Biggest changeThe continuation, modification, or commencement of existing or new clinical trials could be substantially delayed or prevented by several factors, including: • further discussions with the FDA or other regulatory agencies regarding the scope or design of our clinical trials; • the limited number of, and competition for, suitable sites to conduct our clinical trials, many of which may already be engaged in other clinical trial programs, including some that may be for the same indication as our product candidates; • any delay or failure in patient recruitment or enrollment in our or our collaborators’ trials for any reason; • any delay or failure to obtain regulatory approval or agreement to commence a clinical trial in any of the countries where enrollment is planned; • inability to obtain sufficient funds required for a clinical trial; • clinical holds on, or other regulatory objections to, a new or ongoing clinical trial; • delay or failure to manufacture sufficient supplies of the product candidate for our clinical trials; • delay or failure to reach agreement on acceptable clinical trial terms or clinical trial protocols with prospective sites or CROs the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation and may vary significantly among different sites or CROs; • delay or failure to obtain IRB approval to conduct a clinical trial at a prospective site; • significant competition of product candidates that are expected to be more effective or have a more favorable safety profile; • approval of potential therapies by competitors; The progress or completion of our, or our collaborators', clinical trials have been and could also be substantially delayed or prevented by many factors, including: • unforeseen safety issues, including severe or unexpected drug-related adverse effects experienced by patients, including actual and possible deaths; • delays in expected site initiation, patient recruitment and enrollment, for any reason; • failure of patients to complete the clinical trial; • lack of efficacy during clinical trials; • termination of our clinical trials by one or more clinical trial sites; • inability or unwillingness of patients or clinical investigators to follow our clinical trial protocols; • economic and political instability in countries where our trial sites are located, including terrorist attacks, civil unrest and actual or threatened armed conflict; • inability to monitor patients adequately during or after treatment by us, our collaboration partners and/or our CROs; and • the need to repeat or terminate clinical trials as a result of inconclusive or negative results or unforeseen complications in testing.
Biggest changeThe continuation, modification, or commencement of existing or new clinical trials could be substantially delayed or prevented by several factors, including: • further discussions with the FDA or other regulatory agencies regarding the scope or design of our clinical trials; • the limited number of, and competition for, suitable sites to conduct our clinical trials, many of which may already be engaged in other clinical trial programs, including some that may be for the same indication as our product candidates; • any delay or failure in patient recruitment or enrollment in our or our collaborators’ trials for any reason; • any delay or failure to obtain regulatory approval or agreement to commence a clinical trial in any of the countries where enrollment is planned; • inability to obtain sufficient funds required for a clinical trial; • clinical holds on, or other regulatory objections to, a new or ongoing clinical trial; • delay or failure to manufacture sufficient supplies of the product candidate for our clinical trials; 25 • delay or failure to reach agreement on acceptable clinical trial terms or clinical trial protocols with prospective sites or CROs the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation and may vary significantly among different sites or CROs; • delay or failure to obtain IRB approval to conduct a clinical trial at a prospective site; • significant competition of product candidates that are expected to be more effective or have a more favorable safety profile; and • approval of potential therapies by competitors.
Any failure to follow cGMP or other regulatory requirements or delay, interruption or other issues that arise in the manufacture, fill-finish, packaging, or storage of our product or product candidates as a result of a failure of our facilities or the facilities or operations of third parties to comply with regulatory requirements or pass any regulatory authority inspection could significantly impair our ability to develop and commercialize our product or product candidates, including leading to significant delays in the availability of drug product for sale and our clinical trials or the termination or hold on a clinical trial, or the delay or prevention of a filing or approval of marketing applications for our product candidates.
Any failure to follow cGMP or other regulatory requirements or delay, interruption or other issues that arise in the manufacture, fill-finish, packaging, or storage of our product or product candidates as a result of a failure of our facilities or the facilities or operations of third parties to comply with regulatory requirements or pass any regulatory authority inspection could significantly impair our ability to develop and commercialize our product candidates, including leading to significant delays in the availability of drug product for sale and our clinical trials or the termination or hold on a clinical trial, or the delay or prevention of a filing or approval of marketing applications for our product candidates.
Further, we have limited experience in large-scale commercial manufacturing, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to effectively manufacture commercial quantities of our products or product candidates for ourselves or our collaborators, if and when approved.
Further, we have limited experience in large-scale commercial manufacturing, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to effectively manufacture commercial quantities of products or product candidates for ourselves or our collaborators, if and when approved.
If there is not sufficient reimbursement for our products, it is less likely that our products will be widely used. Market acceptance and sales of our products and product candidates, if approved for sale by the appropriate regulatory authorities, may depend on reimbursement policies and may be affected by future healthcare reform measures.
If there is not sufficient reimbursement for our products, it is less likely that our products will be widely used. Market acceptance and sales of our product candidates, if approved for sale by the appropriate regulatory authorities, may depend on reimbursement policies and may be affected by future healthcare reform measures.
In addition, failure to comply with FDA and non-U.S. regulatory requirements may, either before or after product approval, subject our company or our collaborators to administrative or judicially imposed sanctions, including: • restrictions on our ability to conduct clinical trials, including full or partial clinical holds on ongoing or planned trials; • restrictions on the products, manufacturers, manufacturing facilities or manufacturing process; • fines, warning letters or untitled letters; • civil and criminal penalties; • injunctions; • suspension or withdrawal of regulatory approvals; • product seizures, detentions or import bans; • voluntary or mandatory product recalls; • the issuance of safety alerts, Dear Healthcare Provider letters, press releases and other communications containing warnings or other safety information about the product; • total or partial suspension of production; • consent decrees, corporate integrity agreements, debarment or exclusion from federal healthcare programs; • imposition of restrictions on marketing or operations, including costly new manufacturing requirements; and • refusal to approve pending BLAs or supplements to approved BLAs or analogous marketing approvals outside the United States.
In addition, failure to comply with FDA and non-U.S. regulatory requirements may, either before or after product approval, subject our company or our collaborators to administrative or judicially imposed sanctions, including: • restrictions on our ability to conduct clinical trials, including full or partial clinical holds on ongoing or planned trials; • restrictions on the products, manufacturers, manufacturing facilities or manufacturing process; • fines, warning letters or untitled letters; • civil and criminal penalties; • injunctions; • suspension or withdrawal of regulatory approvals; • product seizures, detentions or import bans; • voluntary or mandatory product recalls; • the issuance of safety alerts, Dear Healthcare Provider letters, press releases and other communications containing warnings or other safety information about the product; • total or partial suspension of production; 24 • consent decrees, corporate integrity agreements, debarment or exclusion from federal healthcare programs; • imposition of restrictions on marketing or operations, including costly new manufacturing requirements; and • refusal to approve pending BLAs or supplements to approved BLAs or analogous marketing approvals outside the United States.
The following are examples of litigation and other adversarial proceedings or disputes that we could become a party to involving our patents or patents licensed to us: • we or our collaborators may initiate litigation or other proceedings against third parties to enforce our patent rights; • third parties may initiate litigation or other proceedings seeking to invalidate patents owned by or licensed to us or to obtain a declaratory judgment that their product or technology does not infringe our patents or patents licensed to us; • third parties may initiate opposition, reexamination or inter partes review proceedings challenging the validity or scope of our patent rights, requiring us or our collaborators and/or licensors to participate in such proceedings to defend the validity and scope of our patents; • there may be a challenge or dispute regarding inventorship or ownership of patents currently identified as being owned by or licensed to us; • the USPTO may initiate an interference between patents or patent applications owned by or licensed to us and those of our competitors, requiring us or our collaborators and/or licensors to participate in an interference proceeding to determine the priority of invention, which could jeopardize our patent rights; or • third parties may seek approval to market biosimilar versions of our future approved products prior to expiration of relevant patents owned by or licensed to us, requiring us to defend our patents, including by filing lawsuits alleging patent infringement.
