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Liquidity
9 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Liquidity  
Liquidity

Note 2 - Liquidity

The Company’s financial statements have been prepared assuming that it will continue as a going concern, which contemplates continuity of operations, realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities in the normal course of business. As reflected in the financial statements, the Company has an accumulated deficit at March 31, 2022 of approximately $121 million and a net loss of approximately $6.3 million and net cash used in operating activities of approximately $4.5 million for the nine months then ended. In addition, the Company has not generated any revenues and no revenues are anticipated in the foreseeable future. Since May 2005, the Company has been engaged exclusively in research and development activities focused on developing targeted antiviral drugs. The Company has not yet commenced any product commercialization. Such losses are expected to continue for the foreseeable future and until such time, if ever, as the Company is able to attain sales levels sufficient to support its operations. There can be no assurance that the Company will achieve or maintain profitability in the future. As of March 31, 2022, the Company had available cash and cash equivalents of approximately $15.6 million.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company has focused its efforts primarily on a single lead program to minimize cost outlays, namely, taking the COVID-19 drug candidate against SARS-CoV-2 into human clinical trials. The prior lead program for a shingles drug will follow the COVID-19 drug program.

On July 31, 2020, the Company entered into an At Market Issuance Sales Agreement (an “ATM”) with B. Riley Securities, Inc. and Kingswood Capital Markets, pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, from time to time, shares of common stock, having an aggregate offering price of up to $50 million. On March 2, 2021 the Company sold 814,242 shares of common stock at an average price of $7.83 under the Sales Agreement with B. Riley Securities, Inc. The net proceeds to the Company from the offering was approximately $6.1 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses.

The Company believes that it has several important milestones that it will be achieving in the ensuing year. Management believes that as it achieves these milestones, the Company’s ability to raise additional funds in the public markets would be enhanced.

The Company has not experienced a direct financial adverse impact of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the pandemic required the Company to reorganize its priorities, because of the impact on the ability to conduct antiviral drug trials for the Company’s then lead program for shingles drug treatment. While clinical trials were in general adversely affected, the ability to enroll patients into the shingles antiviral drug clinical trial with the desired inclusion criteria became limited due to the widespread coronavirus infection. The shingles clinical trial design and conduct would also become more complex. The emergence of widespread health emergencies due to COVID-19 have led to regional quarantines, shutdowns, shortages, disruptions of supply chains, and economic instability. The impact of COVID-19 on the financial markets and the overall economy are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted at this time. Though the Company has not experienced a direct financial impact, if the financial markets and/or the overall economy are impacted for an extended period, the Company’s ability to raise funds, in the future, may be materially adversely affected.

Management believes that the Company’s existing resources will be sufficient to fund the Company’s planned operations and expenditures through May 15, 2023. However, the Company cannot provide assurance that its plans will not change or that changed circumstances will not result in the depletion of its capital resources more rapidly than it currently anticipates. The Company will need to raise additional capital to fund its long-term operations and research and development plans including human clinical trials for its various drug candidates until it generates revenue which reaches a level sufficient to provide self-sustaining cash flows. The accompanying financial statements do not include any adjustments that may result from the outcome of such unidentified uncertainties.