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Organization
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Organization

1. Organization

Sana Biotechnology, Inc. (the Company or Sana) is a biotechnology company focusing on utilizing engineered cells as medicines. The Company’s operations to date have included identifying and developing potential product candidates, executing preclinical studies, establishing manufacturing capabilities, preparing for clinical trials of our product candidates, acquiring technology, organizing and staffing the Company, business planning, establishing and maintaining the Company’s intellectual property portfolio, raising capital, and providing general and administrative support for these operations.  

Liquidity and capital resources

The Company is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties similar to other biotechnology companies in the development stage, including, but not limited to, those related to the need to obtain adequate additional funding, possible failure of preclinical testing or clinical trials, the need to obtain marketing approval for its product candidates, building out internal and external manufacturing capabilities, competitors developing new technological innovations, the need to successfully commercialize and gain market acceptance of the Company’s products, the need to protect the Company’s intellectual property and proprietary technologies, and the need to attract and retain key scientific and management personnel. If the Company does not successfully commercialize or partner any of its product candidates, it will be unable to generate product revenue or achieve profitability. Until such time as the Company can generate significant revenue from product sales, if ever, it expects to finance its operations with the proceeds from additional equity or debt financings or capital obtained in connection with strategic collaborations or licensing or other arrangements. In the event that additional financing is required, the Company may not be able to raise it on terms acceptable to it or at all.

In August 2022, the Company entered into a sales agreement with Cowen and Company, LLC (Cowen), acting as sales agent, pursuant to which it may offer and sell through Cowen shares of the Company’s common stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $150.0 million from time to time in a series of one or more at the market equity offerings.  

The Company has incurred operating losses each year since inception and expects such losses to continue for the foreseeable future. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities of $355.1 million, and an accumulated deficit of $1.1 billion, which includes cumulative non-cash charges related to the revaluation of the success payment liabilities and contingent consideration of $13.2 million and $104.6 million, respectively.