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We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a limited operating history.
−Removed: We were incorporated in Delaware in July 2020, and our operations to date have been limited to organizing and staffing our company, business planning, raising capital, identifying, investigating, licensing and evaluating potential product candidates, and establishing arrangements with third parties for the manufacture of initial quantities of our lead product candidate and component materials.
−Removed: Both of our product candidates are in early clinical development.
+Added: We were incorporated in Delaware in July 2020, and our operations to date have been limited to organizing and staffing our company, business planning, raising capital, identifying, investigating, licensing and evaluating potential product candidates, establishing arrangements with third parties for the manufacture of initial quantities of our lead product candidate and component materials, and conducting research and development activities.
+Added: Two of our product candidates have reached early clinical development, one of which is in active development.
We have not yet demonstrated our ability to successfully conduct or complete any clinical development program for our drug candidates, obtain marketing approvals, manufacture a commercial-scale product or arrange for a third party to do so on our behalf, or conduct sales, marketing and distribution activities necessary for successful product commercialization.
−Removed: Consequently, any predictions about our future success or viability may not be as accurate.
+Added: Consequently, any predictions about our future success or viability may not be accurate.
We may need to transition at some point in time from a company with a research and development focus to a company capable of supporting commercial activities related to the full product life cycle.
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and operate as a public company.
−Removed: Our pipeline product candidates, NXP800 and NXP900, are both in clinical development.
−Removed: Both product candidates will require additional preclinical and clinical studies, regulatory review and approval, substantial investment, access to
−Removed: sufficient clinical and commercial manufacturing capacity and significant marketing efforts before we can potentially generate any revenue from product sales.
−Removed: To date, we have not generated any revenue from our product candidates.
+Added: Our pipeline product candidate NXP900, is in clinical development.
+Added: NXP900 and any future product candidates that we may develop will require additional preclinical and clinical studies, regulatory review and approval, substantial investment, access to sufficient clinical and commercial manufacturing capacity and significant marketing efforts before we can potentially generate any revenue from product sales.
+Added: To date, we have not generated any revenue from our product candidate.
Our ability to generate revenue will depend on a number of factors, including, but not limited to:
−Removed: ● Our ability to timely and successfully complete of our preclinical studies and clinical trials, which may be significantly slower or more costly than anticipated and will depend upon several factors including the performance of third-party contractors, our ability to enroll patients into the clinical trials and the safety, tolerability and efficacy results generated in clinical trials;
+Added: ● our ability to timely and successfully complete our preclinical studies and clinical trials, which may be significantly slower or more costly than anticipated and will depend upon several factors including the performance of third-party contractors, our ability to enroll patients into the clinical trials and the safety, tolerability and efficacy results generated in clinical trials;
● successful submissions of IND applications to the FDA and any additional comparable applications;
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If we are unable to raise capital when needed or on attractive terms, we could be forced to delay, reduce or eliminate our discovery and preclinical development programs or any future commercialization efforts.
+Added: Tariffs and other trade measures could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial position and cash flows.
+Added: Our business and results of operations may be adversely affected by uncertainty and changes in U.S.
+Added: trade policies, including tariffs, trade agreements or other trade restrictions imposed by the U.S.
+Added: or other governments.
+Added: costs for raw materials and other goods, chemical reagents and laboratory equipment, may be adversely affected by tariffs imposed by the U.S.
+Added: government on products imported into the United States.
+Added: Any imposition of or increase in tariffs on the goods we purchase could increase our research and development costs.
+Added: Additional tariffs, further trade restrictions and retaliatory trade measures could disrupt our supply chain and logistics, restrict or limit the availability of goods or supplies, cause adverse financial impacts due to volatility in foreign exchange rates and interest rates, and place inflationary pressures on raw materials.
+Added: It may be time-consuming and expensive for us to alter our business operations to adapt to or comply with any changes in international trade policies and agreements and any failure to do so could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: Any potential impact will depend on future developments with respect to trade policy and the results of trade negotiations, all of which are beyond our control.
+Added: These potential impacts, while uncertain, could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: Tariffs or other trade restrictions may lead to continuing uncertainty and volatility in U.S.
+Added: and global financial and economic conditions and commodity markets, declining consumer confidence, significant inflation and diminished expectations for the economy, and ultimately reduced demand for our products.
+Added: Such conditions could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and cash flows.
+Added: Any rising trade and political tensions or unfavorable government policies on international trade may affect the demand for our drug products, the competitive position of our drug products, the hiring of scientists and other research and development personnel, the import or export of raw materials in relation to drug development or prevent us from selling our drug products in certain countries.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025, we were not aware of any tariffs impacting our operations.
+Added: Inadequate funding for the FDA, the SEC and other government agencies, including from government-shutdowns, or other disruptions to these agencies’ operations, could hinder their ability to hire and retain key leadership and other personnel, prevent new products and services from being developed or commercialized in a timely manner or otherwise prevent those agencies from performing normal business functions on which the operation of our business may rely, which could negatively impact our business.
+Added: The ability of the FDA to review and approve new products can be affected by a variety of factors, including government budget and funding levels and statutory, regulatory and policy changes.
+Added: As a result of such factors, average review times at the FDA have fluctuated in recent years.
+Added: Disruptions at the FDA and other agencies may also slow the time necessary for new product candidates to be reviewed and/or approved by necessary government agencies, which would adversely affect business operations of regulated entities.
+Added: In addition, government funding of the SEC and other government agencies on which our operations may rely is subject to the political process, which is inherently fluid and unpredictable.
+Added: Disruptions at the FDA and other agencies may also slow the time necessary for new product candidates to be reviewed and/or approved by necessary government agencies.
+Added: Further, future government shutdowns could impact the ability to access the public markets and obtain necessary capital in order to properly capitalize and continue our operations.
Major public health issues, and specifically the policies and procedures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic which are still in place, could have an adverse effect on our clinical trials, financial condition, results of operations, and other aspects of our business.
−Removed: COVID-19-related issues may delay or otherwise adversely affect our clinical trial programs, as well as adversely impact our business generally, include:
−Removed: ● delays or difficulties in clinical site initiation, including difficulties in recruiting clinical sites, and delays enrolling patients in our clinical trials or increased rates of patients withdrawing from our clinical trials following enrollment as a result of contracting COVID-19 or any variant, being forced to quarantine, or not otherwise being able to complete study assessments, particularly for older patients or others with a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 or any variant;
−Removed: ● diversion of healthcare resources, including clinical trial investigators and staff, away from the conduct of clinical trials to focus on pandemic concerns which could result in delays to our partner companies’ clinical trials;
+Added: The COVID-19-related issues may delay or otherwise adversely affect our clinical trial programs, as well as adversely impact our business generally.
+Added: These impacts include:
+Added: ● delays or difficulties in clinical site initiation, including difficulties in recruiting clinical sites, and delays enrolling patients in our clinical trials or increased rates of patients withdrawing from our clinical trials following enrollment as a result of contracting COVID-19 or any variant, and being forced to quarantine, or not otherwise being able to complete study assessments, particularly for older patients or others with a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 or any variant;
+Added: ● diversion of healthcare resources, including clinical trial investigators and staff, away from the conducting of clinical trials to focus on pandemic concerns which could result in delays to our partner companies’ clinical trials;
● limitations on travel, including limitations on domestic and international travel, and government-imposed quarantines or restrictions imposed by key third parties that could interrupt key trial activities, such as clinical trial site initiations and monitoring;
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and if our approach is unsuccessful, our business will suffer.
