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our supply chain may be disrupted;
−Removed: health authority review of our regulatory submissions may be delayed;
−Removed: and our ability to successfully commercialize any product candidates, if approved, may be adversely impacted.
+Added: and health authority review of our regulatory submissions may be delayed.
It is unknown how long these disruptions could continue, were they to occur.
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In addition, remote working could increase our cybersecurity risk and make us more susceptible to communication disruptions, any of which could adversely impact our business operations or delay necessary interactions with local and federal regulators, manufacturing sites, research or clinical trial sites and contractors.
+Added: Our ability to successfully commercialize any product candidates, if approved, also may be adversely impacted by restrictions and safety measures instituted due to COVID-19 .
+Added: For example, reduced access to healthcare providers and institutions as a result of social distancing protocols may impact or require adjustments to commercialization activities, including, the manner in which our field teams engage with healthcare providers and facilities.
The potential economic impact brought by and the duration of the pandemic may be difficult to assess or predict.
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● impacts to clinical results, including an increased number of observed adverse events, as a result of participants enrolled in our clinical trials contracting COVID-19;
−Removed: ● diversion of healthcare resources, including clinical trial investigators and staff, away from the conduct of clinical trials to focus on pandemic concerns or, when the pandemic subsides, to address the backlog of patients who have deferred medical procedures during the pendency of the pandemic;
−Removed: ● limitations on travel, including limitations on domestic and international travel, and government-imposed quarantines or restrictions imposed by key third parties that could interrupt key trial activities, such as clinical trial site initiations and monitoring, which may impact the integrity of subject data and clinical study endpoints;
+Added: ● prioritization by healthcare providers, facilities, lawmakers, and regulators of COVID-19-related healthcare needs or, when the pandemic subsides, to address the potential backlog of patients who have deferred medical procedures during the pendency of the pandemic, which may reduce availability of professionals and resources for clinical trials in other disease areas;
+Added: ● limitations on travel, including limitations on domestic and international travel, and government-imposed quarantines or restrictions imposed by key third parties that could interrupt key trial activities, such as clinical trial site initiations and monitoring, which could impact the reliability or integrity of subject data and clinical study endpoints;
● interruption of, or delays in receiving, supplies of our product candidates from our contract manufacturing organizations due to staffing shortages, production slowdowns or stoppages or interruption in global shipping that may affect the transport of clinical trial materials;
● disruptions and delays caused by potential workplace, laboratory and office closures and an increased reliance on employees working from home across the healthcare system;
−Removed: ● disruptions in or delays to regulatory approvals, inspections, reviews or other regulatory activities, including review of NDAs and approvals of protocol changes or amendments to Special Protocol Assessments (SPA), as a result of the spread of COVID-19 affecting the operations of the U.S.
+Added: ● disruptions in or delays to regulatory reviews, responses, inspections, or other regulatory activities, including review of marketing applications and approvals of protocol changes or amendments to Special Protocol Assessments (SPA), as a result of the spread of COVID-19 affecting the operations of the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or other regulatory authorities ;
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● refusal of the FDA to accept data from clinical trials in affected geographies outside the United States;
−Removed: ● difficulties launching or commercializing products, including due to reduced access to doctors as a result of social distancing protocols;
● negative effects on the quality, completeness, integrity, interpretability and cost of our clinical study data.
−Removed: The disruptions discussed above and other consequences of COVID-19 pandemic could result in missed study visits or study procedures in our clinical trials, which could lead to an abundance of protocol deviations that impact the interpretability of the trial results.
+Added: The potential disruptions discussed above and other consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic could result in missed study visits or study procedures in our clinical trials, which could lead to an abundance of protocol deviations that impact the interpretability of the trial results.
A significant number of deviations may call into question whether the execution of a clinical trial was consistent with the protocol, which is of particular importance where study designs were agreed to as part of a SPA as in the case of our Phase 3 clinical trial for the combination of ublituximab plus umbralisib for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (UNITY-CLL) and our registration program for ublituximab in relapsing multiple sclerosis (ULTIMATE I and II).
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We will continue to monitor the potential impact of COVID-19 on our clinical trial program, however, the full extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic may directly or indirectly impact the progress of our current and planned trials will depend on future developments that are highly uncertain and cannot be accurately predicted.
−Removed: The third parties upon whom we rely for the supply of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), drug product, regulatory starting materials and intermediates for drug substance and other materials used in our drug candidates are our sole source of supply, and the loss or disruption of any of these suppliers, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, could significantly harm our business.
−Removed: The API, drug product and drug substance used in many of our drug candidates are currently supplied to us from single-source suppliers.
−Removed: Our ability to successfully develop our drug candidates, supply our drug candidates for clinical trials and to ultimately supply our commercial drugs in quantities sufficient to meet the market demand, depends in part on our ability to obtain the API, drug product and drug substance for these drugs in accordance with regulatory requirements and in sufficient quantities for clinical testing and commercialization.
+Added: The third parties upon whom we rely for the supply of starting materials, intermediates, active pharmaceutical ingredient (API)/drug substance, drug product, and other materials used in our drug candidates are our sole source of supply, and the loss or disruption of any of these suppliers, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, could significantly harm our business.
+Added: The starting materials, intermediates, API/drug substance, and drug product used in many of our drug candidates are currently supplied to us from single-source suppliers.
+Added: Our ability to successfully develop our drug candidates, supply our drug candidates for clinical trials and to ultimately supply our commercial drugs in quantities sufficient to meet the market demand, depends in part on our ability to obtain starting materials, intermediates, API/drug substance, and drug product for these drugs in accordance with regulatory requirements and in sufficient quantities for clinical testing and commercialization.
It is expected that many of our manufacturing partners will be sole source suppliers from single site locations for the foreseeable future.
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We are not certain that our single-source suppliers will be able to supply sufficient quantities of their products or on the timelines necessary to meet our needs, either because of the nature of our agreements with those suppliers, our limited experience with those suppliers, our relative importance as a customer to those suppliers, public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic or natural disasters that may cause those suppliers to stop work for a period of time.
−Removed: If any of our suppliers ceases its operations for any reason or is unable or unwilling to supply API, drug product, drug substance and other materials in sufficient quantities or on the timelines necessary to meet our needs, it could significantly and adversely affect our business, the supply of our drug candidates and our financial condition.
+Added: If any of our suppliers ceases its operations for any reason or is unable or unwilling to supply starting materials, intermediates, API/drug substance, and drug product in sufficient quantities or on the timelines necessary to meet our needs, it could significantly and adversely affect our business, the supply of our drug candidates and our financial condition.
In addition, if our current or future supply of any of our product candidates should fail to meet specifications during its stability program there could be a significant interruption of our supply of drug, which would adversely affect the clinical development and commercialization of the product.
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Our contract manufacturers for umbralisib and ublituximab are continuing operations at varying levels of capacity.
−Removed: We are working closely with our contract manufacturer for umbralisib to ensure availability of sufficient commercial supply by a projected Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date, which is based on our current New Drug Application (NDA) submission timeline.
−Removed: We also are working closely with our contract manufacturer for ublituximab to prepare for our anticipated commercial supply needs.
−Removed: We believe that we have sufficient inventory of clinical supplies of umbralisib, ublituximab and TG-1701 to support our current clinical program needs through 2020.
+Added: We are working closely with our contract manufacturer for umbralisib to plan for anticipated commercial supply needs in light of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of February 15, 2021 for Marginal Zone Lymphoma (MLZ) and June 15, 2021 for Follicular Lymphoma (FL).
+Added: We also are working closely with our contract manufacturer for ublituximab to plan for our anticipated commercial supply needs if we are successful in our continued clinical and regulatory
+Added: We believe that we have sufficient inventory of clinical supplies of umbralisib, ublituximab and TG-1701 to support our current clinical program needs through the first quarter 2021.
We will continue to monitor the situation very closely with our suppliers in impacted regions.
−Removed: We continually evaluate our supply chains to identify potential risks and will take steps, as necessary, to identify additional manufacturers and other suppliers to provide API, drug product and drug substance.
−Removed: However, establishing additional or replacement suppliers for the API, drug product and drug substance, if required, may not be accomplished quickly or at all and may involve significant expense.
−Removed: If we are able to find a replacement supplier, such replacement supplier would need to be qualified and require additional regulatory approval, which could result in further delay.
−Removed: While we seek to maintain adequate inventory of the API, drug product and drug substance used in our drug candidates, any interruption or delay in the supply of components or materials, or our inability to obtain such API, drug product and drug substance 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: If any product candidate for which we receive regulatory approval does not achieve broad market acceptance among physicians, patients, healthcare payors, and the medical community, the revenues that we generate from its sales will be limited.
−Removed: Even if our product candidates receive regulatory approval, they may not gain market acceptance among physicians, patients, healthcare payors, and the medical community.
−Removed: Commercial success also will depend, in large part, on the coverage and reimbursement of our product candidates by third-party payors, including private insurance providers and government payors.
−Removed: The degree of market acceptance of any approved product would depend on a number of factors, including:
−Removed: ● the efficacy, safety and tolerability as demonstrated in clinical trials;
−Removed: ● the timing of market introduction of such product candidate as well as competitive products;
−Removed: ● the clinical indications for which the product is approved;
−Removed: ● acceptance by physicians, major operators of cancer or neurology clinics and patients of the product as a safe, tolerable and effective treatment;
−Removed: ● the potential and perceived advantages of the product candidate over alternative treatments;
−Removed: ● the safety and tolerability of the product candidate in a broader patient group;
−Removed: ● the cost of treatment in relation to alternative treatments;
−Removed: ● the availability of adequate reimbursement by third party payors and government authorities;
−Removed: ● changes in regulatory requirements by government authorities for the product candidate;
−Removed: ● relative convenience and ease of administration;
−Removed: ● the prevalence and severity of side effects and adverse events;
−Removed: ● the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts;
−Removed: ● favorable or unfavorable publicity relating to the product or relating to the Company.
−Removed: Our ability to successfully launch and secure market acceptance of our late-stage pipeline candidates, umbralisib and ublituximab (if approved), may be impacted by the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, although we are currently unable to predict or quantify any such potential impact with any degree of certainty.
−Removed: As a result of the measures state and local governments have taken to date to control the spread of COVID-19, our office-based employees are working remotely and our preparations for commercialization are happening virtually.
−Removed: The progress of these preparations may be impacted by the increased reliance on work-from-home arrangements for our employees, consultants, vendors, and potential customers.
−Removed: If the spread of COVID-19 and the social distancing measures taken by various governments continue, any commercial launch we may undertake may be hindered by various factors, including challenges in hiring the employees necessary to support commercialization;
−Removed: delays in demand due to impacts on the healthcare system and overall economy;
−Removed: delays in coverage decisions from Medicare and third-party payors;
−Removed: restrictions on our personal interactions with physicians, hospitals, payors, and other customers;
−Removed: interruptions or delays in our commercial supply chain;
−Removed: and increases in the number of uninsured or underinsured patients.
−Removed: If any product candidate is approved but does not achieve an adequate level of acceptance by physicians, hospitals, healthcare payors and patients, we may not generate sufficient revenue from these products and we may not become or remain profitable, which would have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: We continually evaluate our supply chains to identify potential risks and will take steps, as necessary, to identify additional manufacturers and other suppliers for the production of our product candidates.
+Added: However, establishing additional or replacement suppliers for the API/drug substance and drug product, if required, may not be accomplished quickly or at all and may involve significant expense.
+Added: If we are able to find a replacement supplier, we would need to evaluate and qualify such replacement supplier and its ability to meet quality and compliance standards.
+Added: Any change in suppliers or the manufacturing process could require additional regulatory approval and result in operational delays.
+Added: While we seek to maintain adequate inventory of materials necessary for the production of our drug candidates, any supply interruption or delay, or our inability to identify 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.
Risks Related to Our Financial Position and Need for Additional Capital
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We commenced operations in January 2012.
−Removed: Our operations to date have been limited primarily to organizing and staffing our company, business planning, raising capital, developing our technology, identifying potential drug candidates and undertaking pre-clinical studies and commencing clinical trials.
+Added: Our operations to date have been limited primarily to organizing and staffing our company, business planning, raising capital, developing our technology, identifying potential drug candidates, undertaking pre-clinical studies and clinical trials, and preparing for commercialization of our lead product candidates.
We have never generated any revenue from drug sales.
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We may not be successful in such a transition.
−Removed: Since inception, we have focused substantially all of our efforts and financial resources on clinical trials and manufacturing of our drug candidates.
+Added: Since inception, we have focused our efforts and financial resources on clinical trials, manufacturing of our drug candidates, and preparing to support a commercial product.
To date, we have financed our operations primarily through public offerings of our common stock and a debt financing.
−Removed: Through July 30, 2020, we have received an aggregate of approximately $879 million from such transactions.
