1. ORGANIZATION	12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Notes to Financial Statements
1. ORGANIZATION	CEL-SCI Corporation (the Company) was incorporated on March 22, 1983, in the state of Colorado, to finance research and development in biomedical science and ultimately to engage in marketing and selling products. CEL-SCI is focused on finding the best way to activate the immune system to fight cancer and infectious diseases. The Company’s lead investigational therapy, Multikine (Leukocyte Interleukin, Injection), is currently in a Phase 3 clinical trial as a potential therapeutic agent directed at using the immune system to produce an anti-tumor immune response for advanced primary head and neck cancer. Data from Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials suggest Multikine has the potential to directly affect tumor cells. These data also indicate that it appears to activate the patient’s own anti-tumor immune response. Multikine (Leukocyte Interleukin, Injection) is the full name of this investigational therapy, which, for simplicity, is referred to in the remainder of this document as Multikine. Multikine is the trademark that the Company has registered for this investigational therapy, and this proprietary name is subject to FDA review in connection with the Company’s future anticipated regulatory submission for approval. Multikine has not been licensed or approved by the FDA or any other regulatory agency. Neither has its safety or efficacy been established for any use. Further research is required, and early-phase clinical trial results must be confirmed in the Phase 3 clinical trial of this investigational therapy that is in progress and that is currently subject to a clinical hold on enrollment of additional new patients. Multikine has been cleared by the regulators in twenty four countries around the world, including the U.S. FDA, for a global Phase 3 clinical trial in advanced primary (not yet treated) head and neck cancer patients. On September 26, 2016, the Company received verbal notice from the FDA that the Phase 3 clinical trial has been placed on clinical hold. The FDA’s partial clinical hold letter identified the following specific deficiencies: there is an unreasonable and significant risk of illness or injury to human subjects; the investigator brochure is misleading, erroneous, and materially incomplete; and that the plan or protocol is deficient in design to meet its stated objectives. Pursuant to this communication from FDA, patients currently receiving study treatments could continue to receive treatment, and patients already enrolled in the study would continue to be followed, but no additional patients could be enrolled. On October 21, 2016, the Company announced it had received the Partial Clinical Hold letter from the FDA. On November 21, 2016, the Company announced it has submitted what it believes to be a complete response to the FDA. On December 8, 2016, the FDA advised CEL-SCI that the agency was denying CEL-SCI’s request for a meeting at this time because FDA’s review of CEL-SCI’s November 17, 2016 response was ongoing. CEL-SCI was also advised that it will be receiving a letter addressing CEL-SCI’s response by December 18, 2016. Multikine is also being used in a Phase 1 study at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in HIV/HPV co-infected men and women with peri-anal warts.

1. ORGANIZATION

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2016

CEL-SCI Corporation (the Company) was incorporated on March 22, 1983, in the state of Colorado, to finance research and development in biomedical science and ultimately to engage in marketing and selling products.

CEL-SCI is focused on finding the best way to activate the immune system to fight cancer and infectious diseases. The Company’s lead investigational therapy, Multikine (Leukocyte Interleukin, Injection), is currently in a Phase 3 clinical trial as a potential therapeutic agent directed at using the immune system to produce an anti-tumor immune response for advanced primary head and neck cancer. Data from Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials suggest Multikine has the potential to directly affect tumor cells. These data also indicate that it appears to activate the patient’s own anti-tumor immune response. Multikine (Leukocyte Interleukin, Injection) is the full name of this investigational therapy, which, for simplicity, is referred to in the remainder of this document as Multikine. Multikine is the trademark that the Company has registered for this investigational therapy, and this proprietary name is subject to FDA review in connection with the Company’s future anticipated regulatory submission for approval. Multikine has not been licensed or approved by the FDA or any other regulatory agency. Neither has its safety or efficacy been established for any use. Further research is required, and early-phase clinical trial results must be confirmed in the Phase 3 clinical trial of this investigational therapy that is in progress and that is currently subject to a clinical hold on enrollment of additional new patients.

Multikine has been cleared by the regulators in twenty four countries around the world, including the U.S. FDA, for a global Phase 3 clinical trial in advanced primary (not yet treated) head and neck cancer patients. On September 26, 2016, the Company received verbal notice from the FDA that the Phase 3 clinical trial has been placed on clinical hold. The FDA’s partial clinical hold letter identified the following specific deficiencies: there is an unreasonable and significant risk of illness or injury to human subjects; the investigator brochure is misleading, erroneous, and materially incomplete; and that the plan or protocol is deficient in design to meet its stated objectives. Pursuant to this communication from FDA, patients currently receiving study treatments could continue to receive treatment, and patients already enrolled in the study would continue to be followed, but no additional patients could be enrolled. On October 21, 2016, the Company announced it had received the Partial Clinical Hold letter from the FDA. On November 21, 2016, the Company announced it has submitted what it believes to be a complete response to the FDA. On December 8, 2016, the FDA advised CEL-SCI that the agency was denying CEL-SCI’s request for a meeting at this time because FDA’s review of CEL-SCI’s November 17, 2016 response was ongoing. CEL-SCI was also advised that it will be receiving a letter addressing CEL-SCI’s response by December 18, 2016.

Multikine is also being used in a Phase 1 study at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in HIV/HPV co-infected men and women with peri-anal warts.