BIO-PATH HOLDINGS INC - Quarter Report: 2010 June (Form 10-Q)
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
10-Q
(Mark
One)
x QUARTERLY REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
For the
quarterly period ended June 30, 2010
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 220, 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 x
No ¨
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by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on
its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be
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chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the
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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 Annual Report on Form 10-K as of and for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, 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
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PART
I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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Item
1.
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Financial
Statements
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1
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Consolidated
Balance Sheets
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1
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Consolidated
Statements of Operations
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2
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Consolidated
Statement of Cash Flows
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3
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Notes
to Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements Ending June 30,
2010
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4
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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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9
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Item
3.
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Quantitative
and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
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17
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Item
4T.
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Controls
and Procedures
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PART
II - OTHER INFORMATION
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Item
1.
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Legal
Proceedings
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Item
1A.
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Risk
Factors
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18
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Item
2.
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Unregistered
Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
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18
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Item
3.
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Defaults
Upon Senior Securities
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Item
4.
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(Removed
and Reserved)
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18
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Item
5.
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Other
Information
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18
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Item
6.
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Exhibits
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PART
I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM
1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
BIO-PATH
HOLDINGS, INC.
(A
Development Stage Company)
CONSOLIDATED
BALANCE SHEETS
June
30,
2010
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December
31,
2009
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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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$ | 602,424 | $ | 567,249 | ||||
Drug
product for testing
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608,440 | 608,440 | ||||||
Other
current assets
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102,564 | 74,297 | ||||||
Total
current assets
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1,313,428 | 1,249,986 | ||||||
Other
assets
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Technology
licenses
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2,906,355 | 2,814,166 | ||||||
Less
Accumulated Amortization
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(478,495 | ) | (382,486 | ) | ||||
2,427,860 | 2,431,680 | |||||||
TOTAL
ASSETS
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$ | 3,741,288 | $ | 3,681,666 | ||||
LIABILITIES
& SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
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Current
liabilities
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Accounts
payable
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124,209 | 6,453 | ||||||
Accrued
expense
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188,637 | 133,450 | ||||||
Accrued
license payments
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100,000 | 125,000 | ||||||
Total
current liabilities
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412,846 | 264,903 | ||||||
Long
term debt
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- | - | ||||||
TOTAL
LIABILITIES
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412,846 | 264,903 | ||||||
Shareholders’
Equity
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Preferred
Stock, $.001 par value 10,000,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and
outstanding
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- | - | ||||||
Common
Stock, $.001 par value, 200,000,000 shares authorized 48,617,832 and
42,649,602 shares issued and outstanding as of 6/30/10 and 12/31/09,
respectively
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48,617 | 42,649 | ||||||
Additional
paid in capital
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9,301,482 | 7,803,016 | ||||||
Additional
paid in capital for shares to be issued a/
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- | 675,000 | ||||||
Accumulated
deficit during development stage
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(6,021,657 | ) | (5,103,902 | ) | ||||
Total
shareholders’ equity
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3,328,442 | 3,416,763 | ||||||
TOTAL
LIABILITIES & SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
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$ | 3,741,288 | $ | 3,681,666 |
a/
Represents 2,700,000 shares of common stock
SEE
ACCOMPANYING NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1
BIO-PATH
HOLDINGS, INC.
(A
Development Stage Company)
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
Unaudited
Second
Quarter
April
1 to June 30
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Year
to Date
January
1 to June 30
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From
inception
05/10/07
to
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2010
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2009
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2010
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2009
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6/30/10
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Revenue
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$ | - | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | ||||||||||
Operating
expense
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Research
and development
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46,315 | 112,936 | 183,397 | 325,545 | 1,005,299 | |||||||||||||||
General
& administrative
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189,498 | 224,706 | 352,316 | 418,031 | 1,932,189 | |||||||||||||||
Stock
issued for services
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300,000 | |||||||||||||||||||
Stock
options & warrants
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142,710 | 150,156 | 286,656 | 298,883 | 2,376,751 | |||||||||||||||
Amortization
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48,312 | 45,731 | 96,009 | 90,996 | 478,495 | |||||||||||||||
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Total
operating expense
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426,835 | 533,529 | 918,378 | 1,133,455 | 6,092,734 | |||||||||||||||
Net
operating loss
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$ | (426,835 | ) | $ | (533,529 | ) | $ | (918,378 | ) | $ | (1,133,455 | ) | $ | (6,092,734 | ) | |||||
Other
income
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Interest
income
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21 | 480 | 623 | 3,712 | 71,077 | |||||||||||||||
Total
Other Income
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21 | 480 | 623 | 3,712 | 71,077 | |||||||||||||||
Net
Loss
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$ | (426,814 | ) | $ | (533,049 | ) | $ | (917,755 | ) | $ | (1,129,743 | ) | $ | (6,021,657 | ) | |||||
Loss
per share
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Net
loss per share, basic and diluted
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$ | (0.01 | ) | $ | (0.01 | ) | $ | (0.02 | ) | $ | (0.03 | ) | $ | (0.15 | ) | |||||
Basic
and diluted weighted average number of common shares
outstanding
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47,565,012 | 42,165,602 | 47,087,307 | 42,044,602 | 38,889,704 |
SEE
ACCOMPANYING NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
2
BIO-PATH
HOLDINGS, INC.
(A
Development Stage Company)
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
Unaudited
Year
to Date
January
1 to June 30
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From
inception
05/10/2007
to
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2010
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2009
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6/30/2010
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CASH
FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
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Net
loss
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$ | (917,755 | ) | $ | (1,129,743 | ) | $ | (6,021,657 | ) | |||
Adjustments
to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating
activities
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Amortization
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96,009 | 90,996 | 478,495 | |||||||||
Common
stock issued for services
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300,000 | |||||||||||
Stock
options and warrants
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286,656 | 298,883 | 2,376,751 | |||||||||
(Increase)
decrease in assets
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Drug
product for testing
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(298,800 | ) | (608,440 | ) | ||||||||
Other
current assets
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(28,267 | ) | 26,949 | (102,564 | ) | |||||||
Increase
(decrease) in liabilities
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Accounts
payable and accrued expenses
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147,943 | (97,198 | ) | 412,846 | ||||||||
Net
cash used in operating activities
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(415,414 | ) | (1,108,913 | ) | (3,164,569 | ) | ||||||
CASH
FLOW FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
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Purchase
of exclusive license
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(92,189 | ) | (25,000 | ) | (552,188 | ) | ||||||
Net
cash used in investing activities
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(92,189 | ) | (25,000 | ) | (552,188 | ) | ||||||
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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542,778 | 142,590 | 3,899,181 | |||||||||
Net
cash from financing activities
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542,778 | 142,590 | 4,319,181 | |||||||||
NET
INCREASE IN CASH
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35,175 | (991,323 | ) | 602,424 | ||||||||
Cash,
beginning of period
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567,249 | 1,507,071 | - | |||||||||
Cash,
end of period
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$ | 602,424 | $ | 515,748 | $ | 602,424 | ||||||
SUPPLEMENTAL
DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION
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Cash
paid for
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Interest
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$ | 44 | $ | 133 | $ | 445 | ||||||
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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$ | 117,300 | $ | 16,500 | $ | 412,145 | ||||||
Common
stock issued to M.D. Anderson for technology license
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$ | 2,354,167 | ||||||||||
Due
diligence and commitment shares issued to Lincoln
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$ | 202,580 | $ | 202,580 |
SEE
ACCOMPANYING NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
3
Notes
to the Interim Consolidated Financial Statements
Ending
June 30, 2010
The
accompanying interim financial statements have been prepared 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 principals. 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. The unaudited quarterly
financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial
statements and notes thereto included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of
Bio-Path Holdings, Inc. (together with its subsidiary, the “Company”) as of and
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. The results of
operations for the period ended June 30, 2010, are not necessarily indicative of
the results for a full-year period.
1. Organization
and Business
Bio-Path
Holdings, Inc. (“Bio-Path” or the “Company”) is a development stage company with
its lead cancer drug candidate, Liposomal Grb-2 (L-Grb-2 or BP-100-1.01),
currently in clinical trials. The Company was 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 has the potential 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 working relationship 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.
Bio-Path
is currently treating patients with its lead cancer drug candidate Liposomal
Grb-2 (L-Grb-2 or BP-100-1.01) in a Phase I clinical trial. In March
of 2010, Bio-Path received written notification from the U. S. Food and Drug
Administration (the “FDA”) that its application for Investigational New Drug
(“IND”) status for L-Grb-2 had been granted. This enabled the Company
to commence its Phase I clinical trial to study L-Grb-2 in human patients, which
began shortly after the end of the second Quarter 2010. The Company
expects the Phase I clinical trial to last approximately twelve months,
primarily depending on the rate of enrollment of patients into the
trial. The second of the Company’s two lead drug candidates will be
ready for a clinical trial after receiving an IND from the FDA.
The Phase
I clinical trial is a dose-escalating study to determine the safety and
tolerance of escalating doses of L-Grb-2. The study will also
determine the optimal biologically active dose for further
development. The pharmacokinetics of L-Grb-2 in patients will be
studied, making it possible to investigate whether the delivery technology
performs as expected based on pre-clinical studies in animals. The
trial will evaluate five doses of L-Grb-2 and 18 to 30 patients may be accrued
into the study. The clinical trial is being conducted at The
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
An
important outcome for the Phase I clinical trial is the ability to assess for
the first time the performance of the Company’s delivery technology platform in
human patients. Being platform technology, a successful demonstration
of the delivery technology in this study will allow the Company to immediately
begin expanding Bio-Path’s drug candidates by simply applying the delivery
technology template to multiple new drug product targets. In this
manner, Bio-Path can quickly build an attractive drug product pipeline with
multiple drug product candidates for treating cancer as well as treating other
important diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular conditions and
neuromuscular disorders.
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.
4
In the
second quarter of 2010, Bio-Path signed an equity purchase agreement for up to
$7 million with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (“LPC”), a Chicago-based
institutional investor (see Note 6.). In connection with the signing
of the agreement, LPC made an initial purchase of $200,000 of common stock and
warrants. The LPC financing structure puts in place a significant
amount of equity capital for clinical development of Bio-Path’s technology,
while allowing the Company to draw on it only as needed, in an effort to
minimize shareholder dilution. In addition, the LPC financing
represents a maturing of Bio-Path’s fund raising efforts, bringing sophisticated
institutional investor-involvement to the Company as well as being considerably
more cost effective than private placement fund raising previously used by the
Company. Private placement fund raising has cost the Company a cash
commission and stock commission on funds raised, while the LPC financing
required only a significantly lower stock commitment fee and no cash
commission. In addition, private placement investors have required
100% warrant coverage, while the LPC financing required warrants only with the
initial purchase shares. Management believes that the LPC financing
should provide capital necessary to fund operations and its clinical trial at
least through the summer of 2011. In addition, prior to signing
the LPC agreement, the Company raised $273,000 in funds in the second quarter of
2010 for operations through a private placement sale of shares of the Company’s
common stock and associated warrants.
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 and raw
material suppliers totaling $292,800 during 2008 and $315,640 during 2009
pursuant to a Project Plan and Supply Agreement (see Note 8.) for the
manufacture and delivery of the Company’s lead drug product for testing in a
Phase I clinical trial. This amount is carried on the Balance Sheet
as of June 30, 2010 at cost as Drug Product for Testing. The Drug
Product for Testing on hand will commence being expensed in the third quarter of
2010 as the drug product is used during the Phase I clinical trial.
3. Accrued
Expense
As of
June 30, 2010, Current Liabilities included accrued expense of
$188,637. R&D expenses for drug development and the Phase I
clinical trial comprised approximately $40,000 of this amount, including $29,000
to the Company’s contract drug manufacturer. Bonus pool accrual
comprised approximately $139,000 and corporate expense for auditors, legal and
insurance comprised an additional $10,000.
4. Accrued
License Payments
Accrued
license payments totaling $100,000 were included in Current Liabilities as of
June 30, 2010. These amounts represent patent expenses for the
licensed technology expected to be invoiced from M. D. Anderson. It
is expected that the accrued license payments will be made to M. D. Anderson in
2010 and the first quarter of 2011.
5. Additional Paid
In Capital For Shares To Be Issued
In
November and December of 2009, the Company sold shares of common stock and
warrants to purchase shares of common stock for $675,000 in cash to investors
pursuant to a private placement memorandum. These shares were not
issued as of the December 31, 2009 year end and the $675,000 was carried on the
Balance Sheet as Additional Paid In Capital For Shares To Be
Issued. Subsequently in January of 2010, the Company issued these
investors 2,700,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase an
additional 2,700,000 shares of common stock. The warrants must be
exercised within two years from the date of issuance. The exercise price of the
warrants is $1.50 a share.
6.
Stockholders’
Equity
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 investors
in the Company pursuant to a second round of financing. The Company
issued 530,833 in 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.
5
In
February of 2008, 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 valued at $180,000. 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. There were no issuances of shares during the fourth
quarter of 2009.
In
November and December of 2009, the Company sold shares of common stock and
warrants to purchase shares of common stock for $675,000 in cash to investors
pursuant to a private placement memorandum. These shares were not
issued by the December 31, 2009 year end. In January 2010, the
Company issued these investors 2,700,000 shares of common stock and warrants to
purchase an additional 2,700,000 shares of common stock. 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 January 2010, the Company also
sold an additional 900,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase an
additional 900,000 shares of common stock for $225,000 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 and the exercise
price is $1.50 a share. In connection with these private placement
sales of equity, the Company issued 360,000 shares of common stock to the
Placement Agent as commission for the shares of common stock sold to
investors.
In May of
2010, the Company issued 780,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase
an additional 780,000 shares of common stock for $273,000 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 78,000 shares of common stock to the
Placement Agent as commission for the shares of common stock sold to
investors.
In June
of 2010, the Company signed an equity purchase agreement for up to $7 million
with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (“LPC”), a Chicago-based institutional
investor. Under the terms of the equity purchase agreement, the
Company has the right to sell shares of its common stock to LPC from time to
time over a 24-month period in amounts between $50,000 and $1,000,000 up to an
aggregate amount of $7 million depending upon certain conditions set forth in
the purchase agreement including that a registration statement related to the
transaction has been declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (“SEC”). As a result, a registration statement was filed
and later declared effective by the SEC on July 12, 2010. Upon
signing the agreement, the Company received $200,000 from LPC as an initial
purchase in exchange for 571,429 shares (“Initial Purchase Shares”) of the
Company’s common stock and warrants to purchase 571,429 shares of the Company’s
common stock at an exercise price of $1.50 per share. Subsequent
purchases of the Company’s common stock by Lincoln Park under the agreement do
not include warrants. In connection with the signing of the LPC
financing agreement, the Company issued LPC 12,000 shares of the Company’s
common stock for its due diligence efforts and 566,801 shares of the Company’s
common stock as a commitment fee for the balance of the $7 million equity
purchase commitment.
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As of
June 30, 2010, there were 48,617,832 shares of common stock issued and
outstanding. There are no preferred shares outstanding as of June 30,
2010.
7. Stock
Options and Warrants
Stock Options -
There were no stock option awards granted in 2009. Total stock
option expense for the year 2009 totaled $588,857.
There
were no stock option awards granted in the first or second quarters of
2010. Total stock option expense for the first quarter of 2010
totaled $143,946 and for the current second quarter 2010 being reported on stock
option expense totaled $142,710.
Warrants -
There were no warrants for services granted in 2009 and there was no
warrant expense for the year 2009.
There
were no warrants for services granted in the first or second quarters of 2010
and there was no warrant expense in the first quarter of 2010 or the current
second quarter of 2010 being reported on. Warrants issued in
connection with the sale of units of common stock were for cash value received
and as such were not grants of compensation-based warrants.
8.
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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
$100,000 are included in Current Liabilities as of June 30, 2010. As
of June 30, 2010, the Company estimates reimbursable patent expenses will total
approximately $150,000 for the antisense license and $25,000 for the siRNA
license. The Company will be required to pay when invoiced the patent
expenses at the rate of $25,000 per quarter.
Drug Supplier
Project Plan - 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 commenced this trial and was
enrolling patients by the end of the second quarter 2010. Previously
in 2008 and 2009, the Company paid $608,440 to this manufacturer and its drug
substance raw material supplier that is carried at cost as Drug Product for
Testing on the balance sheet (see Note 2.). The Company expects to
pay no more than $150,000 to its contract drug manufacturing supplier to
complete payments under the current contract when the supplier delivers clinical
grade drug product for testing in the Company’s clinical
trial. Future contracts will be required as the Company’s requirement
for clinical drug product increase.
9. Subsequent
Events
In July
of 2010, the Company satisfied all conditions precedent under the equity
purchase agreement with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (“LPC”), a Chicago-based
institutional investor, to commence sales of common stock to LPC for up to an
aggregate of $7 million. One of the significant conditions that Bio-Path was
required to satisfy under the equity purchase agreement was to file a
registration statement with the SEC covering the resale of certain shares by LPC
and for the SEC to declare that registration statement effective. The
registration statement was declared effective on July 12, 2010, and as a result,
in July of 2010, Bio-Path received an additional $150,000 from LPC in exchange
for the sale of 375,000 shares of common stock, which shares are covered by the
registration statement on file with the SEC. No warrants to purchase
additional shares of Bio-Path’s common stock were issued in connection with this
sale. Under the terms of the equity purchase agreement, the Company
has the right to sell shares of its common stock to LPC from time to time over a
24-month period in amounts between $50,000 and $1,000,000 up to an aggregate
amount of $7 million depending upon certain conditions set forth in the purchase
agreement including that a registration statement related to the transaction has
been declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(“SEC”). Upon signing the agreement in June of 2010, the Company
received $200,000 from LPC as an initial purchase in exchange for 571,429 shares
(“Initial Purchase Shares”) of the Company’s common stock and warrants to
purchase 571,429 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of
$1.50 per share (see Note 6.). Subsequent purchases of the Company’s
common stock by Lincoln Park under the agreement do not include
warrants. The proceeds received by the Company under the purchase
agreement are expected to be used for the Phase I clinical trial expenses for
the Company’s lead cancer compound and for general working capital.
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In July
of 2010, the Company announced in a press release that the first patient had
been dosed in a Phase I study of its cancer drug candidate, Liposomal Grb-2
(L-Grb-2 or BP-100-1.01), in patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Chronic
Myelogenous Leukemia (CML), Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) or
Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS). Bio-Path is developing a neutral
lipid-based liposome delivery technology for nucleic acid cancer drugs
(including antisense and siRNA molecules), a delivery technology that forms
microscopic-sized vehicles to safely deliver these drugs to their intended
target cancer cells. The Phase I clinical trial is a dose-escalating
study to determine the safety and tolerance of escalating doses of
L-Grb-2. The study will also determine the optimal biologically
active dose for further development. The pharmacokinetics of L-Grb-2
in patients will be studied, making it possible to investigate whether the
delivery technology performs as expected based on pre-clinical studies in
animals. The trial will evaluate five doses of L-Grb-2 and 18 to 30
patients may be accrued into the study. The clinical trial is being
conducted at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
10. New
Accounting Pronouncements
In
October 2009, the FASB issued authoritative guidance on
multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements, which is effective for the Company on
January 1, 2011 for new revenue arrangements or material modifications to
existing agreements. The guidance amends the criteria for separating
consideration in multiple-deliverable arrangements. This guidance establishes a
selling price hierarchy for determining the selling price of a deliverable,
which is based on: (a) vendor-specific objective evidence; (b) third-party
evidence; or (c) estimates. This guidance also eliminates the residual
method of allocation and requires that arrangement consideration be allocated at
the inception of the arrangement to all deliverables using the relative selling
price method. In addition, this guidance significantly expands required
disclosures related to a vendor’s multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements. The
Company is currently evaluating the effect the adoption of the guidance will
have on its financial position, results of operations, cash flows and related
disclosures.
