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Astrotech Corporation (ASTC)

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Astrotech Corporation is a science and technology development and commercialization company. It launches, manages, and builds scalable companies based on unique technology so as to maximize shareholder value. The Company invents, acquires, as well as commercializes technological innovations sourced from research institutions, laboratories, and internally. Established in 1984, Astrotech lists on the NasdaqGS. Astrotech has its corporate office in Austin, Texas.

The Company has its diverse business units. Its 1st Detect develops, manufactures, and sells trace detectors for use in the security and detection market. Leveraging miniature mass spectrometry technology originally developed for NASA to use on the International Space Station (ISS), 1st Detect's series of analyzers enable real-time analytics.

BreathTech is developing a breath analysis tool to provide early detection of lung diseases. BreathTech is developing the BreathTest-1000™ to screen for volatile organic compound (VOC) metabolites found in a person’s breath, which could indicate they may have been infected with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) or the resulting disease, pneumonia.

AgLAB is developing chemical analyzers for use in the agriculture market. The design of the AGLAB-1000™ series of mass spectrometers have been for the agriculture industry as field instruments to quickly and easily analyze complex chemical compounds found in organic plant material and extracts.

Last month, Astrotech announced that its 1st Detect subsidiary received a Gold Award for its TRACER 1000 explosives trace detector (ETD) in the Best CBRNE Detection System category at American Security Today’s ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards program. The Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards is the preeminent U.S. Homeland Security Awards Program, highlighting the most innovative and forward-thinking security solutions coming onto the market today.

The TRACER 1000 is the only certified ETD that utilizes mass spectrometry, the world’s gold standard instrumentation used to identify complex chemical compounds. Checkpoint and cargo certification was received from the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) enabling TRACER 1000 sales in Europe and much of the rest of the world.

On September 9, 2020, the TRACER 1000 passed the non-detection testing of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Air Cargo Screening Technology Qualification Test (ACSQT). Upon successful completion of detection testing, which is the next and final phase, the TRACER 1000 will be added to the Air Cargo Screening Technology List (ACSTL) as an "approved" ETD for sales to the cargo screening market within the U.S.

Astrotech Corporation (ASTC), closed Wednesday's trading session at $2.14, off by 2.7273%, on 963,711 volume with 2,489 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 3,794,088 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.980000019/$7.75.

Cartier Resources, Inc. (ECRFF)

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Cartier Resources, Inc. engages in the acquisition and exploration of mining properties in Canada. The Company explores for gold deposits and its flagship project is the Chimo Mine Property. The Chimo Mine Property is held 100 percent by Cartier Resources. The Company holds a portfolio of exploration projects in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Quebec, one of the most prolific mining regions in the world. Founded in 2006, Cartier Resources is based in Val-d'Or, Quebec.

Cartier’s focus is to advance its four key projects through drilling programs. All of the projects were acquired at reasonable costs in recent years. All are drill-ready with targets along the geometric extensions of gold deposits. At present, exploration work is centered on the Chimo Mine and Benoist properties. The Company is preparing the next phase of exploration work. This will entail drilling programs on the Benoist, Fenton, as well as Wilson properties.

Concerning the Chimo Mine Project, work completed by Cartier Resources includes a total of 121 drill holes for 55,890 m and 20,792 gold samples collected. The Resource Estimate (gold price of US $ 1,300 per ounce and a cut-off grade of 2.5 g/t Au) is 4,017,600 tonnes at an average grade of 4.53 g/t Au for a total of 585,190 ounces gold in the Indicated category; and 4,877,900 tonnes at an average grade of 3.82 g/t Au for a total of 597,800 ounces gold in the Inferred category.

Work is in progress to increase resources at the Chimo Mine Project. This includes a total of 10,000 m of drilling on the 5B4-5M4-5NE and 5CE Gold Zones. Additionally, work includes four internal engineering studies and an industrial sorting study of the mineralization. Moreover, work includes an update of the property resources from the results of these initiatives.

Last month, Cartier Resources announced that the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi (CFNW) and Cartier entered into a Mineral Exploration Agreement (MEA) to facilitate the exploration of the Benoist project. The MEA puts in place a framework for the CFNW and Cartier to work together before, during, and also after the exploration activities within the CFNW traditional territory.

In addition, in December, Cartier Resources announced the results of the mineral resource estimate of the Pusticamica Gold Deposit of the Benoist Property, positioned 65 km northeast of Lebel-sur-Quévillon in Québec. The resource estimate for the Pusticamica Gold Deposit on the Benoist Property was produced using a gold price of US $ 1,610 per ounce and a cut-off grade of 1.5 g/t AuEq. Highlights include 1,455,400 tonnes at an average grade of 2.87 g/t AuEq for a total of 134,400 ounces of gold in the indicated resource category; and 1,449,600 tonnes at an average grade of 2.30 g/t AuEq for a total of 107,000 ounces of gold in the inferred resource category.

Cartier Resources, Inc. (ECRFF), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.225, off by 2.1739%, on 22,985 volume with 14 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 75,177 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.046300001/$0.300000011.

Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. (CLRB)

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Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. concentrates on the discovery, development, and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of cancer. A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical enterprise, it is developing proprietary drugs independently and through research and development (R&D) collaborations. Its primary goal is to leverage its proprietary Phospholipid Drug Conjugate™ (PDC) delivery platform to develop PDCs that specifically target cancer cells, delivering improved efficacy and better safety because of fewer off-target effects.

The Company previously went by the name Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. It changed its corporate name to Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. in February of 2014. Established in 2002, Cellectar Biosciences is based in Florham Park, New Jersey. The Company lists on the NasdaqGS.

Cellectar Biosciences’ PDC platform possesses the potential for the discovery and development of the next-generation of cancer-targeting treatments. The Company’s product pipeline includes one preclinical PDC chemotherapeutic program (CLR 1900) and numerous partnered PDC assets.

Cellectar’s lead PDC therapeutic, CLR 131, is currently in two clinical studies. The CLOVER-1 Phase 2 study completed the Part A dose-exploration portion, conducted in relapsed/refractory (r/r) B-cell malignancies. It is now enrolling in the Part B expansion cohorts evaluating a two cycle dosing regimen that provides roughly 100 mCi total body dose of CLR 131 in r/r multiple myeloma (MM) and lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma/Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia (LPL/WM).

The Phase 1 pediatric study is an open-label, sequential-group, dose-escalation study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of CLR 131 in children and adolescents with relapsed or refractory cancers. These include malignant brain tumors, neuroblastoma, sarcomas, as well as lymphomas (including Hodgkin’s lymphoma). The Phase 1 study is being conducted worldwide at seven leading pediatric cancer centers.

Last week, Cellectar Biosciences announced the initiation of a pivotal trial for CLR 131 in Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia (WM). The design of the pivotal trial is as a worldwide, non-comparator, single arm, expansion cohort of the presently ongoing Phase 2 CLOVER-1 study of CLR 131. This design is in alignment with the feedback received from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during the guidance meeting held in September of 2020.

Mr. Jim Caruso, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cellectar Biosciences, said, “CLR 131 has the potential to be an important therapeutic option for patients with Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia, an indication with limited treatment alternatives. The 100% overall response rate achieved to date at comparable doses bodes well for CLR 131 to deliver meaningful outcomes for patients.”

Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. (CLRB), closed Wednesday's trading session at $1.94, off by 1.0204%, on 2,231,726 volume with 5,559 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 1,972,440 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $1.00999999/$3.32999992.

GlobeX Data Ltd. (SWISF)

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GlobeX Data Ltd. is the leader in Swiss hosted secure data management and secure communications. It distributes a family of secure cloud-based storage, disaster recovery, document management, encrypted e-mails, and secure communication tools. In essence, the Company provides software solutions for keeping business communications safe. Established in 2017, GlobeX Data has its head office in Toronto, Ontario. The Company lists on the OTCQB.

GlobeX Data sells its products via its approved wholesalers and distributors, and telecommunications companies globally. The Company serves consumers, businesses, as well as governments around the world. Its products include DigitalSafe, PrivaTalk, and Sekur.

With DigitalSafe, a business can securely manage and create encrypted passwords, store and share notes and documents of all kinds, with the protection of Swiss Privacy Laws using Military Grade Encryption. With PrivaTalk, one can join PrivaTalk and communicate privately and securely with their circle.

Sekur is Swiss privacy and security for data and communications. It encrypts all of one’s communications and does not collect or sell their data. Sekur’s focus is Privacy and Security.

Yesterday, GlobeX Data announced that it is preparing to launch additional features to its Sekur email and messaging security solution. The Company is preparing to release encrypted voice, video and conferencing features to its existing Sekur solution by the end of Q1 2021.

Alain Ghiai, Chief Executive Officer of GlobeX Data, said, "We are thrilled to announce the upcoming SekurPro package, which includes in addition to encrypted email and messaging solutions, our latest encrypted voice and video conferencing features as a valuable add-on to the Sekur platform. We anticipate a very good demand from all our active markets of North America, Latin America, South Asia and our new market out of Australia.”

The features, which will be fully web based only for security reasons, will be hosted in Switzerland as are all of the Company’s cybersecurity and secure communications solutions.

GlobeX Data Ltd. (SWISF), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.178, up 3.0093%, on 57,000 volume with 8 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 9,464 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.060600001/$0.193000003.

Orbsat Corp. (OSAT)

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Orbsat Corp. is an international provider of communication solutions for connectivity to the world through next-generation satellite technology. It provides services and solutions to fulfill the fast growing global demand for satellite-based voice, high-speed data, tracking and IoT (Internet of Things) connectivity services. The Company formerly went by the name Orbital Tracking Corp. It changed its name to Orbsat Corp. in August of 2019. Incorporated in 1997, Orbsat is headquartered in Aventura, Florida. The Company’s shares trade on the OTC Markets Group’s OTCQB.

Orbsat was included in Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 500™. This is a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy technology companies in North America. This placed it amongst just 3 percent of companies recognized in the communications sector.

Orbsat has long-term experience providing government, commercial, military, and individual consumers with Mobile Satellite Services. It has positioned itself to leverage the substantial opportunities being created by global investments in new and upgraded satellite networks.

