You have no proof that any of these transactions are short sales. The shorts as of Sept 15 is 28 K. With the recent news, I doubt there will be any significant shorts in the next official report.

This is a penny stock, and as such, many millions of shares get traded daily/weekly with the goal of making pennies/ share. 16 million shares traded even in a few weeks, can simply be less than a million of of the float trading daily .

Do not get carried away in that there is a huge short position that will drive the stock up.

What will drive the SP is Financing + succesful completion of Clinical Studies with good results. Not your fantasy of non-existent Shorts !