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Organization and Nature of Business
12 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2024
Organization and Nature of Business  
Organization and Nature of Business

Note 1 – Organization and Nature of Business

NanoViricides, Inc. (the “Company”) is a clinical stage nano-biopharmaceutical company specializing in the discovery, development, and commercialization of drugs to combat viral infections using its unique and novel nanomedicines technology. NanoViricides possesses its own facility that supports research and development and drug discovery, drug candidate optimization, cGMP-compliant drug substance manufacturing, cGMP-compliant manufacturing and packaging of drug products for human clinical trials, and early commercialization. The Company has several drugs in various stages of development.

NanoViricides, Inc. is domiciled under the laws of the State of Delaware, with its principal operations located in the State of Connecticut. The Company’s fiscal year begins on July 1st and ends on the next June 30th of the calendar year. The Company operates in one reportable business segment.

The Company devotes substantially all its activity to advancing research and development, including efforts in connection with clinical trials. The Company’s lead drug candidate is the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) NV-387. NV-387 is a uniquely broad-spectrum antiviral drug that has demonstrated strong activity in lethal lung infection animal model studies of Coronavirus, RSV, Influenza and even an Orthopoxvirus model for Smallpox and MPox. The Company plans on developing NV-387 first as a treatment of RSV infection in pediatric patients.

At present, NV-387 is undergoing a PhaseIa/Ib human clinical trial for safety and tolerability in healthy subjects for the treatment of COVID-19, sponsored by our licensee and collaborator in India, Karveer Meditech Private Limited (KMPL). The trial involved Phase Ia single-ascending dose and Phase Ib multiple ascending dose studies in healthy subjects. Subjects were sequestered upon enrollment in a dedicated ward of the hospital clinical trial site during treatment. All subjects have been discharged and follow-up visits have been completed as of approximately the end of December 2023. The results of this clinical trial were consistent with the results of a single-injection safety/tolerability study in rats performed in support of the clinical trial application.

The clinical trial application for this clinical trial was submitted during the pandemic and a separate part of the clinical trial for the treatment of COVID patients with NV-387 was also proposed. This second part of the clinical trials was cancelled due to inability to find patients to enroll despite opening a second site. The second site was subsequently closed around April/May 2024. Meanwhile, data upload and crosschecking activities for the healthy subjects Phase Ia/Ib part have now been completed.

The Company is now working on developing the necessary datasets, documentation, and clinical trial pathway and trial designs, for a Phase II clinical trial application for the use of NV-387 for the treatment of RSV infection, as the Phase Ia/Ib study progresses into the data analysis phase.

The Company further plans on expanding the indications of NV-387 to other respiratory viral infections including Influenzas, Coronaviruses, and others.

Additionally, the Company has previously developed a clinical drug candidate, NV-HHV-1 formulated as skin cream, for the treatment of Shingles. The Company plans on taking NV-HHV-1 into human clinical trials, and further develop the HerpeCide™ program after engaging into clinical trials of NV-387 in Phase II for RSV and possibly for multiple indications, including Influenzas. In the HerpeCide program alone, the Company has drug candidates against at least five indications at different stages of development. The Company’s drug candidates against HSV-1 “cold sores” and HSV-2 “genital herpes” are in advanced pre-clinical studies and are expected to follow the shingles drug candidate into human clinical trials. In addition, the Company has drug candidates against HIV/AIDS, Dengue, Ebola/Marburg, and other viruses.

The Company’s drugs are based on several patents, patent applications, provisional patent applications, and other proprietary intellectual property held by TheraCour Pharma, Inc. (“TheraCour”), a related party substantially owned by Dr. Anil Diwan, to which the Company has broad, exclusive licenses. The licenses are to entire fields and not to specific compounds. In all, the Company has exclusive, worldwide licenses for the treatment of the following human viral diseases: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV/AIDS), Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2), Influenza and Asian Bird Flu Virus, Dengue viruses, Ebola/Marburg viruses, Japanese Encephalitis virus, viruses causing viral Conjunctivitis (a disease of the eye) and Ocular Herpes (restated), Varicella Zoster Virus (“VZV”) infections (i.e. Shingles and Chickenpox), and SARS-CoV-2 infections. In all cases, the discovery of ligands and polymer materials as well as formulations, the chemistry and chemical characterization, as well as process development and related work will be performed by TheraCour, a related party substantially owned by Dr. Anil Diwan, under the same compensation terms as prior agreements between the parties, with no duplication of costs allowed. Upon commercialization, NanoViricides will pay 15% of net sales to TheraCour. Milestone payments were made or are specified in certain of the license agreements, details of which have been disclosed at the time the agreements were entered into. The Company negotiates and licenses specific verticals of therapeutic applications from TheraCour if promising drug candidates are found in early research and development against a virus target. TheraCour has not denied any such licenses when requested.

The Company has executed a new Memorandum of Understanding with TheraCour by signing as of September 23, 2024 and becoming effective as of September 20, 2024, subsequent to the reported period, whereby the Company has obtained a right of first refusal for all antiviral drug developments including unlicensed ones, and has codified the process of development of drugs for unlicensed viral indications leading later to appropriate license agreements. The Parties have also agreed in this MoU that any cash milestone payments related to development activities, that are awardable, will become payable only upon the Company having sufficient revenue, thus extending the provisions previously incorporated in the Amendment to the COVID License Agreement, to all present and future license agreements. This removes any potential cash flow stress that may occur due to such milestone payments while the Company continues its developments while not raising profits.

The Company has out-licensed NV-CoV-2 and NV-CoV-2-R for further clinical drug development and commercialization in the territory of India to KMPL, a company of which Dr. Anil Diwan is a passive investor and advisor. KMPL has sponsored NV-CoV-2 for human clinical trials and has obtained regulatory approvals in India. KMPL has retained a local clinical research organization (CRO) to conduct the clinical trials. NV-CoV-2, Phase Ia/Ib human clinical trials in India, sponsored by KMPL began on June 17, 2023. The clinical trial drug products, NV-CoV-2 Oral Syrup, and NV-CoV-2 Oral Gummies, were manufactured at the Company’s Shelton campus, and then shipped to and received by KMPL. Under the agreement with KMPL, the Company will pay for the expenses of the clinical trials, and in return will benefit from having the data and reports made available for regulatory filings in other territories of the world. Upon commercialization, the Company will receive royalties from KMPL equal to 70% of sales net of costs to unaffiliated third parties.