Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:EIGR) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

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Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:EIGR) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

Set forth below are the proposals voted upon at the Annual Meeting (the “Annual Meeting”) of stockholders of Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) held on June12, 2018 at 366 Cambridge Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306, along with the final voting results thereon. Proxies for the meeting were solicited by the Company’s Board of Directors to Section14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and there was no solicitation in opposition to the Board’s solicitations. At the Annual Meeting, 8,797,486 common shares were represented in person or by proxy.

Proposal 1—To elect the two ClassIII directors named below to serve until the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their respective successors have been duly elected and qualified. Each of the two named nominees was so elected, with the votes thereon at the Annual Meeting as follows:

Final Voting Results

Nominees

For Withheld BrokerNon- Votes

Thomas J. Dietz, Ph.D.

6,731,595 153,976 1,911,915

Eldon Mayer

6,736,431 149,140 1,911,915

Proposal 2—To ratify the selection by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December31, 2018. This proposal was approved by the requisite vote, with the votes thereon at the Annual Meeting as follows:

Final Voting Results

For

Against

Abstain

8,743,993

45,537 7,956


About Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:EIGR)

Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc., formerly Celladon Corporation, is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on the development and commercialization of products for the treatment of orphan diseases. Its pipeline includes Sarasar (lonafarnib) for hepatitis delta virus (HDV), exendin (9-39) for severe hypoglycemia, and Bestatin (ubenimex) for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and lymphedema. Lonafarnib is an orally active inhibitor of farnesyl transferase that inhibits the prenylation step of HDV replication inside liver cells and blocks the ability of the virus to multiply. It is conducting over three Phase II clinical trials, which include LOnafarnib With and without Ritonavir (LOWR) HDV-2 (Ankara, Turkey), LOWR HDV-3 (NIH) and LOWR HDV-4 (Hannover, Germany). Exendin is in Phase II clinical studies for the treatment of hypoglycemia associated with bariatric surgery. Ubenimex is in Phase II clinical studies for the treatment of PAH and lymphedema.