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MISSISSAUGA, ON, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Vasogen Inc. (NASDAQ: VSGN; TSX:VAS) today reported the results of operations for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2008. All dollar amounts referenced herein are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.
At November 30, 2008, our cash and cash equivalents totaled $8.6 million, compared with $23.5 million at November 30, 2007 and $9.8 million at August 31, 2008. As of January 31, 2009, our cash balance was $8.5 million.
The net loss for the fourth quarter of 2008 was $0.8 million, or $0.03 per common share. We incurred a net loss for the year ended November 30, 2008 of $16.1 million, or $0.72 per common share, compared with a net loss of $28.8 million, or $1.46 per common share for the same period in 2007. A key driver of this decrease was lower compensation costs, reduced stock compensation expense, lower infrastructure and other support costs driven by lower employee numbers in 2008, and a decrease in the foreign exchange loss that was incurred in the prior period. In addition, the decrease was impacted by a reduction in expenses resulting from the repayment of the senior convertible notes in April 2007.
Corporate Update
- During 2008, we implemented our restructuring plan to significantly
reduce the rate at which we use our cash and to focus our efforts on
opportunities that the Board and Management believe are most likely
to provide shareholder value. As a result, we discontinued
maintaining the necessary quality processes and personnel to support
European commercialization and any clinical development of our
Celacade technology, materially reduced expenses associated with the
VP series of drugs, and reduced the number of full-time employees
from 104 to six. We also retained JMP Securities
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