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Regardless of outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, and other factors.
+Added: On December 18, 2024, David Hayes, or the Plaintiff, an alleged Relay Therapeutics stockholder, derivatively and on behalf of us as a nominal defendant, filed a complaint in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, or the Court, captioned Hayes v.
+Added: Borisy, et al.
+Added: 2024-1309-PAF), or the Derivative Complaint, against certain of our directors and officers, or the Defendants.
+Added: The Derivative Complaint alleges that, in 2021, 2022, and 2023, the Defendants awarded the members of our Board of Directors excessive compensation.
+Added: The Derivative Complaint asserts claims for breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, waste of corporate assets, and breach of fiduciary duty of disclosure.
+Added: The Derivative Complaint seeks a judgment against the Defendants declaring that Plaintiff may maintain the action on behalf of us and that he is an adequate representative of us;
+Added: awarding to us the damages sustained as a result of the breaches of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment alleged against the Defendants;
+Added: directing us to take all necessary actions to reform and improve an effective system of corporate governance and internal procedures;
+Added: awarding us restitution from the Defendants;
+Added: ordering the Defendants to disgorge and pay to us or cancel all profits, benefits, and other compensation obtained;
+Added: awarding Plaintiff costs and disbursements of the action, including reasonable attorneys’, accountants’, and experts’ fees, costs, and expenses;
+Added: and granting such other relief that the Court deems just and proper.
+Added: On January 24, 2025, we, as nominal defendants, and the Defendants separately answered the complaint.
+Added: We are unable to predict the outcome, or the reasonably possible loss or range of loss, if any, related to this matter.
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We have not yet demonstrated our ability to successfully complete any large-scale, pivotal clinical trials, obtain regulatory approvals, manufacture a commercial scale product, or arrange for a third party to do so on our behalf, or conduct sales and marketing activities necessary for successful commercialization.
−Removed: Our lead product candidates are in clinical development.
+Added: Our lead product candidate is in clinical development.
We may not be able to file investigational new drug applications, or INDs, for any of our other product candidates on the timelines we expect, if at all.
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Successful completion of our clinical trials is a prerequisite to submitting a new drug application, or NDA, to the FDA and a Marketing Authorization Application, or MAA, to the EMA for each product candidate and, consequently, the ultimate approval and commercial marketing of each product candidate.
−Removed: We have ongoing first-in-human clinical trials, but we do not know whether any of our future clinical trials will begin on time or be completed on schedule, if at all.
+Added: While we have active clinical trials for our lead product candidate, we do not know whether any of our current clinical trials will be completed on schedule, if at all, or whether any of our future clinical trials will begin on time or be completed on schedule, if at all.
If we are required to conduct additional clinical trials or other testing of our product candidates beyond those that we currently contemplate, if we are unable to successfully complete clinical trials of our product candidates or other testing, if the results of these trials or tests are not positive or are only modestly positive or if there are safety concerns, we may:
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We could encounter delays if a clinical trial is suspended or terminated by us, by the IRBs of the institutions at which such trials are being conducted, by the Data Safety Monitoring Board, or DSMB, for such trial or by the FDA or other regulatory authorities.
−Removed: Such authorities may impose a suspension or termination or clinical hold due to a number of factors, including failure to conduct the clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical protocols, inspection of the clinical trial operations or clinical trial site by the FDA
−Removed: or other regulatory authorities, unforeseen safety issues or adverse side effects, failure to demonstrate a benefit from using a product, changes in governmental regulations or administrative actions or lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial.
+Added: Such authorities may impose a suspension or termination or clinical hold due to a number of factors, including failure to conduct the clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical protocols, inspection of the clinical trial operations or clinical trial site by the FDA or other regulatory authorities, unforeseen safety issues or adverse side effects, failure to demonstrate a benefit from using a product, changes in governmental regulations or administrative actions or lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial.
Many of the factors that cause, or lead to, a delay in the commencement or completion of clinical trials may also ultimately lead to the denial of regulatory approval of our product candidates.
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Further, if we are required to develop companion diagnostics and are unable to include patients with the targeted genetic mutations, this could compromise our ability to seek participation in the FDA’s expedited review and development programs, including Breakthrough Therapy Designation and Fast Track Designation, or otherwise to seek to accelerate clinical development and regulatory timelines.
−Removed: The FDA has indicated that if we continue RLY-2608 and lirafugratinib in a specific biomarker-defined population, a companion diagnostic device will be required to ensure their safe and effective use.
−Removed: Although we have engaged Foundation Medicine, Inc.
−Removed: to develop its FoundationOne®CDx as a companion diagnostic for lirafugratinib, if any of our current or future third-party companion diagnostic partners is unable or unwilling to obtain or maintain regulatory approval for a companion diagnostic for any of our product candidates, regulatory approval for such product candidates, if obtained at all, may be delayed.
+Added: The FDA has indicated that if we continue RLY-2608 in a specific biomarker-defined population, a companion diagnostic device will be required to ensure its safe and effective use.
+Added: If any of our future third-party companion diagnostic partners is unable or unwilling to obtain or maintain regulatory approval for a companion diagnostic for any of our product candidates, regulatory approval for such product candidates, if obtained at all, may be delayed.
Clinical trial enrollment may be affected by other factors including:
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• factors we may not be able to control that may limit patients, principal investigators or staff or clinical site availability, such as uncertain geopolitical conditions or current or future pandemics.
+Added: Additionally, for certain of our current and future clinical trials, we have and may utilize, an "open-label" trial design.
+Added: An "open-label" clinical trial is one where both the patient and investigator know whether the patient is receiving the investigational product candidate or either an active drug or placebo.
+Added: Most typically, open-label clinical trials test only the investigational product candidate and sometimes may do so at different dose levels.
+Added: Open-label clinical trials are subject to various limitations that may exaggerate any therapeutic effect as patients in open-label clinical trials are aware when they are receiving treatment.
+Added: Open-label clinical trials may be subject to a "patient bias" where patients perceive their symptoms to have improved merely due to their awareness of receiving an experimental treatment.
+Added: In addition, open-label clinical trials may be subject to an "investigator bias" where those assessing and reviewing the physiological outcomes of the clinical trials are aware of which patients have received treatment and may interpret the information of the treated group more favorably given this knowledge.
+Added: The results from an open-label trial may not be predictive of future clinical trial results with any of our product candidates when studied in a blinded trial.
Positive data from preclinical or early clinical studies of our product candidates are not necessarily predictive of the results of later clinical studies and any future clinical trials of our product candidates.
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Moreover, preclinical, other nonclinical and clinical data are often susceptible to varying interpretations and analyses and many companies that believed their product candidates performed satisfactorily in preclinical studies and clinical trials nonetheless failed to obtain FDA, EMA or other regulatory authority approval.
−Removed: Our current or future clinical trials or those of our future collaborators may reveal significant adverse events not seen in our preclinical or other nonclinical studies or early clinical data and may result in a safety profile that would inhibit regulatory approval or market acceptance of any of our product candidates.
+Added: Our current or future clinical trials or those of future collaborators or licensees may reveal significant adverse events not seen in our preclinical or other nonclinical studies or early clinical data and may result in a safety profile that would inhibit regulatory approval or market acceptance of any of our product candidates.
Before obtaining regulatory approvals for the commercial sale of any products, we must demonstrate through lengthy, complex and expensive preclinical or other nonclinical studies and clinical trials that our product candidates are both safe and effective for use in each target indication.
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We, the FDA or other applicable regulatory authorities, or an IRB may suspend or terminate clinical trials of a product candidate at any time for various reasons, including a belief that subjects in such trials are being exposed to unacceptable health risks or adverse side effects.
+Added: If used in combination with other therapies in the future, our product candidates could exacerbate adverse events associated with those therapies, as well as result in adverse events from drug-drug interaction.
Some potential therapeutics developed in the biotechnology industry that initially showed therapeutic promise in early-stage clinical trials have later been found to cause side effects that prevented their further development.
−Removed: Even if the side effects do not preclude the product from obtaining or maintaining marketing approval,
−Removed: undesirable side effects may inhibit market acceptance of the approved product due to its tolerability versus other therapies.
+Added: Even if the side effects do not preclude the product from obtaining or maintaining marketing approval, undesirable side effects may inhibit market acceptance of the approved product due to its tolerability versus other therapies.
Any of these developments could materially harm our business, financial condition and prospects.
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Research programs to pursue the development of our existing and planned product candidates for additional indications and to identify new product candidates and disease targets require substantial technical, financial and human resources whether or not they are ultimately successful.
−Removed: For example, pursuant to the DESRES Agreement, we collaborate with D.
−Removed: Shaw Research to develop various protein models and make predictions as to how molecules might move, with subsequent validation efforts in our and our CROs’ labs.
+Added: For example, as part of our research efforts, we develop various protein models and make predictions as to how molecules might move, with subsequent validation efforts in our and our CROs’ labs.
There can be no assurance that we will find potential additional targets using this approach, that any such targets will be tractable, that preclinical development of any of our research programs will be successful or that any clinical validations will be successful.
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• it may take greater human and financial resources than we will possess to identify additional therapeutic opportunities for our product candidates or to develop suitable potential product candidates through internal research programs, thereby limiting our ability to develop, diversify and expand our product portfolio.
−Removed: In June 2024, we announced three preclinical programs focused on vascular malformations, Fabry disease, and NRAS, but these programs are in preclinical development and may not reach clinical development on the timelines we expect or ever.
+Added: In June 2024, we announced programs focused on Fabry disease and NRAS, but these programs are in preclinical development and may not reach clinical development on the timelines we expect or ever.
Because we have limited financial and human resources, we intend to initially focus on research programs and product candidates for a limited set of indications.
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We may focus our efforts and resources on potential product candidates or other potential programs that ultimately prove to be unsuccessful.
−Removed: We are developing certain current product candidates, may develop other current product candidates and potentially future product candidates, in combination with other therapies, which exposes us to additional risks.
−Removed: We intend to develop our current product candidates, and may develop future product candidates, for use in combination with one or more currently approved cancer or other therapies.
+Added: We intend to develop our lead product candidate, may develop other current product candidates and potentially future product candidates, in combination with other therapies, which exposes us to additional risks.
+Added: We intend to develop RLY-2608 and may develop our other current product candidates and future product candidates, for use in combination with one or more currently approved cancer or other therapies.
Even if any product candidate we develop was to receive marketing approval or be commercialized for use in combination with other existing therapies, we would continue to bear the risks that the FDA or similar regulatory authorities could revoke approval of the therapy used in combination with our product candidates or that safety, efficacy, manufacturing or supply issues could arise with these existing therapies.
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This could result in our own products being removed from the market or being less successful commercially.
−Removed: We also evaluate certain of our current product candidates and may in the future evaluate other current product candidates or any future product candidates in combination with one or more cancer or other therapies that have not yet been approved for marketing by the FDA or similar regulatory authorities.
+Added: We are also evaluating RLY-2608 and may in the future evaluate other current product candidates or any future product candidates in combination with one or more cancer or other therapies that have not yet been approved for marketing by the FDA or similar regulatory authorities.
+Added: For example, in June 2024, we entered into a clinical trial collaboration with Pfizer to evaluate atirmociclib, Pfizer’s investigative selective-CDK4 inhibitor, in combination with RLY-2608 and fulvestrant in patients with PI3Kα-mutated, HR+, HER2- metastatic breast cancer.
We will not be able to market and sell any of our product candidates we develop in combination with any such unapproved therapies that do not ultimately obtain marketing approval.
−Removed: In addition, in June 2024, we entered into a clinical trial collaboration with Pfizer to evaluate atirmociclib, Pfizer’s investigative selective-CDK4 inhibitor, in combination with RLY-2608 and fulvestrant in patients with PI3Kα-mutated, HR+, HER2- metastatic breast cancer.
−Removed: If the FDA or similar regulatory authorities do not approve these other drugs or revoke their approval of, or if safety, efficacy, manufacturing, or supply issues arise with, the drugs we choose to evaluate in combination with our current product candidates or any product candidate we develop, we may be unable to obtain approval of or market any of the product candidates we develop.
+Added: In addition, unapproved therapies face the same risks described with respect to our product candidates currently in development and clinical trials, including the potential for serious adverse effects, supply and/or manufacturing issues, delay in their clinical trials, and lack of FDA approval.
+Added: The uncertainty resulting from the use of our product candidates in combination with other approved or unapproved therapies may make it difficult to accurately predict side effects in current or future clinical trials.
+Added: If the FDA or similar regulatory authorities do not approve these other drugs or revoke their approval of, or if safety, efficacy, manufacturing, or supply issues arise with, the drugs we choose to evaluate in combination with our lead product candidate or any other current or future product candidate we develop, we may be unable to obtain approval of or market any of such product candidates.
Our product candidates utilize a novel mechanism of action and novel binding locations, which may result in greater research and development expenses, regulatory issues that could delay or prevent approval, or discovery of unknown or unanticipated adverse effects.
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We are conducting, or have filed clinical trial applications to conduct, clinical trials for our product candidates outside the United States, and the FDA and similar foreign regulatory authorities may not accept data from such trials.
−Removed: We are conducting, or have filed clinical trial applications to conduct, additional clinical trials outside the United States, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia and may conduct, or file clinical trial applications to conduct, additional clinical trials in other foreign jurisdictions in the future.
+Added: We have conducted or are conducting, or have filed clinical trial applications to conduct, additional clinical trials outside the United States, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia and may conduct, or file clinical trial applications to conduct, additional clinical trials in other foreign jurisdictions in the future.
The acceptance of trial data from clinical trials conducted outside the United States by the FDA may be subject to certain conditions.
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Our product candidates may not be effective, may be only moderately effective or may prove to have undesirable or unintended side effects, toxicities or other characteristics that may preclude our obtaining marketing approval or prevent or limit commercial use.
−Removed: addition, regulatory authorities may find fault with our manufacturing process or facilities or that of third-party contract manufacturers.
+Added: In addition, regulatory authorities may find fault with our manufacturing process or facilities or that of third-party contract manufacturers.
We may also face greater than expected difficulty in manufacturing our product candidates.
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Even if we were to obtain approval, regulatory authorities may approve any of our product candidates for fewer or more limited indications than we request, thereby narrowing the commercial potential of the product candidate.
−Removed: In addition, regulatory authorities may grant approval contingent on the performance of costly post-marketing clinical trials, or may approve a product candidate with a label that does not include the labeling claims necessary or desirable for the successful commercialization of that product candidate.
+Added: In addition, regulatory authorities may grant approval contingent on the performance of costly post-marketing clinical trials, or may approve a product candidate with a label that does
+Added: not include the labeling claims necessary or desirable for the successful commercialization of that product candidate.
Any of the foregoing scenarios could materially harm the commercial prospects for our product candidates.
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The total addressable market opportunity will ultimately depend upon, among other things, the diagnosis criteria included in the final label, and, if our product candidates are approved for sale for these indications, acceptance by the medical community and patient access, product pricing and reimbursement.
−Removed: The number of patients with cancers and solid tumors may turn out to be lower than expected, patients may not be otherwise amenable to treatment with our products, or new patients may become increasingly difficult to identify or gain access to, all of
−Removed: which would adversely affect our results of operations and our business.
+Added: The number of patients with cancers and solid tumors or other applicable diseases may turn out to be lower than expected, patients may not be otherwise amenable to treatment with our products, or new patients may become increasingly difficult to identify or gain access to, all of which would adversely affect our results of operations and our business.
We may not be successful in our efforts to identify additional product candidates.
Due to our limited resources and access to capital, we must prioritize development of certain product candidates.
−Removed: For example, earlier this year we deprioritized RLY-5836 in order to focus our resources on advancing RLY-2608 and in September 2024, we announced that we plan to seek a global commercialization partner for lirafugratinib in order to maintain focus on the remainder of our portfolio.
+Added: For example, in early 2024, we deprioritized RLY-5836, our second chemically distinct pan-mutant PI3Kɑ inhibitor, in order to focus our resources on advancing RLY-2608 and, in December 2024, we entered into the exclusive global licensing agreement with Elevar for lirafugratinib, allowing us to maintain focus on the remainder of our portfolio.
These and other prioritization decisions may prove to be the wrong choice and may adversely affect our business.
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Our competitors also may obtain FDA or other regulatory approval for their products more rapidly than we may obtain approval for ours, which could result in our competitors establishing a strong market position before we or our collaborators are able to enter the market.
−Removed: The key competitive factors affecting the success of all of our product candidates, if approved, are likely to be their efficacy, safety, convenience, price, the level of generic competition and the availability of reimbursement from government and other third-party payors.
+Added: The key competitive factors affecting the success of all of our product candidates, if approved, are likely to be their
+Added: efficacy, safety, convenience, price, the level of generic competition and the availability of reimbursement from government and other third-party payors.
The insurance coverage and reimbursement status of newly-approved products is uncertain.
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If coverage and adequate reimbursement is not available, or is available only to limited levels, we may not be able to successfully commercialize our product candidates.
−Removed: Even if coverage is provided, the approved reimbursement amount may not be high enough to allow us to establish or maintain pricing sufficient to realize a sufficient return on our
+Added: Even if coverage is provided, the approved reimbursement amount may not be high enough to allow us to establish or maintain pricing sufficient to realize a sufficient return on our investment.
See " Business – Governmental Regulation – Insurance coverage and reimbursement " in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.
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Risks Related to Our Reliance on Third Parties
−Removed: We rely on third parties to conduct our ongoing clinical trials of our product candidates and expect to rely on third parties to conduct future clinical trials, as well as investigator-sponsored clinical trials of our product candidates.
+Added: We have relied on, and expect to continue to rely on, third parties to conduct our current and future clinical trials of our product candidates, as well as investigator-sponsored clinical trials of our product candidates.
If these third parties do not successfully carry out their contractual duties, comply with regulatory requirements or meet expected deadlines, we may not be able to obtain regulatory approval for or commercialize our product candidates and our business could be substantially harmed.
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We will not control the design or conduct of the investigator-sponsored trials, and it is possible that the FDA or non-U.S.
−Removed: regulatory authorities will not view these investigator-sponsored trials as providing adequate support for future clinical trials, whether controlled by us or third parties, for any one or more reasons, including elements of the design or execution of the trials or safety concerns or other trial results.
+Added: regulatory authorities will not view these investigator-sponsored trials as providing adequate support for future clinical trials, whether
+Added: controlled by us or third parties, for any one or more reasons, including elements of the design or execution of the trials or safety concerns or other trial results.
Such arrangements will likely provide us certain information rights with respect to the investigator-sponsored trials, including access to and the ability to use and reference the data, including for our own regulatory filings, resulting from the investigator-sponsored trials.
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For any violations of laws and regulations during the conduct of our clinical trials, we could be subject to warning letters or enforcement action that may include civil penalties up to and including criminal prosecution.
−Removed: We, our principal investigators and our CROs are required to comply with regulations, including Good Clinical Practices, or GCPs, for conducting, monitoring, recording and reporting the results of clinical trials to ensure that the data and results are scientifically credible and
−Removed: accurate, and that the trial patients are adequately informed of the potential risks of participating in clinical trials and their rights are protected.
+Added: We, our principal investigators and our CROs are required to comply with regulations, including Good Clinical Practices, or GCPs, for conducting, monitoring, recording and reporting the results of clinical trials to ensure that the data and results are scientifically credible and accurate, and that the trial patients are adequately informed of the potential risks of participating in clinical trials and their rights are protected.
These regulations are enforced by the FDA, the Competent Authorities of the Member States of the European Economic Area and similar foreign regulatory authorities for any products in clinical development, including the EMA and the MHRA.
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Failure to do so can result in fines, adverse publicity and civil and criminal sanctions.
−Removed: Although we designed our first-in-human clinical trials of our lead product candidates and intend to design the future clinical trials for any other product candidates that we develop, we expect that CROs will conduct all of our clinical trials.
+Added: Although we designed our first-in-human clinical trials of our lead product candidate and intend to design the future clinical trials for any other product candidates that we develop, we expect that CROs will conduct all of our clinical trials.
As a result, many important aspects of our development programs, including their conduct and timing, are outside of our direct control.
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If any of our relationships with these third-party principal investigators or CROs terminate, we may not be able to enter into arrangements with alternative CROs.
−Removed: If principal investigators or CROs do not successfully carry out their contractual duties or obligations or meet expected deadlines, if they need to be replaced or if the quality or accuracy of the clinical data they obtain is compromised due to the failure to adhere to our clinical protocols, regulatory requirements or for other reasons, any clinical trials such principal investigators or CROs are associated with may be extended, delayed or terminated, and we may not be able to obtain regulatory approval for or successfully commercialize our product candidates.
+Added: If principal investigators or CROs do not successfully carry out their contractual duties or obligations or meet expected deadlines, if they need to be replaced or if the quality or accuracy of the clinical data they obtain is compromised due to the failure to adhere to our clinical protocols, regulatory requirements or for other reasons, any clinical trials such principal investigators or
+Added: CROs are associated with may be extended, delayed or terminated, and we may not be able to obtain regulatory approval for or successfully commercialize our product candidates.
As a result, we believe that our financial results and the commercial prospects for our product candidates in the subject indication would be harmed, our costs could increase and our ability to generate revenue could be delayed.
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We do not control the manufacturing process of, and will be completely dependent on, our contract manufacturers for compliance with cGMPs in connection with the manufacture of our product candidates.
−Removed: If our contract manufacturers cannot successfully manufacture material that conforms to our
−Removed: specifications and the strict regulatory requirements of the FDA or others, they will not be able to pass regulatory inspections and/or maintain regulatory compliance for their manufacturing facilities.
+Added: If our contract manufacturers cannot successfully manufacture material that conforms to our specifications and the strict regulatory requirements of the FDA or others, they will not be able to pass regulatory inspections and/or maintain regulatory compliance for their manufacturing facilities.
In addition, we have no control over the ability of our contract manufacturers to maintain adequate quality control, quality assurance and qualified personnel.
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Furthermore, a CMO may possess technology related to the manufacture of our product candidates that such CMO owns independently.
−Removed: This would increase our reliance on such CMO or require us to obtain a license from such CMO in order to have another CMO manufacture our product candidates.
+Added: increase our reliance on such CMO or require us to obtain a license from such CMO in order to have another CMO manufacture our product candidates.
We currently rely on foreign CMOs for the manufacture of certain of our product candidates for preclinical development and clinical testing and will likely continue to do so in the future.
Foreign CMOs may be subject to U.S.
−Removed: legislation or investigations, including the proposed BIOSECURE Act, sanctions, trade restrictions and other foreign regulatory requirements, which could increase the cost or reduce the supply of material available to us, delay the procurement or supply of such material, delay or impact clinical trials, have an adverse effect on our ability to secure significant commitments from governments to purchase our product candidates, if ever approved, and could adversely affect our financial condition and business prospects.
+Added: legislation or investigations, such as the previously proposed BIOSECURE Act in the United States, sanctions, trade restrictions and other foreign regulatory requirements, which could increase the cost or reduce the supply of material available to us, delay the procurement or supply of such material, delay or impact clinical trials, have an adverse effect on our ability to secure significant commitments from governments to purchase our product candidates, if ever approved, and could adversely affect our financial condition and business prospects.
Our current and anticipated future dependence upon others for the manufacture of our product candidates or products may adversely affect our future profit margins and our ability to commercialize any products that receive marketing approval on a timely and competitive basis.
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Our ability to successfully develop our product candidates, and to ultimately supply our commercial products in quantities sufficient to meet the market demand, depends in part on our ability to obtain the API, drug product and starting materials for these products in accordance with regulatory requirements and in sufficient quantities for clinical testing and commercialization.
−Removed: We do not currently have arrangements in place for a redundant or second-source supply of any such API, drug product
−Removed: or starting materials in the event any of our current suppliers of such API, drug product or starting materials ceases its operations for any reason.
+Added: We do not currently have arrangements in place for a redundant or second-source supply of any such API, drug product or starting materials in the event any of our current suppliers of such API, drug product or starting materials ceases its operations for any reason.
If any of our third-party suppliers or manufacturers ceases its operations for any reason or is unable or unwilling to supply API, drug product or starting material in sufficient quantities, on the timelines necessary, or at acceptable prices, to meet our needs, it could impede, delay, limit or prevent our development efforts, which could harm our business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects.
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While we seek to maintain adequate inventory of the API, drug product and starting materials used in our product candidates, any interruption or delay in the supply of components or materials, or our inability to obtain such API, drug product or starting materials from alternate sources at acceptable prices in a timely manner could impede, delay, limit or prevent our development efforts, which could harm our business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects.
−Removed: We have and may enter into other collaborations with third parties for the research, development, manufacture and commercialization of one or more of our programs or product candidates.
−Removed: If these collaborations are not successful, our business could be adversely affected.
−Removed: We have entered into and may enter into collaborations with third parties for one or more of our programs or product candidates.
−Removed: If we enter into any such arrangements with any third parties, we will likely have limited control over the amount and timing of resources that any future collaborators dedicate to the development or commercialization of our product candidates.
−Removed: Our ability to generate revenue from these arrangements will depend on our collaborators’ abilities to successfully perform the functions assigned to them.
