


• | the initiation, timing, progress and results of our studies in animals and clinical trials, and our research and development programs; |
• | our ability to advance our product candidates into, and successfully complete, clinical trials; |
• | our reliance on the success of our clinical-stage product candidates; |
• | the timing or likelihood of regulatory filings and approvals; |
• | our ability to address the concerns identified in the Complete Response Letter issued by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, in November 2021 regarding the New Drug Application, or NDA, seeking approval of Plinabulin in combination with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia, or CIN; |
• | our ability to file the NDA submission for the non-small cell lung cancer, or NSCLC, indication with the National Medical Products Administration, or NMPA, in China; |
• | the commercialization of our product candidates, if approved; |
• | our ability to develop sales and marketing capabilities; |
• | the pricing and reimbursement of our product candidates, if approved; |
• | the implementation of our business model, strategic plans for our business and technology; |
• | the scope of protection we are able to establish and maintain for intellectual property rights covering our product candidates and technology; |
• | our ability to operate our business without infringing the intellectual property rights and proprietary technology of third parties; |
• | costs associated with defending intellectual property infringement, product liability and other claims; |
• | regulatory development in the United States, China and other jurisdictions; |
• | estimates of our expenses, future revenues, capital requirements and our needs for additional financing; |
• | the potential benefits of strategic collaboration agreements and our ability to enter into strategic arrangements; |
• | our ability to maintain and establish collaborations or obtain additional grant funding; |
• | the rate and degree of market acceptance of our product candidates; |
• | developments relating to our competitors and our industry, including competing therapies; |
• | our ability to effectively manage our anticipated growth; |
• | our ability to attract and retain qualified employees and key personnel; |
• | our future revenue, hiring plans, expenses, capital expenditures, capital requirements and share performance; |
• | the future trading price of our ordinary shares and impact of securities analysts’ reports on these prices; |
• | our ability to meet Nasdaq’s continued listing requirements; |
• | the impact of widespread health developments, and the responses thereto, which could materially and adversely affect, among other things, enrollment of patients in our clinical trials, timing and completion of regulatory or other required inspections, our expected timeline for data readouts of our clinical trials and certain regulatory filings for our product candidates, and the review and approval timeline of regulatory authorities; |
• | our ability to continue as a going concern; |
• | the use of proceeds from this offering; and |
• | other risks and uncertainties, including those listed under the caption “Risk Factors” in this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus, our Annual Report and other documents we file with the SEC. |
Assumed public offering price per share | $0.7772 | |||||
Historical net tangible book value per share as of June 30, 2026 | $(0.88) | |||||
Increase in as adjusted net tangible book value per share attributable to this offering | 0.30 | |||||
As adjusted net tangible book value per share as of June 30, 2026 | (0.58) | |||||
Dilution in net tangible book value per share to new investors in this offering | $1.36 | |||||
• | banks and other financial institutions; |
• | insurance companies; |
• | pension plans; |
• | cooperatives; |
• | regulated investment companies; |
• | real estate investment trusts; |
• | broker-dealers; |
• | traders that elect to use a mark-to-market method of accounting; |
• | certain former citizens or long-term residents of the United States; |
• | tax-exempt entities (including private foundations); |
• | persons that acquire our ordinary shares pursuant to any employee share option or otherwise as compensation; |
• | persons that hold our ordinary shares as part of a straddle, hedge, conversion, constructive sale or other integrated transaction for U.S. federal income tax purposes; |
• | persons whose functional currency is not the U.S. Dollar; |
• | persons that actually or constructively own 10% or more of our stock (by vote or value); and |
• | partnerships or other entities or arrangements subject to tax as partnerships for U.S. federal income tax purposes. |
• | an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States; |
• | a corporation (or other entity treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) created in, or organized in or under the laws of, the United States or any political subdivision thereof; |
• | an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source; or |
• | a trust if (i) a United States court is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one or more U.S. persons have the authority to control all of the trust’s substantial decisions, or (ii) that has validly elected to be treated as a U.S. person for U.S. federal income tax purposes. |
• | the excess distribution or gain will be allocated pro rata over the U.S. Holder’s holding period for our ordinary shares; |
• | amounts allocated to the current taxable year and to any taxable years in the U.S. Holder’s holding period prior to the first taxable year in which we are classified as a PFIC (each, a “pre-PFIC year”) will be subject to tax as ordinary income; |
• | amounts allocated to each prior taxable year, other than a pre-PFIC year, will be subject to tax at the highest marginal tax rate in effect applicable to the U.S. Holder for that year; and |
• | an additional tax equal to the interest charge generally applicable to underpayments of tax will be imposed on the tax attributable to each prior taxable year, other than a pre-PFIC year. |
• | our Annual Report on Form 10-K (File No. 001-38024) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, filed with the SEC on March 25, 2026; |
• | our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2026 and June 30, 2026, filed with the SEC on May 13, 2026 and August 14, 2026, respectively; |
• | our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 4, 2026 (as amended by our Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed with the SEC on June 29, 2026) and September 18, 2026 (other than the portions of those reports not deemed to be filed); |
• | the description of share capital contained in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A, as filed with the SEC on March 6, 2017 (File No. 001-38024), including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description; and |
• | with respect to each offering of ordinary shares under this prospectus supplement, all documents (other than current reports furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and exhibits filed on such form that are related to such items) that are filed by us with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act on or after the date of this prospectus supplement and until the termination or completion of that offering under this prospectus supplement. |
• | the initiation, timing, progress and results of our studies in animals and clinical trials, and our research and development programs; |
• | our ability to advance our product candidates into, and successfully complete, clinical trials; |
• | our reliance on the success of our clinical-stage product candidates; |
• | the timing or likelihood of regulatory filings and approvals; |
