Cameron Reynolds: Yes. We’ve done a lot of work. The first thing we’ve been doing has been optimizing the process to make it as quick as easy as possible and on discovery on a wide range of different targets. So yes, we’ve been making progress. I think Andy alluded to a paper that’s in process of being published and also to make the process as quickly — the process we announced was a prototype. We’ve been developing as much as we can to make it quicker, easier and cheaper and also on a broad range of solid tumors as well as the liquid tumor. And yes, we’re making very good progress, and we’re aiming to publish in the next few or submit it soon in the next few months and also work heavily on out-licensing. We’ve discussed several times on public calls that we think is a complete breakthrough.
And if we continue to show selection or concentration of tumor-derived DNA it’s going to have to be a must-have for anyone in the liquid biopsy business. So, we’ve been very pleasantly surprised with the level of excitement and the interest from a range of driven groups. And those active discussions are going on as well. And we expect to have some news on that in the coming months and quarters as well because again, we want to license it out and get upfront payments as well as a share of the upside going forward. So, expect to keep an eye on all of that in the next few months and the next few quarters.
Louise Batchelor : Yes. And Cameron, if I can just ask, this is Lou actually here, I can just add. we’ve also presented at a number of conferences this year cancer-specific conferences. So, we’ve been at a prostate cancer conference, liver cancer conference and then just this last weekend, a lung cancer conference with cancer-specific posters with the CTC, capture PCR technology. And we’ve then got breast and CRC to come in the second quarter. So there has been some additional data presented and then we’ve got some as come and says further down the line with the Generation two.
Operator: Our next question is from Bruce Jackson with the Benchmark Company. Please proceed.
Bruce Jackson : Hi, good morning, and thanks for taking my question. So, my first question is for Andrew. With the 500-patient study that you’ve just initiated is could that be ready in time for the conference in October?
Cameron Reynolds: I’m sorry, Andy, is actually don’t answer a question but he’s in clinic.
Louise Batchelor: Just important into clinic. The full study won’t have been finished Bruce by over this year, but we are hoping that we might potentially have some interim analyses available but we will have the results from several large-scale studies that will be presented at the October conference. So, the UMC in Amsterdam study and also the German Sepsis Group Study will be presented in October. But potentially, there might just be an interim analysis of hepatitis.
Cameron Reynolds: One is the perspective, Bruce, so the retrospective ones, UMC Amsterdam and the German study will be presented, we believe, but not the perspective that will be a bit slower, of course.
Bruce Jackson: Okay. And then a question on the burn rate. Is it going to stay where it was last year, roughly? How is that going to develop over the course of this year and 2025.
Cameron Reynolds: Terig?
Terig Hughes : Good question. Bruce. So, as we mentioned just now, we ended the year with cash of $20.7 million in the bank. And we used net cash in operating activities last year of $18.1 million. So that was partly offset — or costs were partly offset by the $13 million that we received in licensing fees last year. And what we can expect is that our costs this year will be slightly lower than they were last year. And that’s partly the result of the cost-saving actions that we took at the back end of last year saving a little over $2 million on a full year basis. And our focus this year is on achieving our next licensing deals in the human space, as Cameron mentioned. So, we’ve also initiated efforts with respect to seeking nondilutive funding in the U.S. And again, as Cameron mentioned, we’re looking at getting each leg to support itself.
What we’re focusing on is bringing in those licensing deal so that we can achieve upfront payments and milestone payments. And we do expect to make good progress on those by the end of the year. I would expect that we’ve achieved one or more licensing deals by the end of the year. And so, I’m pretty confident with the resources that we’ve got available to us with some additional non-dilutive funding that we’re working on at the moment that we’ll be able to achieve those milestones that we’ve got planned for this year.
Operator: Our next question is from Steven Ralston with Zacks. Please proceed.
Steven Ralston : You certainly have a lot of irons in the fire right now, more than I’ve seen in the past. And despite the progress you made in your R&D efforts in cancer and sepsis, I’m trying to get a better handle on your two developing revenue streams. When I look at the — you have product categories, product and service listed and the revenue streams are in the vet and Discover areas. Could you delineate those a little better, so I can better model the company?
Cameron Reynolds: Terig?
Terig Hughes: Yes, sure. So — what — in terms of our vet revenue, we achieved about $475,000 of net revenue last year. That was up 194%. And that does not yet ramp but we expect it to start ramping this year as we bring online the two new distributors. So, we’ve got Antech and Fuji Vet, who are both about to launch both aggressively pricing the test in the market at under $40, both having aggressive plans for marketing and launching of the test. So, looking ahead, I think we’ll see a decent ramp starting in Q2 and going into the second half of the year. So, on Nu.Q Discover, we did about $300,000 of earned revenue last year. We’ve also got a very good pipeline building of over $1 million of opportunities. And that’s a bit more difficult to forecast quarter-to-quarter because it’s very lumpy in nature because of a number of projects of different sizes and then the timing is somewhat [indiscernible] difficult to estimate.
