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We maintain “disclosure
−Removed: controls and procedures” (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that are designed to ensure that information
+Added: controls and procedures” (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) designed to ensure that information
required to be disclosed, in our Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified
−Removed: in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Interim
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer (who is our principal executive officer and principal financial officer), to allow
+Added: in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive
+Added: Officer who also serves as our Chief Financial Officer (who is our principal executive officer and principal financial officer), to allow
timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
−Removed: In designing and evaluating
−Removed: the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated,
−Removed: can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and management is required to apply its judgment in
−Removed: evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.
−Removed: We have carried out an evaluation as of the end of the period
−Removed: covered by this Annual Report under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer,
−Removed: who also serves as our Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures.
+Added: Under the supervision and with
+Added: the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, who also serves as our Chief Financial Officer, we carried
+Added: out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures.
Internal Control over Financial Reporting
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of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
−Removed: Under the supervision and
−Removed: with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, who also serves as our Chief Financial Officer, we conducted
+Added: Under the supervision and with
+Added: the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, who also serves as our Chief Financial Officer, we conducted
an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2026.
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Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
−Removed: Based on this evaluation, and the successful implementation of remediation measures addressing
−Removed: the previously identified material weaknesses, management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as
−Removed: of March 31, 2025.
−Removed: Remediation of Previously
−Removed: Reported Material Weaknesses
−Removed: Segregation of Duties and
−Removed: User Access Controls
−Removed: As previously disclosed, management
−Removed: identified a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting related to segregation of duties and user access controls
−Removed: within our financial systems.
−Removed: Specifically, the Company had not adequately maintained user access controls to restrict both user and privileged
−Removed: access to financial applications, allowing the same individual to initiate, record, and approve accounting entries.
−Removed: Additionally, check
−Removed: stock was stored in the office of an authorized signatory, representing a weakness in physical access control.
−Removed: This control deficiency was
−Removed: due in part to our limited accounting and finance staff, which hindered the design and implementation of effective segregation of duties.
−Removed: The lack of adequate user access controls and the absence of sufficient compensating controls could have resulted in a material misstatement
−Removed: of the financial statements.
−Removed: To remediate this material
−Removed: weakness, the Company implemented the following measures:
−Removed: November 2023, check stock was relocated to a secure area accessible only to individuals without check signing authority, to mitigate
−Removed: unauthorized access risks.
−Removed: Subsequently, the Company discontinued maintaining any physical check stock onsite.
−Removed: While the Company continues
−Removed: to issue physical checks as needed, these are processed exclusively through the bank’s controlled check issuance services, eliminating
−Removed: the risk associated with onsite check stock and enhancing control over disbursements.
−Removed: May 2024, the Company completed an upgrade to its accounting software, enabling the establishment of distinct user roles and system access
−Removed: While certain individuals may both initiate and record transactions due to the size of the finance team, all transactions are
−Removed: reviewed and approved by personnel independent of those entering the transactions.
−Removed: Management has tested the design and operating effectiveness
−Removed: of these new controls and concluded that the material weakness was remediated as of March 31, 2025.
−Removed: Accounting for Accrued Commission Liabilities
−Removed: The Company also previously
−Removed: identified a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting related to the accounting for accrued commission liabilities.
−Removed: From fiscal 2017 through fiscal 2020, the Company incorrectly recorded commission accruals totaling approximately $404,000.
−Removed: arose due to the incorrect application of U.S.
−Removed: GAAP and the absence of adequate review controls, and it was not identified and corrected
−Removed: in a timely manner.
−Removed: The Company reversed the erroneous
−Removed: accrued commission liability during the year ended March 31, 2024, with the correction reflected as a reclassification to equity.
−Removed: recurrence, the Company implemented quarterly controls during fiscal 2025 for the review and validation of accruals, including those related
−Removed: to commissions.
−Removed: These controls include formal procedures for the assessment of accrual balances, with overall oversight provided by the
−Removed: Audit Committee in connection with its review of the Company’s financial reporting.
−Removed: Management has evaluated the design and operating
−Removed: effectiveness of these controls and concluded that the material weakness was remediated as of March 31, 2025.
−Removed: Limitations on Internal Control Over Financial
−Removed: Management recognizes that
−Removed: a system of internal control over financial reporting, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance
−Removed: and may not prevent or detect all material misstatements.
−Removed: Internal control over financial reporting has inherent limitations, including
−Removed: the possibility of human error, the circumvention or overriding of controls, or changes in conditions that may render controls inadequate.
−Removed: Projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of
−Removed: changes in conditions or because the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
+Added: Based on this evaluation, management concluded that our internal control over financial
+Added: reporting was effective as of March 31, 2026.
+Added: Limitations on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
+Added: Management recognizes that a system
+Added: of internal control over financial reporting, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance regarding
+Added: the achievement of control objectives and may not prevent or detect all material misstatements.
+Added: Internal control over financial reporting
+Added: has inherent limitations, including the possibility of human error, the circumvention or overriding of controls, or changes in conditions
+Added: that may render controls inadequate.
+Added: Projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls
+Added: may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or because the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
−Removed: There was no change in our
−Removed: internal control over financial reporting during the last fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2025 that has materially affected, or is reasonably
−Removed: likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: There were no changes in our internal
+Added: control over financial reporting during the last fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2026 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely
+Added: to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
OTHER INFORMATION
−Removed: During the three
−Removed: months ended March 31, 2025, none of our directors or officers entered into , modified or terminated a
−Removed: “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” that were intended to satisfy the
−Removed: affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1, in each case as defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K.
−Removed: DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2026, none of our directors or officers entered into, modified or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement”
+Added: or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” that were intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1,
+Added: in each case as defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K.
+Added: DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS
Not applicable.
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This information is based on information furnished to us by each individual
−Removed: Frakes Chief Executive Officer,
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer and Director
−Removed: Frakes has served as Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer since October 3, 2024, having previously served as Interim Chief Executive Officer beginning
+Added: Frakes Chief Executive Officer, Chief
+Added: Financial Officer and Director
+Added: Frakes has served as the Company’s
+Added: Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer since October 3, 2024, after serving as Interim Chief Executive Officer beginning
in November 2023.
−Removed: He has also served as a director of the Company since November 2023, and has held the role of Chief Financial Officer
−Removed: of the Company since September 2010.
−Removed: Prior to being appointed as Chief Financial Officer, Mr.
−Removed: Frakes served as Senior Vice President,
−Removed: Finance of the Company from January 2008 to September 2010.
−Removed: He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer for Left Behind Games
−Removed: Inc., a start-up video game company.
−Removed: Prior to 2006, he served as Chief Financial Officer of NTN Buzztime, Inc., an interactive entertainment
−Removed: Frakes received an MBA from the University of Southern California and a B.A.
−Removed: with Honors from Stanford University.
+Added: He has been a director of the Company since November 2023 and Chief Financial Officer since September 2010.
+Added: 2008 to September 2010, he served as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Finance.
+Added: Prior to joining the Company, Mr.
+Added: Chief Financial Officer for Left Behind Games Inc., a video game company, and previously served as Chief Financial Officer of NTN Buzztime,
+Added: Inc., an interactive entertainment company.
+Added: Frakes earned an MBA from the University of Southern California and a B.A.
+Added: from Stanford University.
Broenniman, Chairman and Director
−Removed: Broenniman has served
−Removed: as a director of the Company since March 1999.
−Removed: He has been the managing director of The Piedmont Group, LLC, a venture advisory firm,
−Removed: Broenniman currently serves on the boards of two privately held firms.
−Removed: He previously served on the boards of the nonprofit
−Removed: entities, the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship’s Board of Advisors at the University of Maryland (1989 to 2020), the National
−Removed: Capital Chapter of Corporate Directors (Founder, Chair from 2003 to 2005 and director from 2001 to 2018) and the Board of the Association
−Removed: for Corporate Growth, National Capital Chapter (Founder, Chair from 2000 to 2018).
−Removed: Broenniman received his MBA from Stanford Graduate
−Removed: School of Business and his B.A.
+Added: Broenniman has served as a
+Added: director of the Company since March 1999.
+Added: He has been the Managing Director of The Piedmont Group, LLC, a venture advisory firm, since
+Added: Broenniman currently serves on the boards of two privately held companies.
+Added: He previously served on the boards of several nonprofit
+Added: organizations, including the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship Board of Advisors at the University of Maryland from 1989 to 2020, the
+Added: National Capital Chapter of Corporate Directors, where he was Founder, Chair from 2003 to 2005 and director from 2001 to 2018 and t the
+Added: Association for Corporate Growth, National Capital Chapter, where he was Founder, Chair from 2000 to 2018.
+Added: Broenniman earned an MBA
+Added: from Stanford Graduate School of Business and his B.A.
from Yale University.
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From 2021 to May 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Gikakis served as the Head of Commercial for
−Removed: WearOptimo Pty Ltd, a private Australian medical device and digital health company.
−Removed: Previously, from 2017 to 2019, Mr.
−Removed: Gikakis served
−Removed: as Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Oventus Medical Limited, a private medical device company, during which time
−Removed: he assisted with the commercial expansion of its sleep apnea device.
+Added: Gikakis served Head of Commercial for WearOptimo
+Added: Pty Ltd, a private Australian medical device and digital health company.
+Added: From 2017 to 2019, he served as Vice President of Strategy and
+Added: Corporate Development at Oventus Medical Limited, where he supported the commercial expansion of the company’s sleep apnea device
From 2012 to 2021, Mr.
−Removed: Gikakis held various leadership and independent
−Removed: strategic advisor positions in the healthcare industry in sales, marketing, product development, and corporate development and transactions,
−Removed: including for companies working with blood filtration and purification.
−Removed: Gikakis earned a B.S.
−Removed: in bioengineering from the University
−Removed: of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA from George Mason University, with earlier work in bench and clinical research, and clinical experience
−Removed: at the University of Pennsylvania.
+Added: Gikakis has held various leadership and independent strategic advisor positions in the healthcare industry
+Added: focused on sales, marketing, product development, and corporate development, including for companies working with blood filtration and
+Added: purification technologies.
+Added: Gikakis holds a B.S.
+Added: in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from George Mason
+Added: Earlier in his career, he worked in bench and clinical research, and gained clinical experience at the University of Pennsylvania.
Angela Rossetti, Director
−Removed: Rossetti has served as
−Removed: a director of the Company since April 2022.
−Removed: As an active consultant since March 2018, her client list has included Kala Pharmaceuticals,
−Removed: and Celgene Corporation, among others.
−Removed: From June 2015 through July 2017, Ms.
−Removed: Rossetti served as Vice President of Cell Machines,
−Removed: Inc., an early-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel protein therapies, where she assisted with the commercialization of technology
−Removed: for hemophilia and other diseases.
−Removed: Rossetti has held a number of positions within pharmaceutical commercial development, marketing,
−Removed: communications and finance, including Vice President of a Global Commercial Medicine Team at Pfizer Inc.
−Removed: from 2007 to 2012, where she
−Removed: led a global smoking cessation campaign.
−Removed: Rossetti previously served on the board of directors of Palatin Technologies, Inc., a public
−Removed: biopharmaceutical company, from June 2013 to December 2020.
−Removed: Rossetti currently holds positions as an adjunct Assistant Professor of
−Removed: Medical and Pharmaceutical Ethics at New York Medical College and an Adjunct Associate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
−Removed: graduated from a joint program of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Benjamin N.
−Removed: Cardozo School of Law with an M.S.
−Removed: in Bioethics,
−Removed: has an M.B.A.
−Removed: from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a B.A.
+Added: Angela Rossetti has served
+Added: as a director of the Company since April 2022.
+Added: Since March 2018, Dr.
+Added: Rossetti has served as an independent consultant to companies in
+Added: the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, including Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
+Added: and Celgene Corporation.
+Added: From June 2015 through
+Added: July 2017, Dr.
+Added: Rossetti served as Vice President of Cell Machines, Inc., an early-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel protein
+Added: therapies, where she supported commercialization activities for therapies targeting hemophilia and other diseases.
+Added: Rossetti has held
+Added: various positions within pharmaceutical commercial development, marketing, communications and finance, including serving as Vice President
+Added: of a Global Commercial Medicine Team at Pfizer Inc.
+Added: from 2007 to 2012, where she led a global smoking cessation initiative.
+Added: previously served on the board of directors of Palatin Technologies, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company, from June 2013 to December
+Added: Rossetti currently serves as an adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical and Pharmaceutical Ethics at New York Medical College
+Added: and as an Adjunct Associate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
+Added: Rossetti holds a Doctorate in Bioethics from Loyola University
+Added: Chicago, where her studies focused on research ethics and rare disease ethics, an M.B.E from Montefiore Einstein, and an M.B.A.
+Added: from Columbia
+Added: University and a B.A.
in Biology and English from the University of Pennsylvania.
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of the Company since June 2013.
−Removed: Shah is a board certified Otolaryngologist.
−Removed: He is a partner and board member of the Surgery Center
−Removed: at Hamilton, as well as Physician Management Systems and Princeton Eye & Ear, which he founded in 2009.
−Removed: Shah serves on the board
−Removed: of one other private company.
−Removed: He holds teaching positions and serves on multiple hospital committees in the area and is on the Audiology
−Removed: and Speech Language Pathology Committee for the State of New Jersey.
−Removed: Shah also was a member of the Board of Medical Examiners for
+Added: Shah is a board certified Otolaryngologist and is a partner and board member of the Surgery Center
+Added: at Hamilton, Physician Management Systems and Princeton Eye & Ear, which he founded in 2009.
+Added: He also serves on the board of directors
+Added: of another private company.
+Added: Shah holds teaching positions, serves on multiple hospital committees and serves on the Audiology and
+Added: Speech Language Pathology Committee for the State of New Jersey.
+Added: He previously served as member of the Board of Medical Examiners for
the State of New Jersey.
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LaRosa, M.D., Chief Medical Officer
−Removed: LaRosa has served as our
−Removed: Chief Medical Officer since January 2021 and served as our Chief Scientific Officer from May 2021 until February 2023.
−Removed: over 20 years of experience as a practicing physician and infectious disease specialist.
−Removed: Prior to joining the Company, Dr.
−Removed: LaRosa served
−Removed: as the Vice President of Clinical Development of Entasis Therapeutics, a spin-out of AstraZeneca focused on pathogen-targeted small molecules
−Removed: to treat serious multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections, from March 2020 to December 2020.
−Removed: Prior to joining Entasis, Dr.
−Removed: was an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Disease at Beverly Hospital, a member of Beth Israel Lahey Health.
−Removed: Prior to Beverly
−Removed: Hospital from September 2012 to March 2020, he was an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rhode Island Hospital.
−Removed: Prior to that, Dr.
−Removed: LaRosa was an Associate Staff Physician in the Department of Infectious Disease at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
−Removed: He also served as a Clinical Research Physician for Eli Lilly and Company.
+Added: LaRosa has served as our Chief
+Added: Medical Officer since January 2021 and served as our Chief Scientific Officer from May 2021 until February 2023.
+Added: Prior to joining the
+Added: LaRosa served as the Vice President of Clinical Development of Entasis Therapeutics, a spin-out of AstraZeneca focused on
+Added: pathogen-targeted small molecules to treat serious multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections, from March 2020 to December 2020.
+Added: to joining Entasis, Dr.
+Added: LaRosa served as an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Disease at Beverly Hospital, a member of
+Added: Beth Israel Lahey Health.
+Added: From September 2012 to March 2020, Dr.
+Added: LaRosa served as an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious
+Added: Diseases at Rhode Island Hospital.
+Added: Prior to that, he served as an Associate Staff Physician in the Department of Infectious Disease at
+Added: the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and as Clinical Research Physician for Eli Lilly and Company.
Throughout his career, Dr.
−Removed: LaRosa has had several academic
−Removed: appointments.
−Removed: LaRosa holds his M.D.
+Added: LaRosa has had
+Added: several academic appointments.
+Added: LaRosa received his M.D.
from Boston University School of Medicine and his B.S.
−Removed: in Biology from Boston College.
−Removed: an Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Infectious Disease Fellowship at Massachusetts
−Removed: General Hospital.
−Removed: He is Board Certified by the ABIM in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease.
+Added: in Biology from Boston
+Added: He completed an Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Infectious Disease Fellowship
+Added: at Massachusetts General Hospital.
+Added: He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease by the American Board of Internal
Family Relationships
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between or among the directors or executive officers.
−Removed: There are no arrangements
−Removed: or understandings between any two or more of our directors or executive officers or between any of our directors or executive officers
−Removed: and any other person pursuant to which any director or officer was or is to be selected as a director or officer, and there is no arrangement,
−Removed: plan or understanding as to whether non-management stockholders will exercise their voting rights to continue to elect the current Board
−Removed: of Directors.
−Removed: There are also no arrangements, agreements or understandings between non-management stockholders that may directly or indirectly
−Removed: participate in or influence the management of our affairs.
+Added: There are no arrangements or understandings
+Added: between any two or more of our directors or executive officers or between any of our directors or executive officers and any other person
+Added: pursuant to which any director or officer was or is to be selected as a director or officer, and there is no arrangement, plan or understanding
+Added: as to whether non-management stockholders will exercise their voting rights to continue to elect the current Board of Directors.
+Added: are also no arrangements, agreements or understandings between non-management stockholders that may directly or indirectly participate
+Added: in or influence the management of our affairs.
Legal Proceedings
−Removed: our knowledge, (i) no director or executive officer has been a director or executive officer of any business that has filed a bankruptcy
−Removed: petition or had a bankruptcy petition filed against it during the past ten years;
−Removed: (ii) no director or executive officer has been convicted
−Removed: of a criminal offense or is the subject of a pending criminal proceeding during the past ten years;
+Added: knowledge, (i) no director or executive officer has been a director or executive officer of any business that has filed a bankruptcy petition
+Added: or had a bankruptcy petition filed against it during the past ten years;
+Added: (ii) no director or executive officer has been convicted of a
+Added: criminal offense or is the subject of a pending criminal proceeding during the past ten years;
(iii) no director or executive officer
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Board of Directors
−Removed: Our Board of Directors has
−Removed: the responsibility for establishing broad corporate policies and for overseeing our overall performance.
+Added: Our Board of Directors has the
+Added: responsibility for establishing broad corporate policies and for overseeing our overall performance.
Members of our Board of Directors
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of our Board and Mr.
−Removed: Frakes as our Interim Chief Executive Officer, and we have not designated a lead independent director.
−Removed: that having the offices of Chairman of our Board and Interim Chief Executive Officer held by two different people is appropriate for
−Removed: a company of our size and stage of development in order to maximize efficiencies of our limited available personnel resources.
+Added: Frakes as our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, and we have not designated a lead independent
+Added: We believe that having the offices of Chairman of our Board and Chief Executive Officer held by two different people is appropriate
+Added: for a company of our size and stage of development in order to maximize efficiencies of our limited available personnel resources.
law provides that each director holds office after the expiration of his or her term until a successor is elected and qualified, or until
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presently has an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee and a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, on which each of Mr.
−Removed: Broenniman and Ms.
Rossetti serve as independent directors.
In addition, Dr.
−Removed: Shah serves as an independent director on the Audit, Compensation
−Removed: and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees, and Mr.
−Removed: Gikakis serves as an independent director on the Nominating and Corporate
−Removed: Governance Committees.
+Added: Shah serves as an independent director on the Compensation and Nominating
+Added: and Corporate Governance Committees, and Mr.
+Added: Gikakis serves as an independent director on the Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance
Broenniman is Chair of the Audit Committee, Dr.
Shah is Chair of the Compensation Committee and Ms.
−Removed: is Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
+Added: Rossetti is Chair
+Added: of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Our Board of Directors believes
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of management and directors, among other best practices.
−Removed: Our Board of Directors has
−Removed: determined that four of our five current directors meet the independence requirements of the Nasdaq Capital Market, on which our common
−Removed: stock is listed.
+Added: Our Board of Directors has determined
+Added: that four of our five current directors meet the independence requirements of the Nasdaq Capital Market, on which our common stock is
In the judgment of our Board of Directors, Mr.
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the past between our Company and each of the independent directors were immaterial on the basis of the information set forth in the above-referenced
−Removed: Audit Committee and Audit Committee Financial
+Added: Audit Committee and Audit Committee Financial Expert
Our Board of Directors formed
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Regulation S-K, promulgated under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Each of the members of the
−Removed: Audit Committee has a basic understanding of finance and accounting and is able to read and understand fundamental financial statements.
−Removed: Our Board of Directors has determined that each of the members of the Audit Committee meets the independence requirements applicable to
−Removed: audit committee members of Nasdaq Capital Market companies.
−Removed: The Audit Committee has the authority to appoint, review and discharge our
−Removed: independent registered public accounting firm.
−Removed: The Audit Committee reviews the results and scope of the audit and other services provided
−Removed: by our independent registered public accounting firm, as well as our accounting principles and our system of internal controls, reports
−Removed: the results of their review to the full Board of Directors and to management and recommends to the full Board of Directors that our audited
−Removed: consolidated financial statements be included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: Each of the members of the Audit
+Added: Committee has a basic understanding of finance and accounting and is able to read and understand fundamental financial statements.
+Added: Board of Directors has determined that each of the members of the Audit Committee meets the independence requirements applicable to audit
+Added: committee members of Nasdaq Capital Market companies.