−Removed: Any collaborations we have entered into or will enter into may pose risks, including the following:
−Removed: • Collaborators may have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources that they will apply to these collaborations;
−Removed: • Collaborators may not perform their obligations as expected;
−Removed: • The clinical trials conducted as part of these collaborations may not be successful;
−Removed: • Collaborators may not pursue development and/or commercialization of any product candidates that achieve regulatory approval or may elect not to continue or renew development or commercialization programs based on clinical trial results, changes in the collaborators’ strategic focus or available funding or external factors, such as an acquisition, that divert resources or create competing priorities;
−Removed: • Collaborators may delay clinical trials, provide insufficient funding for clinical trials, stop a clinical trial or abandon a product candidate, repeat or conduct new clinical trials or require a new formulation of a product candidate for clinical testing;
−Removed: • We may not have access to, or may be restricted from disclosing, certain information regarding product candidates being developed or commercialized under a collaboration and, consequently, may have limited ability to inform our stockholders about the status of such product candidates;
−Removed: • Collaborators could independently develop, or develop with third parties, products that compete directly or indirectly with our product candidates if the collaborators believe that competitive products are more likely to be successfully developed or can be commercialized under terms that are more economically attractive than ours;
−Removed: • Product candidates developed in collaboration with us may be viewed by any collaborators as competitive with their own product candidates or products, which may cause collaborators to cease to devote resources to the commercialization of our product candidates;
−Removed: • A collaborator with marketing and distribution rights to one or more of our product candidates that achieve regulatory approval may not commit sufficient resources to the marketing and distribution of any such product candidate;
−Removed: • Disagreements with collaborators, including disagreements over proprietary rights, contract interpretation or the preferred course of development of any programs or product candidates, may cause delays or termination of the research, development, manufacture or commercialization of such programs or product candidates, may lead to additional responsibilities for us with respect to such programs or product candidates or may result in litigation or arbitration, any of which would be time-consuming and expensive;
−Removed: • Collaborators may not properly maintain or defend our intellectual property rights or may use our proprietary information in such a way as to invite litigation that could jeopardize or invalidate our intellectual property or proprietary information or expose us to potential litigation;
−Removed: • Disputes may arise with respect to the ownership of intellectual property developed pursuant to our collaborations;
−Removed: • Collaborators may infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties, which may expose us to litigation and potential liability;
−Removed: • Collaborations may be terminated for the convenience of the collaborator and, if terminated, we could be required to raise additional capital to pursue further development or commercialization of the applicable product candidates.
−Removed: For example, Genentech notified us on July 11, 2024 that it is terminating its collaboration with us for convenience, which termination will be effective 180 days after such notice.
−Removed: If our collaborations do not result in the successful development and commercialization of products, or if one of any future collaborators terminates its agreement with us, we may not receive any milestone or royalty payments under the collaboration.
+Added: We have and may enter into other licenses or collaborations with third parties for the research, development, manufacture and commercialization of one or more of our programs or product candidates.
+Added: If these licenses or collaborations are not successful, our business could be adversely affected.
+Added: We have entered into and may enter into licenses or collaborations with third parties for one or more of our programs or product candidates, such as the Elevar Agreement to develop and commercialize lirafugratinib.
+Added: If we enter into any such arrangements with any third parties, we will likely have limited control over the amount and timing of resources that any licensees or collaborators dedicate to the development or commercialization of our product candidates.
+Added: Our ability to generate revenue from these arrangements will depend on our licensees' or collaborators’ abilities to successfully perform the functions assigned to them.
+Added: Any licenses or collaborations we have entered into or will enter into may pose risks, including the following:
+Added: • Licensees or collaborators may have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources that they will apply to these licenses or collaborations;
+Added: • Licensees or collaborators may not perform their obligations as expected;
+Added: • The clinical trials conducted as part of these licenses or collaborations may not be successful;
+Added: • Licensees or collaborators may not pursue development and/or commercialization of any product candidates that achieve regulatory approval or may elect not to continue or renew development or commercialization programs based on clinical trial results, changes in the licensees' or collaborators’ strategic focus or available funding or external factors, such as an acquisition, that divert resources or create competing priorities;
+Added: • Licensees or collaborators may delay clinical trials, provide insufficient funding for clinical trials, stop a clinical trial or abandon a product candidate, repeat or conduct new clinical trials or require a new formulation of a product candidate for clinical testing;
+Added: • We may not have access to, or may be restricted from disclosing, certain information regarding product candidates being developed or commercialized under a license or collaboration and, consequently, may have limited ability to inform our stockholders about the status of such product candidates;
+Added: • Licensees or collaborators could independently develop, or develop with third parties, products that compete directly or indirectly with our product candidates if the licensees or collaborators believe that competitive products are more likely to be successfully developed or can be commercialized under terms that are more economically attractive than ours;
+Added: • Product candidates developed in collaboration with us may be viewed by any licensee or collaborator as competitive with their own product candidates or products, which may cause licensees or collaborators to cease to devote resources to the commercialization of our product candidates;
+Added: • A licensee or collaborator with marketing and distribution rights to one or more of our product candidates that achieve regulatory approval may not commit sufficient resources to the marketing and distribution of any such product candidate;
+Added: • Disagreements with licensees or collaborators, including disagreements over proprietary rights, contract interpretation or the preferred course of development of any programs or product candidates, may cause delays or termination of the research, development, manufacture or commercialization of such programs or product candidates, may lead to additional responsibilities for us with respect to such programs or product candidates or may result in litigation or arbitration, any of which would be time-consuming and expensive;
+Added: • Licensees or collaborators may not properly maintain or defend our intellectual property rights or may use our proprietary information in such a way as to invite litigation that could jeopardize or invalidate our intellectual property or proprietary information or expose us to potential litigation;
+Added: • Disputes may arise with respect to the ownership of intellectual property developed pursuant to our licenses or collaborations;
+Added: • Licensees or collaborators may infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties, which may expose us to litigation and potential liability;
+Added: • Licenses or collaborations may be terminated for the convenience of the licensee or collaborator and, if terminated, we could be required to raise additional capital to pursue further development or commercialization of the applicable product candidates.
+Added: For example, Genentech terminated the Genentech Agreement for convenience effective as of January 7, 2025.
+Added: If our licenses or collaborations do not result in the successful development and commercialization of products, or if one of any future licensees or collaborators terminates its agreement with us, we may not receive any milestone or royalty payments under the license or collaboration.
If we do not receive the payments we expect under these agreements, our development of product candidates could be delayed and we may need additional resources to develop our product candidates.
−Removed: All of the risks relating to product development, regulatory approval and commercialization summarized and described in this report also apply to the activities of our collaborators.
−Removed: In addition, if any collaborator terminates its agreement with us, we may find it more difficult to attract new collaborators and our reputation among the business and financial communities could be adversely affected.
−Removed: We may seek to establish additional collaborations, and, if we are not able to establish them on commercially reasonable terms, or at all, we may have to alter our development and commercialization plans.
+Added: All of the risks relating to product development, regulatory approval and commercialization summarized and described in this report also apply to the activities of our licensees or collaborators.
+Added: In addition, if any licensee or collaborator terminates its agreement with us, we may find it more difficult to attract new licensees or collaborators and our reputation among the business and financial communities could be adversely affected.
+Added: We may seek to establish additional licenses and/or collaborations, and, if we are not able to establish them on commercially reasonable terms, or at all, we may have to alter our development and commercialization plans.
Our product development programs and the potential commercialization of our product candidates will require substantial additional cash to fund expenses.
−Removed: For some of our product candidates, we may decide to collaborate with additional pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for the development and potential commercialization of those product candidates.
−Removed: We face significant competition in seeking appropriate collaborators.
−Removed: Whether we reach a definitive agreement for a collaboration will depend, among other things, upon our assessment of the collaborator’s resources and expertise, the terms and conditions of the proposed collaboration and the proposed collaborator’s evaluation of a number of factors.
+Added: For some of our product candidates, we may decide to license to, or collaborate with, additional pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for the development and potential commercialization of those product candidates.
+Added: We face significant competition in seeking appropriate licensees and/or collaborators.
+Added: Whether we reach a definitive agreement for a license or collaboration will depend, among other things, upon our assessment of the licensee's or collaborator’s resources and expertise, the terms and conditions of the proposed license or collaboration and the proposed licensee's or collaborator’s evaluation of a number of
Those factors may include the design or results of clinical trials, the likelihood of approval by the FDA or similar regulatory authorities outside the United States, the potential market for the subject product candidate, the costs and complexities of manufacturing and delivering such product candidate to patients, the potential of competing products, the existence of uncertainty with respect to our ownership of technology, which can exist if there is a challenge to such ownership without regard to the merits of the challenge, and industry and market conditions generally.
−Removed: The collaborator may also consider alternative product candidates or technologies for similar indications that may be available to collaborate on and whether such a collaboration could be more attractive than the one with us for our product candidate.
−Removed: The terms of any additional collaborations or other arrangements that we may establish may not be favorable to us.
−Removed: We may also be restricted under collaboration agreements from entering into future agreements on certain terms with potential collaborators.
−Removed: Collaborations are complex and time-consuming to negotiate and document.
−Removed: In addition, there have been a significant number of recent business combinations among large pharmaceutical companies that have resulted in a reduced number of potential future collaborators.
−Removed: We may not be able to negotiate additional collaborations on a timely basis, on acceptable terms, or at all.
−Removed: If we are unable to do so, we may have to curtail the development of the product candidate for which we are seeking to collaborate, reduce or delay its development program or one or more of our other development programs, delay its potential commercialization or reduce the scope of any sales or marketing activities, or increase our expenditures and undertake development or commercialization activities at our own expense.
+Added: The licensee or collaborator may also consider alternative product candidates or technologies for similar indications that may be available to license or collaborate on and whether such a license or collaboration could be more attractive than the one with us for our product candidate.
+Added: The terms of any additional licenses or collaborations or other arrangements that we may establish may not be favorable to us.
+Added: We may also be restricted under license or collaboration agreements from entering into future agreements on certain terms with potential licensees or collaborators.
+Added: Licenses and collaborations are complex and time-consuming to negotiate and document.
+Added: In addition, there have been a significant number of recent business combinations among large pharmaceutical companies that have resulted in a reduced number of potential future licensees and/or collaborators.
+Added: We may not be able to negotiate additional licenses or collaborations on a timely basis, on acceptable terms, or at all.
+Added: If we are unable to do so, we may have to curtail the development of the product candidate for which we are seeking to license or collaborate, reduce or delay its development program or one or more of our other development programs, delay its potential commercialization or reduce the scope of any sales or marketing activities, or increase our expenditures and undertake development or commercialization activities at our own expense.
If we elect to increase our expenditures to fund development or commercialization activities on our own, we may need to obtain additional capital, which may not be available to us on acceptable terms or at all.
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The expiration or termination of the DESRES Agreement or any significant reduction in our collaboration with D.
−Removed: Shaw Research will require us to rely more heavily on these other collaborations and our own internal resources, and could delay or impair our preclinical research efforts with respect to the preclinical programs on which we collaborate with D.E.
+Added: Shaw Research will require us to rely more heavily on these other collaborations and our own internal resources, and could delay or impair our preclinical research efforts, in each case with respect to the preclinical program on which we collaborate with D.E.
Shaw Research.
−Removed: Furthermore, while the expiration or termination of the DESRES Agreement will not directly impact the development of our lead product candidates, we cannot predict the effects such expiration or termination could have on our preclinical studies and development efforts and our ability to discover and develop additional product candidates.
+Added: Furthermore, while the expiration or termination of the DESRES Agreement will not directly impact the development of our lead product candidate, we cannot predict the effects such expiration or termination could have on our preclinical studies and development efforts and our ability to discover and develop additional product candidates.
In particular, the technologies accessed through D.
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Disputes may arise between us and D.
−Removed: Shaw Research, as well as any future potential collaborators, regarding intellectual property subject to the DESRES Agreement.
−Removed: If disputes over intellectual property that we co-own or we own individually prevent or impair our ability to maintain our current collaboration arrangements on acceptable terms, or undermine our ability to successfully control the intellectual property necessary to protect our product candidates, we may be unable to successfully develop and commercialize the affected product candidates.
+Added: Shaw Research, as well as any future potential licensees or collaborators, regarding intellectual property subject to the DESRES Agreement.
+Added: If disputes over intellectual property that we co-own or we own individually prevent or impair our ability to maintain our current licenses or collaboration arrangements on acceptable terms, or undermine our ability to successfully control the intellectual property necessary to protect our product candidates, we
+Added: may be unable to successfully develop and commercialize the affected product candidates.
Uncertainties or disagreements around our rights under any such intellectual property may undermine our ability to partner our programs with third parties.
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In order to maintain our rights under these agreements, we may need to meet certain specified milestones in the development of our product candidates.
−Removed: Further, our licensors (or their licensors), licensees or other strategic collaborators may dispute the terms, including amounts, that we are required to pay
−Removed: under the respective license or collaboration agreements.
+Added: Further, our licensors (or their licensors), licensees or other strategic collaborators may dispute the terms, including amounts, that we are required to pay under the respective license or collaboration agreements.
If these claims result in a material increase in the amounts that we are required to pay to our licensors or collaborators, or in the event of a claim of breach of the license, our ability to research, develop and obtain approval of product candidates or to commercialize our products could be significantly impaired.
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We are a biopharmaceutical company with a limited operating history and have incurred net losses in each year since our inception.
−Removed: Our net losses were $261.7 million and $258.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: We had an accumulated deficit of $1.7 billion as of September 30, 2024.
+Added: Our net losses were $77.1 million and $81.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
+Added: We had an accumulated deficit of $1.8 million as of March 31, 2025.
Biopharmaceutical product development is a highly speculative undertaking and involves a substantial degree of risk.
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As a result, we expect to continue to incur significant operating losses for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with developing pharmaceutical products, we are unable to predict the extent of any future losses or when we will become profitable, if at all.
+Added: In the past, we have implemented internal restructurings and reorganizations designed to reduce the size and costs of our operations, improve operational efficiencies, enhance our ability to pursue market opportunities, and accelerate our development initiatives.
+Added: If there are unforeseen expenses associated with such realignments in our business strategies, and we incur unanticipated charges or liabilities, then we may not be able to effectively realize the expected cost savings or other benefits of such actions, which could have an adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
+Added: Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with developing pharmaceutical products, we are unable to predict the extent of any future losses or when we will
+Added: become profitable, if at all.
Even if we do become profitable, we may not be able to sustain or increase our profitability on a quarterly or annual basis.
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• the risk/benefit profile, cost and reimbursement policies with respect to our product candidates, if approved, and existing and potential future therapeutics that compete with our product candidates;
+Added: • our ability to effectively realize the expected cost savings and other benefits of internal restructurings;
• the changing and volatile U.S.
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• obtain and maintain patent and trade secret protection or regulatory exclusivity for our product candidates;
−Removed: • launch commercial sales of our product candidates, if and when approved, whether alone or in collaboration with others;
+Added: • launch commercial sales of our product candidates, if and when approved, whether alone or in partnership or collaboration with others;
• obtain and maintain acceptance of the product candidates, if and when approved, by patients, the medical community and third-party payors;
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The development of pharmaceutical products is capital-intensive.
−Removed: We have ongoing clinical trials and we are advancing our other product candidates through preclinical development.
+Added: We have programs in clinical and preclinical development.
We expect our expenses to increase in connection with our ongoing activities, particularly as we continue the research and development of, initiate clinical trials of, and seek marketing approval for, our product candidates.
−Removed: In addition, depending on the status of regulatory approval or, if we obtain marketing approval for any of our product candidates, we expect to
−Removed: incur significant commercialization expenses related to product sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution.
+Added: In addition, depending on the status of regulatory approval or, if we obtain marketing approval for any of our product candidates, we expect to incur significant commercialization expenses related to product sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution.
We may also need to raise additional funds sooner if we choose to pursue additional indications and/or geographies for our product candidates or otherwise expand more rapidly than we presently anticipate.
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• the impact of any business interruptions to our operations, including the timing and enrollment of patients in our planned clinical trials, or to those of our manufacturers, suppliers, or other vendors, resulting from any public health crisis or ongoing geopolitical conflicts and related global economic sanctions;
−Removed: • the scope, progress, results and costs of our current and future clinical trials of our lead product candidates and additional preclinical research of our other programs;
+Added: • the scope, progress, results and costs of our current and future clinical trials of our lead product candidate and additional preclinical research of our other programs;
• the scope, progress, results and costs of drug discovery, preclinical research and clinical trials for our other product candidates;
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• the costs, timing and outcome of regulatory review of our product candidates;
−Removed: • our ability to establish and maintain collaborations on favorable terms, if at all;
−Removed: • the success of any existing or future collaborations that we may enter into with third parties;
+Added: • our ability to establish and maintain licenses or collaborations on favorable terms, if at all;
+Added: • the success of any existing or future licenses or collaborations that we may enter into with third parties;
• the extent to which we acquire or invest in businesses, products and technologies, including entering into licensing or collaboration arrangements for product candidates;
−Removed: • the achievement of milestones or occurrence of other developments that trigger payments under any existing or future collaboration agreements, if any;
−Removed: • the extent to which we are obligated to reimburse, or entitled to reimbursement of, clinical trial costs under any existing or future collaboration agreements, if any;
−Removed: • the costs and timing of future commercialization activities, including drug sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution, for any of our product candidates for which we receive marketing approval, to the extent that such sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution are not the responsibility of any collaborator that we may have at such time;
+Added: • the achievement of milestones or occurrence of other developments that trigger payments under any existing or future license or collaboration agreements, if any;
+Added: • the extent to which we are obligated to reimburse, or entitled to reimbursement of, clinical trial costs under any existing or future license or collaboration agreements, if any;
+Added: • the costs and timing of future commercialization activities, including drug sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution, for any of our product candidates for which we receive marketing approval, to the extent that such sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution are not the responsibility of any licensee or collaborator that we may have at such time;
• the amount of revenue, if any, received from commercial sales of our product candidates, should any of our product candidates receive marketing approval;
• the costs of preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications, maintaining and enforcing our intellectual property rights and defending intellectual property-related claims;
−Removed: • our headcount growth and associated costs as we expand our business operations and our research and development activities;
+Added: • our headcount growth and associated costs if and/or as we expand our business operations and our research and development activities;
• the costs of operating as a public company.
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We cannot guarantee that future financing will be available in sufficient amounts or on terms acceptable to us, if at all.
−Removed: Moreover, the terms of any financing may adversely affect the holdings or the rights of our stockholders and the issuance of additional securities, whether equity or debt, by us, or the possibility of such
−Removed: issuance, may cause the market price of our shares to decline.
+Added: Moreover, the terms of any financing may adversely affect the holdings or the rights of our stockholders and the issuance of additional securities, whether equity or debt, by us, or the possibility of such issuance, may cause the market price of our shares to decline.
The sale of additional equity or convertible securities would dilute all of our stockholders.
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To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of common stock or securities convertible or exchangeable into common stock, the ownership interest of our stockholders will be diluted, and the terms of those securities may include liquidation or other preferences that materially adversely affect their rights as a common stockholder.
−Removed: We may offer and sell up to an aggregate amount of $250.0 million of our common stock from time to time in "at the market" offerings pursuant to the sales agreement, or the 2024 Sales Agreement, with TD Securities (USA) LLC, subject to the limitations thereof.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2024, we have not sold any shares of common stock under the 2024 Sales Agreement.
+Added: We may offer and sell up to an aggregate amount of $250.0 million of our common stock from time to time in "at the market" offerings pursuant to the sales agreement, or the 2024 Sales Agreement, with TD Securities (USA) LLC, or TD Securities, subject to the limitations thereof.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, we have not sold any shares of common stock under the 2024 Sales Agreement.
Debt financing, if available, would increase our fixed payment obligations and may involve agreements that include covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures or declaring dividends.
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Public health crises such as pandemics or similar outbreaks could adversely impact our business.
−Removed: A public health crisis similar to the COVID-19 pandemic could adversely impact our preclinical, other nonclinical or clinical trial operations in the United States, and we may experience delays in initiating, or fail to initiate, IND-enabling studies, recruiting and retaining patients, principal investigators and site staff for our clinical trials, dosing of patients in our clinical trials as well as in activating new trial sites, and protocol deviations.
+Added: A public health crisis similar to the COVID-19 pandemic could adversely impact our preclinical, other nonclinical or clinical trial operations, and we may experience delays in initiating, or fail to initiate, IND-enabling studies, recruiting and retaining patients, principal investigators and site staff for our clinical trials, dosing of patients in our clinical trials as well as in activating new trial sites, and protocol deviations.
The negative impact of any such public health crisis on patient enrollment or treatment or the execution of our product candidates could cause costly delays to clinical trial activities, which could adversely affect our ability to obtain regulatory approval for and to commercialize our product candidates, increase our operating expenses, and have a material adverse effect on our financial results.
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Unstable market and economic conditions may have adverse consequences on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
−Removed: The global economy, in particular the credit and financial markets, has recently experienced significant volatility and disruptions, including diminished liquidity and credit availability, volatility in commodity prices, declines in consumer confidence and economic growth, and supply chain interruptions.
+Added: In recent years, the global economy, in particular the credit and financial markets, has experienced significant volatility and disruptions, including diminished liquidity and credit availability, volatility in commodity prices, declines in consumer confidence and economic growth, and supply chain interruptions.
Other factors, including rising interest rates and record inflation, may also increase the general cost of doing business.
In 2023, the closures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and their placement into receivership with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, created bank-specific and broader financial institution liquidity risk and concerns.
−Removed: Although the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC jointly released a statement that depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank would have access to their funds, even those in excess of the standard FDIC insurance limits, under a systemic risk exception, future adverse developments with respect to specific financial institutions or the broader financial services industry may lead to
−Removed: market-wide liquidity shortages, impair the ability of companies to access near-term working capital needs, and create additional market and economic uncertainty.
+Added: Although the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC jointly released a statement that depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank would have access to their funds, even those in excess of the standard FDIC insurance limits, under a systemic risk exception, future adverse developments with respect to specific financial institutions or the broader financial services industry may lead to market-wide liquidity shortages, impair the ability of companies to access near-term working capital needs, and create additional market and economic uncertainty.
There can be no assurance that future credit and financial market instability and a deterioration in confidence in economic conditions will not occur.
Continued economic uncertainty caused by these and other factors, including political instability, conflicts or crises, at the global level or involving individual countries or regions and any associated economic sanctions, could result in a variety of risks to our business, including difficulty in enrolling participants in our clinical trials, difficulty in forecasting our financial results and managing inventory levels, increases in our business costs, which in turn affect our ability to develop our current and future product candidates, and negatively impacting our ability to raise additional capital when needed on acceptable terms, if at all.
−Removed: In addition, political developments impacting government spending and international trade, including changes in trade agreements, potential government shutdowns and trade disputes and tariffs, such as the ongoing trade dispute between the United States and China, may negatively impact markets and cause weaker macroeconomic conditions.
+Added: In addition, political developments impacting government spending and international trade, including changes in trade agreements, potential government shutdowns and trade disputes and tariffs, including tariffs that have been or may in the future be imposed by the United States or other countries and future legislation or actions taken by the United States or other countries that restrict trade, and protectionist or retaliatory measures taken by the United States or other countries, may negatively impact markets and cause weaker macroeconomic conditions.
These global economic and political factors have also strained and could continue to strain certain of our suppliers and manufacturers, possibly resulting in supply disruptions or increased raw material or manufacturing costs, or adversely impacting their ability to manufacture clinical trial materials for our product candidates.
Any of the foregoing could harm our business and prospects and we cannot anticipate all of the ways in which the current economic climate and financial market conditions could adversely impact our operations.
+Added: Significant political, trade, regulatory developments, and other circumstances beyond our control, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: Significant political, trade, or regulatory developments, such as those stemming from the change in U.S.
+Added: federal administration, are difficult to predict and may have a material adverse effect on us.
+Added: Similarly, changes in U.S.
+Added: federal policy that affect the geopolitical landscape could give rise to circumstances outside our control that could have negative impacts on our business operations.
+Added: In 2017, the U.S.
+Added: Congress and the Trump administration made substantial changes to U.S.
+Added: policies, which included comprehensive corporate and individual tax reform.
+Added: In addition, the Trump administration called for significant changes to U.S.
+Added: trade, healthcare, immigration and government regulatory policy.
+Added: With the transition to the Biden administration in early 2021, changes to U.
+Added: policy occurred and since the start of the
+Added: Trump administration in 2025, U.S.
+Added: policy changes have been implemented at a rapid pace and additional changes are likely.
+Added: Changes to U.S.
+Added: policy implemented by the U.S.
+Added: Congress, the Trump administration or any new administration have impacted and may in the future impact, among other things, the U.S.
+Added: and global economy, international trade relations, unemployment, immigration, healthcare, taxation, the U.S.
+Added: regulatory environment, inflation and other areas.
+Added: The United States has recently imposed blanket 10% tariffs on virtually all imports to the U.S.
+Added: and significantly higher so-called reciprocal tariffs applicable to imports from many countries.
+Added: On April 9, 2025, the U.S.
+Added: announced a temporary pause on its reciprocal tariffs applicable to many countries, while increasing the tariffs applicable to imports from China.
+Added: The Trump administration has threatened to continue to broadly impose tariffs, which could lead to corresponding punitive actions by the countries with which the U.S.
+Added: Historically, tariffs have led to increased trade and political tensions.
+Added: In response to tariffs, other countries have implemented retaliatory tariffs on U.S.
+Added: Political tensions as a result of trade policies could reduce trade volume, investment, technological exchange and other economic activities between major international economies, resulting in a material adverse effect on global economic conditions and the stability of global financial markets.
+Added: Any changes in political, trade, regulatory, and economic conditions, including U.S.
+Added: trade policies, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: Until we know what policy changes are made, whether those policy changes are challenged and subsequently upheld by the court system and how those changes impact our business and the business of our competitors over the long term, we will not know if, overall, we will benefit from them or be negatively affected by them.
Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property
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We also rely on trade secrets, know-how and continuing technological innovation to develop and maintain our proprietary and intellectual property position.
−Removed: Other than our U.S., European, Taiwanese, Japanese and Hong Kong patents relating to lirafugratinib (RLY-4008) and our Japanese patent relating to RLY-2608, we do not own or in-license any issued patents relating to our platform or our lead product candidates under clinical development.
+Added: Other than our Eurasian, Japanese and U.S.
+Added: patents relating to RLY-2608 and our U.S.
+Added: and foreign patents relating to lirafugratinib (RLY-4008), we do not own or in-license any issued patents relating to our platform or our product candidates under clinical development.
Most of the research and development for our programs has been performed under the DESRES Agreement.
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Shaw Research and us, together, and is thus initially co-owned.
−Removed: We have subsequently obtained sole ownership of certain intellectual property relating specifically to some of our clinical candidates (e.g.
−Removed: migoprotafib and lirafugratinib).
−Removed: By virtue of inventorship, we jointly own intellectual property rights pertaining to RLY-2608, but retain the option to obtain sole ownership of intellectual property rights relating to it and other jointly owned PIK3CA inhibitors.
+Added: We have subsequently obtained sole ownership of certain intellectual property relating specifically to some of our clinical candidates.
+Added: By virtue of inventorship, we initially jointly owned intellectual property rights pertaining to RLY-2608, but have subsequently obtained sole ownership of intellectual property rights relating to it and certain other PIK3CA inhibitors.
+Added: Patent applications claiming a genus of PIK3CA inhibitor compounds remain jointly owned with D.
+Added: Shaw Research.
We have the first right to prepare, file, prosecute, maintain and defend patents that cover work product jointly created by D.
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The degree of patent protection we require to successfully commercialize our product candidates may be unavailable or severely limited in some cases and may not adequately protect our rights or permit us to gain or keep any competitive advantage.
−Removed: We cannot provide any
−Removed: assurances that any of our pending patent applications will issue, or that any of our pending patent applications that mature into issued patents will include claims with a scope sufficient to protect our lead product candidates under clinical development or our other product candidates.
+Added: We cannot provide any assurances that any of our pending patent applications will issue, or that any of our pending patent applications that mature into issued patents will include claims with a scope sufficient to protect our product candidates under clinical development or our other product
In addition, the laws of foreign countries may not protect our rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States.
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As a result, our owned patent portfolio and any patent portfolio we may license in the future may not provide us with adequate and continuing patent protection sufficient to exclude others from commercializing products similar or identical to our product candidates, including generic versions of such products.
−Removed: We have licensed patent rights, and in the future may license additional patent rights, to or from third parties.
+Added: We have licensed patent rights, and in the future may license additional patent rights, to or from third parties, such as the license of our FGFR2 program, including lirafugratinib, to Elevar.
These licensed patent rights may be valuable to our business, and we may not have the right to control the preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications, or to maintain the patents, covering technology or medicines underlying such licenses.
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It is also possible that we will fail to identify patentable aspects of our research and development output before it is too late to obtain patent protection.
−Removed: Moreover, in some circumstances, we do not have the right to control the preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications, or to maintain the patents, covering technology that we license from third parties.
+Added: Moreover, in some circumstances, we do not have the right to control the preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications, or to maintain the patents, covering technology that we license to or from third parties.
Therefore, these patents and applications may not be prosecuted and enforced in a manner consistent with the best interests of our business.
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If a court agrees, we would lose our rights to those challenged patents.
−Removed: In addition, we may in the future be subject to claims by our former employees or consultants asserting an ownership right in our patents or patent applications, as a result of the work they performed on our behalf.
+Added: In addition, we may in the future be subject to claims by our former employees, collaborators, vendors, partners, or consultants asserting an ownership right in our patents or patent applications, as a result of the work they performed on our behalf.
Although we generally require all of our employees, consultants and advisors and any other third parties who have access to our proprietary know-how, information or technology to assign or grant similar rights to their inventions to us, we cannot be certain that we have executed such agreements with all parties who may have contributed to our intellectual property, nor can we be certain that our agreements with such parties will be upheld in the face of a potential challenge, or that they will not be breached, for which we may not have an adequate remedy.
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An adverse determination in any such submission or proceeding may result in loss of exclusivity or freedom to operate or in patent claims being narrowed, invalidated or held unenforceable, in whole or in part, which could limit our ability to stop others from using or commercializing similar or identical technology and products, without payment to us, or could limit the duration of the patent protection covering our technology and product candidates.
−Removed: Such challenges may also result in our inability to manufacture or commercialize our
−Removed: product candidates without infringing third party patent rights.
−Removed: In addition, if the breadth or strength of protection provided by our patents and patent applications is threatened, it could dissuade companies from collaborating with us to license, develop or commercialize current or future product candidates.
+Added: Such challenges may also result in our inability to manufacture or commercialize our product candidates without infringing third party patent rights.
+Added: In addition, if the breadth or strength of protection provided by our patents
+Added: and patent applications is threatened, it could dissuade companies from collaborating with us to license, develop or commercialize current or future product candidates.
Even if they are unchallenged, our owned patent portfolio and any patent portfolio we may license in the future may not provide us with any meaningful protection or prevent competitors from designing around our patent claims to circumvent our owned or licensed patents by developing similar or alternative technologies or products in a non-infringing manner.
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Third parties may initiate legal proceedings alleging that we are infringing their intellectual property rights, the outcome of which would be uncertain and could have a material adverse effect on the success of our business.
−Removed: Our commercial success depends upon our ability and the ability of our collaborators to develop, manufacture, market and sell our product candidates and use our proprietary technologies without infringing the proprietary rights and intellectual property of third parties.
+Added: Our commercial success depends upon our ability and the ability of our licensee or collaborators to develop, manufacture, market and sell our product candidates and use our proprietary technologies without infringing the proprietary rights and intellectual property of third parties.
The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries are characterized by extensive and frequent litigation regarding patents and other intellectual property rights.
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Given the vast number of patents in our field of technology, we cannot be certain that we do not infringe existing patents or that we will not infringe patents that may be granted in the future.
−Removed: Many companies have filed, and continue to file, patent applications related to FGFR2 inhibitors and PI3K inhibitors.
+Added: Many companies have filed, and continue to file, patent applications related to PI3K inhibitors and FGFR2 inhibitors.
Some of these patent applications have already been allowed or issued, and others may issue in the future.
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Disputes may arise between us and D.
−Removed: Shaw Research, as well as any future potential collaborators, regarding intellectual property subject to the DESRES Agreement.
−Removed: If disputes over intellectual property that we co-own or we own individually prevent or impair our ability to maintain our current collaboration arrangements on acceptable terms, or undermine our ability to successfully control the intellectual property necessary to protect our product candidates, we may be unable to successfully develop and commercialize the affected product candidates.
+Added: Shaw Research, as well as any licensees or future potential collaborators, regarding intellectual property subject to the DESRES Agreement.
+Added: If disputes over intellectual property that we co-own or we own individually prevent or impair our ability to maintain our current licensing or collaboration arrangements on acceptable terms, or undermine our ability to successfully control the intellectual property necessary to protect our product candidates, we may be unable to successfully develop and commercialize the affected product candidates.
Uncertainties or disagreements around our rights under any such intellectual property may undermine our ability to partner our programs with third parties.
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If we cannot successfully manage the promotion of our product candidates, if approved, we could become subject to significant liability, which would materially adversely affect our business and financial condition.
−Removed: European data collection is governed by restrictive regulations governing the processing and cross-border transfer of personal information and failure to comply with such requirements in jurisdictions where we may conduct clinical trials or enroll subjects in our ongoing or future clinical trials could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: Data collection in Europe is governed by restrictive regulations governing the processing and cross-border transfer of personal information and we may be subject to various state-specific privacy laws.
+Added: Failure to comply with such requirements in jurisdictions or states where we may conduct clinical trials or enroll subjects in our ongoing or future clinical trials could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
In the event we decide to conduct clinical trials or continue to enroll subjects in our ongoing or future clinical trials, we may be subject to additional data collection restrictions.
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Likewise, the UK government has confirmed that personal data transfers from the UK to the EEA remain free flowing.
−Removed: The UK Government introduced a Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, or UK Bill, into the UK legislative process.
−Removed: The aim of the UK Bill was to reform the UK’s data protection regime following Brexit.
−Removed: The Bill failed to complete the legislative passage in the necessary timeframe, and is intended to be reintroduced into the next Parliament.
+Added: The UK Government introduced a Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, or Data Protection Bill, into the UK legislative process.
+Added: The aim of the Data Protection Bill was to reform the UK’s data protection regime following Brexit.
+Added: The Data Protection Bill failed in the UK legislative process.
+Added: A new Data (Use and Access) Bill, or the UK Bill, has been introduced into parliament.
If passed, the final version of the UK Bill may have the effect of further altering the similarities between the UK and EEA data protection regime and threaten the UK Adequacy Decision from the European Commission, or EC.
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Data Privacy Framework, or the Framework, the successor of the EU-U.S.
−Removed: Privacy Shield framework, which the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated in 2020.
−Removed: On the basis of the new adequacy decision, personal data can flow safely from the EU to U.S.
−Removed: companies participating in the Framework, without having to
−Removed: put in place additional data protection safeguards.
−Removed: There has been an extension to the Framework to cover UK transfers to the U.S.
+Added: Privacy Shield framework.
+Added: On the basis of the new adequacy decision, personal data can flow safely from the EU
+Added: companies participating in the Framework, without having to put in place additional data protection safeguards.
+Added: There has been an extension to the Framework to cover UK and Swiss transfers to the U.S.
The Framework could be challenged like its predecessor frameworks.
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However, the long term validity of the Framework, which has already been challenged in court, remains uncertain.
−Removed: If we decide to conduct clinical trials or enroll subjects in our ongoing or future clinical trials in Europe and/or the UK, we are subject to the supervision of local data protection authorities in those jurisdictions where we are monitoring the behavior of individuals in the EEA or UK (i.e., undertaking clinical trials).
−Removed: If we are investigated by a European or UK data protection authority, we may face fines and other penalties.
−Removed: Any such investigation or charges by European or UK data protection authorities could have a negative effect on our business and on our ability to commercialize our products in the future, including with European, UK-based or multi-national pharmaceutical partners.
+Added: If we decide to conduct clinical trials or enroll subjects in our ongoing or future clinical trials in Europe, we are subject to the supervision of local data protection authorities in those jurisdictions where we are monitoring the behavior of individuals in the EEA or UK (i.e., undertaking clinical trials).
+Added: If we are investigated by an EEA or UK data protection authority, we may face fines and other penalties.
+Added: Any such investigation or charges by EU or UK data protection authorities could have a negative effect on our business and on our ability to commercialize our products in the future, including with EU, UK-based or multi-national pharmaceutical partners.
In addition to European data protection requirements, we may be subject to various privacy laws in the United States at the state and federal level.
−Removed: In the United States, at the state level, for example, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) imposes sweeping privacy and security obligations on many companies doing business in California and provides for substantial fines for non-compliance and, in some cases, a private right of action to consumers who are victims of data breaches involving their unredacted or unencrypted personal information.
−Removed: The privacy protections of the CCPA also apply to personal information collected in a business to business capacity and from employment applicants, employees and former employees.
+Added: In the United States, at the state level, for example, California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, imposed a comprehensive privacy framework for covered businesses, which included an expanded definition of personal information, data privacy rights for consumers in the State of California, special rules on the collection of consumer data from minors, an d provided substantial fines for non-compliance and, in some cases, a private right of action to consumers who are victims of data breaches involving their unredacted or unencrypted personal information.
+Added: In addition, the California Privacy Rights Act, or CPRA, came into effect on January 1, 2023 and has expanded the privacy protections of the CCPA to also apply to personal information collected in a business to business capacity and from employment applicants, employees and former employees.
+Added: The CPRA significantly modified the CCPA, including by expanding consumers’ rights with respect to certain sensitive personal information.
The effects of the CCPA are potentially significant and may require us to modify our data collection or processing practices and policies and to incur substantial costs and expenses in an effort to comply and increase our potential exposure to regulatory enforcement and/or litigation.
−Removed: Furthermore, a number of other states have either enacted comprehensive consumer privacy laws similar to the CCPA or are considering proposals for such similar laws, many of which vary in complexity and may be interpreted and enforced differently, thus potentially complicating our compliance efforts.
−Removed: In Washington, for example, the My Health My Data Act (MHMDA) entered into force on March 31, 2024, and includes a broad private right of action.
+Added: Furthermore, a number of other states have either proposed or enacted comprehensive consumer privacy laws similar to the CCPA, many of which vary in complexity and may be interpreted and enforced differently, thus potentially complicating our compliance efforts.
+Added: In Washington, for example, the My Health My Data Act, or MHMDA, entered into force on March 31, 2024, and includes a broad private right of action.
Seventeen other states passed privacy legislation, which will come into force over the next several years.
While these laws generally have exceptions for protected health information that is subject to HIPAA and for information collected in the context of clinical trials, they may nevertheless impact our business activities.
+Added: There are also states that are specifically regulating health information or other specific types of information.
+Added: For example, Connecticut and Nevada have passed similar laws regulating consumer health data.
+Added: In addition, other states have proposed and/or passed legislation that regulates the privacy and/or security of certain specific types of information.
+Added: For example, a small number of states have passed laws that regulate biometric data specifically.
+Added: These various privacy and security laws may impact our business activities, including our identification of research subjects, relationships with business partners and ultimately the marketing and distribution of our product candidates, if approved.
+Added: State laws are changing rapidly and there is discussion in the U.S.
+Added: Congress of a new comprehensive federal data privacy law to which we may likely become subject, if enacted.
+Added: All of these evolving compliance and operational requirements may impose significant costs, such as costs related to organizational changes, implementing additional protection technologies, training employees, and engaging consultants and legal advisors, which are may be likely to increase over time.
+Added: In addition, such requirements may require us to modify our data processing practices and policies, utilize management’s time, and/or divert resources from other initiatives and projects.
The increasing number and complexity of regional, country, and U.S.
state data protection laws, and other changes in laws or regulations across the globe, especially those associated with the enhanced protection of certain types of sensitive data, such as healthcare data or other personal information from our clinical trials, could lead to litigation or government investigations or enforcement actions and significant penalties against us and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations.
+Added: The use of new and evolving technologies, such as artificial intelligence, in our business may result in spending material resources and presents risks and challenges that can impact our business, including by posing security and other risks to our confidential and/or proprietary information, including personal information, and, as a result, we may be exposed to reputational harm and liability.
+Added: We may use and integrate artificial intelligence into our business processes, and this innovation presents risks and challenges that could affect its adoption and, therefore, our business.
+Added: The use of certain artificial intelligence technology can give rise to intellectual property risks, including compromises to proprietary intellectual property and intellectual property infringement.
+Added: Additionally, we expect to see increasing government and supranational regulation related to artificial intelligence use and ethics, which may also significantly increase the burden and cost of research, development, and compliance in this area.
+Added: For example, the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, or the AI Act, — the world’s first comprehensive AI law — entered into force in June 2024 and, with some exceptions, become effective 24 months thereafter.
+Added: This legislation imposes significant obligations on providers and deployers of high risk artificial intelligence systems, and encourages providers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems to account for EU ethical principles in their development and use of these systems.
+Added: In the future, if we develop or use AI systems that are governed by the AI Act, it may necessitate ensuring higher standards of data quality, transparency, and human oversight, as well as adhering to specific and potentially burdensome and costly ethical, accountability, and administrative requirements.
+Added: Our vendors may in turn incorporate artificial intelligence tools into their offerings, and the providers of these artificial intelligence tools may not meet existing or rapidly evolving regulatory or industry standards, including with respect to privacy and data security.
+Added: Further, bad actors around the world use increasingly sophisticated methods, including the use of artificial intelligence, to engage in illegal activities involving the theft and misuse of personal information, confidential information, and
+Added: intellectual property.
+Added: Any of these effects could damage our reputation, result in the loss of valuable property and information, cause us to breach applicable laws and regulations, and adversely impact our business.
Obtaining and maintaining regulatory approval of our product candidates in one jurisdiction does not mean that we will be successful in obtaining regulatory approval of our product candidates in other jurisdictions.
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If we are unable to successfully validate, develop and obtain regulatory approval for companion diagnostic tests for our product candidates that require or would commercially benefit from such tests, or experience significant delays in doing so, we may not realize the full commercial potential of these product candidates.
−Removed: In connection with the clinical development of our product candidates for certain indications, we have engaged and may continue to engage third parties to develop or obtain access to in vitro companion diagnostic tests to identify patient subsets within a disease category who may derive selective and meaningful benefit from our product candidates.
−Removed: For example, we have engaged Foundation Medicine, Inc.
−Removed: to develop its FoundationOne®CDx as a companion diagnostic for lirafugratinib.
−Removed: The FDA has indicated that if we continue RLY-2608 and lirafugratinib in a specific biomarker-defined population, a companion diagnostic device will be required to ensure their safe and effective use.
+Added: In connection with the clinical development of our product candidates for certain indications, we have previously engaged and may in the future engage third parties to develop or obtain access to in vitro companion diagnostic tests to identify patient subsets within a disease category who may derive selective and meaningful benefit from our product candidates.
+Added: The FDA has indicated that if we continue RLY-2608 in a specific biomarker-defined population, a companion diagnostic device will be required to ensure its safe and effective use.
Such companion diagnostics would be used during our clinical trials as well as in connection with the commercialization of our product candidates.
−Removed: To be successful, we or our collaborators will need to address a number of scientific, technical, regulatory and
−Removed: logistical challenges.
+Added: To be successful, we or our collaborators will need to address a number of scientific, technical, regulatory and logistical challenges.
The FDA and similar foreign regulatory authorities regulate in vitro companion diagnostics as medical devices and, under that regulatory framework, will likely require the conduct of clinical trials to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of any diagnostics we may develop, which we expect will require separate regulatory clearance or approval prior to commercialization.
−Removed: We rely and intend to continue to rely on third parties for the design, development and manufacture of companion diagnostic tests for our therapeutic product candidates that may require such tests.
−Removed: In connection with such current and future collaborative agreements, we will be dependent on the sustained cooperation and effort of our collaborators in developing and obtaining approval for these companion diagnostics.
+Added: We intend to rely on third parties for the design, development and manufacture of companion diagnostic tests for our therapeutic product candidates that may require such tests.
+Added: In connection with such collaborative agreements, we will be dependent on the sustained cooperation and effort of our collaborators in developing and obtaining approval for these companion diagnostics.
It may be necessary to resolve issues such as selectivity/specificity, analytical validation, reproducibility, or clinical validation of companion diagnostics during the development and regulatory approval processes.
Moreover, even if data from preclinical studies and early clinical trials appear to support development of a companion diagnostic for a product candidate, data generated in later clinical trials may fail to support the analytical and clinical validation of the companion diagnostic.
−Removed: We and our current and future collaborators may encounter difficulties in developing, obtaining regulatory approval for, manufacturing and commercializing companion diagnostics similar to those we face with respect to our therapeutic candidates themselves, including issues with achieving regulatory clearance or approval, production of sufficient quantities at commercial scale and with appropriate quality standards, and in gaining market acceptance.
+Added: We and our collaborators may encounter difficulties in developing, obtaining regulatory approval for, manufacturing and commercializing companion diagnostics similar to those we face with respect to our therapeutic candidates themselves, including issues with achieving regulatory clearance or approval, production of sufficient quantities at commercial scale and with appropriate quality standards, and in gaining market acceptance.
If we are unable to successfully develop companion diagnostics for these therapeutic product candidates, or experience delays in doing so, the development of these therapeutic product candidates may be adversely affected, these therapeutic product candidates may not obtain marketing approval, and we may not realize the full commercial potential of any of these therapeutics that obtain marketing approval.
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We may not be able to enter into arrangements with another diagnostic company to obtain supplies of an alternative diagnostic test for use in connection with the development and commercialization of our product candidates or do so on commercially reasonable terms, which could adversely affect and/or delay the development or commercialization of our product candidates.
+Added: Existing regulatory policies may change, and additional government regulations may be enacted that could prevent, limit or delay regulatory approval of our product candidates.
+Added: In June 2024, the U.S.
+Added: Supreme Court overruled the Chevron doctrine, which gives deference to regulatory agencies’ statutory interpretations in litigation against federal government agencies, such as the FDA, where the law is ambiguous.
+Added: This decision may result in more lawsuits against the FDA to challenge longstanding decisions and policies of the FDA, which could undermine the FDA’s authority,
+Added: lead to uncertainties in the industry, and disrupt the FDA’s normal operations, any of which could delay the FDA’s review of our regulatory submissions.
+Added: We cannot predict the full impact of this decision, future judicial challenges brought against the FDA, or the nature or extent of government regulation that may arise from future legislation or administrative action.
+Added: If we are slow or unable to adapt to changes in existing requirements or the adoption of new requirements or policies, or if we are not able to maintain regulatory compliance, we may lose any marketing approval that we may have obtained, and we may not achieve or sustain profitability.
Risks Related to Anti-bribery, Anti-corruption and Other Government Regulations
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Violations of Trade Laws can result in substantial criminal fines and civil penalties, imprisonment, the loss of trade privileges, debarment, tax reassessments, breach of contract and fraud litigation, reputational harm, and other consequences.
−Removed: direct or indirect interactions with officials and employees of government agencies or government-affiliated hospitals, universities, and other organizations.
+Added: We have direct or indirect interactions with officials and employees of government agencies or government-affiliated hospitals, universities, and other organizations.
We also expect our non-U.S.
activities to increase in time.
−Removed: We plan to engage third parties for clinical trials and/or to obtain necessary permits, licenses, patent registrations, and other regulatory approvals and we can be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of our personnel, agents, or partners, even if we do not explicitly authorize or have prior knowledge of such activities.
+Added: We have engaged and plan to engage third parties for clinical trials and/or to obtain necessary permits, licenses, patent registrations, and other regulatory approvals and we can be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of our personnel, agents, or partners, even if we do not explicitly authorize or have prior knowledge of such activities.
Our relationships with customers and third-party payors will be subject to applicable anti-kickback, fraud and abuse and other healthcare laws and regulations, which could expose us to criminal sanctions, civil penalties, exclusion from government healthcare programs, contractual damages, reputational harm and diminished profits and future earnings.
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Receiving priority review from the FDA does not guarantee approval within the six-month review cycle or at all.
−Removed: We have obtained orphan drug designation for one of our product candidates.
−Removed: We may seek orphan drug designation for certain of our other product candidates as well, and we may be unsuccessful or may be unable to maintain the benefits associated with orphan drug designation, including the potential for market exclusivity.
−Removed: In January 2022, the FDA granted orphan drug designation to lirafugratinib for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma.
−Removed: As part of our business strategy, we may seek orphan drug designation for certain of our other product candidates as well, and we may be unsuccessful.
+Added: We may seek orphan drug designation for certain of our product candidates and we may be unsuccessful or may be unable to maintain the benefits associated with orphan drug designation, including the potential for market exclusivity.
+Added: As part of our business strategy, we may seek orphan drug designation for certain of our product candidates, and we may be unsuccessful.
Regulatory authorities in some jurisdictions, including the United States and Europe, may designate drugs for relatively small patient populations as orphan drugs.
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(2) either (a) such condition affects no more than five in 10,000 persons in the EU when the application is made, or (b) the product, without the benefits derived from orphan status, would not generate sufficient return in the EU to justify the necessary investment in its development;
−Removed: and (3) there exists no satisfactory method of diagnosis, prevention or treatment of
−Removed: such condition authorized for marketing in the EU, or if such a method exists, the product will be of significant benefit to those affected by the condition.
+Added: and (3) there exists no satisfactory method of diagnosis, prevention or treatment of such condition authorized for marketing in the EU, or if such a method exists, the product will be of significant benefit to those affected by the condition.
In the EU, orphan designation entitles a party to financial incentives such as reduction of fees or fee waivers.
−Removed: In October 2022, the EMA adopted a positive opinion on the orphan designation application for lirafugratinib for the treatment of biliary tract cancer.
Generally, if a drug with an orphan drug designation subsequently receives the first marketing approval for the indication for which it has such designation, the drug is entitled to a period of marketing exclusivity, which precludes the FDA or the EMA from approving another marketing application for the same drug and indication for that time period, except in limited circumstances.
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Moreover, orphan drug exclusive marketing rights in the United States may be lost if the FDA later determines that the request for designation was materially defective or if the manufacturer is unable to assure sufficient quantity of the drug to meet the needs of patients with the rare disease or condition or if another drug with the same active moiety is determined to be safer, more effective, or represents a major contribution to patient care.
