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Denali Therapeutics Inc.
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How DNLI rewrote its risk factors

10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025
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  • We have never generated any revenue from product sales, and may never do so. • Due to the significant resources required for the development of our programs, and depending on our ability to access capital, we must prioritize development of certain product candidates.
  • Risks Related to Our Business, Financial Condition and Capital Requirements We are in the clinical stages of drug development, have no approved products, and may never become profitable.
  • We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a limited operating history, focused on developing therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, and lysosomal storage diseases, including Hunter syndrome and Sanfilippo syndrome.
  • To date, we have not completed a pivotal clinical trial, obtained marketing approval for any product candidates, or manufactured a commercial scale product.
  • We will encounter risks and difficulties frequently experienced by biopharmaceutical companies, and we have not yet demonstrated an ability to successfully overcome such risks and difficulties.
  • Our ability to generate revenue and achieve profitability depends significantly on many factors, including: • successfully prioritizing and completing research and preclinical and clinical development of our product candidates; • obtaining regulatory approvals and marketing authorizations for product candidates for which we successfully complete clinical development and clinical trials; • developing a sustainable and scalable manufacturing process for our product candidates, including those that utilize our TV platform, as well as establishing and maintaining commercially viable supply relationships with third parties that can provide adequate products and services to support clinical activities and commercial demand of our product candidates; • identifying, assessing, acquiring and/or developing new product candidates; • negotiating favorable terms in any collaboration, licensing or other arrangements into which we may enter; • launching and successfully commercializing product candidates for which we obtain regulatory and marketing approval, either by collaborating with a partner or, if launched independently, by establishing a sales, marketing and distribution infrastructure; • obtaining and maintaining an adequate price for our product candidates, both in the United States and in foreign countries where our products are commercialized; • obtaining adequate reimbursement for our product candidates from payors; • obtaining market acceptance of our product candidates as viable treatment options; • addressing any competing technological and market developments; • receiving milestone and other payments under our current and any future collaboration arrangements; • maintaining, protecting, expanding, and enforcing our portfolio of intellectual property rights; • attracting, hiring, and retaining qualified personnel; • general economic conditions; and • addressing any delays in our clinical trials or other impacts from a global emergency.
  • Our net losses were $512.5 million, $422.8 million, and $145.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
  • As of December 31, 2025, we had an accumulated deficit of $2.05 billion.
  • We currently fund our operations primarily with the proceeds from our follow-on offerings completed in October 2022 and December 2025, payments received from our collaboration agreements with Biogen , Sanofi, Takeda, and a strategic private offering transaction completed in February 2024.
  • Developing our product candidates is expensive, and we expect to continue to spend substantial amounts as we fund our early-stage research projects and advance our programs through preclinical and clinical development.
  • As of December 31, 2025, we had $966.2 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities.
  • Changing circumstances, some of which may be beyond our control, such as geopolitical uncertainty, rising inflation or interest rates, the imposition of tariffs, risks associated with transactions denominated in foreign currency, or a perceived or actual economic downturn, may cause us to increase our spending significantly faster than we currently anticipate, and we may need to seek additional funds sooner than planned.
  • We cannot provide you with any assurance that we will be able to successfully identify or acquire additional product candidates, advance any of these additional product candidates through the development process, successfully commercialize any such additional product candidates, if approved, or assemble sufficient resources to identify, acquire, develop, or, if approved, commercialize additional product candidates.
  • If we make incorrect determinations regarding the viability, indication size, or market potential of any of our programs or product candidates or misread trends in the biopharmaceutical industry, our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects could be materially adversely affected.
  • Investment in biopharmaceutical product development involves significant risk that any product candidate will fail to demonstrate adequate efficacy or potency, or an acceptable safety profile, gain regulatory approval, or become commercially viable.
  • Our future success is dependent on our ability to successfully develop, obtain regulatory approval for, and then successfully commercialize our product candidates, and we may fail to do so for any of the reasons set forth in these Risk Factors.
  • In that event, we may be forced to abandon our development efforts for a program or programs, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
  • For instance, in January 2025, we announced that the Phase 2/3 HEALEY ALS Platform Trial evaluating DNL343 for ALS did not meet primary and key secondary endpoints.
