UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO

SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report: April 17, 2016

(Date of earliest event reported)

 

LOXO ONCOLOGY, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

Delaware

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

 

 

 

(203) 653-3880

(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):

 

o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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o Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

o Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 

Item 7.01 Regulation FD.

 

On April 17, 2016, Loxo Oncology, Inc. (“Loxo Oncology”) issued a press release announcing the presentation of updated clinical data for Loxo Oncology’s ongoing LOXO-101 Phase 1 trial by the study investigators at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in New Orleans.  A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this report and incorporated herein by reference.   A copy of the slides presented by the study investigators are furnished as Exhibit 99.2 to this report and incorporated herein by reference.

 

The information furnished with this report, including Exhibit 99.1 and Exhibit 99.2, shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any other filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit Number		Description of Exhibit
99.1		Press release dated April 17, 2016.
99.2		Slides presented by study investigators on April 17, 2016.

 

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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.

 

		Loxo Oncology, Inc.
Date: April 18, 2016	By:	/s/ Jennifer Burstein
		Name:	Jennifer Burstein
		Title:	Vice President of Finance and principal financial officer

 

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