−Removed: We are early in our development efforts and are substantially dependent on our ability to advance NXP800, NXP900 or any of our other future product candidates through preclinical and clinical development, identify safe and effective doses and dosing schedules for our drug candidates, obtain regulatory approval and ultimately commercialize NXP800, NXP900 or any of our other future product candidates;
+Added: We are early in our development efforts and are substantially dependent on our ability to advance NXP900 or any of our other future product candidates through preclinical and clinical development, identify safe and effective doses and dosing schedules for our drug candidates, obtain regulatory approval and ultimately commercialize NXP900 or any of our other future product candidates;
if we experience delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed.
−Removed: Our ability to generate product revenues from NXP800, NXP900 or any of our other future product candidates depends heavily on the successful clinical development and eventual commercialization.
+Added: Our ability to generate product revenues from NXP900 or any of our other future product candidates depends heavily on the successful clinical development and eventual commercialization of these drug candidates.
In addition, our drug development programs may contemplate the development of companion diagnostics, which are assays or tests to identify an appropriate patient population based on genetic mutations and other alterations.
Companion diagnostics are subject to regulation as medical devices and must themselves receive marketing authorization from the FDA or certain other foreign regulatory agencies before they may be marketed.
−Removed: If a companion diagnostic is essential to the safe and effective use of any of our current and future product candidates, the FDA must conclude that the companion diagnostic meets the applicable standard for safety and effectiveness or for substantial equivalence for use with our product candidates before either the product candidates or companion diagnostic may be marketed in the United States.
−Removed: Negative preclinical or clinical results in the development of our product candidates may prevent or delay our ability to continue or conduct clinical programs or receive regulatory approvals.
−Removed: For example, although we believe, based on preclinical studies of ARID1a-muted ovarian carcinoma models that demonstrated tumor growth inhibition, that this cancer type might be particularly sensitive to treatment with NXP800, this may not prove true in clinical testing, due to safety and tolerability issues and/or insufficient efficacy, and this holds true for any or all of the potential target indications.
+Added: If a companion diagnostic is essential to the safe and effective use of any of our current and future product candidates, the FDA may require that the companion diagnostic meets the applicable standard for safety and effectiveness or for substantial equivalence for use with our product candidates before either the product candidates or companion diagnostic may be marketed in the United States.
+Added: Negative preclinical or clinical results in the development of our product candidates may prevent or delay our ability to advance our product candidates, initiate or continue clinical programs or receive regulatory approvals.
+Added: For example, although we believe, based on preclinical studies of SRC/YES1 related carcinoma models that demonstrated tumor growth inhibition, these cancer types might be particularly sensitive to treatment with NXP900, this may not prove true in clinical testing, due to safety and tolerability issues and/or insufficient efficacy, and this may hold true for any or all of the potential target indications that we are pursuing or will pursue in the future with our product candidates.
Moreover, anti-tumor activity may be different in each tumor type that we plan to evaluate in clinical trials.
−Removed: As a result, we may be required to discontinue development of our drug candidates or invest significant additional resources and delay our clinical trials and ultimately the approval, if any, of any of our other future product candidates.
−Removed: Our current or future product candidates may not have favorable results in early clinical trials due to safety, tolerability and/or insufficient efficacy findings.
+Added: As a result, we may be required to discontinue development of our drug candidates or invest significant additional resources and delay our clinical trials and ultimately the approval, of NXP900 or any of our other future product candidates.
+Added: Our current or future product candidates may not show favorable results in early clinical trials due to safety, tolerability and/or insufficient efficacy findings.
In addition, positive results of early clinical trials are not necessarily predictive of future results, and any product candidate that we advance may not have favorable results in later clinical trials or receive regulatory approval.
−Removed: In March 2024, and then in November 2024,we announced preliminary safety and efficacy data results
−Removed: from the ongoing Phase 1b study of NXP800 in platinum-resistant ARID1a-mutated ovarian carcinoma.
−Removed: Any results observed in this preliminary analysis may not be predictive of future results.
−Removed: We may experience setbacks that could delay or prevent regulatory approval of, or our ability to commercialize, our current or future product candidates, including:
−Removed: ● negative or inconclusive efficacy results and/or adverse safety findings from our preclinical studies or clinical trials or positive results from the clinical trials of others for product candidates similar to ours leading to their approval, and evolving to a decision or requirement to conduct additional preclinical testing or clinical trials or abandon a program;
−Removed: ● product-related side effects experienced by patients or subjects in our clinical trials or by individuals using drugs or therapeutics that we, the FDA, other regulators or others view as relevant to the development of our current or future product candidates;
+Added: In March and November 2024, we announced preliminary safety and efficacy data results from the ongoing Phase 1b study of NXP800 in platinum-resistant ARID1a-mutated ovarian carcinoma.
+Added: Following the completion of the NXP800 Phase 1b study, we decided to cease the clinical development of NXP800 as we assess possible next steps, if any, in the development of the compound.
+Added: We may experience setbacks that could delay or prevent regulatory approval of, or our ability to commercialize, NXP900, our product candidate currently in a Phase 1b clinical trial, or future product candidates, including:
+Added: ● negative or inconclusive preclinical or clinical results, including adverse safety findings and efficacy findings;
+Added: ● approval of competing product candidates based on clinical trial results generated by others;
+Added: ● a decision by us or requirement by regulatory authorities to conduct additional preclinical testing or clinical trials or abandon a program;
+Added: ● adverse events or side effects experienced by patients or subjects in our clinical trials that we, the FDA, or other regulators may view as relevant to the development of our current or future product candidates;
+Added: ● issues related to combination regimens, including tolerability concerns, drug-drug interactions, or lack of efficacy;
● delays in submitting IND applications or comparable foreign applications or delays or failure in obtaining the necessary approvals from regulators to commence a clinical trial, or a suspension or termination of a clinical trial once commenced;
−Removed: ● conditions imposed by the FDA or comparable foreign authorities regarding the scope or design of our clinical trials, including our clinical endpoints;
−Removed: ● delays in enrolling subjects in clinical trials, including difficulty or delays in identifying appropriate patients, or due to health-related emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and timely completion of clinical trials, including under GCP or good laboratory practice (“GLP”) requirements;
−Removed: ● inability to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, including cGMPs, and complying effectively with other requirements pertaining to the quality of our current or future product candidates;
−Removed: ● high drop-out rates of subjects from clinical trials due to safety and tolerability issues and/or insufficient efficacy;
−Removed: ● inadequate supply or quality of our current or future product candidates or other materials necessary for the conduct of our clinical trials and to satisfy analytical and purity requirements necessary for drug approval ;
−Removed: ● greater than anticipated clinical trial costs;
−Removed: ● inability to compete with other therapies;
−Removed: ● poor efficacy of or safety and/or tolerability issues observed with our current or future product candidates or the need for different doses or dosing schedules during clinical trials;
+Added: ● requirements imposed by the FDA or comparable foreign authorities regarding the scope and design of our clinical trials, including our clinical endpoints;
+Added: ● delays in enrolling subjects in clinical trials, including difficulty or delays in identifying appropriate patients, and timely completion of clinical trials, including under GCP or GLP requirements;
+Added: ● inability to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, including our contract manufacturers’ compliance with cGMPs, and complying effectively with other requirements pertaining to the quality of our current or future product candidates;
+Added: ● high drop-out rates of subjects from clinical trials due to safety and tolerability issues or insufficient efficacy;
+Added: ● inadequate supply or quality of our current or future product candidates or other materials necessary for the clinical trials and to satisfy analytical testing requirements necessary for drug approval ;
+Added: ● higher than anticipated clinical trial costs;
+Added: ● competitive developments by others in our target indications;
+Added: ● insufficient efficacy, safety, or tolerability concerns, or the requirement to modify dosing levels for our current or future product candidates;
● trial results taking longer than anticipated;
−Removed: ● trials being subjected to fraud or data capture failure or other technical mishaps leading to the invalidation of our trials;
−Removed: ● the results of our trials not supporting application for conditional approval in the European Union;
−Removed: ● unfavorable FDA or other regulatory agency inspection and review of a clinical trial or manufacturing site;
+Added: ● trials being subjected to fraud or data integrity issues or operational failures that compromises trial data;
+Added: ● the results of our trials not supporting marketing authorization outside of the United States, including the European Union;
+Added: ● unfavorable FDA or other regulatory agency inspection of a clinical trial site;
● failure of our third-party contractors or investigators to comply with regulatory requirements or otherwise meet their contractual obligations in a timely manner, or at all;
−Removed: ● delays related to the impact of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the impact of COVID-19 on the FDA’s ability to continue its normal operations;
● delays and changes in regulatory requirements, policy and guidelines, including the imposition of additional regulatory oversight around clinical development generally or with respect to our technology in particular;
● varying interpretations of data by the FDA and similar foreign regulatory agencies.
−Removed: In addition, because we have limited financial and personnel resources and are focusing primarily on developing NXP800 and NXP900, we may forgo or delay pursuit of other future product candidates that may prove to have greater commercial potential and may fail to capitalize on viable commercial products or profitable market opportunities.
+Added: In addition, because we have limited financial and personnel resources and are focusing primarily on developing NXP900, we may forgo or delay pursuit of other future product candidates that may prove to have greater commercial potential and may fail to capitalize on viable commercial products or profitable market opportunities.
If we do not accurately evaluate the commercial potential or target market for a future product candidate, we may relinquish valuable rights to those future product candidates through collaboration, licensing, or other royalty arrangements in cases in which it would have been more advantageous for us to retain sole development and commercialization rights to such future product candidates.
Clinical drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process with uncertain outcomes, clinical trials are difficult to design and implement, and any of our clinical trials could produce unsuccessful results or fail at any stage in the process.
−Removed: Clinical trials are conducted on humans, are expensive, and can take many years to complete, and outcomes are inherently uncertain.
+Added: Clinical trials are conducted on humans, are expensive, can take many years to complete, and outcomes are inherently uncertain.
Failure can occur at any time during the process.
−Removed: Additionally, any positive results of preclinical studies and early clinical data of a drug candidate may not be predictive of the final results of the early clinical trial or of later-stage clinical trials, such that drug candidates may not reach later-stages clinical trials based on results from an early-stage clinical trial or reach later stages of clinical trials and fail to show the desired safety and efficacy traits despite having shown indications of those traits in preclinical studies and early-stage clinical trials.
+Added: Additionally, any positive results of preclinical studies and early clinical data of a drug candidate may not be predictive of the final results of the early clinical trial or of later-stage clinical trials.
+Added: Drug candidates may not reach later-stage clinical trials based on results from an early-stage clinical trial or may reach later stages of clinical trials and fail to show the desired safety and efficacy traits despite having shown indications of those traits in preclinical studies and early-stage clinical trials.
A number of companies in the pharmaceutical industry have suffered significant setbacks in early and advanced clinical trials due to lack of efficacy or adverse safety profiles, notwithstanding promising results in preclinical studies or preliminary clinical findings.
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Clinical trials may be delayed, suspended or prematurely terminated because costs are greater than we anticipate or for a variety of reasons, such as:
−Removed: ● delay or failure in reaching agreement with the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority on a trial design that we are able to execute;
−Removed: ● delay or failure in obtaining authorization to commence a trial, including approval from the appropriate independent review board (“IRB”) to conduct testing of a candidate on human subjects, or inability to comply with conditions imposed by a regulatory authority regarding the scope or design of a clinical trial;
−Removed: ● delay in reaching, or failure to reach, agreement on acceptable terms with prospective CROs and clinical trial sites, the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation and may vary significantly among different CROs and trial sites;
−Removed: ● inability, delay or failure in identifying and maintaining a sufficient number of trial sites, many of which may already be engaged in other clinical programs;
−Removed: ● delay or failure in recruiting and enrolling suitable volunteers or patients to participate in a trial;
+Added: ● delay or failure in reaching agreement with the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority on a clinical trial design that we are able to execute;
+Added: ● delay or failure in obtaining authorization to commence a clinical trial, including approval from the appropriate institutional review board (“IRB”) to conduct testing of a candidate on human subjects, or
+Added: inability to comply with conditions imposed by a regulatory authority regarding the scope or design of a clinical trial;
+Added: ● delay in reaching, or failure to reach, agreement on acceptable terms with prospective CROs and clinical trial sites, the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation and may vary significantly among different CROs and clinical trial sites;
+Added: ● inability, delay or failure in identifying and maintaining a sufficient number of clinical trial sites, many of which may already be engaged in other clinical programs;
+Added: ● delay or failure in identifying, recruiting and enrolling suitable volunteers or patients to participate in a trial;
● delay or failure in developing and validating companion diagnostics, if they are deemed necessary, on a timely basis;
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● clinical sites and investigators deviating from trial protocols, failing to conduct the trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or dropping out of a trial;
−Removed: ● failure to initiate or delay of or inability to complete a clinical trial as a result of a clinical hold imposed by the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authority due to observed safety findings or other reasons;
+Added: ● failure to initiate, delay of, or inability to complete a clinical trial as a result of a clinical hold imposed by the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authority due to observed safety findings or other reasons;
● negative or inconclusive results in our clinical trials, and our decision to our regulators’ requirement that we conduct additional preclinical studies, clinical trials or that we abandon one or more of our product development programs;
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The enrollment of patients depends on many factors, including:
−Removed: ● patient identification and eligibility and inclusion/exclusion criteria defined in the protocol;
−Removed: ● the size of the patient population required for analysis of the clinical trial’s primary endpoints and the process for identifying patients;
+Added: ● patient identification and eligibility and inclusion/exclusion criteria defined in the protocol, including based on the presence of specific genetic/molecular alterations;
+Added: ● the size of the target disease patient population or the size of the patient population required to be enrolled for analysis of the clinical trial’s primary and secondary endpoints, and the process for identifying patients;
● potential disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, including difficulties in initiating clinical sites, enrolling and retaining participants, diversion of health care resources away from clinical trials, travel or quarantine policies that may be implemented, and other factors;
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● the availability of competing commercially available therapies and other competing product candidates’ clinical trials;
−Removed: ● our ability to obtain and maintain clinical trial subject informed consents;
+Added: ● our ability to obtain and maintain IRB approvals for clinical sites and clinical trial subject informed consents;
● the risk that subjects enrolled in clinical trials will drop out of the trials before completion.
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If we are unable to include patients with the targeted genetic mutations or patients with well-defined serious unmet medical needs, we may be unable to participate in the FDA’s expedited review and development programs, including breakthrough therapy designation and fast track designation, or otherwise seek to accelerate clinical development and regulatory timelines.
−Removed: Our studies may fail to adequately demonstrate the safety, potency, purity, efficacy or any other necessary pharmacological properties of any of our current or future product candidates, which would prevent or delay development, regulatory approval and commercialization.
−Removed: Before obtaining regulatory approvals for the commercial sale of our current or future product candidates, including NXP800 and NXP900, we must demonstrate through lengthy, complex and expensive studies that our current or future product candidates are both safe and effective for use in each target indication.
+Added: Our clinical studies, preclinical, manufacturing and other studies conducted as part of the development of our current or future product candidates may fail to adequately demonstrate the safety, potency, purity, efficacy or any other necessary pharmacological properties of any efficacy, or any other required properties of our current or future product candidates, which would prevent or delay development, regulatory approval and commercialization.
+Added: Before obtaining regulatory approvals for the commercial sale of our current or future product candidates, including NXP900, we must demonstrate through lengthy, complex and expensive studies that our current or future product candidates are both safe and effective for use in each target indication.
Preclinical and clinical testing are expensive and can take many years to complete, and its outcome is inherently uncertain.
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The results of preclinical studies and early clinical trials of a drug candidate may not be predictive of the final results of later-stage clinical trials.
−Removed: Results of our trials could reveal a high and unacceptable severity and prevalence of adverse safety issues which may result in suspension or termination, and the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities could, through a clinical hold or otherwise, order us to halt or cease further development of or deny approval.
+Added: Results of our trials could reveal a high and unacceptable severity and prevalence of adverse safety issues which may result in suspension or termination, and the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities could, through a clinical hold or otherwise, require us to halt or suspend further development of our product candidates or deny approval.
Drug-related side effects could also affect patient recruitment into the study or patient willingness to remain in the study and therefore affect our ability to complete clinical trials.
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Moreover, our product or product candidates may cause undesirable side effects or pharmacological properties, either as single agent treatment or in combination with approved drugs, that could delay or prevent their regulatory approval or impact their availability and commercial potential after approval.
+Added: In 2025, following the completion of the NXP800 Phase 1b study, we decided to cease the clinical development of NXP800 as we assess possible next steps, if any, in the development of the compound.
The FDA and comparable foreign regulatory authorities may not accept data from any preclinical or clinical trials we may conduct in foreign countries.
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In addition, any clinical study conducted in whole or in part outside of the United States would be subject to the applicable local laws of the jurisdiction where the trial was conducted.
−Removed: We cannot guarantee that the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authority will accept data from trials conducted in whole or in part outside of the United States, which may result in the need for additional trials.
−Removed: We may not be able to submit IND applications to commence additional clinical trials on the timelines we expect, and even if we are able to, the FDA may not permit us to proceed.
−Removed: Our CTAs and INDs for NXP800 and NXP900 have been approved.
−Removed: However, we may be unable to submit additional CTAs, IND applications or other clinical research on our expected timelines.
−Removed: Moreover, while we have obtained CTA and IND approvals, we cannot be sure that issues will not arise that may lead to the delay, suspension or termination of such clinical trials.
−Removed: Any failure to file CTAs, IND applications or other clinical research authorizations will adversely impact our expected timelines to obtain regulatory acceptance for the commencement of our trials and may prevent us from completing our clinical trials or commercializing our products on a timely basis, if at all.
+Added: We cannot guarantee that the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authority will accept data from trials conducted in whole or in part outside of the United States, which may result in the need for additional trials conducted in the United States.
+Added: We may not be able to submit IND applications to commence additional clinical trials based on the timelines that we expect, and even if we are able to do so, the FDA may not permit us to proceed.
+Added: Our IND for NXP900 is in effect.
+Added: However, we may be unable to submit additional IND or similar applications or other clinical research on our expected timelines.
+Added: Moreover, while we have previously obtained CTA and IND, we cannot be sure that issues will not arise that may lead to the delay, suspension or termination of such clinical trials.
+Added: Any failure to file IND or similar applications or other clinical research authorizations will adversely impact our expected timelines to obtain regulatory acceptance for the commencement of our trials and may prevent us from completing our clinical trials or commercializing our products on a timely basis, if at all.
We currently have no marketing and sales organization and have limited experience in marketing products.
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As a result, our competitors may discover, develop, license, or commercialize products earlier or more successfully than we do.
−Removed: If our product candidates, NXP800 and NXP900, are approved, they will likely compete with competitor drugs and other drugs that are currently in development.
+Added: If our product candidate NXP900 or any future product candidates, are approved, they will likely compete with competitor drugs and other drugs that are currently in development.
The availability of reimbursement from government and other third-party payors will also significantly affect the pricing and competitiveness of our products.
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We will not be permitted to market our current or future product candidates in the United States until we receive the respective approval of an NDA from the FDA, or in any foreign countries until we receive the requisite approval from the respective regulatory authorities in such countries.
−Removed: The time required to obtain regulatory approval, if any, by the FDA, EMA and comparable foreign authorities is unpredictable, but typically takes many years following the commencement of clinical trials and depends upon numerous factors, including the substantial discretion of the regulatory authorities and the type, complexity and novelty of the product candidates involved.
+Added: The time required to obtain regulatory approval, if any, by the FDA, EMA and comparable foreign authorities is unpredictable, but typically takes many years following the commencement of clinical trials and depends upon numerous factors, including the substantial discretion of the regulatory authorities and the type, complexity and novelty of the product
+Added: candidates involved.
Regulatory authorities have substantial discretion in the approval process and may refuse to accept any application or may decide that our data are insufficient for approval and require additional nonclinical studies or clinical trials.
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● the change of the medical standard of care or the approval policies or regulations of the FDA, EMA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may significantly change in a manner that renders our clinical data insufficient for approval.
−Removed: The time and expense of the approval process, as well as the unpredictability of future clinical trial results and other contributing factors, may result in our failure to obtain regulatory approval to market NXP800, NXP900 or any other drug candidates we may seek to develop in the future, which would significantly harm our business, results of operations and prospects.
−Removed: In such case, we may also not have the resources to conduct new clinical trials and/or we may determine that further clinical development of any such drug candidate is not justified and may discontinue any such programs.
+Added: The time and expense of the approval process, as well as the unpredictability of future clinical trial results and other contributing factors, may result in our failure to obtain regulatory approval to market NXP900 or any other drug candidates we may seek to develop in the future, which would significantly harm our business, results of operations
+Added: and prospects.
+Added: In such case, we may also not have the resources to conduct new clinical trials and we may determine that further clinical development of any such drug candidate is not justified and may discontinue any such programs.