• | our ability to address the concerns identified in the Complete Response Letter issued by the Food and Drug Administration, in November 2021 regarding the New Drug Application (“NDA”), seeking approval of Plinabulin in combination with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia; |
• | our ability to file the NDA submission for the non-small cell lung cancer indication with the National Medical Products Administration in China; |
• | the commercialization of our product candidates, if approved; |
• | our ability to develop sales and marketing capabilities; |
• | the pricing and reimbursement of our product candidates, if approved; |
• | the implementation of our business model, strategic plans for our business and technology; |
• | the scope of protection we are able to establish and maintain for intellectual property rights covering our product candidates and technology; |
• | our ability to operate our business without infringing the intellectual property rights and proprietary technology of third parties; |
• | costs associated with defending intellectual property infringement, product liability and other claims; |
• | regulatory development in the United States, China and other jurisdictions; |
• | estimates of our expenses, future revenues, capital requirements and our needs for additional financing; |
• | the potential benefits of strategic collaboration agreements and our ability to enter into strategic arrangements; |
• | our ability to maintain and establish collaborations or obtain additional grant funding; |
• | the rate and degree of market acceptance of our product candidates; |
• | developments relating to our competitors and our industry, including competing therapies; |
• | our ability to effectively manage our anticipated growth; |
• | our ability to attract and retain qualified employees and key personnel; |
• | our future revenue, hiring plans, expenses, capital expenditures, capital requirements and share performance; |
• | the future trading price of our ordinary shares and impact of securities analysts’ reports on these prices; |
• | our ability to meet Nasdaq’s continued listing requirements; |
• | the impact of widespread health developments, and the responses thereto, which could materially and adversely affect, among other things, enrollment of patients in our clinical trials, timing and completion of regulatory or other required inspections, our expected timeline for data readouts of our clinical trials and certain regulatory filings for our product candidates, and the review and approval timeline of regulatory authorities; and |
• | other risks and uncertainties, including those listed under the caption “Risk Factors” in this prospectus, any accompanying prospectus supplement, and in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K. |
• | the instrument of transfer is lodged with us, accompanied by the certificate for the ordinary shares to which it relates and such other evidence as our board of directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer; |
• | the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of shares; |
• | the instrument of transfer is properly stamped, if required; |
• | in the case of a transfer to joint holders, the number of joint holders to whom the ordinary share is to be transferred does not exceed four; and |
• | a fee of such maximum sum as the Nasdaq Capital Market may determine to be payable or such lesser sum as our directors may from time to time require is paid to us in respect thereof. |
(a) | is or is likely to become unable to pay its debts; and |
(b) | intends to present a compromise or arrangement to its creditors (or classes thereof) either pursuant to the Companies Act, the law of a foreign country or by way of a consensual restructuring. |
• | the designation of the series; |
• | the number of shares of the series; |
• | the dividend rights, dividend rates, conversion rights, voting rights; and |
• | the rights and terms of redemption and liquidation preferences. |
• | does not have to file an annual return of its shareholders with the Registrar of Companies; |
• | is not required to open its register of members for inspection; |
• | does not have to hold an annual general meeting; |
• | may issue shares with no par value; |
• | may obtain an undertaking against the imposition of any future taxation (such undertakings are usually given for a period of up to 30 years); |
• | may register by way of continuation in another jurisdiction and be deregistered in the Cayman Islands; |
• | may register as a limited duration company; and |
• | may register as a segregated portfolio company. |
• | the names and addresses of the members, together with a statement of the shares held by each member, and such statement shall confirm (i) the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid, on the shares of each member (ii) the number and category of shares held by each member, and (iii) whether each relevant category of shares held by a member carries voting rights under the articles of association of the company, and if so, whether such voting rights are conditional; |
• | the date on which the name of any person was entered on the register as a member; and |
• | the date on which any person ceased to be a member. |
• | the statutory provisions as to the required majority vote have been met; |
• | the shareholders have been fairly represented at the meeting in question and the statutory majority are acting bona fide without coercion of the minority to promote interests adverse to those of the class; |
• | the arrangement is such that may be reasonably approved by an intelligent and honest man of that class acting in respect of his interest; and |
• | the arrangement is not one that would more properly be sanctioned under some other provision of the Companies Act. |
• | an act which is ultra vires the company or illegal and is therefore incapable of ratification by the shareholders, |
• | an act which constitutes a fraud against the minority where the wrongdoers are themselves in control of the company, or |
• | an act which requires a resolution with a qualified (or special) majority (i.e. more than a simple majority) which has not been obtained. |
• | through underwriters; |
• | through agents; |
• | to dealers; |
• | directly to one or more purchasers; |
• | in “at the market” offerings, within the meaning of Rule 415(a)(4) of the Securities Act, to or through a market maker or into an existing trading market on an exchange or otherwise; |
• | in block trades; |
• | through a combination of any of the above; and |
• | any other method permitted pursuant to applicable law. |
• | at market prices prevailing at the time of sale; |
• | at varying prices determined at the time of sale; or |
• | at negotiated or fixed prices. |
• | our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on March 27, 2025; |
• | our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2025 and June 30, 2025, filed with the SEC on May 12, 2025 and August 13, 2025, respectively; |
• | our current reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 28, 2025, February 25, 2025, April 11, 2025 and July 3, 2025; |
• | the description of share capital contained in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A, as filed with the SEC on March 6, 2017 (File No. 001-38024), and including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description; and |
• | with respect to each offering of ordinary shares under this prospectus, all documents (other than current reports furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and exhibits filed on such form that are related to such items) that are filed by us with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act on or after the date on which this registration statement is first filed with the SEC and until the termination or completion of that offering under this prospectus. |