BIO-PATH HOLDINGS INC - Quarter Report: 2009 September (Form 10-Q)
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
10-Q
(Mark
One)
ý QUARTERLY
REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
For the
quarterly period ended September 30, 2009
Or
¨ TRANSITION REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
For the
transition period from ________________________
Commission
file number: 000-53404
________Bio-Path
Holdings, Inc.________
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Utah
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87-0652870
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(State
or other jurisdiction of
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(I.R.S.
employer
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incorporation
or organization
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identification
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3293 Harrison Boulevard,
Suite 230, Ogden, UT 84403
(Address
of principal executive offices)
Registrant's telephone no.,
including area code: (801) 399-5500
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be
filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the
preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required
to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for
the past 90 days. Yes ý No ¨
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by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,”
“accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act.
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Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule
12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ¨ ý No
At
November 9, 2009, the Company had 42,649,602 outstanding shares of common stock,
$0.001 par value.
DOCUMENTS
INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE: NONE
Forward-Looking
Statements
Statements
in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q that are not strictly historical in nature
are forward-looking statements. These statements may include, but are not
limited to, statements about: the timing of the commencement, enrollment, and
completion of our anticipated clinical trials for our product candidates; the
progress or success of our product development programs; the status of
regulatory approvals for our product candidates; the timing of product launches;
our ability to protect our intellectual property and operate our business
without infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others; and our
estimates for future performance, anticipated operating losses, future revenues,
capital requirements, and our needs for additional financing. In some cases, you
can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “anticipates,”
“believes,” “could,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “plans,”
“potential,” “predicts,” “projects,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “goal,” and
similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. These
statements are only predictions based on current information and expectations
and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The underlying information and
expectations are likely to change over time. Actual events or results may differ
materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements due to various
factors, including, but not limited to, those set forth under the caption “Risk
Factors” in “ITEM 1. BUSINESS” of our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 2008, and those set forth in our other filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation
to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result
of new information, future events or otherwise.
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
PART I - FINANCIAL
INFORMATION
Item
1.
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Financial Statements
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Page
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Consolidated
Balance Sheets
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Consolidated
Statement of Operations
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Consolidated
Statement of Cash Flows
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Notes
to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements Ending September 30,
2009
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Item
2.
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Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations
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Item
3.
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Quantitative
and Qualitative Disclosure about Market Risk
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Item
4(T).
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Controls
and Procedures
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PART II - OTHER
INFORMATION
Item
1.
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Legal
Proceedings
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Item
1A.
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Risk
Factors
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Item
2.
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Unregistered
Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
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Item
3.
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Defaults
by the Company on its Senior Securities
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Item
4.
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Submission
of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
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Item
5.
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Other
Information
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Item
6.
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Exhibits
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PART
I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM
1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The accompanying unaudited financial
statements have been prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q
pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission
and, therefore, do not include all information and footnotes necessary for a
complete presentation of our financial position, results of operations, cash
flows, and stockholders' equity in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles. In the opinion of management, all adjustments considered
necessary for a fair presentation of the results of operations and financial
position have been included and all such adjustments are of a normal recurring
nature.
Our unaudited balance sheet at
September 30, 2009; the related unaudited consolidated statements of operations
for the three month and nine month periods ended September 30, 2009 and 2008,
and from inception (May 10, 2007) to September 30, 2009; and the related
unaudited statement of cash flows for the nine month periods ended September 30,
2009 and 2008, and from inception (May 10, 2007) through September 30, 2009, are
attached hereto.
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BIO-PATH
HOLDINGS, INC.
(A
Development Stage Company)
September
30
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December
31
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2009
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2008
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(Unaudited)
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ASSETS
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Current
assets
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Cash
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$ | 265,963 | $ | 1,507,071 | ||||
Drug
product for testing
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608,440 | 292,800 | ||||||
Other
current assets
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76,527 | 82,772 | ||||||
Total
current assets
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950,930 | 1,882,643 | ||||||
Other
assets
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Technology
licenses
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2,739,167 | 2,704,167 | ||||||
Less
Accumulated Amortization
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(335,921 | ) | (199,505 | ) | ||||
2,403,246 | 2,504,662 | |||||||
TOTAL
ASSETS
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$ | 3,354,176 | $ | 4,387,305 | ||||
LIABILITIES
& SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
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Current
liabilities
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Accounts
payable
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4,800 | 185,843 | ||||||
Accrued
expense & other accruals
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157,032 | 16,442 | ||||||
Accrued
license payments
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85,000 | 125,000 | ||||||
Total
current liabilities
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246,832 | 327,285 | ||||||
Long
term debt
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- | - | ||||||
TOTAL
LIABILITIES
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246,832 | 327,285 | ||||||
Shareholders'
Equity
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Preferred
Stock, $.001 par value
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- | - | ||||||
10,000,000
shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding
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Common
Stock, $.001 par value, 200,000,000 shares authorized
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42,649 | 41,923 | ||||||
42,649,602
and 41,923,602 shares issued and outstanding as of 9/30/09 and 12/31/08,
respectively
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Additional
paid in capital
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7,735,803 | 7,152,261 | ||||||
Accumulated
deficit during development stage
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(4,671,108 | ) | (3,134,164 | ) | ||||
Total
shareholders' equity
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3,107,344 | 4,060,020 | ||||||
TOTAL
LIABILITIES & SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
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$ | 3,354,176 | $ | 4,387,305 |
See Accompanying Notes to Financial
Statements
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BIO-PATH
HOLDINGS, INC.
(A
Development Stage Company)
Unaudited
Third
Quarter
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Year
to Date
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From
inception
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July
1 to September 30
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January
1 to September 30
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05/10/07
to
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2009
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2008
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2009
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2008
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9/30/09
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Revenue
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$ | - | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | ||||||||||
Operating
expense
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Research
and development
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83,565 | 37,511 | 409,110 | 82,679 | 750,757 | |||||||||||||||
General
& administrative
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130,385 | 135,430 | 548,549 | 419,452 | 1,406,993 | |||||||||||||||
Stock
issued for services
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260,000 | 300,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stock
options & warrants
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147,685 | 30,770 | 446,569 | 109,037 | 1,947,808 | |||||||||||||||
Amortization
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45,420 | 43,020 | 136,416 | 128,186 | 335,921 | |||||||||||||||
Total
operating expense
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407,055 | 246,731 | 1,540,644 | 999,354 | 4,741,479 | |||||||||||||||
Net
operating loss
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$ | (407,055 | ) | $ | (246,731 | ) | $ | (1,540,644 | ) | $ | (999,354 | ) | $ | (4,741,479 | ) | |||||
Other
income
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Interest
income
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7,682 | 3,701 | 37,843 | 70,371 | ||||||||||||||||
Other
expenses
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(145 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
Other Income
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(145 | ) | 7,682 | 3,701 | 37,843 | 70,371 | ||||||||||||||
Net
Loss
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$ | (407,200 | ) | $ | (239,049 | ) | $ | (1,536,943 | ) | $ | (961,511 | ) | $ | (4,671,108 | ) | |||||
Loss
per share
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Net
loss per share, basic and diluted
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$ | (0.01 | ) | $ | (0.01 | ) | $ | (0.04 | ) | $ | (0.02 | ) | $ | (0.13 | ) | |||||
Basic
and diluted weighted average number of common shares
outstanding
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42,649,602 | 41,823,602 | 42,246,269 | 40,930,487 | 36,804,693 |
See
Accompanying Notes to Financial Statements
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BIO-PATH
HOLDINGS, INC.
(A
Development Stage Company)
Unaudited
Year
to Date
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From
inception
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January
1 to September 30
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05/10/2007
to
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2009
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2008
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9/30/2009
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CASH
FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
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Net
loss
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$ | (1,536,943 | ) | $ | (961,511 | ) | $ | (4,671,108 | ) | |||
Adjustments
to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating
activities
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Amortization
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136,416 | 128,186 | 335,921 | |||||||||
Common
stock issued for services
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260,000 | 300,000 | ||||||||||
Stock
options and warrants
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446,569 | 109,037 | 1,947,808 | |||||||||
(Increase)
decrease in assets
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Restricted
escrow cash
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208,144 | |||||||||||
Drug
product for testing
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(315,640 | ) | (280,800 | ) | (608,440 | ) | ||||||
Other
current assets
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6,245 | (33,001 | ) | (76,527 | ) | |||||||
Increase
(decrease) in liabilities
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Accounts
payable and accrued expenses
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(80,453 | ) | (28,523 | ) | 246,832 | |||||||
Escrow
cash payable
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(208,144 | ) | ||||||||||
Net
cash used in operating activities
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(1,343,806 | ) | (806,612 | ) | (2,525,514 | ) | ||||||
CASH
FLOW FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
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Purchase
of exclusive license
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(35,000 | ) | (25,000 | ) | (385,000 | ) | ||||||
Net
cash used in investing activities
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(35,000 | ) | (25,000 | ) | (385,000 | ) | ||||||
CASH
FLOW FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
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Proceeds
from convertible notes
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435,000 | |||||||||||
Cash
repayment of convertible notes
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. | (15,000 | ) | |||||||||
Net
proceeds from sale of common stock
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137,698 | 1,387,339 | 2,756,477 | |||||||||
Net
cash from financing activities
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137,698 | 1,387,339 | 3,176,477 | |||||||||
NET
INCREASE/(DECREASE) IN CASH
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(1,241,108 | ) | 555,727 | 265,963 | ||||||||
Cash, beginning
of period
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1,507,071 | 1,219,358 | - | |||||||||
Cash, end
of period
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$ | 265,963 | $ | 1,775,085 | $ | 265,963 | ||||||
SUPPLEMENTAL
DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION
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Cash
paid for
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Interest
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$ | - | $ | - | $ | - | ||||||
Income
taxes
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$ | - | $ | - | $ | - | ||||||
Non-cash
financing activities
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Common
stock issued upon conversion of convertible notes
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$ | 420,000 | ||||||||||
Common
stock issued to Placement Agent
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$ | 16,500 | $ | 78,970 | $ | 294,845 | ||||||
Common
stock issued to M.D. Anderson for technology license
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$ | 2,354,167 |
See
Accompanying Notes to Financial Statements
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Notes to the Interim Consolidated Financial Statements
Ending
September 30, 2009
The
accompanying interim financial statements have been prepared without audit,
pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Certain information and disclosures normally included in financial statements
prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles have been
condensed or omitted. In the opinion of management, the accompanying interim
financial statements contain all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring
accruals, necessary for a fair presentation. The results of operations for the
period ended September 30, 2009, are not necessarily indicative of the results
for a full-year period.
1.
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Organization
and Business
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Bio-Path
Holdings, Inc. (“Bio-Path” or the “Company”) is a development stage company
founded with technology from The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer
Center (“M. D. Anderson”) dedicated to developing novel cancer drugs under an
exclusive license arrangement. The Company has drug delivery platform
technology with composition of matter intellectual property that enables
systemic delivery of antisense, small interfering RNA (“siRNA”) and small
molecules for treatment of cancer. Bio-Path recently licensed new
liposome tumor targeting technology, which is planned to be applied to augment
the Company’s current delivery technology to improve further the effectiveness
of its antisense and siRNA drugs under development as well as future
liposome-based delivery technology drugs in the future. In addition
to its existing technology under license, the Company expects to have a close
working relationship with key members of the M. D. Anderson’s staff, which
should provide Bio-Path with a strong pipeline of promising drug candidates in
the future. Bio-Path expects the program with M. D. Anderson to
enable the Company to broaden its technology to include cancer drugs other than
antisense and siRNA.
Bio-Path
believes that its core technology, if successful, will enable it to be at the
center of emerging genetic and molecular target-based therapeutics that require
systemic delivery of DNA and RNA-like material. The Company’s two
lead drug candidates treat acute myeloid leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia,
acute lymphoblastic leukemia and follicular lymphoma, and if successful, could
potentially be used in treating many other indications of
cancer. These two lead drug candidates will be ready for clinical
trials after receiving an investigational new drug (“IND”) status from the
FDA. The Company has filed an IND application for its lead drug
candidate and currently anticipates receiving an IND by the end of the year to
commence a Phase I clinical trial of this drug.
The
Company was founded in May of 2007 as a Utah corporation. In February
of 2008, Bio-Path completed a reverse merger with Ogden Golf Co. Corporation, a
public company traded over the counter that had no current
operations. The name of Ogden Golf was changed to Bio-Path Holdings,
Inc. and the directors and officers of Bio-Path, Inc. became the directors and
officers of Bio-Path Holdings, Inc. Bio-Path has become a publicly
traded company (symbol OTCBB: BPTH) as a result of this
merger. The Company’s operations to date have been limited to
organizing and staffing the Company, acquiring, developing and securing its
technology and undertaking product development for a limited number of product
candidates including readying its lead drug product candidate BP-100-1.01 for a
Phase I clinical trial.
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Bio-Path
is currently in the process of raising additional funds for operations through a
$650,000 private placement sale of shares of the Company’s common stock and
associated warrants. Subsequent to September 30, 2009, the Company
has placed $450,000 in escrow from this fund raising and the balance of $200,000
for this round is over-subscribed. Assuming the IND is granted for
Bio-Path’s drug candidate BP-100-1.01, Management believes there will be
sufficient liquidity to commence the Phase I clinical trial in BP-100-1.01 and
continue testing into the first quarter of 2010. The Company will
need to raise additional capital to continue beyond in 2010 to complete this
clinical trial. The Company’s strategy has been to minimize the
amount of funds raised at the current lower, pre-Phase I trial share prices to
avoid excessive dilution and raise larger amounts of new capital with
anticipated higher valuation of the Company’s common stock after commencement of
the Phase I trial when the Company’s technology is expected to be further
validated.
As the
Company has not begun its planned principal operations of commercializing a
product candidate, the accompanying financial statements have been prepared in
accordance with principles established for development stage
enterprises.
2. Drug
Product for Testing
The
Company has paid installments to its contract drug manufacturing supplier
totaling $591,600 during the third quarter and fourth quarters of 2008 and first
quarter of 2009 pursuant to a Project Plan and Supply Agreement (see Note 6.
below) for the manufacture and delivery of the Company’s lead drug product for
testing in a Phase I clinical trial. In addition, during the third
quarter of 2009 the Company purchased $16,480 of oligonucleotide drug substance
to be used in manufacturing of the clinical drug product. The
installment payments paid to the contract drug manufacturer and the amount paid
for the oligonucleotide drug substance taken together total $608,440, which
amount is carried on the Balance Sheet as of September 30, 2009 at cost as Drug
Product for Testing and will be expensed as the drug product is used during the
Phase I clinical trial.
3. Convertible
Debt
The
Company issued $435,000 in notes convertible into common stock at a rate of $.25
per common share. As of December 31, 2007, $15,000 of the convertible
notes had been repaid in cash and $420,000 of the convertible notes had been
converted into 1,680,000 shares of Bio-Path common stock and were included in
the seed round completed in August of 2007. No interest was recorded
because interest was nominal prior to conversion. No beneficial
conversion feature existed as of the debt issuance date since the conversion
rate was greater than or equal to the fair value of the common stock on the
issuance date.
4.
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Stockholders’ Equity
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Issuance of
Common Stock – In May and June of 2007, the Company issued 6,505,994
shares of common stock for $6,506 in cash to founders of the
Company. In August of 2007, the Company issued 3,975,000 shares of
common stock for $993,750 in cash to investors in the Company pursuant to a
private placement memorandum. In August of 2007 the Company issued an
additional 1,333,334 shares of common stock for $1,000,000 in cash to one
investor in the Company pursuant to a second round of financing. The
Company issued 530,833 shares of common stock to the Placement Agent as
commission for the shares of common stock sold to investors. In
November of 2007, the Company issued 3,138,889 shares in common stock to M. D.
Anderson as partial consideration for its two technology licenses from M. D.
Anderson. In February of 2008, the Company issued 1,579,400 shares of
common stock for $1,579,400 in cash to investors in the Company pursuant to a
private placement memorandum. The Company issued 78,970 in common
stock to the Placement Agent as commission for the shares of common stock sold
to investors.
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In
February, the Company completed a reverse merger with Ogden Golf Co. Corporation
and issued 38,023,578 shares of common stock of the public company Bio-Path
Holdings (formerly Ogden Golf Co. Corporation) in exchange for pre-merger common
stock of Bio-Path, Inc. In addition, shareholders of Ogden Golf Co.
Corporation retained 3,600,000 shares of common stock of Bio-Path
Holdings. In February of 2008 Bio-Path issued 80,000 shares of common
stock to strategic consultants pursuant to executed agreements and the fair
value was expensed upfront as common stock for services. In April of
2008, the Company issued 200,000 shares of common stock to a firm in connection
with introducing Bio-Path, Inc. to its merger partner Ogden Golf Co.
Corporation. The fair value of this stock issuance was expensed
upfront as common stock for services. In April of 2008, the Company
recorded an additional 24 shares for rounding in accordance with FINRA
rules. In December of 2008, the Company issued 100,000 shares of
common stock to an investor relations firm for services. The fair
value of this stock issuance was expensed upfront as common stock for services
valued at $40,000. There were no issuances of shares during the first
quarter of 2009. In June of 2009, the Company issued 660,000 shares
of common stock and warrants to purchase an additional 660,000 shares of common
stock for $165,000 in cash to investors in the Company pursuant to a private
placement memorandum. The warrants must be exercised within two years
from the date of issuance. The exercise price of the warrants is $1.50 a
share. In connection with this private placement, the Company issued
66,000 shares of common stock to the Placement Agent as commission for the
shares of common stock sold to investors. As of September 30, 2009,
there were 42,649,602 shares of common stock issued and
outstanding. There are no preferred shares outstanding as of
September 30, 2009.
5. Stock
Options and Warrants
Stock Options - -
In April of 2008 the Company made stock option grants for services over
the next three years to purchase in the aggregate 1,615,000 shares of the
Company’s common stock. Terms of the stock option grants require,
among other things, that the individual continues to provide services over the
vesting period of the option, which is four or five years from the date that
each option granted to the individual becomes effective. The exercise
price of the options is $0.90 a share. None of these stock options
grants were for current management and officers of the Company. The
Company determined the fair value of the stock options granted using the Black
Scholes model and expenses this value monthly based upon the vesting schedule
for each stock option award. For purposes of determining fair value,
the Company used an average annual volatility of seventy two percent (72%),
which was calculated based upon an average of volatility of similar
biotechnology stocks. The risk free rate of interest used in the
model was taken from a table of the market rate of interest for U. S. Government
Securities for the date of the stock option awards and interpolated as necessary
to match the appropriate effective term for the award. The
total value of stock options granted was determined using this methodology to be
$761,590, which will be expensed over the next six years based on the stock
option service period.
In
October of 2008 the Company made stock option grants to management and officers
to purchase in the aggregate 2,500,000 shares of the Company’s common
stock. Terms of the stock option grants require that the individuals
continue employment with the Company over the vesting period of the option,
fifty percent (50%) of which vested upon the date of the grant of the stock
options and fifty percent (50%) of which will vest over 3 years from the date
that the options were granted. The exercise price of the options is
$1.40 a share. The Company determined the fair value of the stock
options granted using the Black Scholes model and expenses this value monthly
based upon the vesting schedule for each stock option award. For
purposes of determining fair value, the Company used an average annual
volatility of eighty four percent (84%), which was calculated based upon taking
a weighted average of the volatility of the Company’s common stock and the
volatility of similar biotechnology stocks. The risk free rate of
interest used in the model was taken from a table of the market rate of interest
for U. S. Government Securities for the date of the stock option awards and
interpolated as necessary to match the appropriate effective term for the
award.
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The total
value of stock options granted to management and officers was determined using
this methodology to be $2,485,000, half of which was expensed at the date of
grant and the balance will be expensed over the next three years based on the
stock option service period.
In
December of 2008 the Company made stock option grants for services over the next
three years to purchase in the aggregate 100,000 shares of the Company’s common
stock. Terms of the stock option grants require, among other things,
that the individual continues to provide services over the vesting period of the
option, which is three or four years from the date that each option granted to
the individual becomes effective. The exercise price of the options
is $0.30 a share. None of these stock options grants were for current
management and officers of the Company. The Company determined the
fair value of the stock options granted using the Black Scholes model and
expenses this value monthly based upon the vesting schedule for each stock
option award. For purposes of determining fair value, the Company
used an average annual volatility of eighty four percent (84%), which was
calculated based upon taking a weighted average of the volatility of the
Company’s common stock and the volatility of similar biotechnology
stocks. The risk free rate of interest used in the model was taken
from a table of the market rate of interest for U. S. Government Securities for
the date of the stock option awards and interpolated as necessary to match the
appropriate effective term for the award. The total value of
stock options granted was determined using this methodology to be $21,450, which
will be expensed over the next four years based on the stock option vesting
schedule.
There
were no new stock option awards made during the first, second and third quarters
of 2009. Total stock option expense for the current quarter ending
September 30, 2009 being reported on totaled $147,685.
Warrants -
In April of 2008 the Company awarded warrants for services to purchase in
the aggregate 85,620 shares of the Company’s common stock. The
exercise price is $0.90 a share. The warrants were one hundred
percent (100%) vested upon issuance and were expensed upfront as warrants for
services. The fair value of the warrants expensed was determined
using the same methodology as described above for stock options. The
total value of the warrants granted was determined using this methodology to be
$36,050, the total amount of which was expensed in the second quarter
2008.
There
were no new warrants issued for services in the current quarter ending September
30, 2009 being reported on.
6. Drug
Project Plan and Supply Agreement
In June
of 2008, Bio-Path entered into a Project Plan agreement with a contract drug
manufacturing suppler for delivery of drug product to support commencement of
the Company’s Phase I clinical trial of its first cancer drug
product. The Company currently expects to receive an IND to start
this trial by the end of the year 2009. The clinical grade drug batch
to be used in the clinical trial was manufactured at the end of July 2009 and
has been successfully tested. In the current quarter ending September
30, 2009, the Company paid $47,334 to this manufacturer, all of which was
previously accrued as R&D expense. Previously, $591,600 in
payments were made to this manufacturer under this agreement that is carried at
cost as Drug Product for Testing on the balance sheet (see Note
2.). The Company expects to pay an additional $168,150 for the
original Project Plan to this supplier when the project is completed and
clinical grade drug is delivered to the Company, of which $24,000 has been
accrued as R&D expense and the balance of $144,150 will be carried on the
Balance Sheet at cost as Drug Product for Testing.
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7.
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Commitments and Contingencies
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Technology
License - The Company has negotiated exclusive licenses from M. D.
Anderson to develop drug delivery technology for siRNA and antisense drug
products and to develop liposome tumor targeting technology. These
licenses require, among other things, the Company to reimburse M. D. Anderson
for ongoing patent expense. Accrued license payments totaling $85,000
are included in Current Liabilities as of September 30, 2009. As of
September 30, 2009, the Company estimates reimbursable patent expenses will
total approximately $225,000. The Company will be required to pay
when invoiced the patent expenses at the rate of $25,000 per quarter per
license.
Clinical Trial
Agreement – In the third quarter of 2009, the Company executed a
Sponsored Research Agreement with the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center for the Phase
I Clinical Trial of its lead drug product BP-100-1.01. Upon full
execution, the Company paid M. D. Anderson $39,450 comprised of $14,750 for the
institution’s administrative fee and expensed as R&D expense, and $24,700
for prepayment of the first two patients carried on the Balance Sheet in Other
Current Assets as of September 30, 2009. Assuming the trial runs its
full course of eighteen patients, the Company would be required to pay an
additional $197,600 over the course of the clinical trial.
8. Subsequent
Events
In October 2009, the
Company made two additional payments totaling $27,000 to its drug manufacturing
supplier. One payment of $12,000 was for additional R&D expense
for validation testing and was accrued for and included in Current Liabilities
as of September 30, 2009. A second payment of $15,000 was for R&D
expense for initiation of a twelve-month drug powder stability study which was
accrued for and included in Current Liabilities as of September 30,
2009.
In the
third quarter of 2009, the Company executed a new exclusive license from M. D.
Anderson for tumor targeting of liposomes. In October of 2009 the
Company paid M. D. Anderson a license documentation fee of $10,000 after full
execution of the license from M. D. Anderson. The obligation to pay
the license documentation fee was accrued for and carried on the Balance Sheet
in Other Current Liabilities as of September 30, 2009 and the value increase of
the Company’s technology arising from the payment is carried on the Balance
Sheet at cost in Technology Licenses as of September 30, 2009.
In early
October of 2009, Bio-Path initiated a $650,000 fund raising round offering the
sale of shares of the Company’s common stock and associated warrants through a
Private Placement. A Memorandum has been prepared, and through the
second week of November 2009 $450,000 has been raised and is in an escrow
account. Further, the balance of approximately $200,000 for the round
is over-subscribed. The Company will complete this round by the end
of November, when the Offering expires.
9. New
Accounting Prouncements
In
October 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued
Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”), 2009-13, Revenue Recognition (Topic 605):
Multiple Deliverable Revenue
Arrangements — A Consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force. This
update provides application guidance on whether multiple deliverables exist, how
the deliverables should be separated and how the consideration should be
allocated to one or more units of accounting. This update establishes a selling
price hierarchy for determining the selling price of a deliverable. The selling
price used for each deliverable will be based on vendor-specific objective
evidence, if available, third-party evidence if vendor-specific objective
evidence is not available, or estimated selling price if neither vendor-specific
or third-party evidence is available.
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We will
be required to apply this guidance prospectively for revenue arrangements
entered into or materially modified after January 1, 2011; however, earlier
application is permitted. We have not determined the impact that this update may
have on our consolidated financial statements.
In
June 2009, the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) issued ASC
105-10 Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles - Overall (“ASC 105”). ASC 105 establishes
the FASB ASC as the source of authoritative accounting principles recognized by
the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities in the preparation of
financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP. The FASB will not issue
new standards in the form of Statements, FASB Staff Positions or Emerging Issues
Task Force Abstracts. Instead, it will issue ASUs. This standard
reorganizes the thousands of GAAP pronouncements into roughly 90 accounting
topics and displays them using a consistent structure. Also included is relevant
SEC guidance organized using the same topical structure in separate
sections. ASC 105 is effective for interim and annual periods ending after
September 15, 2009. We adopted ASC 105 in the third quarter of
fiscal 2009. The adoption does not have an effect on our financial
position or results of operations. However, because ASC 105 completely replaces
existing standards, it will affect the way U.S. GAAP is referenced within the
consolidated financial statements and accounting policies.
In June
2009, the FASB issued guidance now codified as FASB ASC 810-10, Consolidation ("ASC 810").
ASC 810 amends tests for variable interest entities to determine whether a
variable interest entity must be consolidated. ASC 810 requires an entity to
perform an analysis to determine whether an entity's variable interest or
interests give it a controlling financial interest in a variable interest
entity. This guidance requires ongoing reassessments of whether an entity is the
primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity and enhanced disclosures that
provide more transparent information about an entity's involvement with a
variable interest entity. We will be required to apply this guidance on January
1, 2010. We have not determined the impact that this guidance may have on our
consolidated financial statements.
In
May 2009, the FASB issued guidance now codified as FASB ASC 855-10, Subsequent Events, which
provides guidance on the assessment of subsequent events. This guidance
defines the period after the balance sheet date during which we should evaluate
events or transactions that may occur for potential recognition or disclosure in
the financial statements, and the required disclosures for such events.
The guidance is effective for interim or annual reporting periods ending after
June 15, 2009. We adopted this guidance in the second quarter of
2009. We have performed an evaluation of subsequent events through
November 16, 2009, which is the date our consolidated financial statements
for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 were issued.
In
April 2009, the FASB staff issued guidance now codified as FASB ASC 825-10,
Interim Disclosures about Fair
Value of Financial Instruments (“ASC 825”). ASC 825 amends FASB Statement
No. 107, Disclosures
about Fair Value of Financial Instruments, to require disclosures about
fair value of financial instruments in interim financial statements as well as
in annual financial statements. ASC 825 also amends APB Opinion No. 28, Interim Financial
Reporting, to require these disclosures in all interim financial
statements. The adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on our
consolidated financial statements for the nine months ended September 30,
2009.
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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL
CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
When
you read this section of this Quarterly Form 10Q, it is important that you also
read the financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Form
10Q. This section of this quarterly report contains forward-looking statements
that involve risks and uncertainties, such as statements of our plans,
objectives, expectations, and intentions. We use words such as “anticipate,”
“estimate,” “plan,” “project,” “continuing,” “ongoing,” “expect,” “believe,”
“intend,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” and similar expressions to identify
forward-looking statements. Our actual results could differ materially from
those anticipated in these forward-looking statements for many reasons,
including the matters discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in “Item 1,
BUSINESS” in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
31, 2008 those additional risks, discussed in ITEM 1A. of Part II of
this quarterly report and other risks and uncertainties discussed in filings
made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Overview
Bio-Path Holdings, Inc., through our
subsidiary Bio-Path, Inc. (“Bio-Path Subsidiary”) is engaged in the
business of financing and facilitating the development of novel cancer
therapeutics. Our initial plan is and continues to be, the
acquisition of licenses for drug technologies from The University of Texas M. D.
Anderson Cancer Center (“M. D. Anderson”), funding clinical and other trials for
such technologies and to commercialize such technologies. We have acquired three
exclusive licenses (“License Agreements”) from M.D. Anderson for three lead
products and nucleic acid drug delivery technology. These licenses specifically
provide drug delivery platform technology with composition of matter
intellectual property that enables systemic delivery of antisense, small
interfering RNA (“siRNA”) and potentially small molecules for treatment of
cancer.
Our business plan is to act efficiently
as an intermediary in the process of translating newly discovered drug
technologies into authentic therapeutic drugs candidates. Our
strategy is to selectively license potential drug candidates for certain
cancers, and, primarily utilizing the comprehensive drug development
capabilities of M. D. Anderson, to advance these candidates through proof of
concept into a safety study (Phase I), to human efficacy trials (Phase IIA), and
then out-license each successful potential drug to a pharmaceutical
company.
Bio-Path Subsidiary was formed in May
2007. Bio-Path acquired Bio-Path Subsidiary in February 2008 in a reverse merger
transaction (the “Merger”).
Our principal executive offices are
located at, 3293 Harrison Boulevard, Suite 230, Ogden, UT 84403. Our telephone
number at that address is (801) 399-5500. Our Internet website address is
www.biopathholdings.com, and all of our filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission are available free of charge on our website.
Plan
of Operation
Our plan of operation over the next 36
months is focused on achievement of milestones with the intent to demonstrate
clinical proof-of concept of our drug delivery technology and lead drug
products. Furthermore, we will attempt to validate our business model by
in-licensing additional products to broaden the drug product
pipeline.
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We anticipate that over the next 30
months, we will need to raise approximately $11,000,000 to completely implement
our business plan. We have completed several financings raising net
proceeds of $3,176,477. Our short term plan is to achieve three key
milestones:
(1) conduct a Phase I
clinical trial of our lead drug BP-100-1.01, which if successful, will validate
our liposomal delivery technology for nucleic acid drug products including
siRNA;
(2) perform necessary
pre-clinical studies in our lead liposomal siRNA drug candidate, BP-100-2.01 to
enable the filing of an Investigational New Drug (“IND”) for a Phase I clinical
trial; and
(3) out-license
(non-exclusively) our delivery technology for either antisense or siRNA to a
pharmaceutical partner to speed development applications of our
technology.
In June 2008, we entered into a Project
Plan Agreement with Althea Technologies, Inc. (“Althea”) relating to supply of
drug product for our first Phase I clinical trials of our BP-100-1.01
drug. In September 2008 we executed a definitive agreement with
Althea.
Results
of Operations
Results
of Operations for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2009 and
2008.
Revenues. We
have no operating revenues since our inception. We had interest
income of $0.00, for the three months ended September 30, 2009 compared to
$7,682 for the three months ended September 30, 2008. We had interest income of
$3,701, for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 compared to $37,843 for the
nine months ended September 30, 2008. Our interest income was derived from cash
and cash equivalents net of bank fees. The decrease in interest
income in the respective periods results from increased operating expenses
related to drug development, as such, there was less cash held in our savings
account earning interest.
Research and Development
Expenses. Our research and development costs were
$83,565 for the three months ended September 30, 2009; an increase of $46,054
over the three months ended September 30, 2008. Our research and
development costs were $409,110 for the nine months ended September 30, 2009; an
increase of $326,431 over the nine months ended September 30,
2008. This increase is the result of significant drug research and
development and manufacturing protocol from year to year. The
majority of the expenses related to the lead drug candidate, BP-100-1.01, have
been paid. The Company does not expect this increase to continue with
this specific drug candidate.
General and
Administrative Expenses. Our general and administrative
expenses were $130,385 for the three months ended September 30, 2009; a decrease
of $5,045 over the three months ended September 30, 2008. Our general and
administrative expenses were $548,549 for the nine months ended September 30,
2009; an increase of $129,097 over the nine months ended September 30,
2008. The increase in general and administrative expenses for the
nine months ended September 30,2009 results from the increased operating
expenses relating to drug development activity.
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Net
Loss. Our net loss was $407,200 for the three months ended
September 30, 2009, compared to a loss of $239,049 for the three months ended
September 30, 2008. Net loss per share, both basic and diluted was
$0.01 and $0.01 for the respective periods. Our net loss was
$1,536,943 for the nine months ended September 30, 2009, compared to a loss of
$961,511 for the nine months ended September 30, 2008. Net loss per
share, both basic and diluted was $0.04 and $0.02 for the respective periods.
The primary reason for the difference in the increase in net loss in the
comparable period’s results from increases in research and development expenses
related to preparing the lead drug candidate for the upcoming clinical
trial.
