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About Nektar

Nektar Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and enables differentiated therapeutics with its industry-leading PEGylation and pulmonary drug development technology platforms. Nektar PEGylation and pulmonary technology, expertise, manufacturing capabilities have enabled eight approved products for partners, which include the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Nektar also develops its own products by applying its PEGylation and pulmonary technology platforms to existing medicines with the objective to enhance performance, such as improving efficacy, safety and compliance.

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the potential of NKTR-102 and Nektar's PEGylation technology platform. These forward-looking statements involve important risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: (i) clinical trials for NKTR-102 are long, expensive and uncertain processes; (ii) because NKTR-102 is in the early phases of clinical development, the risk of failure is high and can occur at any stage of development regardless of promising data from one or more prior preclinical or clinical studies, (iii) the timing or success of the commencement or end of clinical trials may be delayed or unsuccessful due to slower than anticipated patient enrollment, drug manufacturing challenges, changing standards of care, clinical trial design, and/or clinical outcomes; (iv) Nektar may fail to obtain regulatory approval of NKTR-102; (v) potential competition from existing approved products (branded or generic) or product candidates under development by other companies could negatively impact the commercial potential of NKTR-102 due to such common industry competitive factors as efficacy and safety profiles, pricing, and reimbursement by third party payers; and (vi) Nektar's patent applications for NKTR-102 may fail to issue; patents that have issued may not be enforceable; or unanticipat
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