THERALINK TECHNOLOGIES, INC. - Annual Report: 2022 (Form 10-K)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended: September 30, 2022

or

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from _________ to ________

Commission File Number: 000-52218

Theralink Technologies, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None

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

Common Stock, Par Value $0.0001

(Title of Class)

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

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The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant was approximately $3.9 million as of March 31, 2022.

The registrant had 6,151,499,919 shares of its common stock, par value $0.0001, issued and outstanding as of December 29, 2022.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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PART I

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains statements reflecting assumptions, expectations, projections, intentions or beliefs about future events that are intended as “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements included or incorporated by reference in this report, other than statements of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that we expect, believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. These statements appear in a number of places, including “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” These statements represent our reasonable judgment about the future based on various factors and using numerous assumptions and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results and financial position to differ materially from those contemplated by the statements. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts, and use words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “future,” “intend,” “may,” “should,” “plan,” “potential,” “project,” “will,” “would” and other words of similar meaning, or the negatives of such terms or other variations. These include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the following:

Any or all of our forward-looking statements may turn out to be wrong. They may be affected by inaccurate assumptions or by known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors including, among others:

In addition, there may be other factors that could cause our actual results to be materially different from the results referenced in the forward-looking statements, some of which are included elsewhere in this report, including “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” We have included important factors in the cautionary statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Many of these factors will be important in determining our actual future results. Consequently, no forward-looking statement should be relied upon. Our actual future results may vary materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements contained in this report are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this report, except as otherwise required by applicable law.

We urge you to read this entire Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the “Risk Factors” section and the financial statements and related notes included herein. As used in this Annual Report, unless context otherwise requires, the words “we,” “us”, “our,” “the Company,” “Theralink” and “Registrant” refer to Theralink Technologies Inc. including subsidiaries and predecessors. Also, any reference to “common shares,” or “common stock,” refers to our common stock, par value $0.0001 per share.

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

Corporate History and Structure

Theralink Technologies, Inc., formerly OncBioMune Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”), was a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of novel cancer immunotherapy products, with a proprietary vaccine technology. On June 5, 2020, the Company acquired the assets (the “Asset Sale Transaction”) of Avant Diagnostics, Inc., a Nevada corporation established in 2009 (“Avant”), pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement dated May 12, 2020 between the Company and Avant (the “Asset Purchase Agreement”). Avant was a commercial-stage precision medicine and molecular data-generating company that focuses on the development and commercialization of a series of patented, proprietary data-generating assays that may provide important actionable information for physicians and patients, as well as biopharmaceutical companies, in the areas of oncology.

Pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement, the Company acquired substantially all of the assets of Avant and assumed certain of its liabilities. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the Asset Purchase Agreement, Avant sold to the Company, all of Avant’s title and interest in, to and under all of the assets, properties and rights of every kind and nature, whether real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible (including goodwill), wherever located and whether existing or hereafter acquired, except for the specific excluded assets, which relate to, or are used or held for use in connection with, Avant’s business. The Company also hired Avant’s employees upon consummation of the Asset Sale Transaction. As consideration for the Asset Sale Transaction, the Company issued to Avant 1,000 shares of a newly created Series D-1 Preferred Stock which held 54.55% of all voting rights on an as-converted basis with the common stock. Upon the effectiveness of an increase of the Company’s authorized shares of common stock from 6,666,667 shares to 12,000,000,000 shares, all such shares of Series D-1 Preferred Stock issued to Avant automatically converted into 5,081,549,184 shares of the Company’s common stock. Avant possessed majority voting control of the Company immediately following the Asset Sale Transaction and controlled the Company’s Board of Directors after the termination of the ten-day waiting period required by Rule 14f-1 under the Exchange Act. Accordingly, the Asset Sale Transaction was accounted for, in substance, as an asset acquisition of the Company’s net assets by Avant and a recapitalization of Avant. Avant is considered the historical registrant and the historical operations presented are those of Avant since Avant obtained 54.55% majority voting control of the Company. All share and per share data in the accompanying financial statements and footnotes has been retrospectively adjusted for the recapitalization.

On June 5, 2020, pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement, the Company; (i) entered into an employment agreement with Dr. Michael Ruxin to serve as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, President and a director; (ii) entered into an employment agreement with Jeffery Busch to serve as the Company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors and; (iii) appointed Yvonne Fors to its Board of Directors.

On August 14, 2020, the Board appointed Mr. Andrew Kucharchuk as Acting Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

On August 14, 2020, the Board approved a change in the Company’s fiscal year end from December 31 to September 30, effective immediately for the current fiscal year, and for all subsequent years until such time as the Board resolves to amend such fiscal year end. The fiscal year has been changed to conform to the September 30 fiscal year end of Avant which is the historical registrant as a result of the Asset Sale Transaction consummated on June 5, 2020 and therefore, no transition report is required.

On September 24, 2020, Andrew Kucharchuk resigned from his position as Acting Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Kucharchuk continues to serve as a director on the Company’s Board of Directors. On the same day, the Company appointed Thomas E. Chilcott, III, to serve as the Chief Financial Officer.

On April 1, 2022, the Board of Directors was expanded to six members. Danica Holley and Matthew Schwartz were appointed to these newly created positions.

Business Model

The Company is a commercial-stage, precision medicine, molecular data-generating company that focuses on the development and commercialization of a series of proprietary data-generating assays that may provide important actionable information for physicians, patients and biopharmaceutical companies, in the area of oncology. The Company’s objective is to commercialize the technology originally developed by Theranostics Health, Inc. This technology is differentiated due to:

Theralink is advancing proprietary technology in the field of phosphoproteomic research, a sector which has emerged as one of the most exciting new components in the high-growth field of precision molecular diagnostics. This technology is intended to make it possible to generate an accurate and comprehensive portrait of protein pathway activation in diseased cells from each patient, which may enable providers to identify and match individuals with optimal targeted molecular therapies. This technology enables the quantitative measurement of the active protein(s) in cancer cells and their level of activation. The technology’s measurement sensitivity is many times greater than conventional mass spectrometry and other protein immunoassays. Initially spun-out from GMU in 2006, and subsequently elevated to the federal government’s Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (“CMS”) and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (“CLIA”) standards, Theralink’s assay may prove highly useful for oncology patient management by improving (i) chemotherapy drug selection; (ii) immunotherapy drug selection; and (iii) optimizing combination therapy selection.

The biomarker and data-generating tests provide biopharmaceutical companies, clinical scientists and physicians with molecular-based guidance as to which patients may benefit from new molecular targeted therapeutics being developed for use in treating various life-threatening oncology diseases. These tests may also provide guidance to physicians on existing treatment standards that are recognized as the standard of care in the oncology treatment community. This addresses the core aspect of precision oncology treatment by identifying which individuals are more likely to respond to specific targeted molecular therapies, thus forming the basis for personalized medicine.

The technology is based upon the pioneering work of three noted scientists, Drs. Lance Liotta, Emanuel Petricoin and Virginia Espina, in proteomic-based precision medicine. Theralink benefits from a portfolio of intellectual property derived from licensing agreements with:

Theralink is committed to advancing the technology from GMU and the NIH as a platform for the development of new clinical biomarkers. These biomarkers and monitoring products may have the ability to provide biopharmaceutical companies and doctors with critical molecular-based knowledge to potentially make the best therapeutic decisions based on a patient’s unique, individual medical needs.

Milestones

In the twelve months following September 30, 2022, the Company intends to focus on completing key milestones to create value for both investors and the healthcare industry. These milestones include:

Market Overview

The Theralink technology focuses on the oncology discipline of molecular pathology. Within oncology, Theralink is developing tests related to breast cancer, gynecologic cancer, gastrointestinal (“GI”) cancer, non-small cell lung cancer and pancreatic cancer. Within the clinical precision oncology space, Theralink aims to be a leading Companion Diagnostics (“CDx”) provider by delivering assays that are intended to assist physicians when making pharmaceutical treatment decisions for a given patient. The license granted under the GMU licensing agreement excludes biomarkers for lung, ovarian and breast cancer in a diagnostic field of use.

CDx results are intended to facilitate therapy selection by elucidating the efficacy of a specific drug or drug class for specific cohorts of patients within which a given patient is placed. Companion diagnostic companies are of particular interest to both drug development companies and physicians. Drug development companies benefit from the results of CDx assays by improving their accuracy in selecting patients for clinical trials who are most likely to benefit from the therapeutic they are developing. Physicians may benefit from improved decision-making information by allowing them to match a specific patient with the most effective treatment option. The basis of the effectiveness of companion diagnostic assays is built upon surrogate biomarkers, which are intended to measure the effect of a specific pharmaceutical treatment and its correlation to a biomarker, or endpoint. Theralink believes the most effective method to aid in therapy selection is by taking a phosphoproteomic approach to tumor analysis.

Asset Description and Intellectual Property

Background

Theranostics Health was a privately held company founded in 2006. Its core technologies were focused on the quantitative measurement of proteins contained in the key signaling pathways of a disease. These measurements include pre-analytical processing of preclinical and clinical samples, Laser Capture Microdissection (“LCM”), and Reverse Phase Protein Array (“RPPA”). The application of the technology has enabled Theralink to work with both fresh frozen and formalin-fixed, paraffin encased research and clinical samples.

LCM is used to isolate specific cell populations from the many different types of cells usually present in a clinical biopsy tissue sample. Therefore, information derived from subsequent molecular assays is specific to that targeted cell population. RPPA enables sensitive, quantitative, calibrated, multiplexed analysis of cellular proteins from a limited amount of starting materials, such as clinical specimens. Theranostics Health had an exclusive license from the NIH to commercialize LCM isolation of cells for the proteomic analysis used for cancer therapeutics and companion diagnostics of which Theralink now is the licensee.

Patent Portfolio

We have licensed 9 granted U.S. patents from the NIH and GMU. The term of individual patents depends upon the legal term for patents in the countries in which they were obtained. In most countries, including the United States, the patent term is 20 years from the earliest filing date of a non-provisional patent application.

GMU License Agreement

Our exclusive license agreement with GMU: (1) Grants an exclusive worldwide license, with the right to grant sublicenses, under the Licensed Inventions to make, have made, import, use, market, offer for sale and sell products designed, manufactured, used and/or marketed for all fields and for all uses, subject to the exclusions discussed below; (2) Grants an exclusive option to license past, existing, or future inventions in the field of proteomics, from inventors that are obligated to assign to GMU and who have signed a memorandum of understanding acknowledging that developed intellectual property will be offered, subject to the exclusions discussed below; (3) The license and option granted specifically excludes biomarkers for lung, ovarian, and breast cancers in a diagnostic field of use and GMU inventions developed using materials obtained from third parties under agreements granting rights to inventions made using said materials; and (4) Grants right to assign or otherwise transfer license so long as such assignment or transfer is accompanied by a change of control transaction and GMU is given 14 days prior notice. In addition, the Company is required to make an annual payment of $50,000 to GMU as well as pay GMU (i) a quarterly royalty equal to the net revenue multiplied by one and one-half percent (1.5%), due on a quarterly basis or (i) a quarterly sublicense royalty equal to the net revenue multiplied by fifteen percent (15%). In addition, Theralink has the right of first refusal for all technology associated with RPPA technology from GMU.

NIH License Agreement

In March 2018, the Company entered into two license agreements (“NIH License Agreements”) with the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) which grants the Company an exclusive and a nonexclusive United States license for certain patents. Pursuant to the NIH License Agreements, the Company is required to make an annual payment of $1,000 to the NIH as well as pay the NIH a royalty equal to the net sales multiplied by three percent (3.0%) every June 30^th and December 31^st. Commencing on January 1^st of the year following the year of the first commercial sale, the Company is subject to a non-refundable minimum annual royalty of $5,000. In addition, a sublicense royalty equal to the net revenue multiplied by ten percent (10%) will be payable upon sublicensing.

Regulatory Approvals – CAP/CLIA and FDA

Initially, the Company can provide data-generating services to certain counterparties such as biopharmaceutical companies for research use only (“RUO”). These arrangements will provide service revenues for the Company during its early years of development.

The Company may expand its data-generating services to address a broader range of clients, specifically, either as a direct provider of services to hospitals and chronic care providers for precision health screening by oncologists, or indirectly as a reference laboratory, thereby increasing potential services revenues. Oncologists may eventually use our data-generating services to optimize potential treatment protocols for breast cancer, gynecologic cancer, pancreatic cancer, GI cancer and non-small cell lung cancer patients, among others.

CLIA are federal regulations for United States based clinical laboratories to provide industry standards for testing human samples for various purposes. These amendments were added to the laboratory requirements outlined in the Code of Federal Regulations, 42 CFR 493. Three federal agencies are responsible for ensuring laboratories comply with CLIA standards: Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), the CMS, and the Center for Disease Control.

Additionally, laboratories can pursue a higher level of designation by becoming accredited by a recognized accreditation agency. The College of American Pathologists (“CAP”) is such an agency. CAP releases its own requirements, which are built upon CLIA’s regulations. Compliance is assessed by a peer group site inspection every two years. Meeting these criteria ensures that industry specific standards for laboratory operations are upheld in the lab. These requirements are designed to identify areas for improvement to reach the highest level of quality. Theralink is currently CAP accredited.

Subsequently, if Theralink receives FDA approval as a CDx, the Company would consider expanding its data-generating services by opening additional laboratory sites to assist oncologists using precision therapy selection in hospitals and chronic care provider groups. These oncologists would be using the data-generating services to optimize potential treatment protocols for breast cancer, gynecologic cancer, pancreatic cancer, GI cancer, non-small cell lung cancer and other solid tumor patients once the Theralink assays are fully developed for these applications.

The attainment and timing of key regulatory approvals are critical and required to commence marketing and subsequent realization of revenues. The Company already has CLIA certification in every state except New York. The Company has obtained national CAP accreditation.

Goals for 2023 and Beyond

Commercialization Strategy

Theralink is a micro-volume multi-marker tumor analysis platform that has been developed to improve upon the limitations of current techniques (such as western blot, immunohistochemistry (IHC), fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) and next generation sequencing (NGS)) that produce low resolution information with modest gains in predictive power on which to base treatment plans. Theralink’s Next Generation Proteomics (NGP) may improve decision-making for biopharmaceutical companies, oncologists and patients because it recommends therapeutic options that may be optimal for a patient’s specific tumor. We believe that our proprietary micro-volume protein expression platform can potentially improve the management of over 800,000 cancer patients in the US alone based on figures provided by the American Cancer Society.

We believe that our platform has potential application along the entire continuum of drug development: from discovery, to pre-clinical through to drug commercialization.

Research Use Only (“RUO”) Segment

For our RUO segment, target customers fall into two main groups: those requiring discovery and early-stage drug development, and those requiring later stage drug development.

CAP/CLIA Certified Laboratory Segment

Sample processing is conducted through a single certified laboratory. Strategically, the data-generating services can be delivered at two distinct channels and are not mutually exclusive (i.e. can execute at one or both levels). The “direct sales” channel typically refers to marketing, sales and execution of sample processing and specific phosphoproteomic services to the end-user as the hospital and cancer center for precision health screening by oncologists. The “reference laboratory” channel typically refers to providing a subcontract service to one or more counterparties (who have CAP/CLIA certification), so we are not direct to the end-user in this channel.

CLIA Approved Laboratory Segment

Sample processing may also be conducted through the certified laboratory that the Company manages. In addition to the “direct sales” channel, there is the “companion diagnostic” aspect to the end-user as the hospital and chronic care provider for precision health screening by oncologists that is specifically related to a drug’s indication and efficacy for the patient’s specific cancer biomarkers. Theralink’s involvement with biopharmaceutical companies in various stages of drug development and RUO projects could lead to the Company becoming a successful companion diagnostic for those treatments.

Our initial objective was to capitalize on successful pilots with biopharmaceutical companies and leading medical institutions in a clinical trial environment. Management accomplished this objective with the successful commercial launch of Theralink during Q1 2021. Now we plan to gain rapid adoption as a differentiated technology in the personalized healthcare marketplace by leveraging the strong support of the many key opinion leaders and users of the pilot platform.

Our flagship product for our commercial strategy, will focus on precision health screening for oncologists.

The key ingredients to our commercial success will be:

Proprietary Technology for credible commercial point of entry

We believe that our focused technologies are of particular value to oncologist teams developing molecular targeted and/or combination therapies because of our ability to make very small and precise measurements in the cellular microenvironment. The platforms are based on assessing protein activation status (via post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation, methylation, cleavage, etc.) of drug targets and receptors, their downstream signal transduction pathways, and potential compensatory or adaptive mechanisms within targeted cell populations. These commercial collaborations are critically important as they may establish our Company’s platform as a “must have” in specific cancers (e.g., breast cancer management), where precise and targeted chemotherapy and immunotherapies can make a dramatic difference in patient outcomes. We intend to collaborate with top industry and medical institution oncology experts, and key opinion leaders (“KOL’s”), who are focused on developing precision oncology therapeutics.

