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| We believe an expanded claim for our FDA-cleared T2Candida Panel to include pediatric testing will drive increased adoption of our platform as it opens a new pediatric market segment and will allow clinicians to improve outcomes and reduce cost by achieving faster targeted antifungal treatment for their pediatric patients |
| We believe maintaining our NASDAQ listing is in the best interest of both the company and our stockholders as it maintains liquidity for stockholders, helps attract and retain key employees, broadens our access to capital and better positions the company for potential mergers and acquisitions |
| So we believe that makes us very well suited to supply this product to U.S |
| So we have unique targets, and we believe we have unparalleled performance |
| We believe we are very well positioned heading into 2024, and we remain focused on accelerating our sales, enhancing our operations and advancing our pipeline |
| In 2023, the T2 Biosystems team achieved full year total revenue of $7.3 million, including product revenue of $6.7 million and we achieved record T2Bacteria Panel sales in the U.S |
| We're very excited by the progress on our new product pipeline, which includes recent FDA 510(k) clearances for the expanded T2Bacteria Panel to include the detection of Acinetobacter baumannii, the T2Biothreat Panel and the pending FDA clearance to expand the T2Candida Panel to include pediatric testing |
| John Sperzel We made considerable progress across the business during 2023, increasing our global installed base of T2Dx Instruments, generating record sales of our T2Bacteria Panel, strengthening our supply chain and manufacturing operations, advancing multiple new product development initiatives and strengthening our balance sheet |
| We believe the addition of the Candida Auris test will strengthen our value proposition and lead to increased adoption of our platform |
| In addition, we expect to reduce inventory levels to positively impact our balance sheet, reduce scrap, to increase efficiency and improve product gross margins, continue to improve on-time delivery of our T2Dx instruments and sepsis test panels and complete the Oracle ERP system cutover |
| This included strengthening our operations leadership, mitigating raw material issues, improving manufacturing processes and addressing the sepsis test panel back order |
| We continue to appreciate our customer support, aiding and increasing awareness of both the clinical and economic benefits of our technology |
| The T2Biothreat [ph] Panel provides unique biothreat targets, and we believe it offers unparalleled sensitivity and specificity, creating multiple opportunities for sales, including to the U.S |
| Additionally, while not part of our NASDAQ compliance plan, we have numerous business catalysts that we will discuss shortly, which we believe can create value and increase the market value of our listed securities |
| We're expecting a positive outcome on our FDA submission to expand the use of the T2Candida Panel to include pediatric testing |
| Rapid detection of these pathogens is essential to getting infected patients on the appropriate antimicrobial therapy and improving clinical outcomes |
| And we believe we have a unique performance |
| We believe each of these products represent an opportunity to increase test utilization among existing customers and to attract new customers |
| Another benefit of our plan is that we are reducing the company's debt burden and thus lowering future interest payment expenses |
| and international markets and increasing test panel revenue |
| We believe the T2Resistance Panel will be a very important addition to our expanding test menu as we expect it to be the first direct from blood or culture independent antimicrobial resistance test, and that can drive increased adoption of our platform |
| What's the right way to think about that? John Sperzel Well, first thing I would say is just to remind everyone what I said on the scripted remarks, and that is that, we have a really unique product here |
| Looking forward to 2024 earlier, strengthen our balance sheet following stockholder approval, version [ph] of $15 million or nearly 37% of our term loan with CRG into T2 Biosystems equity |
| We strengthened our balance sheet by reducing our debt by $10 million or approximately 20%, extended the interest-only period and maturity date of our term loan to December 31, 2025, and permanently reduced the minimum cash covenant from $5 million to $500,000 |
| Throughout 2023, we made significant progress enhancing our operations |
| We expect this latest FDA clearance to drive increased adoption of our platform as the expanded test panel now covers nearly 75% of all sepsis-causing bacterial pathogens commonly found in bloodstream infections |
| We've made significant advancements across our new product pipeline, which is focused on expanding the test menu on the FDA-cleared T2Dx instrument |
| I'm pleased to announce that we cleared all back orders for the T2Bacteria Panel and the T2Candida Panel in December 2023, and we cleared all back orders for the T2Resistance Panel in January 2024 |
| So we're excited about the four countries that we have just announced expansion into, and we look forward to many more throughout 2024 and beyond |
| We expect total sepsis and related product revenues to grow between 49% and 64% to $10 million to $11 million in 2024 over 2023, and this target excludes any potential sales marked T2Biothreat or T2Lyme Panels |
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| Fourth quarter 2023 revenues were $1.7 million, all from product sales, a 69% decrease compared to the prior year period, driven by lower international T2Dx instrument sales and lower sepsis test sales due to production back orders |
| Given the ongoing wars in Europe and the Middle East, the global population is in an increased risk of exposure to bioterrorism |
| As a reminder, for 2023, we received a letter from NASDAQ informing us that we had failed to comply with the market value of listed securities or MVLS of at least $35 million for a period of 30 consecutive business days |
| Candida species are a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in hospitalized children and present a significant burden to the U.S |
| So I think as we've discussed in the past, sepsis doesn't discriminate |
| Candida Auris is a multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen that has a mortality rate up to 60% and is recognized as a serious global health threat by the CDC and World Health Organization |
| As a reminder, sepsis continues to exact an enormous human and economic toll |
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