Grail to Cut 30% of Workforce

<p class&equals;"base-block"><strong>MENLO PARK<&sol;strong> — GRAIL&comma; Inc&period; &lpar;Nasdaq&colon; GRAL&rpar;&comma; a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early when it can be cured&comma; reported business and financial results for the second quarter 2024&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"base-block">Revenue in the second quarter was &dollar;32&period;0 million&comma; representing 43&percnt; growth year over year&period; Net loss for the quarter&comma; which includes amortization and impairment of acquisition-related intangible items&comma; was &dollar;&lpar;1&period;6&rpar; billion&period; Our gross loss was &dollar;&lpar;17&period;9&rpar; million&period; Non-GAAP adjusted gross profit was &dollar;16&period;0 million and Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA was &dollar;&lpar;139&period;4&rpar; million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"base-block">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;GRAIL completed the separation from Illumina on June 24&comma; 2024&comma; and we are pleased to report our quarterly results for the first time as an independent public company&period; In the second quarter of 2024&comma; GRAIL continued to deliver U&period;S&period; commercial growth&comma; and as of June 30&comma; we have sold more than 215&comma;000 Galleri® tests&period; We are focused on detecting cancer early&comma; when it can be cured&comma; and are committed to serving Galleri patients&comma; providing support for ordering physicians&comma; advancing our commercial and research partnerships&comma; and building our clinical and real-world evidence base&comma;” said Bob Ragusa&comma; Chief Executive Officer at GRAIL&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have an unprecedented opportunity to establish a new standard of care by adding Galleri to existing single-cancer screenings&comma; and to establish and maintain the market leading position in multi-cancer detection&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"base-block">For the three months ended June 30&comma; 2024&comma; as compared to the three months ended July 2&comma; 2023&comma; GRAIL reported&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li class&equals;"base-block base-block"><strong>Revenue&colon;<&sol;strong> Total revenue&comma; comprised of screening and development services revenue&comma; was &dollar;32&period;0 million&comma; an increase of &dollar;9&period;6 million or 43&percnt;&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li class&equals;"base-block base-block"><strong>Net loss&colon;<&sol;strong> Net loss was &dollar;1&period;59 billion&comma; an increase of &dollar;1&period;39 billion or 721&percnt;&period; Net loss includes goodwill and intangible impairment of &dollar;1&period;42 billion&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li class&equals;"base-block base-block"><strong>Gross loss&colon;<&sol;strong> Gross loss was &dollar;&lpar;17&period;9&rpar; million&comma; an improvement of &dollar;6&period;4 million or 26&percnt;&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li class&equals;"base-block base-block"><strong>Adjusted gross profit<&sol;strong><strong>&colon;<&sol;strong> Adjusted gross profit was &dollar;16&period;0 million&comma; an increase of &dollar;6&period;4 million or 66&percnt;&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li class&equals;"base-block base-block"><strong>Adjusted EBITDA<&sol;strong><strong>&colon;<&sol;strong> Adjusted EBITDA was &dollar;&lpar;139&period;4&rpar; million&comma; a decrease of &dollar;2&period;8 million or 2&percnt;&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li class&equals;"base-block base-block"><strong>Cash position&colon; <&sol;strong>Cash and cash equivalents totaled &dollar;958&period;8 million as of June 30&comma; 2024&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"base-block">Recent business highlights include&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li class&equals;"base-block base-block">Commenced enrollment in the REACH study&period; The REACH study&comma; also known as the Galleri-Medicare study&comma; will enroll 50&comma;000 individuals and allow for three annual screens to provide clinical validation and utility in the Medicare population&comma; with a focus on health equity&period; Medicare beneficiaries are among those most at risk for cancer due to age and other risk factors&comma; representing an important unmet need for early cancer detection&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li class&equals;"base-block base-block">Completed enrollment of more than 35&comma;000 participants in the registrational PATHFINDER 2 study&period; The PATHFINDER 2 study is a prospective&comma; multi-center&comma; interventional study evaluating the safety and performance of Galleri in a population of individuals aged 50 years and older who are eligible for guideline-recommended cancer screening in the United States&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li class&equals;"base-block base-block">Completed final study visits for the registrational NHS-Galleri trial&period; The NHS-Galleri trial is a prospective&comma; randomized controlled clinical utility trial of over 140&comma;000 participants between the ages of 50-77 at the time of enrollment&comma; each of whom provided three annual blood samples to evaluate the implementation of Galleri alongside existing NHS standard of care screenings&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"base-block"><strong>Strategic update&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"base-block">Following a portfolio review&comma; the company says it is reducing overall spend and focusing resources on  core multi-cancer early detection &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;MCED”&rpar; priorities&comma; including progress toward completion of our registrational studies and our premarket approval application submission&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"base-block">As part of this restructure&comma; we are reducing existing headcount and planned hires for 2024 by approximately 30&percnt; and substantially decreasing investment in product programs beyond Galleri&period; We are also reducing the size of our commercial organization&comma; focusing our field-based activities on the most productive provider territories and streamlining investments in our enterprise business&comma; which includes the Company’s employer and life insurance businesses&period; In addition&comma; we are making reductions in general and administrative expense to reflect the focus on our MCED opportunity&period; We will continue to invest in our biopharmaceutical partnerships&comma; and are committed to working with our partners to leverage GRAIL’s proprietary methylation technology in precision oncology applications&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"base-block">We expect these cost reductions to extend our existing cash runway from the second half of 2026 into 2028&period; As a result&comma; we anticipate reducing our burn in 2025 to &dollar;325 million&period; In 2024&comma; we expect &dollar;27 million in savings&comma; net of anticipated severance and benefits costs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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