CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This prospectus, any applicable prospectus supplement and the documents incorporated by reference may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act, about us and our subsidiary. These forward-looking statements are intended to be covered by the safe harbor for forward-looking statements provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements, including those regarding our strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management, are not statements of historical fact, and can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “predict,” “project,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “should,” “potential,” “seek,” “evaluate,” “pursue,” “continue,” “design,” “impact,” “affect,” “forecast,” “target,” “outlook,” “initiative,” “objective,” “designed,” “priorities,” “goal,” or the negative of such terms and similar expressions are intended to identify forward looking statements, although not all forward looking statements contain these identifying words. Such statements are based on assumptions and expectations that may not be realized and are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which cannot be predicted with accuracy and some of which might not even be anticipated. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning:
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our ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations and continue the development of our current and future product candidates;
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the preclinical and early clinical nature of our business and our ability to successfully advance our current and future product candidates, through development activities, preclinical studies, and clinical trials;
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our ability to generate revenue from future product sales and our ability to achieve and maintain profitability;
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the accuracy of our projections and estimates regarding our expenses, capital requirements, cash utilization, and need for additional financing;
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our dependence on the success of our lead product candidate, CNTY-101;
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the novelty of our approach to immuno-oncology and autoimmune treatment of cancer, utilizing iPSC-derived natural killer cells, or iNK cells, and iPSC-derived T cells, or iT cells, and the challenges we will face due to the novel nature of such technology;
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the success of competing therapies that are or may become available;
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our reliance on the maintenance of our collaborative relationship with FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Inc., or FCDI, for access to key differentiation and reprogramming technology for the manufacturing and development of our product candidates;
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the initiation, progress, success, cost, and timing of our development activities, preclinical studies and clinical trials;
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the timing of future investigational new drug, or IND, applications and the likelihood of, and our ability to obtain and maintain, regulatory clearance of IND applications for our product candidates;
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the timing, scope and likelihood of regulatory filings and approvals, including final regulatory approval of our product candidates;
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our reliance on FCDI to be the exclusive manufacturer of certain product candidates, and our ability to manufacture our own product candidates in the future, and the timing and costs of such manufacturing activities;
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our reliance on the maintenance of our collaborative relationship with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or Bristol-Myers Squibb, in connection with the furtherance of our collaboration programs;
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our ability to successfully integrate with the operations of Clade following the acquisition and achieve the anticipated benefits of the acquisition;
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the performance of third parties in connection with the development of our product candidates, including third parties conducting our current and future clinical trials as well as third-party suppliers and manufacturers;
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our ability to attract and retain strategic collaborators with development, regulatory, and commercialization expertise;