Aethlon Medical, Inc.

Good day and welcome to the Athlon Medical Fiscal First Quarter 2025 Earnings and Corporate Update Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Michael Miller of RX Communications. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Operator, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Athlon Medical's Fiscal First Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. My name is Michael Miller with RX Communications. At 4.15 p.m. Eastern Time today, Athlon Medical released financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2024. If you have not seen or received Athlon Medical's earnings release, please visit the investors page at www.athlonmedical.com. Following this introduction and the reading of the company's forward-looking statement disclaimer, Athlon's Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer James Frakes, and Athlon's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Stephen LaRosa, will provide an overview of Athlon's strategy and recent developments. Mr. Frakes will then make some brief remarks on Athlon's financials. We'll then open up the call for the Q&A session. Before I hand the call over to Mr. Frakes, please note that the news released today and this call contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended. The company cautions you that any statement that is not a statement of a historical fact is a forward-looking statement. These statements are based on expectations and assumptions as of the date of this conference call. Such forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially from the results anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause results to differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements can be found under the caption risk factors in the company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, the company's most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q, and in the company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as may be required by law, the company does not intend nor does it undertake any duty to update this information to reflect future events or circumstances. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Mr. James Frakes-Affons, Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

Thank you, Mike. And I would like to thank all of you for dialing in. This is Jim Frakes, interim CEO and longtime CFO of Athlon Medical. Athlon Medical is continuing the research and clinical development of its hemopurifier, a therapeutic blood filtration system designed to bind and remove harmful exosomes and life-threatening viruses from blood and other biological fluids. These qualities of the hemopurifier have potential applications in oncology, where cancer-associated exosomes, which we also refer to as extracellular vesicles, may promote immune suppression and metastasis. Also in life-threatening infectious diseases and in organ transplantation. Now, before I turn the call over to Dr. Steven LaRosa, who will give you an update on our efforts to date on the oncology front, on the milestones we just hit, and on other potential milestones that we hope to achieve later on this year, I would like to take a moment to emphasize that we are starting to achieve the two goals that I stated were our objectives when I was appointed as interim CEO last November. Those goals were to get the company moving forward on our oncology indication and to reduce our expenses. As you will hear shortly, we have made measurable progress on both those fronts. I'm gratified by this progress and hope that if it continues, then our shareholders will be rewarded by that progress. With that, I will now turn the call over to Dr. Steven LaRosa, PATHLON's Chief Medical Officer.