In addition, even if we were to obtain regulatory approval in one or more jurisdictions, regulatory authorities may approve any of our drug candidates for fewer or more limited indications than we request, may not approve prices we may propose to charge for our products, may grant approval contingent on the performance of costly post-marketing clinical trials (referred to as “conditional” or “accelerated” approval depending on the jurisdiction), or may approve a drug candidate with a label that does not include the labeling claims necessary or desirable for the successful commercialization of that drug candidate.
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Obtaining and maintaining regulatory approval of any of our current or future product candidates in one jurisdiction does not guarantee that we will be able to obtain or maintain regulatory approval in any other jurisdiction, while a failure or delay in obtaining regulatory approval in one jurisdiction may have a negative effect on the regulatory approval process in other jurisdictions.
−Removed: For example, even if the FDA grants regulatory approval of a product candidate, similar foreign regulatory authorities must also approve the manufacturing, marketing and promotion of the product candidate in those countries.
+Added: For example, even if the FDA grants regulatory approval of a product candidate, similar foreign regulatory authorities must also approve the manufacturing, marketing and promotion of the product candidate in respective countries.
Drug product approval procedures vary among jurisdictions and can involve requirements and administrative review periods different from, and greater than, those in the United States, including additional preclinical studies or clinical trials as clinical trials conducted in one jurisdiction may not be accepted by regulatory authorities in other jurisdictions.
−Removed: In many jurisdictions outside the United States, a product candidate must be approved for reimbursement
−Removed: before it can be approved for sale in that jurisdiction.
+Added: In many jurisdictions outside the United States, a product candidate must be approved for reimbursement before it can be approved for sale in that jurisdiction.
In some cases, the price that we intend to charge for our products is also subject to approval.
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If we fail to comply with the regulatory requirements in international markets and/or receive applicable marketing approvals, our target market will be reduced and our ability to realize the full market potential of our current or future product candidates will be harmed.
−Removed: Even if we receive regulatory approval of our current or future product candidates, we will be subject to ongoing regulatory obligations and continued regulatory review, which may result in significant additional expense and we may be subject to penalties if we fail to comply with regulatory requirements or experience unanticipated problems with our current or future product candidates.
+Added: Even if we receive regulatory approval of our current or future product candidates, we will be subject to ongoing regulatory obligations and regulatory review, which may result in significant additional expense and we may be subject to penalties if we fail to comply with regulatory requirements or experience unanticipated problems with our current or future product candidates.
If any of our current or future product candidates are approved, activities such as the manufacturing, labeling, packaging, storage, advertising, promotion, sampling, and record keeping for the products will be subject to extensive and ongoing regulatory requirements.
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Drug manufacturers and any CMOs responsible for any product manufacturing processes are required to comply with extensive FDA and comparable foreign regulatory authority requirements, including ensuring that quality control and manufacturing procedures conform to cGMP regulations and any applicable foreign equivalents.
−Removed: As such, we and our CMOs will be subject to continual review and inspections to assess compliance with cGMP and adherence to commitments made in any NDA, other marketing application, and previous responses to inspection observations.
+Added: As such, we and our CMOs will be subject to continuous review and inspections to assess compliance with cGMP and adherence to commitments made in any NDA, other marketing application, and previous responses to inspection observations.
Accordingly, we and others with whom we work must continue to expend time, money, and effort in all areas of regulatory compliance, including manufacturing, production and quality control.
The FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority may also impose requirements for costly post-marketing nonclinical studies or clinical trials (often called “Phase 4 trials”) and post-marketing surveillance to monitor the safety or efficacy of the product.
−Removed: If we or a regulatory authority discover previously unknown problems with a product, such as adverse events of unanticipated severity or frequency, production problems or issues with the facility where the product is manufactured or processed, such as product contamination or significant not-compliance with applicable cGMP regulations, a regulator may impose restrictions on that product, the manufacturing facility or us.
+Added: If we or a regulatory authority discover previously unknown problems with a product, such as adverse events of unanticipated severity or frequency, production problems or issues with the facility where the product is manufactured or processed, such as product contamination or significant non-compliance with applicable cGMP regulations, a regulator may impose restrictions on that product, the manufacturing facility or us.
If we or our third-party providers, including our CMOs, fail to comply fully with applicable regulations, then we may be required to initiate a recall or withdrawal of our products.
Later discovery of previously unknown problems with our current or future product candidates, 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 the following, among other things:
−Removed: ● restrictions on the manufacturing of the product, the approved manufacturers or the manufacturing process;
+Added: ● restrictions on the manufacturing of the product;
● restrictions on the labeling or marketing of a product;
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The FDA’s policies may change and additional government regulations may be enacted that could prevent, limit or delay marketing approval of our current or future product candidates.
−Removed: If we are slow or unable to adapt to changes in existing requirements or the adoption of new requirements or policies, or if we are not able to maintain regulatory compliance, this may adversely affect, or even lead to the rescission of, the marketing approval that we may have obtained, which would adversely affect our business, prospects and ability to achieve or sustain profitability.
+Added: If we are slow or unable to adapt to changes in
+Added: existing requirements or the adoption of new requirements or policies, or if we are not able to maintain regulatory compliance, this may adversely affect, or even lead to the rescission of, the marketing approval that we may have obtained, which would adversely affect our business, prospects and ability to achieve or sustain profitability.
A variety of risks associated with marketing our current or future product candidates internationally could materially adversely affect our business.
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These organizations decide which medications they will pay for and establish reimbursement levels.
−Removed: If coverage and adequate reimbursement is not available, or the approved reimbursement amount is not high enough, we may be unable to establish or maintain pricing sufficient to generate a return on our investment and may be unable to successfully commercialize our current or future product candidates.
+Added: If coverage and adequate reimbursement are not available, or the approved reimbursement amount is not high enough, we may be unable to establish or maintain pricing sufficient to generate a return on our investment and may be unable to successfully commercialize our current or future product candidates.
Reimbursement by a third-party payor may depend upon a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the third-party payor’s determination that use of a product is a covered benefit under its health plan, safe, effective and medically necessary, appropriate for the specific patient, cost-effective, and neither experimental nor investigational.
−Removed: If coverage and adequate reimbursement is not available, or the approved reimbursement amount is not high enough, we may be unable to establish or maintain pricing sufficient to generate a return on our investment and may be unable to successfully commercialize our current or future product candidates.
+Added: If coverage and adequate reimbursement are not available, or the approved reimbursement amount is not high enough, we may be unable to establish or maintain pricing sufficient to generate a return on our investment and may be unable to successfully commercialize our current or future product candidates.
A primary trend in the U.S.
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Government authorities and third-party payors have attempted to control costs by limiting coverage and the amount of reimbursement for particular medications.
−Removed: In general, the prices of medicines under such systems are substantially lower than in the United States.
There is also significant uncertainty related to the insurance coverage and reimbursement of newly approved products, and coverage may be more limited than the purposes for which the medicine is approved by the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities.
−Removed: In the United States, the principal decisions about reimbursement for new medicines are typically made by CMS.
−Removed: As a result, the coverage determination process is often a time consuming and costly process that may require us to provide scientific and clinical support for the use of our products to each payor separately, with no assurance that coverage and adequate reimbursement will be applied consistently or obtained in the first instance.