The Company has its U.S. and European based subsidiaries, Orbital Satcom and Global Telesat Communications. They have provided global satellite connectivity solutions to more than 35,000 customers located in over 160 countries.

Orbsat provide services and solutions worldwide for commercial, government, as well as individual users. This enables them to communicate, track assets and personnel, or request SOS assistance via satellite from anywhere globally. The Company’s key services include satellite communication solutions, emergency location systems, high-speed satellite internet, global asset + personnel monitoring, customised ground station systems, and custom product design.

Yesterday, Orbsat announced the launch of its solar powered satellite tracking device, the SolarTrack. SolarTrack is a compact, robust, solar-powered GPS tracker. The design of it is for a broad variety of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This includes tracking vehicles and the remote monitoring of assets and livestock such as horses and cattle in "off grid" areas. SolarTrack can provide constant communication with the Globalstar Low Earth Orbit satellite network, delivering near global tracking capabilities via a transmit only messaging function.

Orbsat Corp. (OSAT), closed Wednesday's trading session at $4.75, even for the day, on 49 volume with 3 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 280 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $1.89999997/$5.50.

Rasna Therapeutics, Inc. (RASP)

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Rasna Therapeutics, Inc. is a development stage biotechnology company listed on the OTC Markets Group’s OTCQB. It focuses on the development of disease-modifying drugs for hematological malignancies. The Company mainly concentrates on the development of drug candidates for leukemia and lymphoma. Established in 2013, Rasna Therapeutics has its corporate headquarters in New York, New York. The Company’s research and development (R&D) team is located at its laboratory facilities in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Abnormal epigenetic modification is recognized to play a vital role in the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), leading to silencing of genes involved in tumor suppression and cellular reproduction. Rasna Therapeutics has a balanced portfolio targeting NPM1-mutated AML via direct and indirect disease-modifying approaches.

In addition, Rasna is exploiting inhibition of lysine specific demethylase-1 (LSD1) - an enzyme involved in epigenetic control - as a promising and novel approach against AML. The Company is entering preclinical development with a novel class of potent and selective reversible LSD1 regulators, which have shown efficacy and LSD1 target modulation in in-vitro and in IND-enabling pre-clinical studies.

Rasna’s clinical program is based around two druggable intervention points with the potential to improve safety and efficacy of present AML combination therapies. The Company’s R&D pipeline includes RASP-201 (LSD1 - LYSINE-SPECIFIC - DEMETHYLASE 1) and RASP-301 (NPM1 - NUCLEOPHOSMIN).

This past October, Rasna Therapeutics announced that Mr. Willy Simon was appointed as the Chairman of Rasna Therapeutics, replacing Alessandro Padova, who resigned for personal reasons. Mr. Simon is a banker and worked at Kredietbank N.V. and Citibank London before serving as an Executive Member of the Board of Generale Bank NL from 1997 to 1999 and as the Chief Executive of Fortis Investment Management from 1999 to 2002.

Mr. Simon has been the Chairman of Bever Holdings, a company listed in Amsterdam, since 2006 and Chairman of Ducat Maritime since 2015. In addition, he serves as the Executive Chairman of OKYO Pharma Ltd. and is a Board member of Tiziana Life Sciences plc.

Rasna Therapeutics, Inc. (RASP), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.05, off by 23.0769%, on 100 volume with 1 trade. The average volume for the last 3 months is 2,644 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.0103/$0.330000013.

Top Strike Resources Corp. (TPPRF)

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Top Strike Resources Corp. d.b.a. "Vencanna Ventures" is working to be a go-to capital provider for early-stage global cannabis initiatives with an emphasis on strong management operating in State compliant jurisdictions with barriers to entry. It operates as a merchant capital firm and provides capital for early-stage international cannabis initiatives, including State compliant opportunities in the United States. The Company formerly went by the name Colossal Resources Corp. It changed its name to Top Strike Resources Corp. in December of 2012. OTCQB-listed, Top Strike Resources is based in Calgary, Alberta.

On September 24, 2018, the Corporation announced the completion of a recapitalization financing, the appointment of a new Management team and Board of Directors and start of trading on the CSE. The transactions transitioned the Corporation from an oil and gas issuer to a merchant capital firm, rebranded as "Vencanna Ventures".

Top Strike Resources d.b.a. Vencanna Ventures aims to provide capital, liquidity, and expertise to early stage jurisdictionally compliant cannabis initiatives therefore providing its investors with a high growth cannabis investment strategy. The Company focuses on creating shareholder value through building a diversified portfolio of early stage transformative assets across the U.S. and beyond.

Vencanna Ventures is targeting opportunities with high potential returns (3 to 5x ROI (Return on Investment) within 2 to 5 years). The Company is leveraging its experience to provide exposure to investments in the high growth, developing global cannabis industry. Its strategy is to source at or near cash flow positive opportunities with low upfront capital outlays.

Vencanna Ventures has operating experience throughout the value chain. This includes cultivation, processing, product placement, and distribution experience. Furthermore, its team has greater than 100 years of combined corporate finance, capital markets, and direct investing experience. Vencanna has a large and growing network across North America within industry, regulatory, buy side, and sell side contacts.

Last month, Top Strike Resources Corp. d.b.a. Vencanna Ventures provided a summary of its financial results as of October 31, 2020. As of the date thereof, a significant portion of its business was derived from material ancillary involvement in U.S. cannabis-related activities. As at October 31, 2020, 66 percent of the Corporation's assets and 100 percent of other income was directly related to U.S. cannabis activities.

Top Strike Resources Corp. (TPPRF), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.026, even for the day, on 20 volume. The average volume for the last 3 months is 2,951 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.009999999/$0.026.

Grom Social Enterprises, Inc. (GRMM)

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Grom Social Enterprises, Inc., by way of its subsidiaries, operates a social media network designed for children in the USA. Fundamentally, the Company is the developer of Grom Social, a top social media platform for kids. In addition, it is an original children’s entertainment content provider. Grom provides these for children 13 years of age and under. The Company provides safe and secure digital environments for kids that can be monitored by their parents or guardians. Grom Social Enterprises is based in Boca Raton, Florida. The Company lists on the OTC Markets’ OTCQB.

Grom Social Enterprises has a number of operating subsidiaries. These include the above-mentioned Grom Social, which delivers its content via mobile and desktop environments (web portal and apps), which entertain children, let them interact with friends, access relevant news, and play proprietary games. This is while teaching them about being a good digital citizen. The Company’s emphasis here is making the internet safe for kids through teaching and monitoring, giving parents the tools they need for peace of mind.

In addition, Grom owns and operates Top Draw Animation, Inc. (TDA). Top Draw Animation is a leading 2D animation business. It produces award-winning animation content for some of the largest international media enterprises. Grom Social Enterprises also includes Grom Educational Services, which has provided web filtering services for K-12 schools, government, as well as private business. Top Draw Animation (TDA), has entered the lucrative 3D animation space in collaboration with a tier-1 entertainment and media giant.

This past March, Grom Social Enterprises announced that it considerably strengthened its balance sheet through the restructuring of $4.0 million of promissory notes that were set to mature on April 2, 2020 at terms favorable to the Company. The $4.0 million of promissory notes were part of the consideration paid by Grom to acquire Manila, Philippines based TD Holdings, Ltd. and its subsidiary, Top Draw Animation, Inc.

On April 20, 2020, Grom Social Enterprises said that for the next 60 days, it will donate all premium membership proceeds from its MamaBear parenting app to organizations supporting frontline workers impacted by COVID-19. The MamaBear app is a COPPA-compliant worry-free, parenting app. It can be used to monitor one’s child's online activity and physical location.

Grom Social Enterprises, Inc. (GRMM), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.17, up 70.00%, on 380,405 volume with 280 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 83,924 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.031099999/$0.189999997.

Arista Financial Corp. (ARST)

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Arista Financial Corp. is a financial service holding company. It seeks to take advantage of the present vehicle finance marketplace by way of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Arista Capital. The Company provides innovative financing options to small lenders. It acts as a funding source to finance the lending activities of other asset-based lenders who are in need of considerable capital to grow their lending base. Arista Financial has its head office in Short Hills, New Jersey. The Company lists on the OTC Markets.

Arista Financial participates in the above-mentioned market via an array of funding arrangements. This includes debt financings, loan purchases or direct loan participations. The Company’s belief is that although small asset based lenders have limited access to capital after the financial crisis required to enable growth, these lenders have a very well managed and maintained origination, underwriting and administrative infrastructure. These lenders also have substantial expertise and experience in their specific area of lending.

Arista has accessed this experience and infrastructure by participating with these lenders in their lending opportunities. Therefore, it provides these small lenders with an ability to make additional loans that they otherwise would not be able to do either directly through a loan participation program with Arista or indirectly by allowing Arista to make the loan that they administer and hence better use their infrastructure.

Arista Financial seeks to partner with other experienced lending companies to make or buy equipment based loans where the collateral can be readily valued and easily repossessed if necessary and the rates are appropriate for the risk. The Company has seen this opportunity in the transportation equipment area. It has started to make and purchase transportation equipment loans (i.e. trucks). In addition, it will look at additional market areas if they have the same economics.

Arista Financial provides Financing options to equipment leasing companies to grow their portfolios. Regarding Portfolio Acquisitions, it acquires lease portfolios from the leasing companies and it continues to service those leases. Concerning Portfolio Growth Funding, this structure has allowed Arista’s partners to increase their own portfolio because of their ability to respond quickly and fund the transaction. Pertaining to a Line of Credit, having a line of credit allows leasing companies to bridge gaps in their present ability to self-fund transactions.

This past June, Arista Financial announced that it intends to enter the mortgage industry. The Company is expanding its lending capabilities to include mortgage products and services. It has already commenced the process of conducting extensive due diligence on a number of potential acquisition opportunities in the mortgage lending industry especially related to entities that have experience or the capability to do reverse mortgages.

Moreover in October 2019, Arista Financial announced that it will enter the mobility industry. It intends to carry out its activities in the mobility industry directly and also through a newly created majority-owned subsidiary, Arista Mobility Group Ltd.

