Hoth Therapeutics Inc

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of March 31, 2025, the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Based on such evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this report, as a result of the material weaknesses in our internal control identified below, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective to ensure that the information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is (i) recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC’s rules and forms and (ii) accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

Identified Material Weakness

In connection with the audit of our financial statements as of December 31, 2024 for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, we identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. The material weakness that we have identified related to the proper classification of prepaid expenses and other current assets and research and development expenses, which impacted our previously issued consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023, and our previously issued unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of March 31, 2024 and 2023, June 30, 2024 and 2023 and September 30, 2024 and 2023, and for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, three and six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, and three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.

Remediation Plan

Our management, with the oversight of the Audit Committee of the board of directors, has updated our internal processes and controls to strengthen their effectiveness and developed a remediation plan which includes the following actions:

We will not be able to conclude whether the actions we are taking will fully remediate the material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting until the updated controls have operated for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through testing, that such controls are operating effectively. We may also conclude that additional measures may be required to remediate the material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, which may necessitate further action.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Other than as described above, there have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during our last fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. We are taking actions to remediate the material weakness described above, which may result in changes in our internal control over financial reporting in periods subsequent to March 31, 2025.