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12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
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9. Related Parties

 

Consulting Agreement

 

On September 19, 2023, the Company’s Bioprocessing System segment entered into a one year consulting agreement with John Nicols, a Director of the Company, with automatic renewals, unless either party gives a thirty-day notice. The agreement provided that the consultant be paid a monthly retainer fee of $8,000 and issued 35,000 stock options which vested monthly over a one year period, valued at $114,700 on the grant date using the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model. For each of the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company paid fees under the consulting agreement of $96,000, respectively.