+Added: In the United States, the most influential body regarding the coverage and payment for new medicines is CMS.
+Added: While CMS technically only makes coverage and reimbursement decisions under Medicare and Medicaid programs, any third-party payors use CMS’s coverage and reimbursement decisions as a guide.
+Added: The coverage determination process is often a time consuming and costly process that may require us to provide scientific and clinical support for the use of our products to each payor separately, with no assurance that coverage and adequate reimbursement will be applied consistently or obtained in the first instance.
It is difficult to predict what CMS will decide with respect to reimbursement for fundamentally novel products such as ours.
Reimbursement agencies in Europe may be more conservative than CMS.
−Removed: Our inability to promptly obtain coverage and profitable payment rates from both government-funded and private payors for any approved products we may develop could have a material adverse effect on our operating results, our ability to raise capital needed to commercialize our current or future product candidates, and our overall financial condition.
+Added: Our inability to promptly obtain coverage and profitable payment rates from both government-funded and private payors for any approved products we may develop could have a material
+Added: adverse effect on our operating results, our ability to raise capital needed to commercialize our current or future product candidates, and our overall financial condition.
Healthcare legislative measures and changes in policies, funding, staffing and leadership at the FDA and other agencies could hinder or prevent the commercial success of our products.
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We cannot be sure whether future changes to the regulatory environment will be favorable or unfavorable to our business prospects.
−Removed: Recent efforts by the Trump Administration to reduce government spending include reductions in FDA’s workforce.
−Removed: This may impact the FDA’s ability to approve current or future products and could delay regulatory approval of our
−Removed: current or future product candidates.
+Added: We further note the recent efforts by the Trump Administration to reduce government spending, including reductions in FDA’s workforce.
+Added: For instance, the fiscal year 2026 President’s Budget proposed a $6.8 billion budget for FDA, representing a $271 million decrease in funding compared to fiscal year 2025.
+Added: However, Congress ultimately funded FDA at $6.957 billion for fiscal year 2026.
+Added: Any budgetary cut, including those enacted for fiscal year 2026 and in the future, can impact the FDA’s ability to approve current or future products and could delay regulatory approval of our current or future product candidates.
This could delay commercialization of our products.
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Our future arrangements with third-party payors and customers may expose us to broadly applicable fraud and abuse and other healthcare laws and regulations, including, without limitation, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the federal False Claims Act, which may constrain the business or financial arrangements and relationships through which we sell, market and distribute any current or future product candidates for which we obtain marketing approval.
−Removed: In addition, we may be subject to transparency laws and patient privacy regulation by the federal and state governments and by governments in foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct our business.
+Added: In addition, we may be subject to transparency laws and patient privacy regulation by the federal and state governments
+Added: and by governments in foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct our business.
The applicable federal, state and foreign healthcare laws and regulations that may affect our ability to operate include, but are not necessarily limited to:
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Efforts to ensure that our business arrangements with third parties will comply with applicable healthcare laws and regulations may involve substantial costs.
−Removed: It is possible that governmental authorities will conclude that our business practices may not comply with current or future statutes, regulations or case law involving applicable fraud and abuse or other healthcare laws and regulations.
+Added: It is possible that government authorities will conclude that our business
+Added: practices may not comply with current or future statutes, regulations or case law involving applicable fraud and abuse or other healthcare laws and regulations.
If our operations are found to be in violation of any of these laws or any other governmental regulations that may apply to us, we may be subject to significant civil, criminal and administrative penalties, including, without limitation, damages, fines, imprisonment, exclusion from participation in government healthcare programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, and the curtailment or restructuring of our operations, which could have a material adverse effect on our businesses.
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We also could incur significant costs associated with civil or criminal fines and penalties.
−Removed: Although we maintain workers’ compensation insurance to cover us for costs and expenses, we may incur due to injuries to our employees resulting from the use of hazardous materials, this insurance may not provide adequate coverage against
−Removed: potential liabilities.
+Added: Although we maintain workers’ compensation insurance to cover us for costs and expenses, we may incur due to injuries to our employees resulting from the use of hazardous materials, this insurance may not provide adequate coverage against potential liabilities.
We do not maintain insurance for environmental liability or toxic tort claims that may be asserted against us in connection with our storage or disposal of biological, hazardous or radioactive materials.
Risks Related to our Intellectual Property
−Removed: We currently hold a license to certain intellectual property rights relating to our lead product candidate, NXP800 and to NXP900, as well as intellectual property rights relating to other compounds that modulate HSF1 and the SRC and YES1 kinases.
−Removed: If we are unable to maintain patent and other intellectual property protection for NXP800 and NXP900, and to obtain and maintain patent and other intellectual property protections for our other current or future product candidates and technology, or if the scope of intellectual property protection obtained or maintained is not sufficiently broad, our competitors could develop and commercialize products and technology similar or identical to ours, and our ability to commercialize NXP800, NXP900 or any other current or future product candidates or technology may be adversely affected.
−Removed: Our success depends in large part on our ability to obtain and maintain patent and other intellectual property protection in the United States and other countries with respect to our current or future product candidates, including NXP800 and NXP900, their respective components, formulations, combination therapies, methods used to manufacture them and methods of treatment and development that are important to our business, as well as successfully defending these patents against third-party challenges.
+Added: We currently hold a license to certain intellectual property rights for NXP900 and NXP800, as well as intellectual property rights relating to other compounds that modulate the SRC and YES1 kinases and HSF1.
+Added: If we are unable to maintain patent and other intellectual property protection for NXP900 and NXP800, and to obtain and maintain patent and other intellectual property protections for our other current or future product candidates and technology, or if the scope of intellectual property protection obtained or maintained is not sufficiently broad, our competitors could develop and commercialize products and technology similar or identical to ours, and our ability to commercialize NXP900, or any other current or future product candidates or technology may be adversely affected.
+Added: Our success depends in large part on our ability to obtain and maintain patent and other intellectual property protection in the United States and other countries with respect to our current or future product candidates, their respective components, formulations, combination therapies, methods used to manufacture them and methods of treatment and development that are important to our business, as well as successfully defending these patents against third-party challenges.
If we do not adequately protect our intellectual property rights, or if the intellectual property rights we are able to obtain are insufficiently broad and exclusive, competitors may be able to erode or negate any competitive advantage we may have, which could harm our business and ability to achieve profitability.
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We, or any current or future partners, collaborators, or licensees, may fail to identify patentable aspects of inventions made in the course of development and commercialization activities before it is too late to obtain patent protection on them.
−Removed: We may be also unable to exclusively license relevant technology and associated intellectual property developed by others.
+Added: We may be also unable to exclusively license relevant technology and associated
+Added: intellectual property developed by others.
Therefore, we may miss potential opportunities to establish our patent position.
−Removed: If we are unable to secure additional patent protection or maintain existing or future patent protection with respect to NXP800, NXP900, or any other proprietary products and technology we develop, our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects would be materially harmed.
−Removed: We currently hold a license to certain intellectual property rights relating to NXP800, including its composition of matter and to other compounds that modulate HSF1 (activate the GCN2 kinase).
−Removed: In addition, we hold a license to certain intellectual property relating to NXP900, including its composition of matter and to other compounds that inhibit the SRC and YES1 kinases.
