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Risk Factor Summary
−Removed: ● Our prospects are highly dependent on our existing commercial products, TAVALISSE (fostamatinib disodium hexahydrate), REZLIDHIA (olutasidenib), and GAVRETO (pralsetinib).
+Added: ● Our prospects are highly dependent on our existing commercial products.
To the extent that the commercial success of our products in the US and respective territories outside of the US is diminished or halted, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected, and the price of our common stock may decline.
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If any or all of them become subject to adverse findings from inspections or face other difficulties to operate, then the distribution of our products may be interrupted or otherwise adversely affected.
−Removed: ● We lack the capability to manufacture compounds for clinical development and we intend to rely on third parties for commercial supply, manufacturing and distribution, if any, of our product candidates which receive regulatory approval and we may be unable to obtain required material or product in a timely manner, at an acceptable cost or at a quality level required to receive regulatory approval.
+Added: ● We lack the capability to manufacture compounds for clinical development and we intend to rely on third parties
+Added: for commercial supply, manufacturing and distribution, if any, of our product candidates which receive regulatory approval and we may be unable to obtain required material or product in a timely manner, at an acceptable cost or at a quality level required to receive regulatory approval.*
● Any product for which we have obtained regulatory approval, or for which we obtain approval in the future, is subject to, or will be subject to, extensive ongoing regulatory requirements by the FDA, EMA, MHRA and other comparable regulatory authorities, and if we fail to comply with regulatory requirements or if we experience unanticipated problems with our products, we may be subject to penalties, we may be unable to generate revenue from the sale of such products, our potential for generating positive cash flow may be diminished, and the capital necessary to fund our operations will be increased.
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In July 2022, we entered into a license and transition services agreement with Forma for an exclusive license to develop, manufacture and commercialize olutasidenib, a proprietary inhibitor of mIDH1, for any uses worldwide, including for the treatment of AML and other malignancies.
−Removed: On December 1, 2022, the FDA approved REZLIDHIA capsules for the treatment of adult patients with R/R AML with a susceptible IDH1 mutations as detected by an FDA-approved test.
+Added: In December 2022, the FDA approved REZLIDHIA capsules for the treatment of adult patients with R/R AML with a susceptible IDH1 mutations as detected by an FDA-approved test.
REZLIDHIA is our second commercial product and we believe is highly synergistic with our existing hematology-oncology focused commercial and medical affairs infrastructure.
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Simultaneously and in connection with entering into the Asset Purchase Agreement, we also entered into certain supporting agreements with Blueprint, including a customary transition agreement, pursuant to which, during a transition period, Blueprint will transition regulatory and distribution responsibility for pralsetinib to us.
−Removed: On June 24, 2024, we announced the completion of the transfer of GAVRETO NDA to us, and GAVRETO became commercially available from us in the US by prescription beginning on June 27, 2024.
+Added: In June 2024, we announced the completion of the transfer of GAVRETO NDA to us, and GAVRETO became commercially available from us in the US by prescription.
The in-licensing and acquisition of a product is a highly competitive area, and many other companies are pursuing the same or similar product candidates to those that we may consider attractive.
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The success of this strategy depends partly upon our ability to identify, select and acquire or in-license promising product candidates and technologies.
−Removed: The process of proposing, negotiating and implementing a license or acquisition of a product candidate is lengthy and complex, and we may be unable to in-license or acquire the rights to any such products, product candidates or technologies from third parties for several reasons.
+Added: The process of proposing, negotiating and implementing a license or acquisition of a product candidate is lengthy and complex, and we may be unable to in-license or acquire the rights to any such
+Added: products, product candidates or technologies from third parties for several reasons.
We may also be unable to in-license or acquire additional relevant product candidates on acceptable terms.
−Removed: Further, even if we identify
−Removed: acquisition or in-licensing targets, we may not be able to complete the transactions or we may determine after due diligence investigation not to pursue identified targets.
+Added: Further, even if we identify acquisition or in-licensing targets, we may not be able to complete the transactions or we may determine after due diligence investigation not to pursue identified targets.
Even if we succeed in our efforts to obtain rights to suitable product candidates, the success of our investments in these areas, our investment strategy will remain subject to the inherent risks associated with the development and commercialization of the product, and with the competitive business environment in which we operate.
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● potential failure of the due diligence process to identify significant problems, liabilities or other shortcomings or challenges of an acquired or licensed product candidate or technology, including problems, liabilities or other shortcomings or challenges with respect to intellectual property, product quality, partner disputes or issues and other legal and financial contingencies and known and unknown liabilities;
−Removed: ● inability to integrate the target company or in-licensed asset successfully into our existing business, inability to maintain the key business relationships of the target,
+Added: ● inability to integrate the target company or in-licensed asset successfully into our existing business and inability to maintain the key business relationships of the target;
● in an in-licensing or an asset acquisition of a product that is commercially available in the market, we may not be able to successfully transition the existing patients who are dependent to the acquired or in-licensed product, or successfully enter into a reimbursement coverage contracts that the existing patients were previously dependent into, or successfully enter into a contract with contract manufacturers to continue the production of the in-licensed or acquired product;
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These risks include, but are not limited to, the inherent difficulty in selecting the right drug and drug target and avoiding unwanted side effects, as well as unanticipated problems relating to product development, testing, enrollment, obtaining regulatory approvals, obtaining and maintaining reimbursement in national markets and positive recommendation from HTA bodies, maintaining regulatory compliance, manufacturing, competition and costs and expenses that may exceed current estimates.
−Removed: In future clinical trials, we, our partners or others may discover additional side effects and/or a higher frequency of side effects than those observed in previously completed clinical trials.
+Added: In future clinical
+Added: trials, we, our partners or others may discover additional side effects and/or a higher frequency of side effects than those observed in previously completed clinical trials.
The results of preliminary and mid-stage clinical trials do not necessarily predict clinical or commercial success, and larger later-stage clinical trials may fail to confirm the results observed in the previous clinical trials.
−Removed: Similarly, a clinical trial may show that a product candidate is safe and effective for certain patient populations in a particular indication, but other clinical trials may fail to confirm those results in a subset of that population or in a different patient population, which may limit the potential market for that product
+Added: Similarly, a clinical trial may show that a product candidate is safe and effective for certain patient populations in a particular indication, but other clinical trials may fail to confirm those results in a subset of that population or in a different patient population, which may limit the potential market for that product candidate.
For example, in October 2024, we issued a Dear Healthcare Provider Letter for GAVRETO related to a new safety signal identified in an ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial of pralsetinib in first-line treatment of RET fusion-positive, metastatic NSCLC patients, being conducted by Roche.
+Added: The letter advises healthcare providers to apply certain measures to protect patient safety, including enhanced ongoing monitoring for signs and symptoms of infection as well as guidance for withholding treatment to patients in the presence of active infection.
With respect to our own compounds in development, we have established anticipated timelines with respect to the initiation of clinical trials based on existing knowledge of the compounds.
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Additionally, the initial results of a completed earlier clinical trial of a product candidate do not necessarily predict final results and the results may not be repeated in later clinical trials.
−Removed: Because of the uncertainty of whether the accumulated preclinical evidence (PK, pharmacodynamic, safety and/or other factors) or early clinical results will be observed in later clinical trials, we can make no assurances regarding the likely results from our future clinical trials or the impact of those results on our business.
−Removed: For example, we conducted a Phase 3 pivotal trial of fostamatinib in patients with wAIHA initiated in March 2019 and completed in April 2022.
+Added: Because of the uncertainty of whether the accumulated preclinical evidence (pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, safety and/or other factors) or early clinical results will be observed in later clinical trials, we can make no assurances regarding the likely results from our future clinical trials or the impact of those results on our business.
+Added: For example, we conducted a Phase 3 pivotal trial of fostamatinib in patients with warm auto immune hemolytic anemia (wAIHA) initiated in March 2019 and completed in April 2022.
In June 2022, we announced top-line efficacy and safety data results of the trial, and the results did not demonstrate statistical significance in the primary efficacy endpoint of durable hemoglobin response in the overall study population .
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We previously announced in November 2022 the top-line results did not meet statistical significance in the primary efficacy endpoint.
−Removed: Upon further analysis, we discovered an error by the biostatistical CRO in the application of a statistical stratification factor.
+Added: Upon further analysis, we discovered an error by the biostatistical contract research organization in the application of a statistical stratification factor.
After correcting for this statistical error, the primary endpoint of the study was met.
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These laws may constrain the business or financial arrangements and relationships through which we conduct our operations, including how we research, market, sell and distribute any product for which we have obtained regulatory approval, or for which we may obtain regulatory approval in the future.
−Removed: In particular, the promotion, sales and marketing of healthcare items and services, as well as certain business arrangements in the healthcare industry, are subject to extensive laws and regulations intended to prevent fraud,
−Removed: misconduct, bribery kickbacks, self-dealing and other abusive or inappropriate practices.
+Added: In particular, the promotion, sales and marketing of healthcare items and services, as well as certain business arrangements in the healthcare industry, are subject to extensive laws and regulations intended to prevent fraud, misconduct, bribery kickbacks, self-dealing and other abusive or inappropriate practices.
These laws and regulations may restrict or prohibit a wide range of pricing, discounting, marketing and promotion, including promoting off-label uses of our products, certain commission compensation, certain customer incentive programs, certain patient support offerings, and other business arrangements generally.
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The cost of compliance with these laws, regulations and standards is high and is likely to increase in the future.
−Removed: Any failure or perceived failure by us or our collaborators, service providers and contractors to comply with federal, state or foreign laws or regulations, our internal policies and procedures or our contracts governing the processing of personal information could result in negative
−Removed: publicity, diversion of management time and effort and proceedings against us by governmental entities or others.
+Added: Any failure or perceived failure by us or our collaborators, service providers and contractors to comply with federal, state or foreign laws or regulations, our internal policies and procedures or our contracts governing the processing of personal information could result in negative publicity, diversion of management time and effort and proceedings against us by governmental entities or others.
In many jurisdictions, enforcement actions, litigation, and other consequences for noncompliance with privacy and information security laws and regulations are rising.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has authority under Section 5 of the FTC Act to regulate unfair or deceptive or practices, and has used this authority to initiate enforcement actions against companies that implement inadequate controls around privacy and information security in violation of their externally facing policies.
−Removed: The FTC has recently brought several cases alleging violations of Section 5 of the FTC Act with respect to health information, and has proposed rulemaking on a variety of privacy and data security topics.
−Removed: The FTC published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in 2022 on commercial surveillance and data security, and may propose regulation concerning the ways in which companies collect, aggregate, protect, use, analyze, and retain consumer data, as well as transfer, share, sell, or otherwise monetize that data in the coming years.
−Removed: The FTC also finalized changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule in April 2024.
−Removed: Moreover, the US federal government has also enacted statutes to address privacy and information security issues impacting particular industries or activities, including the following laws and regulations:
+Added: The FTC has brought several cases alleging violations of Section 5 of the FTC Act with respect to health information, and has proposed rulemaking on a variety of privacy and data security topics.
+Added: Additionally, the FTC published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in 2022 on commercial surveillance and data security, and may propose regulation concerning the ways in which companies collect, aggregate, protect, use, analyze, and retain consumer data, as well as transfer, share, sell, or otherwise monetize that data in the coming years.
+Added: The FTC has also been active with respect to enforcement of its Health Breach Notification Rule and in scrutinizing the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information.
+Added: The FTC finalized changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule in April 2024.
+Added: Moreover, the US federal government has also enacted statutes to address privacy and information security issues impacting particular industries or activities, including the following laws and regulations, including, but not limited to:
the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the CAN-SPAM Act, and other laws and regulations, and continues to consider comprehensive federal privacy legislation.
