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Company’s lead investigational product, FUROSCIX®, has a PDUFA date of
Company has initiated staged commercialization activities for FUROSCIX
“Our first full quarter as a public company was very productive and set the foundation for what we believe will be a transformational year for scPharmaceuticals,” said
Business Highlights
- Continuing staged launch preparation for FUROSCIX. The target date for the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA ) to take action under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) for FUROSCIX isSaturday, June 23, 2018 . The Company continues to work with theFDA , including the completion of a pre-approval inspection at the Company’s corporate offices. If approved, FUROSCIX would be the first formulation of furosemide administered subcutaneously for the treatment of edema in patients with heart failure. In the first quarter, the Company continued pre-launch preparation for FUROSCIX and completed the following:
- Hired and deployed field Medical Affairs Liaisons who are meeting with key thought leaders from top hospital systems that treat heart failure patients
- Hired and deployed a National Account Director team, which met with the top 10
Medicare Part D plans representing 80 percent of total coveredMedicare lives - Appointed a Head of Sales, finalized salesforce sizing and alignment, and initiated recruitment of the field sales management team
- Continuing FUROSCIX clinical initiatives. The Company continues to expect initiating enrollment in the FREEDOM-HF (FUROSCIX Real-World Evaluation for Decreasing Hospital Admissions in Heart Failure) study in the second quarter of 2018. This study will evaluate the economic impact of FUROSCIX administered in an outpatient setting compared with intravenous (IV) furosemide administered in the hospital. Two investigator-sponsored studies evaluating outcomes, tolerability and economic value of heart failure patients treated with FUROSCIX are currently enrolling.
- New FUROSCIX patent issued (U.S. Patent No. 9,884,039). The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued a new patent that expands the current intellectual property around FUROSCIX. The granted patent, which is expected to expire in
April 2034 , covers a method of treating a patient exhibiting the symptoms of edema, hypertension or heart failure using the formulation of FUROSCIX.
- Heart failure community continues to identify medical need in heart failure. In
February 2018 , JAMA Cardiology published a review highlighting the public health and economic burden of treating worsening heart failure and the growing need to identify ways to lower heart failure hospitalization with alternative therapies and outpatient care strategies. scPharmaceuticals believes that FUROSCIX, if approved, will offer healthcare practitioners an alternate approach to treating worsening heart failure that addresses many of the public health and economic burdens of treating this condition.
First Quarter 2018 Financial Results and Financial Guidance
scPharmaceuticals reported a net loss of
Research and development expenses were
General and administrative expenses were
scPharmaceuticals ended the first quarter of 2018 with
Based on its current operating plan, scPharmaceuticals expects that its existing cash resources will enable it to successfully fund operating expenses through 2019.
About FUROSCIX
FUROSCIX is a proprietary furosemide solution formulated to a neutral pH to allow for subcutaneous infusion via the patented Infusor, a wearable, pre-programed drug delivery system that is applied to the abdomen for subcutaneous drug administration. FUROSCIX is under review by the
About scPharmaceuticals
scPharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products that reduce healthcare costs and improve health outcomes. The Company develops products for the subcutaneous, self-administration of IV-strength treatments in heart failure and infectious disease. scPharmaceuticals is headquartered in
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s product candidates, including the potential timing of regulatory filings, approvals regarding our product candidates, and the expected timing of the commercial launch of any of our approved product candidates, including FUROSCIX; potential timing and advancement of our ongoing or planned clinical trials and investigator-sponsored studies; the announcement of data from these trials and studies; and the Company’s financial condition and cash runway through 2019. Any forward-looking statements in this press release are based on management’s current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk that any one or more of our product candidates will not receive regulatory approval or be successfully developed and commercialized, the risk of cessation or delay of any of the ongoing or planned clinical trials and/or our development of our product candidates, and the risk that the results of previously conducted studies will not be repeated or observed in ongoing or future studies involving our product candidates. For a discussion of other risks and uncertainties, and other important factors, any of which could cause our actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the section entitled “Risk Factors” in the final prospectus related to the Company’s initial public offering filed with the
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scPharmaceuticals, Inc. | |||||||
Unaudited Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss | |||||||
(in thousands, except share and per share data) | THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, | ||||||
2017 | 2018 | ||||||
Operating expenses: | |||||||
Research and development | $ | 2,885 | $ | 4,048 | |||
General and administrative | 2,074 | 4,651 | |||||
Total operating expenses | 4,959 | 8,699 | |||||
Loss from operations | (4,959 | ) | (8,699 | ) | |||
Other income (expense) | 10 | (42 | ) | ||||
Interest income | 37 | 351 | |||||
Interest expense | - | (342 | ) | ||||
Net loss and comprehensive loss | $ | (4,912 | ) | $ | (8,732 | ) | |
Net loss per share, basic and diluted | $ | (4.59 | ) | $ | (0.47 | ) | |
Weighted—average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted |
1,070,691 | 18,535,432 | |||||
scPharmaceuticals, Inc. | ||||||||
Unaudited Balance Sheet Data | ||||||||
(in thousands) | ||||||||
DECEMBER 31, 2017 |
MARCH 31, 2018 | |||||||
Cash and restricted cash | $ | 118,480 | $ | 109,462 | ||||
Working capital | 114,672 | 105,768 | ||||||
Total assets | 122,048 | 113,652 | ||||||
Term loan | 9,419 | 9,487 | ||||||
Accumulated deficit | (67,016 | ) | (75,748 | ) | ||||
Total stockholders’ equity | 105,997 | 97,944 | ||||||