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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-022584"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BACK"
cik: "0001729944"
company_name: "IMAC Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T17:56:57.613325+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# IMAC Holdings announces VUMC collaboration for breast cancer biomarker RPPA profiling; issues $84K discounted note

## Summary
- One-year research collaboration with Vanderbilt University Medical Center; VUMC supplies 80 FFPE breast-cancer samples, Ignite performs RPPA analysis.
- Ignite receives exclusive option to negotiate a worldwide license to jointly developed IP; each party bears own costs.
- Issued $84,000 promissory note for $60,000 purchase price; unsecured, matures December 24, 2025.
- Initial data packages expected within 2 months of sample receipt; collaboration aims to identify immunotherapy response biomarkers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-022584
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BACK
- cik: 0001729944
- company_name: IMAC Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1729944/000164117225022584/0001641172-25-022584-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1729944/000164117225022584/form8-k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001641172-25-022584
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001641172-25-022584.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001641172-25-022584.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  IMAC Holdings, Inc. incurred loan of $84,000 with a certain lender maturing December 24, 2025.
  - Instrument: loan
  - Principal: $84,000
  - Counterparty: a certain lender
  - Maturity: December 24, 2025
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On August 5, 2025, IMAC Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a promissory note (the “Note”) to a certain lender (the “Lender”) in the aggregate principal amount of $84,000 for an aggregate purchase price from the Lenders of $60,000.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1729944/000164117225022584/0001641172-25-022584-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.