The following are examples of litigation and other adversarial proceedings or disputes that we could become a party to involving our patents or patents licensed to us: 43 • we or our collaborators may initiate litigation or other proceedings against third parties to enforce our patent rights; • third parties may initiate litigation or other proceedings seeking to invalidate patents owned by or licensed to us or to obtain a declaratory judgment that their product or technology does not infringe our patents or patents licensed to us; • third parties may initiate opposition, reexamination or inter partes review proceedings challenging the validity or scope of our patent rights, requiring us or our collaborators and/or licensors to participate in such proceedings to defend the validity and scope of our patents; • there may be a challenge or dispute regarding inventorship or ownership of patents currently identified as being owned by or licensed to us; • the USPTO may initiate an interference between patents or patent applications owned by or licensed to us and those of our competitors, requiring us or our collaborators and/or licensors to participate in an interference proceeding to determine the priority of invention, which could jeopardize our patent rights; or • third parties may seek approval to market biosimilar versions of our future approved products prior to expiration of relevant patents owned by or licensed to us, requiring us to defend our patents, including by filing lawsuits alleging patent infringement.
Our existing therapeutic collaborations, and any future collaborations we enter into, may pose a number of risks, including the following: 37 • collaborators have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources that they will apply to these collaborations; • collaborators may not perform their obligations as expected; • collaborators may not pursue development and commercialization of any product candidates that achieve regulatory approval or may elect not to continue or renew development or commercialization programs based on clinical trial results, changes in the collaborators' strategic focus or available funding, or external factors, such as an acquisition, that divert resources or create competing priorities; • collaborators may delay clinical trials, provide insufficient funding for a clinical trial program, stop a clinical trial or abandon a product candidate, repeat or conduct new clinical trials or require a new formulation of a product candidate for clinical testing; • collaborators could independently develop, or develop with third parties, products that compete directly or indirectly with our products or product candidates if the collaborators believe that competitive products are more likely to be successfully developed or can be commercialized under terms that are more economically attractive than ours; • product candidates discovered in collaboration with us may be viewed by our collaborators as competitive with their own product candidates or products, which may cause collaborators to cease to devote resources to the commercialization of our product candidates; • a collaborator with marketing and distribution rights to one or more of our product candidates that achieve regulatory approval may not commit sufficient resources to the marketing and distribution of such product or products; • disagreements with collaborators, including disagreements over proprietary rights, contract interpretation or the preferred course of development, might cause delays in payment, or non-payment, of royalties, milestones or other monies owed, delays or termination of the research, development or commercialization of product candidates, might lead to additional responsibilities for us with respect to product candidates, or might result in litigation or arbitration, any of which would be time-consuming and expensive; • collaborators may not properly maintain or defend our intellectual property rights or may use our proprietary information in such a way as to invite litigation that could jeopardize or invalidate our intellectual property or proprietary information or expose us to potential litigation; • collaborators may infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties, which may expose us to litigation and potential liability; and • collaborations may be terminated for the convenience of the collaborator and, if terminated, we could be required to raise additional capital to pursue further development or commercialization of the applicable product candidates.
Our existing therapeutic collaborations, and any future collaborations we enter into, may pose a number of risks, including the following: • collaborators have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources that they will apply to these collaborations; • collaborators may not perform their obligations as expected; • collaborators may not pursue development and commercialization of any product candidates that achieve regulatory approval or may elect not to continue or renew development or commercialization programs based on clinical trial results, changes in the collaborators' strategic focus or available funding, or external factors, such as an acquisition, that divert resources or create competing priorities; • collaborators may delay clinical trials, provide insufficient funding for a clinical trial program, stop a clinical trial or abandon a product candidate, repeat or conduct new clinical trials or require a new formulation of a product candidate for clinical testing; • collaborators could independently develop, or develop with third parties, products that compete directly or indirectly with our products or product candidates if the collaborators believe that competitive products are more likely to be successfully developed or can be commercialized under terms that are more economically attractive than ours; • product candidates discovered in collaboration with us may be viewed by our collaborators as competitive with their own product candidates or products, which may cause collaborators to cease to devote resources to the commercialization of our product candidates; • a collaborator with marketing and distribution rights to one or more of our product candidates that achieve regulatory approval may not commit sufficient resources to the marketing and distribution of such product or products; • disagreements with collaborators, including disagreements over proprietary rights, contract interpretation or the preferred course of development, might cause delays in payment, or non-payment, of royalties, milestones or other monies owed, delays or termination of the research, development or commercialization of product candidates, might lead to additional responsibilities for us with respect to product candidates, or might result in litigation or arbitration, any of which would be time-consuming and expensive; • collaborators may not properly maintain or defend our intellectual property rights or may use our proprietary information in such a way as to invite litigation that could jeopardize or invalidate our intellectual property or proprietary information or expose us to potential litigation; • collaborators may infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties, which may expose us to litigation and potential liability; and 36 • collaborations may be terminated for the convenience of the collaborator and, if terminated, we could be required to raise additional capital to pursue further development or commercialization of the applicable product candidates.
The types of situations in which we may become a party to such litigation or proceedings include: • we or our collaborators may initiate litigation or other proceedings against third parties seeking to invalidate the patents held by those third parties or to obtain a judgment that our products or processes do not infringe those third parties' patents; • if our competitors file patent applications that claim technology also claimed by us or our licensors, we or our licensors may be required to participate in interference, opposition or other proceedings to determine the priority of invention, which could jeopardize our patent rights and potentially provide a third party with a dominant patent position; • if third parties initiate litigation claiming that our processes or products infringe their patent or other intellectual property rights, we and our collaborators will need to defend against such proceedings; and 43 • if a license to necessary technology is terminated, the licensor may initiate litigation claiming that our processes or products infringe or misappropriate their patent or other intellectual property rights and/or that we breached our obligations under the license agreement, and we and our collaborators would need to defend against such proceedings.
The types of situations in which we may become a party to such litigation or proceedings include: • we or our collaborators may initiate litigation or other proceedings against third parties seeking to invalidate the patents held by those third parties or to obtain a judgment that our products or processes do not infringe those third parties' patents; • if our competitors file patent applications that claim technology also claimed by us or our licensors, we or our licensors may be required to participate in interference, opposition or other proceedings to determine the priority of invention, which could jeopardize our patent rights and potentially provide a third party with a dominant patent position; • if third parties initiate litigation claiming that our processes or products infringe their patent or other intellectual property rights, we and our collaborators will need to defend against such proceedings; and • if a license to necessary technology is terminated, the licensor may initiate litigation claiming that our processes or products infringe or misappropriate their patent or other intellectual property rights and/or that we breached our obligations under the license agreement, and we and our collaborators would need to defend against such proceedings.
