Acumen Pharmaceuticals Inc

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, about us and our industry that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including statements regarding our future results of operations or financial condition, business strategy and plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “target,” “will” or “would” or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the following:

•the sufficiency of our existing cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities to fund our future operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements;

•our ability to obtain funding for our operations, including funding necessary to develop and commercialize sabirnetug, subject to obtaining necessary regulatory approvals;

•the ability of our clinical trials to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of sabirnetug, and other positive results;

•the therapeutic potential of sabirnetug, including its potential for improved safety and efficacy as compared to other monoclonal antibodies approved and/or in development, as well as our expectations concerning the INTERCEPT-AD and ALTITUDE-AD clinical trials;

•the success, cost and timing of our development activities, nonclinical studies and clinical trials;

•the structure, timing and focus of our future clinical trials, and the reporting of data from those trials, including the amendment of the ALTITUDE-AD clinical trial protocol from a Phase 2/3 study to a Phase 2 standalone study, and our plans with respect to our ALTITUDE-AD clinical trial of sabirnetug;

•our plans relating to commercializing sabirnetug, subject to obtaining necessary regulatory approvals;

•our ability to attract and retain key scientific and clinical personnel;

•our ability to contract with third-party suppliers and manufacturers and their ability to perform adequately;

•our reliance on third parties to conduct clinical trials of sabirnetug and manufacture sabirnetug for nonclinical studies and clinical trials;

•the success of competing therapies that are or may become available;

•our plans and ability to obtain or protect our intellectual property rights, including extensions of existing patent terms where available or the use of data market exclusivity to provide protection from generic or biosimilar versions of our product;

•the scope of protection we are able to establish and maintain for intellectual property rights covering sabirnetug;

•potential claims relating to our intellectual property;

•existing regulations and regulatory developments in the United States and other jurisdictions;

•our ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of sabirnetug, and any related restrictions, limitations and/or warnings in the label of any approved product candidate;

•our plans relating to the further development and manufacture of sabirnetug, including additional therapeutic indications we may pursue;

•our ability to develop and maintain our corporate infrastructure, including our ability to design and maintain an effective system of internal controls;

•our financial performance; and

•our expectations regarding the time period during which we will be an emerging growth company under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (“JOBS Act”).

You should not rely on forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. The outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements is subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors described under the header “Risk

Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 26, 2024 (the “Annual Report”), and in our other filings with the SEC. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all risks and uncertainties that could have an impact on the forward-looking statements contained herein. The results, events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements may not be achieved or occur, and actual results, events or circumstances could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements.

The forward-looking statements made in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made, and we undertake no obligation to update them to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.

Unless the context otherwise indicates, references in this report to the terms “Acumen,” “the Company,” “we,” “our” and “us” refer to Acumen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

We may announce material business and financial information to our investors using our investor relations website (www.investors.acumenpharm.com). We therefore encourage investors and others interested in Acumen to review the information that we make available on our website, in addition to following our filings with the SEC, webcasts, press releases and conference calls. Our website and information included in or linked to our website are not part of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.