Arista Financial Corp. (ARST), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.0021, up 61.5385%, on 189,185,177 volume with 628 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 39,020,069 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.000097999/$0.0035.

Service Team, Inc. (SVTE)

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Service Team, Inc. manufactures, maintains, as well as repairs truck bodies in the United States. The Company maintains in house quality control over each stage of production. Its large parts inventory and repair location can rapidly return a customer’s trucks to service. Established in 2011, Service Team has its corporate headquarters in Villa Park, California. The Company’s shares trade on the OTC Markets.

Service Team manufactures truck bodies that are attached to a truck chassis. In addition, the Company manufactures other products used by the trucking industry. The vans are available for hauling dry freight or refrigerated freight.

Service Team serves auto dealers and users of trucks, including dairies, food distributors, as well as local delivery. The Company has numerous large production facilities to expedite a customer’s orders and meet their needs. Service Team uses the latest in modern equipment to ensure consistent quality and lessen replacement costs.

In essence, Service Team is a one stop shop for all truck body and custom part product needs. In addition, it provides an Exclusive Manufacturer's Warranty. The Company’s expertise is in Dry Freight Cargo Bodies. Moreover, Service Team has expertise in Vendor Display, Refrigerated Van Production, and also Servicing.

The Company’s Dry Freight Cargo Body features an Aerodynamic Stainless Front w/Cast Corners, Various Flooring Options, a Hat Shaped Wall and Roof Posts, a Reinforced Heavy Duty Rear Frame, and Rollup or Swing Doors. Its Refrigerated Cargo Van features 3" Foam Insulation, Walls, Floor, Ceiling Fully Welded, Aluminum Diamond Plate Floor, and One Piece Fiberglass (Kemlite) Lining. Service Team’s products also include Stake & Flat Beds, Refrigerated Cargo Trailers, and Trailers.

Pertaining to the Company’s Refrigerated Truck Bodies, selected features include an aerodynamic polished stainless steel front radius, which lessens drag and increases fuel savings. The high mount refrigeration unit support provides less vibration, more load space and an internal bulkhead crash plate. Furthermore, the advanced design decreases weight, increases thermal efficiency, and provides years of trouble-free, low cost maintenance.

Service Team, Inc. (SVTE), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.0003, up 50.00%, on 294,408,622 volume with 134 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 210,555,660 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.000000999/$0.009999999.

Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (RCAT)

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Red Cat Holdings, Inc. is a foremost provider of secure blockchain-based distributed storage, analytics and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) for the drone industry. The Company provides solutions for regulators to track and review flight data, insurance companies to insure drones, and pilots to become compliant with regulations.

The Company lists on the OTC Markets. Red Cat is based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This past May, Red Cat announced the successful completion of a reverse merger with TimeFireVR, d/b/a TeraForge.

Fundamentally, Red Cat’s emphasis is on technology to make drones trackable, accountable, and the skies a safer place. The Company is the leading provider of distributed data storage, analytics and services for the growing recreational and commercial drone industry.

Regarding its Blockchain Blackbox, Red Cat’s black box drone flight recorder is the first distributed system with security and encryption that regulators and insurance companies can trust. The Company’s drone analytics and storage enable flight replay with customizable reports that can determine fault or performance issues.

Furthermore, the Company has partnered with UPR Mayagüez on a research program to develop an open sourced based flight controller (RISC V Flight Controller) with the world’s fastest open source RISC V processor. The System permits Red Cat to embed the software into hardware. This gives the flight controller 10x the performance of existing flight controllers.

Red Cat’s team is lead by Mr. Jeff Thompson. Mr. Thompson is a serial entrepreneur who has founded two successful technology start-ups. He is the Founder of Edgenet, which was sold to Citadel broadcasting in 1997. He is the Co-founder of Towerstream (public 2007 NASDAQ).

In April 2019, Red Cat became a founding member of the First Person View (FPV) Freedom Coalition after the coalition’s official launch as a 501(c)(3) organization. Being part of the coalition, Red Cat will continue advocating for airspace for recreational drone pilots and FPV operators, provide safety and education guidelines compliant with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), and integrate the FPV community into the regulatory framework as an FAA community-based organization (CBO).

In May, Red Cat announced the appointment of Mr. Nicholas Liuzza Jr. and Mr. Patrick R. Mitchell to its Board of Directors. Mr. Liuzza Jr. is currently the Executive Vice President of Real Matters, Inc. Real Matters is a network management services provider for the mortgage lending and insurance industries. Mr. Liuzza Jr. has held this position from April of 2016 to the present.

Mr. Patrick R. Mitchell is the Chief Executive Officer of The Carpenter Health Network, a foremost health care provider in the Gulf Coast region providing a range of services. These services include nursing, home care, hospice, as well as rehabilitation care. In 2002, Mr. Mitchell founded St. Joseph Hospice with the mission of providing peace, comfort and dignity to those facing terminal illness.

Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (RCAT), closed Wednesday's trading session at $4.75, up 43.9394%, on 106,056 volume with 306 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 75,420 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.349999994/$4.75.

Alternate Health Corp. (AHGIF)

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Alternate Health Corp. is a global cannabis company listed on the OTC Markets’ OTCQB. It provides software solutions for the medical cannabis industry. The Company utilizes best in class technology, research, education, production, and laboratories to increase the awareness, regulatory compliance, and appropriate usage of cannabinoids in modern medical practices. Alternate Health has its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. The Company has additional offices in Venice and Humboldt County, California and San Antonio, Texas.

Alternate Health is a diversified healthcare investment and Holdings Company. It operates via a network of subsidiaries that share proprietary, highly secure cloud-based software solutions to increase efficiencies and protect patient data. Its companies are: Alternate Health Clinics; Alternate Health Labs; Alternate Medical Media; Alternate RX; CanaPass, Inc.; and VIP-Patient.

Alternate Health develops software applications and processing systems for the medical industry employing proprietary technology platforms (VIP-Patient & CanaPass systems) to assist doctors in their practice management and patients with their need for first-rate medical care. Alternate Health’s services include practice management and controlled substance management software, blood analysis and toxicology labs, clinical research, continuing education programs, nutraceutical products, and security and control services to the developing medical cannabis industry.

The Company has transformed the CanaPass Patient Management system to a total Ethereum-based blockchain Electronic Medical Records (EMR)/Electronic Health Records (HER) system. Alternate Health has taken a leadership position in blockchain financial and healthcare solutions. CanaPass, Inc. provides turnkey compliance management software to doctors and Licensed Providers of medical cannabis and other controlled substances.

A key product is its Zi App Blockchain Payment Gateway. The design of it was originally to enable digital payments in cannabis. However, the system has earned considerable interest as a payment solution for even larger markets. This includes multi-level marketing, commercial leases, as well as equipment rentals.

Recently, Alternate Health announced that Mr. Kyle Kemper was appointed to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Kemper is the author of "The Unified Wallet: Unlocking the Digital Golden Age", which is a definitive work on the implications of blockchain technology in the modern world. He is a strong advocate for the expansion of blockchain and Bitcoin.

Mr. Howard Mann, Chief Executive Officer of Alternate Health, said, "We are thrilled to welcome Mr. Kemper to Alternate Health's Board of Directors. His deep technical knowledge, vision for what's possible and network of industry contacts are valuable assets to the Company as we take the lead in both blockchain technology and cannabis."

Alternate Health Corp. (AHGIF), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.02745, up 71.5625%, on 234,614 volume with 14 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 18,137 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.005499999/$0.319999992.

Telkonet, Inc. (TKOI)

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Telkonet, Inc. provides unique intelligent automation platforms at the vanguard of the Internet of Things (IoT) space. The Company helps commercial audiences better manage operational costs via its EcoSmart intelligent automation platform. Vertical markets that benefit from EcoSmart products include hospitality, education, military, government, healthcare and multiple dwelling housing. Telkonet has its corporate headquarters in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Telkonet’s EcoSmart intelligent automation platform is supported by a full-suite of IoT-connected devices. These devices provide in-depth energy usage information and analysis. This allows building operators to cut energy expenses. The Company has successfully deployed more than 600,000 devices across greater than 3,000 properties.

The foundation of Telkonet’s EcoSmart platform is on four distinct pillars. One pillar is the EcoSmart suite of IoT products - connected devices. A second is EcoCentral – the Company’s cloud-based EMS dashboard. The third pillar is EcoSmart Mobile – Telkonet’s smart device app. The fourth pillar is EcoCare - its service and support subscription. The Company’s platform integrates with a broad spectrum of products serving varied markets.

This past March, Telkonet announced that it, and reseller partner, Legend Energy Advisors, deployed Telkonet's innovative EcoSmart energy-management platform at Murray Hill Marquis in New York, New York, with EcoSmart Mobile application control. EcoSmart Mobile gives tenants easy control of their apartment's comfort. This is while providing the property major opportunities for energy savings.

EcoSmart takes advantage of occupancy-sensing thermostats, stand-alone sensors, plugs, light switches, and top third-party integrations and automation, to intelligently control energy utilization and create immersive user experiences.

Recently, Telkonet announced it has teamed with Volara, the first voice-based hotel guest engagement solution, which turns voice into a strong hospitality business tool. Together, they now offer a hospitality environment in which guests can use voice commands to control intelligent in-room devices and platforms to set scenes within their own hotel rooms. These scenes can incorporate one device or numerous different devices to create the exact environment that a hotel guest requests.

Hotel operators can configure ‘scenes’ and ‘commands’, which will enable guests to select their comfort level and environment. These settings will be customized to the EcoSmart Platform devices deployed and the capabilities provided within the hotel.

Telkonet, Inc. (TKOI), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.05611, up 85.3651%, on 23,436,004 volume with 3,607 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 930,335 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.016/$0.079999998.

Airborne Wireless Network (ABWN)

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Airborne Wireless Network’s mission is to be a high-speed broadband internet pipeline to improve coverage connectivity now lacking. Its intention is  to create a high-speed broadband airborne wireless network through linking commercial aircraft in flight. Each aircraft participating in the network will act as an airborne repeater or router, sending and receiving broadband signals from one aircraft to the next. This will create a digital superhighway in the sky. Airborne Wireless Network has its head office in Simi Valley, California.

Airborne Wireless Network has completed its acquisition of Patent Number US 6,285,878 B1 and the Trademark "Infinitus Super Highway". These acquired assets serve as a blueprint and road map for it to develop its "Airborne Wireless Network”.

Concerning its Wholesale Carrier Network, the Company’s plan is to use commercial aircraft as “mini-satellites”. Its primary target customer-base will be international data and communications service providers.  Airborne Wireless Network’s system is to operate in a safe and controlled environment, usually between 20,000 and 40,000 feet (6,000-12,000 m).

The Company is developing a completely meshed network. In a completely meshed network, signals come in from numerous directions. The system will route signals around any obstructions. Fundamentally, it is a virtual airborne Worldwide Web. Because it is a meshed network, it is comparable to a web where all nodes are connected through many links.

Airborne Wireless Network  will act as a wholesale carrier with target customers. The Company believes that its network, upon development, should provide low cost, high-speed connectivity to rural areas, island nations, ships at sea, oil platforms, in addition to connectivity to commercial and private aircraft in flight.  

Airborne Wireless Network (ABWN), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.0005, up 100.00%, on 250,139,931 volume with 260 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 21,517,438 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.000000999/$0.0005.

The QualityStocks Company Corner

Cybin Inc. (NEO: CYBN) (OTC: CLXPF)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Cybin Inc. (NEO: CYBN) (OTC: CLXPF).

Cybin (NEO: CYBN), a life sciences company advancing psychedelic therapeutics for various psychiatric and neurological conditions, is partnering with neurotech pioneer HI, LLC dba Kernel to quantify brain activity in real time during psychedelic experiences (https://ibn.fm/3AG5G). CYBN plans to do this by leveraging Kernel Flow, Kernel’s breakthrough technology, for its upcoming clinical work.

Cybin Inc. (NEO: CYBN) (OTC: CLXPF) is a Canada-based life sciences company focused on the pharmaceutical development of psychedelic products, as well as the functional mushroom market.

The early-stage company boasts an experienced management team featuring industry veterans from pharmaceutical and consumer product backgrounds who have run multiple clinical trials and collectively helped facilitate billions of dollars in product revenues. The team is dedicated to the development of products and protocols within the psychedelic, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries.

In particular, Cybin aims to further build upon and expand its intellectual property (IP) portfolio, which is structured around unique psilocybin delivery mechanisms that target a number of different therapeutic indications. In addition, the company has dedicated itself toward furthering its research and IP within the fields of synthetic compounds, extraction methods, the isolation of chemical compounds, new drug formulations and protocol regimes.

Serenity Life Sciences & Natures Journey Inc.

The company’s business model is centered around its two core subsidiaries, Serenity Life Sciences and Natures Journey Inc., which comprise Cybin’s two-pronged approach toward delivering fungi-derived psychedelic and medicinal products.

Serenity Life Sciences is focused on furthering research and development of psilocybin-based medications. Psilocybin is found in certain species of mushrooms and is a non-habit forming, naturally occurring psychedelic compound. Research into psilocybin has shown positive results for the treatment of depression, anxiety, PTSD, addiction, eating disorders, ADHD and other indications.

Natures Journey Inc. operates the Journey brand, which specializes in developing proprietary medicinal mushroom products that target and promote mental wellness, immune boosting detoxification and overall general health and wellbeing.

Partnership with the Toronto Centre for Psychedelic Science (TCPS)

Staying true to its axiom of being a research-first medicinal mushroom life sciences company, Cybin recently announced its entry into a strategic partnership with the Toronto Centre for Psychedelic Science (TCPS), with the goal of furthering its ongoing psilocybin research efforts and expanding Cybin’s psilocybin IP portfolio (http://nnw.fm/9EUkI).

“While there is evidence to support psilocybin as a treatment for certain indications, the Toronto Centre for Psychedelic Science is taking a clinical approach to prove or disprove the safety and efficacy of psilocybin-based microdosing through an open science approach,” Paul Glavine, CEO of Cybin, stated in a news release.

“We are excited to join forces with Cybin and to offer our expertise. A number of firms had approached TCPS, but Cybin demonstrated a superior commitment to high-quality research and integrity in product development. Our high standards for scientific rigor and transparency will find a fitting home within the culture Cybin is cultivating in Canada and abroad,” Thomas Anderson, co-founder of the Toronto Centre for Psychedelic Science, added.

Journey’s Product Monetization & Market Potential for Nutraceutical Supplements

Although Cybin is at the forefront of companies seeking to conduct clinical trials aimed at gaining regulatory approval for psilocybin and other psychedelic products, the company has also placed a great deal of emphasis on generating meaningful revenue from its very outset.

Cybin’s Journey brand has is launching a range of supplements comprised of popular fungi-derived ingredients such as Reishi, Lion’s Mane and Cordyceps. Purported to aid focus and concentration while promoting neurogenesis, Journey’s range of nutraceutical products provides Cybin with a crucial foothold within the non-psychedelic legal supplement market, which is valued at over $25 billion globally and growing at a 9% year-over-year rate.

Pharmaceutical Psychedelics

In addition to the company’s range of non-psychedelic supplements, Cybin has plans to carry out a clinical trial with a new delivery system for its psilocybin-based medications later this year. Ultimately, the company aims to enter into technology transfer agreements with global pharmaceutical companies after phase 1 & phase 2 clinical trials are complete in order to accelerate regulatory approvals in major indications in global markets with entire lifecycle product management.

With products such as psilocybin truffles already legal in nations such as the Netherlands, Jamaica and Bulgaria, Cybin has positioned itself to capitalize on an eventual legalization of psychedelic mushroom-derived products in the future. Working within a regulatory environment with strong similarities to that which dealt with cannabis prior to the industry’s eventual legalization by the Canadian government in 2018, Cybin is laying the groundwork for the moment pharmaceutical psychedelics gain acceptance in North America and abroad.

Amalgamation Agreement and Financing

Cybin recently announced its entry into an amalgamation agreement dated June 26, 2020, with Clarmin Explorations Inc. (TSX.V: CX) and 2762898 Ontario Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Clarmin (http://nnw.fm/w04LH). Completion of the transactions contemplated in the amalgamation agreement will result in the reverse takeover of Clarmin by Cybin.

In connection with the proposed transaction, Cybin plans to complete a “best-efforts” brokered private placement of subscription receipts of Cybin, with a syndicate of agents co-led by Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc. (Stifel GMP) and Eight Capital, to raise a minimum of C$14 million ($10 million) and a maximum of C$21 million ($15 million), with a 15% agents’ option.

To date, Cybin has raised approximately C$10,400,000 through an initial financing round and its series A financing round.

Cybin Inc. (NEO: CYBN) (OTC: CLXPF), closed Wednesday's trading session at $1.91, up 3.0427%, on 365,762 volume with 532 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 351,190 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.0284/$2.20000004.

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MustGrow Biologics Corp. (CSE: MGRO) (OTCQB: MGROF) (FRA: 0C0)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight MustGrow Biologics Corp. (CSE: MGRO) (OTCQB: MGROF) (FRA: 0C0).

MustGrow Biologics Corp. (CSE: MGRO) (OTCQB: MGROF) (FRA: 0C0), an agriculture biotech company focused on providing natural science-based biological solutions for high-value crops, has announced successful test results of its patented mustard-derived biopesticide on Aphanomyces euteiches zoospores ("Aphanomyces"). The tests, conducted via an independent third-party facility, achieved 100% control of the root-rot disease Aphanomyces zoospores at economic application rates within 24 hours; Aphanomyces is a soil-borne disease that destroys key plant-based protein crops such as peas, lentils and legumes; current treatments are unable to control the disease. To view the full press release, visit: https://ibn.fm/0f4CD

MustGrow Biologics Corp. (CSE: MGRO) (OTCQB: MGROF) (FRA: 0C0) is an agricultural biotech company focused on developing and commercializing natural biological solutions for high-value crops, including fruits and vegetables. The company uses novel compounds from the mustard plant to provide superior and safer alternatives to current synthetic chemicals used as pesticides, fungicides and nematicides. Management & advisors own 22% of the company’s 37 million shares outstanding.

Leveraging its innovative platform, MustGrow effectively extracts the natural defense mechanisms of the mustard seed for broad use in crop production and protection. The company uses components of mustard seed to provide high quality, organic pest control to growers facing challenges associated with soil-borne diseases and pests like nematodes. This company’s all-natural, effective, safe and easy-to-use solution is ideal for farmers looking to raise healthy crops without chemical pesticides amid growing concerns worldwide over the negative effects of chemical pesticide solutions.

MustGrow, which went public in 2019, was founded in Saskatoon, Canada, and is currently focused on disrupting the $65 billion global pesticide market with its 100% owned and patented mustard-derived technology. Canada produces 28% of the global mustard crop and is the world’s largest exporter, with a 57% market share.

TerraMG and Pipeline

The company’s technology extracts the mustard plant’s natural organic compounds, which, when combined with water, form Allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) and serve as a natural defense mechanism for the plant against pests and diseases. MustGrow’s mustard-derived technology acts as both a natural bio-pesticide and as a non-selective bio-herbicide.

There are currently more than 110 independent third-party trials that confirm the safety and efficacy of MustGrow’s solutions, potentially positioning the company as a leading provider of safe plant protection solutions in a market that is gradually eliminating the use of chemical compounds.

MustGrow’s primary product at the moment is the new liquid formulation TerraMG, which has the potential to compete against existing chemistries on both efficacy and price. Its initial target market is as a pre-plant soil bio-pesticide for use with higher-value crops such as fruits and vegetables. This liquid formulation is safe and easy to transport and has already demonstrated its efficacy against several pests and diseases.

In addition to its use as a pre-plant soil treatment, TerraMG has significant potential for multiple applications in several other markets, which is expected to aggressively expand the company’s IP portfolio. MustGrow has already confirmed or is in the process of testing multiple applications of TerraMG, including fruit and vegetable soil fumigation ($1.2 billion estimated global market), container fumigation ($2 billion estimated global market), tobacco nematode and disease fumigation ($4 billion estimated global loss), non-selective herbicide ($13 billion estimated global market), food-borne pathogens ($15 billion estimated global market) and more.

