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CURRENT REPORT
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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On October 1, 2021, the Company entered into a sponsored research agreement with Columbia University pursuant to which the Company has been granted an option to license certain assets currently under development, including Alzheimer’s disease. The Company has developed research using ketamine as a treatment for the memory loss and cognitive aging caused by Alzheimer’s disease and will license these novel inventions under the agreement. During the partnership, Columbia and the Company will work towards developing a therapeutic treatment for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
The exhibit listed in the following Exhibit Index is filed as part of this Current Report on Form 8-K.
| Exhibit No. | Description of Exhibit | |
| 10.1 # | Form of Sponsored Research Agreement | |
| 99.1 | Press Release Dated October 27, 2021 |
| # | Pursuant to Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K, certain confidential portions of this exhibit were omitted by means of marking such portions with an asterisk because the identified confidential portions (i) are not material and (ii) would be competitively harmful if publicly disclosed. |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Dated: October 27, 2021
| SILO PHARMA INC. | |
| /s/ Eric Weisblum | |
| Eric Weisblum | |
| Chief Executive Officer |
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