Failure to comply with applicable FDA and other regulatory requirements may subject us to administrative or judicially imposed sanctions, including: notices or Warning Letters by the FDA or other regulatory agencies; • issuance of Form FDA 483 notices or Warning Letters by the FDA or other regulatory agencies; • imposition of fines and other civil penalties; • criminal prosecutions; • injunctions, suspensions or revocations of regulatory approvals; • suspension of any ongoing clinical trials; • total or partial suspension of manufacturing; • delays in commercialization; • refusal by the FDA to approve pending applications or supplements to approved applications submitted by us; • refusals to permit drugs to be imported into or exported from the United States; • restrictions on operations, including costly new manufacturing requirements; and • product recalls or seizures.
Failure to comply with applicable FDA and other regulatory requirements may subject us to administrative or judicially imposed sanctions, including: • issuance of Form FDA 483 notices or Warning Letters by the FDA or other regulatory agencies; • imposition of fines and other civil penalties; • criminal prosecutions; • injunctions, suspensions or revocations of regulatory approvals; • suspension of any ongoing clinical trials; • total or partial suspension of manufacturing; • delays in commercialization; 34 • refusal by the FDA to approve pending applications or supplements to approved applications submitted by us; • refusals to permit drugs to be imported into or exported from the United States; • restrictions on operations, including costly new manufacturing requirements; and • product recalls or seizures.
Our existing commercialization collaboration, and any future commercialization collaborations we enter into, may pose a number of risks, including the following: • collaborators may have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources that they will apply to these collaborations; • collaborators may not perform their obligations as expected; • collaborators may not pursue commercialization our products or any product candidates that achieve regulatory approval or may elect not to continue commercialization based on clinical trial results, changes in the collaborators' strategic focus or other factors that divert resources or create competing priorities; • collaborators could independently commercialize products that compete directly or indirectly with our products or product candidates if the collaborators believe that competitive products are more likely to be successfully commercialized under terms that are more economically attractive than ours; • collaborators with marketing and distribution rights to our products or our product candidates that achieve regulatory approval may not commit sufficient resources to the marketing and distribution of such product or products; • disagreements with collaborators, including disagreements on contract interpretation, commercialization strategy or tactics, might cause delays or termination of the commercialization of products or product candidates, might lead to additional responsibilities for us with respect to our products or product candidates, or might result in litigation or arbitration, any of which would be time-consuming and expensive; • collaborators may not properly utilize our intellectual property rights or may use our proprietary information in such a way as to invite litigation that could jeopardize or invalidate our intellectual property or proprietary information or expose us to potential litigation; • collaborators may violate, or be investigated for potentially violating, health care compliance and related laws and regulations, which may expose us to litigation, enforcement actions or inquiries, or other potential liability; and • collaborations may be terminated for the convenience of the collaborator and, if terminated, we could be required to raise additional capital to pursue further commercialization of our products or applicable product candidates.
Any future commercialization collaborations we enter into may pose a number of risks, including the following: • collaborators may have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources that they will apply to these collaborations; • collaborators may not perform their obligations as expected; • collaborators may not pursue commercialization our products or any product candidates that achieve regulatory approval or may elect not to continue commercialization based on clinical trial results, changes in the collaborators' strategic focus or other factors that divert resources or create competing priorities; • collaborators could independently commercialize products that compete directly or indirectly with our products or product candidates if the collaborators believe that competitive products are more likely to be successfully commercialized under terms that are more economically attractive than ours; • collaborators with marketing and distribution rights to our products or our product candidates that achieve regulatory approval may not commit sufficient resources to the marketing and distribution of such product or products; • disagreements with collaborators, including disagreements on contract interpretation, commercialization strategy or tactics, might cause delays or termination of the commercialization of products or product candidates, might lead to additional responsibilities for us with respect to our products or product candidates, or might result in litigation or arbitration, any of which would be time-consuming and expensive; • collaborators may not properly utilize our intellectual property rights or may use our proprietary information in such a way as to invite litigation that could jeopardize or invalidate our intellectual property or proprietary information or expose us to potential litigation; • collaborators may violate, or be investigated for potentially violating, health care compliance and related laws and regulations, which may expose us to litigation, enforcement actions or inquiries, or other potential liability; and • collaborations may be terminated for the convenience of the collaborator and, if terminated, we could be required to raise additional capital to pursue further commercialization of our products or applicable product candidates.
In addition, under the federal Physician Payment Sunshine Act provisions of the ACA, covered manufacturers of drugs, devices, biological and medical supplies for which payment is available under a federal health care program (with certain exceptions) are subject to annual federal reporting and disclosure requirements with regard to payments or other transfers of value made to physicians defined to include doctors, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists and chiropractors, other healthcare 48 professionals (such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners), and teaching hospitals as well as information regarding certain ownership and investment interests held by physicians and their immediate family members.
In addition, under the federal Physician Payment Sunshine Act provisions of the ACA, covered manufacturers of drugs, devices, biological and medical supplies for which payment is available under a federal health care program (with certain exceptions) are subject to annual federal reporting and disclosure requirements with regard to payments or other transfers of value made to physicians defined to include doctors, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists and chiropractors, other healthcare professionals (such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners), and teaching hospitals as well as information regarding certain ownership and investment interests held by physicians and their immediate family members.
Our clinical trials may be suspended or terminated at any time by the FDA, other regulatory authorities, the IRB overseeing the clinical trial at issue, any of our clinical trial sites with respect to that site, or us, due to a number of factors, including: 25 • failure to conduct the clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical protocols; • unforeseen safety issues or any determination that a clinical trial presents unacceptable health risks; • lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial due to unforeseen costs or other business decisions; and • upon a breach or pursuant to the terms of any agreement with, or for any other reason by, current or future collaborators that have responsibility for the clinical development of any of our product candidates.
Our clinical trials may be suspended or terminated at any time by the FDA, other regulatory authorities, the IRB overseeing the clinical trial at issue, any of our clinical trial sites with respect to that site, or us, due to a number of factors, including: • failure to conduct the clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical protocols; • unforeseen safety issues or any determination that a clinical trial presents unacceptable health risks; • lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial due to unforeseen costs or other business decisions; and • upon a breach or pursuant to the terms of any agreement with, or for any other reason by, current or future collaborators that have responsibility for the clinical development of any of our product candidates.
If we are unable to maintain any of these collaborations, or if these collaborations are not successful, our business could be adversely affected. • If clinical trials for our product candidates are prolonged, delayed or stopped for any reason, including for safety reasons or lack of efficacy, we may be unable to obtain regulatory approval and commercialize our product candidates on a timely basis, which would require us to incur additional costs and delay our receipt of any product revenue. • The results of previous clinical trials may not be predictive of future results, and interim or top line data may be subject to change or qualification based the complete analysis of data.
If we are unable to maintain any of these collaborations, or if these collaborations are not successful, our business could be adversely affected. • If clinical trials for our product candidates are prolonged, delayed or stopped for any reason, including for safety reasons or lack of efficacy, we may be unable to obtain regulatory approval and commercialize our product candidates on a timely basis, which would require us to incur additional costs and delay our receipt of any product revenue. • The results of previous clinical trials may not be predictive of future results, and interim, immature, or top line data may be subject to change or qualification based the complete analysis of data.