The company anticipates registration approval for the liquid formulation (TerraMG) as a pre-plant bio-pesticide for soil-borne diseases and pests from the EPA (United States) and PMRA (Canada) in 2021. The company already has EPA and PMRA approval for the product’s granular form.

Currently, MustGrow’s pipeline also includes:

  • TerraMG, a pre-plant soil bio-pesticide, for:
    • Fruit & Vegetable – currently in Phase 4
    • Turf & Ornamental – currently in Phase 4
    • Tobacco – currently in Phase 4
    • Potatoes – currently in Phase 4
    • Canola – targeting Clubroot Disease – currently in Phase 3: Advanced Development/Field Trials
    • Bananas – targeting Fusarium wilt TR4 – currently in Phase 1: Proof of Concept/Laboratory
    • Pulse Crops – targeting Aphanomyces – currently in Phase 1: Proof of Concept/Laboratory
  • Non-Selective Bio-Herbicide – targeting noxious or resistant weeds – currently in Phase 2: Early Development/Greenhouse
  • Storage Bio-Pesticide for Bulk Grain, Fresh Produce – targeting toxins, diseases and insects – currently in Phase 1: Proof of Concept/Laboratory
  • Storage Bio-Pesticide for Shipping Containers – targeting fungus, invasive pests and diseases – currently in Phase 1: Proof of Concept/Laboratory
  • Bio-Pesticide for Foodborne Pathogens – targeting E. coli, salmonella, Listeria, human pathogens, etc. – currently in Phase 1: Proof of Concept/Laboratory

Market Opportunity

The protection of crops with synthetic chemical pesticides represents a $65 billion-dollar global market that is expected to grow in the coming years as the global population grows and needs more food. This number doesn’t include bio-pesticide sales, which are projected to increase to $8.5 billion by 2025, with a CAGR of 14.7%. MustGrow, with its natural bio-pesticide, is targeting not only the bio-pesticide market, but also the global synthetic chemical market so as to help replace harmful synthetic pesticides and provide a natural biologic that has the efficacy of controlling pests and disease compared to synthetic chemicals in some instances.

Management Team

Corey Giasson is the President, CEO and Director of MustGrow. He is an entrepreneur focused on the agriculture, mining, real estate and oil/gas industries, primarily in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Giasson is co-founder and director of Legacy Capital Corp. This private equity company focuses on participating in management buyouts of strong, sustainable cash flowing businesses. He has an MBA and B.Sc. in Agriculture Economics from the University of Saskatchewan.

Colin Bletsky is COO and Director of MustGrow. He grew up in Eastern Saskatchewan on his family’s third-generation farm, growing canola, wheat and oats. The majority of his time is spent helping other organizations and farmers grow their businesses – locally and globally. Bletsky has a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of Saskatchewan and executive education from the London School of Business and INSEAD.

Todd Lahti is the company’s CFO. He has extensive experience evaluating and managing biotech, agricultural and oil/gas start-up companies by working directly on financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business development, corporate strategy, technology transfer and operations setup. Lahti is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Chartered Professional Accountant.

Brad Munro is Chairman of MustGrow. He is the President and CEO of Bittercreek Capital Corp., a private investment and advisory firm. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience in the natural gas and oil industries, among others. Munro has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Saskatchewan.

MustGrow Biologics Corp. (OTCQB: MGROF), closed Wednesday's trading session at $1.628, up 0.493827%, on 80,775 volume with 98 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 82,770 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.124499998/$1.87.

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Predictive Oncology (NASDAQ: POAI)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Predictive Oncology (POAI).

Predictive Oncology (NASDAQ: POAI) was featured today in a publication from BioMedWire, examining how a team of researchers from the University College London has demonstrated how small magnetic nanoparticles can be used to improve cancer treatment. Those nanoparticles can transport chemo drugs to cancer cells while also generating a minimal heating effect once stimulated through the use of an alternating external magnetic field.

Predictive Oncology (POAI) is a knowledge-driven precision medicine company focused on applying data and artificial intelligence (AI) to personalized medicine and drug discovery. The company applies its smart tumor profiling and AI platform to extensive genomic and biomarker patient data sets to build predictive models of tumor drug response to improve clinical outcomes for the cancer patients of today and tomorrow. The company has several tools that support its mission of bringing precision medicine to the treatment of cancer.

Through its subsidiaries, Predictive Oncology’s portfolio of assets includes the following:

  • A database of clinically validated historical and outcome data from patient tumors
  • An in-house Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)-certified lab
  • A “smart” patient-derived tumor profiling platform
  • An in-house bioinformatics artificial intelligence (AI) platform
  • A new computerized approach growing tumors in the lab to rapidly develop patient specific treatment options
  • An FDA-approved fluid collection and disposal system

Using these resources, and in collaboration with key players in the pharmaceutical, diagnostic and biotech industries Predictive Oncology is working to determine the best pathways for more individualized and effective cancer treatment.

Subsidiaries

Predictive Oncology leverages the synergies of its three wholly owned subsidiaries to bring precision medicine to the diagnosis of cancer.

Helomics applies artificial intelligence to its rich data gathered from the company’s trove of more than 150,000 tumors to personalize cancer therapies for patients as well as drive the development of new targeted therapies in collaborations with pharmaceutical companies. This database, the largest of its kind in the world, is comprised of ovarian, head and neck, colon and pancreas tumors. Helomic’s CLIA-certified lab provides clinical testing that assists oncologists in individualizing patient treatment decisions, by providing an evidence-based roadmap for therapy.

In addition to its proprietary precision oncology platform, Helomics offers boutique CRO services that leverage its TruTumor™ patient-derived tumor models coupled to a wide range of multi-omics assays (genomics, proteomics and biochemical), and an AI-powered proprietary platform (D-CHIP) to provide a tailored solution to its clients’ specific needs.

TumorGenesis is developing a new, rapid approach to growing tumors in the laboratory without the use of rats or mice, allowing for the identification of biomarkers indicative of cancer. This methodology “fools” the tumor into thinking it is still in the body. As a result, the tumor reacts as it naturally would, thereby increasing the accuracy of the biomarker. Once the biomarkers are identified, they can be used in TumorGenesis’ Oncology Capture Technology Platforms which isolate and helps categorize an individual patient’s heterogeneous tumor samples to enable development of patient-specific treatment options.

Skyline Medical’s patented, FDA-cleared STREAMWAY® System is the first true, direct-to-drain fluid disposal system designed specifically for medical applications such as radiology, endoscopy, urology and cystoscopy procedures. The STREAMWAY system is changing the way healthcare facilities collect and dispose of potentially infectious waste fluid by connecting directly to a facility’s plumbing system to automate the collection, measurement and disposal of waste fluids.

The STREAMWAY minimizes human intervention for better safety and improves compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and other regulatory agency safety guidelines. The STREAMWAY eliminates canisters, carts and evacuated bottles, which reduces overhead costs and minimizes environmental impact by helping to eliminate the approximately 50 million potentially disease-infected canisters that go into landfills annually in the United Sates.

Skyline has achieved sales in five of the seven continents through both direct sales and distributor partners.

Competitive Advantage

Precision medicine has become the holy grail of cancer therapeutics. Data driven predictive models of tumors and their responses are critical in both new drug development and individualized patient treatment. The race has begun to model various tumors, which takes 5 to 7 years of clinical evaluation to establish historical and outcome data.

Predictive Oncology enjoys significant competitive advantage. The company already has a vast historical collection of tumors and related data, plus the ability to obtain existing associated outcome data. While others wait for outcome data, Predictive Oncology is in a unique and powerful position, working to deliver the promise of precision medicine to reality. Predictive Oncology already has the clinical data, including how a tumor responded to certain drugs, an in-house bioinformatics AI platform, and only needs to do the tumor sequencing. The significance is underscored by the collaboration with UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital, designed to reveal which mutations responded to which drug then develop powerful predictive models for future testing and treatment.

Leadership Team

Dr. Carl Schwartz was appointed to Skyline Medical’s board of directors in March 2015 and became interim president and CEO in May 2016. Dr. Schwartz became CEO of Plastics Research Corporation in 1988, leading the company to become the largest manufacturer of structural foam molding products in the U.S. with more than $60 million in revenues and 300 employees by the time he retired in 2001. He holds a bachelor’s degree and DDS degree from the University of Detroit.

CFO Bob Myers has over 30 years of experience in multiple industries focusing on medical device service and manufacturing. He has spent much of his career as a CFO and controller. Myers holds an MBA in Finance from Adelphi University and a BBA in public accounting from Hofstra University.

Gerald Vardzel, President of Helomics, has over 25 years of healthcare executive management experience developing and implementing commercialization strategies and models for technology launches. His Go-To-Market expertise includes equity financing, strategic planning, market intelligence, M&A, and new market development in both start-up and established settings including fortune 500 market leaders. He has developed innovative solutions for both CLIA and FDA regulatory paths defining the delivery chains from discovery to clinical acceptance. Mr. Vardzel also has significant experience designing and implementing sales and marketing programs tailored not only to expand market share, but to empirically assess client satisfaction, strengthen business processes, and maximize profitability. Mr. Vardzel was previously Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Initiatives at Global Specimen Solutions. Furthermore, as an executive affiliate to the healthcare industry, he routinely consults for several small-to-mid sized private equity firms advising on, in part, the feasibility of acquisition targets. Mr. Vardzel graduated from the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Mark Collins, Chief Information Officer of Helomics, has held multiple executive roles in a variety of discovery, informatics and bioinformatics functions within global pharma, and founded three startup software companies in the machine learning and drug discovery space. In 2001, Dr. Collins worked for Cellomics (now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific), where he played a pivotal role in establishing the High-Content Cell Analysis market, building and commercializing several key informatics and bioinformatics products. After leaving Thermo Fisher, Dr. Collins developed and commercialized informatics solutions for clinical and translational research, specifically in the specimen tracking, omics data management and NGS analysis space, through key roles at BioFortis, Global Specimens Solutions and Genedata. Dr. Collins received his undergraduate degree in Applied Science from the University of Wolverhampton, UK and his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Surrey, UK.

