GlycoMimetics announces strategic review and corporate restructuring plan
GlycoMimetics, Inc. a late clinical-stage biotechnology company discovering and developing glycobiology-based therapies for cancers and inflammatory diseases, announced the initiation of a strategic review and corporate restructuring plan
GlycoMimetics has engaged Lucid Capital Markets to act as a strategic advisor in the process. “We are committed to acting in the best interests of patients, employees and shareholders. Given our organization’s cash resources, we plan to explore a range of potential strategic alternatives and seek to deliver value to our shareholders and find avenues that allow uproleselan and GMI-1687 to build upon their clinical promise, including in the ongoing NCI Phase II/III study of uproleselan in newly diagnosed AML patients,” said Harout Semerjian, Chief Executive Officer of GlycoMimetics. “We believe both drug candidates have the potential to address significant unmet needs in their respective therapeutic areas and we are focused on finding organizations to advance these programs. We are proud of our team’s dedication to improving the lives of patients and are thankful for their hard work progressing uproleselan and GMI-1687.” The Company will evaluate strategic alternatives and no timetable has been set for the conclusion of the strategic review or the consummation of any such strategic transaction. GlycoMimetics had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $31.3 million as of March 31, 2024.