In 2013, the Company restructured its operations in an effort to focus on biotechnology, having been a nutraceutical products company in the recent past. The restructuring resulted in the Company focusing all of its efforts upon the development of a unique, effective and safe way to treat cancer and diabetes. On January 6, 2015, the Company changed its name from Nuvilex, Inc. to PharmaCyte Biotech, Inc. to better reflect the nature of its business.

The Company is now a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing and preparing to commercialize treatments for cancer and diabetes using a proprietary cellulose-based live cell encapsulation technology known as “Cell-in-a-Box^®.” This patented technology is being used as a platform upon which treatments for several types of cancer, including advanced, inoperable pancreatic cancer, and diabetes are being developed.

On May 26, 2011, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (“SG Austria APA”) with SG Austria Private Limited (“SG Austria”) to purchase 100% of the assets and liabilities of SG Austria. As a result, Austrianova Singapore Private Limited ("Austrianova") and Bio Blue Bird AG ("Bio Blue Bird"), wholly-owned subsidiaries of SG Austria, were to become wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company on the condition that the Company pay SG Austria $2.5 million and 100,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. The Company was to receive 100,000 shares of Austrianova’s common stock and nine Bio Blue Bird bearer shares representing 100% of the ownership of Bio Blue Bird.

Through two addenda to the SG Austria APA, the closing date of the SG Austria APA was extended twice by mutual agreement of the parties.

Effective as of June 25, 2013, the Company and SG Austria entered into a Third Addendum to the SG Austria APA (“Third Addendum”). The Third Addendum materially changed the transaction contemplated by the SG Austria APA. Under the Third Addendum, the Company acquired 100% of the equity interests in Bio Blue Bird and received a 14.5% equity interest in SG Austria. In addition, the Company received nine bearer shares of Bio Blue Bird to reflect the Company’s 100% ownership of Bio Blue Bird. The Company paid: (i) $500,000 to retire all outstanding debt of Bio Blue Bird; and (ii) $1.0 million to SG Austria. The Company also paid SG Austria $1,572,193 in exchange for the 14.5% equity interest of SG Austria. The new transaction required SG Austria to return to the Company the 100,000,000 shares of common stock held by SG Austria and the Company to return to SG Austria the 100,000 shares of common stock of Austrianova held by the Company.

Effective as of June 25, 2013, the Company and SG Austria entered into a Clarification Agreement to the Third Addendum to clarify and include certain language that was inadvertently omitted from the Third Addendum.

The Third Addendum provides the Company with an exclusive, worldwide license to use the Cell-in-a-Box^® technology, with a right to sublicense, for the development of a treatment for cancer using certain types of genetically modified human cells (“Cells”) and the use of Austrianova’s Cell-in-a-Box^® trademark for this technology. Bio Blue Bird licenses the Cells from Bavarian Nordic A/S and GSF-Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt u. Gesundheit GmbH (“Bavarian Nordic/GSF”), the patent holders of the Cells, to develop a treatment for cancer using these encapsulated Cells. The licensed rights to the Cells pertain to the countries in which Bavarian Nordic/GSF obtained patent protection.

Effective as of June 25, 2013, the Company also acquired from Austrianova an exclusive, worldwide license, with a right to sublicense, to use the Cell-in-a-Box^® technology for the development of a treatment for diabetes and the use of Austrianova’s Cell-in-a-Box^® trademark for this technology (“Diabetes Licensing Agreement”). The Company paid Austrianova $2.0 million to secure this license.

In October 2014, the Company acquired from the University of Technology Sydney (“UTS”) an exclusive, worldwide license to use genetically modified human cells (“Melligen Cells”) that have been modified to produce, store and release insulin in response to blood glucose levels in their surroundings. In addition, the Company obtained the non-exclusive worldwide rights to “know-how” associated with the Melligen cells. The Company is in the process of developing a treatment for insulin-dependent diabetes by encapsulating the Melligen cells using the Cell-in-a-Box^® technology.

Effective as of December 1, 2014, the Company acquired from Austrianova an exclusive, worldwide license to use the Cell-in-a-Box^® technology in combination with compounds from constituents of the Cannabis plant for development of treatments for diseases and their related symptoms and the use of Austrianova’s Cell-in-a-Box^® trademark for this technology (“Cannabis Licensing Agreement”).