AgeX Therapeutics Reports Third Quarter 2019 Financial Results and Provides Business Update

AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. ("AgeX”; NYSE American: AGE), a biotechnology company developing therapeutics for human aging and regeneration, reported financial and operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2019.

"Driven by our vision of being the leading biotechnology company with a focus on human aging, in the third quarter we advanced our product development on numerous fronts,” said Michael D. West, Ph.D., founder and Chief Executive Officer. "Our recent build-out of GMP-compliant manufacturing laboratory space will facilitate our manufacture of master cell banks such as those that carry the UniverCyte^TM genetic modification for off-the-shelf cell-based regenerative therapy.”

Recent Highlights

• Dr. West and AgeX were included in a feature article that was part of the cover theme in MIT Technology Review magazine. The September-October edition of this respected magazine from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, called "The longevity issue” had the cover theme, "Old Age is Over!”
• On the company’s behalf, Dr. West participated at two industry and investor conferences during the quarter. He discussed the company’s metabolic and diabetes-related programs as part of a panel at Metabesity 2019, October 15-16 in Washington, DC. He also delivered an investor presentation at the H.C. Wainwright (Rodman & Renshaw) Investment Conference, September 8-10 in New York City.
• The company published two papers in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Regenerative Medicine, from Future Medicine. The first, "Toward a Unified Theory of Aging and Regeneration,” outlines the theory behind the company’s induced tissue regeneration (iTR) program. The second, "Engineering strategies for generating hypoimmunogenic cells with high clinical and commercial value,” is a joint paper with Juvenescence. It includes a review of the most promising approaches to producing UniverCyte™ cells and shares a previously unpublished in vivo mouse observation.
• We continue to make progress to engineer pluripotent cell lines with immune tolerance UniverCyte™ technology to generate hypoimmunogenic (universal) cells.

Second Quarter 2019 Operating Results

Revenues: Total revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2019 were $411,000, as compared with $380,000 in the same period in 2018. AgeX revenue is primarily generated from subscription and advertising revenues from the GeneCards^® online database through its subsidiary LifeMap Sciences, Inc. 2019 revenues also included $41,000 of grant revenue from the NIH. AgeX had no grant revenues in the same period in 2018.

Operating expenses: Operating expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2019 were $3.6 million, as compared with $2.6 million for the same period in 2018. On an as-adjusted basis, operating expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2019 were $2.9 million as compared to $2.2 million for the same period in 2018.

The reconciliation between operating expenses determined in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (GAAP) and operating expenses, as adjusted, a non-GAAP measure, is provided in the financial tables included at the end of this press release.

Research and development expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2019 were $1.4 million, as compared with $1.3 million in the same period in 2018.

General and administrative expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2019 were $2.2 million, as compared with $1.3 million in the same period in 2018.

Net loss attributable to AgeX: The net loss attributable to AgeX for the three months ended September 30, 2019 was $3.2 million, or ($0.09) per share (basic and diluted) compared to $2.2 million, or ($0.06) per share (basic and diluted), for the same period in 2018.

Balance Sheet Highlights

Cash, and cash equivalents, including restricted cash totaled $3.8 million as of September 30, 2019, in addition to which we have $1.5 million remaining available for borrowing under a credit facility provided by Juvenescence Limited, which brought our total available capital to $5.3 million. However, under accounting standard ASC 205-40 Presentation of Financial Statements-Going Concern, AgeX’s cash and cash equivalents of $3.8 million as of September 30, 2019 and the loan facility by Juvenescence may not be sufficient, without raising additional capital and reducing expenditures, to satisfy AgeX’s anticipated operating and other funding requirements for the next twelve months from the issuance of its interim condensed consolidated interim financial statements.

About AgeX Therapeutics

AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American: AGE) is focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapeutics for human aging. Its PureStem^® and UniverCyte^™ manufacturing and immunotolerance technologies are designed to work together to generate highly-defined, universal, allogeneic, off-the-shelf pluripotent stem cell-derived young cells of any type for application in a variety of diseases with a high unmet medical need. AgeX has two preclinical cell therapy programs: AGEX-VASC1 (vascular progenitor cells) for tissue ischemia and AGEX-BAT1 (brown fat cells) for Type II diabetes. AgeX’s revolutionary longevity platform induced Tissue Regeneration (iTR™) aims to unlock cellular immortality and regenerative capacity to reverse age-related changes within tissues. AGEX-iTR1547 is an iTR-based formulation in preclinical development. HyStem^® is AgeX’s delivery technology to stably engraft PureStem cell therapies in the body. AgeX is developing its core product pipeline for use in the clinic to extend human healthspan and is seeking opportunities to establish licensing and collaboration agreements around its broad IP estate and proprietary technology platforms.

For more information, please visit www.agexinc.com or connect with the company on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements contained in this release are "forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements that are not historical fact including, but not limited to statements that contain words such as "will,” "believes,” "plans,” "anticipates,” "expects,” "estimates” should also be considered forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from the results anticipated in these forward-looking statements and as such should be evaluated together with the many uncertainties that affect the business of AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. and its subsidiaries, particularly those mentioned in the cautionary statements found in more detail in the "Risk Factors” section of AgeX’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commissions (copies of which may be obtained at www.sec.gov). Subsequent events and developments may cause these forward-looking statements to change. AgeX specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of changed events or circumstances that occur after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release includes operating expenses prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (GAAP) and, includes operating expenses, by entity below, prepared in accordance with GAAP. This press release also includes certain historical non-GAAP operating expenses and non-GAAP operating expenses, by entity below. In particular, AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. ("AgeX”) has provided both (a) non-GAAP total operating expenses, adjusted to exclude noncash stock-based compensation expense, depreciation and amortization expense, and acquired in-process research and development expense, a nonrecurring item, and (b) non-GAAP operating expenses, by entity, to exclude those same charges by the respective entities for consistency. Non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. However, AgeX believes the presentation of non-GAAP total operating expenses and non-GAAP operating expenses, by entity, when viewed in conjunction with our GAAP total operating expenses, and GAAP operating expenses by entity, respectively, is helpful in understanding AgeX’s ongoing operating expenses and its programs and those of certain subsidiaries.

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