Form: 8-K

Current report

July 11, 2025

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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): July 11, 2025 (July 9, 2025)

 

LIXTE BIOTECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

delaware   001-39717   20-2903526

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

 

680 East Colorado Boulevard, Suite 180

Pasadena, California 91101

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(631) 830-7092

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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 of 1933 (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(e) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

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   LIXT   The NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC
Warrants to Purchase Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share   LIXTW   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 (§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 July 9, 2025, Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that the Medical Journal Nature published findings by a team of physician scientists that validate the scientific premise underlying the Company’s ongoing clinical trials for Ovarian and Colorectal cancers. A copy of the press release is filed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) There is filed as part of this report the exhibits listed on the accompanying Index to Exhibits, which exhibits are incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

 

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: July 11, 2025 LIXTE BIOTECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.
                          (Registrant)

 

  By: /s/ Geordan Pursglove
    Geordan Pursglove
     Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit No.  

Description

     

99.1

  Press release dated July 9, 2025 regarding an article in the publication Nature
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