+Added: Through November 4, 2020, we have received an aggregate of approximately $976 million from such transactions.
Approximately $946 million of that amount constitutes the aggregate gross proceeds from the sale of common stock in one or more offerings and through the use of our at the market sales program, or ATM.
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Since inception, we have incurred significant operating losses.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2020, we had an accumulated deficit of $805.2 million.
+Added: As of September 30, 2020, we had an accumulated deficit of $892.4 million.
Substantially all of our operating losses have resulted from costs incurred in connection with our research and development programs and from general and administrative costs associated with our operations.
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In addition, if we obtain regulatory approval for our drug candidates, we will incur significant sales, marketing and outsourced-manufacturing expenses.
−Removed: We also have incurred and will continue to incur additional costs associated with operating as a public company.
As a result, we expect to continue to incur significant and increasing operating losses for the foreseeable future.
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In addition, depending on the status of regulatory approval or, if we obtain marketing approval for any of our drug candidates, we expect to incur significant commercialization expenses related to drug sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution.
−Removed: Moreover, in anticipation of submitting applications for regulatory approvals for umbralisib and ublituximab in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and for ublituximab in relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) we will need to expend substantial resources on manufacturing and NDA/biologics license application (BLA) preparation over the next 12 to 18 months, which could exceed any cost savings associated with lower clinical trial expenses during the same period.
+Added: Moreover, in anticipation of submitting applications for regulatory approvals for umbralisib and ublituximab in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and for ublituximab in relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS), we will need to expend substantial resources on manufacturing and biologics license application (BLA) preparation over the next 12 to 18 months, which could exceed any cost savings associated with lower clinical trial expenses during the same period.
While this timing is our current estimate, the amount and timing of our future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including, but not limited to, the following:
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Risks Related to Drug Development and Regulatory Approval
−Removed: If we are unable to obtain regulatory approval for our most advanced drug candidates or other drug candidates and ultimately cannot commercialize our most advanced drug candidates or other drug candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed.
+Added: If we are unable to obtain regulatory approval for our most advanced drug candidates or other drug candidates and ultimately cannot commercialize our most advanced drug candidates or other drug candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, or even if we obtain regulatory approval but experience other challenges to successful commercialization, our business will be materially harmed.
We are a development-stage biopharmaceutical company and do not currently have any commercial products that generate revenues or any other sources of revenue.
−Removed: We may never be able to successfully develop marketable products.
Our pharmaceutical development methods are unproven and may not lead to commercially viable products for a variety of reasons.
−Removed: We have substantially invested all of our efforts and financial resources in the identification and pre-clinical and clinical development of our drug candidates, including ublituximab, umbralisib, cosibelimab, TG-1701 and TG-1801.
+Added: We have substantially invested all of our efforts and financial resources in the identification and pre-clinical and clinical development of our drug candidates, including ublituximab, umbralisib, cosibelimab, TG-1701 and TG-1801 and building a commercial infrastructure.
Our ability to generate drug revenues will depend completely on the successful completion of our current and future Phase 3 and registration-directed clinical trials and commercialization of our drug candidates, which may never occur.
−Removed: We currently generate no revenues from sales of any drugs, and we may never be able to develop or commercialize a marketable drug.
−Removed: Each of our drug candidates will require additional non-clinical or clinical development, management of clinical, non-clinical and manufacturing activities, regulatory approval in multiple jurisdictions, obtaining or manufacturing supply, building of a commercial organization, substantial investment and significant marketing efforts before we generate any revenues from drug sales.
+Added: Each of our drug candidates will require additional non-clinical or clinical development, regulatory approval in multiple jurisdictions, obtaining manufacturing supply, building of a commercial organization, and substantial investment in marketing efforts before we generate any revenues from drug sales.
The success of our most advanced drug candidates and other drug candidates will depend on several factors, including the following:
−Removed: ● Successful completion of our UNITY-NHL trial and our ULTIMATE I and II trials;
−Removed: ● Successful preparation of the complete data set from the UNITY-CLL trial within the timeframe we have projected;
−Removed: ● Receipt of regulatory approvals from applicable regulatory authorities for our drug candidates;
+Added: ● Successful completion of our clinical programs with positive results that support a finding of a effectiveness and an acceptable safety profile of our product candidates in the intended populations within the timeframes we have projected;
+Added: ● INDs or clinical trial applications, or CTAs, being cleared such that our product candidates can commence clinical trials;
+Added: ● Successful initiation and completion of preclinical studies and successful initiation of, enrollment in and completion of clinical trials;
+Added: ● Successful preparation of the complete data set from the UNITY-CLL trial for regulatory submission within the timeframe we have projected;
+Added: ● Sufficiency of our financial and other resources to complete the necessary preclinical studies and clinical trials;
+Added: ● Receipt of regulatory approvals from applicable regulatory authorities for our drug candidates (for example, our NDA submission for our lead product candidate umbralisib which is currently under review with the FDA);
● Establishing commercially viable arrangements with third-party manufacturers for clinical supply and commercial manufacturing;
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● Effectively differentiating and competing with other therapies;
−Removed: ● Establishing appropriate prices for any drug candidates that receive regulatory approval that reflect the value that the drug candidates offer in the indications for which they are approved;
+Added: ● Establishing appropriate prices for any drug candidates that receive regulatory approval that reflect the value that the drug candidates offer in the indications for which they are approved and adhering to ongoing government program price reporting requirements;
● Obtaining and maintaining healthcare coverage and adequate reimbursement;
+Added: ● Establishing and maintaining an effective healthcare compliance program for a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company to support compliance and mitigate enforcement risk in areas including sales and marketing and advertising and promotion;
● Enforcing and defending intellectual property rights and claims;
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Because the results of preclinical studies and early clinical trials are not necessarily predictive of future results, any product candidate we advance into clinical trials may not have favorable results in later clinical trials, if any, or receive regulatory approval.
+Added: Moreover, interim, top-line and preliminary data from our clinical trials that we announce or publish from time to time may change as more patient data become available and are subject to audit and verification procedures that could result in material changes in the final data.
Pharmaceutical development has inherent risks.
−Removed: The outcome of pre-clinical development testing and early clinical trials may not be predictive of the outcome of later clinical trials, and interim results of a clinical trial do not necessarily predict final results.
−Removed: Moreover, pre-clinical and clinical data are often susceptible to varying interpretations and analyses, and many companies that have believed their drug candidates performed satisfactorily in pre-clinical studies and clinical trials have nonetheless failed to obtain marketing approval of their drug candidates.
−Removed: Once a drug candidate has displayed sufficient pre-clinical data to warrant clinical investigation, we will be required to demonstrate through adequate and well-controlled clinical trials that our product candidates are effective with a favorable benefit-risk profile for use in populations for their target indications before we can seek regulatory approvals for their commercial sale.
−Removed: Success in early clinical trials does not mean that later clinical trials will be successful because product candidates in later-stage clinical trials may fail to demonstrate sufficient safety or efficacy despite having progressed through initial clinical testing.
+Added: The outcome of preclinical development testing and early clinical trials may not be predictive of the outcome of later clinical trials, and interim results of a clinical trial do not necessarily predict final results.
+Added: Moreover, preclinical and clinical data are often susceptible to varying interpretations and analyses, and many companies that have believed their drug candidates performed satisfactorily in preclinical studies and clinical trials have nonetheless failed to obtain marketing approval of their drug candidates.
+Added: Once a drug candidate has displayed sufficient preclinical data to warrant clinical investigation, we will be required to demonstrate through adequate and well-
+Added: controlled clinical trials that our product candidates are effective with a favorable benefit-risk profile for use in populations for their target indications before we can seek regulatory approvals for their commercial sale.
+Added: Many drug candidates fail in the early stages of clinical development for safety and tolerability issues or for insufficient clinical activity, despite promising pre-clinical results.
+Added: Accordingly, no assurance can be made that a safe and efficacious dose can be found for these compounds or that they will ever enter into advanced clinical trials alone or in combination with other product candidates.
+Added: Moreover, success in early clinical trials does not mean that later clinical trials will be successful because product candidates in later-stage clinical trials may fail to demonstrate sufficient safety or efficacy despite having progressed through initial clinical testing.
Companies frequently experience significant setbacks in advanced clinical trials, even after earlier clinical trials have shown promising results.
There is an extremely high rate of failure of pharmaceutical candidates proceeding through clinical trials.
−Removed: For instance, early clinical results seen with ublituximab (TG-1101) and/or umbralisib (TGR-1202) in a small number of patients may not be reproduced in expanded or larger clinical trials such as in our UNITY-CLL, UNITY-NHL or the ULTIMATE I and II trials.
Individually reported outcomes of patients treated in clinical trials may not be representative of the entire population of treated patients in such studies.
+Added: For instance, early clinical results seen with ublituximab (TG-1101) in a small number of patients may not be reproduced in expanded or larger clinical trials such as the ULTIMATE I and II trials.
Larger scale Phase 3 studies, which are often conducted internationally, are inherently subject to increased operational risks compared to earlier stage studies, including the risk that the results could vary on a region to region, or country to country basis which could materially adversely affect the outcome of the study or the opinion of the validity of the study results by applicable regulatory agencies.
−Removed: In addition, early clinical trial results from interim analysis or from the review of a Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) or similar safety committee may not be reflective of the safety or efficacy results of the entire study, when completed.
−Removed: Clinical trial results can change over time as additional patients are added to a study or as additional follow-up is conducted, which may result in a material negative impact on the preliminary results.
−Removed: For instance, we announced that the MZL and the FL cohorts of the UNITY-NHL study met the primary endpoint of overall response rate (ORR), falling within our target range which was between 40%-50%, and while we believe that the ORR results have the potential to increase over time within this range, or beyond, as patients continue to be followed, no assurance can be given that this will be the case, and the results may ultimately fall at the lower end of the range.
−Removed: Further, time to event based endpoints such as duration of response (DOR) and PFS have the potential to change, sometimes drastically, with longer follow-up.
−Removed: No assurance can be provided that the ORR, DOR and PFS data from the MZL and FL cohorts of the UNITY-NHL study will be supportive of an FDA approval or will support broad market uptake based on the profile of competitor drugs which may be available.
−Removed: While the MZL and FL cohorts of the UNITY-NHL study met their primary endpoint, each cohort of this study is operated and analyzed independently, and no assurance can be given that other cohorts from the UNITY-NHL study, including the Mantle Cell Lymphoma cohort, the Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) cohort, or the SLL patients enrolled within the FL/SLL cohort will meet their primary endpoint, have a positive outcome, or will be supportive of an FDA submission.
−Removed: In addition, on May 5, 2020, we announced that the UNITY-CLL study met the primary endpoint of PFS at a preplanned interim analysis and that the study would be stopped early based on the recommendation of the independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB) that conducted the interim analysis.
−Removed: The interim analysis was of the primary PFS endpoint only and did not include safety or other secondary endpoints.
−Removed: No assurance can be given that the safety data, when available, will be acceptable or consistent with previously reported results of from studies involving single agent umbralisib or ublituxumab or the two product candidates in combination regimens or that other secondary endpoints in the trial will be met.
−Removed: Many of our Phase 3 and registration-directed clinical trials such as UNITY-CLL, UNITY-NHL and ULTIMATE I and II utilize international clinical research sites, including sites in eastern European countries.
−Removed: We work with what we believe are reputable CROs and clinical research sites in conducting our studies internationally.
−Removed: Nevertheless, the risk of fraud, misconduct, incompetence, unexpected patient variability and other issues affecting the quality and the outcome of our Phase 3 and registration-directed studies could arise from U.S.
−Removed: or international sites.
−Removed: If that were to occur, the study could be negatively impacted, potentially even preventing it from being useful for regulatory approval.
−Removed: If such event were to occur, it would have a substantial negative impact on our business.
−Removed: Many of the results reported in our early clinical trials rely on local investigator-assessed safety and efficacy outcomes which may differ from results assessed in a blinded, independent, centrally reviewed manner, often required of adequate and well-controlled registration-directed clinical trials which may be undertaken at a later date.
−Removed: All of our current Phase 3 and registration-directed studies such as UNITY-CLL, UNITY-NHL and the ULTIMATE I and II trials utilize blinded, independent, central review to assess the primary endpoint of such studies.
−Removed: If the results from interim analyses are not consistent with final results or results from our registration-directed trials are different from the results found in the earlier studies of ublituximab and umbralisib, we may need to terminate or revise our clinical development plan, which could extend the time for conducting our development program and could have a material adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: For example, in January 2019, we presented to the FDA, interim results from the MZL cohort of our UNITY-NHL trial that supported the granting of Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD).
−Removed: These interim results were also presented at the 2019 AACR annual meeting, 2019 ASCO annual meeting, and the 2019 ICML.
−Removed: In October 2019, we announced that the FL cohort of the UNITY-NHL trial met our target range for overall response rate based on interim preliminary data.
