As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 22, 2022

Registration No. 333-[_____]

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

​FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

NAVIDEA BIOPHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

(EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)

4995 Bradenton Avenue, Suite 240

Dublin, Ohio 43017
(614) 793-7500
(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Michael S. Rosol, Ph.D.

Chief Medical Officer

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.

4995 Bradenton Avenue, Suite 240

Dublin, Ohio 43017

(614) 793-7500
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

William M. Mower, Esq.
Maslon LLP
90 South 7^th Street, Suite 3300

Minneapolis, MN 55402​

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES

This Registration Statement is filed by Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) to register an additional 6,000,000 shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the 2014 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended and restated as of December 8, 2022 (the “2014 Plan”). These securities are being registered in addition to the securities previously registered for issuance under the 2014 Plan on the Company’s registration statements on Form S-8 (File Nos. 333-198716, 333-228960 and 333-250078) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on September 12, 2014, December 21, 2018 and November 13, 2020, respectively (the “2014 Registration Statement”). In accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the 2014 Registration Statement (including all attachments and exhibits thereto), are incorporated herein by reference, except to the extent supplemented, amended or superseded by the information set forth herein.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference

The Company incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents that the Company has previously filed with the SEC:

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 8. Exhibits

Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements of filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dublin, State of Ohio, on December 22, 2022.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Michael S. Rosol, Ph.D. as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments, exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated: