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We are subject to claims and assessments from time to time in the ordinary course of business but are not aware of any such matters, individually or in the aggregate, that will have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
−Removed: On March 4, 2020, Vytacera Bio, LLC (“Vytacera”) filed a patent infringement lawsuit against us in the U.S.
−Removed: District Court for the District of Delaware.
−Removed: The lawsuit alleged that our use, offers to sell, and/or sales of the PROBODY® technology platform for basic research applications constituted infringement.
−Removed: The complaint sought unspecified monetary damages.
−Removed: In September 2022, we filed a motion to dismiss the case.
−Removed: On October 17, 2024, the Court dismissed the case.
−Removed: Vytacera may appeal.
−Removed: We believe that the lawsuit is without merit and intend to vigorously defend ourselves through any appeal.
−Removed: Accordingly, we cannot reasonably estimate any range of potential future charges, and we have not recorded any accrual for a contingent liability associated with these legal proceedings.
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• We expect that we will need to raise substantial additional funds to advance development of our product candidates and we cannot guarantee that this additional funding will be available on acceptable terms or at all.
+Added: • Our recurring losses from operations and negative cash flows have raised substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern.
• Clinical development involves a lengthy and expensive process with an uncertain outcome, and results of earlier studies and trials may not be predictive of future trial results.
• Our product candidates are in early stages of development and may fail or suffer delays that materially and adversely affect their commercial viability.
−Removed: • Interim, “top-line,” initial and preliminary data from our clinical trials, including the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of CX-904, that we announce or publish from time to time may change as more patient data become available and are subject to audit and verification procedures that could result in material changes in the final data.
+Added: • Interim, “top-line,” initial and preliminary data from our clinical trials, including the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trials of CX-2051 and CX-801, that we announce or publish from time to time may change as more patient data become available and are subject to audit and verification procedures that could result in material changes in the final data.
• Our product candidates may cause undesirable side effects at any time during or after the clinical trial process that could delay or prevent their regulatory approval, limit the commercial profile of an approved label, or result in significant negative consequences following marketing approval, if any, including withdrawal from the market.
• If we experience delays or difficulties in the enrollment of patients in clinical trials, our receipt of necessary regulatory approvals could be delayed or prevented.
−Removed: • We will continue to conduct clinical trials and contract with third-party manufacturers in foreign countries, including China, which could expose us to risks that could have a material adverse effect on the success of our business.
+Added: • We will continue to conduct clinical trials and contract with third-party manufacturers in foreign countries, including Europe and China, which could expose us to risks that could have a material adverse effect on the success of our business.
• Because we have no long-term contracts with and rely on third-party manufacturing and supply partners, most of which are sole source suppliers, our supply of research and development, preclinical and clinical development materials may become limited or interrupted or may not be of satisfactory quantity or quality.
• We, or third-party manufacturers, may be unable to successfully scale-up manufacturing of our product candidates in sufficient quality and quantity, which would delay or prevent us from developing our product candidates and commercializing approved products, if any.
−Removed: • We rely on third parties to conduct all of our clinical trials and certain of our preclinical studies and intend to continue to do so, and if such third parties do not perform as contractually required, fail to satisfy regulatory or legal requirements or miss expected deadlines, our development programs could be delayed with material and adverse effects on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
• Our approach to the discovery and development of our therapeutic treatments is based on novel technologies that are unproven and may not result in marketable products.
−Removed: CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.
• The market may not be receptive to our product candidates based on a novel therapeutic modality, and we may not generate any future revenue from the sale or licensing of product candidates.
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• If our collaborators cease development efforts under our collaboration agreements, or if any of those agreements are terminated, these collaborations may fail to lead to commercial products and we may never receive milestone payments or future royalties under these agreements.
−Removed: • If we do not achieve our projected development and commercialization goals in the timeframes we announce and expect the commercialization of any of our product candidates may be delayed, or never attained, and our business will be harmed.
+Added: • If we do not achieve our projected development and commercialization goals in the time frames we announce and expect the commercialization of any of our product candidates may be delayed, or never attained, our business will be harmed.
• We may not successfully engage in strategic transactions, including any additional collaborations we seek, which could adversely affect our ability to develop and commercialize product candidates, impact our cash position, increase our expense and present significant distractions to our management.
• If we are unable to successfully develop companion diagnostic tests for certain of our product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, we may not realize the full commercial potential of our product candidates.
+Added: • We rely on third parties to conduct all of our clinical trials and certain of our preclinical studies and intend to continue to do so, and if such third parties do not perform as contractually required, fail to satisfy regulatory or legal requirements or miss expected deadlines, our development programs could be delayed with material and adverse effects on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
• We face competition from entities that have developed or may develop product candidates for cancer, including companies developing novel treatments and technology platforms.
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We have a history of losses, expect to continue to incur significant losses for the foreseeable future and may never achieve or maintain profitability, which could result in a decline in the market value of our common stock.
−Removed: We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a limited operating history, developing a novel class of therapeutic antibody product candidates, based on our proprietary biologic PROBODY® conditionally activated technology platform.
+Added: We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a limited operating history, developing a novel class of therapeutic product candidates, based on our proprietary biologic PROBODY ® conditionally activated technology platform.
Since our inception, we have devoted our resources to the development of PROBODY therapeutics.
We have had significant operating losses since our inception.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, we had an accumulated deficit of $710.5 million and $723.4 million, respectively.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, we had an accumulated deficit of $668.1 million and $691.6 million, respectively.
Substantially all of our losses have resulted from expenses incurred in connection with our research and development programs and from general and administrative costs associated with our operations.
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We have not yet demonstrated our ability to successfully complete any mid or late-stage clinical trials, including large-scale, pivotal clinical trials, obtain regulatory approvals, arrange for a third party to manufacture a commercial-scale product candidate, or conduct sales and marketing activities necessary for successful commercialization.
−Removed: Typically, it takes many years to develop one product candidate from the time it enters initial preclinical
−Removed: CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: studies to when it is available for treating patients.
+Added: Typically, it takes many years to develop one product candidate from the time it enters initial preclinical studies to when it is available for treating patients.
Consequently, any predictions made about our future success or viability may not be as accurate as they could be if we had a longer operating history.
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In addition, we have incurred and will continue to incur additional costs associated with operating as a public company.
−Removed: However, financial market conditions, including the public equity markets, and government regulation, including the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, signed into law by President Biden in August 2022, have made it difficult for biotechnology companies to raise additional funds and may continue to do so.
+Added: In January 2025, we restructured the Company and reduced headcount by approximately 40% to preserve capital and focus on high priority programs.
+Added: As a result, we believe we have sufficient capital to operate into the second quarter of 2026.
+Added: We will need to raise additional funds to continue our efforts.
+Added: However, financial market conditions, including the public equity markets, and government regulation, including the uncertainties of potential legislation under the new administration, may continue to make it difficult for biotechnology companies to raise additional funds.
We cannot predict when or if market conditions will change.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2024, we had cash, cash equivalents and investments of $117.6 million.
−Removed: We believe that our existing capital resources will be sufficient to fund our planned operations to the end of 2025.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, we had cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of $79.9 million.
+Added: We believe that our existing capital resources will be sufficient to fund our planned operations into the second quarter of 2026.
Our future capital requirements and the period for which we expect our existing resources to support our operations may vary significantly from what we expect and we may not achieve the expected cash flow savings that we anticipate as a result of our recent restructuring.
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• our ability to maintain our current licenses and research and development programs and to establish new collaboration arrangements;
−Removed: CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: • the costs involved in prosecuting and enforcing patent and other intellectual property claims, including the ongoing patent infringement lawsuit brought by Vytacera against us;
+Added: • the costs involved in prosecuting and enforcing patent and other intellectual property claims;
• the cost of any existing or future litigation to which we are or may become a party;
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If we are unable to obtain funding on a timely basis or on acceptable terms, we may have to delay, reduce or terminate our research and development programs and preclinical studies or clinical trials, limit strategic opportunities or undergo reductions in our workforce or other corporate restructuring activities.
−Removed: For example, in November 2023, we announced that we would not direct significant further investment in the development of CX-2029 in the near-term.
+Added: For example, in November 2023, we announced that we would not direct significant further investment in the development of CX-2029 and in the first quarter of 2025 terminated the program.
We also could be required to seek funds through arrangements with collaborators or others that may require us to relinquish rights to some of our technologies or product candidates that we would otherwise pursue on our own.
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Debt financing, if available, is likely to involve restrictive covenants limiting our flexibility in conducting future business activities, and, in the event of insolvency, debt holders would be repaid before holders of our equity securities received any distribution of our corporate assets.
+Added: Our recurring losses from operations and negative cash flows have raised substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Our recurring losses from operations and negative cash flows raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: We have devoted our resources to the development of PROBODY therapeutics and have experienced significant operating losses since our inception.
+Added: Furthermore, we expect to continue devoting substantial capital to the research and development of our product candidates.
+Added: Accordingly, our ability to continue as a going concern will require us to obtain additional financing to fund our operations or significantly curtail our operations to conserve our capital resources.
+Added: Further, the perception of our ability to continue as a going concern may make it more difficult for us to obtain financing for the continuation of our operations, or necessitate that we obtain financing on less favorable terms, and could result in the loss of confidence by investors, our partners and employees.
Clinical development involves a lengthy and expensive process with an uncertain outcome, and results of earlier studies and trials may not be predictive of future trial results.