−Removed: Orphan drug designation neither shortens the development time or regulatory review time of a drug nor gives the drug any advantage in the regulatory review or approval process.
−Removed: We have obtained orphan drug designation for one of our product candidates and while we may seek orphan drug designation for our other product candidates, we may never receive such designations.
+Added: Orphan drug designation neither shortens the development time or regulatory review time of a drug nor gives the drug any advantage in the regulatory
+Added: review or approval process.
+Added: While we may seek orphan drug designation for certain of our product candidates, we may never receive such designations.
Even if we do receive such designations, there is no guarantee that we will enjoy the benefits of those designations.
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If granted, accelerated approval is usually contingent on the sponsor’s agreement to conduct, in a diligent manner, additional post-approval confirmatory studies to verify and describe the drug’s clinical benefit.
−Removed: Under FDORA, the FDA is permitted to require, as
−Removed: appropriate, that a post-approval confirmatory study or studies be underway prior to approval or within a specified time period after the date of approval for a product granted accelerated approval.
+Added: Under FDORA, the FDA is permitted to require, as appropriate, that a post-approval confirmatory study or studies be underway prior to approval or within a specified time period after the date of approval for a product granted accelerated approval.
FDORA also requires sponsors to send updates to the FDA every 180 days on the status of such studies, including progress toward enrollment targets, and the FDA must promptly post this information publicly.
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Such action may delay or prevent commercialization of some or all of our product candidates.
−Removed: Adverse developments in clinical trials of products conducted by others may cause the FDA or other oversight bodies to change the requirements for approval of any of our product candidates.
+Added: Adverse developments in clinical trials of products conducted by others may
+Added: cause the FDA or other oversight bodies to change the requirements for approval of any of our product candidates.
These regulatory review agencies and committees and the new requirements or guidelines they promulgate may lengthen the regulatory review process, require us to perform additional studies or trials, increase our development costs, lead to changes in regulatory positions and interpretations, delay or prevent approval and commercialization of our product candidates or lead to significant post-approval limitations or restrictions.
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If any such changes were to be imposed, they could adversely affect the operation of our business.
−Removed: See " Business – Governmental Regulation – Current and future healthcare reform legislation " in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.
+Added: See " Business – Governmental Regulation – Current and future healthcare reform legislation " in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.
We expect that additional state and federal healthcare reform measures will be adopted in the future, any of which could limit the amounts that federal and state governments will pay for healthcare products and services, which could result in reduced demand for our current or future product candidates or additional pricing pressures.
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We operate in a highly regulated industry and new laws, regulations or judicial decisions, or new interpretations of existing laws, regulations or decisions, related to healthcare availability, the method of delivery or payment for healthcare products and services could negatively impact our business, operations and financial condition.
−Removed: We cannot predict the initiatives that may be adopted in the future, including repeal, replacement or significant revisions to the ACA.
+Added: We cannot predict the initiatives that may be adopted in the future.
The continuing efforts of the government, insurance companies, managed care organizations and other payors of healthcare services to contain or reduce costs of healthcare and/or impose price controls may adversely affect:
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Under the final rule, States and Indian Tribes, and in certain future circumstances pharmacists and wholesalers, may submit importation program proposals to the FDA for review and authorization.
+Added: On January 5, 2024, the FDA issued to Florida the first approval for a state importation plan.
+Added: Several states now have pending applications with the FDA, including Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, and New Mexico.
+Added: If successfully implemented, importation of drugs from Canada may materially and adversely affect the price we receive for any of our product candidates.
+Added: Legislation or regulations allowing the reimportation of drugs, if enacted, could decrease the price we receive for any products that we may develop and adversely affect our future revenues and prospects for profitability.
On September 25, 2020, CMS stated drugs imported by States under this rule will not be eligible for federal rebates under Section 1927 of the Social Security Act and manufacturers would not report these drugs for "best price" or Average Manufacturer Price purposes.
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Risks Related to the Regulatory Agency Review Process
−Removed: Disruptions at the FDA, the SEC and other government agencies caused by funding shortages or global health concerns could hinder their ability to hire and retain key leadership and other personnel, prevent new products and services from being developed or commercialized in a timely manner or otherwise prevent those agencies from performing normal business functions on which the operation of our business may rely, which could negatively impact our business.
+Added: Disruptions at the FDA, the SEC and other government agencies caused by funding shortages or global health concerns, in addition to substantial uncertainty regarding the Trump administration’s initiatives and staffing cuts and how these might impact the FDA, its implementation of laws, regulations, policies and guidance, and its personnel, could hinder their ability to hire and retain key leadership and other personnel, prevent new products and services from being developed or commercialized in a timely manner or otherwise prevent those agencies from performing normal business functions on which the operation of our business may rely, which could negatively impact our business.
The ability of the FDA to review and approve new products can be affected by a variety of factors, including government budget and funding levels, global health concerns, ability to hire and retain key personnel and accept the payment of user fees, and statutory, regulatory, and policy changes.
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In addition, government funding of the SEC and other government agencies on which our operations may rely, including those that fund research and development activities, is subject to the political process, which is inherently fluid and unpredictable.
−Removed: Disruptions at the FDA and other agencies may also slow the time necessary for new drugs to be reviewed and/or approved by necessary government agencies, which would adversely affect our business.
+Added: Currently, federal agencies in the United States are operating under a continuing resolution that is set to expire on September 30, 2025.
+Added: Without appropriation of additional funding to federal agencies, our business operations related to our product development activities for the U.S.
+Added: market could be impacted.
+Added: Disruptions at the FDA and other agencies, including substantial leadership departures, personnel cuts, and policy changes, may also slow the time necessary for new drugs to be reviewed and/or approved by necessary government agencies, which would adversely affect our business.
+Added: Changes and cuts in FDA staffing could result in delays in the FDA’s responsiveness or in its ability to review investigational new drug, or IND, submissions or applications, issue regulations or guidance, or implement or enforce regulatory requirements in a timely fashion or at all.
For example, over the last several years the U.S.
−Removed: government has shut down several times and certain regulatory agencies, such as the FDA and the SEC, have had to furlough critical government employees and
−Removed: stop critical activities.
−Removed: If a prolonged government shutdown occurs, or if global health concerns prevent the FDA or other regulatory authorities from conducting their regular inspections, reviews, or other regulatory activities, it could significantly impact the ability of the FDA to timely review and process our regulatory submissions, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: government has shut down several times and certain regulatory agencies, such as the FDA and the SEC, have had to furlough critical government employees and stop critical activities.
+Added: A prolonged government shutdown or significant leadership, personnel and/or policy changes, or substantial modification in agency activities (including due to global health concerns or geopolitical factors) could significantly impact the ability of the FDA or other regulatory authorities to conduct their regular inspections, reviews, or other regulatory activities.
+Added: A prolonged shutdown could significantly impact the ability of the FDA to timely review and process our regulatory submissions, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, including INDs placed on clinical holds or delayed new drug approvals.
Further, in our operations as a public company, future government shutdowns could impact our ability to access the public markets and obtain necessary capital in order to properly capitalize and continue our operations.
+Added: With the changes being implemented by the Trump administration in 2025, there is substantial uncertainty as to whether and how the Trump administration will seek to modify or revise the requirements and policies of the FDA and other regulatory agencies with jurisdiction over our product candidates and any products for which we obtain approval.
+Added: This uncertainty could present new challenges
+Added: and/or opportunities as we navigate development and approval of our product candidates.
+Added: Some of these efforts have manifested to date in the form of personnel cuts and measures that could impact the FDA’s ability to hire and retain key personnel, which could result in delays or limitations on our ability to obtain guidance from the FDA on our product candidates in development and obtain the requisite regulatory approvals in the future.
+Added: There remains general uncertainty regarding future activities.
+Added: The Trump administration could issue or promulgate executive orders, regulations, policies or guidance that adversely affect us or create a more challenging or costly environment to pursue the development of new therapeutic products.
+Added: Alternatively, state governments may attempt to address or react to changes at the federal level with changes to their own regulatory frameworks in a manner that is adverse to our operations.
+Added: If we become negatively impacted by future governmental orders, regulations, policies or guidance as a result of the Trump administration, there could be a material adverse effect on us and our business.
Risks Related to Employee Matters and Managing Growth
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If any such actions are instituted against us, and we are not successful in defending ourselves or asserting our rights, those actions could have a significant impact on our business, including the imposition of civil, criminal and administrative penalties, damages, monetary fines, possible exclusion from participation in Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs, contractual damages, reputational harm, diminished profits and future earnings, and curtailment of our operations, any of which could adversely affect our ability to operate our business and our results of operations.
+Added: The increasing use of social media platforms presents risks and challenges.
+Added: We and our employees utilize social media tools as a means of communication externally.
+Added: Despite our efforts to monitor evolving social media communication guidelines and comply with applicable rules, there is risk that the use of social media by us or our employees to communicate about our product candidates, operations, or business may cause us to be found in violation of applicable legal or contractual requirements.
+Added: In addition, our employees may knowingly or inadvertently make use of social media in ways that may not comply with our social media policy or other legal or contractual requirements, which may give rise to liability, lead to the loss of trade secrets or other intellectual property, or result in public exposure of personal information of our employees, clinical trial patients, collaboration partners, and others, and which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial conditions, and results of operations.
+Added: Furthermore, negative posts or comments about us or our product candidates in social media could seriously damage our reputation, brand image, and goodwill.
+Added: In addition, it is possible for individuals or groups to target companies with disruptive social media campaigns related to a request for access to unapproved drugs for patients with significant unmet medical need.
+Added: If we experience a similar social media campaign regarding our decision to provide or not provide access to our product candidates under an expanded access policy, our reputation may be negatively affected and our business may be harmed.
+Added: Environmental, social, and governance matters may impact our business and reputation.
+Added: In addition to the changing rules and regulations related to environmental, social and governance, or ESG, matters imposed by governmental and self-regulatory organizations, a variety of third-party organizations, institutional investors and customers evaluate the performance of companies on ESG topics, and the results of these assessments are widely publicized.
+Added: These changing rules, regulations and stakeholder expectations may result in increased general and administrative expenses and increased management time and attention spent complying with or meeting such regulations and expectations.
+Added: Reduced access to or increased cost of capital may occur as financial institutions and investors increase expectations related to ESG matters.
+Added: Developing and acting on initiatives within the scope of ESG, and collecting, measuring and reporting ESG-related information and metrics can be costly, difficult and time consuming and is subject to evolving reporting standards.
+Added: We may also communicate certain initiatives and goals, regarding environmental matters, diversity, social investments and other ESG-related matters, in our SEC filings or in other public disclosures.
+Added: These initiatives and goals within the scope of ESG could be difficult and expensive to implement, the technologies needed to implement them may not be cost effective and may not advance at a sufficient pace, and we could be criticized for the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of the disclosure.
+Added: Furthermore, statements about our ESG-related initiatives and goals, and progress against those goals, may be based on standards for measuring progress that are still developing, internal controls and processes that continue to evolve and assumptions that are subject to change in the future.
+Added: In addition, we could be criticized for the scope or nature of such initiatives or goals, or for any revisions to these goals.
+Added: If our ESG-related data, processes and reporting are incomplete or inaccurate, or if we fail to achieve progress with respect to our goals within the scope of ESG on a timely basis, or at all, our reputation, business, financial performance and growth could be adversely affected.
+Added: In addition, in recent years "anti-ESG" sentiment has gained momentum across the U.S., with several states and Congress having proposed or enacted "anti-ESG" policies, legislation, or initiatives or issued related legal opinions, and the President having recently issued an executive order opposing diversity equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives in the private sector.
+Added: Such anti-ESG and anti-DEI-related policies, legislation, initiatives, litigation, legal opinions, and scrutiny could result in us facing additional compliance obligations, becoming the subject of investigations and enforcement actions, or sustaining reputational harm.
Risks Related to Growth and Acquisitions
We expect to expand our development and regulatory capabilities in the future and potentially implement sales, marketing and distribution capabilities, and as a result, we may encounter difficulties in managing our growth, which could disrupt our operations.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2024, we had 294 full-time employees.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, we had 259 full-time employees.
In the future, we expect to experience significant growth in the number of our employees and the scope of our operations, particularly in the areas of pharmaceutical and clinical development, regulatory affairs and, if any of our product candidates receives marketing approval, sales, marketing and distribution.
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Our acquisitions expose us to risks that could adversely affect our business, and we may not achieve the anticipated benefits of acquisitions of businesses or technologies.
−Removed: As a part of our growth strategy, we may make selected acquisitions of complementary products and/or businesses, such as our acquisition of ZebiAI in April 2021.
+Added: As a part of our business strategy, we may make selected acquisitions of complementary products and/or businesses, such as our acquisition of ZebiAI in April 2021.
