09/29/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/29/2025 14:34
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the information contained in the financial statements of the Company and the notes thereto appearing elsewhere herein and in conjunction with the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2025. Readers should carefully review the risk factors disclosed in this Form 10-K and other documents filed by the Company with the SEC.
As used in this report, the terms "Company", "we", "our", "us" and "NNVC" refer to NanoViricides, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
PRELIMINARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Annual Report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These include statements about our expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies for the future, which we indicate by words or phrases such as "anticipate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "will," "we believe," "NNVC believes," "management believes" and similar language. The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of NNVC and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those set forth in the discussion under "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in this report. Actual results may differ materially from results anticipated in these forward-looking statements. We base the forward-looking statements on information currently available to us, and we assume no obligation to update them.
Investors are also advised to refer to the information in our previous filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), especially on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K, in which we discuss in more detail various important factors that could cause actual results to differ from expected or historic results. It is not possible to foresee or identify all such factors. As such, investors should not consider any list of such factors to be an exhaustive statement of all risks and uncertainties or potentially inaccurate assumptions.
Management's Plan of Operation
The Company's drug development business model was formed in May 2005 with a license to the patents and intellectual property held by TheraCour that enabled creation of drugs engineered specifically to combat viral diseases in humans. This exclusive license from TheraCour serves as a foundation for our intellectual property. The Company was granted a worldwide exclusive license to this technology for several drugs with specific targeting mechanisms for the treatment of the following human viral diseases: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV/AIDS), Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), Rabies, Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2), Influenza and Asian Bird Flu Virus. The Company entered into an additional license agreement with TheraCour granting the Company the exclusive licenses for technologies developed by TheraCour for the additional virus types: Dengue viruses, Japanese Encephalitis virus, West Nile Virus, Viruses causing viral Conjunctivitis (a disease of the eye) and Ocular Herpes, and Ebola/Marburg viruses. The Company completed a license agreement for the field of VZV indications in November 2019 from TheraCour. The Company completed a license agreement for the field of human Coronavirus indications in September 2021 from TheraCour. TheraCour has not denied any licenses sought by the Company in the past. The Company has the right of first refusal for any antiviral drugs with TheraCour.
The Company may seek to add additional virus types to its drug pipeline as the Company progresses further. The Company would then need to negotiate with TheraCour or an unrelated party appropriate license agreements to include those of such additional viruses that the Company determines it wants to follow for further development. Historically, the Company initiates negotiations for additional licenses when initial exploratory research determines that a viable drug candidate for the targeted field is possible. We are seeking to add to our existing portfolio of products through our internal discovery pre-clinical development programs and through an in-licensing strategy.
The licenses granted by TheraCour are for entire set of pathologies that the licensed virus is a causative agent for. The licenses are not for single drug/indication pairs, which is the customary mode of licensing in the pharmaceutical industry. Thus, these are very broad licenses and enable NanoViricides to pursue a number of indications as well as develop drug candidates with different characteristics as is best suited for the indications, without having to license the resulting drugs for each indication separately, as with normal pharmaceutical industry licensing.
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The Company plans to develop several drugs through the preclinical studies and clinical trial phases with the goal of eventually obtaining approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for these drugs. The Company plans, when appropriate, to seek regulatory approvals in several international markets, including developed markets such as Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, and Emerging Regions such as Southeast Asia, India, China, Central and South America, as well as the African subcontinent. Seeking these regulatory approvals would only occur when and if one or more of our drugs have significantly advanced through the FDA and international regulatory process. If and as these advances occur, the Company may attempt to partner with more established pharmaceutical companies to advance the various drugs through the approval process.
The Company intends to perform the regulatory filings for the drugs it is currently developing. The Company will develop these drugs in part via subcontracts to TheraCour, the exclusive source for these nanomaterials. The Company may manufacture these drugs itself, or under subcontract arrangements with external manufacturers that carry the appropriate regulatory licenses and have appropriate capabilities. The Company intends to distribute these drugs via subcontracts with distributor companies or in partnership arrangements. The Company plans to market these drugs either on its own or in conjunction with marketing partners. The Company also plans to actively pursue co-development, as well as other licensing agreements with other pharmaceutical companies. Such agreements may entail up-front payments, milestone payments, royalties, and/or cost sharing, profit sharing and many other instruments that may bring early revenues to the Company. Such licensing and/or co-development agreements may shape the manufacturing and development options that the Company may pursue.
