arvn-20251231
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 10-K
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(Mark One)
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025
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Commission File Number: 001-38672
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ARVINAS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its Charter)
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5 Science Park395 Winchester Ave.New Haven, Connecticut 06511
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (203) 535-1456
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As of June 30, 2025, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, the aggregate market value of the Common Stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was approximately $469.0 million, based on the closing price of the registrant’s Common Stock on such date. The number of shares of registrant’s Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share, outstanding as of February 20, 2026 was 63,960,997.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Part III of this Annual Report incorporates by reference information from the definitive Proxy Statement for the registrant’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which is expected to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after the registrant’s fiscal year ended December 31, 2025.
Table of Contents
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PART I
Item 1. Business 7
Item 1A. Risk Factors 65
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments 117
Item 1C Cybersecurity 118
Item 2. Properties 119
Item 3. Legal Proceedings 119
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures 119
PART II
Item 6. [Reserved] 122
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk 143
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data 143
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures 143
Item 9B. Other Information 146
Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions That Prevent Inspection 146
PART III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance 147
Item 11. Executive Compensation 147
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services 147
PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules 148
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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND RISK FACTOR SUMMARY
Forward-Looking Statements
This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including statements regarding our strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “predict,” “project,” “target,” “potential,” “goals,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “should,” “continue” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
The forward-looking statements in this Annual Report on Form 10-K include, among other things, statements about:
•the initiation, timing, progress and results of our current and/or future clinical trials of ARV-102, ARV-806, ARV-393 and ARV-027, including statements regarding the period during which the results of the clinical trials will become available or the forum in which we will present such results;
•the initiation, timing, progress and results of our current preclinical studies and any future preclinical studies or clinical trials of our other programs, including ARV-6723 and our pan-KRAS degrader, including statements regarding the period during which the results of preclinical studies or clinical trials will become available or the forum in which we will present such results;
•our belief, based on data from our preclinical studies and clinical trials, that PROTAC protein degraders may have distinct advantages over traditional small molecule inhibitors, antibodies and gene-based medicines;
•our belief that PROTAC degraders offer distinct advantages that enable perturbation of protein targets traditionally considered undruggable by conventional therapeutics;
•our plans with respect to market preparations for vepdegestrant and our plans, together with Pfizer Inc., jointly select a third party for the commercialization and potential further development of vepdegestrant;
•the timing of, and our ability to obtain, marketing approval of our product candidates, including vepdegestrant, and the ability of our product candidates, including vepdegestrant, to meet existing or future regulatory standards;
•our plans to pursue research and development of other product candidates;
•the potential advantages of our platform technology and potential advantages and therapeutic benefits of our product candidates;
•our belief that and the extent to which our targeted protein degradation approach may provide distinct advantages over existing therapies and address a broad range of targets, including historically undruggable proteins, in areas of significant unmet need;
•the potential achievement of milestones and receipt of payments under our collaborations, including our collaboration with Pfizer Inc. entered into in July 2021;
•the potential receipt of payments based on the achievement of milestones related to luxdegalutamide (ARV-766) and future royalties under our license agreement with Novartis Pharma AG;
•favorable clinical trial results in our ongoing oncology and neurology programs providing further validation of our platform as a new therapeutic modality for the potential treatment of diseases caused by dysregulated intracellular proteins;
•our belief that our leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 ("LRRK2") degraders are particularly well positioned to be evaluated in neurodegenerative diseases where there are currently no disease modifying therapies available, including Parkinson's disease ("PD") and progressive supranuclear palsy ("PSP");
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•our belief that the data from our preclinical studies of ARV-102 further support the potential of PROTAC-induced LRRK2 degradation as a treatment for patients with neurodegenerative disease;
•our belief that ARV-806 has the potential to address high unmet need in solid tumors, such as pancreatic, colorectal and non-small cell lung cancer ("NSCLC"), with KRAS G12D mutation;
•our belief that ARV-806 has the potential to be developed as a monotherapy and in combination with chemotherapy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and in combination with standard of care ("SOC") treatments in colorectal and non-small cell lung cancer;
•our belief that preclinical data for ARV-806 supports intermittent clinical dosing;
•our belief that PROTAC-mediated degradation has the potential to address the historically undruggable nature of the B-cell lymphoma 6 protein ("BCL6") and that ARV-393 PROTAC-mediated degradation of BCL6 may provide an important novel therapeutic option for patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma;
•our belief that ARV-393 can be an attractive combination partner for development of novel therapies for lymphoma, including chemo-free combination regimens and/or “all oral” treatment options;
•our belief that the totality of our preclinical data for ARV-393 provides a compelling rationale to evaluate ARV-393 in combination with bi-specifics, oral pathway inhibitors, and potentially other standards of care, in the larger diffuse large B-cell lymphoma indication;
•our belief that vepdegestrant has the potential to be a best-in-class monotherapy treatment for advanced/metastatic breast cancer patients in the second-line estrogen receptor 1 mutant setting;
•the potential receipt of revenue from future sales of our product candidates;
•the rate and degree of market acceptance and clinical utility of our product candidates;
•our estimates regarding the potential market opportunity for our product candidates;
•our ability to manage the transition of a new chief executive officer;
•our commercialization plans, and sales, marketing and distribution capabilities and strategy;
•our ability to establish and maintain arrangements for manufacture and testing of our product candidates;
•our ability to enter into additional collaborations with third parties;
•our intellectual property position;
•our plans with respect to our strategy;
•our estimates regarding expenses, future revenues, capital requirements and needs for additional financing, and statements regarding our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, including their sufficiency to fund planned operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements into the second half of 2028;
•our belief that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,is not expected to have a material impact on our business or financial condition;
•our belief that there are not currently any risks from known cybersecurity threats that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect us;
•our belief that our facilities are sufficient to meet our current needs and that suitable additional or alternative space will be available as and when needed on commercially reasonable terms for any future growth;
•our belief that non-GAAP financial information, when taken collectively, may be helpful to investors because it provides consistency and comparability with past financial performance;
•the impact of government laws and regulations; and
•our competitive position.
You should read this Annual Report on Form 10-K and the documents that we have filed as exhibits to this Annual Report on Form 10-K completely and with the understanding that we may not actually achieve the
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plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements we make. We have included important factors in the cautionary statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, particularly in the “Risk Factors” section, that we believe could cause actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements that we make. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures or investments we may make.
We do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements except as required by applicable law.
This Annual Report on Form 10-K also contains estimates and other statistical data made by independent parties and by us relating to market size and other data about our industry. This data involves a number of assumptions and limitations, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight to such data and estimates. In addition, projections, assumptions and estimates of our future performance and the future performance of the markets in which we operate are necessarily subject to a high degree of uncertainty and risk. Cross-trial comparisons are not based on head-to-head studies and no direct comparisons can be made.
Throughout this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the “Company,” “Arvinas,” “we,” “us,” and “our,” except where the context requires otherwise, refer to Arvinas, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries, or any one or more of them as the context may require, and “our board of directors” refers to the board of directors of Arvinas, Inc.
The Arvinas name and logo are our trademarks. This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains references to our trademarks and service marks and to those belonging to other entities. Solely for convenience, trademarks and trade names referred to in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including logos, artwork and other visual displays, may appear without the ® or TM symbols, but such references are not intended to indicate in any way that we will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, our rights or the rights of the applicable licensor to these trademarks and trade names. We do not intend our use or display of other entities’ trade names, trademarks or service marks to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, any other entity.
Risk Factor Summary
Our business is subject to a number of risks that if realized could materially affect our business, prospects, operating results and financial condition. These risks are discussed more fully in the “Risk Factors” section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. These risks include the following:
•We have incurred significant losses since our inception. We expect to incur expenses and operating losses over at least the next several years and may never achieve or maintain profitability. Our net losses totaled $80.8 million, $198.9 million and $367.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
•We have never generated revenue from product sales and may never be profitable.
•We will need substantial additional funding to continue our operations. If we are unable to raise capital when needed, we may be required to delay, limit, reduce or terminate our research, product development programs or future commercialization efforts.
•Raising additional capital may cause dilution to our stockholders, restrict our operations or require us to relinquish rights to our technologies or product candidates.
•Our approach to the discovery and development of product candidates based on our PROTAC technology platform is unproven, which makes it difficult to predict the time, cost of development and likelihood of successfully developing any products.
•We do not have any product candidates that have been approved for commercialization.If we are unable to commercialize our product candidates or experience significant delays in doing so, our business will be materially harmed.
•Drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with an uncertain outcome. We may incur unexpected costs or experience delays in completing, or ultimately be unable to complete, the development and commercialization of our product candidates.
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•Positive data from preclinical or early clinical studies of our product candidates are not necessarily predictive of the results of later clinical studies and any future clinical trials of our product candidates. If we cannot replicate the positive data from our preclinical or early clinical studies of our product candidates in our future clinical trials, we will be unable to successfully develop, obtain regulatory approval for and commercialize our product candidates.
•We may expend our limited resources to pursue a particular product candidate or indication and fail to capitalize on product candidates or indications that may be more profitable or for which there is a greater likelihood of success.
•We are developing and plan to continue to develop our product candidates in combination with other drugs. If the FDA or similar regulatory authorities outside of the United States do not approve these other drugs, or revoke their approval of such drugs, or if safety, efficacy, manufacturing or supply issues arise with the drugs we choose to evaluate in combination with our product candidates, we may be unable to obtain approval of or market our products.
•We face substantial competition, which may result in others discovering, developing or commercializing products before or more successfully than we do.
•We have an ongoing collaboration with Pfizer related to vepdegestrant, but have announced that we and Pfizer have agreed to jointly select a third party for the commercialization and potential future development of vepdegestrant. If our collaboration with Pfizer or another party is not successful, we may not be able to capitalize on the market potential of vepdegestrant.
•We currently depend, and expect to continue to depend, on collaborations, license arrangements, and other strategic alliances with third parties for the research, development, and the potential future commercialization of certain of the product candidates we may develop. If any such collaborations are not successful, we may not be able to capitalize on the market potential of those product candidates.
•We rely and expect to continue to rely on third parties to conduct our clinical trials, and those third parties may not perform satisfactorily, including failing to meet deadlines for the completion of such trials.
•We rely on third-party CMOs or CDMOs for the manufacture and testing of both drug substance and finished drug product for our product candidates for preclinical testing and clinical trials and expect to continue to do so for commercialization. This reliance on third parties may increase the risk that we will not have sufficient quantities of our product candidates or products or such quantities at an acceptable cost or quality, which could delay, prevent or impair our development or commercialization efforts.
•Changes in U.S. and international trade policies, particularly with respect to China, may adversely impact our business and operating results.
•Even if any of our product candidates receives marketing approval, it may fail to achieve the degree of market acceptance by physicians, patients, third-party payors and others in the medical community necessary for commercial success.
•Even if we are able to commercialize any product candidates, the products may become subject to unfavorable pricing regulations, third-party reimbursement practices or healthcare reform initiatives, which would harm our business.
•If we are unable to obtain and maintain patent protection for our technology and products or if the scope of the patent protection obtained is not sufficiently broad, our competitors could develop and commercialize technology and products similar or identical to ours, and our ability to successfully commercialize our technology and products may be impaired, and we may not be able to compete effectively in our market.
•Even if we complete the necessary preclinical studies and clinical trials, the marketing approval process is expensive, time-consuming and uncertain and may prevent us from obtaining approvals for the commercialization of any or all of our product candidates. If we are not able to obtain, or if there are delays in obtaining, required regulatory approvals, we will not be able to commercialize our product candidates, and our ability to generate revenue will be materially impaired.
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•Compliance with global privacy and data security requirements could result in additional costs and liabilities to us or inhibit our ability to collect and process data globally, and our failure or the failure of our collaborators,CROs, CDMOs, contractors, consultants and other third parties to comply with such requirements could subject us to significant fines and penalties, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
•Our future success depends on our ability to retain key employees, consultants and advisors and to attract, train, retain and motivate qualified personnel.
•Our internal computer systems and those of our collaborators, CROs, CDMOs, contractors, consultants and other third parties are vulnerable to cyber attacks, cyber intrusions and security breaches, which could not only materially disrupt our business operations and result in the loss of confidential information, but also damage the integrity of our clinical trials, impact our regulatory filings, compromise our ability to protect our intellectual property, and subject us to regulatory actions that could result in significant fines or other penalties.
•The price of our common stock is volatile and may fluctuate substantially, which could result in the loss of all or part of our stockholders’ investment.
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PART I
Item 1. Business.
Overview
We are a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to improving the lives of patients suffering from debilitating and life-threatening diseases. Through our PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera, or PROTAC, protein degradation platform, we are pioneering the development of a new class of therapeutics designed to harness the body’s own natural protein disposal system to selectively and efficiently degrade and remove disease-causing proteins. We have designed and optimized our proprietary PROTAC Discovery Engine for the discovery of PROTAC therapeutics to address diseases caused by abnormal proteins or aberrant protein expression. We believe that our targeted protein degradation approach is a novel therapeutic modality that may provide distinct advantages over existing therapies and address a broad range of targets, including historically undruggable proteins, in areas of significant unmet need.
In the past five years, seven of the programs developed using our PROTAC protein degradation platform have progressed to clinical trials in oncology and neurology indications after demonstrating potent and selective protein degradation in our preclinical studies. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, has accepted our New Drug Application, or NDA, for vepdegestrant, our most advanced product candidate from the platform, for the treatment of patients with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+)/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HER2-), or ER+/HER2-, estrogen receptor 1, or ESR1,-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer who have previously received endocrine-based therapy, and has assigned a Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or PDUFA, action date of June 5, 2026. We believe favorable clinical trial results in our ongoing oncology and neurology programs would further validate our platform as a new therapeutic modality for the potential treatment of diseases caused by dysregulated intracellular proteins.
We are currently progressing the following product candidates through clinical development programs:
•ARV-102, targeting the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2, or LRRK2, protein for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease, or PD, and progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP;
•ARV-806, targeting Kirsten rat sarcoma, or KRAS, -G12D protein for cancers with the G12D mutation, including pancreatic, colorectal and non-small cell lung cancer;
•ARV-393, targeting the B-cell lymphoma 6, or BCL6, protein for the treatment of relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma, or NHL;
•ARV-027, targeting the polyglutamine-expanded androgen receptor, or polyQ-AR, in skeletal muscle; and
•vepdegestrant, targeting the estrogen receptor, or ER, for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic ER+/HER2- breast cancer.
We are also advancing several preclinical candidates through early stage development, in a broad range of intracellular disease targets, including proteins that currently cannot be addressed by existing small molecule therapies, commonly referred to as “undruggable” or under-drugged targets. These preclinical candidates include ARV-6723 targeting hematopoietic progenitor kinase 1, or HPK1, and a pan-KRAS degrader targeting multiple variants of KRAS while sparing other RAS isoforms.
In addition to the programs above and our early-stage collaborations, including with Pfizer, Inc., or Pfizer, and Genentech, Inc. and F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., or Genentech, we are conducting exploratory research and development work on multiple other undisclosed targets.
Our Strategy
Our mission is to improve the lives of patients suffering from debilitating and life-threatening diseases through the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel protein degraders.
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We are currently developing PROTAC degraders to address targets within oncology and neurology, and we believe there is the potential for applicability in other therapeutic areas as well. The key elements of our strategy are to:
•Advance our current oncology and neurology pipeline through anticipated data milestones to evaluate safety, efficacy, and biological activity, with the objective of demonstrating therapeutic differentiation to existing therapies. These clinical data will inform development priorities, resource allocation, and subsequent clinical and regulatory strategies.
•Create medicines using new therapeutic modalities that have potential benefits over current modalities. We aim to develop therapies with the potential to deliver meaningful benefits relative to traditional small molecule inhibitors, or SMIs, antibodies, and gene-based medicines.
•Utilize our PROTAC Discovery Engine to expand our pipeline with a focus on historically undruggable and difficult-to-drug targets. This approach is designed to leverage targeted protein degraders to address disease biology that may not be amenable to traditional small-molecule or biologic approaches.
•Selectively collaborate to realize the full value of our pipeline and platform. As our preclinical and clinical programs advance, we continue to assess opportunities where a partner may be able to accelerate any such program's development, enhance such program's probability of success, or expand such program's commercial potential.
•Expand the capabilities of our PROTAC Discovery Engine and the breadth of our intellectual property portfolio to support the discovery and optimization of next-generation targeted protein degraders. We seek to broaden and strengthen our intellectual property portfolio to protect platform innovations, novel targets, and product candidates, supporting long-term value creation.
Our Focus - PROTAC Degradation and its Potential Benefits
Our disciplined target selection and proprietary discovery platform aim to enable the rational design of innovative degrader medicines across major protein classes. We focus on potential first- and best-in-class target opportunities in areas of high unmet need, particularly where we believe targeted protein degradation, or TPD, may offer the most effective or only path to potentially meaningful clinical outcomes. This includes addressing genetically defined targets or those under-drugged targets that are key regulatory points within pathways that are clinically validated targets, such as transcription factors and scaffolding proteins. With our integrated capabilities we aim to accelerate discovery of TPD therapeutics, translating biological insight into efficient drug design.
Areas of Unmet Need and PROTAC Capabilities
We are seeking to address areas of significant unmet need for patients, including neurology and oncology, with PROTAC targeted protein degrader therapeutics as further described in "Our Clinical Programs" section.
PROTAC protein degraders are small molecule therapeutic agents consisting of two ligands joined by a chemical linker. One ligand binds to an E3 ligase and the other ligand binds to a disease-causing protein of interest. PROTAC protein degraders facilitate formation of a ternary complex, leading to transfer of ubiquitin to the protein of interest and subsequent degradation by the proteasome, as shown in Figure 1 below:
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Figure 1
PROTACs have the potential to bring together certain useful features of SMIs, antibodies and gene-based medicines, while also having an iterative mechanism of action, which is referred to as “event-based pharmacology,” allowing one PROTAC to potentially lead to the degradation of many molecules of the protein of interest. Based on data from our preclinical studies and clinical trials, we believe that PROTAC protein degraders may have distinct advantages over traditional SMIs, antibodies and gene-based medicines, as shown below:
We believe PROTAC degraders offer distinct advantages that enable perturbation of protein targets traditionally considered undruggable by conventional therapeutics. Unlike inhibitors, degraders can eliminate proteins such as scaffolding proteins, transcription factors, oncoproteins, and oligomer-forming proteins using PROTACs with the potential for oral dosing and systemic distribution, in contrast to genomic and antibody modalities that only work extracellularly. Because degradation is a catalytic and durable process, PROTACs have the potential to achieve therapeutic effect with lower drug exposure and less frequent dosing than traditional approaches. PROTAC molecules are also compatible with established small-molecule manufacturing
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processes, offering potential advantages in scalability and cost. Importantly, PROTACs can be chemically engineered to selectively degrade disease-relevant proteins, including mutant or pathogenic isoforms, while sparing wild-type or healthy proteins, and can overcome challenges posed by protein amplification or overexpression. We believe these capabilities support therapeutic strategies aimed at oncoprotein removal and immune reactivation within the tumor microenvironment in oncology, as well as the removal of key amplified scaffolding and pathologic proteins in the brain and muscle in neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases.
Our Discovery Platform — PROTAC Discovery Engine
Our PROTAC Discovery Engine is an interlocking suite of tools and expertise that assists with our goal of creating and advancing clinical-stage programs with the potential to help patients, as shown below:
Defined terms used in the figure above include: PROTAC, proteolysis targeting chimera; ANGLE, Arvinas Next Generation Linker Enablement; LEAP (Library-Enabled ANGLE PROTACs; EM, electron microscopy; AI/ML, artificial intelligence/machine learning; HTS, high throughput screening; DEL, DNA-encoded libraries; CADD, computer-aided/assisted drug design; PK/PD, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics; and cryoEM, cryogenic electron microscopy.
Additional details regarding certain tools we use in our PROTAC Discovery Engine are included below.
•Target Selection: We focus on targets that we believe are poised to make a PROTAC protein degrader that has the potential to provide benefits over SMIs, antibodies and gene-based medicines, and address unmet need for patients with cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. These targets are selected because they are genetically defined targets or are under-drugged targets that are key regulatory points within pathways that are clinically validated. We focus on differential target biology that drives disease via scaffolding functions, gene amplification and protein overexpression, isoform expression or mis-localization, protein oligomers, resistance mutation, and where targets have been underdrugged due to incomplete target coverage, inadequate biodistribution, or lack catalytic binding pockets.
•E3 KnowledgeBase: We have deep and long-standing experience in understanding and exploiting E3 ligase mechanisms in order to match the right E3 ligase to the right target. The human body has more than 600 E3 ligases, and we select ligands for E3 ligases from our growing proprietary ligand library, E3KnowledgeBase, for incorporation into our PROTAC targeted protein degraders. We are expanding our capabilities to include the development of novel PROTACs that recruit E3 ligases with targeted expression patterns, such as tumor or central nervous system, or CNS, localized E3 ligases, that may be beneficial for the development of targeted oncologic and neurologic therapies.
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•Advanced Screening Capabilities: We have high-throughput and DNA-encoded library, or DEL, screening abilities, that power our ability to identify new domains, which are the building blocks of proteins, including domains for the “undruggable” targets, and new binders for E3 ligases. Unlike traditional libraries, our DEL is designed specifically to facilitate incorporation into PROTACs and optimize their drug-like properties.
•ANGLE: Arvinas Next Generation Linker Evolution: Our chemical linkers incorporate learnings from our long history of designing PROTACs, allowing increased potency and selectivity, as well as desirable pharmacokinetic properties to drive oral absorption and blood-brain barrier penetration, right from the start.
•LEAP: Library-Enabled ANGLE PROTACs: We have enhanced our ability to deploy ANGLE on our projects by evolving it into a library format, where we can now make hundreds of PROTACs at one time and screen them all in a direct-to-biology format. We have also created a proprietary software tool to accelerate LEAP library design.
•PROTACify: We have built PROTACify, a proprietary computational, machine-learning, or ML, solution for modeling PROTAC ternary complexes to enable selection of the best PROTAC designs for synthesis. With our deep experience in trimer structure-based computational modeling and design algorithms, we frequently create potent degraders in the first chemical series.
•Proteomics Capabilities: PROTACs are often far more selective than the protein-binding domain within the targeted protein. Our proteomics capabilities enable us to understand that specificity in precise detail and iterate quickly to optimize the selectivity of our degraders for the drug target.
•Arvinas Rules: PROTACs are not intrinsically "drug-like" and frequently do not following classical guidance for probable oral absorption, such as the "Rule of 5". We have established and refined our own "beyond the Rule of 5" Arvinas Rules to discover PROTACs that have the potential for oral bioavailability and crossing the blood-brain barrier. We have consolidated our large, proprietary preclinical pharmacokinetic, or PK, data set into ML models in order to enhance our potential for success in finding PROTACs with the desired pharmacokinetic properties from the outset of the process.
•PIVOT (PROTAC In Vivo Optimization Tool): In contrast to traditional small molecule agents, which follow an occupancy-driven mechanism of action, PROTACs are event-driven, and as such can display profound nonlinear PK, pharmacodynamic responses. We have developed PIVOT as a desktop tool to enable our scientists to develop a deep, intuitive understanding of relationships among PK, pharmacodynamic and efficacy. We believe our understanding of molecular features that impact PROTAC biodistribution and target degradation kinetics in the body enables us to create PROTACs with drug-like properties and activities.
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Our Pipeline
Our pipeline, which includes an overview of our most advanced clinical and preclinical programs, is summarized below.
•The agents included in the graphic above are currently under investigation; their safety and effectiveness for these investigational uses have not been established.
•Defined terms included in the graphic above: AR, androgen receptor; BCL6, B-cell lymphoma 6; ER, estrogen receptor; HPK1, Hematopoietic Progenitor Kinase 1; I-O, immuno-oncology; KRAS, Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog; LRRK2, leucine-rich repeat kinase 2; mCRPC, metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer; mHSPC, metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer; NSCLC, non small cell lung cancer; NDA, new drug application; NHL, non-Hodgkin lymphoma; polyQ, expanded polyglutamine; PSP, progressive supranuclear palsy; SBMA, spinal bulbar muscular atrophy.
•Footnotes included in the graphic above: (a) Includes relapsed/refractory angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, or AITL, and relapsed/refractory mature B cell NHL; (b) PDUFA date of June 5, 2026; and (c) Phase 1/2 combination clinical trials with palbociclib, atirmociclib, abemaciclib, ribociclib, samuraciclib, everolimus.
Our Clinical Stage Programs
ARV-102: Oral PROTAC LRRK2 Degrader Program
ARV-102 is an investigational, orally bioavailable PROTAC designed to cross the blood-brain barrier and specifically target and degrade LRRK2, which is a large, multi-domain scaffolding kinase with GTPase activity. ARV-102 is our first oral PROTAC protein degrader in clinical development to treat neurodegenerative diseases.
Traditional SMIs only block LRRK2’s kinase activity, and thus only modify disease processes regulated by the LRRK2 kinase. By degrading the entire protein, LRRK2 degraders are designed to eliminate all of the ways LRRK2 interacts with disease pathology: the scaffolding function, GTPase activity, as well as kinase activity. We believe our LRRK2 degraders are particularly well positioned to be evaluated in neurodegenerative diseases where there are currently no disease modifying therapies available, including:
•PD, where increased LRRK2 expression and activity contributes to neurodegeneration and pathogenesis of PD; and
•PSP, where genetic variations in LRRK2 are associated with PSP progression and accelerated time to death. PSP is a primary tau-driven disease, and tau uptake by human neurons requires LRRK2 activity. Additionally, we have published data associating the tau pathology of PSP with LRRK2-mediated endolysosomal dysfunction.
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Patient Population and Market Opportunity
PD is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. It is estimated that PD affects approximately 1.1 million people in the U.S. and more than 10 million people worldwide. Approximately 90,000 people in the U.S. are estimated to be diagnosed with PD each year. PD is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a complex array of motor and non-motor symptoms. It is commonly thought of as a movement disorder because patients can experience tremors, slowness of movement, stiffness and difficulty with walking and balance. In addition, PD patients can have other non-motor type problems such as constipation, depression, sleep disorders and cognitive decline. PD is a progressive brain disorder that damages dopamine-producing neurons and is likely caused by a combination of genetic and environmental risk factors. Current management for PD is limited to symptomatic interventions and there is no approved disease modifying agents.
Mutations in the LRRK2 gene are one of the most common genetic risk factors for PD. LRRK2 is a multidomain GTPase/kinase that acts, in part, as a scaffolding protein to interact with components of downstream signaling pathways regulating lysosomal function, mitochondrial processes, neuroinflammation and alpha-synuclein accumulation to negatively impact neuronal survival. Human genetics in the form of a protective PD variant (N551K/R1398H), produces approximately half the levels of LRRK2 in the CSF and reduces the risk of developing PD. Preclinical animal model data suggest that a reduction of 50% of LRRK2 protein, but not kinase inhibition, may impact pathology and dysfunction in PD. Therefore, reduction of LRRK2 in the brain may be beneficial for the treatment of PD.
PSP is a rare, progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects brain cells that control balance and coordination, eye movement, speech, swallowing and thinking. Emerging research suggests that LRRK2 plays a role in PSP by contributing to disease mechanisms such as neuroinflammation and cellular dysfunction. LRRK2 is involved in immune system regulation and may influence tau protein accumulation, a hallmark of PSP. It also plays a role in autophagy and inflammation, which could contribute to neurodegeneration seen in PSP. Additionally, variants in the LRRK2 gene have been associated with PSP progression and survival. PSP has an estimated annual prevalence of approximately five to seven per 100,000 persons globally. It is estimated that approximately 20,000 to 25,000 people are in the U.S. living with PSP each year, based on data from 2023. There are currently no FDA-approved disease-modifying therapies that halt or delay PSP progression and which often leads to patients progressing with a time to death of five to seven years following diagnosis. Based on 2021 published data, genome wide association studies have identified LRRK2 variants that are significantly associated with reduced survival in PSP. Based on data from a third party study in 2025 comparing PSP and control participants, higher levels of baseline monocyte LRRK2 levels were associated with a greater one-year change in PSP rating scale scores. We believe these data support a role for LRRK2 variants that impact its expression levels in modulating survival in PSP.
Preclinical and Clinical Development
Preclinical Development
In preclinical studies, ARV-102 was shown to cross the blood-brain barrier and degrade LRRK2 in cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, in non-human primates, or NHPs. Our preclinical studies also showed that ARV-102 and other similar LRRK2 PROTAC degrader molecules pharmacologically enhanced lysosomal degradative capacity and number, and reduced pathologic forms of tau in vitro and in vivo. We believe the data from our preclinical studies of ARV-102 further support the potential of PROTAC-induced LRRK2 degradation as a treatment for patients with neurodegenerative diseases.
