RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2024

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE 3 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Jadi Cell License Agreement

On December 28, 2020, the Company entered into a patent license agreement with Jadi Cell, LLC, a company owned and controlled by Dr. Amit Patel, a former director of the Company. The agreement provides the Company with an exclusive, worldwide license to U.S. Patent No. 9,803,176 “Methods and compositions for the clinical derivation of an allogenic cell and therapeutic uses” and the proprietary process of expanding the master cell bank of Jadi Cell LLC, in the field of enhancing autologous cells. The agreement is described in detail in Note 2 above. To date, the Company has not made any payments to Jadi Cell under this agreement, other than the $250,000 initial license fee, which was paid by the issuance of 18,018 shares of common stock to Jadi Cell in February 2022.

StemSpine Patent Purchase 

The Company acquired U.S. Patent No. 9,598,673 covering the use of various stem cells for the treatment of lower back pain from its affiliate CMH pursuant to a Patent Purchase Agreement dated May 17, 2017, which was amended in November 2017. The inventors of the patent were Thomas Ichim, PhD and Amit Patel, MD, former directors of the Company, and Annette Marleau, PhD. The Patent Purchase Agreement is described in detail in Note 2 above. Pursuant to the Patent Purchase Agreement, the Company paid CMH the $100,000 obligation of the initial payment due under this agreement, by a $50,000 cash payment and the issuance of 667 shares of common stock on December 12, 2020. On December 31, 2020, following the Company’s announcement with respect to the clinical commercialization of the StemSpine technology, the Company paid CMH $50,000 of the $300,000 obligation due under this agreement through the issuance of 14 shares of common stock. On September 30, 2021 the Company paid CMH an additional $40,000 of the $300,000 obligation due under this agreement through the issuance of 8,466 shares of common stock, and in January 2021 the Company paid CMH an additional $50,000 of the $300,000 obligation due under this agreement through the issuance of 8,929 shares of common stock. The remaining portion of the $300,000 obligation has been paid in cash. In August 2023, the Company paid CMH $100,000 related to the filing of an IND with the FDA per the terms of the agreement.

Narkeshyo Research Tools Purchase

On December 15, 2022, the Company purchased a set of components referred to as “research tools” for $5,000,000 from Narkeshyo LLC, an entity a former director and current consultant of the Company is affiliated with, pursuant to the terms of an Asset Purchase Agreement between the Company and Narkeshyo. The final payments under the agreement of $3.0 million was made during the three months ended March 31, 2023.

Series B Preferred Stock Purchase

On May 14, 2024 our CEO and Chairman, Timothy Warbington, purchased one share of Series B Preferred Stock for a purchase price of $100.00 in cash. The Series B Preferred Stock has no voting rights other than the right to 100,000,000 votes solely with respect to a proposal to increase the Company’s authorized shares of common stock (a “Share Increase Proposal”). The Series B Preferred stock will vote together with the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock, as a single class with respect to any Share Increase Proposal, in the same proportion as shares of common stock are voted on such Share Increase proposal. The outstanding share of Series B Preferred Stock will be redeemed by the Company for $100, upon the earlier of (i) the time such redemption is ordered by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion, or (ii) the approval by the stockholders of a Share Increase Proposal.