LTRNLantern Pharma Inc.
Is Lantern Pharma struggling financially?
Yes, by its own account. Lantern Pharma told the SEC on 15 May 2026, in Form 10-Q, that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
Going concern disclosed May 2026
15/100
Critical
- Sector
- Biotech/Pharma
- Market cap
- $29.9M
- Source filing
- 10-Q 15 May 2026
- Balance sheet
- 30 Jun 2026
Cash runway
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4months
If the burn speeds up
Empty by Oct 2026
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6months
If it eases off
Empty by Dec 2026
Both rows are the same reported burn flexed 15% either way, and neither assumes the company raises a cent.
Out of cashTwo years or more
The runway math
Cash and short-term investments
$6.7M
÷
Cash burned over the last 12 months
$15.7M
What Lantern Pharma told the SEC
…uncertainties. The forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q include, among other things, statements relating to: the existence of substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern in the absence of obtaining substantial additional funding; our ability to secure sufficient funding and alternative sources of funding to support our existing and proposed…
Lantern Pharma Inc., Form 10-Q, filed 15 May 2026.
Read the filing on SEC.govWhat this means
- Not a bankruptcy filing, and not a prediction.
- It is the company’s own statement, agreed with its auditor, that the doubt is material enough to disclose.
- The runway is arithmetic on two reported numbers, not a forecast. Companies carry this language for years, raise money and keep going.
What else the numbers show
- Cash burn is narrowing It is spending 49% less cash per year than it was, so the runway above is lengthening rather than shortening.
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