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Commencement of initial clinical trials for future programs is subject to finalizing the trial design and submission of an IND or similar submission to the FDA or similar global health authorities.
−Removed: In addition, even if we submit an IND or a comparable submission in other jurisdictions for our product candidates, the FDA or other regulatory authorities could disagree that we have satisfied their requirements to commence our clinical trials or disagree with our study design, which may require us to complete additional preclinical studies or amend our protocols or impose stricter conditions on the commencement of clinical trials and may delay our ability to begin Phase 1 clinical trials, causing an increase in the amount of time and expense required to develop our product candidates.
+Added: In addition, even if we submit an IND or a comparable submission in other jurisdictions for our product candidates, the FDA or other regulatory authorities could disagree that we have satisfied their requirements to commence our clinical trials or disagree with our study design, which may require us to complete additional preclinical studies or amend our protocols or impose stricter conditions on the commencement of clinical trials and may delay our ability to begin clinical trials under such IND, causing an increase in the amount of time and expense required to develop our product candidates.
As a result of the foregoing, the research and development, preclinical studies and clinical testing of any product candidate is expensive and can take many years to complete, and its outcome is inherently uncertain.
Failure can occur at any time during the development process.
+Added: For example, in March 2025, based on clinical observations to date and CytomX pipeline priorities, Amgen and we jointly decided to terminate the CX-904 program.
Further, we or our collaborators may also experience delays in completing ongoing clinical trials, completing preclinical studies or initiating further clinical trials of our product candidates.
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• recruiting suitable patients to participate in a clinical trial;
−Removed: CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.
• developing and validating any companion diagnostic to be used in a clinical trial;
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If we are unable to advance our product candidates through clinical development, obtain regulatory approval and ultimately commercialize such product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed.
−Removed: We are very early in our development efforts, including with CX-904, CX-2051 and CX-801 currently continuing in early-stage clinical development.
+Added: We are very early in our development efforts, including with CX-2051 and CX-801 currently continuing in early-stage clinical development.
We have no products on the market and our ability to achieve and sustain profitability depends on obtaining regulatory approvals for and successfully commercializing our product candidates, either alone or with third parties.
−Removed: Before obtaining regulatory approval for the commercial distribution of our product candidates, we or our collaborator must conduct extensive preclinical tests and clinical trials to demonstrate sufficient safety, purity and potency (or efficacy) of our product candidates in patients.
+Added: Before obtaining regulatory approval for the commercial distribution of our product candidates, we or our collaborators must conduct extensive preclinical tests and clinical trials to demonstrate sufficient safety, purity and potency (or efficacy) of our product candidates in patients.
As a result, we may not have the financial resources to continue development of, or to modify existing or enter into new collaborations for, a product candidate if we experience any issues that delay or prevent regulatory approval of, or our ability to commercialize, product candidates, including:
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• delays or difficulties in the manufacturing of our product candidates;
−Removed: CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.
• unfavorable FDA or other regulatory agency inspection and review of a clinical trial site;
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We could find that the therapeutics we or our collaborators pursue are not safe, pure, potent (or efficacious).
+Added: For example, in March 2025, based on clinical observations to date and CytomX pipeline priorities, Amgen and we jointly decided to terminate the CX-904 program.
Further, a clinical trial may be suspended or terminated by us, our collaborators, the IRBs of the institutions in which such trials are being conducted, the Data Safety Monitoring Board for such trial or by the FDA or other regulatory authorities due to a number of factors, including failure to conduct the clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical protocols, inspection of the clinical trial operations or trial site by the FDA or other regulatory authorities resulting in the imposition of a clinical hold, unforeseen safety issues or adverse side effects, failure to demonstrate a benefit from using a drug or therapeutic biologic, changes in governmental regulations or administrative actions or lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial.
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For example, in March 2023, AbbVie announced that it would not advance CX-2029 into additional clinical trials and terminated our 2016 CD71 License and Collaboration Agreement for CX-2029.
−Removed: In November 2023, we announced that we would not direct significant further investment in the development of CX-2029 in the near-term.
+Added: In November 2023, we announced that we would not direct significant further investment in the development of CX-2029 and in the first quarter of 2025 terminated the program.
Any similar occurrences may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
In addition, many of the factors that cause, or lead to, a delay in the commencement or completion of clinical trials may also ultimately lead to the denial of regulatory approval of our product candidates.
−Removed: Interim, “top-line,” initial and preliminary data from our clinical trials, including the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of CX-904, that we announce or publish from time to time may change as more patient data become available and are subject to audit and verification procedures that could result in material changes in the final data.
+Added: Interim, “top-line,” initial and preliminary data from our clinical trials, including the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trials of CX-2051 or CX-801, that we announce or publish from time to time may change as more patient data become available and are subject to audit and verification procedures that could result in material changes in the final data.
From time to time, we may publicly disclose preliminary or top-line data from our preclinical studies and clinical trials, which is based on a preliminary analysis of then-available data, and the results and related findings and conclusions are subject to change following a more comprehensive review of the data related to the particular study or trial.
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As a result, top-line data should be viewed with caution until the final data are available.
−Removed: In May 2024, we disclosed initial data from our ongoing Phase 1a dose escalation clinical trial of CX-904.
−Removed: The clinical trial continues to enroll patients and we cannot provide any assurance that future data in this Phase 1 clinical trial or any subsequent clinical trials of CX-904 will confirm the early results generated in this ongoing clinical trial.
+Added: For example, in May 2024, we disclosed initial data from our ongoing Phase 1a dose escalation clinical trial of CX-904.
+Added: In March 2025, based on clinical observations to date and CytomX pipeline priorities, Amgen and we jointly decided to terminate the CX-904 program.
From time to time, we may also disclose interim data from our preclinical studies and clinical trials.
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In addition, the information we choose to publicly disclose regarding a particular study or clinical trial is based on what is typically extensive information, and you or others may not agree with what we determine is material or otherwise appropriate information to include in our disclosure.
−Removed: CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.
Our product candidates may cause undesirable side effects at any time during or after the clinical trial process that could delay or prevent their regulatory approval, limit the commercial profile of an approved label, or result in significant negative consequences following marketing approval, if any, including withdrawal from the market.
Undesirable side effects caused by our product candidates could cause us, our collaborators or regulatory authorities to interrupt, delay or halt clinical trials and could result in a more restrictive label or the delay or denial of regulatory approval by the FDA or other regulatory authorities.
−Removed: As is the case with all oncology drugs, there may be immediate or late side effects associated with the use of our product candidates, including CX-904, CX-2051 and CX-801.
−Removed: In May 2024, we disclosed initial data from our ongoing Phase 1a dose escalation clinical trial for CX-904.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that unexpected adverse events will not occur in our ongoing trials, including the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of CX-904, or in future trials involving our product candidates or the product candidates of our collaborators.
+Added: As is the case with all oncology drugs, there may be immediate or late side effects associated with the use of our product candidates, including CX-2051 and CX-801.
+Added: There can be no assurance that unexpected adverse events will not occur in our ongoing trials, including the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trials of CX-2051 or CX-801, or in future trials involving our product candidates or the product candidates of our collaborators.
Undesirable side effects may appear in later trials that were not observed in our earlier trials or may be more severe in later trials than earlier trials.
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For example, in 2024 we initiated a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial with CX-2051 and, while we believe our preclinical studies indicate the potential to reach a favorable therapeutic index, clinical data will be necessary to specify an acceptable dose.
−Removed: We cannot provide assurance that we will reach an acceptable dose for CX-904, CX-2051 or CX-801.
−Removed: Furthermore, any ongoing or future clinical trials of our product candidates, including those for CX-904, CX-2051 and CX-801, could face risks related to undesirable side effects, including unacceptable toxicity.
+Added: We cannot provide assurance that we will reach an acceptable or tolerable dose for CX-2051 or CX-801.
+Added: Furthermore, any ongoing or future clinical trials of our product candidates, including those for CX-2051 and CX-801, could face risks related to undesirable side effects, including unacceptable toxicity.
In the event that our clinical trials or the clinical trials of our collaborators reveal severe adverse side effects, our or our collaborators’ clinical trials could be suspended or terminated and the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities could impose a clinical hold, order us to cease further development of or deny approval of our product candidates for any or all targeted indications.
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• our reputation may suffer.
−Removed: In addition, adverse side effects caused by any drugs of other companies utilizing the same or similar antibodies of our product candidates, or that are similar in nature to our product candidates could delay or prevent regulatory approval of our product candidates, limit the commercial profile of an approved label for our product candidates, or result in significant negative consequences following marketing approval.
−Removed: CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: In addition, adverse side effects caused by any drugs of other companies utilizing the same or similar therapeutic agents of our product candidates, or that are similar in nature to our product candidates could delay or prevent regulatory approval of our product candidates, limit the commercial profile of an approved label for our product candidates, or result in significant negative consequences following marketing approval.
We believe that any of these events could prevent us from achieving or maintaining market acceptance of our product candidates and could substantially increase the costs of commercializing our product candidates, if approved, and significantly impact our ability to successfully commercialize our product candidates and generate revenues.
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• the perceived risks and benefits of the product candidate under study;
−Removed: • availability and efficacy of approved therapies for the disease or condition under investigation;
+Added: • the availability and efficacy of approved therapies for the disease or condition under investigation;
• the efforts to facilitate timely enrollment in clinical trials;
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There can be no assurance that new or further trials with our current or future drug candidates will not be adversely affected by a limited patient population.
−Removed: Our clinical trials of CX-904, CX-2051 and CX-801 study patients who have one or a select number of specific tumor types rather than patients suffering from any cancer, which limits the rate of enrollment of the trial.
+Added: Our clinical trials of CX-2051 and CX-801 study patients who have one or a select number of specific tumor types rather than patients suffering from any cancer, which limits the rate of enrollment of the trial.
In addition, some of our clinical trials seek to treat indications with small population sizes which could be particularly difficult to enroll.
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antibody-drug conjugates), and certain arms of the clinical trials may be difficult to enroll due to the emerging standard of care for such indications in certain jurisdictions, including the United States.
−Removed: Likewise, our clinical trials of CX-904, CX-2051 and CX-801 are also competing with thousands of other anti-cancer clinical trials.
+Added: Likewise, our clinical trials of CX-2051 and CX-801 are also competing with thousands of other anti-cancer clinical trials.
Any clinical trials of our product candidates initiated by our collaborators will face similar and additional risks relating to enrollment.
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Any delays relating to patient enrollment could cause significant delays in the timing of our or our collaborators’ clinical trials, which may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
−Removed: We will continue to conduct clinical trials and contract with third-party manufacturers in foreign countries, including China, which could expose us to risks that could have a material adverse effect on the success of our business.
+Added: We will continue to conduct clinical trials and contract with third-party manufacturers in foreign countries, including Europe and China, which could expose us to risks that could have a material adverse effect on the success of our business.
We have enrolled or are planning to enroll patients in our clinical trials outside the United States, including in Europe and South Korea.
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and (iii) the data may be considered valid without the need for an on-site inspection by the FDA, or if the FDA considers such inspection to be necessary, the FDA is able to validate the data through an on-site inspection or other appropriate means.
−Removed: In addition, even where the foreign study data are not intended to serve as the sole basis for approval, if the trial was not subject to an
−Removed: CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: IND, the FDA will not accept the data as support for an application for marketing approval unless the study was well-designed and well-conducted in accordance with GCP requirements and the FDA is able to validate the data from the study through an onsite inspection, if deemed necessary.
+Added: In addition, even where the foreign study data are not intended to serve as the sole basis for approval, if the trial was not subject to an IND, the FDA will not accept the data as support for an application for marketing approval unless the study was well-designed and well-conducted in accordance with GCP requirements and the FDA is able to validate the data from the study through an onsite inspection, if deemed necessary.
Many foreign regulatory authorities have similar approval requirements.
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If the FDA or any comparable foreign regulatory authority does not accept such data, it would result in the need for additional trials, which could be costly and time-consuming, and which may result in current or future product candidates that we may develop not receiving approval for commercialization in the applicable jurisdiction.
−Removed: In addition, we currently contract manufacturing operations to third parties, and certain of our product candidates are manufactured by and will in the future be manufactured by third parties outside the U.S., including in China.
−Removed: For example, we have a contract with a third-party manufacturer located in China for product candidates, including CX-2051 and CX-801, and accordingly we are exposed to the possibility of drug product supply disruption, delay and increased costs in the event of changes in the policies of the U.S.
−Removed: or Chinese governments, political unrest or unstable economic conditions in China.
−Removed: Further, in January 2024, the U.S.
−Removed: House of Representatives introduced the BIOSECURE Act (H.R.
−Removed: 7085) and the Senate advance a substantially similar bill (S.3558), which legislation, if passed and enacted into law, would have the potential to restrict the ability of U.S.
+Added: In addition, we currently contract manufacturing operations to third parties, and certain of our product candidates are manufactured by and will in the future be manufactured by third parties outside the U.S., including in Europe and China.
+Added: For example, we have a contract with a third-party manufacturer located in China for product candidates, including CX-2051 and CX-801, and accordingly we are exposed to the possibility of drug product supply disruption, delay and increased costs in the event of changes in the policies of the U.S., European or Chinese governments, including political unrest or unstable economic conditions in China or elsewhere.
+Added: Further, in September 2024, the U.S.
+Added: House of Representatives passed the BIOSECURE Act (H.R.
+Added: 8333) and the Senate has advanced a substantially similar bill (S.3558), which legislation, if passed and enacted into law, would have the potential to restrict the ability of U.S.
biopharmaceutical companies like us to purchase services or products from, or otherwise collaborate with, certain Chinese biotechnology companies “of concern”, including a third-party manufacturer we use for certain product candidates, without losing the ability to contract with, or otherwise receive funding from, the U.S.
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Any such failure to have clinical trial material available when needed could result in a substantial delay of our clinical trials.
−Removed: For each of CX-904, CX-2051 and CX-801 our manufacturing supply chain includes several contract manufacturers, and failure by any of these manufacturers could result in interruptions of our clinical studies.
+Added: For each of CX-2051 and CX-801 our manufacturing supply chain includes several contract manufacturers, and failure by any of these manufacturers could result in interruptions of our clinical studies.
For example, beginning in October 2023, one of our contract manufacturers of CX-2051 experienced production failures.
−Removed: Although we are taking steps to manage our long-term supply of CX-2051, there can be no assurance that we will not have future production failures, which could affect our ability to conduct our trials for CX-2051 or any other clinical trial drug candidates, including CX-801 and CX-904, on our planned timeline or at all.
+Added: Although we are taking steps to manage our long-term supply of CX-2051, there can be no assurance that we will not have future production failures, which could affect our ability to conduct our trials for CX-2051 or any other clinical trial drug candidates, including CX-801, on our planned timeline or at all.
We do not own manufacturing facilities for producing such supplies and do not have any long-term contracts and we do not currently have an alternative to any of our third-party contract manufacturers.
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In particular, any replacement of any of our third-party contract manufacturers could require significant effort and expertise because there may be a limited number of qualified replacements.
−Removed: In addition, we may encounter issues with transferring technology to a new third-party manufacturer, and we may encounter regulatory delays if we need to move the manufacturing of our products from one third-party manufacturer to another .
+Added: In addition, we may encounter issues with
+Added: transferring technology to a new third-party manufacturer, and we may encounter regulatory delays if we need to move the manufacturing of our products from one third-party manufacturer to another .
The manufacturing process for a product candidate is subject to FDA and foreign regulatory authority review.
Suppliers and manufacturers must meet applicable manufacturing requirements and undergo rigorous facility and process validation tests required by regulatory authorities in order to comply with regulatory standards, such as current Good Manufacturing Practices (“cGMPs”).
−Removed: In the event that any of our manufacturers fails to comply with such requirements or to perform its obligations to us in relation to quality, timing or otherwise, such as the CX-2051 manufacturing production failures our contract manufacturer experienced in 2023, or if our supply of components or other materials
−Removed: CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: becomes limited or interrupted for other reasons, such as one of our manufacturers going out of business, we may be forced to manufacture the materials ourselves, for which we currently do not have the capabilities or resources, or enter into an agreement with another third party, which we may not be able to do on reasonable terms, if at all.
+Added: In the event that any of our manufacturers fails to comply with such requirements or to perform its obligations to us in relation to quality, timing or otherwise, such as the CX-2051 manufacturing production failures our contract manufacturer experienced in 2023, or if our supply of components or other materials becomes limited or interrupted for other reasons, such as one of our manufacturers going out of business, we may be forced to manufacture the materials ourselves, for which we currently do not have the capabilities or resources, or enter into an agreement with another third party, which we may not be able to do on reasonable terms, if at all.
In some cases, the technical skills or technology required to manufacture our product candidates may be unique or proprietary to the original manufacturer and we may have difficulty transferring such skills or technology to another third party and a feasible alternative may not exist.
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It may prove more challenging than we anticipate to manufacture products that incorporate our PROBODY therapeutic technology.
−Removed: In order to conduct clinical trials of our product candidates, including our clinical trials for CX-904, CX-2051 and CX-801 we will need to manufacture them in large quantities.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that we will not have future production failures, which could affect our ability to conduct our trials for CX-904, CX-2051 or CX-801 or any other clinical trial drug candidates on our planned timeline or at all.
+Added: In order to conduct clinical trials of our product candidates, including our clinical trials for CX-2051 and CX-801 we will need to manufacture them in large quantities.
+Added: There can be no assurance that we will not have future production failures, which could affect our ability to conduct our trials for CX-2051 or CX-801 or any other clinical trial drug candidates on our planned timeline or at all.
Furthermore, in order to conduct later stage clinical trials of our product candidates and eventually, if approved, commercial products, we will need to manufacture them in larger quantities.
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While we believe we can complete this process successfully, there can be no assurances that the changes we make to the drug product and manufacturing process will be successful or completed in a timely manner or that the FDA will not require additional development steps or studies from those we believe are necessary.
−Removed: If we are not able to scale up our manufacturing capabilities with respect to any of our product candidates, increase the life of drug stability of product candidates, or successfully complete the FDA’s bridging requirements, the development, testing, and clinical trials of that product candidate may be delayed or infeasible, and regulatory approval or commercial launch of any resulting product may be delayed or not obtained, which could significantly harm our business.
+Added: If we are not able to scale up our manufacturing capabilities with respect to any of our product candidates, increase the life of drug stability of product candidates, or successfully complete the FDA’s bridging requirements, the
+Added: development, testing, and clinical trials of that product candidate may be delayed or infeasible, and regulatory approval or commercial launch of any resulting product may be delayed or not obtained, which could significantly harm our business.
Our approach to the discovery and development of our therapeutic treatments is based on novel technologies that are unproven and may not result in marketable products.
We plan to continue to develop a pipeline of product candidates using our proprietary PROBODY platform.
−Removed: We believe that product candidates (including cancer immunotherapies, conditionally activated ADCs and bispecific antibodies) identified with our product discovery
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−Removed: platform may offer an improved therapeutic approach by taking advantage of unique conditions in the tumor microenvironment, thereby reducing the dose-limiting toxic effects associated with traditional antibody products, which can also attack healthy tissue.
−Removed: However, the scientific research that forms the basis of our efforts to develop product candidates based on our PROBODY platform is ongoing, including the research resulting from our ongoing clinical trials for CX-904, CX-2051and CX-801.
+Added: We believe that product candidates (including cancer immunotherapies, conditionally activated ADCs and bispecific antibodies) identified with our product discovery platform may offer an improved therapeutic approach by taking advantage of unique conditions in the tumor microenvironment, thereby reducing the dose-limiting toxic effects associated with traditional antibody products, which can also attack healthy tissue.
+Added: However, the scientific research that forms the basis of our efforts to develop product candidates based on our PROBODY platform is ongoing, including the research resulting from our ongoing clinical trials for CX-2051 and CX-801.
We may ultimately discover that our PROBODY platform and any product candidates resulting from it do not possess certain properties required for therapeutic effectiveness or protection from toxicity.
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As a result, our PROBODY product candidates may trigger immune responses, such as anti-drug antibody (“ADA”), that may inhibit the ability of the antibody to reach the target tissue, inhibit the ability of the antibody to bind to its target, cause adverse side effects in humans or cause hypersensitivity reactions.
−Removed: For example, we reported in February 2019 that in our pacmilimab trial at the 10 mg/kg dose, the ADA rate was approximately 62%.
−Removed: We do not believe the ADA rate impacted our ability to reach targeted drug exposures.
However, we cannot provide assurance that it will not later limit drug exposure or cause severe adverse events for our other drug candidates.
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As a result, we cannot provide any assurance that we will be able to successfully identify and advance any product candidates to target novel, difficult-to-drug targets.
−Removed: Additionally, we recently entered into a collaboration with Moderna for the development of mRNA based product candidates.
+Added: Additionally, we entered into a collaboration with Moderna for the development of mRNA based product candidates.
We do not know whether our PROBODY platform will be able to successfully develop product candidates utilizing this mRNA technology.
−Removed: We believe that the FDA and foreign regulatory authorities have limited experience with conditionally activated therapeutics in oncology, such experience primarily coming from us with praluzatamab ravtansine, CX-2029, BMS-986249, BMS-986288, and pacmilimab, and more recently, with other competitors with early stage conditionally activated therapeutics.
+Added: We believe that the FDA and foreign regulatory authorities have limited experience with conditionally activated therapeutics in oncology, such experience primarily coming from us with our prior development of CX-904, praluzatamab ravtansine, CX-2029, BMS-986249, BMS-986288, and pacmilimab, and more recently, with other competitors with early stage conditionally activated therapeutics.
We believe that such limited experience may increase the complexity, uncertainty and length of the regulatory approval process for our product candidates and may keep us from commencing first-in-human trials in certain countries.
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As a result, we and our collaborators may never receive approval to market and commercialize any product candidate.
−Removed: Even if we or our collaborators obtain regulatory approval, the approval may be for targets, disease indications or patient populations that are not as broad as we or they intended or desired or may require labeling that includes significant use or distribution restrictions or safety warnings.
+Added: Even if we or our collaborators obtain regulatory approval, the approval may be for targets, disease indications or patient populations that are not as broad as we or they intended or desired or may require labeling that includes significant use or distribution
+Added: restrictions or safety warnings.
We or our collaborators may be required to perform additional or unanticipated clinical trials to obtain approval or be subject to post-marketing testing requirements to maintain regulatory approval.
If one or more of our product candidates or our PROBODY technology generally prove to be ineffective, unsafe or commercially unviable, our entire platform and pipeline may have little, if any, value, which would have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
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The market may not be receptive to our product candidates based on a novel therapeutic modality, and we may not generate any future revenue from the sale or licensing of product candidates.
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Additionally, some of our collaborations may require us to share in certain development and commercialization expenses.
−Removed: If we cannot afford to share such expenses when required, our rights under such collaborations may be adversely affected, including potentially that our collaborators may terminate the
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+Added: If we cannot afford to share such expenses
+Added: when required, our rights under such collaborations may be adversely affected, including potentially that our collaborators may terminate the relevant agreement.
Overall, collaborations involving our product candidates currently pose, and will continue to pose, the following risks to us:
−Removed: • collaborators have significant discretion in determining the amount and timing of efforts and resources that they will apply to these collaborations, including, with respect to Amgen, CX-904;
+Added: • collaborators have significant discretion in determining the amount and timing of efforts and resources that they will apply to these collaborations, including the preclinical collaboration programs with Bristol Myers Squibb, Amgen, Astellas, Regeneron and Moderna;
• collaborators may not pursue development and commercialization of our product candidates or may elect not to continue or renew development or commercialization programs based on preclinical or clinical trial results, changes in the collaborators’ strategic focus or available funding or resources, or external factors such as an acquisition that diverts resources or creates competing priorities;
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For example, in January 2023, we announced topline results of the Phase 2 expansion cohorts of CX-2029 and in March 2023, AbbVie decided not to continue the future development of CX-2029.
−Removed: CytomX re-acquired full rights to CX-2029, however, in the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company decided to not to make any further significant investments in the solid tumor CX-2029 program in the near-term, but continues to have a strategic interest in the CD71 target, including next-generation approaches.
+Added: CytomX re-acquired full rights to CX-2029, however, in the fourth quarter of 2023, we decided to not to make any further significant investments in the solid tumor CX-2029 program and terminated the program in the first quarter of 2025.
+Added: Additionally, in March 2025, based on clinical observations to date and CytomX pipeline priorities, Amgen and we jointly decided to terminate the CX-904 program.
As a result of the foregoing, our current and any future collaboration agreements may not lead to development or commercialization of our product candidates in the most efficient manner or at all and may not result in the realization of the benefits we expected to achieve upon our entry into such agreements.
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If our development partners do not select additional targets and we are unable to successfully advance the development of our product candidates or achieve milestones, revenue and cash resources from milestone payments under our collaboration agreements will be substantially less than expected.
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In addition, to the extent that any of our collaborators were to terminate a collaboration agreement, we may decide to independently develop these product candidates to the extent we retain development rights.
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For instance, in March 2023, AbbVie terminated our 2016 CD71 License and Collaboration Agreement, and from time to time some of our research programs have been terminated by our partners.
+Added: Additionally, in March 2025, based on clinical observations to date and CytomX pipeline priorities, Amgen and we jointly decided to terminate the CX-904 program.
The termination of any of our collaboration agreements or individual programs within a collaboration agreement could result in a change to our business plan and may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
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In particular, we will evaluate and, if strategically attractive, seek to enter into additional collaborations, including with major biotechnology or biopharmaceutical companies.
−Removed: In July 2022, in connection with our announcement of Phase 2 topline results for praluzatamab ravtansine, we communicated our plans to seek collaborators to advance the program further, however, we have not obtained a collaborator for that program.
−Removed: The competition for collaborators is intense and there can be no assurances that we will be able to secure any collaboration for praluzatamab ravtansine or any other program.
+Added: In July 2022, in connection with our announcement of Phase 2 topline results for praluzatamab ravtansine, we communicated our plans to seek collaborators to advance the program further, however, we did not obtain a collaborator for that program.
+Added: The competition for collaborators is intense and there can be no assurances that we will be able to secure any collaboration for any of our programs.
The negotiation process for strategic collaborations is time-consuming and complex.
Any new collaboration may be on terms that are not optimal for us, and we may not be able to maintain any new collaboration if, for example, development or approval of a product candidate is delayed, sales of an approved product candidate do not meet expectations or the collaborator terminates the collaboration.
−Removed: Any such collaboration, or other strategic transaction, may require us to incur non-recurring or other charges, increase our near- and long-term expenditures and pose significant integration or implementation challenges or disrupt our management or business.
−Removed: These transactions would entail numerous operational and financial risks, including exposure to unknown liabilities,
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−Removed: disruption of our business and diversion of our management’s time and attention in order to manage a collaboration or develop acquired products, product candidates or technologies, incurrence of substantial debt or dilutive issuances of equity securities to pay transaction consideration or costs, higher than expected collaboration, acquisition or integration costs, write-downs of assets or goodwill or impairment charges, increased amortization expenses, difficulty and cost in facilitating the collaboration or combining the operations and personnel of any acquired business, impairment of relationships with key suppliers, manufacturers or customers of any acquired business due to changes in management and ownership and the inability to retain key employees of any acquired business.
+Added: Any such collaboration, or other strategic transaction, may require us to incur non-recurring or other charges, increase our near- and long-term expenditures and pose significant integration or implementation challenges or disrupt our
+Added: management or business.