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The CCPA also requires businesses subject to the law to provide disclosures to California residents and to provide them with rights with respect to their personal information, including the right to opt out of the sale of such information.
−Removed: Moreover, the CPRA, among other things, impose requirements relating to data minimization and correction, and gives California residents additional rights over their personal information, including the right to opt-out of the use of their personal information in online behavioral advertising and to opt-out of certain types of consumer profiling.
−Removed: The CPRA also provides for penalties for CPRA violations concerning California residents under the age of 16, and establishes a new California Privacy Protection Agency to implement and enforce the law.
−Removed: Although there are limited exemptions for clinical trial and other research-related data under the CCPA, the CCPA could impact our business depending on how it will be interpreted by the new California Privacy Protection Agency.
−Removed: As we expand our operations, the CCPA may increase our compliance costs and potential liability.
+Added: Moreover, the CPRA, among other things, imposes requirements
+Added: relating to data minimization and correction, and gives California residents additional rights over their personal information, including the right to opt-out of the use of their personal information in online behavioral advertising and to opt-out of certain types of consumer profiling.
+Added: The CPRA also provides for penalties for CPRA violations concerning California residents under the age of 16, and established the California Privacy Protection Agency to implement and enforce the law.
+Added: Although there are exemptions for protected health information, clinical trial and other research-related data under the CCPA, the CCPA could impact our business depending on how it is interpreted by the California Privacy Protection Agency, as well from new regulations issued by the Agency to further implement the law.
+Added: Compliance with the CCPA may increase our compliance costs and potential liability.
Multiple other states have followed California and enacted comprehensive privacy laws, or are considering similar legislation.
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Moreover, some states have enacted laws specific to health data privacy, which may cause additional compliance costs such as the Washington My Health My Data Act and Nevada’s Consumer Health Data Privacy Law.
+Added: For example, the Washington My Health My Data Act regulates “consumer health data” which is defined as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.” However, the My Health My Data Act provides exemptions for personal data used or shared in research, including data subject to 45 C.F.R.
+Added: Parts 46, 50, and 56.
States, such as Colorado, Utah and California, have passed or are considering legislation or regulation governing the development or use of artificial intelligence technologies, supplementing the existing consumer protection, FDA and other regulatory guidance that may apply to the use of AI technologies in our business, and which may impact our use of technology.
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For example, in the EU, the collection, use, disclosure, transfer and other processing of personal data (i.e., data which identifies an individual or from which an individual is identifiable) is governed by the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the EU GDPR), which came into direct effect in all EU Member States on and from May 25, 2018.
−Removed: The UK has implemented the EU GDPR as the UK GDPR which sits alongside the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (the UK GDPR, together with the EU GDPR, the GDPR).
−Removed: The GDPR has direct effect where an entity is established in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK (as applicable) and has extraterritorial effect, including where an entity established outside of the EEA or the UK processes personal data in relation to offering goods or services to individuals in the EEA and/or the UK or monitoring their behavior.
+Added: The UK has implemented the EU GDPR as the UK GDPR which sits alongside the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (the UK GDPR, and together with the EU GDPR, the GDPR).
+Added: In October 2024, the UK government introduced to Parliament the Data (Use and Access) Bill (the DUA Bill) which is set to introduce reforms to the UK GDPR.
+Added: The DUA Bill is currently progressing through the legislative process and is expected to be finalized during 2025.
+Added: The GDPR has direct effect where an entity is established in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK (as applicable) and has extraterritorial effect, including where an entity established outside of the EEA or the UK processes personal data in relation to the offering of goods or services to individuals in the EEA and/or the UK or the monitoring of their behavior.
The GDPR imposes obligations on controllers, including, among others:
−Removed: ● accountability and transparency requirements, requiring controllers to demonstrate and record compliance with the GDPR and to provide more detailed information to data subjects regarding processing of their personal data;
+Added: ● accountability and transparency requirements, requiring controllers to demonstrate and record compliance with the GDPR and to provide more detailed information to data subjects regarding the processing of their personal data;
● requirements to process personal data lawfully including specific requirements for obtaining valid consent where consent is the lawful basis for processing;
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● obligations to comply with data protection rights of data subjects including a right:
−Removed: (i) of access to, erasure of, or rectification of personal data, (ii) to restriction of processing or to withdraw consent to processing, and (iii) to object to processing or to ask for a copy of personal data to be provided to a third party;
+Added: (i) of access to, erasure of, or rectification of personal data, (ii) to restriction of processing or to withdraw consent to processing, (iii) to object to processing or to ask for a copy of personal data to be provided to a third party, and (iv) not to be subject to solely automated decision-making;
● an obligation to report personal data breaches to:
−Removed: (i) the data supervisory authority without undue delay (and no later than 72 hours after discovering the personal data breach, where feasible), unless the personal data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the data subjects’ rights and freedoms;
−Removed: and (ii) to affected data subjects, where the personal data breach is likely to result in a high risk to their rights and freedoms.
−Removed: In addition, the EU GDPR prohibits the international transfer of personal data from the EEA to jurisdictions that the European Commission does not recognize as having ‘adequate’ data protection laws unless a data transfer mechanism has been put in place or a derogation under the EU GDPR can be relied on.
−Removed: In July 2020, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in its Schrems II judgement limited how organizations could lawfully transfer personal data from the EEA to the US by invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield for purposes of international transfers and imposing further restrictions on the use of standard contractual clauses (EU SCCs), including a requirement for companies to carry out a transfer privacy impact assessment (TIAs).
+Added: (i) the data protection supervisory authority without undue delay (and no later than 72 hours) after becoming aware of the personal data breach, where feasible, unless the personal data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the data subjects’ rights and freedoms;
+Added: and (ii) affected data subjects, where the personal data breach is likely to result in a high risk to their rights and freedoms.
+Added: In addition, the EU GDPR prohibits the international transfer of personal data from the EEA to jurisdictions that the European Commission does not recognize as having an ‘adequate’ level of data protection unless a data transfer mechanism has been put in place or a derogation under the EU GDPR can be relied on.
+Added: In certain cases (e.g., where transfers are made in reliance on EU SCCs) a company must also carry out a so-called transfer privacy impact assessment (TIA).
A TIA, among other things, assesses laws governing access to personal data in the recipient country and considers whether supplementary measures that provide privacy protections additional to those provided under EU SCCs will need to be implemented to ensure an ‘essentially equivalent’ level of data protection to that afforded in the EEA.
−Removed: On October 7, 2022, US President Biden introduced an Executive Order to facilitate a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (DPF) and on July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted its Final Implementing Decision granting the US adequacy (Adequacy Decision) for EU-US transfers of personal data for entities self-certified to the
+Added: On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted its Final Implementing Decision granting the US adequacy (Adequacy Decision) for EU-US transfers of personal data for entities self-certified to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF).
Entities relying on EU SCCs for transfers to the US.
are also able to rely on the analysis in the Adequacy Decision as support for their TIA regarding the equivalence of US national security safeguards and redress.
−Removed: This may have implications for our cross-border data flows and has and may in the future result in increased compliance costs.
The UK GDPR also imposes similar restrictions on transfers of personal data from the UK to jurisdictions that the UK Government does not consider adequate, including the US.
−Removed: The UK Government has published its own form of the EU SCCs, known as the International Data Transfer Agreement and an International Data Transfer Addendum to the new EU SCCs.
−Removed: The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has also published its version of the TIA and guidance on international transfers, although entities may choose to adopt either the EU or UK style TIA.
+Added: The UK Government has published its own form of the EU SCCs, known as the International Data Transfer Agreement and an International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU SCCs.
+Added: The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has also published its version of the TIA and guidance on international transfers, although entities may choose to adopt either the EU or UK style TIA.
Further, on September 21, 2023, the UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology established a UK-US data bridge (i.e., a UK adequacy decision) and adopted UK regulations to implement the UK-US data bridge (UK Adequacy Regulations).
−Removed: The UK Adequacy Regulations have now been passed in the UK Parliament, and personal data may be transferred from the UK under the UK-US data bridge through the UK extension to the DPF, from October 12, 2023, to organizations self-certified under the DPF.
−Removed: The GDPR imposes fines for serious breaches of up to the higher of 4% of the organization’s annual worldwide turnover or €20 million (under the EU GDPR) or £17.5 million (under the UK GDPR).
+Added: Personal data may be transferred from the UK under the UK-US data bridge through the UK extension to the DPF, from October 12, 2023, to organizations self-certified under the UK extension to the DPF.
+Added: Data protection supervisory authorities have the power under the GDPR to (amongst other thing) impose fines for serious breaches of up to the higher of 4% of the organization’s annual worldwide turnover or €20 million (under the EU GDPR) or £17.5 million (under the UK GDPR).
The GDPR identifies a list of points to consider when determining the level of fines for data supervisory authorities to impose (including the nature, gravity and duration of the infringement).
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In addition to data privacy requirements, cybersecurity requirements are laid down in various laws in the EU and the UK, the key ones being:
−Removed: (i) the GDPR (as discussed in detail above), which requires controllers and processors to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard personal data to a level of security appropriate to the data protection risk;
−Removed: and (ii) the UK Network and Information Systems Regulation 2018 (NIS
−Removed: Regulations), and the EU Network and Information Systems Security 2 Directive (NISD2) as implemented into EU Member State law.
+Added: (i) the GDPR (as discussed above), which requires controllers and processors to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard personal data to a level of security appropriate to the data protection risk;
+Added: (ii) the UK Network and Information Systems Regulation 2018 (NIS Regulations), and (iii) the EU Network and Information Systems Security 2 Directive (NISD2).
The GDPR does not provide for a specific set of cybersecurity requirements or measures to be implemented, but rather requires a controller or processor to implement appropriate cyber and data security measures in accordance with the then-current risk, the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing.
−Removed: The GDPR however does explicitly require that controllers notify personal data breaches, within the meaning of the GDPR, without undue delay and in any event within 72 hours after becoming aware of it, to the relevant data protection supervisory authority, unless the breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals.
−Removed: In addition, controllers are required to notify the individuals concerned of any personal data breach, without undue delay, when the personal data breach is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals.
−Removed: Processors are required to notify the controller without undue delay after becoming aware of a personal data breach.
+Added: The GDPR however does explicitly require that controllers notify personal data breaches, within the meaning of the GDPR as described above.
In the UK, the NIS Regulations apply to ‘operators of essential services’ (OES) and ‘relevant digital service providers’ (RDSP) and following the UK General Election in July 2024, the new UK Government has announced it intends to introduce a Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to the UK Parliament.
The NIS Regulations require that appropriate and proportionate technical and organizational measures are implemented to manage the risk of network and information systems, and impose requirements related to incident handling and notification in relation to incidents with significant disruptive effect.
−Removed: Under the NIS Regulations, the UK’s data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office, may issue fines of up to £17 million and take other action following non-compliance.
−Removed: In the EU, more stringent cybersecurity and incident reporting requirements are imposed on ‘essential’ and ‘important’ entities, which include ICT managed service providers (MSP), cloud service providers as well as entities carrying out research and development activities of medicinal products, and certain specific medical device manufacturers.
+Added: Under the NIS Regulations, the ICO may issue fines of up to £17 million and take other action following non-compliance.
+Added: In the EU, the NISD2 (and the implementing laws at a national EU Member State level) impose stringent cybersecurity and incident reporting requirements on ‘essential’ and ‘important’ entities, which include ICT managed service providers (MSP), cloud service providers as well as entities carrying out research and development activities of medicinal products, and certain specific medical device manufacturers.
Our entities may be in scope of the NISD2 where they qualify as a MSP, cloud provider, R&D entity and/or medical device manufacturer within the meaning of NISD2 and offer those services in the EU.
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and (iii) injunctions to immediately cease infringing conduct.
−Removed: Importantly, NISD2 also provides that senior members of staff can be held personally liable, and face administrative fines or be temporarily suspended from exercising managerial functions at the legal representative or chief executive officer level.
+Added: NISD2 also provides that senior members of staff can be held personally liable, and face administrative fines or be temporarily suspended from exercising managerial functions at the legal representative or chief executive officer level.
+Added: The NISD2 has not to date been transposed by all EU Member States despite the deadline for doing so having passed.
In addition, the EU Critical Entities Resilience Directive (CER) is aimed at strengthening the resilience of ‘critical infrastructure’ against specific threats including cyber incidents, natural hazards, terrorist attacks, insider threats, and sabotage.
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Our entities may be in scope of the CER where they qualify as critical entities within the meaning of CER.
−Removed: In the EU, a number of new laws related to digital data and AI have also recently entered into force, are expected to enter into force in the foreseeable future, or have been proposed and are being considered.
+Added: The CER has not to date been transposed by all EU Member States despite the deadline for doing so having passed.
+Added: In the EU, a number of new laws related to digital data and AI have recently entered into force, are expected to enter into force in the foreseeable future, or have been proposed and are being considered.
We are still assessing the scope of application, impact, and risk of these recent EU laws on our business, and will continue to assess this moving forward, including for example:
−Removed: (i) the EU’s Data Act– came into force as of December 13, 2023 which seeks to, among other things regulate the use of, and access to, data generated through connected (or Internet-of-Things)
−Removed: devices and introduces a new means for public sector bodies to access, use and re-use private sector data;
−Removed: and (ii) the proposed European Health Data Space Regulation (EHDS) – expected to be agreed by end of 2024 – which seeks to , among other things, provide individuals with more control over their electronic health data (EHD), enable cross-border sharing of EHD between national EU healthcare systems and facilitate the sharing of EHD for secondary research purposes.
−Removed: The EU has also developed a standalone law to govern the offering and use of AI systems in the EU (the AI Act) which was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on July 12, 2024 and entered into force on August 1, 2024.
−Removed: The AI Act imposes regulatory requirements on AI system providers, deployers, importers, distributors, and users of AI systems, in accordance with the level of risk involved with the AI system (“unacceptable”, “high”, “limited”, and “minimal” risk).
+Added: (i) the EU’s Data Act, which – came into force on January 11, 2024 and which seeks to, among other things regulate the use of, and access to, data generated through connected (or Internet-of-Things) devices and introduces a new means for public sector bodies to access, use and re-use private sector data.
+Added: EU Member State competent authorities are empowered to enforce the Data Act and determine the appropriate sanction provided penalties are “effective, proportionate and dissuasive” ;
+Added: and (ii) the European Health Data Space Regulation (EHDS), which was formally adopted on January 8, 2025 and is expected to enter into force during 2025 and which seeks to, among other things, provide individuals with more control over their electronic health data (EHD), enable cross-border sharing of EHD between national EU healthcare systems and facilitate the sharing of EHD for secondary research purposes.
+Added: The EU has developed a standalone law to govern the offering and use of AI systems in the EU (the “AI Act”) which entered into force on August 1, 2024 and will become applicable in a gradual manner between 2025-2027 depending on the requirement.
+Added: The AI Act imposes regulatory requirements onto AI system providers, importers, distributors, and deployers, in accordance with the level of risk involved with the AI system (“unacceptable”, “high”, “limited”, and “minimal” risk).
Unacceptable-risk AI systems are banned from being offered and used in the EU, and high-risk AI systems (which include AI used as part of medical devices in certain instances) are subject to a set of regulatory requirements under the AI Act including to establish quality and post-marketing monitoring and risk assessment systems, requirements related to the training of AI systems and training data, and requirements related to human oversight.
Limited-risk AI systems are subject mainly to transparency requirements only and minimal-risk AI systems are not subject to obligations under the AI Act.
−Removed: General-purpose AI systems have also been made subject to a number of requirements – mostly akin to the requirements that apply to high-risk AI systems under the AI Act.
−Removed: The AI Act will enter into application (i.e., be enforceable) in a gradual manner – depending on the regulatory requirement in question, and ranging anywhere from 6 to 36 months following adoption.
+Added: General-purpose AI systems are subject to a number of requirements – mostly akin to the requirements that apply to high-risk AI systems under the AI Act.
Non-compliance with the AI Act may be subject to regulatory fines of up to 7% of annual worldwide turnover.
−Removed: In parallel, the EU has proposed revisions to the EU Product Liability Directive and has introduced a new EU AI Liability Directive to facilitate claims for damages brought by EU users of AI systems.
−Removed: The UK had adopted a “soft law” approach to AI regulation meaning that until now it has not adopted formal legislation to regulate AI but has adopted soft law guidelines in the form of a White Paper and will pursue enforcement through the sector-specific regulators.
−Removed: However, following the UK General Election in July 2024, the new UK Government has announced it intends to introduce an AI Bill to the UK Parliament.
+Added: In parallel, on October 10, 2024, the EU adopted the EU Product Liability Directive to regulate non-contractual and non-fault based liability for defective products, including digital products and AI, and has introduced a new EU AI Liability Directive to facilitate claims for damages brought by EU users of AI systems.
+Added: The UK to date has not adopted dedicated AI legislation, instead looking to rely on a principles-based, sector-specific approach to AI regulation.
+Added: However, in July 2024 it was announced that new AI regulation would in fact be introduced.
Further, many jurisdictions impose mandatory clinical trial information obligations on sponsors.
−Removed: In the EU, such obligations arise under the Transparency Regulation No 1049/ 2001, EMA Policy 0043, EMA Policy 0070 and the Clinical Trials Regulation No 536/2014 (which the UK has not implemented, as the law entered into force following the UK’s exist from the EU), all of which impose on sponsors the obligation to make publicly available certain information stemming from clinical studies.
+Added: In the EU, such obligations arise under the Transparency Regulation No 1049/ 2001, EMA Policy 0043, EMA Policy 0070 and the Clinical Trials Regulation No 536/2014 (which the UK has not implemented, as the law entered into force following the
+Added: UK’s exit from the EU), all of which impose on sponsors the obligation to make publicly available certain information stemming from clinical studies.
In the EU, the transparency framework provides EU-based parties the right to submit an access to documents request to the EMA for information included in the MAA dossier for approved medicinal products.
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It is possible for competitors to access and use this data in their own research and development programs anywhere in the world, once this data is in the public domain.
+Added: Significant changes or developments in US laws or policies, including changes in US healthcare regulation, may have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: There is uncertainty surrounding potential changes to the regulatory environment in the US, particularly as it relates to healthcare regulation and related programs, following the outcome of the recent US Presidential election which may have an adverse effect on our business.
+Added: For example, the new administration issued an executive order establishing an agency to reform federal government processes and reduce expenditures.
+Added: Pressures on and uncertainty surrounding the US federal government’s budget, and potential changes in budgetary priorities, could adversely affect the funding for individual programs, including Medicare and other government programs upon which our business depends.
+Added: Additionally, changes in legislation and regulations (including those related to taxation, trade and importation), economic and monetary policies, geopolitical matters, among other potential impacts, could adversely impact the global economy and our operating results.
+Added: The potential impact of new policies that may be implemented as a result of the new administration is currently uncertain.
+Added: The biopharmaceutical industry is subject to extensive regulatory obligations and policies that may be subject to change, including due to judicial challenges, election cycles, and resulting regulatory updates and changes in policy priorities.
+Added: On June 28, 2024, the US Supreme Court issued an opinion holding that courts reviewing agency action pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act “must exercise their independent judgment” and “may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.” The decision will have a significant impact on how lower courts evaluate challenges to agency interpretations of law, including those by the FDA, DHHS, CMS and other agencies with significant oversight of the biopharmaceutical industry.
+Added: The new framework is likely to increase both the frequency of such challenges and their odds of success by eliminating one way in which the government previously prevailed in such cases.
+Added: As a result, significant regulatory policies will be subject to increased litigation and judicial scrutiny.
+Added: In addition, federal agency priorities, leadership, policies, rulemaking, communications, spending and staffing may be significantly impacted by election cycles.
+Added: For example, the current presidential administration aims to significantly reduce government spending through cuts to federal healthcare programs and reductions in the workforces of key government agencies, such as the FDA, DHHS, and CMS.
+Added: Efforts by the current administration to limit federal agency budgets or personnel may result in reductions to agency budgets, employees and operations, which may lead to slower response times, less guidance and longer review periods, potentially affecting our ability to progress development of our product candidates or obtain regulatory approval for our product candidates.
+Added: Any resulting changes in regulation may result in unexpected delays, increased costs, or other negative impacts on our business that are difficult to predict.
Enhanced governmental and public scrutiny over, or investigations or litigation involving, pharmaceutical manufacturer donations to patient assistance programs may require us to modify our programs and could negatively impact our business practices, harm our reputation, divert the attention of management and increase our expenses.
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In addition, certain state and federal enforcement authorities continue to pursue investigations and enter into settlements related to manufacturers’ support of patient assistance programs, and members of Congress have also initiated inquiries on topics that include, for example, manufacturer-sponsored patient assistance programs, co-payment assistance programs, and manufacturer contributions to independent charitable patient assistance programs.
−Removed: Moreover, the DHHS, Office of the Inspector General continues to publish advisory opinions and other agency guidance on the topic of patient assistance, which reflects the government’s continued scrutiny of manufacturer sponsored or supported patient assistance programs.
+Added: Moreover, the DHHS, Office of the Inspector General continues
+Added: to publish advisory opinions and other agency guidance on the topic of patient assistance, which reflects the government’s continued scrutiny of manufacturer sponsored or supported patient assistance programs.
Numerous organizations, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, have been subject to ongoing litigation, enforcement activities and settlements related to their patient support programs and certain of these organizations have entered into, or have otherwise agreed to, significant civil settlements with applicable enforcement authorities.
−Removed: It is possible that future
−Removed: legislation may be proposed that would establish requirements or restrictions with respect to these programs and/or support that would affect pharmaceutical manufacturers.
+Added: It is possible that future legislation may be proposed that would establish requirements or restrictions with respect to these programs and/or support that would affect pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Our patient assistance program could become the target of similar inquiries, litigation, enforcement, and/or legislative proposals.
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In September 2019, the FDA published product-specific bioequivalence guidance on fostamatinib disodium to let potential ANDA applicants understand the data FDA would expect to see for approval of a generic version of our products.
−Removed: The FDCA requires that an applicant for approval of a generic form of a branded drug certify either that its generic product does not infringe any of the patents listed by the owner of the branded drug in the FDA’s Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (referred to as the “Orange Book”) or that those patents are not enforceable.
+Added: The FDCA requires that an applicant for approval of a generic form of a branded drug certify either that its generic product does not infringe any of the patents listed by the owner of the branded drug in the FDA’s Orange Book or that those patents are not enforceable.
This process is known as a paragraph IV challenge.
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If this were to occur with respect to our products or products with which it competes, our business would be harmed.
−Removed: In June 2022, we received a notice letter regarding an ANDA submitted to the FDA by Annora, requesting approval to market a generic version of TAVALISSE.
−Removed: The notice letter included a Paragraph IV certification with respect to our US Patent Nos.
−Removed: 8,771,648 and 8,951,504, which are listed in the Orange Book.
−Removed: The notice letter asserts that these patents will not be infringed by Annora’s proposed product, are invalid and/or are unenforceable.
−Removed: Annora’s notice letter does not provide a Paragraph IV certification against our other patents listed in the Orange Book.
−Removed: On July 25, 2022, we filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey against Annora and its affiliates, Hetero Labs Ltd., and Hetero USA, Inc., for infringement of our US patents identified in Annora’s Paragraph IV certification.
