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each 50,000 ten-year options to purchase common stock with an exercise price of $2.77 per share which vest in one year.
−Removed: 1, 2020, Material Transfer and Research Agreement with the University of Rochester.
−Removed: (Portions of this Agreement have been
−Removed: redacted in compliance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10))*
−Removed: 23, 2020, Specialized Services Agreement with Utah State University.
−Removed: (Portions of this Agreement have been redacted in
−Removed: compliance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10))*
−Removed: 1, 2020, Material Transfer and Research Agreement with the Japanese National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Shionogi
+Added: November 10, 2020, we entered into a five year employment agreement with Thomas Equels (the “Employment Agreement”).
+Added: Pursuant to the Employment Agreement, Mr.
+Added: Equels will continue to serve as our President, CEO and will serve as our Executive
+Added: Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
+Added: Equels will receive an annual base salary of $850,000 and is entitled to a year-end
+Added: target bonus of $350,000 based upon performance goals established by the Board’s Compensation Committee.
+Added: To incentivize Mr.
+Added: Equels to advance our long term objectives, each year he will receive options (“Long Term Options”) to purchase 300,000
+Added: shares of our common stock, the first such Long Term Options to be issued on November 30, 2021.
+Added: The exercise price of these options
+Added: will be the closing price of our common stock on the NYSE American on the trading date immediately preceding the date of the award
+Added: The Long Term Options will vest one year after their issuance.
+Added: Equels will be entitled to awards (“Event Awards”) equal to 3% of the “Gross Proceeds”
+Added: from specific licensing
+Added: agreements or individual acquisitions of a “therapeutic indication”
+Added: (each, an “Event”).
+Added: Gross Proceeds
+Added: means those cash amounts paid to us by the other parties for each licensing agreement and specific therapeutic indication acquisition,
+Added: and “specific therapeutic indication means a specific target organ pathologically recognized as a cancer indication, a vaccine
+Added: enhancer for a specific infectious target, broad spectrum antiviral indications, or a medical entity associated with persistent
+Added: severe fatigue.
+Added: Equels also will be entitled to an award (an “Acquisition Award”) equal to 3% of the Gross Proceeds,
+Added: upon the sale of our company or substantially all of our assets (an “Acquisition”).
+Added: An Event Award or Acquisition
+Added: Award shall be paid in cash within 90 days of our receipt of the Gross Proceeds.
+Added: Equels will receive customary allowances and fringe benefits as set forth in the Employment Agreement.
+Added: The Employment Agreement
+Added: runs for five years and, thereafter, automatically renews for three year periods unless either party informs the other in writing
+Added: at least 180 days prior to the end of the then term of the Employment Agreement, that it does not intend to renew the Employment
+Added: In the event of a change in control of our company (excluding any Acquisition), the term of the Employment Agreement
+Added: shall be extended for three years on the date of change in control.
+Added: may terminate Mr.
+Added: Equels’
+Added: employment with or without “Cause”.
+Added: “Cause”
+Added: means the willful engaging
+Added: Equels in illegal conduct, gross misconduct or gross violation of our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, which is demonstrably
+Added: and materially injurious to us.
+Added: Equels shall not be deemed to have been terminated for Cause unless he receives notice that
+Added: a majority of our Directors believes that he should be terminated for Cause.
+Added: The matter shall be adjudicated by a retired Florida
+Added: judge or a Florida certified mediator mutually acceptable to our Board and Mr.
+Added: Equels, before whom Mr.
+Added: Equels has been given the
+Added: opportunity to be heard, and requires a finding that he was guilty of intentional and material misconduct according to the foregoing
+Added: standards and utilizing the legal standard of beyond all reasonable doubt.
+Added: Upon termination for Cause, Mr.
+Added: Equels shall be entitled
+Added: to his salary, bonus and Long Term Options through the last day of his actual employment by us subsequent to the foregoing proceeding.
+Added: If we terminate him without Cause, Mr.
+Added: Equels shall be entitled to his compensation through the last day of the then current term
+Added: of the Employment Agreement.
+Added: In the event Mr.
+Added: Equels’
+Added: employment is terminated due to his death or disability, we shall
+Added: pay to him or his estate, at the time of such termination, his base salary, applicable benefits, and all unvested Long Term Options
+Added: shall immediate vest.
+Added: In the event of his permanent disability, we will provide an additional two years of base salary.
+Added: Compensation Committee, after reviewing a report from a compensation advisor, determined that Mr.
+Added: Equels’
+Added: compensation was
+Added: below that of certain peer pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies in certain compensation categories and noted that, due to substantial
+Added: financial constraints, Mr.
+Added: Equels had not received an increase in base salary in four years.
+Added: The Compensation Committee also noted
+Added: that, under Mr.
+Added: Equels’
+Added: leadership, we had recovered from a distressed situation, which included insufficient funds for
+Added: drug development, no adequate reserves of experimental drug product and the consequent inability to conduct clinical trials and
+Added: a high burn rate.
+Added: Under his tenure we have substantially reduced our burn rate through a series of moves to eliminate waste and
+Added: inefficiency, raised significant capital to provide an operating reserve, initiated an oncology clinical program which now has
+Added: multiple oncology clinical trials at academic centers underway, initiated a COVID-19 R&D program with clinical trials imminent
+Added: and initiated multiple provisional Ampligen utility patent applications in COVID-19, oncology, endometriosis, and manufacturing.
+Added: To compensate Mr.
+Added: Equels for these accomplishments, we awarded him 300,000 options with the same terms as the Long Term Options.
+Added: above summaries of the Employment Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of
+Added: the agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and incorporated herein by reference.
+Added: 10, 2020 employment agreement with Thomas K.
+Added: July 1, 2020, Material Transfer and Research Agreement with the Japanese National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
(Portions of this Agreement have been redacted in compliance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10))**
−Removed: 6, 2020, Clinical Trial Agreement with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
−Removed: (Portions of this Agreement have been
−Removed: redacted in compliance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10))*
−Removed: 6, 2020, Project Work Order with Amarex Clinical Research LLC.
−Removed: (Portions of this Agreement have been redacted in compliance
−Removed: with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10))*
−Removed: Certification
−Removed: pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.*
−Removed: Certification
−Removed: pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.*
−Removed: Certification
−Removed: pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.*
−Removed: Certification
−Removed: pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.*
+Added: July 6, 2020, Clinical Trial Agreement with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
+Added: (Portions of this Agreement have been redacted in compliance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10))**
+Added: August 6, 2020, Project Work Order with Amarex Clinical Research LLC.
+Added: (Portions of this Agreement have been redacted in compliance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(10))**
+Added: Certification pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.*
+Added: Certification pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.*
+Added: Certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.*
+Added: Certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.*
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Filed herewith.
+Added: Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period
+Added: ended June 30, 2020 filed August 14, 2020 and is hereby incorporated by reference.
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Financial Officer
−Removed: August 14, 2020
+Added: November 12, 2020
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