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Xenetic Biosciences Inc

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What Do They Do?

Develops DNase-based therapies intended to support cancer treatments for patients with pancreatic and other solid tumors, and licenses drug-delivery technology to pharmaceutical and biotechnology partners.

How Do They Make Money?

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology partners pay for licenses through upfront fees and development or regulatory milestones; Xenetic can also receive royalties on partner product sales and reimbursement for research work. Royalties follow partner sales, while upfront and milestone payments tied to ongoing work are spread across the work period.

FY2025 revenue

Who Are Their Customers?

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies work with Xenetic through supply, license and collaboration arrangements; Serum Institute has an exclusive license to use PolyXen to develop a potential product.

Do Revenues Turn Into Profits?

No. It lost $2.7M in FY2025.

Operating income, FY2025
−95% of revenue
▼ −33% (Loss) vs FY2024 (−$4.2M, −168%)
Net income, FY2025
−90% of revenue
▼ −32% (Loss) vs FY2024 (−$4M, −158%)

How Are They Changing?

Since the FY2025 annual report
Latest quarter: Q2 FY2026, the three months to Jun 30, 2026
Revenue
▲ +12%
vs $589.9K in Q2 FY2025
Net income
▲ +35% (Loss)
vs −$688.7K in Q2 FY2025
  • Sep 14, 2026 Agreed to acquire Santersus in an all-stock share exchange The proposed acquisition would combine Xenetic with Santersus through newly issued Xenetic shares and requires stockholder approval.

Growing. Revenue grew 2.6x in 4 years, from $1.2M in FY2021 to $3M in FY2025, about 27% a year.

Narrower research focus The older report described internal development of both DNase and XCART, while the latest report identifies DNase as the focus of internal efforts; XCART development had been suspended as resources were prioritized for DNase.

Who Do They Compete With?

Competes with Merck

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