+Added: The Audit Committee has the authority to appoint, review and discharge our independent
+Added: registered public accounting firm.
+Added: The Audit Committee reviews the results and scope of the audit and other services provided by our independent
+Added: registered public accounting firm, as well as our accounting principles and our system of internal controls, reports the results of their
+Added: review to the full Board of Directors and to management and recommends to the full Board of Directors that our audited consolidated financial
+Added: statements be included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.
The Audit Committee has adopted
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to or inclusion of our website address in this Amendment No.
−Removed: 1 does not include or incorporate by reference the information on our website
−Removed: into this Amendment No.
+Added: Annual Report does not include or incorporate by reference the information
+Added: on our website into this Amendment No.
+Added: Annual Report.
Compensation Committee
−Removed: The Compensation Committee
−Removed: approves or makes recommendations to our Board of Directors on decisions concerning compensation of the executive management team and
−Removed: non-employee directors and administers our stock-based incentive compensation plans.
−Removed: The Chair establishes meeting agendas after consultation
−Removed: with other committee members.
+Added: The Compensation Committee approves
+Added: or makes recommendations to our Board of Directors on decisions concerning compensation of the executive management team and non-employee
+Added: directors and administers our stock-based incentive compensation plans.
+Added: The Chair establishes meeting agendas after consultation with
+Added: other committee members.
Our Interim Chief Executive Officer and other members of management regularly discuss our compensation issues
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Market companies.
−Removed: With respect to calendar
−Removed: year 2024, our Compensation Committee considered compensation information provided by Anderson Pay Advisors LLC (“Anderson”),
−Removed: a compensation consultant, in determining executive compensation.
+Added: With respect to calendar year
+Added: 2025, our Compensation Committee considered compensation information provided by Anderson Pay Advisors LLC (“Anderson”), a
+Added: compensation consultant, in determining executive compensation.
Anderson provided competitive compensation data showing that our cash
−Removed: compensation generally was and made cash compensation recommendations designed to compensate our officers in line with the 50% range
−Removed: for similarly situated companies.
−Removed: The Compensation Committee
−Removed: has adopted a charter, which can be found on our website at “Investors –Governance – Governance Documents.” The
−Removed: reference to or inclusion of our website address in this Amendment No.
−Removed: 1 does not include or incorporate by reference the information
+Added: compensation generally was and made cash compensation recommendations designed to compensate our officers in line with the 50% range for
+Added: similarly situated companies.
+Added: The Compensation Committee has
+Added: adopted a charter, which can be found on our website at “Investors –Governance – Governance Documents.” The reference
+Added: to or inclusion of our website address in this Amendment No.
+Added: Annual Report does not include or incorporate by reference the information
on our website into this Amendment No.
+Added: Annual Report.
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
−Removed: The responsibilities of the
−Removed: Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee include:
+Added: The responsibilities of the Nominating
+Added: and Corporate Governance Committee include:
overseeing our corporate governance functions on behalf of our Board of Directors;
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reviewing and evaluating the performance of our Board of Directors.
−Removed: Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has adopted a charter, which can be found on our website at “Investors – Governance
+Added: The Nominating
+Added: and Corporate Governance Committee has adopted a charter, which can be found on our website at “Investors – Governance –
Governance Documents.” The reference to or inclusion of our website address in this Amendment No.
−Removed: 1 does not include or
−Removed: incorporate by reference the information on our website into this Amendment No.
+Added: Annual Report does not include
+Added: or incorporate by reference the information on our website into this Amendment No.
+Added: Annual Report.
Stockholder Nominees for Director
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Code of Ethics
−Removed: In February 2005, our Board
−Removed: of Directors approved a “Code of Business Conduct and Ethics” (as amended from time to time, the “Code”), which
−Removed: applies to our principal executive officer, our principal financial officer, our principal accounting officer and persons performing similar
−Removed: In February 2020, the Board of Directors adopted an amended Code, which is applicable to all of our directors, officers and other
−Removed: employees and which is available on our website at www.aethlonmedical.com.
−Removed: If we make any substantive amendments to, or grant any waivers
−Removed: from, the Code for any officer or director, we will disclose the nature of such amendment or waiver on our website or in a Current Report
+Added: In February 2005, our Board of
+Added: Directors approved a “Code of Business Conduct and Ethics” (as amended from time to time, the “Code”), which applies
+Added: to our principal executive officer, our principal financial officer, our principal accounting officer and persons performing similar tasks.
+Added: In February 2020, the Board of Directors adopted an amended Code, which is applicable to all of our directors, officers and other employees
+Added: and which is available on our website at www.aethlonmedical.com.
+Added: If we make any substantive amendments to, or grant any waivers from,
+Added: the Code for any officer or director, we will disclose the nature of such amendment or waiver on our website or in a Current Report on
The inclusion of our website address in this Amendment No.
−Removed: 1 does not include or incorporate by reference the information
+Added: Annual Report does not include or incorporate by reference the information
on our website into this Amendment No.
+Added: Annual Report.
Incentive Compensation Recoupment Policy
−Removed: have adopted an incentive compensation recovery policy (the “Compensation Recovery Policy”) that is designed to comply with,
−Removed: and will be interpreted in a manner consistent with, Section 10D and Rule 10D-1 of the Exchange Act and the applicable rules of the Nasdaq
+Added: adopted an incentive compensation recovery policy (the “Compensation Recovery Policy”) that is designed to comply with, and
+Added: will be interpreted in a manner consistent with, Section 10D and Rule 10D-1 of the Exchange Act and the applicable rules of the Nasdaq
Stock Market, including any interpretive guidance provided by Nasdaq.
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officer for purchasing insurance to cover any such loss.
−Removed: copy of our Compensation Recovery Policy is attached as Exhibit 97.1 to this Amendment No.
−Removed: Delinquent Section
−Removed: 16(a) Reports
+Added: of our Compensation Recovery Policy is attached as Exhibit 97.1 to this Amendment No.
+Added: Annual Report.
+Added: Delinquent Section 16(a)
16(a) of the Exchange Act requires the Company’s directors and executive officers and persons who beneficially own more than ten
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year executive compensation program for our named executive officers.
−Removed: Our named executive officers for the fiscal year
−Removed: ended March 31, 2025, consist of our Chief Executive Officer, who also serves as our Principal Financial Officer;
−Removed: our Chief Medical Officer;
−Removed: and our former Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, who served during the fiscal year but was no longer employed as of year-end.
−Removed: These individuals represented our principal executive officers and the two most highly compensated executive officers other than our principal
−Removed: executive officers.
+Added: Our named executive officers for
+Added: the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, consist of our Chief Executive Officer, who also serves as our Principal Financial Officer and our
+Added: Chief Medical Officer.
+Added: These individuals represented our principal executive officer, principal financial officer and the next highly
+Added: compensated executive officer.
+Added: serving as of March 31, 2026.
Frakes, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer;
LaRosa, M.D., our Chief Medical Officer
−Removed: Cipriani, our former Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer.
+Added: The table also includes
+Added: compensation for Guy F.
+Added: Cipriani, our former Chief Operating Officer, who served during a portion of fiscal year 2025 and received severance
+Added: during fiscal year 2026.
SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE FOR 2026 AND 2025 FISCAL
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Chief Medical Officer
−Removed: Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
−Removed: Includes a severance payment of $178,750 and a vacation payout of $17,438, each paid in connection with the executive’s termination of employment.
+Added: Former Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
+Added: Includes a discretionary cash bonus payment of $250,000
+Added: and an accrued vacation payout of $76,922 related to a Company-wide vacation policy change.
+Added: Includes a discretionary cash bonus payment of $75,000
+Added: and an accrued vacation payout of $45,480 related to a Company-wide vacation policy change.
+Added: Includes a severance payment of $211,250 for fiscal year ending ended March 31, 2026.
+Added: For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, includes severance payments of $178,750 and accrued vacation payout of $17,438, paid in connection with the executive’s termination of employment.
Narrative Disclosure to Executive Summary
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$ 473,000 (1)
−Removed: $ 390,000 (2)
−Removed: Frakes’ annual base salary was increased from $360,000 to $500,000, effective as of November 7, 2023 in connection with his appointment as interim Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: Cipriani’s annual base salary was increased from $370,000 to $390,000, effective as of November 7, 2023 in connection with his appointment as Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer.
−Removed: Cipriani’s employment was terminated on October 3, 2024.
+Added: LaRosa’s annual base salary was increased from $430,000 to $473,000, effective as of April 1, 2025.
Executive Cash Bonuses and Annual Cash Incentives
−Removed: With respect to the fiscal
−Removed: year ended March 31, 2025, we approved a cash bonus of $50,000 to our Chief Medical Officer.
−Removed: We did not approve any annual cash incentives
−Removed: for our named executive officers.
+Added: With respect to the fiscal year
+Added: ended March 31, 2026, we approved cash bonuses of $250,000 to our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer and $75,000 to our
+Added: Chief Medical Officer.
Equity-Based Incentive Awards
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In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, we did not approve any equity-based incentive awards for our named executive officers.
−Removed: Granting of Certain Equity Awards Close in
−Removed: Time to the Release of Material Nonpublic Information
+Added: Granting of Certain Equity Awards Close in Time
+Added: to the Release of Material Nonpublic Information
We do not grant equity awards
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and do not time the public release of such information based on award grant dates.
−Removed: Other than our RSU grants in every April to our independent
−Removed: directors, we have not made any awards to any named executive officer or employee during the past two fiscal years.
+Added: Other than our RSU grants in every April annual grants
+Added: to our independent directors in April to our independent directors, we have not made any awards to any named executive officer or employee
+Added: during the past two fiscal years.
Employment and Separation Agreements
−Removed: On December 12, 2018, we entered
−Removed: into an executive employment agreement with Mr.
−Removed: Frakes, which was amended in November 2023 and currently governs the terms of his employment.
−Removed: Effective November 7, 2023, in connection with his appointment as Interim Chief Executive Officer, the Board of Directors increased Mr.
−Removed: Frakes’ annual base salary to $500,000.
−Removed: On October 3, 2024, Mr.
−Removed: Frakes was appointed as our permanent Chief Executive Officer.
−Removed: will also continue to serve as Chief Financial Officer.
−Removed: The agreement also provides
−Removed: Frakes is eligible to receive an annual cash performance bonus, based on the achievement of individual and company performance
−Removed: objectives to be established annually by the Board of Directors or its Compensation Committee.
−Removed: The decision to award a bonus, and the
−Removed: amount, is at the discretion of the Board of Directors or the Compensation Committee.
−Removed: In the event Mr.
−Removed: employment is terminated without cause or he resigns for good reason (as defined in the agreement), he will be entitled to continue receiving
−Removed: his base salary and company-paid healthcare premiums for 12 months following such termination.
+Added: Frakes serves as Chief
+Added: Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
+Added: On December 12, 2018, the Company entered into an executive employment agreement
+Added: Frakes, which was amended in November 2023 and governs the current terms of his employment.
+Added: Effective October 3, 2024, Mr.
+Added: was appointed permanent Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: Frakes currently receives an annual base salary of $500,000 and is eligible to receive
+Added: an annual discretionary cash performance bonus as determined by the Board of Directors or Compensation Committee based on individual and
+Added: Company performance objectives.
+Added: The agreement further provides
+Added: Frakes’ employment is terminated without cause or if he resigns for good reason, he is entitled to receive continued
+Added: base salary payments and Company-paid healthcare benefits for a period of 12 months following termination.
July 1, 2024, Lee Arnold, Chief Science Officer of the Company, was terminated by the Company.
−Removed: As a result of Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani’s termination,
−Removed: that executive employment agreement entered into by and between Mr.
−Removed: Arnold and the Company on February 1, 2023, (the “Employment
−Removed: Agreement”), terminated July 1, 2024.
In connection with his departure, Mr.
−Removed: Arnold is entitled to receive twelve months’ severance
−Removed: and related separation benefits, consistent with the terms of his Employment Agreement.
+Added: became entitled to receive severance and related separation benefits, consistent with the terms of his Employment Agreement.
October 3, 2024, Guy F.
−Removed: Cipriani, Chief Operating Officer of the Company, has departed the Company.
−Removed: Cipriani’s departure was
−Removed: not related to the Company’s financial or operating results or to any disagreements or concerns regarding the Company’s financial
−Removed: or reporting practices.
−Removed: a result of Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani’s departure, that executive employment agreement entered into by and between Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani and the Company
−Removed: on January 2, 2021, as amended (the “Employment Agreement”), terminated effective October 3, 2024.
−Removed: In connection with his
−Removed: departure, Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani is entitled to receive twelve months’ severance and related separation benefits, consistent with the terms
−Removed: of his Employment Agreement.
+Added: Cipriani, Chief Operating Officer of the Company, departed the Company.
+Added: In connection with his departure, Mr.
+Added: Cipriani became entitled to receive severance and related separation benefits, consistent with the terms of his Employment Agreement.
On January 4, 2021, we entered
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LaRosa, which governs the current terms of his employment with us.
−Removed: annual base salary was increased by the Compensation Committee to $430,000, effective May 1, 2021, when Dr.
−Removed: LaRosa assumed the additional
−Removed: duties of interim Chief Scientific Officer, which he held until February 2023.
−Removed: In addition, we paid Dr.
−Removed: LaRosa a one-time signing bonus
−Removed: LaRosa was eligible to receive a grossed-up reimbursement of relocation expenses pursuant to the terms of his
−Removed: employment agreement.
−Removed: In addition, the agreement provides that Dr.
−Removed: LaRosa is eligible for an annual cash performance bonus for each year
−Removed: with a target amount of 40% of Dr.
−Removed: LaRosa’s then-current annual base salary, based upon our and Dr.
−Removed: LaRosa’s achievement of
−Removed: objectives and milestones to be determined on an annual basis by the Board of Directors (or Compensation Committee thereof).
−Removed: LaRosa receives an annual bonus for any given year, and the amount of any such annual bonus, will be determined in the discretion of our
−Removed: Board of Directors (or the Compensation Committee thereof).
−Removed: The agreement also provides that if Dr.
−Removed: LaRosa’s employment is terminated
−Removed: without cause, or if he resigns for good reason (each as defined in the agreement), then Dr.
−Removed: LaRosa will be entitled under his agreement
−Removed: to continue to receive his annual base salary and payment of premiums for continuation of healthcare benefits for a period of 12 months
−Removed: following such termination.
+Added: currently receives an annual base salary of $473,000 and is eligible to receive an annual cash performance bonus targeted at 40% of his
+Added: base salary, as determined by the Board of Directors or Compensation Committee based on Company and individual performance objectives.
+Added: The agreement also provides that
+Added: LaRosa’s employment is terminated without cause, or if he resigns for good reason (each as defined in the agreement), then
+Added: LaRosa he is entitled to receive continued base salary payments and Company-paid healthcare benefits for a period of 12 months following
+Added: such termination.
Outstanding Equity Awards at 2026 Fiscal Year-End
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Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options Unexercisable
−Removed: Option Exercise Price
Chief Executive Officer and
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Chief Medical Officer
−Removed: Cipriani, MBA,
−Removed: Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
This option is subject to vesting at a rate of 25% on the one year anniversary of the grant date of April 3, 2020, then monthly over the following 36 months, subject to Mr.
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LaRosa’s continued service with the Company.
−Removed: This option is subject to vesting at a rate of 25% on the one year anniversary of the grant date of January 4, 2021, then monthly over the following 36 months, subject to Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani’s continued service with the Company.
−Removed: This option is subject to vesting at a rate of 25% on the one year anniversary of the grant date of February 10, 2022, then monthly over the following 36 months, subject to Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani’s continued service with the Company.
Director Compensation for 2026 Fiscal Year
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Broenniman also received restricted stock units, or RSUs, valued at $50,000 for his ongoing service as a Board member pursuant to our Amended and Restated Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy, or Director Compensation Policy.
−Removed: Gikakis served on our Audit Committee until September 30,2024.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026, Mr.
+Added: Broenniman had no outstanding equity awards.
+Added: Gikakis was reappointed to the Audit Committee in December,2025.
In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, Mr.
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As of March 31, 2026, Mr.
−Removed: Gikakis had 4,885 shares of common stock subject to outstanding RSUs.
+Added: Gikakis had no outstanding equity awards.
In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, Ms.
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Rossetti had no outstanding equity awards.
−Removed: Shah served as a member of our Audit Committee until September 15, 2023.
+Added: Shah served as a member of our Audit Committee until December 2025.
In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, Dr.
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Shah also received RSUs valued at $50,000 for his ongoing service as a Board member pursuant to our Director Compensation Policy.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026, Dr.
+Added: Shah had no outstanding equity awards
Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy
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As of such date,
−Removed: we had 2,585,316 shares of our common stock issued and outstanding, after adjustment for the 1-for-8 reverse stock split effective as
−Removed: of the close of business on June 6, 2025 with an effective trading date of June 9, 2025.
−Removed: We believe that each individual or entity named
−Removed: has sole investment and voting power with respect to shares of common stock indicated as beneficially owned by them, subject to community
−Removed: property laws where applicable, except where otherwise noted.
−Removed: Unless otherwise indicated,
−Removed: the address for each person listed in the table below is c/o Aethlon Medical, Inc., 11555 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite 203, San Diego,
+Added: we had 1,570,449 shares of our common stock issued and outstanding.
+Added: We believe that each individual or entity named has sole investment
+Added: and voting power with respect to shares of common stock indicated as beneficially owned by them, subject to community property laws where
+Added: applicable, except where otherwise noted.
+Added: Unless otherwise indicated, the
+Added: address for each person listed in the table below is c/o Aethlon Medical, Inc., 11555 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite 203, San Diego, CA 92121.
NAME OF BENEFICIAL OWNER
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Armistice Capital, LLC
−Removed: Ikarian Capital, LLC
Directors and Named Executive Officers
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Based on 1,570,449 shares of common stock outstanding as of March 31, 2026.
−Removed: as adjusted for the 1-for-8 reverse stock split effective as of the close of business on June 6, 2025 with an effective trading date of
−Removed: June 9, 2025.
Armistice Capital, LLC (“Armistice Capital”) is the investment manager of Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd.
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The address of the principal business office of each of the Reporting Persons is c/o Armistice Capital, LLC, 510 Madison Avenue, 7 th Floor, New York, NY 10022.
−Removed: Represents shares of common stock held by Ikarian Healthcare Master Fund, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (the “Fund”) and certain separate managed account.
−Removed: The Fund, and certain separately managed accounts managed by Ikarian Capital (collectively, the "Managed Accounts"), are the record owners of the securities covered by this statement.
−Removed: Ikarian Capital is an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, and serves as investment manager to the Fund and as sub-adviser to the Managed Accounts, and may be deemed to have beneficial ownership of the securities covered by this statement through the investment discretion it has over the Fund and the Managed Accounts.
−Removed: Ikarian Capital is ultimately controlled, indirectly, by Mr.
−Removed: Accordingly, Mr.
−Removed: Shahrestani may be deemed to indirectly beneficially own securities beneficially owned by Ikarian Capital.
−Removed: The Fund disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares held by the Managed Accounts.
−Removed: The Managed Accounts disclaim beneficial ownership of the shares held by the Fund.
−Removed: The address of the principal business office of each of the Reporting Persons is c/o Ikarian Capital, LLC, 100 Crescent Court, Suite 1620, Dallas, Texas 75201.
−Removed: Consists of (i) 30 shares of common stock and (ii) 2,805 shares subject to stock options that are currently exercisable or will be exercisable within 60 days of March 31, 2025.
−Removed: Consist of 4,887 shares of common stock
+Added: Consists of (i) 3 shares of common stock and (ii) 302 shares subject to stock options that are currently exercisable.
Consist of 7,371 shares of common stock
−Removed: Consists of 6,208 shares of common stock.
−Removed: 2,552 shares subject to stock options that are currently exercisable or will be exercisable within 60 days of March 31,
Consists of 6,918 shares
of common stock.
+Added: Consists of 7,861 shares of common stock.
+Added: Consists of 278 shares subject to stock options that are currently exercisable.
+Added: Consists of 6,919 shares of common stock
Equity Compensation Plans
−Removed: The following table sets forth information, as
−Removed: of March 31, 2025, about our equity compensation plans in effect as of that date:
+Added: The following table sets forth information, as of March
+Added: 31, 2026, about our equity compensation plans in effect as of that date:
Plan category
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Item 402(v) Pay Versus Performance
−Removed: are providing the following information about the relationship between executive compensation actually paid and certain financial performance
+Added: providing the following information about the relationship between executive compensation actually paid and certain financial performance
of our company as required by Section 953(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Item 402(v) of Regulation
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Required Tabular Disclosure of Pay Versus Performance
−Removed: amounts set forth below under the headings “Compensation Actually Paid to PEO” and “Average Compensation Actually Paid
−Removed: to Non-PEO NEOs” have been calculated in a manner consistent with Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K.
−Removed: Use of the term “compensation
−Removed: actually paid” is required by the SEC’s rules and as a result of the calculation methodology required by the SEC, such amounts
−Removed: differ from compensation actually received by the individuals and the compensation decisions described in the “Executive and Director
−Removed: Compensation” section above.
−Removed: With the exception of Charles J.
−Removed: Fisher as PEO during the 2023 fiscal year, our Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: is our principal executive officer and is referred to as PEO in the headers in the following tables.
+Added: set forth below under the headings “Compensation Actually Paid to PEO” and “Average Compensation Actually Paid to Non-PEO
+Added: NEOs” have been calculated in a manner consistent with Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K.
