NASDAQ:XAIR Beyond Air Q1 2024 Earnings Report $0.20 -0.01 (-4.78%) Closing price 05/2/2025 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$0.20 -0.01 (-2.61%) As of 04:08 AM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings HistoryForecast Beyond Air EPS ResultsActual EPS-$0.45Consensus EPS -$0.46Beat/MissBeat by +$0.01One Year Ago EPSN/ABeyond Air Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$0.06 millionExpected Revenue$0.20 millionBeat/MissMissed by -$140.00 thousandYoY Revenue GrowthN/ABeyond Air Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2024Date8/10/2023TimeN/AConference Call DateThursday, August 10, 2023Conference Call Time4:30PM ETUpcoming EarningsBeyond Air's Q4 2025 earnings is scheduled for Monday, June 23, 2025, with a conference call scheduled at 4:00 PM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptQuarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Beyond Air Q1 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 10, 2023 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 11 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Afternoon, and welcome everyone to the Beyond Air Financial Results Call for the Fiscal Quarter Ended June 30, 2023. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. And now, I would like to turn the call over to Edward Barger, Head of Investor Relations at Beyond Air. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:25Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Today, after market close, we issued Press release announcing the fiscal Q1 2024 operational highlights and financial results. A copy of this press release can be found on our website, www.beyondair.net, under the News and Events section. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that we've been making comments and various remarks about future expectations, Plans and prospects which constitute forward looking statements for the purposes of the Safe Harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Speaker 100:01:06Beyond Air cautions that these forward looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated. We encourage Everyone to review the company's filings with the SEC, including, without limitation, the company's most recent Form 10 ks and Form 10 Q, which identify specific factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those described in the forward looking statements. Additionally, this conference call is being recorded and will be available for audio rebroadcast on our website, www.beyondair.net. Furthermore, the content of this conference call contains time sensitive information that is accurate only as of the date of the live broadcast, August 10, 2023. Beyond Air undertakes no obligation to revise or update any statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this call. Speaker 100:02:05Joining me today on the call are Steve Lisi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Duncan Fatkin, Chief Commercial Officer and Douglas Larson, Chief Financial Officer. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Steve Lisi. Steve? Speaker 200:02:23Thanks, Ed, and good afternoon to everyone joining us today. Since it's only been about 6 weeks from the last time we spoke, we'll keep the prepared remarks short today. LungFit PH continues to be well received in the market we have begun Phase 2 of the commercial launch. We're very happy to report that we have now in excess of $1,000,000 in contracted annual revenue, but only a small portion of these revenues were recognized in the June quarter. We continue to match our momentum in the marketplace with the thoughtful expansion of our commercial team. Speaker 200:02:54Our Chief Commercial Officer will discuss this further in a few minutes. We provided a thorough review of our pipeline during the last call. Everything continues to be on track. Before turning the call over to Duncan, I'll reiterate a few near term catalysts and highlights. By the end of the calendar year, we expect to submit a PMA supplement to FDA for the lung fit PH cardiac label expansion, receive CE Mark in the EU and present data from Beyond Cancer's 1st in human trial. Speaker 200:03:28Additionally, following agreement with FDA, We will be conducting a pilot study in viral community acquired pneumonia in the United States this winter. Now I will turn the call over to our Chief Commercial Officer, Duncan Fakken for an update on the LungFit PH commercial launch. Duncan? Speaker 300:03:46Thanks, Steve, and good afternoon to our investors. As Steve mentioned, we have eclipsed the $1,000,000 mark for signed annual contracts. We're very pleased with the momentum our team is building As we progress with Phase 2 of our launch. The overall feedback from hospitals regarding lung FIDPH continues to be extremely positive And we would again like to thank all the hospitals and clinical staff that have partnered with us and committed to using our device. Our plan is to build out our field team based on the opportunities developed over the past year and the growing interest in Longford PH as we broaden our reach. Speaker 300:04:28These additions will be carefully targeted and designed to ensure a strong and sustainable foundation for growth. We also expect to add to the team pending the anticipated cardiac label expansion, which we expect to significantly expand our reach We have planned for a thoughtful and measured increase in the size of our team through to the approval of our next generation lung Fid PH, which has anticipated in calendar year 2025. In closing, we are confident that Lofi PH is the best in class nitric oxide technology available today And we continue to be excited by the support we have received from hospitals throughout the U. S. I'm looking forward to providing updates on progress in the upcoming quarters. Speaker 300:05:19With that, I will turn the call over to Doug Larson, our Chief Financial Officer, to provide an overview of our financial results for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2023. Doug? Speaker 400:05:34Thanks Duncan and good afternoon everyone. Our financial results for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2023 are as follows. Revenue for the fiscal quarter was $100,000 as compared with $0 for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022. Research and development expenses for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2023 were $4,700,000 compared with $3,200,000 for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022. The $1,500,000 increase was due to an increase in headcount and incremental research, mainly in cancer and autism. Speaker 400:06:14SG and A expenses for the fiscal quarter were $10,900,000 compared with $8,200,000 for the fiscal quarter Ended June 30, 2022. Almost all of the $2,700,000 increase was due to salaries as additional headcount is needed to scale operations in the field and in the back office. Other income and expense for the fiscal quarter showed a $800,000 gain compared with a $200,000 loss for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022. The gain this year was mainly driven by the remeasurement of warrants and derivatives associated with our long term debt. For the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2023, the company recorded a net loss of $15,100,000 of which $14,100,000 or $0.45 per share was attributable to the shareholders of Beyond Air, Inc, compared with a net loss of $10,900,000 or $0.37 a share for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022. Speaker 400:07:19Net cash used by the company, excluding one time expenses, was $10,600,000 during the fiscal quarter. We forecast our average quarterly cash burn to be approximately $10,000,000 per quarter as we move through fiscal 2024. In June 2023, up to $40,000,000 in debt financing was provided to the company by Avenue Capital, of which $17,500,000 in gross funds were drawn in the quarter. As of June 30, 2023, The company had cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $57,000,000 And with that, I'll hand the call back to Steve. Speaker 200:08:02Thanks, Doug. We'll now take any questions you may have. Operator00:08:16Please be prepared to ask your question when prompted. And our first question comes from Les Leskie from Truett Securities. Please go ahead, Les. Speaker 500:08:34Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on the progress guys. Just to confirm, the $1,000,000 is now the annual base. And then can you quantify the market opportunity out there that's remaining over the remaining of this year? Do you have a sense of how many hospitals are out there near end Contracts with the competing product that are marked in your book for an opportunity to convert? Speaker 500:08:58And I have Speaker 600:08:59a follow-up. Speaker 200:09:01Thanks Les. Appreciate it. So yes, I guess the $1,000,000 is the base, but that would not The starting at the beginning of this fiscal year, so it wouldn't be a start from April 1, it would be a start from this quarter When we obviously signed the contracts to get us above that level. So just want to be clear on that. Yes. Speaker 200:09:23Look, I don't think that we're going to really reveal how many hospitals we're speaking to right now And what it looks like for the rest of the fiscal year in terms of opportunities for us, I don't think we want to share that information. But I do think that We will be in a position when we report our next quarter in November to give you some guidance on that and probably some guidance for our Anticipated revenues for the full year. Speaker 500:09:53Got it. I understand. And then on the cardiac label Extension opportunity. What size is that potential to TAM? I mean, is that essentially kind of castrated into Figures that you initially rolled out or is there more to the story here? Speaker 500:10:09Just kind of walk us through the high level overview of what you think of the cardiac label expansion. Thank you. Speaker 200:10:15Okay. So cardiac surgeries, nitric oxide use there, it's the biggest of all the, I guess subcategories for use of nitric oxide in the hospital would be cardiac surgeries. So I think it's very important To get this label expansion, it will help us have access into an area that's Exclusively now off label. So that's an area where we don't market and we don't detail. So That's certainly going to open things up in a good way, I would think. Speaker 500:10:54Great. Thank you. Operator00:10:57And our next question comes from Marie Seibelt from BTIG. Please go ahead, Marie. Speaker 700:11:03Hi, good afternoon. Thank you for taking the questions. Now that we have revenue, I want to try to understand How many contracts were signed? How many hospitals now have lung fit PH? Any details on Contract value and length of some of these contracts, just any additional detail you can offer at this time would be really helpful. Speaker 200:11:25Sure, Marie. Probably not too much, but most of the contracts are annual contracts. Sometimes they renew for 2 years another year or 3 years, but we haven't said. I don't think there's Too many contracts beyond 3 years out there, but there might be a few, not for us, but perhaps for others. Again, we're not Really discussing the number of hospitals we have. Speaker 200:11:52There are multiple hospitals. There's plenty for us to get plenty of feedback from our customers that They're very happy with our service and with the product, but we're not going to give an exact number. I apologize for that. Not really sure how much really more we want to say. It is a competitive environment. Speaker 200:12:11So we're kind of keeping things close to the vest, if you can understand that. There are other people listening. Speaker 700:12:17Of course. Okay. And maybe I can ask about gross margins. It's not surprising, of course, that they're negative to start this early in the launch. But How do you think about that flipping positive? Speaker 700:12:26What's sort of the right level to think about for gross margins and those COGS in the 1st year of expansion? Thanks for taking the questions. Speaker 400:12:34So this is Doug. I can jump in with that one. In the next couple of quarters at least that So gross margin is going to turn positive. The drivers behind that are actually the devices that we're producing, we're starting to depreciate them. So there's some costs there for devices that aren't actually deployed yet. Speaker 400:12:54And then setting up our supply chain infrastructure so that we can expand across The U. S. For wherever we have an opportunity. So those are basically the fixed costs, if you will, that are going to be absorbed Very quickly as we expand. So again, my expectation is that either next quarter or the following quarter will be in positive territory. Speaker 700:13:16Thank you for that. Operator00:13:20And our next question comes from Scott Henry from ROTH Capital. Please go ahead, Scott. Speaker 800:13:26Thank you and good afternoon. A couple of questions. First, with regards to Selling expenses, I guess, what would you estimate the quarterly selling expenses are today and where would they be at peak? Just trying to get a sense of how much it costs to market, pay all the reps, how we should think about that number? Speaker 200:13:50So Scott, there is an industry standard for a fully loaded rep. So I'm sure you know that you've been modeling For a long time, we're certainly on the low end Of things, we just started our 2nd phase where we're starting to bring more people in and hire them. So from a pure headcount, we're probably around 15 people or so on the commercial side and growing, and that number is probably going to get up Well north of 50, probably close to 70, 75 people at peak. And that peak will probably be 2 to 3 years from now depending on how quickly we bring people in. So it's not going to be a very rapid expansion. Speaker 200:14:37But I would say to use that industry average is a good number. Not all those people that I've mentioned in those numbers will be reps, but when we get out to peak, the vast majority will be reps. Right now, it's a Much lower ratio for reps to others because we really need our clinical specialists, the respiratory therapists, so the ones that are out there training and The hospitals that are working with us, right. So we need to train in the beginning. It's very important to have the customer service level very high and the reps will be expanded later. Speaker 800:15:07Okay, great. That's helpful. And then the $57,000,000 of cash, How much of that is in Beyond Cancer? Just so I get a sense of the net cash you have. Speaker 200:15:21About 30% or so, about a 3rd maybe. Speaker 800:15:28Okay. Thank you. And then when we think about this burn of kind of $10,000,000 a quarter And at the same time, you'll be expanding sales. Would it be safe to say this is kind of The low point and by low point, I mean this is the where the burn is going to max out. You probably as you add sales, you'll also be bringing in gross profit. Speaker 800:15:54So, Amit, should we think about this being the maximum burn decreasing maybe not this year, but soon thereafter? Speaker 200:16:05Yes and no, Scott. I mean, it does depend on what we do with our pipeline. So if we move into a pivotal study In calendar 2025, whether that be for pneumonia or and or NTM, We're going to spend. So that's going to cost money, but obviously it would be for a very good reason. We've done 4 pneumonia studies that have worked. Speaker 200:16:30We're entering our 5th pneumonia study in a few months. We would expect the number 5 to look just like the first four In terms of overall efficacy and safety profile. So with that kind of confidence going into a pivotal study, we're going to spend money on it. We don't know how big it will be yet. We're still waiting to get this last study done and speak with the FDA. Speaker 200:16:54But I can't say that those costs wouldn't force us to spend more money than $10,000,000 in 1 quarter. I just don't know. But if we're not running pivotal studies, then yes, you're right. Speaker 800:17:07Okay. And that leads into kind of a bigger picture question For you and the Board, from the standpoint of is there any concern that you might cast too wide a net? I mean a lot of these programs are great, But it's the working capital problem a new business office faces that if you stretch yourself too thin, There can be financial distress. How do you balance that? I know you have a pretty good balance sheet right now, but you got a lot of good ideas that you're chasing right now? Speaker 200:17:40Yes, Scott, we're not chasing them all, that's for sure, for that reason. I mean, we're not chasing COPD at the moment. NTM is not until 2025. So we're not stretching. I mean, we're almost 2 years away from an NTM study starting and COPD is going to be based on Available funds, we'd love to do it. Speaker 200:18:00I mean, we'd love to do it in 3 months, but we can't. This launch is the most important thing. So the other programs like cancer It's funded. It's we haven't entered into the real expensive part of cancer yet. We haven't gone into Phase II human studies, which is where The big money will be spent. Speaker 200:18:20That's another 25 occurrence most likely. And the autism program is There's not much being spent at the moment on that. It's still obviously in preclinical stage with our partner in Israel. So Again, that expense probably won't kick in heavy expense won't kick in until 26 or 27 calendar. So Can we accelerate these things? Speaker 200:18:44Sure. If we have more cash or sales come in and we have a good gross profit, Then yes, we can. But right now, we're being very prudent in terms of which programs we're working on and how quickly we're pushing them. So right now, pneumonia is full steam ahead And cancer and autism are moving, but the other programs are not moving right now. Just because you're right, we don't have The balance sheet to do everything that we want to do. Speaker 200:19:12And it's not everything we want to do. I mean, it's everything that the data tells us to do, right? Our NTM data are very strong, Pneumonia very strong. And with NTM and pneumonia being strong as they are, it begs the question why we're not doing a COPD study. But again, the answer is we're not funded to do that study. Speaker 200:19:30So we're just going to bide our time, make sure that this launch is successful Or more successful, it's already been successful. And we'll see how that works out. But yes, we're being very prudent with our cash. Doug doesn't like spending money. He's a very good CFO. Speaker 200:19:46He beats up everybody. Speaker 800:19:50Okay, great. Thank you for the color on that. I'll jump back into the queue. Thank you for taking the questions. Operator00:19:58And our next question comes from Jason Bednar from Piper Sandler. Please go ahead, Jason. Speaker 600:20:05Hey, good afternoon. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on reaching that $1,000,000,000 milestone. Maybe if I could start On the contracting so far and where we're going in the future, totally understand Steve, there's only so much you might be able to share. But Can you speak to whether the contract sizes are what you expect them to be so far? And is there any difference in overall contract size you'd expect as maybe you move further down the road with Phase 2 of your commercial You'd expect as maybe you move further down the road with Phase 2 of your commercial plans, just anything you can share there? Speaker 200:20:39I think that they're fairly in line with what we thought in terms of overall size. There's a mix, right. The volume at hospitals is a huge range in the U. S. You have hospitals doing 1000 hours, 500 hours, 2000 hours, your hospital is doing 50 plus 1000 hours of nitric oxide a year. Speaker 200:21:02So it varies all over the place. So I think it's in line with what we had expected. And I would say the same thing about the pricing, Pretty much what we expected as well. So right now, we're not really seeing anything that's outside of the parameters that we had entering into the market. Speaker 600:21:26All right. That's great to hear. And then I'd be curious just maybe on the competitive response from some of your closest peers. Just thinking, again, given where you're at and where you maybe hope to be in a year or 2, I think having some Today would be enlightening. Just how are you seeing them behave as they start to lose contracts to you? Speaker 600:21:48Are they getting more aggressive in follow-up contracting efforts? Are they holding the line? So then follow-up contracting efforts, are they holding the line on where they're pricing? Again, just curious how the success you're starting to have in contracting is influencing Speaker 200:22:04They've been aggressive from day 1. I don't think it's changed. I think they're nervous. They're worried. That's how they're acting. Speaker 200:22:15It's how they're behaving. I might do the same thing if I were in their shoes. So I don't think that there's anything that they're doing that again is surprising to us. I would expect some of the things they're doing to be done. I might not do everything they're doing, but certainly some of the things they're doing if I were in their shoes I would do. Speaker 200:22:39But it's a competitive environment. There's no doubt about it. And you would expect all the players to do everything they can to either keep Customers or take customers from a competitor. So, I mean, Duncan, you're on the line, if you have anything else to add You're a little closer than I am. Speaker 300:23:04Sure. I appreciate the question. I think that there's a couple of things I would say. Firstly, A lot of the competitor activity was apparent to us before we even started to get contracts. So a lot of the work that was done was To block us from even getting in there in the 1st place. Speaker 300:23:20So I think that what we've done is we've broken through in various locations and Actually, once people get exposure and do evaluations, etcetera, then things start to build. And The way that these things work is they then start to see that another hospital in their area is using the device and they get more confident. And so The neighboring hospitals start to get involved. The other thing that happens is that the initial contracting is Easier with individual hospitals. There's not that many of those nowadays. Speaker 300:23:59So the larger groups and small networks take a little bit longer and we're starting to get to those now and we're getting to that phase where a lot of those contracts are running out, which wasn't the case At the beginning of our launch. So it's a much better environment for us. In other words, our competitors have thrown a lot of their Sort of ammunition at us already to stop us from getting in. The response once we're in isn't that different. So We're feeling much more positive about where we are as we get through that process. Speaker 600:24:35All right, perfect. Thank you. Maybe one just quick clarifying question to finish it off. I think it seems like there's no change on the CE Mark timing or expected timing on receiving that. I think that originally your last Quarter you had said September, October timeframe. Speaker 600:24:56Does that still hold? I know you're saying by the end of the calendar year, but should we still expect it here within the next couple of Speaker 400:25:02months? Yes. Speaker 200:25:04I would love to announce it on our next quarter. That would be my goal. But this is out of our control. We are moving as quickly as we can. But again, this is a regulatory matter and Sometimes it just takes a little longer than you expect. Speaker 200:25:22So I hope to announce it on our next quarter. That's my goal. So, where will be like 2nd week in November roughly. So, I expect to announce it there. If not, I'll let you know where I stand then. Speaker 200:25:37But yes, the guidance we just give our guidance based Ed here told me, Steve, we got to be consistent with guidance this half, that half instead of saying a month. So I'm going to go with Ed and we'll say by the end of the year, But I hope to say it November. Speaker 600:25:55All right. Very helpful. Appreciate it. Thanks guys. Operator00:26:00And our next question comes from Matt Kaplan from Ladenburg Thalmann. Please go ahead, Matt. Speaker 900:26:06Hey, guys. Thanks a lot for taking the questions. I guess now that you're kind of in the phase of signing contracts, can you maybe what would be helpful, can you tell us a little bit about the Mechanics of signing a contract, is there a demo period, a test drive period and then potential conversion to contract or how does that work? Speaker 200:26:29Yes. In the beginning, Matt, it was always a demo and then there's an evaluation. I think that the evaluation is not as important for every hospital anymore. Now that we're out there and there's experience and People chat to each other and it's a small world, the RT world. There's lots of little conferences. Speaker 200:26:52They're all Meeting each other and talking about what's going on. So I think that going forward, we may not need to do an evaluation at every Potential customer and eventually we won't be doing evaluations at all. I would say that probably sometime in calendar 'twenty four, we won't We're doing evaluations any longer. It'll just be what we call bench testing and then we go into a contract. So we're kind of Over that initial phase where everybody was evaluating to the point where some are still evaluating and some aren't and then eventually when it gets to the point where There's no more evaluations because there's so much experience with our product and so much comfort and confidence in us as a company being able to support The hospitals that there won't be no more need for that evaluation. Speaker 900:27:42Okay. And then I guess now that you're in The second phase of the launch, what do you see as the kind of bottleneck in signing new contracts? Speaker 400:27:57Wow. Speaker 