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Jan 12, 2026 8:40 AM

Dogwood Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Financing of up to $26.8 Million to Progress Halneuron® Through Phase 2b Development

Pricing of $12.5 Million Registered Direct Offering & Concurrent Private Placement

 

Offerings priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules

 

ALPHARETTA, Ga., Jan. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dogwood Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:DWTX) ("DWTX" or "Company"), a company that focuses on developing new non-opioid medicines to treat pain and neuropathy, today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with a single healthcare-focused institutional investor for up to approximately $12.5 million in gross proceeds through a registered direct offering (the "Registered Offering") and a concurrent private placement (the "Private Offering" and, together with the Registered Offering, the "Offerings") for the issuance of an aggregate of 4,386,037 shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in-lieu thereof), together with warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 4,386,037 shares of common stock, priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules. Each share of common stock (or pre-funded warrant in-lieu thereof) is being sold together with one warrant to purchase one share of common stock at a combined purchase price of $2.85 (or $2.8499 per pre-funded warrant and accompanying warrant). The warrants will have an exercise price of $3.28 per share. The warrants will be exercisable upon shareholder approval, and will expire five and one-half years from the effective date of shareholder approval. Upfront gross proceeds from the Offerings are expected to be $12.5 million, before deducting commissions and offering expenses, with the potential for an additional $14.4 million in gross proceeds upon the exercise of the warrants at the election of investors and subject to shareholder approval.

The Registered Offering consists of the issuance and sale of 2,338,948 shares of common stock, and the Private Offering consists of the issuance and sale of pre-funded warrants to purchase 2,047,089 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase up to 4,386,037 shares of common stock.

Greg Duncan, Chairman and CEO of DWTX, commented: "We plan to utilize the net proceeds from the Offering to advance development of Halneuron® through the ongoing Phase 2b final data readout, while also pursuing strategic opportunities to further strengthen the Company's research portfolio. We are executing with determination to advance the standard of care for patients suffering from chemotherapy ...