Predictive Oncology (POAI), closed Wednesday's trading session at $1.24, up 19.2308%, on 8,164,289 volume with 13,510 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 1,368,387 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.629999995/$5.30000019.

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The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (CSE: WTER) (NASDAQ: WTER)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (CSE: WTER) (NASDAQ: WTER).

A recent survey indicates that consumers in a post-pandemic environment are likely to be cautious in their buying habits, as many expect continued impact moving into 2020; survey respondents indicated an estimated 40% increase in intent to purchase online (https://cnw.fm/yrmni). (The Alkaline Water Company (NASDAQ: WTER) (CSE: WTER) has an aggressive growth strategy that includes a direct-to-consumer, e-commerce platform— www.A88CBD.com — along with a compelling digital-marketing campaign, which place the company in a strong position in the post-COVID environment. Also today, the company was highlighted in a publication from CBDWire, examining how WTER has announced a partnership with C.A. Fortune E-Comm, the online arm of C.A. Fortune, to offer WTER’s A88 family of beverages across various e-commerce platforms. The partnership is effective Jan. 21, 2021, and platforms include Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Kroger.com, Thrive.com, Boxed.com and zulilly.com among others. Also today, the company was featured in the 420 with CNW by CannabisNewsWire.

Founded in 2012, The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (CSE: WTER) (NASDAQ: WTER) is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Its flagship product, Alkaline88®, is a leading premier alkaline water brand available in bulk and single-serve sizes, along with eco-friendly aluminum packaging options. With its innovative, state-of-the-art proprietary electrolysis process, Alkaline88® delivers perfect 8.8 pH balanced alkaline drinking water with trace minerals and electrolytes and boasts the company’s trademarked label ‘Clean Beverage’. Quickly being recognized as a growing lifestyle brand, Alkaline88® launched A88 Infused™ in 2019 to meet consumer demand for flavor-infused products. A88 Infused™ flavored water is available in six unique all-natural flavors, with new flavors coming soon. Additionally, in 2020, the company launched the A88CBD™ brand, featuring a broad line of topical and ingestible products. These products are made with lab-tested full and broad-spectrum hemp and include salves, balms, lotions, essential oils, bath-salts, CBD infused drinks, tinctures, capsules, gummies and powder packs.

Innovation and Expansion

Founded in 2012, The Alkaline Water Company began with a mission to create the best-tasting water in the world. At the time, there were two emerging trends in health-conscious consumers: a growing interest in the alkaline diet and perceived health benefits of pink Himalayan rock salt. By combining these two concepts in an alkaline water and trademarking the name Alkaline88, The Alkaline Water Company began offering what it calls the smoothest tasting Clean Beverage™ in the U.S. enhanced-water category.

Now a top bulk alkaline-water brand (the company reported record sales in March and April 2020, surpassing March and April 2019 numbers by 114% and 171%, respectively), The Alkaline Water Company is committed to growing its national footprint through innovation and expansion. That mindset was evident as the company introduced eco-friendly aluminum bottles and branched out into flavor-infused waters; the company currently offers six different flavors: peach/mango, lemon/lime, raspberry, watermelon, blood orange and lemon.

The company’s commitment to innovation may be most evident in its newest product line: A88CBD. This line of CBD-infused products includes tinctures, capsules, gummies, salves, balms, hand and foot lotions, essential oils, bath bombs and bath salts, as well as CBD-infused drinks, water and beverage shots. These quality, CBD-infused offerings are all made with lab-tested, full-spectrum hemp and are conveniently packaged and perfect for on-the-go or at home use.

In addition, The Alkaline Water Company has implemented an aggressive growth strategy, with numerous organic initiatives focused on national multichannel, mass-market expansion through a direct-to-warehouse model and co-packing facilities that are strategically located within 600 miles of 95% of the U.S. population. In addition to this strong brick-and-mortar approach, the company recently launched a B2C e-commerce platform (www.A88CBD.com) and aggressive digital-marketing campaigns.

Clear Advantages in a Growing Market

With consistent growth year over year, the company reported $32.2 million in revenue in fiscal 2019 and has emerged as a growth leader in the functional (value-added) waters space, which is the fastest-growing segment of the bottled water industry.

The Alkaline Water Company’s efforts are focused on its clear competitive advantages, including its strong marketing (the inclusion of alkaline in product names); existing grocery channels, which feature excellent relationships and a nationwide broker network; distinctive branding; proprietary technology, which produces great-tasting, high-quality water, infused drinks and other products; and price, with a broad range of products in all formats, from bulk bottles to single serve.

As the company focuses on strategic growth, it is eyeing the impressive potential of a market that is on a strong upswing. Annual bottled water sales have now surpassed soda consumption, with soda sales in the United States having declined by $1.2 billion over the past five years. Some research indicates that the global bottled water market will reach an estimated $280 billion this year, while the CBD market is forecast to top $20 billion by 2024.

With its products available in all major trade channels, including grocery stores, drug stores, c-stores and big-box retailers, The Alkaline Water Company is also looking to expand into new spaces, such as health and beauty, hospitality and specialty retailer locations.

Seasoned Management Team

The Alkaline Water Company is led by an experienced team focused on the company’s core strategy of building a national retail footprint and extending its lifestyle brands into other consumer packaged goods categories.

Richard A. Wright, President, CEO and Co-Founder of The Alkaline Water Company Inc., oversees all aspects of the business, successfully guiding the company through strategic opportunities and delivering greater than 50% growth since the company’s inception. A passionate and versatile leader with a strong track record of innovation, collaboration and achieving goal-driven results, Wright is a serial entrepreneur with more than 41 years of experience. Early in his career, he spent years at one of the ‘Big Four’ accounting firms, working his way up to Regional Director of Tax and Financial Planning. As a CPA, entrepreneur and former CFO, Wright brings extensive knowledge of finance, operations, sales and marketing to the team, and he has participated in hundreds of M&A transactions throughout his career.

David Guarino, CFO, Secretary, Treasurer and Director, earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting and a Master of Accountancy from the University of Denver. From 2008 to 2013, Guarino was President and a Director of Kahala Corp., a worldwide franchisor of multiple quick-service restaurant brands with locations in 49 states and more than 25 countries. From 2014 to 2015, Guarino was President of HTI International Holdings Inc., a technology company focused on forward osmosis water filtration technology.

Frank Chessman, National Sales Manager, is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He spent 25 years with Ralph’s Grocery, Kroger’s largest division, working at many levels before ultimately becoming Vice President of Advertising & Marketing. He then served 14 years as Executive Vice President at Simon Marketing. Chessman has more than a decade of experience in the beverage manufacturing industry.

Brian Sudano, Director, is managing partner of Beverage Marketing Corporation and BMC Strategic Associates. Sudano’s experience covers nearly the entire beverage industry, from energy drinks to wine, with special expertise in beverage alcohol by virtue of varied industry experience across a broad range of projects. Sudano manages several major clients, providing ongoing strategic and market advice and leading projects in strategic planning, market entry analysis and planning, sales/distribution, business modeling, brand repositioning and international opportunity assessment. He has spoken at many beverage industry events and is a contributing editor at Beverage World magazine.

Aaron Keay, Chairman, has been a successful investor, entrepreneur and financier to multiple small cap and startup companies over the last decade. During his time with these companies, he served in advisor, board-member and senior-management roles. His experience ranges across multiple sectors in mining, biotech, health and wellness, tech and cannabis, where he has invested and raised more than $500 million.

The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (NASDAQ: WTER), closed Wednesday's trading session at $1.13, up 1.8018%, on 2,783,754 volume with 7,320 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 1,751,120 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.400000005/$2.5999999.

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Brain Scientific Inc. (OTCQB: BRSF)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Brain Scientific Inc. (OTCQB: BRSF).

Brain Scientific (OTCQB: BRSF) co-founder and executive chairman Boris Goldstein was quoted in a recent Elite Healthcare article titled “A Look at 2021 Healthcare with the Pandemic.” The article quoted a variety of clinicians and industry professionals who consider themselves futurists and who specialize in exploring predictions and possibilities based on present trends. 

Brain Scientific Inc. (OTCQB: BRSF) is a commercial-stage health care company focused on developing innovative and proprietary medical devices and software. With a mission of modernizing brain diagnostics by employing cutting edge technologies to bridge the widening gap in access to quality care, the company offers two FDA-cleared products that provide next-generation solutions to the neurology market.

The company’s proprietary, clinical-grade neurological devices are supported by its intellectual property portfolio featuring patents in the United States, China and Europe.

Brain Scientific’s first commercialized devices, NeuroCap(TM) and NeuroEEG(TM), are designed to disrupt the current electroencephalogram (EEG) market by offering cost-effective and disposable substitutes to existing solutions, allowing medical professionals to collect diagnostic information quickly.

The company’s goal is to improve diagnostics by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning processes to analyze a database of brain readings as a method of detecting seizures and dementia. The company is also working to improve patients’ access to neurological care.

Headquartered in New York, Brain Scientific and its predecessor (and now wholly owned subsidiary, MemoryMD Inc.) was founded in 2015 and went public in 2018.

Brain Scientific’s first phase of development, from 2018 to 2019, saw the inception of portable, clinical-grade, easy-to-use neurological devices. The second phase, currently ongoing, aims to create cloud-based, secure infrastructure to transmit patient data between patients and their neurologists. The company’s third phase of development is scheduled for 2021-2022 and is expected to focus on the use of AI-assisted diagnostic analysis to increase the efficiency, consistency and accuracy of neurology specialists.

NeuroCap(TM) – Disposable EEG Headset

The NeuroCap is a disposable pre-gelled EEG headset featuring 22 electrodes and 19 active EEG channels, all adhering to the international 10-20 system. The NeuroCap was FDA-cleared in 2018. The headset can be used for recording EEGs in virtually any setting, including urban and rural emergency departments, neurology clinics, urgent care clinics, ICUs, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and remote clinical research labs.

Through a universal cable adapter, the NeuroCap is compatible with other EEG amplifiers. The cap also works in parallel with Brain Scientific’s NeuroEEG amplifier, initiating EEG studies in less than five minutes.