−Removed: On September 21, 2022, Annora and its affiliates answered and counterclaimed for declaratory judgment of non-infringement and invalidity of the ’458, ’122, ’492, ’648, and ’504 patents.
−Removed: We filed an answer to Annora’s counterclaims on October 12, 2022.
−Removed: Annora served invalidity and non-infringement contentions on December 31, 2022.
−Removed: We filed an answer to Annora’s invalidity and non-infringement contentions in March 2023.
−Removed: Litigation continues, and no trial date is currently set.
−Removed: We intend to vigorously enforce and defend our intellectual property related to TAVALISSE.
−Removed: We cannot be assured that such lawsuit will prevent the introduction of a generic version of TAVALISSE for any particular length of time, or at all.
−Removed: If an ANDA from Annora or any other generic manufacturer is approved, and a generic version of TAVALISSE is introduced, whether following the expiration of our patents, the invalidation of our patents as a result of any litigation, or the determination that the proposed generic product does not infringe on our patents, our sales of TAVALISSE would be adversely affected.
−Removed: In addition, we cannot predict
−Removed: what additional ANDAs could be filed by Annora or other potential generic competitors requesting approval to market generic forms of our products, which would require us to incur significant additional expense and result in distraction for our management team, and if approved, result in significant decreases in the revenue derived from sales of our marketed products and thereby materially harm our business and financial condition.
+Added: In March 2025, we entered into a settlement agreement with Annora resolving patent litigation related to our product TAVALISSE.
+Added: The litigation resulted from submission by Annora of an ANDA to the FDA seeking approval to market a generic version of TAVALISSE in the US.
+Added: For more information, see “Part II, Item 1, Legal Proceedings” of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
+Added: We intend to vigorously enforce and defend our intellectual property related to our products.
+Added: We cannot be assured that we will prevent the introduction of a generic version of our product for any particular length of time, or at all.
+Added: If an ANDA from generic manufacturers is approved, and generic versions of our products are introduced, whether following the expiration of our patents, the invalidation of our patents as a result of any litigation, or the determination that the proposed generic product does not infringe on our patents, our sales of our products would be adversely affected.
+Added: In addition, we cannot predict what additional ANDAs could be filed by potential generic competitors requesting approval to market generic forms of our products, which would require us to incur significant additional expense and result in distraction for our management team, and if approved, result in significant decreases in the revenue derived
+Added: from sales of our marketed products and thereby materially harm our business and financial condition.
Unforeseen safety issues could emerge with our products that could require us to change the prescribing information to add warnings, limit use of the product, and/or result in litigation.
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Pandemics may cause significant disruption in the supply chain for our commercial products.
−Removed: We rely on third parties to, among other things, manufacture and ship our commercial product, raw materials and product supply for our clinical trials, perform quality testing and supply other goods and services to help manage our commercial activities, our clinical trials and our operations in the ordinary course of business.
−Removed: While we have engaged actively with various
−Removed: elements of our supply chain and distribution channel, including our customers, contract manufacturers, and logistics and transportation provider to meet demand for our products and to remain informed of any challenges within our supply chain, we may face disruptions to our supply chain and operations, and associated delays in the manufacturing and supply of our products.
+Added: We rely on third parties to, among other things, manufacture and ship our commercial product, raw materials and product supply for our
+Added: clinical trials, perform quality testing and supply other goods and services to help manage our commercial activities, our clinical trials and our operations in the ordinary course of business.
+Added: While we have engaged actively with various elements of our supply chain and distribution channel, including our customers, contract manufacturers, and logistics and transportation provider to meet demand for our products and to remain informed of any challenges within our supply chain, we may face disruptions to our supply chain and operations, and associated delays in the manufacturing and supply of our products.
Such supply disruptions would adversely impact our ability to generate sales of and revenues from our products and our business, financial condition, results of operations and growth prospects could be adversely affected.
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The requirements of these programs, including, by way of example, their respective terms and scope, change frequently.
−Removed: Most recently, in September 2024, CMS published a final rule that included significant revisions to certain Medicaid Drug Rebate Program provisions, including, but not limited to:
+Added: For example, in September 2024, CMS published a final rule that included significant revisions to certain Medicaid Drug Rebate Program provisions, including, but not limited to:
(i) new definitions for key terms under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, such as “covered outpatient drug” and “market date”;
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and (iii) a new 12-quarter time limit for manufacturers to initiate disputes, hearing requests, and audits for state-invoiced rebate amounts.
−Removed: Responding to current and future changes may increase our costs, and the complexity of compliance will be time consuming.
−Removed: Invoicing for rebates is provided in arrears, and there is frequently a time lag of up to several months between the sales to which rebate notices relate and our receipt of those notices, which further complicates our ability to accurately estimate and accrue for rebates
−Removed: related to the Medicaid program as implemented by individual states.
+Added: Responding to current and future
+Added: changes may increase our costs, and the complexity of compliance will be time consuming.
+Added: Invoicing for rebates is provided in arrears, and there is frequently a time lag of up to several months between the sales to which rebate notices relate and our receipt of those notices, which further complicates our ability to accurately estimate and accrue for rebates related to the Medicaid program as implemented by individual states.
Thus, there can be no assurance that we will be able to identify all factors that may cause our discount and rebate payment obligations to vary from period to period, and our actual results may differ significantly from our estimated allowances for discounts and rebates.
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Finally, we may be affected by developments relating to the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program).
−Removed: Recently, multiple manufacturers have implemented policies to reduce diversion and inappropriate claims for discounts and rebates by in-house and contract pharmacies affiliated with 340B-eligible entities.
+Added: For example, since 2021, multiple manufacturers have implemented policies to reduce diversion and inappropriate claims for discounts by placing restrictions on 340B pricing for drugs dispensed through contract pharmacies.
The DHHS sent several of these manufacturers’ letters claiming that the policies violate the 340B statute and referring the manufacturers for potential enforcement action.
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These laws have been challenged in federal court and many of the cases are pending.
−Removed: In March 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit upheld the Arkansas law prohibiting drug makers for restricting 340B drug discounts for providers using contract pharmacies, and plaintiffs have filed a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court, which is pending.
+Added: In March 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit upheld the Arkansas law prohibiting drug makers for restricting 340B drug discounts for providers using contract pharmacies.
DHHS also issued a final rule on procedures for the 340B Program’s administrative dispute resolution process in April 2024.
−Removed: It is unclear how the other pending litigation, recent and proposed legislation, or future administrative action relating to the 340B program will impact our business.
+Added: It is unclear how the other pending litigation, proposed legislation, or future administrative action relating to the 340B Program will impact our business.
Even for those product candidates that have or may receive regulatory approval, they may fail to achieve the degree of market acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success, in which case we may not generate significant revenues or become profitable.
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The Credit Agreement provides for a $60.0 million term loan credit facility.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2024, the outstanding principal balance of the loan was $60.0 million, and no remaining funds were available under the term loan credit facility.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, the outstanding principal balance of the loan was $60.0 million, and no remaining funds were available under the term loan credit facility.
Under the Credit Agreement, we are required to repay amounts due when there is an event of default for the term loans that results in the principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, becoming due prior to the maturity date for the term loans.
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Further, climate change may increase both the frequency and severity of extreme weather conditions and natural disasters, which may affect our business operations.
−Removed: If we encounter difficulties with any of our distribution facilities, whether due to the potential future impacts of a global pandemic (including as a result of disruptions of global shipping and the transport of products) or otherwise, or other problems or disasters arise, we cannot ensure that critical systems and operations will be restored in a timely manner or at all, and this would have an adverse effect on our business.
+Added: If we encounter difficulties with any of our distribution facilities, whether due to the potential future impacts of a global pandemic (including as a result of disruptions of global shipping and the transport of products) or otherwise, or other problems or disasters arise, we cannot ensure that critical systems and operations will be restored in a timely manner or at all, and this would have an adverse
+Added: effect on our business.
In addition, growth could require us to further expand our current facility, which could affect us adversely in ways that we cannot predict.
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We do not and will not have access to all information regarding our products and product candidates we licensed to our collaboration partners.
−Removed: We do not and will not have access to all information regarding our product and other product candidates, including potentially material information about commercialization plans, medical information strategies, clinical trial design and execution, safety reports from clinical trials, safety reports, regulatory affairs, process development, manufacturing and other areas known by our collaboration partners.
+Added: We do not and will not have access to all information regarding our products and other product candidates, including potentially material information about commercialization plans, medical information strategies, clinical trial design and execution, safety reports from clinical trials, safety reports, regulatory affairs, process development, manufacturing and other areas known by our collaboration partners.
In addition, we have confidentiality obligations under our respective agreements with our collaboration partners.
Thus, our ability to keep our shareholders informed about the status of our products and other product candidates will be limited by the degree to which our collaboration partners keep us informed and allows us to disclose such information to the public.
−Removed: If our collaboration partners fail to keep us informed about commercialization efforts related to our products, or the status of the clinical development or regulatory approval pathway of other product candidates licensed to them, we may make operational and/or investment decisions that we would not have made had we been fully informed, which may adversely affect our business and operations.
+Added: If our collaboration partners fail to
+Added: keep us informed about commercialization efforts related to our products, or the status of the clinical development or regulatory approval pathway of other product candidates licensed to them, we may make operational and/or investment decisions that we would not have made had we been fully informed, which may adversely affect our business and operations.
Our future funding requirements will depend on many uncertain factors.
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Our success as a company is uncertain due to our history of operating losses and the uncertainty of any future profitability.*
−Removed: For the nine months ended September 30, 2024, we recognized income from operations of $7.5 million primarily due to higher net product sales and collaboration revenues, partially offset by our operating expenses.
−Removed: Historically, we have incurred losses from operations each year since we were incorporated in June 1996 other than in fiscal year 2010, due in large part to the significant research and development expenditures and costs of our ongoing commercial efforts.
−Removed: Although we recognized income from operations for the current period, there can be no assurance that we will generate annual operating income in the foreseeable future.
−Removed: Currently, our potential sources of revenues include sales of our products, and upfront payments as well as milestone and royalty payments pursuant to our collaboration arrangements, all of which may never materialize if sales of our products decline or if our collaboration partners do not achieve certain events or generate net sales to which these contingent payments are dependent on.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and for the year ended December 31, 2024, we recognized income from operations primarily due to higher net product sales and collaboration revenues, partially offset by our operating expenses.
+Added: Historically, we have incurred losses from operations each year since we were incorporated in June 1996 other
+Added: than in fiscal year 2010, due in large part to the significant research and development expenditures and costs of our ongoing commercial efforts.
+Added: Although we recognized income from operations in 2024 and in the current period, there can be no assurance that we will generate annual operating income in the foreseeable future.
+Added: Currently, our potential sources of revenues include sales of our products, as well as upfront, milestones and royalty payments pursuant to our collaboration arrangements, all of which may never materialize if sales of our products decline or if our collaboration partners do not achieve certain events or generate net sales to which these contingent payments are dependent on.
If our future drug candidates fail or do not gain regulatory approval, or if our drugs do not achieve sustainable market acceptance, we may not be profitable.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2024, we had an accumulated deficit of approximately $1.4 billion.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, we had an accumulated deficit of approximately $1.4 billion.
The extent of our future losses or profitability, if any, is highly uncertain.
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Some of our corporate collaborators are conducting multiple product development efforts within each disease area that is the subject of the collaboration with us or may be acquired or merged with a company having a competing program.
−Removed: In some of our collaborations, we have agreed not to conduct,
−Removed: independently or with any third party, any research that is competitive with the research conducted under our collaborations.
+Added: In some of our collaborations, we have agreed not to conduct, independently or with any third party, any research that is competitive with the research conducted under our collaborations.
Our collaborators, however, may develop, either alone or with others, products in related fields that are competitive with the products or potential products that are the subject of these collaborations.
