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Operator
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Peng Roshan
Thank you. Good evening and welcome everyone to Dyadic International's third quarter 2023 conference call. I hope you have had the opportunity to review Dyadic's press release announcing financial results for the quarter ended September 30th, 2023. and the recent company highlights. You may access our release and Form 10-Q under the Investors section of the company's website at dyadic.com. On today's call, our President and CEO, Mark Emelfarb, will give a review of our third quarter business and corporate highlights, including a summary of our recent research and development efforts. Our Chief Business Officer, Joe Hazleton, will join Mark for the business updates. I will follow with a review of our financial results in more detail. We'll then hold a brief question and answer session. At this time, I would like to inform you that certain commentary made on this conference call may be considered forward-looking statements, which involves risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause DIADx's actual results, performance, scientific or otherwise, or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. DIADC expressly disclaims any duty to provide updates to its forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events, or otherwise. Participants are directed to the risk factors set forth in DIADC's risk report filed with the SEC. It is now my pleasure to pass the call to our CEO, Mark Imhoff. Mark?
Mark Emelfarb
Thank you, Ping. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining DIATIC's third quarter 2023 conference call. We've accelerated the momentum seen in the first half of 2023 as our C1 technology continues to garner praise and recognition for its speed and efficiency in the U.S. and internationally from academia, industry, and government agencies. We have also gained significant traction with our Dapopis platform, which was launched less than 12 months ago in both the alternative protein and bioindustrial markets. On today's call, Joe and I will discuss a strategic plan for revenue growth, notable technological advances, and recent business development successes we continue to achieve across each of our core markets. We will focus the discussion on not just providing an update on our third quarter scientific and business results, but also expand on our strategy to improve our revenue outlook in the short term and beyond. We are not just excited about our current and future prospects. We believe the success of our corporate strategy is beginning to be realized, as evidenced by our September announcement of an agreement inclusive of upfront fees. The positive data from our first in human phase one study and our recently announced advancements in our own internal recombinant serum albumin projects, which have accelerated opportunities to enter into additional collaborations and partnerships, such as the Memorandum of Understanding with the Italian government's Foundation Biotechnopolo di Siena, which performs the functions of an anti-pandemic hub with a particular focus on the development and production of vaccines and monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of emerging epidemic and pandemic pathologies. and the recently announced research collaboration with Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center in Massachusetts General Hospital. We believe that we are at or near the precipice of applying our microbial protein production platforms, C1 and Dapabas, to develop antigens, antibodies, enzymes, and other proteins across each of our core verticals that we believe will lead to monetization that can significantly increase shareholder value for Dyadic and our collaborators. What makes Dyadic unique from other providers of expression platforms is our industrial heritage. The majority of cell lines used for manufacture of biologic vaccines and therapeutics have started at research scales and have tried to improve scale and yield at pharmaceutical price points. Dyadic's microbial platforms have a long history of economically producing large-scale bioindustrial proteins and enzymes, which we are leveraging to manufacture biopharmaceutical proteins with upstream costs and quantities that are closer to industrial margins, providing our collaborators improved pricing flexibility. All platforms used in biomanufacturing must meet certain requirements in order to be commercialized. All platforms must be able to be properly cloned and expressed, correctly modified and folded, functional proteins. What makes a particular platform an ideal choice for commercialization is one that is also rapid, highly productive, and cost-effective. This is why the C1 protein production platform is uniquely suited to meet the rising demand for vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, therapeutics, and other proteins. C1 can produce standard or complex proteins that have been demonstrated to be comparable in function and quality to those produced in other cell lines like Chinese hamster ovary, or CHO cells, and Baclar virus, which are insect cells. C1 has now completed a phase one human trial with favorable preliminary safety data and has the capability to produce larger quantities of proteins at lower cost and in less time than the traditional eukaryotic gene expression platform used today. We have shown that the C1 platform is up to 300 times more productive than baculovirus insect cells, which are being used in both human and animal health to produce certain vaccines. And C1 also is significantly short of fermentation time and no viruses that need to be removed in downstream processing, such as either baculovirus or Chinese hamster ovary show cells, enabling the production and release over common vaccines more rapidly in greater quantities than lower-class and traditional cell lines currently being used today. This is why we believe our C1 filamentous fungal protein production platform has distinct advantages versus traditional eukaryotic cell lines currently used to manufacture vaccines and biologic drugs. In our human and animal core verticals, we are excited to have entered into a research and development project with another top five pharmaceutical company, a new vaccine project, and a large infectious disease market worth over $4 billion. As previously mentioned, we have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Foundation of Biotechnologies, Ciena, or FBS, whose function is to perform as an anti-pandemic hub with a particular focus on the development and production of vaccines and monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of emerging epidemic pandemic pathologies. Scientific Development at FBS is led by one of the world's foremost leading experts in vaccine development, Dr. Reno Raffioli. Prior to his role at FBS, Dr. Raffioli was the Global Head of Vaccines Research for Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics and most recently served as the Chief Scientific and Head of External R&D at the Vaccines Division of GlaxoSmithKline. FBS is prepared and equipped to conduct research, clinical study, regulatory approval, development, manufacture, and commercialization of vaccines and therapeutic proteins using the company's C1 protein production platform. We also continue to expand the adoption of our C1 protein production platform, such as the recently announced research collaboration with the Vaccine Immunotherapy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital to express vaccines for influenza A, and other infectious diseases as part of a U.S. $5.8 million award from the Department of Defense. NIAIDA continues to strive to stay at the forefront of scientific advancement, and we've been focusing on designing better-performing biomolecules. In addition to advancing the C1 technology, we produce new commercial products. We've now developed C1 cell lines to express complex proteins such as conjugating antigens and ferritin nanoparticles. The interest in ferritin-based nanoparticle vaccines has been increasing due to their ability to enhance immunogenicity and C1 can produce these ferritin nanoparticles in a one-step manufacturing process as opposed to the current two-step method used by other technologies. potentially improving the speed and cost effectiveness of the production process. We currently have ongoing animal studies with C1 express adjuvanted ferritin nanoparticle H5N1 antigen targeting endemic influenza H5N1 bird flu. That has demonstrated high neutralizing antibody and hemagglutinin inhibition HI levels. In other animal studies, C1 express adjuvanted AMHC2 H1N1 antigen targeting seasonal influenza showed high neutralizing antibody levels. Additionally, the C1 express adjuvanted full spike SARS-CoV-2 antigen has shown high neutralizing antibody levels after single dose and ongoing animal trial. In the area of therapeutic proteins, we've signed additional fully funded research projects for the development and commercialization of therapeutic antibodies in the third quarter. One such agreement is with a multinational pharmaceutical company to develop multiple C1 cell lines and produce monoclonal antibodies targeting infectious diseases, as well as another fully funded project to develop a C1 cell line for monoclonal antibodies against fibroviruses such as Ebola and Marburg. We have also endeavored to expand our portfolio with potential new commercial products. This quarter, Diatica entered into a development commercialization agreement with a European company, Biorne, to develop messenger RNAs using our C1 technology. Messenger RNAs help to quickly develop active COVID-19 vaccines critical for pandemic response. But the therapeutic applications extend beyond infectious disease. In areas such as cancer, where mRNAs encoding cancer antigens may help immune cells destroy tumors and substantially extend survival in rare diseases, where RNA-based gene therapy is potentially capable of delivering a healthy copy of the faulty gene to the cell. In this project, we are combining Bjorna's novel eukaryotic bioRNA platform with Dyadic's industrially proven C1 protein production platform to provide the pharmaceutical industry with a potentially more cost-efficient platform for manufacturing large quantities of lower-cost messenger RNAs, enabling access to mRNA vaccines and drugs to a broader global population. We've continued our focus on building and sustaining longer-term strategic partnerships with our pharmaceutical partners, such as advancing commercial products and clinical development of human and animal health vaccines with Rubik One Health for the African continent. and the recent production of C1 expressed human infectious disease vaccine antigens under CGMP guidelines, as well as other non-GMP products with Epigen in India. We believe the C1 production platform can be a global solution to emerging infectious disease threats and pandemic response in not just humans, but also in animal health. In addition to the production of large quantities of antigens, antibodies, and complex biomolecules, These products can also be made rapidly and cost-effectively for developed and emerging countries, making C1 a potential pandemic preparedness platform for response or stockpiling. In addition to what we shared today, discussions are ongoing with several parties interested in the potential adoption of the C1 platform across countries of all income levels. In addition to Rubik, we are increasing our penetration of the animal health markets for vaccines and therapeutic proteins. Animal health continues to be an attractive segment for dyadic due to the higher margin sensitivity of pharmaceutical biologics and the significant impact that an outbreak can have on the global supply chain and potentially human health. The recognition, data, and scientific advancements we are generating have accelerated our efforts in animal