In
July 2010, the FASB issued authoritative guidance on disclosures about the
credit quality of financing receivables and the allowance for credit losses,
which is effective for the Company on December 31, 2010. The guidance
requires additional disclosures that facilitate financial statement users’
evaluation of: (a) the nature of credit risk inherent in the entity’s
portfolio of financing receivables; (b) how that risk is analyzed and
assessed in arriving at the allowance for credit losses; and (c) the
changes and reasons for those changes in the allowance for credit losses. In
addition, the guidance amends current requirements to include additional
disclosures about financing receivables, including: (a) credit quality
indicators of financing receivables at the end of the reporting period by class
of financing receivables; (b) the aging of past due financing receivables
at the end of the reporting period by class of financing receivables; and (c)
the nature and extent of troubled debt restructurings that occurred during the
period by class of financing receivables and their effect on the allowance for
credit losses. The Company is currently evaluating the effect the adoption of
the guidance will have on its financial position, results of operations, cash
flows and related disclosures.
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When
you read this section of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, it is important
that you also read the unaudited financial statements and related notes included
elsewhere in this Form 10-Q and our audited financial statements and notes
thereto included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K as of and for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2009. This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q 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 as of and for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2009 and other risks and uncertainties
discussed in filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. See
“Forward Looking Statements” for additional discussion regarding risks
associated with forward-looking statements.
Overview
Bio-Path
Holdings, Inc., through our wholly-owned 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 related nucleic acid drug
delivery technology, including tumor targeting 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 the 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 drug
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
220, 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.
Research
and Development
Our
research and development is currently conducted through agreements we have with
M. D. Anderson. A summary of the material terms of the License Agreements
are detailed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K as of and for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 2009.
Basic Technical
Information
Ribonucleic
acid (RNA) is a biologically significant type of molecule consisting of a chain
of nucleotide units. Each nucleotide consists of a nitrogenous base, a ribose
sugar, and a phosphate. Although similar in some ways to DNA, RNA differs from
DNA in a few important structural details. RNA is transcribed
from DNA by enzymes called RNA polymerases and is generally further processed by
other enzymes. RNA is central to protein synthesis. DNA carries the genetic
information of a cell and consists of thousands of genes. Each gene serves as a
recipe on how to build a protein molecule. Proteins perform important tasks for
the cell functions or serve as building blocks. The flow of information from the
genes determines the protein composition and thereby the functions of the
cell.
The DNA
is situated in the nucleus of the cell, organized into chromosomes. Every cell
must contain the genetic information and the DNA is therefore duplicated before
a cell divides (replication). When proteins are needed, the corresponding genes
are transcribed into RNA (transcription). The RNA is first processed so that
non-coding parts are removed (processing) and is then transported out of the
nucleus (transport). Outside the nucleus, the proteins are built based upon the
code in the RNA (translation).
Our basic
drug development concept is to modify the genetic material RNA to treat
disease. RNA is essential in the process of creating proteins.
The “i” in RNAi stands for “interference.” We intend to develop drugs
and drug delivery systems that are intended to work by using RNA to interfere
with the production of proteins associated with disease. The
discovery of RNAi, in 1998, has led not only to its widespread use in the
research of biological mechanisms and target validation, but also to its
application in down-regulating the expression of certain disease-causing
proteins found in a wide spectrum of diseases including inflammation, cancer,
and metabolic dysfunction. RNAi-based therapeutics work through a
naturally occurring process within cells that has the effect of reducing levels
of messenger RNA (mRNA) required for the production of proteins. At
this time, several RNAi-based therapeutics are being evaluated in human clinical
trials.
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The
historical perspective of cancer treatments has been drugs that affect the
entire body. Advances in the past decade have shifted to treating the
tumor tissue itself. One of the main strategies in these developments
has been targeted therapy, involving drugs that are targeted to block the
expression of specific disease causing proteins while having little or no effect
on other healthy tissue. Nucleic acid drugs, specifically antisense
and siRNA, are two of the most promising fields of targeted
therapy. Development of antisense and siRNA, however, has been
limited by the lack of a suitable method to deliver these drugs to the diseased
cells with high uptake into the cell and without causing
toxicity. Bio-Path’s currently licensed neutral-lipid based liposome
technology is designed to accomplish this. Studies have shown a
10-fold to 30-fold increase in tumor cell uptake with this technology compared
to other delivery methods.
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. We resubmitted information to the FDA in response to such
request. On March 12, 2010, we issued a press release announcing that
the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed an IND (Investigational
New Drug) for Bio-Path’s lead cancer drug candidate liposomal BP-100-1.01 to
proceed into clinical trials. The IND review process was performed by
the FDA’s Division of Oncology Products and involved a comprehensive review of
data submitted by us covering pre-clinical studies, safety, chemistry,
manufacturing, and controls, and the protocol for the Phase I clinical
trial. 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. Additional key objectives of the trial are to demonstrate
the effectiveness of our drug delivery technology similar to that experienced in
pre-clinical treatment of animals and to assess whether the drug candidate test
article produces a favorable impact on the cancerous condition of the patient at
the dose levels of the study.
On July
29, 2010, we announced that we began the dosing of patients at the M. D.
Anderson Cancer Center. The Phase I clinical trial of BP-100-1.01 is a
dose-escalating study to determine the safety and tolerance of escalating doses
of L-Grb-2. The study will also determine the optimal biologically
active dose for further development. The pharmacokinetics of L-Grb-2
in patients will be studied, making it possible to investigate whether the
delivery technology performs as expected based on pre-clinical studies in
animals. The trial will evaluate five doses of L-Grb-2 and 18 to 30
patients may be accrued into the study. The clinical trial is being
conducted at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
We will
reimburse M. D. Anderson at the rate of approximately $13,000 per patient for
treating patients in the study. We currently expect to reimburse M. D.
Anderson a total of approximately $250,000 spread out over one year for patient
treatment costs.
We are
also required to supply M. D. Anderson with the actual drugs to be administered
to the patients in the study. We have entered into a drug supply
contract with Althea Technologies which will produce sufficient drugs for
testing through two rounds. We expect to pay no more than $150,000 to
Althea to complete payments under the current contract. Drug costs for the
entire study could cost an additional $1 million including requirements for drug
candidate test article for additional treatments of the patients if the drug is
having a positive effect on the patients’ disease. We have sufficient cash
resources to fund the trial through the initial two or three rounds of the
study. We will need to raise additional cash resources through the sale of
common stock or other financing options in order to be able to complete our
development efforts. We have the right to terminate the Althea
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. The Company
prepared a review package of the testing material 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.
Projected
Financing Needs
In
December of 2009, we anticipated that we needed to raise an additional
$10,000,000 to enable us to complete all projected clinical trials for our
product candidates and conduct certain additional clinical trials in other
Bio-Path drug candidates. The completion of the LPC Purchase Agreement (as
defined below) may provide us with up to $7,000,000 in new capital. This
amount of funding is expected to support clinical develop of our lead products
and sustain operations through the second quarter of 2011. The Phase I
clinical trial of BP-100-1.01 is expected to cost $1,600,000. If the Phase I
clinical trial in BP-100-1.01 is successful, we will follow with a Phase IIa
trial in BP-100-1.01. Successful Phase I and IIA trials of BP-100-1.01 will
demonstrate clinical proof-of-concept that BP-100-1.01 is a viable therapeutic
drug product for treatment of AML, MDS and CML. The Phase IIA clinical trial in
BP-100-1.01 is expected to cost approximately $1,600,000.
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The Phase
I clinical trial of BP-100-2.01 is expected to cost
$2,000,000. Commencement of the Phase I clinical trial depends on the
FDA approving the IND for BP-100-2.01. Success in the Phase I
clinical trial will be based on the demonstration that the delivery technology
for siRNA has the same delivery characteristics seen in our pre-clinical studies
of the drug in animals.
If we are
able to raise the entire $10,000,000, we anticipate that such capital raised
will also allow us to conduct a Phase I clinical trial of
BP-100-1.02, which is an anti-tumor drug that treats a broad range of cancer
tumors. This trial is budgeted to cost $2,500,000 and is higher than
the Phase I clinical trial for BP-100-1.01 due to expected higher hospital,
patient monitoring and drug costs. Similar to the case with
BP-100-1.01, commencement of the Phase I clinical trial of BP-100-1.02 requires
that the FDA approve the IND application for BP-100-1.02.
We have
currently budgeted approximately $3,000,000 out of the total $10,000,000 in net
proceeds to be raised for additional drug development
opportunities. The balance of the funding is planned to fund patent
expenses, licensing fees, pre-clinical costs to M. D. Anderson’s Pharmaceutical
Development Center, consulting fees and management and
administration.
We have
generated approximately two full years of financial information and have not
previously demonstrated that we will be able to expand our business through an
increased investment in our technology and trials. We cannot guarantee that
plans as described in this report will be successful. Our business is subject to
risks inherent in growing an enterprise, including limited capital resources and
possible rejection of our new products and/or sales methods. If financing is not
available on satisfactory terms, we may be unable to continue expanding our
operations. Equity financing will result in a dilution to existing
shareholders.
There can
be no assurance of the following:
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That
the actual costs of a particular trial will come within our budgeted
amount.
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That
any trials will be successful or will result in drug commercialization
opportunities.
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That
we will be able to raise the sufficient funds to allow us to complete our
planned clinical trials.
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Background
Information about M. D. Anderson
We
anticipate that our initial drug development efforts will be pursuant to three
exclusive License Agreements with M. D. Anderson. M. D. Anderson’s stated
mission is to “make cancer history” (www.mdanderson.org). Achieving
that goal begins with integrated programs in cancer treatment, clinical trials,
educational programs and cancer prevention. M. D. Anderson is one of
the largest and most widely recognized cancer centers in the world: U.S. News
& World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals” survey has ranked M. D. Anderson
as one of 2 best hospitals for 16 consecutive years. M. D. Anderson will treat
more than 100,000 patients this year, of which approximately 11,000 will
participate in therapeutic clinical research exploring novel treatments which is
the largest such program in the nation. M. D. Anderson employs more
than 15,000 people including more than 1,000 M. D. and Ph.D clinicians and
researchers, and is routinely conducting more than 700 clinical trials at any
one time.
Each
year, researchers at M. D. Anderson and around the globe publish numerous
discoveries that have the
potential to become or enable new cancer drugs. The pharmaceutical and
biotechnology industries have more than four hundred cancer drugs in various
stages of clinical trials. Yet the number of actual
new drugs that are approved to treat this dreaded disease is quite
small and its growth rate is flat or decreasing. A successful new drug in this
market is a “big deal” and substantially impacts those companies who have
attained it: Genentech’s Avastin, Novartis’ Gleevec, OSI’s Tarceva and
Millennium’s Velcade are examples of such.
Over the past several years M. D.
Anderson has augmented its clinical and research prominence through the
establishment of the Pharmaceutical Development Center (“PDC”). The
PDC was formed for the sole purpose of helping researchers at M. D. Anderson
prepare their newly discovered compounds for clinical trials. It has
a full-time staff of professionals and the capability to complete all of the
studies required to characterize a compound for the filing of an Investigational
New Drug Application (“IND”) with the FDA, which is required to initiate
clinical trials. These studies include pharmacokinetics (“pK”),
tissue distribution, metabolism studies and toxicology
studies.
We
anticipate being able to use the PDC as a source for some of the pre-clinical
work needed in the future, potentially at a lower cost than what it would cost
to use a for-profit contract research organization. There is no formal
arrangement between the Company and PDC and there can be no certainty that we
will have access to PDC or that even if we do have access, that our costs will
be reduced over alternative service providers.
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Relationship
with M. D. Anderson
Bio-Path
was founded to focus on bringing the capital and expertise needed to translate
drug candidates developed at M. D. Anderson (and potentially other research
institutions) into real treatment therapies for cancer patients. To
carry out this mission, Bio-Path plans to negotiate several agreements
with M. D. Anderson that will:
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give
Bio-Path ongoing access to M. D. Anderson’s Pharmaceutical Development
Center for drug development;
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provide
rapid communication to Bio-Path of new drug candidate disclosures in the
Technology Transfer Office;
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standardize
clinical trial programs sponsored by Bio-Path;
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standardize
sponsored research under a master agreement addressing intellectual
property sharing.
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Bio-Path’s
Chief Executive Officer is experienced working with M. D. Anderson and its
personnel. Bio-Path believes that if Bio-Path obtains adequate
financing, Bio-Path will be positioned to help develop current and future M. D.
Anderson technology into treatments for cancer patients. This in turn
is expected to provide a steady flow of cancer drug candidates for out-licensing
to pharmaceutical partners.
Licenses
Bio-Path
Subsidiary has negotiated and signed three licenses with M. D. Anderson for late
stage preclinical molecules, and intends to use our relationship with M. D.
Anderson to develop these drug compounds through Phase IIa clinical trials, the
point at which we will have demonstrated proof-of-concept of the efficacy and
safety for our product candidates in cancer patients. At such time,
we may seek a development and marketing partner in the pharmaceutical or biotech
industry. In certain cases, we may choose to complete development and
market the product ourselves. Our basic guide to a decision to obtain a license
for a potential drug candidate is as follows:
Likelihood of efficacy: Are
the in vitro
pre-clinical studies on mechanism of action and the in vivo animal models robust
enough to provide a compelling case that the “molecule/compound/technology” has
a high probability of working in humans?
Does it fit with the Company’s
expertise: Does Bio-Path possess the technical and clinical assets to
significantly reduce the scientific and clinical risk to a point where a
pharmaceutical company partner would likely want to license this candidate
within 36-40 months from the date of Bio-Path acquiring a license?
Affordability and potential for
partnering: Can the clinical trial endpoints be designed in a manner that
is unambiguous, persuasive, and can be professionally conducted consistent with
that expected by the pharmaceutical industry at a cost of less than $5-$7
million dollars without “cutting corners”?
Intellectual property and competitive
sustainability: Is the intellectual property and competitive
analysis sufficient to meet Big Pharma criteria assuming successful early
clinical human results?
Out-Licenses
and Other Sources of Revenue
Subject
to adequate capital, we intend to develop a steady series of drug candidates
through Phase IIa clinical trials and then to engage in a series of
out-licensing transactions to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology
companies. These companies would then conduct later-stage clinical
development, regulatory approval, and eventual marketing of the
drug. We expect that such out-license transactions would include
upfront license fees, milestone/success payments, and royalties. We
intend to maximize the quality and frequency of these transactions, while
minimizing the time and cost to achieve meaningful candidates for
out-licensing.
In
addition to this source of revenue and value, we may forward integrate one or
more of our own drug candidates. For example, there are certain cancers that are
primarily treated only in a comprehensive cancer center; of which there are
approximately forty in the US and perhaps two hundred throughout the
world. Hence, “marketing and distribution” becomes a realistic
possibility for select products. These candidates may be eligible for
Orphan Drug Status which provides additional incentives in terms of market
exclusivities and non-dilutive grant funding for clinical trials.
Finally,
there are technologies for which we anticipate acquiring licenses whose
application goes well beyond cancer treatment. The ability to provide a unique
and greatly needed solution to the delivery of small molecules, DNA and siRNA
and their efficient uptake by targeted physiological tissues is a very important
technological asset that may be commercialized in other areas of
medicine.
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License
Agreements
We have
entered into the License Agreements with M. D. Anderson relating to its
technology. These License Agreements relate to the following technologies: 1) a
lead siRNA drug product; 2) two single nucleic acid (antisense) drug
products; and 3) delivery technology platform for nucleic acids. These
licenses require, among other things, the Company to reimburse M. D. Anderson
for ongoing patent expense. One license requires the Company to raise
at least $2.5 million in funding and, based on the aggregate amount raised, the
Company has agreed to sponsor additional research at M. D. Anderson’s
laboratories. To maintain our rights to the licensed technology, we
must meet certain development and funding milestones. A summary of
the material terms of the licenses are detailed in our Annual Report on Form
10-K as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.
Business
Strategy
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, subject to adequate capital, we
will attempt to validate our business model by in-licensing additional products
to broaden our drug product pipeline.
At
December 31, 2009, we anticipated that over the next 36 months we would need to
raise approximately $10,000,000 to completely implement our current business
plan. Completion of the LPC Purchase Agreement may provide up to
$7,000,000 in new funding. Over the next three years we expected to raise
additional capital to complete our funding plan. We have previously
completed several financings for use in our Bio-Path operations and have
received total net proceeds of $4,319,181 as of June 30, 2010. Our short term
plan is to achieve the following three key milestones:
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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. As described above we
recently received FDA clearance to commence Phase I clinical trials of our
BP-100-1.01 drug. In this Phase I trial, we will leverage M. D.
Anderson’s pre-clinical and clinical development capabilities, including
using the PDC for pre-clinical studies as well as clinical
pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and the institution’s world-renowned
clinics, particularly for early clinical trials. This should
allow us to develop our drug candidates with experienced professional
staff at a reduced cost compared to using external contract
laboratories. This should also allow us to operate in an
essentially virtual fashion, thereby avoiding the expense of setting up
and operating laboratory facilities, without losing control over timing or
quality or IP contamination. Effective July 29, 2010, we began dosing of
patients of this lead drug – BP-100-1.01 at M. D.
Anderson;
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2)
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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
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3)
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Out-license
(non-exclusively) our delivery technology for either antisense or siRNA to
a pharmaceutical partner to speed development applications of our
technology.
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We plan
to pursue and achieve the above short term milestones by utilizing the following
tactics:
1)
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Manage
trials as if they were being done by Big Pharma: seamless transition;
quality systems; documentation; and disciplined program management
recognized by Big Pharma diligence teams; trials conducted, monitored and
data collected consistent with applicable FDA regulations to maximize
Bio-Path’s credibility and value to minimize time to gain registration by
partner;
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2)
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Use
our Scientific Advisory Board to supplement our management team to
critically monitor existing programs and evaluate new technologies and/or
compounds discovered or developed at M. D. Anderson, or elsewhere, for
in-licensing;
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3)
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Hire
a small team of employees or consultants: business development, regulatory
management, and project management;
and
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4)
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Outsource
manufacturing and regulatory capabilities. Bio-Path will not need to
invest its resources in building functions where it does not add
substantial value or differentiation. Instead, it will leverage an
executive team with expertise in the selection and management of high
quality contract manufacturing and regulatory
firms.
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Manufacturing
We have
no manufacturing capabilities and have developed third party contract
manufacturers and suppliers to supply our drug product requirements.
In September of 2008, we executed a Supply Agreement with Althea Technologies,
Inc., a cGMP manufacturer of pharmaceutical products, for the supply of drug
product needed for Bio-Path’s clinical trial in Liposomal Grb-2
(BP-100-1.01). Althea has supplied clinical grade Liposomal Grb-2
under this agreement that is currently being used in a Phase I clinical
trial. The Company will continue to evaluate its manufacturing
strategy as its product portfolio is developed and demand for future Bio-Path
drug products increases.
Intellectual
Property
Patents,
trademarks, trade secrets, technology, know-how, and other proprietary rights
are important to our business. Our success will depend in part on our
ability to develop and maintain proprietary aspects of our technology. To this
end, we intend to have an intellectual property program directed at developing
proprietary rights in technology that we believe will be important to our
success.
We will
actively seek patent protection in the U.S. and, as appropriate, abroad and
closely monitor patent activities related to our business.
In
addition to patents, we will rely on trade secrets and proprietary know-how,
which we seek to protect, in part, through confidentiality and proprietary
information agreements.
Agreement
with Acorn CRO
On April
23, 2009, we announced that had we entered into an agreement with ACORN CRO, a
full service, oncology-focused clinical research organization (CRO), to provide
us with a contract medical officer and potentially other clinical trial support
services. Under such agreement, Bradley G. Somer, M.D.,
started serving as our Medical Officer and medical liaison for the
conduct of our 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).
Competition
We are
engaged in fields characterized by extensive research efforts, rapid
technological progress, and intense competition. There are many public and
private companies, including pharmaceutical companies, chemical companies, and
biotechnology companies, engaged in developing products for the same human
therapeutic applications that we are targeting. Currently, substantially all of
our competitors have substantially greater financial, technical and human
resources than Bio-Path and are more experienced in the development of new drugs
than Bio-Path. In order for us to compete successfully, we may need to
demonstrate improved safety, efficacy, ease of manufacturing, and market
acceptance of our products over the products of our competitors.
We
will face competition based on the safety and efficacy of our drug candidates,
the timing and scope of regulatory approvals, the availability and cost of
supply, marketing and sales capabilities, reimbursement coverage, price, patent
position and other factors. Our competitors may develop or commercialize more
effective, safer or more affordable products than we are able to develop or
commercialize or obtain more effective patent protection. As a result, our
competitors may commercialize products more rapidly or effectively than we may
be able to, which would adversely affect our competitive position, the
likelihood that our drug candidates, if approved, will achieve initial market
acceptance and our ability to generate meaningful revenues from those drugs.
Even if our drug candidates are approved and achieve initial market acceptance,
competitive products may render such drugs obsolete or
noncompetitive.
If any
such drug is rendered obsolete, we may not be able to recover the expenses of
developing and commercializing that drug. With respect to all of our drugs and
drug candidates, Bio-Path is aware of existing treatments and numerous drug
candidates in development by our competitors.
Government
Regulation
Regulation
by governmental authorities in the United States and foreign countries is a
significant factor in the development, manufacturing, and expected marketing of
our future drug product candidates and in its ongoing research and development
activities. The nature and extent to which such regulations will apply to
Bio-Path will vary depending on the nature of any drug product candidates
developed. We anticipate that all of our drug product candidates will require
regulatory approval by governmental agencies prior to
commercialization.
In
particular, human therapeutic products are subject to rigorous pre-clinical and
clinical testing and other approval procedures of the FDA and similar regulatory
authorities in other countries. Various federal statutes and regulations also
govern or influence testing, manufacturing, safety, labeling, storage, and
record-keeping related to such products and their marketing. The process of
obtaining these approvals and the subsequent compliance with the appropriate
federal statutes and regulations requires substantial time and financial
resources. Any failure by us or our collaborators to obtain, or any delay in
obtaining, regulatory approval could adversely affect the marketing of any drug
product candidates developed by us, our ability to receive product revenues, and
our liquidity and capital resources.
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The steps
ordinarily required before a new drug may be marketed in the United States,
which are similar to steps required in most other countries,
include:
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pre-clinical
laboratory tests, pre-clinical studies in animals, formulation studies and
the submission to the FDA of an investigational new drug
application;
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adequate
and well-controlled clinical trials to establish the safety and efficacy
of the drug;
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the
submission of a new drug application or biologic license application to
the FDA; and
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FDA
review and approval of the new drug application or biologics license
application.
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Bio-path’s
business model relies on entering into out-license agreements with
pharmaceutical licensee partners who will be responsible for post-Phase IIA
clinical testing and working with the FDA on necessary regulatory submissions
resulting in approval of new drug applications for
commercialization. For more detailed discussions on the clinical
trial processes involvement with the FDA, please refer to Annual Report on
Form 10-K as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31,
2009.
Results of
Operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2010 and
2009.
Revenues. We
have no operating revenues since our inception. We had interest
income of $21 for the three months ended June 30, 2010 compared to $480 for the
three months ended June 30, 2009, We had interest income of $623 for the six
months ended June 30, 2010 compared to $3,712 for the six months ended June 30,
2009. The decrease in interest income results from decreases in bank
cash balances in the comparable periods. Our interest income was
derived from cash and cash equivalents net of bank fees.
Research and Development
Expenses. Our
research and development costs were $46,315 for the three months ended June 30,
2010; a decrease of $66,621 over the three months ended June 30,
2009. Our research and development costs were $183,397 for the six
months ended June 30, 2010; a decrease of $142,148 over the six months ended
June 30, 2009. This decrease results from the majority of the
manufacturing and drug research expenses for BP-100-1.01 being paid in
2009.
General
and Administrative Expenses. Our general and
administrative expenses were $189,498 for the three months ended June 30, 2010;
a decrease of $35,208 over the three months ended June 30, 2009. Our general and
administrative expenses were $352,316 for the six months ended June 30, 2010; a
decrease of $65,715 over the six months ended June 30, 2009. The
decrease in general and administrative expenses in the respective periods
results from the decreased operating expenses relating to drug development
activity compared to 2009.
Net
Loss. Our net loss
was $426,814 for the three months ended June 30, 2010, compared to a loss of
$533,049 for the three months ended June 30, 2009. Net loss per
share, both basic and diluted was the same for the respective three month
periods. Our net loss was $917,755 for the six months ended June 30,
2010, compared to a loss of $1,129,743 for the six months ended June 30, 2009.
The primary reason for the
difference in the decrease in net loss in the comparable six month periods
results from decreases in research and development expenses related to preparing
the lead drug candidate, BP-100-1.01 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 the Lincoln Capital financing arrangement described below,
and from cash on hand. However, we will require additional capital to
complete our currently anticipated drug development efforts, and will likely
pursue other public or private equity offerings and debt financings.
Additionally, we are seeking collaborations and license arrangements for our
three product candidates. In May of 2010, the Company completed a
private placement through the sale of common stock and warrants to purchase
shares of common stock with a Placement Agent. The total net
proceeds received through this private placement was $245,700. In
addition, in June, 2010 the Company received net proceeds of $200,000 from the
sale of common stock and warrants to purchase shares of common stock from
another private placement.
On June
2, 2010, we executed a purchase agreement, or the LPC Purchase Agreement, and a
registration rights agreement, or the LPC Registration Rights Agreement, with
Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC, or LPC, pursuant to which LPC purchased 571,429
shares of our common stock together with warrants to purchase an equivalent
number of shares at an exercise price of $1.50 per share. The warrants
have a term of two years. Under the LPC Purchase Agreement, we also have the
right to sell to LPC up to an additional $6,800,000 of our common stock at our
option as described below.
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Pursuant
to the LPC Purchase Agreement and the LPC Registration Rights Agreement, we
filed a registration statement that included a preliminary prospectus with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, that covered 566,801 shares
that have been issued and up to 6,433,199 of the shares that may be issued to
LPC under the LPC Purchase Agreement. Except for the initial 571,429
shares of common stock purchased by LPC, we did not have the right to commence
any sales of our shares to LPC until the SEC had declared effective the
registration statement of which that prospectus was a part. The SEC
declared effective the registration statement on July 12, 2010. On
July 16, 2010, LPC purchased 375,000 shares at a purchase price of $.40 per
share for total consideration of $150,000. Over approximately the next 24
months, we generally have the right to direct LPC to purchase up to an
additional $6,650,000 of our common stock in amounts up to $50,000 as often as
every three business days under certain conditions. We can also accelerate the
amount of our common stock to be purchased under certain circumstances. No
sales of shares may occur at a purchase price below $0.20 per share. The
purchase price of the shares will be based on the market prices of our shares at
the time of sale as computed under the LPC Purchase Agreement without any fixed
discount. We may at any time in our sole discretion terminate the LPC
Purchase Agreement without fee, penalty or cost upon one business days
notice. We issued 566,801 shares of our common stock to LPC as a
commitment fee for entering into the LPC Purchase Agreement, and we may issue up
to 283,401 additional commitment fee shares pro rata as LPC purchases up to an
additional $6,800,000 of our common stock as directed by us.
7,000,000
shares can be offered by LPC under the registration statement consisting
of 5,774,798 shares of our common stock that we may sell to LPC in the
future, 375,000 we issued on July 16, 2010, 573,052 shares we have issued as a
commitment fee, and 277,150 shares that we are obligated to issue to LPC as a
commitment fee pro rata as up to an additional $6,650,000 of our stock is
purchased by LPC.
At June
30, 2010, we had cash of $602,424 compared to $567,249 at December 31,
2009. We currently have no lines of credit or other arranged access
to debt financing.
Net cash
used in operations during the six months ended June 30, 2010 was $415,414
compared to $1,108,913 for the six months ended June 30, 2009. The significant
decrease in net cash used results from the majority of the manufacturing and
drug research expenses for BP-100-1.01 being paid in 2009. 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 raised a total of $445,700 net cash from
financing activities for the three months ended June 30, 2010. Since
inception we have net cash from financing activities of $4,319,181. We believe
that our available cash and future cash proceeds to be received from the sale of
shares of our common stock under the LPC Purchase Agreement will be sufficient
to fund our liquidity and capital expenditure requirements through the second
quarter 2011. We need to raise additional capital to completely
implement our business model. There can be no assurance that we will
be able to raise cash when it is needed to fund our operations.
Contractual Obligations and
Commitments
Bio-Path
has entered into the License Agreements with M. D. Anderson relating to its
technology. A summary of certain material terms of each of the License
Agreements is detailed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K as of and for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.
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 of approximately $300,000 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 ongoing 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).
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. Our significant accounting policies are discussed in Note
2 to our consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009.
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ITEM
3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURE ABOUT MARKET RISK
Information
not required for smaller reporting companies.
ITEM
4T. 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.
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PART
II – OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM
1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
None.
ITEM
1A. RISK FACTORS
Information
not required for smaller reporting companies.
ITEM
2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF
PROCEEDS
In May,
2010, the Company sold to individual accredited investors through a registered
broker/dealer 780,000 units of the Company’s securities for an aggregate
purchase price of $273,000. Each unit is comprised of two shares of
common stock ($0.35 per share) and two warrants to purchase one share of common
stock at an exercise price of $1.50. The warrants have a term of two
years. After sales commissions, the Company received net proceeds of
$245,700.
In June,
2010, the Company sold to LPC 571,429 shares also at $0.35 per share and 571,429
warrants in a private placement. The Company received net proceeds of
$200,000. There was no commission paid. The warrants have
the same terms as described above.
The
capital raised from such sales will be used for general working capital
purposes. The Company sold these unregistered securities in
accordance with Rule 506 of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
ITEM
3. DEFAULTS BY THE COMPANY ON ITS SENIOR SECURITIES
None.
ITEM
4. (Removed and Reserved)
ITEM
5. OTHER INFORMATION
None.
ITEM
6. EXHIBITS
Exhibit No.
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Description
of Exhibit
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3.1
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Restated
Articles of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to exhibit 3.2 to the
registrant’s current report on Form 8-A filed on September 10,
2008)
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3.2
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Bylaws
(incorporated by reference to exhibit 3.2 to the registrant’s current
report on Form 8-A filed on September 10, 2008)
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3.3
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Articles
of Merger relating to the merger of Biopath Acquisition Corp. with and
into Bio-Path, Inc. (incorporated by reference to exhibit 3.2 to the
registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed on February 19,
2008)
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3.4
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Amendment
No. 1 to Bylaws (incorporated by reference to exhibit 3.2 to the
registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed on June 21,
2010)
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4.1
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Specimen
Stock certificate (incorporated by reference to exhibit 3.2 to the
registrant’s current report on Form 8-A filed on September 10,
2008)
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4.2
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Form
of Warrant issued to Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (incorporated by
reference to exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K
filed on June 4, 2010)
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10.1
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Purchase
Agreement, dated as of June 2, 2010, by and between the Company and
Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1
to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed on June 4,
2010)
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10.2
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Registration
Rights Agreement, dated as of June 2, 2010, by and between the Company and
Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.2
to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed on June 4,
2010)
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31*
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Certification
of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section
302 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002
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32*
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Certification
of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section
906 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of
2002
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* Filed herewith.
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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.
BIO-PATH
HOLDINGS, INC.
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Dated:
August 16, 2010
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By
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/s/ Peter H. Nielsen, | |
Chief
Executive Officer,
President/Principal
Executive Officer,
Chief
Financial Officer,
Principal
Financial Officer
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