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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): August 6, 2020
ZOSANO PHARMA CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) 
 
Delaware 001-36570 45-4488360
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
 (Commission
File Number)
 (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

34790 Ardentech Court
Fremont, CA 94555
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(510) 745-1200
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code
Not applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
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))
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:
Title of each classTrading Symbol(s)Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, 00015872212020-08-062020-08-06

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): August 6, 2020
ZOSANO PHARMA CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) 
 
Delaware 001-36570 45-4488360
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
 (Commission
File Number)
 (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

34790 Ardentech Court
Fremont, CA 94555
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(510) 745-1200
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code
Not applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
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))
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:
Title of each classTrading Symbol(s)Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.0001 par valueZSANThe Nasdaq Stock 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 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Conditions.
On August 6, 2020, Zosano Pharma Corporation issued a press release titled “Zosano Pharma Reports Second Quarter 2020 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update.” The press release is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.02.
The information in Item 2.02 of this Form 8-K (including Exhibit 99.1) shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
 
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
 
(d)Exhibits.

SIGNATURE
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.
 
 ZOSANO PHARMA CORPORATION
Date: August 6, 2020 By: /s/ Christine Matthews
  Name: Christine Matthews
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer

ZSANThe Nasdaq Stock 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 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Conditions.
On August 6, 2020, Zosano Pharma Corporation issued a press release titled “Zosano Pharma Reports Second Quarter 2020 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update.” The press release is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.02.
The information in Item 2.02 of this Form 8-K (including Exhibit 99.1) shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
 
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
 
(d)Exhibits.
Exhibit  Description
99.1    

SIGNATURE
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.
 
 ZOSANO PHARMA CORPORATION
Date: August 6, 2020 By: /s/ Christine Matthews
  Name: Christine Matthews
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer


Document

Exhibit 99.1

Zosano Pharma Reports Second Quarter 2020 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update

FREMONT, Calif., August 6, 2020 -- Zosano Pharma Corporation (NASDAQ:ZSAN), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020, as well as recent business highlights.

“Zosano is on the cusp of potentially accomplishing what few biotech companies have the privilege of doing, namely becoming a commercial organization with an approved product designed to help address a significant treatment gap,” said Steven Lo, president and CEO of Zosano. “If approved, we believe Qtrypta’s novel drug delivery approach for the acute treatment of migraine has the potential to address patients’ needs for an effective, fast and durable therapy. Additionally, if approved, Qtrypta’s simple administration as a patch may be preferred by patients whose migraine is associated with nausea, which makes it challenging for them to take oral medications. We are now focused on executing on pre-commercial activities in preparation for Qtrypta’s possible approval later this year and potential subsequent launch in 2021.”

Business Highlights
Received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) acceptance of the 505(b)(2) NDA filing for Qtrypta™ for the acute treatment of migraine
Presented new post-hoc analyses of Qtrypta’s clinical trial data comparing key efficacy results from the pivotal ZOTRIP study and the open-label long-term safety study at the American Headache Society’s Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting
Analyses suggest that Qtrypta’s efficacy results and favorable tolerability results across approximately 6,000 migraine episodes treated in the long-term safety study were consistent with the statistically significant results and tolerability results noted in the pivotal study
Completed a blinded market research study conducted with high-volume physicians and payors, including 100 physician specialists and five national payors representing over 100 million covered lives, which found that:
79% of the physicians strongly agree there remains an unmet need in the treatment of migraine in the acute setting, even in patients that respond to preventive therapy
70% of the physicians would offer their patients a non-oral triptan that has fast and complete pain relief that is sustained and well-tolerated

Financial Results for the Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2020
Zosano reported a net loss for the second quarter of 2020 of $7.9 million, or $0.14 per share on a basic and diluted basis, compared with a net loss of $9.4 million, or $0.55 per share on a basic and diluted basis, for the same quarter in 2019.

Research and development expenses for the second quarter of 2020 were $4.9 million, compared with $6.6 million for the same quarter in 2019. The decrease was mainly due to lower clinical trial costs resulting from the completion of the Qtrypta long-term safety study in 2019.

General and administrative expenses for each of the second quarters of 2020 and 2019 were $2.8 million.

As of June 30, 2020, cash and cash equivalents were $10.5 million as compared with $6.3 million as of December 31, 2019.

About Qtrypta™ (M207)
Qtrypta is Zosano’s proprietary investigational formulation of zolmitriptan delivered utilizing its proprietary transdermal microneedle system (the “System”) in development for the acute treatment of migraine. The System consists of titanium microneedles coated with drug, and in the case of Qtrypta™, the formulation is zolmitriptan. The drug-coated microneedles are designed to penetrate the stratum corneum, where the investigational drug dissolves and easily enters into the bloodstream. In February 2017, the Company announced statistically significant results from the ZOTRIP pivotal study, in which the 3.8 mg dose of Qtrypta™ met both co-primary endpoints, achieving pain freedom and most bothersome symptom freedom at 2 hours.

About Migraine
Migraine is a highly prevalent neurological disease impacting 12% of the US population and 1 in 4 households. Patients impacted by migraine experience significant disability, with 90% unable to function normally. Migraine attacks are estimated to lead to lost productivity costs as high as $36 billion annually in the United States, including both direct and indirect costs. Zosano believes that there is a significant need for new acute treatment options since 74% of migraine patients experience inadequate treatment response.

About Zosano Pharma
Zosano Pharma Corporation is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing products where rapid administration of approved molecules with established safety and efficacy profiles may provide substantial benefit to patients,



in markets where patients remain underserved by existing therapies. The company’s transdermal microneedle system technology consists of titanium microneedles coated with drug that are designed to enable rapid systemic administration of therapeutics to patients. Zosano’s lead product candidate is Qtrypta™ (M207), which is a proprietary formulation of zolmitriptan delivered via its transdermal microneedle system technology, as an acute treatment for migraine. The company anticipates that many of its current and future development programs may enable the company to utilize a regulatory pathway that has the potential to streamline clinical development and accelerate the path towards commercialization. Learn more at www.zosanopharma.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the preparation for potential approval and launch of Qtrypta and other future events and expectations events and expectations described in this press release. Readers are urged to consider statements that include the words "may," "will," "would," "could," "should," "might," "believes," "estimates," "projects," "potential," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "intends," "continues," "forecast," "designed," "goal," "unaudited," "approximately" or the negative of those words or other comparable words to be uncertain and forward-looking. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict, and actual outcomes may differ materially. These include risks and uncertainties, without limitation, associated with the company’s ability to obtain additional cash resources to continue operations for the remainder of 2020, the process of discovering, developing and commercializing products that are safe and effective for use as human therapeutics, risks inherent in the effort to build a business around such products and other risks and uncertainties described under the heading "Risk Factors" in the company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Although Zosano believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, Zosano cannot in any way guarantee that the future results, level of activity, performance or events and circumstances reflected in forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur. All forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to Zosano and Zosano assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements.

Zosano Contact:
Christine Matthews
Chief Financial Officer
(510) 745-1200

PR Contacts:
Sylvia Wheeler or Alexandra Santos
swheeler@wheelhouselsa.com or asantos@wheelhouselsa.com



ZOSANO PHARMA CORPORATION
CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands, except par value and share amounts)
June 30,
2020
December 31,
2019
(unaudited)
 
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
$10,547  $6,316  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
699  497  
Total current assets
11,246  6,813  
Restricted cash
455  455  
Property and equipment, net
30,712  24,636  
Operating lease right-of-use assets
5,296  5,763  
Other long-term assets
  
Total assets
$47,712  $37,670  
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable
$4,809  $4,356  
Accrued compensation
2,754  2,015  
Build-to-suit obligation, current portion
3,085  4,554  
Operating lease liabilities, current portion
1,228  1,140  
Paycheck Protection Program loan, current portion725  —  
Other accrued liabilities
3,945  4,172  
Total current liabilities
16,546  16,237  
Build-to-suit obligation, long-term portion, net of debt issuance costs and discount
6,509  6,095  
Operating lease liabilities, long-term portion
5,297  5,931  
Paycheck Protection Program loan, long-term portion888  —  
Other liabilities
 15  
Total liabilities
29,248  28,278  
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019—  —  
Common stock, $0.0001 par value; 250,000,000 shares authorized; 57,245,251 and 23,503,214 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively  
Additional paid-in capital
333,863  308,211  
Accumulated deficit
(315,405) (298,821) 
Total stockholders’ equity
18,464  9,392  
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
$47,712  $37,670  



ZOSANO PHARMA CORPORATION
CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)
 
Three Months Ended June 30,Six Months Ended June 30,
 
2020201920202019
Revenue
$—  $—  $—  $—  
Operating expenses:
Research and development
4,932  6,640  10,446  13,256  
General and administrative
2,766  2,767  5,848  5,638  
Total operating expenses
7,698  9,407  16,294  18,894  
Loss from operations
(7,698) (9,407) (16,294) (18,894) 
Other income (expense):
Interest income
 82  15  162  
Interest expense
(190) (35) (396) (76) 
Other income (expense), net(12) —  91  22  
Loss before provision for income taxes
(7,895) (9,360) (16,584) (18,786) 
Provision for income taxes
—  —  —  —  
Net loss
$(7,895) $(9,360) $(16,584) $(18,786) 
Unrealized gain (loss) on marketable securities, net of tax
—  (1) —   
Comprehensive loss
$(7,895) $(9,361) $(16,584) $(18,781) 
Net loss per common share – basic and diluted
$(0.14) $(0.55) $(0.36) $(1.30) 
Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per common share – basic and diluted
54,927,408  16,868,643  45,596,713  14,434,365  

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