UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 8, 2021

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

4400 Route 9 South, Suite 3100, Freehold, New Jersey 07728

(Address of principal executive offices) (zip code)

646-762-4517

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On July 8, 2021, Avalon GloboCare Corp. (the “Company”) and the University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (the “University”) entered into a Corporate Research Agreement (the “University Agreement”).  Pursuant to the University Agreement, for a term of two years the University agreed to use its reasonable efforts to perform academic research funded by the Company in connection with the development of point-of-care modular autonomous processing system to generate clinical-grade AVA-011, a RNA-based chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy candidate (the “Project”) subject to the appointment of Dr. Yen Michael S. Hsu as Principal Investigator.  During the term, the Company agreed to make eight payments to the University in the amount of $125,000.  The Company and the University shall each own an undivided, one half interest in any intellectual property rights jointly developed by both parties.  The Company has been granted a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty free, fully paid-up, perpetual right to use intellectual property developed by the University in connection with the Project for commercial purposes research activities and other purposes.    Further, the Company will have an exclusive right of first offer to an exclusive royalty-bearing license to intellectual property developed by the University or co-developed by the Company and the University in connection with the Project.

The foregoing is only a brief description of the material terms of the above agreement and does not purport to be a complete description of the rights and obligations of the parties under the agreement, and such descriptions are qualified in their entirety by reference to the agreement which are filed as exhibits to this Current Report.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

SIGNATURES

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.

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