Clinical Development
We have been evaluating ARV-102 in Phase 1 clinical trials in healthy volunteers and patients with PD.
•Healthy Volunteers: We initiated the first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial for ARV-102 in the first quarter of 2024. We completed the single ascending dose, or SAD, and multiple ascending dose, or MAD, cohorts of the ARV-102 Phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers.
•Patients with PD: We completed enrollment in the SAD cohort of the ARV-102 Phase 1 clinical trial in patients with PD in the second quarter of 2025. We received Clinical Trial Application approval in the Netherlands to initiate a multiple dose cohort of the Phase 1 clinical trial in patients with PD in
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the second quarter of 2025, and we initiated this multiple dose cohort in the third quarter of 2025. In the fourth quarter of 2025, we completed enrollment in the multiple dose cohort.
In the second quarter of 2025, we presented data from the first-in-human Phase 1 healthy volunteer clinical trial of ARV-102 at the 2025 International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases, or AD/PD, 2025, including results from the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled SAD cohort, and initial results from the MAD cohort. The ARV-102 Phase 1 clinical trial was designed to assess the safety, PK, and pharmacodynamics of orally administered ARV-102 in healthy male volunteers. This clinical trial was a single-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluating outcomes in both SAD and MAD cohorts. In the SAD cohort, volunteers were randomized three to one, to either placebo or a single dose of ARV-102 (10 mg, 30 mg, 60 mg, 90 mg, 150 mg, or 200 mg) on day 1 with follow-up until day 10. In the MAD cohort, volunteers were randomized to either placebo or a once daily dose of ARV-102 (10 mg, 20 mg, 40 mg, or 80 mg) for 14 days with follow-up until day 28.
The ARV-102 Phase 1 clinical data in healthy volunteers demonstrated substantial reduction of LRRK2 in CSF with a promising safety/tolerability profile and favorable pharmacodynamic outcomes. Key findings from the clinical trial indicated brain penetration, substantial central and peripheral LRRK2 protein degradation, and downstream LRRK2 pathway engagement. The specific data presented at AD/PD 2025 are outlined below.
Safety Profile
•At the time of data cutoff (March 13, 2025), the SAD cohort of the Phase 1 clinical trial was completed and the MAD cohort was ongoing. Based on evaluation of the available data from single and multiple oral doses, ARV-102 was well tolerated in healthy volunteers.
•Of the 47 volunteers across all SAD dose levels, the primary treatment related adverse events, or AEs, were headache and fatigue. Headaches occurred in 17.1% (6/35) of treated individuals compared to 0% (0/12) in placebo controls. Fatigue occurred in 8.6% (3/35) of the treated individuals compared to 25% (3/12) in placebo controls.
•Procedural pain associated with the lumbar puncture occurred in 28.6% (10/35) of treated individuals compared to 41.7% (5/12) in placebo controls. Post lumbar puncture syndrome was only observed in the treated cohort, at a rate of 17.1% (6/35).
•No serious adverse events, or SAEs, were reported in either the SAD or MAD cohorts.
ARV-102 Exposure in Plasma and CSF
•ARV-102 exhibited median maximum concentration six hours after oral administration.
•The area under the concentration-time curve in the first 24 hours post dosing and the maximum plasma concentration increased in a dose-dependent manner and the median terminal plasma half-life was 73 hours.
•ARV-102 levels in CSF increased in a dose dependent manner in both the SAD and MAD cohorts.
Pharmacodynamic Evaluation
•At single doses of greater than or equal to 60 mg and repeated doses of greater than or equal to 20 mg, LRRK2 reduction of greater than 90% in peripheral blood mononuclear cells was observed.
•ARV-102 at single doses of greater than or equal to 30 mg induced greater than 50% decreases in peripheral phospho-Rab10T73, a LRRK2 substrate and biomarker for downstream LRRK2 activity; as of the date of presentation, data for this endpoint in the MAD cohort was pending.
•ARV-102 at single doses of greater than or equal to 30 mg resulted in greater than 90% decrease of bis(monoacylglycerol)phosphate in urine, a biomarker of lysosomal function; data for this endpoint in the MAD cohort is pending.
•In CSF, ARV-102 induced dose-dependent LRRK2 reduction, with greater than 50% LRRK2 reduction at single doses of greater than or equal to 60 mg and repeated doses of greater than or equal to 20 mg.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, we presented late breaking positive Phase 1 data from our clinical trial of ARV-102 in healthy volunteers, and from the SAD cohort of our Phase 1 clinical trial of ARV-102 in patients with
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PD, as well as CSF Proteomic Data from the Phase 1 clinical trial of ARV-102 in healthy volunteers at the 2025 International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, or MDS. Data presented at MDS included the following:
Data from the Phase 1 SAD and MAD Clinical Trial in Healthy Volunteers
•Safety: ARV-102 was generally well tolerated at single doses up to 200 mg and multiple daily doses up to 80 mg, with no discontinuations due to AEs or SAEs observed in the study population.
•Pharmacokinetics: ARV-102 exposure increased in a dose-dependent manner in plasma and CSF, the latter indicating brain penetration.
•Pharmacodynamics: Repeated daily doses of greater than or equal to 20 mg resulted in greater than 90% reductions of LRRK2 protein in peripheral blood mononuclear cells, or PBMCs, and greater than 50% reductions in CSF.
•Pathway Biomarkers: Repeated daily doses of ARV-102 resulted in reduced plasma concentrations of phospho-Rab10T73 and urine concentrations of bis(monoacylglycerol)phosphate, a sensitive biomarker for modulation of the lysosomal pathway downstream of LRRK2.
Interim SAD Data from the Phase 1 Clinical Trial in Patients with PD and CSF Proteomic Data from a Phase 1 Trial in Healthy Volunteers
•Safety: The SAD cohort of the Phase 1 clinical trial in patients with PD included 15 patients treated with ARV-102 and 4 patients treated with placebo. In the trial, single doses of ARV-102 (50 mg or 200 mg) were well tolerated with only mild treatment-related AEs including headache, diarrhea, and nausea; no SAEs occurred.
•Pharmacokinetics: In patients with PD, ARV-102 exposure increased in a dose-dependent manner in both plasma and CSF, the latter indicating brain penetration.
•Pharmacodynamics: In patients with PD, treatment with ARV-102 resulted in median PBMC LRRK2 protein reductions of 86% with the 50 mg dose and 97% with the 200 mg dose.
•CSF Proteomics: In healthy volunteers treated with ARV-102 at 80 mg once daily for 14 days, unbiased proteomic analyses of CSF showed significant decreases in lysosomal pathway markers and neuroinflammatory microglial markers previously shown to be elevated in patients with PD harboring LRRK2 variants.
We believe these data presented at MDS highlight the potential of PROTAC-mediated LRRK2 degradation, which supports the development of ARV-102 in ongoing studies of patients with PD and we plan to present data from the multiple dose cohort of the Phase 1 clinical trial of ARV-102 in patients with PD in the first quarter of 2026 in an oral presentation at 2026 AD/PD.
We also believe these data support development in PSP, and pending regulatory feedback, we plan to initiate a Phase 1b clinical trial of ARV-102 in patients with PSP in the first half of 2026 and have the potential to initiate a registrational trial of ARV-102 in PSP in late 2026, pending regulatory feedback.
ARV-806: Novel PROTAC KRAS G12D Degrader Program
ARV-806 is an investigational novel PROTAC designed to selectively target and degrade mutant KRAS G12D in solid tumors. KRAS is one of the most frequently mutated human oncogenes and G12D is the most common mutation of the KRAS protein. In normal cells, the KRAS protein regulates cell growth and functions as
a molecular switch, cycling between a baseline “OFF” state and only turning “ON” when conditions are appropriate for growth. Mutations, including G12D, lock KRAS in the “ON” form, leading to uncontrolled cell growth and cancer. ARV-806 is designed to degrade both the ON and OFF forms of KRAS G12D and by removing this oncogenic protein, has the potential to shut down the constitutive growth signal and lead to death of the cancer cells. We believe ARV-806 has the potential to address high unmet need in solid tumors, such as pancreatic, colorectal and non-small cell lung cancer, or NSCLC, with KRAS G12D mutation.
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Patient Population and Market Opportunity
Patients with metastatic cancers harboring KRAS G12D mutations have poor survival outcomes with no approved KRAS G12D-targeted therapy. Key tumors harboring KRAS G12D mutations include pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, or PDAC, colorectal carcinoma, and NSCLC with respective prevalence of KRAS G12D mutations of 35-40% for PDAC, 12-15% for colorectal carcinoma and 3-4% for NSCLC, based on published data from 2021 and 2022.
There are approximately 60,000 newly diagnosed PDAC patients per year in the U.S., based on 2026 estimates, with only an approximate 3% five-year survival rate in metastatic setting, based on data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results, or SEER, Program, part of the National Cancer Institute. There are approximately 158,000 newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients each year in the U.S., based on 2026 estimates, with only an approximate 16% five-year survival rate in metastatic setting, based on data from SEER. There are approximately 195,000 newly diagnosed NSCLC patients per year in the U.S., based on 2026 estimates, with only an approximate 10% five year survival rate in metastatic setting, based on data from SEER, as reported for combined NSCLC and small-cell lung cancer.
Due to the high unmet need of these patient populations, we believe ARV-806 has the potential to be developed as a monotherapy and in combination with chemotherapy in PDAC and in combination with SOC treatments in colorectal and non-small cell lung cancer.
Preclinical and Clinical Development
Preclinical Development
In the preclinical setting, ARV-806 demonstrated high potency and selectivity, with robust antitumor activity through dose-responsive degradation of KRAS G12D in KRAS G12D mutated cancer models, including pancreatic and colorectal models. ARV-806 formed a ternary complex with both the active "ON" and inactive "OFF" forms of KRAS G12D, achieving potent and durable elimination rather than inhibition of the target. As a result, in preclinical studies, ARV-806 achieved in vitro potency more than 25 times greater than clinical stage KRAS G12D "ON" and "OFF" inhibitors and more than 40 times greater than the leading KRAS G12D clinical-stage degrader.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, we presented preclinical data for ARV-806 at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, or the 2025 Triple Meeting. Key highlights from the presentation at the 2025 Triple Meeting include the following:
•In vitro, ARV-806 degraded KRAS G12D with picomolar potency across pancreatic, colorectal, and lung cancer cell lines, but did not induce degradation of wild-type KRAS or other RAS isoforms.
•The preclinical data demonstrated that ARV-806 is differentiated from other KRAS G12D targeting agents in development and we believe ARV-806 has potential to be a best-in-class therapy for KRAS G12D mutated cancers due to:
◦Catalytic activity, which may allow it to overcome upregulation of KRAS G12D, a common mechanism of resistance to inhibitor treatment.
◦Compared with clinical-stage KRAS G12D ON and OFF inhibitors and another clinical-stage KRAS G12D degrader, ARV-806 demonstrated:
▪more than 25-fold greater potency in reducing cancer cell proliferation (versus clinical-stage KRAS G12D “ON” and “OFF” inhibitors);
▪more than 40-fold greater potency in degrading KRAS G12D protein (versus the comparable clinical-stage KRAS G12D degrader); and
▪more than 10-fold lower concentrations required to induce pro-apoptotic BIM (Bcl-2-interacting mediator of cell death, a pro-apoptotic factor) expression.
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•Following a single intravenous dose in a colorectal tumor xenograft model, ARV-806 degraded greater than 90% of KRAS G12D for seven days, with parallel suppression of c-MYC (a key driver of cancer cell proliferation) and induction of BIM for greater than or equal to five days.
•ARV-806 demonstrated robust efficacy responses at low doses in tumor models including: ≥30% tumor volume reductions in pancreatic and colorectal cell line-derived xenograft (CDX) models and a patient-derived xenograft (PDX) model of lung cancer.
These preclinical data demonstrate sustained pharmacodynamic activity consistent with long-lasting target degradation, which we believe supports intermittent clinical dosing.
Clinical Development
We filed an investigational new drug application, or IND, with the FDA for ARV-806 in the first quarter of 2025 and received a safe-to-proceed letter from the FDA in the second quarter of 2025. We initiated enrollment in a Phase 1 clinical trial of ARV-806 in patients with advanced solid tumors harboring KRAS G12D mutations in the second quarter of 2025 and this trial is currently ongoing.
In the first quarter of 2026, we announced that we had completed dose escalation for once-weekly administration ahead of plan based on faster-than-anticipated enrollment of the Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating ARV-806 in patients with solid tumors harboring KRAS G12D mutations. We plan to continue enrollment in this clinical trial and anticipate sharing initial clinical data in patients with solid tumors harboring KRAS G12D mutations in 2026.
ARV-393: Oral PROTAC BCL6 Degrader Program
ARV-393 is an investigational, orally bioavailable PROTAC designed to specifically target and degrade BCL6, a transcriptional repressor and a key regulator of normal B-cell maturation and differentiation processes. Deregulation of BCL6 function (e.g., via chromosomal translocation, mutations) may lead to malignant transformation and development of NHL. Also as a lineage defining transcription factor of T-follicular helper cells, BCL6 has been implicated in nodal T-follicular helper cell lymphoma, or nTFHL, including the angioimmunoblastic type, formerly angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, or AITL.
During B-cell development, tightly controlled BCL6 protein expression regulates more than 600 genes to facilitate rapid B-cell proliferation and tolerance of somatic hypermutation and gene recombination for antibody generation. Deregulated BCL6 expression is common in B-cell lymphoma and promotes cancer cell survival, proliferation, and genomic instability. We believe that PROTAC-mediated degradation has the potential to address the historically undruggable nature of BCL6 and that ARV-393 PROTAC-mediated degradation of BCL6 may provide an important novel therapeutic option for patients with NHL. Furthermore, we believe current preclinical data suggest that ARV-393 has the potential to be an attractive combination partner for development of novel therapies for lymphoma, including chemo-free combination regimens and/or “all oral” treatment options.