Liquidity
and Capital Resources
Since our inception, we have funded our
operations primarily through private placements of our capital
stock. We expect to finance our foreseeable cash requirements through
cash on hand, cash from operations, public or private equity offerings and debt
financings. Additionally, we are seeking collaborations and license arrangements
for our three product candidates. We may seek to access the public or
private equity markets whenever conditions are favorable, even if we do not have
an immediate need for additional capital at that time. We cannot be certain that
additional funding, which will be required in the next term, will be available
on acceptable terms, or at all. Our inability to obtain required funding will
have a material adverse effect on one or more of our research or development
programs or curtail some of our commercialization efforts.
At September 30, 2009, we had cash of
$265,963 compared to $1,507,071 at December 31, 2008. We currently
have no lines of credit or other arranged access to debt financing.
Net cash used in operations during the
nine months ended September 30, 2009 was $1,343,806 compared to $806,612 for
nine months ended September 30, 2008. The significant increase in net
cash used results from implementing the business model of drug development
working towards the Phase I study of the lead drug –
BP-100-1.01. Inasmuch as we have not yet generated revenues, our
entire expenses of operations are funded by our cash assets.
Currently all of our cash is, and has
been, generated from financing activities. We did raise cash
from financing activities for the three months ended September 30,
2009. We raised $137,698 of net cash from financing
activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2009. Since inception we have
net cash from financing activities of $3,176,477. As discussed in our Plan of
Operation above, we believe that our available cash will be sufficient to fund
our liquidity and capital expenditure requirements through the fiscal year
ending December 31, 2009. However, we believe that we will need to
raise approximately an additional $11,500,000 in net proceeds to completely
implement our business plan. In the fourth quarter, we have raised to
date approximately $450,000 in cash from the sale of common stock through a
private placement, the cash is in an escrow account. We anticipate
raising an additional $200,000 to maximize the offering total of gross cash of
$650,000 by the end of November, 2009. We believe this cash will fund
operations through March 31, 2010.
Our available cash has been
significantly reduced from December 31, 2008 to September 30, 2009 as we have
funded operations but have no generated any revenues from
operations. We do not anticipate that we will generate revenues for
at least nine months and therefore our ability to continue with our operations
is dependent upon our ability to raise additional capital from the sale of our
securities, of which there can be no assurance.
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Projected
Financing Needs
We believe that our available cash will
be sufficient to fund our liquidity and capital expenditure requirements through
the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009. In the second quarter
of 2009, we raised $137,698 in net proceeds from the sale of shares of our
common stock. The proceeds were allocated to general working
capital. In the fourth quarter, we have raised to date approximately
$450,000 in cash from the sale of common stock through a private placement, the
cash is in an escrow account. We anticipate raising an additional
$200,000 to maximize the offering total of gross cash of $650,000 by the end of
November, 2009. However, we believe that we will need to raise
approximately an additional $11,500,000 in net proceeds to completely implement
our business plan. We do need to raise additional capital during
2009, in order to fund our operations in 2010. There can be no
assurance that we will be able to raise cash when it is needed to fund our
operations.
BP-100-1.01
BP-100-1.01 is our lead lipid delivery
RNAi drug, which will be clinically tested for validation in Acute Myeloid
Leukemia (AML), Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) and Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
(CML). If this outcome is favorable, we expect there will be
opportunities to negotiate non-exclusive license applications involving upfront
cash payments with pharmaceutical companies developing antisense drugs that need
systemic delivery technology.
The IND
for BP-100-1.01 was submitted to the FDA in February of 2008 and included all
in vitro testing,
animal studies and manufacturing and chemistry control studies
completed. The FDA requested some changes be made to the application
submission. The Company has finalized the requested
changes. The final package submission to the FDA, which was submitted
to the FDA in the last week of October, 2009, included the manufacturing and
chemistry control test data from an engineering test batches that incorporated
the same manufacturing procedures to be used to manufacture the drug product to
be used on human patients in the Phase I clinical trial. The Company
anticipates having the IND approved and commencement of patient enrollment for
the Phase I clinical trial to start during the fourth quarter of
2009. The primary objective of the Phase I clinical trial, as in any
Phase I clinical trial, is the safety of the drug for treatment of human
patients. An additional key objective of the trial is to assess that
the effectiveness of the delivery technology.
Our suppliers for the BP-100-1.01 drug
successfully manufactured the clinical drug batch and all release testing
required for this drug has been completed. As a result, in late
October we submitted the necessary drug batch manufacturing and testing data to
the FDA. If FDA reviewers have no additional request for information,
we anticipate that, within thirty (30) days after such determination, the
Investigational New Drug (IND) application for the Company’s lead drug candidate
will be released. In such event, we would then be able to commence
its Phase I clinical trial.
The Phase I clinical trial of
BP-100-1.01 is budgeted for $1,675,000. A significant portion of this
budget is for acquisition of the drug material to be tested, a majority of which
has been paid by the Company. Commencement of the Phase I clinical
trial depends on the Federal Drug Administration (“FDA”) approving the IND for
BP-100-1.01.
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We have entered into a supply agreement
with Althea Technologies, Inc. for the manufacture of BP-100-1.01 for our
upcoming Phase I Clinical Trial. Althea is a contract manufacturer
who will formulate and lyophilize our BP-100-1.01 product requirements according
to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP). As of September 30, 2009 the
contract includes estimated remaining payments by Bio-Path of approximately
$168,150 for process development and manufacture of cGMP product suitable for
use in human patients in the Company’s Phase I clinical
trial. Bio-Path has the right to terminate the agreement at any time,
subject to payment of a termination fee to Althea. The termination
fee is not material.
BP-100-2.01
BP-100-2.01 is our lead siRNA drug,
which will be clinically tested for validation as a novel, targeted ovarian
cancer therapeutic agent. We have prepared a review package of the
testing data for this drug product and reviewed the information with the
FDA. Based on this review and feedback, performing the remaining
pre-clinical development work for BP-100-2.01 expected to be required for an IND
is budgeted for $225,000. The additional pre-clinical work is expected to
include two toxicity studies in mice and primates.
There can be no assurance of the
following: (1) That the actual costs of a particular trial will come within our
budgeted amount; (2) That any trials will be successful or will result in drug
commercialization opportunities, or (3) That we will be able to raise the
sufficient funds to allow us to operate for three years or to complete our
trials.
Other
Events
None.
Off-Balance
Sheet Arrangements
We do not have any off-balance sheet
arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future
effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or
expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital
resources that is material to investors.
Contractual
Obligations and Commitments
Bio-Path has entered into three
Patent and Technology License Agreements (the “Licenses”) with M. D. Anderson
relating to its technology. A summary of certain material terms of the two core
delivery technology Licenses is as follows:
Licensor:
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The
Board of Regents of the University of Texas System on behalf of The
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Licensee:
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Bio-Path,
Inc.
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License:
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A
royalty bearing, exclusive license to manufacture, use and sell the
Licensed Products
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Territory:
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Worldwide
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Retained
Rights
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Certain
research and academic rights are retained by Licensor
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License
Fees:
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Documentation
Fee - $40,000 for the first license and $60,000 for the second license;
annual maintenance fee - $25,000 for years 1, 2 & 3 increasing to
$100,000 in the eighth year. After the first sale, increasing
to $125,000
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Royalties:
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Three
percent of net sales
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Milestone
Payments:
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One-time
payments range from $150,000 to $2,000,000. Total up to
$8,150,000
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Securities
Issuance:
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1,883,333
shares of Bio-Path for the first License and 1,255,556 shares for the
second License. These shares were converted into shares of the
Company’s common stock in the Merger.
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Expense:
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Bio-Path
will reimburse M. D. Anderson for expenses
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Term:
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Full
term of patents
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The terms and structure of the third
License for tumor targeting of liposomes parallels the two primary Licenses with
the exception that there is not stock consideration in lieu of milestone
payments.
In September 2008, we entered into a
supply agreement with Althea Technologies, Inc. for the manufacture of
BP-100-1.01 for our upcoming Phase I Clinical Trial. Althea is a
contract manufacturer who will formulate and lyophilize our BP-100-1.01 product
requirements according to current Good Manufacturing Practices
(cGMP). The contract includes estimated remaining payments by
Bio-Path as of September 30, 2009 of approximately $168,150 for process
development and manufacture of cGMP product suitable for use in human patients
in the Company’s Phase I clinical trial. Bio-Path has the right to
terminate the agreement at any time, subject to payment of a termination fee to
Althea. The termination fee is not material.
In April 2009, we entered into an
agreement with ACORN CRO, a full service, oncology-focused clinical research
organization, to provide Bio-Path with a contract medical officer and
potentially other clinical trial support services. Concurrent with
signing the agreement, Bradley G. Somer, M.D., will serve as Bio-Path’s Medical
Officer and medical liaison for the conduct of the Company’s upcoming Phase I
clinical study of liposomal BP-100-1.01 in refractory or relapsed Acute Myeloid
Leukemia (AML), Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML), Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
(ALL) and Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS).
August
27, 2009 License Agreement
Effective August 27, 2009, we entered
into an exclusive License Agreement (the “Agreement”) with The University of
Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center to develop liposome tumor targeting
technology. we-are currently developing a neutral-lipid based liposome delivery
technology for nucleic acid cancer drugs (including antisense and siRNA
molecules). The new technology, being licensed in the field of neutral
lipid-based liposome delivery of antisense technologies and FAK siRNA, is
projected to enhance our liposome delivery technology by adding vectors to the
liposomes targeted to a receptor that is specifically over-expressed on a
majority of solid and hematological tumors and on 80 percent of metastatic
epithelial tumors. We believe this liposome tumor-targeting technology for
antisense and FAK siRNA delivery is a highly promising strategy for treating
primary and metastatic cancers.
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The new liposome tumor targeting
technology being licensed will be developed as an extension of our
current delivery technology, with a goal toward more powerfully focusing
delivery of the antisense and FAK siRNA cancer treatments to the tumor tissue.
Adding a vector to the liposome that targets a receptor that is highly expressed
on the surface of tumor cells is expected to drive uptake of the liposomes into
the tumor tissue, enhancing relative deposition in the target tumor tissue. In
animal studies conducted at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, researchers
demonstrated an ability for vector targeted neutral lipid-based liposomes to
increase transfection efficiency and siRNA molecule uptake fivefold to eightfold
into cancer cells compared to those of untargeted liposomes and controls. These
efficiencies are in addition to the delivery efficiencies noted above from the
core neutral lipid-based liposome delivery technology.
Pursuant to the License Agreement, the
Registrant is obligated to various one time and recurring expenses and
royalties. As of September 30, 2009 we accrued $10,000 for the
license documentation fee related to this new license agreement
Inflation
The Company does not believe that
inflation will negatively impact its business plans.
Critical
Accounting Policies
The preparation of financial statements
in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) in the
United States has required the management of the Company to make assumptions,
estimates and judgments that affect the amounts reported in the financial
statements, including the notes thereto, and related disclosures of commitments
and contingencies, if any. The Company considers its critical accounting
policies to be those that require the more significant judgments and estimates
in the preparation of financial statements, including the
following:
Concentration of
Credit Risk -- Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company
to a significant concentration of credit risk consist of cash. The
Company maintains its cash balances with one major commercial bank, JPMorgan
Chase Bank. The balances are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation up to $250,000. As a result, $15,963 of the Company’s
cash balances is not covered by the FDIC.
Intangible
Assets/Impairment of Long-Lived Assets -- As of September 30, 2009, other
Assets totaled $2,403,246 for the Company’s our technology licenses, comprised
of $2,739,167 in value acquiring the Company’s technology licenses and its
intellectual property, less accumulated amortization of $335,921. The
technology value consists of $350,000 in cash paid or accrued to be paid to M.D.
Anderson, plus 3,138,889 shares of common stock granted to M.D. Anderson valued
at $2,354,167. This value is being amortized over a fifteen year (15
year) period from November 7, 2007, the date that the technology licenses became
effective. As of December 31, 2008 accrued payments to be made to M.
D. Anderson totaled $125,000, and such payments are expected to be made in 2009.
The Company accounts for the impairment and disposition of its long-lived assets
by reviewing for events of changes in circumstances which indicate that their
carrying value may not be recoverable. The Company estimates that
approximately $175,000 will be amortized per year for each future year for the
current value of the technology licenses acquired until approximately
2022.
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Research and
Development Costs -- Costs and expenses that can be clearly identified as
research and development are charged to expense as incurred. From
inception through the period ending September 30, 2009, the Company had $750,757
of costs classified as research and development expense. Of this
amount, approximately $475,000 is comprised of raw materials and costs for the
Company’s raw material suppliers and contract drug manufacturer to perform
unplanned additional engineering test runs of the Company’s lead drug product in
advance of manufacturing a current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) clinical
batch of this drug for use in an upcoming Phase I Clinical Trial.
Stock-Based
Compensation -- The Company has accounted for stock-based compensation by
recording an expense associated with the fair value of stock-based
compensation. We currently use the Black-Scholes option valuation
model to calculate stock based compensation at the date of
grant. Option pricing models require the input of highly subjective
assumptions, including the expected price volatility. Changes in
these assumptions can materially affect the fair value estimate.
Stock Option
Grants - In April of 2008 the Company made stock option grants
for services over the next three years to purchase in the aggregate 1,615,000
shares of the Company’s common stock. Terms of the stock option
grants require, among other things, that the individual continues to provide
services over the vesting period of the option, which is four or five years from
the date that each option granted to the individual becomes
effective. The exercise price of the options is $0.90 a
share. None of these stock options grants were for current management
and officers of the Company. The Company determined the fair value of
the stock options granted using the Black Scholes model and expenses this value
monthly based upon the service period schedule for each stock option
award. For purposes of determining fair value, the Company used an
average annual volatility of seventy two percent (72%), which was calculated
based upon an average of volatility of similar biotechnology
stocks. The risk free rate of interest used in the model was taken
from a table of the market rate of interest for U. S. Government Securities for
the date of the stock option awards and interpolated as necessary to match the
appropriate effective term for the award. The total value of
stock options granted was determined using this methodology to be $761,590,
which will be expensed over the next six years based on the service
period.
In
October of 2008 the Company made stock option grants to management and officers
to purchase in the aggregate 2,500,000 shares of the Company’s common
stock. Terms of the stock option grants require that the individuals
continue employment with the Company over the vesting period of the option,
fifty percent (50%) of which vested upon the date of the grant of the stock
options and fifty percent (50%) of which will vest over 3 years from the date
that the options were granted. The exercise price of the options is
$1.40 a share. The Company determined the fair value of the stock
options granted using the Black Scholes model and expenses this value monthly
based upon the service period for each stock option award. For
purposes of determining fair value, the Company used an average annual
volatility of eighty four percent (84%), which was calculated based upon taking
a weighted average of the volatility of the Company’s common stock and the
volatility of similar biotechnology stocks. The risk free rate of
interest used in the model was taken from a table of the market rate of interest
for U. S. Government Securities for the date of the stock option awards and
interpolated as necessary to match the appropriate effective term for the
award.
The total
value of stock options granted to management and officers was determined using
this methodology to be $2,485,000, half of which was expensed at the date of
grant and the balance will be expensed over the next three years based on the
stock option vesting
schedule.
In
December of 2008 the Company made stock option grants for services over the next
three years to purchase in the aggregate 100,000 shares of the Company’s common
stock. Terms of the stock option grants require, among other things,
that the individual continues to provide services over the vesting period of the
option, which is three or four years from the date that each option granted to
the individual becomes effective.
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The exercise price of the options is $0.30 a share. None of these
stock options grants were for current management and officers of the
Company. The Company determined the fair value of the stock options
granted using the Black Scholes model and expenses this value monthly based upon
the vesting schedule for each stock option award. For purposes of
determining fair value, the Company used an average annual volatility of eighty
four percent (84%), which was calculated based upon taking a weighted average of
the volatility of the Company’s common stock and the volatility of similar
biotechnology stocks.
The risk
free rate of interest used in the model was taken from a table of the market
rate of interest for U. S. Government Securities for the date of the stock
option awards and interpolated as necessary to match the appropriate effective
term for the award. The total value of stock options granted
was determined using this methodology to be $21,450, which will be expensed over
the next four years based on the stock option vesting schedule.
Total
stock option expense being reported for the period ending September 30, 2009 is
$147,685 and from inception May 10, 2007 to September 30, 2009 is
$1,947,808.
Warrant
Grants - In April of 2008 the Company awarded warrants for services to
purchase in the aggregate 85,620 shares of the Company’s common
stock. The exercise price is $0.90 a share. The warrants
were one hundred percent (100%) vested upon issuance and were expensed upfront
as warrants for services. The fair value of the warrants expensed was
determined using the same methodology as described above for stock
options. The total value of the warrants granted was determined using
this methodology to be $36,050, the total amount of which was expensed in the
second quarter 2008.
In the
second quarter of 2009, we issued 660,000 shares of our common stock and
warrants to purchase an additional 660,000 shares of common stock for gross cash
proceeds of $165,000 to investors pursuant to a private placement
memorandum. The warrants must be exercised within two years from the
date of issuance. The exercise price of the warrants is $1.50 a
share.
Net Loss Per
Share – Basic net loss per common share is computed by dividing net loss
for the period by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding
during the period. Under SFAS No. 128, diluted net income (loss) per
share is computed by dividing the net income (loss) for the period by the
weighted average number of common and common equivalent shares, such as stock
options and warrants, outstanding during the period.
Comprehensive
Income -- Comprehensive income (loss) is defined as all changes in a
company’s net assets, except changes resulting from transactions with
shareholders. At September 30, 2009, the
Company has no reportable differences between net loss and comprehensive
loss.
Use of Estimates
-- The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity
with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires
management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in
the Company’s consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. On an
ongoing basis, the Company evaluates its estimates and judgments, which are
based on historical and anticipated results and trends and on various other
assumptions that the Company believes to be reasonable under the circumstances.
By their nature, estimates are subject to an inherent degree of uncertainty and,
as such, actual results may differ from the Company’s estimates.
ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURE ABOUT MARKET
RISK
Information not required for smaller
reporting companies.
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ITEM 4(T). CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls
and Procedures. Our management, with the participation of our principal
executive officer and principal financial officer, have evaluated the
effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined
in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the “Exchange Act”)) as of the end of the period covered by this
quarterly report (the “Evaluation Date”). Based on such evaluation, our
principal financial officer and principal executive officer have concluded that,
as of the Evaluation Date, our disclosure controls and procedures are effective
and designed to ensure that the information relating to our company (including
our consolidated subsidiaries) required to be disclosed in our reports filed or
submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported
within the requisite time periods.
(b) Changes in Internal
Controls. There was no change in our internal control over financial
reporting (as defined in Rules 13a–15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange
Act) that occurred during the quarter covered by this report that has materially
affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, such
controls.
PART
II – OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
None.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
There
have been no material changes to the risk factors described in the Company’s
Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 3,
2009
ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE
OF PROCEEDS
None.
ITEM 3. DEFAULTS BY THE COMPANY ON ITS SENIOR
SECURITIES
None.
ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY
HOLDERS
We held our annual meeting of
stockholders on July 15, 2009. The following is a brief description of each
matter voted upon at the annual meeting and the number of votes cast for,
withheld, or against, the number of abstentions and the number of broker
non-votes with respect to each matter:
1. To
elect four directors to our board of directors to hold office until our 2010
annual meeting of stockholders.
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Name
|
|
Number
of Shares
|
||
|
For
|
|
Withheld
|
|
|
|
|||
Peter
H. Nielsen
|
|
22,000,334
|
|
3,008
|
Douglas
P. Morris
|
|
22,000,334
|
|
3,008
|
Thomas
Garrison
|
22,000,334
|
|
3,008
|
|
Gillian
Ivers-Read
|
22,000,334
|
3,008
|
2. To
ratify the appointment of Mantyla & Mc Reynolds as our independent
registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31,
2009.
For
|
|
21,867,500
|
||
Against
|
|
3,008
|
||
Abstain
|
|
129,826
|
||
Broker
Non-Vote
|
|
0
|
ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION
None
ITEM 6. EXHIBITS
Certification
of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section
302 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.
|
|
Certification
of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section
906 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.
|
SIGNATURE
In
accordance with the requirements of the Exchange Act, the Company has caused
this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly
authorized.
Dated:
November 16, 2009
|
BIO-PATH
HOLDINGS, INC.
|
By /s/
Peter H. Nielsen,
|
|
Chief
Executive Officer, President/Principal Executive Officer, Chief Financial
Officer, Principal Financial
Officer
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