+Added: Use of the term “compensation actually
+Added: paid” is required by the SEC’s rules and as a result of the calculation methodology required by the SEC, such amounts differ
+Added: from compensation actually received by the individuals and the compensation decisions described in the “Executive and Director Compensation”
+Added: section above.
+Added: Our Chief Executive Officer is our principal executive officer and is referred to as PEO in the headers in the following
PAY VERSUS PERFORMANCE
−Removed: Compensation Table Total for PEO 1 (1)
−Removed: Actually Paid to PEO 1 (2)(4)
−Removed: Compensation Table Total for PEO 2 (1)
−Removed: Actually Paid to PEO 2 (3)(4)
−Removed: Summary Compensation Table Total for Non-PEO NEOs (5)
−Removed: Compensation Actually Paid to Non-PEO NEOs (6)
−Removed: of Initial Fixed $100 Investment Based On Total Shareholder Return (7)
−Removed: Income (Loss)
−Removed: (millions) (8)
−Removed: The dollar amounts reported in these columns (b) are the amounts of total compensation reported for our respective PEOs for each corresponding year in the “Total” column of the Summary Compensation Table.
+Added: Summary Compensation Table Total for PEO 1 (1)
+Added: Compensation Actually Paid to PEO 1 (2)(3)
+Added: Summary Compensation Table Total for PEO 2 (1)
+Added: Compensation Actually Paid to PEO 2 (2)(3)
+Added: Average Summary Compensation Table Total for Non-PEO
+Added: Average Compensation Actually Paid to Non-PEO NEOs (2)(3)
+Added: Value of Initial Fixed $100 Investment Based On Total
+Added: Shareholder Return (4)
+Added: Net Income (Loss)
+Added: The dollar amounts reported in these columns are the amounts of total compensation reported for our PEOs and non-PEO NEO for each corresponding year in the “Total” column of the Summary Compensation Table.
Refer to “Executive Compensation — Summary Compensation Table”
Fisher, Jr., M.D.
−Removed: served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer for the entirety of the year fiscal year ended March 31, 2023 and through November 7, 2023, and served as the Company’s PEO for such period.
−Removed: Frakes was appointed as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective November 7, 2023, and served as the Company’s PEO from such date through March 31, 2024.
−Removed: The dollar amounts reported in columns (c) represent the amount of “compensation actually paid” to Dr.
−Removed: Fisher and Mr.
−Removed: Frakes in the periods during which they served as PEO, respectively, as computed in accordance with Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K.
−Removed: The dollar amounts do not reflect the actual amount of compensation earned by or paid to our PEOs during the applicable year.
−Removed: In accordance with the requirements of Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K, the following adjustments were made to the reported total compensation for our PEOs for each year to determine the compensation actually paid:
−Removed: Compensation Table Total
−Removed: Fair Value of Equity Awards as reported in Summary Compensation Table (a)
−Removed: Fiscal Year-End
−Removed: Fair Value of Equity Awards Granted in the Fiscal Year
−Removed: Change in Fair
−Removed: Value of Outstanding and Unvested Equity Awards Granted in Prior Fiscal Years
−Removed: of Equity Awards Granted in the Fiscal Year that Vested in the Fiscal Year
−Removed: Change in Fair
−Removed: Value as of the Vesting Date of Equity Awards Granted in Prior Fiscal Years that Vested in the Fiscal Year
−Removed: Fair Value at the End of the Prior Year of Equity Awards that Failed to Meet Vesting Conditions in the Year
−Removed: Actually Paid (b)
−Removed: The grant date fair value of equity awards represents the total of the amounts reported in the “Option Awards” column in the Summary Compensation Table for the applicable year.
−Removed: Amount of equity award adjustments may differ from amount reported in the table above due to rounding.
−Removed: The fair values of stock options vested during the fiscal year or outstanding as of fiscal year end were estimated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions, which may be materially different from the assumptions used for estimating the grant-date fair value as reported in the “Option Awards” columns in the Summary Compensation Table:
−Removed: Year Ended March 31,
−Removed: Expected term (in years)
−Removed: Expected volatility
−Removed: Risk-free interest rate
−Removed: Expected dividend rate
−Removed: The dollar amounts reported in column (d) represent the average of the amounts reported for the NEOs as a group (excluding our PEOs) in the “Total” column of the Summary Compensation Table in each applicable year.
−Removed: The NEOs (excluding our PEO) included for purposes of calculating the average amounts in each applicable year are Dr.
−Removed: LaRosa and Mr.
−Removed: The dollar amounts reported in column (e) represent the average amount of “compensation actually paid” to our non-PEO NEOs, as computed in accordance with Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K.
−Removed: The dollar amounts do not reflect the actual amount of compensation earned by or paid to our NEOs during the applicable year.
−Removed: In accordance with the requirements of Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K, the following adjustments were made to the reported total compensation for each year to determine the compensation actually paid:
−Removed: Average of Non-PEO NEOs
−Removed: Summary Compensation Table Total
−Removed: Grant Date Fair Value of Equity Awards as reported in Summary Compensation Table (a)
−Removed: Fiscal Year-End Fair Value of Equity Awards Granted in the Fiscal Year
−Removed: Change in Fair Value of Outstanding and Unvested Equity Awards Granted in Prior Fiscal Years
−Removed: Fair Value of Equity Awards Granted in the Fiscal Year that Vested in the Fiscal Year
−Removed: Change in Fair Value as of the Vesting Date of Equity Awards Granted in Prior Fiscal Years that Vested in the Fiscal Year
−Removed: Fair Value at the End of the Prior Year of Equity Awards that Failed to Meet Vesting Conditions in the Year
−Removed: Compensation Actually Paid (b)
+Added: served as PEO 1 from the beginning of
+Added: fiscal year 2024 through November 7, 2023.
+Added: Frakes served as PEO 2 from November 7, 2023 through the end of the current fiscal
+Added: Steven LaRosa and Guy Cipriani served as a non-PEO NEO in each fiscal year presented.
+Added: Adjustments made to determine the Compensation Actually Paid to the PEO and non-PEO NEO can be found in the below table:
+Added: - Grant Date Fair Value of Option Awards and Stock Awards Granted in Fiscal Year
+Added: + Fair Value at Fiscal Year-End of Outstanding and Unvested Option Awards and Stock Awards Granted in Fiscal Year
+Added: + Change in Fair Value of Outstanding and Unvested Option Awards and Stock Awards Granted in Prior Fiscal Years
+Added: + Fair Value at Vesting of Option Awards and Stock Awards Granted in Fiscal Year That Vested During Fiscal Year
+Added: + Change in Fair Value as of Vesting Date of Option Awards and Stock Awards Granted in Prior Fiscal Years For Which Applicable Vesting Conditions Were Satisfied During Fiscal Year
+Added: - Fair Value as of Prior Fiscal Year-End of Option Awards and Stock Awards Granted in Prior Fiscal Years That Failed to Meet Applicable Vesting Conditions During Fiscal Year
+Added: Compensation Actually Paid
The grant date fair value of equity awards represents the total of the amounts reported in the “Option Awards” column in the Summary Compensation Table for the applicable year.
Amount of equity award adjustments may differ from amount reported in the table above due to rounding.
−Removed: The fair values of stock options vested during the fiscal year or outstanding as of fiscal year end were estimated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions, which may be materially different from the assumptions used for estimating the grant-date fair value as reported in the “Option Awards” columns in the Summary Compensation Table:
−Removed: Year Ended March 31,
−Removed: Expected term (in years)
−Removed: Expected volatility
−Removed: Risk-free interest rate
−Removed: Expected dividend rate
TSR is determined based on the value of an initial fixed investment of $100 on March 31, 2023.
Cumulative TSR is calculated by dividing the sum of the cumulative amount of dividends for the measurement period, assuming dividend reinvestment, and the difference between the Company’s share price at the end and the beginning of the measurement period by the Company’s share price at the beginning of the measurement period.
−Removed: Net loss attributable to Aethlon as reported in the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the applicable year.
−Removed: Required Narrative Disclosure to Pay Versus
−Removed: Performance Table
In accordance with Item 402(v) of Regulation
S-K, we are providing the following descriptions of the relationships between information presented in the Pay Versus Performance table
−Removed: Compensation Actually Paid and Net Income
−Removed: Because the Company is a pre-commercial stage
−Removed: company, we had no revenue during the periods presented, other than revenue associated with government contracts and grants.
−Removed: Consequently,
−Removed: we do not use net income (loss) as a performance measure in our executive compensation program.
−Removed: Moreover, as a pre-commercial
−Removed: stage company with limited revenue, we do not believe there is any meaningful relationship between our net loss and compensation
−Removed: actually paid to our NEOs during the periods presented.
Compensation Actually Paid and Cumulative TSR
−Removed: The chart below shows the relationship between
−Removed: the compensation actually paid to our PEOs and the average compensation actually paid to our non-PEO NEOs, on the one hand, to the Company’s
−Removed: cumulative TSR over the three years presented in the table, on the other.
+Added: The chart below shows the relationship between the compensation actually
+Added: paid to our PEOs and the average compensation actually paid to our non-PEO NEOs, on the one hand, to the Company’s cumulative TSR
+Added: over the three years presented in the table, on the other.
+Added: Compensation Actually Paid and Net Loss
+Added: Because the Company is a pre-commercial stage company,
+Added: we had no revenue during the periods presented.
+Added: Consequently, we do not use net income (loss) as a performance measure in our executive
+Added: compensation program.
+Added: Moreover, as a pre-commercial stage company with no revenue, we do not believe there is any meaningful
+Added: relationship between our net loss and compensation actually paid to our NEOs during the periods presented.
+Added: The chart compares Compensation Actually Paid (“CAP”)
+Added: to named executive officers and net income for fiscal years 2024 through 2026.
+Added: Bars represent CAP amounts for Charles J.
+Added: James Frakes, and the average non-PEO named executive officers, measured on the left axis in millions of dollars.
+Added: A line represents net
+Added: income, measured on the right axis in millions of dollars.
+Added: The chart shows CAP generally increased over the periods presented, while net
+Added: income remained negative, declining in fiscal 2025 before improving in fiscal 2026.
All information provided above under the “Item
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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS AND DIRECTOR
−Removed: The following describes all
−Removed: transactions since April 1, 2023, and all proposed transactions, in which we were or are to be a participant and the amount involved
+Added: There have been no transactions
+Added: since April 1, 2025, and there are no currently proposed transactions, in which we were or are to be a participant and the amount involved
exceeds the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of our total assets at year-end for the last two completed fiscal years,
and in which any related person had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.
−Removed: In making such decisions our Audit Committee
−Removed: considers and approves or disapproves any related party transaction as defined under SEC Regulation Item 404, to the extent required
−Removed: by SEC regulations.
−Removed: Separation Agreement with Former CEO
−Removed: In connection with Charles
−Removed: M.D.’s resignation as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective November 2023, (the “Fisher Separation
−Removed: Date”), in accordance with the terms of his Executive Employment Agreement with the Company, dated as of October 30, 2020 (the “Fisher
−Removed: Employment Agreement”), and pursuant to Dr.
−Removed: Fisher’s Separation Agreement with the Company, effective as of November 27, 2023
−Removed: (the “Fisher Separation Agreement”), the Company will provide Dr.
−Removed: Fisher with (1) cash severance equivalent to twelve months
−Removed: Fisher’s base salary in effect as of the Separation Date, subject to standard payroll deductions and withholdings, payable
−Removed: over the Company’s regular payroll schedule over the twelve months following the Separation Date;
−Removed: (2) the accelerated vesting on
−Removed: fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding and unvested equity awards held by Dr.
−Removed: Fisher that were subject to time-based vesting as of the
−Removed: Fisher Separation Date, which were deemed fully vested and exercisable as of the Fisher Separation Date;
−Removed: and (3) reimbursement of COBRA
−Removed: healthcare premium costs for the same level of coverage Dr.
−Removed: Fisher had during his employment with the Company, until the earliest of (i)
−Removed: twelve months from November 27, 2023, (ii) the date Dr.
−Removed: Fisher becomes eligible for substantially equivalent healthcare coverage through
−Removed: another source, or (iii) the expiration of Dr.
−Removed: Fisher’s eligibility for the continuation coverage.
−Removed: Further, and pursuant to the
−Removed: Separation Agreement, Dr.
−Removed: Fisher provided the Company with a general release of all claims, effective November 27, 2023.
−Removed: Separation Agreement with Former COO
−Removed: Guy Cipriani’s termination
−Removed: as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer effective October 2024 (the “Cipriani Separation Date”), in accordance with
−Removed: the terms of his Executive Employment Agreement with the Company, dated as of October 30, 2020 (the “Cipriani Employment Agreement”),
−Removed: and pursuant to Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani’s Separation Agreement with the Company, effective as of October 3, 2024 (the “Cipriani Separation
−Removed: Agreement”), the Company will provide Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani with (1) cash severance equivalent to twelve months of Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani’s base
−Removed: salary in effect as of the Separation Date, subject to standard payroll deductions and withholdings, payable over the Company’s
−Removed: regular payroll schedule over the twelve months following the Separation Date and (2) reimbursement of COBRA healthcare premium costs
−Removed: for the same level of coverage Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani had during his employment with the Company, until the earliest of (i) twelve months from October
−Removed: 3, 2024, (ii) the date Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani becomes eligible for substantially equivalent healthcare coverage through another source, or (iii)
−Removed: the expiration of Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani’s eligibility for the continuation coverage.
−Removed: Further, and pursuant to the Separation Agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Cipriani provided the Company with a general release of all claims, effective October 3, 2024.
−Removed: Separation Agreement with Former CSO
−Removed: Lee Arnold’s termination
−Removed: as the Company’s Chief Science Officer effective July 1, 2024 (the “Arnold Separation Date”), in accordance with the
−Removed: terms of his Executive Employment Agreement with the Company, dated as of February 1, 2023 (“Arnold Employment Agreement”),
−Removed: and pursuant to Mr.
−Removed: Arnold’s Separation Agreement with the Company, effective as of July 1, 2024 (the “Arnold Separation Agreement”),
−Removed: the Company will provide Mr.
−Removed: Arnold with (1) cash severance equivalent to twelve months of Mr.
−Removed: Arnold’s base salary in effect as
−Removed: of the Arnold Separation Date, subject to standard payroll deductions and withholdings, payable over the Company’s regular payroll
−Removed: schedule over the twelve months following the Separation Date and (2) reimbursement of COBRA healthcare premium costs for the same level
−Removed: of coverage Mr.
−Removed: Arnold had during his employment with the Company, until the earliest of (i) twelve months from July 1, 2024, (ii) the
−Removed: Arnold becomes eligible for substantially equivalent healthcare coverage through another source, or (iii) the expiration of Mr.
−Removed: Arnold’s eligibility for the continuation coverage.
−Removed: Further, and pursuant to the Arnold Separation Agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Arnold provided
−Removed: the Company with a general release of all claims, effective July 1, 2024.
+Added: Our Audit Committee considers and approves or
+Added: disapproves any related party transaction as defined under SEC Regulation Item 404, to the extent required by SEC regulations.
Employment Arrangements
−Removed: We currently have written
−Removed: employment agreements with our executive officers.
−Removed: For information about our employment agreements with our named executive officers,
−Removed: refer to “Executive and Director Compensation — Employment Contracts.”
−Removed: Equity Awards Granted to Executive Officers
−Removed: and Directors
+Added: We currently have written employment
+Added: agreements with our executive officers.
+Added: For information about our employment agreements with our named executive officers, refer to “Executive
+Added: and Director Compensation — Employment Contracts.”
+Added: Equity Awards Granted to Executive Officers and
We have granted stock options
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For information about our grants of stock option awards and RSUs to our named executive
−Removed: officers and our directors, refer to “Executive and Director Compensation — Outstanding Equity Awards at
−Removed: 2024 Fiscal Year-End,” “Executive and Director Compensation — Director Compensation for 2024 Fiscal
−Removed: Year” and “Executive and Director Compensation — Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy.”
+Added: officers and our directors, refer to “Executive and Director Compensation — Outstanding Equity Awards at 2026 Fiscal Year-End,”
+Added: “Executive and Director Compensation — Director Compensation for 2026 Fiscal Year” and “Executive and Director
+Added: Compensation — Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy.”
Indemnification Agreements
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extent permitted by Nevada law.
−Removed: Policies and Procedures for Transactions with
−Removed: Related Persons
−Removed: We maintain a written policy
−Removed: that our executive officers, directors, nominees for election as a director, beneficial owners of more than 5% of any class of our common
−Removed: stock and any members of the immediate family or affiliate of any of the foregoing persons are not permitted to enter into a related person
+Added: Policies and Procedures for Transactions with Related
+Added: We maintain a written policy that
+Added: our executive officers, directors, nominees for election as a director, beneficial owners of more than 5% of any class of our common stock
+Added: and any members of the immediate family or affiliate of any of the foregoing persons are not permitted to enter into a related person
transaction with us without the approval or ratification of the Audit Committee.
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PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
−Removed: The following table presents
−Removed: fees for professional services billed by Haskell & White and Baker Tilly during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:
+Added: The following table presents fees
+Added: for professional services billed by Haskell & White during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025:
Audit Fees(1)
−Removed: include fees for professional services rendered in connection with the audit of our annual financial statements for fiscal years
−Removed: 2025 and 2024 and for reviews of our quarterly financial statements and those services normally provided in connection with statutory
−Removed: or regulatory filings or engagements including comfort letters, consents and other services related to SEC matters.
−Removed: Tax Fees include the aggregate
−Removed: fees billed during fiscal year 2025 for professional services for preparation of income tax returns.
−Removed: Policy on Audit Committee Pre-approval of
−Removed: Audit and Permissible Non-audit Services of Independent Auditor
+Added: Audit fees include fees for professional services rendered in connection with the audit of our annual financial statements for fiscal years 2026 and 2025 and for reviews of our quarterly financial statements and those services normally provided in connection with statutory or regulatory filings or engagements including comfort letters, consents and other services related to SEC matters.
+Added: Tax Fees include the aggregate fees billed during fiscal year 2026 for professional services for preparation of income tax returns.
+Added: Policy on Audit Committee Pre-approval of Audit
+Added: and Permissible Non-audit Services of Independent Auditor
Our Audit Committee is responsible
for pre-approving all audit, audit-related, tax and other permitted non-audit services to be performed for us by our independent auditor.
−Removed: The Audit Committee approved all of the services for which Baker Tilly billed us as set forth in the above table.
+Added: The Audit Committee approved all of the services for which Haskell & White LLP billed us as set forth in the above table.
EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
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(a)(1) Financial Statements.
−Removed: The response to this portion of Item 15 is set
−Removed: forth under Part II, Item 8 above.
+Added: The response to this portion of Item 15 is set forth
+Added: under Part II, Item 8 above.
(a)(2) Financial Statement Schedules.
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(a)(3) Exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation
+Added: Incorporated by Reference
+Added: Filed Herewith
Articles of Incorporation, as amended
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September 12, 2019
−Removed: of Common Stock Certificate.
+Added: Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation
+Added: February 23, 2026
+Added: Form of Common Stock Certificate
December 31, 2014
−Removed: of Warrant to Purchase Common Stock.
+Added: Form of Warrant Agency Agreement with Computershare
+Added: August 29, 2025
+Added: Form of Common Warrant issued December 5, 2025
December 8, 2025
−Removed: of Underwriter Warrant.
+Added: Form of Pre-Funded Warrant issued December 5, 2025
December 8, 2025
−Removed: of Common Stock Purchase Warrant.
+Added: Amendment to Pre-Funded Warrant
January 26, 2026
−Removed: of Class A Warrant to Purchase Common Stock, issued on May 17, 2024.
−Removed: of Class B Warrant to Purchase Common Stock, issued on May 17, 2024.
−Removed: of Pre-Funded Warrant to Purchase Common Stock, issued on May 17, 2024.
−Removed: of Placement Agent Warrant to Purchase Common Stock, issued on May 17, 2024.
Description of Aethlon Medical, Inc.’s Securities
−Removed: F orm of New Warrant to purchase Common Stock issued on March 17, 2025
+Added: Form of New Warrant to purchase Common Stock issued on March 17, 2025
March 17, 2025
−Removed: Medical, Inc.
+Added: Aethlon Medical, Inc.
Amended and Restated Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy, as Modified on February 10, 2022
February 14, 2022
−Removed: Agreement, by and between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
+Added: Incorporated by Reference
+Added: Exhibit Description
+Added: Filed Herewith
+Added: Employment Agreement, by and between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
and James Frakes, dated December 12, 2018
February 11, 2019
+Added: Amendment No.
1 to Executive Employment Agreement, effective as of November 7, 2023, by and between the Company and James B.
December 22, 2023
−Removed: of Indemnification Agreement for Officers and Directors.
+Added: Form of Indemnification Agreement for Officers and Directors
February 11, 2019
−Removed: of Option Grant Agreement for Officers and Directors.
+Added: Form of Option Grant Agreement for Officers and Directors
February 11, 2019
−Removed: of Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Directors.
+Added: Form of Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Directors
February 11, 2019
−Removed: of Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Executives.
+Added: Form of Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Executives
February 11, 2019
−Removed: Agreement, by and between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
+Added: Assignment Agreement, by and between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
and London Health Sciences Center Research Inc., dated November 7, 2006
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October 2, 2024
−Removed: Agreement between the Company and Dr.