The company is currently seeking FDA approval for additional features for the NeuroCap, as the device has the potential to fill a gap in EEG testing availabilities during the current coronavirus pandemic: in October 2020, Brain Scientific filed an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) application. The EUA is required for the rapid distribution of the NeuroCap device to emergency departments, intensive care units and other treatment centers to administer prescriptive EEGs safely on critically ill patients or those suspected of being diagnosed with COVID-19.

With more than 80 percent of hospitalized patients infected with COVID-19 displaying neurological symptoms, the NeuroCap could prove to be a valuable device by offering fast testing with limited contact between technicians and patients.

NeuroEEG(TM) – Miniature and Portable Wireless EEG Amplifier

The NeuroEEG is a compact, portable and affordable wireless EEG amplifier intended for prescription use. The 16-channel, FDA-cleared, clinical-grade device acquires, records, transmits and displays electrical brain activity for patients of all ages.

Both the NeuroCap and NeuroEEG are delivered by MemoryMD Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Brain Scientific.

Products in Active Development

Currently, Brain Scientific and MemoryMD are working on leveraging their existing products and drawing from ongoing research to develop and commercialize the next generation of solutions for the brain diagnostics market. The devices under development are being designed to address the following issues:

Routine EEG

  • NeuroCap-8 is an 8-channel EEG cap. The reduced number of electrodes is vital in emergency room situations, where the time it takes to set up the EEG is critical.

Pediatric EEG

  • NeuroCap Pediatric is positioned to become the first disposable and pre-gelled headset available for the pediatric market.

Long-Term Monitoring

  • NeuroCap LTM for adult and pediatric patients is a disposable cap designed to monitor rhythmic and periodic patterns for up to 72 hours, providing essential diagnostic capabilities.
  • NeuroEEG 24 Channel Amplifier is a portable and wireless amplifier with over 24 hours of battery life.

Artificial Intelligence

  • Brain E-Tattoo is a minimally invasive four-channel EEG electrode designed for long-term monitoring.
  • An AI database of brain biomarkers collects data on both normal and abnormal brain data to detect neurological diseases. The goal is for machine learning algorithms to enhance understanding of brain-behavior related to epilepsy, memory dementia and pre-Alzheimer’s diagnostics.

Telemedicine

Brain Scientific is expanding the vision for telemedicine in neurology. The company aims to address the current acute neurologist shortfall (20 states have less than 10 neurologists per 10,000 patients) through the use of teleneurology.

 

Partnership with Marketing Brainology

Brain Scientific has a longstanding partnership with Marketing Brainology, a neuromarketing firm using neuroscience approaches to understand consumer behavior. In 2019, Marketing Brainology conducted a study using NeuroCap and NeuroEEG to determine the most effective Super Bowl commercials.

“Thanks to Brain Scientific’s NeuroCap and NeuroEEG, we are able to better understand the art and science of the human decision-making process,” Michelle Adams, Ph.D, Founder of Marketing Brainology, stated in a news release.

In April 2020, Marketing Brainology again conducted a study leveraging Brain Scientific’s disposable EEG cap to determine how brains were reacting to COVID-19 messaging. Subjects were presented with multiple media impressions, and Marketing Brainology analyzed their responsive biomarkers. The results identified the most effective messaging for engaging with an audience during a crisis.

Market Outlook

The current global market for EEG devices is estimated at $956.1 million. It is expected to rise with a CAGR of 8.7% from 2019 to 2026, reaching $1.6 billion in value by 2026, according to Grandview Research.

In total, there are approximately 6,150 hospitals in the U.S., according to the American Hospital Association. Critically, though, just 254 of those hospitals are certified Level 4 Epilepsy centers with 24/7 EEG coverage. Since very few non-Level 4 centers have extensive EEG tech coverage, this creates a significant opportunity for Brain Scientific to bridge the gap by providing over 5,900 hospitals with lower cost amplifiers and disposable EEG caps.

The company also see opportunities to work with other businesses, such as EEG manufacturers hoping to package Brain Scientific’s solutions with their products, which could greatly expand Brain Scientific’s addressable target market.

Management Team

Dr. Baruch “Boris” Goldstein, Ph.D., is co-founder and Chairman of Brain Scientific. He is a seasoned executive with a proven talent for aligning global business strategies with established and emerging management teams. Goldstein’s growth-focused leadership style has helped him raise over $750 million in venture capital for the development of innovative companies and startups in diverse industries, including financial services, biomedicine, alternate energy and new materials, as well as groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence. His recent achievements include important advancements in neurology and unlocking the potential of AI correlations and machine learning applied to life sciences and medical research. He built a suite of first-to-market companies as a technology-oriented leader, including Ryah Medtech, Brain Scientific, GrapheneCA, E-Forex and Intelligent Video Systems. He also co-founded BrainRX, a company specializing in pre-Alzheimer’s diagnostics.

Dr. Nikolay Kukekov, Ph.D., is a Director of Brain Scientific and a partner at HRA Capital. Before joining HRA Capital, Kukekov was Managing Director of Healthcare Investment Banking at Summer Street Research. His scientific background includes a bachelor’s degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Columbia University – College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.

Stuart Bernstein is the company’s Vice President of Marketing. He was recently named to the role after spending the first part of his professional career in senior technical management roles with Fortune 500 companies such as NCR (NYSE: NCR), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Control Data Corp. He was the CEO of BioSignal, an EEG medical device company. He is also a co-founder of several software engineering and telemedicine firms. One of them, Brain Saving Technology, is now Specialist on Call (SOC Telemed) – a leading telemedicine company that powers over 850 facilities for teleneurology, telepsychiatry and critical care telemedicine with over 200 physicians.

Brain Scientific Inc. (OTCQB: BRSF), closed Wednesday's trading session at $1.24, up 8.7719%, on 5,141 volume with 10 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 21,071 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.100000001/$3.00999999.

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Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: GRYN)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: GRYN).

Green Hygienics (OTCQB: GRYN), an innovative, technology-driven enterprise, has announced an upcoming shareholder call. The purpose of the call is to update shareholders on the company’s achievements in 2020; the call will also include an overview of current initiatives and projects, sales information, and GRYN’s future road map. The event is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, and will begin at 1 PM ET. Green Hygienics CEO Ron Loudoun will host the call, along with COO Kyle MacKinnon. In addition, company representatives will answer questions following the presentation; potential questions can be submitted to ir@greenhygienics.com. To view the full press release, visit: https://www.cnw.fm/5HMsK

Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: GRYN) is a California-based innovative technology-driven enterprise focused on the high standard cultivation and processing of industrial hemp and manufacturing of pharmaceutical-grade bioactive cannabinoids.

The company aims to be a leader in compliance and capabilities in the hemp and cannabinoid supply marketplace. By leveraging state of the art technologies, the company intends to open up a whole new world of novel cannabinoids and targeted bio-delivery technologies never before explored, solving the issues of stability, pharmacokinetics, biological tissue penetration and bioavailability.

Dedicated to creating the hemp industry’s safest and finest quality products, the company will be uniquely positioned to deliver product efficacy and supply chain solutions to consumers, as well as to leverage these within its own products and brand portfolio.

USDA Organic Certification and FDA Registration

On August 26, 2020, Green Hygienics registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration pursuant to the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended by the Bioterrorism Act of 2002. This registration strengthens the company’s core mission to provide product efficacy to the pharmaceutical industry and consumers alike.

On September 30, 2020, Green Hygienics was granted USDA Organic Certification (7 CFR Part 205) for the cultivation and post-harvest processing of industrial hemp by the California Certified Organic Farmers for its Sol Valley Ranch property. This certification further enables the company to supply certified organic hemp products to national and international markets.

Market Opportunity

Green Hygienics is focused on finding, acquiring and developing strategically positioned businesses, as well as the best innovations within the hemp industry – a fast-progressing market with remarkable opportunities for growth. The industrial hemp market is expected to reach $5.33 billion in 2020 and is projected to rise to $15.26 billion by 2027, achieving a CAGR of 15.8%, per Grand View Research.

Capital Structure

GRYN has less than 42 million shares outstanding, fully diluted. The company has just 7.2 million common shares in float and boasts a balance sheet with no toxic debt or overhang.

Key Management

Dr. Levan Darjania serves as the company’s Chief Science Officer. Darjania has over 26 years of experience in biotechnology and pharmaceutical drug development. His research and development experience has led him to develop many in-house and collaborative R&D programs over the course of his career.

Kyle MacKinnon serves as GRYN’s Chief Operating Officer. He has extensive knowledge in cannabis processing and was previously the Business Development Manager of Advanced Extraction Systems Inc., a leader in CO2 Supercritical Fluid Extraction. MacKinnon brings over 20 years of sales and management experience to the company.

Ronald Loudoun is the President, CEO, Secretary and Director of Green Hygienics. He received an undergraduate business degree from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Before joining Green Hygienics, he was the founder and a director of renewable energy firm Archer CleanTech Inc.

Jerry Halamuda is the Senior Vice President of Business Development of the company’s Agriculture Division. He has an extensive career working in the agriculture and horticulture industry. Halamuda has founded, managed and operated multiple successful companies, including Color Spot Nurseries.

John Gildea is GRYN’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. He has over 20 years of experience working within the private and public markets. His expertise includes negotiating and structuring private and public financing and mergers. During the course of his work, Gildea has established trusted relationships with a network of equity and capital partners.

 

Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: GRYN), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.79, up 12.8571%, on 26,386 volume with 27 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 20,283 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.300000011/$2.02999997.

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Kaival Brands Innovations Group Inc. (KAVL)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Kaival Brands Innovations Group Inc. (KAVL).

Kaival Brands (OTCQB: KAVL), a company focused on generating shareholder value by incubating innovative products into mature and dominant brands within their respective markets, has begun the process to uplist to the Nasdaq Capital Market. KAVL is working with legal counsel Morgan Lewis & Bockius as it prepares to uplist its shares of common stock from the OTC Markets Venture Market to the NASDAQ. The exclusive global distributor of products manufactured by Bidi Vapor LLC ("Bidi Vapor"), Kaival has seen significant growth as it has expanded the distribution of its premium product offerings. To view the full press release, visit https://ibn.fm/1sHqC

Kaival Brands Innovations Group Inc. (KAVL) is focused on growing and incubating innovative and profitable products into mature, dominant brands. It aims to develop internally, acquire or exclusively distribute these products, helping them grow into market-share leaders by providing superior quality that is recognizable in their individual industries.

