Nature of Business and Continuation of Business | 1. NATURE OF BUSINESS AND CONTINUATION OF BUSINESS Corporate Overview VBI Vaccines Inc. (formerly SciVac Therapeutics, Inc.) was incorporated under the laws of British Columbia, Canada on April 9, 1965 and has the following wholly-owned subsidiaries: VBI Vaccines (Delaware) Inc., a Delaware corporation (“VBI DE”); VBI DE’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Variation Biotechnologies (US), Inc., a Delaware corporation (“VBI US”); Variation Biotechnologies, Inc. a Canadian company (“VBI Cda”) and the wholly-owned subsidiary of VBI US; SciVac Ltd. an Israeli company (“SciVac”); and SciVac USA, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“SciVac US”) and the wholly owned subsidiary of SciVac. VBI Vaccines Inc. and its subsidiaries are collectively referred to as the “Company,” “we,” “us,” “our” or “VBI”. The Company’s principal office is located at 222 Third Street, Suite 2241, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142. In addition, the Company has manufacturing facilities located in Rehovot, Israel and research facilities located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Company operates in one segment and therefore segment information is not presented. Principal Operations We are a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing next generation vaccines to address unmet needs in infectious disease and immuno-oncology. VBI’s first marketed product is Sci-B-Vac ® ® Following our merger with VBI DE on May 6, 2016 (the “VBI-SciVac Merger”), we are also advancing our two platform technologies – our Enveloped Virus-Like Particle (“eVLP”) platform technology and our Lipid Particle Vaccine (“LPV”) technology. We are advancing a pipeline of eVLP vaccines, with lead programs in both infectious disease, with our congenital cytomegalovirus (“CMV”) vaccine, and in immuno-oncology, with our therapeutic glioblastoma multiforme (“GBM” or “glioblastoma”) vaccine candidate. Liquidity and Going Concern The Company has a limited operating history and faces a number of risks, including but not limited to, uncertainties regarding the success of its development activities, demand and market acceptance of the Company’s products and reliance on major customers. The Company anticipates that it will continue to incur significant operating costs and losses in connection with the development of its products. The Company has an accumulated deficit of $132,432 as of September 30, 2017, and cash outflows from operating activities of $21,890 for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. The Company will require significant additional funds to conduct clinical and non-clinical studies, achieve regulatory approvals, and, subject to such approvals, commercially launch its products. The Company plans to finance future operations with a combination of existing cash reserves, proceeds from the issuance of equity securities, the issuance of additional debt, and revenues from potential collaborations, if any. There is no assurance the Company will manage to obtain these sources of financing. The above conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The report of our independent registered public accounting firm on our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2016 contains an explanatory paragraph regarding our ability to continue as a going concern. The condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or the amounts and classifications of liabilities that may result should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern. On May 15, 2017, the Company entered into an equity distribution agreement (the “Distribution Agreement”) with a registered broker-dealer, as sales agent (the “Sales Agent”), pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, from time to time, through the Sales Agent its common shares having an aggregate offering price of up to $30 million. The Company is not obligated to sell any common shares under the Distribution Agreement. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Distribution Agreement, the Sales Agent will use commercially reasonable efforts consistent with its normal trading and sales practices, applicable state and federal law, rules and regulations, and the rules of the NASDAQ Capital Market to sell shares from time to time based upon the Company’s instructions, including any price, time or size limits specified by the Company. The Company will pay the Sales Agent a commission of 3.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds from each sale of common shares occurring pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, if any. The Distribution Agreement may be terminated by the Sales Agent or the Company at any time upon ten days’ notice to the other party, or by the Sales Agent at any time in certain circumstances. To-date no amounts have been raised under this Distribution Agreement. See Note 13, Subsequent Events, for a description of financings completed in October 2017. |