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Liquidity
6 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Liquidity  
Liquidity

Note 2 - Liquidity

The Company’s financial statements have been prepared assuming that it will continue as a going concern, which contemplates continuity of operations, realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities in the normal course of business. As reflected in the financial statements, the Company has an accumulated deficit at December 31, 2020 of approximately $110.2 million and a net loss of approximately $4.6 million and net cash used in operating activities of approximately $4.6 million for the six months then ended. In addition, the Company has not generated any revenues and no revenues are anticipated in the foreseeable future. Since May 2005, the Company has been engaged exclusively in research and development activities focused on developing targeted antiviral drugs. The Company has not yet commenced any product commercialization. Such losses are expected to continue for the foreseeable future and until such time, if ever, as the Company is able to attain sales levels sufficient to support its operations. There can be no assurance that the Company will achieve or maintain profitability in the future. As of December 31, 2020, the Company had available cash and cash equivalents of approximately $18.4 million.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company has focused its efforts primarily on a single lead program to minimize cost outlays, namely, taking the shingles drug candidate against VZV into human clinical trials. The prior lead program for a shingles drug will follow the COVID-19 drug program.

On July 8, 2020 the Company entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Kingswood Capital Markets, a Division of Benchmark Investments, Inc. (“Kingswood”). The offering was consummated on July 10, 2020, whereby the Company sold 1,369,863 shares of common stock and a fully exercised Underwriters’ over-allotment option of 205,479 additional shares at the public offering price of $7.30 per share. No warrants were issued in this offering. The net proceeds to the Company from the offering was approximately $10.4 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses.

On July 31, 2020, the Company entered into an At Market Issuance Sales Agreement (the “Sales Agreement”) with B. Riley Securities, Inc. and Kingswood (each a “Sales Agent” and collectively, the “Sales Agents”), pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, from time to time, through or to the Sales Agents, shares of common stock (the “Placement Shares”), having an aggregate offering price of up to $50 million (the “ATM Offering”). Sales pursuant to the Sales Agreement will be made only upon instructions by the Company to the Sales Agents, and the Company cannot provide any assurances that it will issue any shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement. Actual sales will depend on a variety of factors to be determined by the Company from time to time, including (among others) market conditions, the trading price of the Company’s common stock, capital needs and determinations by the Company of the appropriate sources of funding for the Company. The Company is not obligated to make any sales of common stock under the Sales Agreement and the Company cannot provide any assurances that it will issue any shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement. The Company will pay a commission rate of up to 3.5% of the gross sales price per share sold and agreed to reimburse the Sales Agents for certain specified expenses, including the fees and disbursements of its legal counsel in an amount not to exceed $50,000 and have agreed to reimburse the Sales Agents an amount not to exceed $2,500 per quarter during the term of the Sales Agreement for legal fees to be incurred by the Sales Agents. The Company has also agreed pursuant to the Sales Agreement to provide each Sales Agent with customary indemnification and contribution rights. The Company has not performed any ATM Offerings as of this report.

The Company believes that it has several important milestones that it will be achieving in the ensuing year. Management believes that as it achieves these milestones, the Company’s ability to raise additional funds in the public markets would be enhanced.

The Company has not experienced a direct financial adverse impact of the effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. However, the pandemic required the Company to reorganize its priorities, because of the impact on the ability to conduct antiviral drug trials for our then lead program for Shingles drug treatment. While clinical trials were in general adversely affected, the ability to enroll patients into the shingles antiviral drug clinical trial with the desired inclusion criteria became limited due to the widespread coronavirus infection. The shingles clinical trial design and conduct would also become more complex. The emergence of widespread health emergencies due to COVID-19 have led to regional quarantines, shutdowns, shortages, disruptions of supply chains, and economic instability. The impact of COVID-19 on the financial markets and the overall economy are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted at this time. Though the Company has not experienced a direct financial impact, if the financial markets and/or the overall economy are impacted for an extended period, the Company’s ability to raise funds, in the future, may be materially adversely affected.

Management believes that the Company’s existing resources will be sufficient to fund its planned operations and expenditures for at least the next twelve months from the issuance of these financial statements. However, the Company cannot provide assurance that its plans will not change or that changed circumstances will not result in the depletion of its capital resources more rapidly than it currently anticipates. The Company will need to raise additional capital to fund its long-term operations and research and development plans including human clinical trials for its various drug candidates until it generates revenue that reaches a level sufficient to provide self-sustaining cash flows. The accompanying financial statements do not include any adjustments that may result from the outcome of such unidentified uncertainties.