Form: 8-K

Current report filing

September 23, 2010

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 17, 2010
 

LIXTE BIOTECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.
 

DELAWARE
000-51436
20-2903526
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
(Commission File Number)
(IRS Employer Identification No.)


248 Route 25A, No. 2
East Setauket, New York 11733
(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  631 942 7959

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Item 8.01.
Other Events
 
The National Cancer Institute Experimental Therapeutics (NExT) Program Senior Advisory Committee (SAC) approved a collaboration by NCI with Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) for clinical evaluation of one of the Company’s drug compounds, LB-100.  This collaboration is a milestone-based approach in which NCI will first confirm studies of the LB-100 compound in an animal model of glioblastoma multiforme, the most common brain tumor of adults, and conduct an initial exploratory toxicology study in an animal model.  At milestone intervals, the SAC will re-evaluate project progress before considering assignment of additional support and resources to this project.
 

 
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.
 
 
Date:  September 22, 2010
 LIXTE BIOTECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.  
       
 
By:
/s/ John S. Kovach       
   
John S. Kovach, Chief Executive Officer
  
       
       

 

 
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