Strong pipeline of potential commercial partners

Theralink intends to deliver a comprehensive precision cancer biomarker platform by seamlessly integrating its technology into the workflow of oncologists in various healthcare networked systems. Currently, the oncology precision tumor analysis market is dominated by genomic diagnostic companies such as Genomic Health and Foundation Medicine. Theralink’s technologies may provide a unique, complementary and actionable knowledge base to existing market players, seeking to improve outcomes for oncologists and their patients. Our targeted commercial partners are seeking technologies that help differentiate their approach to oncology care, by using patient-centric solutions to help enable better chronic patient management during and after treatment to help maximize patient outcomes and prevent recurrences. Theralink sees this as a major commercial opportunity to serve both hospitals and primary care providers in the US. These same hospitals and primary care providers may have connections to cancer treatment programs abroad (i.e. Europe and Asia).

Operations During the Year ended September 30, 2022

During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2022, the Company focused on executing its business plan by validating its equipment in order to meet CLIA and CAP standards. In addition, the Company’s management team has been actively marketing its Theralink assay to KOLs, channel partners, and cancer centers throughout the US. Management believes the Company’s lab now has all of the instruments necessary to service biopharma clients with oncology-focused preclinical and clinical drug development programs. Arrangements have been made to obtain the necessary population data (additional cancer tumor samples) to help the Company continue to build Lab Developed Tests (“LDT’s”) for other cancers for clinical clients.

Marketing and Pricing

To date, the Company has derived its revenues primarily from biopharma research and development contracts. These contracts require the Company to provide services directed towards specific objectives and include developmental milestones and deliverables. Up-front payments are recorded as deferred revenue and recognized when milestones are achieved.

Market Opportunity

There are a number of key trends having a significant impact on the clinical testing business and represent opportunities for companies that can develop novel assays. Clinical laboratory testing is an essential healthcare service and is being favorably impacted by the following:

As a result of these significant changes in the laboratory testing market, it is evident that there is a significant commercial opportunity for companies that provide products or services that address the new needs of the evolving precision medicine marketplace. This is the market opportunity that the Company is pursuing through its introduction of data-generating assays that use patented and proprietary technology to help improve patient health and help reduce the overall cost of healthcare through early detection, prevention, and treatment.

Our Strategy

The Company’s strategy is to use the technology it has licensed from GMU and the NIH to take advantage of the new opportunities that are evolving in the precision medicine industry, both for biopharmas and for oncologists and their patients. The Company was created to specifically commercialize reverse phase protein array (RPPA) assays and services that are focused on determining the right drug, for the right patient, at the right time. These novel data-generating technologies are based on patented and proprietary technology that is well-suited to be run in a central or regional laboratory utilizing samples that are collected by healthcare providers and sent to the authorized CLIA certified testing facility for processing. The Company will market data-generating assays that may be over 90% actionable for intended use by oncologists and may be used to potentially determine which FDA-approved or investigational drug may be most efficacious in each cancer. To achieve this goal of commercializing new data-generating opportunities, the Company is leveraging off the strategic relationships that have been established with organizations such as GMU and others to develop unique and high value-added data-generating assays.

Governmental Regulation

The services that we provide are regulated by federal, state and foreign governmental authorities. Failure to comply with the applicable laws and regulations can subject us to repayment of amounts previously paid to us, significant civil and criminal penalties, loss of licensure, certification, or accreditation, or exclusion from government health care programs. The significant areas of regulation are summarized below.

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 and State Regulation

Our clinical laboratory must hold certain federal, state and local licenses, certifications and permits to conduct our business. Laboratories in the United States that perform testing on human specimens for the purpose of providing information for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of disease are subject to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, or (“CLIA”). CLIA requires such laboratories to be certified by the federal government and mandates compliance with various operational, personnel, facilities administration, quality and proficiency testing requirements intended to ensure that testing services are accurate, reliable and timely. CLIA certification also is a prerequisite to be eligible to bill state and federal health care programs, as well as many private insurers, for laboratory testing services. We have received CLIA certification for all states except New York, which we have applied for.

In addition, CLIA requires certified laboratories to enroll in an approved proficiency testing program if it performs testing in any category for which proficiency testing is required. Our laboratory will periodically test specimens received from an outside proficiency testing organization and then submit the results back to that organization for evaluation. If our laboratory would fail to achieve a passing score on a proficiency test, it could lose its right to perform testing. Further, failure to comply with other proficiency testing regulations, such as the prohibition on referral of a proficiency testing specimen to another laboratory for analysis, can result in revocation of our laboratories’ CLIA certification.

As a condition of CLIA certification, our laboratory is subject to survey and inspection every other year, in addition to being subject to additional random inspections. The biennial survey is conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), a CMS agent (typically a state agency), or a CMS-approved accreditation organization.

CLIA provides that a state may adopt laboratory regulations that are more stringent than those under federal law. Our laboratory will be licensed by the appropriate state agency in Colorado. If a laboratory is out of compliance with state laws or regulations governing licensed laboratories, penalties for violation vary from state to state but may include suspension, limitation, revocation or annulment of the license, assessment of financial penalties or fines, or imprisonment. We believe that we are in material compliance with all applicable licensing laws and regulations.

Food and Drug Administration

Although the FDA has consistently claimed that it has the authority to regulate laboratory-developed tests that are developed, validated and performed only by a CLIA certified laboratory, it has historically exercised enforcement discretion by not otherwise regulating most LDTs. Nevertheless, the FDA recently indicated that it is promulgating draft guidance for FDA regulation of most LDTs in the future. On January 13, 2017, the FDA published a non-binding “Discussion Paper” proposing a framework of LDT oversight largely consistent with the draft guidance, “to spur further dialogue” and give “congressional authorizing committees the opportunity to develop a legislative solution.” Recent agency announcements made in the context of the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) public health emergency have produced a shifting policy landscape and further uncertainty regarding the FDA’s role in regulating LDTs: in August 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced that the FDA would not require premarket review of LDTs absent notice-and-comment rulemaking, but in November 2021, HHS issued a statement withdrawing that prior announcement, indicating a return to FDA’s longstanding approach to the regulation and enforcement discretion toward LDTs.

Congress has also considered a number of legislative proposals in recent years that would amend the regulatory framework for LDTs, including, among other requirements, FDA premarket review of certain LDTs. The most recent such proposal, the Verifying Accurate Leading-edge IVCT Development (“VALID”) Act, was introduced in both the House and Senate on June 24, 2021. A competing legislative proposal, the Verified Innovative Testing in American Laboratories Act of 2021 (“VITAL Act”), was introduced in the Senate on May 18, 2021. However, it remains uncertain whether Congress will enact legislation regulating LDTs and, if so, whether the legislation will be similar to the framework described in FDA’s 2014 draft guidance or Discussion Paper, or either the VITAL or VALID Acts. It is possible that legislation and resulting FDA regulation may result in increased regulatory burdens and costs for us to seek marketing authorization for and maintain ongoing compliance for our existing tests, any modifications thereto, or any future tests we may develop. We cannot be certain as to which of our tests, if any, would require FDA approval or clearance under any of the proposed frameworks and, if required, that our tests could obtain such approval or clearance.

HIPAA and Other Privacy Laws

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), established comprehensive federal protection for the privacy and security of health information. The HIPAA standards apply to three types of organizations: health plans, healthcare clearing houses, and healthcare providers which conduct certain healthcare transactions electronically (“Covered Entities”). Title II of HIPAA, the Administrative Simplification Act, contains provisions that address the privacy of health data, the security of health data, the standardization of identifying numbers used in the healthcare system and the standardization of certain healthcare transactions. The privacy regulations protect medical records and other protected health information by limiting their use and release, giving patients the right to access their medical records and limiting most disclosures of health information to the minimum amount necessary to accomplish an intended purpose. The HIPAA security standards require the adoption of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards and the adoption of written security policies and procedures.

On February 17, 2009, Congress enacted Subtitle D of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH, provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. HITECH amends HIPAA and, among other things, expands and strengthens HIPAA, creates new targets for enforcement, imposes new penalties for noncompliance and establishes new breach notification requirements for Covered Entities. Regulations implementing major provisions of HITECH were finalized on January 25, 2013, through publication of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule (the “Omnibus Rule”).

Under HITECH’s new breach notification requirements, Covered Entities must report breaches of protected health information that has not been encrypted or otherwise secured in accordance with guidance from the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (the “Secretary”). Required breach notices must be made as soon as is reasonably practicable, but no later than 60 days following discovery of the breach. Reports must be made to affected individuals and to the Secretary and in some cases, they must be reported through local and national media, depending on the size of the breach. Breach reports can lead to investigation and enforcement.

We are currently subject to the HIPAA regulations, and we will maintain an active compliance program that is designed to identify security incidents and other issues in a timely fashion and enable us to remediate, mitigate harm or report if required by law. We are subject to prosecution and/or administrative enforcement and increased civil and criminal penalties for non-compliance, including a new, four-tiered system of monetary penalties adopted under HITECH. We are also subject to enforcement by state attorney generals who were given authority to enforce HIPAA under HITECH. To avoid penalties under the HITECH breach notification provisions, we must ensure that breaches of protected health information are promptly detected and reported within the Company, so that we can make all required notifications on a timely basis. However, even if we make required reports on a timely basis, we may still be subject to penalties for the underlying breach.

In addition to the federal privacy regulations, there are a number of state laws regarding the privacy and security of health information and personal data that are applicable to our clinical laboratories. Many states have also implemented genetic testing and privacy laws imposing specific patient consent requirements and protecting test results by strictly limiting the disclosure of those results. State requirements are particularly stringent regarding predictive genetic tests, due to the risk of genetic discrimination against healthy patients identified through testing as being at a high risk for disease. We believe that we have taken the steps required of us to comply with health information privacy and security statutes and regulations, including genetic testing and genetic information privacy laws in all state and federal jurisdictions.

We are subject to laws and regulations related to the protection of the environment, the health and safety of employees and the handling, transportation and disposal of medical specimens, infectious and hazardous waste and radioactive materials. For example, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), has established extensive requirements relating specifically to workplace safety for healthcare employers in the U.S. This includes requirements to develop and implement multi-faceted programs to protect workers from exposure to blood-borne pathogens, including preventing or minimizing any exposure through needle stick injuries. For purposes of transportation, some biological materials and laboratory supplies are classified as hazardous materials and are subject to regulation by one or more of the following agencies: the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Public Health Service, the United States Postal Service and the International Air Transport Association. We will use third-party vendors to dispose of regulated medical waste, hazardous waste and radioactive materials and contractually require them to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

International Regulations

We may market our assays outside of the United States and will be subject to foreign regulatory requirements governing laboratory licensure, human clinical testing, use of tissue, privacy and data security, and marketing approval for our tests. These requirements vary by jurisdiction, differ from those in the United States and may require us to implement additional compliance measures or perform additional pre-clinical or clinical testing. In many countries outside of the United States, coverage, pricing and reimbursement approvals are also required. We are also required to maintain accurate information and control over sales and distributors’ activities that may fall within the purview of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, its books and records provisions and its anti-bribery provisions.

Reimbursement and Billing

Reimbursement and billing for precision medicine services are generally highly complex. Laboratories must bill various payors, such as private third-party payors, including Managed Care Organizations (“MCO”) and state and federal health care programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, and each may have different billing requirements. Additionally, the audit requirements we must meet to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, as well as our internal compliance policies and procedures, add further complexity to the billing process. Other factors that complicate billing include:

Depending on the reimbursement arrangement and applicable law, the party that reimburses us for our services may be:

While the Company did receive a Medicare reimbursement rate for our billing code in fiscal year 2022, we have not submitted any claims to Medicare to date. When we start submitting claims to Medicare, we expect Medicare to process claims on a case-by-case basis; Medicare may adjudicate those claims by providing broad coverage, limiting coverage to specific circumstances, or denying coverage altogether. We are currently working to establish coverage and billing rates with other payors outside of Medicare. On rare occasions during our 2022 fiscal year, private pay patients have paid us between $1,500 and $3,500 for the results of our test. Third-party payers coverage policies and payment rates may change at any time.

Federal and State Fraud and Abuse Laws

A variety of federal laws prohibit fraud and abuse involving state and federal health care programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid. These laws are interpreted broadly and enforced aggressively by various state and federal agencies, including CMS, the Department of Justice, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”), and various state agencies. In addition, the Medicare and Medicaid programs increasingly use a variety of contractors to review claims data and to identify improper payments as well as fraud and abuse. Any overpayments identified must be repaid to the Medicare program unless a favorable decision is obtained on appeal. In some cases, these overpayments can be used as the basis for an extrapolation, by which the error rate is applied to a larger universe of claims, and which can result in even higher repayments.

Anti-Kickback Laws

The Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits, among other things, knowingly and willfully offering, paying, soliciting, receiving or providing remuneration, directly or indirectly, in exchange for or to induce either the referral of an individual, or the furnishing, arranging for or recommending of an item or service that is reimbursable, in whole or in part, by a federal health care program. “Remuneration” is broadly defined to include anything of value, such as, for example, cash payments, gifts or gift certificates, discounts, or the furnishing of services, supplies or equipment. The Anti-Kickback Statue is broad and prohibits many arrangements and practices that are lawful in businesses outside of the health care industry.

Recognizing the breadth of the Anti-Kickback Statute and the fact that it may technically prohibit many innocuous or beneficial arrangements within the health care industry, the OIG has issued a series of regulations, or safe harbors. Compliance with all requirements of a safe harbor immunizes the parties to the business arrangement from prosecution under the Anti-Kickback Statute. The failure of a business arrangement to fit within a safe harbor does not necessarily mean that the arrangement is illegal or that the OIG will pursue prosecution. Still, in the absence of an applicable safe harbor, a violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute may occur even if only one purpose of an arrangement is to induce referrals. The penalties for violating the Anti-Kickback Statute can be severe. These sanctions include criminal and civil penalties, imprisonment and possible exclusion from the federal health care programs. Many states have adopted laws similar to the Anti-Kickback Statute, and some apply to items and services reimbursable by any payor, including private third-party payors.

Physician Self-Referral Bans

The federal ban on physician self-referrals, commonly known as the Stark Law, prohibits, subject to certain exceptions, physician referrals of Medicare patients to an entity providing certain designated health services, which include laboratory services, if the physician or an immediate family member of the physician has any financial relationship with the entity. Several Stark Law exceptions are relevant to arrangements involving clinical laboratories, including: (1) fair market value compensation for the provision of items or services; (2) payments by physicians to a laboratory for clinical laboratory services; (3) certain space and equipment rental arrangements that satisfy certain requirements; and (4) personal services arrangements. Penalties for violating the Stark Law include the return of funds received for all prohibited referrals, fines, civil monetary penalties and possible exclusion from the federal health care programs. In addition to the Stark Law, many states have their own self-referral bans, which may extend to all self-referrals, regardless of the payor.

State and Federal Prohibitions on False Claims

The federal False Claims Act imposes liability on any person or entity that, among other things, knowingly presents, or causes to be presented, a false or fraudulent claim for payment to the federal government. Under the False Claims Act, a person acts knowingly if he has actual knowledge of the information or acts in deliberate ignorance or in reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the information. Specific intent to defraud is not required. The qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act allow a private individual to bring an action on behalf of the federal government and to share in any amounts paid by the defendant to the government in connection with the action. Penalties include payment of up to three times the actual damages sustained by the government, plus civil penalties of between $5,500 and $11,000 for each false claim, as well as possible exclusion from the federal health care programs. In addition, various states have enacted similar laws modeled after the False Claims Act that apply to items and services reimbursed under Medicaid and other state health care programs, and, in several states, such laws apply to claims submitted to any payor.

Civil Monetary Penalties Law

The federal Civil Monetary Penalties Law, or the CMP Law, prohibits, among other things (1) the offering or transfer of remuneration to a Medicare or state health care program beneficiary if the person knows or should know it is likely to influence the beneficiary’s selection of a particular provider, practitioner, or supplier of services reimbursable by Medicare or a state health care program, unless an exception applies; (2) employing or contracting with an individual or entity that the provider knows or should know is excluded from participation in a federal health care program; (3) billing for services requested by an unlicensed physician or an excluded provider; and (4) billing for medically unnecessary services. The penalties for violating the CMP Law include exclusion, substantial fines, and payment of up to three times the amount billed, depending on the nature of the offense.

Employees

As of September 30, 2022, the Company had nineteen active employees. The Company has not experienced any work disruptions or stoppages and it considers relations with its employees to be good. No employee of the Company is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

Risks Relating to Our Financial Position and Operations

We have incurred significant losses since inception and anticipate that we will continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future. To date we have generated little revenue or profit from our technology. We may never realize revenue or profitability. There is substantial doubt in our ability to continue as a going concern.

We had net losses of $12,741,962 and $5,471,649 for the years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The loss from operations was $11,640,006 and $5,565,979 for the years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The net cash used in operations were $5,389,695 and $4,780,930 for the years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Additionally, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $62,807,817 and $49,825,855, on September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, had a stockholders’ deficit of $6,801,055 at September 30, 2022, and had a working capital deficit of $2,808,736 at September 30, 2022. The Company had revenues of $567,905 and $505,604, for the years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Management believes that these matters raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for twelve months from the issuance date of this report.

