T2 Biosystems 4Q 2023
February 15, 2024
During 2023, we made material headcount and operating expense reductions. We strengthened our balance sheet by reducing our debt by $10 million, or approximately 20%, extended the interest-only period and maturity date of our term loan to December 31, 2025, and permanently reduced the minimum cash covenant from $5 million to $500,000.
Looking forward to 2024, as I mentioned earlier, we will further strengthen our balance, following stockholder approval, through the conversion of $15 million, or nearly 37 percent, of our term loan with CRG into T2 Biosystems equity. In addition, we expect to reduce inventory levels to positively impact our balance sheet, reduce scrap to increase efficiency and improve product gross margins, continue to improve on-time delivery of our T2Dx Instruments and sepsis test panels, and complete the Oracle ERP system cutover.
Moving to our third corporate priority — advancing our pipeline.
As a reminder, we are applying our proprietary direct-from-blood technology to three areas — sepsis, bioterrorism, and Lyme disease — which all share a critical need for rapid pathogen detection and targeted antimicrobial treatment. We have made significant advancements across our new product pipeline, which is focused on expanding the test menu on the FDA-cleared T2Dx Instrument. During 2023, we filed three FDA submissions and we have already received two FDA 510(k) clearances.
First, we submitted a 510(k) premarket notification to the FDA for the T2Biothreat Panel, and we announced receipt of FDA 510(k) clearance in September 2023. As a reminder, the T2Biothreat Panel is a direct-from-blood molecular diagnostic test that runs on the FDA-cleared T2Dx Instrument and simultaneously detects six biothreat pathogens, including the organisms that cause anthrax, tularemia, glanders, melioidosis, plague, and typhus. These pathogens have been identified as threats by the CDC and, if not treated promptly, can have mortality rates of 40-90%. Our clinical evaluation of the T2Biothreat Panel demonstrated positive percent agreement, or sensitivity, of 100% for all targets except Francisella tularensis, which was 94.3%, and negative percent agreement, or specificity, for all six targets of 100%.
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