MACROGENICS INC
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 20, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Mar 20, 2025
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Read the current filingPrevious report: 10-K
Period ended 2023-12-31; filed 2024-03-07.
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Item 1A. Risk FactorsCurrent report: 10-K
Period ended 2024-12-31; filed 2025-03-20.
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Item 1A. Risk FactorsThe baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.
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•Our product candidates, if approved, may fail to achieve or maintain market acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success.
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•Our future success depends on our ability to attract or retain key executives and to attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel.
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Certain of our antibody-drug conjugate, or ADC, product candidates incorporate technology developed by our collaboration partners. To date, no ADC product candidates incorporating any such technology have been approved by the FDA.
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Our product candidates, if approved, may fail to achieve or maintain market acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success.
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Our product candidates, if approved, may fail to achieve or maintain market acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success.
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Inadequate funding or government efficiency initiatives for the FDA and other government agencies could reduce agency staffing or hinder agency ability to hire and retain key leadership and other personnel, prevent new products and services from being developed or commercialized in a timely manner or otherwise prevent those agencies from performing normal business functions on which the operation of our business may rely, which could negatively impact our business.
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The ability of the FDA to review and approve new products can be affected by a variety of factors, including government budget, funding and staffing levels, ability to hire and retain key personnel and accept the payment of user fees, and statutory, regulatory and policy changes. Average review times at the agency have fluctuated in recent years as a result and may fluctuate significantly in the future. In addition, government funding and staffing levels of other government agencies on which our operations may rely, including those that fund research and development activities is subject to the political process, which is inherently fluid and unpredictable.
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Future or past business transactions (such as acquisitions or integrations) could expose us to additional cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, as our systems could be negatively affected by vulnerabilities present in acquired or integrated entities’ systems and technologies. Furthermore, we may discover security issues that were not found during due diligence of such
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HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2019, or HITECH, and their respective implementing regulations, impose obligations on “covered entities,” including certain healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses, as well as their respective “business associates” that create, receive, maintain or transmit individually identifiable health information for or on behalf of a covered entity and their subcontractors that use, disclose, access, or otherwise process individually identifiable health information, with respect to safeguarding the privacy, security and transmission of individually identifiable health information.
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Our compliance with these legal requirements and obligations, together with any policies or practices that we have or may implement to further secure and protect sensitive data, could limit our ability to utilize data that may be valuable to our business.
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Our employees and personnel may integrate generative AI technologies to perform their work, and the disclosure and use of personal data in generative AI technologies is subject to various privacy laws and other privacy obligations.
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Governments have passed and are likely to pass additional laws regulating generative AI. Any use of this technology could result in additional compliance costs, regulatory investigations and actions, and lawsuits.
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Our future success depends on our ability to attract or retain key executives and to attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel.
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In October 2024, we announced the separation of our President and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Scott Koenig and the appointment of a special executive search committee of the Board to identify a new Chief Executive Officer for our company. Although we intend to navigate this transition effectively and the identification of a new Chief Executive Officer is intended to be in the best interest of our company and our stockholders, as we navigate Dr. Koenig’s separation and the hiring of a new Chief Executive Officer, the uncertainty during the transition period may increase the risks of employee departures, which may also result in the loss of institutional or technical knowledge, which may adversely affect our business.
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•Vobra duo, lorigerlimab, or any other product or product candidate that we develop may fail to achieve or maintain market acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success.
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Vobra duo, lorigerlimab, or any other product or product candidate that we developed or may develop may fail to achieve or maintain market acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success.
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Vobra duo, lorigerlimab, or any other product or product candidate that we developed or may develop may fail to achieve or maintain market acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success. For example, revenues from MARGENZA are not anticipated to enable us to reach profitability.
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For example, the prescribing information for MARGENZA include warnings and precautions for infusion-related reactions, as well as a boxed warning related to left ventricular dysfunction and embryo-fetal toxicity. Based on the possible identification of future adverse events, we may be required to further revise the prescribing information, including MARGENZA’s boxed warning, which could negatively impact sales of MARGENZA or adversely affect MARGENZA’s acceptance in the market.
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Certain of our contracts include government contractor requirements. Laws and regulations affecting government contracts may make it more costly and difficult for us to successfully conduct our business.
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We must comply with numerous laws and regulations relating to the procurement, formation, administration and performance of government contracts. Failure to comply with these laws could result in significant civil and criminal penalties. Among the most significant government contracting regulations that may affect our business are: the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and NIH-NIAID-specific regulations supplemental to the FAR, which comprehensively regulate the procurement, formation, administration and performance of government contracts; business ethics and public integrity obligations, which govern conflicts of interest and the hiring of former government employees, restrict the granting of gratuities and funding of lobbying activities and incorporate other requirements such as the Anti-Kickback Act, the Procurement Integrity Act, and the False Claims Act; export and import control laws and regulations; and laws, regulations and executive orders restricting the use and dissemination of sensitive information we may receive pursuant to our performance of the government contract. U.S. government agencies routinely audit and investigate government contractors for compliance with applicable laws and standards. If we are audited, such audit could result in disallowance of expected cost reimbursement, or if such audit were to uncover improper or illegal activities, we could be subject to civil and criminal penalties, administrative sanctions, including suspension or debarment from government contracting and significant reputational harm.