Patient Population and Market Opportunity
It is estimated that there were approximately 80,000 new cases and approximately 19,300 deaths in the U.S. related to NHL annually in 2025 based on data from SEER. NHL is a heterogeneous group of diseases, with large B-cell lymphoma, or LBCL, and follicular lymphoma, or FL, being the most common subtypes. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, or DLBCL, is another subtype of NHL, often associated with deregulated BCL6 expression and/or functions. It is estimated that approximately 30,000 to 33,000 patients are diagnosed with DLBCL each year in the U.S., based on data from 2025 and 2026.Treatment for DLBCL is largely devoid of oral options and there are currently no approved BCL6-targeted therapies on the market in the U.S.
Each subtype has a distinct biologic and clinical characteristics and requires different approaches to treatment. Despite significant progress made with treating B-cell NHL and nTFHL, many patients will ultimately experience disease progression or relapse. Thus, there remains unmet need, including managing aggressive subtypes, treatment resistance, and improving outcomes for older patients.
We believe our PROTAC BCL6 degrader could be a potential therapy for many NHLs, including FL and nTFHL (formerly AITL). NHL originates from B cells, T cells, and/or natural killer cells, with those of B-cell origin
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constituting approximately 80%–85% of all NHL cases. BCL6 may also be a clinically relevant therapeutic target in other hematologic malignancies, some solid tumors and B-cell driven autoimmune diseases.
Preclinical and Clinical Development
Preclinical Development
Based on our NHL preclinical studies, complete tumor stasis, which correlates with 90%-100% degradation of measurable BCL6, was achieved when ARV-393 was dosed as an oral monotherapy at low daily concentrations. This robust activity was seen in models of multiple NHL subtypes including multiple DLBCLs representing various genomic backgrounds of activated B-cell and germinal center B-cell lymphomas, Burkitt's lymphoma, and transformed FLs. In addition, ARV-393 significantly reduced tumor burden in a CHOP-relapsed patient derived xenograft, or PDX, model of AITL (now known as nTFHL), a cancer that has no standard of care, or SOC, and high unmet need. This is the first demonstration, to our knowledge, of preclinical evidence of BCL6 as a tractable therapeutic target in a human-derived model of this type. In our preclinical studies, we have also demonstrated that ARV-393 combines well with SOC therapies including CHOP, R-CHOP or rituximab, and with the newer biologics glofitamab, tafasitamab, and the antibody drug conjugates loncastuximab tesirine and polatuzumab vedotin. This potential for broad combinability extends further to investigational SMIs that target BCL2 (anti-apoptosis), EZH2 (chromatin regulation) and BTK (B-cell receptor signaling pathway). Combinations such as these that target multiple oncogenic drivers, have the potential to provide benefits for patients with lymphomas that progress aggressively with the acquisition of multiple genetic or epigenetic aberrations.
In the second quarter of 2024, we presented preclinical data for ARV-393 at the European Hematology Association 2024 Annual Congress, which showed anti-tumor activity in preclinical models of B-cell lymphoma. In these preclinical models, ARV-393 potently and rapidly degraded the BCL6 protein and inhibited cell growth in DLBCL and Burkitt cell lines. ARV-393 showed tumor growth inhibition, or TGI, including tumor regression, in various DLBCL cell line-derived xenograft models and in multiple patient-derived xenograft models of NHL including germinal center B-cell-like, or GCB, activated B-cell, or ABC, GCB/ABC, and BCL not otherwise specified subtypes of DLBCL, and Burkitt lymphoma.
In the second quarter of 2025, we presented preclinical data of ARV-393 in combination with SOC chemotherapy and biologic agents, as well as oral, investigational SMIs in high grade and aggressive DLBCL in vivo models at the American Association for Cancer Research, or AACR, Annual Meeting. Based on these preclinical data, in aggressive DLBCL models, ARV-393 showed strong synergistic antitumor activity, including complete regressions, in combination with SOC chemotherapy and biologics, as well as investigational oral SMIs. In particular:
•ARV-393 in combination with SOC chemotherapy (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone, or R-CHOP), induced significantly greater TGI, compared with rituximab, CHOP, R-CHOP, or ARV-393 alone, with complete tumor regressions in all mice treated with the ARV-393 and R-CHOP combination;
•ARV-393 in combination with SOC biologics targeting CD20 (rituximab), CD19 (tafasitamab), or CD79b (polatuzumab vedotin), resulted in tumor regressions and demonstrated significantly stronger TGI compared with either agent alone;
•In preclinical models, ARV-393 increased CD20 expression, providing additional support for the exploration of combinations with CD20-targeted agents and in the context of low or loss of CD20 expression; and
•ARV-393 in combination with investigational SMIs targeting clinically validated oncogenic drivers of lymphoma, such as BTK (acalabrutinib), BCL2 (venetoclax), or EZH2 (tazemetostat), resulted in superior TGI compared with each agent alone, with tumor regressions in all mice treated with the combinations.
In addition, in the second quarter of 2025, we presented new data from preclinical studies of ARV-393 at the European Hematology Association 2025 Congress in Milan, Italy. In these preclinical studies, ARV-393 demonstrated significant single-agent activity in a PDX, model of nodal T-follicular helper cell lymphoma, angioimmunoblastic-type, or nTFHL-AI (which is also known and referred to as AITL), and PDX models of transformed follicular lymphoma, or tFL. In addition, in these preclinical studies, in combination with oral SMIs,
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ARV-393 demonstrated enhanced antitumor activity, including tumor regressions, in cell line-derived xenograft, or CDX, models of high-grade B-cell lymphoma, or HGBCL, and DLBCL. We believe these preclinical data potentially suggest the broad utility of ARV-393 across NHL subtypes with unmet need beyond DLBCL and provide a compelling rationale for considering combination strategies including chemotherapy-free approaches. Key findings from these preclinical studies included:
•Single-agent ARV-393 significantly reduced tumor burden in peripheral blood, bone marrow and spleen in a systemic PDX model of nTFHL-AI derived from a patient who relapsed post chemotherapy.
•ARV-393 monotherapy treatment resulted in robust (≥95%) TGI in two PDX models of tFL.
•ARV-393 in combination with five classes of SMIs targeting potentially cooperative oncogenic drivers (tazemetostat, palbociclib, everolimus, acalabrutinib, or venetoclax) demonstrated increased TGI in CDX models of HGBCL and aggressive DLBCL compared with the respective monotherapy treatments. Tumor regressions were observed when ARV-393 was combined with tazemetostat, palbociclib, acalabrutinib, or venetoclax.
•RNA sequencing studies carried out to further characterize downstream mechanism of action suggested that ARV-393 inhibits tumor cell cycle progression and promotes differentiation, driving antitumor activity and broad combinability in preclinical models.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, we presented preclinical data for ARV-393 in combination with glofitamab, a CD20xCD3 bispecific antibody and an emerging SOC option for DLBCL, in models of aggressive high grade DLBCL at the 67th American Society of Hematology 2025 Annual Meeting and Exposition.
These preclinical data showed that in a humanized high-grade B-cell lymphoma, or HGBCL, CDX model, the combination of ARV-393 and glofitamab resulted in significantly enhanced TGI and increased rates of tumor regression compared with either agent alone. These preclinical data suggest mechanistic synergies between BCL6 degradation with ARV-393 and T-cell engagement.
Specifically, key highlights from the poster presentation included the following:
•In a humanized HGBCL CDX model, ARV-393 (3 mg/kg) combined with glofitamab (0.15 mg/kg) achieved 81% TGI with concomitant dosing and 91% TGI with sequential dosing (ARV-393 followed by glofitamab), versus 38% for single-agent ARV-393 and 36% for glofitamab alone.
•At a higher ARV-393 dose (6 mg/kg) combined with glofitamab (0.15 mg/kg), an increase in tumor regressions was observed with concomitant (10 of 10 mice) and sequential dosing (7 of 8 mice) versus single-agent ARV-393 (5 of 11 mice) or glofitamab (0 of 11 mice).
•RNA sequencing and biomarker analyses revealed that ARV-393 upregulated CD20 expression and genes that promote interferon signaling and antigen presentation, while downregulating proliferation-associated gene sets. We believe these collective effects likely contributed to the observed synergistic antitumor activity.
We believe the totality of our ARV-393 preclinical data provides a compelling rationale to evaluate ARV-393 in combination with bi-specifics, oral pathway inhibitors, and potentially other SOCs, in the larger DLBCL indication.
Clinical Development
We initiated the monotherapy cohort of our first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial of ARV-393 in patients with relapsed or refractory NHL in the second quarter of 2024 and are currently recruiting patients for this clinical trial. This is an open-label, multicenter, Phase 1 dose escalation trial to evaluate the safety, tolerability PK, pharmacodynamics, and preliminary anti-tumor activity of ARV-393 as a single agent in adult patients with relapsed/refractory NHL. We announced previously that there have been multiple responses in early cohorts in both B- and T-cell lymphomas in the first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial. Dose escalation in the trial is ongoing and the safety profile of ARV-393 supports continuing dose escalation. We also believe these early data support an emerging, and differentiated, therapeutic benefit of ARV-393. We plan to share updated clinical data from the
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ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of ARV-393 in patients with relapsed/refractory NHL at a medical congress in the second half of 2026.
We also plan to initiate enrollment of a glofitamab combination cohort in patients with DLBCL in the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of ARV-393 in the first half of 2026.
ARV-027: Oral PROTAC polyQ-AR Degrader Program
ARV-027 is an investigational, oral, peripherally restricted PROTAC designed to selectively target and eliminate the polyQ-AR in skeletal muscle. ARV-027 is a product candidate specifically selected for potent in vitro reduction of cytosolic and nuclear polyQ-AR and for favorable skeletal muscle exposure following oral administration.
The polyQ-AR protein is the pathogenic driver of spinal bulbar muscular atrophy, or SBMA, a rare, X-linked, genetically defined neuromuscular disease caused by a CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in the androgen receptor, or AR, gene, causing protein misfolding and leading to progressive degeneration of the neuromuscular system in men. SBMA leads to progressive muscle weakness, dysphagia, and functional decline, and currently has no disease-modifying therapies approved by the FDA or EMA, representing a significant unmet medical need.
Patient Population and Market Opportunity
Due to limited disease awareness, historical underdiagnoses, and the absence of approved therapies, few large-scale epidemiologic studies have been conducted in SBMA. Published data estimates suggest that SBMA has an estimated population prevalence of approximately one to two per 100,000 individuals worldwide. Based on those estimated prevalence rates, roughly 3,500 to 7,500 individuals are currently living with SBMA in the U.S.
Preclinical and Clinical Development
In the fourth quarter of 2025 at the International Congress of the World Muscle Society, we presented new preclinical data demonstrating induced robust degradation of polyQ-AR in human myotubes derived from SBMA patient-induced pluripotent stem cells. The preclinical ARV-027 data presented also showed dose-dependent degradation of AR in mouse skeletal muscle that was sustained for more than 24 hours (single oral dose), and reductions in muscle monomeric polyQ-AR levels between 40-60%, improved muscle grip strength, and restored muscle endurance to wild-type levels in SBMA mouse model.
We initiated a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial in ARV-027 in healthy volunteers in the first quarter of 2026.
Vepdegestrant: Oral PROTAC ER Degrader Program
Vepdegestrant is an investigational, orally bioavailable PROTAC ER degrader being developed for the treatment of ER+/HER2- locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. We chose ER degradation as a therapeutic focus given the well-documented biology of ER signaling as a principal driver in a high percentage of breast cancers. In July 2021, we announced a global collaboration with Pfizer for the co-development and co-commercialization of vepdegestrant.
The FDA has accepted our NDA for vepdegestrant for the treatment of patients with ER+/HER2-, ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer who have previously received endocrine-based therapy, and has assigned a PDUFA date of June 5, 2026.
Patient Population and Market Opportunity
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer diagnosed in women in the United States, excluding non-melanoma skin cancers, and the second leading cause of cancer death among women, based on 2026 estimates. Approximately one in eight women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. For 2026, the American Cancer Society estimates that there will be approximately 322,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer diagnosed in women in the United States. Approximately 70% of all breast cancer cases, including males, are ER+, based on SEER data. In addition, there are approximately 20,000
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patients in the U.S. with ESR1 mutated, ER+/HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer in the second line plus setting, based on SEER data from 2023.
Treatment options for breast cancer depend on many different factors, including the stage of the cancer and whether the cancer cells contain hormone receptors. Patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer are treated with systemic therapy, including hormone therapy, chemotherapy and targeted therapy, either as single-agents or in combination. Patients with locally advanced or metastatic ER+/HER2- breast cancer are often treated with hormone therapy, such as an aromatase inhibitor, typically in combination with targeted drugs such as CDK4/6 inhibitors. In patients with aggressive disease or whose disease continues to progress with a hormonal treatment regimen, chemotherapy may be prescribed. Treatment with chemotherapy is generally postponed for as long as possible due to the potential for severe side effects including neuropathies, nausea, diarrhea, decreased mental capacity and increased risk of infections.
A current standard of care for patients with ER+/HER2- locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer who experience progression on first-line therapy is fulvestrant, a selective ER degrader, or SERD, administered as a monthly intramuscular injection, either as a single-agent or in combination with another targeted therapy. While fulvestrant has validated the importance of ER degradation as a therapeutic intervention, up to 50% of ER can remain when compared to baseline levels after six months of treatment with fulvestrant, providing an opportunity for more potent ER degraders. In January 2023, the FDA approved elacestrant, a SERD, for postmenopausal women or adult men with ER+/HER2-, ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer with disease progression following at least one line of endocrine therapy. In September 2025, the FDA approved imlunestrant, a SERD, for adults with ER+/HER2-, ESR1 mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer with disease progression following at least one line of endocrine therapy.
Clinical Development
We, along with Pfizer, have several ongoing clinical trials of vepdegestrant, for which enrollment of patients is complete, which are summarized below.
•VERITAC-2, a Phase 3 clinical trial of vepdegestrant as a monotherapy, for the treatment of patients with metastatic breast cancer previously treated with endocrine based therapy;
•VERITAC, a Phase 2 dose expansion clinical trial of vepdegestrant as a monotherapy, for the treatment of patients with previously treated metastatic breast cancer;
•TACTIVE-K, a Phase 1b/2 clinical trial of vepdegestrant in combination with Pfizer's cyclin-dependent kinase 4, or CDK4, inhibitor, atirmociclib; and
•TACTIVE-U, a group of Phase 1b/2 clinical trials of vepdegestrant in combination with multiple targeted therapies including abemaciclib, ribociclib or Carrick Therapeutics, Inc.'s, or Carrick, cyclin-dependent kinase 7, or CDK7, inhibitor, samuraciclib.
We, along with Pfizer, also have completed two clinical trials of vepdegestrant:
•TACTIVE-N, a Phase 2 clinical trial of vepdegestrant as a monotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting; and
•TACTIVE-E, a Phase 1 clinical trial of vepdegestrant in combination with everolimus.
Additionally, VERITAC-3 a clinical trial with a study lead-in of vepdegestrant in combination with palbociclib for the treatment of patients with first-line metastatic breast cancer, is ongoing and enrollment of patients is complete. As previously disclosed, VERITAC-3 will not proceed beyond the study lead-in.
VERITAC-2 Clinical Trial, New Drug Application
In the first quarter of 2025, we, along with Pfizer, announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 VERITAC-2 clinical trial in the estrogen receptor 1-mutant, or ESR1m, population, and in the second quarter of 2025, we, along with Pfizer announced detailed results from this clinical trial. These detailed results, which are included below, were presented in a late-breaking oral presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology, or ASCO, 2025 Annual Meeting and were highlighted in the ASCO press briefing and selected for Best of ASCO, and were also simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Based on the results from VERITAC-2, in the second quarter of 2025, we and Pfizer submitted an NDA to the FDA for vepdegestrant for the treatment of patients with ER+/HER2- ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer previously treated with endocrine-based therapy. This represents the first NDA submitted for a PROTAC. In the third quarter of 2025, we announced that the FDA accepted the NDA for vepdegestrant and assigned a PDUFA date of June 5, 2026.
Clinical Trial Design
The Phase 3 VERITAC-2 clinical trial is a global randomized study evaluating the efficacy and safety of vepdegestrant as a monotherapy compared to fulvestrant in patients with ER+/HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer. The trial enrolled 624 patients at sites in 26 countries who had previously received treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor plus endocrine therapy. Patients were randomized to receive either vepdegestrant once daily, orally on a 28-day continuous dosing schedule, or fulvestrant, administered intramuscularly on Days 1 and 15 of Cycle 1 and then on Day 1 of each 28-day cycle starting from Day 1 of Cycle 2. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival, or PFS, in the intent-to-treat, or ITT, and ESR1-m populations as determined by blinded independent central review, or BICR. Overall survival, or OS, was the key secondary endpoint.
Clinical Trial Results
The Phase 3 VERITAC-2 trial met its primary endpoint in the ESR1m population, demonstrating a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in PFS compared to fulvestrant. The results exceeded the pre-specified target hazard ratio of 0.60 in the ESR1m population. The trial did not reach statistical significance in improvement in PFS in the ITT population.
OS was not mature at the time of the analysis of data, with less than a quarter of the required number of events having occurred. The trial has continued to assess OS as a key secondary endpoint. In the trial, vepdegestrant was generally well tolerated and its safety profile was consistent with what has been observed in previous studies.
Detailed results from the Phase 3 VERITAC-2 clinical trial included the following:
•PFS
◦Vepdegestrant demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in PFS among ESR1m patients, reducing the risk of disease progression or death by 43% compared to fulvestrant [Hazard Ratio, or HR=0.57 (95% CI 0.42–0.77); 2-sided P<0.001]. The median PFS, as assessed by BICR, was 5.0 months with vepdegestrant versus 2.1 months with fulvestrant in the ESR1-m population.
◦Investigator-assessed PFS was consistent with the BICR-assessed PFS.
◦In ESR1m patients, vepdegestrant demonstrated a consistent PFS benefit over fulvestrant across all pre-specified subgroups.
◦The trial did not reach statistical significance in improvement in PFS in the ITT population, with a median PFS of 3.7 months for vepdegestrant versus 3.6 for fulvestrant [HR=0.83 (95% CI 0.68–1.02); 2-sided P=0.07].
•Tolerability and Safety Profile
◦Vepdegestrant was generally well tolerated in the clinical trial, with a safety profile consistent with what has been observed in previous studies, and mostly low-grade treatment-emergent adverse events, or TEAEs, were reported.
◦Rates and severity of gastrointestinal treatment emergent AEs were low with vepdegestrant (nausea, 13.5%; vomiting, 6.4%; diarrhea, 6.4%). Grade 4 TEAEs were reported in five patients (1.6%) in the vepdegestrant arm versus nine patients (2.9%) in the fulvestrant arm.
◦The three most common TEAEs observed with vepdegestrant were fatigue (26.6%), increased alanine transaminase (ALT) (14.4%) and increased aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (14.4%).
◦TEAEs leading to treatment discontinuation occurred in 2.9% of patients taking vepdegestrant versus 0.7% of patients taking fulvestrant.
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•Other Data Points
◦Additional secondary endpoints include clinical benefit rate, or CBR, and objective response rate, or ORR, and duration of response by BICR. In patients with an ESR1 mutation, CBR was 42.1% with vepdegestrant versus 20.2% with fulvestrant [odds ratio 2.88 (95% CI: 1.57–5.39); nominal P<0.001] and ORR was 18.6% with vepdegestrant versus 4.0% with fulvestrant [odds ratio 5.45 (95% CI: 1.69–22.73); nominal P=0.001]. The median duration of response was not reached.
We believe that, based on these strong data from VERITAC-2, vepdegestrant has the potential to be a best-in-class monotherapy treatment for advanced/metastatic breast cancer patients in the second-line ESR1m setting.
As part of our global collaboration with Pfizer, we and Pfizer presented patient reported outcomes, or PRO, data from the VERITAC-2 clinical trial in the fourth quarter of 2025 at the European Society for Medical Oncology, or ESMO, 2025 Congress. In the VERITAC-2 clinical trial, in patients with ESR1-m disease, vepdegestrant demonstrated a reduced risk of deterioration compared to fulvestrant which was statistically significant in several PRO domains including overall health status, pain severity, and functioning (including role, cognitive, emotional, and social functioning), and vepdegestrant consistently showed reduced risk of deterioration versus fulvestrant across all PRO domains. These PRO data from the VERITAC-2 clinical trial support the clinical benefit of vepdegestrant in patients with ESR1-m, ER+/HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer previously treated with endocrine-based therapy.
Other Clinical Trials and Information
In the second quarter of 2025, we announced that we and Pfizer removed two planned Phase 3 combination trials of vepdegestrant from the agreed-upon joint development plan: a first-line Phase 3 combination trial with Pfizer’s novel investigational CDK4 inhibitor, atirmociclib, and a second-line Phase 3 combination trial with a CDK4/6 inhibitor.
Additionally, in the second quarter of 2025, Pfizer added a vepdegestrant combination cohort to its ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating Pfizer’s investigational KAT6 inhibitor in combination with endocrine therapies following CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment. This clinical trial is being operationalized and funded solely by Pfizer.
As part of our global collaboration with Pfizer, we and Pfizer presented results of the TACTIVE-N Phase 2 clinical trial which evaluated neoadjuvant vepdegestrant in postmenopausal women with ER+/HER2– localized breast cancer in the fourth quarter of 2025 at the ESMO 2025 Congress. The results presented showed that neoadjuvant vepdegestrant demonstrated biological and clinical activity in this treatment-naïve, predominantly ESR1 wild-type population of postmenopausal women with ER+/HER2- localized breast cancer.
In addition, as part of our global collaboration with Pfizer, we presented five posters at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium further supporting the potential of vepdegestrant as a potential treatment option for patients with ESR1-mutated ER+/HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer previously treated with endocrine-based therapy potential.
We, along with Pfizer, continue market preparations for vepdegestrant in advance of the PDUFA date. While we continue to believe that vepdegestrant has the potential to be a best-in-class monotherapy treatment for advanced/metastatic breast cancer patients in the second-line ESR1m setting, given our and Pfizer’s decision to remove the two planned Phase 3 combination trials of vepdegestrant from the agreed-upon joint development plan as noted above, we determined that it is no longer viable for us to build out our commercial infrastructure as we had previously planned. As such, in the third quarter of 2025, we announced that we and Pfizer have agreed to jointly select a third party for the commercialization and potential future development of vepdegestrant.
Our Preclinical Programs
We have active preclinical programs in neurology and oncology. We aim to take a disciplined target selection approach and leverage our proprietary discovery platform to rationally design innovative degrader molecules across major protein classes. Our focus is on potential first- and best-in-class opportunities in high unmet need areas where targeted protein degradation may provide the most effective, or only, path to
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meaningful impact to the target that is either genetically defined or historically an under-drugged regulatory target or target protein that contains non-enzymatic sites involved in the disease causation.
Our exploratory and research activities in neurology focus on programs aimed at degrading proteins with strong human and mouse genetic validation demonstrating that protein mutation potentially drives disease pathology. Examples include Tau in Frontal temporal dementia with expansion into Alzheimer's disease, alpha-synuclein gene amplification in accelerated forms of Parkinson's disease and Multiple System Atrophy, and mutant Huntingtin protein in Huntington's disease.
Our exploratory and research activities in oncology focus on degrading oncogenic drivers, such as pan-KRAS, as well as tackling key immune regulatory targets like HPK1, a negative regulator of the tumor microenvironment and T cell activation.
Neurologic Diseases
Neurologic diseases, in particular, neurodegenerative diseases, are generally progressive in nature and result in the degeneration and often death of neurons in the periphery and the brain, leading to cognitive decline, functional impairment and eventually death. These diseases affect a rapidly growing patient population and represent one of the largest unmet medical needs of our time. Alzheimer’s and PD encompass the largest patient populations among the neurodegenerative diseases. The Alzheimer’s Association estimated that 7.2 million Americans aged 65 and older, about one in nine individuals, were living with Alzheimer’s dementia in 2026, with 74% aged 75 or older, and the Parkinson’s Foundation estimated in 2026 that approximately 1.1 million Americans are living with PD and approximately 90,000 people are newly diagnosed every year. Alzheimer’s disease is marked by the progressive accumulation of aggregated tau protein, while aggregation of alpha-synuclein is thought to cause PD.
Antibody-based therapies targeting only extracellular forms of these proteins thought to be the cause of these neurodegenerative diseases have failed to show clinically meaningful benefit to date. While some existing products provide symptomatic relief to Alzheimer’s and PD patients, they have significant side effect risks and over time gradually lose their effectiveness in treating the symptoms of the disease. Further, while there are now amyloid-directed antibody therapies that modestly impact extracellular A-beta with vascular side effects that can be severe, there are no approved disease-modifying treatments targeting intracellular tau or alpha-synuclein for Alzheimer’s or PD.
Developing PROTAC Targeted Protein Degraders that Cross the Blood Brain Barrier
Engineering PROTAC degraders that cross the blood-brain barrier is necessary to achieve targeted elimination of disease-causing intracellular proteins from within the CNS. The ability of a targeted therapy to cross the blood-brain barrier is a highly desirable characteristic in developing effective therapeutics for patients with neurodegenerative diseases as compared with therapies delivered directly into the CNS via invasive intrathecal delivery. Any product candidates for neurodegenerative disease must reach their intended intracellular targets in the brain at exposure levels that will provide a therapeutic effect, while having an acceptable safety profile.
Importantly, we have achieved brain penetration in preclinical models following parenteral administration of PROTAC degrader molecules. These PROTAC degrader molecules achieved concentrations in the brain sufficient to induce degradation of the aggregated proteins, widespread penetration into different parts of the brain, and brain/plasma ratios of 0.5 to 5.0, comparable to approved therapeutics with CNS activity. Our research efforts are aimed at designing PROTAC degraders to either specifically target pathologic oligomers or monomers of mutant huntingtin, tau, and alpha-synuclein, for the treatment of Huntington's disease, Alzheimer’s disease (tauopathies) and PD (synucleinopathies), respectively, or to impact pathway proteins contributing to their pathology in these diseases.
In addition to our tau and alpha-synuclein programs, our neuroscience pipeline includes a program directed to mutant huntingtin, or mHTT, a key protein target for Huntington’s disease. In preclinical studies, we have identified ligands that bind to mutant mHTT protein without binding to wild-type HTT protein in preclinical studies. This selectivity differentiates these ligands from other small molecule splice modulators that reduce
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both mHTT and wild-type HTT protein. We believe that our discovery of selective mHTT PROTAC degraders has the potential to eliminate the toxic mHTT protein.
Oncology, ARV-6723: Oral PROTAC HPK1 Degrader Program, and pan-KRAS Degrader Programs
In addition to neurological preclinical programs, we are exploring oncology and immuno-oncology preclinical programs.
ARV-6723 is an investigational, preclinical oral PROTAC designed to degrade HPK1 in solid malignancies. Preclinically, ARV-6723 has shown potent, selective HPK1 degradation and strong anti-tumor immune responses with superior tumor control in low- and high- immunogenic murine syngeneic tumor models. In solid tumor malignancies, such as NSCLC, melanoma, and renal cell carcinoma, or RCC, HPK1 acts as a negative regulator in T-cell receptor signaling, contributing to T-cell exhaustion and suppressing antitumor immunity. In addition, HPK1 has a regulatory role in other immune cell types that can be co-opted by tumors, thus enabling these cancers to resist immuno-oncology therapy. Degrading HPK1 and thus eliminating both its kinase and scaffolding functions has the potential to unleash an immune response with potent anti-tumor effects and minimum off-target toxicity.
We presented preclinical data at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer annual meeting in the fourth quarter of 2025 that we believe supports the potential of ARV-6723 to provide sustained anti-tumor immune response as a single agent or in combination with standards of care with improved clinical benefits, including that: ARV-6723, as a single agent, demonstrates anti-tumor efficacy superior to anti-PD1 or a clinical HPK1 inhibitor and combines with anti-PD1 to further enhance response; and ARV-6723 single agent activity outperforms the HPK1 inhibitor and anti-PD-1 efficacy and reinstitutes the tumor microenvironment. We believe these preclinical results support future investigation of ARV-6723 alone or in combination with other agents in patients with high- or low-immunogenic tumors.
In addition, we presented preclinical data for ARV-6723 at the AACR Immuno-Oncology Conference in the first quarter of 2026 that support clinical investigation of ARV-6723 in patients with solid tumors harboring high- or low-immunogenic tumor microenvironments, or TME, including immune checkpoint inhibitor-resistant tumor settings. This preclinical data showed robust single-agent antitumor and proinflammatory activity in multiple syngeneic tumor models, including those with immunosuppressive TMEs, and showed greater preclinical activity than an investigational HPK1 inhibitor or an anti-PD-1 antibody.
Pending regulatory feedback, we plan to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial of ARV-6723 in patients with advanced solid tumors in mid-2026. Upon initiation of the clinical trial, ARV-6723 will be our first clinical candidate in immuno-oncology. Additionally, we plan to present preclinical data evaluating antitumor and unique immunomodulatory activity of ARV-6723 in immuno-oncology-resistant models compared to SOC checkpoint inhibition in the first half of 2026.
Our preclinical oral pan-KRAS program targets multiple variants of KRAS that drive solid tumors such as PDAC, colorectal cancer, NSCLC, and esophageal cancer, while sparing other RAS isoforms. We believe selectively targeting KRAS for removal may have benefits to tolerability compared with a pan-RAS approach. The poster presented at the 2025 Triple Meeting in the fourth quarter of 2025 showed that orally bioavailable pan-KRAS degraders have been identified that potently degrade multiple variants of KRAS and spare other RAS isoforms. A tool pan-KRAS PROTAC demonstrated robust single-agent activity and superior combination efficacy with immune checkpoint blockade compared with a pan-RAS ON inhibitor (seven complete responses compared with two complete responses). We plan to present preclinical data evaluating the activity and selectivity of a novel pan-KRAS degrader in multiple KRAS mutants and differentiation over RAS (ON) or pan-KRAS inhibitors in the first quarter of 2026 at the AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: RAS Oncogenesis and Therapeutics. We also plan to present preclinical data evaluating the efficacy of a novel pan-KRAS degrader in a KRAS syngeneic model, as well as associated immune microenvironment changes in the first half of 2026.
Other Programs: Luxdegalutamide (ARV-766) and bavdegalutamide (ARV-110)
We had been developing luxdegalutamide and bavdegalutamide, each an investigational, orally bioavailable, AR degrading PROTAC targeted protein degrader, for the treatment of men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, or mCRPC. Both luxdegalutamide and bavdegalutamide demonstrated
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activity in preclinical models of AR overexpression and AR mutations, both common mechanisms of resistance to current standard-of-care agents in men with prostate cancer. We believed that the differentiated PROTAC pharmacology of luxdegalutamide and bavdegalutamide, including their iterative activity, had the potential to translate into significantly improved clinical outcomes over current SOC agents. However, a comparison of clinical data from separate studies of luxdegalutamide and bavdegalutamide showed that luxdegalutamide’s tolerability and efficacy was more promising than that of bavdegalutamide. As a result, early in the fourth quarter of 2023, we determined to prioritize the initiation of a Phase 3 clinical trial with luxdegalutamide in mCRPC instead of the previously planned Phase 3 clinical trial for bavdegalutamide. Clinical trials for bavdegalutamide (ARV-110-101 and ARV-110-103) were completed in the second quarter of 2025.
In the second quarter of 2024, we completed a transaction with Novartis Pharma AG, or Novartis, which comprised a license agreement, or the Novartis License Agreement, and an asset agreement, or the Novartis Asset Agreement. Pursuant to the Novartis License Agreement, we granted Novartis an exclusive worldwide license for the development, manufacture and commercialization of luxdegalutamide, and we completed the transition of our ongoing and planned clinical trials of luxdegalutamide to Novartis in the fourth quarter of 2024. Pursuant to the Novartis Asset Agreement, we sold Novartis all of our rights, title and interest in our PROTAC protein degrader targeting AR-V7, a splice variant of the AR.
Intellectual Property
Our commercial success depends in part upon our ability to secure and maintain patent and other proprietary protection for our platform protein degradation technologies, including our PROTAC degrader programs, product candidates, and know-how related to our business, defend and enforce our intellectual property rights, in particular our patent rights, preserve the confidentiality of our trade secrets, and operate without infringing valid and enforceable intellectual property rights of others.
The patent positions for biotechnology companies like us are generally uncertain and can involve complex legal, scientific and factual issues. In addition, the coverage claimed in a patent application can be significantly reduced before a patent is issued, and its scope can be reinterpreted and even challenged after issuance. As a result, we cannot guarantee that any of our product candidates will be protected or remain protectable by enforceable patents. We cannot predict whether the patent applications we are currently pursuing will issue as patents in any particular jurisdiction or whether the claims of any issued patents will provide sufficient proprietary protection from competitors. Any patents that we hold may be challenged, circumvented or invalidated by third parties.
As of December 31, 2025, our patent estate that we own, co-own and in-license includes 71 issued U.S. patents, 318 granted foreign patents, and 620 pending patent applications (118 U.S. and 502 foreign). All dates noted for patent term expiration below exclude any potential patent term extensions or adjustments, assuming all appropriate maintenance fees are paid.
ARV-102
As of December 31, 2025, we have three families in our LRRK2 patent portfolio directed, in part, to the composition of matter of ARV-102, as well as other LRRK2 PROTAC degraders. These families include granted U.S. and foreign patents as well as pending U.S. and foreign applications. Any granted patent in these families will expire between 2041 and 2044. In addition, the LRRK2 portfolio includes pending U.S. and PCT applications directed to manufacturing methods for and crystalline forms of PROTAC LRRK2 degraders. These additional applications, if issued, will expire between 2044 and 2045.
ARV-806 and KRAS G12D
As of December 31, 2025, our KRAS G12D patent portfolio, including ARV-806, includes a composition of matter patent family, which includes a granted U.S. patent as well as pending U.S. and foreign applications. In addition, the KRAS G12D portfolio includes a pending U.S. method of treatment application. Any granted patents in this family will expire between 2044 and 2045.
ARV-393
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As of December 31, 2025, our ARV-393 patent portfolio includes a composition of matter patent family, which includes an issued U.S. patent and an issued foreign patent, as well as pending applications in the U.S. and certain foreign jurisdictions including Europe, China, and Japan, and a method of treatment patent family with pending U.S. and PCT applications, as well as one pending foreign application. Any granted patents in these families will expire between 2042 and 2045. In addition, the ARV-393 BCL6 portfolio includes pending U.S. applications directed to drug treatment combinations, and drug formulation. These additional families, if issued, will expire in 2045.
ARV-027
As of December 31, 2025, our ARV-027 patent portfolio includes two patent families, one directed to a composition of matter and one directed to a method of treating SBMA, both of which have issued in the United States and are pending in select foreign jurisdictions. If issued, these families will have a natural patent expiry between 2037 and 2044.
Vepdegestrant
As of December 31, 2025, our vepdegestrant patent portfolio includes a family with issued composition of matter patents in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions, including China, Japan and Europe, as well as pending applications in U.S. and certain foreign jurisdictions. Any granted patents in this family will expire in 2037. This patent portfolio also includes patent families with pending applications directed to methods of treatment with a combination of vepdegestrant and palbociclib; methods of treating breast cancer with ER mutations; crystalline forms; formulations; manufacturing methods; dosage regimens; drug treatment combinations; and drug-drug interactions in the U.S. and certain foreign jurisdictions. Patents from these additional families, if issued, will expire between 2040 and 2046.
ARV-6723
As of December 31, 2025, our HPK1 patent portfolio includes two composition of matter patent families, which includes pending US and PCT patent applications. Patents from these families, if granted, will expire between 2044 and 2045.
Luxdegalutamide (ARV-766)
The intellectual property rights related to ownership of inventions, patent prosecution and maintenance of licensed patents, as defined in the Novartis License Agreement, are outlined in the Novartis License Agreement, including that, we own the licensed patents and Novartis has first right to file, prosecute and maintain all licensed patents and joint patents specified in the Novartis License Agreement, throughout the world. The luxdegalutamide patent portfolio includes a patent family directed to the luxdegalutamide composition of matter, which includes an issued U.S. patent and two foreign patents, including China. In addition, there are pending composition of matter pending applications in the U.S. and certain foreign jurisdictions including Europe, Japan, and China. Any granted patent in this family will expire in 2040. This patent portfolio also includes pending method of treatment applications in the U.S. and one foreign country, as well as a pending PCT application. This additional family, if issued, will expire in 2043. In addition, this portfolio includes patent families directed to crystalline forms, drug formulation, manufacturing, and drug-drug interaction, in the U.S. and one foreign jurisdiction, as well as pending PCT applications.
PROTAC Platform
Our PROTAC platform patent estate that we own, and in-license, covers constructs that have ligands for the Von Hippel Lindau, or VHL, E3 ubiquitin ligase, the cereblon, or CRBN, E3 ubiquitin ligase, the inhibitor apoptosis protein, or IAP, E3 ubiquitin ligase, and the human mouse double minute homolog (MDM2) E3 ubiquitin ligase. As of December 31, 2025, the VHL patent portfolio, which we exclusively license from Yale University, or Yale, includes composition-of-matter patents in the U.S., as well as certain foreign jurisdictions, as well as pending applications in the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions including Europe, China, and Japan. Any granted patents in this family will expire in 2033. As of December 31, 2025, the CRBN patent portfolio that we own includes issued composition of matter patents in in certain foreign jurisdictions including Europe China, and Japan, as well as pending applications in the U.S. and certain foreign jurisdictions. Any patents in this family will
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expire in 2035. As of December 31, 2025, the IAP patent portfolio that we own has pending composition of matter applications in the U.S. and Europe. Any granted patents in this family will expire in 2036.
As of December 31, 2025, the MDM2 patent portfolio that we own includes an issued composition of matter foreign patent, and pending composition of matter applications in the U.S. and Europe. Any granted patents in this family will expire in 2036.
Co-Owned Patent Portfolios
We co-own with Yale six patent families describing composition of matter claims of PROTAC targeted protein degrader compounds addressing certain discovery and other potential protein targets, and associated methods of use. As of December 31, 2025, one or more U.S. patents have been issued in all of these families, and one or more patents have been issued in certain foreign jurisdictions for two of these families. There are also pending patent applications in the U.S. and/or certain foreign jurisdictions in four of these families.We also co-own with Yale a composition of matter patent family that covers constructs that have ligands for the VHL E3 ubiquitin ligase. This family includes issued patents in the U.S. and certain foreign jurisdictions including Japan, and pending patent applications in the U.S. and certain foreign jurisdictions. Our rights to several of these patent applications are governed by the Amended Yale License Agreement described below in "Item 1. Business—Licenses and Strategic Collaborations".
We co-own four patent families with Genentech directed to PROTAC targeted protein degrader compounds addressing a specific protein. Our rights to these patent applications are governed by the Genentech License Agreement described below in "Item 1. Business—Licenses and Strategic Collaborations".
The term of individual patents depends upon the legal term of the patents in the countries in which they are obtained. In most countries in which we file, the patent term is 20 years from the earliest date of filing a non-provisional patent application. In the United States, the term of a patent covering a drug approved by the FDA may be eligible for a patent term extension under the Hatch-Waxman Act as compensation for the loss of patent term during the FDA regulatory review process. The period of extension may be up to five years beyond the expiration of the patent but cannot extend the remaining term of a patent beyond a total of 14 years from the date of product approval. Only one patent among those eligible for an extension may be extended. Similar provisions are available in Europe and in certain other jurisdictions to extend the term of a patent that covers an approved drug. It is possible that issued U.S. patents covering vepdegestrant and others may be entitled to patent term extensions. If our product candidates receive FDA approval, we intend to apply for patent term extensions, if available, to extend the term of patents that cover the approved product candidates. We also intend to seek patent term extensions in any jurisdiction where they are available; however, there is no guarantee that the applicable authorities, including the FDA, will agree with our assessment of whether such extensions should be granted, and if granted, the length of such extensions.
The United States also offers Patent Term Adjustment, or PTA, whereby a particular patent’s term is automatically extended beyond the 20-year term if the United States Patent and Trademark Office caused delays during the underlying patent application’s examination. However, potentially available PTA will be reduced by any amount of delay caused by the applicant.
Trade Secrets
We also rely on trade secrets, technical know-how and continuing innovation to develop and maintain our competitive advantage. Our policy requires inventors who are identified on any company-owned patent applications to assign rights to us. We also rely on confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants and other advisors to protect our proprietary information. Our policy is to require third parties that receive material confidential information to enter into confidentiality agreements with us.
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Trademarks
We own U.S. trademark and service mark registrations for ARVINAS in word and logo form for pharmaceutical preparations and pharmaceutical products development of cellular proteins for treatment in the fields of oncology, immunology, inflammatory diseases, and central nervous system disorders. The ARVINAS word mark is registered for pharmaceutical products development services in Australia, China, the EU, Japan, Norway, South Korea, and Switzerland, and is pending registration in several other countries. The ARVINAS word mark is also registered for pharmaceutical products in Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, the EU, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, and is pending registration in several other countries. The ARVINAS logo mark is registered for pharmaceutical products development services in China, the EU, and the United Kingdom, and is pending registration in several other countries. The ARVINAS logo mark is registered for pharmaceutical products development services in Australia, China, the EU, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and is pending registration in several other countries. The ARVINAS logo mark is also registered for pharmaceutical products in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, the EU, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, and is pending registration in several other countries.
We also own U.S. service mark registrations for our “degrading dots” logo mark in both black and white and color form for pharmaceutical products development of new small molecules aimed at degrading disease-causing cellular proteins for treatment in the fields of oncology, immunology, inflammatory diseases, and central nervous system disorders.
In connection with our vepdegestrant pipeline product, we have filed trademark applications in the U.S. and internationally for a number of brand name candidates.
Licenses and Strategic Collaborations
Pfizer Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Collaboration Agreement
In July 2021, we entered into a collaboration agreement with Pfizer, or the Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Collaboration Agreement, pursuant to which we granted Pfizer worldwide co-exclusive rights to develop and commercialize products containing our proprietary compound vepdegestrant (ARV-471), or the Licensed Products.
Under the Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Collaboration Agreement, we received an upfront, non-refundable payment of $650 million. In addition, we are eligible to receive up to an additional $1.4 billion in contingent payments based on specified regulatory and sales-based milestones for the Licensed Products. Of the total contingent payments, $400 million in regulatory milestones are related to marketing approvals and $1.0 billion are related to sales-based milestones.
We and Pfizer share equally (50/50) all development costs (including costs for conducting any clinical trials) for the Licensed Products, subject to certain exceptions.
Unless earlier terminated in accordance with its terms, the Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Collaboration Agreement will expire on a Licensed Product-by-Licensed Product and country-by-country basis when such Licensed Product is no longer commercialized or developed for commercialization in such country. Pfizer may terminate the Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Collaboration Agreement for convenience in its entirety or on a region-by-region basis subject to certain notice periods. Either party may terminate the Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Collaboration Agreement for the other party’s uncured material breach or insolvency. Subject to applicable terms of the Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Collaboration Agreement, including certain payments to Pfizer upon termination for our uncured material breach, effective upon termination of the Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Collaboration Agreement, we are entitled to retain specified licenses to be able to continue to exploit the Licensed Products.
Subject to specified exceptions, we and Pfizer have each agreed not to directly or indirectly research, develop, or commercialize any competing products outside of the Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Collaboration Agreement anywhere in the world during the term of the Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Collaboration Agreement.
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In the third quarter of 2025, we announced that we and Pfizer have agreed to jointly select a third party for the commercialization and potential future development of vepdegestrant.
Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement
In December 2017, we entered into a Research Collaboration and License Agreement with Pfizer setting forth our collaboration to identify or optimize PROTAC targeted protein degraders that mediate for degradation of targets, referred to in this section as Targets, using our proprietary platform technology that are identified in the agreement or subsequently selected by Pfizer, subject to certain exclusions. We refer to this agreement as the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement.
Under the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement, Pfizer has designated a number of initial Targets. For each identified Target, we and Pfizer will conduct a separate research program pursuant to a research plan. Pfizer may make substitutions for any of the initial Target candidates, which substitutions are limited subject to the stage of research for such Target.
We and Pfizer are obligated to use commercially reasonable efforts to complete our respective activities set forth in a research plan, including, in our case, the obligation to provide certain deliverables at the end of each stage. Under the research plan, we are required to provide compound formulation and conduct pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic and drug safety research and development activities in support of screening and other activities conducted by Pfizer relating to a Target. Following the provision of the deliverables by us for a stage, we will suspend the conduct of any further activities until Pfizer has exercised its right to proceed. If Pfizer does not exercise such right within the applicable time period, we will cease activities for such Target and such Target will no longer be part of the collaboration. Each party will bear its own costs in the conduct of such activities, except that any additional work that we agree with Pfizer to perform outside of the research plan will be paid for by Pfizer.
Pfizer has the right to exercise an option to obtain an exclusive worldwide license with respect to each Target for a specified period of time after receipt of the applicable deliverables for such Target. If Pfizer does not exercise its option for a Target, such Target is no longer subject to the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement. If Pfizer exercises such option, Pfizer will have an exclusive license to develop and commercialize compounds directed against such Target, subject to certain diligence obligations.
During the term of the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement, we and our affiliates are not permitted, either directly or indirectly, to develop or commercialize any pharmacologically-active agent whose primary mechanism of action is, by design, directed to a Target, or grant any license, covenant not to sue or other right to any third party for the conduct of such activities. There are no restrictions on Pfizer from developing, manufacturing or commercializing products, programs, technologies or processes that are similar to or may compete with any covered by the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement, subject to certain limitations on Pfizer’s right to use our confidential information or know-how.
In the year ended December 31, 2018, we received an upfront, non-refundable payment and certain additional payments totaling $28.0 million in exchange for use of our technology license and to fund Pfizer-related research as defined within the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement. We are eligible to receive up to an additional $3.8 million in non-refundable option payments if Pfizer exercises its options for all targets under the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement. We are also entitled to receive up to $225.0 million in development milestone payments and up to $550.0 million in sales-based milestone payments for all designated targets under the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement, as well as mid- to high-single digit tiered royalties, which may be subject to reductions, on net sales of PROTAC targeted protein degrader-related products. Pfizer selected additional targets and initiated additional services totaling $1.0 million and $3.5 million in December 2022 and 2021, respectively.
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Unless earlier terminated, the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement will expire upon the expiration of all royalty obligations thereunder. The royalty period for each product developed under the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement will expire on a country-by-country basis upon the later of (1) the expiration of the last-to-expire valid patent claim that claims or covers the composition of matter of a compound contained within such product or (2) ten years after the first commercial sale with respect to such product. Pfizer has the right to terminate the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement for convenience in its entirety or with respect to a specific target on 60 days’ prior notice. Either we or Pfizer may terminate the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement, in its entirety or with respect to a specific target, if the other party is in material breach and such breach is not cured within the specified cure period. In addition, either we or Pfizer may terminate the Pfizer Research Collaboration Agreement in the event of specified insolvency events involving the other party. If Pfizer terminates the agreement in its entirety or as a result of our uncured material breach or our insolvency, Pfizer retains its license with respect to Targets for which it has exercised an option (unless Pfizer elects otherwise), subject to reduced payment obligations.
Novartis Transaction
In April 2024, we entered into the Novartis License Agreement and the Novartis Asset Agreement collectively referred to as the Novartis Transaction. The Novartis Transaction closed in May 2024 upon the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, at which time the Novartis License Agreement and the Novartis Asset Agreement became effective.
Pursuant to the Novartis License Agreement, we granted Novartis an exclusive worldwide license for the development, manufacture and commercialization of luxdegalutamide (ARV-766), our second generation PROTAC AR degrader for patients with prostate cancer. Pursuant to the Novartis Asset Agreement, we sold to Novartis all of our rights, title and interest in our PROTAC protein degrader targeting AR-V7, a splice variant of the AR.
Under the terms of and as consideration for entering into the Novartis Transaction, we received a one-time, upfront payment in the aggregate amount of $150.0 million from Novartis. Under the Novartis License Agreement, we are also eligible to receive up to an additional $1.01 billion as contingent payments based on specified development, regulatory, and commercial milestones for luxdegalutamide (ARV-766) being met, as well as tiered royalties based upon worldwide net sales of luxdegalutamide (ARV-766), subject to reduction under certain circumstances as provided in the Novartis License Agreement. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we received $20.0 million upon the achievement of a development milestone pursuant to the terms of the Novartis License Agreement.
The Novartis License Agreement will expire on a country-by-country basis (or, in certain cases, a region-by-region basis) until the expiration of the applicable royalty term for such country (or region, as applicable). The Novartis License Agreement contains customary termination provisions, including that either party may terminate the Novartis License Agreement (a) upon the material breach of the other party or (b) in the event the other party experiences an insolvency event. Additionally, Novartis may terminate the Novartis License Agreement for convenience or upon a safety or regulatory issue.
Amended Yale University License Agreement
In June 2024, we entered into an Amended and Restated License Agreement, or the Amended License Agreement, with Yale, pursuant to which the parties amended and restated the license agreement dated July 5, 2013, as amended to such date, or the Original Yale Agreement. Pursuant to the Original Yale Agreement, Yale granted us an exclusive, worldwide license under specified intellectual property rights for the treatment or prevention of any human or animal disease in which a product mediates degradation of one or more target proteins, which we refer to as the Field, subject to certain exceptions. These licensed intellectual property rights arose from the research conducted by Dr. Craig Crews at Yale.
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Pursuant to the Original Yale Agreement, we paid to Yale an upfront payment of $0.1 million and we were responsible for paying Yale an annual license maintenance fee in varying amounts (ranging from the low tens-thousands of dollars to the mid to high tens-thousands of dollars) until the first sale to a third party of any licensed product, which is creditable against our royalty obligations for the given year. As of December 31, 2023, we paid a total of $0.7 million in license maintenance fees to Yale. In connection with the signing of the Amended License Agreement, our obligations under the Original Yale Agreement to pay Yale minimum annual royalties and certain other annual fees were eliminated, and Yale agreed to release all claims arising previously under the Original Yale Agreement.
Also in connection with the signing of the Amended License Agreement, we made a payment of $14.95 million to Yale, comprising both an upfront payment connected to the Amended License Agreement and an amount related to the collaboration income under the Novartis License Agreement and Novartis Asset Agreement (see Note 3, Research Collaboration and License Agreements, for a description of the agreements). We made another $5.0 million payment in June 2025 on the first anniversary of signing. Thereafter, we will also pay to Yale (1) up to $15.0 million if it secures approval of the first and second royalty products (as defined in the Amended License Agreement), (2) a low single digit percentage royalty on certain, more narrowly defined “collaboration products,” and (3) a lower single digit royalty on its aggregate worldwide net sales of certain newly defined “meaningfully involved products.”
Other provisions of the Original Yale Agreement remain materially unchanged under the Amended License Agreement, including the requirement to pay to Yale a minimum license maintenance royalty totaling $0.1 million per year until the first sale to a third party of any licensed product, followed by success-based milestones for the first two licensed products for the development of the protein degradation technologies totaling approximately $3.0 million for the first licensed product and approximately $1.5 million for the second licensed product, certain of which milestones have already been satisfied. We are also required to pay to Yale low single-digit royalties on aggregate worldwide net sales of certain licensed products, which may be subject to reductions, and subject to minimum royalty payments that range from $0.2 million to $0.5 million. We are also responsible for costs relating to the prosecution and maintenance of the licensed patents. Finally, subject to certain conditions, all payments made by us to Yale (except patent costs) will be tripled during the pendency of any patent challenge made by us against Yale.
The Amended License Agreement remains in effect until (a) for certain products, the date on which the last claim of the licensed patents expires; and (b) for certain products, 10 years after the sale of such products. The expiration of the last to expire patent right licensed from Yale, if it issues as a patent and all appropriate maintenance fees are paid, is currently expected be in 2039. Either we or Yale may terminate the agreement for the other party’s uncured material breach of certain provisions, we may terminate the agreement for convenience upon six months’ prior notice, and Yale may terminate the agreement if we fail to make a payment when due, fail to obtain or maintain adequate insurance coverage or fail to achieve specified financing or regulatory milestone events. The agreement will automatically terminate if we become insolvent.
Genentech License Agreement
In September 2015, we entered into an Option and License Agreement with Genentech focused on PROTAC targeted protein degrader discovery and research for target proteins, referred to in this section as Targets, based on our proprietary platform technology, other than excluded Targets as described below. Pursuant to this agreement, Genentech had an option to obtain an exclusive worldwide license to the applicable PROTAC targeted protein degraders directed against an applicable Target, which we refer to as Licensed PROTACs. Each such option was required to be exercised within a specified time after we deliver the data package for such Licensed PROTAC to Genentech. Once Genentech exercises an option, it is responsible, at its cost, to use diligent efforts to develop and commercialize the Licensed PROTAC through first commercial sale in the United States, the European Union, or EU, and Japan. This collaboration was expanded in November 2017 through an Amended and Restated Option, License and Collaboration Agreement, which we refer to as the Restated Genentech Agreement. Simultaneous with entering into the Restated Genentech Agreement, Genentech exercised its exclusive option with respect to a PROTAC targeted protein degrader. We receive annual updates on research and development activities related to this option.
Under the Restated Genentech Agreement, Genentech had the right to designate up to ten Targets for further discovery and research utilizing our PROTAC platform technology and also had the right to remove a
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Target from the collaboration and substitute a different Target that is not an excluded Target at any time prior to us commencing research on such Target or in certain circumstances following commencement of research by us. The research phase of the collaboration with Genentech has ended. As such, Genentech is no longer able to nominate new Targets into the collaboration, and there are no active Targets in the collaboration for which we are conducting research activities. The only Target that remains part of the collaboration is the PROTAC targeted protein degrader for which Genentech exercised its exclusive option for as noted above.
Under the terms of the Restated Genentech Agreement, we received $11.0 million in 2015 and an additional $34.5 million in 2017 in upfront payments and expansion target payments. We are also eligible to receive payments aggregating up to $44.0 million per Target subject to the achievement of specified development milestones; payments aggregating up to $52.5 million per Target (assuming approval of two indications) subject to the achievement of specified regulatory milestones; and payments aggregating up to $60 million per Licensed PROTAC subject to the achievement of specified sales milestones. These milestone payments are subject to reduction if we do not have a valid patent claim covering the Licensed PROTAC at the time the milestone is achieved. We are also eligible to receive, on net sales of Licensed PROTACs, mid-single digit royalties, which may be subject to reductions.
Unless earlier terminated, the Restated Genentech Agreement will expire upon the expiration of all royalty periods for any Licensed PROTACs. The royalty period for each Licensed PROTAC expires on a country-by-country basis upon either (1) the expiration of the last-to-expire valid patent claim covering such Licensed PROTAC or (2) ten years after the first commercial sale with respect to such Licensed PROTAC, depending on whether the sale of the Licensed PROTAC is covered by an applicable valid claim. The expiration of the last to expire patent right licensed to Genentech, if it issues as a patent and all appropriate maintenance fees are paid, is currently expected be in 2042. We could also obtain rights to additional patents, including through the issuance of pending patent applications, with later expiration dates, or new Licensed PROTACs could be added to the agreement that are subject to additional royalty terms with later expiration dates, which in either case could extend the term of the Restated Genentech Agreement. Genentech has the right to terminate the Restated Genentech Agreement for convenience in its entirety or with respect to a specific Target on 60 days’ prior notice. Either we or Genentech may terminate the agreement, in its entirety or with respect to a specific Target, if the other party is in material breach and such breach is not cured within the specified cure period. In addition, either we or Genentech may terminate the agreement in the event of specified insolvency events involving the other party. If Genentech terminates the agreement for convenience or if we terminate the agreement as a result of Genentech’s uncured material breach or Genentech’s insolvency, all licenses we granted to Genentech terminate (either in its entirety or with respect to a specific Target, as applicable based on the nature of the termination). If Genentech terminates the agreement as a result of our uncured material breach or our insolvency, all licenses that we granted to Genentech terminate (either in its entirety or with respect to a specific Target, as applicable based on the nature of the termination), except that Genentech has the right to elect to retain its licenses, in which case it would no longer be obligated to use diligent efforts to develop and commercialize the applicable Licensed PROTACs and its payment obligations to us would be reduced.
Competition
The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries are characterized by rapidly advancing technologies, intense competition and a strong emphasis on intellectual property and proprietary products. While we believe that our technology, expertise, scientific knowledge and intellectual property estate provide us with competitive advantages, we face potential competition from many different sources, including major pharmaceutical, specialty pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academic institutions, governmental agencies and public and private research institutions that conduct research, seek patent protection, and establish collaborative arrangements for research, development, manufacturing, and commercialization. Not only must we compete with other companies that are focused on protein degradation, but any product candidates that we successfully develop and commercialize will compete with existing therapies and new therapies that may become available in the future. Moreover, our industry is characterized by the existence of large numbers of patents and frequent allegations of patent infringement.
Our platform and product focus is the discovery and development of protein degradation therapies using our small molecule PROTAC targeted protein degraders. Other companies researching chimeric small molecules for protein degradation include Accutar Biotechnology, Inc., C4 Therapeutics, Inc., Cullgen Inc.,
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Foghorn Therapeutics, Inc., Kymera Therapeutics, Inc., Nurix Therapeutics, Inc. and Proteovant Therapeutics, Inc. Further, several large pharmaceutical companies have disclosed preclinical or clinical investments in this field, including AbbVie Inc., Amgen Inc., Astellas Pharma, Inc., AstraZeneca plc, BeOne Medicines Ltd., Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Genentech, Novartis AG, Pfizer and Sanofi. Since 2020, some of these biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies have announced the initiation of clinical trials for targeted protein degraders. In addition to competition from other protein degradation therapies, any products that we develop may also face competition from other types of therapies, such as small molecule, antibody, or gene therapies. Additionally, other novel targeting mechanisms could ultimately address similar patient populations, such as SERDs, in breast cancer.
Additional competitive information related to our specific product candidates is summarized below:
ARV-102
Our product candidate, ARV-102, is a PROTAC LRRK2 degrader and in development to treat PD and PSP. With respect to PD, we are aware that several companies have candidates in the clinic designed to degrade or inhibit LRRK2, including IONIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Brenig Therapeutics, Inc., Biogen Inc. and Denali Therapeutics, Inc., Neuron 23, Inc. and Oncodesign Precision Medicine. There are also several companies who are developing product candidates to treat PD that are not LRRK2 inhibitors or degraders, including Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, Ventyx Biosciences, Inc., and Prevail Therapeutics, Inc.. No LRRK-2 targeted therapy is currently in the clinic for PSP. However, several companies do have product candidates in the clinic to treat PSP, including Novartis AG, Aprinoia Therapeutics, Inc., Transponson Therapeutics, Inc., Ferrer Internacionale, S.A., , Alzprotect SAS and GemVax & KAEL Co., Ltd.
ARV-393
Our product candidate, ARV-393 is a PROTAC BCL6 degrader and in development to treat relapsed/refractory NHL. We are aware of four companies with BCL6 degraders or inhibitors in the clinic, including Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Treeline Biosciences, Inc., Haisco Pharmaceutical Group, and Eli Lilly and Company. We also believe there may be several non-BCL6 degrader or inhibitor companies with product candidates to treat relapsed/refractory NHL, including F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd. and AbbVie and its partner, Genmab.
ARV-806
Our product candidate, ARV-806, is a PROTAC KRAS G12D degrader in development to treat cancers with the G12D mutation, including pancreatic, colorectal and non-small cell lung cancers. We are aware that several companies have KRAS G12D or related inhibitors or degraders in the clinic, including Astellas Pharma, Inc., Incyte Corp., Genfleet Therapeutics, Inc., Verastem, Inc., Revolution Medicines, Inc., and Kumquat Biosciences Inc.
ARV-027
Our product candidate, ARV-027, is a PROTAC poly-Q AR degrader targeting polyQ-AR in skeletal muscle. We are aware that several companies have poly-Q AR or related inhibitors or degraders in the clinic, including AnnJi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Vepdegestrant
Our product candidate, vepdegestrant, targets breast cancer. In the second quarter of 2025, we and Pfizer submitted an NDA to the FDA, for vepdegestrant for the treatment of patients with ER+/HER2- ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer previously treated with endocrine-based therapy. This represents the first NDA submitted for a PROTAC. In the third quarter of 2025, we announced that the FDA accepted the NDA for vepdegestrant and assigned a PDUFA date of June 5, 2026.
The most common methods of treating patients in oncologic indications, including breast cancer, are surgery, radiation and drug therapy, including chemotherapy, hormone therapy and targeted drug therapy. There are a variety of available drug therapies marketed for cancer, including breast cancer. In many cases, these drugs are administered in combination to enhance efficacy. Some of the currently approved drug therapies are branded and subject to patent protection, and others are available on a generic basis. Many of these approved drugs are well established therapies and are widely accepted by physicians, patients and third-party payors. In general, although there has been considerable progress over the past few decades in the treatment of cancer
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and the currently marketed therapies provide benefits to many patients, these therapies all are limited to some extent in their efficacy and frequency of adverse events, and none of them are successful in treating all patients. As a result, the level of morbidity and mortality from cancer remains high.
In addition to currently marketed drugs, including elacestrant, an oral SERD, imlunestrant, an oral SERD, and fulvestrant, a first-generation SERD, there are also several product candidates in late stage clinical development for the treatment of metastatic ER+/HER2- breast cancer. These products in development include, in the case of metastatic ER+/HER2- breast cancer, SERDs, including camizestrant, giredestrant, and may provide efficacy, safety, convenience and other benefits that are not provided by currently marketed therapies. As a result, they may provide significant competition for vepdegestrant for which we obtain market approval.
If any of our product candidates are approved for the indications for which we expect to conduct clinical trials, they will compete with the foregoing therapies and the currently marketed drugs and potentially any drugs in development. It is also possible that we will face competition from other biologic or pharmaceutical approaches as well as from other types of therapies.
The key competitive factors affecting the success of all our programs, if approved, are likely to be their efficacy, safety, convenience, price, level of generic competition and availability of reimbursement.
Commercialization Plans
Our product candidates are still in preclinical and clinical development. Other than our discovery collaboration agreements, to date, we have retained commercialization rights for all of our development programs including global co-commercialization rights for vepdegestrant through our collaboration with Pfizer.
In past years, we had begun the process of establishing our own focused, specialized sales, marketing, and market access organization to support the commercialization of our product candidates, including vepdegestrant, in the United States. However, in September 2025, we announced that, with Pfizer, we have agreed to jointly select a third party for the commercialization and potential further development of vepdegestrant.
As our other product candidates progress through clinical development, we will revisit our commercial plans. We would expect to utilize a variety of types of collaboration, co-promotion, distribution and other marketing arrangements with one or more third parties to commercialize our product candidates in markets outside the United States or for situations in which a larger sales and marketing organization is required. However, as product candidates advance through our pipeline, our commercial plans may change. In particular, some of our research programs target potentially larger indications. Data, the size of the development programs, the size of the target market, the size of a commercial infrastructure and manufacturing needs may all influence our strategies in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world.
Manufacturing and Supply
We do not own or operate, and currently have no plans to establish, any manufacturing facilities. We rely on and expect to continue to rely on third-party contract manufacturing organizations, or CMOs, and contract development and manufacturing organizations, or CDMOs, for both drug substance and finished drug product as well as for the synthesis of compounds in our preclinical research and development activities. We have engaged third-party manufacturers to supply the building blocks and drug substances for ARV-102, ARV-806, ARV-393, and vepdegestrant, as well as ARV-027, and we have also engaged third-party manufacturers to develop and manufacture finished drug product for ARV-102, ARV-393, ARV-806 and vepdegestrant, as well as ARV-027, that we are using and plan to use in our ongoing and planned Phase 1/2 and pivotal clinical trials, as well as for part of our IND-enabling plan. We currently obtain our supplies from these manufacturers on a purchase order basis and do not have long-term supply arrangements in place. Should any of these manufacturers become unavailable to us for any reason, we believe that there are a number of potential replacements, although we may incur some delay in identifying and qualifying such replacements. Pursuant to the Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Collaboration Agreement with Pfizer, Pfizer has primary responsibility to manufacture the commercial supply of vepdegestrant.
All of our product candidates are organic compounds of low molecular weight, generally called small molecules, but which are larger than traditional small molecule therapeutics. We have selected these
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compounds not only on the basis of their potential efficacy and safety, but also for their ease of synthesis and reasonable cost of goods. In particular, our lead product candidates are manufactured using reliable and reproducible synthetic processes from readily available starting materials. The chemistry is amenable to scale up and does not require unusual equipment in the manufacturing process. We expect to continue to develop product candidates that can be produced cost-effectively at contract manufacturing facilities or with partners.
Government Regulation and Product Approvals
Government authorities in the United States, at the federal, state and local level, and in other countries and jurisdictions, such as the EU, extensively regulate, among other things, the research, development, testing, manufacture, pricing, quality control, approval, packaging, storage, recordkeeping, labeling, advertising, promotion, distribution, marketing, sales, reimbursement, post-approval monitoring and reporting, and import and export of pharmaceutical products. The processes for obtaining marketing approvals in the United States and in foreign countries and jurisdictions, along with compliance with applicable statutes and regulations and other regulatory authorities, require the expenditure of substantial time and financial resources.
Approval and Regulation of Drugs in the United States
In the United States, drug products are regulated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or FDCA, and applicable implementing regulations and guidance. A company, institution, or organization which takes responsibility for the initiation and management of a clinical development program for investigational products, and for their regulatory approval, is typically referred to as a sponsor.The failure of a sponsor to comply with the applicable regulatory requirements at any time during the product development process, including nonclinical testing, clinical testing, the approval process or post-approval process, may result in delays to the conduct of a study, regulatory review and approval and/or administrative or judicial sanctions.
A sponsor seeking approval to market and distribute a new drug product in the United States generally must satisfactorily complete each of the following steps before the product candidate will be approved by the FDA:
•preclinical testing including laboratory tests, animal studies and formulation studies, which must be performed in accordance with the FDA’s good laboratory practice, or GLP, regulations and standards;
•completion of the manufacture, under current Good Manufacturing Practices, or cGMP, conditions, of the drug substance and drug product that the sponsor intends to use in human clinical trials along with required analytical and stability testing;
•design of a clinical protocol and submission to the FDA of an IND for human clinical testing, which must become effective before human clinical trials may begin;
•approval by an independent institutional review board, or IRB, representing each clinical site before each clinical trial may be initiated;
•performance of adequate and well-controlled human clinical trials to establish the safety and efficacy of the product candidate for each proposed indication, in accordance with good clinical practices, or GCP;
•preparation and submission to the FDA of an NDA for a drug product which includes not only the results of the clinical trials, but also, detailed information on the chemistry, manufacturing and controls, or CMC, for the product candidate and proposed labeling for one or more proposed indication(s);
•review of the product candidate by an FDA advisory committee, where appropriate or if applicable;
•satisfactory completion of an FDA inspection of the manufacturing facility or facilities, including those of third parties, at which the product candidate or components thereof are manufactured to assess compliance with cGMP requirements and to assure that the facilities, methods and controls are adequate to preserve the product’s identity, strength, quality and purity;
•satisfactory completion of any FDA audits of the clinical trial sites to assure compliance with GCP and the integrity of clinical data in support of the NDA;
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•payment of user fees pursuant to the PDUFA and securing FDA approval of the NDA to allow marketing of the new drug product; and
•compliance with any post-marketing requirements.
Preclinical Studies
Before a sponsor begins testing a product candidate with potential therapeutic value in humans, the product candidate enters the preclinical testing stage, including in vitro and animal studies to assess the safety and activity of the drug for initial testing in humans and to establish rationale for therapeutic use. Preclinical tests include laboratory evaluations of product chemistry, formulation and stability, as well as other studies to evaluate, among other things, the toxicity of the product candidate. These studies are typically referred to as IND-enabling studies. The conduct of the preclinical tests and formulation of the compounds for testing must comply with federal regulations and requirements, including GLP regulations and standards and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal Welfare Act, if applicable. With passage of the FDA’s Modernization Act 2.0 in December 2022, Congress eliminated provisions in the FDCA that required animal testing in support of an NDA. In April 2025, the FDA released a roadmap to replace animal testing in preclinical safety studies with scientifically validated new approach methodologies, such as organ-on-a-chip systems, computational modeling, and advanced in vitro assays. Some long-term preclinical testing, such as animal tests of reproductive adverse events and carcinogenicity, and long-term toxicity studies, may continue after the IND is submitted.
The IND and IRB Processes
An IND is a request for FDA authorization to administer an investigational product to humans. Such authorization must be secured prior to interstate shipment and administration to a trial subject of any product candidate that is not the subject of an approved NDA. In support of a request for an IND, sponsors must submit a protocol for each clinical trial and any subsequent protocol amendments must be submitted to the FDA as part of the IND. In addition, the results of the preclinical tests, together with manufacturing information, analytical data, any available clinical data or literature and plans for clinical trials, among other things, must be submitted to the FDA as part of an IND.
The FDA requires a 30-day waiting period after the filing of each original IND before clinical trials may begin. This waiting period is designed to allow the FDA to review the IND to determine whether human research subjects will be exposed to unreasonable health risks. The FDA’s primary objectives in reviewing an IND are to assure the safety and rights of patients and subjects in the study, and to help assure that the quality of the investigation will be adequate to permit an evaluation of the investigational product’s safety and efficacy. At any time during this 30-day period, the FDA may raise concerns or questions about the conduct of the trials as outlined in the IND and impose a clinical hold or partial clinical hold. In this case, the IND sponsor and the FDA must resolve any outstanding concerns before clinical trials may begin.
Following commencement of a clinical trial under an IND, the FDA may also place a clinical hold or partial clinical hold on that trial. The FDA imposes clinical holds whenever there is concern for patient safety and may be a result of new data, findings, or developments in clinical, nonclinical, and/or CMC. Thus, occasionally, clinical holds are imposed due to manufacturing issues that may present safety issues for the clinical study subjects. A clinical hold is an order issued by the FDA to the sponsor to delay a proposed clinical investigation or to suspend an ongoing investigation. A partial clinical hold is a delay or suspension of only part of the clinical work requested under the IND. For example, a specific protocol or part of a protocol is not allowed to proceed, while other protocols may do so.
No more than 30 days after imposition of a clinical hold or partial clinical hold, the FDA will provide the sponsor a written explanation of the basis for the hold. Following issuance of a clinical hold or partial clinical hold, an investigation may only resume after the FDA has notified the sponsor that the investigation may proceed. The FDA will base that determination on information provided by the sponsor correcting the deficiencies previously cited or otherwise demonstrating to the satisfaction of the FDA that the investigation can proceed.
In addition to the foregoing IND requirements, an IRB representing each institution participating in the clinical trial must review and approve the plan for any clinical trial before it commences at that institution, and
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the IRB must conduct continuing review and reapprove the study at least annually. The IRB must review and approve, among other things, the study protocol and informed consent information to be provided to study subjects. An IRB must operate in compliance with FDA regulations. An IRB can suspend or terminate approval of a clinical trial at its institution, or an institution it represents, if the clinical trial is not being conducted in accordance with the IRB’s requirements or if the product candidate has been associated with unexpected serious harm to patients.