Our losses have resulted principally from interest expense, professional fees, compensation expenses, costs of revenue and general and administrative expenses incurred while building our business infrastructure. We expect to continue to incur losses for the near future. Furthermore, we expect these losses to increase as we continue our research and development of and seek regulatory approval for Theralink and any other services we may develop, prepare for and begin to commercialize by adding infrastructure and personnel to support the development of our technology and operations as a public company. The net losses and negative cash flows from operations incurred to date, together with expected future losses, have had and likely will continue to have, an adverse effect on our stockholders’ equity and working capital. The amount of future net losses will depend, in part, on the rate of future growth of our expenses and our ability to generate revenue.

Management cannot provide assurance that we will ultimately achieve profitable operations or become cash flow positive or raise additional debt and/or equity capital. Management believes that our capital resources are not currently adequate to continue operating and maintaining our business strategy for a period of twelve months from the issuance date of this report. The Company will seek to raise capital through additional debt and/or equity financings to fund its operations in the future.

Although management believes there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern our financial statements do not reflect any adjustments that might result if we are unable to continue our business. Our financial statements contain additional disclosures in the notes to the financial statements describing our current circumstances. Even if we are able to successfully realize our commercialization goals for Theralink, because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with commercialization of our technology, we will require additional funding. We are unable to predict when we will become profitable, if at all. Even if we do produce revenues and achieve profitability, we may not be able to maintain or increase profitability.

We will need additional funding to achieve our goals and may be unable to raise additional capital when needed, which would force us to delay, reduce or eliminate our product development and commercialization efforts. Raising additional capital may cause dilution to our existing stockholders, restrict our operations or require us to relinquish rights to our technologies.

We expect to expend substantial resources for the foreseeable future to continue the development and commercialization of our technology. We may not be able to generate significant revenues for several years, if at all. Until such time as we can generate substantial service revenues, we may attempt to finance our cash needs through equity offerings, debt financings, government and/or other third-party grants or other third-party funding, marketing and distribution arrangements and other collaborations, strategic alliances and licensing arrangements. To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, our investors’ ownership interest will be diluted. Debt financing, if available, may involve agreements that include covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures or declaring dividends. If we are unable to obtain funding on a timely basis, we may be required to significantly curtail one or more research or development programs, which would adversely impact potential revenues, results of operations and financial condition. We cannot be certain that additional funding will be available on acceptable terms, or at all. If adequate funds are not available, we may be required to delay, reduce the scope of, or eliminate one or more of our research and development activities.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected and will continue to negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures that have been taken or that may be taken in the future by governments, businesses, including us, and the public at large to limit COVID-19’s spread have had, and we expect will continue to have, a materially negative effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operation. The extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and financial results will depend on numerous evolving factors that we are not able to accurately predict and which will vary by market, including the duration and scope of the pandemic, global economic conditions during and after the pandemic, governmental actions that have been taken, or may be taken in the future, in response to the pandemic, and changes in consumer behavior in response to the pandemic, some of which may be more than just temporary.

In addition, economic uncertainty associated with the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in volatility in the global capital and credit markets which can impair our ability to access these markets on terms commercially acceptable to us, or at all.

There can be no assurance that we will be successful in our efforts to mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19, and as a result, our business, financial condition and results of operations and the prices of our publicly traded securities may be adversely affected.

Risks Relating to our Product Commercialization Pursuits

If we fail to achieve and sustain commercial success for our services, our business will suffer, our future prospects may be harmed, and our stock price would likely decline.

We have sold or marketed our technology on a very limited basis. Unless we can continue to successfully commercialize our services or acquire the right to market other approved products or services, our business will be materially adversely affected. Our ability to generate revenues for our services will depend on, and may be limited by, a number of factors, including the following:

If for any reason we are unable to sell our services, our business would be seriously harmed and could fail.

If Theralink were to become the subject of concerns related to its efficacy, safety, or otherwise, our ability to generate revenues from Theralink could be seriously harmed.

With the use of any newly marketed technology by a wider patient population, serious adverse events may occur from time to time that initially do not appear to relate to the technology itself. Any safety issues could cause us to suspend or cease marketing of our approved technology, cause us to modify how we market our approved technology, subject us to substantial liabilities, and adversely affect our revenues and financial condition. In the event of a withdrawal of Theralink from the market, our revenues would decline significantly and our business would be seriously harmed and could fail.

Adoption of Theralink for the analysis of patients with either early stage or advanced cancer may be slow or limited for a variety of reasons, including competing therapies and perceived difficulties in the treatment process or delays in obtaining reimbursement. If Theralink is not broadly accepted as a technology option for cancer, our business would be harmed.

The rate of adoption of Theralink for early stage or advanced cancer and the ultimate market size will be dependent on several factors, including the education of treating physicians on the information provided by Theralink. A significant portion of the prospective patient base for the Theralink may be under the care of oncologists who may have little or no experience with our technology. Acceptance by oncologists of Theralink may be slow and may require us to educate physicians on the benefits of using our technology.

To achieve global success for Theralink as a technology, we will need to obtain approvals by foreign regulatory authorities. Data from our completed clinical trials of Theralink may not be sufficient to support approval for commercialization by regulatory agencies governing the sale of drugs outside of the United States. This could require us to spend substantial sums to develop sufficient clinical data for licensure by foreign authorities. Submissions for approval by foreign regulatory authorities may not result in marketing approval by these authorities. In addition, certain countries require pricing to be established before reimbursement for the specific technology may be obtained. We may not receive or maintain marketing approvals at favorable pricing levels or at all, which could harm our ability to market Theralink globally. Cancer is common in many regions where the healthcare support systems are limited and reimbursement for Theralink may be limited or unavailable, which will likely limit or slow adoption in these regions. If we are unable to successfully achieve the full global market potential of Theralink due to diagnostic practices or regulatory hurdles, our future prospects would be harmed, and our stock price could decline.

Risks from Competitive Factors

Our competitors may develop and market products that are less expensive, more effective, safer or reach the market sooner, which may diminish or eliminate the commercial success of any products we may commercialize.

Competition in the cancer information field is intense and accentuated by the rapid pace of advancements in product development. Further, research and discoveries by others may result in breakthroughs that render potential technologies obsolete before they generate revenue.

Many universities and private and public research institutes may in the future become active in cancer research, which may be in direct competition with us.

Some of our competitors in the cancer predictive biomarker space have substantially greater research and development capabilities than we do. Their processing, marketing, financial and managerial resources may be greater than ours. Acquisitions of competing companies by large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies could enhance our competitors’ resources. In addition, our competitors may obtain patent protection or FDA approval and commercialize predictive biomarkers more rapidly than we do, which may impact future sales of our technology. We expect that competition among technology options will be based, among other things, on price, safety, reliability, availability, patent protection, sales, marketing and distribution capabilities. Our profitability and financial position will suffer if our technology cannot compete effectively in the marketplace.

We could face competition from other technologies and products that could impact our profitability.

We may face competition in Europe from other technologies and products, and we expect we may face competition from those technologies and products in the future in the United States as well. To the extent that governments adopt more permissive approval frameworks and competitors are able to obtain broader marketing approval for predictive biomarkers, our technology will become subject to increased competition. Expiration or successful challenge of applicable patent rights could trigger such competition, and we could face more litigation regarding the validity and/or scope of our patents. We cannot predict the end results other technologies or other competing products could have on the future potential sales of our services.

Failure to retain key personnel could impede our ability to develop our technology and to obtain new collaborations or other sources of funding.

Companies like ours depend upon our scientific staff to discover new technologies and predictive biomarker. They utilize these biomarkers to recommend treatment guidance for cancer patients. The quality and reputation of our scientific, clinical and regulatory staff, especially the senior staff, and their success in performing their responsibilities, may directly influence the success of our technology development program. As we pursue successful commercialization of Theralink, we will need to hire sales and marketing, and operations executive management staff in order to ensure our organizational success. In addition, we require additional executive officers to provide strategic and operational guidance. Our inability to recruit key management, scientific, clinical, regulatory, medical, operational and other personnel, may delay or prevent us from achieving our business objectives. We face intense competition for personnel from other companies, universities, public and private research institutions, government entities and other organizations.

Risks Relating to Collaboration Arrangements and Reliance on Third Parties

We must rely on relationships with third-party suppliers to supply necessary resources used in our technology. These relationships are not easy to replace.

We rely upon others for resources used in the production of predictive biomarkers for the Theralink assay. Problems with any of our suppliers’ facilities or processes could result in failure to produce or a delay in production of adequate information used in the production of the Theralink assay. This could delay or reduce commercial sales and materially harm our business. Any prolonged interruption in the operations of our suppliers’ facilities could result in a shortfall in the information necessary to complete our assay.

Risks Related to Regulations

Theralink in clinical development may be limited in use if we do not maintain or gain required regulatory approvals.

Our clinical business maybe subject to extensive regulation by numerous state and federal governmental authorities in the United States and potentially by foreign regulatory authorities, with regulations differing from country to country.

Obtaining regulatory approval for marketing of a technology candidate in one country does not assure we will be able to obtain regulatory approval in other countries. However, a failure or delay in obtaining regulatory approval in one country may have a negative effect on the regulatory process in other countries.

In general, the FDA and equivalent other country authorities require labeling, advertising and promotional materials to be truthful and not misleading and marketed only for the approved indications and in accordance with the provisions of the approved label. If the FDA or other regulatory authorities were to challenge our promotional materials or activities, they may bring enforcement action.

Regulatory authorities could also add new regulations or reform existing regulations at any time, which could affect our ability to obtain or maintain approval of our technology. Theralink is a novel technology. As a result, regulatory agencies lack experience with it, which may lengthen the regulatory review process, increase our development costs and delay or prevent commercialization of Theralink outside of the United States. We are unable to predict when and whether any changes to regulatory policy affecting our business could occur, and such changes could have a material adverse impact on our business. If regulatory authorities determine that we have not complied with regulations in the research and development of our predictive biomarkers, they may not approve the technology candidate and we would not be able to market and sell it. If we were unable to market and sell our technology candidate, our business and results of operations would be materially and adversely affected.

Our prospective revenues will be diminished if payors do not adequately cover or reimburse our services.

There has been and will continue to be significant efforts by both federal and state agencies to reduce costs in government healthcare programs and otherwise implement government control of healthcare costs. In addition, private payors continually seek ways to reduce and control overall healthcare costs. An increasing emphasis on managed care in the United States will continue to put pressure on the pricing of healthcare services. Uncertainty exists as to the coverage and reimbursement status of new applications and services. Third-party payors, including governmental payors such as Medicare and private payors, are scrutinizing new medical products and services and may not cover or may limit coverage and the level of reimbursement for our services. Third-party insurance coverage may not be available to patients for any of our existing service candidates or for tests we discover and develop, and a substantial portion of the testing for which we bill our hospital and laboratory clients may ultimately be paid by third-party payers. Likewise, any pricing pressure exerted by these third-party payers on our clients may, in turn, be exerted by our clients on us. If government and other third-party payers do not provide adequate coverage and reimbursement for our tests, it could adversely affect our operating results, cash flows and our financial condition.

Regulatory changes, such as proposed government regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests, could require us to conduct additional clinical trials or result in delays, increased costs, or the failure to obtain necessary regulatory approvals, which could harm our business.

We intend to develop diagnostic tests for clients that cannot currently be provided using test kits approved or cleared by the FDA. The FDA has been considering changes to the way that it regulates these LDTs. Currently, all LDTs are conducted and offered in accordance with CLIA, and individual state licensing procedures. The FDA has published a draft guidance document that would require FDA clearance or approval of a subset of LDTs, as well as a modified approach for some lower risk LDTs that may require FDA oversight short of the full premarket approval or clearance process. Congress may enact legislation to provide a regulatory framework for the FDA’s role with regard to LDTs. As a result, there is a risk that the FDA’s proposed regulatory process could delay the offering of certain tests and result in additional validation costs and fees. This FDA approval or clearance process may be time-consuming and costly, with no guarantee of ultimate approval or clearance.

In 2014, FDA issued draft guidance announcing that it would end its historical policy of enforcement discretion regarding LDTs and outlining the first of multiple frameworks that have been proposed for their regulation. FDA announced in 2016 that it no longer planned to finalize its draft guidance and that it would continue to exercise enforcement discretion with respect to LDTs. On January 13, 2017, the FDA published a non-binding “Discussion Paper” proposing a framework of LDT oversight largely consistent with the draft guidance, “to spur further dialogue” and give “congressional authorizing committees the opportunity to develop a legislative solution.” Recent agency announcements made in the context of the COVID-19 public health emergency have produced a shifting policy landscape and further uncertainty regarding FDA’s role in regulating LDTs: in August 2020, HHS announced that FDA would not require premarket review of LDTs absent notice-and-comment rulemaking, but in November 2021, HHS issued a statement withdrawing that prior announcement, indicating a return to FDA’s longstanding approach to the regulation and enforcement discretion toward LDTs.

Congress has also considered a number of legislative proposals in recent years that would amend the regulatory framework for LDTs, including, among other requirements, FDA premarket review of certain LDTs. The most recent such proposal, the VALID Act, was introduced in both the House and Senate on June 24, 2021. A competing legislative proposal, the Verified Innovative Testing in American Laboratories Act of 2021 (“VITAL Act”), was introduced in the Senate on May 18, 2021. However, it remains uncertain whether Congress will enact legislation regulating LDTs, and, if so, whether the legislation will be similar to the framework described in FDA’s 2014 draft guidance or Discussion Paper, or either the VITAL or VALID Acts. It is possible that legislation and resulting FDA regulation may result in increased regulatory burdens and costs for us to seek marketing authorization for and maintain ongoing compliance for our existing tests, any modifications thereto, or any future tests we may develop. If the government begins to regulate our tests, it could require a significant volume of applications, which would be burdensome. Furthermore, governmental bodies could take a long time to review such applications and/or document responses if other laboratories were also required to file applications and/or document responses for each of their LDTs.

In the event that the FDA begins to regulate our tests, it may require additional pre-market clinical testing prior to submitting a regulatory notification or application for commercial sales. Such pre-market clinical testing could delay the commencement or completion of clinical testing, significantly increase our test development costs, delay commercialization of any future tests, and interrupt sales of our current tests. Additionally, the results of pre-clinical trials or previous clinical trials may not be predictive of future results, and clinical trials may not satisfy the requirements of the FDA or other non-U.S. regulatory authorities. Many of the factors that may cause or lead to a delay in the commencement or completion of clinical trials may also ultimately lead to delay or denial of regulatory clearance or approval. The commencement of clinical trials may be delayed due to insufficient patient enrollment, which is a function of many factors, including the size of the patient population, the nature of the protocol, the proximity of patients to clinical sites, and the eligibility criteria for the clinical trial. Each of these outcomes would harm our ability to market our tests and/or to achieve sustained profitability.

We use hazardous materials in our business and must comply with environmental laws and regulations, which can be expensive.

Our operations produce hazardous waste products, including chemicals, radioactive and biological materials. We are subject to a variety of federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the use, handling, storage and disposal of these materials. Although we believe that our safety procedures for handling and disposing of these materials complies with the standards prescribed by state and federal laws and regulations, the risk of accidental contamination or injury from these materials cannot be eliminated. We generally contract with third parties for the disposal of such hazardous waste products. We are also subject to regulation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), the Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”). Additionally, we must comply with the regulations under the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and other regulatory statutes, and may in the future be subject to other federal, state or local regulations. OSHA and/or the EPA may promulgate regulations that may affect our research and development programs. We may be required to incur further costs to comply with current or future environmental and safety laws and regulations. In addition, in the event of accidental contamination or injury from these materials, we could be held liable for any damages that result, including remediation, and any such liability could exceed our resources.

If we are unable to safeguard against security breaches with respect to our information systems, our business may be adversely affected.

In the course of our business, we gather, transmit and retain confidential information through our information systems. Although we endeavor to protect confidential information through the implementation of security technologies, processes and procedures, it is possible that an individual or group could defeat security measures and access sensitive information about our business and employees. Any misappropriation, loss or other unauthorized disclosure of confidential information gathered, stored or used by us could have a material impact on the operation of our business, including damaging our reputation with our employees, third parties and investors. We could also incur significant costs implementing additional security measures and organizational changes, implementing additional protective technologies, training employees or engaging consultants. In addition, we could incur increased litigation as a result of any potential cyber-security breach. We are not aware that we have experienced any material misappropriation, loss or other unauthorized disclosure of confidential or personally identifiable information as a result of a cyber-security breach or other act, however, a cyber-security breach or other act and/or disruption to our information technology systems could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition or results of operations.

We are exposed to potential product liability claims, and insurance against these claims may not be adequate and may not be available to us at a reasonable rate in the future.

Our business exposes us to potential liability risks inherent in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of our technology. We may be subject to liability for errors in the test results we provide to oncologists or for a misunderstanding of, or inappropriate reliance upon, the information we provide. We have commercial product liability insurance coverage. However, this insurance coverage may not be adequate to cover all claims against us. There is also a risk that adequate insurance coverage will not be available in the future on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. The successful assertion of an uninsured product liability or other claim against us could cause us to incur significant expenses to pay such a claim, could adversely affect our predictive biomarker development or technology sales and could cause a decline in our revenues. Even a successfully defended product liability claim could cause us to incur significant expenses to defend such a claim, could adversely affect our predictive biomarker development and could cause a decline in our revenues. In addition, product liability claims could result in an FDA or equivalent non-United States regulatory authority investigation of the safety or efficacy of our test, our manufacturing processes and facilities, or our marketing programs.