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We also have the capability to manufacture commercial supply of MARGENZA. Although we believe we currently have capacity to produce most or all of the material required for our and our collaborators’ clinical trials and for the commercial supply of MARGENZA, we may not be able to do so in the future and may continue to rely on arrangements with third parties.
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Our contracts may not contain limitations of liability, and even where they do, there can be no assurance that limitations of liability in our contracts are sufficient to protect us from liabilities, damages, or claims related to our data privacy and security obligations. We cannot be sure that our insurance coverage will be adequate or sufficient to protect us from or to mitigate liabilities arising out of our privacy and security practices, that such coverage will continue to be available on commercially reasonable terms or at all, or that such coverage will pay future claims. An information security training program is in place to educate our personnel on information security and data protection measures. The program is managed by information security personnel.
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Over the past few years, a number of pharmaceutical and other healthcare companies have been prosecuted under these laws for a variety of promotional and marketing activities, such as: providing free trips, free goods, improper consulting fees and grants and other monetary benefits to prescribers; reporting to pricing services inflated average wholesale prices that were then used by federal programs to set reimbursement rates; engaging in off-label promotion; and submitting inflated best price information to the Medicaid Rebate Program to reduce liability for Medicaid rebates. At such time as we or our collaborators market MARGENZA or any of our future approved products and these products are paid for by governmental programs, it is possible that some of our business activities could also be subject to challenge under one or more of these “fraud and abuse” laws.
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•failure of any of MARGENZA or our product candidates, if approved, to achieve commercial success;
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•We have incurred significant losses since inception and anticipate that we will continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future. Our first commercial product, MARGENZA, launched in March 2021 and to date has not resulted in revenues sufficient for us to reach profitability. Accordingly, we may never achieve or sustain profitability.
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•We have incurred significant losses since inception and anticipate that we will continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, we may never achieve or sustain profitability.
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•We depend substantially on the success of the clinical development of our products and product candidates, through our own efforts or those of our collaborators, including vobra duo and lorigerlimab. If we are unable to successfully complete clinical development, obtain additional regulatory approvals and commercialize our products and product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed and we may not be able to generate sufficient revenues and cash flows to continue our operations.
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•We depend substantially on the success of the clinical development of our product candidates, through our own efforts or those of our collaborators. If we are unable to successfully complete clinical development, obtain additional regulatory approvals and commercialize our product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed and we may not be able to generate sufficient revenues and cash flows to continue our operations.
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•Clinical drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with a highly uncertain outcome. We expect to incur significant additional costs related to the development of vobra duo, lorigerlimab, and our other product candidates and may experience delays in completing, or ultimately be unable to complete, the development and commercialization of our other products and product candidates.
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•Clinical drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with a highly uncertain outcome. We expect to incur significant additional costs related to the development of our product candidates and may experience delays in completing, or ultimately be unable to complete, the development and commercialization of our other product candidates.
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•The results of previous clinical trials may not be predictive of future results, and interim or top line data may be subject to change or qualification based the complete analysis of data. In addition, the results of our current or planned clinical trials may not satisfy the requirements of the FDA or non-U.S. regulatory authorities for product approval.
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•The results of previous clinical trials may not be predictive of future results, and interim, immature, or top line data may be subject to change or qualification based the complete analysis of data. In addition, the results of our current or planned clinical trials may not satisfy the requirements of the FDA or non-U.S. regulatory authorities for product approval.
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•We face significant competition and if our competitors continue to develop and market products that are more effective, safer or less expensive than our product and our product candidates, our current or future commercial opportunities may be negatively impacted.
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•We face significant competition and if our competitors continue to develop and market products that are more effective, safer or less expensive than our product candidates, our current or future commercial opportunities may be negatively impacted.
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•We use or may use novel technologies in the development of our product candidates and the FDA and other regulatory authorities have not approved or may not approve products that utilize these technologies.
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•We use novel technologies in the development of our product candidates and the FDA and other regulatory authorities have not approved or may not approve products that utilize these technologies.
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The manufacture of vobra duo, lorigerlimab, and other products or product candidates, for ourselves and our collaborators, is complex, and we may encounter difficulties in production. There can be no assurance that we will be able to effectively manufacture clinical quantities of our product candidates in the future. Further, we have limited experience in large-scale commercial manufacturing, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to effectively manufacture commercial quantities of our products or product candidates for ourselves or our collaborators, if and when approved.
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•The manufacture of our product candidates, for ourselves and our collaborators, is complex, and we may encounter difficulties in production. There can be no assurance that we will be able to effectively manufacture clinical quantities of our product candidates in the future. Further, we have limited experience in large-scale commercial manufacturing, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to effectively manufacture commercial quantities of our products or product candidates for ourselves or our collaborators, if and when approved.
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Our manufacturing facilities are subject to significant government regulations and approvals, which are often costly and could result in adverse consequences to our business if we fail to comply with the regulations or maintain the approvals.
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•Our manufacturing facility is subject to significant government regulations and approvals, which are often costly and could result in adverse consequences to our business if we fail to comply with the regulations or maintain the approvals.
