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Stockholders’ Equity
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Equity [Abstract]  
Stockholders’ Equity Stockholders’ Equity
On May 17, 2023, the Company effected a 7.1-for-1 Forward Stock Split of its issued and outstanding shares of common stock and a proportional adjustment to the existing conversion ratios for each series of the Company’s preferred stock. The par value of the common stock was adjusted as a result of the Forward Stock Split from $0.01 to $0.0001 and the authorized shares were increased to 100,000,000 shares of common stock in connection with the Forward Stock Split. In lieu of any fractional shares issued as a result of the split the Company paid a cash amount to the holder of such fractional share. The accompanying financial statements and notes to the financial statements give retroactive effect to the Forward Stock Split for all periods presented. Shares of common stock underlying outstanding stock-based awards and other equity instruments were proportionately increased and the respective per share value and exercise prices, if applicable, were proportionately decreased in accordance with the terms of the agreements governing such securities.
On February 16, 2024, the Company completed the February 2024 Offering, consisting of an aggregate of 83,404 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $59.94 per share. The gross proceeds from the February 2024 Offering, before deducting the placement agent's fees and other offering expenses, were approximately $5 million.
As consideration for ThinkEquity LLC serving as the Placement Agent for the February 2024 Offering (the "February 2024 Placement Agent"), the Company paid the February 2024 Placement Agent a cash fee of 7.5% of the aggregate gross proceeds of the February 2024 Offering and reimbursed the February 2024 Placement Agent for certain expenses, legal fees for a total of $537,559, and issued February 2024 Placement Agent Warrants to designees to the February 2024 Placement Agent.
On July 1, 2024, the Company effected a 30-for-1 Reverse Stock Split of its issued and outstanding shares of common stock and began trading on a split-adjusted basis the same day. There was no change to the par value of the common stock. In lieu of any fractional shares issued as a result of the split the Company paid a cash amount to the holder of such fractional share. The accompanying financial statements and notes to the financial statements give retroactive effect to the Reverse Stock Split for all periods presented unless otherwise noted. Shares of common stock underlying outstanding stock-based awards and other equity instruments were proportionately decreased and the respective per share value and exercise prices, if applicable, were proportionately increased in accordance with the terms of the agreements governing such securities.
On July 25, 2024, the Company completed the July 2024 Offering, consisting of an aggregate of 1,000,750 shares of its common stock and Class A warrants to purchase 2,001,502 shares of common stock, at a combined public offering price of $9.99. The Class A warrant had an initial exercise price of $9.99 per share, was exercisable immediately upon issuance, and will expire on the fifth anniversary of the original issuance date. However, if on the date that was 30 calendar days immediately following the date of issuance of the Class A Warrants, or August 24, 2024 (the “Reset Date”), the Reset Price, as defined below, was less than the exercise price at such time, the exercise price would be decreased to the Reset Price. “Reset Price” is defined as 100% of the trailing five-day VWAP immediately preceding the Reset Date, provided, that in no event would the Reset Price be less than $2.13 (subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, recapitalizations and similar transactions), which represented 20% of the most recent closing price for the Common Stock at the time of execution of the placement agent agreement with respect to the offering. The Reset Price of the Class A Warrants as calculated on the Reset Date was $4.69. The number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Class A Warrants has not been proportionately adjusted due to the reset of the exercise price.
In consideration for Maxim Group LLC serving as the placement agent of the July 2024 Offering (the “July 2024 Placement Agent”), the Company paid the July 2024 Placement Agent a cash fee equal to 7.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds of the July 2024 Offering,
reimbursed the July 2024 Placement Agent for certain expenses and legal fees for a total of $809,825, and issued Placement Agent Warrants.
The gross proceeds from the July 2024 Offering, before deducting the July 2024 Placement Agent’s fees and other offering expenses, were approximately $10.0 million.
On January 14, 2025, the Company completed the January 2025 Offering in which it issued and sold 729,381 shares of its common stock at a price of $2.00 per share. The net proceeds received by the Company from the January 2025 Offering were approximately $1.2 million, after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and other offering expenses. The shares were offered by the Company pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the SEC on July 1, 2024, and a final prospectus supplement dated January 15, 2025.
In consideration for Maxim Group LLC serving as the placement agent of the January 2025 Offering (the "January 2025 Placement Agent"), the Company paid the January 2025 Placement Agent a cash fee equal to 7.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised in the January 2025 Offering and the reimbursed the January 2025 Placement Agent for certain expenses and legal fees of $60,000. The Company also issued warrants to designees of the January 2025 Placement Agent (the "Placement Agent Warrants").
On February 5, 2025, the Company completed the February 2025 Offering in which it issued 374,696 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $1.85 per share and warrants to purchase up to 337,232 shares of common stock. The net proceeds received by the Company from the February 2025 Offering were $561,000 after deducting placement agent's fees and other offering expenses. The shares were offered by the Company pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the SEC on July 1, 2024, and a final prospectus supplement dated February 6, 2025.
In consideration for Maxim Group LLC serving as the placement agent of the February 2025 Offering (the "February 2025 Placement Agent"), the Company paid the February 2025 Placement Agent a cash fee equal to 4.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised in the February 2025 Offering, reimbursed the February 2025 Placement Agent for certain expenses and legal fees of $35,000, and issued Placement Agent Warrants.
On April 24, 2025, the Company entered into an ELOC, as amended, with Alumni Capital, whereby the Company has the right, but not the obligation, to sell to Alumni Capital, and Alumni Capital is obligated to purchase, up to an aggregate of $20 million of shares of the Company’s common stock in a series of purchases. The term of the ELOC is through December 31, 2026, or the date on which Alumni Capital shall have purchased the shares pursuant to the ELOC for an aggregate purchase price of $20 million. During the term, the Company may at its election cause Alumni Capital to make a series of purchases of shares, each up to $750,000, or up to $4 million dollars upon consent of Alumni Capital. The closing of each purchase pursuant to the ELOC will be no later than five business days after the Company provides a notice to Alumni Capital. The purchase price of the shares that the Company elects to sell to Alumni Capital pursuant to the ELOC will be equal to the lowest daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock during the period commencing on the date that the Company delivers a notice requiring the purchase of shares by Alumni Capital and ending on the earlier to occur of (i) five (5) business days immediately following such date and (ii) the date on which Alumni Capital notifies the Company that it is prepared to proceed with the relevant closing, multiplied by 90%.
On August 26, 2025, the Company entered into a Modification Agreement (the “Modification Agreement”) with Alumni Capital to amend certain terms of the Purchase Agreement, dated April 24, 2025, between the Company and Alumni Capital (the “Purchase Agreement”). Pursuant to the Modification Agreement, the Company may at its election, cause Alumni Capital to make a series of purchases of ELOC Shares either at (i) the lowest daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock during the period commencing on the date that the Company delivers written notice (the “Purchase Notice”) and ending on the earlier of (a) five (5) business days immediately following the date of a Purchase Notice, and (b) the date on which Alumni Capital notifies the Company that it is prepared to proceed with the closing of the purchase, multiplied by 90% (“Purchase Notice Option 1”) or (ii) the lowest traded price of Common Stock during the period commencing on the date the Company delivers a Purchase Notice and ending on the earlier of (x) the same business day a Purchase Notice is delivered, and (y) the date on which Alumni Capital notifies the Company that it is prepared to proceed with the closing of the purchase, multiplied by 97% (“Purchase Notice Option 2”). Each Purchase Notice delivered by the Company must specify whether Purchase Notice Option 1 or Purchase Notice Option 2 is selected and the number of ELOC Shares to be purchased. All other terms and conditions of the Purchase Agreement remain in full force and effect. Refer to Note 7 regarding the terms of the warrants issued in conjunction with the shares.
Through March 31, 2026 the Company has issued an aggregate 9,255,823 shares of common stock and issued an aggregate 925,579 warrants. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company issued 1,300,000 shares of common stock and 130,000
warrants under the ELOC resulting in net proceeds of approximately $215,000. As of the date of this filing, the aggregate gross proceeds received by the Company under the ELOC were approximately $6.2 million.
On November 24, 2025, the Company completed the PIPE Offering of 535,759 shares of common stock of the Company, Pre-Funded Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 4,151,741 shares of common at an exercise price of $0.0001 per Pre-Funded Warrant, and Common Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 4,687,500 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.32 per Common Warrant. The offering price was $0.32 per share of common stock or Pre-Funded Warrant and accompanying Common Warrant Price. The Pre-Funded Warrants are immediately exercisable and do not expire until exercised in full. The Common Warrants are exercisable upon shareholder approval and will expire on the five-year anniversary of shareholder approval.
For the three months ended March 31, 2026, all Pre-Funded Warrants have been exercised by Alumni Capital.
In consideration for Maxim Group LLC serving as the placement agent for the PIPE Offering (the "PIPE Placement Agent"), the Company paid a cash fee equal to 7.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised in the PIPE Offering, reimbursed the PIPE Placement Agent for certain expenses and legal fees of $50,000, and issued Placement Agent Warrants.
On March 20, 2026, the Company completed the Series A Offering, for the sale of a unit, each unit consisting of one Series A Preferred Share ("Series A PS"), which is convertible into 8,128.1 shares of common stock, one Series B Warrant ("B Warrant") exercisable for 8,128.1 shares of common stock and one Series C Warrant ("C Warrant") exercisable for 8,128.1 shares of common stock (the "B Warrant and C Warant" collectively the "Series A Preferred Warrants") and (the "Series A PS, B Warrant and C Warrant", collectively, the Series A Unit") The Series A Preferred warrants are exercisable at $0.123 per share of Common Stock under the Series A Preferred Warrants. The offering price was $1,000 per Unit and a total of 10,485 Units were sold in the Series A Offering resulting in net proceeds of approximately $10.4 million after deducting offering costs of approximately $101,000.

The Series A PS is convertible into 85,223,126 shares of common stock and each of the B Warrants and C Warrants are exercisable for 85,223,126 shares of Common Stock. The Series B Warrants will be exercisable following the receipt of the requisite stockholder approval and will terminate 18 months following such approval. The Series C Warrants will become exercisable upon the requisite shareholder approval and the certificate of amendment filing as defined in the Series A Purchase Agreement and will terminate 30 calendar days after the date the Company publicly announces data from its cosmetic filaggrin study in humans.
Common Stock
At March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, per the Company’s amended and restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Company was authorized to issue 200,000,000 shares of $0.0001 par value common stock.
Each share of common stock entitles the holder to one vote on all matters submitted to a vote of the Company’s stockholders.
Pending stockholder approval of the Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, increasing the authorized number of shares of common stock from 200,000,000 to 750,000,000 shares at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, the Company will reserve 264,019,900 shares of common stock reserved for future issuance for the potential conversion of the Company's Series A Preferred, and the potential exercise of stock options and warrants outstanding at March 31, 2026.
Except as otherwise indicated, all share and share price amounts in this report gives effect to a forward stock split effected on May 17, 2023 at a ratio of 7.1-for-1, a reverse stock split effected on July 1, 2024 at a ratio of 1-for-30, and a reverse stock split effected on August 21, 2025 at a ratio of 1-for-6.66.
Preferred Stock
At March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, per the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Company has authorized 10,000,000 shares of $0.0001 par value preferred stock.
Upon the close of the Company’s IPO in June 2023, all of the then outstanding preferred stock converted to common stock, resulting in the issuance of shares of common stock in exchange for outstanding Series A (7,298 shares), Series A-1 (14,839 shares), and Series B Preferred Stock (16,439 shares), respectively. There was no gain or loss upon conversion.
The Company currently has 10,485 shares of Series A Preferred stock outstanding that automatically convert to 85,223,126 shares of common stock upon the requisite shareholder approval and increase in authorized shares of common stock from 200,000,000 to 750,000,000 shares.
The holders of our Series A Preferred Stock have the following rights and privileges:
Redemption Rights
Non-redeemable at any time.
Rank
The Series A Preferred Stock shall rank (i) senior to any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms junior to any Series A Preferred Stock; (ii) on parity with the Common Stock and any other class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms on parity with the Series A Preferred Stock; and (iii) junior to any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms senior to any Series A Preferred Stock .
Dividend Rights
If the Board of Directors shall declare a dividend or other distribution payable upon the then outstanding shares of Common Stock, whether in cash, in kind or in other securities or property (other than dividends payable in shares of Common Stock), the holders of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred shall be entitled to the amount of dividends as would be payable in respect of the number of shares of Common Stock into which the shares of Series A Preferred held by each holder thereof could be converted, without regard to any restrictions on conversion (including the Beneficial Ownership Limitation).
Conversion Rights
The Series A Preferred are not convertible into common stock until the requisite shareholder approval at which time the Series A Preferred shall automatically convert into the Company's common stock subject to the holder's ownership limitations.

Voting Rights
Except as otherwise provided by the Delaware General Corporate Law ("DGCL"), other applicable law or as provided in this Certificate of Designations, the holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to vote (or render written consents) on any matter submitted for a vote of (or written consents in lieu of a vote as permitted by the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws) holders of Common Stock.
Liquidation Rights
The Series A Preferred shall rank (i) senior to any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms junior to any Series A Preferred (“Junior Securities”); (ii) on parity with the Common Stock and any other class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms on parity with the Series A Preferred (“Parity Securities”); and (iii) junior to any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms senior to any Series A Preferred (“Senior Securities”), in each case, as to distributions of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntarily or involuntarily (each, a “Dissolution”).
The Series A Preferred were evaluated pursuant to ASC 480 - Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity and determined to be equity instruments.