Kintara Therapeutics 2024 EPS $(0.32) Up From $(9.27) YoY; Cash And Cash Equivalents $4.9M

Author: Benzinga Newsdesk | October 08, 2024 06:16am

Recent Corporate Developments

• As previously disclosed, in April 2024 Kintara entered into a definitive merger agreement (the "Merger Agreement") with TuHURA Biosciences, Inc. ("TuHURA"), a Phase 3 registration-stage immune-oncology company developing novel technologies to overcome resistance to cancer immunotherapy, and Kayak Mergeco, Inc., Kintara's wholly-owned subsidiary, whereby Kayak Mergeco will merge with and into TuHURA with TuHURA surviving the merger and becoming Kintara's direct, wholly-owned subsidiary (the "Merger").
   
• At Kintara's special meeting of stockholders held on October 4, 2024, Kintara's stockholders approved the requisite proposals to effect the completion of the proposed Merger with TuHURA. The proposed Merger is expected to be consummated in mid-October 2024, subject to the satisfaction of the remaining closing conditions under the Merger Agreement.
   
• As of October 7, 2024, four patients have been dosed in Kintara's open label 15-patient REM-001 study (the "REM-001 Study") in cutaneous metastatic breast cancer (CMBC). The majority of the costs to run the REM-001 Study will be covered by the $2.0 million Small Business Innovation Research grant Kintara was awarded from the National Institutes of Health.

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