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CEL-SCI company history timeline

1983

The company went public in the year of its founding, 1983.

1992

In May 1992, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission issued a cease and desist order against the company's then-President, Maximilian de Clara.

1995

Geert Kersten, de Clara's stepson, has been the company's CEO since 1995.

1997

In 1997, Cel-Sci bought a technology which enabled regulation of immune system responses that they had been licensing from the Dutch company Sittona.

1999

The New York Times reported that in 1999, Cel-Sci received an unsolicited cash offer of $124 million from an unidentified person in Argentina.

2017

Later, the FDA lifted their clinical hold imposed on Cel-Sci in August 2017.

2020

On February 26, 2020, Cel-Sci's stock dropped 42.4% before a trading halt was issued for news pending.

2021

On June 28, 2021, Cel-Sci announced that the study missed its primary endpoint as the higher risk subgroup did not achieve a 10% improvement in overall survival even though the lower risk subgroup did.

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1983
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