Form 8-K - Current report

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):

November 13, 2023

LIPOCINE INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Commission File No. 001-36357

Delaware

99-0370688

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

(IRS Employer

Identification Number)

675 Arapeen Drive, Suite 202

Salt Lake City, Utah 84108

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (801) 994-7383

Former name or former address, if changed since last report: Not Applicable

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐	Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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

Title of each class		Trading Symbol(s)		Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share		LPCN		The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR § 230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR § 240.12b-2).

Emerging growth company ☐

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

Item 8.01 Other Events

On November 13, 2023, the Company issued a press release announcing a late breaking presentation on LPCN 1148 Phase 2 Results at The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) The Liver Meeting® 2023. The press release is filed as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

The Company’s materials to be presented are filed as Exhibits 99.2 and 99.3.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

The following exhibits are filed with this report:

Exhibit No.		Description

99.1		Press Release announcing “Lipocine Releases Late Breaking Presentation on LPCN 1148 Phase 2 Results at The Liver Meeting® 2023”

99.2		Presentation entitled “Oral LPCN 1148 Improves Sarcopenia and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis”

99.3		e-Poster entitled “Oral LPCN 1148 Improves Sarcopenia and Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients with Cirrhosis”

104		Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

SIGNATURES

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

		LIPOCINE INC.

Date:	November 13, 2023	By:	/s/ Mahesh V. Patel
			Mahesh V. Patel
			President and Chief Executive Officer

Exhibit 99.1

Lipocine Releases Late Breaking Presentation on LPCN 1148 Phase 2 Results at The Liver Meeting® 2023

Results demonstrate improvements in sarcopenia and other clinically meaningful outcomes

Patients converting from placebo to LPCN 1148 in the ongoing open label extension also showed improvement in sarcopenia

SALT LAKE CITY, November 13, 2023 — Lipocine Inc. (NASDAQ: LPCN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on treating Central Nervous System (CNS) disorders, today announced that results of its Phase 2 study evaluating LPCN 1148 are being presented at The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) – The Liver Meeting® 2023, taking place in Boston MA. The results are featured in a late-breaking oral presentation and e-poster by Dr. Arun Sanyal, MD, Director, Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, advisor to Lipocine.

“We are very pleased to share the data from our successful Phase 2 study of LPCN 1148 with the hepatology community at this year’s Liver Meeting,” said Dr. Mahesh Patel, President and CEO of Lipocine. “The data show that LPCN 1148 improved multiple additional clinically meaningful and surrogate outcomes, including hepatic encephalopathy. An Open Label Extension is now ongoing, and we look forward to reporting further data in Q1 2024.”

The Phase 2 proof of concept study (NCT # 04874350) is a 52-week ongoing randomized placebo-controlled study in sarcopenic male patients with cirrhosis on the liver transplant waitlist. After week 24, all patients enter a single arm open-label extension (“OLE”) stage of the study and receive LPCN 1148. The purposes of the OLE are 1) to evaluate the safety and efficacy of continued exposure with LPCN 1148 in this population, and 2) to increase the number of participants on LPCN 1148 treatment.

A copy of the presentation and e-poster will be available on the Lipocine corporate website.

About LPCN 1148

Lipocine is currently evaluating LPCN 1148 comprising testosterone laurate (“TL”) for the management of decompensated cirrhosis. The Company believes LPCN 1148 targets unmet needs for cirrhosis subjects including improvement in the quality of life of patients while on the liver transplant waiting list, prevention or reduction in the occurrence of new decompensation events such as hepatic encephalopathy (“HE”), and improvement in post liver transplant survival, including outcomes and costs.

About Lipocine

Lipocine is a biopharmaceutical company leveraging its proprietary technology platform to augment therapeutics through effective oral delivery to develop differentiated products for CNS disorders. Lipocine has drug candidates in development as well as drug candidates for which we are exploring partnering. Our drug candidates represent enablement of differentiated, patient friendly oral delivery options for favorable benefit to risk profile which target large addressable markets with significant unmet medical needs.

Lipocine’s clinical development candidates include: LPCN 1154, oral brexanolone, for the potential treatment of postpartum depression, LPCN 2101 for the potential treatment of epilepsy and LPCN 1148, a novel androgen receptor agonist prodrug for oral administration targeted for the management of symptoms associated with liver cirrhosis. Lipocine is exploring partnering opportunities for LPCN 1107, our candidate for prevention of preterm birth, LPCN1154, for rapid relief of postpartum depression, LPCN 1148, for the management of decompensated cirrhosis, LPCN 1144, our candidate for treatment of non-cirrhotic NASH, and LPCN 1111, a once-a-day therapy candidate for testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). TLANDO, a novel oral prodrug of testosterone containing testosterone undecanoate developed by Lipocine, is approved by the FDA for conditions associated with a deficiency of endogenous testosterone, also known as hypogonadism, in adult males. For more information, please visit www.lipocine.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains “forward-looking statements” that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and include statements that are not historical facts regarding our product development efforts, the application of our proprietary platform in developing new treatments for CNS disorders, our product candidates and related clinical trials, our development of and filing of a NDA with the FDA for LPCN 1148,and the potential uses and benefits of our product candidates. Investors are cautioned that all such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, the risks that we may not be successful in developing product candidates to treat CNS disorders, we may not have sufficient capital to complete the development processes for our product candidates, we may not be able to enter into partnerships or other strategic relationships to monetize our non-core assets, the FDA will not approve any of our products, risks related to our products, expected product benefits not being realized, clinical and regulatory expectations and plans not being realized, new regulatory developments and requirements, risks related to the FDA approval process including the receipt of regulatory approvals and our ability to utilize a streamlined approval pathway for LPCN 1154, the results and timing of clinical trials, patient acceptance of Lipocine’s products, the manufacturing and commercialization of Lipocine’s products, and other risks detailed in Lipocine’s filings with the SEC, including, without limitation, its Form 10-K and other reports on Forms 8-K and 10-Q, all of which can be obtained on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Lipocine assumes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements contained in this release, except as required by law.

For further information:

Krista Fogarty

Phone: (801) 994-7383

kf@lipocine.com

Investors:

PJ Kelleher

Phone: (617) 430-7579

pkelleher@lifesciadvisors.com

Exhibit 99.2

Exhibit 99.3

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