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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 1, 2024

 

BioVie Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

Nevada   001-39015   46-2510769
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)   (Commission File Number)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

680 W Nye Lane Suite 201

Carson City, NV

  89703
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

 

(775) 888-3162
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

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

 

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 March 1, 2024, BioVie Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing the presentation of “Improvement of Non-Motor Symptoms with NE3107 Adjunctive to Carbidopa/Levodopa in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Phase 2A, Placebo-Controlled Study” and “Clinical Outcomes from a Phase 3, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of NE3107 in Subjects with Mild to Moderate Probable Alzheimer’s Disease” at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal.

 

The Company is filing a copy of the press release, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Forward-Looking Statements

 

This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements, which may be identified by words such as “expect,” “look forward to,” “anticipate” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “seek,” “estimate,” “will,” “project” or words of similar meaning. In this report, forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the potential impact of NE3107 on cognition and function among study participants and topline data from the NE3107 trial. Although the Company believes such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be attained. Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by the statements herein due to certain risks, including but are not limited to, the Company’s ability to successfully raise sufficient capital on reasonable terms or at all, available cash on hand and contractual and statutory limitations that could impair the Company’s ability to pay future dividends, the Company’s ability to complete the Company’s pre-clinical or clinical studies and to obtain approval for the Company’s product candidates, the Company’s ability to successfully defend potential future litigation, changes in local or national economic conditions as well as various additional risks, many of which are now unknown and generally out of the Company’s control, and which are detailed from time to time in reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, reports on Form 8-K and annual reports on Form 10-K. The Company does not undertake any duty to update any statements contained herein (including any forward-looking statements), except as required by law.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.   Description
99.1   Press Release dated March 1, 2024.
104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline XBRL with applicable taxonomy extension information contained in Exhibits 101)

 

 

 

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.

 

Dated: March 1, 2024

 

  BIOVIE INC.
     
  By: /s/ Joanne Wendy Kim
  Name:   Joanne Wendy Kim
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

BioVie’s NE3107 Demonstrates Potential Improvements in Motor and Non-motor Symptoms for Parkinson’s Disease Patients and May Be Realigning Physiological Processes for Alzheimer’s Patients in Data to be Presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases 2024

 

Data from Phase 2a trial in Parkinson’s Disease suggest patients treated with NE3107 experienced significant improvements in non-motor symptoms and motor control while placebo-treated patients worsened

 

Data from Phase 3 trial in mild to moderate Alzheimer’s Disease suggest NE3107 may have the potential to realign physiological processes in patients consistent with decreased neurocognitive decline and diseases of aging

 

Carson City NV, March 1, 2024 – BioVie Inc., (NASDAQ: BIVI) (“BioVie” or the “Company”) a clinical-stage company developing innovative drug therapies for the treatment of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders and advanced liver disease, today announced two upcoming presentations at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases 2024 (AD/PD™ 2024) to be held March 5-9, 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal.

 

Improvements in non-motor symptoms correlated with improvements in motor symptoms for Parkinson’s Disease patients

 

The presentation Improvement of Non-Motor Symptoms with NE3107 Adjunctive to Carbidopa/Levodopa in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Phase 2A, Placebo-Controlled Study will be presented at 15:10 GMT on March 9, 2024 and suggest improvements of NE3107-treated patients with non-motor symptoms. These findings complement previously reported improvement in motor symptoms in patients treated with NE3107 and demonstrate potential intrinsic, levodopa-enhancing activity of NE3107 that is consistent with data from animal models.

 

NE3107-treated patients experienced a significant improvement of -2.4 points for the sleep/fatigue domain of the Non-Motor Symptom Scale (NMSS) in Parkinson’s Disease, whereas placebo patients experienced a worsening of +1.0 points (p=0.0159). Sleep/fatigue domain improvements correlated with motor score improvements (r=0.51; p=0.0259). More patients on NE3107 had improvements in the NMSS sleep/fatigue domain, while more patients on placebo worsened.

 

NMSS changes for NE3107-treated patients were driven by improvements of -0.87 in fatigue/lack of energy (p= 0.0005) and improvement of -2.91 on the urge to move legs/restlessness in legs (p=0.0036). Placebo patients saw no significant change of -0.39 on fatigue (p=0.1242) and -0.71 on leg restlessness (p=0.5141).

 



 

 

 

The new data on non-motor improvements complements previously presented data1 showing NE3107-treated patients saw a 3+ points advantage compared to placebo on the Part 3 (motor) score of the Motor Disease Society-Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS). In patients younger than 70 years old, the advantage was over 6 points. Furthermore, 26% of NE3107-treated patients experienced improvement in their ability to move, having Part 3 scores prior to their first morning dose of carbidopa/levodopa that were equal to or better than Part 3 scores associated with their being in the “on” state after carbidopa/levodopa treatment at the start of the study, whereas none of the placebo patients had the similarly improved morning Part 3 scores. The difference was statistically significant (p=0.046).

 

“These data suggest that NE3107 as adjunct therapy to levodopa may hold promise in ameliorating specific non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, particularly in sleep/fatigue and restlessness of the legs,” stated Joseph Palumbo, BioVie’s Chief Medical Officer. “These findings extend previously reported improvement in motor symptoms with NE3107 and demonstrate potential intrinsic and levodopa-enhancing activity of NE3107 that is consistent with data from animal models and support further clinical investigation of NE3107 in late-phase trials.”

 

Possible physiological realignment in Alzheimer’s Disease

 

The presentation Clinical Outcomes from a Phase 3, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of NE3107 in Subjects with Mild to Moderate Probable Alzheimer’s Disease will be presented at 14:50 GMT on March 8, 2024 reconfirms topline cognitive and functional data previously presented and will provide additional biomarker data and analyses.

 

The NM101 Trial enrolled 439 patients through 39 sites. The Company previously reported that upon trial completion, significant deviation from protocol and Good Clinical Practice violations were found at 15 sites, causing the Company to exclude all patients from these sites. After these exclusions and other exclusions per the statistical analysis plan, 57 patients in the Per-Protocol population were verified to have taken study drug from pharmacokinetics data and completed the full duration of the trial. Baseline and completion data were available for 50 subjects (NE3107, n=24 and placebo, n=26; 7 subjects randomized to placebo discontinued before day 150), and DNA methylation data were available for 33 subjects in this cohort.

 

Due to the exclusion of data from so many sites the trial missed statistical significance but showed promising directional data on cognitive and functional measures. NE3107-treated patients saw an advantage compared to placebo of -0.95 (68% slowing of decline) on CDR-SB, -0.94 (26%) on ADAS-COG-12, -0.43 (139%) on ADAS-CGIC, -0.03 (27%) on ADCOMS, +1.02 (40%) on MMSE, and +3.08 (47%) on ADCS-ADL.2

 

 

1A Randomized, Phase 2a, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial With NE3107 Adjunctive to Carbidopa/Levodopa in Patients With Parkinson’s Disease. Presented at the 2023 International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, August 27-31, 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark
2ADAS-Cog12 = 12-item cognitive subscale of the Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale (lower is improvement); ADCOMS = Alzheimer’s Disease Composite Score (lower is improvement); ADCS-ADL = Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living (higher is improvement); ADCS-CGIC = Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study-Clinical Global Impression of Change (lower is improvement); CDR-SB = Clinical Dementia Rating, Sum of Boxes (lower is improvement), MMSE = Mini Mental State Examination (higher is improvement).

 

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Significant improvements for NE3107-treated patients vs. placebo were observed for biological age deceleration (-3.87 years, p=0.012), fasting glucose levels (-8.5 mg/dL, p=0.036), cholesterol (-15 mg/dL, p=0.049), HOMA2 beta cell function (+12.4%, p=0.040), HOMA2 Insulin Sensitivity (+1.95%, p=0.018), and MCP1 (-90.5 pg/mL, p=0.007). Trending improvements in HOMA2 Insulin Resistance of -0.020 (p=0.0.063) were also observed.

 

A statistical technique called Principal Component Analysis3 identified neurological assessments and biological age deceleration as the two “principal components” that maximally explained the data across the large set of variables collected. Among NE3107-treated patients, correlations of neurological assessments and biological age deceleration with improved metabolic and glycemic control, improved neuropsychiatric indices, and levels of chemokines associated with microglial attraction to and digestion of Aβ plaques. Among placebo patients, neurological assessments and biological age deceleration were correlated with increased metabolic inflammatory measures, M1 to M2 transition, and plaque phagocytosis.

 

“We previously reported that NE3107 appeared to decrease metabolic inflammation-driven systems dysregulation,” stated Chris Reading, BioVie’s Senior Vice President of Alzheimer’s Disease Programs. “Principal component analyses, divergent correlations, and epigenetic analysis suggest that metabolic inflammation may be a driver of biological aging and AD, and that NE3107 might have the potential to realign physiological processes consistent with decreased neurocognitive decline and diseases of aging.”

 

“The data being presented reinforce our confidence in the potential of NE3107 to have a meaningful impact on core symptoms of both Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease,” stated Cuong Do, BioVie’s President and CEO. “These findings add to the growing body of evidence supporting our hypothesis that by selectively modulating inflammation and enhancing insulin sensitivity in the brain, NE3107 could offer benefits in slowing disease progression and improving the lives of patients living with these devastating conditions.”

 

About BioVie  

 

BioVie Inc. (NASDAQ: BIVI) is a clinical-stage company developing innovative drug therapies for the treatment of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders and advanced liver disease. In neurodegenerative disease, the Company’s drug candidate NE3107 inhibits inflammatory activation of ERK and NFkB (e.g., TNF signaling) that leads to neuroinflammation and insulin resistance, but not their homeostatic functions (e.g., insulin signaling and neuron growth and survival). Both are drivers of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. The Company conducted and reported efficacy data from its randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multicenter study to evaluate NE3107 in patients who have mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (NCT04669028). Results of a Phase 2 investigator-initiated trial (NCT05227820) showing NE3107-treated patients experienced improved cognition and biomarker levels were presented at the Clinical Trial in Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) annual conference in December 2022. An estimated six million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s. A Phase 2 study of NE3107 in Parkinson’s disease (NCT05083260) has completed, and data presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease and Related Neurological Disorders conference in Gothenburg, Sweden in March 2023 showed significant improvements in “morning on” symptoms and clinically meaningful improvement in motor control in patients treated with a combination of NE3107 and levodopa vs. patients treated with levodopa alone, and no drug-related adverse events. In liver disease, the Company’s Orphan drug candidate BIV201 (continuous infusion terlipressin), with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Fast Track status, is being evaluated and discussed with guidance received from the FDA regarding the design of Phase 3 clinical testing of BIV201 for the treatment of ascites due to chronic liver cirrhosis. The active agent is approved in the U.S. and in about 40 countries for related complications of advanced liver cirrhosis. For more information, visit http://www.bioviepharma.com/

 

 

3Principal component analysis is a statistical method for identifying/combining separate variables to a few “principal components” that maximally explain the variance of all the underlying variables. In the process, the method provides an approximation of the original data represented by the many individual variables using only a few major components.

 

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Forward-Looking Statements 

This press release contains forward-looking statements, which may be identified by words such as “expect,” “look forward to,” “anticipate” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “seek,” “estimate,” “will,” “project” or words of similar meaning. In this press release, forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the potential impact of NE3107 on cognition and function among study participants and topline data from the NE3107 trial. Although BioVie Inc. believes such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be attained. Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by the statements herein due to the Company’s ability to successfully raise sufficient capital on reasonable terms or at all, available cash on hand and contractual and statutory limitations that could impair our ability to pay future dividends, our ability to complete our pre-clinical or clinical studies and to obtain approval for our product candidates, our ability to successfully defend potential future litigation, changes in local or national economic conditions as well as various additional risks, many of which are now unknown and generally out of the Company’s control, and which are detailed from time to time in reports filed by the Company with the SEC, including quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, reports on Form 8-K and annual reports on Form 10-K. BioVie Inc. does not undertake any duty to update any statements contained herein (including any forward-looking statements), except as required by law.

 

For Investor Relations Inquiries: 

 

Contact: 
Bruce Mackle 
Managing Director 
LifeSci Advisors, LLC 
bmackle@lifesciadvisors.com 

   

For Media Inquires

Melyssa Weible

Managing Partner, Elixir Health Public Relations 

Ph: +1 201-723-5705

mweible@elixirhealthpr.com

 

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