+Added: These transactions would entail numerous operational and financial risks, including exposure to unknown liabilities, disruption of our business and diversion of our management’s time and attention in order to manage a collaboration or develop acquired products, product candidates or technologies, incurrence of substantial debt or dilutive issuances of equity securities to pay transaction consideration or costs, higher than expected collaboration, acquisition or integration costs, write-downs of assets or goodwill or impairment charges, increased amortization expenses, difficulty and cost in facilitating the collaboration or combining the operations and personnel of any acquired business, impairment of relationships with key suppliers, manufacturers or customers of any acquired business due to changes in management and ownership and the inability to retain key employees of any acquired business.
Accordingly, although there can be no assurance that we will undertake or successfully complete any transactions of the nature described above, any transactions that we do complete may be subject to the foregoing or other risks and have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
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If we or any of our CROs or trial sites fail to comply with applicable GLP, GCP or other
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requirements, the data generated in our clinical trials may be deemed unreliable, and the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may require us to perform additional clinical trials before approving our marketing applications, if ever.
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For example, in July 2022, we announced that we would not continue the development of pralauzatamab ravtansine without a partner.
−Removed: Additionally, in November 2023 we decided to not to make any further significant investments in the CX-2029 solid tumor program in the near-term.
+Added: Additionally, in November 2023 we decided to not to make any further significant investments in the CX-2029 solid tumor program in the near-term, and in the first quarter of 2025 we terminated the program.
As a result, we may forgo or delay pursuit of opportunities with those products in other indications or with other product candidates that later prove to have greater commercial potential.
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We may experience difficulties in managing our growth and expanding when needed.
−Removed: Over the last few years, we have expanded our workforce and activities to manage our expanding pipeline, including Phase 2 clinical trials.
−Removed: However, in July 2022, we announced we will not advance praluzatamab ravtansine into further clinical trials and will seek a partner for the program.
−Removed: As a result, we announced that we would reduce our workforce, primarily development and general and administrative staff, by approximately 40%.
+Added: Since 2022 we have maintained a relatively steady number of employees in our workforce and maintained activities to manage our pipeline, including research activities and efforts to establish and run clinical trials for CX-2051, CX-904 and CX-801.
+Added: However, in January 2025, we announced that we would reduce our workforce, primarily research and general and administrative staff, by approximately 40% to preserve capital for ongoing clinical trials and collaboration partner activities.
In the future we may need to grow our organization substantially to continue development and pursue the potential commercialization of our product candidates, including CX-801 and CX-2051, as well as function as a public company.
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In addition, we expect our collaborations to require greater resources as the development of our product candidates under such agreements progresses.
−Removed: In the future, we expect to also have to manage additional relationships with collaborators or partners, including Regeneron and Moderna, suppliers and other organizations.
+Added: In the future, we expect to also have to manage additional relationships with collaborators or partners, suppliers and other organizations.
In particular, if the third parties on which we currently rely are not capable of delivering services or supplies in a manner that is sufficient to meet our requirements as we expand our operations, we could be required to contract with new third parties and there can be no assurances that the services or supplies of such third parties will be available on commercially reasonable terms, or at all.
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We believe that a significant number of products are currently under development, and may become commercially available in the future, for the treatment of conditions for which we may try to develop product candidates.
−Removed: Additionally, there is intense and rapidly evolving competition in the biotechnology, biopharmaceutical and antibody and immunoregulatory
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−Removed: therapeutics fields, and our competitors include larger and better funded biopharmaceutical, biotechnological and therapeutics companies.
+Added: Additionally, there is intense and rapidly evolving competition in the biotechnology, biopharmaceutical and antibody and immunoregulatory therapeutics fields, and our competitors include larger and better funded biopharmaceutical, biotechnological and therapeutics companies.
In addition, these companies compete with us in recruiting scientific and managerial talent.
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We face competition for personnel from other companies, universities, public and private research institutions, government entities and other organizations, especially as job opportunities in the biotechnology industry increase in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the country.
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If any of our product candidates are approved for marketing and commercialization and we are unable to develop sales, marketing and distribution capabilities on our own or enter into agreements with third parties to perform these functions on acceptable terms, we will be unable to commercialize successfully any such future products.
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Price controls imposed in foreign markets may adversely affect our future profitability.
−Removed: In some countries, particularly member states of the European Union, the pricing of prescription drugs is subject to governmental control.
+Added: In some countries, particularly member states of the European Union and the United Kingdom, the pricing of prescription drugs is subject to governmental control.
In these countries, pricing negotiations with governmental authorities can take considerable time after receipt of marketing approval for a product.
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If reimbursement of any product candidate approved for marketing is unavailable or limited in scope or amount, or if pricing is set at unsatisfactory levels, our business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects could be materially and adversely affected.
−Removed: We currently do not know how the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union will affect the pricing of prescription drugs, either in the United Kingdom or in the remaining European Union member states.
Our business entails a significant risk of product liability and our ability to obtain sufficient insurance coverage could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
−Removed: We are exposed to significant product liability risks inherent in the development, testing, manufacturing and marketing of therapeutic treatments, including as a result of the clinical testing of our prior clinical candidates, our current clinical candidates, including CX-904, CX-2051 and CX-801, and any other product candidates we may have or those of our collaborators.
+Added: We are exposed to significant product liability risks inherent in the development, testing, manufacturing and marketing of therapeutic treatments, including as a result of the clinical testing of our prior clinical candidates, our current clinical candidates, including CX-2051 and CX-801, and any other product candidates we may have or those of our collaborators.
Product liability claims could delay or prevent completion of our development programs.
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In particular, sales, marketing and business arrangements in the healthcare industry are subject to extensive laws and regulations intended to prevent fraud, kickbacks, self-dealing and other abusive practices.
−Removed: These laws and regulations may restrict or prohibit a wide range of pricing, discounting, marketing and promotion, sales
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−Removed: commission, customer incentive programs and other business arrangements.
−Removed: Activities subject to these laws could also involve the improper use or misrepresentation of information obtained in the course of clinical trials, which could result in regulatory sanctions and cause serious harm to our reputation.
+Added: These laws and regulations may restrict or prohibit a wide range of pricing, discounting, marketing and promotion, sales commission, customer incentive programs and other business arrangements.
+Added: Activities subject to these laws could also involve the improper use or misrepresentation of information obtained in the course of clinical trials, which could result in regulatory sanctions and cause serious
+Added: harm to our reputation.
It is not always possible to identify and deter misconduct by employees and other third parties, and the precautions we take to detect and prevent this activity may not be effective in controlling unknown or unmanaged risks or losses or in protecting us from governmental investigations or other actions or lawsuits stemming from a failure to be in compliance with such laws or regulations.
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The remaining net operating losses and credit will be available in future years before expiration during their respective carryforward periods.
−Removed: We may experience ownership changes in the future as a result of shifts in our stock ownership, some of which are outside our control, and our ability to utilize net operating loss
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−Removed: carryforwards could be limited by an “ownership change” as described above, which could result in additional increased tax liability to the Company.
+Added: We may experience ownership changes in the future as a result of shifts in our stock ownership, some of which are outside our control, and our ability to utilize net operating loss carryforwards could be limited by an “ownership change” as described above, which could result in additional increased tax liability to the Company.
Risks Related to Intellectual Property
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In addition, there can be no assurance that:
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• Others will not or may not be able to make, use or sell compounds that are the same as or similar to our product candidates but that are not covered by the claims of the patents that we own or license.
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The legal systems of certain countries, particularly certain developing countries, make it difficult to enforce patents and such countries may not recognize other types of intellectual property protection, particularly that relating to biopharmaceuticals.
−Removed: This could make it difficult for us to prevent the infringement of our patents or marketing of competing products in violation of our proprietary rights
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−Removed: generally in certain jurisdictions.
+Added: This could make it difficult for us to prevent the infringement of our patents or marketing of competing products in violation of our proprietary rights generally in certain jurisdictions.
Proceedings to enforce our patent rights in foreign jurisdictions could result in substantial cost and divert our efforts and attention from other aspects of our business.
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The complaint sought unspecified monetary damages.
−Removed: On October 17, 2024 the Court dismissed plaintiff’s case, however, the plaintiff may appeal.
−Removed: The Company believes that the lawsuit is without merit and intends to vigorously defend itself through any appeal.
−Removed: However, there can be no assurance that a court might not rule against us in these proceedings.
−Removed: If the plaintiff appeals and is successful in continuing the litigation, this litigation could divert management’s attention, as well as our resources, from our business and any claims paid out of our cash reserves would harm our financial condition and operating results.
+Added: On October 17, 2024 the Court dismissed plaintiff’s case, and on October 28, 2024, the Court ordered the case to be closed.
If we or our licensors, or any future strategic partners are found to infringe a third-party patent or other intellectual property rights, we could be required to pay damages, potentially including treble damages, if we are found to have willfully infringed.
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Uncertainties resulting from the initiation and continuation of patent litigation or other proceedings could delay our research and development efforts and limit our ability to continue our operations.
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If we were to initiate legal proceedings against a third party to enforce a patent covering one of our products or our technology, the defendant could counterclaim that our patent is invalid or unenforceable.
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Such a loss of patent protection could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
−Removed: Patents and other intellectual property rights also will not protect our technology if competitors design around our protected technology without legally infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating our patents or other intellectual property rights.
+Added: Patents and other
+Added: intellectual property rights also will not protect our technology if competitors design around our protected technology without legally infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating our patents or other intellectual property rights.
Intellectual property rights of third parties could adversely affect our ability to commercialize our product candidates, and we might be required to litigate or obtain licenses from third parties in order to develop or market our product candidates.
