CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS:
This Current Report on Form
8-K
and the exhibit attached hereto contain forward-looking statements of AVEO
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AVEO) that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, contained in this Current Report on Form
8-K
and the
attached exhibit are forward-looking statements. The words anticipate, believe, estimate, expect, intend, may, plan, predict, project,
target, potential, will, would, could, should, continue, contemplate, seek, look forward, advance, goal,
strategy, or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. These forward-looking statements
include, among others, statements about: AVEOs goals and business strategy, prospects, plans and objectives; AVEOs plans regarding submitting a new drug application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) for tivozanib; the timing, design and results of preclinical and clinical trials, including AVEOs plans to conduct, and expectations regarding the timing and potential results of, interim and final overall survival analyses
for the Phase 3
TIVO-3
study of tivozanib in RCC; AVEOs plans regarding the potential efficacy, safety and tolerability profile of tivozanib, including with respect to overall survival; AVEOs
expectation regarding submitting updated informed consent forms (ICFs) to the FDA and using them obtain consent from patients in ongoing and future trials; and the timing and outcome of meetings with and applications to regulatory
authorities by AVEO.
Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking
statements AVEO makes due to a number of important factors, including substantial risks and uncertainties relating to: AVEOs ability, and the ability of its licensees, to demonstrate to the satisfaction of applicable regulatory agencies such
as the FDA the safety, efficacy and clinically meaningful benefit of AVEOs product candidates, including as it relates to the
TIVO-3
trial and tivozanib; AVEOs ability to successfully file an NDA
for tivozanib on the timeline it anticipates, or at all; AVEOs and its collaborators ability to successfully enroll and complete clinical trials; and AVEOs ability to enter into and maintain its third party collaboration and
license agreements, and its ability, and the ability of its strategic partners, to achieve development and commercialization objectives under these arrangements. AVEO faces other risks relating to its business as well, including risks relating to
the timing and costs of seeking and obtaining regulatory approval; AVEOs ability to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements applicable to its product candidates; AVEOs ability to obtain and maintain adequate protection for
intellectual property rights relating to its product candidates; AVEOs ability to successfully implement its strategic plans; AVEOs ability to raise the substantial additional funds required to achieve its goals, including those goals
pertaining to the development and commercialization of tivozanib; unplanned capital requirements; adverse general economic and industry conditions; competitive factors; and those risks discussed in the sections titled Risk Factors and
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsLiquidity and Capital Resources included in AVEOs quarterly and annual reports on file with the SEC and in other filings that AVEO may
make with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the future. All forward-looking statements contained in this Current Report on
Form 8-K
speak only as of the date of this Current Report, and AVEO
undertakes no obligation, and specifically disclaims any obligation, to update any of these statements, except as required by law. You should, therefore, not rely on these forward-looking statements as representing AVEOs views as of any date
subsequent to the date of this Current Report.
Item 8.01. Other Events
As disclosed on January 31, 2019, and following a meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency), AVEO
Oncology (Company or AVEO) announced its decision to accept the FDAs recommendation not to submit a New Drug Application (NDA) for tivozanib with preliminary overall survival (OS) results from
the Companys Phase 3
TIVO-3
trial. The FDA had indicated that these preliminary OS results did not allay their concerns about the potential detriment in OS outlined in the complete response letter dated
June 6, 2013. The Company also announced its plan to designate an August 2019 OS analysis as interim, rather than final, in order to allow time for the OS data to mature.
On February 5, 2019, AVEO received final minutes from that meeting with the FDA. The minutes reflect both a summary of the meeting and decisions or
recommendations made by the Agency after the meeting. The minutes reflect the Companys agreement not to submit an NDA at this time. In the minutes, the FDA notes that the Company may decide to submit a formal interim analysis with an
appropriate statistical error allocation at a later date; requests that the Company provide any OS analysis performed to the FDA; and recommends that the Company not conduct any exploratory OS updates. The minutes also reflect the FDAs request
that the Company submit any revision to the
TIVO-3
statistical analysis protocol to the Agency for review. Finally, the FDA asked the Company to submit updated informed consent forms (ICFs) to the
Agency for review that will be used to obtain consent from patients in ongoing and future trials. The revised ICFs will include information about all of the tivozanib clinical trial OS outcomes to date.