Company: AGIO
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001439222-25-000089
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Company: AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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 are less prevalent, less severe or more acceptable from a risk-benefit perspective;

•if our product candidates have undesirable side effects, it could result in a more restrictive label or the addition of safety warnings, or it could result in the delay or denial of marketing approval by the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities. For example, in January 2025, the USPI for PYRUKYND® for the treatment of hemolytic anemia in adults with PK deficiency was updated to include information regarding hepatocellular injury observed in clinical trials in patients with thalassemia treated with PYRUKYND® at a higher dose than recommended for patients with PK deficiency;

•clinical trials of our product candidates may produce negative or inconclusive results, and we, or our collaborators, may decide, or regulators may require us, to conduct additional clinical trials, including testing in more subjects, or abandon product development programs;

•regulators or institutional review boards may not authorize us, our collaborators or our investigators to commence a clinical trial or conduct a clinical trial at a prospective trial site;

•we or our collaborators may have delays in reaching or failing to reach agreement on acceptable clinical trial contracts or clinical trial protocols with prospective trial sites;

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•the number of patients required for clinical trials of our product candidates may be larger than we anticipate; enrollment in these clinical trials, which may be particularly challenging for some of the orphan diseases we target in our rare disease programs, may be slower than we anticipate; or participants may drop out of these clinical trials at a higher rate than we anticipate;

•third-party contractors used by us or our collaborators may fail to comply with regulatory requirements or meet their contractual obligations in a timely manner, or at all;

•significant preclinical study or clinical trial delays could shorten any periods during which we, or any collaborators, may have the exclusive right to commercialize our product candidates or allow our competitors, or the competitors of any collaborators, to bring products to market before we, or any collaborators, do;

•the cost of clinical trials of our product candidates may be greater than anticipated; and

•the supply or quality of our product candidates or other materials necessary to conduct clinical trials of our product candidates may be insufficient or inadequate.

In December 2016, we withdrew our IND for AG-519, our second PK activator, following verbal notification of a clinical hold from the FDA relating to a previously disclosed case of drug-induced cholestatic hepatitis which occurred in our phase 1 clinical trial of AG-519 in healthy