  • There are few effective therapeutic options available for patients with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, and lysosomal storage diseases, such as Hunter syndrome and Sanfilippo syndrome.
  • Our approach to the treatment of neurodegenerative and lysosomal storage diseases aims to identify and select targets with a genetic link to neurodegenerative and lysosomal storage diseases; identify and develop molecules that engage the intended target; identify and develop biomarkers, which are biological molecules found in blood, other bodily fluids, or tissues that are signs of a normal or abnormal process or of a condition or disease, to select the right patient population and demonstrate target engagement, pathway engagement, and impact on disease progression of our molecules; and engineer our molecules to cross the BBB and act directly in the brain.
  • We may encounter substantial delays in our clinical trials or difficulties enrolling patients, or may not be able to conduct or complete our clinical trials on the timelines we expect, if at all.
  • Events that may prevent successful or timely initiation or completion of clinical trials include: • inability to generate sufficient preclinical, toxicology, or other in vivo or in vitro data to support the initiation or continuation of clinical trials; • delays in confirming target engagement, patient selection, or other relevant biomarkers to be utilized in preclinical and clinical product candidate development; • delays in reaching a consensus with regulatory agencies on trial design; • delays involving our clinical trial sites, including delays in reaching agreement on acceptable terms with prospective CROs and clinical trial sites, delays in identifying, recruiting and training suitable clinical investigators, and delays in obtaining required IRB approval at each clinical trial site; • imposition of a temporary or permanent clinical hold by regulatory agencies for a number of reasons, including after review of an IND or amendment, CTA or amendment, or equivalent application or amendment; as a result of a new safety finding that presents unreasonable risk to clinical trial participants; a negative finding from an inspection of our clinical trial operations or trial sites; developments in trials conducted by competitors for related technology that raise FDA or EMA concerns about risk to patients of the technology broadly; or if the FDA or EMA finds that the investigational protocol or plan is clearly deficient to meet its stated objectives; • delays in identifying, recruiting, and enrolling suitable patients to participate in our clinical trials; • difficulty collaborating with patient groups and investigators; • failure by our CROs, other third parties, or us to adhere to clinical trial requirements; • failure to perform in accordance with the FDA’s or any other regulatory authority’s current good clinical practices ("cGCPs") requirements, or other regulatory guidelines in other countries; • occurrence of adverse events associated with the product candidate that are viewed to outweigh its potential benefits; • changes in regulatory requirements and guidance that require amending or submitting new clinical protocols; • delays due to changes in the staffing, priorities, or leadership of the FDA or other regulatory authorities, or changes to regulatory approval policies or regulations; • changes in the standard of care on which a clinical development plan was based, which may require new or additional trials; • the cost of clinical trials of our product candidates being greater than we anticipate; • clinical trials of our product candidates producing negative or inconclusive results, which may result in us or our collaborators deciding, or regulators requiring us, to conduct additional clinical trials or abandon product development programs; • transfer of manufacturing processes from our academic collaborators to larger-scale facilities operated by a CDMO or by us, and delays or failure by our CDMOs or us to make any necessary changes to such manufacturing process; • delays in manufacturing, testing, releasing, validating, or importing/exporting sufficient stable quantities of our product candidates for use in clinical trials or the inability to do any of the foregoing; and • delays associated with a pandemic or other public health emergency.
  • Such authorities may suspend or terminate a clinical trial 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, EMA 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 product candidate, changes in governmental regulations or administrative actions, developments in trials conducted by us or our competitors for related technology that raise regulatory concerns about risk to patients of the technology broadly, or lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial.
  • Our product candidates have been subject to clinical holds in the past and we cannot assure you that others will not be subject to new, partial, or full clinical holds in the future.
  • For example, in August 2023, following imposition of a clinical hold by the FDA, we announced that we and Takeda would discontinue clinical development of TAK-920/DNL919 in Alzheimer’s disease.
  • Additionally, in December 2025, we announced that DNL952 was placed on clinical hold.
