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Investment in Equity Securities
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]  
Investment in Equity Securities

NOTE 4: INVESTMENT IN EQUITY SECURITIES

On December 23, 2022, the Company completed its investment in Dynamic Cell Therapies, Inc. (DCT), a U.S. private company that is in the pre-clinical stage of developing novel Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies based on technology licensed from a leading U.S. cancer treatment and research institution. The Company’s determined that DCT is a variable interest entity. The Company does not consolidate DCT because it does not have the power to direct economically significant activities. The Company has no obligation to provide any future funding to DCT and its maximum exposure to loss is its investment value. In total, the Company paid $4.7 million during the year ended December 31, 2022 to DCT in exchange for Series Seed Preferred Shares representing approximately 19% of the post-investment outstanding shares of DCT as of December 31, 2022.

During 2023, the Company considered the additional adverse changes in the general market condition of the industry in which DCT operates and continued concerns about the investee’s ability to continue as a going concern, due to negative cash flows from operations. Based on these impairment indicators, the Company performed a quantitative fair value measurement in the second quarter of 2023.

The assumptions and estimates used to estimate the fair value of the investment include the following information from DCT:

Unaudited financial statements;
Projected technological developments of DCT;
Then-current fundraising transactions;
The-current ability of DCT to raise additional financing when needed;
Changes in the economic environment which may have a material impact on the operating results of DCT; and
Timing of a deemed liquidation event occurring.

The impairment of the Company's investment in equity securities required the estimation of fair value using unobservable inputs (a Level 3 fair value measurement). The Company used the dynamic options approach, which requires assumptions regarding the expected average volatility of comparable companies, the expected term of the investment, and the risk-free interest rate over the expected term of the investment. The expected stock price volatility assumption is based upon the average historic volatility of comparable public clinical stage immunotherapy or CAR-T companies. The expected term of the Company's investment is 3.5 years and the risk-free interest rate used is based upon prevailing short-term interest rates over the expected term of the investment. The dynamic options approach was weighted at a 50% outcome probability. An adjusted book value approach was also considered and also weighted at a 50% probability due to DCT's limited cash on hand, status of current fundraising efforts and the estimated timing of a deemed liquidation event occurring. The Company recorded an impairment charge of $3.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.

No impairment was recorded during the year ended December 31, 2022 as a result of the Company's qualitative impairment analysis.