Reliance on third-party manufacturers entails risks to which we would not be subject if we manufactured products or product candidates ourselves, including: • the possibility of a breach of the manufacturing agreements by the third parties because of factors beyond our control; • the possibility of termination or nonrenewal of the agreements by the third parties before we are able to arrange for a qualified replacement third-party manufacturer; and 39 • the possibility that we may not be able to secure a manufacturer or manufacturing capacity in a timely manner and on satisfactory terms in order to meet our manufacturing needs.
Reliance on third-party manufacturers entails risks to which we would not be subject if we manufactured products or product candidates ourselves, including: • the possibility of a breach of the manufacturing agreements by the third parties because of factors beyond our control; • the possibility of termination or nonrenewal of the agreements by the third parties before we are able to arrange for a qualified replacement third-party manufacturer; and • the possibility that we may not be able to secure a manufacturer or manufacturing capacity in a timely manner and on satisfactory terms in order to meet our manufacturing needs.
These factors may include the design or results of clinical trials, the likelihood of approval by the FDA or similar regulatory authorities outside the United States, the potential 38 market for the subject product candidate, the costs and complexities of manufacturing and delivering such product candidate to patients, the potential of competing products, the existence of uncertainty with respect to our ownership of technology, which can exist if there is a challenge to such ownership without regard to the merits of the challenge and industry and market conditions generally.
These factors may include the design or results of clinical trials, the likelihood of approval by the FDA or similar regulatory authorities outside the United States, the potential market for the subject product candidate, the costs and complexities of manufacturing and delivering such product candidate to patients, the potential of competing products, the existence of uncertainty with respect to our ownership of technology, which can exist if there is a challenge to such ownership without regard to the merits of the challenge and industry and market conditions generally.
Several states have enacted legislation requiring pharmaceutical companies to establish marketing compliance programs, file periodic reports with the state, make periodic public disclosures on sales, marketing, pricing, track, and report gifts, compensation and other remuneration made to physicians and other healthcare providers, clinical trials and other activities, and/or register their sales representatives, as well as to prohibit pharmacies and other healthcare entities from providing certain physician prescribing data to pharmaceutical companies for use in sales and marketing, and to prohibit certain other sales and marketing practices.
Several states have enacted legislation requiring pharmaceutical companies to establish marketing compliance programs, file periodic reports with the state, make periodic public disclosures on sales, marketing, pricing, track, and report gifts, compensation and other remuneration made to physicians and other healthcare providers, clinical trials and other activities, and/or register their sales 47 representatives, as well as to prohibit pharmacies and other healthcare entities from providing certain physician prescribing data to pharmaceutical companies for use in sales and marketing, and to prohibit certain other sales and marketing practices.
Even if we are successful in continuing to build our pipeline, the potential 26 product candidates that we identify may not be suitable for initial or continued clinical development, including as a result of being shown to have harmful side effects or other characteristics that indicate that they are unlikely to be products that will receive marketing approval and achieve market acceptance.
Even if we are successful in continuing to build our pipeline, the potential product candidates that we identify may not be suitable for initial or continued clinical development, including as a result of being shown to have harmful side effects or other characteristics that indicate that they are unlikely to be products that will receive marketing approval and achieve market acceptance.
If we are unable to successfully complete clinical development, obtain additional regulatory approvals and commercialize our products and product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed and we may not be able to generate sufficient revenues and cash flows to continue our operations. • Clinical drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with a highly uncertain outcome.
If we are unable to successfully complete clinical development, obtain additional regulatory approvals and commercialize our product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed and we may not be able to generate sufficient revenues and cash flows to continue our operations. • Clinical drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with a highly uncertain outcome.
If we raise additional funds through collaborations, strategic alliances, or licensing arrangements with third parties, we may have to relinquish valuable rights to our technologies, MARGENZA, product candidates, or future revenue streams, or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable to us. We cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain additional funding if and when necessary.
If we raise additional funds through collaborations, strategic alliances, or licensing arrangements with third parties, we may have to relinquish valuable rights to our technologies, product candidates, or future revenue streams, or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable to us. We cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain additional funding if and when necessary.
Some of the factors that may cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate include: • results and timing of our clinical trials and clinical trials of our competitors’ products; • failure or discontinuation of any of our development programs; • issues in manufacturing our product candidates or future approved products; • regulatory developments or enforcement in the United States and foreign countries with respect to our product candidates or our competitors’ products; • competition from existing products or new products that may emerge; • developments or disputes concerning patents or other proprietary rights; • introduction of technological innovations or new commercial products by us or our competitors; • announcements by us, our collaborators or our competitors of significant acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, collaborations or capital commitments; • changes in estimates or recommendations by securities analysts, if any cover our common stock; • fluctuations in the valuation of companies perceived by investors to be comparable to us; • public concern over our product candidates or any future approved products; • threatened or actual litigation; • future or anticipated sales of our common stock; • share price and volume fluctuations attributable to inconsistent trading volume levels of our shares; • additions or departures of key personnel; • changes in the structure of health care payment systems in the United States or overseas; 52 • failure of any of MARGENZA or our product candidates, if approved, to achieve commercial success; • economic and other external factors or other disasters or crises; • period-to-period fluctuations in our financial condition and results of operations, including the timing of receipt of any milestone or other payments under commercialization or licensing agreements; • general market conditions and market conditions for biopharmaceutical stocks; and • overall fluctuations in U.S. equity markets.
Some of the factors that may cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate include: • results and timing of our clinical trials and clinical trials of our competitors’ products; • failure or discontinuation of any of our development programs; • issues in manufacturing our product candidates or future approved products; • regulatory developments or enforcement in the United States and foreign countries with respect to our product candidates or our competitors’ products; • competition from existing products or new products that may emerge; • developments or disputes concerning patents or other proprietary rights; • introduction of technological innovations or new commercial products by us or our competitors; • announcements by us, our collaborators or our competitors of significant acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, collaborations or capital commitments; • changes in estimates or recommendations by securities analysts, if any cover our common stock; • fluctuations in the valuation of companies perceived by investors to be comparable to us; • public concern over our product candidates or any future approved products; 51 • threatened or actual litigation; • future or anticipated sales of our common stock; • share price and volume fluctuations attributable to inconsistent trading volume levels of our shares; • additions or departures of key personnel; • changes in the structure of health care payment systems in the United States or overseas; • failure of any of our product candidates, if approved, to achieve commercial success; • economic and other external factors or other disasters or crises; • period-to-period fluctuations in our financial condition and results of operations, including the timing of receipt of any milestone or other payments under commercialization or licensing agreements; • general market conditions and market conditions for biopharmaceutical stocks; and • overall fluctuations in U.S. equity markets.
We expect to experience pricing pressures in connection with the sale of any products that we develop, due to the trend toward managed healthcare, the increasing influence of various and evolving payor models and additional legislative proposals. 31 Reimbursement decisions by third-party payors may have an adverse effect on pricing and market acceptance.
We expect to experience pricing pressures in connection with the sale of any products that we develop, due to the trend toward managed healthcare, the increasing influence of various and evolving payor models and additional legislative proposals. Reimbursement decisions by third-party payors may have an adverse effect on pricing and market acceptance.
We face significant competition and if our competitors continue to develop and market products that are more effective, safer or less expensive than our product and our product candidates, our current or future commercial opportunities may be negatively impacted. 28 The life sciences industry is highly competitive and subject to rapid and significant technological change.
We face significant competition and if our competitors continue to develop and market products that are more effective, safer or less expensive than our product candidates, our current or future commercial opportunities may be negatively impacted. The life sciences industry is highly competitive and subject to rapid and significant technological change.
If our patents are invalidated or otherwise limited or will expire prior to the commercialization of our approved products and product candidates, other companies may be better able to develop products that compete with ours, which could adversely affect our competitive business position, business prospects and financial condition.
If our patents are invalidated or otherwise limited or will expire prior to the commercialization of any approved product candidates, other companies may be better able to develop products that compete with ours, which could adversely affect our competitive business position, business prospects and financial condition.
An 45 adverse outcome in a litigation or proceeding involving our own patents could limit our ability to assert our patents against these or other competitors, affect our ability to receive royalties or other licensing consideration from our licensees, and may curtail or preclude our ability to exclude third parties from making, using and selling similar or competitive products.
An adverse outcome in a litigation or proceeding involving our own patents could limit our ability to assert our patents against these or other competitors, affect our ability to receive royalties or other licensing consideration from our licensees, and may curtail or preclude our ability to exclude third parties from making, using and selling similar or competitive products.
On December 8, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology published for comment a Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights which for the first time includes the price of a product as one factor an agency can use when deciding to exercise march-in rights.
Further, on December 8, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology published for comment a Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights which for the first time includes the price of a product as one factor an agency can use when deciding to exercise march-in rights.
In the United States, the pharmaceutical industry has been a particular focus of these efforts and has been significantly affected by major legislative initiatives, including the Patient 30 Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, or collectively, the ACA, which became law in 2010.
In the United States, the pharmaceutical industry has been a particular focus of these efforts and has been significantly affected by major legislative initiatives, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, or collectively, the ACA, which became law in 2010.
Our failure to become or remain profitable would depress our market value and 36 could impair our ability to raise capital, expand our business, develop other product candidates, or continue our operations. A decline in the value of our company could also cause you to lose all or part of your investment.
Our failure to become or remain profitable would depress our market value and could impair our ability to raise capital, expand our business, develop other product candidates, or continue our operations. A decline in the value of our company could also cause you to lose all or part of your investment.
If we are unable to obtain adequate financing on a timely basis, we could be required to delay, scale back or eliminate one or more of our development programs or grant rights to develop and market MARGENZA or product candidates that we would otherwise prefer to develop and market ourselves.
If we are unable to obtain adequate financing on a timely basis, we could be required to delay, scale back or eliminate one or more of our development programs or grant rights to develop and market product candidates that we would otherwise prefer to develop and market ourselves.
The issuance of a patent does not ensure that a court or agency finds or will find the patent valid or enforceable, so even if we obtain patents, they may not be valid or enforceable against third parties. In addition, the issuance of a patent does 44 not give us the right to practice the patented invention.
The issuance of a patent does not ensure that a court or agency finds or will find the patent valid or enforceable, so even if we obtain patents, they may not be valid or enforceable against third parties. In addition, the issuance of a patent does not give us the right to practice the patented invention.
If we do not comply with laws regulating the protection of the environment and health and human safety, our business could be adversely affected. 47 Our research and development involves, and may in the future involve, the use of potentially hazardous materials and chemicals. Our operations may produce hazardous waste products.
If we do not comply with laws regulating the protection of the environment and health and human safety, our business could be adversely affected. Our research and development involves, and may in the future involve, the use of potentially hazardous materials and chemicals. Our operations may produce hazardous waste products.
However, one third-party payor’s determination to provide coverage for a product candidate does not assure that other payors will also provide coverage for the product candidate. Further, no uniform policy for coverage and reimbursement exists in the United States, and coverage and reimbursement can differ significantly from payor to payor.
However, one third-party payor’s determination to provide coverage for a product candidate does not assure that other payors 32 will also provide coverage for the product candidate. Further, no uniform policy for coverage and reimbursement exists in the United States, and coverage and reimbursement can differ significantly from payor to payor.
Additionally, the facilities used by any contract manufacturer to manufacture any of our product candidates must be the subject of a satisfactory inspection before the FDA and other regulatory authorities approve a BLA or marketing authorization for the product candidate manufactured at that facility.
Additionally, the facilities used by any contract manufacturer to manufacture any of 37 our product candidates must be the subject of a satisfactory inspection before the FDA and other regulatory authorities approve a BLA or marketing authorization for the product candidate manufactured at that facility.
There can be no assurance that we will be able to further develop or successfully maintain internal sales and commercial capabilities or establish or maintain relationships with third-party collaborators to successfully commercialize any product, and as a result, we may not be able to generate substantial product sales revenue.
There can be no assurance that we will be able to develop or successfully maintain internal sales and commercial capabilities or establish or maintain relationships with third-party collaborators to successfully commercialize any product, and as a result, we may not be able to generate substantial product sales revenue.
Further, regulatory agencies must approve these manufacturing facilities before they can be used to manufacture our products and product candidates, and these facilities are subject to ongoing regulatory inspections. In addition, regulatory agencies subject an approved product, its manufacturer and the manufacturer’s facilities to continual review and inspections, including periodic unannounced inspections.
Further, regulatory agencies must approve these manufacturing facilities before they can be used to manufacture our product candidates, and these facilities are subject to ongoing regulatory inspections. In addition, regulatory agencies subject an approved product, its manufacturer and the manufacturer’s facilities to continual review and inspections, including periodic unannounced inspections.
A security incident or other interruption could disrupt our ability (and that of third parties upon whom we rely) to provide our products. 42 We may expend significant resources or modify our business activities (including our clinical trial activities) to try to protect against security incidents.
A security incident or other interruption could disrupt our ability (and that of third parties upon whom we rely) to provide our products. We may expend significant resources or modify our business activities (including our clinical trial activities) to try to protect against security incidents.
Third parties could possess patents that we may ultimately be found to infringe, or such third-party patents could issue in the future. Third parties may have or may obtain valid and enforceable patents or proprietary rights that could block us from developing product candidates using our technology.
Third parties could possess patents that we may ultimately be found to infringe, or such third-party patents could issue in the future. Third parties may have or may obtain valid and enforceable patents or proprietary rights that could block us from 41 developing product candidates using our technology.
We contract with, and may in the future contract with, third parties for components of the manufacturing of our products and our product candidates, including our antibody drug conjugate candidates. Failure of third-party contractors to successfully perform their obligations could harm our ability to develop or commercialize our product or product candidates.
We contract with, and may in the future contract with, third parties for components of the manufacturing of our product candidates, including our antibody drug conjugate candidates. Failure of third-party contractors to successfully perform their obligations could harm our ability to develop or commercialize our product or product candidates .
The results of previous clinical trials may not be predictive of future results, and interim or top line data may be subject to change or qualification, based on several factors, including a complete analysis of data, or in the case of interim analysis, the continued or ongoing accrual of data.
The results of previous clinical trials may not be predictive of future results, and interim or top line data may be subject to change or qualification, based on several factors, including a complete analysis of data, or in the case of interim analysis, 26 the continued or ongoing accrual of data.
Public health crises such as pandemics or similar outbreaks may have a significant negative impact on our clinical trials, nonclinical studies, development, manufacturing and commercialization of our product candidates and other aspects of our business, staff, and operations. Public health crises such as pandemics or similar outbreaks may have a material impact our business.
Public health crises such as pandemics or similar outbreaks may have a significant negative impact on our clinical trials, nonclinical studies, development, manufacturing and commercialization of our product candidates and other aspects of our business, staff, and operations. 30 Public health crises such as pandemics or similar outbreaks may have a material impact our business.
If our therapeutic collaborations do not result in the successful development and commercialization of products or if one of our collaborators terminates its agreement with us, we may not receive any future research funding or milestone or royalty payments under the collaboration.
If our collaborations do not result in the successful development and commercialization of products or if one of our collaborators terminates its agreement with us, we may not receive any future research funding or milestone or royalty payments under the collaboration.
Termination of the license agreements or reduction or elimination of our licensed rights may result in our having to negotiate new or reinstated licenses with less favorable terms, which could adversely affect our competitive business position and harm our business.
Termination of the license agreements or reduction or elimination of our licensed rights may result in our having to negotiate 44 new or reinstated licenses with less favorable terms, which could adversely affect our competitive business position and harm our business.
Furthermore, we may discover security issues that were not found during due diligence of such acquired or integrated entities, and it may be difficult to integrate companies into our information technology environment and security program.
Furthermore, we may discover security issues that were not found during due diligence of such 40 acquired or integrated entities, and it may be difficult to integrate companies into our information technology environment and security program.
Increased inflation rates can adversely affect us by increasing our costs, including labor and employee benefit costs. Raising additional capital may cause dilution to our stockholders, restrict our operations or require us to relinquish substantial rights.
Increased inflation rates can adversely affect us by increasing our costs, including labor and employee benefit costs. 22 Raising additional capital may cause dilution to our stockholders, restrict our operations or require us to relinquish substantial rights.
These investigators and CROs will not be our employees and we will not be able to control, other than by contract, the amount of resources, including time, which they devote to our product candidates and clinical trials.
These investigators and CROs are not and will not be our employees and we will not be able to control, other than by contract, the amount of resources, including time, which they devote to our product candidates and clinical trials.
If our manufacturing facilities, our collaborators' manufacturing facilities, or those of our 33 respective suppliers, fail to comply with applicable regulatory requirements, such noncompliance could result in regulatory action and additional costs to us.
If our manufacturing facilities, our collaborators' manufacturing facilities, or those of our respective suppliers, fail to comply with applicable regulatory requirements, such noncompliance could result in regulatory action and additional costs to us.
The IRA permits HHS to implement many of these provisions through guidance, as opposed to regulation, for the initial years. These provisions take effect progressively starting in fiscal year 2023.
The IRA permits HHS to implement many of these provisions through guidance, as opposed to regulation, for the initial years. These provisions began to take effect progressively starting in fiscal year 2023.
Regardless of their merit or eventual outcome, liability claims may result in: • decreased demand for our current or future approved products; 32 • injury to our reputation; • withdrawal of clinical trial participants; • termination of clinical trial sites or entire trial programs; • increased regulatory scrutiny; • significant litigation costs; • substantial monetary awards to or costly settlement with patients or other claimants; • product recalls or a change in the indications for which they may be used; • loss of revenue; • diversion of management and scientific resources from our business operations; and • the inability to commercialize our product candidates.
Regardless of their merit or eventual outcome, liability claims may result in: • decreased demand for our future approved products; • injury to our reputation; • withdrawal of clinical trial participants; • termination of clinical trial sites or entire trial programs; • increased regulatory scrutiny; • significant litigation costs; • substantial monetary awards to or costly settlement with patients or other claimants; • product recalls or a change in the indications for which they may be used; • loss of revenue; • diversion of management and scientific resources from our business operations; and 33 • the inability to commercialize our product candidates.
In particular, plaintiffs have become increasingly more active in bringing privacy-related claims against companies, including class claims and mass arbitration demands. Some of these claims allow for the recovery of statutory damages on a per violation basis, and, if viable, carry the potential for monumental statutory damages, depending on the volume of data and the number of violations.
In particular, plaintiffs have become increasingly more active in bringing privacy-related claims against companies, including class claims and mass arbitration demands. Some of these claims allow for the recovery of statutory damages on a per violation basis, and, if viable, carry the potential for significant statutory damages, depending on the volume of data and the number of violations.
We could incur substantial costs defending this or similar lawsuits, as well as diversion of the time and attention of our management, any or all of which could seriously harm our business. Provisions of our charter, bylaws, third-party agreements and Delaware law may make an acquisition of us or a change in our management more difficult.
We could incur substantial costs defending these similar lawsuits, as well as diversion of the time and attention of our management, any or all of which could seriously harm our business. Provisions of our charter, bylaws, third-party agreements and Delaware law may make an acquisition of us or a change in our management more difficult.
Ongoing or future trials of our product candidates may not 27 support the conclusion that one or more of these product candidates have acceptable safety profiles.
Ongoing or future trials of our product candidates may not support the conclusion that one or more of these product candidates have acceptable safety profiles.
The success of our products and product candidates depends on many factors, including but not limited to: • successful enrollment in, and completion of, clinical trials, as well as completion of nonclinical studies; • the acceptability and adequacy of safety, tolerability and efficacy data from our clinical trials and other studies; • the sufficiency of our financial resources and ability to obtain additional funding for the development of our products and product candidates; • receipt of regulatory approvals; • the performance by clinical research organizations (CROs) or other third parties we may retain of their duties to us in a manner that complies with our protocols and applicable laws and that protects the integrity of the resulting data; • obtaining and maintaining patent, trade secret and other intellectual property protection and regulatory exclusivity; • ensuring we do not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate the valid patent, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of third parties; • successfully launching our product candidates, including vobra duo or lorigerlimab, if and when approved; • maintaining commercial manufacturing capabilities, either by utilizing our current manufacturing facilities or making arrangements with third-party manufacturers; • manufacturing or obtaining sufficient supplies of our products and product candidates that may be necessary for use in clinical trials for evaluation of our product candidates and commercialization of our products; • obtaining favorable reimbursement from third-party payors for products and product candidates; • competition with other products; • post-marketing commitments to regulatory agencies following regulatory approval; and • continued acceptable safety profile following regulatory approval.
The success of our product candidates depends on many factors, including but not limited to: • successful and timely patient enrollment in, and completion of, clinical trials, as well as completion of nonclinical studies; • the acceptability and adequacy of safety, tolerability and efficacy data from our clinical trials and other studies; • the sufficiency of our financial resources and ability to obtain additional funding for the development of our product candidates; • receipt of regulatory approvals; 23 • the performance by clinical research organizations (CROs) or other third parties we may retain of their duties to us in a manner that complies with our protocols and applicable laws and that protects the integrity of the resulting data; • obtaining and maintaining patent, trade secret and other intellectual property protection and regulatory exclusivity; • ensuring we do not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate the valid patent, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of third parties; • successfully launching our product candidates if and when approved; • maintaining commercial manufacturing capabilities, either by utilizing our current manufacturing facilities or making arrangements with third-party manufacturers; • manufacturing or obtaining sufficient supplies of our product candidates that may be necessary for use in clinical trials for evaluation of our product candidates and commercialization of our products; • obtaining favorable reimbursement from third-party payors for product candidates; • competition with other products; • post-marketing commitments to regulatory agencies following regulatory approval; and • continued acceptable safety profile following regulatory approval.
Any negative impact public health crises could adversely affect our ability to seek and obtain regulatory approval for and to commercialize any approved product candidates, increase our operating expenses and have a material adverse effect on our business and financial results. We have limited experience in launching and marketing internally developed products.
Any negative impact public health crises could adversely affect our ability to seek and obtain regulatory approval for and to commercialize any approved product candidates, increase our operating expenses and have a material adverse effect on our business and financial results. We have limited experience in launching and marketing approved products.
If we are unable to successfully complete clinical development, obtain additional regulatory approvals and commercialize our products and product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed and we may not be able to generate sufficient revenues and cash flows to continue our operations.
If we or our collaborators are unable to successfully complete clinical development, obtain additional regulatory approvals and commercialize our product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed and we may not be able to generate sufficient revenues and cash flows to continue our operations.
In addition, the biopharmaceutical industry is characterized by rapid technological change. If we fail to stay at the forefront of technological change, we may be unable to compete effectively. Technological advances or products developed by our competitors may render our technologies, products or product candidates obsolete, less competitive or not economical.
In addition, the biopharmaceutical industry is characterized by rapid technological change. If we fail to stay at the forefront of technological change, we may be unable to compete effectively. Technological advances or products developed by our competitors may render our technologies, products or product candidates obsolete, less competitive or not profitable.
In addition, on August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) into law, which among other things, extends enhanced subsidies for individuals purchasing health insurance coverage in ACA marketplaces through plan year 2025.
For example, on August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) into law, which among other things, extends enhanced subsidies for individuals purchasing health insurance coverage in ACA marketplaces through plan year 2025.
Risks Relating to Our Common Stock We have been and may in the future be subject to securities litigation, which is expensive and could divert management attention and adversely impact our business. The market price of our common stock has been and may continue to be volatile.
Risks Related to Our Common Stock We have been and may in the future be subject to securities litigation, which is expensive and could divert management attention and adversely impact our business. The market price of our common stock has been and may continue to be volatile.
If we are unable to reach agreements with suitable collaborators on a timely basis, on acceptable terms, or at all, we may have to curtail the development of vobra duo, lorigerlimab, or our other product candidates, reduce or delay one or more of our other development programs, delay the commercialization of a product candidate or reduce the scope of any sales or marketing activities, or increase our expenditures and undertake development or commercialization activities at our own expense.
If we are unable to reach agreements with suitable collaborators on a timely basis, on acceptable terms, or at all, we may have to curtail the development of our product candidates, reduce or delay one or more of our other development programs, delay the commercialization of a product candidate or reduce the scope of any sales or marketing activities, or increase our expenditures and undertake development or commercialization activities at our own expense.
If we or the third parties on which we rely fail, or are perceived to have failed, to address or comply with applicable data privacy and security obligations, we could face significant consequences, including but not limited to: government enforcement actions (e.g., investigations, fines, penalties, audits, inspections, and similar); litigation (including class-action claims) and mass arbitration demands; additional reporting requirements and/or oversight; bans on processing personal data; orders to destroy or not use personal data; and imprisonment of company officials.
If we or the third parties with whom we work fail, or are perceived to have failed, to address or comply with applicable data privacy and security obligations, we could face significant consequences, including but not limited to: government enforcement actions (e.g., investigations, fines, penalties, audits, inspections, and similar); litigation (including class-action claims) and mass arbitration demands; additional reporting requirements and/or oversight; bans on processing personal data; orders to destroy or not use personal data; and imprisonment of company officials.
We may not be able to effectively manage our operations which may result in 51 weaknesses in our infrastructure, give rise to operational errors, loss of business opportunities, loss of employees and reduced productivity among remaining employees.
We may not be able to effectively manage our operations which may result in 50 weaknesses in our infrastructure, give rise to operational errors, loss of business opportunities, loss of employees and reduced productivity among remaining employees.
Furthermore, patients may be unable or unwilling to enroll in our clinical trials or be unable to comply with clinical trial protocols if public health restrictions impede patient movement or interrupt healthcare services.
Further, patients may be unable or unwilling to enroll in our clinical trials or be unable to comply with clinical trial protocols if public health restrictions impede patient movement or interrupt healthcare services.
Any of these factors could adversely impact the commercialization of our products or product candidates, delay approval of our product candidates, or cause us to incur higher costs or prevent us from commercializing our products or product candidates successfully.
Any of these factors could adversely impact the development of our product candidates, delay approval of our product candidates, or cause us to incur higher costs or prevent us from commercializing our products or product candidates successfully.
Our future financial performance and our ability to commercialize MARGENZA, our product candidates and compete effectively with others in our industry will depend, in part, on our ability to effectively manage any such growth.
Our future financial performance and our ability to develop and commercialize our product candidates and compete effectively with others in our industry will depend, in part, on our ability to effectively manage any such growth.
We may at times fail (or be perceived to have failed) in our efforts to comply with our data privacy and security obligations. Moreover, despite our efforts, our personnel or third parties on whom we rely may fail to comply with such obligations, which could negatively impact our business operations.
We may at times fail (or be perceived to have failed) in our efforts to comply with our data privacy and security obligations. Moreover, despite our efforts, our personnel or third parties with whom we work may fail to comply with such obligations, which could negatively impact our business operations.
Our internal estimates of the potential market opportunities for vobra duo, lorigerlimab, and our other product candidates include several key assumptions based on a variety of factors, which may include our industry knowledge, industry publications, third-party research reports, assessment of competition, and other surveys. While we believe that our internal assumptions are reasonable, no independent source has verified such assumptions.
Our internal estimates of the potential market opportunities our product candidates include several key assumptions based on a variety of factors, which may include our industry knowledge, industry publications, third-party research reports, assessment of competition, and other surveys. While we believe that our internal assumptions are reasonable, no independent source has verified such assumptions.
Our business could be adversely affected by economic downturns, inflation, increases in interest rates, natural disasters, political crises, geopolitical events, such as the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine, or other macroeconomic conditions, which have in the past and may in the future negatively impact our business and financial performance.
Our business could be adversely affected by economic downturns, inflation, increases in interest rates, disruption in global supply chains, natural disasters, political crises, geopolitical events, such as the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine, or other macroeconomic conditions, which have in the past and may in the future negatively impact our business and financial performance.
If we fail to enter into collaborations and do not have sufficient funds or expertise to undertake the necessary development and commercialization activities, we may not be able to further develop vobra duo, lorigerlimab, or our other product candidates or bring them to market or continue to develop our technology platforms and our business may be materially and adversely affected.
If we fail to enter into collaborations and do not have sufficient funds or expertise to undertake the necessary development and commercialization activities, we may not be able to further develop our product candidates or bring them to market or continue to develop our technology platforms and our business may be materially and adversely affected.
Clinical drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with a highly uncertain outcome. We expect to incur significant additional costs related to the development of vobra duo, lorigerlimab, and our other product candidates and may experience delays in completing, or ultimately be unable to complete, the development and commercialization of our other products and product candidates.
Clinical drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with a highly uncertain outcome. We expect to incur significant additional costs related to the development of our product candidates and may experience delays in completing, or ultimately be unable to complete, the development and commercialization of our other product candidates.
In the pharmaceutical industry, significant litigation and other proceedings regarding patents, patent applications, trademarks and other intellectual property rights have become commonplace.
In the biopharmaceutical industry, significant litigation and other proceedings regarding patents, patent applications, trademarks and other intellectual property rights have become commonplace.