−Removed: No assurance can be given that the final results from the MZL cohort or FL cohort will reflect the activity seen in these interim results, or that the final results will be sufficient to file for accelerated approval for umbralisib for the treatment of MZL and FL.
−Removed: Similarly, while we have reported top-line efficacy results from a preplanned interim analysis of the UNITY-CLL trial announcing that the trial met its primary endpoint of PFS, there is no assurance that the safety profile will be acceptable or that other secondary endpoints will be met.
−Removed: Moreover, while we believe one of the key differentiators for umbralisib is its tolerability and side effect profile compared to other drugs in the same class, no assurance can be given that a differentiated safety and tolerability profile will be realized in our Phase 3 or registration-directed trials such as UNITY-CLL or UNITY-NHL.
−Removed: Specifically, we have not yet assessed the final safety data from the MZL or FL cohorts of the UNITY-NHL study as patients continue on therapy nor have we assessed the safety data from the UNITY-CLL study, therefore there can be no assurance given that the final safety data from these studies, once fully analyzed, will be consistent with prior safety data presented on umbralisib, will be differentiated from other similar agents in the same class, or that it will be favorable enough to support regulatory approvals for the indications studied.
−Removed: In addition, no assurance can be given that new toxicities, or an increase in the severity or frequency of previously seen toxicities, will not be observed, which could have a material negative impact on the approvability or marketability of umbralisib or any of our product candidates.
−Removed: Finally, while the Phase 2 data for ublituximab in MS looked promising, no assurance can be given that the safety, tolerability and efficacy profile will carry into Phase 3 and that the ULTIMATE I and II clinical trials will be positive.
−Removed: In addition to umbralisib and ublituximab, we have a number of compounds in early clinical development, such as cosibelimab, TG-1701 and TG-1801.
−Removed: Many drug candidates fail in the early stages of clinical development for safety and tolerability issues or for insufficient clinical activity, despite promising pre-clinical results.
−Removed: Accordingly, no assurance can be made that a safe and efficacious dose can be found for these compounds or that they will ever enter into advanced clinical trials alone or in combination with umbralisib and/or ublituximab.
+Added: From time to time, we may publicly disclose top-line or preliminary data from our clinical trials, which is based on a preliminary analysis of then available data, and the results and related findings and conclusions are subject to change following a more comprehensive review of the data related to the particular study or trial.
+Added: We also make assumptions, estimations, calculations and conclusions as part of our analyses of such data, and we may not have received or had the opportunity to fully and carefully evaluate all data from the particular study or trial.
+Added: As a result, top-line or preliminary results that we report may differ from future results of the same studies, or different conclusions or considerations may qualify such results, once additional data have been received and fully evaluated.
+Added: Top-line or preliminary data also remain subject to audit and verification procedures that may result in the final data being materially different from the topline, interim, or preliminary data we previously published.
+Added: As a result, top-line and preliminary data should be viewed with caution until the final data are available.
+Added: Further, from time to time, we may also disclose interim data from our preclinical studies and clinical trials.
+Added: Interim data from clinical trials that we may complete are subject to the risk that one or more of the clinical outcomes may materially change as patient enrollment continues and more patient data become available.
+Added: For example, time-to-event based endpoints such as duration of response (DOR) and PFS have the potential to change, sometimes drastically, with longer follow-up.
+Added: In addition, as patients continue on therapy, there can be no assurance given that the final safety data from studies, once fully analyzed, will be consistent with prior safety data presented, will be differentiated from other similar agents in the same class, will support continued development, or will be favorable enough to support regulatory approvals for the indications studied.
+Added: Further, others, including regulatory agencies, may not accept or agree with our assumptions, estimates, calculations, conclusions or analyses or may interpret or weigh the importance of data differently, which could impact the value of the particular program, the approvability or commercialization of the particular product candidate or product and our company in general.
+Added: The information we choose to publicly disclose regarding a particular study or clinical trial is based on what is typically extensive information, and regulators or others may not agree with what we determine is material or otherwise appropriate information to include in our disclosure.
+Added: If the interim, top-line or preliminary data that we report differ from actual results, or if others, including regulatory authorities, disagree with the conclusions reached, our ability to obtain approval for, and commercialize, our product candidates may be harmed, which could harm our business, operating results, prospects or financial condition.
+Added: Many of the results reported in our early clinical trials rely on local investigator-assessed efficacy outcomes which may be subject to greater variability or subjectivity than results assessed in a blinded, independent, centrally reviewed manner, often required of later phase, adequate and well-controlled registration-directed clinical trials.
+Added: If the results from our registration-directed trials are different from the results found in the earlier studies, we may need to terminate or revise our clinical development plan, which could extend the time for conducting our development program and could have a material adverse effect on our business.
Clinical drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with an uncertain outcome.
We may incur additional costs or experience delays in completing, or ultimately be unable to complete, the development and commercialization of our drug candidates.
−Removed: Our drug candidates umbralisib and ublituximab are in several Phase 3 and registration-directed clinical trials such as UNITY-CLL, UNITY-NHL and ULTIMATE I and II.
−Removed: Despite promising early results, as with all clinical trials, the risk of failure for our drug candidates is high.
−Removed: It is impossible to predict when or if any of our drug candidates will prove effective and safe in humans or will receive regulatory approval or will have a differentiated safety and tolerability profile.
Before obtaining marketing approval from regulatory authorities for the sale of any drug candidate, we must complete pre-clinical studies and then conduct extensive clinical trials to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of our drug candidates in humans.
Clinical testing is expensive, difficult to design and implement, can take many years to complete and is uncertain as to outcome.
+Added: It is impossible to predict when or if our drug candidates will prove effective and safe in humans or will receive regulatory approval or will have a differentiated safety and tolerability profile.
A failure of one or more clinical trials can occur at any stage of testing.
−Removed: Accordingly, our current Phase 3 and registration-directed trials and future clinical trials may not be successful.
−Removed: Successful completion of our clinical trials is a prerequisite to submitting an New Drug Application (NDA) or a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the U.S.
−Removed: FDA and a Marketing Authorization Application in the European Union for each drug candidate and, consequently, the ultimate approval and commercial marketing of our drug candidates.
−Removed: We do not know whether any of our on-going or future clinical trials for our drug candidates will be completed on schedule, if at all.
+Added: Accordingly, our ongoing trials and future clinical trials may not be successful.
+Added: Even if our clinical trials produce positive results, there can be no guarantee that the positive outcomes will be replicated in future studies either within the same indication as previously evaluated or in alternate indications and settings.
+Added: Successful completion of our clinical trials is a prerequisite to submitting a New Drug Application (NDA) or a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the U.S.
+Added: FDA and a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for each drug candidate and, consequently, the ultimate approval and commercial marketing of our drug candidates.
+Added: We do not know whether any of our ongoing or future clinical trials for our drug candidates will be completed on schedule, if at all.
Whether or not and how quickly we complete clinical trials depends in part upon the rate at which we are able to engage clinical research/trial sites and, thereafter, the rate of enrollment of patients, and the rate at which we collect, clean, lock and analyze the clinical trial database.
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● the FDA or other regulatory authorities may require us to submit additional data or impose other requirements before permitting us to initiate a clinical trial;
−Removed: ● health authorities or institutional review boards (IRBs), or ethics committees may not authorize us or our investigators to commence a clinical trial or conduct a clinical trial at a prospective trial site or country;
+Added: ● the FDA, other regulatory authorities or institutional review boards (IRBs) or ethics committees (ECs) may not authorize us or our investigators to commence a clinical trial or conduct a clinical trial at a prospective trial site or country;
we may experience delays in reaching, or fail to reach, agreement on acceptable terms with prospective trial sites and prospective CROs, the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation and may vary significantly among different CROs and trial sites;
−Removed: ● clinical trials of our drug candidates may produce negative or inconclusive results, and we may decide, or health authorities may require us, to conduct additional pre-clinical studies or clinical trials or we may decide to abandon drug development programs;
+Added: ● clinical trials of our drug candidates may produce negative or inconclusive results, and we may decide, or regulatory authorities may require us, to conduct additional pre-clinical studies or clinical trials or we may decide to abandon drug development programs;
● the number of patients required for clinical trials of our drug candidates may be larger than we anticipate, and enrollment in these clinical trials may be slower than we anticipate or participants may drop out of these clinical trials or fail to return for post-treatment follow-up at a higher rate than we anticipate;
● our third-party contractors, including our clinical trial sites, may fail to comply with regulatory requirements or meet their contractual obligations to us in a timely manner, or at all, or may deviate from the clinical trial protocol or drop out of the trial, which may require that we add new clinical trial sites or investigators;
−Removed: ● we may elect to, or health authorities or IRBs or ethics committees may require that we or our investigators suspend or terminate clinical research for various reasons, including noncompliance with regulatory requirements or a finding that the participants are being exposed to unacceptable health risks;
+Added: ● we may elect to, or regulatory authorities or IRBs or ECs may require that we or our investigators suspend or terminate clinical research for various reasons, including noncompliance with regulatory requirements or a finding that the participants are being exposed to unacceptable health risks;
● the cost of clinical trials of our drug candidates may be greater than we anticipate;
● the supply or quality of our drug candidates or other materials necessary to conduct clinical trials of our drug candidates may be insufficient or inadequate, including, without limitation, as a result of disruptions to our supply chains caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and related work stoppages across the globe;
−Removed: ● our drug candidates may have undesirable side effects or other unexpected characteristics, causing us or our investigators, health authorities, IRBs or ethics committees to suspend or terminate the trials, or reports may arise from pre-clinical or clinical testing of other cancer therapies that raise safety or efficacy concerns about our drug candidates.
+Added: ● regulatory authorities may revise the requirements for approving our product candidates, or such requirements may not be as we anticipate;
+Added: ● our drug candidates may have undesirable side effects or other unexpected characteristics, causing us or our investigators, regulatory authorities, IRBs or ECs to suspend or terminate the trials, or reports may arise from pre-clinical or clinical testing of other cancer therapies that raise safety or efficacy concerns about our drug candidates.
We also could encounter delays if a clinical trial is suspended or terminated by us, by the IRBs of the institutions in which such trials are being conducted, by the DSMB for such trial or by the FDA or other regulatory authorities.
−Removed: Such health authorities may impose a suspension or termination due to a number of factors, including failure to conduct the clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical protocols, inspection of the clinical trial operations or trial site by the FDA or other regulatory authorities resulting in the imposition of a clinical hold, unforeseen safety issues or adverse side effects, failure to demonstrate a benefit from using a drug, changes in governmental regulations or administrative actions or lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial.
−Removed: The DSMB for the UNITY-NHL study meets regularly to review ongoing safety from that study, in an unblinded manner if applicable, and may recommend modification to the study design or closure of the study entirely based on the DSMB’s interpretation of the benefit/risk of the study.
+Added: Such regulatory authorities may impose a suspension or termination due to a number of factors, including failure to conduct the clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical protocols, inspection of the clinical trial operations or trial site by the FDA or other regulatory authorities resulting in the imposition of a clinical hold, unforeseen safety issues or adverse side effects, failure to demonstrate a benefit from using a drug, changes in governmental regulations or administrative actions or lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial.
+Added: The DSMB for our clinical trials may recommend modification to the study design or closure of the study entirely based on the DSMB’s interpretation of the benefit/risk of the study.
While we develop charters that guide the nature of the DSMB meetings, their analysis and interpretation of study data occurs independently from us and is wholly within their control.
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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 drug candidates.
−Removed: Further, the FDA may disagree with our clinical trial design and our interpretation of data from clinical trials or may change the requirements for approval even after it has reviewed and commented on the design for our clinical trials.
−Removed: This could happen even for a protocol that has received a SPA.
−Removed: In September 2015, we announced a Phase 3 clinical trial for the combination of ublituximab plus umbralisib for patients with CLL, which is being conducted pursuant to an SPA with the FDA (UNITY-CLL) and in August 2017 we announced an SPA for our registration program for ublituximab in RMS (ULTIMATE I and II).
−Removed: Many companies which have been granted SPAs have ultimately failed to obtain final approval to market their drugs.
+Added: Further, the FDA may disagree with our clinical trial design, may have questions about the potential impact of our study design on conclusions that can be drawn from the data, may interpret results differently than we do, and may change its view on the criteria that must be met for approval over time.
+Added: This could happen even for a protocol that has received a SPA, as is the case for some of our studies.
+Added: In September 2015, we announced a Phase 3 clinical trial for the combination of ublituximab plus umbralisib for patients with CLL, which is being conducted pursuant to a SPA with the FDA (UNITY-CLL) and in August 2017 we announced SPAs for the ULTIMATE I and II studies evaluating ublituximab in RMS.
+Added: Many companies that have been granted SPAs have ultimately failed to obtain final approval to market their drugs.
Since we are seeking approvals under SPAs for some of our product registration strategies, based on protocol designs negotiated with the FDA, we may be subject to enhanced scrutiny.
−Removed: Further, while changes or amendments to protocols are common during conduct of a clinical trial, protocol changes or amendments to a study that is being conducted under SPA will have to be reviewed and approved by the FDA to verify that the SPA agreement is still valid.
+Added: Further, while changes or amendments to protocols are common during conduct of a clinical trial, protocol changes or amendments to a study that is being conducted under a SPA will have to be reviewed and approved by the FDA to verify that the SPA agreement is still valid.
The FDA’s willingness to agree to changes or amendments to a protocol or statistical analysis plan under a SPA agreement is wholly within the FDA’s discretion.
−Removed: Such re-reviews also provide an opportunity for the FDA to scrutinize any aspect of the study design and conduct, even if previously agreed to under the existing SPA.
+Added: Such reviews also provide an opportunity for the FDA to scrutinize any aspect of the study design and conduct, even if previously agreed to under the existing SPA.
Failure to reach agreement with the FDA for protocol changes or modifications for any study we conduct under a SPA could have a material negative impact to our ability to execute these studies.
Even if the primary endpoint in a Phase 3 clinical trial is achieved, a SPA does not guarantee approval.
−Removed: While UNITY-CLL is being operated in a blinded manner, it is an open label study;
+Added: Some of our clinical trials may be conducted as open-label studies;
meaning that trial participants, investigators, site staff, some employees of our contract research organizations, and our field-level employees (e.g., clinical research associates and monitors), among others, have knowledge of treatment arm assignments on a patient-level, which has the potential to introduce bias into study conduct.
−Removed: Further, while the ULTIMATE 1 and 2 clinical trials are double-blind, double-dummy studies, unblinding of treatment arm assignment may occur from time to time, for example, on the occurrence of unexpected safety events which may necessitate understanding of study treatment.
+Added: Further, even when our clinical trials are double-blind, double-dummy studies, unblinding of treatment arm assignment may occur from time to time, for example, on the occurrence of unexpected safety events which may necessitate understanding of study treatment.
While we believe we have put in place adequate firewalls to prevent inappropriate unblinding of study data consistent with standard industry practice for these types of studies, no assurance can be given that issues related to study conduct will not be raised.
The FDA may raise issues of safety, study conduct, bias, deviation from the protocol, statistical power, patient completion rates, changes in scientific or medical parameters or internal inconsistencies in the study design or data prior to making its final decision.
−Removed: The FDA may also seek the guidance of an outside advisory committee prior to making its final decision.
+Added: The FDA may also seek the guidance of an outside advisory committee in evaluating (among other things) clinical data and safety and effectiveness considerations prior to making its final decision.
Negative or inconclusive results from the clinical trials we conduct or unanticipated adverse medical events could cause us to have to repeat or terminate the clinical trials.
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● not obtain marketing approval at all;
+Added: ● obtain marketing approval in some countries and not others;
● obtain approval for indications or patient populations that are not as broad as intended or desired;
−Removed: ● be subject to post-marketing testing requirements;
+Added: ● be subject to post-marketing requirements or post-marketing commitments;
+Added: ● be subject to increased pricing pressure;
● have the drug removed from the market after obtaining marketing approval.
Our drug development costs will also increase if we experience delays in testing or regulatory approvals.
−Removed: We may also incur additional costs if enrollment is increased.
−Removed: All of our current Phase 3 and registration-directed clinical trials, such as UNITY-CLL, UNITY-NHL and ULTIMATE I and II enrolled a larger number of patients than our initial projections, adding significant costs to those studies over and above what had been projected.
−Removed: We do not know whether any of our clinical trials will begin as planned, will need to be restructured or will be completed on schedule, or at all.
Certain clinical trials are designed to continue until a pre-determined number of events have occurred in the patients enrolled.
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Any delays in our pre-clinical or future clinical development programs may harm our business, financial condition and prospects significantly.
−Removed: In addition, principal investigators for our clinical trials may serve as scientific advisors or consultants to us from time to time and receive cash or equity compensation in connection with such services.
+Added: We may also incur additional costs if enrollment is increased.
+Added: All of our current Phase 3 and registration-directed clinical trials, such as UNITY-CLL, UNITY-NHL and ULTIMATE I and II enrolled a larger number of patients than our initial projections, adding significant costs to those studies over and above what had been projected.
+Added: In addition, principal investigators for our clinical trials may serve as scientific advisors or consultants to us from time to time and receive compensation in connection with such services.
If these relationships and any related compensation result in perceived or actual conflicts of interest, the integrity of the data generated at the applicable clinical trial site, or the FDA’s willingness to accept such data, may be jeopardized.
−Removed: The sufficiency of our clinical trial results for accelerated approval are subject to the FDA’s discretion.
−Removed: We have and will continue to explore strategies for ublituximab and/or umbralisib that involve use of the FDA’s accelerated approval pathway.
−Removed: Obtaining accelerated approval for an agent requires demonstration of meaningful benefit over all available therapies for a serious condition.
+Added: We may seek accelerated approval for some of our product candidates but may not be able to obtain it as the sufficiency of our clinical trial results for accelerated approval are subject to the FDA’s discretion.
+Added: We have and will continue to explore strategies that involve use of the FDA’s accelerated approval pathway.
+Added: Obtaining accelerated approval for an agent requires demonstration of meaningful benefit over all available therapies for a serious condition and relies on the use of a surrogate endpoint.
While we believe we have an understanding of what is considered available therapy today, ultimately the determination of what constitutes available therapy is wholly up to the FDA and is subject to change.
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If we were unable to prove meaningful benefit over any such agents, we would be effectively blocked from receiving accelerated approval.
−Removed: We announced that we have submitted an NDA for accelerated approval of umbralisib based on the results from the MZL and FL cohorts from our UNITY-NHL trial.
+Added: We have submitted an NDA for accelerated approval of umbralisib based on the results from the MZL and FL cohorts from our UNITY-NHL trial.
+Added: In August 2020, we announced that the FDA accepted the NDA, granting priority review to the MZL indication with a PDUFA target date of February 15, 2021 and standard review to the FL indication with a PDUFA target date of June 15, 2021 .
No assurance can be given that umbralisib will obtain accelerated approval for either MZL or FL for a variety of reasons, including, without limitation, if we are unable to demonstrate meaningful benefit over a currently approved agent/regimen or any new treatment, if any, that receives full approval prior to our potential receipt of accelerated approval.
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Despite this positive outcome, no assurance can be given that a filing based on the GENUINE results will ever be made, or if made would result in a favorable review by regulatory authorities.
−Removed: Finally, if any of our drugs were ever to receive accelerated approval, we would be required to conduct a post-market confirmatory study, which we may not complete, or if completed, may prove unsuccessful.
−Removed: In such instance, the FDA can remove the product from the market.
+Added: Finally, if umbralisib or any of our other drug candidates were ever to receive accelerated approval, we would be required to conduct a post-marketing confirmatory study, which we may not be able to complete, or if completed, may prove unsuccessful.
+Added: In such instances, the FDA can remove the product from the market or withdraw approval of the indication that received accelerated approval if the product is approved for multiple indications.
Our drug candidates may cause undesirable side effects that could delay or prevent their regulatory approval, limit the commercial profile of an approved label, or result in significant negative consequences following marketing approval, if any.
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Further, early clinical trials by their nature utilize a small sample of the potential patient population.
−Removed: With a limited number of patients and limited duration of exposure, rare and severe side effects of our drug candidates may only be uncovered with a significantly larger number of patients exposed to the drug candidate in Phase 3 or registration-directed trials and on the market.
−Removed: We are currently running our Phase 3 and registration-directed trials, such as UNITY-CLL, UNITY-NHL and ULTIMATE I and II and have not completed testing of any of our product candidates for the treatment of the indications for which we intend to seek product approval in humans, and we currently do not know the extent that the adverse events, if any, will be observed in patients who receive any of our product candidates.
+Added: With a limited number of patients and limited duration of exposure, rare and severe side effects of our drug candidates may only be uncovered when a significantly larger number of patients are exposed to the drug candidate in Phase 3 or registration-directed trials or when the drug candidate is on the market.
To date, clinical trials using ublituximab and umbralisib have demonstrated a toxicity profile that was deemed acceptable by the investigators performing such studies.
−Removed: Such interpretation may not be shared by future investigators or by the health authorities and in the case of ublituximab and umbralisib, even if deemed acceptable for oncology and/or autoimmune indications, it may not be acceptable for diseases outside the oncology and autoimmune settings, and likewise for any other product candidates we may develop.
−Removed: Additionally, the severity, duration and incidence of adverse events may increase in larger study populations such as found in our on-going Phase 3 and registration-directed trials.
+Added: Such interpretation may not be shared by future investigators or by the regulatory authorities and in the case of ublituximab and umbralisib, even if deemed acceptable for oncology and/or autoimmune indications, it may not be acceptable for diseases outside the oncology and autoimmune settings, and likewise for any other product candidates we may develop.
+Added: Additionally, the severity, duration and incidence of adverse events may increase in larger study populations such as the populations found in our on-going Phase 3 and registration-directed trials.
Particularly, with respect to umbralisib, although over 1,500 patients have been dosed in umbralisib studies to date, the full adverse effect profile of umbralisib is not known.
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If any of our product candidates cause unacceptable adverse events in clinical trials, we may not be able to obtain marketing approval and generate revenues from its sale, or even if approved for sale may lack differentiation from competitive products, which could have a material adverse impact on our business and operations.
−Removed: Additionally, in drug-combination clinical development, there is an inherent risk of drug-drug interactions between combination agents which may affect each component’s individual pharmacologic properties and the overall efficacy and safety of the combination regimen.
+Added: Additionally, in drug-combination clinical development, there is an inherent risk of drug-drug interactions between combination agents that may affect each component’s individual pharmacologic properties and the overall efficacy and safety of the combination regimen.
Both ublituximab and umbralisib are being evaluated in combination with each other, as well as with a variety of other active anti-cancer agents, which may cause unforeseen toxicity, or impact the severity, duration, and incidence of adverse events observed compared to those seen in the single agent studies of these agents.
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If any of our drug candidates receive marketing approval and we or others later identify undesirable or unacceptable side effects caused by such drug candidates (or any other similar drugs) after such approval, a number of potentially significant negative consequences could result, including:
−Removed: ● regulatory authorities may withdraw or limit their approval of such drug candidates;
−Removed: ● regulatory authorities may require a more significant clinical benefit for approval to offset the risk;
−Removed: ● regulatory authorities may require the addition of labeling statements, including warnings, contra-indications, or precautions, that could diminish the usage of the product or otherwise limit the commercial success of the affected product;
+Added: ● regulatory authorities may withdraw or limit the use (indication) of such drug candidates;
+Added: ● regulatory authorities may require the addition of labeling statements, including warnings or boxed warnings, precautions, or contraindications that could diminish the usage of the product or otherwise limit the commercial success of the affected product;
● we may be required to create a Medication Guide outlining the risks of such side effects for distribution to patients;
● we may be required to change the way such drug candidates are distributed or administered, or to conduct additional clinical trials;
−Removed: ● regulatory authorities may require a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), plan to mitigate risks, which could include medication guides, physician communication plans, or elements to assure safe use, such as restricted distribution methods, patient registries and other risk minimization tools;
+Added: ● regulatory authorities may require a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), a plan to mitigate risks, which could include a Medication Guide, physician communication plans, or elements to assure safe use, such as restricted distribution methods, patient registries and other risk minimization tools;
● we may be subject to regulatory investigations and government enforcement actions;
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Any product candidates we may advance through clinical development are subject to extensive regulation, which can be costly and time consuming, cause unanticipated delays or prevent the receipt of the required approvals.
−Removed: The clinical development, manufacturing, labeling, storage, record-keeping, advertising, promotion, import, export, marketing and distribution of our product candidates or any future product candidates are subject to extensive regulation by the FDA in the United States and by comparable health authorities worldwide.
+Added: The clinical development, manufacturing, labeling, packaging, storage, record-keeping, advertising, promotion, import, export, marketing and distribution, and pharmacovigilance and adverse event reporting of our product candidates or any future product candidates are subject to extensive regulation by the FDA in the United States and by comparable regulatory authorities worldwide.
In the United States, we are not permitted to market a product candidate until we receive approval of a BLA or NDA from the FDA.
−Removed: The process of obtaining BLA and NDA approval is expensive, often takes many years and can vary substantially based upon the type, complexity and novelty of the products involved.
−Removed: Approval policies or regulations may change, and the FDA has substantial discretion in the pharmaceutical approval process, including the ability to delay, limit or deny approval of a product candidate for many reasons.
−Removed: In addition, the FDA may require post-approval clinical trials or studies which also may be costly.
−Removed: The FDA approval for a limited indication or approval with required warning language, such as a box warning, could significantly impact our ability to successfully market our product candidates.
−Removed: Finally, the FDA may require adoption of a REMS requiring prescriber training, post-market registries, or otherwise restricting the marketing and dissemination of these products.
−Removed: Despite the time and expense invested in the clinical development of product candidates, regulatory approval is never guaranteed.
−Removed: Assuming successful clinical development, we intend to seek product approvals in countries outside the United States.
+Added: The process of obtaining a BLA or NDA approval is expensive, often takes many years and can vary substantially based upon the type, complexity and novelty of the products involved.
+Added: Approval policies or regulations may change, and the FDA has substantial discretion in the pharmaceutical product approval process, including the ability to delay, limit or deny approval of a product candidate for many reasons.
+Added: In addition, the FDA may require post-marketing clinical trials which also may be costly.
+Added: The FDA approval for a limited indication with required warning language, such as a boxed warning, could significantly impact our ability to successfully market our product candidates.
+Added: Finally, the FDA may require adoption of a REMS requiring prescriber training or a post-marketing registry or may restrict the marketing and dissemination of these products.
+Added: Despite the time and expense invested in the clinical
+Added: development of product candidates, regulatory approval is never guaranteed.
+Added: Assuming successful clinical development, we intend to seek product approvals in countries outside of the United States.
As a result, we would be subject to regulation by the EMA, as well as the other regulatory agencies in these countries.
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The FDA, and any other regulatory body around the world can delay, limit or deny approval of a product candidate for many reasons, including:
−Removed: ● the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may disagree with the design or implementation of our clinical trials;
−Removed: ● we may be unable to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities that a product candidate is safe and effective for an indication;
−Removed: ● the FDA may not accept clinical data from trials conducted by individual investigators or in countries where the standard of care is potentially different from the United States;
+Added: ● the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may disagree with the study design or implementation of our clinical trials;
+Added: ● we may be unable to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities that a product candidate is tolerable and effective for an indication;
+Added: ● the FDA may not accept clinical data from trials conducted by individual investigators or in countries where the standard of care is potentially different from that of the United States;
● the results of clinical trials may not meet the level of statistical significance required by the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities for approval;
● we may be unable to demonstrate that a product candidate’s clinical and other benefits outweigh its safety risks;
−Removed: ● the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may disagree with our interpretation of data from preclinical studies or clinical trials;
+Added: ● the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may disagree with our interpretation of data from preclinical studies and/or clinical trials;
● the data collected from clinical trials of our product candidates may not be sufficient to support the submission of a BLA, NDA or other submission or to obtain regulatory approval in the United States or elsewhere;
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Any delay in obtaining, or inability to obtain, applicable regulatory approvals would prevent us from commercializing our product candidates.
−Removed: A breakthrough therapy designation by the FDA for our drug candidates, including umbralisib for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory Marginal Zone Lymphoma who have received at least one prior treatment including an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody, may not lead to a faster development or regulatory review or approval process, and it does not ensure that our drug candidates will receive marketing approval.
+Added: A breakthrough therapy designation by the FDA for our drug candidates may not lead to a faster development or regulatory review or approval process, and it does not ensure that our drug candidates will receive marketing approval.
In January 2019, the FDA granted breakthrough therapy designation (also referred to as BTD) to umbralisib for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory MZL who have received at least one prior treatment including an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody.
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Our breakthrough therapy designation was based on interim data from the MZL cohort of the UNITY-NHL clinical trial.
−Removed: No assurance can be given that the full results from the MZL cohort of the UNITY-NHL clinical trial will support accelerated approval.
−Removed: For drugs that have been designated as breakthrough therapies, interaction and communication between the FDA and the sponsor of the trial can help to identify the most efficient path for clinical development while minimizing the number of patients who may be placed in potentially less effective control regimens.
−Removed: Drugs designated as breakthrough therapies by the FDA are also eligible for accelerated approval.
+Added: No assurance can be given that the full results from the MZL cohort of the UNITY-NHL clinical trial will support approval.
+Added: For drugs that have been designated as breakthrough therapies, frequent interactions and communication between the FDA and the sponsor can help to identify the most efficient path for clinical development while minimizing the number of patients who may be placed in potentially less effective control regimens.
+Added: Drugs designated as breakthrough therapies by the FDA are also eligible for priority review.
Designation as a breakthrough therapy is wholly within the discretion of the FDA.
−Removed: Accordingly, even if we believe one of our drug candidates meets the criteria for designation as a breakthrough therapy, the FDA may disagree and instead determine not to grant such designation to the drug candidate.
+Added: Accordingly, even if we believe one of our drug candidates meets the criteria for designation as a breakthrough therapy, the FDA may disagree and instead determine not to grant such a designation to the drug candidate.
In any event, the receipt of a breakthrough therapy designation for a drug candidate may not result in a faster development process, review or approval compared to drugs considered for approval under conventional FDA procedures and does not assure ultimate approval by the FDA.
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A fast track designation by the FDA may not actually lead to a faster development or regulatory review or approval process.
−Removed: We may seek fast track designation for some of our other drug candidates.
−Removed: If a drug is intended for the treatment of a serious or life-threatening condition and the drug demonstrates the potential to address unmet medical needs for this condition, the drug sponsor may apply for fast track designation.
−Removed: The FDA has broad discretion whether or not to grant this designation, so even if we believe a particular drug candidate is eligible for this designation, we cannot assure you that the FDA would decide to grant it.
−Removed: Even if we receive fast track designation for our other drug candidates, we may not experience a faster development process, review or approval compared to conventional FDA procedures.
+Added: We may seek fast track designation for some of our drug candidates.
+Added: For example, in October 2020, the FDA granted fast track designation to the investigation of ublituximab in combination with umbralisib for the treatment of adult patients with CLL.
+Added: If a drug is intended for the treatment of a serious or life-threatening condition and the drug demonstrates the potential to address unmet medical needs for this condition, the sponsor may apply for fast track designation.
+Added: The FDA has broad discretion whether or not to grant this designation, so even if we believe a particular drug candidate is eligible for this designation, we cannot be sure that the FDA would decide to grant it.
+Added: Even if we receive fast track designation for a drug candidate, we may not experience a faster development process, review or approval compared to conventional FDA procedures.
The FDA may withdraw fast track designation if it believes that the designation is no longer supported by data from our clinical development program.
−Removed: While we have received orphan drug designation for umbralisib and ublituximab for specified indications, we may seek additional orphan drug designation for those and some of our other drug candidates.
+Added: We have received orphan drug designation for some of our drug candidates for specified indications, and we may seek additional orphan drug designations for other indications and some of our other drug candidates.
However, we may be unsuccessful in obtaining or may be unable to maintain the benefits associated with orphan drug designation, including the potential for market exclusivity.
−Removed: Ublituximab received orphan drug designation from the FDA for the treatment of MZL (nodal and extranodal) in September 2013, for the treatment of CLL in August of 2010, and orphan drug designation by the EMA for the treatment of CLL in November of 2009.
−Removed: We also obtained orphan drug designation for umbralisib as monotherapy for the treatment of CLL in August 2016 and all three types of MZL (nodal, extranodal and splenic) in April 2019, and in January 2017, we announced that the FDA granted orphan drug designation covering the combination of ublituximab and umbralisib for the treatment of patients with CLL and DLBCL.
+Added: Ublituximab received orphan drug designation from the FDA for the treatment of MZL (nodal and extranodal) in September 2013, for the treatment of CLL in August 2010, and orphan drug designation by the EMA for the treatment of CLL in November 2009.
+Added: We also obtained orphan drug designation for umbralisib (as monotherapy) for the treatment of CLL in August 2016, all three types of MZL (nodal, extranodal and splenic) in April 2019, and FL in March 2020.
+Added: In January 2017, we announced that the FDA granted orphan drug designation covering the combination of ublituximab and umbralisib for the treatment of patients with CLL and DLBCL.
As part of our business strategy, we may seek orphan drug designation for our other drug candidates;
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In the United States, orphan drug designation entitles a party to financial incentives such as opportunities for grant funding towards clinical trial costs, tax advantages and user-fee waivers.
+Added: Generally, if a product with an orphan drug designation subsequently receives the first marketing approval for the indication for which it has such designation, the product is entitled to a period of marketing exclusivity, which precludes FDA or EMA from approving another marketing application for the same drug or biologic for that time period.
Even if we obtain orphan drug exclusivity for a drug, that exclusivity may not effectively protect the designated drug from competition because different drugs can be approved for the same condition.
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In addition, a designated orphan drug may not receive orphan drug exclusivity if it is approved for a use that is broader than the indication for which it received orphan drug designation.
−Removed: 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.
+Added: Moreover, orphan drug exclusive marketing rights in the United States may be lost if the FDA exercises its authority to revoke orphan drug designation, which it may do on a variety of grounds, including that the request contained an untrue statement of material fact or omitted material information, or that the drug in fact was not eligible for orphan drug designation.
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.
While we intend to seek additional orphan drug designation for our other drug candidates, we may never receive such designations.
−Removed: Even if we receive orphan drug designation for any of our drug candidates, there is no guarantee that we will enjoy the benefits of those designations.
+Added: Even if we receive orphan drug designation for any of our drug candidates, there is no guarantee that we will enjoy the benefits of those designations or obtain orphan drug exclusivity.
+Added: We are conducting clinical trials, and anticipate additional clinical trials, for product candidates at sites outside the United States, and the FDA may not accept data from trials conducted in such locations.
+Added: Many of our Phase 3 and registration-directed clinical trials such as UNITY-CLL, UNITY-NHL and ULTIMATE I and II utilize international clinical research sites, including sites in eastern European countries.
+Added: We work with what we believe are reputable CROs and clinical research sites in conducting our studies internationally.
+Added: Nevertheless, there can be heightened challenges to monitoring and oversight of global clinical trials and sponsors are subject to the risk that fraud, misconduct, incompetence, unexpected patient variability and other issues affecting the reliability, quality, and outcome of studies.
+Added: Such problems, if they were to occur, could negatively impact trial results, and depending on the circumstances and scope of concerns could potentially even prevent a trial from being useful or acceptable for regulatory approval.
+Added: If such events were to occur with respect to any of our trials (and in particular with respect to registration-directed studies), they would have a substantial negative impact on our business.
An approval of one of our product candidates in the United States would not assure approval of that candidate in foreign jurisdictions.
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In many countries outside the United States, the product must be approved for reimbursement before it can be marketed.
−Removed: As a general matter, however, the foreign regulatory approval process involves risks similar or identical to the risks associated with FDA approval discussed above.
+Added: As a general matter, however, the foreign regulatory approval process involves risks similar or identical to the risks associated with the FDA approval discussed above.
Therefore, we cannot guarantee that we, or future collaborators, will obtain approvals of our product candidates in any foreign jurisdiction on a timely basis, if at all.
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Furthermore, if we obtain regulatory approval for a product candidate in a foreign jurisdiction, we will be subject to the burden of complying with complex regulatory, legal, and other requirements that could be costly and could subject us to additional risks and uncertainties.
−Removed: As all of our product candidates are still under development, manufacturing site additions, scale-up and process improvements implemented in the production of those product candidates may affect their ultimate activity or function.
−Removed: Our product candidates are currently manufactured in relatively small batches for use in pre-clinical and clinical studies.
+Added: We have product candidates still under development and are also preparing for commercial manufacturing activities, and as such clinical and commercial manufacturing site additions, scale-up and process improvements implemented in the production of those product candidates may affect their ultimate activity or function.
+Added: Generally, our product candidates are currently manufactured in relatively small batches for use in pre-clinical and clinical studies.
Process improvements implemented to date have changed, and process improvements in the future may change, the activity and/or analytical profile of the product candidates, which may affect the safety and efficacy of the products.
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Similarly, following each round of process improvements, if any, for any of our drug candidates, future clinical trial results conducted with the new material will be subject to uncertainty related to the effects, if any, of those additional process improvements that were made.
−Removed: In addition, we have engaged a secondary manufacturer for ublituximab to meet our current clinical and future commercial needs and anticipate engaging additional manufacturing sources for umbralisib to meet expanded clinical trial and commercial needs.
+Added: In addition, we have engaged a secondary manufacturer for ublituximab to meet our current clinical and future commercial needs and anticipate engaging additional manufacturing sources for umbralisib to meet expanded clinical trial and projected commercial needs.
If a secondary manufacturer is not successful in replicating the product or experiences delays, or if regulatory authorities impose unforeseen requirements with respect to product comparability from multiple manufacturing sources, we may experience delays in clinical development.
No assurance can be given that any additional manufacturers will be successful or that material manufactured by the additional manufacturers will perform comparably to ublituximab or umbralisib as manufactured to date and used in currently available pre-clinical data and or in clinical trials presented publicly or reported in this or any previous filing, or that the relevant regulatory agencies will agree with our interpretation of comparability.
