This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q regarding our strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. The words "anticipates," "believes," "could," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "may," "plans," "potential," "predicts," "projects," "should," "will," "would" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
Our forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those described or implied in the forward-looking statements, including:
•the progress, timing or success of our research and development and clinical programs for our product candidates, particularly our glucagon emergency management, or GEM, product candidate, which comprises lyophilized glucagon and an aqueous diluent in an automatic reconstitution device, and our concentrated ultra-rapid-acting insulin product candidate, BIOD-531, which uses regular human insulin, or RHI, as the active pharmaceutical ingredient in a concentration of 400 units per milliliter;
•our ability to conduct the development work necessary to finalize the formulation and presentation of our GEM product candidate, as well as the preclinical studies, clinical trials and manufacturing activities necessary to support the submission of a new drug application, or NDA, to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, for that product candidate;
•the ability and willingness of our existing strategic partners, service providers and suppliers, upon which we rely in the advancement of our product candidates, to meet the obligations set forth in our agreements with them and the timelines communicated to us, including Unilife Medical Solutions, Inc., or Unilife, which is responsible for designing and manufacturing the device intended for use with our GEM product candidate, as well as delivering three registration lots of the filled and finished GEM device required for conducting pivotal clinical trials and stability studies necessary for submitting an NDA to the FDA;
•the results of our real-time stability programs for our glucagon-, RHI-, and insulin analog-based product candidates, including the reproducibility of earlier, smaller scale, stability studies and our ability to accurately project long term stability on the basis of accelerated testing;
•our ability to accurately anticipate technical and regulatory challenges that we may face in the development of our glucagon-, RHI-, and insulin analog-based product candidates;
•our ability to develop, with the assistance of third party device manufacturers, one or more pen injection devices or syringes for use with BIOD-531 and our other ultra-rapid-acting insulin product candidates, which we believe will be necessary for the product candidates to be commercially successful;
•our ability to secure approval by the FDA for our product candidates under Section 505(b)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, or FFDCA;
•our ability to enter into collaboration arrangements for the commercialization of our product candidates and the success or failure of any such collaborations into which we enter, or our ability to commercialize our product candidates ourselves;
•our ability to enforce our patents for our product candidates and our ability to secure additional patents for our product candidates;
•our ability to protect our intellectual property and operate our business without infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others;
•the degree of clinical utility of our product candidates, particularly with regard to our ultra-rapid-acting insulin formulations;
•the emergence of competing technologies and products and other adverse market developments, such as advancements in glucagon stabilization or auto-injection device technologies that could enable highly portable, easy to use presentations;
•the ability of our contract manufacturing organizations or collaborators to properly manufacture our products in our final dosage form and in the quantities and timeframes we may require;