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Intellectual property litigation could cause us to spend substantial resources and distract our personnel from their normal responsibilities.
−Removed: Litigation, including the ongoing patent infringement lawsuit brought by Vytacera against us, or other legal proceedings relating to intellectual property claims, with or without merit, is unpredictable and generally expensive and time consuming and is likely to divert significant resources from our core business, including distracting our technical and management personnel from their normal responsibilities.
+Added: Litigation or other legal proceedings relating to intellectual property claims, with or without merit, is unpredictable and generally expensive and time consuming and is likely to divert significant resources from our core business, including distracting our technical and management personnel from their normal responsibilities.
Furthermore, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in connection with intellectual property litigation, there is a risk that some of our confidential information could be compromised by disclosure during this type of litigation.
In addition, there could be public announcements of the results of hearings, motions or other interim proceedings or developments and if securities analysts or investors perceive these results to be negative, it could have a substantial adverse effect on the price of our common stock.
−Removed: Such litigation or
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−Removed: proceedings could substantially increase our operating losses and reduce the resources available for development activities or any future sales, marketing or distribution activities.
+Added: Such litigation or proceedings could substantially increase our operating losses and reduce the resources available for development activities or any future sales, marketing or distribution activities.
We may not have sufficient financial or other resources to adequately conduct such litigation or proceedings.
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Accordingly, despite our efforts, we may not be able to prevent third parties from infringing upon, misappropriating or otherwise violating or from successfully challenging our intellectual property rights.
−Removed: For example, although we believe the Vytacera lawsuit is without merit and we intend to vigorously defend ourselves, we cannot provide any assurance that we will be successful.
Uncertainties resulting from the initiation and continuation of patent litigation or other proceedings could have a material and adverse effect on our ability to compete in the marketplace.
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In addition, some courts in the U.S.
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−Removed: foreign jurisdictions are less willing or unwilling to protect trade secrets.
+Added: and certain foreign jurisdictions are less willing or unwilling to protect trade secrets.
If any of our trade secrets were to be lawfully obtained or independently developed by a competitor, we would have no right to prevent them from using that technology or information to compete with us.
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• such authorities may disagree with our interpretation of data from preclinical studies or clinical trials;
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• such authorities may not agree that the data collected from clinical trials of our product candidates are acceptable or sufficient to support the submission of a BLA or other submission or to obtain regulatory approval in the U.S.
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The time required to obtain FDA and other approvals is unpredictable but typically takes many years following the commencement of clinical trials, depending upon the type, complexity and novelty of the product candidate.
−Removed: The standards that the FDA and its foreign counterparts use when regulating us require judgment and can change, which makes it difficult to predict with certainty how they will be applied.
+Added: The standards that the FDA and
+Added: its foreign counterparts use when regulating us require judgment and can change, which makes it difficult to predict with certainty how they will be applied.
Any analysis we perform of data from preclinical and clinical activities is subject to confirmation and interpretation by regulatory authorities, which could delay, limit or prevent regulatory approval.
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Additionally, our product candidates, if approved, could be subject to labeling and other restrictions and market withdrawal and we may be subject to penalties if we fail to comply with regulatory requirements or experience unanticipated problems with our products.
−Removed: Any regulatory approvals that we or our collaborators obtain for our product candidates may also be subject to limitations on the approved indicated uses for which a product may be marketed or to the conditions of approval, or contain requirements for potentially costly post-marketing testing, including “Phase 4” clinical trials, and surveillance to monitor the safety and efficacy of the product candidate.
+Added: Any regulatory approvals that we or our collaborators obtain for our product candidates may also be subject to limitations on the approved indicated uses for which a product may be marketed or to the conditions of approval, or contain requirements for potentially costly post-marketing testing, including post-marketing clinical trials and surveillance programs to monitor the safety and efficacy of the product candidate.
In addition, if the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority approves any of our product candidates, the manufacturing processes, labeling, packaging, distribution, adverse event reporting, storage, import, export, advertising, promotion and recordkeeping for the product will be subject to extensive and ongoing regulatory requirements.
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Such approvals may also contain significant limitations related to use restrictions for specified age groups, warnings, precautions or contraindications, and may include burdensome post-approval study or risk management requirements.
−Removed: For example, the FDA may require a REMS as a condition of approval of our product candidates, which could
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−Removed: include requirements for a medication guide, physician training and communication plans or additional elements to ensure safe use, such as restricted distribution methods, patient registries and other risk minimization tools.
+Added: For example, the FDA may require a REMS as a condition of approval of our product candidates, which could include requirements for a medication guide, physician training and communication plans or additional elements to ensure safe use, such as restricted distribution methods, patient registries and other risk minimization tools.
Later discovery of previously unknown problems with a product, including adverse events of unanticipated severity or frequency, or with our third-party manufacturers or manufacturing processes, or failure to comply with regulatory requirements, may result in, among other things:
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However, there is a risk that this exclusivity could be shortened due to congressional action or otherwise, or that the FDA will not consider our product candidates to be reference products for competing products, potentially creating the opportunity for competition sooner than anticipated.
−Removed: Moreover, the extent to which a biosimilar, once approved, will be substituted for any one of our reference products in a way that is similar to traditional generic substitution for non-biological products is not yet clear, and will depend on a number of marketplace factors that are still developing.
+Added: Moreover, the extent to which a biosimilar, once approved, will be substituted for any one of our reference products in a way that is similar to traditional generic substitution for non-biological products is not yet clear, and will depend on a number of marketplace factors.
Disruptions at the FDA and other government agencies caused by funding shortages or global health concerns could hinder their ability to hire, retain or deploy key leadership and other personnel, or otherwise prevent new or modified products from being developed, approved or commercialized in a timely manner or at all, which could negatively impact our business.
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Disruptions at the FDA and other agencies may also slow the time necessary for therapeutic biologics or modifications to approved therapeutic biologics to be reviewed and/or approved by necessary government agencies, which would adversely affect our business.
−Removed: For example, over the last several years, the U.S.
+Added: For example, in recent years, the U.S.
government has shut down several times and certain regulatory agencies, such as the FDA, have had to furlough FDA employees and stop critical activities.
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Separately, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA postponed most inspections of domestic and foreign manufacturing facilities at various points.
−Removed: Even though the FDA has since resumed standard inspection operations, any emergence of other pandemics may lead to inspectional or administrative delays.
−Removed: If a prolonged government shutdown occurs, or if global health concerns prevent the FDA or other regulatory authorities from conducting their regular inspections, reviews or other regulatory activities, it could significantly impact the ability of the FDA or other regulatory authorities to timely review and process our regulatory submissions, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: If a prolonged government shutdown occurs, or if renewed global health concerns prevent the FDA or other regulatory authorities from conducting their regular inspections, reviews or other regulatory activities, it could significantly impact the ability of the FDA or other regulatory authorities to timely review and process our regulatory submissions, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
Healthcare legislative reform measures may have a material and adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
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pharmaceutical industry.
−Removed: The ACA, among other things, subjected therapeutic biologics to potential competition by lower-cost biosimilars, addressed a new methodology by which rebates owed by manufacturers under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program are calculated for drugs and therapeutic biologics that are inhaled, infused, instilled, implanted or injected, increased the minimum Medicaid rebates owed by manufacturers under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and extended the rebate program to individuals enrolled in Medicaid managed care organizations, established annual fees and taxes on manufacturers of certain branded prescription drugs and therapeutic biologics, and created a new Medicare Part D coverage gap discount program, in which manufacturers must agree to offer 50% point-of-sale discounts, which, through subsequent legislative amendments, was increased to 70% starting in 2019, off negotiated prices of applicable brand drugs and therapeutic biologics to eligible beneficiaries during their coverage gap period, as a condition for the manufacturer’s outpatient drugs and therapeutic biologics to be covered under Medicare Part D.
−Removed: Since its enactment, there have been judicial, executive and Congressional challenges to certain aspects of the ACA.
+Added: The ACA, among other things, subjected therapeutic biologics to potential competition by lower-cost biosimilars, addressed a new methodology by which rebates owed by manufacturers under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program are calculated for drugs and therapeutic biologics that are inhaled, infused, instilled, implanted or injected, increased the minimum Medicaid rebates owed by manufacturers under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and extended the rebate program to individuals enrolled in Medicaid managed care organizations, and established annual fees and taxes on manufacturers of certain branded prescription drugs and therapeutic biologics.
+Added: Since its enactment, there have been judicial, executive and Congressional challenges to certain aspects of
On June 17, 2021, the U.S.
Supreme Court dismissed the most recent judicial challenge to the ACA brought by several states without specifically ruling on the constitutionality of the ACA.
−Removed: Prior to the Supreme Court’s decision, President Biden issued an executive order initiating a special enrollment period from February 15, 2021 through August 15, 2021 for purposes of obtaining health insurance coverage through the ACA marketplace.
−Removed: The executive order also instructed certain governmental agencies to review and reconsider their existing policies and rules that limit access to healthcare.
−Removed: It is unclear how healthcare reform measures enacted by Congress or implemented by the Biden administration, if any, will impact our business.
In addition, other legislative changes have been proposed and adopted in the United States since the ACA was enacted to reduce healthcare expenditures.
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Although the Medicare program increasingly is used as a model for how private payors and other governmental payors develop their coverage and reimbursement policies, it is difficult to predict at this time what third-party payors will decide with respect to the coverage and reimbursement for any companion diagnostics associated with our product candidates.
