Item 4.01. Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant. On July 6, 2026, due to the Company’s corporate restructuring, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Oncolytics Biotech Inc.…
Oncolytics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing pelareorep, an investigational intravenously delivered double-stranded RNA immunotherapeutic agent. Pelareorep has demonstrated encouraging results in multiple first-line pancreatic cancer studies, two randomized Phase 2 studies in metastatic breast cancer, and early-phase studies in anal and colorectal cancer. It is designed to induce anti-cancer immune responses by converting immunologically “cold” tumors “hot” through the activation of innate and adaptive immune responses.
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Item 4.01Item 4.01 - Changes in Certifying Accountant
Item 4.01. Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.
On July 6, 2026, due to the
Company’s corporate restructuring, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (the “Company”),
unanimously voted to disengage Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting
firm and to engage Baker Tilly US, LLP (“Baker Tilly”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting
firm for the 2026 fiscal year, subject to completion of Baker Tilly’s client acceptance procedures.
EY’s reports on the
Company’s financial statements for each of the fiscal years ended December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 did not contain an adverse
opinion or a disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles, except
EY’s reports contained an explanatory paragraph regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. During the
Company’s fiscal years ended December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, and through the date of change, there were no disagreements
with EY on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure which, if
not resolved to the satisfaction of EY, would have caused EY to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in connection
with its report.
During the fiscal years ended
December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 and the subsequent period through the date of change, there have been no reportable events within
the meaning of Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
During the fiscal years ended
December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 and the subsequent period to the date of its engagement, neither the Company nor anyone acting
on its behalf has consulted with Baker Tilly regarding (i) the application of accounting principles to a specific transaction, either
completed or proposed, or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s financial statements, and neither a
written report or oral advice was provided to the Company that Baker Tilly concluded was an important factor considered by the Company
in reaching a decision as to any accounting, auditing, or financial reporting issue; (ii) any matter that was the subject of a disagreement
within the meaning of Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K; or (iii) any reportable event within the meaning of Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation
S-K.
The Company provided EY with
a copy of this Form 8-K on July 7, 2026, and requested that EY furnish it with a letter addressed to the SEC stating whether it agrees
with the statements made by the Company in this Item 4.01 concerning EY, and, if not, stating the respects in which it does not agree.
The letter of EY addressed to the SEC is attached hereto as Exhibit No. 16.1.