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Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2021, our management, with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934).
+Added: As of March 31, 2022, our management, with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934).
Our management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives, and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.
−Removed: Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2021, our principal executive and financial officer concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at a reasonable assurance level as a result of the material weakness that existed in our internal control over financial reporting, as described below and previously reported in our Annual Report.
−Removed: Material Weaknesses in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: During the preparation of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020, our management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting using the criteria set forth by the Committee of
−Removed: Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013 Framework).
−Removed: Based on this assessment, our management determined that, as of December 31, 2020 and September 30, 2021, there was a material weakness in our internal control environment over financial reporting because we did not have a sufficient number of resources to support the growth and complexity of our financial reporting requirements.
−Removed: A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that a reasonable possibility exists that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
−Removed: The foregoing material weakness contributed to a material weakness in our control activities based on the criteria set forth in the 2013 Framework.
−Removed: Specifically, the design of certain controls did not adequately provide appropriate segregation of duties and allow timely completion of financial reporting and accounting activities.
−Removed: The failure to maintain appropriate segregation of duties had a pervasive impact and as such, this deficiency resulted in a risk that could have impacted all financial statement account balances and disclosures.
−Removed: The material weaknesses did not result in any identified material misstatements to our financial statements, and there were no changes to previously released financial results.
−Removed: Remediation of Material Weaknesses
−Removed: Management has developed and is actively engaged in implementing a remediation plan to address the material weaknesses described above.
−Removed: The remediation efforts that we have implemented during 2021 include the following:
−Removed: • Management has engaged external consultants to assist with our internal accounting functions and further enhance our internal controls, which has increased the number of external personnel involved in financial reporting.
−Removed: • We hired a Senior Manager SEC Reporting & Technical Accounting, a Senior Manager of Accounting, and a Senior Accountant, which has increased the number of qualified full-time employees involved in our financial reporting and the control environment.
−Removed: We anticipate that these efforts will enable us to broaden the scope and quality of our internal review of underlying information related to financial reporting and to formalize and enhance our internal control procedures.
−Removed: While the implementation of improved controls and procedures is ongoing, we have determined that as of September 30, 2021 that the material weaknesses described above have not been fully remediated.
+Added: Based on this assessment, our management has concluded that our disclosures controls and procedures were effective as of March 31, 2022.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: Other than the remediation efforts underway, as described above, there were no material changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2021 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Except as described below, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended March 31, 2022 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: On October 2021, we acquired BioDiscovery LLC.
+Added: We are in the process of integrating the internal controls of the acquired business into our overall system of internal control over financial reporting.
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