Marker Therapeutics, Inc. Revenue Disclosure

NOTE 12: GRANT INCOME

CPRIT

In August 2021, the Company received notice of a Product Development Research award totaling approximately $13.1 million from CPRIT to support the Company’s Phase 2 clinical trial of MT-401. The CPRIT award is intended to support the adjuvant arm of the Company’s Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating MT-401 when given as an adjuvant therapy to patients with acute myeloid leukemia following a hematopoietic stem cell transplant. The primary objectives of the adjuvant arm of the trial are to evaluate relapse-free survival after MT-401 treatment when compared with a randomized control group.

If restricted cash received from grants in advance of incurring qualifying costs, it is recorded as deferred revenue and recognized as revenue when qualifying costs are incurred. There was no restricted cash recorded as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022. If qualifying grant income is earned in advance of cash received from grants, it is recognized as revenue and recorded as other receivable.

The Company recorded $2.7 million and $3.4 million of grant income related to the CPRIT grant as revenue for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. At December 31, 2023, the Company had recorded $0.5 million as other receivable, which represented grant income earned in advance of the next tranche of funds to be received from CPRIT.

FDA

In September 2022, the Company received notice from the FDA that it had awarded the Company a $2.0 million grant from the FDA’s Orphan Products Grant program to support the Company’s Phase 2 clinical trial of MT-401 for the treatment of post-transplant AML. The Company recorded $0.4 million and $0.1 million of grant income related to the FDA grant as revenue for the years ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. As of December 31, 2023, the Company recorded $0.3 million as other receivable, which represented grant income earned in advance of funds to be received from the FDA. In February 2024, the Company received $0.3 million of funds from the FDA grant.

SBIR

In May 2023, the Company announced it had received a $2.0 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research program to support the development and investigation of MT-401 for the treatment of AML patients following standard-of-care therapy with hypomethylating agents. The Company recorded $0.2 million of grant income related to the SBIR grant as revenue for the year ended December 31, 2023. As of December 31, 2023, the Company recorded $0.2 million as other receivable, which represented grant income earned in advance of funds to be received from the SBIR. In February 2024, the Company received $0.2 million of funds from the SBIR grant.

All funding agencies have agreed to continue their financial support and to shift funds to the MT-401-OTS program.