Aethlon Medical Releases Shareholder Letter to Discuss the Treatment of Hepatitis-C V...(cted to reach undetectable levels in app...),Health

To leverage our opportunity in HCV care, we are pursuing strategic relationships that will broaden our ability to commercialize in practitioner driven markets, or accelerate our clinical opportunities in the U.S. and European Union. Additionally, we have responded to a grant opportunity to advance a diagnostic based Hemopurifier(R) and have been working on a candidate clinical protocol for a grant proposal related to the use of our Hemopurifier(R) as an adjunct cancer treatment to remove tumor secreted exosomes known to suppress the immune system of cancer patients. The data from these cumulative activities, including recent HIV and HCV treatment outcomes, will cause us to update the investigational device exemption (IDE) we have previously filed with the FDA related to use of our Hemopurifier(R) as a treatment countermeasure against bioterror and pandemic threats. In this regard, we were recently advised that we were a candidate being considered for a contract award from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). This was related to a multi-agency contract solicitation known as DMID-NIAID-NIHAI20080022BARDA. We have since been advised by BARDA that they will not be granting awards under this solicitation. BARDA has encouraged to update our data collected since our original submission and resubmit a new proposal to a BARDA specific contract solicitation known as BAA-BARDA-09-34. As we believe our Hemopurifier(R) represents the most advanced broad-spectrum treatment strategy to protect our military and civilian populations from viruses considered bioterror and pandemic threats, we plan to provide BARDA our new submission no later than July 31st. Regardless of these opportunities, our primary focus moving
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