−Removed: In addition, as we move closer to commercialization for ublituximab and umbralisib, we are scaling-up production to ensure adequate commercial supply.
+Added: In addition, as we move closer to commercialization, we are scaling-up production to ensure adequate commercial supply.
This is an expensive process and there can be no assurance given that such scale-up will be successful in providing pharmaceutical product that is of sufficient quantity, or of a quality that is consistent with our previously established specifications, or that meets the requirements set by regulatory agencies under which we may seek approval of our product candidates.
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Our competitors also may obtain FDA or other regulatory approval for their drugs 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 drug candidates, if approved, are likely to be their efficacy, safety, convenience, price, the effectiveness of any related companion diagnostic tests, 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 drug 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.
For the cancer indications for which we are developing our products there are a number of established therapies with which we will compete:
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● If ublituximab is approved, we expect ublituximab will primarily compete against other CD20 targeted agents, while the group of CD20 targeted agents will also compete broadly against a number of already approved MS therapies.
−Removed: Currently, there is one anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody approved, ocrelizumab (Roche), and another in Phase 3 development, ofatumumab (Novartis), which is expected to enter the market in the next 2-3 months.
+Added: Currently, there are two anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies approved, ocrelizumab (Roche) and ofatumumab (Novartis).
Cosibelimab, TG-1701 and TG-1801 if approved will also face competition from drugs on the market and under development in the same therapeutic class as each of those drugs.
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We may not be able to maintain insurance coverage at a reasonable cost or in an amount adequate to satisfy any liability that may arise.
+Added: If any product candidate for which we receive regulatory approval does not achieve broad market acceptance among physicians, patients, healthcare payors, and the medical community, the revenues that we generate from its sales will be limited.
+Added: Even if our product candidates receive regulatory approval, they may not gain market acceptance among physicians, patients, healthcare payors, and the medical community.
+Added: The degree of market acceptance of any approved product would depend on a number of factors, including:
+Added: ● the timing of our receipt of marketing approvals, the terms of such approvals, and the countries in which such approvals are obtained;
+Added: ● the efficacy, safety and tolerability as demonstrated in clinical trials;
+Added: ● the timing of market introduction of such a product candidate as well as competitive products;
+Added: ● the clinical indications for which the product is approved;
+Added: ● acceptance by physicians, major operators of cancer or neurology clinics, and patients of the product as a safe, tolerable and effective treatment;
+Added: ● the potential and perceived advantages of the product candidate over alternative treatments;
+Added: ● the safety and tolerability of the product candidate in a broader patient group;
+Added: ● the cost of treatment in relation to alternative treatments;
+Added: ● the availability of adequate reimbursement by third party payors and government authorities;
+Added: ● changes in regulatory requirements by government authorities for the product candidate;
+Added: ● relative convenience and ease of administration;
+Added: ● the prevalence and severity of side effects and adverse events;
+Added: ● the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts;
+Added: ● favorable or unfavorable publicity relating to the product or relating to the Company.
+Added: Our ability to successfully launch and secure market acceptance of our late-stage pipeline candidates, umbralisib and ublituximab (if approved), may be impacted by the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, although we are currently unable to predict or quantify any such potential impact with any degree of certainty.
+Added: As a result of the measures state and local governments have taken to date to control the spread of COVID-19, our office-based employees are working remotely and our preparations for commercialization are happening virtually.
+Added: The progress of these preparations may be impacted by the increased reliance on work-from-home arrangements for our employees, consultants, vendors, and potential customers.
+Added: If the spread of COVID-19 and the social distancing measures taken by various governments continue, any commercial launch we may undertake may be hindered by various factors, including challenges in hiring the employees necessary to support commercialization;
+Added: delays in demand due to impacts on the healthcare system and overall economy;
+Added: delays in coverage decisions from Medicare and third-party payors;
+Added: restrictions on our personal interactions with physicians, hospitals, payors, and other customers;
+Added: interruptions or delays in our commercial supply chain;
+Added: and increases in the number of uninsured or underinsured patients.
+Added: If any product candidate is approved but does not achieve an adequate level of acceptance by physicians, hospitals, healthcare payors and patients, we may not generate sufficient revenue from these products and we may not become or remain profitable, which would have a material adverse effect on our business.
Even if we are able to commercialize any drug candidates, such drugs may become subject to unfavorable pricing regulations or third-party coverage and reimbursement policies, which would harm our business.
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Government authorities and third-party payors have attempted to control costs by limiting coverage and the amount of reimbursement for particular drugs.
−Removed: Increasingly, third-party payors are requiring that drug companies provide them with predetermined discounts from list prices and are challenging the prices charged for drugs.
+Added: Increasingly, third-party payors are requiring that drug companies provide them with predetermined discounts from list prices and are challenging the prices charged for drugs Third-party commercial payors often rely upon Medicare coverage policy and payment limitations in setting their own reimbursement policies.
We cannot be sure that coverage will be available for any drug candidate that we commercialize and, if coverage is available, the level of reimbursement.
+Added: Even if favorable coverage and reimbursement status is attained for one or more product candidates for which we receive regulatory approval, less favorable coverage policies and reimbursement rates may be implemented in the future.
Reimbursement may impact the demand for, or the price of, any drug candidate for which we obtain marketing approval.
If reimbursement is not available or is available only to limited levels, we may not be able to successfully commercialize any drug candidate for which we obtain marketing approval.
−Removed: There may be significant delays in obtaining reimbursement for newly approved drugs, and coverage may be more limited than the purposes for which the drug is approved by the FDA or similar regulatory authorities outside the United States.
+Added: There may be significant delays in obtaining reimbursement for newly approved drugs or new indications, and coverage may be more limited than the purposes for which the drug is approved by the FDA or similar regulatory authorities outside the United States.
Moreover, eligibility for reimbursement does not imply that any drug will be paid for in all cases or at a rate that covers our costs, including research, development, manufacture, sale and distribution.
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Reimbursement rates may vary according to the use of the drug and the clinical setting in which it is used, may be based on reimbursement levels already set for lower-cost drugs and may be incorporated into existing payments for other services.
−Removed: Net prices for drugs may be reduced by mandatory discounts or rebates required by government healthcare programs or private payors and by any future relaxation of laws that presently restrict imports of drugs from countries where they may be sold at lower prices than in the United States.
−Removed: Third-party payors often rely upon Medicare coverage policy and payment limitations in setting their own reimbursement policies.
+Added: Net prices for drugs may be reduced by mandatory discounts or rebates required by government healthcare programs or private payors and by any future relaxation of laws that presently restrict imports of drugs from countries where they may be sold at lower prices.
Our inability to promptly obtain coverage and profitable payment rates from both government-funded and private payors for any approved drugs that we develop could have a material adverse effect on our operating results, our ability to raise capital needed to commercialize drugs and our overall financial condition.
+Added: In the United States, we must offer discounted pricing or rebates on purchases of pharmaceutical products under various federal and state healthcare programs, such as the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the 340B drug pricing program and the Medicare Part D Program.
+Added: We must also report specific prices to government agencies under healthcare programs, such as the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and Medicare Part B.
+Added: The calculations necessary to determine the prices reported are complex and the failure to report prices accurately may expose us to penalties.
We are subject to new legislation, regulatory proposals and managed care initiatives that may increase our costs of compliance and adversely affect our ability to market our products, obtain collaborators and raise capital.
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healthcare system.
−Removed: The ACA and any revisions or replacements of that Act, any substitute legislation, and other changes in the law or regulatory framework could have a material adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: Among the provisions of the ACA, those of importance to our potential product candidates include:
−Removed: ● an annual, nondeductible fee on any entity that manufactures or imports specified branded prescription drugs and biologic agents, apportioned among these entities according to their market share in certain government healthcare programs;
−Removed: ● an increase in the statutory minimum rebates a manufacturer must pay under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program to 23.1% and 13.0% of the average manufacturer price for branded and generic drugs, respectively;
−Removed: ● expansion of healthcare fraud and abuse laws, including the federal False Claims Act and the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, new government investigative powers and enhanced penalties for non-compliance;
−Removed: ● a new Medicare Part D coverage gap discount program, in which manufacturers must agree to offer 50% point-of-sale discounts off negotiated prices of applicable brand drugs to eligible beneficiaries during their coverage gap period, as a condition for a manufacturer’s outpatient drugs to be covered under Medicare Part D (subsequent legislation increased this amount to 70% effective as of January 1, 2019);
−Removed: ● extension of a manufacturer’s Medicaid rebate liability to covered drugs dispensed to individuals who are enrolled in Medicaid managed care organizations;
−Removed: ● expansion of eligibility criteria for Medicaid programs by, among other things, adding new eligibility categories for certain individuals with income at or below 133% of the federal poverty level, thereby potentially increasing a manufacturer’s Medicaid rebate liability;
−Removed: ● expansion of the list of covered entities eligible to enroll in the 340B Drug Pricing Program to include certain free-standing cancer hospitals, critical access hospitals, rural referral centers, and sole community hospitals, but exempting orphan drugs from the ceiling price requirements for these covered entities;
−Removed: ● new requirements under the federal Open Payments program and its implementing regulations;
−Removed: ● a new requirement to annually report drug samples that manufacturers and distributors provide to physicians;
−Removed: ● a new regulatory pathway for the approval of biosimilar biological products;
−Removed: ● a new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to oversee, identify priorities in, and conduct comparative clinical effectiveness research, along with funding for such research.
−Removed: Certain provisions of the ACA have been subject to judicial challenges as well as efforts to repeal or replace them or to alter their interpretation or implementation.
+Added: ACA changes included expanding healthcare coverage through Medicaid expansion and implementation of the individual health insurance mandate;
+Added: changing coverage and reimbursement of drug products under government healthcare programs;
+Added: imposing an annual fee on manufacturers of branded drugs;
+Added: and expanding government enforcement authority.
+Added: We face uncertainties because there have been, and may be additional, federal legislative and administrative efforts to repeal, substantially modify or invalidate some or all of the provisions of the ACA.
+Added: Such efforts may lead to fewer Americans having more comprehensive health insurance compliant with the ACA, even in the absence of a legislative repeal.
For example, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Act) repealed the penalty for individuals who fail to maintain minimum essential health coverage as required by the ACA, commonly referred to as the individual mandate, effective January 1, 2019.
−Removed: Another example is the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (the BBA), which set government spending levels for Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019 and revised certain provisions of the ACA.
−Removed: Specifically, beginning in 2019, the BBA increased manufacturer point-of-sale discounts off negotiated prices of applicable brand drugs in the Medicare Part D coverage gap from 50% to 70% effective as of January 1, 2019, ultimately increasing the liability for brand drug manufacturers.
−Removed: In December 2018, the U.S.
−Removed: District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that (i) that the individual mandate was unconstitutional as a result of the associated tax penalty being repealed as part of the Tax Act;
−Removed: and (ii) the individual mandate is not severable from the rest of the ACA and, as a result, the ACA in its entirety is invalid.
−Removed: In December 2019, the U.S.
−Removed: Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision that the individual mandate is unconstitutional but remanded the case back to the district court to reconsider the severability question.
−Removed: It is unclear how the ultimate decision in this case, which is now pending before the U.S.
−Removed: Supreme Court, or other efforts to repeal, replace, or invalidate the ACA or its implementing regulations, or portions thereof, will affect the ACA, our industry more generally, and the availability of adequate reimbursement for our products if commercialized.
+Added: The ACA has also been subject to judicial challenge.
+Added: The case Texas v.
+Added: Azar, which challenges the constitutionality of the ACA, including provisions that are unrelated to healthcare reform but were enacted as part of the ACA, and will be argued before the United States Supreme Court in November 2020 with a decision expected before the summer in 2021.
+Added: The ongoing litigation challenges the ACA’s individual mandate and raises questions about the entire law’s survival.
+Added: It is unclear how the ultimate decision in the case or other efforts to repeal, replace, or invalidate the ACA or its implementing regulations, or portions thereof, will affect the ACA, our industry more generally, and the availability of adequate reimbursement for our products if commercialized.
Beyond the ACA, there has been increasing legislative, regulatory and enforcement interest with respect to prescription drug pricing practices.
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Since that time, the Administration has taken several regulatory steps with respect to prescription drug pricing.
−Removed: Most recently, in July 2020, President Trump signed four Executive Orders directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take several steps to lower costs on prescription drugs.
−Removed: Many of the policy changes included in the Executive Orders were proposed in President Trump’s May 2018 Drug Pricing Blueprint.
−Removed: The Executive Orders cover a range of policies, including but not limited to (i) tying the prices paid by the U.S.
+Added: In July 2020, President Trump signed four Executive Orders directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take several steps to lower costs on prescription drugs, including but not limited to (i) tying the prices paid by the U.S.
government (e.g., Medicare) for drugs and biological products to prices paid in other countries;
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if the FDA deems them safe.