Although we have been able to develop nanoviricide drug candidates for multiple indications that are safe and effective in pre-clinical studies there can be no assurance that we will have sufficient resources to be able to successfully obtain regulatory approvals, manufacture, and market these products to commence revenue-generating operations.
There can be no assurance that other developments in the field would not impact our business plan adversely. For example, successful creation and availability of an effective vaccine may reduce the potential market size for a particular viral disease, or an effective drug may be developed by competitors that becomes difficult to compete against with our limited resources. Our goal, which we can give no assurance that we will achieve, is for NanoViricides, Inc. to become the premier company developing highly safe and effective drugs that employ an integrated multiplicity of actions as enabled by our nanomedicine approach for anti-viral therapy.
In summary, we are developing and sourcing compounds and preparing nano-materials; performing experiments involving preclinical studies using cell cultures and animal models of efficacy and safety, advancing drug candidates against different indications into IND-enabling safety/toxicology studies. We have successfully completed Phase Ia/Ib clinical trial for human safety and tolerability of our first drug candidate, NV-387, a broad-spectrum antiviral with multiple virus indications. We are now advancing NV-387 towards multiple indications with different regulatory pathways in a highly cost-effective strategy. We plan on seeking non-dilutive funding for some of the initiatives. We have generated funding through the issuances of debt and the sales of securities under our shelf registration and the private placement of common stock. We have not generated any revenues and we do not expect to generate revenues in the near future. We may not be successful in developing our drugs and start selling our products when planned, or we may not become profitable in the future. We have incurred net losses in each fiscal period since inception of our operations.
Results of Operations
The Company is a biopharmaceutical company and does not have any revenue for the years ended June 30, 2025 and June 30, 2024.
Comparison of the Year End June 30, 2025 to the Year Ended June 30, 2024
Revenues - The Company is a non-revenue producing entity.
Research and Development Expenses - Research and development expenses for the year ended June 30, 2025 increased approximately $112,000, to approximately $5,549,000 from approximately $5,437,000 for the year ended June 30, 2024. This year-to-year increase is generally attributable to an increase in outside lab fees related to preparation of the Company's Phase II clinical trial applications.
General and Administration Expenses - General and administrative expenses increased approximately $964,000 to approximately $4,043,000 for the year ended June 30, 2025 from approximately $3,079,000 for the year ended June 30, 2024. The increase in general and administrative expenses is generally attributable to an increase in professional services including, legal, accounting, and investor outreach expenditures.
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Interest Income - Interest income was approximately $125,000 and approximately $272,000 for the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Interest income decreased due to lower cash balances.
Interest Expense- The Company has incurred interest expense of approximately $149 and $50,000 for the years ended June 30, 2025 and June 30, 2024 respectively. The decrease in interest expense for the year ended June 30, 2025 is a result of the milestone payment interest expense charged pursuant to the milestone payment note with TheraCour for the year ended June 30, 2024.
Income Taxes -There is no provision for income taxes due to ongoing operating losses. As of June 30, 2025, we had estimated cumulative tax benefits and development tax credits and other deferred tax credits resulting in a deferred tax asset of approximately $42,492,000. This amount has been offset by a full valuation allowance.
Net Loss - For the year ended June 30, 2025, the Company had a net loss of approximately $9,467,000, or a basic and fully diluted loss per share of $0.63 compared to a net loss of approximately $8,294,000, or a basic and fully diluted loss per share of $0.70 for the year ended June 30, 2024. The increase in the Company's net loss for the year ended June 30, 2025 from the year ended June 30, 2024 of $1,173,000 is generally attributable to the items discussed above.
Research and Development Costs
The Company does not maintain separate accounting line items for each project in development. The Company maintains aggregate expense records for all research and development conducted. Because at this time all of the Company's projects share a common core material, the Company allocates expenses across all projects at each period-end for purposes of providing accounting basis for each project. Project costs are allocated based upon labor hours performed for each project.
The Company has signed several cooperative research and development agreements with TheraCour, and expects to enter into additional cooperative agreements with other governmental and non-governmental, academic, or commercial, agencies, institutions, and companies. There can be no assurance that a final agreement may be achieved and that the Company will execute any of these agreements. However, should any of these agreements materialize, the Company will implement a system to track these costs by project and account for these projects as customer-sponsored activities and show these project costs separately.
The following table summarizes the primary components of our research and development expenses as allocated, during the periods presented in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Table : R&D Costs Allocation
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Year Ended |
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Program |
June 30, 2025 |
June 30, 2024 |
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NV-387 Manufacture, Clinical Trials, R&D |
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$ |
4,449,000 |
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$ |
3,437,000 |
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Smallpox/Mpox |
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$ |
400,000 |
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$ |
150,000 |
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Measles |
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$ |
300,000 |
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$ |
- |
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RSV |
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$ |
150,000 |
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$ |
250,000 |
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Influenza |
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$ |
150,000 |
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$ |
100,000 |
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HerpeCide™ Program. Herpes Simplex virus infections (HSV-1, HSV-2) and VZV Indications: Cold Sores, Genital Ulcers, Shingles and ARN |
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$ |
100,000 |
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$ |
- |
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Total |
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$ |
5,549,000 |
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$ |
5,437,000 |
As many of our programs share a substantial amount of materials as well as laboratory work, we do not maintain project-based accounting of costs at present. The table above represents estimated cost allocations for specific activities in the different programs, with the bulk of common activities reported under the "NV-387 Manufacture, Clinical Trials, R&D" heading.
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Financings
On May 5, 2023, we filed a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-271706) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), as amended on May 8, 2023, which registration statement was declared effective by the SEC on May 22, 2023. Under this shelf registration process, we may, from time to time, sell up to $150 million in the aggregate of shares of common stock, shares of preferred stock, debt securities, warrants and units. Approximately $140 million remains available for sale as of the date of this filing.
On or about August 1, 2023, the ATM Sales Agreement that we previously had with EF Hutton, division of Benchmark Investments, LLC and B. Riley Securities, Inc., taken together as the Sales Agent, was amended to name EF Hutton as the only sales agent (the "Agent") and to remove B. Riley as a sales agent. On August 4, 2023, we filed a prospectus supplement relating to the issuance and sale of our common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, having an aggregate offering price of up to $5,713,022, from time to time through or to our sole sales agent, EF Hutton. These sales, if any, would have been made pursuant to the terms of the August 1, 2023 ATM Sales Agreement.
On April 5, 2024, the Company entered into a new ATM sales agreement with. E.F. Hutton (now D. Boral Capital), the sales agent, replacing the prior August 1, 2023 sales agreement, pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, from time to time, through or to the Sales Agents, shares of common stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $50 million (each such offering an "At-the-Market" or ATM Offering). As of June 30, 2024, the Company sold 1,308,651 shares of common stock at an average price of approximately $2.47 per share. The shares were issued pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated May 5, 2023 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 5, 2023 in connection with the Company's shelf registration statement on Form S-3, as amended (File No. 333-271706), which became effective on May 22, 2023. The net proceeds to the Company from the offering was approximately $3,120,000 after placement agent fees and other estimated offering expenses.
From July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, the Company sold 3,351,096 shares of common stock at an average price of approximately $1.65 per share. The shares were issued pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated May 5, 2023 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 5, 2023 in connection with the Company's shelf registration statement on Form S-3, as amended (File No. 333-271706), which became effective on May 22, 2023. The net proceeds to the Company from the offering was approximately $5,296,000 after placement agent fees and other estimated offering expenses.
From July 1, 2025 through September 24, 2025 subsequent to the Company's fiscal year end, the Company sold 824,535 shares of common stock at an average price of approximately $1.57 per share. The net proceeds to the Company from the offering was approximately $1.25 million after placement agent fees and other estimated offering expenses.
Liquidity and Capital Reserves
As of June 30, 2025, we had approximately $1.6 million in cash and cash equivalents. Our liabilities as of June 30, 2025 are approximately $1.3 million, including accounts payable of approximately $459 thousand payable to third parties, accounts payable to related parties of approximately $821 thousand, and accrued expenses approximately $26 thousand.
The Company has an accumulated deficit at June 30, 2025 of approximately $148,842,000 and net cash used in operating activities of approximately $8,479,000 for the fiscal year then ended. In addition, the Company has not generated any revenues and no revenues are anticipated in the foreseeable future. Since May 2005, the Company has been engaged exclusively in research and development activities focused on developing targeted antiviral drugs. The Company has not yet commenced any product commercialization. Such losses are expected to continue for the foreseeable future and until such time, if ever, as the Company is able to attain sales levels sufficient to support its operations.
Management believes that the Company's cash and cash equivalents balance of approximately $1.6 million at June 30, 2025, and additional capital raised of approximately $1.25 million by ATM sales of our common stock from July 1, 2025 through September 24, 2025 and the Company's existing resources, including availability under its $3 million line of credit will not be sufficient to fund the Company's planned operations and expenditures for at least 12 months from the date of the filing of this Form 10-K. As a result substantial doubt exists about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
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Management is actively exploring additional required funding through non-dilutive grants and contracts, partnering, debt or equity financing pursuant to its plan. There is no assurance that we will be successful in obtaining sufficient financing on terms acceptable to us to fund continuing operations.
The Company believes that it has have several important milestones, including data from and final reports from the Phase Ia/Ib human clinical trial for our broad-spectrum drug NV-387 that is now in progress. Additional milestones include filing of clinical trial application for Phase II clinical trial of NV-387 for MPox indication, anticipated approval of the application, initiation of the Phase II Clinical Trial, Interim Datasets regarding the Safety and Effectiveness of NV-387 for the treatment of MPox, Completion of the Phase II Clinical Trial for MPox, as well as filing of clinical trial application for Phase II clinical trial of NV-387 for Viral-ARI/SARI indication, anticipated approval of the application, initiation of the Phase II Clinical Trial, interim datasets regarding the safety and effectiveness of NV-387 for the treatment of a multitude of respiratory viral infections, completion of the Phase II Clinical Trial and data analysis with data regarding efficacy of NV-387 in the treatment of Influenza, RSV, Coronavirus, and possibly other respiratory viruses.
Additional milestones we look forward to include: orphan drug designation filing to the US FDA for NV-387 for the treatment of MPox, smallpox and Measles, Pre-IND Application filing to the US FDA for Smallpox/MPox/Orthopoxviruses, and an IND filing to the US FDA, possibly for NV-387 for the treatment of smallpox under the FDA "Animal Rule".
As these milestones are achieved, the Company would likely experience improvement in the liquidity of the Company's stock, and such improvement, if any, would enhance the Company's ability to raise funds on the public markets at terms that may be favorable to the terms offered at present.
Management believes that it has on-going access to the capital markets including the "At-The-Market" (ATM) agreement with D. Boral Capital, the Sales Agent, that became active around April 5, 2024. However, we cannot provide assurance that the Company's plans will not change or that changed circumstances will not result in the depletion of its capital resources more rapidly than it currently anticipates.
Requirement for Additional Capital
As of June 30, 2025 we have a cash balance of approximately $1.6 million and raised an approximate additional $1.25 million through September 24, 2025 through ATM sales of our common stock.
We believe we will need additional funding to continue further development of our drug candidates through later stages of human clinical trials into regulatory approvals if we do not form a collaborative licensing or partnership agreement with a party that would provide such funding such as Big Pharma.
These anticipated expenses for the subsequent period commencing on July 1, 2025 can be summarized as follows:
1. | Planned costs for remaining activities in the Phase 1a/1b human clinical trial of NV-CoV-2 Oral Syrup and NV-CoV-2 Oral Gummies, including bioanalytical activities and reports. |
2. | Planned costs for Phase II clinical trial of evaluation of NV-387 for MPox. These costs include staffing costs for the scientific staff and consulting firms to assist with regulatory compliance, as well as material characterization, pharmaco-kinetic, pharmaco-dynamic and toxicology studies, and other items related to regulatory compliance, as required for development of necessary data. |
3. | Similarly, planned costs for Phase II clinical trial of evaluation of NV-387 for Viral ARI/SARI. We plan on preparing the Clinical Trial Application (CTA) for this trial after regulatory submission of the MPox CTA in DRC. We believe we may be able to initiate the Phase II NV-387-Viral-ARI/SARI clinical trial towards the FY2026 third quarter, but majority of the clinical trial is expected to be conducted during the early part of FY2027. |
4. | Additional Non-clinical Safety Toxicology Studies of NV-387 to enable treatment of children with NV-387. |
5. | Drug Substance and Drug Product Manufacturing costs, and |
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6. | Corporate overhead. This includes budgeted office salaries, legal, accounting, investor relations, public relations, business development, and other costs expected to be incurred by being a public reporting company. |
As our programs mature and as we are able to move additional drug candidates into human clinical trials we will continue to require additional funding for such activities. The estimates assume that our drug candidates demonstrate effectiveness in humans that is consistent with the activity observed in animal studies, and therefore would require relatively few patients in each arm of each trial in order to establish statistically significant results.
We believe that as our programs mature towards FDA approval, the Company's market capitalization should improve substantially, based on market capitalizations of comparable public companies in clinical stages. However, we cannot provide assurance that our plans will not change or that changed circumstances will not result in the depletion of our capital resources more rapidly than we currently anticipate.
The Company has limited experience with pharmaceutical drug development. Thus, our budget estimates are not based on experience, but rather based on advice given by our associates and consultants. As such, these budget estimates may not be accurate. In addition, the actual work to be performed is not known at this time, other than a broad outline, as is normal with any scientific work. As further work is performed, additional work may become necessary or change in plans or workload may occur. Such changes may have an adverse impact on our estimated budget. Such changes may also have an adverse impact on our projected timeline of drug development.
Our strategy is to minimize capital expenditure. We therefore rely on third party collaborations for the testing of our drug candidates. We continue to engage with our previous collaborators.
Management further intends to use capital and debt financing, as required, to fund the Company's operations. There can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain the additional capital resources, non-dilutive financings, grants and contracts, or pharmaceutical partnerships.
We are considered to be a clinical drug development stage company and will continue in the clinical drug development stage until we can get regulatory approvals and thereafter generate revenues from the sales of our products or services.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES
Accounting for Research and Devlopment Costs
The Company accounts for research and development cost in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification subtopic 730-10, Research and Development ("ASC 730-10"). ASC 730-10, requires research and development costs to be charged to expense as incurred. Accordingly, internal research and development costs are expensed as incurred. Third-party research and developments costs are expensed when the contracted work has been performed or as milestone results have been achieved. For the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, we incurred approximately $5,549,000 and $5,437,000 respectively for research and development expense which are included in the statements of operations.
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
The Company considers the applicability and Impact of all Accounting Standard Updates ("ASU's"). ASU's not discussed below were assessed and determined to be either not applicable or are expected to have minimal impact on the Company's financial statements.
ASU 2024-03, Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income-Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, which requires public business entities (PBEs) to disclose, in interim and annual reporting periods, additional information about certain expenses in the notes to financial statements. The requirements of ASU 2024-03 apply to all public business entities. The ASU requires disaggregated disclosure of income statement expenses for public business entities (PBEs). The ASU does not change the expense captions an entity presents on the face of the income statement; rather, it requires disaggregation of certain expense captions into specified categories in disclosures within the footnotes to the financial statements. ASU 2024-03 is effective for all PBEs for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning
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after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. While the Company is currently evaluating the adoption impact of this ASU on its financial statements, the preliminary assessment is that the adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material effect on the Company's financial statements and the Company's disclosures.
ASU 2023-09 Income Taxes (Topic 740) Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. The amendments in this Update require that public business entities on an annual basis (1) disclose specific categories in the rate reconciliation and (2) provide additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold (if the effect of those reconciling items is equal to or greater than 5 percent of the amount computed by multiplying pretax income (or loss) by the applicable statutory income tax rate). Additionally, the ASU requires all entities to disclose the amount of income taxes paid disaggregated by federal, state, and foreign taxes, as well as individual jurisdictions where income taxes paid are equal to or greater than 5 percent of total income taxes paid. ASU 2023-09 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 31, 2025. Early adoption is permitted and this ASU should be applied on a prospective basis. While the Company is currently evaluating the adoption impact of this ASU on its financial statements, the preliminary assessment is that the adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material effect on the Company's financial statements and the Company's disclosures.
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
Segment and Geographic Information
The Company adopted Accounting Standard Update ("ASU") 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280) - Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures, as of January 1, 2024. This ASU requires disclosure of significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker ("CODM"), an amount for other segment items by a reportable segment and a description of its composition, and disclosure of the title and position of the CODM.
Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise about which separate discrete information is available for evaluation by the CODM, or decision making group, in deciding how to allocate resources in assessing performance. The Company has one reportable segment: life science. The life science segment consists of the development of clinical and preclinical product candidates for the development of the Company's proprietary anti-viral therapies. The Company's CODM is the President and Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Segment revenue, profit or loss, significant segment expenses and other segment items - The accounting policies of the Company's single operating and reportable segment are the same as those described in this Summary of Significant Accounting Policies. The Company's method for measuring segment profitability includes net income (loss), which the CODM uses to assess performance and make decisions for resource allocation, consistent with the measurement principals for net income (loss) as reported on the Company's statement of operations. The significant expenses regularly reviewed by the CODM are consistent with those reported on the Company's statement of operations, and expenses are not regularly reviewed on a more disaggregated basis for purposes of assessing segment performance and deciding how to allocate resources.
To date, the Company has not generated any product revenue. The Company expects to continue to incur significant expenses and operating losses for the foreseeable future as it advances product candidates through all stages of development and clinical trials and, ultimately, seek regulatory approval.
The adoption of these disclosure requirements did not have a material impact on its financial statements and related disclosures.