As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on _________, 2002.

                                                  Registration No 333-
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-3

                             Registration Statement
                                      Under
                            THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                               CEL-SCI Corporation
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               (Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

                                    Colorado
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                 (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

                                              8229 Boone Blvd. #802
                                             Vienna, Virginia  22182
          84-09l6344                            (703) 506-9460
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      (IRS Employer I.D.     (Address, including zip code, and telephone number
         Number)               including area of principal executive offices)

                                  Geert Kersten
                              8229 Boone Blvd. #802
                             Vienna, Virginia 22182
                                 (703) 506-9460
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          (Name and address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                   including area code, of agent for service)

          Copies   of all communications, including all communications sent to
                   the agent for service, should be sent to:

                               William T. Hart, Esq.
                                  Hart & Trinen
                             1624 Washington Street
                             Denver, Colorado 80203
                                 (303) 839-0061

         APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC:
                  As soon as practicable after the effective date
                         of this Registration Statement

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant
to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. [ ]






If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a
delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of
1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest
reinvestment plans, check the following box.  [X]

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant
to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list
the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective
registration for the same offering. [X] 333-76396

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under
the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act
registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement
for the same offering. [ ]

If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434,
please check the following box. [ ]

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of each                         Proposed      Proposed
  Class of                             Maximum       Maximum
Securities            Securities       Offering     Aggregate        Amount of
  to be                 to be         Price Per      Offering      Registration
Registered            Registered       Unit (1)       Price            Fee
----------            ----------      ----------    ----------      ----------

Common stock (2)       3,485,000         $0.35       $1,219,750        $112


(1)   Offering price computed in accordance with Rule 457(c).
(2)   Shares of common stock offered by the selling shareholders.

Pursuant to Rule 416, this Registration Statement includes such indeterminate
number of additional securities as may be required for issuance as the result of
any stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.

      This registration statement is being filed pursuant to Rule 462(b).
Pursuant to Instruction IV of the general instructions to Form S-3 the contents
of registration statement 333-76396 are incorporated by reference.







                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

     The  registrant  and each  person  whose  signature  appears  below  hereby
authorizes the agent for service named in this Registration Statement, with full
power to act alone,  to file one or more  amendments  (including  post-effective
amendments)  to this  Registration  Statement,  which  amendments  may make such
changes  in  this  Registration  Statement  as  such  agent  for  service  deems
appropriate,  and the Registrant and each such person hereby appoints such agent
for service as attorney-in-fact, with full power to act alone, to execute in the
name and in behalf of the  Registrant and any such person,  individually  and in
each capacity stated below, any such amendments to this Registration Statement.

                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the  requirements of the Securities Act of l933, the Registrant
certifies  that it has  reasonable  grounds  to  believe  that it meets  all the
requirements  for  filing  on Form S-3 and has  duly  caused  this  Registration
Statement  to be  signed  on its  behalf  by  the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly
authorized, in the City of Vienna, State of Virginia, on the 19th day of April ,
2002.

                                       CEL-SCI CORPORATION


                                       By: /s/ Maximilian de Clara
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                                              Maximilian de Clara, President


Signature                       Title                         Date

 /s/  Maximilian de Clara      Director and Principal      April 19, 2002
--------------------------     Executive Officer
Maximilian de Clara


 /s/  Geert R. Kersten         Director, Principal
--------------------------     Financial Officer           April 19, 2002
Geert R. Kersten               and Chief Executive Officer

                               Director
Alexander G. Esterhazy


 /s/ C. Richard Kinsolving     Director                    April 19, 2002
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C. Richard Kinsolving, Ph.D.











CEL-SCI Form S-3 4-02