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| Item 1.02 | Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On December 17, 2021, Altimmune, Inc. (the “Company”) terminated the Master Services Agreement with Lonza Houston Inc. (“Lonza”), dated November 5, 2020 (the “MSA”), between the parties and the associated Statement of Work (the “SOW”), which SOW was previously disclosed in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 12, 2021.
The SOW provided that Lonza would engineer, construct and qualify a dedicated manufacturing suite for the clinical and commercial supply of the Company’s AdCOVID product candidate. The termination of the SOW and MSA is in connection with the Company’s previously announced decision to discontinue its AdCOVID program, which was disclosed in a Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on June 29, 2021, and incorporated by reference herein.
The foregoing description of the SOW is a summary only and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the SOW, which is filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2021, and incorporated by reference herein.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: December 17, 2021 | ALTIMMUNE, INC. | |
| By: | /s/ William Brown | |
| William Brown | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||