Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Basis of Presentation The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. The consolidated financial statements are unaudited but include all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) that the Company considers necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, operating results, comprehensive loss, changes in stockholders’ deficit, and cash flows for the periods presented. Although the Company believes that the disclosures in these unaudited consolidated financial statements are adequate to make the information presented not misleading, certain information and footnote information normally included in consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted as permitted under the rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Novavax, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The aggregate foreign currency transaction gains and losses resulting from the conversion of the transaction currency to functional currency were a $5.1 million loss and a $16.3 million gain for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, which are reflected in Other income (expense). The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. Results for this or any interim period are not necessarily indicative of results for any future interim period or for the entire year. The Company operates in one business segment. Liquidity and Going Concern The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the financial statements are issued and contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the ordinary course of business. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might result from the outcome of the uncertainty described below. Management’s plans discussed below, including specifically the execution of the collaboration and license agreement (the “Collaboration and License Agreement”) and securities subscription agreement (the “Subscription Agreement”) effective May 10, 2024, with Sanofi Pasteur Inc. (“Sanofi”) which will result in cash proceeds to the Company of $568.8 million during the second quarter of 2024, has alleviated the substantial doubt outlined below regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for the one year period from the date that these financial statements were issued. As of March 31, 2024, the Company had $480.6 million in cash and cash equivalents and had a working capital deficiency. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company incurred a net loss of $147.6 million and had net cash flows used in operating activities of $83.6 million. In accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 205-40, Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern, the Company evaluated whether there are conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that these consolidated financial statements are issued. While the Company’s current cash flow forecast for the one-year going concern look forward period estimates that there will be sufficient capital available to fund operations, this forecast is subject to significant uncertainty, including as it relates to revenue for the next 12 months and the Company’s ability to execute on certain cost-reduction initiatives. The Company’s revenue projections depend on its ability to successfully develop, manufacture, distribute, and market its updated vaccine for the 2024-2025 vaccination season, which is inherently uncertain and subject to a number of risks, including the Company’s ability to obtain regulatory authorizations, introduce a single-dose vial or pre-filled syringe product presentation for the U.S. commercial and certain other markets, the incidence of COVID-19 during the 2024-2025 vaccination season, and the Company’s ability to timely deliver doses and achieve commercial adoption and market acceptance of its updated vaccine. Further, the Company’s revenue projections also depend on its ability to achieve expected product sales and related cash flows under its advance purchase agreements (“APAs”), including APAs in Australia and Canada, which are subject to regulatory uncertainties as described in Note 3. Failure to meet regulatory milestones or achieve product volume or delivery timing obligations under the Company’s APAs may require the Company to refund portions of upfront and other payments or result in reduced future payments, which would adversely affect the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management believes that, given the history of recurring losses, negative working capital, and accumulated deficit, conditions or events exist that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern through one year from the date that these financial statements are issued. Management’s plans to potentially alleviate such conditions or events include the execution effective May 10, 2024, of the Collaboration and License Agreement with Sanofi that grants a co-exclusive license to Sanofi of the Company’s current COVID-19 and related vaccine products, which will provide the Company with an initial $500 million nonrefundable upfront payment, as well as the execution effective May 10, 2024, of the Subscription Agreement with Sanofi, which will provide the Company with a $68.8 million equity investment, both of which are expected to be received in the second quarter of 2024 and are described further below. Management’s plans also include execution of its commercial plans and its ongoing restructuring and cost reduction measures. On May 10, 2024, the Company entered into the Collaboration and License Agreement with Sanofi pursuant to which Sanofi received: i) A co-exclusive license to commercialize with the Company all of the Company’s current stand-alone COVID-19 vaccine products, including the Company’s Nuvaxovid™ prototype COVID-19 vaccine and Nuvaxovid™ updated COVID-19 vaccine, and updated versions that address seasonal variants throughout the world (“COVID Mono Products”), ii) A sole license to develop and commercialize combination products containing a potential combination of the Company’s COVID-19 vaccine and Sanofi’s seasonal influenza vaccine (“COVID and influenza Combination Products” or “CIC Products”), iii) A non-exclusive license to develop and commercialize combination products containing both the Company’s COVID-19 vaccine and one or more non-influenza vaccines (“Other Combination Products” and together with the COVID Mono Products, CIC Products, and Other Combination Products (“Licensed COVID-19 Products” )), and iv) A non-exclusive license to develop and commercialize other vaccine products selected by Sanofi that include the Company’s Matrix-M™ adjuvant (as described below, the “Adjuvant Products”). Under the Collaboration and License Agreement, the Company will receive a non-refundable upfront payment of $500 million. In addition, the Company will also be eligible to receive development, technology transfer, launch, and sales milestone payments totaling up to $700 million in the aggregate with respect to the Licensed COVID-19 Products and royalty payments on Sanofi’s sales of such licensed products. In addition, the Company is eligible to receive development, launch, and sales milestone payments of up to $200 million for each of the first four Adjuvant Products and $210 million for each Adjuvant Product thereafter, and royalty payments on Sanofi’s sales of all such licensed products. Commencing shortly after the Effective Date of the Collaboration and License Agreement, the Company will perform a technology transfer of its manufacturing process for the COVID Mono Products and Matrix-M™ components to Sanofi. Until the successful completion of such transfer, the Company will supply Sanofi with both COVID Mono Products and Matrix-M™ intermediary components for Sanofi’s use and is eligible for reimbursement of such costs from Sanofi. Additionally, Sanofi will reimburse the Company for its research and development and medical affairs costs related to the COVID Mono Products in accordance with agreed upon plans and budgets. Under the Collaboration and License Agreement, the Company will continue to commercialize the COVID Mono Products in 2024. Beginning in 2025 and continuing during the term of the Collaboration and License Agreement, Sanofi and the Company will commercialize the COVID Mono Products worldwide in accordance with a commercialization plan agreed by the Company and Sanofi, under which the Company will continue to supply its existing APA customers and strategic partners, including Takeda, SK Biosciences, and the Serum Institute of India. Upon completion of the existing advance purchase agreements, Novavax and Sanofi will jointly agree on commercialization activities of each party in each jurisdiction. Effective May 10, 2024, the Company also entered into the Subscription Agreement with Sanofi, pursuant to which the Company sold and issued to Sanofi, in a private placement, 6,880,481 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share at a price of $10.00 per share for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $68.8 million. In May 2023, the Company announced a global restructuring and cost reduction plan (the “2023 Restructuring Plan”), which includes a more focused investment in its COVID-19 Vaccine, reduction to its pipeline spending, the continued rationalization of its manufacturing network, a reduction to the Company’s global workforce, as well as the consolidation of facilities, and infrastructure. In January 2024, as part of reducing combined research and development and selling, general and administrative expenses, the Company announced further reductions in its global workforce (the “2024 Cost Reduction Plan”). The Company intends to prioritize improvements to its long-term supply chain efficiency. The Company expects the full annual impact of the 2023 Restructuring Plan to be realized in 2024, the full annual impact of the 2024 Cost Reduction Plan to be realized in 2025, and approximately 85% of the annual impact of the 2024 Cost Reduction Plan, excluding one-time charges, to be realized in 2024. The 2024 Cost Reduction Plan supplemented the 2023 Restructuring Plan and hereafter both are jointly referred to as the “Restructuring Plan.” During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company recorded a charge of $4.4 million related to one-time employee severance and benefit costs and recorded an impairment charge of $1.7 million related to the impairment of capitalized internal-use software (see Note 14). Management’s plans may also include raising additional capital through a combination of additional equity and debt financing, additional collaborations, strategic alliances, asset sales, and marketing, distribution, or licensing arrangements. New financings may not be available to the Company on commercially acceptable terms, or at all. Also, any additional collaborations, strategic alliances, asset sales and marketing, distribution, or licensing arrangements may require the Company to give up some or all of its rights to a product or technology, which in some cases may be at less than the full potential value of such rights. If the Company is unable to obtain additional capital, the Company will assess its capital resources and may be required to delay, reduce the scope of, or eliminate some or all of its operations, or further downsize its organization, any of which may have a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition, results of operations, and ability to operate as a going concern. Management’s plans discussed above, including specifically the execution of the Collaboration and License Agreement and the Subscription Agreement effective May 10, 2024, with Sanofi which will result in cash proceeds to the Company of $568.8 million during the second quarter of 2024, has alleviated the substantial doubt outlined below regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for the one year period from the date that these financial statements were issued. Use of Estimates The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates. Restructuring The Company recognizes restructuring charges when such costs are incurred. The Company’s restructuring charges consist of employee severance and other termination benefits related to the reduction of its workforce, the consolidation of facilities, and infrastructure and other costs. Termination benefits are expensed on the date the Company notifies the employee, unless the employee must provide future service, in which case the benefits are expensed ratably over the future service period. Ongoing benefits are expensed when restructuring activities are probable and the benefit estimable. See Note 14 for additional information on the severance and employee benefit costs for terminated employees and impairment of assets in connection with the Company’s Restructuring Plan. Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted In October 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-06, Disclosure Improvements (“ASU 2023-06”), to clarify or improve disclosure and presentation requirements of a variety of topics and align the requirements in the FASB ASC with the SEC's regulations. The Company is currently evaluating ASU 2023-06 to determine its impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements and disclosures. In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (“ASU 2023-09”). The standard enhances transparency in income tax disclosures by requiring, on an annual basis, certain disaggregated information about a reporting entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. The ASU also requires disaggregated disclosure related to pre-tax income (or loss) and income tax expense (or benefit) and eliminates certain disclosures related to the balance of an entity’s unrecognized tax benefit and the cumulative amount of certain temporary differences. The ASU is effective for the Company beginning on January 1, 2025. The Company is currently evaluating ASU 2023-09 to determine its impact on the Company's disclosures.

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. The consolidated financial statements are unaudited but include all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) that the Company considers necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, operating results, comprehensive loss, changes in stockholders’ deficit, and cash flows for the periods presented. Although the Company believes that the disclosures in these unaudited consolidated financial statements are adequate to make the information presented not misleading, certain information and footnote information normally included in consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted as permitted under the rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

The unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Novavax, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The aggregate foreign currency transaction gains and losses resulting from the conversion of the transaction currency to functional currency were a $5.1 million loss and a $16.3 million gain for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, which are reflected in Other income (expense).

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. Results for this or any interim period are not necessarily indicative of results for any future interim period or for the entire year. The Company operates in one business segment.

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the financial statements are issued and contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the ordinary course of business. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might result from the outcome of the uncertainty described below.

Management’s plans discussed below, including specifically the execution of the collaboration and license agreement (the “Collaboration and License Agreement”) and securities subscription agreement (the “Subscription Agreement”) effective May 10, 2024, with Sanofi Pasteur Inc. (“Sanofi”) which will result in cash proceeds to the Company of $568.8 million during the second quarter of 2024, has alleviated the substantial doubt outlined below regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for the one year period from the date that these financial statements were issued.

In accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 205-40, Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern, the Company evaluated whether there are conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that these consolidated financial statements are issued. While the Company’s current cash flow forecast for the one-year going concern look forward period estimates that there will be sufficient capital available to fund operations, this forecast is subject to significant uncertainty, including as it relates to revenue for the next 12 months and the Company’s ability to execute on certain cost-reduction initiatives. The Company’s revenue projections depend on its ability to successfully develop, manufacture, distribute, and market its updated vaccine for the 2024-2025 vaccination season, which is inherently uncertain and subject to a number of risks, including the Company’s ability to obtain regulatory authorizations, introduce a single-dose vial or pre-filled syringe product presentation for the U.S. commercial and certain other markets, the incidence of COVID-19 during the 2024-2025 vaccination season, and the Company’s ability to timely deliver doses and achieve commercial adoption and market acceptance of its updated vaccine. Further, the Company’s revenue projections also depend on its ability to achieve expected product sales and related cash flows under its advance purchase agreements (“APAs”), including APAs in Australia and Canada, which are subject to regulatory uncertainties as described in Note 3.

Management believes that, given the history of recurring losses, negative working capital, and accumulated deficit, conditions or events exist that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern through one year from the date that these financial statements are issued. Management’s plans to potentially alleviate such conditions or events include the execution effective May 10, 2024, of the Collaboration and License Agreement with Sanofi that grants a co-exclusive license to Sanofi of the Company’s current COVID-19 and related vaccine products, which will provide the Company with an initial $500 million nonrefundable upfront payment, as well as the execution effective May 10, 2024, of the Subscription Agreement with Sanofi, which will provide the Company with a $68.8 million equity investment, both of which are expected to be received in the second quarter of 2024 and are described further below. Management’s plans also include execution of its commercial plans and its ongoing restructuring and cost reduction measures.

i) A co-exclusive license to commercialize with the Company all of the Company’s current stand-alone COVID-19 vaccine products, including the Company’s Nuvaxovid™ prototype COVID-19 vaccine and Nuvaxovid™ updated COVID-19 vaccine, and updated versions that address seasonal variants throughout the world (“COVID Mono Products”),

Under the Collaboration and License Agreement, the Company will receive a non-refundable upfront payment of $500 million. In addition, the Company will also be eligible to receive development, technology transfer, launch, and sales milestone payments totaling up to $700 million in the aggregate with respect to the Licensed COVID-19 Products and royalty payments on Sanofi’s sales of such licensed products. In addition, the Company is eligible to receive development, launch, and sales milestone payments of up to $200 million for each of the first four Adjuvant Products and $210 million for each Adjuvant Product thereafter, and royalty payments on Sanofi’s sales of all such licensed products.

