SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This prospectus, and the documents incorporated by reference herein, contain, or will contain, “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Forward-looking statements are based on our management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. All statements, other than statements of historical facts contained in this prospectus, any applicable prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference herein and therein, including statements regarding our future financial condition, business strategy and plans, and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. In some cases you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” the negative of terms like these or other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the following:
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the initiation, timing, progress and results of our clinical trials of our lead product candidate, ONS-5010;
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our reliance on our contract manufacturing organizations and other vendors;
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whether the results of our clinical trials will be sufficient to support domestic or global regulatory approvals;
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our ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval for ONS-5010 in the United States and other markets;
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our expectations regarding the potential market size and the size of the patient populations for our product candidates, if approved, for commercial use;
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our ability to fund our working capital requirements, and our expectations regarding our current cash resources;
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the rate and degree of market acceptance of our current and future product candidates, including our commercialization strategy and manufacturing capabilities for ONS-5010;
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the implementation of our business model and strategic plans for our business and product candidates;
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developments or disputes concerning our intellectual property or other proprietary rights;
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our ability to maintain and establish collaborations or obtain additional funding;
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our expectations regarding government and third-party payor coverage and reimbursement;
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our ability to compete in the markets we serve;
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the factors that may impact our financial results; and
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our estimates regarding the sufficiency of our cash resources and our need for additional funding.
These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We discuss in greater detail many of these risks under the heading “Risk Factors” contained in any applicable prospectus supplement, in any free writing prospectuses we may authorize for use in connection with a specific offering, and in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and in our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended subsequent to our filing of such Annual Report on Form 10-K, which are incorporated by reference into this prospectus in their entirety, as well as any amendments thereto reflected in subsequent filings with the SEC. Also, these forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date of the document containing the applicable statement. Unless required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information or future events or developments. Thus, you should not assume that our silence over time means that actual events are bearing out as expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. You should read this prospectus, any applicable prospectus supplement, together with the documents we have filed with the SEC that are incorporated by reference herein and therein and any free writing prospectus that we may authorize for use in connection with this offering completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. We qualify all of the forward-looking statements in the foregoing documents by these cautionary statements.