Company: MDCXW
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0001062993-25-015719
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Company: Medicus Pharma Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form: DRS
Chunk 25
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 the industry than we do. They also may provide more diverse opportunities and better chances for career advancement. Some of these characteristics may be more appealing to high-quality candidates than those that we have to offer. If we are unable to continue to attract and retain high-quality personnel, the rate of and success with which we can develop and commercialize the Products would be limited.

As a technology-driven company, intellectual input from key management and personnel is critical to achieve our business objectives. Consequently, our ability to retain these individuals and attract other qualified individuals is critical to our success. The loss of the services of key individuals might significantly delay or prevent achievement of our business objectives. In addition, because of a relative scarcity of individuals with the high degree of education and scientific achievement required for our business, competition among biotech companies for qualified employees is intense and, as a result, we may not be able to attract and retain such individuals on acceptable terms, or at all.

SkinJect also has relationships with scientific collaborators at academic and other institutions, some of whom conduct research at SkinJect's request or assist SkinJect in formulating the SkinJect's research and development strategies. These scientific collaborators are not SkinJect employees and may have commitments to, or consulting or advisory contracts with, other entities that may limit their availability to us. In addition, even though SkinJect's collaborators are required to sign confidentiality agreements prior to working, they may have arrangements with other companies to assist such other companies in developing technologies that may prove competitive to us.

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CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY MEDICUS PHARMA LTD.

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Incentive provisions for our key executives include base salary and the granting of stock options that vest over time, designed to encourage such individuals to stay with us. However, a low share price could render such agreements of little value to our key executives. In such event, our key executives could be susceptible to being hired away by our competitors who could offer a better compensation package. If we are unable to attract and retain key personnel our business, financial conditions and results of operations may be adversely affected.

We may not be able to successfully execute our business strategy.

The execution of our business strategy poses many challenges and is based on a number of assumptions. If we experience significant regulatory delays, supply chain disruptions, cost overruns on our programs, or if our business plan is more costly than we anticipate, certain research