Risks in Protecting Our Intellectual Property

We have exposure to general uncertainty and complex legal matters regarding the patents we license.

The patent positions of companies such as ours are generally uncertain and involve complex legal and factual questions. No consistent policy regarding the scope of claims allowable in patents in the field of method of use patents or reformulation patents has emerged in the United States. The relevant patent laws and their interpretation outside of the United States are also uncertain. Changes in either the patent laws or their interpretation in the United States and other countries may diminish our ability to protect our technology and to enforce the patent rights that we license, and could affect the value of such intellectual property. In particular, our ability to stop third parties from using, selling, offering to sell, or importing technology that infringe on our intellectual property will depend in part on our success in obtaining and enforcing patent claims that cover our technology, inventions, and improvements. With respect to both licensed and company-owned intellectual property, we cannot guarantee that patents will be granted with respect to any of our pending patent applications or with respect to any patent applications we may file in the future, nor can we be sure that any patents that may be granted to us in the future will be commercially useful in protecting our technology or the methods of use. Patent and other intellectual property rights in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology space are evolving and involve many risks and uncertainties. For example, third parties may have blocking patents that could be used to prevent us from commercializing our technology. The issued patents that we in-license and those that may be issue in the future may be challenged, invalidated, or circumvented, which could limit our ability to stop competitors from marketing related technology or could limit the term of patent protection that otherwise may exist for our technology. In addition, the scope of the rights granted under any issued patents may not provide us with protection or competitive advantages against competitors with similar technology. Furthermore, our competitors may independently develop similar technologies that are outside the scope of the rights granted under any issued patents that we own or exclusively in-license. For these reasons, we may face competition with respect to our technology. Moreover, because of the extensive time required for development, testing, and regulatory review of a potential technology, it is possible that, before any particular technology can be commercialized, any patent protection for such technology may expire or remain in force for only a short period following commercialization, thereby reducing the commercial advantage the patent provides.

If we are unable to protect the proprietary rights we license or to defend against infringement claims, we may not be able to compete effectively or operate profitably.

We develop predictive biomarkers that are the basis for or incorporated in our potential testing products. We protect our technology through United States and foreign patent filings, trademarks and trade secrets that we license from others.

The fact that we may file a patent application or that a patent has been issued does not ensure that we will have meaningful protection from competition with regard to the underlying technology. Patents, if issued, may be challenged, invalidated, declared unenforceable or circumvented or may not cover all applications we may desire. Any pending or future patent applications may not result in issued patents. Patents may not provide us with adequate proprietary protection or advantages against competitors with, or who could develop, similar or competing technologies or who could design around our patents. Patent law relating to the scope of claims in the pharmaceutical field in which we operate is continually evolving and can be the subject of some uncertainty. The laws providing patent protection may change in a way that would limit our protection.

We also rely on trade secrets and know-how that we seek to protect, in part, through confidentiality agreements. Our policy is to require our officers, employees, consultants, contractors, manufacturers, outside scientific collaborators, sponsored researchers and other advisors to execute confidentiality agreements. These agreements provide that all confidential information developed or made known to an individual during the course of their relationship with us be kept confidential and not disclosed to third parties except in specific limited circumstances. We also require signed confidentiality agreements from companies that receive our confidential data. For employees, consultants and contractors, we require confidentiality agreements providing that all inventions conceived while rendering services to us shall be assigned to us as our exclusive property. It is possible, however, that these parties may breach those agreements, and we may not have adequate remedies for such a breach. It is also possible that our trade secrets or know-how will otherwise become known to or be independently developed by competitors.

We are also subject to the risk of claims, whether meritorious or not, that our technology infringes or misappropriates third-party intellectual property rights. Defending against such claims can be quite expensive even if the claims lack merit. If we are found to have infringed or misappropriated a third-party’s intellectual property, we could be required to seek a license or discontinue using certain technologies or delay commercialization of the affected technologies, and we could be required to pay substantial damages, which could materially harm our business.

We may be subject to litigation with respect to the ownership and use of intellectual property that will be costly to defend. The outcome of such a defense in uncertain.

Our business may bring us into conflict with our licensees, licensors or others with whom we have contractual or other business relationships, or with our competitors or others whose interests differ from ours. If we are unable to resolve those conflicts on terms that are satisfactory to all parties, we may become involved in litigation brought by or against us. That litigation is likely to be expensive and may require a significant amount of management’s time and attention, at the expense of other aspects of our business.

Litigation relating to the ownership and use of intellectual property is expensive, and our position as a relatively small company in an industry dominated by very large companies may cause us to be at a disadvantage in defending our intellectual property rights and in defending against claims that our technology infringes or misappropriate third-party intellectual property rights. Even if we are able to defend our position, the cost of doing so may adversely affect our profitability. We may in the future be subject to patent litigation and may not be able to protect our intellectual property at a reasonable cost if such litigation is initiated. The outcome of litigation is always uncertain, and in some cases could include judgments against us that require us to pay damages, enjoin us from certain activities or otherwise affect our legal or contractual rights, which could have a significant adverse effect on our business.

Obtaining and maintaining our patent protection depends on compliance with various procedural, document submission, fee payment and other requirements imposed by governmental patent agencies, and our patent protection could be reduced or eliminated for non-compliance with these requirements.

Periodic maintenance fees, renewal fees, annuity fees and various other governmental fees on patents and/or applications may be due to be paid to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”), GMU, the NIH, and various governmental patent agencies outside of the United States in several stages over the lifetime of the patents and/or applications. The USPTO and various non-U.S. governmental patent agencies require compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment and other similar provisions during the patent application process. We employ reputable law firms and other professionals to help us comply with these requirements. In many cases, an inadvertent lapse can be cured by payment of a late fee or by other means in accordance with the applicable rules. However, there are situations in which non-compliance can result in abandonment or lapse of the patent or patent application, resulting in partial or complete loss of patent rights in the relevant jurisdiction. In such an event, our competitors might be able to enter the market creating a material adverse effect on our business.

We may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights throughout the world.

Filing, prosecuting and defending patents on our technology in all countries throughout the world would be prohibitively expensive, and our intellectual property rights in some countries outside the United States can be less extensive than those in the United States. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as federal and state laws in the United States. Consequently, we may not be able to prevent third parties from using our inventions in all countries outside the United States, or from selling or importing technologies using our inventions in and into the United States or other jurisdictions. Competitors may use our technologies in jurisdictions where we have not obtained patent protection to develop their own technologies and may also export infringing technologies to territories where we have patent protection, but enforcement is not as strong as that in the United States. These technologies may compete with ours and our patents or other intellectual property rights.

Risks Relating to an Investment in Our Common Stock

We have issued, and may in the future issue, a significant amount of equity and convertible debt securities and, as a result, your ownership interest in our Company has been, and may in the future be, substantially diluted and your investment in our common stock could suffer a material decline in value.

In the Asset Sale Transaction, we issued a significant amount of equity securities, including Series D-1 and D-2 Preferred, which have subsequently converted into approximately 5.1 billion shares of common stock during fiscal 2020. On November 29, 2022, the Company consummated a private placement offering (the “Offering”). In the Offering, the Company issued (i) 10% Original Issue Discount Senior Secured Convertible Debentures (the “Debentures”) in an aggregate principal amount of $16.9 million and (ii) warrants (the “Warrants” and together with the Debentures, the “Underlying Securities”) to purchase up to approximately five billion shares of common stock of the Company (the “Common Stock”), subject to adjustments provided in the Warrants and as described below.

The Debentures are convertible into shares of Common Stock at any time after the maturity date and prior to Mandatory Conversion (as defined in the Debentures) at the conversion price equal to the lesser of: (i) $0.003 per share and (ii) 70% of the average of the VWAP (as defined in the Debentures) (or 50% of the average of such VWAP if an event of default has occurred and has not been cured) of the Common Stock during the ten Trading Day (as defined in the Debentures) period immediately prior to the applicable conversion date. Alternatively, upon a Mandatory Conversion, the holders of the Debentures may elect to exchange their Debentures for newly issued convertible preferred securities at a price per share equal to the Qualified Offering Price or the five-day VWAP of the Common Stock prior to the date that is 181 days after the closing of the Qualified Offering. Using a conversion rate of $0.003, the $16.9 million of Debentures are convertible into approximately 5.6 billion shares of common stock, but such amount could be more based on the calculations described above.

The Warrants are exercisable for five years and six months from the earlier of the maturity date of the Debentures and the closing of the Qualified Financing, at an exercise price equal to (i) in the event that a Qualified Offering is consummated prior to the exercise of the Warrant, the price per share at which the Qualified Offering is made (“Qualified Offering Price”), or (ii) in the event that no Qualified Offering has been consummated, the lower of: (A) $0.003 per share and (B) an amount equal to 70% of the average of the VWAP (or 50% of the average of the VWAP if an event of default has occurred and has not been cured) for the Common Stock over the ten Trading Days preceding the date of the delivery of the applicable exercise notice. If there is no effective registration statement covering the resale of the shares underlying the Warrants within 180 days following the closing of the Qualified Offering: (i) exercise may be via cashless exercise, and (ii) 5% additional Warrants will be issued by the Company to the holders for any portion of each month without such effective registration statement. Therefore, the Warrants may be exercisable into more than the initial five billion shares of common stock. The Debentures and Warrants also contain certain price protection provisions providing for adjustment of the amount of securities issuable upon exercise of the Warrants in case of certain future dilutive events or stock-splits and dividends.

In addition to the Debentures, we currently have 141.5033 Series C-1 Preferred shares outstanding, which are convertible into approximately 21.3 million shares of common stock. In addition to the C-1 Preferred, we also have approximately 1.9 billion outstanding warrants that are convertible into common stock subject to certain adjustments. We also have outstanding approximately 1.9 billion stock options issued pursuant to our equity incentive plan. As a result of these past issuances and potential future issuances, your ownership interest in the Company has been, and may in the future be, substantially diluted. In addition, we will continue to issue shares of common stock equity linked securities to finance the business when necessary.

The market price for our common stock has been volatile, and these issuances could cause the price of our common stock to continue to fluctuate substantially. Such issuances of additional securities would further dilute the equity interests of our existing shareholders, perhaps substantially, and may further exacerbate any or all of the above risks.

Market volatility may affect our stock price, and the value of an investment in our common stock may be subject to sudden decreases.

The trading price for our common stock has been, and we expect it to continue to be, volatile. The price at which our common stock trades depends on a number of factors, including the following, many of which are beyond our control:

During periods of extreme stock market price volatility, share prices of many biotechnology companies have often fluctuated in a manner not necessarily related to their individual operating performance. Furthermore, historically our common stock has experienced greater price volatility than the stock market as a whole.

We do not intend to pay cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.

We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our common stock. We are not currently profitable. To the extent, we become profitable, we intend to retain any future earnings to fund the development and growth of our business and do not currently anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, our stockholders will not realize a return on their investment unless and until they sell shares if the trading price of our shares appreciates from the price at which the shareholder purchased them, of which there is no guarantee.

Trading on the OTC Markets is volatile and sporadic, which could depress the market price of our common stock and make it difficult for our stockholders to resell their shares. The market for our common stock is limited and persons who purchase our common stock may not be able to resell their shares at or above the purchase price paid by them.

Our common stock is quoted on the OTC Pink tier of the OTC Markets. Trading in stock quoted on the OTC Markets is often thin and characterized by wide fluctuations in trading prices, due to many factors, some of which may have little to do with our operations or business prospects. This volatility could depress the market price of our common stock for reasons unrelated to operating performance. Moreover, the OTC Markets are not a stock exchange, and trading of securities on the OTC Markets is often more sporadic than the trading of securities listed on a quotation system like the NASDAQ or a stock exchange like the New York Stock Exchange. The OTC Markets are not liquid markets. There is currently only a limited public market for our common stock. We cannot assure you that an active public market for our common stock will develop or be sustained in the future. If an active market for our common stock does not develop or is not sustained, the price may decline. These factors may result in investors having difficulty reselling any shares of our common stock.

We are subject to the “penny stock” rules, which means brokers cannot generally solicit the purchase of our common stock, which adversely affects its liquidity and market price.

The SEC has adopted regulations, which generally define “penny stock” to be an equity security that has a market price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to specific exemptions. The market price of our common stock on the OTC has been substantially less than $5.00 per share and therefore we are currently considered a “penny stock” according to SEC rules. This designation requires any broker-dealer selling these securities to disclose certain information concerning the transaction, obtain a written agreement from the purchaser and determine that the purchaser is reasonably suitable to purchase the securities. These rules limit the ability of broker-dealers to solicit purchases of our common stock and therefore reduce the liquidity in the public markets for our shares.

In addition to the “penny stock” rules, FINRA has adopted FINRA Rule 2111, which requires a broker-dealer to have reasonable grounds for believing that an investment is suitable for a customer before recommending the investment. Prior to recommending speculative low-priced securities to their non-institutional customers, broker-dealers must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about the customer’s financial status, tax status, investment objectives and other information. Under interpretations of these rules, FINRA believes that there is a high probability that speculative low-priced securities will not be suitable for at least some customers. The FINRA requirements make it more difficult for broker-dealers to recommend that their customers buy our common stock, which may limit your ability to buy and sell our stock and have an adverse effect on the market for our shares.

ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

Not applicable.

ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

Our principal executive office at 15000 W. 6^th Avenue, Suite 400, Golden, CO 80401 is leased from a third party. In December 2019, we entered into a lease agreement for our corporate and laboratory facility in Golden, Colorado. The lease is for a period of 61 months, with continuing rental options, commencing in February 2020 and expiring in February 2025. Pursuant to the lease agreement, the lease requires the Company to pay a monthly base rent of; (i) $4,878 in the first year; (ii) $5,026 in the second year; (iii) $5,179 in the third year; (iv) $5,335 in the fourth year and; (v) $5,495 in the fifth year, plus a pro rata share of operating expenses beginning February 2020.

On June 10, 2021, the Company entered into an amendment to its existing Warehouse Lease (the “Lease Amendment”), effective October 3, 2021, for its laboratory facility in Golden, CO (see Note 11). The Lease Amendment provided for: (i) an extension to the term of the original lease to five years following the completion of the Company’s improvements to the Expansion Premises (defined below); (ii) an expansion of the premises to include the premises located at Unit 404, Building F, 15000 West 6th Avenue, Golden, Colorado 80401, consisting of approximately 4,734 rentable square feet (the “Expansion Premises”); (iii) an annual base rent modification; (iv) an increase to the security deposit; (v) tenant improvement allowance; (vi) additional parking and; (vii) two renewal options, each for five year terms, for a total of ten years.

Pursuant to the Lease Amendment, the Company must pay a total annual base rent of; (1) $115,823 for year one; (2) $119,310 for year two; (3) $122,893 for year three; (4) $126,580 for year four; (5) $130,377 for year five; (6) $135,163 for year six; (7) $139,218 for year seven; (8) $143,394 for year eight; (9) $147,696 for year nine; (10) $152,127 for year ten; (11) $156,331 for year eleven; (12) $161,391 for year twelve; (13) $166,233 for year thirteen; (14) $171,220 for year fourteen and; (15) $176,357 for year fifteen.

We believe our facilities are adequate for our current and future needs.

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

On December 10, 2021, YPH LLC filed a complaint against the Company in the District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that Theralink breached its Certificate of Designation for Series C-1 Convertible Preferred Stock by failing to honor a conversion notice submitted to it by YPH. Based on these and other allegations, Plaintiff asserted a breach of contract claim claiming that it has damages in excess of $100 million. The case continues to be in the pleadings stage with Theralink filing its last response on March 30, 2022. The Company believes these claims are without merit and intends to defend plaintiffs’ lawsuits vigorously. The Company currently believes the likelihood of a loss contingency related to these matters is remote and, therefore, no provision for a loss contingency is required.

On August 16, 2022, Erika Singleton filed a complaint against the Company in the Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County, Nevada, Case No. A-22-857038-C. Plaintiff alleges that the Company did not provide her with physical stock certificates for 200,000 shares of common stock Plaintiff purchased for $2,000 in 2017. Based on these and other allegations, Plaintiff asserts claims against the Company for breach of contract, violation of Florida securities law, fraud, and unjust enrichment. The Company is currently set to file its responsive pleading on or before January 6, 2023.

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable.

PART II

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Market Information and Holders of Common Stock

Our common stock is quoted on the OTC Pink, operated by the OTC Markets Group. Our symbol is “THER.”

As of December 28, 2022, there were approximately 238 record holders of our common stock. The number of record holders does not include beneficial owners of common stock whose shares are held in the names of banks, brokers, nominees or other fiduciaries and holders of unissued shares common stock.

Dividends

Preferred Stock

Series E Preferred Stock Dividends

For the year ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, the Series E Preferred stockholder earned dividends in the amount of $160,000 and $152,890, respectively. During the year ended September 30, 2021, we made cash payments in total amount of $152,859 towards the outstanding dividend payable. As of September 30, 2022 and 2021, we had $40,329 and $13,151 of Series E Preferred stock dividend payable reflected in the accompanying balance sheets as accrued liabilities instead of temporary equity, respectively. On November 29,2022, all Series E Preferred stock was exchanged for Debentures.

