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                                   ASSIGNMENT

         This assignment is made by Steroidogenesis Inhibitors, Inc., a
corporation organized under the laws of the State of Nevada and having an office
at 101 Conventin Center Drive, Suite 310, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109 ("ASSIGNOR")
to Steroidogenesis Inhibitors International, a corporation organized under the
laws of the State of Nevada and having an office at 101 Conventin Center Drive,
Suite 310, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109 ("ASSIGNEE").

        FOR ONE U.S. DOLLAR ($1.00) AND FOR OTHER GOOD AND VALUABLE
CONSIDERATION, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, ASSIGNOR does hereby
sell, assign and transfer to ASSIGNEE the entire right, title and interest,
together with all rights of priority, in and to my invention entitled
COMPOSITION OF ANTI-HIV DRUGS AND ANTI-CORTISOL COMPOUNDS AND METHOD FOR
DECREASING THE SIDE EFFECTS OF ANTI-HIV DRUGS IN A HUMAN, as described and/or
claimed in an application for patent of the United States of America, Serial No.
09/234,532, filed January 21, 1999. ASSIGNOR further does hereby sell, assign
and transfer to ASSIGNEE the entire right, title and interest, together with all
rights of priority, in and to ASSIGNOR'S invention as described and/or claimed
in any and all applications for patents based on the invention, including
divisionals, continuations, renewals, substitutes and reissues thereof, and all
rights of priority resulting, from any of these patent applications, as well as
all foreign Counterparts and extensions thereof, together with all patents
issuing on any of these applications for the full terms of all of the patents
which may be granted on the invention.

         ASSIGNOR HEREBY AUTHORIZES ASSIGNEE to make applications for, to
prosecute such applications, and to receive patents for the invention in the
United States and any foreign countries, in ASSIGNEE's name.

         ASSIGNOR HEREBY PROMISES AND AGREES that ASSIGNOR will execute or
procure any further necessary assurance of title to the invention and any
patents which may issue on the invention. ASSIGNOR will, at any time, upon the
request and without further consideration, but at the expense of ASSIGNEE,
deliver any testimony in any legal proceedings and execute all papers and do all
other things that may be necessary or desirable to perfect the title to the
invention, or any patents which may be granted therefor, in ASSIGNEE, its
successors, assigns, or other legal representatives.

        ASSIGNOR HEREBY AUTHORIZES AND REQUESTS the Commissioner of Patents and
Trademarks to issue any and all Letters Patent of the United States for the
invention, resulting from any of the aforesaid applications to the ASSIGNEE.

                                             Steroidogenesis Inhibitors, Inc.

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                                                Alfred T. Sapse, for assignor

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STATE OF NEVADA                 :
                                :       SS:
COUNTY OF CLARK                 :

        Before me personally appeared, Dr. Alfred T. Sapse, to me known to
be the same person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and
acknowledged that he executed the same, of his own free will and for the
purposes set forth.

Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 15th of July 1999.



                                                      Sarah H. Thompson
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                                                       Notary Public




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