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Our success will depend to a large part on our own, our licensees’ and our licensors’ ability to obtain and defend patents for each party’s respective technologies and the compounds and other products, if any, resulting from the application of such technologies.
−Removed: For example, fostamatinib is covered as a composition of matter in a US issued patent that has expiration date of September 2031, o lutasidenib is covered as a composition of matter in a US issued patent that has an expected expiration date of December 2036, after taking into account patent term extension rules, and pralsetinib is covered as a composition of matter in a US issued patent that has an expiration date in November 2036 and subject to extensions.
+Added: For example, fostamatinib is covered as a composition of matter in a US issued patent that has an expiration date of September 2031, o lutasidenib is covered as a composition of matter in a US issued patent that has an expected expiration date of December 2036, after taking into account patent term extension rules, and pralsetinib is covered as a composition of matter in a US issued patent that has an expiration date in November 2036 and subject to extensions.
In the future, our patent position might be highly uncertain and involve complex legal and factual questions , and the cost to defend may also be significant.
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An adverse outcome may allow third parties to use our intellectual property without a license and/or allow third parties to introduce generic and other competing products, any of which would negatively impact our business.
−Removed: For example, in June 2022, we received a notice letter from Annora advising that it has filed an ANDA with the FDA for a generic version of TAVALISSE and asserting that certain patents related to TAVALISSE that are listed in the Orange Book will not be infringed by Annora’s proposed product, are invalid and/or are unenforceable.
−Removed: In July 2022, we filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey against Annora and its subsidiaries for infringement of those US patents.
−Removed: In September 2022, Annora and its subsidiaries answered and counterclaimed for declaratory judgment of non-infringement and invalidity of those patents.
−Removed: We filed an answer to Annora’s counterclaims on October 12, 2022.
−Removed: Annora served invalidity and non-infringement contentions on December 31, 2022.
−Removed: We filed an answer to Annora’s invalidity and non-infringement contentions in March 2023.
−Removed: Litigation continues, and no trial date is currently set.
−Removed: We intend to vigorously enforce and defend our intellectual property rights related to TAVALISSE.
−Removed: Should Annora or any other third parties receive FDA approval of an ANDA for a generic version of fostamatinib or a 505(b)(2) NDA with respect to fostamatinib, and if our patents covering fostamatinib were held to be invalid (or if such competing generic versions of fostamatinib were found to not infringe our patents), then they could introduce generic versions of fostamatinib or other such 505(b)(2) products before our patents expire, and the resulting competition would negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Please also see the risk factor entitled, “If manufacturers obtain approval for generic versions of our products, or of products with which we compete, our business may be harmed.” In the future, there might be other claims that are subject to substantial uncertainties and
−Removed: unascertainable damages or other remedies, and the cost to defend may also be significant.
+Added: For example, in March 2025, we entered into a settlement agreement with Annora resolving patent litigation related to our
+Added: product TAVALISSE.
+Added: For more information, see “Part II, Item 1, Legal Proceedings” of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
+Added: We intend to vigorously enforce and defend our intellectual property rights related to our products.
+Added: Should any third parties receive FDA approval of an ANDA for a generic version of our products or a 505(b)(2) NDA with respect to our products, and if our patents covering our products were held to be invalid (or if such competing generic versions of our products were found to not infringe our patents), then they could introduce generic versions of our products or other such 505(b)(2) products before our patents expire, and the resulting competition would negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: Please also see the risk factor entitled, “ If manufacturers obtain approval for generic versions of our products, or of products with which we compete, our business may be harmed.
+Added: ” In the future, there might be other claims that are subject to substantial uncertainties and unascertainable damages or other remedies, and the cost to defend may also be significant.
Additional uncertainty may result because no consistent policy regarding the breadth of legal claims allowed in biotechnology patents has emerged to date.
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Certain of our in-licenses may be terminated if we fail to meet specified obligations.
−Removed: If we fail to meet such obligations and any of our licensors exercise their termination rights, we could lose our rights under those agreements.
+Added: If we fail to meet such
+Added: obligations and any of our licensors exercise their termination rights, we could lose our rights under those agreements.
If we lose any of our rights, it may adversely affect the way we conduct our business.
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We believe that there may be significant litigation in the industry regarding patent and other intellectual property rights, and we do not know if our collaborators or we would be successful in any such litigation.
−Removed: Any legal action against our collaborators or us claiming damages or seeking to enjoin
−Removed: commercial activities relating to the affected products, our methods or processes could:
+Added: Any legal action against our collaborators or us claiming damages or seeking to enjoin commercial activities relating to the affected products, our methods or processes could:
● require our collaborators or us to obtain a license to continue to use, manufacture or market the affected products, methods or processes, which may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, if at all;
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Accordingly, our federal and state NOLs could expire unused and be unavailable to offset future income tax liabilities.
−Removed: Under the Tax Act as modified by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), federal NOLs incurred in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017 and before January 1, 2021 may be carried back to each of the five tax years preceding such loss, and NOLs arising in tax years beginning after December 31, 2020 may not be carried back.
Moreover, federal NOLs generated in tax years ending after December 31, 2017 may be carried forward indefinitely, but the deductibility of such federal NOLs may be limited to 80% of current year taxable income for tax years beginning after January 1, 2021.
−Removed: Under Assembly Bill 85, our California NOL carryforwards are suspended for tax years 2020, 2021, and 2022, but the period to use these carryovers was extended.
In June 2024, California Senate Bill 167 was signed into law which suspends NOL deductions for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2024 and before January 1, 2027 for taxpayers with net business income or modified adjusted gross income of at least $1.0 million for the tax year.
−Removed: The legislation also limits the aggregate use of otherwise allowable business credits to $5.0 million for each tax year beginning on or after January 1, 2024 but before January 1, 2027 (except for certain credits not subject to the limitation).
+Added: The legislation also limits the aggregate use of otherwise allowable business credits to $5.0 million for each tax year beginning on or after January 1, 2024 but before January 1, 2027
+Added: (except for certain credits not subject to the limitation).
Further, the Tax Act requires the taxpayers to capitalize Research and Experimental (R&E) expenditures under Section 174 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended (Code), effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021, which will reduce our NOLs beginning in 2022.
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In addition, utilization of NOLs to offset potential future taxable income and related income taxes that would otherwise be due is subject to annual limitations under the “ownership change” provisions of Sections 382 and 383 of the Code and similar state provisions, which may result in the expiration of NOLs before future utilization.
−Removed: In general, under the Code, if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change,” generally defined as a greater than 50% change (by value) in its equity ownership over a three-year period, the corporation’s ability to use its pre-change NOLs and other pre-
−Removed: change tax attributes (such as research and development credit carryforwards) to offset its post-change taxable income or taxes may be limited.
+Added: In general, under the Code, if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change,” generally defined as a greater than 50% change (by value) in its equity ownership over a three-year period, the corporation’s ability to use its pre-change NOLs and other pre-change tax attributes (such as research and development credit carryforwards) to offset its post-change taxable income or taxes may be limited.
Our equity offerings and other changes in our stock ownership, some of which are outside of our control, may have resulted or could in the future result in an ownership change.
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Moreover, our ability to utilize our NOLs is conditioned upon us achieving profitability and generating US federal taxable income.
+Added: Changes in valuation allowance of deferred tax assets may affect our future operating results
+Added: We continue to record a full valuation allowance on our deferred tax assets considering our cumulative losses in prior years.
+Added: In assessing the need for a valuation allowance, we consider historical levels of income, expectations and risks associated with estimates of future taxable income.
+Added: We periodically evaluate our deferred tax asset balance for realizability.
+Added: To the extent we believe it is more-likely-than-not that our deferred tax assets will not be realized, we will continue to maintain the valuation allowance against the deferred tax assets.
+Added: Realization of our deferred tax assets is dependent primarily upon future taxable income.
+Added: If our assumptions and consequently our estimates change in the future, the valuation allowances may be increased or decreased, resulting in a respective increase or decrease in income tax expense.
Because we expect to be dependent upon collaborative and license agreements, we might not meet our strategic objectives.
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We have received payments from our current collaborations including Lilly, Grifols, Kissei, Medison, Knight, BerGenBio, and Daiichi.
−Removed: Under several agreements, future payments may not be earned until the collaborator has advanced product candidates into clinical testing, which may never occur or may not occur until sometime well into the future.
+Added: Under several agreements, future payments may not be earned until the collaborator has advanced product candidates into clinical testing, which may never occur or may not occur until
+Added: sometime well into the future.
If we are not able to generate revenue under our collaborations when and in accordance with our expectations or the expectations of industry analysts, this failure could harm our business and have an immediate adverse effect on the trading price of our common stock.
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● announcements of technological innovations or new commercial products by our competitors or us;
−Removed: ● the announcement of regulatory applications, such as Annora’s ANDA, seeking approval of generic versions of our marketed products;
+Added: ● the announcement of regulatory applications, such as third party’s ANDA, seeking approval of generic versions of our marketed products;
● developments concerning proprietary rights, including patents;
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The issuance of additional shares would be dilutive to our existing stockholders and may cause a decline in the trading price of our common stock.
−Removed: The issuance of authorized but unissued shares of common stock could be used to deter a potential takeover of us that may otherwise be beneficial to stockholders by diluting the shares held by a potential suitor or issuing shares to a stockholder that will vote in accordance with the our Board of Director’s desires.
+Added: The issuance of authorized but unissued shares of common stock could be used to deter a potential takeover of us that may otherwise be beneficial to stockholders by diluting the shares held by a potential suitor or issuing shares to a stockholder that will vote in accordance with our Board of Directors’ desires.
A takeover may be beneficial to independent stockholders because, among other reasons, a potential suitor may offer such stockholders a premium for their shares of stock compared to the then-existing market price.
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It is also possible that Brexit may negatively affect our ability to attract and retain employees, particularly those from the EU.
−Removed: Orphan designation in Great Britain following Brexit is granted on an essentially identical basis as in the EU but is based on the prevalence of the condition in Great Britain.
−Removed: It is therefore possible that conditions that are currently designated as orphan conditions in Great Britain will no longer be, and conditions that are not currently designated as orphan conditions in the EU will be designated as such in Great Britain.
−Removed: In April 2023, the European Commission adopted a wide ranging proposal for a new Directive and a new Regulation.
−Removed: If made into law, this proposal will revise and replace the existing general pharmaceutical legislation.
+Added: Orphan designation in the UK following Brexit is granted on an essentially identical basis as in the EU but is based on the prevalence of the condition in the UK.
+Added: It is therefore possible that conditions that are currently designated as orphan conditions in the UK will no longer be, and conditions that are not currently designated as orphan conditions in the EU will be designated as such in the UK.
+Added: In April 2023, the European Commission adopted a wide ranging proposal for a new Directive and a new Regulation to revise and replace the existing general pharmaceutical legislation.
This change will likely result in significant changes to the pharmaceutical industry.
In particular, it is expected that the new Directive and Regulations will, if made into law, affect the duration of the period of regulatory protection afforded to medicinal products including regulatory data protection (also called “data exclusivity”), marketing exclusivity afforded to orphan medicinal products, as well as the conditions of eligibility to the orphan designation.
+Added: The legislation is not expected to be adopted before 2026/2027.
If product liability lawsuits are successfully brought against us, we may incur substantial liabilities and may be required to limit commercialization of our products.
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We do not know if we will be able to maintain such consulting agreements or that such scientific advisors will not enter into consulting arrangements with competing pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies, any of which may have a detrimental impact on our research objectives and could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: While we have a strong compliance process in place to ensure we are complying with all requirements of law, our consulting or advisory contracts with our scientific consultants and advisors may be scrutinized under the Anti-Kickback Statute, the UK Bribery Act 2010, and other similar national and state-level legislation, which prohibit, among other things, companies from offering or paying anything of value as remuneration for ordering, purchasing, or
−Removed: recommending the ordering or purchasing of pharmaceutical and biological products that may be paid for, in whole or in part, by Medicare, Medicaid, or another federal healthcare program.
