Current Report Filing (8-k)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 17, 2019

PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware

001-38697

03-0375697

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

1 Great Valley Parkway, Suite 30

Malvern, Pennsylvania

19355

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(Zip Code)

(610) 981-6500

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 8.01 Other Events.

On March 17, 2019, PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. issued a press release announcing the full results from its Phase 1 clinical trial of PB2452, a novel reversal agent for the antiplatelet drug ticagrelor, which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in a paper titled “An Antibody-Based Ticagrelor Reversal Agent in Normal Volunteers” and were presented by Deepak Bhatt, M.D., M.P.H., executive director of Interventional Cardiovascular Programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical School, in a featured clinical research session at the American College of Cardiology’s 68th Annual Scientific Session in New Orleans on March 17, 2019. The full text of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits


Exhibit Number		Exhibit Description

99.1		Press release, dated March 17, 2019, entitled “Full Results from PhaseBio Phase 1 Clinical Trial of PB2452 Published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 68th Annual Scientific Session.”

SIGNATURES

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