---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-077665"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BPTH"
cik: "0001133818"
company_name: "BIO-PATH HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-08-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T13:52:14.737763+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bio-Path Holdings dismisses EY as auditor; no disagreements; seeking replacement

## Summary
- Board approved dismissal of EY as independent auditor on Aug 13, 2025, effective immediately.
- EY's reports for FY 2024 and 2023 were unqualified except for a going concern explanatory paragraph.
- No disagreements or reportable events with EY during the two most recent fiscal years or interim period.
- Company is actively seeking a new independent registered public accounting firm.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-077665
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BPTH
- cik: 0001133818
- company_name: BIO-PATH HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-08-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1133818/000110465925077665/0001104659-25-077665-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1133818/000110465925077665/tm2523449d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-077665.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  BIO-PATH HOLDINGS, INC. dismissed Ernst & Young LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Ernst & Young LLP
  source text: On August 13, 2025, the Board of Directors of Bio-Path Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) approved the dismissal of Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, and notified EY of the dismissal on the same date with an effective date of August 13, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1133818/000110465925077665/0001104659-25-077665-index.htm

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