Series F Preferred Stock Dividends

For the years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, the Series F Preferred stockholder earned dividends in the amount of $80,000 and $6,728. During the year ended September 30, 2021, no cash payments were made and during the year ended September 30, 2022, we made cash payments in total amount of $66,564 towards the outstanding dividend payable. On September 30, 2022 and 2021, we had $20,164 and $6,728 of Series F Preferred stock dividend payable reflected in the accompanying balance sheets as accrued liabilities instead of temporary equity, respectively. On November 29,2022, all Series F Preferred stock was exchanged for Debentures.

Common Stock

We have not paid any cash dividends on our common stock and have no intention of paying any dividends on the shares of our common stock.

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

None

ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

Not applicable.

ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Special Note Regarding COVID-19

In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19 was reported to have surfaced in China, and by March 2020 the spread of the virus had resulted in a world-wide pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has required alternative selling approaches such as through social media. We may be unable to avoid future reductions in net revenue using these alternative selling approaches that avoid direct contact with our customers. The worldwide response to the pandemic has resulted in a significant downturn in economic activity and there is no assurance that government stimulus programs will successfully restore the economy to the levels that existed before the pandemic. If an economic recession or depression is sustained, it could have a material adverse effect on our business as demand for our technology could decrease.

The overall impact of COVID-19 continues to have an adverse impact on business activities around the world. If the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies and expands geographically, its negative impacts on our sales could be more prolonged and may become more severe. The long-term financial impact on our business cannot be reasonably estimated at this time.

Overview

The Company is a commercial-stage, precision medicine, molecular data-generating company that focuses on the development and commercialization of a series of proprietary data-generating assays that may provide important actionable information for physicians, patients and biopharmaceutical companies, in the area of oncology. The Company’s objective is to commercialize the technology originally developed by Theranostics Health, Inc. This technology is differentiated due to:

Theralink is advancing proprietary technology in the field of phosphoproteomic research, a sector which has emerged as one of the most exciting new components in the high-growth field of precision molecular diagnostics. This technology is intended to make it possible to generate an accurate and comprehensive portrait of protein pathway activation in diseased cells from each patient, which may enable providers to identify and match individuals with optimal targeted molecular therapies. This technology enables the quantitative measurement of the active protein(s) in cancer cells and their level of activation. The technology’s measurement sensitivity is many times greater than conventional mass spectrometry and other protein immunoassays. Initially spun-out from GMU in 2006, and subsequently elevated to the federal government’s Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (“CMS”) and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (“CLIA”) standards, Theralink’s assay may prove highly useful for oncology patient management by improving (i) chemotherapy drug selection; (ii) immunotherapy drug selection; and (iii) optimizing combination therapy selection.

The biomarker and data-generating tests provide biopharmaceutical companies, clinical scientists and physicians with molecular-based guidance as to which patients may benefit from new molecular targeted therapeutics being developed for use in treating various life-threatening oncology diseases. These tests may also provide guidance to physicians on existing treatment standards that are recognized as the standard of care in the oncology treatment community. This addresses the core aspect of precision oncology treatment by identifying which individuals are more likely to respond to specific targeted molecular therapies, thus forming the basis for personalized medicine.

The technology is based upon the pioneering work of three noted scientists, Drs. Lance Liotta, Emanuel Petricoin and Virginia Espina, in proteomic-based precision medicine. Theralink benefits from a portfolio of intellectual property derived from licensing agreements with:

Theralink is committed to advancing the technology from GMU and the NIH as a platform for the development of new clinical biomarkers. These biomarkers and monitoring products may have the ability to provide biopharmaceutical companies and doctors with critical molecular-based knowledge to potentially make the best therapeutic decisions based on a patient’s unique, individual medical needs.

Our plan of operation over the next 12 months is to:

Appointment of New Directors and Officers

On April 1, 2022, the Board of Directors (“Board”) of the Company, voted to appoint Danica Holley and Matthew M. Schwartz, M.D. to serve as members of the Board, effective April 4, 2022. Ms. Holley and Dr. Schwartz will serve as members of the Board until the next annual meeting of shareholders of the Company or until his or her resignation or removal and otherwise until his or her successor is elected. The Board determined that Ms. Holley and Dr. Schwartz each meet the independence standards of the NASDAQ Stock Market Rules and the applicable rules of the SEC.

On December 5, 2022, we appointed Faith Zaslavsky, age 48, as President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company, effective December 5, 2022.

Results of Operations

Comparison for the Years Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021

Revenue

Costs of Revenues

Gross Margin

Operating Expenses

For the years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, operating expenses consisted of the following:

Professional fees:

Compensation expense:

Licensing fees:

General and administrative expenses:

Loss from Operations

For the year ended September 30, 2022, loss from operations amounted to $11,640,006 as compared to $5,565,979 for the year ended September 30, 2021, an increase of $6,074,027, or 109%. The increase was primarily a result of the increase in operating expenses discussed above.

Other Income (Expenses), net

For the year ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, total other income (expenses), net amounted to $(1,101,956) and $94,330, respectively, a change of $1,196,286 or 1,268%. The change was primarily due to an increase in interest expense of $973,562 resulting from additional debt incurred in 2022, an increase in unrealized loss on market securities of $7,200, a decrease in gain on debt extinguishment of $227,294 as there was no debt extinguishment in 2022, a decrease in gain on disposal and dissolution of subsidiaries of $10,916 which occurred in 2021, offset by a decrease in unrealized loss on exchange rate of $22,686 as there was no unrealized loss on exchange rate in 2022.

Preferred Stock Dividend and Deemed Dividend

For the year ended September 30, 2022, we recorded dividends for the Series E Preferred stock and Series F Preferred stock in the amount of $160,000 and $80,000, respectively, for a total of $240,000 of preferred stock dividends.

For the year ended September 30, 2021, related to the Series F Preferred stock, we recorded a beneficial conversion feature of $42,808 and the relative fair value of the issued warrant of $957,192 for a total of $1,000,000, accounted for as deemed dividend. For the year ended September 30, 2021, we also recorded dividends for the Series E Preferred stock and Series F Preferred stock in the amount of $159,890 and $6,728, respectively, for a total of $166,618 of preferred stock dividends.

Net Loss Attributed to Common Stockholders

For the year ended September 30, 2022, net loss attributed to common stockholders amounted to $12,981,962, or $(0.00) per share (basic and diluted) compared to net loss attributed to common stockholders of to $6,638,267, or $(0.00) per share (basic and diluted), for the year ended September 30, 2021, an increase of $6,343,695, or 96%. The increase was a result of the changes in operating expenses and other expenses, net discussed above.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Liquidity is the ability of an enterprise to generate adequate amounts of cash to meet its needs for cash requirements. We had a working capital deficit of $2,808,736 and $393,460 in cash as of September 30, 2022 and a working capital deficit of $2,657,337 and $314,151 in cash as of September 30, 2021.

The increase in working capital deficit was primarily attributable to the increase in current assets of $8,231 and increase in current liabilities of $159,630.

Cash Flows

The following table sets forth a summary of changes in cash flows for the years ended September 30 2022 and 2021:

Net Cash Used in Operating Activities:

Net cash used in operating activities was $5,389,695 for the year ended September 30, 2022 as compared to $4,780,930 for the year ended September 30, 2021, an increase of $608,765 or 13%.

Net Cash Used in Investing Activities

Net cash used in investing activities was $131,611 for the year ended September 30, 2022 as compared to net cash used in investing activities of $134,202 for the year ended September 30, 2021, a decrease of $2,591, or 2%.

Cash Provided by Financing Activities:

Net cash provided by financing activities was $5,600,615 for the year ended September 30, 2022 as compared to $3,450,000 for the year ended September 30, 2021, an increase of $2,150,615 or 62%.

Cash Requirements

Our management does not believe that our current capital resources will be adequate to continue operating our Company and maintaining our business strategy for more than 12 months from the date of this report. Accordingly, we will have to raise additional capital in the near future to meet our working capital requirements. There can be no assurance that additional financing will be available to us when needed or, if available, that it can be obtained on commercially reasonable terms. If we are not able to obtain the additional financing on a timely basis, if and when it is needed, we will be forced to scale down or perhaps even cease the operation of our business.

Going Concern

These financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the settlement of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business. As reflected in the accompanying financial statements, the Company had net loss and net cash used in operations of $12,741,962 and $5,416,965, respectively, for the year ended September 30, 2022. Additionally, the Company had an accumulated deficit, stockholders’ deficit and working capital deficit of $62,807,817, $6,801,055 and $2,808,736 on September 30, 2022. Management believes that these matters raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for twelve months from the issuance date of this report.

The Company cannot provide assurance that it will ultimately achieve profitable operations or become cash flow positive or raise additional debt or equity capital. Additionally, the current capital resources are not adequate to continue operating and maintaining the business strategy for a period of twelve months from the issuance date of this report. The Company will seek to raise capital through additional debt and equity financings to fund its operations in the future.

Although the Company has historically raised capital from sales of equity and from the issuance of promissory notes, convertible notes and convertible debentures, there is no assurance that it will be able to continue to do so. If the Company is unable to raise additional capital or secure additional lending in the near future, management expects that the Company will need to curtail or cease operations. These financial statements do not include any adjustments related to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

Financings During Fiscal 2022

Convertible Debt – Related Parties

On November 1, 2021, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (“First November 2021 SPA”) with a related party, who is an affiliate stockholder (“First November 2021 Investor”), to purchase three convertible notes (collectively as “First November 2021 Notes”) and three accompanying warrants (collectively as “First November 2021 Warrants”), for an aggregate investment amount of $1,000,000. The first note issued on November 1, 2021, had a principal balance of $334,000 and accompanying warrants to purchase up to 18,251,367 shares of common stock. The second note issued on December 1, 2021, had a principal balance of $333,000 and accompanying warrants to purchase up to 18,196,722 shares of common stock. The third note issued on January 1, 2022, had a principal balance of $333,000 and accompanying warrants to purchase up to 18,196,722 shares of common stock. The Company received $1,000,000 in aggregate proceeds from the First November 2021 Notes. The First November 2021 Notes bear an interest rate of 8% per annum (which shall increase to 10% per year upon the occurrence of an “Event of Default” (as defined in the First November 2021 Notes) and mature on November 1, 2026. The First November 2021 Warrants are exercisable at any time and expire on November 1, 2026. The First November 2021 Warrants were initially valued at $990,048 using the relative fair value method and were recorded as debt discount which is being amortized over the life of the First November 2021 Notes. The First November 2021 Notes and First November 2021 Warrants are convertible and exercisable, respectively, into shares of the Company’s common stock at a price equal to $0.00366 per share (subject to adjustment). The First November 2021 Notes and First November 2021 Warrants include a down-round provision under which the conversion price and exercise price are reduced if the Company sells or issues any securities including options, convertible securities, with the exception of exempt issuance (as defined in the agreements), or amended outstanding securities, at a lower conversion or exercise price than that of the First November 2021 Notes and First November 2021 Warrants. The conversion and exercise price of the First November 2021 Notes and First November 2021 Warrants are reduced equal to the lower conversion and exercise price of the new issuance or amended securities. The Company may prepay the First November 2021 Notes at any time in an amount equal to 110% of the outstanding principal balance and accrued interest. At the election of the First November 2021 Investor, the First November 2021 Notes can be converted in whole or in part at any time and from time to time. Further, upon maturity the Company may pay the outstanding balance of the First November 2021 Notes in cash or convert it into shares of common stock. Upon the listing by the Company or the trading of the common stock on a Qualified National Exchange (as defined in the First November 2021 Notes), the Conversion Amount shall automatically be converted into fully-paid and non-assessable shares of common stock. On January 26, 2022, a notice and request for consent regarding a change in offering terms was sent by the Company to the First November 2021 Investor. Upon the approval of the First November 2021 Investor, the Company modified the terms of the First November 2021 SPA which increased the warrants issuable from 20% to 100% of the common stock issuable upon conversion of the notes purchased. As a result, the First November 2021 Investor received additional cashless-exercisable warrants equal to 80% of the common stock issuable upon conversion of the First November 2021 Notes. The Company issued additional warrants to purchase up to 218,579,234 shares of common stock to the First November 2021 Investor which increased the total relative fair value of all warrants in total by $34,620 recorded as debt discount which is being amortized over the life of the First November 2021 Notes (see Note 9 and 10). The modification of the First November 2021 SPA did not meet the requirements of a debt extinguishment under ASC 470-50 - Debt Modifications and Exchanges; however it represented a substantial modification whereby the First November 2021 Investor received a substantial amount of additional warrants for the same principal amount of investment hence it was accounted for, in substance, as a debt modification ASC 470-50 and no gain or losses was recognized. As of September 30, 2022, the First November 2021 Notes had an outstanding principal of $1,000,000 and accrued interest of $20,164. The First November 2021 Notes are included in the accompanying balance sheet at $140,093 as a long-term convertible note payable – related party, net of discount in the amount of $859,907 (see Note 9) as of September 30, 2022.

On April 5, 2022, pursuant to the First April 2022 SPA, Matthew Schwartz, a member of the Board of Directors and a related party, purchased a convertible note with principal of $100,000 with accompanying First April 2022 Warrants to purchase 4,201,681 shares of common stock. The Company received net proceeds of $100,000 on March 24, 2022. The First April 2022 Warrants were valued at $89,815 using the relative fair value method and were recorded as debt discount which is being amortized over the life of the First April 2022 Note. The First April 2022 Warrants are exercisable at any time and expire on April 1, 2027. The First April 2022 Note bears an interest rate of 8% per annum (which shall increase to 10% per year upon the occurrence of an “Event of Default” (as defined in the First April 2022 Note)) and matures on April 1, 2027. The First April 2022 Note and First April 2022 Warrants are convertible and exercisable, respectively, into shares of the Company’s common stock at a price equal to $0.00476 per share (subject to adjustment as provided in the agreements). Upon maturity the Company may pay the outstanding balance of the First April 2022 Note in cash or convert it into shares of common stock. Upon the listing by the Company or the trading of the common stock on a Qualified National Exchange, the conversion amount (as defined in the First April 2022 Note) shall automatically be converted into fully-paid and non-assessable shares of common stock. As of September 30, 2022, the First April 2022 Note had an outstanding principal balance of $100,000 and accrued interest of $3,901.

On May 9, 2022, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (“May 2022 SPA”) with a related party, who is an affiliate stockholder (“May 2022 Investor”), to purchase four convertible notes for an aggregate investment amount of $1,000,000 (collectively as “May 2022 Notes”) and accompanying warrants to purchase shares of common stock equal to 20% of the number of the total shares of common stock issuable upon the conversion of the May 2022 Notes (collectively as “May 2022 Warrants”). The first note issued on May 9, 2022, had a principal balance of $250,000 and accompanying warrants to purchase up to 10,504,202 shares of common stock. The second note issued on May 24, 2022, had a principal balance of $250,000 and accompanying warrants to purchase up to 10,504,202 shares of common stock. The third note issued on June 10, 2022, had a principal balance of $250,000 and accompanying warrants to purchase up to 10,504,202 shares of common stock. The fourth note issued on July 1, 2022, had a principal balance of $250,000 and accompanying warrants to purchase up to 10,504,202 shares of common stock. The Company received $1,000,000 in aggregate proceeds from the May 2022 Notes. The May 2022 Notes bear an interest rate of 8% per annum (which shall increase to 10% per year upon the occurrence of an “Event of Default” (as defined in the May 2022 Notes)) and mature on April 1, 2027. The May 2022 Warrants are exercisable at any time and expire on April 1, 2027. The May 2022 Warrants were valued at $178,449 using the relative fair value method and were recorded as debt discount which is being amortized over the life of the May 2022 Notes. The May 2022 Notes and May 2022 Warrants are convertible and exercisable, respectively, into shares of the Company’s common stock at a price equal to $0.00476 per share (subject to adjustment). The May 2022 Notes and May 2022 Warrants include a down-round provision under which the conversion price and exercise price are reduced if the Company sells or issues any securities including options, convertible securities, with the exception of exempt issuance (as defined in the agreements), or amended outstanding securities, at a lower conversion or exercise price than that of the May 2022 Notes and May 2022 Warrants. As of September 30, 2022, the May 2022 Notes had an aggregate outstanding principal balance of $1,000,000 and accrued interest of $20,110.

On June 15, 2022, pursuant to the June 2022 SPA, Danica Holley, a member of the Board of Directors and a related party, purchased a convertible note with principal of $50,000 (the “June 2022 Note”) with accompanying warrants (the “June 2022 Warrants”) to purchase 2,100,840 shares of common stock. The Company received net proceeds of $50,000 on June 15, 2022. The June 2022 Warrants were valued at $5,924 using the relative fair value method and were recorded as debt discount which is being amortized over the life of the June 2022 Note. The June 2022 Warrants are exercisable at any time and expire on April 1, 2027. The June 2022 Note bears an interest rate of 8% per annum (which shall increase to 10% per year upon the occurrence of an “Event of Default” (as defined in the June 2022 Note)) and matures on April 1, 2027. The June 2022 Note and June 2022 Warrants are convertible and exercisable, respectively, into shares of the Company’s common stock at a price equal to $0.00476 per share (subject to adjustment as provided in the agreements). As of September 30, 2022, the June 2022 Note had an outstanding principal balance of $50,000 and accrued interest of $1,173.