−Removed: We have licensed one patent family covering the composition of matter for NXP800, including two issued U.S.
−Removed: patents covering the composition of matter for NXP800, as well as methods for using and making NXP800.
−Removed: Additionally, patents have been issued in major markets, including the U.S., the European Union, and Japan.
−Removed: The statutory expiration for the issued U.S.
−Removed: patents in this family is October 2034, without considering any patent extensions that may or may not be possible.
−Removed: We have licensed a patent family directed to additional compounds that modulate HSF1.
−Removed: A patent from this family has been granted in the U.S., and has a statutory expiration of April 2036, without considering any patent extensions that may or may not be possible.
−Removed: We have also licensed a patent family directed to deuterated compounds that modulate HSF1.
−Removed: patent that grants from this family would have a statutory expiration of October 2037, without considering any patent extensions or patent disclaimers that may or may not be possible.
+Added: If we are unable to secure additional patent protection or maintain existing or future patent protection with respect to NXP900, or any other proprietary products and technology we develop, our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects would be materially harmed.
+Added: We decided to cease the clinical development of NXP800 as we assess possible next steps, if any, in the development of the compound.
+Added: We currently hold a license to certain intellectual property relating to NXP900, including its composition of matter and to other compounds that inhibit the SRC and YES1 kinases.
We have licensed one patent family covering the composition of matter for NXP900, which has been granted in the U.S., EU, Japan, China and is pending in the United Kingdom and Canada.
The statutory expiration for patents in this patent family is April 2036, without considering any possible patent term extension.
−Removed: If the scope of our patent protection, whether now or in the future, with respect to NXP800, NXP900 or our future product candidates and technology is not sufficiently broad, we will be unable to prevent others from using our technology or from developing or commercializing technology and products similar or identical to ours or other competing products and technologies.
−Removed: Any failure to obtain or maintain patent protection, through our own patents or through in-licensing, with respect to NXP800, NXP900 and our future product candidates would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
+Added: If the scope of our patent protection, for our product candidate or future product candidates and technology is not sufficiently broad, we will be unable to prevent others from using our technology or from developing or commercializing technology and products similar or identical to ours or other competing products and technologies.
+Added: Any failure to obtain or maintain patent protection, through our own patents or through in-licensing, with respect to NXP900 and our future product candidates would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
Even if they are unchallenged, our patent applications, if issued, and any patents we may own or in-license now or in the future, may not provide us with any meaningful protection or prevent competitors from designing around our patent claims to circumvent any patents we may own or in-license in the future by developing similar or alternative technologies or therapeutics in a non-infringing manner.
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If we fail to comply with our obligations in our current license agreements, or in any future agreements under which we may license intellectual property rights from third parties or otherwise experience disruptions to our business relationships with our current or future licensors, we could lose license rights that are important to our business.
−Removed: We are currently party to a license which grants us certain intellectual property rights relating to our lead product candidate, NXP800, as well as other related compounds, and to a license which grants us certain intellectual property rights relating to our second drug candidate, NXP900, as well as other compounds that inhibit the SRC and YES1 kinases.
+Added: We are currently party to a license which grants us certain intellectual property rights relating to NXP900, as well as other compounds that inhibit the SRC and YES1 kinases.
These agreements impose numerous obligations on us to maintain our licensing rights, including development, diligence, payment, commercialization, funding, milestone, royalty, sublicensing, insurance, patent prosecution, enforcement and other obligations.
−Removed: In spite of our efforts, our licensor might conclude that we have materially breached our license
−Removed: agreement and might therefore terminate the license agreement, thereby removing or limiting our ability to develop and commercialize NXP800 or NXP900 (and other compounds covered by the licenses).
+Added: In spite of our efforts, our licensor might conclude that we have materially breached our license agreement and might therefore terminate the license agreement, thereby removing or limiting our ability to develop and commercialize NXP900 (and other compounds covered by the licenses).
Additionally, in the future, we may be party to other license or collaboration agreements with third parties to advance our research or allow commercialization of current or future product candidates.
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We or any of our future licensors or strategic partners may be party to, exposed to, or threatened with, future adversarial proceedings or litigation by third parties having patent or other intellectual property rights alleging that our current or future product candidates and/or proprietary technologies infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate their intellectual property rights.
−Removed: Thus, because of the large number of patents issued and patent applications filed in our fields, there may be a risk that third parties may allege they have patent rights encompassing our current or future product candidates, technologies or methods.
+Added: Thus, because of the large number of patents issued and patent applications filed in our
+Added: fields, there may be a risk that third parties may allege they have patent rights encompassing our current or future product candidates, technologies or methods.
Third parties may assert that we are employing their proprietary technology without authorization.
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patents we may own or in-license in the future may be eligible for limited patent term extension under the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, or the Hatch-Waxman Act.
−Removed: If we are unable to obtain patent term extension or the term of any such extension is shorter than what we request, our competitors may obtain approval of competing products following expiration of any patents that issue from our patent applications, and our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects could be materially harmed.
+Added: If we are unable to obtain patent term extension or data exclusivity, or the term of any such extension is shorter than what we request, our competitors may obtain approval of competing products following expiration of any patents that issue from our patent applications, and our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects could be materially harmed.
If our trademarks and trade names are not adequately protected, we may not be able to build name recognition in our marks of interest and our business may be adversely affected.
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Nevertheless, we are responsible for ensuring that each of our studies, including each of our clinical trials, is conducted in accordance with the applicable protocol, legal and regulatory requirements as well as scientific standards, and our reliance on any third-party entity will not relieve us of our regulatory responsibilities.
−Removed: Based on our present expectations, we and our third-party contractors will be required to comply with GCP regulations for the clinical development of all of our drug candidates.
+Added: Based on our present expectations, we and our third-party contractors will be required to comply with GCP and GLP regulations for the clinical development of all of our drug candidates.
If we or any of these third parties fail to comply with applicable GLP or GCP regulations, the clinical data generated in our preclinical and 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, which we may not have sufficient cash or other resources to support and which would delay our ability to generate revenue from future sales of such drug candidate.
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These outside contractors may not assign as great a priority to our programs or pursue them as diligently as we would if we were undertaking such programs ourselves.
−Removed: As a result, our operations and the commercial prospects for the effected drug candidates would be harmed, our costs could increase and our ability to generate revenues could be delayed.
+Added: As a result, our operations and the commercial prospects for the effected drug candidates would be harmed, our costs could increase and our ability to generate revenues could be
These contractors may also have relationships with other commercial entities, some of whom may compete with us.
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We do not currently own any facility that may be used as our clinical-scale manufacturing and processing facility and must rely on outside vendors to manufacture our current or future product candidates.
−Removed: We rely on a single CMO to make the NXP800 drug substance and finished drug product, each performed at a different manufacturing facility.
We rely on a single CMO to manufacture NXP900 drug substance and another single CMO to manufacture NXP900 drug product.
There is no assurance that we will be able to retain these relationships, and if we are unable to maintain these relationships, we could experience delays in our development efforts.
−Removed: There is no assurance that our CMOs will be successful in manufacturing NXP800 and/or NXP900 drug substance or product.
−Removed: If NXP800, NXP900 or any other drug candidate we may develop or acquire in the future receives regulatory approval, we will likely rely on one or more CMOs to manufacture the commercial supply of such drugs.
+Added: There is no assurance that our CMOs will be successful in manufacturing NXP900 drug substance or product.
+Added: If NXP900 or any other drug candidate we may develop or acquire in the future receives regulatory approval, we will likely rely on one or more CMOs to manufacture the commercial supply of such drugs.
+Added: In 2025, following the completion of the NXP800 Phase 1b study, we decided to cease the clinical development of NXP800 as we assess possible next steps, if any, in the development of the compound.
+Added: We are therefore currently not planning any future manufacturing campaigns for NXP800.
Our anticipated reliance on a limited number of third-party manufacturers exposes us to a number of risks, including:
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Any delay in hiring such new employees could result in delays in our research and development activities and would harm our business.
−Removed: As our development and commercialization plans and strategies develop, and as we transition into operating as a public company, we expect to need additional managerial, operational, sales, marketing, financial and other personnel, as well as additional facilities to expand our operations.
+Added: As our development and commercialization plans and strategies develop, and as we transition into
+Added: operating as a public company, we expect to need additional managerial, operational, sales, marketing, financial and other personnel, as well as additional facilities to expand our operations.
If we are not able to effectively expand our organization by hiring new employees and expanding our groups of consultants and contractors, or we are not able to effectively build out new facilities to accommodate this expansion, we may not be able to successfully implement the tasks necessary to further develop and commercialize our current or future product candidates and, accordingly, may not achieve our research, development and commercialization goals.
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We are now subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which requires, among other things, that we file with the SEC, annual, quarterly, and current reports with respect to our business and financial condition.
−Removed: In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”), as well as rules subsequently adopted by the SEC and the Nasdaq Capital Market to implement provisions of SOX, impose significant requirements on public
−Removed: companies, including requiring establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls and changes in corporate governance practices.
+Added: In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”), as well as rules subsequently adopted by the SEC and the Nasdaq Capital Market to implement provisions of SOX, impose significant requirements on public companies, including requiring establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls and changes in corporate governance practices.
Moreover, these rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and make some activities more time-consuming and costly.
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Such a security breach may cause loss, damage, or disclosure of proprietary or confidential information, which could in turn result in significant legal and financial exposure and reputational damage that could adversely affect our business.
−Removed: Furthermore, the loss or corruption of clinical trial data from future clinical trials may result in delays in our regulatory approval efforts and could significantly increase our costs to recover or reproduce the data.
+Added: Furthermore, the loss or
+Added: corruption of clinical trial data from future clinical trials may result in delays in our regulatory approval efforts and could significantly increase our costs to recover or reproduce the data.
The costs related to significant security breaches or disruptions could be material and our insurance policies may not be adequate to compensate us for the potential losses arising from any such security breach.
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The use of precision medicines as a potential cancer treatment is a recent development and may not become broadly accepted by physicians, patients, hospitals, cancer treatment centers, and others in the medical community.
−Removed: predict whether physicians, patients, hospitals, cancer treatment centers, and government agencies or third-party payors will determine that our product is safe, therapeutically effective, and cost effective as compared with competing treatments.
+Added: We cannot predict whether physicians, patients, hospitals, cancer treatment centers, and government agencies or third-party payors will determine that our product is safe, therapeutically effective, and cost effective as compared with competing treatments.
If our current or potential future product candidates do not achieve an adequate level of market acceptance, we may not generate significant product revenues and may not become profitable.
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We do not know whether an active, liquid and orderly trading market will develop for our Common Stock or what the market price of our Common Stock will be and, as a result, it may be difficult for you to sell your shares of our Common Stock.
−Removed: Prior to the pricing of our IPO on February 4, 2022, there was no public trading market for shares of our Common Stock and after our IPO, the trading price of our Common Stock has been volatile.
+Added: Prior to the pricing of our initial public offering on February 4, 2022, there was no public trading market for shares of our Common Stock and after our IPO, the trading price of our Common Stock has been volatile.
Although our Common Stock is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, an active trading market for our shares is still developing and may not be sustained in the future.
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Our business is affected by global and local economic and political conditions as well as the state of the financial markets, inflation, recession, financial liquidity, currency volatility, growth, and policy initiatives.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that
−Removed: global economic conditions and financial markets will not worsen and that we will not experience any adverse effects that may be material to our consolidated cash flows, results of operations, financial position or our ability to access capital, such as the adverse effects resulting from a prolonged shutdown in government operations both in the United States and internationally.
+Added: There can be no assurance that global economic conditions and financial markets will not worsen and that we will not experience any adverse effects that may be material to our consolidated cash flows, results of operations, financial position or our ability to access capital, such as the adverse effects resulting from a prolonged shutdown in government operations both in the United States and internationally.
Political changes, including war or other conflicts, some of which may be disruptive, could interfere with our supply chain, our customers and all of our activities in a particular location.
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We do not control these analysts.
−Removed: We may never obtain research coverage by industry or financial analysts.
If no or few analysts publish research reports on the Company or if analysts publish negative research reports about the Company, our stock price may significantly decline.
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We may seek additional capital through a combination of public and private equity offerings, At-the-Market offering program, , debt financings, strategic partnerships and alliances and licensing arrangements.
−Removed: Any equity or equity-related financing may dilute our stockholders may subject us to restrictive covenants and interest costs.
+Added: Any equity or equity-related financing may dilute our stockholders and may subject us to restrictive covenants and interest costs.
If we obtain funding through a strategic collaboration or licensing arrangement, we may be required to relinquish our rights to our current product candidates or any future product candidates that we may develop.
Additional fundraising efforts may divert our management from their day-to-day activities, which may adversely affect our operations.
−Removed: If we are unable to raise additional capital as needed or on acceptable terms, we may be required to delay or discontinue any research, development or commercialization programs and may be unable to expand our operations or otherwise capitalize on our business opportunities.
+Added: If we are unable to raise additional capital as needed or on acceptable terms, we may be required to delay or discontinue any research, development or commercialization programs and may be unable to expand our
+Added: operations or otherwise capitalize on our business opportunities.
Further, we may be required to seek collaborators for potential product candidates earlier, or on less favorable terms, than might otherwise be desired, or to relinquish or license our rights to potential product candidates in markets where we otherwise would seek to pursue development or commercialization.
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If we fail to satisfy the continuing listing requirements of NASDAQ, such as the corporate governance, stockholders’ equity or minimum closing bid price requirements, NASDAQ may take steps to delist our common stock.
−Removed: Such a delisting
−Removed: would likely have a negative effect on the price of our common stock and would impair our stockholders’ ability to sell or purchase our common stock.
+Added: Such a delisting would likely have a negative effect on the price of our common stock and would impair our stockholders’ ability to sell or purchase our common stock.
In the event of a delisting, we would likely take actions to restore our compliance with NASDAQ’s listing requirements, but we can provide no assurance that any such action taken by us would allow our common stock to become listed again, stabilize the market price or improve the liquidity of our securities, prevent our common stock from dropping below the NASDAQ minimum bid price requirement or prevent future non-compliance with NASDAQ’s listing requirements.
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