Overview / Corporate History
CytoDyn Inc. (the “Company”), is a Colorado corporation, with its principal business office at 110 Crenshaw Lake Road, Lutz, Florida 33548; telephone: (813) 527-6969, facsimile: (813) 527-6970, and website address: www.cytodyn.com. We are a development stage biotechnology company (concept company) focused on discovering and developing a class of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies to treat Human Immunodeficiency Virus (“HIV”) infection. In addition, we formed a wholly owned subsidiary, CytoDyn Veterinary Medicine LLC (“CVM”), which will explore the possible application of our existing proprietary monoclonal antibody technology to the treatment of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus, a retroviral infection in cats (“FIV”).
In October 2003, the Company (under its previous name RexRay Corporation) entered into an Acquisition Agreement with CytoDyn of New Mexico, Inc. Pursuant to the acquisition agreement, we acquired assets related to our leading drug candidate, Cytolin®, including the assignment of the patent license agreement dated July 1, 1994 between CytoDyn of New Mexico, Inc. and Allen D. Allen covering three United States patents along with foreign counterpart patents which describe a method for treating HIV disease with the use of monoclonal antibodies. This includes issued U.S. Patent Nos. 5,424,066; 5,651,970 and 6,534,057, as well as European Patent Nos. 0690725 and 1438970. In addition, Hong Kong Patent No. 1067958,
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