+Added: Employment Agreement between the Company and Dr.
Fisher, dated October 30, 2020
November 3, 2020
−Removed: Agreement between the Company and Dr.
+Added: Separation Agreement between the Company and Dr.
Fisher, effective as of November 27, 2023
November 27, 2023
−Removed: by and between the Company and San Diego Inspire 1, LLC.
+Added: Lease, by and between the Company and San Diego Inspire 1, LLC.
and San Diego Inspire 2, LLC, effective December 7, 2020
February 10, 2021
−Removed: Employment Agreement between the Company and Guy Cipriani, dated January 1, 2021.
+Added: Executive Employment Agreement between the Company and Guy Cipriani, dated January 1, 2021
+Added: February 10, 2021
+Added: Amendment No.
1 to Executive Employment Agreement, effective as of November 7, 2023, by and between the Company and Guy F.
December 22, 2023
−Removed: Employment Agreement between the Company and Steven P.
+Added: Executive Employment Agreement between the Company and Steven P.
LaRosa, MD, dated January 4, 2021
February 10, 2021
−Removed: Employment Agreement, by and between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
+Added: Incorporated by Reference
+Added: Exhibit Description
+Added: Filed Herewith
+Added: Executive Employment Agreement, by and between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
Arnold, Ph.D., dated February 1, 2023
February 13, 2023
−Removed: between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
+Added: Lease between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
and San Diego Inspire 5, LLC, effective October 27, 2021
November 9, 2021
−Removed: the Market Offering Agreement, dated March 24, 2022, by and between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
+Added: At the Market Offering Agreement, dated March 24, 2022, by and between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
Wainwright & Co., LLC
March 24, 2022
+Added: Amendment No.
1 to Executive Employment Agreement, by and between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
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June 28, 2023
+Added: Amendment No.
+Added: 1 to Executive Employment Agreement, by and between Aethlon Medical, Inc.
+Added: Arnold, Ph.D., dated May 1, 2023
+Added: June 28, 2023
Form of Inducement Letter dated March 17, 2025
March 17, 2025
+Added: Securities Purchase Agreement issued September 4, 2025
+Added: September 9, 2025
+Added: Placement Agency Agreement dated September 4, 2025
+Added: September 9, 2025
+Added: Placement Agency Agreement dated December 5, 2025
+Added: December 8, 2025
+Added: Form of Registration Rights Agreement dated December 5, 2025
+Added: December 8, 2025
+Added: Form of Warrant Inducement Agreement (December 5, 2025)
+Added: December 8, 2025
+Added: Form of Securities Purchase Agreement between the Company and purchaser signatory thereto
+Added: December 8, 2025
+Added: Amendment to Securities Purchase Agreement between the Company and the purchaser signatory thereto
+Added: January 26, 2026
Insider Trading Policy
+Added: June 26, 2025
List of Subsidiaries
+Added: June 26, 2025
Consent of Haskell & White LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
−Removed: Consent of Baker Tilly US, LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
−Removed: of Attorney (see signature page)
−Removed: Certification
−Removed: of the Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange
−Removed: Certification
−Removed: of the Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) or 15d-14(b) of the Exchange Act and
−Removed: Section 1350.
Incorporated by Reference
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Filed Herewith
+Added: Power of Attorney (see signature page)
+Added: Certification of the Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
+Added: Certification of the Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) or 15d-14(b) of the Exchange Act and 18 U.S.C.
Incentive Compensation Recoupment Policy
+Added: June 26, 2025
Inline XBRL Instance Document (the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document)
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FORM 10-K SUMMARY
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements
−Removed: of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on
−Removed: its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, o n the 26th d ay of June, 2025.
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of
+Added: Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its
+Added: behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, o n the 10th d ay of June, 2026.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
−Removed: KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each
−Removed: person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints James B.
−Removed: Frakes his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with
−Removed: full power of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
+Added: KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person
+Added: whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints James B.
+Added: Frakes his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full
+Added: power of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with
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may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements
−Removed: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of
+Added: the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant
and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer,
+Added: Chief Executive Officer
+Added: and Chief Financial Officer,
June 10, 2026
−Removed: Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial and Accounting Officer and Director
+Added: Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial and
+Added: Accounting Officer and Director
/s/ EDWARD G.
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Angela Rossetti
−Removed: /s/ NICOLAS GIKAKIS
June 10, 2026
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Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Haskell & White LLP, San Diego, CA PCAOB ID No 200 )
−Removed: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Baker Tilly,
−Removed: San Diego, CA PCAOB ID No 23 )
+Added: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Haskell & White LLP, Irvine, CA PCAOB ID No 200 )
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2026 and 2025
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Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: We have audited the accompanying consolidated
−Removed: balance sheet of Aethlon Medical, Inc.
−Removed: (the “Company”) as of March 31, 2025, and the related consolidated statements of operations
−Removed: and comprehensive loss, equity, and cash flows for the year then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated
−Removed: financial statements”).
−Removed: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated
−Removed: financial position of the Company as of March 31, 2025, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for the year
−Removed: then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements of the Company
−Removed: as of and for the year ended March 31, 2024 (the “fiscal 2024 consolidated financial statements”), before the effects of the
−Removed: retroactive adjustments described in Note 4 with respect to the one-for-eight reverse stock split effective as of the close of business
−Removed: on June 6, 2025 with an effective trading date of June 9, 2025, and the comparative disclosures related to the adoption of updated segment
−Removed: reporting standards as discussed in Note 9, were audited by other auditors whose report dated June 27, 2024, expressed an unqualified
−Removed: opinion, with an explanatory paragraph expressing substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern on
−Removed: those statements.
−Removed: We also audited the adjustments described in Note 1 that were applied retroactively to the fiscal 2024 consolidated
−Removed: financial statements to reflect the June 9, 2025 one-for-eight reverse stock split, as described in in Note 4 and with respect to segment
−Removed: reporting in Note 9, and the related disclosures therein.
−Removed: In our opinion, such adjustments and related disclosures are appropriate and
−Removed: have been properly applied.
−Removed: We were not engaged to audit, review, or apply any procedures to the fiscal 2024 consolidated financial statements
−Removed: of the Company other than with respect to the adjustment and disclosures referred to herein and, accordingly, we do not express an opinion
−Removed: or any other form of assurance on the fiscal 2024 consolidated financial statements taken as a whole.
−Removed: Substantial Doubt About the Company’s
−Removed: Ability to Continue as a Going Concern
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance
+Added: sheets of Aethlon Medical, Inc.
+Added: (the “Company”) as of March 31, 2025 and 2026, and the related consolidated statements of
+Added: operations and comprehensive loss, equity, and cash flows for the year each of the years in the two-year period ended March 31, 2026,
+Added: and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, the consolidated
+Added: financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of March 31, 2026
+Added: and 2025, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each year in the two-year period ended March 31, 2026,
+Added: in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: Substantial Doubt About the Company’s Ability
+Added: to Continue as a Going Concern
The accompanying consolidated financial statements
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and classification of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that may result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
−Removed: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING
−Removed: FIRM (Continued)
Basis for Opinion
−Removed: These consolidated financial statements are the
−Removed: responsibility of the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial
−Removed: statements based on our audit.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
−Removed: (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities laws
−Removed: and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audit in accordance with the
−Removed: standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated
+Added: These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility
+Added: of the Company’s management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements
+Added: based on our audits.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”)
+Added: and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable
+Added: rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards
+Added: of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated
financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
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engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding
+Added: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding
of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s
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Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audit included performing procedures to assess
+Added: Our audits included performing procedures to assess
the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures
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consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audit provides
+Added: We believe that our audits provide
a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matters
−Removed: Critical audit matters are matters arising from
−Removed: the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee
+Added: Critical audit matters are matters arising from the
+Added: current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee
(1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially
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We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2024.
−Removed: June 26, 2025
−Removed: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING
−Removed: To the shareholders and the board of directors of Aethlon Medical,
−Removed: Opinion on the Financial Statements
−Removed: We have audited, before the effects of the adjustments to retrospectively
−Removed: apply the changes in presentation of the Company’s segment disclosure described in Notes 1 and 9 and the effects of the 1-for-8
−Removed: reverse stock split described in Note 4, the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Aethlon Medical, Inc.
−Removed: and its subsidiary (the
−Removed: "Company") as of March 31, 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, equity, and cash
−Removed: flows for the year then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "consolidated financial statements").
−Removed: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements, before the effects of the adjustments to retrospectively apply the changes in presentation
−Removed: of the Company’s segment disclosure described in Notes 1 and 9 and the effects of the 1-for-8 reverse stock split described in Note
−Removed: 4, present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of March 31, 2024, and the results of their operations
−Removed: and their cash flows for the year then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
−Removed: We were not engaged to audit, review, or apply any procedures to the
−Removed: adjustments to retrospectively apply the changes in segment presentation described in Notes 1 and 9 and reverse stock split in Note 4,
−Removed: and accordingly, we do not express an opinion or any other form of assurance about whether such adjustments are appropriate and have been
−Removed: properly applied.
−Removed: The adjustments were audited by other auditors.
−Removed: Going Concern Uncertainty
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared
−Removed: assuming the Company will continue as a going concern.
−Removed: As discussed in Note 1 of the consolidated financial statements, the Company has
−Removed: recurring losses from operations, an accumulated deficit, expects to incur losses for the foreseeable future and requires additional working
−Removed: These are the reasons that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 1.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements do not contain any adjustments that
−Removed: might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
−Removed: Basis for Opinion
−Removed: These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the
−Removed: Company's management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and
−Removed: are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities laws and the applicable rules
−Removed: and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements
−Removed: are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform,
−Removed: an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audit we are required to obtain an understanding of internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting.
−Removed: Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material
−Removed: misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those
−Removed: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial
−Removed: Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as
−Removed: evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for
−Removed: /s/ Baker Tilly US, LLP
−Removed: We served as the Company's auditor from 2001 to 2024.
−Removed: San Diego, California
+Added: Irvine, California
June 10, 2026
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Property and equipment, net
−Removed: Operating lease right-of-use asset
+Added: Operating lease right-of-use asset, net
Restricted cash
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STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
−Removed: Common stock, $ 0.001 par value, 60,000,000 shares authorized at March 31, 2025 and 2024;
−Removed: 2,585,239 and 328,728 shares issued and 2,010,739 and 328,728 outstanding at March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively
+Added: Common stock, $ 0.001 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized at March 31, 2026 and 6,000,000 shares authorized at March 31, 2025;
+Added: 1,570,449 issued and outstanding at March 31, 2026 and 258,531 shares issued and 201,074 outstanding at March 31, 2025
Additional paid-in capital
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( 9,341,365 )
−Removed: OTHER EXPENSE (INCOME), NET
+Added: OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE), NET
Interest income
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Other expense
−Removed: Total other expense (income), net
+Added: ( 4,659,188 )
+Added: Total other income (expense), net
+Added: ( 4,046,725 )
NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO COMMON STOCKHOLDERS
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$ ( 154,566,728 )
−Removed: Issuances of common stock for cash under at the market program, net
−Removed: Rounding for reverse split
−Removed: Issuance of common shares upon vesting of restricted stock units and net stock option exercises
−Removed: Reversal of accrued commission liability
+Added: Proceeds from Issuances of common stock for public offering
+Added: Issuance of common stock upon Class A and Class B warrant exercises, net
+Added: Issuance of common shares upon vesting of restricted stock units and net
+Added: stock option exercises
Stock-based compensation expense
+Added: Warrant Inducement
( 13,388,089 )
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$ ( 167,954,817 )
−Removed: Issuances of common stock for public offering
−Removed: Issuances of common stock for Class A and Class B warrant exercises, net
−Removed: Issuance of common shares upon vesting of restricted stock units and net stock option exercises
+Added: Issuances of common stock for public offering, net
+Added: Issuances of pre-funded warrants and warrants to institutional investors
+Added: (including exercise of existing warrants), net of offering costs
+Added: Exercise of pre-funded warrants
+Added: Issuance of common shares upon vesting of restricted stock units and net
+Added: stock option exercises
Stock-based compensation expense
−Removed: Warrant inducement expense, net
+Added: Rounding for reverse split
( 7,151,469 )
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Stock-based compensation
−Removed: Loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment
Non-cash lease expense
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Tax withholding payments or tax equivalent payments for net share settlement of restricted stock units
−Removed: Net proceeds from the issuance of common stock
+Added: Gross proceeds from the issuance of common stock and pre-funded warrants
+Added: Payments for offering costs related to equity issuance
+Added: ( 1,087,854 )
+Added: ( 1,163,893 )
Proceeds from exercise of warrants – standard terms
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Legal fees paid related to warrant inducement
+Added: Payments for deferred offering costs related to future equity issuance
Net cash provided by financing activities
Effect of Exchange Rate on Changes on Cash
−Removed: Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash
−Removed: ( 9,090,965 )
+Added: Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash
Cash and cash equivalents restricted cash at beginning of year
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Disposal of fully depreciated property
−Removed: Reversal of accrued commission liability (see Note 6)
+Added: Warrant modification costs
Deferred offering costs not yet paid
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Aethlon Medical, Inc.
−Removed: the “Company,” “we” or “us”) is a medical therapeutic company focused on developing the Hemopurifier,
−Removed: a clinical-stage immunotherapeutic device designed to combat cancer and life-threatening viral infections and with additional potential
−Removed: applications e in organ transplantation and other areas of significant unmet needs.
−Removed: In human studies, 164 sessions with 38 patients, the
−Removed: Hemopurifier was safely utilized and demonstrated the potential to remove life-threatening viruses.
−Removed: In pre-clinical studies, the Hemopurifier
−Removed: has demonstrated the potential to remove harmful exosomes and exosomal particles from biological fluids, utilizing its proprietary lectin-based
−Removed: This action has potential applications in cancer, where exosomes and exosomal particles may promote immune suppression and
−Removed: metastasis, and in life-threatening infectious diseases.
−Removed: Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has designated the
−Removed: Hemopurifier as a “Breakthrough Device” for two independent indications:
−Removed: the treatment of individuals with advanced or metastatic cancer who are either unresponsive to or intolerant of standard of care therapy, and with cancer types in which exosomes or exosomal particles have been shown to participate in the development or severity of the disease;
−Removed: the treatment of life-threatening viruses that are not addressed with approved therapies.
−Removed: We believe that the Hemopurifier
−Removed: may be a substantial advancement in the treatment of patients with advanced and metastatic cancer through its design to bind to and remove
−Removed: harmful remove harmful extracellular vesicles particles that promote the growth and spread of tumors.
−Removed: In October 2022, we formed a wholly-owned
−Removed: subsidiary in Australia to initially conduct oncology-related clinical research, then seek regulatory approval and commercialize our Hemopurifier
−Removed: in Australia.
−Removed: We completed an in vitro
−Removed: binding study of extracellular vesicles from cancer patient samples, to provide pre-clinical evidence to support our trial design and
−Removed: translational endpoints.
−Removed: Our study indicated positive results from this study, providing evidence that our Hemopurifier removes extracellular
−Removed: vesicles, or EVs, from plasma.
−Removed: This translational study provides pre-clinical evidence to support our phase 1 safety, feasibility and
−Removed: dose-finding clinical trials of our Hemopurifier in patients with solid tumors who have stable or progressive disease during anti-PD-1
−Removed: monotherapy treatment, such as Keytruda® or Opdivo®.
−Removed: We have launched in an Australia
−Removed: safety, feasibility and dose-finding clinical trials of the Hemopurifier in cancer patients with solid tumors who have stable or progressive
−Removed: disease during anti-PD-1 monotherapy treatment, such as Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) or Opdivo® (nivolumab).
+Added: (“Aethlon,” the
+Added: “Company,” “we” or “us”) is a medical therapeutic company focused on developing the Hemopurifier®
+Added: (HP), a clinical-stage immunotherapeutic device designed to address unmet needs in oncology, life-threatening infectious diseases, organ
+Added: transplantation and other disease states in which extracellular vesicles (EVs) contribute to disease progression.
+Added: The Hemopurifier utilizes
+Added: a proprietary lectin-based technology to bind and remove enveloped viruses and EVs from biological fluids.
+Added: EVs have been associated with
+Added: immune suppression, metastasis, and resistance to therapy in cancer, as well as progression of severe infectious diseases.
+Added: In pre-clinical
+Added: studies, the Hemopurifier has also demonstrated the ability to bind disease-associated extracellular vesicles (“EVs”) and
+Added: a panel of enveloped viruses.
+Added: The Hemopurifier has been evaluated in human studies, involving 173 treatment sessions in 44 patients with
+Added: either viral infections or cancer.
+Added: The device has been well tolerated with an adverse event profile that is consistent with extracorporeal
+Added: In certain human studies designed to evaluate viral clearance from biological fluids, findings demonstrated the removal of enveloped
+Added: Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has granted the Hemopurifier “Breakthrough Device” designation
+Added: for two independent indications:
+Added: the treatment of individuals with advanced or metastatic cancer who are unresponsive to or intolerant of standard of care therapy, and with cancer types in which extracellular vesicles have been shown to contribute to disease progression and
+Added: the treatment of life-threatening viruses for which no approved therapies exist.
+Added: The Company is evaluating the Hemopurifier as a potential
+Added: treatment of patients with advanced and metastatic cancer through its ability to bind to and remove extracellular vesicles (“EVs”)
+Added: particles that may promote tumor growth and metastasis.
+Added: In October 2022, we formed a wholly-owned subsidiary in Australia to support oncology-related
+Added: clinical research and pursue regulatory approval and potential regulatory and commercialization opportunities for the Hemopurifier.
+Added: The Company previously completed an in vitro
+Added: binding study of utilizing cancer patient samples, to evaluate the Hemopurifier’s ability to remove EVs from plasma.
+Added: this translational study provided pre-clinical evidence supporting the design of our oncology clinical trial involving patients with solid
+Added: tumors who have stable or progressive disease during anti-PD-1 monotherapy treatment, such as Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) or Opdivo®
+Added: The Company is currently conducting a safety, feasibility
+Added: and dose-finding clinical trial in Australia evaluating the Hemopurifier in patients with solid tumors who have stable or progressive
+Added: disease during anti-PD-1 monotherapy treatment.
+Added: The trial is designed to enroll approximately 9 to 18 participants.
The primary endpoint
−Removed: of the approximately nine to 18-patient, is safety.
−Removed: Exploratory analyses will be conducted to explore the number of HP treatments required
−Removed: to produce sustained reductions of EVs as well as improve anti-tumor T cell activity.
−Removed: We plan to open a similarly designed trial in India.
−Removed: The following three hospitals
−Removed: in Australia have received ethics committee approval, have gone through training on our device and are open for patient enrollment:
−Removed: Adelaide Hospital in Adelaide, Australia and Pindara Private Hospital in the Gold Coast section of Australia and GenesisCare North Shore
−Removed: Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
−Removed: As of 16JUN2025 we have treated three participants in the first of the three treatment cohorts.
−Removed: patients have completed the pre-specified 7-day safety follow-up period, the data will be presented to an independent Data Safety Monitoring
−Removed: Board (DSMB).
−Removed: The DSMB will provide a recommendation to Aethlon senior leadership on advancing to the next cohort where participants will
−Removed: receive 2 HP treatments during the one week treatment period.
−Removed: The Company continues to pursue
−Removed: approval of a similar clinical trial in India.
−Removed: HREC approval has previously been obtained at Medanta Medicity Hospital.
−Removed: Following this
−Removed: a meeting with Subject Expert Committee (SEC) of the India Regulatory Agency CDSCO was held 5JUN2025.
−Removed: We are awaiting the formal approval
−Removed: letter of the CDSCO.
−Removed: The clinical trial at Medanta can commence following a Site Initiation Visit (SIV) by the company’s India CRO,
+Added: of the trial is safety, while exploratory analyses will be conducted to explore the number of HP treatments required to produce sustained
+Added: reductions of EVs as well as improve anti-tumor T cell activity.
+Added: Three clinical sites in Australia— Royal Adelaide
+Added: Hospital in Adelaide, and Pindara Private Hospital on the Gold Coast and GenesisCare North Shore Hospital in Sydney— are currently
+Added: open for patient enrollment.
+Added: During fiscal year 2026, we completed enrollment and treatment of the first cohort of three participants,
+Added: each of whom received a single 4-hour Hemopurifier treatment.
+Added: Following review of the first cohort data, independent Data Safety Monitoring
+Added: Board (DSMB) reported no safety concerns and recommended progression to the second cohort.
+Added: Following the DSMB review of the first cohort,
+Added: enrollment commenced in the second cohort, in which participants received two Hemopurifier treatments during a one-week treatment period.
+Added: In March 2026, the Company completed the second cohort and the DSMB subsequently approved advancement to the third cohort of the study.
+Added: To date, no serious adverse events (“SAEs”) or dose-limiting toxicities ((“DLTs”) related to the Hemopurifier
+Added: have been reported.
+Added: The Company previously pursued approval of a similar
+Added: oncology clinical trial in India and received formal approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (“CDSCO”)
+Added: on July 7, 2025.
+Added: Following evaluation of anticipated site activation timelines and trial execution requirements, the Company elected to
+Added: not proceed with the India trial in order to conserve resources and focus efforts on the Australian oncology clinical trial.
