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ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
Notes to Financial Statements  
Note 2. ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS

Manhattan Scientifics, Inc. (the "Company" or "Manhattan Scientifics"), a Delaware corporation, was established on July 31, 1992 and has two operating wholly-owned subsidiaries: Metallicum, Inc., ("Metallicum") and Senior Scientific LLC ("Senior Scientific"). On June 12, 2008, the Company acquired Metallicum, Inc. for 15,000,000 shares of Company's common stock. 

 

Manhattan Scientifics is focused on technology transfer and commercialization of disruptive technologies in the nano-medicine space. The company is presently developing commercial medical prosthetics applications for its ultra-fine grain metals and plans to commercialize the cancer research work and nano-medical applications developed by Senior Scientific, a unit of the Company.

 

The Company's business model capitalizes on inventions and technology from which profits are intended to be created through licensing. Manhattan Scientifics is dedicated to earning profit for its 8,600 owner-shareholders by identifying, developing, patenting, supporting and marketing technical innovation by harvesting top technology talent to bring game-changing products to market. Manhattan Scientifics assists and acquires early stage technologies and assists entrepreneurial founders and management to stage them to become commercial. Our investment philosophy is defined by our desire to help build innovative companies with exceptional potential. We emphasize novel technologies in the nano-medicine space with the potential to be disruptive and the ability to establish sustainable businesses. We are patient capital with experienced business-building partners who bring the perspective of merchant-bankers not venture capitalists. Our approach to assist scientists to commercialize their work is by providing a forum within which the commercialization process is fostered through partnerships with existing companies (Fortune 1000 or larger). We believe the entrepreneurial scientists and engineers who join us are enticed in part by the offer to potentially create personal success and wealth by virtue of ownership of our publicly traded shares common stock under the symbol MHTX.

 

On May 31, 2011, we entered into an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization to acquire Senior Scientific and Scientific Nanomedicine, Inc. ("Scientific Nanomedicine" or "SNMI"). We subsequently dissolved Scientific Nanomedicine and transferred all remaining assets to Senior Scientific. The total purchase price was 21,668,000 restricted shares of our common stock (less 7,667,000 shares previously issued pursuant to an option agreement). As a result of this acquisition, we own patented technologies that can use biosafe nanoparticles and sensitive magnetic sensors to detect and measure cancer cells in biopsies or in the human body with the potential to transform how cancer is detected and treated.

 

ADVANCED METALS

 

The goal of our licensed proprietary process will be to enable our commercial partners to build super-strength metals and alloys to make products that weigh far less than in the past and without significant cost premiums 

 

NANOMEDICINE

 

Our acquisition of Senior Scientific gives us the commercial rights to technology and intellectual property with respect to the detection and monitoring of diseases using nanotechnologies. The technology is intended for the early detection of cancers, quantitative in vivo assessments of tumors, and similar applications with other diseases identifiable by cell surface markers. The technology does not require surgery, biopsy, radioactivity, or exotically expensive instruments. Nanoparticles are introduced to the body, for example, by intravenous injection. A sensitive low magnetic field instrument is used to magnetize and measure the nanoparticles that have bound to the specific targets (e.g., cells of a specific type of cancer). Other tissues, bone, scars, etc. are all transparent to the magnetic fields used, so the technology can be used to image detect and measure tumors in places inaccessible to other tests, and including tumors while they are still small enough to be treatable. The nanoparticles are nontoxic, and the low magnetic field instrument is not harmful or expensive, so the tests can be repeated as needed.