Company: ARVN
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001655759-25-000085
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Company: ARVINAS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
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 from successfully developing and commercializing, if approved, our product candidates, including vepdegestrant, ARV-393, ARV-102, and ARV-806, in the future.

Disruptions at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, and other government agencies from funding cuts, personnel losses, regulatory reform, government shutdowns and other developments could hinder our ability to obtain guidance from the FDA regarding our clinical 

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development program and develop and secure approval of our product candidates in a timely manner, which would negatively impact our business. 

The FDA and comparable regulatory agencies in foreign jurisdictions, such as the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, play an important role in the development of our product candidates by providing guidance on our clinical development programs and reviewing our regulatory submissions, including investigational new drug applications, or INDs, requests for special designations and marketing applications. If these oversight and review activities are disrupted, then correspondingly our ability to develop and secure timely approval of our product candidates could be impacted in a negative manner.  

For example, the recent loss of FDA leadership and personnel could lead to disruptions and delays in FDA guidance, review and approval of our product candidates. Pursuant to President Trump's Executive Order, or E.O., 14210, “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative,” the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or HHS, announced on March 27, 2025, a reorganization and reduction in force, or RIF, across the Department of HHS of approximately 20,000 employees (82,000 to 62,000), with FDA’s workforce to decrease by 3,500 full-time employees. Shortly thereafter, thousands of employees at the FDA were fired on April 1, 2025. Subsequently, there have been reports from the preliminary budget memorandum for HHS that the administration will propose an additional 30% cut in the overall budget for HHS, with a reduction of $700 million in funding at the FDA ($7.2 billion to $6.5 billion) for the 2026 federal fiscal year.

Further, while the FDA’s review of marketing applications and other activities for new drugs and biologics is largely funded through the user fee program established under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or PDUFA, it remains unclear how the administration’s RIF and budget cuts will impact this program and the ability of the FDA to provide guidance and review our product candidates in a