Life-Threatening Viral Infections
−Removed: The Company also believes
−Removed: that the Hemopurifier can be part of the broad-spectrum treatment of life-threatening highly glycosylated, or carbohydrate coated, viruses
−Removed: that are not addressed with an already approved treatment.
−Removed: In small-scale or early feasibility human studies, the Hemopurifier has been
−Removed: used in the past to treat individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, hepatitis-C and Ebola.
−Removed: Additionally, in vitro, the
−Removed: Hemopurifier has been demonstrated to capture Ebola, Marburg virus, Zika, Lassa, MERS-CoV, Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr, Herpes simplex,
−Removed: Chikungunya, Dengue, West Nile, H1N1 swine flu, H5N1 bird flu, and the reconstructed 1918 Spanish flu virus.
−Removed: In several cases, these studies
−Removed: were conducted in collaboration with leading government or non-government research institutes.
−Removed: Hemopurifier has previously been studied under FDA and international regulatory frameworks for the treatment of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection.
+Added: The Company believes the Hemopurifier may be applicable
+Added: in the treatment of life-threatening viral infections involving highly glycosylated, or carbohydrate coated, viruses for which no approved
+Added: therapies exist.
+Added: In small-scale or early feasibility human studies conducted under FDA and international regulatory frameworks, the Hemopurifier
+Added: has been used to treat individuals infected with Ebola, human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, and hepatitis-C and SARS-CoV-2.
+Added: In vitro studies have demonstrated the ability of
+Added: the Hemopurifier to capture multiple enveloped viruses, including Ebola, Marburg virus, Zika, Lassa, MERS-CoV, Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr,
+Added: Herpes simplex, Chikungunya, Dengue, West Nile, H1N1 swine flu, H5N1 bird flu, and the reconstructed 1918 Spanish flu virus.
+Added: cases, these studies were conducted in collaboration with leading government or non-government research institutes.
While we terminated our U.S.
−Removed: and India-based COVID-19 studies due to low ICU patient volume and shifting priorities, these programs demonstrated
−Removed: real-world use of the Hemopurifier in critically ill patients.
−Removed: We maintain an open IDE for viral indications to preserve optionality for
−Removed: future outbreaks or emergent pathogens .
−Removed: We have sufficient inventory
−Removed: of Hemopurifiers to support our ongoing oncology trial in Australia as well as any near-term expansion of that study or potential trial
−Removed: activity in India.
−Removed: While we have received FDA approval to begin manufacturing at our San Diego facility under our IDE supplement, we are
−Removed: still awaiting FDA approval of a separate supplement to qualify an additional supplier of a key Hemopurifier component.
−Removed: We continue to
−Removed: work with the FDA on this process.
+Added: and India-based COVID-19
+Added: studies due to low ICU patient volume and shifting priorities, these programs demonstrated provided clinical experience with the Hemopurifier
+Added: in critically ill patients.
+Added: We continue to maintain an open IDE for viral indications, preserving the ability to evaluate the Hemopurifier
+Added: in response to future outbreaks or emergent pathogens.
+Added: The Company has sufficient inventory of Hemopurifiers
+Added: to support our ongoing oncology trial in Australia as well as any near-term expansion of that study.
+Added: While we have received FDA approval
+Added: to begin manufacturing at our San Diego facility under our IDE supplement, we are still awaiting FDA approval of a separate supplement
+Added: to qualify an additional supplier of a key Hemopurifier component.
+Added: We continue to work with the FDA on this process.
Pre-Clinical Exploration of Additional Clinical
Uses for the Hemopurifier
−Removed: Aethlon R&D laboratory continues to explore potential new indications for the Hemopurifier.
−Removed: We have published in the peer-reviewed
−Removed: journal Transplant Immunology the ability of the device to remove extracellular vesicles and their microRNA cargo from acellular
−Removed: perfusates of discarded kidneys that had undergone normothermic machine perfusion.
−Removed: May 12, 2025, the results of our pre-clinical ex vivo study entitled “Ex Vivo Removal of CD41 positive platelet microparticles from
−Removed: Plasma by a Medical Device containing a Galanthus nivalis agglutinin (GNA) affinity resin” were published in the pre-print vehicle
−Removed: This manuscript has been submitted to a peer-reviewed publication for review.
−Removed: -derived extracellular vesicles (PD-EVs) are the most numerous EV population in the body and are released by platelets in response to
−Removed: a variety of stimuli.
−Removed: The cargo contained within these EVs have been noted to take part in damage to blood vessels, activation of immune
−Removed: cells and spread of tumor cells.
−Removed: Excessive levels of PD-EVs have been implicated in a myriad of diseases including cancer, lupus, systemic
−Removed: sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, sepsis, acute and Long COVID.
−Removed: hypothesized that the Aethlon Hemopurifier which contains a propriety GNA affinity resin would remove platelet derived EVs from plasma.
−Removed: In this experiment two hundred milliliters on donated healthy human plasma were circulated over the Aethlon Hemoupurifier (HP) to simulate
−Removed: a clinical HP session.
−Removed: The study results showed a 98.5% removal of platelet -derived EVs at a timepoint equivalent to a 4-hour HP treatment.
−Removed: The results of this study support the current Australian Clinical Trial in Oncology as well as open the investigation of the Hemopurifier
−Removed: in many indications.
−Removed: Extracellular
−Removed: vesicles have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Long COVID.As we had previously demonstrated removal of extracellular vesicles
−Removed: by the Hemopurifier in a patient with severe acute COVID-19 infection, we hypothesized that patients with Long COVID would have
−Removed: extracellular vesicles with the mannose sugar on their surface that would bind to the affinity resin in our device.
−Removed: with investigators at the Univ of California San Francisco Medical Center Long COVID clinic to obtain samples from participants with
−Removed: Long COVID as well as controls that had had COVID -10 infection but had recovered.
−Removed: The data to be presented will review the binding
−Removed: of larger and smaller extracellular vesicles to the GNA lectin and the lectin affinity resin, respectively.
−Removed: We believe the data from
−Removed: this pre-clinical study calls for additional study of the Hemopurifier and look forward to receiving feedback from the Long COVID
−Removed: scientific community at the Keystone Symposium.
−Removed: outcomes of human trials will also be required by the regulatory agencies of certain foreign countries where we plan to market and sell
−Removed: the Hemopurifier.
−Removed: Some of our patents may expire before FDA approval or approval in a foreign country, if any, is obtained.
−Removed: believe that certain patent applications and/or other patents issued to us more recently will help protect the proprietary nature of our
−Removed: Hemopurifier treatment technology.
−Removed: We believe that the Hemopurifier
−Removed: may be a substantial advancement in the treatment of patients with advanced and metastatic cancer
−Removed: In addition to the foregoing,
−Removed: we are monitoring closely the impact of inflation, recent bank failures and the war between Russia and Ukraine and the military conflicts
−Removed: in Israel and the surrounding areas, as well as related political and economic responses and counter-responses by various global factors
−Removed: on our business.
−Removed: Given the level of uncertainty regarding the duration and impact of these events on capital markets and the U.S.
−Removed: we are unable to assess the impact on our timelines and future access to capital.
−Removed: The full extent to which inflation, recent bank failures
−Removed: and the ongoing military conflicts will impact our business, results of operations, financial condition, clinical trials and preclinical
−Removed: research will depend on future developments, as well as the economic impact on national and international markets that are highly uncertain.
+Added: The Aethlon R&D laboratory continues to explore
+Added: potential new indications for the Hemopurifier.
+Added: We have published in the peer-reviewed journal Transplant Immunology the ability
+Added: of the device to remove extracellular vesicles and their microRNA cargo from acellular perfusates of discarded kidneys that had undergone
+Added: normothermic machine perfusion.
+Added: On May 12, 2025, the results of our pre-clinical ex
+Added: vivo study entitled “Ex Vivo Removal of CD41 positive platelet microparticles from Plasma by a Medical Device containing a Galanthus
+Added: nivalis agglutinin (GNA) affinity resin” were published in the pre-print vehicle bioRxiv.
+Added: Platelet-derived extracellular vesicles (PD-EVs) are
+Added: the most numerous EV population in the body and are released by platelets in response to a variety of stimuli.
+Added: The cargo contained within
+Added: these EVs have been noted to take part in damage to blood vessels, activation of immune cells and spread of tumor cells.
+Added: Excessive levels
+Added: of PD-EVs have been implicated in a myriad of diseases including cancer, lupus, systemic sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s
+Added: disease, sepsis, acute COVID-19 and Long COVID.
+Added: In this study, donated healthy human plasma was circulated
+Added: through the Hemopurifier (HP) to simulate a clinical HP session.
+Added: The study demonstrated approximately 98.5% removal of platelet-derived
+Added: EVs at a timepoint equivalent to a four-hour HP treatment.
+Added: We believe the results support the ongoing Australian oncology clinical trial
+Added: and may support investigation of the Hemopurifier in additional disease indications.
+Added: In November 2025, we publicly released a separate
+Added: pre-clinical preprint entitled “Increased mannosylation of extracellular vesicles in Long COVID plasma provides a potential therapeutic
+Added: target for Galanthus nivalis agglutinin (GNA) affinity resin,” describing exploratory ex vivo laboratory research conducted in collaboration
+Added: with the University of California, San Francisco Long COVID Clinic examining extracellular vesicle characteristics in plasma samples from
+Added: individuals with Long COVID.
+Added: The findings described in these preprints have not been peer reviewed and are based on laboratory analyses
+Added: rather than clinical studies.
+Added: These activities are intended to inform potential future research directions and evaluate the broader applicability
+Added: of the Hemopurifier platform and may not be indicative of clinical outcomes.
+Added: Successful clinical development and regulatory approvals
+Added: will be required before the Hemopurifier may be marketed in the United States or foreign jurisdictions.
+Added: Some of our patents may expire
+Added: before regulatory approval is obtained;
+Added: however, the Company believes that its existing patent portfolio and more recently issued patents
+Added: and patent applications will continue to support protection of the proprietary nature of our Hemopurifier treatment technology.
+Added: The Company continues to monitor the impact of inflation,
+Added: global economic conditions, geopolitical conflicts, capital market volatility and other macroeconomic factors on its business, operations,
+Added: clinical development programs and future access to capital.
+Added: The extent to which these factors may affect the Company’s business,
+Added: financial condition and results of operations remains uncertain and will depend on future developments beyond the Company’s control.
LIQUIDITY AND GOING CONCERN
−Removed: The Company has incurred losses since inception
−Removed: in devoting substantially all of its efforts toward research and development and has an accumulated deficit of $ 167,954,817 as of March
−Removed: During the year ended March 31, 2025, the Company generated a net loss of approximately $ 13,388,000 and the Company expects
−Removed: that it will continue to generate operating losses for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: While the Company has been carrying out certain expense
−Removed: reductions since November 2023;
−Removed: our planned additional expense reductions may not materialize and/or our patient recruitment may occur
−Removed: more rapidly than expected along with the concomitant increases in expenses, therefore there is substantial doubt that our cash on hand
−Removed: will carry the company for 12 months beyond the filing date of the financial statements included in this Annual Report.
−Removed: The Company’s ability to execute its current
−Removed: operating plan depends on its ability to reduce expenses and obtain additional funding via the sale of equity, or other sources of capital.
−Removed: The Company plans to continue actively pursuing financing alternatives, however, there can be no assurance that it will obtain the necessary
−Removed: funding, raising substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date these
−Removed: financial statements are issued.
−Removed: The accompanying financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome
−Removed: of this uncertainty.
+Added: The Company has incurred losses since inception in
+Added: devoting substantially all of its efforts toward research and development and has an accumulated deficit of $ 175,106,286 as of March 31,
+Added: During the year ended March 31, 2026, the Company generated a net loss of approximately $ 7,151,000 and the Company expects that
+Added: it will continue to generate operating losses for the foreseeable future as it continues its research and development activities.
+Added: Management has evaluated whether there are conditions
+Added: and events considered in the aggregate that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within
+Added: one year after the date that these financial statements are issued.
+Added: While the Company continues to evaluate potential expense reduction
+Added: opportunities, such opportunities may not materialize and patient recruitment may occur more rapidly than expected, resulting in increased
+Added: operating expenses.
+Added: Based on the Company’s current operating plan and existing cash and cash equivalents, management has concluded
+Added: that substantial doubt exists regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least one year from
+Added: the date these financial statements are issued.
+Added: The Company’s ability to continue operating
+Added: depends on its ability to obtain additional capital through equity financing, debt financing, strategic transactions or other funding
+Added: Although the Company plans to continue actively pursuing financing alternatives, there can be no assurance that such financing
+Added: will be available on acceptable terms, or at all.
+Added: The accompanying financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result
+Added: from the outcome of this uncertainty.
PRINCIPLES OF CONSOLIDATION
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USE OF ESTIMATES
−Removed: We prepare our consolidated financial statements
−Removed: in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP, which requires us to make a number
+Added: We prepare our consolidated financial statements in
+Added: conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP, which requires us to make a number
of estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities
at the date of the financial statements.
−Removed: Such estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period.
+Added: Such estimates and assumptions also affect the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting
On an ongoing basis, we evaluate estimates and assumptions based upon historical experience and various other factors and circumstances.
We believe our estimates and assumptions are reasonable in the circumstances;
−Removed: however, actual results may differ from these estimates
−Removed: under different future conditions.
−Removed: We believe that the estimates and assumptions
−Removed: that are most important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations, in that they require the most difficult,
−Removed: subjective or complex judgments, form the basis for the accounting policies deemed to be most critical to us.
+Added: however, actual results may differ materially from those
+Added: estimates under different future conditions.
+Added: Estimates and assumptions that have a significant
+Added: effect on the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements include, but are not limited to, the valuation of stock-based
+Added: compensation awards, the fair value of equity instruments issued in financing transactions, accrued expenses and the assessment of long-lived
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
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equivalents are carried at fair value.
−Removed: As of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024 our cash
−Removed: and cash equivalents were comprised of the following instruments:
+Added: The Company evaluates its financial assets for expected credit losses in accordance with ASC 326.
+Added: Based on the nature of the Company’s cash equivalents, which primarily consist of highly rated money market funds and short-term
+Added: Treasury securities, the Company did not record an allowance for expected credit losses as of March 31, 2026.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025 our cash and
+Added: cash equivalents were comprised of the following instruments:
Schedule of cash and cash equivalents
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Cash equivalents held in US Treasury bills
−Removed: Cash in Australian bank checking account
+Added: Cash in Australian bank checking account (US dollars)
Total cash and cash equivalents
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2026, we maintained cash equivalents of approximately $ 4.4 million in US Treasury bills with maturities of less than three months.
−Removed: We do not believe that the Company is exposed to any significant risk with respect to its cash equivalents since they represent US government
−Removed: Cash is maintained at one Australian financial
−Removed: institution in checking accounts.
+Added: do not believe that the Company is exposed to any significant risk with respect to its cash equivalents since they represent US government
+Added: Cash is maintained at one Australian financial institution
+Added: in checking accounts.
Accounts at this institution are secured by the Financial Claims Scheme for up to Australian $250,000.
−Removed: Our March 31, 2025 Australian cash balance was below that threshold.
+Added: 31, 2025 Australian cash balance was below that threshold.
RESTRICTED CASH
−Removed: To comply with the terms
−Removed: of our laboratory, office, and manufacturing space leases, we arranged for our former bank, First Republic Bank, to issue two standby
−Removed: letters of credit (L/Cs) totaling $ 87,506 in favor of the landlord, in lieu of a security deposit.
−Removed: To support the L/Cs, we authorized
−Removed: the withdrawal of $87,506 from our operating accounts and placed the funds in restricted certificates of deposit, which we classified
−Removed: as restricted cash, a long-term asset on our balance sheet.
−Removed: Following the transition of our banking relationship from First Republic Bank
−Removed: to JPMorgan Chase, the standby letters of credit were converted to a money market deposit account with an additional $ 5,000 buffer.
−Removed: interest-bearing account had a balance of $ 97,813 as of March 31, 2025, which we continue to classify as restricted cash.
+Added: To comply with the terms of our laboratory, office,
+Added: and manufacturing space leases, we arranged for our former bank, First Republic Bank, to issue two standby letters of credit (L/Cs) totaling
+Added: $ 87,506 in favor of the landlord, in lieu of a security deposit.
+Added: To support the L/Cs, we authorized the withdrawal of $87,506 from our
+Added: operating accounts and placed the funds in restricted certificates of deposit, which we classified as restricted cash, a long-term asset
+Added: on our balance sheet.
+Added: Following the transition of our banking relationship from First Republic Bank to JPMorgan Chase, the standby letters
+Added: of credit were converted to a money market deposit account with an additional $ 5,000 buffer.
+Added: This interest-bearing account had a balance
+Added: of $98,928 as of March 31, 2026, which we continue to classify as restricted cash.
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
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the Company’s net deferred tax asset.
−Removed: Tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing tax returns are required
−Removed: to be evaluated to determine whether the tax positions are more-likely-than-not to be sustained by the applicable tax authority.
−Removed: Tax positions
−Removed: deemed to not meet a more-likely-than-not threshold would be recorded as tax expense in the current year.
−Removed: There were no uncertain tax
−Removed: positions that require accrual to or disclosure in the consolidated financial statements as of March 31, 2025 and 2024.
+Added: Tax positions taken or expected to be taken in tax returns are evaluated using a more-likely-than-not
+Added: recognition threshold.
+Added: Tax positions deemed to not meet a more-likely-than-not threshold would be recorded as tax expense in the current
+Added: There were no uncertain tax positions that require accrual to or disclosure in the consolidated financial statements as of March
+Added: 31, 2026 and 2025.
LONG-LIVED ASSETS
−Removed: Long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment
−Removed: whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that their carrying amounts may not be recoverable.
−Removed: If the cost basis of a long-lived
−Removed: asset is greater than the projected future undiscounted net cash flows from such asset, an impairment loss is recognized.
−Removed: We believe no
−Removed: impairment charges were necessary during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.
+Added: Long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment whenever
+Added: events or changes in circumstances indicate that their carrying amounts may not be recoverable.
+Added: If the cost basis of a long-lived asset
+Added: is greater than the projected future undiscounted net cash flows from such asset, an impairment loss is recognized.
+Added: We believe no impairment
+Added: charges were necessary during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.
LOSS PER SHARE
−Removed: Basic loss per share is computed by dividing net
−Removed: loss available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period of computation.
+Added: Basic loss per share is computed by dividing net loss
+Added: available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period of computation.
loss per share is computed similar to basic loss per share except that the denominator is increased to include the number of additional
common shares that would have been outstanding if potential common shares had been issued, if such additional common shares were dilutive.
−Removed: Since we had net losses for all periods presented, basic and diluted loss per share are the same, and additional potential common shares
−Removed: have been excluded as their effect would be antidilutive.
+Added: Since we have had net losses for all periods presented, basic and diluted loss per share is the same, and additional potential common
+Added: shares have been excluded as their effect would be antidilutive.
As of March 31, 2026 and 2025, a total of 1,958,149
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REVENUE RECOGNITION
−Removed: We did not recognize revenue in fiscal year ended
+Added: We did not recognize revenue in fiscal years ended
March 31, 2026 or March 31, 2025.
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
−Removed: Employee stock options and rights to purchase
−Removed: shares under stock participation plans are accounted for under the fair value method.
−Removed: Accordingly, share-based compensation is measured
−Removed: when all granting activities have been completed, generally the grant date, based on the fair value of the award.
−Removed: The exercise price of
−Removed: options is generally equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock (defined as the closing price as quoted on the Nasdaq
−Removed: Capital Market or OTCBB on the date of grant).
−Removed: Compensation cost recognized by the Company includes (a) compensation cost for all equity
−Removed: incentive awards granted prior to April 1, 2006, but not yet vested, based on the grant-date fair value estimated in accordance with the
−Removed: original provisions of the then current accounting standards, and (b) compensation cost for all equity incentive awards granted subsequent
−Removed: to March 31, 2006, based on the grant-date fair value estimated in accordance with the provisions of subsequent accounting standards.
−Removed: We use a Binomial Lattice option pricing model for estimating fair value of options granted (see Note 4).
+Added: Employee stock options and rights to purchase shares
+Added: under stock participation plans are accounted for under the fair value method.
+Added: Accordingly, share-based compensation is measured when
+Added: all granting activities have been completed, generally the grant date, based on the fair value of the award.
+Added: The exercise price of options
+Added: is generally equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock (defined as the closing price as quoted on the Nasdaq Capital
+Added: Market or OTCBB on the date of grant).
+Added: Compensation cost recognized by the Company includes (a) compensation cost for all equity incentive
+Added: awards granted prior to April 1, 2006, but not yet vested, based on the grant-date fair value estimated in accordance with the original
+Added: provisions of the then current accounting standards, and (b) compensation cost for all equity incentive awards granted subsequent to March
+Added: 31, 2006, based on the grant-date fair value estimated in accordance with the provisions of subsequent accounting standards.
+Added: Binomial Lattice option pricing model for estimating fair value of options granted (see Note 4).
The following table summarizes share-based compensation
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Basic and diluted loss per common share
−Removed: We record share-based compensation expenses for awards of stock options
−Removed: and RSUs under ASC 718, Share-based compensation, or ASC 718.
−Removed: For awards to non-employees for periods prior to the adoption of ASU 2018-07,
−Removed: Compensation-Stock Compensation:
−Removed: Improvements to Non-employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, on April 1, 2019, the Company had applied
−Removed: ASC 505-50, Equity – Equity-based payments to non-employees, or ASC 505-50.
−Removed: ASC 718 establishes guidance for the recognition of
−Removed: expenses arising from the issuance of share-based compensation awards at their fair value at the grant date.
−Removed: We recognize share-based compensation expense
−Removed: related to stock options and stock appreciation rights granted to employees, directors and consultants based on the estimated fair value
−Removed: of the awards on the date of grant.
−Removed: We estimate the grant date fair value, and the resulting share-based compensation expense, for stock
−Removed: options that only have service vesting requirements or performance-based vesting requirements without market conditions using the binomial
−Removed: lattice option-pricing model.
−Removed: The grant date fair value of the share-based awards with service vesting requirements is generally recognized
−Removed: on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period of the respective awards.
−Removed: the appropriate amount to expense for performance-based awards based on the achievement of stated goals requires judgment.
−Removed: of expense is revised periodically based on the probability of achieving the required performance targets and adjustments are made as
+Added: We record share-based compensation expenses for awards
+Added: of stock options and RSUs under ASC 718, Share-based compensation, or ASC 718.
+Added: For awards to non-employees for periods prior to the adoption
+Added: of ASU 2018-07, Compensation-Stock Compensation:
+Added: Improvements to Non-employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, on April 1, 2019, the Company
+Added: had applied ASC 505-50, Equity – Equity-based payments to non-employees, or ASC 505-50.
+Added: ASC 718 establishes guidance for the recognition
+Added: of expenses arising from the issuance of share-based compensation awards at their fair value at the grant date.
+Added: We recognize share-based compensation expense related
+Added: to stock options and stock appreciation rights granted to employees, directors and consultants based on the estimated fair value of the
+Added: awards on the date of grant.
+Added: We estimate the grant date fair value, and the resulting share-based compensation expense, for stock options
+Added: that only have service vesting requirements or performance-based vesting requirements without market conditions using the binomial lattice
+Added: option-pricing model.
+Added: The grant date fair value of the share-based awards with service vesting requirements is generally recognized on
+Added: a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period of the respective awards.
+Added: Determining the
+Added: appropriate amount to expense for performance-based awards based on the achievement of stated goals requires judgment.
+Added: The estimate of
+Added: expense is revised periodically based on the probability of achieving the required performance targets and adjustments are made as appropriate.
The cumulative impact of any revisions is reflected in the period of change.
−Removed: If any applicable financial performance goals
−Removed: are not met, no compensation cost is recognized and any previously recognized compensation cost is reversed.
−Removed: For performance-based awards
−Removed: with market conditions, we determine the fair value of awards as of the grant date using a Monte Carlo simulation model.
+Added: If any applicable financial performance goals are not met,
+Added: no compensation cost is recognized and any previously recognized compensation cost is reversed.
+Added: For performance-based awards with market
+Added: conditions, we determine the fair value of awards as of the grant date using a Monte Carlo simulation model.
We review share-based compensation on a quarterly
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Patents include both foreign and domestic patents.
−Removed: We capitalize the cost of patents, some of which were acquired, and amortize such costs over the shorter of the remaining legal life or
−Removed: their estimated economic life, upon issuance of the patent.
−Removed: The unamortized costs of patents are subject to our review for impairment
−Removed: under our long-lived asset policy above.
+Added: We capitalize the cost
+Added: of patents, some of which were acquired, and amortize such costs over the shorter of the remaining legal life or their estimated economic
+Added: life, upon issuance of the patent.
+Added: The unamortized costs of patents are subject to our review for impairment under our long-lived asset
+Added: policy above.
STOCK PURCHASE WARRANTS
−Removed: In the past we issued warrants for the purchase
−Removed: of shares of our common stock in connection with the issuance of common stock for cash.
−Removed: Warrants issued in connection with common stock
−Removed: for cash, if classified as equity, are considered issued in connection with equity transactions and the warrant fair value is recorded
−Removed: to additional paid-in-capital.
+Added: In the past we issued warrants for the purchase of
+Added: shares of our common stock in connection with the issuance of common stock for cash.
+Added: Warrants issued in connection with common stock for
+Added: cash, if classified as equity, are considered issued in connection with equity transactions and the warrant fair value is recorded to
+Added: additional paid-in-capital.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENSES
−Removed: Our research and development costs are expensed
+Added: Our research and development costs are expensed as
We incurred approximately $ 1,912,000 and $ 2,212,000 of research and development expenses for the years ended March 31, 2026
and 2025, respectively, which are included in various operating expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 we recognized approximately $ 218,000 related to an Australian research and development tax incentive
+Added: associated with eligible clinical activities conducted in Australia.
+Added: The Australian R&D incentive is a government program that provides
+Added: refundable tax offsets for eligible research and development expenditures incurred in Australia.
+Added: The incentive reduced reported research
+Added: and development expense for fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 (see Note 9).
OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS
−Removed: We have not entered into any off-balance sheet
−Removed: arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future material effect on our consolidated financial statements.
+Added: We have not entered into any off-balance sheet arrangements
+Added: that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future material effect on our consolidated financial statements.
SIGNIFICANT RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
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public entities to disclose significant segment expense categories that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker (CODM)
−Removed: and included in the measure of segment profit or loss.
−Removed: operates as a single reportable segment.
−Removed: The adoption of ASU 2023-07 did not impact the Company’s consolidated financial
−Removed: statements but resulted in enhanced footnote disclosures regarding significant segment expenses, as reflected in Note 9 –
−Removed: Segment Reporting.
−Removed: March 2024, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense
−Removed: Disaggregation Disclosures (“ASU 2024-03”), which requires public business entities to provide enhanced annual and interim
−Removed: disclosures that disaggregate specified income statement expense categories.
−Removed: ASU 2024-03 is effective for annual periods beginning after
−Removed: December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027.
−Removed: The Company is evaluating whether the adoption
−Removed: of this new standard will have a material impact on our disclosures .
−Removed: In March 2024, the Financial Accounting Standards
−Removed: Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update No.
−Removed: 2024-02, Codification Improvements—Amendments to Remove References to the
−Removed: Concepts Statements (“ASU 2024-02”).
−Removed: ASU 2024-02 eliminates various references to the FASB’s Concepts Statements
−Removed: from the FASB Accounting Standards Codification in order to clarify that the Codification represents the authoritative source of generally
−Removed: accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in the United States.
−Removed: The amendments do not alter existing accounting requirements.
−Removed: is effective for fiscal years, including interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2024, and early adoption
−Removed: is permitted.
−Removed: This ASU is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements or disclosures.
−Removed: In December 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards
−Removed: Update 2023-09, Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (“ASU 2023-09”), which requires enhanced annual disclosures
−Removed: for specific categories in the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid disaggregated by federal, state and foreign taxes.
−Removed: is effective for public business entities for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.
−Removed: The Company is evaluating if the adoption
−Removed: of this new standard will have a material effect on our disclosures.
−Removed: In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326), Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments.
−Removed: The adoption of ASU No.
−Removed: 2016-13 for smaller reporting companies that did not previously early adopt was January 1, 2023.
−Removed: The Company maintained US Treasury bills
−Removed: with maturities of less than three months and expects zero credit losses from these securities.
−Removed: As a result, the Company did not record
−Removed: an allowance for expected credit losses.
+Added: and included in the reported measure of segment profit or loss.
+Added: The Company operates as a single reportable segment.
+Added: The adoption of ASU 2023-07 did not have an impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements but resulted in enhanced footnote
+Added: disclosures regarding significant segment expenses, as reflected in Note 9 – Segment Reporting.
+Added: In November 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards
+Added: Update 2023-09, Improvements to Income Taxes (Topic 740):
+Added: Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which requires enhanced annual disclosures
+Added: for specific categories in the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid disaggregated by federal, state, and foreign jurisdictions.
+Added: The Company adopted ASU 2023-09 effective April 1,
+Added: Adoption of the standard did not impact the Company’s consolidated financial statements but resulted in enhanced income tax disclosures,
+Added: as reflected in Note 7 – Income Taxes.
+Added: In March 2024, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting
+Added: Standards Update No.
+Added: 2024-02, Codification Improvements—Amendments to Remove References to the Concepts Statements (“ASU
+Added: The amendments remove references to FASB Concepts Statements from the Accounting Standards Codification and do not change
+Added: existing accounting requirements.
+Added: The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, including interim periods
+Added: within those fiscal years.
+Added: The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated financial
+Added: statements and related disclosures.
+Added: In March 2024, the FASB issued Accounting Standards
+Added: Update 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (“ASU 2024-03”),
+Added: which requires public business entities to provide enhanced annual and interim disclosures that disaggregate specified income statement
+Added: expense categories.
+Added: In January 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-01, which clarified the effective date of ASU 2024-03.
+Added: The amendments are
+Added: effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027.
+Added: Early adoption is permitted.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of this guidance may have on its consolidated
+Added: financial statements and related disclosures.
+Added: In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-10, Government
+Added: Grants (Topic 832) , which establishes guidance related to the recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of government
+Added: ASU 2025-10 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2028, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning
+Added: after December 15, 2029, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the impact this guidance may have on its
+Added: consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET
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accumulated depreciation
+Added: ( 1,287,363 )
Fixed assets, net
−Removed: Depreciation expense for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2025 and
−Removed: 2024 was $ 339,009 and $ 358,507 , respectively.
−Removed: During the year ended March 31, 2025, the Company disposed of fully depreciated property
−Removed: and equipment with an original cost of $ 350,670 .
+Added: Depreciation expense for the fiscal years ended March
+Added: 31, 2026 and 2025 was $ 323,102 and $ 339,009 , respectively.
+Added: During the year ended March 31, 2026, the Company disposed of fully depreciated
+Added: property and equipment with an original cost of $ 14,628 .
These disposals had no impact on net income, as the assets were fully depreciated
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Accumulated amortization
−Removed: Amortization expense for our capitalized issued
−Removed: patents for each of the fiscal years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 was $ 550 .
−Removed: As only one capitalized patent remains to be amortized, future
−Removed: amortization expense on patents is estimated to be approximately $550 per year based on the estimated life of the patent.
−Removed: average remaining life of our remaining capitalized patent is approximately 1.0 year.
+Added: Amortization expense for our capitalized issued patents
+Added: for each of the fiscal years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 was $ 550 .
+Added: As of March 31, 2026, the remaining capitalized patent was fully
+Added: amortized and no future amortization expense related to patents is expected.
EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
−Removed: Effective as of
−Removed: the close of business on June 6, 2025 with an effective trading date of June 9, 2025, we
−Removed: effected a 1-for-8 reverse
−Removed: stock split of our then outstanding shares of common stock.
−Removed: Accordingly, each 8 shares of outstanding common stock then held by our
−Removed: stockholders were combined into one share of common stock.
−Removed: Any fractional shares resulting from the reverse split were rounded up to
−Removed: the next whole share.
−Removed: Authorized common stock remained at 60,000,000 shares
−Removed: following the stock split.
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes have been retroactively revised
−Removed: to reflect such reverse stock split as if it had occurred on April 1, 2023.
−Removed: All shares and per share amounts have been revised
−Removed: In March 2025, the Company
−Removed: entered into a warrant inducement agreement resulting in the issuance of 1,550,000 new warrants and the modification of 775,000 existing
−Removed: The fair value of the new warrants and the incremental fair value from the modification totaled $ 4,612,862 which was recorded
−Removed: as a non-cash inducement expense in other expense and reflected as an increase to additional paid-in capital.
+Added: Effective as of the close
+Added: of business on June 6, 2025, with trading on a post-split basis beginning on June 9, 2025, the Company effected a 1-for-8 reverse stock
+Added: split of its outstanding common stock.
+Added: As a result of the reverse stock split, each eight shares of issued and outstanding common stock
+Added: were automatically combined into one issued and outstanding share of common stock.
+Added: Fractional shares resulting from the reverse stock
+Added: split were rounded up to the nearest whole share.
+Added: The number of authorized shares of common stock remained unchanged at 60,000,000 shares
+Added: following the reverse stock split.
+Added: Effective as of the close
+Added: of business on October 16, 2025, with trading on a post-split basis beginning on October 20, 2025, the Company effected a 1-for-10 reverse
+Added: stock split of its outstanding common stock.
+Added: The reverse stock split was implemented in response to the Company’s receipt of a Nasdaq
+Added: notification regarding noncompliance with the minimum bid price requirement for continued listing.
+Added: As a result of the reverse stock split,
+Added: each ten shares of issued and outstanding common stock were automatically combined into one issued and outstanding share of common stock.
+Added: Fractional shares resulting from the reverse stock split were rounded up to the nearest whole share.
+Added: Following the reverse stock split,
+Added: the Company had 6,000,000 authorized shares of common stock.
+Added: On February 19, 2026, the
+Added: Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized
+Added: shares of common stock from 6,000,000 shares to 100,000,000 shares.
+Added: All share and per share amounts
+Added: presented in the accompanying consolidated financial statements and related notes have been retroactively adjusted to reflect both reverse
+Added: stock splits for all periods presented.
ISSUANCES OF COMMON STOCK AND WARRANTS
Equity Transactions in the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2026.
+Added: December 2025 Private Placement and Warrant Inducement Agreement
+Added: On December 5, 2025, the Company and an institutional investor (the “Purchaser”)
+Added: entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to
+Added: issue to the Purchaser, in a private placement (the “PIPE Offering”), (i) 595,897 pre-funded warrants to purchase Common Stock
+Added: (“Pre-Funded Warrants”) and (ii) 1,042,820 warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $ 4.03 per share
+Added: (the “Common Warrants”).
+Added: The PIPE Offering closed on December 8, 2025 subject to customary closing conditions.
+Added: Warrants became exercisable upon stockholder approval and expire five and one-half years following stockholder approval obtained on February
+Added: On January 22, 2026, the Company entered into an amendment to the Securities
+Added: Purchase Agreement and the Pre-Funded Warrants pursuant to which the Pre-Funded Warrants became immediately exercisable at an exercise
+Added: price of $ 0.0001 per share.
+Added: At the same time and as part of the PIPE Offering, the Company also entered
+Added: into a warrant inducement agreement (the “Inducement Agreement”) with the same Purchaser of certain outstanding common stock
+Added: purchase warrants.
+Added: Under this agreement, the Purchaser’s existing warrants were modified, including exercise at a reduced price
+Added: of $ 4.03 per share for 210,555 shares, and the Purchaser received 368,471 new warrants (the “Inducement Warrants”) to encourage
+Added: participation in the PIPE.
+Added: The modification of the existing warrants and issuance of the Inducement
+Added: Warrants were accounted for as costs associated with a financing transaction.
+Added: The new warrants became exercisable on February 19, 2026,
+Added: have an exercise price of $ 4.03 per share, and expire five and one-half years following the stockholder approval date.
+Added: The Company also issued warrants to buy 23,836 shares of common stock to
+Added: the placement agent (the “Placement Agent Warrants”) under the Placement Agent Agreement dated December 5, 2025.
+Added: The Placement
+Added: Agent Warrants have an exercise price of $ 5.04 per share and expire five and one-half years following stockholder approval obtained on
+Added: February 19, 2026.
+Added: The securities issued in the PIPE Offering and Inducement Agreement were
+Added: issued in a private placement exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Regulation D promulgated thereunder.
+Added: The Company filed a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No.
+Added: covering the resale of shares underlying the warrants issued in the PIPE Offering and Inducement Agreement which was declared effective
+Added: on January 16, 2026.
+Added: The Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of the registration statement as required under the Registration
+Added: Rights Agreement and Inducement Agreement.
+Added: The agreements include customary provisions for liquidated damages if the registration statements
+Added: are not maintained on time.
+Added: Gross proceeds from the PIPE Offering were approximately $ 3.3 million before
+Added: placement agent fees and offering costs.
+Added: Warrant Exercises
+Added: As described above, in connection with the Inducement Agreement, the holder
+Added: of common stock purchase warrants exercised 210,555 shares of common stock for additional proceeds to the company of $ 848,537 .
+Added: September 2025 Registered Direct Offering
+Added: On September 4, 2025, we entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with
+Added: certain investors pursuant to which it agreed to sell (i) 4,047,780 shares of common stock, (ii) 952,220 pre-funded warrants, and (iii)
+Added: 5,000,000 common warrants to purchase up to 5,000,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $ 0.90 per share.
+Added: The securities were
+Added: offered as part of a registered public offering on Form S-1 (File No.
+Added: 333-289745), which was declared effective by the SEC on September
+Added: The combined public offering price for each share (or pre-funded warrant in lieu thereof) and accompanying common warrant was
+Added: $0.90 per unit.
+Added: The offering closed on September 5, 2025, and we received gross proceeds
+Added: of approximately $ 4.5 million and net proceeds of approximately $ 3.7 million, after deducting placement agent fees and other offering
+Added: Maxim Group LLC acted as the exclusive placement agent and received a cash fee of 6.25 % of gross proceeds, reimbursement of
+Added: $ 100,000 of expenses, and warrants to purchase up to 200,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $ 0.90 per share.
+Added: In connection with the offering, the Company and its officers and directors
+Added: agreed to customary lock-up provisions restricting certain issuances or sales of securities for up to 90 days following the closing.
+Added: April 2025 RSU Grants to Independent Directors
+Added: In April 2025, our Board of Directors approved, pursuant
+Added: to the terms of the Director Compensation Policy, the grant of the annual RSUs under the Director Compensation Policy to each of the
+Added: four non-employee directors of the Company then serving on the Board of Directors.
+Added: The Director Compensation Policy provides for a grant
+Added: of stock options or $50,000 worth of RSUs at the beginning of each fiscal year for current non-employee directors then serving on the
+Added: Board of Directors, and for a grant of stock options or $75,000 worth of RSUs for a newly elected non-employee director, with each RSU
+Added: priced at the average for the closing prices for the five days preceding and including the date of grant, or $2.80 per share for the
+Added: RSUs granted in April 2025.
+Added: As a result, in April 2025 the four eligible directors were each granted an RSU in the amount of 17,858 shares
+Added: under the Company’s 2020 Equity Incentive Plan, or the 2020 Plan.
+Added: RSUs are subject to vesting in four equal installments, with 25% of the restricted stock units vesting on each of June 30, 2025, September
+Added: 30, 2025, December 31, 2025, and March 31, 2026, subject in each case to the director’s Continuous Service (as defined in the 2020
+Added: Plan), through such dates.
+Added: Vesting will terminate upon the director’s termination of Continuous Service prior to any vesting date.
+Added: Equity Transactions in the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2025.
March 2025 Warrant-Based
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Class A and Class B Warrants issued on May 17, 2024 (the “Existing Warrants”).
−Removed: to the Agreement, the Holder, upon exercise, will receive a new unregistered Common Stock Purchase Warrant (“New Warrant”)
−Removed: pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Securities Act”), to purchase up to a number of shares
−Removed: equal to 200% of the number of Warrant Shares issued pursuant to the exercise of Existing Warrants pursuant to this Agreement (the “New
−Removed: Warrant Shares”), which New Warrant shall have an exercise price per share equal to $0.3736, subject to adjustment as provided
−Removed: in the New Warrant, will be exercisable at any time on or after six (6) months from the date of issuance and have a term of exercise
−Removed: of five and one-half (5.5) years from the date of issuance and (ii) a reduction of the exercise price of the Existing Warrants to $0.3736
−Removed: per share, representing the closing price on March 14, 2025, but only with respect to a cash exercise under the Existing Warrants
−Removed: (as reduced from the current respective exercise price per share as set forth in the Existing Warrants).
−Removed: The closing took place
−Removed: on March 17, 2025.
−Removed: Gross proceeds to the Company from the exercise of the Existing Warrants was $ 2,316,320 , prior to deducting
−Removed: closing costs and placement agent fees as further described below.
−Removed: The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for working
−Removed: capital and general corporate purposes.
+Added: Pursuant to the Agreement, the Holder, upon
+Added: exercise, will receive a new unregistered Common Stock Purchase Warrant (“New Warrant”) pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the
+Added: Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Securities Act”), to purchase up to a number of shares equal to 200% of the number of
+Added: Warrant Shares issued pursuant to the exercise of Existing Warrants pursuant to this Agreement (the “New Warrant Shares”),
+Added: which New Warrant shall have an exercise price per share equal to $0.3736, subject to adjustment as provided in the New Warrant, will
+Added: be exercisable at any time on or after six (6) months from the date of issuance and have a term of exercise of five and one-half (5.5)
+Added: years from the date of issuance and (ii) a reduction of the exercise price of the Existing Warrants to $0.3736 per share, representing
+Added: the closing price on March 14, 2025, but only with respect to a cash exercise under the Existing Warrants (as reduced from the current
+Added: respective exercise price per share as set forth in the Existing Warrants).
+Added: The fair value of the new
+Added: warrants issued and the incremental fair value associated with the modification of the existing warrants totaled approximately $ 4.6 million
+Added: and was recorded as a non-cash inducement expense within other expense, with a corresponding increase to additional paid-in capital.
+Added: The closing took place on
+Added: March 17, 2025.
+Added: Gross proceeds to the Company from the exercise of the Existing Warrants was $ 2,316,320 , prior to deducting closing costs
+Added: and placement agent fees as further described below.
+Added: The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for working capital
+Added: and general corporate purposes.
As a result of the Holder
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Warrants have all been registered on Form S-1 registration statement (Registration Number 333-278188).
−Removed: The Company agreed to
−Removed: file a resale registration statement registering the shares underlying the Replacement Warrants (“Resale Registration Statement”)
+Added: The Company agreed to file
+Added: a resale registration statement registering the shares underlying the Replacement Warrants (“Resale Registration Statement”)
within ninety (90) days of the date of the Agreement and to use commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Resale Registration
Statement to be effective on or prior to the 150th calendar day after the date of the Agreement.
−Removed: Subject to the terms
−Removed: of the Agreement, the Company will be required to pay certain liquidated damages if the shares underlying the New Warrants are not filed
−Removed: within the ninety (90) period, as more fully described in the Agreement.
+Added: Subject to the terms of the
+Added: Agreement, the Company will be required to pay certain liquidated damages if the shares underlying the New Warrants are not filed within
+Added: the ninety (90) period, as more fully described in the Agreement.
The Company further agreed
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the shares underlying the Replacement Warrants).
−Removed: In connection with the
−Removed: transactions contemplated in the Agreement, the Company agreed to pay its placement agent, Maxim Group, LLC (the “Agent”)
−Removed: the following compensation, (i) a cash fee equal to 6.0% of the gross proceeds received by the Company in the transactions contemplated
−Removed: by the Agreement, and (ii) legal fees and out-of-pocket expenses of $ 15,000 .
+Added: In connection with the transactions
+Added: contemplated in the Agreement, the Company agreed to pay its placement agent, Maxim Group, LLC (the “Agent”) the following
+Added: compensation, (i) a cash fee equal to 6.0% of the gross proceeds received by the Company in the transactions contemplated by the Agreement,
+Added: and (ii) legal fees and out-of-pocket expenses of $ 15,000 .
May 2024 Public Offering
−Removed: On May 17, 2024,
−Removed: the Company closed a public offering pursuant to which it sold an aggregate of:
−Removed: (i) 306,250 shares
−Removed: of common stock and accompanying Class A warrants to purchase up to 306,250 shares
−Removed: of common stock and Class B warrants to purchase up to 306,250 shares
−Removed: of common stock, at a combined public offering price of $ 4.64
−Removed: per share and accompanying warrants;
−Removed: and (ii) in lieu of common stock, pre-funded warrants to purchase 706,250 shares
−Removed: of common stock and accompanying Class A warrants to purchase up to 706,250
−Removed: shares of common stock and Class B warrants to purchase up to 706,250
−Removed: shares of common stock, at a combined public offering price of $0.4.63 per pre-funded warrant and accompanying warrants, which is
−Removed: equal to the public offering price per share of common stock, and accompanying warrants less the $ 0.001 per share exercise price of
−Removed: each such pre-funded warrant.
−Removed: All pre-funded
−Removed: warrants issued in the offering were exercised in the quarter ended June 30, 2024.
−Removed: and Class B warrants each have an exercise price of $ 4.64 per
−Removed: share, are immediately exercisable, and, in the case of Class A warrants, will expire on May
−Removed: 17, 2029 , and in the case of Class B warrants, will expire
+Added: On May 17, 2024, the Company
+Added: closed a public offering pursuant to which it sold an aggregate of:
+Added: (i) 306,250 shares of common stock and accompanying Class
+Added: A warrants to purchase up to 306,250 shares of common stock and Class B warrants to purchase up to 306,250 shares
+Added: of common stock, at a combined public offering price of $ 4.64 per share and accompanying warrants;
+Added: and (ii) in lieu of common stock, pre-funded
+Added: warrants to purchase 706,250 shares of common stock and accompanying Class A warrants to purchase up to 706,250 shares of common
+Added: stock and Class B warrants to purchase up to 706,250 shares of common stock, at a combined public offering price of $4.63 per pre-funded
+Added: warrant and accompanying warrants, which is equal to the public offering price per share of common stock, and accompanying warrants less
+Added: the $ 0.001 per share exercise price of each such pre-funded warrant.
+Added: All pre-funded warrants issued
+Added: in the offering were exercised in the quarter ended June 30, 2024.
+Added: The Class A and Class B warrants
+Added: each have an exercise price of $ 4.64 per share, are immediately exercisable, and, in the case of Class A warrants, will expire on May
+Added: 17, 2029 , and in the case of Class B warrants, will expire on May 19, 2025 .
The exercise price of the Class A and Class B warrants
−Removed: is also subject to adjustment for stock splits, reverse splits, and similar capital transactions as described in such
+Added: is also subject to adjustment for stock splits, reverse splits, and similar capital transactions as described in such warrants.
Maxim Group LLC (“Maxim”),
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expire on May 15, 2029 .
−Removed: The gross proceeds from
−Removed: the offering, before deducting the placement agent’s fees and other offering expenses, were approximately $ 4.7 million.
−Removed: proceeds, of the offering, after deducting the placement agent fees and expenses and other offering expenses payable by us, were are approximately
−Removed: $ 3.5 million.
−Removed: In June 2024, and holders of Class A and Class B warrants exercised 37,500 shares and 360,000 shares,
−Removed: respectively, for additional proceeds of $ 1,844,400 .
−Removed: The shares of Common
−Removed: Stock, the Class A and Class B warrants, the pre-funded warrants and the Placement Agent Warrants described above and the underlying shares
−Removed: of Common Stock were offered pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No.
+Added: The gross proceeds from the
+Added: offering, before deducting the placement agent’s fees and other offering expenses, were approximately $ 4.7 million.
+Added: Net proceeds,
+Added: of the offering, after deducting the placement agent fees and expenses and other offering expenses payable by us, were approximately $ 3.5 million.
+Added: In June 2024, and holders of Class A and Class B warrants exercised 37,500 shares and 360,000 shares, respectively,
+Added: for additional proceeds of $ 1,844,400 .
+Added: The shares of Common Stock,
+Added: the Class A and Class B warrants, the pre-funded warrants and the Placement Agent Warrants described above and the underlying shares of
+Added: Common Stock were offered pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No.
333-278188) (the “Registration
Statement”), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 15, 2024.
−Removed: RSU Grants to Non-Employee Directors
+Added: RSU Grants to Non-Employee
April 17, 2024, the Compensation Committee of the Board, or Compensation Committee, approved, pursuant to the terms of the Company’s
Amended and Restated Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy, or the Director Compensation Policy, the grant of the annual RSUs under
−Removed: the Director Compensation Policy to each of the three non-employee directors of the Company then serving on the Board of Directors of
−Removed: the Company, or Board.
−Removed: The Director Compensation Policy provides for a grant of stock options or $50,000 worth of RSUs at the beginning
−Removed: of each fiscal year for current non-employee directors then serving on the Board, and for a grant of stock options or $75,000 worth of
−Removed: RSUs for a newly elected non-employee director, with each RSU priced at the average for the closing prices for the five days preceding
−Removed: and including the date of grant, or $12.16 per share for the April 2024 RSU grants.
+Added: the Director Compensation Policy to each of the four non-employee directors of the Company then serving on the Board of Directors of the
+Added: Company, or Board.
+Added: The Director Compensation Policy provides for a grant of stock options or $50,000 worth of RSUs at the beginning of
+Added: each fiscal year for current non-employee directors then serving on the Board, and for a grant of stock options or $75,000 worth of RSUs
+Added: for a newly elected non-employee director, with each RSU priced at the average for the closing prices for the five days preceding and
+Added: including the date of grant, or $12.16 per share for the April 2024 RSU grants.
As a result, in April 2024 the four eligible directors
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the director’s termination of Continuous Service prior to any vesting date.
−Removed: There were no vested
−Removed: RSUs outstanding as of March 31, 2025.
−Removed: Equity Transactions in the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2024.
−Removed: On March 24, 2022, we entered into an At The Market
−Removed: Offering Agreement, or the 2022 ATM Agreement, with H.C.
−Removed: Wainwright & Co., LLC, or Wainwright, which established an at-the-market
−Removed: equity program pursuant to which we may offer and sell shares of our common stock from time to time as set forth in the 2022 ATM Agreement.
−Removed: The offering was registered under the Securities
−Removed: Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, pursuant to our shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration Statement No.
−Removed: as previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, and declared effective on October 21, 2021.
−Removed: We filed a prospectus
−Removed: supplement, dated March 24, 2022, with the SEC that provides for the sale of shares of our common stock, or the 2022 ATM Shares, having
−Removed: an aggregate offering price of up to $ 15,000,000 , which was subsequently and most recently updated pursuant to our prospectus supplement,
−Removed: dated September 29, 2022, filed with the SEC that provides for the sale of 2022 ATM Shares having an aggregate offering price of up to
−Removed: $ 6,625,000 .
−Removed: As of March 31, 2024, $ 5,302,617 of 2022 ATM Shares remained available for sale under the 2022 ATM Agreement.
−Removed: The underlying shelf registration statement on
−Removed: Form S-3 expired in October 2024.
−Removed: As a result, we were no longer eligible to sell shares under the 2022 ATM Agreement, which we subsequently
−Removed: terminated following the expiration
−Removed: Under the 2022 ATM Agreement, Wainwright may sell
−Removed: the 2022 ATM Shares by any method permitted by law and deemed to be an “at the market offering” as defined in Rule 415 promulgated
−Removed: under the Securities Act, including sales made directly on the Nasdaq Capital Market, or on any other existing trading market for the
−Removed: 2022 ATM Shares.
−Removed: In addition, under the 2022 ATM Agreement, Wainwright may sell the 2022 ATM Shares in privately negotiated transactions
−Removed: with our consent and in block transactions.
−Removed: Under certain circumstances, we may instruct Wainwright not to sell the 2022 ATM Shares if
−Removed: the sales cannot be effected at or above the price designated by us from time to time.
−Removed: We are not obligated to make any further sales
−Removed: of the 2022 ATM Shares under the 2022 ATM Agreement.
−Removed: The offering of the 2022 ATM Shares pursuant to the 2022 ATM Agreement will terminate
−Removed: upon the termination of the 2022 ATM Agreement by Wainwright or us, as permitted therein.
−Removed: The 2022 ATM Agreement contains customary representations,
−Removed: warranties and agreements by us, and customary indemnification and contribution rights and obligations of the parties.
−Removed: We agreed to pay
−Removed: Wainwright a placement fee of up to 3.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds from each sale of the 2022 ATM Shares.
−Removed: We also agreed to reimburse
−Removed: Wainwright for certain specified expenses in connection with entering into the 2022 ATM Agreement.
−Removed: In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, we raised
−Removed: aggregate net proceeds of $ 1,322,383 net of $ 34,118 in commissions to Wainwright and $ 8,202 in other offering expense, through the sale
−Removed: of 37,011 shares of our common stock at an average price of $ 35.76 per share under the 2022 ATM Agreement.
−Removed: RSU Grants to Non-Employee Directors
−Removed: April 2024, the Compensation Committee of the Board, or Compensation Committee, approved, pursuant to the terms of the Company’s
−Removed: Amended and Restated Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy, or the Director Compensation Policy, the grant of the annual RSUs under
−Removed: the Director Compensation Policy to each of the three non-employee directors of the Company then serving on the Board of Directors of
−Removed: the Company, or Board.
−Removed: The Director Compensation Policy provides for a grant of stock options or $50,000 worth of RSUs at the beginning
−Removed: of each fiscal year for current non-employee directors then serving on the Board, and for a grant of stock options or $75,000 worth of
−Removed: RSUs for a newly elected non-employee director, with each RSU priced at the average for the closing prices for the five days preceding
−Removed: and including the date of grant, or $34.40 per share for the April 2023 RSU grants.
−Removed: As a result, in April 2023 the three eligible directors
−Removed: were each granted an RSU in the amount of 1,454 shares under the 2020 Plan.
−Removed: The RSUs are subject to vesting in four equal installments,
−Removed: with 25% of the restricted stock units vesting on each of June 30, 2023, September 30, 2023, December 31, 2023, and March 31, 2024, subject
−Removed: in each case to the director’s Continuous Service (as defined in the 2020 Plan), through such dates.
−Removed: Vesting will terminate upon
−Removed: the director’s termination of Continuous Service prior to any vesting date.
−Removed: Unvested RSUs covering
−Removed: 611 shares of common stock were outstanding as of March 31, 2024.
−Removed: twelve-months ended March 31, 2025, we issued 2,065,500 warrants in connection with the May, 2024 public offering and 1,550,000 in connection
−Removed: with a March 2025 warrant inducement.
−Removed: We did not issue any warrants during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024.
+Added: There were no vested RSUs
+Added: outstanding as of March 31, 2025.
+Added: fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, warrant activity primarily related to warrants issued in connection with the Company’s
+Added: September 2025 public offering and the Company’s December 2025 PIPE and warrant inducement transaction.
+Added: twelve-months ended March 31, 2026, we issued 520,000
+Added: warrants in connection with the September 2025 public offering and 1,435,126
+Added: in connection with a December 2025 PIPE and warrant inducement transaction.
+Added: In addition, 210,555
+Added: warrants were exercised in connection with the December 2025 transaction and 22,793
+Added: warrants expired unexercised during the year.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026, a total of 1,957,490
+Added: warrants were outstanding and exercisable at a weighted average exercise price of $ 6.48
A summary of the aggregate warrant activity for the years ended March 31,
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Outstanding, beginning of year
−Removed: ( 1,231,305 )
Cancelled/Forfeited
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Warrants Outstanding
−Removed: Warrants Exercisable
Exercise Prices
Exercise Price
−Removed: Exercise Price
$9.00 or Below
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2025 is as follows:
−Removed: Warrants Outstanding
−Removed: Warrants Exercisable
+Added: Warrants Outstanding and Exercisable
Exercise Prices
Exercise Price
−Removed: Exercise Price
$46.4 or Below
−Removed: $200.00 - $220.00
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION:
2020 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
−Removed: 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2020 Plan”) was approved by our stockholders in September 2020 to provide stock-based incentives
−Removed: to attract, retain, and motivate employees, directors, and consultants.
−Removed: The plan initially authorized 21,023 shares of common stock for
−Removed: issuance through stock options, restricted stock units (RSUs), stock bonuses, stock appreciation rights, and other awards.
−Removed: approved increases to the share reserve in September 2022 and September 2024, authorizing an additional 22,500 and 375,000 shares, respectively.
−Removed: As of March 31, 2025, 390,950 shares remained available for issuance under the 2020 Plan .
+Added: The 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2020 Plan”)
+Added: was approved by our stockholders in September 2020 and has subsequently been amended from time to time with stockholder approval to increase
+Added: the number of shares available for issuance.
+Added: The 2020 plan permits the issuance of stock options, restricted stock units (RSUs), stock
+Added: bonuses, stock appreciation rights, and other equity awards to employees, directors and consultants.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026, 132,109 shares
+Added: remained available for issuance under the 2020 Plan.
NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR COMPENSATION POLICY
−Removed: The Company maintains the Director Compensation
−Removed: Policy which provides for cash and equity compensation for persons serving as non-employee directors of the Company.
−Removed: Under this policy,
−Removed: each new non-employee director receives either stock options or a grant of RSUs upon appointment/election, as well as either an annual
−Removed: grant of stock options or of RSUs at the beginning of each fiscal year.
−Removed: The (i) stock options are subject to vesting and (ii) RSUs are
−Removed: subject to vesting and represent the right to be issued on a future date shares of our common stock upon vesting.
−Removed: Please see above under the heading "Equity
−Removed: Transactions in the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2025—RSU Grants to Non-Employee Directors" for disclosure regarding equity
−Removed: awards under the Director Compensation Policy during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025.
+Added: The Company maintains the Director Compensation Policy
+Added: which provides for cash and equity compensation for persons serving as non-employee directors of the Company.
+Added: Under this policy, each
+Added: new non-employee director receives either stock options or a grant of RSUs upon appointment/election, as well as either an annual grant
+Added: of stock options or of RSUs at the beginning of each fiscal year.
+Added: The (i) stock options are subject to vesting and (ii) RSUs are subject
+Added: to vesting and represent the right to be issued on a future date shares of our common stock upon vesting.
+Added: Please see above under the heading “Equity Transactions
+Added: in the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2026—RSU Grants to Non-Employee Directors” for disclosure regarding equity awards under
+Added: the Director Compensation Policy during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026.
STOCK OPTION ACTIVITY
−Removed: During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2025 and
−Removed: March 31, 2024, we did not issue stock option grants.
+Added: During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2026 and March
+Added: 31, 2025, we did not issue stock option grants.
Options outstanding that were vested as of March 31,
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Expected to vest
−Removed: The following is a summary of the stock options
−Removed: outstanding at March 31, 2025 and 2024 and the changes during the years then ended:
+Added: The following is a summary of the stock options outstanding
+Added: at March 31, 2026 and 2025 and the changes during the years then ended:
Schedule of stock option activity
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Weighted average estimated fair value of options granted
−Removed: Effective as of the close of business on June 6, 2025 with an effective trading date of June 9, 2025, the Company effected
−Removed: a 1-for-8 reverse stock split of its common stock.
−Removed: All option share figures, including those for prior periods, have been adjusted retrospectively
−Removed: to reflect the reverse split.
−Removed: Option balances may not tie exactly to prior period filings due to rounding of fractional shar es.
−Removed: There were no stock option grants during the fiscal years ended March
−Removed: 31, 2025 or March 31, 2024.
+Added: There were no stock option grants during the fiscal
+Added: years ended March 31, 2026 or March 31, 2025.
There were 7,143 RSUs granted during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026.
−Removed: The weighted average grant date
−Removed: fair value of RSUs granted during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 was $ 50,000 .
−Removed: There were no stock option exercises during the fiscal
−Removed: years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.
+Added: average grant date fair value of RSUs granted during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 was $ 50,000 .
+Added: There were no stock option exercises
+Added: during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.
The table below summarizes nonvested stock options as of March 31, 2026
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of operations for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.
−Removed: The table below presents a summary of restricted
−Removed: stock unit activity as of March 31, 2025, and for the year then ended.
+Added: The table below presents a summary of restricted stock
+Added: unit activity as of March 31, 2026, and for the year then ended.
Schedule of RSUs
Nonvested RSUs at April 1, 2025
−Removed: Tax withholding payments or tax equivalent payments for net share settlement of restricted stock units
Nonvested RSUs at March 31, 2026
−Removed: Our total stock-based compensation for fiscal
−Removed: years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 included the following:
+Added: Our total stock-based compensation for fiscal years
+Added: ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 included the following:
Schedule of stock-based compensation
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adjustments for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 was insignificant.
−Removed: On March 31, 2025, our outstanding stock options
−Removed: had no intrinsic value since the closing price on that date of $ 2.86 per share was below the weighted average exercise price of our outstanding
+Added: On March 31, 2026, our outstanding stock options had
+Added: no intrinsic value since the closing price on that date of $ 2.19 per share was below the weighted average exercise price of our outstanding
stock options.
−Removed: At March 31, 2025, there was $ 78,548
−Removed: of unrecognized compensation cost related to share-based payments, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of
+Added: At March 31, 2026, there was no unrecognized compensation
+Added: cost related to share-based payments.
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
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March 31, 2026 we accrued unpaid fees of $ 68,250 owed to our non-employee directors.
−Removed: As a result of entering
−Removed: into separation agreements with two former executives, we paid out accrued vacation totaling $ 27,126 during the fiscal year ended March
−Removed: These amounts were previously recorded in the "due to related parties" account.
−Removed: In addition, pursuant to the terms
−Removed: of their respective Executive Employment Agreements, we accrued a total of $ 809,782 for cash severance and COBRA payments, which are payable
−Removed: monthly over 12-month periods beginning on July 1, 2024, and October 15, 2024, respectively.
−Removed: Separately, in connection
−Removed: with a reduction in force in August 2024, we paid out an additional $ 13,419 in accrued vacation, which was also previously recorded in
−Removed: the "due to related parties" account.
+Added: We paid out accrued vacation
+Added: totaling approximately $ 169,596 during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 as a result of a Company-wide change to our vacation policy.
+Added: In addition, we paid approximately $ 346,286 in cash severance and COBRA payments pursuant to executive employment agreements for two former
+Added: executives, payable in monthly installments over 12-month periods commencing July 1, 2024 and October 15, 2024, respectively
due to related parties were comprised of the following items:
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due to related parties
+Added: March 31, 2026
+Added: March 31, 2025
Accrued Board fees
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Total other current liabilities
−Removed: During 2017 through 2020, the Company incorrectly
−Removed: recorded accrued commission liability of approximately $404,000.
−Removed: The Company reversed accrued commission liability of approximately $404,000
−Removed: during the year ended March 31, 2024.
−Removed: For the years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, we
−Removed: had no income tax expense due to our net operating losses and 100% deferred tax asset valuation allowance.
−Removed: At March 31, 2025 and 2024, we had net deferred
−Removed: tax assets as detailed below.
−Removed: These deferred tax assets are primarily composed of capitalized research and development costs and tax net
−Removed: operating loss carryforwards.
−Removed: Due to uncertainties surrounding our ability to generate future taxable income to realize these assets,
−Removed: a 100% valuation allowance has been established to offset the net deferred tax assets.
−Removed: Significant components of our net deferred tax
−Removed: assets at March 31, 2025 and 2024 are shown below:
+Added: The following table summarizes the Company’s loss
+Added: before income taxes by tax jurisdiction for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.
+Added: Schedule of loss
+Added: before income taxes
+Added: March 31, 2026
+Added: March 31, 2025
+Added: $ ( 6,347,160 )
+Added: $ ( 12,416,477 )
+Added: Worldwide loss
+Added: $ ( 7,151,469 )
+Added: $ ( 13,388,089 )
+Added: The Company conducts operations in the United States
+Added: and Australia.
+Added: Losses generated in the United States primarily relate to research and development and corporate activities.
+Added: Losses generated
+Added: in Australia primarily relate to research and development activities conducted through the Company’s Australian subsidiary.
+Added: Australian subsidiary participates in the Australian Research and Development Tax Incentive program, which provides refundable tax offsets
+Added: for certain qualifying research and development expenditures.
+Added: The Company accounts for these refundable tax offsets as reductions of research
+Added: and development expense and, accordingly, they do not result in current income tax expense or benefit.
+Added: For the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, the Company
+Added: recorded no income tax expense or benefit due to the full valuation allowance maintained against its net deferred tax assets.
+Added: At March 31, 2026 and 2025, the Company’s deferred tax assets consisted
+Added: primarily of net operating loss carryforwards, research and development tax credit carryforwards, capitalized research and development
+Added: costs under Internal Revenue Code Section 174, and stock-based compensation deductions.
+Added: Net operating loss carryforwards represented approximately
+Added: 80% of the Company’s gross deferred tax assets at March 31, 2026.
+Added: Due to uncertainty regarding the realization of these deferred tax assets,
+Added: the Company has recorded a full valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets.
+Added: Significant components of the Company’s deferred
+Added: tax assets at March 31, 2026 and 2025 are as follows:
Schedule of deferred tax assets
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Deferred tax assets:
−Removed: Research and development credit carryforwards
−Removed: Capitalized research and development costs
Net operating loss carryforwards (1)
+Added: Capitalized research and development costs
+Added: Research and development tax credits
Stock compensation
−Removed: Total deferred tax assets
+Added: Gross deferred tax assets
Total deferred tax liabilities
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−Removed: Pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Section 382, use of our tax net operating loss carryforwards may be limited.
+Added: Pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Section 382, use of our tax net operating loss carryforwards and research and development tax credit carryforwards may be limited.
The amount of the annual limitation, if any, will be determined based on the value of the Company immediately prior to an ownership change.
Subsequent ownership changes may further affect the limitation in future years.
−Removed: If and when the Company utilizes the NOL carryforwards in a future period, it will perform an analysis to determine the effect, if any, of these loss limitation rules on the NOL carryforward balances.
−Removed: At March 31, 2025, we had tax net operating loss
−Removed: carryforwards for federal and state purposes approximating $ 97 million and $ 91 million, respectively, portions of which began to expire
−Removed: in the year 2021.
−Removed: The indefinite position is approximately $ 36 million.
−Removed: Research and Development credits begin to expire in 2025.
−Removed: The provision for income taxes on earnings subject
−Removed: to income taxes differs from the statutory federal rate for the years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 due to the following:
+Added: If and when the Company utilizes these tax attributes in a future period, it will perform an analysis to determine the effect, if any, of these loss limitation rules on the carryforward balances.
+Added: At March 31, 2026, the Company had federal, state
+Added: and foreign net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $ 101 million, $ 98 million, and $ 1.2 million, respectively.
+Added: Federal net operating
+Added: losses generated after 2017 may be carried forward indefinitely, while certain federal and state net operating loss carryforwards are
+Added: subject to expiration under applicable tax laws.
+Added: The Company also had federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards.
+Added: Federal research and development tax credits began to expire in 2025.
+Added: The following table reconciles the U.S.
+Added: federal statutory
+Added: income tax rate to the Company’s effective income tax rate for the year ended March 31, 2026.
Schedule of provision for income taxes
−Removed: Income taxes (benefit) at federal statutory rate of 21.00%
−Removed: $ ( 2,811,000 )
+Added: Rate Federal statutory income tax benefit
$ ( 1,502,000 )
−Removed: Tax effect on non-deductible expenses and credits
−Removed: True up items
+Added: State taxes, net of federal benefit
+Added: Federal return-to-provision adjustments
+Added: State return-to-provision adjustments
Expiration of net operating loss carryforwards
+Added: Non-deductible items
Change in valuation allowance
−Removed: Income Tax Expense (Benefit)
−Removed: ______________
−Removed: Pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Section 382, use of our tax net operating loss carryforwards may be limited.
−Removed: ASC 740, “Income Taxes”, clarifies
−Removed: the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in an entity’s financial statements, and prescribes recognition thresholds and
−Removed: measurement attributes for financial statement disclosure of tax positions taken or expected to be taken on a tax return.
−Removed: Under ASC 740,
+Added: Effective income tax rate
+Added: The state tax benefit represents the effect of state
+Added: income taxes, net of the related federal tax benefit.
+Added: Return-to-provision adjustments primarily relate to differences between estimates
+Added: included in the prior year’s income tax provision and amounts reported on subsequently filed income tax returns.
+Added: The expiration of net
+Added: operating loss carryforwards relates to deferred tax assets associated with tax attributes that expired during the year.
+Added: The change in
+Added: valuation allowance reflects the increase in the valuation allowance required to fully offset deferred tax assets generated during the
+Added: ASC 740, “Income Taxes”, clarifies the
+Added: accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in an entity’s financial statements, and prescribes recognition thresholds
+Added: and measurement attributes for financial statement disclosure of tax positions taken or expected to be taken on a tax return.
740, the impact of an uncertain income tax position on the income tax return must be recognized at the largest amount that is more-likely-than-not
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2025, management does not believe the Company has any uncertain tax positions.
−Removed: Accordingly, there are no unrecognized tax benefits at March
−Removed: 31, 2025 or March 31, 2024.
−Removed: Our tax returns remain open for examination by
−Removed: the applicable authorities, generally 3 years for federal and 4 years for state.
−Removed: We are currently not under examination by any taxing
+Added: Accordingly, there are no
+Added: unrecognized tax benefits at March 31, 2026 or March 31, 2025.
+Added: Our tax returns remain open for examination by the
+Added: applicable authorities, generally 3 years for federal and 4 years for state.
+Added: We are currently not under examination by any taxing authorities.
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS AND COMMITMENTS
−Removed: We have had the following material changes to
−Removed: our contractual obligations and commitments outside the ordinary course of business during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025:
+Added: We had the following contractual obligations and commitments
+Added: at year end March 31, 2026:
LEASE COMMITMENTS
Office, Lab and Manufacturing Space Leases
−Removed: In December 2020, we entered into an agreement
−Removed: to lease approximately 2,823 square feet of office space and 1,807 square feet of laboratory space located at 11555 Sorrento Valley Road,
−Removed: Suite 203, San Diego, California 92121 and 11575 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite 200, San Diego, California 92121, respectively.
−Removed: The agreement
−Removed: carries a term of 63 months and we took possession of the office space effective October 1, 2021.
−Removed: We took possession of the laboratory
−Removed: space effective January 1, 2022.
−Removed: In October 2021, we entered into another lease for approximately 2,655 square feet of space to house
−Removed: our manufacturing operations located at 11588 Sorrento Valley Road, San Diego, California 92121.
−Removed: The term is for 55 months and we took
−Removed: possession of the manufacturing space in August 2022.
−Removed: The current monthly base rent under the office and laboratory component of the lease
−Removed: is $ 14,590 .
+Added: In December 2020, we entered into
+Added: an agreement to lease approximately 2,823 square feet of office space and 1,807 square feet of laboratory space located at 11555 Sorrento
+Added: Valley Road, Suite 203, San Diego, California 92121 and 11575 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite 200, San Diego, California 92121, respectively.
+Added: The agreement carries a term of 63 months and we took possession of the office space effective October 1, 2021.
+Added: We took possession of
+Added: the laboratory space effective January 1, 2022.
+Added: In October 2021, we entered into another lease for approximately 2,655 square feet of
+Added: space to house our manufacturing operations located at 11588 Sorrento Valley Road, San Diego, California 92121.
+Added: The term is for 55 months
+Added: and we took possession of the manufacturing space in August 2022.
+Added: The current monthly base rent under the office and laboratory component
+Added: of the lease is $ 15,023 .
The current monthly base rent under the manufacturing component of the lease is $ 13,195 .
+Added: The office, laboratory
+Added: and manufacturing leases are coterminous and expire on March 31, 2027.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026, the leases had a remaining weighted average
+Added: lease term of approximately 12 months and a weighted average discount rate of 4.25 %.
+Added: We do not currently intend to renew the corporate
+Added: office lease upon expiration.
+Added: We have not yet made a determination regarding renewal of the laboratory and manufacturing leases, as any
+Added: decision and the length of any potential renewal term will depend on the Company’s future operating requirements.
+Added: As of the date of this
+Added: report, we have not committed to any lease renewals.
The office, lab and manufacturing leases are coterminous
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The weighted average discount rate is 4.25 %.
−Removed: As of March 31, 2025, we have right-of-use lease
−Removed: assets of $ 601,846 .
−Removed: The following table presents a maturity analysis
−Removed: of expected undiscounted cash flows for operating leases on an annual basis for the next two fiscal years.
−Removed: All of our leases conterminously
−Removed: expire during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027.
+Added: As of March 31, 2026, we have right-of-use lease assets
+Added: of $ 307,820 .
+Added: The following table presents a maturity analysis of
+Added: expected undiscounted cash flows for operating leases on an annual basis for the next fiscal year.
+Added: All of our leases conterminously expire
+Added: during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027.
Schedule of lease maturity
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Present value of minimum lease payments
−Removed: Overall, our rent expense, which is included in
−Removed: general and administrative expenses, approximated $ 421,789 and $ 420,353 for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
+Added: Overall, our rent expense, which is included in general
+Added: and administrative expenses, approximated $ 464,350 and $ 421,789 for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.
Premium Financing Agreement
−Removed: In January 2025, the Company entered into a short-term premium financing
−Removed: agreement with FIRST Insurance Funding, a division of Lake Forest Bank & Trust Company, N.A., to finance a portion of its Directors
−Removed: & Officers (D&O) and other insurance premiums.
−Removed: The total amount financed under the agreement was approximately $ 220,984 , with
−Removed: an associated finance charge of approximately $ 9,995 , resulting in a total repayment obligation of approximately $ 230,979 .30.
−Removed: percentage rate is 9.75%, and the loan is payable in 10 monthly installments of approximately $23,097.93 beginning February 28, 2025.
−Removed: As collateral for the financing, the Company granted the lender a first
−Removed: priority security interest in the financed insurance policies, including all unearned premiums, dividends, credits, and certain loss payments.
−Removed: In the event of default, cancellation, or early termination of the policies, the lender has the right to collect any unearned premiums
−Removed: and apply them against the remaining loan balance.
−Removed: This arrangement is classified as a short-term liability within other
−Removed: liabilities on the balance sheet (See Note 6) and is recorded net of any prepaid portions of the insurance policies.
+Added: In January 2026, the Company entered into a short-term
+Added: premium financing agreement with FIRST Insurance Funding, a division of Lake Forest Bank & Trust Company, N.A., to finance a portion
+Added: of its Directors & Officers (D&O) and other insurance premiums.
+Added: The total amount financed under the agreement was approximately
+Added: $ 220,984 , with an associated finance charge of approximately
+Added: $ 9,218 , resulting in a total repayment
+Added: obligation of approximately $ 230,202 .
+Added: The annual percentage
+Added: rate is 9.00 %, and the loan
+Added: is payable in 10 monthly installments
+Added: of approximately $ 23,098 beginning
+Added: February 28, 2026.
+Added: As collateral for the financing, the Company granted
+Added: the lender a first priority security interest in the financed insurance policies, including all unearned premiums, dividends, credits,
+Added: and certain loss payments.
+Added: In the event of default, cancellation, or early termination of the policies, the lender has the right to collect
+Added: any unearned premiums and apply them against the remaining loan balance.
+Added: This arrangement is classified as a short-term liability
+Added: within other liabilities on the balance sheet (See Note 6) and is recorded net of any prepaid portions of the insurance policies.
LEGAL MATTERS
−Removed: From time to time, claims are made against us
−Removed: in the ordinary course of business, which could result in litigation.
+Added: From time to time, claims are made against us in the
+Added: ordinary course of business, which could result in litigation.
Claims and associated litigation are subject to inherent uncertainties
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products or engaging in other activities.
−Removed: The occurrence of an unfavorable outcome in any
−Removed: specific period could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations for that period or future periods.
−Removed: We are not presently
−Removed: a party to any pending or threatened legal proceedings.
+Added: The occurrence of an unfavorable outcome in any specific
+Added: period could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations for that period or future periods.
+Added: We are not presently a party
+Added: to any pending or threatened legal proceedings.
SEGMENT REPORTING
−Removed: The Company operates as a single operating and reportable segment,
−Removed: which reflects the manner in which the Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM), the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, manages the
−Removed: business and allocates resources.
−Removed: The Company is a development-stage medical technology company focused on advancing a clinical-stage
−Removed: therapeutic device, with key operational decisions based on cash availability, development milestones, and return on investment associated
−Removed: with future manufacturing and commercialization opportunities.
−Removed: Although the Company has no commercial revenue, the CODM regularly
−Removed: reviews certain expense categories and cash flow metrics to assess progress and allocate resources.
+Added: The Company operates as a single operating and reportable segment, which
+Added: reflects the manner in which the Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM), the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, manages the business
+Added: and allocates resources.
+Added: The Company is a development-stage medical technology company focused on advancing a clinical-stage therapeutic
+Added: device, with key operational decisions based on cash availability, development milestones, and return on investment associated with future
+Added: manufacturing and commercialization opportunities.
+Added: Although the Company has no commercial revenue, the CODM regularly reviews
+Added: certain expense categories and cash flow metrics to assess progress and allocate resources.
The primary internal measure of performance
used by the CODM is cash used in operating activities, rather than traditional profit or loss measures.
−Removed: In accordance with ASU 2023-07, which the Company adopted for the
−Removed: year ended March 31, 2025, the following significant expense categories and internal performance measures were reviewed by the CODM during
+Added: In accordance with ASU 2023-07, which the Company adopted for the year
+Added: ended March 31, 2025, the following significant expense categories and internal performance measures were reviewed by the CODM during
the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 and March 31, 2025:
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Cash used in operating activities 3
−Removed: and development expenses consist primarily of costs related to laboratory operations, clinical trial execution, investigational
−Removed: device testing, design iterations, and personnel-related expenses associated with research activities.
−Removed: These costs are not confined
−Removed: to a single financial statement line item and may be classified within general and administrative expense, professional fees, or
−Removed: payroll, depending on their nature.
−Removed: These expenses are regularly reviewed by the CODM as a single category for internal
−Removed: decision-making purposes.
−Removed: General and administrative expense includes overhead, clinical trial-related administrative and planning costs, and manufacturing-related
−Removed: costs such as raw materials.
−Removed: These are not separately reviewed by the CODM and are assessed as part of the broader G&A category for
−Removed: decision-making purposes.
−Removed: Cash used in operating activities is a key metric monitored by the CODM in evaluating resource needs, development pacing, and investment
−Removed: feasibility in the absence of revenue.
−Removed: The Company does not allocate assets by segment, and the CODM does
−Removed: not use a measure of segment profit or loss to evaluate performance.
−Removed: There were no changes to the internal reports provided to or reviewed
−Removed: by the CODM during the years presented.
+Added: Research and development expenses primarily include costs related to laboratory operations, clinical trial execution, investigational device testing, design iterations, and personnel expenses associated with research activities.
+Added: These costs are recorded within payroll, professional fees, and general and administrative (“G&A”) expense on the face of the statements of operations, as the Company does not maintain a separate R&D line item.
+Added: General and administrative expenses encompass overhead, administrative costs associated with clinical trial operations, and certain manufacturing-related costs.
+Added: R&D costs are included within these categories for financial reporting purposes and are not separately reclassified.
+Added: Cash used in operating activities is the key internal performance metric tracked by the CODM to evaluate development progress, cash needs, and investment strategy in the absence of commercial revenue.
+Added: The Company does not allocate assets to operating segments, nor does the
+Added: CODM evaluate performance using a segment profit or loss measure.
+Added: There were no changes in the internal reports provided to or reviewed
+Added: by the CODM during the periods presented.
Entity-Wide Information:
−Removed: Company did not recognize revenue during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025.
−Removed: long-lived assets are located in the United States.
−Removed: significant portion of clinical trial activity is conducted through the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary based in Australia.
+Added: The Company did not recognize revenue during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026.
+Added: All long-lived assets are located in the United States.
+Added: All of the clinical trial activity is conducted through the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary based in Australia.
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
−Removed: On June 25, 2025, the Company
−Removed: received notice from Nasdaq stating the Company has regained compliance with Listing Rule 5550(a)(2), and that the matter is now
−Removed: Split – Following the approval of a reverse stock split at a Special Meeting of Stockholders on May 13, 2025, our Board of Directors
−Removed: approved a 1-for-8 reverse stock split or our outstanding shares of Common Stock, effective as of the close of business on June 6, 2025
−Removed: with an effective trading date of June 9, 2025.
−Removed: Accordingly, each 8 shares of outstanding common stock held by stockholders were combined
−Removed: into one share of common stock.
−Removed: Our authorized common stock remained at 60,000,000 shares following the stock split.
−Removed: We issued an additional
−Removed: 77 shares as a result of rounding up fractional shares related to the reverse stock split.
−Removed: June 2 and June 16, 2025, the second and third patients, respectively, were treated with the Aethlon Hemopurifier at GenesisCare North
−Removed: Shore in Sydney, Australia.
−Removed: Each patient underwent a single 4-hour treatment session and tolerated the procedure without complications.
−Removed: Follow-up visits will include safety assessments, extracellular vesicle (EV) and T cell measurements, as well as imaging to evaluate clinical
−Removed: 2025, our Board of Directors approved, pursuant to the terms of the Director Compensation Policy, the grant of the annual RSUs under the
−Removed: Director Compensation Policy to each of the four non-employee directors of the Company then serving on the Board of Directors.
−Removed: Compensation Policy provides for a grant of stock options or $50,000 worth of RSUs at the beginning of each fiscal year for current non-employee
−Removed: directors then serving on the Board of Directors, and for a grant of stock options or $75,000 worth of RSUs for a newly elected non-employee
−Removed: director, with each RSU priced at the average for the closing prices for the five days preceding and including the date of grant, or $2.80
−Removed: per share for the RSUs granted in April 2025.
−Removed: As a result, in April 2025 the four eligible directors were each granted an RSU in the amount
−Removed: of 17,858 shares under the Company’s 2020 Equity Incentive Plan, or the 2020 Plan.
−Removed: The RSUs are subject to vesting in
−Removed: four equal installments, with 25% of the restricted stock units vesting on each of June 30, 2025, September 30, 2025, December 31, 2025,
−Removed: and March 31, 2026, subject in each case to the director’s Continuous Service (as defined in the 2020 Plan), through such dates.
−Removed: Vesting will terminate upon the director’s termination of Continuous Service prior to any vesting date.
+Added: to March 31, 2026, the Company sold an aggregate of 800,111 shares of common stock under its ATM facility, resulting in gross proceeds
+Added: of approximately $1,904,000.
+Added: Net proceeds, after sales commissions of approximately $48,000 and SEC, settlement and delivery fees of approximately
+Added: $5,900, were approximately $1,851,000.
+Added: The Company has not reflected additional offering-related costs, including legal and accounting
+Added: fees, in the net proceeds amount, as such costs will be recorded as a reduction of additional paid-in capital upon final determination .
+Added: The Company intends to use the proceeds for working capital
+Added: and general corporate purposes, including clinical development activities and research and development.
+Added: On June 4, 2026, the Company filed
+Added: Amendment No.
+Added: 1 to its prospectus supplement relating to its at-the-market offering program.
+Added: The amendment updated the amount of securities
+Added: eligible for sale pursuant to General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3.
+Added: Following the filing of the amendment, the Company may offer and
+Added: sell shares of its common stock having an aggregate offering price of up to approximately $542,716 pursuant to its at-the-market offering
+Added: Oncology Clinical Trial
+Added: On June 4, 2026, we
+Added: completed treatment of the first participant in Cohort 3 of the Company’s Australian oncology trial at Pindara Private Hospital
+Added: on the Gold Coast of Australia.
+Added: The participant received three Hemopurifier treatments over a one-week period, each treatment lasting
+Added: The participant tolerated the procedures without reported complications.
+Added: The participant will now undergo a seven-day safety
+Added: follow-up period during which the participant will be monitored for dose limiting toxicities (“DLTs”) and device-related
+Added: serious adverse events (SAEs) occurs.
+Added: Two additional patients must be enrolled and treated to complete this Cohort 3.
+Added: On April 17, 2026, the Board of Directors approved
+Added: annual restricted stock unit (“RSU”) awards to each of the Company’s four non-employee directors pursuant to the Company’s
+Added: Director Compensation Policy and the Company’s 2020 Equity Incentive Plan.
+Added: The awards had an aggregate grant date value of approximately
+Added: $200,000 and covered an aggregate of 87,260 shares of common stock.
+Added: The awards vest in four equal quarterly installments through March
+Added: 31, 2027, subject to continued service on the applicable vesting dates.
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