company could continue to work with such restricted vendor. Any such transition

could involve significant cost, operational complexity, regulatory risk, and delays, and alternative suppliers may not be available on acceptable terms or at all.

In addition, the increased prevalence of personnel working from home may negatively impact productivity, or disrupt, delay, or otherwise adversely impact our business operations. Further, this could increase our cyber security risk, create data accessibility concerns, and make us more susceptible to communication disruptions, any of which could adversely impact our business operations or delay necessary interactions with local and federal regulators, ethics committees, manufacturing sites, research or clinical trial sites and other important agencies and contractors.

Risks Related to Our Financial Condition and Capital Requirements

Risks Related to Past Financial Condition

We have incurred net losses in every period since our inception and anticipate that we will incur substantial net losses over the next several years, and may never achieve or maintain profitability.

Investment in biopharmaceutical product development is highly speculative because it entails substantial upfront capital expenditures and significant risk that any potential product candidate will fail to demonstrate adequate effect or an acceptable safety profile, gain regulatory approval and become commercially viable. We have no products licensed for commercial sale, and we will continue to incur significant research and development and other expenses related to our ongoing operations. Our net losses may fluctuate significantly from quarter to quarter and year to year. We have to date financed our operations primarily through private placements of our preferred stock, the sale of common stock in our initial and secondary public offerings and sales of our common stock from time to time in “at-the-market” offerings.

As a result, we are not profitable and have incurred net losses in each period since our inception. For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, we recorded net losses of $43.5 million and $35.9 million, respectively. As of March 31, 2026, we had an accumulated deficit of $560.5 million. We expect to incur significant losses for the foreseeable future, and we expect these losses to increase substantially if, and as, we:

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continue our research and development efforts and submit additional INDs and/or CTAs for our product candidates;

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conduct preclinical studies and clinical trials for our current and future product candidates;

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further develop our product candidate platform;

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continue to discover and develop additional product candidates;

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maintain, expand and protect our intellectual property portfolio;

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hire additional clinical, scientific manufacturing and commercial personnel;

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establish a commercial manufacturing source and secure supply chain capacity sufficient to provide commercial quantities of any product candidates for which we may obtain regulatory approval, whether through a CMO or through a manufacturing facility that we establish;

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acquire or in-license other product candidates and technologies, including advanced manufacturing and translational capabilities that we will need for the further development and possible commercialization of our product candidates;

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seek marketing approvals for any product candidates that successfully complete clinical trials;

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establish a sales, marketing and distribution infrastructure to support the sales and marketing of any product candidates for which we may obtain marketing approvals; and

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add operational, financial and management information systems and personnel, including personnel to support our product development and planned future commercialization efforts, as well as to support our operations as a public company.

To become and remain profitable, we must succeed in developing, and eventually commercializing, a product or products that generate significant revenue. The ability to achieve this success will require us to be effective in a range of challenging activities, including completing preclinical testing and clinical trials of our product candidates, discovering additional product candidates, obtaining regulatory approval for these product candidates and manufacturing, marketing and selling any products for which we may obtain regulatory approval. We are only in the preliminary stages of most of these activities and have not yet demonstrated our ability to successfully develop any product candidate, obtain regulatory approvals, manufacture a commercial scale product or arrange for a third party to do so on our behalf, or conduct sales and marketing activities necessary for successful product commercialization. We may never be able to develop, manufacture or commercialize a marketable product.

Even if we are able to succeed in these activities, we may never generate revenues that are significant enough to achieve profitability. Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with pharmaceutical product development, we are unable to accurately predict the timing or amount of increased expenses or when, or if, we will be able to achieve profitability. Our expenses will increase if, among other things:

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there are any delays in completing our clinical trials or the development of any of our product candidates;

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we are required by the FDA or other regulatory authorities to perform trials or studies in addition to, or different than, those expected; or

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there are any third-party challenges to our intellectual property or we need to defend against any intellectual property-related claim.

Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with pharmaceutical product development, we are unable to accurately predict the timing or amount of increased expenses we will incur or when, if ever, we will be able to achieve profitability. Even if we succeed in commercializing one or more of our product candidates, we will continue to incur substantial research and development and other expenditures to develop, seek regulatory approval for and market additional product candidates. We may encounter unforeseen expenses, difficulties, complications, delays and other unknown factors that may adversely affect our business. The size of our future net losses will depend, in part, on the rate of future growth of our expenses and our ability to generate revenue. Our prior losses and expected future losses have had and will continue to have an adverse effect on our stockholders’ equity and working capital.