200:27:59I'm going to let Duncan go on that one, but I would say I don't think there's One specific bottleneck. There's not one thing that stops you from getting a contract. I think it's Hospital specific, they all have different things that are important to them. And sometimes It hits our sweet spot and other times it doesn't. So I don't think it's so simple to say that every hospital has the same opinion or viewpoint So I don't think there's one bottleneck. Speaker 200:28:33And Duncan, you might want to follow-up there. Speaker 300:28:38No, it's a good question, Matt. I think that contracting during the 1st 12 months was definitely The area we had to spend most time navigating because a lot of hospitals and our part of those systems as I described just now. So the way they do that and the bureaucracy associated with that is definitely was initially our biggest So challenge and I do think of it like Domino's once you start knocking over some of those hurdles Then a lot of the others become freer. And then there are individual hospital situations Changing from one hospital one device to another involves an investment in training, etcetera. So Depending on where they are in their particular supply chain process, they might have other priorities within the hospital That mean that they're not willing to focus on our particular category at the time, which is kind of related to contracting, but also related to The hospital's individual priorities from a clinical point of view, we're not getting pushed back clinically. Speaker 300:29:50It's really More on the contracting side where we have to navigate that. So that's really where most of our work It's evolving and improving. Speaker 900:30:03Okay. That's helpful. And then if the average number of devices Per hospital and the expectation for the average revenue per device, how should we think about that? Speaker 100:30:16Not going to tell you how Speaker 200:30:17to think about that, Matt, because then everybody else would know. But it's pretty wide in terms of how many hours per year per system a hospital uses. It's a pretty big range. Different hospitals have different needs, like I've said. So it's a very difficult question to answer. Speaker 200:30:41And I don't want any of our competitors to know how we think about that and how we view it because it's very important In how we approach things. So, I wish I'd give you those answers, but I can't. I mean, I can, but I won't. Yes, fair Speaker 900:30:56enough. Just a last question. As you're getting close to the CE Mark, What's your partnering strategy ex U. S. Or do you plan to go with a loan outside of the U. Speaker 900:31:11S? Speaker 200:31:12We are not going in alone outside the U. S, that's for sure. We it's enough to build up commercial team in the U. S. That's all we can handle for the moment. Speaker 200:31:21So We will partner ex U. S. And our goal is to get the best royalty rate we can On net sales and that's what we'll do. So hopefully, we'll be able to talk more about that in the near future. Speaker 900:31:40Great. Well, congrats on the progress, Steve. Thank you. Speaker 200:31:43Thanks, Mike. Operator00:31:45And our next question comes from Yale Jen from Laidlaw and Company. Please go ahead, Yale. Speaker 1000:31:51Good afternoon. Thanks for taking the questions And congrats on your first commercial sales. My first question is in terms of the 59,000 Revenue of this quarter, what's the sort of accounting principle behind it and how was that being recognized And how we should think about going forward in terms of does the same sort of principle apply? Speaker 400:32:21Sure. So this is Doug. Thanks for the question, Yale. So the best way to think about it is for the most part we're signing Annual contracts. Most of the contracts from a revenue recognition perspective, I mean, it's a little more complicated than I'm going to make it. Speaker 400:32:39But if you think about it ratably over the life of the contract, that's pretty safe. Mean, we do have to do some testing every quarter to see if we're within the range of use of the machines and things like that. But for the most part, Annual contracts ratably over the 12 months is how we're going to recognize that revenue. Speaker 1000:33:00Okay, great. That's very helpful. A question just follow-up on the previous one, Which is regarding the getting label on the cardiovascular side. Question is that NetSolpha has been used in real world off label presumably also getting reimbursed for a long time. So what could be the additional benefit if you guys get a label For your assistance. Speaker 200:33:37Well, yes, I mean the main benefits obviously are our ability to directly market To cardiac surgeons as well as potential for reimbursement. There's no doubt. But you know Yale, it takes Time to get a specific code. So, we wouldn't have a direct code day 1. There might be Miscellaneous codes of some sort, but a direct code would take several years as you know. Speaker 200:34:07Right. Was there anything else you were looking for besides those? Those are the 2 main benefits. Speaker 1000:34:12Okay. But so does that be Just want to confirm that currently the use in the cardiovascular surgery this week also get a reimburse or not This is where you get reimbursed? Speaker 200:34:28No, it is off label use. There's I can't speak for what the hospitals do, It is 100% off label. So I think that reimbursement is difficult. Speaker 1000:34:42Okay, great. Maybe the last question here is in terms of your VCAP trials that you intend to start This winter, could you give us a little bit more color regarding the study design and including endpoint and others As well as how this one should be considered as a Phase 2, maybe Phase 3, how should we categorize that? Thanks. Speaker 200:35:09Yes. So I would look at the design of our study that we had in Israel for pneumonia. It's going to be Very similar to that study. And This will not be a registration study. So we're in ICL, not a drug. Speaker 200:35:27So it's not Phase 1, 2, 3, it's pilot pivotal. So this will be Another pilot study FDA has requested that. So after this study, the next one would be a pivotal or registration study. So This study then one more and we would hope to get approval from that. Speaker 1000:35:48And maybe just to refresh Memory that in terms of the endpoint, what was the endpoint they're pursuing and any other color zone study? Speaker 200:35:57Yes. So Obviously, it will be safety is the primary if it's not a pivotal study. So that's easy. But on the efficacy endpoints, In the study in Israel, it was an oxygen specific endpoint. It was Speaker 600:36:13a time Speaker 200:36:14to oxygen cessation for these patients in and out of the hospital. So you could look for an endpoint similar to that something along the lines of Either how long they're on oxygen or how whatever time period we pick, how many hours they didn't need oxygen, but something along those lines will be related to oxygen. Again, When we did the infants in pneumonia, there were no comorbidities. So it was easy to look at Hospital discharge or being fit for hospital discharge, those endpoints are not relevant With adult pneumonia as they have multiple comorbidities and it could be several other reasons besides the viral infection that caused the hospitalization for them to stay beyond the resolution of the pneumonia episode. So we need to measure something else and There will be some other endpoints besides the auction related, but I think that is the one that we'll be looking at closely. Speaker 1000:37:14And maybe just squeeze in one more, which is that does that endpoint could be considered as Approval employing from FDA perspective or have you guys spoke with agency in terms of this issue? Speaker 200:37:30So this won't be a registration study. So I can't say that the endpoints we have in this study as secondaries would be considered The endpoint to be used in a registration study. But you could guess that my team and I are not Looking at this for no reason. We're looking at this because this is what we believe would be something similar to what would be in the pivotal study. But there's no way for me to guarantee that there's an endpoint in my current study that would be mimicked for my pivotal. Speaker 200:38:05Hopefully, it's close to it, But we would still have to sit with FDA to agree upon what the exact primary endpoint would be in that study. We haven't Agreed to that yet. And that's pretty standard. But I think what we have is our secondary endpoints on the efficacy side It's going to give us the answers we need to get an agreement with FDA on a primary endpoint. I'm pretty confident that we're going to Have something that will work. Speaker 1000:38:33Okay, great. That's very helpful. Again, congrats on the first sale. Speaker 200:38:38Thanks so much, Yam. Operator00:38:40And at this time, there are no further questions. I'd like to turn the call back over to Steve to close out the call. Speaker 200:38:47Thanks everybody. Appreciate your time. Look forward to talking to you in 3 months. Operator00:38:53This concludes today's conference call. 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There are 11 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Afternoon, and welcome everyone to the Beyond Air Financial Results Call for the Fiscal Quarter Ended June 30, 2023. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. And now, I would like to turn the call over to Edward Barger, Head of Investor Relations at Beyond Air. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:25Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Today, after market close, we issued Press release announcing the fiscal Q1 2024 operational highlights and financial results. A copy of this press release can be found on our website, www.beyondair.net, under the News and Events section. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that we've been making comments and various remarks about future expectations, Plans and prospects which constitute forward looking statements for the purposes of the Safe Harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Speaker 100:01:06Beyond Air cautions that these forward looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated. We encourage Everyone to review the company's filings with the SEC, including, without limitation, the company's most recent Form 10 ks and Form 10 Q, which identify specific factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those described in the forward looking statements. Additionally, this conference call is being recorded and will be available for audio rebroadcast on our website, www.beyondair.net. Furthermore, the content of this conference call contains time sensitive information that is accurate only as of the date of the live broadcast, August 10, 2023. Beyond Air undertakes no obligation to revise or update any statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this call. Speaker 100:02:05Joining me today on the call are Steve Lisi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Duncan Fatkin, Chief Commercial Officer and Douglas Larson, Chief Financial Officer. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Steve Lisi. Steve? Speaker 200:02:23Thanks, Ed, and good afternoon to everyone joining us today. Since it's only been about 6 weeks from the last time we spoke, we'll keep the prepared remarks short today. LungFit PH continues to be well received in the market we have begun Phase 2 of the commercial launch. We're very happy to report that we have now in excess of $1,000,000 in contracted annual revenue, but only a small portion of these revenues were recognized in the June quarter. We continue to match our momentum in the marketplace with the thoughtful expansion of our commercial team. Speaker 200:02:54Our Chief Commercial Officer will discuss this further in a few minutes. We provided a thorough review of our pipeline during the last call. Everything continues to be on track. Before turning the call over to Duncan, I'll reiterate a few near term catalysts and highlights. By the end of the calendar year, we expect to submit a PMA supplement to FDA for the lung fit PH cardiac label expansion, receive CE Mark in the EU and present data from Beyond Cancer's 1st in human trial. Speaker 200:03:28Additionally, following agreement with FDA, We will be conducting a pilot study in viral community acquired pneumonia in the United States this winter. Now I will turn the call over to our Chief Commercial Officer, Duncan Fakken for an update on the LungFit PH commercial launch. Duncan? Speaker 300:03:46Thanks, Steve, and good afternoon to our investors. As Steve mentioned, we have eclipsed the $1,000,000 mark for signed annual contracts. We're very pleased with the momentum our team is building As we progress with Phase 2 of our launch. The overall feedback from hospitals regarding lung FIDPH continues to be extremely positive And we would again like to thank all the hospitals and clinical staff that have partnered with us and committed to using our device. Our plan is to build out our field team based on the opportunities developed over the past year and the growing interest in Longford PH as we broaden our reach. Speaker 300:04:28These additions will be carefully targeted and designed to ensure a strong and sustainable foundation for growth. We also expect to add to the team pending the anticipated cardiac label expansion, which we expect to significantly expand our reach We have planned for a thoughtful and measured increase in the size of our team through to the approval of our next generation lung Fid PH, which has anticipated in calendar year 2025. In closing, we are confident that Lofi PH is the best in class nitric oxide technology available today And we continue to be excited by the support we have received from hospitals throughout the U. S. I'm looking forward to providing updates on progress in the upcoming quarters. Speaker 300:05:19With that, I will turn the call over to Doug Larson, our Chief Financial Officer, to provide an overview of our financial results for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2023. Doug? Speaker 400:05:34Thanks Duncan and good afternoon everyone. Our financial results for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2023 are as follows. Revenue for the fiscal quarter was $100,000 as compared with $0 for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022. Research and development expenses for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2023 were $4,700,000 compared with $3,200,000 for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022. The $1,500,000 increase was due to an increase in headcount and incremental research, mainly in cancer and autism. Speaker 400:06:14SG and A expenses for the fiscal quarter were $10,900,000 compared with $8,200,000 for the fiscal quarter Ended June 30, 2022. Almost all of the $2,700,000 increase was due to salaries as additional headcount is needed to scale operations in the field and in the back office. Other income and expense for the fiscal quarter showed a $800,000 gain compared with a $200,000 loss for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022. The gain this year was mainly driven by the remeasurement of warrants and derivatives associated with our long term debt. For the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2023, the company recorded a net loss of $15,100,000 of which $14,100,000 or $0.45 per share was attributable to the shareholders of Beyond Air, Inc, compared with a net loss of $10,900,000 or $0.37 a share for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022. Speaker 400:07:19Net cash used by the company, excluding one time expenses, was $10,600,000 during the fiscal quarter. We forecast our average quarterly cash burn to be approximately $10,000,000 per quarter as we move through fiscal 2024. In June 2023, up to $40,000,000 in debt financing was provided to the company by Avenue Capital, of which $17,500,000 in gross funds were drawn in the quarter. As of June 30, 2023, The company had cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $57,000,000 And with that, I'll hand the call back to Steve. Speaker 200:08:02Thanks, Doug. We'll now take any questions you may have. Operator00:08:16Please be prepared to ask your question when prompted. And our first question comes from Les Leskie from Truett Securities. Please go ahead, Les. Speaker 500:08:34Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on the progress guys. Just to confirm, the $1,000,000 is now the annual base. And then can you quantify the market opportunity out there that's remaining over the remaining of this year? Do you have a sense of how many hospitals are out there near end Contracts with the competing product that are marked in your book for an opportunity to convert? Speaker 500:08:58And I have Speaker 600:08:59a follow-up. Speaker 200:09:01Thanks Les. Appreciate it. So yes, I guess the $1,000,000 is the base, but that would not The starting at the beginning of this fiscal year, so it wouldn't be a start from April 1, it would be a start from this quarter When we obviously signed the contracts to get us above that level. So just want to be clear on that. Yes. Speaker 200:09:23Look, I don't think that we're going to really reveal how many