SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus contain forward-looking statements. These are based on our management’s current beliefs, expectations and assumptions about future events, conditions and results and on information currently available to us. Discussions containing these forward-looking statements may be found, among other places, in the sections titled “Business,” “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” incorporated by reference from our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 and our most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as well as any amendments thereto, filed with the SEC.
In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “expects,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “continue,” “should,” “will,” “would” or the negative or plural of those terms, and similar expressions intended to identify statements about the future, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from the information expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
Any statements in this prospectus, or incorporated herein by reference, about our expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance are not historical facts and are forward-looking statements. Within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or Exchange Act, these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding:
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the severity and duration of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, development programs and access to capital;
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the timing of execution of planned clinical trials and availability of data from our clinical trials;
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our expectation that the efficacy and safety data from our planned and ongoing Phase 3 registration trials, if positive, will be sufficient to support submission of a new drug application, or NDA, to the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA;
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our ability to obtain grants or other government funding to develop our product candidates;
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our ability to take advantage of benefits offered by current and pending legislation related to the development of products addressing antimicrobial resistance;
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the timing of and our ability to file, obtain and maintain our planned regulatory filings;
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the clinical utility of our product candidates and their potential advantages compared to other treatments;
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our commercialization, marketing and distribution capabilities and strategy;
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our ability to establish and maintain arrangements for the manufacture of our product candidates;
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our ability to establish and maintain collaborations and to recognize the potential benefits of such collaborations;
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our estimates regarding the market opportunities for our product candidates;
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our intellectual property position and the duration of our patent rights;
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our estimates regarding anticipated operating losses, needs for additional funds and capital requirements;
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political, social and economic instability, natural disasters or public health epidemics in countries where we or our collaborators do business;
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our ability to raise additional capital when needed and to continue as a going concern;