On November 7, 2016 Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGEN), a leading predictive drug discovery company, reported its quarterly financial results for the third quarter 2016 and nine months ending September 30, 2016 (Filing, Q3, Compugen, 2016, NOV 7, 2016, View Source [SID1234516382]).

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As previously announced, the Company confirms that it has postponed its third quarter conference call to Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 10:00 am ET, in order to include discussion of new CGEN-15029 program data to be presented this Friday, November 11, 2016, at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) (Free SITC Whitepaper).

An abstract of Compugen’s presentation, selected by SITC (Free SITC Whitepaper) as a late breaking presentation, will be available tomorrow, November 8th, beginning at 8:00 am ET, on the SITC (Free SITC Whitepaper) conference website. In addition, the Company plans to issue a press release on November 11, 2016 with respect to the new data to be disclosed at the SITC (Free SITC Whitepaper) conference that day.

Anat Cohen-Dayag, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Compugen, stated, "We are extremely pleased with our continuing progress in the pursuit of immuno-oncology programs addressing novel immune checkpoint target candidates identified by us in silico. These efforts have resulted in an exceptional pipeline of multiple novel targets, consisting of both T cell-based and more recently myeloid-based targets, potentially offering multiple first-in-class therapeutics with various mechanisms-of-action."

Dr. Cohen-Dayag continued, "Although advancing such novel target programs to therapeutic development requires longer target validation timelines than required for targets generally pursued by the industry, we believe that the medical and commercial potential presented by these multiple first-in-class programs more than justifies this additional time and effort."

Revenues for the three and nine months ending September 30, 2016 were $0.1 million and $0.7 million respectively, compared with $0.2 million and $1.0 million for the comparable periods in 2015, primarily reflecting changes in the non-cash amortization during each of these periods of the upfront payment related to the August 2013 collaboration and license agreement with Bayer.

R&D expenses for the three and nine months ending September 30, 2016 were $6.0 million and $18.2 million respectively, compared with $5.3 million and $15.4 million in the comparable periods in 2015. These increases primarily reflect expanded activities involving our pipeline program candidates, including initiation of certain pre-clinical activities and the hiring of additional professional employees and manufacturing and regulatory consultants to support these activities.

Net loss for the third quarter of 2016 was $7.8 million, or $0.15 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $6.7 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, for the comparable period in 2015. Net loss for the nine months ending September 30, 2016 was $23.0 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $19.7 million, or $0.39 per diluted share, for the comparable period in 2015.

As of September 30, 2016, cash and cash related accounts totaled $68.0 million. The Company has no debt.