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 26, 2025

LIPOCINE INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Commission File No. 001-36357
| Delaware | 99-0370688 | |
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(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(IRS Employer Identification Number) |
675 Arapeen Drive, Suite 202
Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (801) 994-7383
Former name or former address, if changed since last report: Not Applicable
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:
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered | ||
| Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share | LPCN | The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR § 230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR § 240.12b-2).
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| Item 8.01 | Other Events |
On August 26, 2025, the Company issued a press release announcing LPCN 2101 abstracts were accepted for presentation at the 2025 American Epilepsy Society (AES) annual meeting to be held December 5-9, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. A copy of this press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this report and incorporated by reference herein.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
| (d) | Exhibits |
The following exhibits are filed with this report:
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 99.1 | Press Release announcing LPCN 2101 Abstracts Accepted for Presentation at AES 2025 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
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.
| LIPOCINE INC. | ||||
| Date: | August 26, 2025 | By: | /s/ Mahesh V. Patel | |
| Mahesh V. Patel | ||||
| President and Chief Executive Officer | ||||
Exhibit 99.1
Lipocine Announces LPCN 2101 Abstracts Accepted for Presentation at AES 2025
SALT LAKE CITY, UT, August 26, 2025/PR NEWSWIRE/ — Lipocine Inc. (NASDAQ: LPCN), a biopharmaceutical company leveraging its proprietary technology platform to develop innovative products with effective oral delivery, today announced that two abstracts related to LPCN 2101 have been accepted for poster presentation at the 2025 American Epilepsy Society (AES) annual meeting to be held December 5-9 in Atlanta, Georgia. LPCN 2101 is in development for the potential treatment of epilepsy.
AES 2025 Annual Meeting: December 5-9, 2025
Atlanta, Georgia
| Title: | Oral Toxicokinetics of a Bioidentical GABAA Receptor Modulating Neuroactive Steroid (NAS) Anti-seizure Medication (ASM) Candidate for Women with Epilepsy (WWE) |
| Author: | Joshua C. Weavil, Jonathan Ogle, Min-Jee Goh, Joel Frank, Samuel Akapo, Benjamin J. Bruno, Nachiappan Chidambaram, Anthony DelConte, Mahesh V. Patel |
| Date: | Sunday, December 7, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
| Abstract Number: | 2.331 |
| Title: | Clinical Pharmacokinetics (PK) and Tolerability of a Novel Oral GABAA Receptor Positive Allosteric Modulating (PAM) Candidate for Epilepsy |
| Author: | Min-Jee Goh, Jonathan Ogle, Joshua C. Weavil, Joel Frank, Samuel Akapo, Benjamin J. Bruno, Nachiappan Chidambaram, Anthony DelConte, Mahesh V. Patel |
| Date: | Monday, December 8, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM |
| Abstract Number: | 3.354 |
Abstracts are embargoed from the AES online abstract database until Monday, November 24, 2025.
About Lipocine
Lipocine is a biopharmaceutical company leveraging its proprietary technology platform to develop innovative products with effective oral delivery. Lipocine has drug candidates in development as well as drug candidates for which we are exploring partnerships. Our drug candidates represent enablement of differentiated, patient friendly oral delivery options for favorable benefit to risk profile which target large addressable markets with significant unmet medical needs.
Lipocine’s clinical development candidates include: LPCN 1154, oral brexanolone, for the potential treatment of postpartum depression, LPCN 2101 for the potential treatment of epilepsy, LPCN 2203 an oral candidate targeted for the management of essential tremor, LPCN 2401 an oral proprietary anabolic androgen receptor agonist, as an adjunct therapy to incretin mimetics, as an aid for improved body composition in obesity management and LPCN 1148, a novel androgen receptor agonist prodrug for oral administration targeted for the management of symptoms associated with liver cirrhosis. Lipocine is exploring partnering opportunities for LPCN 1107, our candidate for prevention of preterm birth, LPCN 1154, for rapid relief of postpartum depression, LPCN 2401 for obesity management, LPCN 1148, for the management of decompensated cirrhosis, and LPCN 1144, our candidate for treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). TLANDO, a novel oral prodrug of testosterone containing testosterone undecanoate developed by Lipocine, is approved by the FDA for conditions associated with a deficiency of endogenous testosterone, also known as hypogonadism, in adult males. For more information, please visit www.lipocine.com.
SOURCE Lipocine Inc.
For further information:
Krista Fogarty
Phone: (801) 994-7383
kf@lipocine.com
Investors:
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