−Removed: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
−Removed: Hoth Therapeutics,
−Removed: Consolidated Financial
−Removed: Consolidated Financial
−Removed: of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
−Removed: Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: Statements of Changes in Stockholders’
+Added: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Report of Independent Registered
+Added: Public Accounting Firm
+Added: Consolidated Balance Sheets
+Added: as of December 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: Consolidated Statements
+Added: of Operations and Comprehensive Loss for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: Consolidated Statements
+Added: of Changes in Stockholders’
Equity for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Report of Independent
−Removed: Registered Public Accounting Firm
+Added: Consolidated Statements
+Added: of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial
+Added: Report of Independent Registered Public
+Added: Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of
Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: Opinion on the Consolidated
−Removed: Financial Statements
+Added: Opinion on the Consolidated Financial
We have audited the accompanying consolidated
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States of America.
−Removed: Going Concern
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial
−Removed: statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.
−Removed: As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations and does not expect to generate revenue and as
−Removed: such, there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: Management’s plans in regard to these matters
−Removed: are also described in Note 1.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the
−Removed: outcome of this uncertainty.
Basis for Opinion
−Removed: These consolidated financial statements
+Added: Thee consolidated financial statements
are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
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/s/ WithumSmith+Brown, PC
−Removed: We have served as the Company’s
−Removed: auditor since 2018.
+Added: We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2018.
New York, New York
March 16, 2021
−Removed: Hoth Therapeutics,
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Current assets
−Removed: Marketable securities
+Added: Marketable equity securities, at fair value
Prepaid expenses
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Total current assets
+Added: Note receivable
Property and equipment, net
+Added: Investment in joint venture
Restricted cash
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Accrued expenses
+Added: Accrued license fee - current portion
Total current liabilities
+Added: Accrued license fee
Total liabilities
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Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, $0.0001 par
−Removed: value, 1,897,250 and 5,000,000 shares authorized, 0 and 3,102,480 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2019 and
−Removed: 2018, respectively
+Added: value, 1,897,250 and 5,000,000 shares authorized, 0 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively
Common stock, $0.0001 par value, 75,000,000 shares
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(19,413,458 )
+Added: (12,215,642 )
+Added: Accumulated other comprehensive loss
Total stockholders’
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part of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Hoth Therapeutics,
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
−Removed: Ended December 31,
+Added: and Comprehensive Loss
+Added: For the years ended
Operating costs and expenses
Research and development
−Removed: Research and development - licenses acquired
+Added: Research and development - licenses acquired (including stock-based compensation)
Compensation and related expenses (including stock-based compensation)
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Loss from operations
−Removed: Other income (expenses)
Other income, net
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$ (7,704,636 )
+Added: Other comprehensive loss
+Added: Foreign currency translation adjustment
+Added: Total comprehensive loss
+Added: $ (7,213,167 )
+Added: $ (7,704,636 )
+Added: Net loss per share applicable to common stockholders - basic and diluted
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding, basic and diluted
−Removed: Net loss per share, basic and diluted
The accompanying notes are an integral
part of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Hoth Therapeutics,
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Changes in
Stockholders’
−Removed: Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: Additional Paid-in
+Added: Cumulative Translation
Total Stockholders’
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$ (4,511,006 )
−Removed: Issuance of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: and warrants for cash in an offering (net of offering costs of $190,180)
−Removed: Warrant value related to Issuance of Series A Convertible
−Removed: Preferred Stock
−Removed: Stock-based compensation
−Removed: Stock issued for research and development
−Removed: Stock issued for acquired license
−Removed: Repurchase of restricted stock to pay for employee
−Removed: withholding taxes
−Removed: Balance at December 31, 2018
−Removed: $ (4,511,006 )
Conversion of preferred stock to common stock upon
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$ (12,215,642 )
+Added: Issuance of common stock and warrants (net of offering
+Added: costs of $806,243)
+Added: Issuance of common stock (net of offering costs
+Added: Cancellation of common stock
+Added: Warrant exercise
+Added: Stock-based compensation
+Added: Cumulative translation adjustment
+Added: Balance at December 31, 2020
+Added: $ (19,413,458 )
The accompanying notes are an integral
part of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Hoth Therapeutics,
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
+Added: Years Ended Ended December
Cash flows from operating activities
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Research and development-acquired license, expensed
−Removed: Stock issued for research and development
Stock-based compensation
+Added: Realized loss on marketable securities
Unrealized gain on marketable securities
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Prepaid expenses
−Removed: Accrued salaries and benefits
Accounts payable
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Cash flows from investing activities
−Removed: Purchase of marketable securities
+Added: Purchase of investments in joint venture
Purchase of research and development licenses
+Added: Purchase of marketable securities
+Added: Purchase of convertible promissory note in Isoprene
+Added: Sale of marketable securities
Net cash used in investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities
−Removed: Proceeds from issuance of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants
−Removed: for cash in an offering, net
Proceeds from issuance of common stock in the IPO, net of offering cost
Proceeds from issuance common stock and warrants, net of offering cost
+Added: Proceeds from issuance common stock, net of offering cost
Proceeds from exercise of warrants
−Removed: Payment of employee withholdings for vested restricted
Net cash provided by financing activities
−Removed: Net increase (decrease) in cash
−Removed: Cash and restricted cash, beginning of year
−Removed: Cash and restricted cash, end of year
+Added: Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
+Added: Net increase in cash
+Added: Cash and restricted cash, beginning of period
+Added: Cash and restricted cash, end of period
Non-cash investing and financing activities
Conversion of preferred stock to common stock upon completion of the IPO
−Removed: Common stock issued for acquired license
+Added: Cancellation and retirement of common stock
Cashless warrant exercise
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part of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Hoth Therapeutics,
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Note 1—Organization and description of business
+Added: Note 1—Organization and description of business operations
Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hoth Therapeutics Australia Pty Ltd., the “Company”) was incorporated under the
−Removed: laws of the State of Nevada on May 16, 2017.
−Removed: The Company’s primary asset is a sublicense agreement with Chelexa Biosciences,
−Removed: (“Chelexa”) pursuant to which Chelexa has granted the Company an exclusive sublicense to use its BioLexa Platform
−Removed: (as defined herein), a proprietary, patented, drug compound platform developed at the University of Cincinnati.
−Removed: The license enables
−Removed: the Company to develop the platform for all indications in humans.
−Removed: The Company’s initial focus will be on the treatment
−Removed: The BioLexa Platform combines a U.S.
−Removed: Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) approved zinc chelator with one
−Removed: or more approved antibiotics in a topical dosage form to address unchecked eczema flare-ups by preventing the formation of infectious
−Removed: biofilms and the resulting clogging of sweat ducts which trigger symptoms.
−Removed: To the Company’s knowledge, it is the first product
−Removed: candidate intended to prevent the symptom triggering flare-ups rather than simply treating symptoms when they occur.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019,
−Removed: the Company also entered into agreements with the George Washington University, the University of Maryland Baltimore and Isoprene
−Removed: Pharmaceuticals, Inc., North Carolina State University and Zylö
−Removed: Therapeutics, Inc..
−Removed: These agreements are further described
−Removed: in Note 3 of these financial statements.
−Removed: Amendment to Articles of Incorporation
−Removed: In December 2018, the Company’s
−Removed: board of directors and stockholders approved a 1-for-4 reverse stock split of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares
−Removed: of common stock and a proportional adjustment to the existing conversion ratios for each series of the Company’s convertible
−Removed: preferred stock (see Note 6).
−Removed: Accordingly, all share and per share amounts for all periods presented in the accompanying consolidated
−Removed: financial statements and notes thereto have been adjusted retroactively, where applicable, to reflect this reverse stock split
−Removed: and adjustment of the convertible preferred stock conversion ratios.
−Removed: Initial Public Offering
−Removed: On February 15, 2019, the Company announced
−Removed: the pricing of its initial public offering (the “IPO”) of 1,250,000 shares of its common stock at an initial offering
−Removed: price to the public of $5.60 per share.
−Removed: In addition, the Company granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase
−Removed: up to an additional 187,500 shares of common stock at the initial public offering price, less the underwriting discount, to cover
−Removed: over-allotments (the “Green-shoe”), if any.
−Removed: The underwriters did not exercise any portion of the Green-shoe.
−Removed: the Company issued 1,250,000 shares of common stock and received net proceeds of $5.8 million from the IPO.
−Removed: The Company’s common stock commenced
−Removed: trading on The Nasdaq Capital Market, on February 15, 2019 under the ticker symbol “HOTH.”
−Removed: The IPO closed on
−Removed: February 20, 2019.
−Removed: On February 14, 2019, the Company entered
−Removed: into an underwriting agreement with Laidlaw & Co.
−Removed: (“Laidlaw”) pursuant to which the Company paid Laidlaw
−Removed: a fee in the amount of 7% of the gross proceeds of the IPO, or $490,000.
−Removed: These costs were reflected net of the $5.8 million of
−Removed: proceeds from the IPO.
−Removed: The Company also reimbursed Laidlaw for certain out-of-pocket expenses, including the fees and disbursements
−Removed: of their counsel, up to an aggregate of $0.2 million.
−Removed: In addition, Laidlaw received five-year warrants to purchase 50,000
−Removed: shares of common stock of the Company at an exercise price of $7.00 per share.
+Added: (together with
+Added: its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hoth Therapeutics Australia Pty Ltd., the “Company”) was incorporated under the laws
+Added: of the State of Nevada on May 16, 2017.
+Added: The Company is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company which was formed to initially
+Added: focus on developing new generation therapies for dermatological disorders including atopic dermatitis (also known as eczema),
+Added: chronic wounds, psoriasis, asthma and acne.
+Added: Since its formation, the Company expanded its business to also focus on developing
+Added: a topical formulation for treating side effects from drugs used for the treatment of cancer;
+Added: a treatment for asthma and allergies
+Added: using inhalational administration;
+Added: a topical treatment for patients with lupus;
+Added: a treatment for mast-cell derived cancers and
+Added: and a treatment for lung diseases resulting from bacterial infections.
+Added: The Company is focused on potentially developing
+Added: a COVID-19 treatment as well as a diagnostic device for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 via a mobile device.
Liquidity and capital resources
−Removed: Accounting Standards Update, or (“ASU”),
−Removed: 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern, requires management to evaluate the Company’s ability
−Removed: to continue as a going concern one year beyond the filing date of the given financial statements.
−Removed: This evaluation requires management
−Removed: to perform two steps.
−Removed: First, management must evaluate whether there are conditions and events that raise substantial doubt about
−Removed: the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: Second, if management concludes that substantial doubt is raised, management
−Removed: is required to consider whether it has plans in place to alleviate that doubt.
−Removed: Disclosures in the notes to the consolidated financial
−Removed: statements are required if management concludes that substantial doubt exists or that its plans alleviate the substantial doubt
−Removed: that was raised.
−Removed: The Company’s ultimate success is
−Removed: dependent on its ability to obtain additional financing and generate sufficient cash flow to meet its obligations on a timely
−Removed: The Company’s business will require significant amounts of capital to sustain operations and the Company
−Removed: will need to make the investments it needs to execute its longer-term business plan to support new technologies and help
−Removed: advance innovation.
−Removed: Absent generation of sufficient revenue from the execution of the Company’s long-term business
−Removed: plan, the Company will need to obtain debt or equity financing, especially if the Company experiences downturns in its business
−Removed: that are more severe or longer than anticipated, or if the Company experiences significant increases in expense levels resulting
−Removed: from being a publicly-traded company or operations.
−Removed: Such additional debt or equity financing may not be available to the Company
−Removed: on favorable terms, if at all.
−Removed: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: The Company plans to pursue its plans
−Removed: regarding research and development which will require resources beyond those currently available, including third party capital.
−Removed: During this time, the Company does not expect to generate revenue as such there is substantial doubt about the Company’s
−Removed: ability to continue as a going concern within one year from the date of this filing.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements have
−Removed: been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern and do not include any adjustments to reflect the
−Removed: possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets, or the amounts and classification of liabilities that
−Removed: may result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)
+Added: 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern , requires management to evaluate the Company’s
+Added: ability to continue as a going concern one year beyond the filing date of the given financial statements.
+Added: This evaluation requires
+Added: management to perform two steps.
+Added: First, management must evaluate whether there are conditions and events that raise substantial
+Added: doubt about the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Second, if management concludes that substantial doubt
+Added: is raised, management is required to consider whether it has plans in place to alleviate that doubt.
+Added: Disclosures in the notes
+Added: to the consolidated financial statements are required if management concludes that substantial doubt exists or that its plans
+Added: alleviate the substantial doubt that was raised.
+Added: The Company has funded its operations
+Added: from proceeds from the sale of equity and debt securities.
+Added: The Company will require significant additional capital to make the
+Added: investments it needs to execute its longer-term business plan.
+Added: The Company’s ability to successfully raise sufficient funds
+Added: through the sale of debt or equity securities when needed is subject to many risks and uncertainties and, even if it were successful,
+Added: future equity issuances would result in dilution to its existing stockholders and future debt securities may contain covenants
+Added: that limit the Company’s operations or ability to enter into certain transactions.
+Added: The Company’s current cash is sufficient
+Added: to fund operations for at least the next 12 months from the date that these financial statements are available to be issued.
+Added: the Company will need to raise additional funding through strategic relationships, public or private equity or debt financings,
+Added: grants or other arrangements to develop and seek regulatory approvals for the Company’s existing and new product candidates.
+Added: If such funding is not available, or not available on terms acceptable to the Company, the Company’s current development
+Added: plan and plans for expansion of its general and administrative infrastructure may be curtailed.
Note 2—Significant accounting
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incorporated under the laws of the State of Victoria in Australia on June 5, 2019.
−Removed: All intercompany balances and transactions
−Removed: have been eliminated.
+Added: All significant intercompany balances and transactions
+Added: have been eliminated in consolidation.
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The preparation of consolidated financial
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The most significant estimates in the Company’s consolidated
−Removed: financial statements relate to the valuation of preferred and common stock, stock-based compensation and the valuation allowance
−Removed: of deferred tax assets resulting from net operating losses.
−Removed: These estimates and assumptions are based on current facts, historical
−Removed: experience and various other factors believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for
−Removed: making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities and the recording of expenses that are not readily apparent
−Removed: from other sources.
−Removed: Actual results may differ materially and adversely from these estimates.
−Removed: To the extent there are material
−Removed: differences between the estimates and actual results, the Company’s future results of operations will be affected.
−Removed: The Company operates in one operating segment and, accordingly,
−Removed: no segment disclosures have been presented herein.
+Added: financial statements relate to stock-based compensation and the valuation allowance of deferred tax assets resulting from net
+Added: operating losses.
+Added: These estimates and assumptions are based on current facts, historical experience and various other factors
+Added: believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying
+Added: values of assets and liabilities and the recording of expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources.
+Added: Actual results
+Added: may differ materially and adversely from these estimates.
+Added: To the extent there are material differences between the estimates and
+Added: actual results, the Company’s future results of operations will be affected.
Cash and cash equivalents
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investments purchased with original maturities of 90 days or less at acquisition to be cash equivalents.
−Removed: There were no cash
−Removed: equivalents as of December 31, 2019 and 2018.
+Added: There were no cash equivalents
+Added: as of December 31, 2020 and 2019.
Restricted cash
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2016-18 , Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230):
−Removed: Restricted Cash (“ASU 2016-18”) , which
−Removed: clarifies the presentation of restricted cash in the statements of cash flows.
−Removed: Under ASU 2016-18, restricted cash is
−Removed: included with cash when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period total amounts shown on the statements of cash flows.
+Added: Restricted Cash (“ASU
+Added: 2016-18”) , which clarifies the presentation of restricted cash in the statements of cash flows.
+Added: Under ASU 2016-18,
+Added: restricted cash is included with cash when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period total amounts shown on the statements
+Added: of cash flows.
The Company adopted ASU 2016-18 during the year ended December 31, 2019 on a retrospective basis.
−Removed: The following is a
−Removed: summary of the Company’s cash and restricted cash total as presented in the consolidated statements of cash flows for the
−Removed: year ended December 31, 2019:
+Added: The following
+Added: is a summary of the Company’s cash and restricted cash total as presented in the consolidated statements of cash flows for
+Added: the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019:
Restricted cash
Total cash and restricted cash
−Removed: The $0.2 million restricted cash has been
−Removed: deposited into a third-party escrow account in order to provide a source of funding for certain indemnification obligations the
−Removed: Company has pursuant to its Qualified Independent Underwriter Engagement Agreement.
+Added: The $0.2 million restricted cash was deposited
+Added: into a third-party escrow account in order to provide a source of funding for certain indemnification obligations the Company
+Added: has pursuant to its Qualified Independent Underwriter Engagement Agreement.
+Added: On May 29, 2020, the $0.2 million restricted cash
+Added: in the escrow account was returned to the Company.
Marketable securities
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sheet risk of loss.
−Removed: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
offering costs
Deferred offering costs, which primarily
−Removed: consist of direct, incremental professional fees incurred in connection with the Company’s IPO as well as other private
−Removed: equity offerings are capitalized as current assets on the consolidated balance sheet.
−Removed: Upon the closing of the offerings, the deferred
−Removed: offering costs are offset against the offering proceeds.
−Removed: Approximately $30,000 and $200,000 of such offering costs were accrued
−Removed: but unpaid at December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
+Added: consist of direct, incremental professional fees incurred in connection with the Company’s initial public offering (“IPO”)
+Added: as well as other private equity offerings are capitalized as current assets on the consolidated balance sheet.
+Added: Upon the closing
+Added: of the offerings, the deferred offering costs are offset against the offering proceeds.
+Added: Approximately $0 and $30,000 of such offering
+Added: costs were accrued but unpaid at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Investment in joint venture
+Added: Ownership interests in entities for which
+Added: the Company has significant influence that are not consolidated are accounted for as equity method investments.
+Added: SEC Staff Announcement:
+Added: Accounting for Limited Partnership Investments (codified in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 323-30-S99-1)
+Added: guidance requires the use of the equity method unless the investor’s interest “is so minor that the limited partner
+Added: may have virtually no influence over partnership operating and financial policies.”
+Added: The SEC staff’s position is that
+Added: investments in limited partnerships of greater than 3% to 5% are considered more than minor and, therefore, should be accounted
+Added: for using the equity method or fair value option.
+Added: Investments accounted for using the equity method may be reported on a lag up
+Added: to three months if financial statements of the investee are not available in sufficient time for the investor to apply the equity
+Added: method as of the current reporting date.
+Added: The determination of whether an investee’s results are recorded on a lag is made
+Added: on an investment-by-investment basis.
+Added: This investment in joint venture is further described in Note of 7 these consolidated financial
and development costs
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value measurement
−Removed: FASB Accounting Standards Codification
−Removed: (“ASC”) 820, Fair Value Measurements , provides guidance on the development and disclosure of fair value
−Removed: measurements.
−Removed: Under this accounting guidance, fair value is defined as an exit price, representing the amount that would be received
−Removed: to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.
−Removed: As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would
−Removed: use in pricing an asset or a liability.
+Added: FASB ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements ,
+Added: provides guidance on the development and disclosure of fair value measurements.
+Added: Under this accounting guidance, fair value is
+Added: defined as an exit price, representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an
+Added: orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.
+Added: As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that
+Added: should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or a liability.
The accounting guidance classifies fair
value measurements in one of the following three categories for disclosure purposes:
−Removed: prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
−Removed: other than Level 1 prices for similar assets or liabilities that are directly or indirectly observable in the marketplace.
−Removed: inputs which are supported by little or no market activity and values determined using pricing models, discounted cash flow
−Removed: methodologies, or similar techniques, as well as instruments for which the determination of fair value requires significant
−Removed: judgment or estimation.
+Added: Quoted prices in active markets for
+Added: identical assets or liabilities.
+Added: Inputs other than Level 1 prices for similar assets
+Added: or liabilities that are directly or indirectly observable in the marketplace.
+Added: Unobservable inputs which are supported by little
+Added: or no market activity and values determined using pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies, or similar techniques,
+Added: as well as instruments for which the determination of fair value requires significant judgment or estimation.
In some circumstances, the inputs used
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the fair value measurement.
−Removed: The following table presents the Company’s assets and
−Removed: liabilities that are measured at fair value at December 31, 2019:
+Added: The following table presents the Company’s
+Added: assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value at December 31, 2020 and 2019:
Fair value measured at December
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Quoted prices in active markets
−Removed: Significant other observable inputs
+Added: other observable inputs
Significant unobservable inputs
Marketable securities - mutual funds
−Removed: Preferred Stock
−Removed: The Company applies the accounting standards
−Removed: for distinguishing liabilities from equity when determining the classification and measurement of its convertible preferred stock.
−Removed: Convertible preferred stock subject to mandatory redemption are classified as liability instruments and are measured at fair value.
−Removed: Conditionally redeemable convertible preferred stock (including preferred stock that feature redemption rights that are either
−Removed: within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s
−Removed: control) are classified as temporary equity.
−Removed: At all other times, convertible preferred stock are classified as stockholders’
−Removed: The Company accounts for convertible preferred
−Removed: stock with detachable warrants in accordance with ASC 470:
−Removed: Debt and allocated proceeds received to the convertible
−Removed: preferred stock and detachable warrants based on relative fair values.
−Removed: The Company evaluated the classification of its convertible
−Removed: preferred stock and warrants and determined that such instruments meet the criteria for equity classification.
−Removed: The Company recorded
−Removed: the related issuance costs and value ascribed to the warrants as a reduction of the convertible preferred stock as a component
−Removed: of additional paid in capital.
−Removed: The Company has also evaluated its convertible
−Removed: preferred stock and warrants in accordance with the provisions of ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging , including consideration
−Removed: of embedded derivatives requiring bifurcation.
−Removed: The issuance of the convertible preferred stock could generate a beneficial conversion
−Removed: feature, which arises when a debt or equity security is issued with an embedded conversion option that is beneficial to the investor
−Removed: or in the money at inception because the conversion option has an effective strike price that is less than the market price of
−Removed: the underlying stock at the commitment date.
+Added: Fair value measured at December
+Added: Total at December 31,
+Added: Quoted prices in active markets
+Added: other observable inputs
+Added: Significant unobservable inputs
+Added: Marketable securities - mutual funds
Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
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at the date of grant and expire up to ten years from the date of grant.