+Added: While we have a strong compliance process in place to ensure we are complying with all requirements of law, our consulting or advisory contracts with our scientific consultants and advisors may be scrutinized under the Anti-Kickback Statute, the UK Bribery Act 2010, and other similar national and state-level legislation, which prohibit, among other things, companies from offering or paying anything of value as remuneration for ordering, purchasing, or recommending the ordering or purchasing of pharmaceutical and biological products that may be paid for, in whole or in part, by Medicare, Medicaid, or another federal healthcare program.
Although there are several statutory exceptions and regulatory safe harbors that may protect these arrangements from prosecution or regulatory sanctions, our consulting and advising contracts may be subject to scrutiny if they do not fit squarely within an available exception or safe harbor.
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In the event of contamination or injury, we could be held liable for damages that result or for penalties or fines that may be imposed, and such liability could exceed our resources.
−Removed: We are also subject to federal, state and local laws and regulations governing the use, storage, handling and disposal of these materials and specified waste products.
+Added: We are also subject to federal, state and local laws and
+Added: regulations governing the use, storage, handling and disposal of these materials and specified waste products.
The cost of compliance with, or any potential violation of, these laws and regulations could be significant.
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Additionally, because our services involve the processing of personal information and other sensitive information about individuals, we are subject to various laws, regulations, industry standards, and contractual requirements related to such processing.
−Removed: Any event that leads to unauthorized access, processing or disclosure of personal information, including personal information regarding
−Removed: our clinical trial participants or employees, could harm our reputation and business, compel us to comply with federal and/or state breach notification laws and foreign law equivalents, subject us to investigations and mandatory corrective action, and otherwise subject us to liability under laws, regulations or contracts that protect the privacy and security of personal information, which could disrupt our business, damage our reputation with our stakeholders, result in increased costs or loss of revenue, lead to negative publicity or result in significant financial exposure.
+Added: Any event that leads to unauthorized access, processing or disclosure of personal information, including personal information regarding our clinical trial participants or employees, could harm our reputation and business, compel us to comply with federal and/or state breach notification laws and foreign law equivalents, subject us to investigations and mandatory corrective action, and otherwise subject us to liability under laws, regulations or contracts that protect the privacy and security of personal information, which could disrupt our business, damage our reputation with our stakeholders, result in increased costs or loss of revenue, lead to negative publicity or result in significant financial exposure.
The CCPA, in particular, includes a private right of action for California consumers whose personal information is impacted by a data security incident resulting from a company’s failure to maintain reasonable security procedures, and hence may result in civil litigation in the event of a security breach impacting such information.
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Notably, on July 26, 2023, the SEC adopted a final rule on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident disclosure (SEC Cyber Rule).
−Removed: The SEC Cyber Rule requires public companies to make current disclosures about material cybersecurity incidents as well as annual disclosures of material information about their cybersecurity risk management, strategy and governance.
+Added: The SEC Cyber Rule requires public companies to make current disclosures about material cybersecurity incidents as well as annual disclosures of material information about their cybersecurity risk management, strategy and
The SEC Cyber Rule became effective on September 5, 2023.
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Future equity issuances or a sale of a substantial number of shares of our common stock may cause the price of our common stock to decline.
−Removed: Because we will continue to need additional capital in the future to continue to expand our business and our research and development activities, among other things, we may conduct additional equity offerings.
+Added: Because we will continue to need additional capital in the future to continue to expand our business, we may conduct additional equity offerings.
We have an Open Market Sale Agreement with Jefferies entered on August 4, 2020, and amended and restated on August 2, 2024, pursuant to which, we may sell from time to time, through Jefferies, shares of our common stock in sales deemed to be “at-the-market offerings” as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act, subject to conditions specified in the Open Market Sale Agreement, including maintaining an effective registration statement covering the sale of shares under the Open Market Sale Agreement.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2024, we have not sold any shares of common stock under such Open Market Sale Agreement.
We had a shelf registration statement (the Prior Registration Statement) filed with the SEC that expired on August 3, 2024.
The Prior Registration Statement included a base prospectus registering the offering, issuance, and sale by us of up to $250.0 million in the aggregate of the securities identified from time to time in one or more offerings, including the $100.0 million of shares of our common stock that may be offered, issued and sold under the Open Market Sale Agreement.
−Removed: On August 2, 2024, we filed a new shelf registration statement (the New Registration
−Removed: Statement) with the SEC to replace the Prior Registration Statement.
+Added: On August 2, 2024, we filed a new shelf registration statement (the New Registration Statement) with the SEC to replace the Prior Registration Statement.
The New Registration Statement was declared effective on August 9, 2024 by the SEC.
The New Registration Statement includes a base prospectus to register the offering, issuance and sale by us of up to $250.0 million in the aggregate of securities identified from time to time in one or more offerings, including up to $100.0 million of shares of our common stock that may be offered, issued and sold under the Open Market Sale Agreement.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, we have not sold any shares of common stock under such Open Market Sale Agreement.
We may also in the future enter into underwriting or sales agreements with financial institutions for the offer and sale of any combination of common stock, preferred stock, debt securities and warrants in one or more offerings.
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Furthermore, if we obtain funds through a credit facility or through the issuance of debt or preferred securities, these securities would likely have rights senior to the rights of our common stockholders, which could impair the value of our common stock.
−Removed: The biopharmaceutical industry is subject to extensive regulatory obligations and policies that are subject to change, including due to judicial challenges.*
−Removed: On June 28, 2024, the US Supreme Court issued an opinion holding that courts reviewing agency action pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act “must exercise their independent judgment” and “may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.” The decision will have a significant impact on how lower courts evaluate challenges to agency interpretations of law, including those by the FDA and other agencies with significant oversight of the biopharmaceutical industry.
−Removed: The new framework is likely to increase both the frequency of such challenges and their odds of success by eliminating one way in which the government previously prevailed in such cases.
−Removed: As a result, significant regulatory policies will be subject to increased litigation judicial scrutiny.
−Removed: Any resulting changes in regulation may result in unexpected delays, increased costs, or other negative impacts on our business that are difficult to predict.
Risks Related to Clinical Development and Regulatory Approval
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In particular, in March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was enacted, which substantially changed the way health care is financed by both governmental and private insurers, and continues to significantly impact the US pharmaceutical industry.
−Removed: On June 17, 2021, the US Supreme Court dismissed the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act brought by several states (which argued that, without the individual mandate, the entire Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional) without specifically ruling on the constitutionality of the law.
+Added: On June 17, 2021, the US Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act brought by several states (which argued that, without the individual mandate, the entire Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional) without specifically ruling on the constitutionality of the law.
It is unclear how future actions before the Supreme Court, other such litigation, and the healthcare reform measures of future presidential administrations will impact the Affordable Care Act and our business.
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In the US, there have been several Congressional inquiries and federal legislation designed to, among other things, bring more transparency to drug pricing, review the relationship between pricing and manufacturer-sponsored patient assistance programs, and reform government program reimbursement methodologies for drugs .
−Removed: On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 into law, which, among other changes, eliminated the statutory Medicaid drug rebate cap, which was previously set at 100% of a drug’s average manufacture price, for single source and innovator multiple source drugs, as of January 1, 2024.
+Added: On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was signed into law, which, among other changes, eliminated the statutory Medicaid drug rebate cap, which was previously set at 100% of a drug’s average manufacture price, for single source and innovator multiple source drugs, as of January 1, 2024.
The American Rescue Plan Act also temporarily increased premium tax credit assistance for individuals eligible for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act for 2021 and 2022 and removed the 400% federal poverty level limit that otherwise applies for purposes of eligibility to receive premium tax credits.
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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this reduction was temporarily suspended from May 1, 2020 through March 31, 2022, with subsequent reductions to 1% from April 1, 2022 through June 30, 2022.
−Removed: The 2% reduction was then reinstated and has been in effect since July 1, 2022, and will remain in effect through the first eight months in which the fiscal year 2032 sequestration order is in effect, unless additional Congressional action is taken.
−Removed: Moreover, on June 16, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement stating its intent to increase enforcement scrutiny of “exclusionary rebates” to PBMs and other intermediaries that “foreclose competition.” On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the IRA, which, among other reforms, allows Medicare to:
+Added: The 2% reduction was then reinstated and has been in effect
+Added: since July 1, 2022, and will remain in effect through the first eight months in which the fiscal year 2032 sequestration order is in effect, unless additional Congressional action is taken.
+Added: Moreover, on June 16, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement stating its intent to increase enforcement scrutiny of “exclusionary rebates” to PBMs and other intermediaries that “foreclose competition.” On August 16, 2022, the IRA was signed into law, which, among other reforms, allows Medicare to:
beginning in 2026, establish a “maximum fair price” for a fixed number of pharmaceutical and biological products covered under Medicare Parts B and D following a price negotiation with CMS;
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and beginning in 2025, impose new discount obligations on pharmaceutical and biological manufacturers for products covered under Medicare Part D.
−Removed: CMS continues to take steps to implement the IRA.
−Removed: For example, on August 29, 2023, CMS released the initial list of ten drugs covered under Medicare Part D subject to price negotiations, and on August 15, 2024, CMS released the negotiated maximum prices for such drugs that will be effective beginning in 2026.
−Removed: None of our products were listed among the first ten products slated for the program as announced on August 29, 2023.
−Removed: Additionally, on June 26, 2024, CMS released a list of 64 Medicare Part B products that will have an adjusted coinsurance rate based on the inflationary rebate provisions of the IRA for the time period of July 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024.
−Removed: Most recently, on October 2, 2024, CMS released final guidance outlining the process for the second round of price negotiations for products subject to the “maximum fair price” provision.
+Added: CMS continues to take steps to implement the IRA, including:
+Added: releasing the negotiated maximum prices, which will be effective in 2026, for the first ten drugs that were subject to the IRA’s negotiation process;
+Added: releasing quarterly lists of Medicare Part B products that are subject to adjusted coinsurance rates based on the inflationary rebate provisions of the IRA;
+Added: and announcing a list of fifteen additional drugs that will be subject to price negotiations during 2025.
While it remains to be seen how the drug pricing provisions imposed by the IRA will affect the broader pharmaceutical industry, several pharmaceutical manufacturers and other industry stakeholders have challenged the law, including through lawsuits brought against the DHHS, the Secretary of the DHHS, CMS, and the CMS Administrator challenging the constitutionality and administrative implementation of the IRA’s drug price negotiation provisions.
−Removed: The Biden administration has also taken executive action to address drug pricing and other healthcare policy changes .
−Removed: For example, on September 12, 2022, President Biden issued an Executive Order to promote biotechnology and biomanufacturing innovation that included several methods through which the Biden Administration would support the advancement of biotechnology and biomanufacturing in healthcare.
−Removed: On October 14, 2022, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans which instructed the Secretary of the DHHS to consider whether to select for testing by the CMS Innovation Center new health care payment and delivery models that would lower drug costs and promote access to innovative drug therapies for beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
−Removed: On February 14, 2023, the DHHS issued a report in response to the October 14, 2022, Executive Order, which, among other things, selects three potential drug affordability and accessibility models to be tested by the
−Removed: CMS Innovation Center.
+Added: There have also been healthcare reform efforts carried out via administrative agencies.
+Added: For example, on February 14, 2023, the DHHS issued a report, which, among other things, selects three potential drug affordability and accessibility models to be tested by the CMS Innovation Center.
Specifically, the report addresses:
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and (3) a model that would adjust Medicare Part B payment amounts for Accelerated Approval Program drugs to advance the developments of novel treatments.
−Removed: Additionally, consistent with President Biden’s previous announcements in connection with the Cancer Moonshot initiative, on June 27, 2023, the Center for Medicare Innovation at CMS announced a new model, the Enhancing Oncology Model, that is designed to make high-quality cancer care more affordable to both patients and Medicare.
+Added: Additionally, consistent with former President Biden’s previous announcements in connection with the Cancer Moonshot initiative, on June 27, 2023, the Center for Medicare Innovation at CMS announced a new model, the Enhancing Oncology Model, that is designed to make high-quality cancer care more affordable to both patients and Medicare.
Other proposed administrative actions may affect our government pricing responsibilities.
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It remains to be seen how these drug pricing initiatives will affect the broader pharmaceutical industry.
+Added: The results of the 2024 Presidential and Congressional elections, and potential subsequent developments further increase the uncertainty related to the healthcare regulatory environment.
+Added: In addition, on June 28, 2024, the U.S.
+Added: Supreme Court issued an opinion holding that courts reviewing agency action pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) “must exercise their independent judgment” and “may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.” The decision will have a significant impact on how lower courts evaluate challenges to agency interpretations of law, including those by CMS and other agencies with significant oversight of the healthcare industry.
+Added: The new framework is likely to increase both the frequency of such challenges and their odds of success by eliminating one way in which the government previously prevailed in such cases.
+Added: As a result, significant regulatory policies may be subject to increased litigation and judicial scrutiny.
+Added: Any resulting changes in regulation may result in unexpected delays, increased costs, or other negative impacts that are difficult to predict but could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial condition.
+Added: For example, certain of these changes could impose additional limitations on the rates we will be able to charge for our future products or the amounts of reimbursement available for our future products from governmental agencies or third-party payors.
At the state level, individual states are increasingly aggressive in passing legislation and implementing regulations designed to control pharmaceutical and biological product pricing.
Specifically, several US states and localities have enacted legislation requiring pharmaceutical companies to establish marketing compliance programs, file periodic reports, and/or make periodic public disclosures on sales, marketing, pricing, clinical trials, and other activities.
−Removed: Other state laws prohibit certain marketing-related activities, including the provision of gifts, meals or other items to certain healthcare providers, and restrict the ability of manufacturers to offer co-pay support to patients for certain prescription drugs.
+Added: Other state laws prohibit certain marketing-related activities, including the provision of gifts, meals or other items to certain healthcare providers, and restrict the ability of manufacturers to offer co-pay support to patients for certain
+Added: prescription drugs.
Several state laws require disclosures related to state agencies and/or commercial purchasers with respect to price increases and new product launches that exceed certain thresholds as identified in the relevant statutes.
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If we or any third parties we may engage are slow or unable to adapt to changes in existing requirements or the adoption of new requirements or policies, or if we or such third parties are not able to maintain regulatory compliance, our product candidates may lose any regulatory approval that may have been obtained and we may not achieve or sustain profitability.
−Removed: See “Business – Government Regulation – Healthcare Reform” contained in Part I, Item 1 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, for additional information.
+Added: See “Business – Government Regulation – Healthcare Reform” contained in Part I, Item 1 of tour Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, for additional information.
Regulatory approval for any approved product is limited by the FDA, the EC and other regulators to those specific indications and conditions for which clinical safety and efficacy have been demonstrated, and we may incur significant liability if it is determined that we are promoting the “off-label” use of our products or any of our future product candidates if approved.
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Regulatory authorities do, however, restrict communications by pharmaceutical companies on the subject of off-label use.
−Removed: If our promotional activities fail to comply with the FDA’s or other competent national authority’s regulations or guidelines, we may be subject to warnings from, or enforcement action by, these regulatory authorities.
+Added: If our promotional activities fail to comply with the FDA’s or other competent national authority’s
+Added: regulations or guidelines, we may be subject to warnings from, or enforcement action by, these regulatory authorities.
In addition, our failure to follow FDA rules and guidelines relating to promotion and advertising may cause the FDA to issue warning letters or untitled letters, suspend or withdraw an approved product from the market, require a recall or institute fines, which could result in the disgorgement of money, operating restrictions, injunctions or civil or criminal enforcement, and other consequences, any of which could harm our business.
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Our estimates regarding timing are based on a number of assumptions, including assumptions based on past experience with our other clinical programs.
−Removed: If we are unable to enroll the patients in these trials at the projected rate, the completion of
−Removed: the clinical program could be delayed and the costs of conducting the program could increase, either of which could harm our business.
+Added: If we are unable to enroll the patients in these trials at the projected rate, the completion of the clinical program could be delayed and the costs of conducting the program could increase, either of which could harm our business.
Clinical trials can be delayed for a variety of reasons, including delays in obtaining regulatory approval to commence a study, delays from scaling up of a study, delays in reaching agreement on acceptable clinical trial agreement terms with prospective clinical sites, delays in obtaining institutional review board approval to conduct a study at a prospective clinical site or delays in recruiting subjects to participate in a study.
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Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, for several of our development programs, we experienced disruption or delay in our ability to enroll and assess patients, maintain patient enrollment, supply study drugs, report trial results, or interact with regulators, ethics committees or other important agencies due to limitations in employee resources or otherwise.
−Removed: In addition, in the event that a global pandemic occurs in the future, some patients in our clinical trial may not be able or willing to comply with clinical trial protocols if quarantines impede patient movement or interrupt healthcare services.
+Added: In addition, in the event that a global pandemic occurs in the future, some patients in our clinical trial may not be able or willing to comply with clinical trial protocols if quarantines impede patient movement or
+Added: interrupt healthcare services.
Similarly, our ability to recruit and retain patients and principal investigators and site staff may be adversely affected if a global pandemic continues and persists for an extended period of time, and we may experience significant disruptions to our clinical development timelines, which would adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and growth prospects in the future.
−Removed: We have conducted in the past and are currently conducting or may conduct in the future clinical trials in the US and outside the US including Ukraine, Russia and Israel.
+Added: We have conducted in the past and are currently conducting or may conduct in the future clinical trials in the US and outside the US.
+Added: In the past, we had clinical trial sites in Russia and Ukraine for our wAIHA trial, which trials have concluded.
Recent actions taken by the Russian Federation in Ukraine and surrounding areas have destabilized the region and caused the adoption of comprehensive sanctions by, among others, the EU, the US and the UK, which restrict a wide range of trade and financial dealings with Russia and Russian persons, as well as certain regions in Ukraine.
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Negative perception of the efficacy, safety, or tolerability of any investigational medicines that we develop, or of other products similar to products we are developing, could adversely affect our ability to conduct our business, advance our investigational medicines, or obtain regulatory approvals.
−Removed: Adverse events in clinical trials of our investigational medicines or in clinical trials of others developing similar products, could result in a decrease in the perceived benefit of one or more of our programs, increased regulatory scrutiny, decreased confidence by patients and clinical trial collaborators in our investigational medicines, and less
−Removed: demand for any product that we may develop.
+Added: Adverse events in clinical trials of our investigational medicines or in clinical trials of others developing similar products could result in a decrease in the perceived benefit of one or more of our programs, increased regulatory scrutiny, decreased confidence by patients and clinical trial collaborators in our investigational medicines, and less demand for any product that we may develop.
If and when they are used in clinical trials, our developmental candidates and investigational medicines could result in a greater quantity of reportable adverse events, including suspected unexpected serious adverse reactions, other reportable negative clinical outcomes, manufacturing reportable events or material clinical events that could lead to clinical delay or hold by the FDA or applicable regulatory authority or other clinical delays, any of which could negatively impact the perception of one or more of our programs, as well as our business as a whole.
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We currently do not have the manufacturing capabilities or experience necessary to produce our products or any product candidates for clinical trials.
−Removed: We currently use one active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer and one finished goods manufacturer for each of our products.
+Added: We currently use three API manufacturing facilities and three finished goods manufacturing facilities for our products.
We do not currently have, nor do we plan to acquire the infrastructure or capability to supply, manufacture or distribute preclinical, clinical or commercial quantities of drug substances or products.
−Removed: For each clinical trial of our unpartnered product candidates, we rely on third-party manufacturers for the active pharmaceutical ingredients, as well as various manufacturers to manufacture starting components, excipients and formulated drug products.
−Removed: Our ability to develop our product candidates, and our ability to commercially supply our products will depend, in part, on our ability to successfully obtain the active pharmaceutical ingredients and other substances and materials used in our product candidates from third parties and to have finished products manufactured by third parties in accordance with regulatory requirements and in sufficient quantities for preclinical and clinical testing and commercialization.
+Added: For each clinical trial of our unpartnered product candidates, we rely on third-party manufacturers for the API, as well as various manufacturers to manufacture starting components, excipients and formulated drug products.
+Added: Our ability to develop our product candidates, and our ability to commercially supply our products will depend, in part, on our ability to successfully obtain the API and other substances and materials used in our product candidates from third parties and to have finished products manufactured by third parties in accordance with regulatory requirements and in
+Added: sufficient quantities for preclinical and clinical testing and commercialization.
If we fail to develop and maintain supply relationships with these third parties, we may be unable to continue to develop or commercialize our product candidates.
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In the ordinary course of business, we enter into agreements with contract manufacturers to manufacture our inventory products.
−Removed: For example, in October 2024, we entered into an agreement with a third-party contract manufacturer to manufacture TAVALISSE that are expected to be delivered starting in fiscal year 2026 through 2029, for a total contract price of approximately $24.0 million.
−Removed: Although the agreement provides a cancellation clause with or without cause upon written notice, we may or may not be subject to payment of a cancellation fee.
−Removed: The level of cancellation fee is generally dependent on the timing of the written notice in relation to the commencement date of work, with the maximum cancellation fee equal to the full price of the work order.
+Added: For example, in October 2024, we entered into an agreement with a third-party contract manufacturer to manufacture TAVALISSE that is expected to be delivered starting in fiscal year 2026 through 2029.
+Added: Although the agreement provides a cancellation clause with or without cause upon written notice, we may or may not be subject to payment of cancellation fees.
+Added: The level of cancellation fees is generally dependent on the timing of the written notice in relation to the commencement date of work, with the maximum cancellation fees equal to the full price of the work order.
The drug substances and other materials used in our product candidates are currently available only from one or a limited number of suppliers or manufacturers and certain of our finished product candidates are manufactured by one or a limited number of contract manufacturers.
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These manufacturers may not be able to produce material on a timely basis or manufacture material at the quality level or in the quantity required to meet our development timelines and applicable regulatory requirements and may also experience a shortage in qualified personnel.
−Removed: Our third-party manufacturers import certain materials from China to produce our products.
−Removed: The tensions between the US and China have led to a series of tariffs and sanctions being imposed by the US on imports from China mainland, as well as other business restrictions.
+Added: Certain of our third-party manufacturers are located outside of the US, and import materials from other countries including China to produce our products.
+Added: The tensions between the US and other countries including China have led to a series of tariffs and sanctions being imposed on imports by the US, as well as other business restrictions.
+Added: In response, other countries, notably China, have threatened or imposed tariffs or other trade sanctions on products manufactured in the US.
+Added: Geopolitical developments, including changes arising as a result of the recent US presidential election, may lead to further developments with respect to the imposition or threat of imposition of trade policies, tariffs (including retaliatory tariffs), taxes and other limitations on cross-border operations.
Such tensions could adversely impact us and our third-party manufacturers.
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Our third-party manufacturers could terminate or decline to renew our manufacturing arrangements based on their own business priorities, at a time that is costly or inconvenient for us.
−Removed: If we are unable to contract for the production of materials in sufficient quantity and of sufficient quality on acceptable terms, our planned clinical trials may be significantly delayed.
+Added: If we are unable to contract for the production of materials in
+Added: sufficient quantity and of sufficient quality on acceptable terms, our planned clinical trials may be significantly delayed.
Manufacturing delays could postpone the filing of our investigational new drug (IND) applications and/or the initiation or completion of clinical trials that we have currently planned or may plan in the future.
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These requirements include submissions of safety and other post-marketing information and reports, registration and listing requirements, cGMP requirements relating to manufacturing, quality control, quality assurance and corresponding maintenance of records and documents, requirements regarding the distribution of samples to physicians, import and export requirements and recordkeeping.
−Removed: If we or our suppliers encounter manufacturing, quality or compliance
−Removed: difficulties with respect to our products or any of our product candidates, when and if approved, whether due to the impacts of a global pandemic (including as a result of disruptions of global shipping and the transport of products) or otherwise, we may be unable to obtain or maintain regulatory approval or meet commercial demand for such products, which could adversely affect our business, financial conditions, results of operations and growth prospects.
+Added: If we or our suppliers encounter manufacturing, quality or compliance difficulties with respect to our products or any of our product candidates, when and if approved, whether due to the impacts of a global pandemic (including as a result of disruptions of global shipping and the transport of products) or otherwise, we may be unable to obtain or maintain regulatory approval or meet commercial demand for such products, which could adversely affect our business, financial conditions, results of operations and growth prospects.
Promotional communications with respect to prescription drugs are subject to a variety of legal and regulatory restrictions and must be consistent with the information in the product’s approved labeling.
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If any of these events occur, we may incur significant liabilities, which could decrease our revenues.
−Removed: For example, sales and medical science liaison or MSL personnel, including contractors, must comply with FDA requirements for the advertisement and promotion of products.
+Added: For example, sales and medical science liaison or MSL personnel, including contractors, must comply with FDA requirements for the advertisement and
+Added: promotion of products.
If we are unable to obtain regulatory approval to market products in the US and foreign jurisdictions, we will not be permitted to commercialize products we or our collaborative partners may develop.
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This foreign regulatory approval process typically includes all of the risks and costs associated with FDA approval described above and may also include additional risks and costs, such as the risk that such foreign regulatory authorities, which often have different regulatory and clinical trial requirements, interpretations and guidance from the FDA, may require additional clinical trials or results for approval of a product candidate, any of which could result in delays, significant additional costs or failure to obtain such regulatory approval.
−Removed: There can be no assurance, however, that we or our collaborative partners will not have to provide additional information or analysis, or conduct additional clinical trials, before receiving approval to market product candidates.
+Added: There can be no assurance, however, that we or our collaborative partners will not have
+Added: to provide additional information or analysis, or conduct additional clinical trials, before receiving approval to market product candidates.
We have orphan drug designations from the FDA but we may not be able to obtain additional orphan drug designations in the future, or maintain the orphan drug designations or exclusivity for the approved drugs for the treatment of respective indications, or we may be unable to maintain the benefits associated with orphan drug designations, including the potential for market exclusivity.
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Also, pralsetinib has an orphan drug designation in the US for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic RET fusion-positive NSCLC, for the treatment of advanced or metastatic RET fusion-positive thyroid cancer, and for the treatment of advanced or metastatic RET-mutant medullary thyroid carcinoma.
−Removed: We may seek orphan drug designation for other product candidates in the future.
+Added: In January 2025, the FDA granted R289 orphan drug designation for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes.
+Added: We may also seek orphan drug designation for other product candidates in the future.
Under the Orphan Drug Act, the FDA may grant orphan drug designation to a drug or biologic intended to treat a rare disease or condition, which is defined as one occurring in a patient population of fewer than 200,000 in the US, or a patient population greater than 200,000 in the US where there is no reasonable expectation that the cost of developing the drug will be recovered from sales in the US.
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● the cost of treatment in relation to alternative treatments, including any similar generic treatments;
−Removed: ● pricing and the availability of coverage and adequate reimbursement by third-party payors and government authorities;
+Added: ● pricing and the availability of coverage and adequate reimbursement by third-party payors and government
● a positive HTA concluding that the product is cost-effective and the HTA bodies issuing a positive recommendation for the use of the product as a first or second line of treatment for the granted therapeutic indication;
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We also may not be successful entering into arrangements with third parties to sell and market one or more of our product candidates or may be unable to do so on terms that are favorable to us.
−Removed: We likely will have little control over such third parties, including development and commercialization of fostamatinib in Kissei, Grifols, Medison and Knight’s territories, and of olutasidenib in Kissei territory.
+Added: We likely will have little control over such third parties, including development and commercialization of fostamatinib in Kissei, Grifols, Medison and Knight’s territories, and of olutasidenib in Kissei and Dr.
+Added: Reddy’s territories.
As a consequence of our license agreements with our collaboration partners, we rely heavily upon their regulatory, commercial, medical affairs, market access and other expertise and resources for commercialization of fostamatinib in their respective territories outside of the US.
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Furthermore, foreign sales of fostamatinib by our partners could be adversely affected by the imposition of governmental controls, political and economic instability, outbreaks of pandemic diseases, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, trade restrictions or barriers and changes in tariffs and escalating global trade and political tensions.
−Removed: For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased travel restrictions and extended shutdowns of certain businesses in the US and around the world.
If our collaborators are unable to successfully complete clinical trials, delay commercialization of fostamatinib or do not invest the resources necessary to successfully commercialize fostamatinib in international territories where it has been approved, this could reduce the amount of revenue we are due to receive under these license agreements, resulting in harm to our business and operations.
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The outcome of HTA assessments is judged on a national basis and some payors may not reimburse the use of our products or may reduce the rate of reimbursement for our products and as a result, revenue from such products may decrease.
−Removed: On January 1, 2025, the new HTA Regulation, Regulation No 2021/2282 on Health Technology Assessment (HTA Regulation) will start applying to new cancer medicines and advanced therapy medicinal products, and will impose a new procedure for the assessment of the pricing and reimbursement of medicinal products.
+Added: On January 12, 2025, the new HTA Regulation, Regulation No 2021/2282 on Health Technology Assessment (HTA Regulation) started applying to new cancer medicines and advanced therapy medicinal products, and imposes a new procedure for the assessment of the pricing and reimbursement of medicinal products.
The HTA Regulation intends to foster cooperation among EU member states in assessing health technologies and provide a procedure for joint clinical assessments of medicinal products at a centralized level.
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Based on the result of the trial and the guidance from the FDA , we did not file an sNDA for wAIHA.
−Removed: It is also possible that we could experience delays in the timing of our interactions with regulatory authorities due to absenteeism by governmental employees or the diversion of regulatory authority efforts and attention to approval of other therapeutics, or other public health emergencies including a global pandemic, which could delay or limit our ability to make planned regulatory submissions or develop and commercialize our product candidates on anticipated timelines.
+Added: It is also possible that we could experience delays in the timing of our interactions with regulatory authorities due to absenteeism by governmental employees or the diversion of regulatory authority efforts and attention to approval
+Added: of other therapeutics, or other public health emergencies including a global pandemic, which could delay or limit our ability to make planned regulatory submissions or develop and commercialize our product candidates on anticipated timelines.
In addition, delays or rejections may be encountered based upon changes in regulatory policy for product approval during the period of product development and regulatory agency review, which may cause delays in the approval or rejection of an application for our products or for our other product candidates.
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The US government has indicated its intent to alter its approach to international trade policy and in some cases to renegotiate, or potentially terminate, certain existing bilateral or multi-lateral trade agreements and treaties with foreign countries.
−Removed: In addition, the US government has initiated or is considering imposing tariffs on certain foreign goods.
−Removed: Related to this action, certain foreign governments, including China, have instituted or are considering imposing tariffs on certain US goods.
+Added: In addition, the US government has initiated tariffs on certain foreign goods.
+Added: Related to this action, certain foreign governments have instituted tariffs on certain US goods.
It remains unclear what the US Administration or foreign governments will or will not do with respect to tariffs or other international trade agreements and policies.
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Although we believe our exposure is limited, if in the future any of the financial institutions that we maintain depository or lending relationships were to be placed into receivership, we may be unable to access such funds to meet our working capital requirements.
−Removed: In addition, if any of our customers, suppliers or other parties with whom we conduct business are unable to access funds, such parties’ ability to pay their obligations to us or to enter into new commercial arrangements requiring additional payments to us could be adversely affected.
−Removed: we assess our banking and customer relationships as we believe necessary or appropriate, our access to funding sources and other credit arrangements in amounts adequate to finance or capitalize our current and projected future business operations could be significantly impacted by factors that affect us, the financial institutions with which we have credit agreement or arrangements directly, or the financial services industry or economy in general.
+Added: In addition, if any of our customers, suppliers or other parties with whom we conduct business are unable to access funds, such parties’ ability to pay their obligations to us or
+Added: to enter into new commercial arrangements requiring additional payments to us could be adversely affected.
+Added: Although we assess our banking and customer relationships as we believe necessary or appropriate, our access to funding sources and other credit arrangements in amounts adequate to finance or capitalize our current and projected future business operations could be significantly impacted by factors that affect us, the financial institutions with which we have credit agreement or arrangements directly, or the financial services industry or economy in general.
Shareholder activism and private securities-related litigation could cause material disruption to our business.
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A low ESG or sustainability rating from such providers could lead certain investors to overlook our common stock in favor of competitors.
−Removed: Institutional investors, in particular, use these ratings to compare companies, and any perceived lag in our ESG efforts might prompt voting decisions or other actions to hold our board accountable.
+Added: Institutional investors, in particular, use these ratings to compare companies, and any perceived lag in our ESG efforts might prompt voting decisions or other actions to hold our Board of Directors accountable.
Furthermore, evolving assessment criteria for corporate responsibility practices may raise expectations, compelling us to undertake costly initiatives to meet new standards.
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Anti-takeover provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law may make an acquisition of us, which may be beneficial to our stockholders, more difficult.
−Removed: Provisions of our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and our bylaws, as well as provisions of Delaware law, could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us, even if doing so would benefit our stockholders.
+Added: Provisions of our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and our Amended and Restated Bylaws (our Bylaws), as well as provisions of Delaware law, could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us, even if doing so would benefit our stockholders.
These provisions:
−Removed: ● establish that members of the board of directors may be removed only for cause upon the affirmative vote of stockholders owning a majority of our capital stock;
+Added: ● establish that members of our Board of Directors may be removed only for cause upon the affirmative vote of stockholders owning a majority of our capital stock;
● authorize the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that could be issued by our Board of Directors to increase the number of outstanding shares and thwart a takeover attempt;
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● prohibit stockholder action by written consent, thereby requiring all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of our stockholders;
−Removed: ● establish advance notice requirements for nominations for election to the board of directors or for proposing matters that can be acted upon at stockholder meetings;
−Removed: ● provide for a board of directors with staggered terms;
+Added: ● establish advance notice requirements for nominations for election to our Board of Directors or for
+Added: proposing matters that can be acted upon at stockholder meetings;
+Added: ● provide for staggered terms for our Board of Directors;
● provide that the authorized number of directors may be changed only by a resolution of our Board of Directors.
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We expect to continue hiring and retaining qualified personnel which is critical to our success.
−Removed: R eplacing key employees and executive officers may be difficult and may take an extended period of time because of the limited number of individuals in our industry with the breadth of skills and experience required to successfully develop, gain regulatory approval of and commercialize drugs.
+Added: R eplacing key employees and executive officers may be difficult and may take an extended period of time because of the limited number of individuals
+Added: in our industry with the breadth of skills and experience required to successfully develop, gain regulatory approval of and commercialize drugs.
Competition to hire from this limited pool is intense, and we may be unable to hire, train, retain or motivate these key personnel on acceptable terms given the competition among numerous pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for similar personnel.
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