During 2013, the Company restructured its operations in an effort to focus on biotechnology, having been primarily a nutraceutical products company in the recent past. The restructuring resulted in the Company focusing all of its efforts upon the development of unique, effective and safe ways 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 based upon a proprietary cellulose-based live cell encapsulation technology known as “Cell-in-a-Box^®”. This technology will be 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 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 and for the Company to receive 100,000 shares of Austrianova’s common stock and nine Bio Blue Bird bearer shares.

Through two addenda to the SG Austria APA, the closing dates were extended.

In June 2013, the Company and SG Austria entered into a Third Addendum to the SG Austria APA (“Third Addendum”). Under the terms of the Third Addendum, the transaction contemplated by the SG Austria APA changed substantially. The Third Addendum provided that the Company acquire 100% of the equity interests in Bio Blue Bird and receive a 14.5% equity interest in SG Austria. In addition, the Company received nine bearer shares of Bio Blue Bird to evidence its 100% ownership. Under the Third Addendum, 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 its 14.5% equity interest. The Third Addendum returned the original 100,000,000 shares of common stock held by SG Austria to the Company treasury, and the 100,000 Austrianova shares of common stock held by the Company were returned to SG Austria.

Effective in June 2013, the Company and SG Austria entered into a Clarification Agreement to the Third Addendum (“Clarification Agreement”) to clarify and include certain language that was inadvertently left out of the Third Addendum. Among other things, the Clarification Agreement confirmed that the Third Addendum granted the Company an exclusive, worldwide license to use, with a right to sublicense, the Cell-in-a-Box^® technology for the development of treatments for cancer and use of Austrianova’s Cell-in-a-Box^® trademark and its associated technology.

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

In June 2013, the Company also acquired from Austrianova the exclusive, worldwide license to use the cellulose-based live cell encapsulation 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 made its first $1,000,000 payment to secure its exclusive, worldwide license to use the encapsulation technology for the treatment of diabetes on October 30, 2013. The second and final payment of $1,000,000 was made on February 25, 2014, thereby fulfilling all financial obligations required to be met by the Company under its licensing agreement with Austrianova.

In October 2014, the Company acquired from the University of Technology Sydney (“UTS”) the exclusive license world-wide to use genetically modified cells (“Melligen Cells”) that have been modified to produce, store and then release insulin “on demand” in developing a treatment for insulin-dependent diabetes (“Melligen Cells License Agreement”). In addition, the Company obtained the non-exclusive worldwide rights to “know-how” associated with the Melligen cells. The Company intends to use the Melligen cells, after they have been encapsulated using its Cell-in-a-Box^® technology, as a treatment for insulin-dependent diabetes.

In December 2014, the Company acquired from Austrianova the exclusive, worldwide license to use the Cell-in-a-Box^® technology in combination with compounds from constituents of Cannabis for development of disease treatments and the use of Austrianova’s “Cell-in-a-Box^®” trademark for this technology (“Cannabis Licensing Agreement”). As of April 30, 2016, the Company paid Austrianova $1.85 million of a $2.0 million “Upfront Payment” required by the Company to be made for this license. As of the date of this Report, the Company has paid $2.0 million of the Upfront Payment.