Any acquisition involves numerous risks and operational, financial, and managerial challenges, including the following, any of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, or results of operations:
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Risks Related to Business Disruptions
−Removed: Our internal information technology systems, or those of our third-party collaborators and/or partners, may fail or suffer security breaches, loss or leakage of data and other disruptions, which could result in a material disruption of our development programs, compromise sensitive information related to our business or prevent us from accessing critical information, potentially exposing us to liability or otherwise adversely affecting our business.
+Added: Our internal information technology systems, or those of our third-party collaborators and/or partners, may fail or suffer cybersecurity breaches, loss or leakage of data and other disruptions, which could result in a material disruption of our development programs, compromise sensitive information related to our business or prevent us from accessing critical information, potentially exposing us to liability or otherwise adversely affecting our business.
We are increasingly dependent upon information technology systems, infrastructure and data to operate our business.
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We have implemented and maintain a cybersecurity risk management program that includes processes for the identification, assessment and mitigation of cybersecurity risks.
−Removed: Due to the size and complexity and the increasing amounts of confidential information that are maintained, our internal information technology systems and infrastructure and those of our third-party CROs, vendors and other contractors and consultants are potentially vulnerable to breakdown or other damage, service interruptions, system malfunction, natural disasters, terrorism, war and telecommunication and electrical failures, as well as cyber-attacks or security compromises, incidents, or breaches from inadvertent or intentional actions by our employees, third-party CROs, vendors, contractors, consultants and/or third parties with whom we do business, or from cyber-attacks or security compromises, incidents, or breaches by malicious third parties (including the deployment of harmful malware, ransomware, digital extortion, denial-of-service attacks, supply chain attacks, social engineering and business email compromises, and other means to affect service reliability and threaten the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and security of systems, infrastructure or information), which may compromise our systems and infrastructure or those of our partners, third-party CROs, vendors, contractors, consultants and/or third parties with whom we do business, or lead to data leakage or compromise.
+Added: Due to the size and complexity and the increasing amounts of confidential information that are maintained, our internal information technology systems and infrastructure and those of our third-party CROs, vendors and other contractors and consultants are potentially vulnerable to breakdown or other damage, service interruptions, system malfunction, natural disasters, terrorism, war and telecommunication and electrical failures, as well as cyber-attacks or security compromises, cybersecurity incidents, or breaches from inadvertent or intentional actions by our employees, third-party CROs, vendors, contractors, consultants and/or third parties with whom we do business, or from cyber-attacks or security compromises, incidents, or breaches by malicious third parties (including the deployment of harmful malware, ransomware, digital extortion, denial-of-service attacks, supply chain attacks, social engineering (including phishing attacks) and business email compromises, and other means to affect service reliability and threaten the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and security of systems, infrastructure or information), which may compromise our systems and infrastructure or those of our partners, third-party CROs, vendors, contractors, consultants and/or third parties with whom we do business, or lead to data leakage or compromise.
If such an event were to occur and cause interruptions in our operations, it could result in a material disruption of our development programs and our business operations.
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Likewise, similar events relating to the information technology systems of our third-party collaborators who we rely on for the manufacture of our product candidates and to conduct clinical trials could also have a material adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: The risk of a security breach or disruption, particularly through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion, including by computer hackers, insider threats, foreign governments, and cyber terrorists, has generally increased as the frequency, persistence, intensity and sophistication of attempted attacks and intrusions from around the world have increased, including potentially in connection with the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
+Added: The risk of a cybersecurity incident, breach or disruption, particularly through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion, including by computer hackers, insider threats, foreign governments, and cyber terrorists, has generally increased as the frequency, persistence, intensity and sophistication of attempted attacks and intrusions from around the world have increased, including potentially in connection with the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
We may not be able to anticipate all types of security threats, nor may we be able to implement preventive measures effective against all such security threats.
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For example, as a company handling employee information of individuals who reside in Massachusetts, we are required to comply with the Massachusetts Data Security Regulations (201 CMR 17.00), which require the development and implementation of a Comprehensive Written Information Security Program and the maintenance of specific information security protections.
−Removed: While we have not directly experienced any material system failure, accident or security breach to date, we have, from time to time experienced and may in the future continue to experience threats and security incidents relating to our and our third-party vendors’ information systems.
−Removed: We cannot guarantee that our data protection efforts and our investment in information technology will prevent significant breakdowns, data leakages, or breaches in or compromises of our systems or those of third-party CROs, vendors, contractors, consultants and/or third parties with whom we do business.
+Added: While we have not directly experienced any material system failure, accident or cybersecurity incident or breach to date, we have, from time to time experienced and may in the future continue to experience, threats and cybersecurity incidents relating to our and our third-party vendors’ information systems.
+Added: We cannot guarantee that our data protection efforts and our investment in information technology will prevent significant breakdowns, data leakages, or cybersecurity incidents or breaches in or compromises of our systems or those of third-party CROs, vendors, contractors, consultants and/or third parties with whom we do business.
While we maintain liability insurance at levels that we believe are appropriate for our business, we cannot assure our investors that it will be sufficient in type or amount to cover us against all claims related to security compromises or breaches, cyberattacks and other related breaches.
−Removed: To the extent that any disruption or security compromises, incident, or breach were to result in a loss of, or damage to, our systems, infrastructure, data or applications, or inappropriate disclosure of confidential or proprietary information, we could incur liability, our competitive position could be harmed, the further development and commercialization of our product candidates or any future product candidates could be hindered or delayed, we could be required to
−Removed: expend significant amounts of money and other resources to repair, remediate, or replace our information systems or networks, the market perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed and our reputation and credibility could be damaged.
−Removed: Furthermore, any failure or perceived failure by us or any third-party collaborators, service providers, contractors or consultants to comply with our privacy, confidentiality, data security or similar obligations to third parties, or any data security incidents or other security compromises or breaches that result in the unauthorized access, use, acquisition, disclosure, release or transfer of confidential or sensitive information, including physician data, patient data, or any personally identifiable information, may result in governmental investigations, enforcement actions, regulatory fines, litigation or public statements against us, could cause third parties to lose trust in us or could result in claims by third parties asserting that we have breached our privacy, confidentiality, data security or similar obligations, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: To the extent that any disruption or security compromises, cybersecurity incident, or breach were to result in a loss of, or damage to, our systems, infrastructure, data or applications, or inappropriate disclosure of confidential or proprietary information, we could incur liability, our competitive position could be harmed, the further development and commercialization of our product candidates or any future product candidates could be hindered or delayed, we could be required to expend significant amounts of money and other resources to repair, remediate, or replace our information systems or networks, the market perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed and our reputation and credibility could be damaged.
+Added: Furthermore, any failure or perceived failure by us or any third-party collaborators, service providers, contractors or consultants to comply with our privacy, confidentiality, data security or similar obligations to third parties, or any data cybersecurity incidents or other security compromises or breaches that result in the unauthorized access, use, acquisition, disclosure, release or transfer of confidential or sensitive information, including physician data, patient data, or any personally identifiable information, may result in governmental investigations, enforcement actions, regulatory fines, litigation or public statements against us, could cause third parties to lose trust in us or could result in claims by third parties asserting that we have breached our privacy, confidentiality, data security or similar obligations, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, financial condition or results of operations.
Moreover, data security incidents and other security compromises and breaches can be difficult to detect, and any delay in identifying or remediating them may lead to increased harm.
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However, in the event of an accident or incident at these facilities, we cannot assure our investors that the amounts of insurance will be sufficient to satisfy any damages and losses.
−Removed: If our facilities or the facilities of our third-party contract manufacturers or CROs are unable to operate because of an accident or incident or for any other reason, even for a short period of time, any or all of our research and development programs may be
+Added: If our facilities or the facilities of our third-party contract manufacturers or CROs are unable to operate because of an accident or incident or for any other reason, even for a short period of time, any or all of our research and development programs may be harmed.
Any business interruption may have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
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The market price for our common stock historically has been volatile and could continue to be subject to wide fluctuations in response to various factors.
−Removed: Since shares of our common stock were sold in our initial public offering, or IPO, in July 2020 at a price of $20.00 per share, our stock price has fluctuated significantly, ranging from an intraday low of $5.60 to an intraday high of $64.37 through November 1, 2024.
+Added: Since shares of our common stock were sold in our initial public offering, or IPO, in July 2020 at a price of $20.00 per share, our stock price has fluctuated significantly, ranging from an intraday low of $1.78 to an intraday high of $64.37 through May 2, 2025.
This volatility may affect the price at which you could resell the common stock.
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In the past, companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their stock have been subject to securities class action litigation.
−Removed: We may be the target of this type of litigation in the future.
−Removed: Securities litigation against us could result in substantial costs and divert our management’s attention from other business concerns, which could seriously harm our business.
+Added: We have been the target of and may in the future be the target of litigation brought by our stockholders.
+Added: The outcome of such pending and potential litigation is uncertain.
+Added: If any of our stockholders were to bring a lawsuit against us, even if the lawsuit is without merit, we could incur substantial costs defending the lawsuit.
+Added: Although the results of lawsuits and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, defending against such claims could be costly and divert our management’s attention from other business concerns, which could seriously harm our business.
+Added: Any litigation to which we become a party may result in an onerous or unfavorable judgment, or may be resolved with a monetary payment.
An active trading market for our common stock may not be sustained.
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Our executive officers, directors, principal stockholders and their affiliates exercise significant control over our company, which will limit your ability to influence corporate matters and could delay or prevent a change in corporate control.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2024, the holdings of our executive officers, directors, principal stockholders and their affiliates, represented beneficial ownership, in the aggregate, of approximately 40.9% of our outstanding common stock.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, the holdings of our executive officers, directors, principal stockholders and their affiliates, represented beneficial ownership, in the aggregate, of approximately 42.8% of our outstanding common stock.
As a result, these stockholders, if they act together, will be able to influence our management and affairs and control the outcome of matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, including the election of directors and any sale, merger, consolidation, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets.
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As of December 31, 2024, we had federal net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $596.3 million, and our ability to utilize those net operating loss carryforwards could be limited by an "ownership change" as described above.
−Removed: Comprehensive tax reform legislation could adversely affect our business and financial condition.
+Added: Tax reform legislation could adversely affect our business and financial condition.
The rules dealing with U.S.
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In recent years, many changes have been made and changes are likely to continue to occur in the future.
−Removed: Additional changes to U.S.
−Removed: federal income tax law are currently being contemplated, and future changes in tax laws could have a material adverse effect on our business, cash flow, financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: Future changes in tax laws could have a material adverse effect on our business, cash flow, financial condition or results of operations.
It cannot be predicted whether, when, in what form, or with what effective dates, new tax laws may be enacted, or regulations and rulings may be enacted, promulgated or issued under existing or new tax laws, which could result in an increase in our or our stockholders’ tax liability or require changes in the manner in which we operate in order to minimize or mitigate any adverse effects of changes in tax law or in the interpretation thereof.
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As a public company, we have incurred and expect to incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses.
−Removed: In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and rules subsequently implemented by the SEC and Nasdaq have imposed various requirements on public companies,
−Removed: including establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls and corporate governance practices.
+Added: In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and rules subsequently implemented by the SEC and Nasdaq have imposed various requirements on public companies, including establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls and corporate governance practices.
Our management and other personnel devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance initiatives.
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In addition, because we are incorporated in Delaware, we are governed by the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporate Law, which may prohibit certain business combinations with stockholders owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock.
−Removed: anti-takeover provisions and other provisions in our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws could make it more difficult for stockholders or potential acquirers to obtain control of our board of directors or initiate actions that are opposed by the then-current board of directors and could also delay or impede a merger, tender offer or proxy contest involving our company.
+Added: These anti-takeover provisions and other provisions in our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws could make it more difficult for stockholders or potential acquirers to obtain control of our board of directors or initiate actions that are opposed by the then-current board of directors and could also delay or impede a merger, tender offer or proxy contest involving our company.
These provisions could also discourage proxy contests and make it more difficult for you and other stockholders to elect directors of your choosing or cause us to take other corporate actions you desire.
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Additionally, the forum selection clauses in our Bylaws may limit our stockholders’ ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that they find favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or employees, which may discourage the filing of lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and employees, even though an action, if successful, might benefit our stockholders.
−Removed: In addition, while the Delaware Supreme Court ruled in March 2020 that federal forum selection provisions purporting to require claims under the Securities Act be brought in federal court are "facially valid" under Delaware law, there is uncertainty as to whether other courts will enforce our Federal Forum Provision.
+Added: In addition, while the Delaware Supreme Court ruled in March 2020 that federal forum selection provisions purporting to require claims
+Added: under the Securities Act be brought in federal court are "facially valid" under Delaware law, there is uncertainty as to whether other courts will enforce our Federal Forum Provision.
If the Federal Forum Provision is found to be unenforceable, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters.
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