hospitals we're speaking to right now And what it looks like for the rest of the fiscal year in terms of opportunities for us, I don't think we want to share that information. But I do think that We will be in a position when we report our next quarter in November to give you some guidance on that and probably some guidance for our Anticipated revenues for the full year. Speaker 500:09:53Got it. I understand. And then on the cardiac label Extension opportunity. What size is that potential to TAM? I mean, is that essentially kind of castrated into Figures that you initially rolled out or is there more to the story here? Speaker 500:10:09Just kind of walk us through the high level overview of what you think of the cardiac label expansion. Thank you. Speaker 200:10:15Okay. So cardiac surgeries, nitric oxide use there, it's the biggest of all the, I guess subcategories for use of nitric oxide in the hospital would be cardiac surgeries. So I think it's very important To get this label expansion, it will help us have access into an area that's Exclusively now off label. So that's an area where we don't market and we don't detail. So That's certainly going to open things up in a good way, I would think. Speaker 500:10:54Great. Thank you. Operator00:10:57And our next question comes from Marie Seibelt from BTIG. Please go ahead, Marie. Speaker 700:11:03Hi, good afternoon. Thank you for taking the questions. Now that we have revenue, I want to try to understand How many contracts were signed? How many hospitals now have lung fit PH? Any details on Contract value and length of some of these contracts, just any additional detail you can offer at this time would be really helpful. Speaker 200:11:25Sure, Marie. Probably not too much, but most of the contracts are annual contracts. Sometimes they renew for 2 years another year or 3 years, but we haven't said. I don't think there's Too many contracts beyond 3 years out there, but there might be a few, not for us, but perhaps for others. Again, we're not Really discussing the number of hospitals we have. Speaker 200:11:52There are multiple hospitals. There's plenty for us to get plenty of feedback from our customers that They're very happy with our service and with the product, but we're not going to give an exact number. I apologize for that. Not really sure how much really more we want to say. It is a competitive environment. Speaker 200:12:11So we're kind of keeping things close to the vest, if you can understand that. There are other people listening. Speaker 700:12:17Of course. Okay. And maybe I can ask about gross margins. It's not surprising, of course, that they're negative to start this early in the launch. But How do you think about that flipping positive? Speaker 700:12:26What's sort of the right level to think about for gross margins and those COGS in the 1st year of expansion? Thanks for taking the questions. Speaker 400:12:34So this is Doug. I can jump in with that one. In the next couple of quarters at least that So gross margin is going to turn positive. The drivers behind that are actually the devices that we're producing, we're starting to depreciate them. So there's some costs there for devices that aren't actually deployed yet. Speaker 400:12:54And then setting up our supply chain infrastructure so that we can expand across The U. S. For wherever we have an opportunity. So those are basically the fixed costs, if you will, that are going to be absorbed Very quickly as we expand. So again, my expectation is that either next quarter or the following quarter will be in positive territory. Speaker 700:13:16Thank you for that. Operator00:13:20And our next question comes from Scott Henry from ROTH Capital. Please go ahead, Scott. Speaker 800:13:26Thank you and good afternoon. A couple of questions. First, with regards to Selling expenses, I guess, what would you estimate the quarterly selling expenses are today and where would they be at peak? Just trying to get a sense of how much it costs to market, pay all the reps, how we should think about that number? Speaker 200:13:50So Scott, there is an industry standard for a fully loaded rep. So I'm sure you know that you've been modeling For a long time, we're certainly on the low end Of things, we just started our 2nd phase where we're starting to bring more people in and hire them. So from a pure headcount, we're probably around 15 people or so on the commercial side and growing, and that number is probably going to get up Well north of 50, probably close to 70, 75 people at peak. And that peak will probably be 2 to 3 years from now depending on how quickly we bring people in. So it's not going to be a very rapid expansion. Speaker 200:14:37But I would say to use that industry average is a good number. Not all those people that I've mentioned in those numbers will be reps, but when we get out to peak, the vast majority will be reps. Right now, it's a Much lower ratio for reps to others because we really need our clinical specialists, the respiratory therapists, so the ones that are out there training and The hospitals that are working with us, right. So we need to train in the beginning. It's very important to have the customer service level very high and the reps will be expanded later. Speaker 800:15:07Okay, great. That's helpful. And then the $57,000,000 of cash, How much of that is in Beyond Cancer? Just so I get a sense of the net cash you have. Speaker 200:15:21About 30% or so, about a 3rd maybe. Speaker 800:15:28Okay. Thank you. And then when we think about this burn of kind of $10,000,000 a quarter And at the same time, you'll be expanding sales. Would it be safe to say this is kind of The low point and by low point, I mean this is the where the burn is going to max out. You probably as you add sales, you'll also be bringing in gross profit. Speaker 800:15:54So, Amit, should we think about this being the maximum burn decreasing maybe not this year, but soon thereafter? Speaker 200:16:05Yes and no, Scott. I mean, it does depend on what we do with our pipeline. So if we move into a pivotal study In calendar 2025, whether that be for pneumonia or and or NTM, We're going to spend. So that's going to cost money, but obviously it would be for a very good reason. We've done 4 pneumonia studies that have worked. Speaker 200:16:30We're entering our 5th pneumonia study in a few months. We would expect the number 5 to look just like the first four In terms of overall efficacy and safety profile. So with that kind of confidence going into a pivotal study, we're going to spend money on it. We don't know how big it will be yet. We're still waiting to get this last study done and speak with the FDA. Speaker 200:16:54But I can't say that those costs wouldn't force us to spend more money than $10,000,000 in 1 quarter. I just don't know. But if we're not running pivotal studies, then yes, you're right. Speaker 800:17:07Okay. And that leads into kind of a bigger picture question For you and the Board, from the standpoint of is there any concern that you might cast too wide a net? I mean a lot of these programs are great, But it's the working capital problem a new business office faces that if you stretch yourself too thin, There can be financial distress. How do you balance that? I know you have a pretty good balance sheet right now, but you got a lot of good ideas that you're chasing right now? Speaker 200:17:40Yes, Scott, we're not chasing them all, that's for sure, for that reason. I mean, we're not chasing COPD at the moment. NTM is not until 2025. So we're not stretching. I mean, we're almost 2 years away from an NTM study starting and COPD is going to be based on Available funds, we'd love to do it. Speaker 200:18:00I mean, we'd love to do it in 3 months, but we can't. This launch is the most important thing. So the other programs like cancer It's funded. It's we haven't entered into the real expensive part of cancer yet. We haven't gone into Phase II human studies, which is where The big money will be spent. Speaker 200:18:20That's another 25 occurrence most likely. And the autism program is There's not much being spent at the moment on that. It's still obviously in preclinical stage with our partner in Israel. So Again, that expense probably won't kick in heavy expense won't kick in until 26 or 27 calendar. So Can we accelerate these things? Speaker 200:18:44Sure. If we have more cash or sales come in and we have a good gross profit, Then yes, we can. But right now, we're being very prudent in terms of which programs we're working on and how quickly we're pushing them. So right now, pneumonia is full steam ahead And cancer and autism are moving, but the other programs are not moving right now. Just because you're right, we don't have The balance sheet to do everything that we want to do. Speaker 200:19:12And it's not everything we want to do. I mean, it's everything that the data tells us to do, right? Our NTM data are very strong, Pneumonia very strong. And with NTM and pneumonia being strong as they are, it begs the question why we're not doing a COPD study. But again, the answer is we're not funded to do that study. Speaker 200:19:30So we're just going to bide our time, make sure that this launch is successful Or more successful, it's already been successful. And we'll see how that works out. But yes, we're being very prudent with our cash. Doug doesn't like spending money. He's a very good CFO. Speaker 200:19:46He beats up everybody. Speaker 800:19:50Okay, great. Thank you for the color on that. I'll jump back into the queue. Thank you for taking the questions. Operator00:19:58And our next question comes from Jason Bednar from Piper Sandler. Please go ahead, Jason. Speaker 600:20:05Hey, good afternoon. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on reaching that $1,000,000,000 milestone. Maybe if I could start On the contracting so far and where we're going in the future, totally understand Steve, there's only so much you might be able to share. But Can you speak to whether the contract sizes are what you expect them to be so far? And is there any difference in overall contract size you'd expect as maybe you move further down the road with Phase 2 of your commercial You'd expect as maybe you move further down the road with Phase 2 of your commercial plans, just anything you can share there? Speaker 200:20:39I think that they're fairly in line with what we thought in terms of overall size. There's a mix, right. The volume at hospitals is a huge range in the U. S. You have hospitals doing 1000 hours, 500 hours, 2000 hours, your hospital is doing 50 plus 1000 hours of nitric oxide a year. Speaker 200:21:02So it varies all over the place. So I think it's in line with what we had expected. And I would say the same thing about the pricing, Pretty much what we expected as well. So right now, we're not really seeing anything that's outside of the parameters that we had entering into the market. Speaker 600:21:26All right. That's great to hear. And then I'd be curious just maybe on the competitive response from some of your closest peers. Just thinking, again, given where you're at and where you maybe hope to be in a year or 2, I think having some Today would be enlightening. Just how are you seeing them behave as they start to lose contracts to you? Speaker 600:21:48Are they getting more aggressive in follow-up contracting efforts? Are they holding the line? So then follow-up contracting efforts, are they holding the line on where they're pricing? Again, just curious how the success you're starting to have in contracting is influencing Speaker 200:22:04They've been aggressive from day 1. I don't think it's changed. I think they're nervous. They're worried. That's how they're acting. Speaker 200:22:15It's how they're behaving. I might do the same thing if I were in their shoes. So I don't think that there's anything that they're doing that again is surprising to us. I would expect some of the things they're doing to be done. I might not do everything they're doing, but certainly some of the things they're doing if I were in their shoes I would do. Speaker 200:22:39But it's a competitive environment. There's no doubt about it. And you would expect all the players to do everything they can to either keep Customers or take customers from a competitor. So, I mean, Duncan, you're on the line, if you have anything else to add You're a little closer than I am. Speaker 300:23:04Sure. I appreciate the question. I think that there's a couple of things I would say. Firstly, A lot of the competitor activity was apparent to us before we even started to get contracts. So a lot of the work that was done was To block us from even getting in there in the 1st place. Speaker 300:23:20So I think that what we've done is we've broken through in various locations and Actually, once people get exposure and do evaluations, etcetera, then things start to build. And The way that these things work is they then start to see that another hospital in their area is using the device and they get more confident. And so The neighboring hospitals start to get involved. The other thing that happens is that the initial contracting is Easier with individual hospitals. There's not that many of those nowadays. Speaker 300:23:59So the larger groups and small networks take a little bit longer and we're starting to get to those now and we're getting to that phase where a lot of those contracts are running out, which wasn't the case At the beginning of our launch. So it's a much better environment for us. In other words, our competitors have thrown a lot of their Sort of ammunition at us already to stop us from getting in. The response once we're in isn't that different. So We're feeling much more positive about where we are as we get through that process. Speaker 600:24:35All right, perfect. Thank you. Maybe one just quick clarifying question to finish it off. I think it seems like there's no change on the CE Mark timing or expected timing on receiving that. I think that originally your last Quarter you had said September, October timeframe. Speaker 600:24:56Does that still hold? I know you're saying by the end of the calendar year, but should we still expect it here within the next couple of Speaker 400:25:02months? Yes. Speaker 200:25:04I would love to announce it on our next quarter. That would be my goal. But this is out of our control. We are moving as quickly as we can. But again, this is a regulatory matter and Sometimes it just takes a little longer than you expect. Speaker 200:25:22So I hope to announce it on our next quarter. That's my goal. So, where will be like 2nd week in November roughly. So, I expect to announce it there. If not, I'll let you know where I stand then. Speaker 200:25:37But yes, the guidance we just give our guidance based Ed here told me, Steve, we got to be consistent with guidance this half, that half instead of saying a month. So I'm going to go with Ed and we'll say by the end of the year, But I hope to say it November. Speaker 600:25:55All right. Very helpful. Appreciate it. Thanks guys. Operator00:26:00And our next question comes from Matt Kaplan from Ladenburg Thalmann. Please go ahead, Matt. Speaker 900:26:06Hey, guys. Thanks a lot for taking the questions. I guess now that you're kind of in the phase of signing contracts, can you maybe what would be helpful, can you tell us a little bit about the Mechanics of signing a contract, is there a demo period, a test drive period and then potential conversion to contract or how does that work? Speaker 200:26:29Yes. In the beginning, Matt, it was always a demo and then there's an evaluation. I think that the evaluation is not as important for every hospital anymore. Now that we're out there and there's experience and People chat to each other and it's a small world, the RT world. There's lots of little conferences. Speaker 200:26:52They're all Meeting each other and talking about what's going on. So I think that going forward, we may not need to do an evaluation at every Potential customer and eventually we won't be doing evaluations at all. I would say that probably sometime in calendar 'twenty four, we won't We're doing evaluations any longer. It'll just be what we call bench testing and then we go into a contract. So we're kind of Over that initial phase where everybody was evaluating to the point where some are still evaluating and some aren't and then eventually when it gets to the point where There's no more evaluations because there's so much experience with our product and so much comfort and confidence in us as a company being able to support The hospitals that there won't be no more need for that evaluation. Speaker 900:27:42Okay. And then I guess now that you're in The second phase of the launch, what do you see as the kind of bottleneck in signing new contracts? Speaker 400:27:57Wow. Speaker 200:27:59I'm going to let Duncan go on that one, but I would say I don't think there's One specific bottleneck. There's not one thing that stops you from getting a contract. I think it's Hospital specific, they all have different things that are important to them. And sometimes It hits our sweet spot and other times it doesn't. So I don't think it's so simple to say that every hospital has the same opinion or viewpoint So I don't think there's one bottleneck. Speaker 200:28:33And Duncan, you might want to