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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 11, 2025

 

 

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On March 11, 2025, Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. (the “Company”) as part of the Company’s greater cost-reduction efforts, the Company placed 31 employees, substantially all of its employees, on furlough, effective March 12, 2025. During the furlough, impacted employees will not be allowed to work on Company matters and will not receive salary or wages. The Company will continue certain benefits for affected employees. The Company plans for the furlough to last until additional financing is procured.

 

Additionally, the Company’s inability to pay its payroll obligations may result in employees terminating their relationship with the Company and/or pursuing legal remedies. Since the Company’s business is dependent on the efforts and talents of its employees to supervise and operate its clinical development programs, a material loss of its employee base may result in the inability of the Company to continue the Deltacel clinical trial and develop its product candidates, which would have a material adverse effect on the Company.

 

 

This Current Report on Form 8-K contain “forward-looking statements” that are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K and the Press Release may be identified by the use of words such as “ensure,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “seek,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “target,” “aim,” “should,” “will”, “would,” or the negative of these words or other similar expressions, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words.

 

Forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s current expectations and are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Further, certain forward-looking statements are based on assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, which are, in some cases, beyond the Company’s control and which could materially affect results. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things, those described more fully in the section titled “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on February 14, 2025, and the Company’s other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date, and the Company undertakes no duty to update such information except as required under applicable law.

 

 

 

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.