Nature of Business

Monopar Therapeutics Inc. (“Monopar” or the “Company”) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing proprietary therapeutics designed to extend life or improve quality of life for cancer patients. Monopar currently has three compounds in development: Validive® (clonidine mucobuccal tablet; clonidine MBT), a Phase 3-ready, first-in-class mucoadhesive buccal anti-inflammatory tablet for the prevention and treatment of radiation induced severe oral mucositis (“SOM”) in oropharyngeal cancer patients; camsirubicin (generic name for MNPR-201, GPX-150; 5-imino-13-deoxydoxorubicin), a proprietary Phase 2 clinical stage topoisomerase II-alpha selective analog of doxorubicin engineered specifically to retain anticancer activity while minimizing toxic effects on the heart; and MNPR-101 (formerly huATN-658), a pre-IND stage humanized monoclonal antibody, which targets the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (“uPAR”), for the treatment of advanced solid cancers.

Liquidity

The Company has incurred an accumulated deficit of approximately $27.0 million as of March 31, 2020. To date, the Company has primarily funded its operations with the net proceeds from the Company’s initial public offering of its common stock on Nasdaq, private placements of convertible preferred stock and of common stock and from the cash provided in the camsirubicin asset purchase transaction. Management believes that currently available resources will provide sufficient funds to enable the Company to meet its planned obligations past June 2021. The Company’s ability to fund its future operations, including the clinical development of Validive and camsirubicin, is dependent primarily upon its ability to execute its business strategy, to obtain additional funding and/or to execute collaborative research agreements. There can be no certainty that future financing or collaborative research agreements will occur.

In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus (“COVID-19”) surfaced in China and by March 2020 COVID-19 was designated a global pandemic, resulting in travel restrictions and temporary shut-downs of non-essential businesses in many states in the United States. The Company is able to remain open but has required their employees to work from home. Due to the volatility of the stock markets resulting from travel restrictions and temporary business shut-downs, the Company faces challenges in raising substantial cash in the near-term. In response to the current COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on clinical trials, Monopar has modified the original adaptive design Phase 3 clinical trial for its lead product candidate, Validive, to be a Phase 2b/3 clinical trial to better fit the typesof trials which can enroll patients in the current environment. This modification will allow the Company to initiate the clinical trial without requiring near-term financing. The decision to proceed to the Phase 3 portion of the clinical trial without a delay will largely be dependent on the Company’s cash position closer to that time, anticipated to be in the second half of 2021. To initiate and complete the Phase 3 portion of the clinical trial, Monopar will require additional funding in the millions or tens of millions of dollars (depending on if the Company has consummated a collaboration or partnership or neither for Validive), which it is planning to pursue in the next 12 to 18 months. Due to many uncertainties, the Company is unable to estimate the pandemic’s financial impact or duration at this time, or its potential impact on the Company’s planned clinical trials.