health as well as we have expanded our collaboration with Fibro, Abbott, and have initiated the fully funded research and development project with a new animal health company for development of a C1 expressed livestock vaccine antigen. Our third vertical of alternative proteins continues to be an area of great excitement for Dyadic, and one which we believe also holds their term potential promise in terms of opportunity and revenue. Dyadic is continuing to dedicate resources and support for the existing and future projects within this rapidly growing segment. Roughly one year ago, Dyadic launched the Dapibus platform, a filamentous, fungal-based, microbial gene expression and protein production platform, which is further designed and customized to enable the rapid development and large-scale manufacturing of low-cost enzymes, proteins, metabolites, and other biologic products. for use in non-pharmaceutical applications such as food, nutrition, health, and wellness. The agreement we signed in September to utilize our DAPOBIS platform to develop and commercialize certain non-animal dairy enzymes used in the production of food products demonstrates the potential for our DAPOBIS platform to deliver results as well as the increased interest in this segment. In this agreement, we received an upfront payment of $600,000 in October for product development and are eligible to receive certain potential success fees as early as the first half of 2024 in addition to future milestones and royalties. Also in the third quarter, DADEC signed a fully funded research collaboration for the development of an enzyme for dispersion and absorption of injected drugs to reduce tissue damage. This enzyme alone accounts for a $900 million market across multiple applications. These are just a few of the examples of how our focus on shorter-term product commercialization opportunities that have less time, cost, and risk associated with development is beginning to show results. This focus has accelerated our capability to develop an internal pipeline of proteins and enzymes with commercial potential across our core verticals. whose utilization is not dependent on lengthy and expensive clinical development programs. We have made further progress in developing animal-free recombinant serum albumin products that have demonstrated analytical comparability to commercially available reference samples, bringing us another step closer to commercialization and monetization. We are currently providing samples of recombinant serum albumin and enzyme catalysts in order to accelerate commercialization with potential collaborators, while we complete additional functional testing for different grades of products that can be offered. To further support revenue growth, we've initiated development of additional pipeline projects, such as cell culture media and other proteins and enzymes across our core verticals at different grades and price points for multiple applications in pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical markets, which we believe will improve our capability to drive near-term revenues. I will now turn the call over to our Chief Business Officer, Joe Hapleton, to provide an update on our Phase 1 trial progress and discuss the IAI Strategy Plan for Revenue and Growth and Potential. Joe?
Joe
Thank you, Mark. I'm happy to report that the Phase 1 trial for DIAI-100 has completed and the process for building the final study report has begun. For background, to establish a track record of safety in humans for antigens produced from our C1 protein production platform, the ongoing Phase I trial is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the safety of the DYAI-100 COVID-19 recombinant protein, or RBD, booster vaccine in 30 healthy adults in South Africa at two different dose levels. Dosing of all patients was completed in late February, and the last patient last visit took place in September. The database lock occurred last week, and we anticipate providing top-line results in the coming weeks with the final full clinical study report to follow. Day 9 safety data for all patients was presented at the Data Safety Monitoring Board meeting in the second quarter, which found no major vaccine-related safety at either dose level, and to date there have been no serious adverse events reported. Given the evolving regulatory and market outlook for COVID, we're in discussions with RubicOne Health, our South African partner, to evaluate the next development phase of a COVID-19 booster vaccine candidate pending the market conditions. We're continuing to validate the C1 platform to reduce clinical development risk for our and adding to our strong repository of safety, efficacy, and productivity data regarding the C1 platform across a wide range of vaccines and antibodies. As we enter the fourth quarter, we also wanted to provide greater insight into our strategic planning and execution to improve near-term revenue potential. As Mark discussed earlier, we've made progress advancing our pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical microbial platforms across our core verticals in 2023. But like our partners, we are not immune to the current economic climate. In pharmaceutical development, whether human or animal, in tough economic markets, funding for research and development is scaled back to focus on shorter-term revenue-generating potentials. The same holds true for other markets, such as bioindustrial and alternative proteins, where tighter margins mean more difficult choices of where to allocate limited resources. Despite the current economic situation, We've been able to sign agreements with equity, commercialization options, or upfront fees across our core verticals in 2023, in addition to adding fully funded research and development projects with key human and animal health pharmaceutical companies and non-pharmaceutical partners. While this is encouraging, it is also why we have our foundation of microbial platforms is not