−Removed: Many of these policy proposals have been considered in recent legislative and regulatory proposals.
−Removed: The impact and timing of these Executive Orders is uncertain, as the directives contained therein would require agency rulemaking and implementation.
+Added: The timing of these Executive Orders is uncertain, as the directives contained therein would require agency rulemaking and implementation.
These policy proposals, if implemented, could significantly impact the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S.
and adversely affect our ability to generate revenues or commercialize our product candidates in the U.S.
−Removed: In December 2019, HHS , in conjunction with the FDA, released two pharmaceutical importation models:
−Removed: (a) a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to permit importation of pharmaceuticals from Canada, and (b) draft FDA guidance permitting manufacturers to import their own pharmaceuticals that were originally intended for marketing in other countries.
−Removed: In addition, HHS finalized Medicare fee-for-service hospital payment reductions for Part B drugs acquired through the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which remains subject to ongoing legal challenge.
+Added: HHS has also taken action to address drug costs.
+Added: For example , HHS finalized Medicare fee-for-service hospital payment reductions for Part B drugs acquired through the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which remains subject to ongoing legal challenge.
HHS also has signaled its intent to continue to pursue reimbursement policy changes for Medicare Part B drugs as a whole that likely would reduce hospital and physician reimbursement for these drugs.
−Removed: In addition to the actions taken by the President and HHS, there have been several recent U.S.
+Added: In addition, there continue to be efforts to lower drug prices through increased competition, with policy proposals seeking to facilitate generic and biosimilar approval and marketing authorization.
+Added: For example, in 2018, the FDA announced the Biosimilar Action Plan and sought input on how the agency can best facilitate greater availability of biosimilar products, including input on whether changes to an approved biologic (e.g., a new indication) would be protected by the remainder of the statutory 12-year exclusivity period (commonly referred to as “umbrella exclusivity”).
+Added: In the event there is a modification to the biologic exclusivity period or other steps taken to facilitate biosimilar or generic approvals, we could experience biosimilar/generic competition of any products for which we receive FDA approval at an earlier time than currently anticipated.
+Added: In addition to the actions taken by the President, HHS, and the FDA, there have been several recent U.S.
Congressional inquiries and proposed and enacted legislation designed to bring more transparency to drug pricing, reduce the cost of prescription drugs under Medicare, limit price increases, evaluate the relationship between pricing and manufacturer patient programs, and reform government health care program reimbursement methodologies for prescription drugs.
+Added: For example, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (the BBA) increased manufacturer point-of-sale discounts off negotiated prices of applicable brand drugs in the Medicare Part D coverage gap from 50% to 70% effective as of January 1, 2019, ultimately increasing the liability for brand drug manufacturers.
We expect that health care reform measures that may be adopted in the future, may result in more rigorous coverage criteria and in additional downward pressure on the price that we may receive for any of our product candidates, if approved.
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These measures, which vary by state, could reduce the ultimate demand for our products, if approved, or put pressure on our product pricing.
+Added: In addition, other legislative changes have been adopted that could have an adverse effect upon, and could prevent, our products’ or product candidates’ commercial success.
+Added: More broadly, the Budget Control Act of 2011, as amended, or the Budget Control Act, includes provisions intended to reduce the federal deficit, including reductions in Medicare payments to providers through 2030 (except May 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020).
+Added: Any significant spending reductions affecting Medicare, Medicaid or other publicly funded or subsidized health programs, or any significant taxes or fees imposed as part of any broader deficit reduction effort or legislative replacement to the Budget Control Act, or otherwise, could have an adverse impact on our anticipated product revenues.
Furthermore, legislative and regulatory proposals have been made to expand post-approval requirements and restrict sales and promotional activities for drugs.
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This hiring freeze was lifted later in 2017.
−Removed: Moreover, on January 30, 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order, applicable to all executive agencies, including the FDA, which requires that for each notice of proposed rulemaking or final regulation to be issued in fiscal year 2017, the agency shall identify at least two existing regulations to be repealed, unless prohibited by law.
+Added: Moreover, on January 30, 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order, applicable to all executive agencies, including the FDA, which requires that for each notice of proposed rulemaking or final regulation
+Added: to be issued in fiscal year 2017, the agency shall identify at least two existing regulations to be repealed, unless prohibited by law.
These requirements are referred to as the two-for-one provisions.
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These may push HHS, the FDA, and other relevant agencies to engage in rulemaking that may impact the pharmaceutical industry.
−Removed: If, in the future, we are unable to establish sales and marketing capabilities or enter into agreements with third parties to sell and market our drug candidates, we may not be successful in commercializing our drug candidates if and when they are approved, and we may not be able to generate any revenue.
−Removed: We do not currently have a sales infrastructure and have limited experience in the sale, marketing or distribution of drugs.
+Added: If, in the future, we are unable to establish a commercial operation, including sales and marketing capabilities or enter into agreements with third parties to sell and market our drug candidates, we may not be successful in commercializing our drug candidates if and when they are approved, and we may not be able to generate any revenue.
As we plan for potential FDA approval of our first product, umbralisib, we are making significant investments to build a commercial organization and infrastructure.
−Removed: We are hiring commercial and medical support personnel and will need to hire a sales force, in order to build processes and systems to support a commercial launch prior to knowing whether umbralisib will receive FDA approval.
+Added: We are hiring marketing, sales, and medical support personnel in order to build processes and systems to support a commercial launch prior to knowing whether umbralisib will receive FDA approval.
It is possible that the FDA approval is unexpectedly delayed or our product is not approved at all.
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This may be costly, and our investment would be lost if we cannot retain or reposition our sales and marketing personnel.
−Removed: Factors that may inhibit our efforts to commercialize our drug candidates on our own include:
+Added: Factors that may inhibit our efforts to commercialize our drug candidates on our own and generate product revenues include:
● our inability to recruit and retain adequate numbers of effective sales and marketing personnel;
+Added: ● the costs and time associated with the initial and ongoing training of sales and marketing personnel on legal and regulatory compliance matters and with ongoing monitoring of their activities;
● the inability of sales personnel to obtain access to physicians or to effectively promote any future drugs;
● the lack of complementary drugs to be offered by sales personnel, which may put us at a competitive disadvantage relative to companies with more extensive product lines;
+Added: ● our ability to maintain a healthcare compliance program including effective mechanisms for compliance monitoring;
● unforeseen costs and expenses associated with creating a sales and marketing organization.
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Our drug revenues or the profitability of these drug revenues to us are likely to be lower than if we were to market and sell any drug candidates that we develop ourselves.
−Removed: In addition, we likely will have little control over such third parties, and any of them may fail to devote the necessary resources and attention to sell and market our drug candidates effectively.
+Added: In addition, we likely will have little control over such third parties, and any of them may fail to devote the necessary resources and attention to
+Added: sell and market our drug candidates effectively.
If we do not establish sales and marketing capabilities successfully, either on our own or in collaboration with third parties, we will not be successful in commercializing our drug candidates.
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Although we do not currently have any drugs on the market, once we begin commercializing our drug candidates, we will be subject to additional extensive healthcare statutory and regulatory requirements and oversight by the federal government and the states and foreign governments in which we conduct our business.
−Removed: Healthcare providers, physicians and third-party payors play a primary role in the recommendation and prescription of any drug candidates for which we obtain marketing approval.
−Removed: Our future arrangements with third-party payors and customers will expose us to broadly applicable fraud and abuse and other healthcare laws and regulations that may constrain the business or financial arrangements and relationships through which we market, sell and distribute our drug candidates for which we obtain marketing approval.
+Added: Healthcare providers and third-party payors play a primary role in the recommendation and prescription of any drug candidates for which we obtain marketing approval.
+Added: Our past, current and future relationships, arrangements and interactions with these professionals and entities, as well as with patients and patient advocacy organizations will expose us to broadly applicable fraud and abuse and other healthcare laws and regulations that may constrain the business or financial arrangements and relationships through which we market, sell and distribute our drug candidates for which we obtain marketing approval.
Restrictions under applicable federal and state healthcare laws and regulations include the following:
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similar to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, a person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it in order to have committed a violation;
−Removed: ● the federal physician payment transparency requirements, sometimes referred to as the Sunshine Act under the Affordable Care Act require manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologics and medical supplies that are reimbursable under Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program to report to the Department of Health and Human Services information related to physician payments and other transfers of value and the ownership and investment interests of such physicians and their immediate family members;
+Added: ● the so-called federal “Sunshine Act” under the Affordable Care Act requires manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologics and medical supplies that are reimbursable under Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program to monitor and report information related to payments and other transfers of value to and the ownership and investment interests of physicians and teaching hospitals (and additional categories of healthcare providers beginning with reports submitted in 2022) to the federal government for redisclosure to the public;
● HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 and its implementing regulations, which also imposes obligations on certain covered entity healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses as well as their business associates that perform certain services involving the use or disclosure of individually identifiable health information, including mandatory contractual terms, with respect to safeguarding the privacy, security and transmission of individually identifiable health information;
● federal consumer protection and unfair competition laws, which broadly regulate marketplace activities and activities that potentially harm consumers;
−Removed: ● analogous state laws and regulations, such as state anti-kickback and false claims laws that may apply to sales or marketing arrangements and claims involving healthcare items or services reimbursed by non-governmental third-party payors, including private insurers;
−Removed: and some state laws require pharmaceutical companies to comply with the pharmaceutical industry’s voluntary compliance guidelines and the relevant compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government in addition to requiring drug manufacturers to report information related to pricing of products or payments to physicians and other health care providers or marketing expenditures, and governing the privacy and security of health information in certain circumstances, many of which differ from each other in significant ways and often are not preempted by HIPAA, thus complicating compliance efforts.
+Added: the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which among other things, strictly regulates drug product and medical device marketing, prohibits manufacturers from marketing such products prior to approval or for off-label use and regulates the distribution of samples;
+Added: federal laws, including the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, that require pharmaceutical manufacturers to report certain calculated product prices to the government or provide certain discounts or rebates to government authorities or private entities, often as a condition of reimbursement under government healthcare programs;
+Added: the Drug Supply Chain Security Act, or DSCSA, which imposes obligations on entities in the commercial product supply chain, including manufacturers, to identify and track prescription drugs as they are distributed in the U.S.;
+Added: ● state law equivalents of some of the above federal laws, such as anti-kickback and false claims laws that may apply to items or services reimbursed by any third-party payor, including commercial insurers, state transparency laws, state laws limiting interactions between pharmaceutical manufacturers and members of the healthcare industry, and state laws governing the privacy and security of health information in certain circumstances, many of which differ from each other in significant ways and often are not preempted by federal laws, thus complicating compliance efforts.
Ensuring that our future business arrangements with third parties comply with applicable healthcare laws and regulations will involve substantial costs.
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If our operations, including anticipated activities to be conducted by our sales team, were to be found to be in violation of any of these laws or any other governmental regulations that may apply to us, we may be subject to significant civil, criminal and administrative penalties, damages, fines, exclusion from government-funded healthcare programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, qui tam actions brought by individual whistleblowers in the name of the government, and the curtailment or restructuring of our operations.
−Removed: If any of the physicians or other providers or entities with whom we expect to do business is found to be not in compliance with applicable laws, they may be subject to criminal, civil or administrative sanctions, including exclusions from government-funded healthcare programs.
+Added: If we violate applicable data privacy and security laws, we may be subject to penalties, including civil and criminal penalties, damages, fines and the curtailment or restructuring of our operations.
+Added: We may be subject to privacy and security laws in the various jurisdictions in which we operate, obtain or store personally identifiable information.
+Added: The legislative and regulatory landscape for privacy and data protection continues to evolve, and there has been an increasing focus on privacy and data protection issues with the potential to affect our business.
+Added: Within the United States, various federal and state laws regulate the privacy and security of personal information and so may affect our business operations.
+Added: For example, at the federal level, our operations may be affected by the data privacy and security provisions of HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and its implementing regulations.
+Added: Although we are not currently directly subject to HIPAA, HIPAA affects the ability of healthcare providers and other entities with which we may interact, including clinical trial sites, to disclose patient health information to us.
+Added: Numerous other jurisdictions regulate the privacy and security of personally identifiable data.
+Added: For example, the processing of personal data in the European Economic Area, or the EEA, is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, or the GDPR, which took effect in May 2018.
+Added: The GDPR increases obligations with respect to clinical trials conducted in the EEA, such as in relation to the provision of fair processing notices, exercising data subject rights and reporting certain data breaches to regulators and affected individuals, as well as how we document our relationships with third parties that process GDPR-covered personal data on our behalf.
+Added: The GDPR also increases the scrutiny applied to transfers of personal data from the EEA (including from clinical trial sites in the EEA) to countries that are considered by the European Commission to lack an adequate level of data protection, such as the United States.
+Added: In July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the EU-U.S.
+Added: Privacy Shield framework, one of the mechanisms used to legitimize the transfer of personal data from the EEA to the U.S., which decision may lead to increased scrutiny on data transfers from the EEA to the U.S.
+Added: generally and increase our costs of compliance with data privacy legislation.
+Added: If our operations are found to be in violation of any data privacy and security laws, rules or regulations that apply to us, we may be subject to penalties, including civil and criminal penalties, damages, fines and the curtailment or restructuring of our operations, which could adversely affect our ability to operate our business and our financial results.
+Added: Although compliance programs can mitigate the risk of investigation and prosecution for violations of these laws, rules or
+Added: regulations, we cannot be certain that our program will address all areas of potential exposure and the risks in this area cannot be entirely eliminated, particularly because the requirements and government interpretations of the requirements in this space are constantly evolving.
+Added: Any action against us for violation of these laws, rules or regulations, even if we successfully defend against it, could cause us to incur significant legal expenses and divert our management’s attention from the operation of our business, as well as damage our business or reputation.
+Added: Moreover, achieving and sustaining compliance with applicable federal and state privacy, security, fraud and reporting laws may prove costly.
If we fail to adequately understand and comply with the local laws and customs as we expand into new international markets, these operations may incur losses or otherwise adversely affect our business and results of operations.
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If we do not effectively manage our operations in these subsidiaries and review equity investees effectively, or if we fail to manage our alliances, we may lose money in these countries and it may adversely affect our business and results of our operations.
−Removed: In all interactions with foreign regulatory authorities, we are exposed to liability risks under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or similar anti-bribery laws.
+Added: In all interactions with foreign regulatory authorities and other government agencies, we are exposed to liability risks under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or similar anti-bribery laws.
Any product for which we obtain marketing approval could be subject to restrictions or withdrawal from the market and we may be subject to penalties if we fail to comply with regulatory requirements or if we experience unanticipated problems with products.
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● refusal to approve pending applications or supplements to approved applications that we or our subsidiaries submit;
−Removed: ● suspension or withdrawal of marketing or regulatory approvals;
+Added: ● suspension or termination of ongoing clinical trials;
+Added: ● fines, restitutions, or disgorgement of profits or revenues;
● refusal to permit the import or export of products;
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● adverse publicity.
+Added: Any government investigation of alleged violations of law could require us to expend significant time and resources in response and could generate negative publicity.
+Added: In addition, the FDA’s regulations, policies or guidance may change and new or additional statutes or government regulations may be enacted that could prevent or delay regulatory approval of our product candidates or further restrict or regulate post-approval activities.
+Added: We also cannot predict the likelihood, nature, or extent of adverse government regulation that may arise from pending or future legislation or administrative action, either in the United States or abroad.
If we, or our respective suppliers, third-party contractors, clinical investigators or collaborators are slow to adapt, or are unable to adapt, to changes in existing regulatory requirements or adoption of new regulatory requirements or policies, we, our subsidiaries, or our respective collaborators may be subject to the actions listed above, including losing marketing approval for products, resulting in decreased revenue from milestones, product sales or royalties.
−Removed: We will need to obtain FDA approval of any proposed product brand names, and any failure or delay associated with such approval may adversely impact our business.
−Removed: A pharmaceutical product candidate cannot be marketed in the United States or other countries until we have completed a rigorous and extensive regulatory review process, including approval of a brand name.
−Removed: Any brand names we intend to use for ublituximab, umbralisib or any future product candidates will require approval from the FDA regardless of whether we have secured a formal trademark registration from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
−Removed: The FDA typically conducts a review of proposed product brand names, including an evaluation of potential for confusion with other product names.
−Removed: The FDA may also object to a product brand name if it believes the name inappropriately implies medical claims.
−Removed: If the FDA objects to any of our proposed product brand names, we may be required to adopt an alternative brand name.
−Removed: If we adopt an alternative brand name, we would lose the benefit of our existing trademark applications for such product candidate and may be required to expend significant additional resources in an effort to identify a suitable product brand name that would qualify under applicable trademark laws, not infringe the existing rights of third parties and be acceptable to the FDA.
−Removed: We may be unable to build a successful brand identity for a new trademark in a timely manner or at all, which would limit our ability to commercialize our product candidates.
−Removed: The FDA has conditionally accepted a brand name for umbralisib.
−Removed: However, final approval of the brand name is conditional on FDA approval of the NDA for umbralisib.
−Removed: In the event that FDA has any objection to the brand name following conditional acceptance, our ability to successfully launch and commercialize umbralisib would be negatively impacted.
Risks Related to Our Dependence on Third Parties
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In order to submit an Investigational New Drug application (IND), BLA, or NDA to the FDA and maintain these applications, it is necessary to submit all information on the clinical, non-clinical, chemistry, manufacturing, controls and quality aspects of the product candidate.
−Removed: Clinical trial authorizations and marketing applications for foreign regulatory bodies have substantially similar requirements.
+Added: Clinical trial applications and marketing authorization applications for foreign regulatory bodies have substantially similar requirements.
We rely on our third-party contractors and our licensing partners to provide portions of this data.
If we are unable to obtain this data, or the data is not sufficient to meet the regulatory requirements, we may experience significant delays in our development programs.
−Removed: While we maintain an active IND for ublituximab, umbralisib, and cosibelimab enabling the conduct of studies in the FDA’s Division of Hematology and Oncology, and an active IND for ublituximab under the FDA’s Division of Neurology, there can be no assurance that the FDA will allow us to continue the development of our product candidates in those divisions where we maintain an active IND.
Additionally, we use CROs to assist in the conduct of our current clinical trials and expect to use such services for future clinical trials and we rely upon medical institutions, clinical investigators and contract laboratories to conduct our trials in accordance with our clinical protocols and appropriate regulations.
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We rely on our clinical trial sites and investigators to properly identify and screen eligible candidates for our clinical trials, and for them to ensure participants adhere to our clinical protocol requirements.
−Removed: The majority of our clinical trial conduct occurs in the out-patient setting, where patients are expected to continue to adhere to our study protocol specified requirements.
+Added: The majority of our clinical trial conduct occurs in the outpatient setting, where patients are expected to continue to adhere to our study protocol specified requirements.
The ability of our enrolled patients to properly identify, document, and report adverse events;
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Our reliance on third parties increases the risk that we will not have sufficient quantities of our drug candidates or drugs or such quantities at an acceptable cost or quality, which could delay, prevent or impair our development or commercialization efforts.
−Removed: The facilities used by contract manufacturers to manufacture our drug candidates must be approved by the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority pursuant to inspections that may be conducted after we submit our marketing applications to the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority.
+Added: The facilities used by contract manufacturers to manufacture our drug candidates typically undergo inspections by the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory to verify compliance with applicable cGMP regulations.
+Added: Such inspections may be conducted after we submit our marketing applications to the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority.
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 drug candidates.
−Removed: 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 secure and/or maintain regulatory approval for their manufacturing facilities.
−Removed: In addition, we have no control over the ability of our contract manufacturers to maintain adequate quality control, quality assurance and qualified personnel.
−Removed: If the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority does not approve these facilities for the manufacture of our drug candidates or if it withdraws any such approval in the future, we may need to find alternative manufacturing facilities, which would significantly impact, including causing substantial delay, in our ability to develop, obtain regulatory approval for or market our drug candidates.
+Added: If our contract manufacturers cannot successfully manufacture material that conforms to our specifications and the strict regulatory requirements of the FDA or others and the compliance concerns cannot be resolved, remediated, or otherwise addressed to FDA’s satisfaction in a timely manner during the review of our NDAs or BLAs, it may negatively impact our ability to obtain regulatory approval for our drug candidates or obtain approval within projected timelines.
+Added: In addition, although we exercise qualification and oversight of our contract manufacturers, we cannot guarantee their ability to maintain compliance with cGMP regulations, including having adequate quality control, quality assurance and qualified personnel.
Further, our failure, or the failure of our third-party manufacturers, to comply with applicable regulations could result in sanctions being imposed on us, including clinical holds, fines, injunctions, civil penalties, delays, suspension or withdrawal of approvals, license revocation, seizures or recalls of drug candidates or drugs, operating restrictions and criminal prosecutions, any of which could significantly and adversely affect our business and supplies of our drug candidates.
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Additionally, several method of use patents for ublituximab and umbralisib in various indications and settings have also been applied for but have not yet been issued or have been issued in certain territories but not under all jurisdictions in which such applications have been filed.
−Removed: There can be no guarantee that any patents for which an application has already been filed, nor any patents filed in the future, for our cosibelimab, TG-1701 and TG-1801 or for our pre-clinical product candidates will be granted in any or all jurisdictions in which they were filed, or that all claims initially included in such patent applications will be allowed in the final patent that is issued.
+Added: There can be no guarantee that any patents for which an application has already been filed, nor any patents filed in the future, for cosibelimab, TG-1701 and TG-1801 or for our pre-clinical product candidates will be granted in any or all jurisdictions in which they were filed, or that all claims initially included in such patent applications will be allowed in the final patent that is issued.
The patent application process is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, and there can be no assurance that we or our partners will be successful in protecting our product candidates by obtaining and defending patents, or what the scope of an issued patent may ultimately be.
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We will need to develop and expand our business, and we may encounter difficulties in managing this development and expansion, which could disrupt our operations.
−Removed: As of August 5, 2020, we had 176 full-time employees, and we expect to continue to increase our number of employees and expand the scope of our operations.
+Added: As of November 4, 2020, we had 217 full-time employees, and we expect to continue to increase our number of employees and expand the scope of our operations.
Our management and medical, commercial, and scientific personnel, systems and facilities currently in place will not be adequate to support our anticipated future growth.
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Our internal computer systems, or those of our third-party CROs, CMOs, or other contractors or consultants, may fail or suffer security breaches, which could result in a material disruption of our drug candidates’ development programs.
−Removed: Despite the implementation of security measures, our internal computer systems and those of our third-party CROs, CMOs, and other contractors and consultants are vulnerable to damage from computer viruses, unauthorized access, natural disasters, terrorism, war and telecommunication and electrical failures.
+Added: Despite the implementation of security measures, our internal computer systems and those of our third-party CROs, CMOs, and other contractors and consultants are vulnerable to damage from computer viruses, unauthorized access, cyber-attacks or cyber-intrusions over the Internet, natural disasters, terrorism, war and telecommunication and electrical failures.
While we have not experienced any such system failure, accident, or security breach to date, if such an event were to occur and cause interruptions in our operations, it could result in a material disruption of our programs.
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If we are not successful in defending ourselves or asserting our rights, those actions could lead to 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.
+Added: Our third-party manufacturers may use hazardous materials in the production of our product candidates and if so, they must comply with environmental laws and regulations, which can be expensive and restrict how we or they do business.
+Added: Manufacturing activities for the production of our product candidates involve the controlled storage, use, and disposal of hazardous materials, including the components of our product candidates, and other hazardous compounds.
+Added: Our third-party manufacturers and we are subject to federal, state, and local laws and regulations governing the use, manufacture, storage, handling, release, disposal of, and exposure to, these hazardous materials.
+Added: Violation of these laws and regulations could lead to substantial fines and penalties.
+Added: Although we believe that our safety procedures, and those of our third-party manufacturers, for handling and disposing of these materials comply with the standards prescribed by these laws and regulations, we cannot eliminate the risk of accidental contamination or injury from these materials.
+Added: In the event of an accident, state or federal authorities may curtail our use of these materials and interrupt our business operations.
+Added: In addition, we could become subject to potentially material liabilities relating to the investigation and cleanup of any contamination, whether currently unknown or caused by future releases.
We may acquire businesses or drugs, or form strategic alliances, in the future, and we may not realize the benefits of such acquisitions.
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Moreover, these rules and regulations increase our legal and financial compliance costs and make some activities more time-consuming and costly.
−Removed: For example, these rules and regulations make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage.
+Added: these rules and regulations make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage.
As a result, it may be more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our Board of Directors, our Board committees or as executive officers.
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The exhibits listed on the Exhibit Index are included with this report.
−Removed: Amendment to TG Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: Amended and Restated 2012 Incentive Plan, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Exhibit 10.1 on Form 8-K on June 24, 2020.
−Removed: Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated August 10, 2020.
−Removed: Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated August 10, 2020.
+Added: Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated November 9, 2020.
+Added: Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated November 9, 2020.
Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
−Removed: 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated August 10, 2020.
+Added: 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated November 9, 2020.
Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
−Removed: 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated August 10, 2020.
−Removed: The following financial information from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2020, formatted in Inline Extensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL):
+Added: 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dated November 9, 2020.
+Added: The following financial information from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2020, formatted in Inline Extensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL):
(i) the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, (ii) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, (iii) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity, (iv) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, and (v) Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (filed herewith).
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TG THERAPEUTICS, INC.
−Removed: August 10, 2020
+Added: November 9, 2020
Chief Financial Officer
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