Form: 8-K

Current report filing

June 3, 2019

 


  

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549


FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT


Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934


Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): June 3, 2019


Heat Biologics, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)


Delaware

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

 

001-35994

26-2844103

(Commission File Number)

(IRS Employer Identification No.)


801 Capitola Drive

Durham, NC  27713

(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)


(919) 240-7133

(Registrant’s telephone number including area code)

 

N/A

(Former Name and Former Address)


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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).


Emerging growth company  ¨

 


If an emerging growth company, indicate by checkmark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ¨


Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:


Title of each class

Trading Symbol(s)

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock, $0.0002 par value per share

HTBX

The Nasdaq Capital Market


 

 

 




 


 

Item 8.01   Other Events.


On June 3, 2019, Heat Biologics, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that on June 2, 2019 members of the management team of the Company and certain clinical investigators in its ongoing Phase 2 study investigating HS-110 in combination with Bristol-Myers Squibb’s anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor, nivolumab (Opdivo®) presented the Poster entitled Viagenpumatucel-L (HS-110) plus Nivolumab In Patients With Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer After Checkpoint Inhibitor Treatment Failure at the American Society of Clinical Oncologys 2019 Annual Meeting held in Chicago, Illinois.


In response to questions raised from investors following the Companys announcement today, the Company discloses that it has no current plans to raise funds through sales under its At The Market Issuance Sales (ATM) Facility or conduct a financing. The Company had approximately $23.5 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of March 31, 2019 and expects to receive an additional $6.9 million in CPRIT grant funding.








 


SIGNATURES


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


Dated:  June 3, 2019

HEAT BIOLOGICS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Jeffrey Wolf

 

Name:

Jeffrey Wolf

 

Title:

Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer