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): September 26, 2019

AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Delaware

001-34655

04-3581650

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)


One Broadway, 14th Floor
Cambridge, Massachusetts		02142
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (617) 588-1960

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

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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, $0.001 par value

AVEO

Nasdaq Capital Market

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company 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 5.02

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(b) Effective October 8, 2019, Nikhil Mehta, Ph.D., senior vice president of regulatory and quality assurance of AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”), will step down as an officer of the Company to pursue another opportunity.

Michael Needle, M.D., chief medical officer, and Emile Farhan, Ph.D., senior vice president of CMC and quality, will lead the efforts to complete the preparation of a potential tivozanib New Drug Application for advanced renal cell carcinoma. Drs. Needle and Farhan successfully led the Company’s efforts to prepare the marketing authorization application (“MAA”) supporting EUSA’s 2016 MAA submission to the European Medicines Agency, which resulted in the approval of tivozanib in 2017 as a treatment for first line advanced renal cell carcinoma in that agency’s covered territories.

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.