We have a limited operating history, which may make it difficult to evaluate the success of our business to date and to assess our future viability, and we may face significant challenges and expense as we test our product candidates and build our capabilities.

We were incorporated in 2017 and initially acquired rights to license certain patent rights from Penn in August 2018, and acquired rights to license certain patent rights from Nanjing IASO Biotherapeutics Co., Ltd., or IASO, in October 2022. All of our product candidates are still in the preclinical development or clinical stage. We have not yet demonstrated our ability to successfully complete any clinical trials, including large-scale, pivotal clinical trials, obtain marketing approvals, manufacture clinical and commercial scale therapeutics, or arrange for a third party to do so on our behalf, or conduct sales and marketing activities necessary for successful commercialization. Our ability to generate product revenue or profits, which we do not expect will occur for many years, if ever, will depend heavily on the successful development and eventual commercialization of our product candidates, which may never occur. We may never be able to develop or commercialize a marketable product.

Our limited operating history, particularly in light of the rapidly evolving cell therapy field, may make it difficult to evaluate our current business and predict our future performance. Our relatively short history as an operating company makes any assessment of our future success or viability subject to significant uncertainty. We will encounter risks and difficulties frequently experienced by clinical-stage companies in rapidly evolving fields. If we do not address these risks successfully, our business will suffer. Similarly, we expect that our financial condition and operating results will continue to fluctuate from quarter to quarter and year to year due to a variety of factors, many of which are beyond our control. As a result, our shareholders should not rely upon the results of any quarterly or annual period as an indicator of future operating performance.

We currently do not have in-house resources sufficient to enable the development of our product candidates, including our CAR T and CAAR T cell platforms. We are reliant on Minaris manufacturing services for rese-cel in multiple indications through a Development, Manufacturing and Testing Services Agreement, or the Minaris Agreement. Our ability to rely on services from Minaris is limited to a specified period of time, to specific capabilities, and is subject to Minaris' right to terminate these services with or without cause. We are also reliant on Lonza manufacturing services for rese-cel in multiple indications through a Development and Manufacturing Services Agreement, or the Lonza Agreement. Our ability to rely on services from Lonza is limited to a specified period of time, to specific capabilities, and is subject to Lonza’s right to terminate these services with or without cause. If we are unable to establish necessary relationships with third party partners and/or build our own capabilities, our operating and financial results could differ materially from our expectations, and our business could suffer. As we build our own capabilities, and enter into agreements with third parties, we expect to encounter risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by growing companies in new and rapidly evolving fields, including the risks and uncertainties described herein.

All of our programs require additional preclinical research and development, clinical development, regulatory approval in multiple jurisdictions, obtaining manufacturing supply, capacity and expertise, building of a commercial organization, substantial investment and significant marketing efforts before we generate any revenue from product sales. Other programs of ours require additional discovery research and then preclinical and clinical development. In addition, our product candidates must be licensed for marketing by the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities before we may commercialize any product.

We have not generated any revenue from our product candidates and our ability to generate revenue from product sales and become profitable depends significantly on our success in a number of areas.

To become and remain profitable, we or any potential future collaborator must develop and eventually commercialize products with significant market potential at an adequate profit margin after cost of goods sold and other expenses. All of our product candidates are in the early stages of development and we will require additional preclinical studies, clinical development, regulatory review and approval, substantial investment, access to sufficient commercial manufacturing capacity and significant marketing efforts before we can generate any revenue from product sales. Our ability to generate revenue depends on a number of factors, including, but not limited to:

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timely completion of our preclinical studies and clinical trials, which may be significantly slower or cost more than we currently anticipate and will depend substantially upon the performance of third-party academic and commercial contractors;

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our ability to complete IND-enabling studies and successfully submit INDs or comparable applications;

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whether we are required by the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities to conduct additional clinical trials or other studies beyond those planned to support the licensure and commercialization of our product candidates or any future product candidates;

