UNITED STATES
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 17, 2024
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Item 8.01 Other Events.
As previously disclosed, Instil Bio, Inc. (the “Company”) has entered into an agreement with a collaborator to conduct preclinical manufacturing feasibility studies in the ITIL-306 program with the aim of enrolling patients in investigator-initiated (IIT) clinical trials. At this time, the Company is providing no guidance with respect to the timing of any data readout with respect to its ITIL-306 program, including any IIT studies.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This Current Report contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the aims of the collaboration and the Company’s expectations related thereto, which are based on management’s current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including the Company’s ability to achieve the aims of the collaboration, including to successfully complete manufacturing feasibility studies and enroll patients into IIT clinical trials, and other risks and uncertainties affecting the Company and its ITIL-306 program, including those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2023 and in subsequent filings with the SEC. Forward-looking statements in this Current Report are made as of the date of this Current Report and the Company undertakes no duty to update any such statements unless required by law.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Instil Bio, Inc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dated: | January 18, 2024 | By: | /s/ Sandeep Laumas, M.D. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sandeep Laumas, M.D. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) | |||||||||||||||||||||||