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Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
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Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation

Note 1. Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation

Organization

iTeos Therapeutics, Inc. (iTeos Inc. or the Company), a Delaware corporation headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts (incorporated on October 4, 2019), is the successor to iTeos Belgium SA (iTeos Belgium) a company organized under the laws of Belgium in 2011 and headquartered in Charleroi, Belgium. The Company is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery and development of a new generation of immuno-oncology therapeutics for people living with cancer. The Company leverages its deep understanding of the tumor immunology and immunosuppressive pathways to design novel product candidates with the aim of restoring the immune response against cancer. The Company’s innovative pipeline includes two clinical-stage programs targeting novel, validated immuno-oncology pathways. Each of the Company's therapies in development has optimized pharmacologic properties designed to improve clinical outcomes.

The Company’s lead antibody product candidate, EOS-448, also known as GSK4428859A, is an antagonist of TIGIT, or T-cell immunoreceptor with lg and ITIM domains, an immune checkpoint with multiple mechanisms of action. EOS-448 was selected for its affinity for TIGIT, its potency and its potential to engage the Fc gamma receptor, or FcγR, to activate dendritic cells, natural killer cells, and macrophages and to promote cytokine release, activation of antigen presenting cells, and antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity, or ADCC, activity. In 2020, the Company started an open-label Phase 1/2a clinical trial of EOS-448 in adult cancer patients with advanced solid tumors. In April 2021, the Company reported preliminary safety, pharmacokinetic, engagement and pharmacodynamic data, indicating target engagement and early evidence of clinical activity as a single agent. In September 2021, the Company dosed the first patients in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial of EOS-448 in combination with pembrolizumab and in combination with the Company's A2AR antagonist inupadenant in patients with solid tumors.

 

On June 11, 2021, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, iTeos Belgium S.A., and GlaxoSmithKline Intellectual Property (No. 4) Limited, or GSK, executed a Collaboration and License Agreement, or the GSK Collaboration Agreement, which became effective on July 26, 2021. Pursuant to the GSK Collaboration Agreement, the Company agreed to grant GSK a license under certain of its intellectual property rights to develop, manufacture, and commercialize products comprised of or containing EOS-448, which license is exclusive in all countries outside of the United States and co-exclusive, with iTeos, in the United States. GSK and iTeos intend to develop EOS-448 in combination, including with other oncology assets of GSK, and iTeos and GSK will jointly own the intellectual property created under the GSK Collaboration Agreement that covers such combinations. In partnership with GSK, the Company began enrolling patients with first line NSCLC in a randomized Phase 2 trial assessing the doublet of GSK's anti-PD-1 (Jemperli (dostarlimab-gxly)) with EOS-448. In addition, the Company is enrolling patients with first-line advanced or metastatic head and HNSCC for the Phase 2 expansion part of the trial assessing the doublet of GSK’s dostarlimab with EOS-448. The Company and GSK continue to explore the Phase 1b trial evaluating the novel triplet of EOS-448 with dostarlimab and GSK’s investigational anti-CD96 antibody.

 

Based on favorable preclinical data generated in collaboration with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Company is also advancing an open-label dose-escalation/expansion Phase 1/2 trial evaluating the safety, tolerability and preliminary activity of EOS-448 as monotherapy and in combination with Bristol Myers Squibb’s iberdomide - a novel, potent oral cereblon E3 ligase modulator (CELMoD®) compound with enhanced tumoricidal and immune-stimulatory effects compared with im984melamunomodulatory (IMiD®) agents - with or without dexamethasone, in adults with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

 

The Company is also advancing inupadenant, a next-generation adenosine A2AR antagonist tailored to overcome the specific adenosine-mediated immunosuppression found in tumor microenvironment, into proof-of concept trials in several indications following encouraging single-agent activity in Phase 1. The Company is investigating inupadenant in an open-label multi-arm Phase 1/2a clinical trial in adult cancer patients with advanced solid tumors. The single-agent dose-escalation and expansion portions of the Company's Phase 1/2a clinical trial of inupadenant have demonstrated durable monotherapy antitumor activity in some patients with advanced solid tumors and safety consistent with previously reported results. As part of this monotherapy assessment of inupadenant, the Company identified a potential predictive biomarker and the Company is enrolling patients in the

biomarker cohort of the ongoing Phase 1b/2a trial. The Company is also enrolling patients in a Phase 2 trial in post-IO metastatic NSCLC to evaluate the combination of inupadenant with platinum-doublet chemotherapy compared to standard platinum-doublet chemotherapy. The Company has completed enrollment in the safety evaluation portion of the clinical trial of inupadenant in combination with chemotherapy and with pembrolizumab, as well as the monotherapy expansion cohort in prostate cancer. The Company has completed enrollment in the Phase 2a trial evaluating inupadenant in combination with pembrolizumab in post-PD-1 melanoma and has decided to prioritize development of inupadenant in our ongoing study in combination with platinum-doublet chemotherapy in patients with chemo-naïve NSCLC as the Company has determined that the post-PD-1 melanoma setting is not a path to accelerated approval. In addition, the Company is evaluating a salt form of inupadenant in a Phase 1 study.