  • Although protocol amendments were implemented for DNL952 and the program resumed, there could be safety findings or concerns that result in additional pauses, protocol modifications, or permanent discontinuation of development.
  • Any clinical holds by the FDA, if not timely lifted, could impact our development plans.
  • We may experience difficulties in patient enrollment and retention in our clinical trials for a variety of reasons, including: • the size and nature of the patient population, the proximity of patients to trial sites, and the size of the study population required for analysis of the trial's primary endpoints; • the patient eligibility criteria defined in the protocol, including biomarker-driven identification and/or certain highly-specific criteria related to stage of disease progression, which may limit the patient populations eligible for our clinical trials to a greater extent than competing clinical trials for the same indication that do not have biomarker-driven patient eligibility criteria; • the design of the trial; • competing clinical trials for similar therapies or targeting patient populations meeting our patient eligibility criteria; • clinicians’ and patients’ perceptions as to the potential advantages and side effects of the product candidate being studied in relation to other available therapies and product candidates; • our ability to obtain and maintain patient consents; and • the risk that patients enrolled in clinical trials will not complete such trials, for any reason.
  • Our inability to enroll and retain a sufficient number of patients for our clinical trials may increase development costs for our product candidates, delay our ability to obtain clinical data and/or obtain marketing approval, or may require us to abandon one or more clinical trials altogether.
  • It is impossible to predict when or if our product candidates will prove effective or safe in humans, or if our product candidates will receive marketing authorization.
  • Clinical testing is expensive and can take many years to complete, and the outcome is inherently uncertain.
  • In addition, t he results of preclinical studies of our product candidates may not be predictive of the results of early-stage or later-stage clinical trials, and results of early clinical trials of our product candidates may not be predictive of the results of later-stage clinical trials.
  • In some instances, there can be significant variability in safety or efficacy results between different clinical trials of the same product or product candidate due to numerous factors, including changes in clinical trial procedures set forth in protocols, differences in the size and type of the patient populations, adherence to the dosing regimen and other clinical trial protocols and the rate of discontinuation among clinical trial participants.
  • If we fail to produce positive results in our planned clinical trials of any of our product candidates, the development timeline and marketing authorization and commercialization prospects for our product candidates, and, correspondingly, our business and financial prospects, would be materially and adversely affected.
  • We cannot be certain that our current clinical trials or any future clinical trials will be successful.
  • Additionally, any safety concerns observed in any one of our clinical trials in our targeted indications could limit the prospects for regulatory approval of our product candidates in those and other indications.
  • Even if such clinical trials are successfully completed, we cannot guarantee that the FDA will approve the product candidates for the proposed indications, and more information or trials could be required before we submit our product candidates for approval.
  • For instance, although the FDA has accepted our biologics license application ("BLA") for accelerated approval of DNL310, our PDUFA target date was extended to enable the submission of updated clinical pharmacology information in response to an information request from the FDA.
  • T o the extent that the FDA or foreign regulatory authorities are not satisfied with the support we have provided, we may be required to expend significant resources to conduct additional trials in support of potential approval of our product candidates.

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Gone since FY2024

  • We have never generated any revenue from product sales, and may never do so. • Due to the significant resources required for the development of our programs, and depending on our ability to access capital, we must prioritize development of certain product candidates. • A pandemic, epidemic, or outbreak of an infectious disease, or the perception of its effects, may materially and adversely affect our business, operations, and financial condition.
  • Risks Related to Our Business, Financial Condition and Capital Requirements We are in the clinical stages of drug development and have a limited operating history and no products approved for commercial sale, which may make it difficult to evaluate our business and predict our future success and viability.
  • We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a limited operating history, focused on developing therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and ALS, and lysosomal storage diseases, including Hunter syndrome and Sanfilippo syndrome.
  • To date, we have not completed a pivotal clinical trial, obtained marketing approval for any product candidates, manufactured a commercial scale product or arranged for a third party to do so on our behalf, or conducted sales and marketing activities necessary for successful product commercialization.
  • We will encounter risks and difficulties frequently experienced by clinical-stage biopharmaceutical companies, and we have not yet demonstrated an ability to successfully overcome such risks and difficulties.
  • Our net losses were $422.8 million, $145.2 million, and $326.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively.
  • As of December 31, 2024, we had an accumulated deficit of $1.54 billion.
  • We anticipate that our expenses will increase substantially if and as we: • continue our research and discovery activities; • progress our current and any future product candidates through preclinical and clinical development; • manufacture product candidates at our manufacturing facility and with our contract manufacturers; • change or add additional contract manufacturers or suppliers; • seek regulatory approvals and marketing authorizations for our product candidates; • establish sales, marketing and distribution infrastructure to commercialize any products for which we obtain approval; • acquire or in-license product candidates, intellectual property and technologies; • make milestone, royalty or other payments due under any license or collaboration agreements; • obtain, maintain, protect, and enforce our intellectual property portfolio, including intellectual property obtained through license agreements; • attract, hire, and retain qualified personnel and incur increased stock-based compensation, especially in light of a competitive compensation environment; • provide additional internal infrastructure to support our continued research and development operations and any planned commercialization efforts in the future; • implement additional internal systems and infrastructure related to cybersecurity; • experience any delays or encounter other issues related to our operations; • meet the requirements and demands of being a public company; and • defend against any product liability claims or other lawsuits related to our products.
  • We have never generated any revenue from product sales, and we may never generate product revenue or be profitable.
  • We have no products approved for commercial sale and have not generated any revenue from product sales.
  • Our ability to generate revenue and achieve profitability depends significantly on many factors, including: • successfully prioritizing and completing research and preclinical and clinical development of our product candidates; • obtaining regulatory approvals and marketing authorizations for product candidates for which we successfully complete clinical development and clinical trials; • developing a sustainable and scalable manufacturing process for our product candidates, including those that utilize our TV platform, as well as establishing and maintaining commercially viable supply relationships with third parties that can provide adequate products and services to support clinical activities and commercial demand of our product candidates; • identifying, assessing, acquiring and/or developing new product candidates; • negotiating favorable terms in any collaboration, licensing or other arrangements into which we may enter; • launching and successfully commercializing product candidates for which we obtain regulatory and marketing approval, either by collaborating with a partner or, if launched independently, by establishing a sales, marketing and distribution infrastructure; • obtaining and maintaining an adequate price for our product candidates, both in the United States and in foreign countries where our products are commercialized; • obtaining adequate reimbursement for our product candidates from payors; • obtaining market acceptance of our product candidates as viable treatment options; • addressing any competing technological and market developments; • receiving milestone and other payments under our current and any future collaboration arrangements; • maintaining, protecting, expanding, and enforcing our portfolio of intellectual property rights; • attracting, hiring, and retaining qualified personnel; • general economic conditions; and • addressing any delays in our clinical trials or other impacts from a pandemic or other global health emergency.
  • We currently fund our operations primarily with the proceeds from our follow-on offering completed in October 2022, payments received from our collaboration agreements with Biogen , Sanofi, Takeda, and a strategic private offering transaction completed in February 2024.
  • We have a diversified portfolio with numerous programs at various stages of research, discovery, preclinical and clinical development.
  • Developing our product candidates is expensive, and we expect to continue to spend substantial amounts as we fund our early-stage research projects, advance our programs through preclinical and clinical development, and prepare for potential commercialization.
  • As of December 31, 2024, we had $1.19 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities.
  • Changing circumstances, some of which may be beyond our control, such as recent bank failures, geopolitical uncertainty, rising inflation or interest rates, or a perceived or actual economic downturn, may cause us to increase our spending significantly faster than we currently anticipate, and we may need to seek additional funds sooner than planned.
  • If we make incorrect determinations regarding the viability or market potential of any of our programs or product candidates or misread trends in the biopharmaceutical industry, in particular for neurodegenerative and lysosomal storage diseases, our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects could be materially adversely affected.
  • Investment in biopharmaceutical product development involves significant risk that any product candidate will fail to demonstrate adequate efficacy or potency, or an acceptable safety profile, gain regulatory approval, and become commercially viable.
  • Our future success is dependent on our ability to successfully develop, obtain regulatory approval for, and then successfully commercialize our product candidates, and we may fail to do so for many reasons, including the following: • our product candidates may not successfully complete preclinical studies or clinical trials; • our drug delivery platform technology may not be clinically viable; • a product candidate may on further study be shown to have harmful side effects or other characteristics that indicate it is unlikely to be effective or otherwise does not meet applicable regulatory criteria; • our competitors may develop therapeutics or platform technologies that render our product candidates or platform obsolete or less attractive; • the product candidates and TV platform that we develop may not be sufficiently covered by intellectual property for which we hold exclusive rights; • the product candidates and TV platform that we develop may be covered by third parties’ patents or other intellectual property or exclusive rights; • the market for a product candidate may change so that the continued development of that product candidate is no longer reasonable or commercially attractive; • a product candidate may not be capable of being produced in commercial quantities at an acceptable cost, or at all; • if a product candidate obtains regulatory approval, we may be unable to establish sales and marketing capabilities, or successfully market such approved product candidate; and • a product candidate may not be accepted as safe and effective by patients, the medical community or third-party payors, if applicable.
  • If any of these events occur, we may be forced to abandon our development efforts for a program or programs, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
  • For instance, in August 2023, together with our collaboration partner Takeda, we discontinued development of TAK-920/DNL919 (ATV:TREM2) in Alzheimer’s disease, based on data from the Phase 1 study and the rapidly evolving treatment landscape, and, in January 2025, we announced that the Phase 2/3 HEALEY ALS Platform Trial evaluating DNL343 for ALS did not meet primary and key secondary endpoints.
  • We cannot provide any assurance that we will be able to successfully advance any of our product candidates through the development process or, if approved, successfully commercialize any of our product candidates.
  • We may not be successful in our efforts to continue to create a pipeline of product candidates or to develop commercially successful products.
  • We cannot provide you any assurance that we will be able to successfully identify or acquire additional product candidates, advance any of these additional product candidates through the development process, successfully commercialize any such additional product candidates, if approved, or assemble sufficient resources to identify, acquire, develop or, if approved, commercialize additional product candidates.
  • There are few effective therapeutic options available for patients with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and ALS, and lysosomal storage diseases, such as Hunter syndrome and Sanfilippo syndrome.
  • Our approach to the treatment of neurodegenerative and lysosomal storage diseases aims to identify and select targets with a genetic link to neurodegenerative and lysosomal storage diseases, as applicable, identify and develop molecules that engage the intended target, identify and develop biomarkers, which are biological molecules found in blood, other bodily fluids or tissues that are signs of a normal or abnormal process or of a condition or disease, to select the right patient population and demonstrate target engagement, pathway engagement and impact on disease progression of our molecules, and engineer our molecules to cross the BBB and act directly in the brain.
  • We may encounter substantial delays in our clinical trials, or may not be able to conduct or complete our clinical trials on the timelines we expect, if at all.
  • Events that may prevent successful or timely initiation or completion of clinical trials include: • inability to generate sufficient preclinical, toxicology, or other in vivo or in vitro data to support the initiation or continuation of clinical trials; • delays in confirming target engagement, patient selection, or other relevant biomarkers to be utilized in preclinical and clinical product candidate development; • delays in reaching a consensus with regulatory agencies on trial design; • delays in reaching agreement on acceptable terms with prospective CROs and clinical trial sites, the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation and may vary significantly among different CROs and clinical trial sites; • delays in identifying, recruiting and training suitable clinical investigators; • delays in obtaining required IRB approval at each clinical trial site; • imposition of a temporary or permanent clinical hold by regulatory agencies for a number of reasons, including after review of an IND or amendment, CTA or amendment, or equivalent application or amendment; as a result of a new safety finding that presents unreasonable risk to clinical trial participants; a negative finding from an inspection of our clinical trial operations or trial sites; developments in trials conducted by competitors for related technology that raise FDA or EMA concerns about risk to patients of the technology broadly; or if the FDA or EMA finds that the investigational protocol or plan is clearly deficient to meet its stated objectives; • delays in identifying, recruiting, and enrolling suitable patients to participate in our clinical trials, and delays caused by patients withdrawing from clinical trials or failing to return for post-treatment follow-up; • difficulty collaborating with patient groups and investigators; • failure by our CROs, other third parties, or us to adhere to clinical trial requirements; • failure to perform in accordance with the FDA’s or any other regulatory authority’s current good clinical practices ("cGCPs") requirements, or other regulatory guidelines in other countries; • occurrence of adverse events associated with the product candidate that are viewed to outweigh its potential benefits; • changes in regulatory requirements and guidance that require amending or submitting new clinical protocols; • changes in the approval policies or regulations of the FDA or other regulatory authorities; • changes in the standard of care on which a clinical development plan was based, which may require new or additional trials; • the cost of clinical trials of our product candidates being greater than we anticipate; • clinical trials of our product candidates producing negative or inconclusive results, which may result in us or our collaborators deciding, or regulators requiring us, to conduct additional clinical trials or abandon product development programs; • transfer of manufacturing processes from our academic collaborators to larger-scale facilities operated by a CDMO or by us, and delays or failure by our CDMOs or us to make any necessary changes to such manufacturing process; • delays in manufacturing, testing, releasing, validating, or importing/exporting sufficient stable quantities of our product candidates for use in clinical trials or the inability to do any of the foregoing; and • delays associated with a pandemic or other public health emergency.
  • Such authorities may suspend or terminate a clinical trial 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, EMA 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 product candidate, changes in governmental regulations or administrative actions, developments on trials conducted by us or our competitors for related technology that raises regulatory concerns about risk to patients of the technology broadly, or lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial.
  • For example, in January 2022, we announced that the TAK-920/DNL919 (ATV:TREM2) IND application had been placed on clinical hold by the FDA.
  • In August 2023 we announced that, in agreement with Takeda, we would discontinue clinical development of TAK-920/DNL919 in Alzheimer’s disease.
  • We cannot assure you that we will ever resume the clinical program for TAK-920/DNL919, nor can we assure you that our other product candidates will not be subject to new, partial, or full clinical holds in the future, which may impact development plans.
  • We may also pause the advancement of lead molecules in favor of a backup molecule with a superior safety or efficacy profile, such as we did in our RIPK1 program, switching our focus from DNL747 to SAR443820/DNL788.
  • We may experience difficulties in patient enrollment and retention in our clinical trials for a variety of reasons, including: • public health crises; • the size and nature of the patient population; • the patient eligibility criteria defined in the protocol, including biomarker-driven identification and/or certain highly-specific criteria related to stage of disease progression, which may limit the patient populations eligible for our clinical trials to a greater extent than competing clinical trials for the same indication that do not have biomarker-driven patient eligibility criteria; • the size of the study population required for analysis of the trial’s primary endpoints; • the proximity of patients to a trial site; • the design of the trial; • our ability to recruit clinical trial investigators with the appropriate competencies and experience; • competing clinical trials for similar therapies or targeting patient populations meeting our patient eligibility criteria; • clinicians’ and patients’ perceptions as to the potential advantages and side effects of the product candidate being studied in relation to other available therapies and product candidates; • our ability to obtain and maintain patient consents; and • the risk that patients enrolled in clinical trials will not complete such trials, for any reason, including the risk of higher drop-out rates if participants become infected with the global virus or other infectious diseases that impact their participation in our trials.
  • Our inability to enroll and retain a sufficient number of patients for our clinical trials would result in significant delays or may require us to abandon one or more clinical trials altogether.
  • Enrollment delays and retention challenges in our clinical trials may result in increased development costs for our product candidates, delay our ability to obtain clinical data, and jeopardize our ability to obtain marketing approval for the sale of our product candidates.
  • For those product candidates that are subject to regulation as biological drug products, we will need to demonstrate that they are safe, pure, and potent for use in their target indications.
  • Each product candidate must demonstrate an adequate risk versus benefit profile in its intended patient population and for its intended use.
  • Clinical testing is expensive and can take many years to complete, and its outcome is inherently uncertain.
  • The results of preclinical studies of our product candidates may not be predictive of the results of early-stage or later-stage clinical trials, and results of early clinical trials of our product candidates may not be predictive of the results of later-stage clinical trials.

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