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We have limited experience in launching and marketing internally developed products. If our products achieve regulatory approval and we are unable to further develop marketing and sales capabilities or enter into agreements with third parties to market and sell our products, or our existing arrangements are not successful, we may not be able to generate substantial product sales revenue.
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•We have limited experience in launching and marketing biopharmaceutical products. If our product candidates achieve regulatory approval and we are unable to develop marketing and sales capabilities or enter into agreements with third parties to market and sell our products, we may not be able to generate substantial product sales revenue.
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•Actual or anticipated changes to the laws and regulations governing the health care system may have a negative impact on cost and access to health insurance coverage and reimbursement of health care items and services.
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•Actual or anticipated changes to the laws, regulations, policies and governmental priorities, governing the health care system may have a negative impact on cost and access to health insurance coverage and reimbursement of health care items and services.
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•We contract with, and may in the future contract with, third parties for components of the manufacturing of our products and product candidates, including our antibody drug conjugate candidates. Failure of third-party contractors to successfully perform their obligations could harm our ability to develop or commercialize our product or product candidates.
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•We contract with, and may in the future contract with, third parties for components of the manufacturing of our product candidates, including our antibody drug conjugate candidates. Failure of third-party contractors to successfully perform their obligations could harm our ability to develop or commercialize our product or product candidates.
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We are advancing our product candidates through clinical development and have commercialized MARGENZA in collaboration with Eversana. Developing and commercializing pharmaceutical products, including conducting nonclinical studies and clinical trials, is expensive. In order to obtain such regulatory approval of product candidates, we will be required to conduct clinical trials for each indication for each of our product candidates. We will continue to require additional funding beyond what was raised in our public offerings and through our collaborations and license agreements to complete the development and commercialization of our product candidates and to continue to advance the development of our other product candidates. Due to worsening global economic conditions, including high rates of inflation and interest rates and concerns of a recession in the United States or other major markets, the recent disruptions to and volatility in the credit and financial markets in the United States and worldwide, and geopolitical instability, including resulting from the ongoing conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Hamas and increasing tensions between China and Taiwan, such funding may not be available on acceptable terms or at all. Although it is difficult to predict our funding requirements, we anticipate that our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities as of December 31, 2023, combined with anticipated and potential collaboration payments, product revenue, contract manufacturing revenue, and royalties, should enable us to fund our operations into 2026. Such guidance does not reflect anticipated expenditures related to the potential late-stage development of vobra duo in mCRPC or further expansion of studies currently ongoing. Because development of our product candidates is uncertain, we are unable to estimate accurately the actual funds we will require to complete research, development and clinical testing to commercialize our product candidates. Our future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including but not limited to:
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Discovering, developing and commercializing pharmaceutical products, including conducting nonclinical studies and clinical trials, is expensive. In order to obtain regulatory approval of product candidates, we will be required to conduct clinical trials for each indication for each of our product candidates. We will continue to require additional funding beyond what was raised in our public offerings and through our collaborations and license agreements to complete the development and commercialization of our product candidates and to continue to advance the development of our other product candidates. Due to worsening and highly uncertain global economic conditions, including high rates of inflation, fluctuating interest rates and concerns of a recession or economic volatility in the United States or other major markets, the recent disruptions to and volatility in the credit and financial markets in the United States and worldwide, and geopolitical instability, including but not limited to resulting from the ongoing conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, the regional conflict in the Middle East and increasing tensions between China and Taiwan, such funding may not be available on acceptable terms or at all. Although it is difficult to predict our funding requirements, we anticipate that our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities as of December 31, 2024, combined with anticipated and potential collaboration payments, contract manufacturing revenue, and royalties, should enable us to fund our operations into the second half of 2026. Such guidance does not reflect or further expansion of studies currently ongoing. Because development of our product candidates is uncertain, we are unable to estimate accurately the actual funds we will require to complete research, development and clinical testing to commercialize our product candidates. Our future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including but not limited to:
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•the scope, progress, timing, cost and results of research, nonclinical development, and clinical trials, in particular, our planned potential registrational path trial for MCG018;
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•the scope, progress, timing, cost and results of research, nonclinical development, and clinical trials;
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•the costs associated with manufacturing our product candidates;
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•the costs associated with manufacturing our product candidates as well as the costs of operation of our manufacturing facility;
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•the effect of competing products that may limit market penetration of our product candidates;
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•the effect of competing products that may limit market potential of our product candidates;
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We have incurred significant losses since inception and anticipate that we will continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future. Our first commercial product, MARGENZA, launched in March 2021 and has not resulted in revenues sufficient for us to reach profitability, to date, and we do not expect it to in the future. Accordingly, we may never achieve or sustain profitability.
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We have incurred significant losses since inception and anticipate that we will continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future. We may never achieve or sustain profitability.
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We have incurred significant losses since our inception. As of December 31, 2023, our accumulated deficit was approximately $1.1 billion. We expect to continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future, and we expect our accumulated deficit to increase as we continue our research and development of, and seek regulatory approvals for, our product candidates, manufacture product and product candidate inventory, prepare for and begin to commercialize any future approved products, and add infrastructure and personnel if needed to support our product development efforts and operations as a public company. The net losses and negative cash flows incurred to date, together with expected future losses, have had, and likely will continue to have, an adverse effect on our stockholders' deficit and working capital. The amount of future net losses will depend, in part, on the rate of future growth of our expenses and our ability to generate revenue.