On July 29, 2022, the Company entered into a Demand Promissory Note Agreement with Jeffrey Busch who serves as a member of the Board of Directors and a related party, for a principal balance of $125,000, and on September 2, 2022, the Company entered into a second Demand Promissory Note Agreement with Jeffrey Busch for a principal balance of $150,000 (collectively referred to as called the “Busch Notes”). The Busch Notes bear an annual interest rate of 8% and are payable on demand. The outstanding principal and accrued interest on the Busch Notes is contingently convertible, in full, at the option of the lender, into the same security issued by the Company in its next private placement of equity or equity backed securities at any time after the inception date. As of September 30, 2022, the Busch Notes had an outstanding principal balance of $275,000 and accrued interest of $2,683 and are included in the accompanying balance sheet as a short-term convertible note payable – related party.

On August 11, 2022, the Company entered into a Demand Promissory Note Agreement with a related party, who is an affiliate stockholder, for a principal balance of $375,000. The note bears an annual interest rate of 8% and is payable on demand. The outstanding principal and accrued interest of the note is contingently convertible, in full, at the option of the lender, into the same security issued by the Company in its next private placement of equity or equity backed securities at any time after the inception date. As of September 30, 2022, this note had an outstanding principal balance of $375,000 and accrued interest of $4,110 and is included in the accompanying balance sheet as a short-term convertible note payable – related party.

On September 2, 2022, the Company entered into a Demand Promissory Note Agreement with a related party, who is an affiliate stockholder, for a principal balance of $350,000. The note bears an annual interest rate of 8% and is payable on demand. The outstanding principal and accrued interest of the note is contingently convertible, in full, at the option of the lender, into the same security issued by the Company in its next private placement of equity or equity backed securities at any time after the inception date. As of September 30, 2022, this note had an outstanding principal balance of $350,000 and accrued interest of $2,148 and is included in the accompanying balance sheet as a short-term convertible note payable – related party.

Convertible Debt

On January 27, 2022, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (“First January 2022 SPA”) with an investor (“First January 2022 Investor”) to purchase a convertible note with a principal balance of $500,000 (“First January 2022 Note”) with the Company receiving $500,000 in proceeds and accompanying warrants to purchase up to 136,612,022 shares of common stock (“First January 2022 Warrants”). The First January 2022 Note bears an interest rate of 8% per annum (which shall increase to 10% per year upon the occurrence of an “Event of Default” (as defined in the First January 2022 Note)) and mature on November 1, 2026. The First January 2022 Warrants are exercisable at any time and expire on November 1, 2026. The First January 2022 Warrants to purchase up to 136,612,022 shares of common stock were valued at $498,428 using the relative fair value method and were recorded as a debt discount which is being amortized over the life of the First January 2022 Note. The First January 2022 Note and First January 2022 Warrants are convertible and exercisable, respectively, into shares of the Company’s common stock at a price equal to $0.00366 per share (subject to adjustment). The First January 2022 Note and First January 2022 Warrants include a down-round provision under which the conversion price and exercise price are reduced if the Company sells or issues any securities including options, convertible securities, with the exception of exempt issuance (as defined in the agreements), or amended outstanding securities, at a lower conversion or exercise price than that of the First January 2022 Note and First January 2022 Warrants include. The conversion and exercise price of the First January 2022 Note and First January 2022 Warrants include are reduced equal to the lower conversion and exercise price of the new issuance or amended securities. As of September 30, 2022, the First January 2022 Note had an outstanding principal balance of $500,000 and accrued interest of $26,959.

On January 31, 2022, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (“Second January 2022 SPA”) with an investor (“Second January 2022 Investor”) to purchase a convertible note with principal balance of $500,000 (“Second January 2022 Note”) with the Company receiving $500,000 in proceeds and accompanying warrants to purchase up to 136,612,022 shares of common stock (“Second January 2022 Warrants”). The Second January 2022 Note bears an interest rate of 8% per annum (which shall increase to 10% per year upon the occurrence of an “Event of Default” (as defined in the Second January 2022 Note)) and mature on November 1, 2026. The Second January 2022 Warrants are exercisable at any time and expire on November 1, 2026. The Second January 2022 Note and Second January 2022 Warrants are convertible and exercisable, respectively, into shares of the Company’s common stock at a price equal to $0.00366 per share (subject to adjustment). The Second January 2022 Note and Second January 2022 Warrants include a down-round provision under which the conversion price and exercise price are reduced if the Company sells or issues any securities including options, convertible securities, with the exception of exempt issuance (as defined in the agreements), or amended outstanding securities, at a lower conversion or exercise price than that of the Second January 2022 Note and Second January 2022 Warrants. The conversion and exercise price of the Second January 2022 Note and Second January 2022 Warrants are reduced equal to the lower conversion and exercise price of the new issuance or amended securities. As of September 30, 2022, the Second January 2022 Note had an outstanding principal balance of $500,000 and accrued interest of $26,520.

During April 2022, pursuant to the Second April 2022 SPA various investors purchased convertible notes for an aggregate investment amount of $425,000 with the Company receiving $425,000 of proceeds with accompanying Second April 2022 Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 17,857,144 shares of common stock. The Second April 2022 Warrants were valued at $335,593 using the relative fair value method and were recorded as debt discount which is being amortized over the life of the Second April 2022 Notes. The Second April 2022 Notes bear an interest rate of 8% per annum (which shall increase to 10% per year upon the occurrence of an “Event of Default” (as defined in the Second April 2022 Notes)) and mature on April 1, 2027. The Second April 2022 Warrants are exercisable at any time and expire on April 1, 2027. The Second April 2022 Notes and Second April 2022 Warrants are convertible and exercisable, respectively, into shares of the Company’s common stock at a price equal to $0.00476 per share (subject to adjustment as provided in the agreements). As of September 30, 2022, the Second April 2022 Notes had an aggregate outstanding principal balance of $425,000 and accrued interest of $15,710.

On July 1, 2022, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with an investor (“July 2022 Investor”), to purchase a convertible note for a principal amount of $50,000 (“July 2022 Note”) with the Company receiving $50,000 of proceeds and accompanying warrants to purchase 2,100,840 shares of common stock (“July 2022 Warrants”). The July 2022 Note bears an interest rate of 8% per annum (which shall increase to 10% per year upon the occurrence of an “Event of Default” (as defined in the July 2022 Note)) and matures on April 1, 2027. The July 2022 Warrants are exercisable at any time and expire on April 1, 2027. The July 2022 Warrants were valued at $7,037 using the relative fair value method and shall be recorded as debt discount to be amortized over the life of the July 2022 Note. The July 2022 Note and July 2022 Warrants are convertible and exercisable, respectively, into shares of the Company’s common stock at a price equal to $0.00476 per share (subject to adjustment). The July 2022 Note and July 2022 Warrants include a down-round provision under which the conversion price and exercise price are reduced if the Company sells or issues any securities including options, convertible securities, with the exception of exempt issuance (as defined in the agreements), or amended outstanding securities, at a lower conversion or exercise price than that of the July 2022 Note and July 2022 Warrants. The conversion and exercise price of the July 2022 Note and July 2022 Warrants are reduced equal to the lower conversion and exercise price of the new issuance or amended securities. For so long as the July 2022 Warrants remains outstanding and until the listing by the Company or the trading of the common stock on a Qualified National Exchange (as defined in the agreement); (i) if the Company issues warrants to investors in an offering of common stock or of any equity linked security (each a “Subsequent Offering”), and such warrants equal more than 20% warrant coverage, then a number of additional shares will be added to the July 2022 Warrants such that the July 2022 Warrants shall equal the same percentage of the warrant coverage offered to the investors in the Subsequent Offering and; (ii) if the Company issues warrants in a Subsequent Offering which may be exercised by means of cashless exercises, then the July 2022 Warrants shall be exercisable by the same cashless exercise feature of the warrants issued in the Subsequent Offering. As of September 30, 2022, the July 2022 Note had an outstanding principal balance of $50,000 and accrued interest of $953.

Note Payable - Related Party

On May 5, 2022, the Company and Jeffrey Busch amended the April 26, 2021 note with principal amount of $100,000 (“Original Note”) pursuant to which the principal amount was increased to $350,000 (“New Note”) with the Company receiving additional $250,000 of proceeds and added a conversion feature. The New Note bears an annual interest rate of 1% (which shall increase to 2% in an event of a default) and matures on May 5, 2024. The New Note may not be prepaid and is only convertible upon an occurrence of a public offering. The outstanding principal plus any unpaid accrued interest (“Conversion Amount”) of the New Note is convertible into shares of common stock at the price for which the common stock was sold in the public offering. Pursuant to ASC 470-50 - Debt Modifications and Exchanges; the amendment was accounted for as a debt extinguishment because the contingent conversion feature added to the New Note resulted in a substantial modification of the Original Note. No gain or loss was recognized in connection with the debt extinguishment. As of September 30, 2022, the New Note had an outstanding principal balance of $350,000, reflected as notes payable – related party in the accompanying balance sheet since the conditions for its contingent conversion has not yet been met, and accrued interest of $2,474.

Future Financings

We will require additional financing to fund our planned operations. We currently do not have committed sources of additional financing and may not be able to obtain additional financing particularly, if the volatile conditions of the stock and financial markets, and more particularly the market for early development stage company stocks persist.

There can be no assurance that additional financing will be available to us when needed or, if available, that it can be obtained on commercially reasonable terms. If we are not able to obtain the additional financing on a timely basis, if and when it is needed, we will be forced to further delay or further scale down some or all of our activities or perhaps even cease the operations of the business.

Since inception we have funded our operations primarily through equity and debt financings and we expect that we will continue to fund our operations through equity and debt financing, either alone or through strategic alliances. If we are able to raise additional financing by issuing equity securities, our existing stockholders’ ownership will be diluted. Obtaining commercial or other loans, assuming those loans would be available, will increase our liabilities and future cash commitments.

Critical Accounting Policies

We have identified the following policies as critical to our business and results of operations. Our reported results are impacted by the application of the following accounting policies, certain of which require management to make subjective or complex judgments. These judgments involve making estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain and may significantly impact quarterly or annual results of operations. For all of these policies, management cautions that future events rarely develop exactly as expected, and the best estimates routinely require adjustment. Specific risks associated with these critical accounting policies are described in the following paragraphs.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make judgments, assumptions, and estimates that affect the amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates. Management bases its estimates and assumptions on current facts, historical experience, and various other factors that it believes are reasonable under the circumstances, to determine the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Significant estimates during the years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 include, but are not necessarily limited to, estimates of contingent liabilities, valuation of marketable securities, useful life of property and equipment, valuation of right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities, assumptions used in assessing impairment of long-lived assets, allowances for accounts receivable, estimates of current and deferred income taxes and deferred tax valuation allowances and the fair value of non-cash equity transactions.

Additionally, the full impact of COVID-19 is unknown and cannot be reasonably estimated. However, the Company has made appropriate accounting estimates based on the facts and circumstances available as of the reporting date. To the extent there are material differences between the Company’s estimates and the actual results, the Company’s future results of operation will be affected.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements

FASB ASC 820 - Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. FASB ASC 820 requires disclosures about the fair value of all financial instruments, whether or not recognized, for financial statement purposes. Disclosures about the fair value of financial instruments are based on pertinent information available to the Company on September 30, 2021. Accordingly, the estimates presented in these financial statements are not necessarily indicative of the amounts that could be realized on disposition of the financial instruments. FASB ASC 820 specifies a hierarchy of valuation techniques based on whether the inputs to those valuation techniques are observable or unobservable. Observable inputs reflect market data obtained from independent sources, while unobservable inputs reflect market assumptions. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurement) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurement). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are as follows:

Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-based compensation is accounted for based on the requirements of ASC 718 – “Compensation –Stock Compensation”, which requires recognition in the financial statements of the cost of employee, director, and non-employee services received in exchange for an award of equity instruments over the period the employee, director, or non-employee is required to perform the services in exchange for the award (presumptively, the vesting period). The ASC also requires measurement of the cost of employee, director, and non-employee services received in exchange for an award based on the grant-date fair value of the award. The Company has elected to recognize forfeitures as they occur as permitted under the FASB’s Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-09 Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment.

Revenue Recognition

In accordance with ASU Topic 606 - Revenue from Contracts with Customers, the Company recognizes revenue in accordance with that core principle by applying the following steps:

Step 1: Identify the contract(s) with a customer.

Step 2: Identify the performance obligations in the contract.

Step 3: Determine the transaction price.

Step 4: Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract.

Step 5: Recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation.

The Company provides research and development support to biopharmaceutical companies to assist their drug development programs. In January 2021, the Company began performing tumor profiling to support clinical patient therapeutic intervention. The services provided by the Company are performance obligations under services contracts. These contracts are completed over time and may lead to deferred revenue for services not completed at the end of a period which is reflected as contract liabilities on the accompanying balance sheet. The Company may include, in accounts receivable, amounts billed to customers in advance of services being initiated or completed. If the Company has a right to such consideration that is unconditional such as for contractually allowed billings under non-cancellable contracts, such amounts billed in advance would be offset by a contract liability. Management reviews the completion status of all jobs monthly to determine the appropriate amount of revenue to recognize. The Company offers these services to biopharmaceutical companies and to private individuals. The Company uses various output methods to recognize revenues. The revenue recognized from services provided to private individuals during the years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 were minimal and therefore was not disaggregated for disclosure purposes.

Contract Liabilities

Contract liabilities are cash deposits received from customers and advance billing included in accounts receivable on uncompleted contracts for which revenues have not been recognized as of the balance sheet date.

Leases

The Company accounts for its leases using the method prescribed by ASC 842 – Lease Accounting. The Company assess whether the contract is, or contains, a lease at the inception of a contract which is based on (i) whether the contract involves the use of a distinct identified asset, (ii) whether the Company obtains the right to substantially all the economic benefit from the use of the asset throughout the period, and (iii) whether the Company has the right to direct the use of the asset. The Company allocates the consideration in the contract to each lease component based on its relative stand-alone price to determine the lease payments. The Company has elected not to recognize right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities for short-term leases that have a term of 12 months or less.

Operating and financing lease ROU assets represents the right to use the leased asset for the lease term. Operating and financing lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the lease term at the commencement date. As most leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses an incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the adoption date in determining the present value of future payments. Lease expense for minimum lease payments is amortized on a straight-line basis over the lease term and is included in general and administrative expenses in the statements of operations.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In August 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-06—Debt—Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and edging—Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity (“ASU 2020-06”) to simplify the accounting for convertible instruments by removing certain separation models in Subtopic 470- 20, Debt with Conversion and Other Options, for convertible instruments. Under the amendments in ASU 2020-06, the embedded conversion features no longer are separated from the host contract for convertible instruments with conversion features that are not required to be accounted for as derivatives under Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, or that do not result in substantial premiums accounted for as paid-in capital. Consequently, a convertible debt instrument will be accounted for as a single liability measured at its amortized cost and a convertible preferred stock will be accounted for as a single equity instrument measured at its historical cost, as long as no other features require bifurcation and recognition as derivatives. By removing those separation models, the interest rate of convertible debt instruments typically will be closer to the coupon interest rate when applying the guidance in Topic 835, Interest. The amendments in ASU 2020-06 provide financial statement users with a simpler and more consistent starting point to perform analyses across entities. The amendments also improve the operability of the guidance and reduce, to a large extent, the complexities in the accounting for convertible instruments and the difficulties with the interpretation and application of the relevant guidance. To further improve the decision usefulness and relevance of the information being provided to users of financial statements, amendments in ASU 2020-06 increased information transparency by making the following amendments to the disclosure for convertible instruments:

Additionally, for convertible debt instruments with substantial premiums accounted for as paid-in capital, amendments in ASU 2020-06 added disclosures about (1) the fair value amount and the level of fair value hierarchy of the entire instrument for public business entities and (2) the premium amount recorded as paid-in capital.

The amendments in ASU 2020-06 are effective for public business entities, excluding entities eligible to be smaller reporting companies as defined by the SEC, for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, including interim periods within those fiscal years. For all other entities, the amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted, but no earlier than fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Entities should adopt the guidance as of the beginning of its annual fiscal year and are allowed to adopt the guidance through either a modified retrospective method of transition or a fully retrospective method of transition. In applying the modified retrospective method, entities should apply the guidance to transactions outstanding as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which the amendments are adopted. Transactions that were settled (or expired) during prior reporting periods are unaffected. The cumulative effect of the change should be recognized as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings at the date of adoption. If an entity elects the fully retrospective method of transition, the cumulative effect of the change should be recognized as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the first comparative period presented. The Company is evaluating the impact of the revised guidance and believes that it will not have a significant impact on its financial statements.

In May 2021, the FASB issued ASU 2021-04, Earnings Per Share (Topic 260), Debt-Modifications and Extinguishments (Subtopic 470-50), Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718), and Derivatives and Hedging-Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40). The new ASU addresses issuer’s accounting for certain modifications or exchanges of freestanding equity-classified written call options. This amendment is effective for all entities, for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is evaluating the impact of the revised guidance and believes that it will not have a significant impact on its financial statements.

Management does not believe that any other recently issued, but not yet effective accounting pronouncements, if adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We have no off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that is material to our stockholders.

ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Not applicable.

ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

See Index to Financial Statements and Financial Statement Schedules from page F-1 of this annual report on Form 10-K, which are incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

None.

ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We maintain “disclosure controls and procedures,” as that term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e), promulgated by the SEC pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our Company’s reports filed under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our management, with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, evaluated our Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this annual report on Form 10-K. Based on this evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that as of September 30, 2022, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective. The ineffectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures was due to material weaknesses, which we identified, in our report on internal control over financial reporting.

Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Management’s Annual report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act). Our management, with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2022. Our management’s evaluation of our internal control over financial reporting was based on the framework in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013), issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this evaluation, our management concluded that as of September 30, 2022, our internal control over financial reporting was not effective.

The ineffectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting was due to the following material weaknesses which we identified in our internal controls over financial reporting:

A material weakness is a deficiency or a combination of control deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls

Our principal executive officer and principal financial officer do not expect that our disclosure controls or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within our Company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of a simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of the controls. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions; over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.

This annual report does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the Company’s registered public accounting firm pursuant to SEC rules that permit us to provide only management’s report on internal control over financial reporting in this annual report on Form 10-K.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) during the quarter ended September 30, 2022 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION

None.

PART III

ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Board of Directors and Executive Officers

The following table sets forth the names, positions and ages of our directors and executive officers as of the date of this report.

Biographical information concerning the directors and executive officers listed above is set forth below. The information has been provided to us about all the positions they hold, their principal occupation and their business experience for the past five years. In addition to the information presented below regarding each director’s specific experience, qualifications, attributes and skills that led our Board to conclude that they should serve as a director, we also believe that all of our directors have a reputation for integrity, honesty and adherence to high ethical standards. Each has demonstrated business acumen and an ability to exercise sound judgment, as well as a commitment of service to our Company and our Board. Each director is to be elected at our annual meeting of shareholders and holds office until the next annual meeting of shareholders, or until their qualified successor is elected.

Mick Ruxin, M.D.

Dr. Ruxin has been the Chief Executive Officer, President and a director of the Company since June 2020 and was the Chief Executive Officer, President of Avant prior to the Asset Sale. Prior to his current role, he was a strategic advisor to Avant since December 2017. Previously, Dr. Ruxin was the Chairman, CEO and Founder of Global Med Technologies, Inc. (GLOB). He grew GLOB from a foundational concept to an international medical software company, specializing in FDA approved software, with specific diagnostic capabilities, and serving over 30 countries on 4 continents. Under his leadership, GLOB had its initial financing, its initial public offering and subsequent follow-on financings. Dr. Ruxin also founded PeopleMed, Inc., a validation and chronic disease management software subsidiary of GLOB. In addition, he conceived and executed the acquisition and financing of Inlog, a French software company serving the EU, becoming the Directeur General responsible for European Operations—and eDonor, a US based regulated software company serving domestic and international blood donor centers. Prior to Dr. Ruxin engineering the sale of GLOB to a NYSE company, Haemonetics Corp. (HAE), he led his team to national prominence by being awarded the #1 position in quality of product and customer service against billion-dollar software companies, rated by an industry-respected, independent software rating service. After GLOB’s acquisition by Haemonetics, Dr. Ruxin was asked to stay with the company through the transition. Dr. Ruxin was on the Executive Management Team (EMT) at Haemonetics for approximately 6 months after the merger. The EMT was responsible for diagnostic strategies and identified domestic and international software opportunities for the company. Before founding Global Med Technologies, Dr. Ruxin founded and was President and CEO of DataMed International, Inc. (DMI), a private, international drugs of abuse management company (from 1989-1997). DMI’s clients included FedEx, International Multi-Foods, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Chevron, ConAgra, Nestles and AT&T, among over 500 other companies. Dr. Ruxin was one of the first 10 certified Medical Review Officers in the country, and he participated in writing the Federal legislation for drugs of abuse testing. Dr. Ruxin received his M.D. degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine and his B.A degree in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh.

Thomas E. Chilcott, III

Mr. Chilcott has served as our Chief Financial Officer since September 2020. Prior to taking his current role, Mr. Chilcott served as Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, Treasurer and Controller of Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or Ampio (NASDAQ: AMPE), from January 2017 until June 2019. Mr. Chilcott also served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Chilcott Consulting Group from September 2006 to December 2016. Mr. Chilcott began his career as an auditor with KPMG Peat Marwick. He graduated from Villanova University with a B.S. of Administration in Accountancy and is a Certified Public Accountant in good standing. Mr. Chilcott is a member of the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Faith Zaslavsky

Ms. Zaslavsky recently joined Theralink as President and Chief Operating Officer on December 5, 2022. Prior to her current position, Ms. Zaslavsky served as President of Oncology for Myriad Genetic Laboratories, (NASDAQ- MYGN). Her responsibilities have included overseeing all commercial functions which include leading Medical Services, Medical Affairs, National and Enterprise Accounts and Sales and Marketing. She has spent 22 years leading and transforming teams, designing solutions for physicians to support care and advocating for patients facing a journey with cancer. She received her bachelor’s of Business Administration from Washington State University. Ms. Zaslavsky also serves on the board of directors of the American Society of Breast Surgeons Foundation.

Jeffrey Busch

Mr. Busch has served as the Chairman of our Board since June 2020. Mr. Busch is the current Chairman and CEO of Global Medical REIT, a NYSE listed (NYSE:GMRE) and publicly traded company which acquires licensed medical facilities. Mr. Busch has been a Presidential Appointee, entrepreneur and active investor in various asset classes, including medical and pharmaceutical since 1985. Mr. Busch has had a distinguished career in public service, which included serving as a Chief of Staff to a United States Congressman and serving in senior positions in two U.S. Presidential Administrations. Mr. Busch oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in economic development programs. Mr. Busch represented the United States before the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Busch has served as a top advisor to several publicly traded medical companies and has worked in the medical, blood supply and management fields. Mr. Busch also served as President of the Safe Blood International Foundation, where he oversaw the establishment of medical facilities in 35 developing nations, including China. These facilities were funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USAID, Chinese government and corporate and private entities. Mr. Busch is a graduate of the New York University Stern School of Business, holds a Master of Public Administration specializing in health care from New York University, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Emory University.

Andrew Kucharchuk

Mr. Kucharchuk has served as a director of our Company since June 2020. Mr. Kucharchuk also served as our Chief Financial Officer from August 2020 until September 2020. Mr. Kucharchuk was previously the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of OncBioMune, Inc. prior to the Asset Sale. Mr. Kucharchuk is currently the Chief Operating Officer and on the Board of Directors of Adhera Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCQB: ATRX) , a late clinical stage biotechnology company, with assets in the Parkinson’s and Type 1 Diabetes space. Mr. Kucharchuk is a graduate of Louisiana State University and Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business, where he earned an MBA with a Finance Concentration. Mr. Kucharchuk’s role as a former executive officer of our Company gives him insights into our day-to-day operations and a practical understanding of the issues and opportunities that face us which uniquely qualify him to serve as a member of our Board.

Yvonne C. Fors

Ms. Fors has served as a director of our Company since June 2020. Ms. Fors is the current Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance for Ashton Capital Corporation. Her achievements at Ashton include growing the company through acquisitions, real estate development and investments. In her role, she establishes relationships and collaborates with banks and other financial institutions to leverage the assets of the corporation to fund future growth. Ms. Fors currently serves on the Board of Directors of Ashton Capital, SaviBank, Savi Financial Corporation and GaffTech. She is also actively involved in SWAN Investments, an early-stage investment fund located in Seattle. Previously, Ms. Fors was the Controller and Manager of four medical clinics in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ms. Fors holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Matthew Schwartz, MD

Dr. Schwartz has served as a director of our Company since April 2022. Dr. Schwartz is a practicing Radiation Oncologist with Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada (CCCN) since 2006. Through his service on the Board of Directors of CCCN as well as the Marketing Chairman, he helped grow CCCN to the largest Oncology group in Nevada with 64 providers in 12 locations. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Managers and co-founder of the Las Vegas Cyberknife at Summerlin which offers state of the art Radiosurgical treatments. Dr. Schwartz was a member of the McKesson Specialty Health Radiation Executive Committee, and he served on the Radiation Oncology Leadership Council of US Oncology. Dr. Schwartz was awarded Alumni of the Year from the UNLV College of Sciences. He received his MD from the University of Nevada School of Medicine, and he was a Resident at Yale University Department of Internal Medicine and McGill University School of Medicine where he was Chief Resident. Dr. Schwartz has been the Principal Investigator on Clinical Research Studies in Oncology and has multiple peer reviewed publications.

Danica Holley

Ms. Holley has served as a director of the Company since April 2022. Ms. Holley serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Global Medical REIT Inc. (NYSE: GMRE) since March 2016. As COO, she has shepherded the organization’s growth from infancy, IPO, to now over $1.4 billion gross real estate assets under management. Ms. Holley leads the operational, risk and ESG initiatives at GMRE. Ms. Holley’s management and business development experience spans more than 18 years with an emphasis on working in an international environment. She has extensive experience in international program management, government procurement, and global business rollouts and start-ups. As Executive Director for Safe Blood International Foundation, from April 2008 to July 2016, she oversaw national health initiatives in Africa and Asia, including an Ebola response project. Ms. Holley has more than two decades of experience managing multinational teams for complex service delivery across disciplines. Ms. Holley currently serves on the Board of Directors for Mobile Infrastructure Corporation, where she is a member of the audit, compensation and nominating and governance committees. She received a B.S.F.S from the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in International Law, Politics and Organization, an African Studies Certificate and Arabic Proficiency (May 1994). She studied International Organization at the School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont and Rabat, Morocco (January - June 1993). She is an ICF certified executive leadership coach and an alumna of Georgetown University’s Graduate Executive Leadership Coaching Program (September 2010). In 2018, she completed Harvard Business School’s Finance for Senior Executives program.

Family Relationships

There are no family relationships between any of the executive officers and directors.

Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports

Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our officers, directors, and persons who beneficially own more than ten percent (10%) of our outstanding common stock, to file initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in ownership with the SEC. Such persons are required by SEC regulations to furnish us with all copies of Section 16(a) forms they file.

Based solely on our review of the forms furnished to us and written representations from certain reporting persons, we believe that all filing requirements applicable to our directors, executive officers, and persons who own more than 10% of our common stock were complied with during fiscal 2022:

Code of Ethics

We have not adopted a code of ethics because our Board believes that our small size does not merit the expense of preparing, adopting and administering a code of ethics. Our Board intends to adopt a code of ethics when circumstances warrant.

Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings

No director, executive officer, promoter or person of control of our Company has, during the last ten years: (i) been convicted in or is currently subject to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses); (ii) been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to any Federal or state securities or banking or commodities laws including, without limitation, in any way limiting involvement in any business activity, or finding of any violation with respect to such law, nor (iii) been a party to any bankruptcy petition filed by or against the business of which such person was an executive officer or a general partner, whether at the time of the bankruptcy or for the two years prior thereto.

We are not engaged in, nor are we aware of any pending or threatened litigation in which any of our directors, executive officers, affiliates or owner of more than 5% of our common stock is a party adverse to us or has a material interest adverse to us.

Corporate Governance

Term of Office

Each director of our Company is to serve for a term of one year ending on the date of the subsequent annual meeting of stockholders following the annual meeting at which such director was elected. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each director is to serve until their successor is elected and qualified or until his or her death, resignation or removal.

Committees of the Board

Our Board held eleven formal meetings during the year ended September 30, 2022. All other proceedings of our Board were conducted by resolutions consented to in writing by all the directors and filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the directors. Such resolutions consented to in writing by the directors entitled to vote on that resolution at a meeting of the directors are, according to the corporate laws of the State of Nevada and our By-laws, as valid and effective as if they had been passed at a meeting of our directors duly called and held. During 2022, each incumbent director attended 75% or more of the meetings of our Board.

We currently do not have nominating or compensation committees or committees performing similar functions, nor do we have a written nominating or compensation committee charter. Our Board does not believe that it is necessary to have such committees because the functions of such committees can be adequately performed by our Board.

We do not have any defined policy or procedure requirements for shareholders to submit recommendations or nominations for directors. We do not currently have any specific or minimum criteria for the election of nominees to our Board and we do not have any specific process or procedure for evaluating such nominees. Our Board assesses all candidates, whether submitted by management or shareholders, and makes recommendations for election or appointment.

A shareholder who wishes to communicate with our Board may do so by directing a written request to the address appearing on the first page of this annual report.

Audit Committee and Audit Committee Financial Expert

We do not have a standing audit committee at the present time. Our Board has determined that we do not have a board member that qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K.

We believe that our Board is capable of analyzing and evaluating our financial statements and understanding internal controls and procedures for financial reporting. The Board does not believe that it is necessary to have an audit committee because we believe that the functions of an audit committee can be adequately performed by the Board. In addition, we believe that retaining an independent director who would qualify as an “audit committee financial expert” would be overly costly and burdensome and is not warranted in our circumstance given the early stages of our development.

ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Summary Compensation

For our fiscal year ended September 30, 2022, our Named Executive Officers were:

The following table shows compensation awarded to, paid to, or earned by our Named Executive Officers for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021:

SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE

FOR OUR NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Our executive officers are reimbursed by us for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with activities conducted on our behalf.

Employment Agreements

Mick Ruxin, M.D.

On June 5, 2020, the Company and Dr. Michael Ruxin entered into an employment agreement (the “Ruxin Employment Agreement”) for Dr. Ruxin to serve as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, President and a director.

The Ruxin Employment Agreement is for a five-year term commencing on June 5, 2020. The term will be automatically extended for one additional year upon the fifth anniversary of the effective date without any affirmative action, unless either party to the agreement provides at least sixty (60) days’ advance written notice to the other party that the employment period will not be extended. Dr. Ruxin will be entitled to receive an annual base salary of $300,000 and will be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus of 150% of such base salary. In the Ruxin Employment Agreement, Dr. Ruxin is also promised, subject to the approval of the Board or a committee thereof, and under the 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (i) a one-time grant of 49,047,059 Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”) and (ii) a one-time grant of options to purchase 420,691,653 shares of Common Stock, both of which will be subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable award agreements when executed. Dr. Ruxin is entitled to participate in any and all benefit plans, from time to time, in effect for senior management, along with vacation, sick and holiday pay in accordance with the Company’s policies established and in effect from time to time. On August 16, 2022, the Board granted Dr. Ruxin 469,738,712 options under the 2022 Equity Incentive Plan. No RSUs were granted, as Dr. Ruxin and the board agreed the total grant would be in the form of stock options.

Dr. Ruxin is an “at-will” employee and his employment may be terminated by the Company at any time, with or without cause. In the event Dr. Ruxin’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause (as defined in the Ruxin Agreement), with Good Reason (as defined in the Ruxin Agreement) or as a result of a non-renewal of the term of employment under the Ruxin Agreement, Dr. Ruxin shall be entitled to receive the sum of (I) the Severance Multiple (as defined below), multiplied by his base salary immediately prior to such termination and (II) a pro-rata portion of his bonus for the year in which such termination occurs equal to (a) his bonus for the most recently completed calendar year (if any), multiplied by (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days that have elapsed from the beginning of such calendar year through the date of termination and the denominator of which is the total number of days in such calendar year. “Severance Multiple” shall mean 3.0; provided, however, that if the date of termination occurs on or at any time during the twelve (12)-month period following a Change in Control, the Severance Multiple shall mean 4.0. In addition, the Company shall accelerate the vesting of any outstanding, unvested equity awards granted to Dr. Ruxin prior to the date of termination and he shall be entitled to reimbursement of any COBRA payments made during the 18-month period following the date of termination.

The Ruxin Agreement also contains covenants (a) restricting the executive from engaging in any activity competitive with our business during the term of the employment agreement and in the event of termination, for a period of one year thereafter, (b) prohibiting the executive from disclosing confidential information regarding the Company, and (c) soliciting employees, customers and prospective customers during the term of the employment agreement and for a period of one year thereafter.

Employment Agreement with Jeff Busch

On June 5, 2020, the Company and Jeffrey Busch entered into an employment agreement (the “Busch Employment Agreement”) for Mr. Busch to serve as the Company’s Chairman of the Company and in such other positions as may be assigned from time to time by the board of directors.

The Busch Employment Agreement is for a five-year term commencing on June 5, 2020. The term will be automatically extended for one additional year upon the fifth anniversary of the effective date without any affirmative action, unless either party to the agreement provides at least sixty (60) days’ advance written notice to the other party that the employment period will not be extended. Mr. Busch will be entitled to receive an annual base salary of $60,000 and will be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In the Busch Employment Agreement, Mr. Busch is also promised, subject to the approval of the Board or committee thereof, and under the 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (i) a one-time grant of 49,047,059 Restricted Stock (“RSUs”) and (ii) a one-time grant of options to purchase 420,691,653 shares of Common Stock, both of which will be subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable award agreements when executed. Mr. Busch is entitled to participate in any and all benefit plans, from time to time, in effect for senior management, along with vacation, sick and holiday pay in accordance with the Company’s policies established and in effect from time to time. On August 16, 2022, the Board granted Mr. Busch 469,738,712 options under the 2022 Equity Incentive Plan. No RSUs were granted, as Mr. Busch and the board agreed the total grant would be in the form of stock options.

Mr. Busch is an “at-will” employee and his employment may be terminated by the Company at any time, with or without cause. In the event Mr. Busch’s termination of employment is the result of termination by the Company without Cause (as defined in the Busch Agreement), with Good Reason (as defined in the Busch Agreement) or as a result of a non-renewal of the term of employment under the Busch Agreement, Mr. Busch shall be entitled to receive the sum of (I) the Severance Multiple (as defined below), multiplied by his base salary immediately prior to such termination and (II) a pro-rata portion of his bonus for the year in which such termination occurs equal to (a) his bonus for the most recently completed calendar year (if any), multiplied by (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days that have elapsed from the beginning of such calendar year through the date of termination and the denominator of which is the total number of days in such calendar year. “Severance Multiple” shall mean 3.0; provided, however, that if the date of termination occurs on or at any time during the twelve (12)-month period following a Change in Control, the Severance Multiple shall mean 4.0. In addition, the Company shall accelerate the vesting of any outstanding, unvested equity awards granted to Mr. Busch prior to the date of termination.

The Busch Agreement also contains covenants (a) restricting the executive from engaging in any activity competitive with our business during the term of the employment agreement and in the event of termination, for a period of one year thereafter, (b) prohibiting the executive from disclosing confidential information regarding the Company, and (c) soliciting employees, customers and prospective customers during the term of the employment agreement and for a period of one year thereafter.

Outstanding Equity Awards

The following table provides a summary of equity awards outstanding for each of the Named Executive Officers as of September 30, 2022:

Long-Term Incentive Plans, Retirement or Similar Benefit Plans

There are currently no arrangements or plans in which we provide pension, retirement or similar benefits for directors or executive officers, except that we may reimburse our executive employees for up to 100% of their health insurance premiums under their individual policies.

Our directors, executive officers and employees may receive stock options at the discretion of our Board.

Potential Payments upon Termination or Change in Control

If the employment of Dr. Ruxin or Mr. Busch is terminated at our election at any time, for reasons other than death, disability, cause (as defined in their agreements) or a voluntary resignation, or if the officer terminates their employment for good reason, the officer in question shall be entitled to receive a lump sum severance payment equal to three times their base salary, respectively. Dr. Ruxin shall be entitled to the continued payment of premiums for continuation of his health and welfare benefits pursuant to COBRA or otherwise, for a period of eighteen months from the date of termination, subject to earlier discontinuation if he is eligible for comparable coverage from a subsequent employer. Mr. Busch is not entitled to any COBRA benefits pursuant to the terms of his employment agreement. If a termination occurs any time during the twelve-month period following a change in control the severance payment shall equal four time their base salary. All severance payments, less applicable withholding, are subject to the officer’s execution and delivery of a general release of us and our affiliates and each of their officers, directors, employees, agents, successors and assigns in a form acceptable to us, and a reaffirmation of the officer’s continuing obligation under the propriety information and inventions agreement (or an agreement without that title, but which pertains to the officer’s obligations generally, without limitation, to maintain and keep confidential all of our proprietary and confidential information, and to assign all inventions made by the officer to us, which inventions are made or conceived during the officer’s employment). If the employment is terminated for cause, no severance shall be payable by us.

“Good Reason” means:

“Cause” means:

In the event of a Change of Control, all outstanding stock options, restricted stock and other stock-based grants held by Dr. Ruxin and Mr. Busch will become fully vested and exercisable, and all such stock options remain exercisable from the date of the Change in Control until the expiration of the term of such stock options.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Change in Control shall not be deemed to have occurred by the consummation of any transaction or series of integrated transactions immediately following which the record holders of our common stock immediately prior to such transaction or series of transactions continue to have substantially the same proportionate ownership in an entity which owns all or substantially all of our assets immediately following such transaction or series of transactions.

The employment agreements do not provide for the payment of a “gross-up” payment under Section 280G of the Code. The following table provides estimates of the potential severance and other post-termination benefits that each of Dr. Ruxin and Mr. Busch would have been entitled to receive assuming their respective employment was terminated as of September 30, 2022, for the reason set forth in each of the columns.

Compensation of Directors

During the year ended September 30, 2022, we did not pay compensation to any of our non-employee directors in connection with their service on our Board.

ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

The following table sets forth certain information regarding beneficial ownership of our common stock as of December 29, 2022, by (i) each person known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding common stock, (ii) each director and each of our Named Executive Officers and (iii) all executive officers and directors as a group.

The number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by each person is determined under the rules of the SEC and the information is not necessarily indicative of beneficial ownership for any other purpose. Under such rules, beneficial ownership includes any shares as to which such person has sole or shared voting power or investment power and also any shares which the individual has the right to acquire within 60 days after the date hereof, through the exercise of any stock option, warrant or other right. Unless otherwise indicated, each person has sole investment and voting power (or shares such power with his or her spouse) with respect to the shares set forth in the following table. The inclusion herein of any shares deemed beneficially owned does not constitute an admission of beneficial ownership of those shares.

* Indicates less than 1%

ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

Related Party Transactions

Effective January 1, 2021, the Company entered into a consulting agreement with Mr. Kucharchuk, a member of the Board of Directors, to serve as a strategic advisor. The agreement was effective for a period of twelve months, commencing on January 1, 2021 and shall renew on a month-to month basis, subject to the right of the Company and Mr. Kucharchuk to terminate the agreement. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Mr. Kucharchuk shall be paid $2,000 per month. As of September 30, 2022, the Company recorded in the accounts payable balance consulting fees in the amount of $12,000 reflected under accounts payable – related party in the accompanying balance sheets.

On April 26, 2021, the Company entered into a Promissory Note Agreement with Jeffrey Busch who serves as a member of the Board of Directors, for a principal amount of $100,000 (see Note 7). On May 5, 2022, the parties amended the April 26, 2021 note pursuant to which the principal amount was increased to $350,000 (“New Note”) with the Company receiving additional $250,000 of proceeds and added a conversion feature. The New Note bears an annual interest rate of 1% (which shall increase to 2% in an event of a default) and matures on May 5, 2024. As of September 30, 2022, the New Note had an outstanding principal balance of $350,000, reflected as notes payable – related party in the accompanying balance sheet since the conditions for its contingent conversion has not yet been met, and accrued interest of $2,474.

On May 12, 2021, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with an affiliated investor, who is an existing shareholder (“Affiliated Investor”), to purchase a convertible note (the “Note”) and accompanying warrant for 63,897,764 shares of commons stock (the “Warrant”), for an aggregate investment amount of $1,000,000. The Note has a principal value of $1,000,000 and bears an interest rate of 8% per annum (which shall increase to 10% per year upon the occurrence of an “Event of Default” (as defined in the Note)) and shall mature on May 12, 2026 (the “Maturity Date”). As of September 30, 2021, the Note had outstanding principal of $1,000,000 and accrued interest of $20,164. It’s reflected in the accompanying balance sheet as a long-term convertible note payable – related party, net of discount in the amount of $732,479.

On July 30, 2021, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with an affiliated investor, who is an existing shareholder, to purchase an aggregate amount of 500 shares of Series F Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series F Preferred”) with accompanying warrants for 63,897,764 shares of common stock (the “Warrant”), for total proceeds of $1,000,000. The Series F Preferred Stock has a stated value of $2,000 per share and shall accrue monthly in arrears, dividends at the rate of 8% per annum on the stated value. The dividends shall be paid monthly at the option of the holder of the Series F Preferred in either cash or shares of common stock of the Company. The number of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series F Preferred is determined by dividing the stated value of the number of shares being converted, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends, by the lesser of: (i) $0.00313 and (ii) 75% of the average closing price of the Company’s common stock during the prior five trading days; provided, however, the conversion price shall never be less than $0.0016. In addition, the investor was issued the Warrant to purchase an amount of common stock equal to 20% of the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series F Preferred at an exercise price of $0.00313 per share (subject to adjustment as provided therein) until July 30, 2026. The Warrant is exercisable for cash at any time. As of September 30, 2022, the preferred shares had outstanding dividends of $20,164.

On October 21, 2021, the Company entered into a Promissory Note Agreement with Jeffrey Busch who serves as a member of the Board of Directors and a related party, for a principal balance of $150,000. During the year ended September 30, 2022, the Company fully paid the outstanding balance on the note. As of September 30, 2022, the note had no outstanding balance.

On November 1, 2021, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with an affiliated investor, who is an existing shareholder (“Affiliated Investor”), to purchase a convertible note (the “Note”) and accompanying warrant for 54,644,811 shares of commons stock (the “Warrant”), for an aggregate investment amount of $1,000,000. The Note has a principal value of $1,000,000 and bears an interest rate of 8% per annum (which shall increase to 10% per year upon the occurrence of an “Event of Default” (as defined in the Note)) and shall mature on November 1, 2026 (the “Maturity Date”). As of September 30, 2022, the Note had outstanding principal of $1,000,000 and accrued interest of $20,164. It’s reflected in the accompanying balance sheet as a long-term convertible note payable – related party, net of discount in the amount of $859,907.

On January 26, 2022, a notice and request for consent regarding a change in offering terms was sent by the Company to the First November 2021 Investor. Upon the approval of the First November 2021 Investor, the Company modified the terms of the First November 2021 SPA which increased the warrants issuable from 20% to 100% of the common stock issuable upon conversion of the notes purchased. As a result, the First November 2021 Investor received additional cashless-exercisable warrants equal to 80% of the common stock issuable upon conversion of the First November 2021 Notes. The Company issued additional warrants to purchase up to 218,579,234 shares of common stock to the First November 2021 Investor which increased the total relative fair value of all warrants in total by $34,630 recorded as debt discount which is being amortized over the life of the First November 2021 Notes.

On April 5, 2022, pursuant to the First April 2022 SPA, Matthew Schwartz, a member of the Board of Directors and a related party, purchased a convertible note with principal amount of $100,000 with accompanying First April 2022 Warrants to purchase 4,201,681 shares of common stock. The Company received net proceeds of $100,000 on March 24, 2022. As of September 30, 2022, the First April 2022 Note had an outstanding principal balance of $100,000 and accrued interest of $3,901. The First April 2022 Note is reflected in the accompanying balance sheet at $18,959 as a long-term convertible note payable – related party, net of discount in the amount of $81,041 (see Note 9) as of September 30, 2022.

On May 9, 2022, pursuant to the May 2022 SPA the May 2022 Investor purchased four convertible notes for an aggregate investment amount of $1,000,000 with accompanying May 2022 Warrants to purchase shares of common stock equal to 20% of the number of the total shares of common stock issuable upon the conversion of the May 2022 Notes. During the year ended September 30, 2022, the Company received an aggregate of $1,000,000 of proceeds and issued an aggregate of 42,016,808 of the May 2022 Warrants. As of September 30, 2022, the May 2022 Notes had an aggregate outstanding principal balance of $1,000,000 and accrued interest of $20,110. The May 2022 Notes are included in the accompanying balance sheet at $834,803 as a long-term convertible note payable – related party, net of discount in the amount of $165,197 as of September 30, 2022.

On June 15, 2022, pursuant to the June 2022 SPA, Danica Holley, a member of the Board of Directors and a related party, purchased a convertible note with principal of $50,000 with accompanying June 2022 Warrants to purchase 2,100,840 shares of common stock. As of September 30, 2022, the June 2022 Note had an outstanding principal balance of $50,000 and accrued interest of $1,173. The June 2022 Note are included in the accompanying balance sheet at $44,438 as a long-term convertible note payable – related party, net of discount in the amount of $5,562 as of September 30, 2022.

On July 29, 2022, the Company entered into a Demand Promissory Note Agreement with Jeffrey Busch who serves as a member of the Board of Directors and a related party, for a principal balance of $125,000, and on September 2, 2022, the Company entered into a second Demand Promissory Note Agreement with Jeffrey Busch for a principal balance of $150,000 (collectively referred to as called the “Busch Notes”). The Busch Notes bear an annual interest rate of 8% and are payable on demand. The outstanding principal and accrued interest on the Busch Notes is contingently convertible, in full, at the option of the lender, into the same security which is being issued by the Company in its next private placement of equity or equity backed securities at any time after the inception date. As of September 30, 2022, the Busch Notes had an outstanding principal balance of $275,000 and accrued interest of $2,683 and are reflected in the accompanying balance sheet as a short-term convertible note payable – related party (see Note 7).

On August 11, 2022, the Company entered into a Demand Note with an affiliated investor, who is an existing shareholder (“Affiliated Investor”), to purchase a convertible note (the “Note”), for an aggregate investment amount of $375,000. The Note has a principal value of $375,000 and bears an interest rate of 8% per annum and is payable on the demand of the holder. As of September 30, 2022, the Note had outstanding principal of $375,000 and accrued interest of $4,110. It’s reflected in the accompanying balance sheet as a short-term convertible note payable – related party.

On September 2, 2022, the Company entered into a Demand Note with an affiliated investor, who is an existing shareholder (“Affiliated Investor”), to purchase a convertible note (the “Note”), for an aggregate investment amount of $350,000. The Note has a principal value of $350,000 and bears an interest rate of 8% per annum and is payable on the demand of the holder. As of September 30, 2022, the Note had outstanding principal of $350,000 and accrued interest of $2,148. It’s reflected in the accompanying balance sheet as a short-term convertible note payable – related party.

Subsequent to September 30, 2022, the Affiliated Investor converted all his preferred stock, convertible notes and demand notes into new debentures. See Note 13 to our financial statements found later in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

During the year ended September 30, 2022, the Company advanced a total of $13,883 to a related party, which is an affiliate entity and a majority shareholder of the Company. During the year ended September 30, 2022, the Company recorded bad debt expense of $35,594 related to the write off of related party advances. As of September 30, 2022 and 2021, the Company had related party receivable balances of $0 and $21,711, respectively, reflected in the accompanying balance sheets as other receivable.

As of September 30, 2022 and 2021, the Company owed several executives and directors for expense reimbursements and consulting fees in the aggregate amount of $16,223 and $3,714, respectively, which is reflected on the accompanying balance sheet as accounts payable – related party.

Policies and Procedures for Related Party Transactions

We have adopted a policy that our executive officers, directors, nominees for election as directors, beneficial owners of more than 5% of any class of our common stock and any member of the immediate family of any of the foregoing persons, are not permitted to enter into a related party transaction with us without the prior consent of our Board. If advance approval is not feasible then the related party transaction will be considered at the next regularly scheduled Board meeting. In approving or rejecting any such proposal, our Board is to consider the relevant facts and circumstances available and deemed relevant, including, but not limited to, whether the transaction is on terms no less favorable than terms generally available to an unaffiliated third party under the same or similar circumstances and the extent of the related party’s interest in the transaction.

Director Independence

Because the Company’s common stock is not currently listed on a national securities exchange, the Company has used the definition of “independence” of The NASDAQ Stock Market to make this determination. NASDAQ Listing Rule 5605(a)(2) provides that an “independent director” is a person other than an officer or employee of the company or any other individual having a relationship which, in the opinion of the Company’s Board, would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. The NASDAQ listing rules provide that a director cannot be considered independent if:

Based on this review, the Company has three independent directors pursuant to the requirements of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Matthew Schwartz, Danica Holley and Yvonne Fors.

ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

Previously, the Company engaged Weinstein International C.P.A. to serve as our independent auditors. On June 4, 2021, the Company’s Board determined that the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm prior to the acquisition of Avant, Salberg & Company, P.A., would be the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2021 and 2022. Accordingly, Weinstein, the independent public accounting firm of Avant, as the accounting acquirer, was dismissed and will no longer be the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.

The following table sets forth the fees billed to our Company for the years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 for professional services rendered by Salberg & Company, P.A., our independent registered public accounting firms:

The following table sets forth the fees billed to our Company for the year ended September 30, 2020 for professional services rendered by Weinstein International C.P.A., our prior independent registered public accounting firms:

Audit Fees

Audit fees were for professional services rendered for the audits of our annual financial statements and for review of our quarterly financial statements during the 2022 and 2021 fiscal years.

Audit-related Fees

This category consists of assurance and related services by the independent registered public accounting firm that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of our financial statements and are not reported above under “Audit Fees”.

Tax Fees

As our independent registered public accountants did not provide any services to us for tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning during the fiscal years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, no tax fees were billed or paid during those fiscal years.

All Other Fees

Our independent registered public accountants did not provide any products and services not disclosed in the table above during the 2022 and 2021 fiscal years. As a result, there were no other fees billed or paid during those fiscal years.

Policy on Pre-Approval of Services of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Prior to the engagement, the Board pre-approves these services by category of service. The fees are budgeted, and the Board requires the independent registered public accounting firm and management to report actual fees versus the budget periodically throughout the year by category of service. During the year, circumstances may arise when it may become necessary to engage the independent registered public accounting firm for additional services not contemplated in the original pre-approval. In those instances, the Board requires specific pre-approval before engaging the independent registered public accounting firm.

The Board may delegate pre-approval authority to one or more of its members. The member to whom such authority is delegated must report, for informational purposes only, any pre-approval decisions to the Board at its next scheduled meeting.

Our Board has considered the nature and amount of fees billed by our independent registered public accounting firm and believe that the provision of services for activities unrelated to the audit is compatible with maintaining their respective independence.

PART IV

ITEM 15. EXHIBIT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES