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):  September 15, 2016

 

Viking Therapeutics, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

12340 El Camino Real, Suite 250, San Diego, California 92130

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (858) 704-4660

 

N/A

(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:

 

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

 

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

 

 

 

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Item 5.02  Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

On September 15, 2016, Rochelle Hanley, M.D., F.A.C.P., the Chief Medical Officer of Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”), informed the Company that she will be retiring and therefore resigning from the Company, effective September 30, 2016. Dr. Hanley served as the Company’s Chief Medical Officer since April 2013.  Her retirement and associated resignation were not due to any disagreement with the Company and are in accordance with previously defined milestones and a general timeline set out at the time she joined the Company. The Company’s additional clinical staff and consulting arrangements remain unchanged and Dr. Hanley’s retirement is not expected to have an impact on the Company’s ongoing or planned clinical trials.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.