−Removed: In addition, recently there has been heightened governmental scrutiny over the manner in which manufacturers set prices for their marketed products, which has resulted in several Congressional inquiries and proposed bills designed to, among other things, bring more transparency to product pricing, review the relationship between pricing and manufacturer patient programs, and reform government program
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−Removed: reimbursement methodologies for drug products.
−Removed: In March 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was signed into law, which eliminates the statutory Medicaid drug rebate cap, currently set at 100% of a drug’s average manufacturer price, beginning January 1, 2024.
−Removed: In August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, or IRA, was signed into law by President Biden.
−Removed: Among other things, the IRA requires manufacturers of certain drugs to engage in price negotiations with Medicare (beginning in 2026), imposes rebates under Medicare Part B and Medicare Part D to penalize price increases that outpace inflation (first due in 2023), and replaces the Part D coverage gap discount program with a new discounting program (beginning in 2025).
+Added: In addition, recently there has been heightened governmental scrutiny over the manner in which manufacturers set prices for their marketed products, which has resulted in several Congressional inquiries and proposed bills designed to, among other things, bring more transparency to product pricing, review the relationship between pricing and manufacturer patient programs, and reform government program reimbursement methodologies for drug products.
+Added: In March 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was signed into law, which eliminated the statutory Medicaid drug rebate cap, previously set at 100% of a drug’s average manufacturer price, beginning January 1, 2024.
+Added: In August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, or IRA, was signed into law.
+Added: Among other things, the IRA requires manufacturers of certain drugs to engage in price negotiations with Medicare (beginning in 2026), imposes rebates under Medicare Part B and Medicare Part D to penalize price increases that outpace inflation (first due in 2023), and replaces the Part D coverage gap discount program with a new discounting program (which began in 2025).
The IRA permits the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement many of these provisions through guidance, as opposed to regulation, for the initial years.
+Added: CMS has published the negotiated prices for the initial ten drugs, which will first be effective in 2026, and has published the list of the subsequent 15 drugs that will be subject to negotiation, although the drug price negotiation program is currently subject to legal challenges.
For that and other reasons, it is currently unclear how the IRA will be effectuated.
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Healthcare providers, physicians and third-party payors play a primary role in the recommendation and prescription of any product candidates for which we obtain marketing approval.
−Removed: Our future arrangements with third-party payors and customers may expose us to broadly applicable fraud and abuse and other healthcare laws and regulations that may constrain the business or financial arrangements and relationships through which we market, sell and distribute our product candidates for which we obtain marketing approval.
+Added: Our future arrangements with third-party payors and customers may expose us to broadly applicable fraud and abuse and other healthcare laws and regulations that may constrain
+Added: the business or financial arrangements and relationships through which we market, sell and distribute our product candidates for which we obtain marketing approval.
Restrictions under applicable federal and state healthcare laws and regulations, include the following:
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• analogous state laws and regulations, such as state anti-kickback and false claims laws that may apply to sales or marketing arrangements and claims involving healthcare items or services reimbursed by non-governmental third-party payors, including private insurers;
−Removed: and state laws that require pharmaceutical companies to comply with the pharmaceutical industry’s voluntary compliance guidelines and the relevant compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government in addition to requiring drug
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−Removed: and therapeutic biologics manufacturers to report information related to payments to physicians and other healthcare providers or marketing expenditures and pricing information.
+Added: and state laws that require pharmaceutical companies to comply with the pharmaceutical industry’s voluntary compliance guidelines and the relevant compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government in addition to requiring drug and therapeutic biologics manufacturers to report information related to payments to physicians and other healthcare providers or marketing expenditures and pricing information.
Ensuring that our future business arrangements with third parties comply with applicable healthcare laws and regulations could involve substantial costs.
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Certain states have also adopted comparable privacy and security laws and regulations, some of which may be more stringent than HIPAA.
−Removed: Such laws and regulations will be subject to interpretation
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−Removed: by various courts and other governmental authorities, thus creating potentially complex compliance issues for us and our future customers and strategic partners.
−Removed: For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) went into effect on January 1, 2020.
−Removed: The CCPA creates individual privacy rights for California consumers, including the expanded right to access and delete their personal information, opt out of certain personal information sharing, and receive detailed information about how their personal information is used.
−Removed: The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for data breaches, that has increased the likelihood of, and risks associated with data breach litigation.
−Removed: Further, the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) generally went into effect on January 1, 2023, and significantly amends the CCPA.
−Removed: The CPRA imposes additional data protection obligations on covered businesses, including additional consumer rights processes, limitations on data uses, new audit requirements for higher risk data, and opt outs for certain uses of sensitive data.
−Removed: It also creates a new California data protection agency authorized to issue substantive regulations and could result in increased privacy and information security enforcement.
+Added: Such laws and regulations will be subject to interpretation by various courts and other governmental authorities, thus creating potentially complex compliance issues for us and our future customers and strategic partners.
+Added: For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, the CCPA) requires covered businesses that process the personal information of California residents to, among other things:
+Added: (i) provide certain disclosures to California residents regarding the business’s collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information;
+Added: (ii) receive and respond to requests from California residents to access, delete, and correct their personal information, or to opt out of certain disclosures of their personal information;
+Added: and (iii) enter into specific contractual provisions with service providers that process California resident personal information on the business’s behalf.
Additional compliance investment and potential business process changes may also be required.
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The enactment of such laws could have potentially conflicting requirements that would make compliance challenging.
−Removed: In the event that we are subject to or affected by HIPAA, the CCPA, the CPRA or other domestic privacy and data protection laws, any liability from failure to comply with the requirements of these laws could adversely affect our financial condition.
+Added: In the event that we are subject to or affected by HIPAA, the CCPA or other domestic privacy and data protection laws, any liability from failure to comply with the requirements of these laws could adversely affect our financial condition.
Our operations abroad may also be subject to increased scrutiny or attention from data protection authorities.
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As a result, we may have to make certain operational changes and we will have to implement revised standard contractual clauses and other relevant documentation for existing data transfers within required time frames.
−Removed: As supervisory authorities issue further guidance on personal data export mechanisms, including circumstances where the standard contractual clauses cannot be used, or start taking enforcement action, we could suffer additional costs, complaints and/or regulatory investigations or fines, and/or if we are otherwise unable to transfer personal data between and among countries and regions in which we operate, it could affect the manner in which we provide our products and services, the geographical location or segregation of our relevant systems and operations, and could adversely affect our financial results.
+Added: As supervisory authorities issue further guidance on personal data export mechanisms, including
+Added: circumstances where the standard contractual clauses cannot be used, or start taking enforcement action, we could suffer additional costs, complaints and/or regulatory investigations or fines, and/or if we are otherwise unable to transfer personal data between and among countries and regions in which we operate, it could affect the manner in which we provide our products and services, the geographical location or segregation of our relevant systems and operations, and could adversely affect our financial results.
Further, from January 1, 2021, we have had to comply with the GDPR and also the UK GDPR, which, together with the amended UK Data Protection Act 2018, retains the GDPR in UK national law.
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In some foreign markets, prescription biopharmaceutical pricing remains subject to continuing governmental control even after initial approval is granted.
−Removed: As a result, we might obtain regulatory approval for a product in a particular country, but then be subject to price regulations that delay our commercial launch of the product,
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−Removed: possibly for lengthy time periods and negatively impact the revenues we are able to generate from the sale of the product in that country.
+Added: As a result, we might obtain regulatory approval for a product in a particular country, but then be subject to price regulations that delay our commercial launch of the product, possibly for lengthy time periods and negatively impact the revenues we are able to generate from the sale of the product in that country.
Adverse pricing limitations may hinder our ability to recoup our investment in one or more product candidates, even if our product candidates obtain regulatory approval.
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Even if we receive accelerated approval from the FDA, if our confirmatory trials do not verify clinical benefit, or if we do not comply with rigorous post-marketing requirements, the FDA may seek to withdraw any accelerated approval we have obtained.
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We may in the future seek accelerated approval for one or more of our product candidates.
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If such post-approval studies fail to confirm the drug’s clinical benefit or are not completed in a timely manner, the FDA may withdraw its approval of the drug on an expedited basis.
−Removed: In addition, in December 2022, President Biden signed an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the U.S.
−Removed: government through fiscal year 2023.
−Removed: Included in the omnibus bill is the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022, which among other things, provided FDA new statutory authority to mitigate potential risks to patients from continued marketing of ineffective drugs previously granted accelerated approval.
+Added: In addition, the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022 provided FDA statutory authority to mitigate potential risks to patients from continued marketing of ineffective drugs previously granted accelerated approval.
Under these provisions, the FDA may require a sponsor of a product seeking accelerated approval to have a confirmatory trial underway prior to such approval being granted.
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In addition, while we may seek Orphan Drug Designation for our product candidates, we may never receive such designations.
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Tax reform legislation passed in 2017 reduced the amount of the qualified clinical research costs for a designated orphan product that a sponsor may claim as a credit from 50% to 25%.
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• developments or disputes concerning patents or other proprietary rights, including patents, litigation matters and our ability to obtain patent protection for our products;
−Removed: • any intellectual property infringement lawsuit or opposition, interference or cancellation proceeding in which we may become involved, including the ongoing patent infringement lawsuit brought by Vytacera against us;
+Added: • any intellectual property infringement lawsuit or opposition, interference or cancellation proceeding in which we may become involved;
• additions and departures of key personnel;
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• changes in general market and economic conditions;
+Added: • a large portion of the revenue recognized relates to up-front payments received in earlier years, so the current cash flows from operations may be significantly different from the net income (loss) reported;
+Added: • revenue to be recognized in 2025 and future years may be significantly lower than 2024 as collaboration research terms come to an end.
