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Nature of the Business
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
Nature of the Business  
Nature of the Business

Note 1. Nature of the Business

BioXcel Therapeutics, Inc. (“BTI” or the “Company”) is a biopharmaceutical company utilizing artificial intelligence (“AI”) approaches to develop transformative medicines in neuroscience and immuno-oncology. The Company is focused on utilizing cutting-edge technology and innovative research to develop high-value therapeutics aimed at transforming patients’ lives. BTI employs unique AI platforms designed to reduce therapeutic development costs and potentially accelerate timelines. The Company’s approach leverages existing approved drugs and/or clinically evaluated product candidates together with big data and proprietary machine learning algorithms to identify new therapeutic indices. BTI management believes this differentiated approach has the potential to reduce the expense and time associated with drug development in diseases with substantial unmet medical needs.

As used in these condensed consolidated financial statements, unless otherwise specified or the context otherwise requires, the term “BioXcel LLC” refers to the Company’s former parent and current significant stockholder and its predecessor, BioXcel Corporation. “OnkosXcel” refers to BTI’s wholly owned subsidiary for its advanced immuno-oncology assets, OnkosXcel Therapeutics, LLC.

On April 6, 2022, BTI announced that the U.S. FDA approved IGALMITM (dexmedetomidine or “Dex”) sublingual film for the acute treatment of agitation associated with schizophrenia or bipolar I or II disorder in adults. IGALMITM is approved to be self-administrated by patients under the supervision of a healthcare provider. On July 6, 2022, BTI announced that IGALMITM was commercially available in doses of 120 and 180 micrograms through the Company’s third-party logistics provider and was available for order through wholesalers.

The Company’s most advanced development program is BXCL501. In indications other than those approved by the FDA as IGALMITM, BXCL501 is an investigational proprietary, orally dissolving film formulation of Dex for the treatment of agitation associated with psychiatric and neurological disorders.

The Company’s advanced immuno-oncology asset, BXCL701, is an investigational, orally administered systemic innate immune activator for the treatment of a rare form of prostate cancer and advanced solid tumors that are refractory or treatment naïve to checkpoint inhibitors.

BTI was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on March 29, 2017. The Company’s principal office is in New Haven, Connecticut.