WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT -- Monday, November 17, 2014 -- NanoViricides, Inc. (NYSE MKT: NNVC) (the "Company") has filed its quarterly report with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, November 14th, in a timely fashion. The submission can be downloaded from the SEC website at http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1379006/000114420414068843/0001144204-14-068843-index.htm
The Company reports that all of its drug development programs are progressing satisfactorily and that it will continue to provide updates as appropriate.
In particular, the synthesis of anti-Ebola drug candidates is progressing satisfactorily. The Company has recently reported that it has signed a "Cooperative Research and Development Agreement - Materials Transfer Agreement (CRADA-MTA)" with the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) for biological testing of these candidates. The Company is working expeditiously on its anti-Ebola program at present, in order to develop an effective drug candidate that may be available in response to the current Ebola epidemic crisis. The Company has the ability to produce sufficient quantities of a successful drug candidate for potential field use.
The Company has developed a state-of-the-art nanomedicines manufacturing facility that will be capable of producing any of the Company's drug candidates in a cGMP-compliant manner in multi-kilogram quantities. This facility will be able to provide the cGMP clinical drug substances for the Company's future human clinical studies. ("c-GMP"= current Good Manufacturing Practices). The Company's Board of Directors has authorized acquisition of this facility from Inno-Haven, LLC, rather than leasing it. The acquisition process is in the due diligence phase at present, and is expected to be concluded soon.
Initial large animal safety/toxicology studies in the Company's FluCide™ drug development program have begun at BASi, as previously reported. In addition, the Company is performing process development and scale up studies on its FluCide™ drug candidate in its existing facilities. The scale-up studies were necessitated to be performed at this early stage of our drug development because of the extremely high safety of FluCide that resulted in a very large quantity requirement for the GLP Safety/Toxicology studies. The limitations of the current laboratory facilities impose that we produce these materials in multiple batches at present, resulting in extended production and characterization time periods.
The Company estimates that it now has approximately $42.6 Million (M) of current assets plus restricted cash in hand as of the date of filing. The Company estimates that this funding is sufficient to enable us to perform initial human clinical trials of our injectable FluCide™ drug candidate, as well as possibly to advance our DengueCide™ orphan drug candidate towards initial human clinical trials. As previously reported, our strong cash position has enabled us to restart our anti-Ebola drug development program in response to the current epidemic. The Company's estimates are based on its current rate of expenditure and also on certain approximate estimates for clinical development of its drug candidate as gleaned from discussions with various contract research organizations.
The Company reported that it had approximately $42.6M in current assets plus restricted cash (cash, cash equivalents, collateral advance, prepaid expenses, and security deposits) as of September 30, 2014, the end of the reporting quarter. The shareholder equity stood at approximately $36.8M. In comparison, the Company had approximately $36.7M in current assets plus restricted cash, and approximately $28.6M in shareholder equity as of June 30, 2014, the end of previous quarter, and our financial year. The increase in shareholder equity and cash in hand during this quarter resulted mainly from the exercise by existing shareholders of their old warrants resulting in aggregate proceeds of approximately $6.74M received prior to September 30, 2014. In addition, in July 2014, the Company sold debentures worth $5M to an existing investor and Board Member, Dr. Milton Boniuk, as previously reported. The Company spent approximately $811K in Research and Development expenses (R&D) and approximately $876K in General and Administrative expenses (G&A), including stock-based expenses, in the reported quarter. The current rate of expenditure was in line with the Company's budgeted targets.
On September 5, 2014, NanoViricides, Inc. (the "Company") accepted notices to exercise old warrants for the purchase of an aggregate of 2,136,655 shares of the Company's common stock at the exercise price of $3.50 per share for aggregate proceeds of $7,478,292.50. On July 17, 2014, the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-3 (the "Form S-3") registering an aggregate of 3,071,986 shares of common stock underlying warrants previously issued by the Company in various private placement offerings between 2005 and September 2009 (the "Old Warrants"), as described more fully in the Form S-3 (the "Registered Warrants"). The Form S-3 was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 1, 2014. As of August 15, 2014, any Registered Warrants as specified above and not previously exercised have expired.
About NanoViricidesFDA refers to US Food and Drug Administration. EMA refers to the European Union’s office of European Medical Agency.