UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 12, 2019

Aethlon Medical, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Nevada	001-37487	13-3632859
(State or other jurisdiction	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)
of incorporation)
9635 Granite Ridge Drive, Suite 100 San Diego, California		92123
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 858-459-7800

Not applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class	Trading Symbol	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock	AEMD	The Nasdaq Capital Market

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Item 1.01 Entry Into A Material Definitive Agreement.

On September 12, 2019, Aethlon Medical, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an SBIR Phase II Award Contract with the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) and the National Cancer Institute (“NCI”), for NIH/NCI Topic 359, entitled “A Device Prototype for Isolation of Melanoma Exosomes for Diagnostics and Treatment Monitoring” (the “Award Contract”). The Award Contract amount is $1,860,561 and runs for the period from September 16, 2019 through September 15, 2021.

The work to be performed pursuant to this Award Contract will focus on melanoma exosomes. This work follows from the Company’s completion of a Phase I contract for the Topic 359 solicitation that ran from September 2017 through June 2018. Following on the Phase I work, the deliverables in the Company’s Phase II program will involve the design and testing of a pre-commercial prototype of a more advanced version of the exosome isolation platform.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d)       Exhibits

Exhibit No.	Description
99.1	Press Release dated September 16, 2019.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	Aethlon Medical, Inc.
Dated: September 16, 2019	By:	/s/ James B. Frakes
		James B. Frakes Chief Financial Officer