follow-up there. Speaker 300:28:38No, it's a good question, Matt. I think that contracting during the 1st 12 months was definitely The area we had to spend most time navigating because a lot of hospitals and our part of those systems as I described just now. So the way they do that and the bureaucracy associated with that is definitely was initially our biggest So challenge and I do think of it like Domino's once you start knocking over some of those hurdles Then a lot of the others become freer. And then there are individual hospital situations Changing from one hospital one device to another involves an investment in training, etcetera. So Depending on where they are in their particular supply chain process, they might have other priorities within the hospital That mean that they're not willing to focus on our particular category at the time, which is kind of related to contracting, but also related to The hospital's individual priorities from a clinical point of view, we're not getting pushed back clinically. Speaker 300:29:50It's really More on the contracting side where we have to navigate that. So that's really where most of our work It's evolving and improving. Speaker 900:30:03Okay. That's helpful. And then if the average number of devices Per hospital and the expectation for the average revenue per device, how should we think about that? Speaker 100:30:16Not going to tell you how Speaker 200:30:17to think about that, Matt, because then everybody else would know. But it's pretty wide in terms of how many hours per year per system a hospital uses. It's a pretty big range. Different hospitals have different needs, like I've said. So it's a very difficult question to answer. Speaker 200:30:41And I don't want any of our competitors to know how we think about that and how we view it because it's very important In how we approach things. So, I wish I'd give you those answers, but I can't. I mean, I can, but I won't. Yes, fair Speaker 900:30:56enough. Just a last question. As you're getting close to the CE Mark, What's your partnering strategy ex U. S. Or do you plan to go with a loan outside of the U. Speaker 900:31:11S? Speaker 200:31:12We are not going in alone outside the U. S, that's for sure. We it's enough to build up commercial team in the U. S. That's all we can handle for the moment. Speaker 200:31:21So We will partner ex U. S. And our goal is to get the best royalty rate we can On net sales and that's what we'll do. So hopefully, we'll be able to talk more about that in the near future. Speaker 900:31:40Great. Well, congrats on the progress, Steve. Thank you. Speaker 200:31:43Thanks, Mike. Operator00:31:45And our next question comes from Yale Jen from Laidlaw and Company. Please go ahead, Yale. Speaker 1000:31:51Good afternoon. Thanks for taking the questions And congrats on your first commercial sales. My first question is in terms of the 59,000 Revenue of this quarter, what's the sort of accounting principle behind it and how was that being recognized And how we should think about going forward in terms of does the same sort of principle apply? Speaker 400:32:21Sure. So this is Doug. Thanks for the question, Yale. So the best way to think about it is for the most part we're signing Annual contracts. Most of the contracts from a revenue recognition perspective, I mean, it's a little more complicated than I'm going to make it. Speaker 400:32:39But if you think about it ratably over the life of the contract, that's pretty safe. Mean, we do have to do some testing every quarter to see if we're within the range of use of the machines and things like that. But for the most part, Annual contracts ratably over the 12 months is how we're going to recognize that revenue. Speaker 1000:33:00Okay, great. That's very helpful. A question just follow-up on the previous one, Which is regarding the getting label on the cardiovascular side. Question is that NetSolpha has been used in real world off label presumably also getting reimbursed for a long time. So what could be the additional benefit if you guys get a label For your assistance. Speaker 200:33:37Well, yes, I mean the main benefits obviously are our ability to directly market To cardiac surgeons as well as potential for reimbursement. There's no doubt. But you know Yale, it takes Time to get a specific code. So, we wouldn't have a direct code day 1. There might be Miscellaneous codes of some sort, but a direct code would take several years as you know. Speaker 200:34:07Right. Was there anything else you were looking for besides those? Those are the 2 main benefits. Speaker 1000:34:12Okay. But so does that be Just want to confirm that currently the use in the cardiovascular surgery this week also get a reimburse or not This is where you get reimbursed? Speaker 200:34:28No, it is off label use. There's I can't speak for what the hospitals do, It is 100% off label. So I think that reimbursement is difficult. Speaker 1000:34:42Okay, great. Maybe the last question here is in terms of your VCAP trials that you intend to start This winter, could you give us a little bit more color regarding the study design and including endpoint and others As well as how this one should be considered as a Phase 2, maybe Phase 3, how should we categorize that? Thanks. Speaker 200:35:09Yes. So I would look at the design of our study that we had in Israel for pneumonia. It's going to be Very similar to that study. And This will not be a registration study. So we're in ICL, not a drug. Speaker 200:35:27So it's not Phase 1, 2, 3, it's pilot pivotal. So this will be Another pilot study FDA has requested that. So after this study, the next one would be a pivotal or registration study. So This study then one more and we would hope to get approval from that. Speaker 1000:35:48And maybe just to refresh Memory that in terms of the endpoint, what was the endpoint they're pursuing and any other color zone study? Speaker 200:35:57Yes. So Obviously, it will be safety is the primary if it's not a pivotal study. So that's easy. But on the efficacy endpoints, In the study in Israel, it was an oxygen specific endpoint. It was Speaker 600:36:13a time Speaker 200:36:14to oxygen cessation for these patients in and out of the hospital. So you could look for an endpoint similar to that something along the lines of Either how long they're on oxygen or how whatever time period we pick, how many hours they didn't need oxygen, but something along those lines will be related to oxygen. Again, When we did the infants in pneumonia, there were no comorbidities. So it was easy to look at Hospital discharge or being fit for hospital discharge, those endpoints are not relevant With adult pneumonia as they have multiple comorbidities and it could be several other reasons besides the viral infection that caused the hospitalization for them to stay beyond the resolution of the pneumonia episode. So we need to measure something else and There will be some other endpoints besides the auction related, but I think that is the one that we'll be looking at closely. Speaker 1000:37:14And maybe just squeeze in one more, which is that does that endpoint could be considered as Approval employing from FDA perspective or have you guys spoke with agency in terms of this issue? Speaker 200:37:30So this won't be a registration study. So I can't say that the endpoints we have in this study as secondaries would be considered The endpoint to be used in a registration study. But you could guess that my team and I are not Looking at this for no reason. We're looking at this because this is what we believe would be something similar to what would be in the pivotal study. But there's no way for me to guarantee that there's an endpoint in my current study that would be mimicked for my pivotal. Speaker 200:38:05Hopefully, it's close to it, But we would still have to sit with FDA to agree upon what the exact primary endpoint would be in that study. We haven't Agreed to that yet. And that's pretty standard. But I think what we have is our secondary endpoints on the efficacy side It's going to give us the answers we need to get an agreement with FDA on a primary endpoint. I'm pretty confident that we're going to Have something that will work. Speaker 1000:38:33Okay, great. That's very helpful. Again, congrats on the first sale. Speaker 200:38:38Thanks so much, Yam. Operator00:38:40And at this time, there are no further questions. I'd like to turn the call back over to Steve to close out the call. Speaker 200:38:47Thanks everybody. Appreciate your time. Look forward to talking to you in 3 months. Operator00:38:53This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for attending.Read morePowered by