 

The Company began its research and development activities as a spin-off of Ludwig Cancer Research and have built significant expertise in designing novel cancer immunotherapies. The Company's internal research and development team has extensive expertise in tumor immunology, characterization of immunosuppressive mechanisms in the tumor microenvironment, pharmacology and translational medicine. The Company has also built discovery capabilities to develop both small molecules and antibodies with differentiated and optimized product profiles for targets validated by a strong scientific rationale. The Company continues to progress research programs focused on additional targets that complement its TIGIT and A2AR programs or address additional immunosuppressive pathways. In September 2021, the Company nominated a product candidate, EOS-984, targeting a novel mechanism in the adenosine pathway for Investigational New Drug, or IND, enabling studies. The Company's expertise also allows it to integrate a biomarker-rich strategy into its clinical programs to measure the activity of a product candidate in patients, seek to optimize combination agents and identify patients it deems most likely to benefit from treatment.

On December 2, 2020, iTeos Securities Corporation (iTeos SC) was incorporated as a Massachusetts Security Corporation. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of iTeos Inc. On July 27, 2021, iTeos BE, LLC (iTeos LLC) was incorporated as a Delaware Limited Liability Company. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of iTeos Belgium.

Liquidity and capital resources

Since inception, the Company’s activities have consisted primarily of performing research and development to advance its product candidates. For the first time since inception, the Company earned income during the year ended December 31, 2021, which equaled net income of $214.5 million. For the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company had net income of $96.7 million and retained earnings of $237.3 million. As of March 15, 2023, the issuance date of the consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company expects that its cash and cash equivalents would be sufficient to fund its operating expenses, capital expenditure requirements and debt service payments through at least 12 months from the issuance date of the consolidated financial statements.

The Company may seek additional funding in order to reach its development and commercialization objectives. The Company may not be able to obtain funding on acceptable terms, or at all, and the Company may not be able to enter into collaborations or other arrangements. The terms of any funding may adversely affect the holdings or the rights of the Company’s stockholders. If the Company is unable to obtain funding, the Company could be forced to delay, reduce or eliminate some or all of its research and development programs, product portfolio expansion or commercialization efforts, which could adversely affect its business prospects.

The Company’s future results of operations involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could affect the Company’s future operating results and cause actual results to vary materially from expectations include, but are not limited to, uncertainty regarding results of clinical trials and reaching milestones, uncertainty of regulatory approval of the Company’s current or future product candidates, uncertainty of market acceptance of the Company’s product candidates, if approved, competition from substitute products and larger companies, securing and protecting proprietary technology, strategic relationships and dependence on key individuals and sole source suppliers. Product candidates currently under development will require significant additional research and development efforts, including extensive preclinical and clinical testing and regulatory approval prior to commercialization. These efforts require significant amounts of capital, adequate personnel and infrastructure and extensive compliance-reporting capabilities and may not ultimately lead to a marketing approval and commercialization of a product.

The Company’s product candidates require approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and comparable foreign regulatory agencies prior to commercial sales in their respective jurisdictions. There can be no assurance that any product candidates will receive the necessary approvals. If the Company was denied approval, approval was delayed or the Company was unable to maintain approval for any product candidate, it could have a materially adverse impact on the Company. Even if the Company’s product development efforts are

successful, it is uncertain when, if ever, the Company will realize significant revenue from product sales. The Company will need to generate significant revenue to achieve sustained profitability, and it may never do so.

COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a substantial public health and economic challenge around the world. While the COVID-19 pandemic has not significantly impacted the Company's business or results of operations, the future impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the biotechnology industry, the healthcare system, the Company's development timelines for EOS-448 and inupadenant, the Company's preclinical research and development, and the Company's current and future operations and financial condition will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence. Disruptions to the global economy, disruption of global healthcare systems, and other significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, results of operations and growth prospects.

Basis of presentation

The consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP).