Form: 8-K

Current report filing

May 5, 2011

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): May 2, 2011

 
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)

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

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Item 5.02.
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
 
Effective May 2, 2011, Robert Royds was elected to the Company’s Board of Directors to fill a vacancy on the Board.  Dr. Royds is to receive five-year options to purchase an aggregate of 200,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, vesting 25,000 quarterly commencing May 1, 2011, at an exercise price of $0.98 per share.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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:  May 2, 2011
LIXTE BIOTECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.
       
       
 
By:
/s/  John S. Kovach
  
   
John S. Kovach, Chief Executive Officer