If our quarterly operating results fall below the expectations of investors or securities analysts, the price of our common stock could decline substantially.
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If we are not able to comply with the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in a timely manner or with adequate compliance, we may be subject to a loss of stockholder confidence and sanctions or investigations by regulatory authorities or litigation.
−Removed: Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires that we evaluate and determine the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting and provide a management report on the internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires that we evaluate and determine the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting, provide a management report on the internal control over financial reporting and obtain an independent assessment and report on a company's internal financial controls from our external auditors.
The process of designing and implementing effective internal controls is a continuous effort that requires us to anticipate and react to changes in our business and the economic and regulatory environments and to expend significant resources to maintain a system of internal controls that is adequate to satisfy our reporting obligations as a public company.
−Removed: If we are unable to establish or maintain appropriate internal financial reporting controls and procedures, it could cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations on a timely basis, result in material misstatements in our consolidated financial statements, and harm our operating results.
−Removed: In addition, we are required, pursuant to Section 404, to furnish a report by our management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: If we are unable to establish or maintain appropriate internal financial reporting controls and procedures, it could cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations on a timely basis, result in material misstatements in our financial statements, and harm our operating results.
+Added: In addition, we are required, pursuant to Section 404, to furnish a report by our management and obtain an independent assessment and report from our external auditors on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally acceptable accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”).
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A failure in any of these obligations or requirements could subject us to a loss of stockholder confidence and sanctions or investigations by regulatory authorities or litigation.
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In connection with the implementation of the necessary practices and procedures related to internal control over financial reporting, we may identify deficiencies that we may not be able to remediate before our management is required to furnish the annual report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.
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• announcements by us or our competitors of significant acquisitions, strategic collaborations, joint ventures or capital commitments;
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• developments or disputes concerning patents or other proprietary rights, including patents, litigation matters and our ability to obtain patent protection for our products;
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In the event of a change in control and a termination of employment without cause or due to good reason, each of our executive officers would similarly receive one year or more of his or her base salary as well as continued medical and dental coverage for a period of one year or more, as well as an additional lump sum payment equal to 100% or more of his or her target annual bonus for the calendar year in which his or her employment is terminated and full vesting of his or her outstanding option awards.
−Removed: The accelerated vesting of options could
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−Removed: result in dilution to our existing stockholders and harm the market price of our common stock.
+Added: The accelerated vesting of options could result in dilution to our existing stockholders and harm the market price of our common stock.
Furthermore, the payment of these severance benefits could harm our financial condition.
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Our principal stockholders and management own a significant percentage of our stock and will be able to exert significant control over matters subject to stockholder approval.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2024, our executive officers, directors, holders of 5% or more of our capital stock based on publicly available filings made with the SEC and their respective affiliates beneficially owned approximately 37% of our outstanding common stock.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, our executive officers, directors, holders of 5% or more of our capital stock based on publicly available filings made with the SEC and their respective affiliates beneficially owned approximately 27% of our outstanding common stock.
In addition, in our July 2023 private placement, a certain holder of 5% or more of our capital stock acquired pre-funded warrants and accompanying Tranche Warrants to purchase shares of our common stock.
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As a public company, we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses.
−Removed: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the listing requirements of The Nasdaq Global Select Market and other applicable securities rules and
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−Removed: regulations impose various requirements on public companies, including establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls and corporate governance practices.
+Added: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the listing requirements of The Nasdaq Global Select Market and other applicable securities rules and regulations impose various requirements on public companies, including establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls and corporate governance practices.
Our management and other personnel need to devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance initiatives.
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As a result, capital appreciation, if any, of our common stock will be your sole source of gain for the foreseeable future.
+Added: Our failure to meet the continued listing requirements of the Nasdaq Global Select Market, including minimum stock price requirements, could result in a delisting of our common stock.
+Added: If we fail to satisfy the continued listing requirements of the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”), such as the corporate governance requirements or the minimum closing bid price requirement, Nasdaq may take steps to delist our common stock.
+Added: On February 24, 2025, we received notice from Nasdaq that we failed to meet Nasdaq’s minimum closing bid price requirement of $1.00 per share.
+Added: We have 180 days to bring our share price above $1.00 for ten consecutive trading days, subject to Nasdaq’s discretion to extend the time for compliance.
+Added: While we intend to take reasonable action to bring our stock price in compliance, we cannot provide any assurance that we will be able to achieve compliance.
+Added: Such a delisting would likely have a negative effect on the price of our common stock and would impair your ability to sell or purchase our common stock when you wish to do so.
+Added: In the event of a delisting, any action taken by us to restore compliance with listing requirements may not allow our common stock to become listed again, stabilize the market price or improve the liquidity of our common stock, prevent our common stock from dropping below the Nasdaq minimum bid price requirement or prevent future non-compliance with Nasdaq’s listing requirements.
We may incur significant costs from class action litigation due to our expected stock volatility.
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Any future pandemic could adversely impact our business, including our research, development, including clinical trials, manufacturing and financial condition.
−Removed: The impact of future pandemics could severely impact the business, research, development and manufacturing for us and our partners including ongoing or planned clinical trials for CX-904, CX-2051 and CX-801, and clinical trials of our partners.
+Added: The impact of future pandemics could severely impact the business, research, development and manufacturing for us and our partners including ongoing or planned clinical trials for CX-2051 and CX-801, and any clinical trials of our partners.
For example, in December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, was reported to have surfaced in Wuhan, China, and spread to multiple countries, including the United States and European and Asia-Pacific countries.
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These disruptions and impacts may include:
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• delays or difficulties in research activities or obtaining necessary supplies to enable research;
−Removed: • delays or difficulties in clinical site initiation for any clinical trials we or our partners decide to initiate, including CX-904, CX-2051 and CX-801, including difficulties in recruiting clinical site investigators and clinical site staff and clinical trial enrollment;
+Added: • delays or difficulties in clinical site initiation for any clinical trials we or our partners decide to initiate, including CX-2051 and CX-801, including difficulties in recruiting clinical site investigators and clinical site staff and clinical trial enrollment;
• diversion of healthcare resources away from the conduct of clinical trials, including the diversion of hospitals serving as our or our partners’ clinical trial sites and hospital staff supporting the conduct of our or our partners’ clinical trials;
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In order to compete successfully in the current business climate, we may have to pay higher prices for assets than may have been paid historically, which may make it more difficult for us to realize an adequate return on any acquisition.
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−Removed: addition, even if we succeed in identifying promising products, product candidates, programs or companies, we may not have the ability to develop, obtain regulatory approval for and commercialize such opportunities, or the financial resources necessary to pursue them.
+Added: In addition, even if we succeed in identifying promising products, product candidates, programs or companies, we may not have the ability to develop, obtain regulatory approval for and commercialize such opportunities, or the financial resources necessary to pursue them.
Even if we are able to successfully identify and acquire or in-license new products, product candidates, programs or companies, we may not be able to successfully manage the risks associated with integrating any products, product candidates, programs or companies into our business or the risks arising from anticipated and unanticipated problems in connection with an acquisition or in-licensing.
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We may need to rely on third parties to market, distribute and sell our products in foreign markets.
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Our information technology systems, or those of our CROs or other contractors or consultants we may utilize, may fail, suffer disruptions or suffer security breaches, which could result in a material disruption of our product development programs.
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A system interruption or security breach that leads to disclosure or modification of or prevents access to personally identifiable information or other protected information could harm our reputation, compel us to comply with federal and/or state breach notification laws and foreign law equivalents, subject us to mandatory corrective action, require us to verify the correctness of database contents and otherwise subject us to liability under laws and regulations that protect personal data, resulting in increased costs or loss of revenue.
−Removed: Similarly, the loss of clinical trial data from completed or ongoing or planned clinical trials could result in delays in our regulatory approval efforts and significantly increase our costs to recover or reproduce the data.
+Added: Similarly, the loss of clinical trial data from completed or ongoing or
+Added: planned clinical trials could result in delays in our regulatory approval efforts and significantly increase our costs to recover or reproduce the data.
Attacks upon information technology systems are also increasing in their frequency, levels of persistence, sophistication and intensity, and are being conducted by sophisticated and organized groups and individuals with a wide range of motives and expertise.
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Significant disruptions of our information technology systems or breaches of data security could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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The ongoing armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine or other international conflicts could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
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We may incur substantial costs to comply with, and substantial fines or penalties if we violate, any of these laws or regulations.
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Changes in U.S.
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The trading market for our common stock will be influenced by the research and reports that industry or securities analysts publish about us or our business.
−Removed: If any of the analysts who cover us issue an adverse or misleading opinion regarding us, our business model, our intellectual property or our stock performance, or if our target studies and operating results fail to meet the expectations of analysts, our stock price would likely decline.
+Added: If any of the analysts who cover us issue an adverse or misleading opinion regarding us, our business model, our intellectual property or our stock performance, or if our target studies and operating results fail to meet the expectations of analysts, our stock price
+Added: would likely decline.
If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fail to publish reports on us regularly, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which in turn could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline.
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