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We have incurred significant losses since our inception. As of December 31, 2024, our accumulated deficit was approximately $1.2 billion. We expect to continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future, and we expect our accumulated deficit to increase as we continue our research and development of, and seek regulatory approvals for, our product candidates, manufacture product and product candidate inventory, prepare for and begin to commercialize any future approved products, and add infrastructure and personnel if needed to support our product development efforts and operations as a public company. The net losses and negative cash flows incurred to date, together with expected future losses, have had, and likely will continue to have, an adverse effect on our stockholders' deficit and working capital. The amount of future net losses will depend, in part, on the rate of future growth of our expenses and our ability to generate revenue.
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To become and remain profitable, we must succeed in developing and commercializing products with significant market potential. For example, revenues from MARGENZA are highly unlikely to be sufficient to enable us to reach profitability. In order to commercialize any additional product candidates, we will need to be successful in a range of challenging activities for which we are only in the preliminary stages, including developing product candidates, obtaining regulatory approval for them, and manufacturing, marketing and selling approved products and product candidates for which we may obtain regulatory approval. We may never succeed in these activities and may never generate revenue from product sales that is significant enough to achieve profitability. Even if we achieve profitability in the future, we may not be able to sustain profitability in subsequent periods. Our failure to become or remain profitable would depress our market value and could impair our ability to raise capital, expand our business, develop other product candidates, or continue our operations. A decline in the value of our company could also cause you to lose all or part of your investment.
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To become and remain profitable, we must succeed in developing and commercializing products with significant market potential. In order to commercialize any additional product candidates, we will need to be successful in a range of challenging activities for which we are only in the preliminary stages, including developing product candidates, obtaining regulatory approval for them, and manufacturing, marketing and selling approved products and product candidates for which we may obtain regulatory approval. We may never succeed in these activities and may never generate revenue from product sales that is significant enough to achieve profitability. Even if we achieve profitability in the future, we may not be able to sustain profitability in subsequent periods. Our failure to become or remain profitable would depress our market value and could impair our ability to raise capital, expand our business, develop other product candidates, or continue our operations. A decline in the value of our company could also cause you to lose all or part of your investment.
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Our business could be adversely affected by economic downturns, inflation, increases in interest rates, natural disasters, political crises, geopolitical events, such as the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine, or other macroeconomic conditions, which have in the past and may in the future negatively impact our business and financial performance.
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Our business could be adversely affected by economic downturns, inflation, increases in interest rates, disruption in global supply chains, natural disasters, political crises, geopolitical events, such as the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine, or other macroeconomic conditions, which have in the past and may in the future negatively impact our business and financial performance.
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The global economy, including credit and financial markets, has experienced extreme volatility and disruptions, including, among other things, severely diminished liquidity and credit availability, declines in consumer confidence, declines in economic growth, supply chain shortages, increases in inflation rates, higher interest rates and uncertainty about economic stability. The Federal Reserve recently raised interest rates multiple times in response to concerns about inflation and it may raise them again. Higher interest rates, coupled with reduced government spending and volatility in financial markets may increase economic uncertainty and affect consumer spending. Similarly, the ongoing military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Hamas and increasing tensions between China and Taiwan have created extreme volatility in the global capital markets and is expected to have further global economic consequences, including disruptions of the global supply chain and energy markets. Any such volatility and disruptions may adversely affect our business or the third parties on whom we rely. If the equity and credit markets deteriorate, including as a result of political unrest or war, it may make any necessary debt or equity financing more costly or more dilutive or more difficult to obtain in a timely manner or on favorable terms, if at all. Increased inflation rates can adversely affect us by increasing our costs, including labor and employee benefit costs.
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The global economy, including credit and financial markets, has experienced extreme volatility and disruptions, including, among other things, severely diminished liquidity and credit availability, declines in consumer confidence, declines in economic growth, supply chain shortages, increases in inflation rates, higher interest rates and uncertainty about economic stability. Over the past several years, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates multiple times in response to concerns about inflation and it may raise them again. Higher interest rates, coupled with reduced government spending and volatility in financial markets, may increase economic uncertainty and affect consumer spending. Similarly, the ongoing military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, the regional conflict in the Middle East and increasing tensions between China and Taiwan have created extreme volatility in the global capital markets and is expected to have further global economic consequences, including disruptions of the global supply chain and energy markets. Further, tariffs imposed by either the U.S. government or foreign governments could increase the cost of manufacturing our product candidates, although we are seeking alternative sources for certain components to mitigate supply risk. Any such or other volatility or global market disruptions may adversely affect our business or the third parties on whom we rely. If the equity and credit markets deteriorate, including as a result of political unrest or war, it may make any necessary debt or equity financing more costly or more dilutive or more difficult to obtain in a timely manner or on favorable terms, if at all. Increased inflation rates can adversely affect us by increasing our costs, including labor and employee benefit costs.