−Removed: These options generally vest over a one to five
−Removed: Company estimates the fair value of stock option grants using the Black-Scholes option pricing model and the assumptions used
−Removed: in calculating the fair value of stock-based awards represent management’s best estimates and involve inherent uncertainties
−Removed: and the application of management’s judgment.
−Removed: Term - The expected term of options represents the period that the Company’s stock-based awards are expected to
−Removed: be outstanding based on the simplified method, which is the half-life from vesting to the end of its contractual term.
−Removed: Volatility - The Company computes stock price volatility over expected terms based on its historical common stock trading
−Removed: Interest Rate - The Company bases the risk-free interest rate on the implied yield available on U.
−Removed: Treasury zero-coupon
−Removed: issues with an equivalent remaining term.
−Removed: Dividend - The Company has never declared or paid any cash dividends on its common shares and does not plan to pay cash
−Removed: dividends in the foreseeable future, and, therefore, uses an expected dividend yield of zero in its valuation models.
−Removed: January 1, 2017, the Company elected to account for forfeited awards as they occur, as permitted by Accounting Standards Update
−Removed: (“ASU”) 2016-09.
−Removed: Ultimately, the actual expenses recognized over the vesting period will be for those shares that
−Removed: Prior to making this election, the Company estimated a forfeiture rate for awards at 0%, as the Company did not have a
−Removed: significant history of forfeitures.
+Added: These options generally vest over a one to five year period.
+Added: The Company estimates the fair value of
+Added: stock option grants using the Black-Scholes option pricing model and the assumptions used in calculating the fair value of stock-based
+Added: awards represent management’s best estimates and involve inherent uncertainties and the application of management’s
+Added: Expected Term
+Added: - The expected term of options represents the period that the Company’s stock-based awards are expected to be outstanding
+Added: based on the simplified method, which is the half-life from vesting to the end of its contractual term.
+Added: Expected Volatility
+Added: - The Company computes stock price volatility over expected terms based on its historical common stock trading prices.
+Added: Risk-Free Interest
+Added: Rate - The Company bases the risk-free interest rate on the implied yield available on U.
+Added: Treasury zero-coupon issues with
+Added: an equivalent remaining term.
+Added: Expected Dividend
+Added: - The Company has never declared or paid any cash dividends on its common shares and does not plan to pay cash dividends in
+Added: the foreseeable future, and, therefore, uses an expected dividend yield of zero in its valuation models.
+Added: Effective January 1, 2017, the Company
+Added: elected to account for forfeited awards as they occur, as permitted by ASU 2016-09.
+Added: Ultimately, the actual expenses recognized
+Added: over the vesting period will be for those shares that vested.
+Added: Prior to making this election, the Company estimated a forfeiture
+Added: rate for awards at 0%, as the Company did not have a significant history of forfeitures.
Income taxes are recorded in accordance
−Removed: with ASC 740, Income Taxes (“ASC 740”), which provides for deferred taxes using an asset and liability
−Removed: The Company recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have
−Removed: been included in the consolidated financial statements or tax returns.
−Removed: Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based
−Removed: on the difference between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for
−Removed: the year in which the differences are expected to reverse.
−Removed: Valuation allowances are provided, if based upon the weight of available
−Removed: evidence, it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
+Added: with ASC 740, Income Taxes (“ASC 740”), which provides for deferred taxes using an asset and liability approach.
+Added: The Company recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been included
+Added: in the consolidated financial statements or tax returns.
+Added: Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the difference
+Added: between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which
+Added: the differences are expected to reverse.
+Added: Valuation allowances are provided, if based upon the weight of available evidence, it
+Added: is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
The Company accounts for uncertain tax
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Potentially dilutive securities
−Removed: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (Common Stock Equivalent)
−Removed: Non-vested restricted stock units
−Removed: accounting pronouncements
−Removed: In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU
−Removed: 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which supersedes FASB ASC Topic 840, Leases (Topic 840) and provides principles for the recognition,
−Removed: measurement, presentation and disclosure of leases for both lessees and lessors.
−Removed: The new standard requires lessees to apply a
−Removed: dual approach, classifying virtually all leases as either finance or operating leases based on the principle of whether or not
−Removed: the lease is effectively a financed purchase by the lessee.
−Removed: This classification will determine whether lease expense is recognized
−Removed: based on an effective interest method or on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease, respectively.
−Removed: A lessee is also required
−Removed: to record a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for all leases with a term of greater than twelve months regardless of classification.
−Removed: Leases with a term of twelve months or less will be accounted for similar to existing guidance for operating leases.
−Removed: is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted upon issuance.
−Removed: January 1, 2019, the Company adopted ASU No.
−Removed: 2016-02, and the adoption did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial
−Removed: statements and related disclosures due to the short-term nature of its operating leases.
+Added: Non-vested restricted stock awards
Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09,
+Added: Recent accounting pronouncements
+Added: In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU
+Added: 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which supersedes FASB ASC Topic 840, Leases (Topic 840) and provides principles
+Added: for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of leases for both lessees and lessors.
+Added: The new standard requires
+Added: lessees to apply a dual approach, classifying virtually all leases as either finance or operating leases based on the principle
+Added: of whether or not the lease is effectively a financed purchase by the lessee.
+Added: This classification will determine whether lease
+Added: expense is recognized based on an effective interest method or on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.
+Added: also required to record a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for all leases with a term of greater than twelve months regardless
+Added: of classification.
+Added: Leases with a term of twelve months or less will be accounted for similar to existing guidance for operating
+Added: The standard is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted
+Added: upon issuance.
+Added: On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted ASU No.
+Added: 2016-02, and the adoption did not have a material impact on its
+Added: consolidated financial statements and related disclosures due to the short-term nature of its operating leases.
+Added: In June 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-07,
Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718):
−Removed: Scope of Modification Accounting , (“ASU 2017-09”), which
−Removed: clarifies when to account for a change to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award as a modification.
−Removed: new guidance, modification accounting is required only if the fair value, the vesting conditions, or the classification of the
−Removed: award (as equity or liability) changes as a result of the change in terms or conditions.
−Removed: It is effective prospectively for the
−Removed: annual period ending December 31, 2018 and interim periods within that annual period.
−Removed: The Company adopted ASU 2017-09 on January
−Removed: 1, 2018, and the adoption did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
−Removed: In June 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-07, Compensation—Stock
−Removed: Compensation (Topic 718):
−Removed: Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting (“ASU 2018-07”).
−Removed: ASU 2018-07 simplifies
−Removed: several aspects of the accounting for nonemployee share-based payment transactions resulting from expanding the scope of Topic
−Removed: 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation, to include share-based payment transactions for acquiring goods and services from
−Removed: non-employees.
−Removed: ASU 2018-07 is effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018,
−Removed: including interim periods within that fiscal year.
−Removed: On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted ASU 2018-07, and the adoption did not
−Removed: have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13,
−Removed: “Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820), - Disclosure Framework - Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement ,”
−Removed: which makes a number of changes meant to add, modify or remove certain disclosure requirements associated with the movement amongst
−Removed: or hierarchy associated with Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 fair value measurements.
−Removed: This guidance is effective for fiscal years,
−Removed: and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019.
−Removed: Early adoption is permitted upon issuance of
−Removed: The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated financial
+Added: Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting (“ASU
+Added: 2018-07”).
+Added: ASU 2018-07 simplifies several aspects of the accounting for nonemployee share-based payment transactions resulting
+Added: from expanding the scope of Topic 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation, to include share-based payment transactions for
+Added: acquiring goods and services from non-employees.
+Added: ASU 2018-07 is effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning
+Added: after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within that fiscal year.
+Added: On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted ASU 2018-07,
+Added: and the adoption did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU
2 unchanged sentences
which is intended to simplify various aspects related to accounting for income taxes.
−Removed: ASU 2019-12 removes certain exceptions
−Removed: to the general principles in Topic 740 and also clarifies and amends existing guidance to improve consistent application.
−Removed: guidance is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2020, with
−Removed: early adoption permitted.
−Removed: The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this standard on its consolidated financial statements
−Removed: and related disclosures.
+Added: ASU 2019-12 removes certain exceptions to
+Added: the general principles in Topic 740 and also clarifies and amends existing guidance to improve consistent application.
+Added: This guidance
+Added: is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2020, with early adoption
+Added: The Company adopted ASU No.
+Added: 2019-12 effective January 1, 2021, and the adoption did not have a material impact on its
+Added: consolidated financial statements.
Note 3—License agreements
1 unchanged sentence
research and development expenses for licenses acquired during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019:
−Removed: the Years Ended
+Added: For the years ended December 31,
Chelexa Biosciences, Inc.
+Added: and the University of Cincinnati
The George Washington University
−Removed: University of Maryland and Isoprene Pharmaceuticals,
+Added: University of Maryland and Isoprene Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
North Carolina State University
University of Cincinnati
+Added: Army Medical Research and Development Command
+Added: Virginia Commonwealth University
Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: BioSciences, Inc.
+Added: Chelexa Biosciences, Inc.
+Added: and the University
+Added: of Cincinnati
On May 14, 2020, the Company entered into
−Removed: a sublicense agreement with Chelexa, as amended on August 22, 2018 and August 29, 2018, pursuant to which Chelexa granted the
−Removed: Company an exclusive sublicense to make, use, have made, import, offer for sale, and sell products based upon or involving the
−Removed: use of (i) topical compositions comprising a zinc chelator and gentamicin and (ii) zinc chelators to inhibit biofilm formation
−Removed: (the “BioLexa Platform”
−Removed: or “BioLexa”), which rights were originally granted to Chelexa pursuant to an
−Removed: exclusive license agreement with the University of Cincinnati.
−Removed: In addition, Chelexa granted the Company the right to issue exclusive
−Removed: and nonexclusive sublicenses (with the right to further sublicense to third parties) to make, use, have made, import, offer for
−Removed: sale, and sell products based upon the BioLexa Platform.
−Removed: The term of such agreement will expire on the later of April 16, 2034
−Removed: and the last to expire patent in the patent rights granted to the Company (the “Term”).
−Removed: The Company shall, in its
−Removed: sole discretion, have the first right of refusal to renew the Term.
−Removed: The Company is subject to total milestone payments of $3.5
−Removed: million royalty payments and has agreed to fund all development and commercialization costs related to the licensed products.
+Added: an Assignment and Assumption Agreement (the “Assignment Agreement”) with Chelexa Biosciences, Inc.
+Added: (“Chelexa”)
+Added: pursuant to which Chelexa assigned to the Company its rights and obligations in and liabilities under its license agreement with
+Added: the University of Cincinnati dated February 27, 2013, as amended (the “University of Cincinnati License Agreement”).
+Added: In consideration for the assignment, the Company agreed to forgive all amounts due to it by Chelexa and to pay to Chelexa certain
+Added: royalty payments.
Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: In connection with the Assignment Agreement,
+Added: on May 14, 2020, the Company entered into a novation agreement (the “Novation Agreement”) with Chelexa and the University
+Added: of Cincinnati pursuant to which the parties agreed that the Company would be substituted in place of Chelexa with respect to the
+Added: rights and obligations of Chelexa set forth in the University of Cincinnati License Agreement.
+Added: In connection with the Assignment Agreement,
+Added: on May 14, 2020, the Company entered into a royalty agreement (the “Royalty Agreement”) with Chelexa pursuant to which
+Added: the Company shall pay Chelexa sales-based royalties at percentages which range from mid to high single digits, with high sales
+Added: volumes being subject to lower royalty rates and total milestone payments of $3.5 million.
+Added: Pursuant to the University of Cincinnati
+Added: License Agreement, the Company was granted an exclusive license to make, use, have made, import, offer for sale, and sell products
+Added: based upon or involving the use of (i) topical compositions comprising a zinc chelator and gentamicin and (ii) zinc chelators
+Added: to inhibit biofilm formation (the “BioLexa Platform”
+Added: or “BioLexa”).
+Added: In addition, the University of Cincinnati
+Added: granted the Company the right to issue exclusive and nonexclusive sublicenses (with the right to further sublicense to third parties)
+Added: to make, use, have made, import, offer for sale, and sell products based upon the BioLexa Platform.
+Added: The term of such agreement
+Added: will expire on the later of April 16, 2034 and the last to expire patent in the patent rights granted to the Company (the “Term”).
+Added: The Company shall, in its sole discretion, have the first right of refusal to renew the Term.
+Added: The Company is subject to total
+Added: milestone payments of $6,000, royalty payments, annual license maintenance fees, and has agreed to pay the University of Cincinnati
+Added: for certain out-of-pocket expenses including, but not limited to, payments for patent prosecution.
During the year ended December 31, 2020
−Removed: the Company recorded an expense of approximately $0.1 million related to the issuance of 213,166 shares of its common stock pursuant
−Removed: to the sublicense agreement with Chelexa.
−Removed: There were no expenses incurred for the year ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: the Company paid $5,000 for the annual license maintenance fee and $5,000 for the yearly minimum annual royalty fee.
George Washington University
Effective as of June 1, 2019, the Company
−Removed: and The George Washington University (“GWU”) entered into a sponsored research agreement (the “Sponsored Research
−Removed: Agreement”), as amended on July 29, 2019, with respect to the exploration of the potential use of Aprepitant for topical
−Removed: and/or systemic therapy to counter the dermatological related side-effects of Erlotinib therapy in cancer patients.
−Removed: the terms of the Sponsored Research Agreement, GWU granted the Company a non-exclusive, license to certain of GWU’s intellectual
−Removed: The Company has agreed to pay GWU for all costs incurred in connection with the research;
−Removed: provided, however, such costs
−Removed: shall not exceed approximately $0.3 million.
−Removed: The Sponsored Research Agreement shall terminate on June 30, 2020 unless extended
−Removed: by the parties.
−Removed: The Sponsored Research Agreement may be terminated by either party upon 30 days written notice.
+Added: and The George Washington University (“GW”) entered into a sponsored research agreement (the “Sponsored Research
+Added: Agreement”), as amended on July 29, 2019 and May 29, 2020, with respect to the exploration of the potential use of HT-001
+Added: for topical and/or systemic therapy to counter the dermatological related side-effects of Erlotinib therapy in cancer patients.
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the Sponsored Research Agreement, GW granted the Company a non-exclusive license to certain of GW’s
+Added: intellectual property.
+Added: The Company has agreed to pay GW for all costs incurred in connection with the research;
+Added: provided, however,
+Added: such costs shall not exceed approximately $0.5 million.
+Added: The Sponsored Research Agreement shall terminate on June 30, 2021.
+Added: Sponsored Research Agreement may be terminated by either party upon 30 days written notice.
On June 28, 2019 (the “Effective
−Removed: Date”), the Company and GWU entered into a research option agreement (the “Research Option Agreement”) pursuant
−Removed: to which GWU granted the Company an option (the “Option”) until April 30, 2020 to acquire an exclusive license to certain
−Removed: products made or used by the Company (the “GWU Licensed Product”) that involve certain patents owned by GWU (the “Licensed
+Added: Date”), the Company and GW entered into a research option agreement (the “Research Option Agreement”) pursuant
+Added: to which GW granted the Company an option (the “Option”) until April 30, 2020 to acquire an exclusive license to certain
+Added: products made or used by the Company (the “GW Licensed Product”) that involve certain patents owned by GW (the “Licensed
Patents”).
−Removed: On February 1, 2020, the Company exercised the Option and entered into a patent license agreement with GWU.
−Removed: the Effective Date, the Company paid GWU $2,500, and on February 27, 2020, the Company paid GWU $10,000 as a license initiation
−Removed: Until the first commercial sale of the GWU Licensed Product, the Company shall pay (i) $75,000 per year for the development
−Removed: and commercialization of the GWU Licensed Product, (ii) $2,000 for license maintenance fees on the first anniversary of the Effective
−Removed: Date and (iii) $5,000 for license maintenance fees commencing on the second anniversary of the Effective Date and thereafter.
−Removed: the Company shall be required to pay GWU a sublicense fee equal to a certain percentage of the sum of payments plus the fair market
−Removed: value of all other consideration of any kind received by the Company from sublicensees during each quarter as follows:
−Removed: a 40% sublicense
−Removed: fee until the first anniversary of the Effective Date, a 30% sublicense fee until the third anniversary of the Effective Date and
−Removed: a 20% sublicense fee after the third anniversary of the Effective Date;
−Removed: provided, however, such sublicense fee shall exclude certain
−Removed: fees paid to the Company such as certain royalties, equity investments, loan proceeds and sponsored research funding.
−Removed: the execution of a definitive license agreement with GWU, the Company shall also pay GWU milestone payments of up to an aggregate
−Removed: of $90,000 and sales based royalties at a low single digit percentage, subject to certain minimum royalty requirements.
−Removed: during each Option Exercise Period and Renewal Period (as defined in the Research Option Agreement) the Company shall pay GWU,
−Removed: on a quarterly basis, for all costs and expenses related to the GWU Licensed Patents (the “Patent Costs”).
−Removed: In July 2019, after the signing of the
−Removed: Research Option Agreement, the Company recorded an expense of $2,500 for the option fee.
−Removed: of Maryland and Isoprene Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
+Added: On February 1, 2020, the Company exercised the Option and entered into a patent license agreement (the “Patent
+Added: License Agreement”) with GW.
+Added: On the Effective Date, the Company paid GW $2,500, and on February 27, 2020, the Company paid
+Added: GW $10,000 as a license initiation fee.
+Added: Until the first commercial sale of the GW Licensed Product, the Company shall pay (i)
+Added: $75,000 per year for the development and commercialization of the GW Licensed Product, (ii) $2,000 for license maintenance fees
+Added: on the first anniversary of the Effective Date and (iii) $5,000 for license maintenance fees commencing on the second anniversary
+Added: of the Effective Date and thereafter.
+Added: Furthermore, the Company shall be required to pay GW a sublicense fee equal to a certain
+Added: percentage of the sum of payments plus the fair market value of all other consideration of any kind received by the Company from
+Added: sublicensees during each quarter as follows:
+Added: a 40% sublicense fee until the first anniversary of the Effective Date, a 30% sublicense
+Added: fee until the third anniversary of the Effective Date and a 20% sublicense fee after the third anniversary of the Effective Date;
+Added: provided, however, such sublicense fee shall exclude certain fees paid to the Company such as certain royalties, equity investments,
+Added: loan proceeds and sponsored research funding.
+Added: The Company shall also pay GW milestone payments of up to an aggregate of $90,000
+Added: and sales-based royalties at a low single digit percentage, subject to certain minimum royalty requirements.
+Added: In addition, during
+Added: each Option Exercise Period and Renewal Period (as defined in the Research Option Agreement) the Company shall pay GW, on a quarterly
+Added: basis, for all costs and expenses related to the Licensed Patents.
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: On August 7, 2020 (the “GW Effective
+Added: Date”), the Company entered into a Patent License Agreement (the “GW Patent License Agreement”) with the GW.
+Added: Pursuant to the GW Patent License Agreement, GW granted the Company an exclusive, worldwide, royalty bearing license to certain
+Added: intellectual property that can be used to develop a device designed to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2.
+Added: Specifically, the GW
+Added: Patent License Agreement permits the Company to make, have made, use, import, offer for sale and sell Licensed Products (as defined
+Added: in the GW Patent License Agreement) in the field of virus sensing and detection.
+Added: The GW Patent License Agreement shall commence
+Added: on the GW Effective Date and shall continue until the later of:
+Added: (a) the expiration or abandonment of the last patent to expire
+Added: or become abandoned of the Patent Rights (as defined in the GW Patent License Agreement);
+Added: or (b) ten years after the first Sale
+Added: (as defined in the GW Patent License Agreement) of the first Licensed Product if no patent has issued from the Patent Rights,
+Added: unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of the agreement.
+Added: Pursuant to the GW Patent License Agreement, the Company shall
+Added: (i) an upfront license initiation fee, (ii) annual maintenance fees commencing on the first anniversary of the GW Effective
+Added: Date, (iii) milestone payments ranging from the low to mid five figures, (iv) running royalty payments at a middle single digit
+Added: percentage of Net Sales (as defined in the GW License Agreement), (iv) quarterly minimum payments ranging from the low four figures
+Added: for the first four quarters after the first sale to low five figures commencing three years after the first sale and (v) an annual
+Added: diligence fee of high five figures.
+Added: In addition, the Company has agreed to reimburse GW for certain past and future patent filing
+Added: and prosecution costs.
+Added: On September 17, 2020, the Company entered
+Added: into a Sponsored Research Agreement (the “Agreement”) with GW effective as of September 1, 2020 (the “Agreement
+Added: Effective Date”).
+Added: The Agreement relates to the development of a diagnostic device for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 via a
+Added: mobile device as an aid in the diagnosis of the COVID-19 infection.
+Added: The Agreement commences on the Agreement Effective Date and
+Added: terminates on July 31, 2021 unless such term is extended or terminated by the parties.
+Added: Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company
+Added: shall pay GW up to a mid-six figure fee for all research costs.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020
+Added: the Company paid $10,000 for license initiation fee, $10,000 for option exercise fee and approximately $15,000 patent related
+Added: The Company also recorded an expense of approximately $134,000 related with warrants granted to GW pursuant to Patent
+Added: License Agreement.
+Added: University of Maryland and Isoprene
+Added: Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
On March 8, 2019, the Company entered
−Removed: into a commercial evaluation sublicense and option agreement with the University of Maryland, Baltimore (“UMD”) and
−Removed: Isoprene Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
+Added: into a commercial evaluation sublicense and option agreement (the “Commercial Evaluation Sublicense and Option Agreement”)
+Added: with the University of Maryland, Baltimore (“UMB”) and Isoprene Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(“Isoprene”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the agreement, the Company paid an initial option and material
−Removed: access fee of $5,000 to UMD and $5,000 to Isoprene.
−Removed: In the event that Isoprene enters into a master license agreement with UMD
−Removed: (the “MLA”), UMD shall permit Isoprene to grant an exclusive option to the Company to negotiate and obtain an exclusive
−Removed: sublicensable, worldwide royalty-bearing license to the subject technology (the “Isoprene-Hoth Option”);
−Removed: however, in the event Isoprene does not enter into the MLA, UMD may grant the Company an option to negotiate and obtain an exclusive
−Removed: sublicensable, worldwide royalty-bearing license to the subject technology (the “UMD-Hoth Option”).
−Removed: If the Company
−Removed: exercises the Isoprene-Hoth Option, it shall pay Isoprene an option exercise fee of $20,000.
−Removed: If the Company exercises the UMD-Hoth
−Removed: Option, it shall pay UMD an option exercise fee of $20,000.
−Removed: In March 2019, the Company recorded an
−Removed: expense of an aggregate of $10,000 for the initial option and materials access fee.
+Added: to the agreement, the Company paid an initial option and material access fee of $5,000 to UMB and $5,000 to Isoprene.
+Added: that Isoprene enters into a master license agreement with UMB (the “MLA”), UMB shall permit Isoprene to grant an exclusive
+Added: option to the Company to negotiate and obtain an exclusive sublicensable, worldwide royalty-bearing license to the subject technology
+Added: (the “Isoprene-Hoth Option”);
+Added: provided, however, in the event Isoprene does not enter into the MLA, UMB may grant
+Added: the Company an option to negotiate and obtain an exclusive sublicensable, worldwide royalty-bearing license to the subject technology
+Added: (the “UMB-Hoth Option”).
+Added: If the Company exercises the Isoprene-Hoth Option, it shall pay Isoprene an option exercise
+Added: fee of $20,000.
+Added: If the Company exercises the UMB-Hoth Option, it shall pay UMB an option exercise fee of $20,000.
+Added: On July 30, 2020 (the “Isoprene
+Added: Effective Date”), the Company entered into a Sublicense Agreement (the “Isoprene Sublicense Agreement”) with
+Added: Isoprene pursuant to the Commercial Evaluation Sublicense and Option Agreement.
+Added: Pursuant to the Isoprene Sublicense Agreement,
+Added: Isoprene granted the Company an exclusive sublicense to certain intellectual property (i) to make, have made, use, sell, offer
+Added: to sell and import certain licensed products, (ii) in connection therewith, to use certain inventions and licensed materials and
+Added: (iii) to practice the Patent Rights (as defined in the Isoprene Sublicense Agreement) for the treatment of dermatological conditions
+Added: The Isoprene Sublicense Agreement will continue on a country-by-country basis until the expiration of the last to
+Added: expire of the Patent Rights in such country, unless earlier terminated pursuant to the Isoprene Sublicense Agreement (the “Isoprene
+Added: Term”).
+Added: Pursuant to the Isoprene Sublicense Agreement, the Company shall pay Isoprene, among other things, (i) a license
+Added: fee, (ii) a royalty rate at a middle single digit percentage, (iii) milestone payments of up to $1,375,000 and (iv) revenue interest
+Added: at a low single digit percentage based on the net revenue of covered products sold by Isoprene during the Isoprene Term.
Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: In March 2019, the Company recorded an
+Added: expense of an aggregate of $10,000 for the initial option and materials access fee.
+Added: During the year ended 2020, the Company paid
+Added: a total of $30,000 for the license fee.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, the Company accrued a $5,000 for an upfront license payment.
+Added: On December 2, 2020, Hoth Therapeutics,
+Added: (the “Company”) entered into an option agreement (the “Option Agreement”) with Isoprene Pharmaceutics,
+Added: (“Isoprene”), pursuant to which the Company will have an exclusive option, until June 2, 2021, to negotiate an
+Added: exclusive, royalty-bearing and limited term license with respect to certain previously sublicensed intellectual property for the
+Added: diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
+Added: This Option Agreement
+Added: is based upon, and potentially expands, the fields of use in which the Company can license certain Isoprene intellectual property
+Added: that is the subject of the Company’s existing Sublicense Agreement, dated July 30, 2020, with Isoprene, and the Master License
+Added: Agreement, dated July 8, 2020, by and between Isoprene and the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020
+Added: the Company paid $10,000 for license fee and $20,000 for the option exercise fee.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, the Company accrued
+Added: a $5,000 for an upfront license payment.
Carolina State University
−Removed: On November 20, 2019 (the “NCSU
−Removed: Effective Date”), the Company entered into a license agreement with North Carolina State University (“NCSU”)
−Removed: pursuant to which NCSU granted the Company an exclusive license to, among other things, develop, make, use, offer and sell certain
−Removed: licensed products throughout the world with respect to NCSU’s exon skipping approach for treating allergic diseases.
−Removed: term of the license agreement shall commence on the NCSU Effective Date and shall continue until the date of the expiration of
−Removed: the last to expire patent right granted pursuant to the license agreement unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of the
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of the license agreement, the Company paid NCSU a one-time license fee $25,000 and is also required
−Removed: to pay (i) sales based royalties at a low single digit percentage, (ii) minimum royalties ranging from $0 to $50,000 and (iii)
−Removed: milestone payments of up to $585,000.
−Removed: In December 2019, the Company recorded
−Removed: an expense of $25,000 for the license fee.
−Removed: of Cincinnati
+Added: On November 20, 2019 (the “NC State
+Added: Effective Date”), the Company entered into a license agreement with North Carolina State University (“NC State”)
+Added: pursuant to which NC State granted the Company an exclusive license to, among other things, develop, make, use, offer and sell
+Added: certain licensed products throughout the world with respect to HT-004 for treating allergic diseases.
+Added: The term of the license
+Added: agreement shall commence on the NC State Effective Date and shall continue until the date of the expiration of the last to expire
+Added: patent right granted pursuant to the license agreement unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of the agreement.
+Added: to the terms of the license agreement, the Company paid NC State a one-time license fee $25,000 and is also required to pay (i)
+Added: sales-based royalties at a low single digit percentage, (ii) minimum royalties ranging from $0 to $50,000 and (iii) milestone
+Added: payments of up to $585,000.
+Added: University of Cincinnati
On May 18, 2018, the Company entered into
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Pursuant to the terms of the exclusive
−Removed: license agreement, the Company agreed to pay the University of Cincinnati a one-time initial fee of $5,000 within 30 days of the
−Removed: date of the exclusive license agreement in addition to an annual license fee of $5,000 initially due and payable within 30 days
−Removed: of the one year anniversary of the exclusive license agreement and every year thereafter.
−Removed: In addition, the Company agreed to pay
−Removed: the University of Cincinnati a yearly annual license maintenance fee of $2,500 and a yearly minimum annual royalty of $5,000 and
−Removed: milestone payments of up to $120,000.
−Removed: The exclusive license agreement will continue until the later of (i) the date upon which
−Removed: a valid claim pursuant to the terms of the exclusive license agreement expires or (ii) 10 years after the first commercial sale
−Removed: or unless earlier terminated pursuant to the terms of the exclusive license agreement.
−Removed: In August 2018 and July 2019, respectively,
−Removed: the Company recorded an expense of $2,500 for annual license maintenance fee and $5,000 for yearly minimum annual royalty fee,
−Removed: respectively.
+Added: license agreement, the Company paid the University of Cincinnati a minimum annual royalty fee of $5,000 and has agreed to pay
+Added: the University of Cincinnati an annual license fee of $5,000 initially due and payable within 30 days of the one year anniversary
+Added: of the exclusive license agreement and every year thereafter and milestone payments of up to $120,000.
+Added: The exclusive license agreement
+Added: will continue until the later of (i) the date upon which a valid claim pursuant to the terms of the exclusive license agreement
+Added: expires or (ii) ten years after the first commercial sale or unless earlier terminated pursuant to the terms of the exclusive
+Added: license agreement.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020,
+Added: the Company paid a total of $2,500 for the annual license maintenance fee, $5,000 for the yearly minimum annual royalty fee and
+Added: approximately $2,000 for patent expense reimbursement.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, the Company accrued a $17,500 for an upfront license
+Added: Army Medical Research and Development
+Added: On December 11, 2020, the Company entered
+Added: into a commercial evaluation license agreement with U.S.
+Added: Army Medical Research and Development Command (“USAMRDC”).
+Added: This agreement was amended on January 12, 2021 to clarify that the license entered into is with Walter Reed Army Institute of
+Added: Research, a subsidiary of USAMRDC.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, the Company accrued
+Added: a $2,000 for an upfront license payment.
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Commonwealth University
+Added: On May 18, 2020 (the “VCU Effective
+Added: Date”), the Company entered into an Exclusive License Agreement (the “VCU License Agreement”) with the Virginia
+Added: Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation (“VCU”).
+Added: Pursuant to the VCU License Agreement, VCU granted
+Added: the Company an exclusive, royalty bearing license to a novel peptide developed by researchers at VCU that may be used to slow
+Added: the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (the “VCU Licensed Patent”) and a non-exclusive royalty bearing, worldwide license
+Added: with respect to the Licensed Technical Information Patents (as defined in the VCU License Agreement) to make, have made, use,
+Added: offer to sell, sell and import the Licensed Products (as defined in the VCU License Agreement) and perform the Licensed Services
+Added: (as defined in the VCU License Agreement).
+Added: The VCU License Agreement commenced on the VCU Effective Date and shall continue until
+Added: the expiration of the last to expire VCU Licensed Patent unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of the agreement.
+Added: to the VCU License Agreement, the Company shall pay VCU:
+Added: (i) an upfront license issue fee, (ii) running royalty payments at a
+Added: low single digit percentage of Net Sales (as defined in the VCU License Agreement), (iii) annual maintenance fees commencing on
+Added: the first anniversary of the VCU Effective Date, (iv) annual minimum payments ranging from the mid five figures to low six figures
+Added: commencing on the second anniversary of the VCU Effective Date and (v) milestone payments ranging from the mid five figures to
+Added: low six figures.
+Added: In addition, the Company has agreed to reimburse VCU for certain patent filing and prosecution costs.
+Added: On June 29, 2020, the Company entered
+Added: into a Sponsored Project Agreement (the “VCU Sponsored Project Agreement”) with VCU for the development of a potential
+Added: COVID-19 treatment using the license to a novel peptide granted to the Company by VCU.
+Added: The VCU Sponsored Project Agreement shall
+Added: terminate on January 9, 2021, unless earlier terminated pursuant to the terms thereof.
+Added: In May 2020, the Company paid the signing
+Added: fee of $50,000 upon execution of the VCU License Agreement.
+Added: The Company also accrued $285,000 for five years of annual minimum
+Added: payments and $30,000 for annual maintenance fees.
Therapeutics Inc.
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the Company paid Zylö
−Removed: (i) an upfront license fee of $50,000;
−Removed: (ii) sales-based royalties at percentages which range from high
−Removed: single digits to low double digits, with low sales volumes being subject to lower royalty rates;
−Removed: and total milestone payments
−Removed: of up to $13.5 million.
−Removed: In addition, within 45 days of the Company’s next equity financing pursuant to which the Company
−Removed: receives gross proceeds of at least $1 million, the Company shall purchase equity securities of Zylö
−Removed: in an amount equal to
−Removed: In May 2019 and September 2019, the Company
−Removed: recorded an expense of $10,000 and $40,000, respectively, for upfront license fee.
−Removed: Note 4—Related Party
−Removed: A director of the Company, is also the
−Removed: Executive Chairman of Chelexa.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019, that director received $30,000 in cash compensation for
−Removed: services provided as a board member of the Company and $5,000 cash compensation for his services as a member of the Company’s
−Removed: Scientific Advisory Board.
−Removed: The Company also granted him options to purchase up to 35,000 of the Company’s common stock pursuant
−Removed: to the Company’s 2018 Equity Incentive Plan.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2018, that director received $30,000 in
−Removed: cash compensation for services provided as a board member of the Company and $10,000 cash compensation for his services as a member
−Removed: of the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board.
−Removed: He also received a stock grant for 12,500 shares of common stock for his services
−Removed: as a member of the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board.
+Added: an upfront license fee of $50,000 and is required to pay Zylö
+Added: (i) sales-based royalties at percentages
+Added: which range from high single digits to low double digits, with low sales volumes being subject to lower royalty rates;
+Added: total milestone payments of up to $13.5 million.
+Added: In addition, in connection with the Company’s March 2020 underwritten public
+Added: offering of shares of its common stock, on May 4, 2020, the Company purchased 30,000 shares of Zylö’s Class B common
+Added: stock for $60,000.
+Added: Effective January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASU 2016-01 concerning recognition and measurement of financial
+Added: assets and financial liabilities.
+Added: In adopting this new guidance, the Company has made an accounting policy election to adopt an
+Added: adjusted cost method measurement alternative for its investment in Zylö.
+Added: Note 4—Note Receivable
+Added: Pursuant to Isoprene Sublicense Agreement
+Added: dated July 30, 2020, the Company made an investment of $50,000 in Isoprene in the form of a convertible promissory note (the “Isoprene
+Added: Note”) on September 10, 2020.
+Added: The Isoprene Note matures on September 10, 2022 and accrues interest at a rate equal to the
+Added: (i) the highest lawful rate permitted under applicable law and (ii) 6% per annum.
+Added: The Isoprene Note may not be prepaid
+Added: without the prior written consent of the Company.
+Added: In the event a Qualified Financing (as defined below) occurs before the Isoprene
+Added: Note is repaid in full or the conversion of such note pursuant to a Change of Control (as defined in the Isoprene Note) transaction,
+Added: the Isoprene Note may be converted into such number of convertible preferred stock issued in the Qualified Financing equal to
+Added: the balance of such note divided by the Capped Conversion Price (as defined below).
+Added: “Qualified Financing”
+Added: first sale of Isoprene’s convertible preferred in a private financing that results in gross proceeds of at least $5 million.
+Added: “Capped Conversion Price”
+Added: means the lesser of (i) the per share or unit price in the Qualified Financing and (ii)
+Added: an amount determined by dividing (A) $15 million by (B) the fully diluted capitalization Isoprene immediately prior to the conversion
+Added: of the Isoprene Note.
+Added: In the event a Change of Control occurs before the Isoprene Note is repaid in full or the conversion of
+Added: such note pursuant to a Qualified Financing, the Isoprene Note may be converted into such number of shares of Isoprene’s
+Added: common stock equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the balance of the Isoprene Note by (ii) two times the fair market
+Added: value of a share of Isoprene common stock as set for in the acquisition agreement pertaining to such Change of Control.
Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: A director of the Company, is also the
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer, Principal Accounting and Financial Officer and a member of the board of directors of Spherix Incorporated.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019, that director received $30,000 in cash compensation for services provided as a board
−Removed: member of the Company.
−Removed: The Company also granted such director options to purchase up to 35,000 shares of the Company’s common
−Removed: stock pursuant to the Company’s 2018 Equity Incentive Plan.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2018, that director received
−Removed: $42,000 in cash compensation and the Company issued such director 12,500 shares of common stock for services rendered as a member
+Added: Note 5—Related Party
+Added: A former director of the Company, is also
+Added: the Executive Chairman of Chelexa.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020, that director received $22,500 in cash compensation
+Added: for services provided as a member of the Company’s board of directors.
+Added: On September 30, 2020, this director resigned as
+Added: a member of the Company’s board of directors.
+Added: Options issued to him expired on December 30, 2020.
+Added: During the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2019, that director received $30,000 in cash compensation for services provided as a board member and $5,000 cash
+Added: compensation for his services as a member of the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board.
+Added: The Company also granted him options
+Added: to purchase up to 35,000 of the Company’s common stock pursuant to the Company’s 2018 Equity Incentive Plan.
+Added: A former director of the Company, is also
+Added: the Chief Executive Officer, Principal Accounting and Financial Officer and a member of the board of directors of AIkido Pharma
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020, that director received $8,736 in cash compensation for services provided as a member
of the Company’s board of directors.
−Removed: Investments in Marketable Securities
+Added: On April 15, 2020, this director resigned as a member of the Company’s board
+Added: of directors.
+Added: Options issued to him expired on July 15, 2020.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2019, that director received
+Added: $30,000 in cash compensation for services provided as a board member.
+Added: The Company also granted such director options to purchase
+Added: up to 35,000 shares of the Company’s common stock pursuant to the Company’s 2018 Equity Incentive Plan.
+Added: Note 6—Investments in Marketable
The realized gain or loss, unrealized
−Removed: gain or loss, and dividend income related to marketable securities for the year ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, which are recorded
+Added: gain or loss, and dividend income related to marketable securities for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, which are recorded
as a component of other income (expenses) on the consolidated statements of operations, are as follows:
For the years ended December 31,
−Removed: Unrealized gain (loss)
+Added: Unrealized gain
+Added: Realized loss
Dividend income
Interest income
+Added: Note 7—Investment in HaloVax
+Added: On March 23, 2020, the Company entered
+Added: into a Development and Royalty Agreement (the “Development and Royalty Agreement”) with Voltron Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: (“Voltron”) to form a joint venture entity named HaloVax, LLC (“HaloVax”) to jointly develop potential
+Added: product candidates for the prevention of COVID-19 based upon certain technology that had been exclusively licensed by Voltron
+Added: from The General Hospital Corporation (d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital).
+Added: Pursuant to the Development and Royalty Agreement,
+Added: the Company is entitled to receive sales-based royalties.
+Added: In addition, pursuant to the terms of the Development and Royalty Agreement,
+Added: on March 23, 2020, the Company and HaloVax entered into a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement pursuant to which the Company
+Added: purchased 5% of HaloVax’s outstanding membership interests for $250,000 on March 27, 2020 (the “Initial Closing Date”)
+Added: and had the option to purchase up to an additional 25% of HaloVax’s membership interests (for $3,000,000 (inclusive of the
+Added: $250,000)), which option expired 30 days after the Initial Closing Date.
+Added: On May 28, 2020, the Company entered into a membership
+Added: interest purchase agreement to purchase 1% of HaloVax’s outstanding membership interest for a purchase price of $100,000.
+Added: The Company accounts for the foregoing investments under the equity method.
+Added: There was no significant change in HaloVax’s
+Added: operations from March 23, 2020 to December 31, 2020.
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 8—Stockholders’
Preferred Stock
−Removed: The Company is authorized to issue up to
−Removed: 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock.
+Added: The Company is authorized to issue up
+Added: to 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock.
This preferred stock may be issued in one or more series, and shall have such designations,
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Convertible Preferred Stock of which 3,102,480 shares which were previously issued were converted into common stock at the time
−Removed: of the Company’s initial public offering.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company raised $1.2 million (net of
−Removed: offering costs) in cash from investors in exchange for the issuance of 13.77 units.
+Added: of the Company’s IPO.
The shares of Series A Convertible Preferred
−Removed: Stock are not mandatorily redeemable and does not embody an unconditional obligation to settle in a variable number of equity
+Added: Stock are not mandatorily redeemable and do not embody an unconditional obligation to settle in a variable number of equity shares.
As such, the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock are classified as permanent equity on the balance sheets.
The holders’
−Removed: contingent redemption right in the event of certain deemed liquidation events does not preclude permanent equity
−Removed: classification.
−Removed: Further, the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock are considered an equity-like host for purposes of
−Removed: assessing embedded derivative features for potential bifurcation.
−Removed: The embedded conversion feature is considered to be clearly
−Removed: and closely related to the associated convertible preferred stock host instrument and therefore was not bifurcated from the equity
−Removed: The Company had 1,897,520 and 5,000,000
−Removed: shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock authorized as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, 0 and 3,102,480 shares
−Removed: outstanding as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
+Added: contingent redemption right in the event of certain deemed liquidation events does not preclude permanent equity classification.
+Added: Further, the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock are considered an equity-like host for purposes of assessing embedded
+Added: derivative features for potential bifurcation.
+Added: The embedded conversion feature is considered to be clearly and closely related
+Added: to the associated convertible preferred stock host instrument and therefore was not bifurcated from the equity host.
Common Shares
On February 15, 2019, the Company announced
−Removed: the pricing of its initial public offering of 1,250,000 shares of its common stock at an initial offering price to the public
−Removed: of $5.60 per share.
−Removed: The Company issued an aggregate of 1,250,000 shares of common stock and received net proceeds of $5.8 million
−Removed: from the IPO.
+Added: the pricing of its IPO of 1,250,000 shares of its common stock at an initial offering price to the public of $5.60 per share.
+Added: The Company issued an aggregate of 1,250,000 shares of common stock and received net proceeds of $5.8 million from the IPO.
+Added: On January 15, 2020, pursuant to the termination
+Added: and general release agreement between the Company and FON Consulting LLC dated January 7, 2020, 15,000 of the shares of common
+Added: stock originally issued to FON Consulting LLC were cancelled.
+Added: On February 5, 2020, the Company issued
+Added: 12,500 shares of common stock upon exercise of warrants issued to an investor on January 19, 2018, which resulted in gross proceeds
+Added: On March 6, 2020, the Company issued 25,000
+Added: shares of common stock upon exercise of warrants issued to an investor on December 14, 2017, which resulted in gross proceeds
+Added: On May 18, 2020, the Company issued 6,250
+Added: shares of common stock upon exercise of warrants issued to an investor on February 2, 2018, which resulted in gross proceeds of
+Added: On June 3, 2020, the Company issued 12,500
+Added: shares of common stock upon exercise of warrants issued to an investor on November 20, 2017, which resulted in gross proceeds
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020,
+Added: the Company issued an aggregate of 9,984 shares of the Company’s common stock to members of the Company’s Board for
+Added: services rendered.
+Added: Public Offering of Securities
+Added: On March 24, 2020 (the “UA Effective
+Added: Date”), the Company entered into an underwriting agreement with Laidlaw & Company (UK) Ltd.
+Added: (“Laidlaw”),
+Added: the representative of the underwriters, relating to a best efforts underwritten public offering of 1,449,275 shares (the “Shares”)
+Added: of the Company’s common stock at a public offering price of $3.45 per Share.
+Added: The Company received net proceeds of approximately
+Added: $4.2 million, after deducting the underwriting discount and offering expenses.
+Added: In connection with the offering, on March
+Added: 26, 2020, the Company issued Laidlaw warrants to purchase up to 72,464 shares of the Company’s common stock.
+Added: are exercisable for a period of five years from the UA Effective Date at a price per share equal to $4.14, subject to adjustment,
+Added: and may be exercised on a cashless basis.
+Added: The Company reimbursed Laidlaw for certain of its out-of-pocket expenses incurred in
+Added: connection with the offering.
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: On May 21, 2020, the Company entered into
+Added: an underwriting agreement with The Benchmark Company, LLC (“Benchmark”), as representative of the several underwriters,
+Added: relating to the public offering of 1,818,182 shares of the Company’s common stock at a price to the public of $2.75 per
+Added: The Company received net proceeds of approximately $4.5 million, after deducting the underwriting discount and offering
+Added: In connection with the offering, on May
+Added: 27, 2020 (the “Benchmark Issue Date”), the Company issued Benchmark warrants to purchase up to 90,909 shares of the
+Added: Company’s common stock.
+Added: The warrants are exercisable for a period of five years commencing six months from the Benchmark
+Added: Issue Date at a price per share equal to $2.75, subject to adjustment, and may be exercised on a cashless basis.
Private Placement of Securities
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(the “Purchase Agreements”) with certain accredited investors (the “Investors”) pursuant to which it sold
−Removed: units (the “Units”) for aggregate gross proceeds of $2,037,120, exclusive of placement agent commission and fees and
−Removed: offering and transaction expenses (the “Offering”).
−Removed: Each Unit was sold at an offering price of $5.00 per Unit and
−Removed: consisted of (i) one share of the Company’s common stock and (ii) a warrant (the “Warrant”) to purchase one-half
−Removed: share of common stock.
+Added: units (the “Units”) for aggregate gross proceeds of $2,037,120, exclusive of placement agent commission
+Added: and fees and offering and transaction expenses (the “Offering”).
+Added: Each Unit was sold at an offering price of $5.00
+Added: per Unit and consisted of (i) one share of the Company’s common stock and (ii) a warrant (the “2019 Warrant”)
+Added: to purchase one-half share of common stock.
Each Warrant is exercisable for a period
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limitation may be increased by the holder up to, but not exceeding, 9.99%.
−Removed: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
In addition, pursuant to the terms of
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Warrants should be accounted as a component of stockholders’
−Removed: For the warrants issued on August 16, 2019, the Company
−Removed: estimated the relative fair value of the warrants at $0.8 million using the Black-Scholes option pricing model using the following
−Removed: primary assumptions:
−Removed: fair value of common stock underlying the warrants ranges from $2.55 to $4.33, expected life ranges from 2.0
−Removed: to 5.0 years, volatility rate ranges from 107.30% to 110.08%, risk-free interest rate ranges from 1.42% to 1.48% and expected dividend
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2018,
−Removed: the Company raised $1.2 million (net of offering costs) in cash from investors in exchange for the issuance of 13.77 units.
−Removed: For the warrants issued during the year
−Removed: ended December 31, 2018, the Company has determined that the warrants should be accounted as a component of stockholders’
−Removed: On the issuance date, the Company estimated the relative fair value of the warrants at $0.1 million using the Black-Scholes
−Removed: option pricing model using the following primary assumptions:
−Removed: fair value of common stock underlying the warrants is $0.16, expected
−Removed: life of 7.0 years, volatility rate of 75.0%, risk-free interest rate of 1.83% and expected dividend rate of 0%.
−Removed: Based on the warrant’s
−Removed: relative fair value to the fair value of the Series A Preferred Stock, approximately $0.2 million of the $1.2 million of aggregate
−Removed: fair value was allocated to the warrants, creating a corresponding preferred stock discount in the same amount.
+Added: For the 2019 Warrants issued on August 16, 2019, the
+Added: Company estimated the relative fair value of the warrants at $0.8 million using the Black-Scholes option pricing model using the
+Added: following primary assumptions:
+Added: fair value of common stock underlying the warrants ranges from $2.55 to $4.33, expected life ranges
+Added: from 2.0 to 5.0 years, volatility rate ranges from 107.30% to 110.08%, risk-free interest rate ranges from 1.42% to 1.48% and
+Added: expected dividend rate of 0%.
2018 Equity Incentive Plan
The Company’s 2018 Equity Incentive
−Removed: Plan (the “2018 Plan”) was adopted by its board of directors on May 4, 2018 and by its shareholders on May 4, 2018.
+Added: Plan (the “2018 Plan”) was adopted by the Company’s board of directors on May 4, 2018 and by its shareholders
+Added: on May 4, 2018.
The Company has reserved 1,000,000 shares of common stock for issuance pursuant to the 2018 Plan.
−Removed: 2018 Activity
−Removed: In January 2018, the Company granted an
−Removed: employee 25,000 shares of common stock with a $15,000 fair value.
−Removed: On March 23, 2018, the Company granted
−Removed: 12,500 shares of common stock of the Company to a member of the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board.
−Removed: The fair value of the
−Removed: stock award was $11,000.
−Removed: On May 4, 2018, the Company granted 12,500
−Removed: shares of common stock of the Company under the 2018 Plan to a member of the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board.
−Removed: value of the stock award was $12,500.
−Removed: On May 4, 2018, the Company granted the
−Removed: same employee 5,000 shares of common stock under the 2018 Plan with a $5,000 fair value.
−Removed: The Company’s Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: and co-founder was issued 87,500 shares of common stock for a value of $87,500.
−Removed: On August 15, 2018, the Company bought back 31,513
−Removed: shares from the employees who were issued common stock as part of the 2018 Plan to pay for payroll taxes.
−Removed: The fair value of the
−Removed: shares was $31,513.
−Removed: Immediately after the buyback of the 31,513 shares such shares were immediately cancelled.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2018,
−Removed: the Company issued a total of 25,000 shares of common stock under the 2018 Plan to two directors for a value of $25,000.
−Removed: Restricted Stock Awards
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019,
−Removed: the Company issued 10,000 and 30,000 shares of restricted common stock with a total fair value of approximately $0.2 million to
−Removed: The Benchmark Company, LLC and FON Consulting, LLC, respectively, consultants to the Company.
−Removed: On January 7, 2020, the Company
−Removed: entered into a termination and general release agreement with FON Consulting, LLC pursuant to which 15,000 shares of restricted
−Removed: common stock originally granted to FON Consulting, LLC were cancelled.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2018,
−Removed: 37,500 shares of restricted stock awards with a fair value of approximately $38,000 were granted.
−Removed: 12,500 shares of these restricted
−Removed: stock awards were vested immediately and 25,000 shares of these restricted stock awards were vested in 1/36 increments in monthly
−Removed: installments beginning August 3, 2018.
Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Restricted Stock Awards
A summary of the Company’s restricted
stock awards granted under the 2018 Plan during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 is as follows:
−Removed: Number of Units
+Added: Number of Restricted Stock
Weighted Average Grant Day
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Stock Options
−Removed: On March 6, 2019, the Company granted
−Removed: options to purchase up to 50,000 shares of the Company’s common stock to its CFO pursuant to the 2018 Plan.
−Removed: The aggregate
−Removed: grant date fair value of these options was approximately $0.2 million.
−Removed: The stock options vested in full upon grant.
−Removed: On December 24, 2019, the Company granted
−Removed: a total of options to purchase up to an aggregate of 475,000 shares of the Company’s common stock to directors and advisors
−Removed: pursuant to the 2018 Plan.
−Removed: The aggregate grant date fair value of these options was approximately $2.0 million.
−Removed: The stock options
−Removed: vested in full upon grant.
The fair value of options granted in 2020
and 2019 was estimated using the following assumptions:
−Removed: For the Years Ended
+Added: the years ended December 31,
Exercise price
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114.2%-114.5%
+Added: 111.2%-112.1%
Risk-free rate of interest
A summary of option activity under the
−Removed: Company’s stock option plan for year ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 is presented below:
+Added: Company’s stock option plan for years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 is presented below:
Number of Shares
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Employee options issued
+Added: Non - employee options issued
Outstanding as of December 31, 2020
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years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 was approximately $0.7 million and $2.5 million, respectively, and comprised of the following:
−Removed: For the Years Ended
−Removed: Employee common stock awards
−Removed: Directors common stock awards
+Added: For the years ended December 31,
Employee stock option awards
+Added: Non-employee stock option awards
Employee restricted stock awards
Non-employee restricted stock awards
−Removed: Non-employee warrant awards
+Added: Non-employee stock warrant awards
Employee and director related stock-based
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in professional fees on the consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: In addition, the Company recorded $0 and
−Removed: $36,000 of stock issued for research and development services for the year ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
+Added: Pursuant to the Patent License Agreement
+Added: between the Company and GW dated February 1, 2020, on February 27, 2020 (the “February Warrant Date of Issuance”),
+Added: the Company issued GW ten year warrants (the “February Warrants”) to purchase up to 22,988 shares of the Company’s
+Added: common stock at an exercise price of $4.35 per share.
+Added: The February Warrants vest as follows:
+Added: 20% on the February Warrant Date
+Added: of Issuance and the balance, or 80% of the February Warrants, vest in four equal annual installments of 20% on each anniversary
+Added: of the February Warrant Date of Issuance.
+Added: Pursuant to the GW Patent License Agreement
+Added: between the Company and GW dated August 7, 2020, on August 10, 2020 (the “August Warrant Date of Issuance”), the Company
+Added: issued GW ten year warrants (the “August Warrants”) to purchase up to 72,463 shares of the Company’s common
+Added: stock at an exercise price of $2.76 per share.
+Added: The August Warrants vest as follows:
+Added: 20% on the August Warrant Date of Issuance
+Added: and the balance, or 80% of the August Warrants, shall vest in four equal annual installments of 20% on each anniversary of the
+Added: August Warrant Date of Issuance.
+Added: In connection with the public offering
+Added: of securities discussed above, the Company granted to Laidlaw and Benchmark warrants to purchase up to 72,464 and 90,909 shares
+Added: of the Company’s common stock, respectively.
A summary of warrant activity for the
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Number of Warrants
−Removed: Weighted Average Exercise
+Added: Weighted Average
Total Intrinsic Value
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Warrants exercisable as of December 31, 2020
−Removed: 2019 Activity
−Removed: On February 20, 2019, Laidlaw received
−Removed: five-year warrants to purchase 50,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $7.00 per share.
−Removed: warrants were not exercisable prior to August 13, 2019.
−Removed: On April 17, 2019, the Company entered
−Removed: into a Master Service Agreement (the “MSA”) with a consultant (the “Consultant”).
−Removed: In consideration for
−Removed: services provided by the Consultant, the Company issued the Consultant a two year warrant to purchase up to 50,000 shares of the
−Removed: Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share (the “Consultant Warrant”).
−Removed: On May 22, 2019,
−Removed: the Company and Consultant agreed to terminate the MSA and number of shares of the Company’s common stock issuable upon
−Removed: exercise of the Consultant Warrant was reduced to 16,333.
−Removed: On June 27, 2019, the Company issued 16,333 shares of common stock upon
−Removed: exercise of the Consultant Warrant which resulted in gross proceeds of approximately $163.
−Removed: On April 16, 2019, the Company issued
−Removed: 176,272 shares of common stock upon the cashless exercise of warrants to purchase up to 215,747 shares of common stock.
−Removed: warrants were issued by the Company to Laidlaw pursuant to the terms of its engagement letter with Laidlaw with respect to the
−Removed: private placement of its securities from October 2017 through December 2017.
−Removed: On June 6, 2019, the Company issued 47,605
−Removed: shares of common stock upon the cashless exercise of warrants to purchase up to 57,750 shares of common stock.
Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: On August 16, 2019, in connection with
−Removed: the Offering, the Company issued Warrants to purchase up to 203,709 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise
−Removed: price of $8.00 per whole share.
−Removed: In addition, pursuant to the terms of the Offering, the Company issued Laidlaw the Placement Agent
−Removed: Warrants to purchase up to 61,113 shares of the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: The Placement Agent Warrants are exercisable for
−Removed: a period of five years from the Closing Date at an exercise price of $5.00 per share.
−Removed: 2018 Activity
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2018,
−Removed: the Company issued seven-year warrants to purchase 344,125 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of
−Removed: $1.00 per share to investors.
−Removed: The Company has determined that the warrants
−Removed: should be accounted as a component of stockholders’
Note 9—Commitments and contingencies
−Removed: Rent expense for the years ended December
−Removed: 31, 2019 and 2018 was approximately $32,000 and $28,000, respectively.
−Removed: The Company is not a party to a lease that is in excess
−Removed: of 12 months.
+Added: The Company leases office space for approximately
+Added: $2,500 a month.
+Added: Rent expense for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 was approximately $25,000 and $32,000, respectively.
+Added: The Company is not a party to a lease that is in excess of 12 months.
The Company is not a party to any material
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of the provision for taxes:
−Removed: of December 31,
−Removed: Total current
−Removed: Total deferred
−Removed: in valuation allowance
−Removed: provision for income taxes
+Added: As of December 31,
+Added: Total current provision
+Added: Total deferred benefit
+Added: Change in valuation allowance
+Added: Total provision for income taxes
At December 31, 2020 and 2019, the tax
effects of the temporary differences and carryforwards that give rise to deferred tax assets consist of the following:
−Removed: of December 31,
+Added: As of December 31,
Deferred tax assets:
−Removed: Net operating
−Removed: loss carryforward
+Added: Net operating loss carryforward
+Added: License acquired
Stock Compensation
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Deferred income tax assets liabilities:
+Added: Depreciation fixed assets
Total deferred income tax liabilities
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Valuation allowance
−Removed: asset, net of allowance
+Added: Deferred tax asset, net of allowance
Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
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tax rates and the Company’s effective tax rate for the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 is as follows:
−Removed: For the Years ended
+Added: Years Ended December 31,
Statutory federal income tax rate
State taxes, net of federal tax benefit
−Removed: Return to Provision
+Added: Return to Provison
Change in valuation allowance
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As of December 31, 2020, the Company has
−Removed: net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $9.4 million available to reduce future taxable income, if any, for Federal and
−Removed: state income tax purposes.
−Removed: Approximately $1.5 million of Federal net operating losses can be carried forward to future tax years
−Removed: and expire in 2037.
−Removed: The Federal net operating loss generated during the year ended December 31, 2018 and 2019 of approximately
+Added: net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $15.9 million available to reduce future taxable income, if any, for Federal
+Added: and state income tax purposes.
+Added: Approximately $1.5 million of Federal net operating losses can be carried forward to future tax
+Added: years and expire in 2037.
+Added: The Federal net operating loss generated during the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2019 of approximately
$14.4 million can be carried forward indefinitely.
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remain open for examination by the Federal and state tax authorities from the date of utilization of the net operating loss.
+Added: Note 10—Risk and Uncertainties
+Added: The outbreak of the novel Coronavirus
+Added: (COVID-19) evolved into a global pandemic.
+Added: The Coronavirus has spread to many regions of the world.
+Added: The extent to which the Coronavirus
+Added: impacts the Company’s business and operating results will depend on future developments that are highly uncertain and cannot
+Added: be accurately predicted, including new information that may emerge concerning the Coronavirus and the actions to contain the Coronavirus
+Added: or treat its impact, among others.
+Added: As a result of the continuing spread of
+Added: the Coronavirus, certain aspects of the Company’s business operations have been delayed, and the Company may be subject
+Added: to additional delays or interruptions.
+Added: Specifically, as a result of the shelter-in-place orders and other mandated local travel
+Added: restrictions, among other things, the research and development activities of certain of the Company’s partners may be affected,
+Added: which may result in delays to the Company’s clinical trials, and the Company can provide no assurance as to when such trials,
+Added: if delayed, will resume at this time or the revised timeline to complete trials once resumed.
+Added: Furthermore, site initiation, participant
+Added: recruitment and enrollment, participant dosing, distribution of clinical trial materials, study monitoring and data analysis may
+Added: be paused or delayed due to changes in hospital or university policies, federal, state or local regulations, prioritization of
+Added: hospital resources toward pandemic efforts, or other reasons related to the pandemic.
+Added: If the Coronavirus continues to spread,
+Added: some participants and clinical investigators may not be able to comply with clinical trial protocols.
+Added: For example, quarantines
+Added: or other travel limitations (whether voluntary or required) may impede participant movement, affect sponsor access to study sites,
+Added: or interrupt healthcare services, and the Company may be unable to conduct its clinical trials.
+Added: Further, if the spread of the
+Added: Coronavirus pandemic continues and the Company’s operations are adversely impacted, the Company risks a delay, default and/or
+Added: nonperformance under existing agreements which may increase its costs.
+Added: These cost increases may not be fully recoverable or adequately
+Added: covered by insurance.
+Added: Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Infections and deaths related to the pandemic
+Added: may disrupt the United States’
+Added: healthcare and healthcare regulatory systems.
+Added: Such disruptions could divert healthcare resources
+Added: away from, or materially delay FDA review and/or approval with respect to, the Company’s clinical trials.
+Added: It is unknown
+Added: how long these disruptions could continue, were they to occur.
+Added: Any elongation or de-prioritization of the Company’s clinical
+Added: trials or delay in regulatory review resulting from such disruptions could materially affect the development and study of the
+Added: Company’s product candidates.
+Added: The Company currently utilizes third parties
+Added: to, among other things, manufacture raw materials.
+Added: If any third-party party in the supply chain for materials used in the production
+Added: of the Company’s product candidates are adversely impacted by restrictions resulting from the Coronavirus outbreak, the
+Added: Company’s supply chain may be disrupted, limiting the Company’s ability to manufacture its product candidates for
+Added: its clinical trials and research and development.
+Added: The spread of the Coronavirus, which has
+Added: caused a broad impact globally, including restrictions on travel and quarantine policies put into place by businesses and governments,
+Added: may have a material economic effect on the Company’s business.
+Added: While the potential economic impact brought by and the duration
+Added: of the pandemic may be difficult to assess or predict, it has already caused, and is likely to result in further, significant
+Added: disruption of global financial markets, which may reduce our ability to access capital either at all or on favorable terms.
+Added: addition, a recession, depression or other sustained adverse market event resulting from the spread of the Coronavirus could materially
+Added: and adversely affect the Company’s business and the value of its common stock.
+Added: The ultimate impact of the current pandemic,
+Added: or any other health epidemic, is highly uncertain and subject to change.
+Added: The Company does not yet know the full extent of potential
+Added: delays or impacts on its business, its clinical trials, its research programs, healthcare systems or the global economy as a whole.
+Added: However, these effects could have a material impact on the Company’s operations, and the Company will continue to monitor
+Added: the situation closely.
Note 12—Subsequent Events
−Removed: The Company evaluates events that have
−Removed: occurred after the balance sheet date but before the consolidated financial statements are issued.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Patent License Agreement
−Removed: between the Company and GWU, on February 1, 2020, the Company issued GWU warrants to purchase up to 22,988 shares of the Company’s
−Removed: common stock at an exercise price of $4.35 per share.
−Removed: The warrants vest as follows:
−Removed: 20% upon the date of issuance and the balance,
−Removed: or 80% of the warrants shall vest in four equal annual installments of 20% on each anniversary of the initial issuance date.
−Removed: On February 5, 2020, the Company issued
−Removed: 12,500 shares of common stock upon exercise of the warrants originally granted to an investor on January 19, 2018, which resulted
−Removed: in gross proceeds of $12,500.
−Removed: From January 1, 2020 until February
−Removed: 29, 2020, the Company issued an aggregate of 1,388 shares of the Company’s common stock to a member of the
−Removed: Company’s Board for services rendered.
−Removed: Effective as of February 28, 2020, Vadim
−Removed: Mats resigned as a member of the Company’s Audit Committee.
−Removed: Effective as of February 28, 2020, the Board appointed Graig
−Removed: Springer as a member of the Company’s Board.
−Removed: In addition, effective as of February 28, 2020, the Board appointed Graig Springer
−Removed: as a member of the Company’s Audit Committee to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Vadim Mats.
−Removed: CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS
−Removed: WITH ACCOUNTANTS AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
+Added: The compensation committee of the board
+Added: of directors increased the number of shares reserved pursuant to the Company’s 2018 Plan by 671,926 shares effective as
+Added: of January 1, 2021 such that as of January 1, 2021, the Company had an aggregate of 1,671,926 shares of common stock reserved
+Added: for issuance pursuant to the 2018 Plan.
+Added: On January 5, 2021, the Company entered
+Added: into a Securities Purchase Agreement with certain accredited investors identified on the signature pages thereto (the “Purchasers”)
+Added: pursuant to which the Company offered and sold to the Purchasers an aggregate of 2,475,248 shares of its common stock and warrants
+Added: to purchase up to 1,237,624 shares of common stock in a private placement for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $5 million,
+Added: before deducting estimated offering expenses payable by the Company.
+Added: The combined purchase price for each share of common stock
+Added: and accompanying warrant to purchase 0.5 of a share of common stock was $2.02.
+Added: The closing of the offering occurred on January
+Added: 7, 2021.Each warrant is immediately exercisable for a period of five years at an exercise price of $2.25 per Warrant Share, subject
+Added: to adjustment, and may be exercised on a cashless basis.
+Added: In addition, pursuant to the terms of the offering, the Company issued
+Added: Benchmark Company, LLC warrants to purchase up to 185,644 shares of common stock.
+Added: Benchmark’s warrants are exercisable for
+Added: a period of five years from the closing date of the offering at an exercise price of $2.25 per share, subject to adjustment.
+Added: On February 25, 2021, the Company entered
+Added: into an exclusive, worldwide, royalty bearing license with NC State pursuant to which NC State granted the Company an exclusive,
+Added: worldwide, royalty bearing license to certain intellectual property to, among other things, discover, develop, make, have made,
+Added: use and sell certain licensed products and sell, use and practice certain licensed services with respect to cancer and anaphylaxis.
+Added: On March 8, 2021, the Company entered into
+Added: a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional and accredited investors pursuant to which it offered and sold to the
+Added: purchaser 6,826,962 shares of common stock, pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase up to 767,975
+Added: shares of common stock and warrants (the “Common Stock Warrants”) to purchase up to 7,594,937 shares
+Added: of common stock.
+Added: in a private placement for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $15 million, before deducting estimated
+Added: offering expenses payable by the Company.
+Added: The combined purchase price for each share of common stock and accompanying warrant was
+Added: The closing of the offering occurred on March 10, 2021.
+Added: Each warrant is immediately exercisable for a period of five years
+Added: at an exercise price of $2.25 per warrant share, subject to adjustment, and may be exercised on a cashless basis.
+Added: Each Pre-Funded
+Added: Warrant is exercisable until exercised in full at an exercise price of $0.001 per share and may be exercised by means of a cashless
+Added: In addition, pursuant to the terms of the offering, the Company issued H.C.
+Added: Wainwright & Co., LLC warrants
+Added: to purchase up to 379,747 shares of common stock.
+Added: The warrants are exercisable for a period of three years from the issuance date
+Added: at an exercise price of $2.4688 per share, subject to adjustment and may be exercised by means of a cashless exercise.
+Added: CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS AND
+Added: FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
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