just important, but also valuable. Through our protein expression systems, we not only enable our partners to develop targets, but we also have the capability to develop product opportunities of our own, such as the recombinant human albumin and recombinant bovine albumin, as Mark had mentioned earlier. In challenging economic times, our strategy and that of our partners aligns on these types of product opportunities that do not require lengthy clinical trials, significant development costs, or additional regulatory reviews. By focusing on high-value product opportunities, we are still advancing our microbial protein production platforms by demonstrating that our pipeline products, such as enzyme catalysts or animal-free proteins that have analytical and functional properties equal to or better than currently commercialized products. At the same time, we're expanding the adoption of our technology with existing and new partners to increase the number of potential targets expressed in our microbial platforms for pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical applications, as evidenced by our agreement with Farmbox earlier this year for the development of animal-free proteins and our recently announced collaboration with the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital to express influenza vaccine antigens. By increasing the volume of internal pipeline products and external partnerships across our verticals, we believe we can accelerate more consistent revenue generation in the coming year that is not strictly reliant on platform licensing and inclusive of potential product licensing for targets such as recombinant albumin, enzyme catalysts, or cell culture media components. As we are commercializing our current product opportunities and broadening our internal pipeline, we also must continue to invest in our infrastructure and capability to efficiently exploit the increase in potential opportunities and broaden our targeted outreach across our core verticals. To accelerate our capability, we've expanded our leadership team with the addition of a seasoned pharmaceutical business development and marketing executive, Doug Pace. Mr. Pace started his career with large pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis and Pfizer, working on both small and large molecule products in the oncology and biosimilar markets. He was most recently engaged in licensing of health tech platform technologies to large pharmaceutical companies that improved patient engagement. He's had an immediate impact illustrated by a significant increase in unique client engagements and a 300% increase in new followers in the last 45 days versus the 45 days preceding his hire on a leading social networking app. While I can't predict the future or provide a definitive timeline for increased revenues, what I can say is that we are wholly focused on executing our strategic plan of driving internal product opportunities and capitalizing on our external collaborations and partnerships to increase revenue in the coming year. The most salient example continues to be our recombinant serum albumin products. As the global serum albumin market is an approximately 5.7 billion dollar market growing at over 6% a year due to the increased use across a multitude of markets in human and animal health. In the pharmaceutical segment, serum albumin is not only being developed as a potential treatment for disease, but it is currently being used in the product development of vaccines as a carrier protein for therapeutics and as a common reagent in R&D. There are many different grades and price points for serum albumin across these and other markets, and DADEC has the potential to produce animal-free recombinant serum albumin at competitive pricing due to our highly productive C1 and DAPA-BIS microbial platforms using low-cost media. We now have the initial analytics demonstrating our recombinant albumin is comparable to commercialized reference samples on the market today, which improves our ability to commercialize a research-grade product in the coming years. It also provides potential opportunities for larger sub-exit options, such as joint ventures or spin-offs, as products like Recombinant Albumen have been the foundation for companies such as Albumetics, which was purchased in 2022 for over 400 million British pounds. Another example of a near-term opportunity has been born out of our fully-funded co-development and co-marketing agreement signed earlier this year with Firmbox. This has utilized our database platform for the development of a cellulosic enzyme for use in biofuels and other segments. Dyadic will have the potential to license this enzyme as part of our portfolio of offerings to potential clients in the bioindustrial market in the coming year. Hopefully what we share today instills the same enthusiasm and confidence that the Dyadic leadership team has in the company's future growth potential. Advancements to both our C1 and DAPBIS platforms further enhance the speed, quality, and productivity of these cell lines for targeted product opportunities, such as increasing our infectious disease antigen library to include seasonal and pandemic influenza, new COVID variants, rabies, as well as other antigens and antibodies as potential product opportunities for the C1 platforms. To adapt to this platform, we will continue to evaluate new technologies to increase stability and productivity to further reduce the cost of manufacturing common enzymes and proteins for margin-sensitive markets. While the future is bright, we still have work ahead to maximize and monetize the various opportunities that lay before us. And Mark and I have revised and begun execution of our strategic plan to ensure we have the right infrastructure and resources to adequately address key business opportunities and accelerate near-term revenue across our core verticals. I'll now turn the call back to Mark for some final comments on the third quarter. Mark?
Mark Emelfarb
Thank you, Joe. We will continue to leverage our decades of commercial-scale industrial manufacturing knowledge and experience to accelerate near-term product development opportunities across our core verticals. In parallel, we remain fiscally responsible with our research and development spending and being strategically focused with our partnerships and collaborations to help fund advancements of our science in critical areas. We continue to believe that our C1 platform is well-positioned to be an alternative platform in developing and manufacturing next-generation vaccines, antibodies, and other therapeutic proteins for public health, and future pandemics, we're happy to see C1 is gaining more recognition globally within academia, government, and industry. We've refined our strategic plan and begun execution in core areas where our technologies, such as our database platform, can have the greatest impact, and we're evaluating new opportunities aligned with our verticals and targeted markets of high potential return that are in need of cost-effective solutions, such as alternative proteins. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to our CFO, Ping Rosin, to run through our financials.
Peng Roshan
Thank you, Mark. Thank you, everyone, for joining our call today. I will now go over our key financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2023. You can find additional information in our earnings press release and Form 10-Q, which we filed earlier today. Research and development revenue and the license revenue for the third quarter of 2023 decreased to approximately $397,000 compared to $880,000 for the same period a year ago. Cost of research and development revenue for the quarter decreased to approximately $106,000 compared to $603,000 for the same period a year ago. The decrease in revenue and cost of revenue for the quarter was due to several research projects winding down or on hold as a result of a lab relocation at one of our major contract research organizations. Research and development revenue and the license revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, slightly increased to approximately $2,212,000 compared to $2,187,000 for the same period a year ago. Cost of research and development revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, increased to approximately $1,626,000 compared to $1,419,000 for the same period a year ago. In the third quarter of 2023, we have signed several new research collaborations as we announced. We expect our research revenue will pick up in the fourth quarter, and our total revenue for 2023 will be in line with 2022. Research and development expenses for the quarter decreased to approximately $716,000 compared to $744,000 for the same period a year ago. Research and development expenses for the nine months year today decreased to approximately $2,444,000 compared to $3,917,000 for the same period a year ago. The decrease primarily reflected the winding down activity related to the company's Phase 1 clinical trial of the BIA-100 COVID-19 vaccine candidate as patient dosing was completed in February 2023. G&A expenses for the quarter decreased by 7.3% to approximately $1,282,000 compared to $1,383,000 for the same period a year ago. G&A expenses for the nine months decreased by 12.4% to approximately $4,165,000 compared to $4,753,000 for the same period a year ago. The decrease principally reflected decreases in business development and investor relations expenses, accrued expenses related to management incentives, and insurance expenses, as well as legal expenses. Net loss for the quarter was approximately $1,614,000, or 6 cents per share, compared to $1,000,000. $809,000 or 6% per share for the same period a year ago. Net loss for the nine months was approximately $4,724,000 or 16 cents per share compared to $7,589,000 or 27 cents per share for the same period a year ago. As of September 30, 2023, Cash equivalents and the carrying value of investment-grade securities, including accrued interest, were approximately $8.2 million, compared to $12.7 million as of December 31, 2022. In October, we received an upfront payment of $0.6 million for product development and licensing of our database platform for animal-free diary enzyme products. Our projection for our annual cash burn of 2023 will be less than $6 million. We expect that our existing cash balance will be sufficient to fund our operations into late 2024. With that, I will now ask the operator to begin our Q&A session. Joe will join Mark and I to answer your questions. Each caller will be allowed one question and one follow-up question to allow all callers an opportunity to participate. If time permits, the operator will allow additional questions from those who have already spoken. Operator?
Operator
Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, please press star then 1 at this time. If you would like to remove yourself from queue, please press star then two. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, that's star then one if you have a question. And today's first question comes from John Van Demmiston with Zax. Please go ahead.
John Van Demmiston
Thank you and good afternoon, everyone. I was reading through the, you know, the firm box details and I wanted to see if you could give me a better understanding of what the cellulosic enzymes for renewable biofuels is. Is that something like, you know, autofuel or something like that? I just wanted to get a sense of that opportunity and what it might represent.
Mark Emelfarb
Yeah, so I'll let Joe speak to some of that, but it's basically similar to what we did before with Evangoa and DuPont and with Codexas and Shell. You know, our non-compete ended a couple years ago with DuPont, And the market for cellulosic sugars seems to be coming back as the cost of oil is going higher and there's a growing demand for enzymes to reduce the cost of digesting the biomass to make fermentable sugars to make renewable fuel. So that's one of the opportunities. One of the other things that we're working on is an enzyme for pulp and paper with a customer that has a market for that that's looking for a new supplier.
John Van Demmiston
Okay. And is it auto-related, that fuel, or is it for some other type of?
Mark Emelfarb
Yes. Well, of course, it's partly auto-related, of course, renewable fuel for cars, like ethanol, for example, but cellulosic ethanol, not for corn. But it's also just cellulosic sugars, which we use for fuels and chemicals and for other, obviously, fuels as well. Okay.
