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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): October 19, 2018

 

 

DECIPHERA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-38219   30-1003521

(State or other jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

  (Commission
File Number)
 

(IRS Employer

Identification Number)

500 Totten Pond Road

Waltham, MA

  02451
(Address of registrant’s principal executive office)   (Zip code)

(781) 209-6400

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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:

 

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Item 8.01.

Other Events.

On October 19, 2018, Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) announced updated preliminary results from its ongoing Phase 1 clinical study of DCC-2618, the company’s broad-spectrum KIT and PDGFRα inhibitor, in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (“GIST”) at a presentation at the European Society of Medical Oncology 2018 Congress (“ESMO 2018”). The Company provided certain business updates in the materials attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

99.1    Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. materials dated October 2018.


INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

    
99.1    Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. materials dated October 2018.   


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.

 

Date: October 19, 2018     DECIPHERA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    By:  

/s/ Michael D. Taylor

      Michael D. Taylor
      President and Chief Executive Officer