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our ability to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities, the safety, potency, purity and acceptable risk to benefit profile of our product candidates or any future product candidates;

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the prevalence, duration and severity of potential side effects or other safety issues experienced with our product candidates or future product candidates, if any;

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the cost of manufacturing and processing our product candidates being greater than we anticipate;

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the timely receipt of necessary marketing approvals from the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities;

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the willingness of physicians, operators of clinics and patients to utilize or adopt any of our product candidates or future product candidates to treat autoimmune diseases where B cells may play a role in initiating or maintaining disease;

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our ability and the ability of third parties with whom we contract to manufacture adequate clinical and commercial supplies of our product candidates or any future product candidates, remain in good standing with regulatory authorities and develop, validate and maintain commercially viable manufacturing processes that are compliant with FDA’s current Good Manufacturing Practices, or cGMP;

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our ability to successfully develop a commercial and competitive strategy and thereafter commercialize our product candidates or any future product candidates in the United States or other countries, if licensed for marketing, reimbursement, sale and distribution, whether alone or in collaboration with others;

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patient demand for our product candidates and any future product candidates, if licensed; and

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our ability to establish and enforce intellectual property rights in and to our product candidates or any future product candidates.

Many of the factors listed above are beyond our control and could cause us to experience significant delays or prevent us from obtaining regulatory approvals or commercialize our product candidates. Even if we are able to commercialize our product candidates, we may not achieve profitability soon after generating product sales, if ever. If we are unable to generate sufficient revenue through the sale of our product candidates or any future product candidates, we may be unable to continue operations without continued funding.

If we do achieve profitability, we may not be able to sustain or increase profitability on a quarterly or annual basis. Additionally, even if we succeed in commercializing one or more of our product candidates, we will continue to incur substantial research and development and other expenditures to research, develop and market additional product candidates. Our failure to become and remain profitable would decrease the value of our company and could impair our ability to raise capital, maintain our research and development efforts, expand our business or continue our operations. A decline in the value of our company also could cause you to lose all or part of your investment.

We may encounter unforeseen expenses, difficulties, complications, delays and other unknown factors that may adversely affect our business. The size of our future net losses will depend, in part, on the rate of future growth of our expenses and our ability to generate revenue. Our prior losses and expected future losses have had and will continue to have an adverse effect on our stockholders’ equity and working capital.

Risks Related to Future Financial Condition

*We will require substantial additional financing to develop and commercialize our product candidates and implement our operating plans. We have also identified conditions that raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. If we fail to obtain additional financing or cannot obtain financing at the levels we require, we may be forced to delay, reduce or discontinue our plans and operations or unable to complete the development and commercialization of our product candidates.

Our operations have consumed substantial amounts of cash since inception. We expect to continue to spend substantial amounts to continue the preclinical and clinical development of our product candidates, including our RESETTM trials, and our research and development, preclinical studies and clinical trials for any future product candidates, to seek regulatory approvals for our product candidates, to enable commercial production of our products, if licensed, and to initiate and complete registration trials for multiple products. From our inception in April 2017 to the time of our initial public offering, or IPO, our operations were financed by proceeds of $86.4 million from the sale of convertible notes and our convertible preferred stock and proceeds of $71.0 million from the sale of common stock in our IPO. Since our IPO and through March 31, 2026, we have generated cash from public offerings of our common stock and pre-funded warrants to purchase our common stock resulting in aggregate net proceeds of approximately $413.0 million. As of March 31, 2026, we had $116.6 million of cash and cash equivalents. While we currently expect our existing cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2026, along with net proceeds of approximately $141.0 million from our May 2026 financing to be sufficient to fund our operations into mid-2027, which includes our plans to fund the expanded clinical development of rese-cel in multiple indications with and/or without preconditioning, including the ongoing myositis registrational study and initiation of additional potentially registrational studies, and to further advance our manufacturing capabilities in preparation for commercial readiness of rese-cel. We expect to require significant additional financing to complete these clinical trials and any future clinical trials of these and our other product candidates. Further, if marketing approval is received, we will require significant additional amounts of cash to launch and commercialize our product candidates. However, we have based this estimate on assumptions that may prove to be wrong. Additionally, changing circumstances may cause us to consume capital significantly faster than we currently anticipate, and we may need to spend more money than currently expected because of circumstances beyond our control. We may require substantial additional capital for the further development and commercialization of our product candidates, including funding our internal manufacturing capabilities, and may need to raise additional funds sooner if we choose to expand more rapidly than we presently anticipate. Because the length of time and activities associated with development of our product candidates is highly uncertain, we are unable to estimate the actual funds we will require for development and any approved marketing and commercialization activities. Our future funding requirements, both near- and long-term, will depend on many factors, including, but not limited to:

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the initiation, progress, timing, costs and results of preclinical studies and clinical trials for our product candidates;

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the clinical development plans we establish for these product candidates;

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the number and characteristics of product candidates that we may develop or in-license;

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the terms of any collaboration agreements we may choose to conclude;

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the outcome, timing and cost of meeting regulatory requirements established by the FDA or other foreign regulatory authorities;

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the cost of filing, prosecuting, defending and enforcing our patent claims and other intellectual property rights;

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the cost of defending intellectual property disputes, including patent infringement actions brought by third parties against us or our product candidates;

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the effect of competing technological and market developments;

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the costs of establishing and maintaining a supply chain for the development and manufacture of our product candidates;

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the cost and timing of establishing, expanding and scaling manufacturing capabilities;

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the cost of maintaining the amount patient data for which we would be responsible following commercialization of one or more of our product candidates; and

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the cost of establishing sales, marketing and distribution capabilities for any product candidates for which we may receive regulatory approval in regions where we choose to commercialize our products on our own.

We cannot be certain that additional funding will be available on acceptable terms, or at all. As widely reported, global credit and financial markets have experienced extreme volatility and disruptions, including severely diminished liquidity and credit availability, declines in consumer confidence, declines in economic growth, inflation, increases in unemployment rates and uncertainty about economic stability. There can be no assurance that further deterioration in credit and financial markets and confidence in economic conditions will not occur. Until we are able to generate sufficient revenue to finance our cash requirements, we will need to finance our future cash needs through a combination of public or private equity offerings, debt financings, collaborations, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements and other marketing or distribution arrangements. If we are unable to raise additional capital in sufficient amounts or on terms acceptable to us, we may have to significantly delay, scale back or discontinue our research and development initiatives and clinical development plans. We could be required to seek collaborators for our product candidates at an earlier stage than otherwise would be desirable or on terms that are less favorable than might otherwise be available or relinquish or license on unfavorable terms our rights to our product candidates in markets where we otherwise would seek to pursue development or commercialization ourselves.

Based on our current operating plan, we believe there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months following the filing of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and we will need to obtain additional funding. We may be forced to delay or reduce the scope of our product development programs, reduce our research and development costs and/or limit or cease our operations if we are unable to obtain additional funding to support our current operating plan. Our cash forecast contains estimates and assumptions based on the success of our ongoing clinical trials, and management cannot predict the amount or timing of all expenditures with certainty. Nevertheless, our financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. We will need to raise additional capital to fund our future operations and remain as a going concern. However, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to obtain any or sufficient additional funding or that such funding, if available, will be obtainable on terms satisfactory to us.

*Future sales and issuances of our common stock or rights to purchase common stock, including pursuant to our equity incentive plans, could result in additional dilution of the percentage ownership of our stockholders and could cause our stock price to fall.

We expect that significant additional capital may be needed in the future to continue our planned operations, including conducting clinical trials, commercialization efforts, expanded research and development activities and costs associated with operating a public company. To raise capital, we may sell common stock, convertible securities or other equity securities in one or more transactions at prices and in a manner we determine from time to time. If we sell common stock, convertible securities or other equity securities, investors may be materially diluted by subsequent sales. Such sales may also result in material dilution to our existing stockholders, and new investors could gain rights, preferences and privileges senior to the holders of our common stock.

Subsequently, we issued (i) 39,200,000 shares of our common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase an aggregate of 39,200,000 shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof) and (ii) in lieu of common stock, to certain investors, pre-funded warrants to purchase an aggregate of up to 10,800,000 shares of our common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase an aggregate of 10,800,000 shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof), at an exercise price of $0.00001 per pre-funded warrant, or the 2025 Offering. The combined offering price of each share of common stock and accompanying common stock warrant was $2.00. The combined offering price of each pre-funded warrant and accompanying common stock warrant was $1.99999. The accompanying warrant has an exercise price of $2.50 per share, is immediately exercisable from the date of issuance and will expire on September 12, 2026, fifteen months from the date of issuance. Aggregate net proceeds were $93.6 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses. As a result of this offering, our stockholders experienced significant dilution. Sales of common stock, debt securities or other equity securities by us may represent a significant percentage of our common stock currently outstanding. If we sell, or the market perceives that we intend to sell, substantial number of additional shares of our common stock under the 2025 Registration Statement or otherwise, the market price of our common stock could decline significantly.

On August 7, 2025, we filed the 2025 Registration Statement (File No. 333-289339) with SEC, which was declared effective on August 15, 2025, in relation to the registration of common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, warrants and/or units of any combination thereof for the purposes of selling, from time to time, our common stock, debt securities or other equity securities in one or more offerings. We also simultaneously entered into the 2025 Sales Agreement with TD Cowen to provide for the offering, issuance and sale of up to an aggregate amount of $150.0 million of our common stock from time to time in “at-the-market” offerings, or 2025 ATM Program, under the 2025 Shelf Registration Statement and subject to the limitations thereof. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we sold 4,160,176 shares pursuant to the 2025 ATM Program for net proceeds of $10.2 million. During the first quarter of 2026, we sold 8,055,260 shares of common stock pursuant to the 2025 ATM Program for net proceeds of $22.6 million.

In addition, as of March 31, 2026, we had outstanding 50,315,090 common stock warrants and pre-funded warrants to purchase 6,000,000 shares of our common stock. If some or all of these warrants are exercised, our stockholders could experience substantial dilution and may cause the market price of our stock to decline.

In May 2026, the Company issued 51,725,000 shares of common stock at a price of $2.90 per share. Aggregate net proceeds were $141.0 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses.

We have also filed registration statements on Form S-8 to register shares issued or reserved for issuance under our equity compensation plans and will file additional registration statements on Form S-8 to register additional shares pursuant to the “evergreen” provisions under our equity compensation plans, the Plan Amendment and any subsequent amendments to our equity compensation plans. Shares registered under these registration statements on Form S-8 can be freely sold in the public market upon issuance and once vested, subject to volume limitations applicable to affiliates and the lock-up agreements described above. If any of these additional shares are sold, or if it is perceived that they will be sold, in the public market, the market price of our common stock could decline.

Pursuant to our equity incentive plans, our management is authorized to grant stock options to our employees, directors and consultants. Additionally, the number of shares of our common stock reserved for issuance under the 2019 Stock Option and Incentive Plan, or the 2019 Plan, automatically increased on January 1, 2026 and will automatically increase each January 1 thereafter through and including January 1, 2029, by 4% of the total number of shares of our capital stock outstanding on December 31 of the preceding calendar year, or a lesser number of shares determined by our board of directors. Unless our board of directors elects not to increase the number of shares available for future grant each year, our stockholders may experience additional dilution, which could cause our stock price to fall. In addition, on April 7, 2023, our board of directors adopted, and at our 2023 annual meeting our stockholders approved, an amendment to the 2019 Plan, or the Plan Amendment, to increase the aggregate number of shares authorized for issuance under the 2019 Plan by 3,000,000 shares, subject to adjustment.

In addition, certain of our employees, executive officers, and directors may enter into Rule 10b5-1 trading plans providing for sales of shares of our common stock from time to time. Under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, a broker executes trades pursuant to parameters established by the employee, director, or officer when entering into the plan, without further direction from the employee, officer, or director. A Rule 10b5-1 trading plan may be amended or terminated in some circumstances. Our employees, executive officers, and directors also may buy or sell additional shares outside of a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan when they are not in possession of material, nonpublic information.

Future issuances of our common stock or other equity securities, or the perception that sales of this nature may occur, could adversely affect the trading price of our common stock, and impair our ability to raise capital through future offerings of shares or equity securities. No prediction can be made as to the effect, if any, that future sales of common stock or the availability of common stock for future sales will have on the trading price of our common stock.

Any of the above events could significantly harm our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations and cause the price of our common stock to decline.

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