John Van Demmiston
Okay. Very good. And then, you know, as you look at the latest three programs that you added, the BioRNA enzymes and the DOD program, how would you rank those in terms of contribution to your efforts?
Mark Emelfarb
Well, again, I think I just want to remind people, we get gene sequences from customers, put them in the cells, make proteins, give them back to samples, and the customers move those forward. Of course, then some of these new products we're working on on our own as well. But basically, I would say that recombinant healing albumin is one of our major focuses. But we picked up new programs in the last quarter for an enzyme for use for biosimilars, which we talked about earlier in the conference call. We picked up three antibodies to be going potentially into the clinic. So we're just doing the preliminary work of taking their genes, creating cell lines, producing proteins, and providing them back, providing the right quality, the yields, that potentially can go into a preclinical and then clinical trials. And the beautiful thing, to be honest, all those free proteins are very targeted proteins on BARDA's hit list. And so if they go into clinical trials, not only would our customers benefit, but we'll benefit through the exposure that they get from the U.S. government to BARDA and also all over the world. for some really horrible infectious disease that they're looking for new products for. I don't know if I've answered all your questions, but I didn't. John, maybe you can ask me which one I missed.
John Van Demmiston
No, I mean, I just was trying to get a sense, so I think you did, Mark. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, our next question today comes from Paul Rosenbaum with SWR. Please go ahead.
Paul Rosenbaum
Hey, thanks, Mark, and the whole team. You've done a wonderful job. I'm very excited about the potential. But as a major shareholder, what I'm concerned about, and I'm sure a lot of other people are, is you've got existing cash that lasts until late 2024. That's technically less than a year. And Do you have any capital plan that you can share with the shareholders? Or are you saying to us that you really don't need to raise any more cash over the next year?
Mark Emelfarb
I think what we're saying is being stated earlier, we expect that our existing cash balance will be sufficient to fund operation into late 2024. And that's without getting any other cash in. Whether it be highlighted in our actively pursuing near-term product and license opportunities, to generate some of that cash. We also believe we will generate revenue in the coming year to not only product and license opportunities, but potential spinoffs of some of the technologies as we advance these products further down the line towards commercialization. And this is in line with our new business strategy, which switches from platform licensing solely to product development to both internal and third-party business partners. And as a management team, we're focused on execution of our strategic plan to ensure we have the right infrastructure and resources to adequately address key business opportunities and to accelerate those in near-term revenue across our curve verticals in the coming year.
Paul Rosenbaum
So just so I understand this, between your existing cash flow and what you expect to bring in in revenue next year, that you feel that you can go on without raising any additional funds?
Mark Emelfarb
Well, what we said is we have $8.2 million in September 30th. We've got another $600,000 that came in. We're burning, estimated this year, $606 million. So that would have, from 9-30 forward, put us in the $8.8 million in cash. And we're looking at all alternatives as to how to bring in cash from either products, licensing, and other methods, which potentially could even be somewhere down the road of financing.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question today comes from Skip Gazzo with Connie Road Rental. Please go ahead.
Skip Gazzo
Hey, Mark. Hi, team. I think my question just got answered because I see that you're burning about $500,000 a month negative cash flow. And that was my exact question. You know, you got 16 months and you're out of money if you didn't bring in any revenue. So, but I think you just kind of answered that unless you want to go into it a little bit more.
Mark Emelfarb
No, I think that we just answered it. But thanks for your question and your support.
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes our question and answer session. I'd like to turn the conference back over to Dyadic's CEO, Mr. Emelfarb, for closing comments.
Mark Emelfarb
In 2023, we are seeing the impact of our Phase I human safety trial further validate the C1 platform for pharmaceutical use in human and animal health. We're also beginning to realize the investment in the depth of this platform in alternative proteins has already led to a revenue event. We remain focused on improving the value of dyadic for the life science industry, which will in turn improve value for shareholders and improve access to affordable vaccines and therapeutics globally. We've refined our focus and revised our business strategies to exploit existing and new commercialization opportunities in the near term, while enabling us to fulfill our mission as a global biotechnology company to improve the way we feed, fuel, and heal the world. I want to thank you for joining us in today's 3Q 2023 conference call, and we look forward to keeping you updated as we advance our commercial and scientific initiatives on the next call. Please keep an eye out for our other periodic updates.
Operator
Thank you. The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect your lines at this time and have a wonderful evening.
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