It is unclear how such challenges and any healthcare reform measures of the Biden administration will impact the ACA and our business. Further, there has been heightened governmental scrutiny in the United States of pharmaceutical pricing practices in light of the rising cost of prescription drugs.
It is unclear how such challenges and any healthcare reform measures of the second Trump administration will impact the ACA and our business. 31 Further, there has been heightened governmental scrutiny in the United States of pharmaceutical pricing practices in light of the rising cost of prescription drugs.
Risks Relating to Employee Matters and Human Capital Management Our future success depends on our ability to retain key executives and to attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel. 50 We are highly dependent on the research and development, clinical and business development expertise of certain of our executive officers and other key employees.
Risks Related to Employee Matters and Human Capital Management Our future success depends on our ability to attract or retain key executives and to attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel. We are highly dependent on the research and development, clinical and business development expertise of certain of our executive officers and other key employees.
We, or our collaborators, are either currently enrolling patients in clinical trials or anticipate initiating, continuing, or designing, or supporting clinical trials for molecules that include vobra duo, lorigerlimab, retifanlimab, enoblituzumab, MGD024, and MGC026 or other molecules, as monotherapies or in combination with other product candidates.
We, or our collaborators or investigators, are either currently enrolling patients in clinical trials or anticipate initiating, continuing, designing, or supporting clinical trials for molecules that include lorigerlimab, retifanlimab, vobra duo, MGD024, MGC026, MGC028, or other molecules, as monotherapies or in combination with other product candidates.
In the ordinary course of our business, we and the third parties upon which we rely, process, collect, receive, store, process, generate, use, transfer, disclose, make accessible, protect, secure, dispose of, transmit, and share (collectively, process) proprietary, confidential, and sensitive data, including personal data (such as health-related data), intellectual property, trade secrets and any other sensitive data the we may process, e.g., business plans, transactions, financial information, etc.
In the ordinary course of our business, we and the third parties with whom we work, process, collect, receive, store, process, generate, use, transfer, disclose, make accessible, protect, secure, dispose of, transmit, and share (collectively, process) proprietary, confidential, and sensitive data, including personal data (such as health-related data), intellectual property, trade secrets and any other sensitive data the we may process, e.g., business plans, transactions, financial information, etc.
The manufacture of vobra duo, lorigerlimab, and other products or product candidates, for ourselves and our collaborators, is complex, and we may encounter difficulties in production. There can be no assurance that we will be able to effectively manufacture clinical quantities of our product candidates in the future.
The manufacture of products or product candidates, for ourselves and our collaborators, is complex, and we may encounter difficulties in production. There can be no assurance that we will be able to effectively manufacture clinical quantities of our product candidates in the future.
We and our collaborators are subject to extensive ongoing obligations and continued regulatory review from applicable regulatory agencies with respect to any product obtaining regulatory approval, including vobra duo, lorigerlimab, and our other products and product candidates, such as continued adverse event reporting requirements and post-marketing commitments, all of which may result in significant expense and limit our and our collaborators' ability to commercialize our current and any future approved products.
We and our collaborators are subject to extensive ongoing obligations and continued regulatory review from applicable regulatory agencies with respect to any product obtaining regulatory approval, , such as continued adverse event reporting requirements and post-marketing commitments, all of which may result in significant expense and limit our and our collaborators' ability to commercialize our current and any future approved products.
The standards which the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and its foreign counterparts use to grant patents are not always applied predictably or uniformly and can change. There is also no uniform, worldwide policy regarding the subject matter and scope of claims granted or allowable in pharmaceutical or biotechnology patents.
The standards which the USPTO and its foreign counterparts use to grant patents are not always applied predictably or uniformly and can change. There is also no uniform, worldwide policy regarding the subject matter and scope of claims granted or allowable in pharmaceutical or biotechnology patents.
Inadequate funding for the FDA and other government agencies could hinder their ability to hire and retain key leadership and other personnel, prevent new products and services from being developed or commercialized in a timely manner or otherwise prevent those agencies from performing normal business functions on which the operation of our business may rely, which could negatively impact our business.
Inadequate funding or government efficiency initiatives for the FDA and other government agencies could reduce agency staffing or hinder agency ability to hire and retain key leadership and other personnel, prevent new products and services from being developed or commercialized in a timely manner or otherwise prevent those agencies from performing normal business functions on which the operation of our business may rely, which could negatively impact our business.
We may need to grow or contract our organization, and we may experience difficulties in managing this growth or contraction, which could disrupt our operations. As of December 31, 2023, we had 339 full-time employees.
We may need to grow or contract our organization, and we may experience difficulties in managing this growth or contraction, which could disrupt our operations. As of December 31, 2024, we had 341 full-time employees.
For example, we have limited experience in building and managing a commercial team, conducting a comprehensive market analysis or managing distributors and a field force for our products. We compete with many companies that currently have extensive and well-funded sales and marketing operations.
For example, we have limited experience in building and managing a commercial team, conducting a comprehensive market analysis or managing distributors and a field force for our products. We will compete with many companies that currently have extensive and well-funded sales and marketing operations with respect to any approved products.
Failure of third-party contractors to successfully perform their obligations could harm our ability to develop or commercialize our product or product candidates. • If our information technology systems or those third parties upon which we rely for our data, are or were compromised, we could experience adverse consequences resulting from such compromise, including but not limited to regulatory investigations or actions; litigation; fines and penalties; disruptions of our business operations; reputational harm; loss of revenue or profits; loss of customers or sales; and other adverse consequences. • Our success depends significantly on our ability to operate without infringing the valid patents and other proprietary rights of third parties. • If we are unable to obtain and enforce patent protection for our products and our product candidates and related technology, our business could be materially harmed. 22 • We have been and may in the future be subject to securities litigation, which is expensive and could divert management attention and adversely impact our business. • Failure to successfully develop and commercialize companion diagnostics with third party contractors for use with our product candidates could harm our ability to commercialize our product candidates.
Failure of third-party contractors to successfully perform their obligations could harm our ability to develop or commercialize our product or product candidates. • If our information technology systems or those third parties upon which we rely for our data, are or were compromised, we could experience adverse consequences resulting from such compromise, including but not limited to regulatory investigations or actions; litigation; fines and penalties; disruptions of our business operations; reputational harm; loss of revenue or profits; loss of customers or sales; and other adverse consequences. • Our success depends significantly on our ability to operate without infringing the valid patents and other proprietary rights of third parties. • If we are unable to obtain and enforce patent protection for our products and our product candidates and related technology, our business could be materially harmed. • We have been and may in the future be subject to securities litigation, which is expensive and could divert management attention and adversely impact our business. 20 • Failure to successfully develop and commercialize companion diagnostics with third party contractors for use with our product candidates could harm our ability to commercialize our product candidates. • If any product liability lawsuits are successfully brought against us or any of our collaborators, we may incur substantial liabilities and may be required to limit commercialization of our product candidates.
We currently manufacture product and product candidates for ourselves and our collaborators in our in-house manufacturing facility, and we anticipate manufacturing both commercial product as well as product candidates in the future, including for example commercial manufacturing of MARGENZA. We have limited experience in manufacturing at commercial scale.
We currently manufacture product and product candidates for ourselves and our collaborators in our in-house manufacturing facility, and we anticipate manufacturing both commercial product as well as product candidates in the future. We have limited experience in manufacturing at commercial scale.