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To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, your ownership interest will be diluted, and the terms of these new securities may include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect your rights as a common stockholder. Debt financing, if available at all, may involve agreements that include covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures, or declaring dividends. If we raise additional funds through collaborations, strategic alliances, or licensing arrangements with third parties, we may have to relinquish valuable rights to our technologies, MARGENZA, product candidates, or future revenue streams, or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable to us. We cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain additional funding if and when necessary. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing on a timely basis, we could be required to delay, scale back or eliminate one or more of our development programs or grant rights to develop and market MARGENZA or product candidates that we would otherwise prefer to develop and market ourselves.
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To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, your ownership interest will be diluted, and the terms of these new securities may include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect your rights as a common stockholder. Debt financing, if available at all, may involve agreements that include covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures, or declaring dividends. If we raise additional funds through collaborations, strategic alliances, or licensing arrangements with third parties, we may have to relinquish valuable rights to our technologies, product candidates, or future revenue streams, or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable to us. We cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain additional funding if and when necessary. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing on a timely basis, we could be required to delay, scale back or eliminate one or more of our development programs or grant rights to develop and market product candidates that we would otherwise prefer to develop and market ourselves.
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Our ability to utilize our federal net operating losses (NOLs) and federal tax credits is currently limited, and may be limited further, under Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The limitations apply if an ownership change, as defined by Section 382, occurs. Generally, an ownership change occurs when certain shareholders increase their aggregate ownership by more than 50 percentage points over their lowest ownership percentage in a testing period, which is typically three years or since the last ownership change. We are already subject to Section 382 limitations due to acquisitions we made in 2002 and 2008. As of December 31, 2023, we had federal and state NOL carryforwards of approximately $670.0 million and federal research and development tax credits of approximately $94.4 million available. Future changes in stock ownership may also trigger an ownership change and, consequently, another Section 382 limitation. Any limitation may result in expiration of a portion of the net operating loss or tax credit carryforwards before utilization which would reduce our gross deferred income tax assets and corresponding valuation allowance. As a result, if we earn net taxable income, our ability to use our pre-change NOL carryforwards and tax credit carryforwards to reduce United States federal income tax may be subject to limitations, which could potentially result in increased future cash tax liability to us.
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U.S. federal net operating loss (NOL) carryforwards generated in taxable periods beginning after December 31, 2017, may be carried forward indefinitely, but the deductibility of such NOL carryforwards in a taxable year is limited to 80% of taxable income in such year. In addition, our ability to utilize portions of our federal NOL carryforwards and federal tax credits is currently limited, and may be limited further, under Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The limitations apply if an ownership change, as defined by Section 382, occurs. Generally, an ownership change occurs when certain shareholders increase their aggregate ownership by more than 50 percentage points over their lowest ownership percentage in a testing period, which is typically three years or since the last ownership change. We are already subject to Section 382 limitations due to acquisitions we made in 2002 and 2008. As of December 31, 2024, we had federal and state NOL carryforwards of approximately $554.0 million and federal research and development tax credits of approximately $109.0 million available. Future changes in stock ownership may also trigger an ownership change and, consequently, another Section 382 limitation. Similar rules may apply under state tax laws. In addition, there may be other limitations under state law on our ability to utilize NOL carryforwards, including temporary suspensions or other limitations on the use of NOL carryforwards s to offset taxable income. Any limitation may result in expiration of a portion of the net operating loss or tax credit carryforwards before utilization which would reduce our gross deferred income tax assets and corresponding valuation allowance. As a result, if we earn net taxable income, our ability to use our pre-change NOL carryforwards and tax credit carryforwards to reduce United States federal income tax may be subject to limitations, which could potentially result in increased future cash tax liability to us.
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Risks Related to Our Business and the Development and Commercialization of Our Products and Product Candidates
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Risks Related to Our Business and the Development and Commercialization of Our Product Candidates
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We depend substantially on the success of the clinical development of our products and product candidates, through our own efforts or those of our collaborators, including vobra duo and lorigerlimab. If we are unable to successfully complete clinical development, obtain additional regulatory approvals and commercialize our products and product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed and we may not be able to generate sufficient revenues and cash flows to continue our operations.
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We depend substantially on the success of the clinical development of our product candidates, through our own efforts or those of our collaborators. If we or our collaborators are unable to successfully complete clinical development, obtain additional regulatory approvals and commercialize our product candidates, or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed and we may not be able to generate sufficient revenues and cash flows to continue our operations.
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Our business depends on the successful development, regulatory approval and commercialization of our products and product candidates, including vobra duo and lorigerlimab. We have invested and will continue to invest a significant portion of our efforts and financial resources in the development of our product candidates, including vobra duo and lorigerlimab. The success of our products and product candidates depends on many factors, including but not limited to:
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Our business depends on the successful development, regulatory approval and commercialization of our product candidates. We have invested and will continue to invest a significant portion of our efforts and financial resources in the development of our product candidates. The success of our product candidates depends on many factors, including but not limited to:
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•successful enrollment in, and completion of, clinical trials, as well as completion of nonclinical studies;
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•successful and timely patient enrollment in, and completion of, clinical trials, as well as completion of nonclinical studies;
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•the sufficiency of our financial resources and ability to obtain additional funding for the development of our products and product candidates;
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•the sufficiency of our financial resources and ability to obtain additional funding for the development of our product candidates;
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•successfully launching our product candidates, including vobra duo or lorigerlimab, if and when approved;
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•successfully launching our product candidates if and when approved;
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•manufacturing or obtaining sufficient supplies of our products and product candidates that may be necessary for use in clinical trials for evaluation of our product candidates and commercialization of our products;
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•manufacturing or obtaining sufficient supplies of our product candidates that may be necessary for use in clinical trials for evaluation of our product candidates and commercialization of our products;
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•obtaining favorable reimbursement from third-party payors for products and product candidates;
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•obtaining favorable reimbursement from third-party payors for product candidates;
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Clinical drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with a highly uncertain outcome. We expect to incur significant additional costs related to the development of vobra duo, lorigerlimab, and our other product candidates and may experience delays in completing, or ultimately be unable to complete, the development and commercialization of our other products and product candidates.
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Clinical drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with a highly uncertain outcome. We expect to incur significant additional costs related to the development of our product candidates and may experience delays in completing, or ultimately be unable to complete, the development and commercialization of our other product candidates.
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The research, testing, manufacturing, labeling, approval, selling, marketing and distribution of drug products are subject to extensive regulation by the FDA and non-U.S. regulatory authorities, which regulations differ from country to country. We are not permitted to market our product candidates in the United States or in other countries until we receive approval of a Biologics License Application (BLA) from the FDA or marketing approval from applicable regulatory authorities outside the United States. Our product candidates are in various stages of development and are subject to the risks of failure inherent in drug development. For example, in July 2022 we announced the closure of our Phase 2 study evaluating the investigational regimen of enoblituzumab in combination with either retifanlimab or tebotelimab in the first-line treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic SCCHN. The decision to discontinue the study was based on an internal review of safety data. The approval of a BLA can be a lengthy, expensive and uncertain process. In addition, failure to comply with FDA and non-U.S. regulatory requirements may, either before or after product approval, subject our company or our collaborators to administrative or judicially imposed sanctions, including:
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The research, testing, manufacturing, labeling, approval, selling, marketing and distribution of drug products are subject to extensive regulation by the FDA and non-U.S. regulatory authorities, which regulations differ from country to country. We are not permitted to market our product candidates in the United States or in other countries until we receive approval of a BLA from the FDA or marketing approval from applicable regulatory authorities outside the United States. Our product candidates are in various stages of development and are subject to the risks of failure inherent in drug development. The approval of a BLA can be a lengthy, expensive and uncertain process. In addition, failure to comply with FDA and non-U.S. regulatory requirements may, either before or after product approval, subject our company or our collaborators to administrative or judicially imposed sanctions, including:
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We, or our collaborators, are either currently enrolling patients in clinical trials or anticipate initiating, continuing, or designing, or supporting clinical trials for molecules that include vobra duo, lorigerlimab, retifanlimab, enoblituzumab, MGD024, and MGC026 or other molecules, as monotherapies or in combination with other product candidates. For example, in
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We, or our collaborators or investigators, are either currently enrolling patients in clinical trials or anticipate initiating, continuing, designing, or supporting clinical trials for molecules that include lorigerlimab, retifanlimab, vobra duo, MGD024, MGC026, MGC028, or other molecules, as monotherapies or in combination with other product candidates. We anticipate in the future collaborators will initiate or continue clinical trials of one or more our product candidates. The continuation, modification, or commencement of existing or new clinical trials could be substantially delayed or prevented by several factors, including:
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•significant competition of product candidates that are expected to be more effective or have a more favorable safety profile;
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•significant competition of product candidates that are expected to be more effective or have a more favorable safety profile; and
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Our products in development are based on our technology platforms, including Fc Optimization, DART and TRIDENT technologies. Given the novelty of these technologies, we intend to work closely with the FDA and other regulatory authorities to perform the requisite scientific analyses and evaluation of our methods to obtain regulatory approval for our product candidates. Even though MARGENZA, which incorporates an Fc variation created using our Fc Optimization platform, was approved by the FDA, there is no assurance that the FDA will approve future product candidates using such technology. The validation process takes time and resources, may require independent third-party analyses, and may not be accepted by the FDA and other regulatory authorities. For some of our product candidates that are based on these technology platforms, the regulatory approval path and requirements may not be clear or evolve as more data becomes available for this product candidates, which could add significant delay and expense. Delays or failure to obtain regulatory approval of any of the product candidates that we develop would adversely affect our business.
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Certain of our ADC products in development incorporate technology developed by our collaboration partners, including: vobra duo (incorporates seco-DUBA developed by our collaboration partner, Byondis B.V.) and MGC026 and MGC028 (incorporate Hydraspace®, GlycoConnect™®, and toxSYN® technology developed by our collaboration partner, Synaffix (a Lonza company)). To date, no ADC product candidates incorporating any of the seco-DUBA, Hydraspace GlycoConnect™ or toxSYN technologies have been approved by the FDA. There is no assurance that the FDA will approve future product candidates using such technologies. The validation process takes time and resources, may require independent third-party analyses, and may not be accepted by the FDA and other regulatory authorities. For some of our product candidates that are based on these technology platforms, the regulatory approval path and requirements may not be clear or evolve as more data becomes available for this product candidates, which could add significant delay and expense. Delays or failure to obtain regulatory approval of any of the product candidates that we develop would adversely affect our business.
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The potential market opportunities for our product candidates are difficult to precisely estimate. A product’s market acceptance depends significantly on the medical community’s determination of clinical benefit and safety compared to alternative therapies available both now and in the future. Our internal estimates of the potential market opportunities for vobra duo, lorigerlimab, and our other product candidates include several key assumptions based on a variety of factors, which may include our industry knowledge, industry publications, third-party research reports, assessment of competition, and other surveys. While we believe that our internal assumptions are reasonable, no independent source has verified such assumptions. If any of these assumptions proves to be inaccurate, then the actual market for vobra duo, lorigerlimab, or our other product candidates could be smaller than our estimates of our potential market opportunity
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The potential market opportunities for our product candidates are difficult to precisely estimate. A product’s market acceptance depends significantly on the medical community’s determination of clinical benefit and safety compared to alternative therapies available both now and in the future. Our internal estimates of the potential market opportunities our product candidates include several key assumptions based on a variety of factors, which may include our industry knowledge, industry publications, third-party research reports, assessment of competition, and other surveys. While we believe that our internal assumptions are reasonable, no independent source has verified such assumptions. If any of these assumptions proves to be inaccurate, then the actual market for our product candidates could be smaller than our estimates of our potential market opportunity.
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Our product candidates may have undesirable side effects which may delay or prevent further clinical development or marketing approval, or, if approval is received, require them to be taken off the market, require them to include safety warnings or otherwise limit their sales.
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Our product candidates may have undesirable side effects, including fatalities. These side effects may delay or prevent further clinical development or marketing approval, or, if approval is received, require them to be taken off the market, require them to include safety warnings or otherwise limit their sales.
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Although all of our product candidates have undergone or will undergo safety testing, not all adverse effects of drugs can be predicted or anticipated. Unforeseen side effects from any of our product candidates could arise either during clinical development or after the approved product has been marketed. Ongoing or future trials of our product candidates may not support the conclusion that one or more of these product candidates have acceptable safety profiles. The results of future clinical or nonclinical trials may show undesirable or unacceptable side effects, which could interrupt, delay or halt clinical trials, and result in delay of, or failure to obtain, marketing approval from the FDA and other regulatory authorities, or result in marketing approval from the FDA and other regulatory authorities with restrictive label warnings, risk management measures, or potential product liability claims. For example, in July 2022 we announced the discontinuation of our Phase 2 trial of enoblituzumab in combination with either retifanlimab or tebotelimab in the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic SCCHN, based on an internal review of safety data.
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The results of future clinical or nonclinical trials may show undesirable or unacceptable side effects, which could interrupt, delay or halt clinical trials, and result in delay of, or failure to obtain, marketing approval from the FDA and other regulatory authorities, or result in marketing approval from the FDA and other regulatory authorities with restrictive label warnings, risk management measures, or potential product liability claims. These risks have affected our business and may continue to do so. For example, in July 2022 we announced the discontinuation of our Phase 2 trial of enoblituzumab in combination with either retifanlimab or tebotelimab in the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic SCCHN, based on an internal review of safety data. In addition, in July 2024, we announced the discontinuation of vobra duo treatment of mCRPC patients in our TAMARACK study based on the recommendation of the study’s Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC). The investigators for the TAMARACK study have reported a total of 11 treatment-related deaths across all patient types (6.1% of the 180 patients who received treatment). These patient deaths occurred between 87 days and 339 days after commencing treatment with vobra duo.
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If we or others later identify undesirable or unacceptable side effects potentially caused by such products:
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Even if our product candidates are approved for marketing, and we or others later identify undesirable or unacceptable side effects potentially caused by such products:
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We must comply with the FDA’s cGMP requirements, as set out in statute, regulations and interpreted through guidance. We may encounter difficulties in achieving quality control and quality assurance and may experience shortages in qualified personnel. We are subject to inspections by the FDA and comparable agencies in other jurisdictions to confirm compliance with applicable regulatory requirements. See “Other U.S. Post-Marketing Regulatory Requirements” above for additional information. Any failure to follow cGMP or other regulatory requirements or delay, interruption or other issues that arise in the manufacture, fill-finish, packaging, or storage of our product or product candidates as a result of a failure of our facilities or the facilities or operations of third parties to comply with regulatory requirements or pass any regulatory authority inspection could significantly impair our ability to develop and commercialize our product or product candidates, including leading to significant delays in the availability of drug product for sale and our clinical trials or the termination or hold on a clinical trial, or the delay or prevention of a filing or approval of marketing applications for our product candidates. Significant noncompliance could also result in the imposition of sanctions, including fines, injunctions, civil penalties, failure of regulatory authorities to grant marketing approvals for our product candidates, delays, suspension or withdrawal of approvals, license revocation, seizures or recalls of products, operating restrictions and criminal prosecutions, any of which could damage our reputation or negatively impact a product’s commercial success. If we are not able to maintain regulatory compliance, we may not be permitted to market our product candidates and/or may be subject to product recalls, seizures, injunctions, or criminal prosecution. Additionally, if the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority does not approve of our facilities for the manufacture of a customer product or if it withdraws such approval in the future, our customers may choose to identify alternative manufacturing facilities and/or relationships, which could significantly impact our ability to expand our CDMO capacity and capabilities and achieve profitability.
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We must comply with the FDA’s cGMP requirements, as set out in statute, regulations and interpreted through guidance. We may encounter difficulties in achieving quality control and quality assurance and may experience shortages in qualified personnel. We are subject to inspections by the FDA and comparable agencies in other jurisdictions to confirm compliance with applicable regulatory requirements. See “Other U.S. Post-Marketing Regulatory Requirements” above for additional information. Any failure to follow cGMP or other regulatory requirements or delay, interruption or other issues that arise in the manufacture, fill-finish, packaging, or storage of our product or product candidates as a result of a failure of our facilities or the facilities or operations of third parties to comply with regulatory requirements or pass any regulatory authority inspection could significantly impair our ability to develop and commercialize our product candidates, including leading to significant delays in the availability of drug product for sale and our clinical trials or the termination or hold on a clinical trial, or the delay or prevention of a filing or approval of marketing applications for our product candidates. Significant noncompliance could also result in the imposition of sanctions, including fines, injunctions, civil penalties, failure of regulatory authorities to grant marketing approvals for our product candidates, delays, suspension or withdrawal of approvals, license revocation, seizures or recalls of products, operating restrictions and criminal prosecutions, any of which could damage our reputation or negatively impact a product’s commercial success. If we are not able to maintain regulatory compliance, we may not be permitted to market our product candidates and/or may be subject to product recalls, seizures, injunctions, or criminal prosecution. Additionally, if the FDA or a comparable foreign regulatory authority does not approve of our facilities for the manufacture of a customer product or if it withdraws such approval in the future, our customers may choose to identify alternative manufacturing facilities and/or relationships, which could significantly impact our ability to expand our CDMO capacity and capabilities and achieve profitability.
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•the economic and other terms, timing of and success of our existing collaborations, and any collaboration, licensing, or other arrangements into which we may enter in the future, including the timing of receipt of any milestone or royalty payments under these agreements; and
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•the costs of establishing sales, marketing, and distribution capabilities.
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Although all of our product candidates have undergone or will undergo safety testing, not all adverse effects of drugs can be predicted or anticipated. Unforeseen side effects from any of our product candidates have arisen, either during clinical development or after the approved product has been marketed, and may arise in the future. Ongoing or future trials of our product candidates may not support the conclusion that one or more of these product candidates have acceptable safety profiles.
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These companies also have significantly greater research and marketing capabilities than we do and may also have products that have been approved or are in late stages of development, and collaborative arrangements in our target markets with leading companies and research institutions. Established pharmaceutical companies may also invest heavily to accelerate discovery and development of novel compounds or to in-license novel compounds that could make the product candidates that we develop obsolete. As a result of all of these factors, our competitors may succeed, or may have succeeded, in obtaining patent protection and/or FDA approval or discovering, developing and commercializing products in our field before we do.
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2024 academic collaborators have initiated or will initiate an investigator sponsored trial for enoblituzuumab. We anticipate in the future collaborators will initiate or continue clinical trials of one or more our product candidates. The continuation, modification, or commencement of existing or new clinical trials could be substantially delayed or prevented by several factors, including:
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We use or may use novel technologies in the development of our product candidates and the FDA and other regulatory authorities have not approved products that utilize these technologies.
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Public health crises such as pandemics or similar outbreaks may have a significant negative impact on our clinical trials, nonclinical studies, development, manufacturing and commercialization of our product candidates and other aspects of our business, staff, and operations.
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We have limited experience in commercializing our products. For example, we have limited experience in building and managing a commercial team, conducting a comprehensive market analysis or managing distributors and a field force for our products. We compete with many companies that currently have extensive and well-funded sales and marketing operations.
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There can be no assurance that we will be able to further develop or successfully maintain internal sales and commercial capabilities or establish or maintain relationships with third-party collaborators to successfully commercialize any product, and as a result, we may not be able to generate substantial product sales revenue.
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The United States and several foreign jurisdictions are considering, or have already enacted, a number of legislative and regulatory proposals to change the healthcare system in ways that could affect our ability to sell any of our future approved products profitably. Among policy makers and payors in the United States and elsewhere, there is significant interest in promoting changes in healthcare systems with the stated goals of containing healthcare costs through lowering prescription drug prices, improving quality and/or expanding access to healthcare. In the United States, the pharmaceutical industry has been a particular focus of these efforts and has been significantly affected by major legislative initiatives, including the Patient
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In the United States, federal, state, and local governments have enacted numerous data privacy and security laws and regulations, including data breach notification laws, personal data privacy laws, consumer protection laws (e.g., Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act), and other similar laws (e.g., wiretapping laws). These laws and regulations involve the collection, storage, handling, use, disclosure, transfer, and security of personal data. Certain states, such as California, also impose stricter requirements for processing certain personal data, including sensitive information, such as conducting data privacy impact assessments, and may result in liability through private actions. For example, the California Consumer Privacy