Commencing shortly after the Effective Date of the Collaboration and License Agreement, the Company will perform a technology transfer of its manufacturing process for the COVID Mono Products and Matrix-M™ components to Sanofi. Until the successful completion of such transfer, the Company will supply Sanofi with both COVID Mono Products and Matrix-M™ intermediary components for Sanofi’s use and is eligible for reimbursement of such costs from Sanofi. Additionally, Sanofi will reimburse the Company for its research and development and medical affairs costs related to the COVID Mono Products in accordance with agreed upon plans and budgets.

Under the Collaboration and License Agreement, the Company will continue to commercialize the COVID Mono Products in 2024. Beginning in 2025 and continuing during the term of the Collaboration and License Agreement, Sanofi and the Company will commercialize the COVID Mono Products worldwide in accordance with a commercialization plan agreed by the Company and Sanofi, under which the Company will continue to supply its existing APA customers and strategic partners, including Takeda, SK Biosciences, and the Serum Institute of India. Upon completion of the existing advance purchase agreements, Novavax and Sanofi will jointly agree on commercialization activities of each party in each jurisdiction.

Effective May 10, 2024, the Company also entered into the Subscription Agreement with Sanofi, pursuant to which the Company sold and issued to Sanofi, in a private placement, 6,880,481 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share at a price of $10.00 per share for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $68.8 million.

In May 2023, the Company announced a global restructuring and cost reduction plan (the “2023 Restructuring Plan”), which includes a more focused investment in its COVID-19 Vaccine, reduction to its pipeline spending, the continued rationalization of its manufacturing network, a reduction to the Company’s global workforce, as well as the consolidation of facilities, and infrastructure. In January 2024, as part of reducing combined research and development and selling, general and administrative expenses, the Company announced further reductions in its global workforce (the “2024 Cost Reduction Plan”). The Company intends to prioritize improvements to its long-term supply chain efficiency. The Company expects the full annual impact of the 2023 Restructuring Plan to be realized in 2024, the full annual impact of the 2024 Cost Reduction Plan to be realized in 2025, and approximately 85% of the annual impact of the 2024 Cost Reduction Plan, excluding one-time charges, to be realized in 2024. The 2024 Cost Reduction Plan supplemented the 2023 Restructuring Plan and hereafter both are jointly referred to as the “Restructuring Plan.” During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company recorded a charge of $4.4 million related to one-time employee severance and benefit costs and recorded an impairment charge of $1.7 million related to the impairment of capitalized internal-use software (see Note 14).

Management’s plans may also include raising additional capital through a combination of additional equity and debt financing, additional collaborations, strategic alliances, asset sales, and marketing, distribution, or licensing arrangements. New financings may not be available to the Company on commercially acceptable terms, or at all. Also, any additional collaborations, strategic alliances, asset sales and marketing, distribution, or licensing arrangements may require the Company to give up some or all of its rights to a product or technology, which in some cases may be at less than the full potential value of such rights. If the Company is unable to obtain additional capital, the Company will assess its capital resources and may be required to delay, reduce the scope of, or eliminate some or all of its operations, or further downsize its organization, any of which may have a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition, results of operations, and ability to operate as a going concern.

Management’s plans discussed above, including specifically the execution of the Collaboration and License Agreement and the Subscription Agreement effective May 10, 2024, with Sanofi which will result in cash proceeds to the Company of $568.8 million during the second quarter of 2024, has alleviated the substantial doubt outlined below regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for the one year period from the date that these financial statements were

The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates.

The Company recognizes restructuring charges when such costs are incurred. The Company’s restructuring charges consist of employee severance and other termination benefits related to the reduction of its workforce, the consolidation of facilities, and infrastructure and other costs. Termination benefits are expensed on the date the Company notifies the employee, unless the employee must provide future service, in which case the benefits are expensed ratably over the future service period. Ongoing benefits are expensed when restructuring activities are probable and the benefit estimable.

In October 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-06, Disclosure Improvements (“ASU 2023-06”), to clarify or improve disclosure and presentation requirements of a variety of topics and align the requirements in the FASB ASC with the SEC's regulations. The Company is currently evaluating ASU 2023-06 to determine its impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements and disclosures.

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (“ASU 2023-09”). The standard enhances transparency in income tax disclosures by requiring, on an annual basis, certain disaggregated information about a reporting entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. The ASU also requires disaggregated disclosure related to pre-tax income (or loss) and income tax expense (or benefit) and eliminates certain disclosures related to the balance of an entity’s unrecognized tax benefit and the cumulative amount of certain temporary differences. The ASU is effective for the Company beginning on January 1, 2025. The Company is currently evaluating ASU 2023-09 to determine its impact on the Company's disclosures.