Formerly known as Quick Start Holdings Inc., the company changed its name to Kaival Brands Innovations Group Inc. (also known as Kaival Brands) in July 2019. Headquartered in Grant, Florida, the company commenced business operations on March 9, 2020.

Bidi™ Stick – Revolutionizing the Vaping Experience

On March 9, 2020, Kaival Brands entered into a partnership with Bidi Vapor LLC. The latter granted Kaival Brands exclusive global distribution rights for the innovative Bidi™ Stick.

Bidi™ Stick is a completely self-contained disposable product that is tamper-proof and recyclable. The innovative product is made from high-quality components and equipped with a long-lasting battery and class A nicotine. Its product engineering also includes a sensitivity control system, along with a proven mechanism designed to help identify and eliminate counterfeit products.

Available in 11 flavors, the Bidi™ Stick offers a premium vaping experience for adult consumers only. From its packaging design to its marketing strategies, Bidi Vapor makes sure that everything is compliant with government regulations.

On March 31, 2020, Kaival Brands partnered with QuikfillRx Digital as a digital service provider to help promote and commercialize the Bidi™ Stick. As a direct result of the partnership, Kaival Brands received back-to-back orders for the vaping device, totaling approximately $135,000, from sizable national convenience chains.

On September 8, 2020, the company announced that Bidi Vapor had submitted its Premarket Tobacco Product application (PMTA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for review. In total, over 285,000 pages of research, studies and surveys were submitted to support the application of Bidi™ Stick’s 11 variants.

“We are confident that, upon review, the FDA will authorize Bidi Vapor’s Bidi™ Stick for continued marketing in the United States,” Niraj Patel, President and CEO of Kaival Brands, stated in a news release (http://nnw.fm/unAyG).

Bidi Vapor is an industry leader in recycling – a position that was furthered through the creation of the Bidi Cares Initiative. The program encourages users to recycle their used Bidi™ Sticks instead of trashing them. As motivation, Bidi Vapor offers a free Bidi™ Stick for every 10 used devices recycled by a consumer. Kaival Brands is the exclusive recycling provider for the initiative.

Partnership Impact and Market Outlook

Bidi Vapor is a related party to Kaival Brands, as it is owned by Kaival Brands CEO Nirajkumar Patel. Patel is also the majority stockholder of Kaival Brands, placing both entities under common control.

The partnership has already had a positive impact on Kaival Brands, helping the company expedite growth, as evidenced by its Q2 financial results. According to Kaival Brands’ consolidated fiscal results for the quarter that ended on April 30, 2020, its revenues grew to approximately $22.5 million from no revenue in the same quarter of 2019. The company also scored a gross profit of $4.2 million for the three-month period. Net income was reported at $2.8 million for the quarter, compared to a net loss of about $4,000 in the second quarter of 2019. The company ended the second quarter of 2020 with a cash balance of $2 million (http://nnw.fm/44sq4).

The positive results are primarily an effect of Bidi™ Stick distribution amid the growing worldwide demand for high-quality vape products, as Patel explained in a news release. “Our focus now is to continue to increase revenues by increasing Bidi Vapor’s market share in the vaping industry,” he added.

Internationally, Kaival Brands has already taken steps to expand distribution of the Bidi™ Stick into Guam, Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

To this end, the company has set up a market engagement and sales force to reach a higher volume of retail and wholesale customers. It also created a dedicated customer support team to provide high-quality service and an enhanced customer experience.

Kaival Brands is dedicated to developing innovative and viable options for adults who use tobacco and vape products and want a premium experience. The company wants to set higher standards to transform perceptions and elevate consumer experience in the vape and CBD industries, with a goal of increasing market share in the ever-growing vaping industry. In 2019, the reported global market for the vaping industry alone was $12.4 billion. These forecasts indicate a potential CAGR of 23.8% through 2027.

Cancellation of 300 Million Shares of Common Stock

In August 2020, the company canceled 300 million shares of common stock, marking a 52.1 percent reduction in its issued and outstanding shares of common stock (http://nnw.fm/W7s9T). Currently, the company’s outstanding common shares total 277,282,630. The cancelation was done in exchange for three million shares of Series A Preferred Stock. The Series A Preferred Stock cannot be converted before November 2023, barring any event that may trigger early conversion.

According to Patel, this move will benefit all shareholders and help maintain stability of the market pricing of remaining common stock. The overall goal is to increase value for long-term investors.

Management Team

Nirajkumar Patel is the CEO, CFO, President, Treasurer and Director of Kaival Brands and owner of Bidi Vapor LLC. In 2004, Patel received a Bachelor of Science in pharmaceutical sciences from AISSMS College of Pharmacy in Prune, India. He moved to the United States in 2005, and he continued his education at the Florida Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 2009 with a master’s degree in medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry. He currently holds a Six Sigma Black Belt Certification.

Eric Mosser is the COO, Secretary and Director of Kaival Brands. Mosser attended Arizona State University, where he studied business management. In 2004, he graduated from Rio Salado College with an associate degree in applied science in computer technology.

Kaival Brands Innovations Group Inc. (KAVL), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.77, up 11.5942%, on 572,285 volume with 248 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 576,785 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.007/$1.09000003.

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Pure Extracts Technologies Corp. (CSE: PULL) (OTC: PRXTF)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Pure Extracts Technologies Corp. (CSE: PULL) (OTC: PRXTF).

Pure Extracts Technologies (CSE: PULL) (OTC: PRXTF) (XFRA: A2QJAJ), a plant-based extraction company, recently announced that it had commenced a study into the formulation and manufacturing of psilocybin-based active treatments, with oral tablets, capsules and nasal gels set to be used as investigational products. The study is set to be carried out at the Toronto Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology (“TIPT”) under the auspices of Dr Alexander MacGregor, a key scientific advisor to the Company (https://ibn.fm/Kfpwa). Also today, the company was featured in a publication from PsychedelicNewsWire, examining how, while psychedelics gain popularity across the media through various clinical trials and research studies, it is important to remember that there is still a lot about them that we don’t know, including how they cause strange hallucinations and how they affect the brain. Also today, the company was featured in the 420 with CNW by CannabisNewsWire.

Pure Extracts Technologies Corp. (CSE: PULL) (OTC: PRXTF), headquartered in Pemberton, British Columbia, is a plant-based extraction company with a new vertical in functional mushrooms. The firm is positioned to be the dominant extraction company and a leader in the rapid development and commercialization of functional and medicinal psychedelic products.

The Company’s business model consists of three verticals: in-house brands; toll processing, offering contract cannabis and hemp processing to Canadian Licensed Producers and international partners to sell under their own brands; and white labelling, supplying products, including edibles and custom formulated oils, in consumer-ready packaging for companies licensed to sell cannabis oil extracts and for CPG brands seeking licensed cannabis manufacturing partners.

Market Position

The psychedelic and functional mushroom industries are among the fastest growing in North America. As the industry transitions from dry biomass to extracts, many companies are unprepared for this new opportunity. The global medicinal mushroom market is expected to grow by $13.88 billion annually by 2024.

When assessing investment strategy, market analysts suggest that psychedelics are more comparable to biotech than to cannabis. Unlike traditional biotech, however, psychedelics can claim years of human consumption. Because their efficacy and safety are already well understood, the hurdles for development are likely to be lower. As known molecules, psychedelics won’t spend as much time in discovery and pre-clinical development.

Current research is finding psychedelic benefits including anti-tumor, anti-viral, detoxification, immune function, and mental wellness. As such, psychedelic compounds are now being examined by leading medical research and academic institutions for treatment of depression, PTSD, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, obesity, narcolepsy, OCD, Alzheimer’s, ADHD and drug and alcohol dependence. In 2020, the FDA granted breakthrough therapy status to psychedelics for treatment-resistant depression, with approvals anticipated in 2021.

Pure Extracts is well positioned to partner with organizations planning to develop both functional and psychedelic products. A dealer’s license with Health Canada will enable buying, selling and producing of psychedelics in an EU-GMP-compliant environment. The Company’s 10,000 square foot facility is designed for EU-GMP certification, which allows for international sales. The Company has signed NDAs to explore joint development endeavors for Q4 2020 product launches, as well as an advisory agreement with Dr. Alexander MacGregor, founder of Transpharm Canada Inc. (“TCI”), the parent company of Toronto Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology, whose facility is a fully compliant Health Canada licensed Good Manufacturing Practice (“GMP”) manufacturing and testing facility and is a full-service clinical development business that provides clinical trial services to biotechnology companies.

Research on Psychedelics

Naturally occurring psychedelics, like psilocybin mushrooms, peyote and ayahuasca, have been used by humans for centuries. First seen as potentially medicinal in 1938 by a chemist at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now Novartis), the desired stimulant effect was unsuccessful and therefore the drug was shelved. Twenty years later, in 1958, Sandoz began selling lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to treat mental disorders. From 1950 to 1965, over a thousand scientific papers on these compounds were published. During the 1960s, however, psychedelics made their way out of the lab and onto the street. The war on drugs followed, and psychedelic research essentially ended.

Research continued slowly on the fringes. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies was formed in 1986 with the goal of becoming a leading non-profit psychedelic pharmaceutical company. Still being researched, psychedelics’ primary and most common mechanism of action is agonism of serotonin receptors in the brain, which promotes serotonin production in order to regulate mood.

Growing societal awareness and acceptance of mental illness as a legitimate disease due, in part, to its increasingly prevalence have been a catalyst for a new search for innovative treatments. As such, interest in psychedelic medicines has been revived in recent years.

Extract Segment Leader with Cannabis

Canada’s cannabis industry is dominated by dried flower products. Extract products are estimated to represent only 13% of the market share. With no dominant brands in the cannabis sector, Pure Extracts is the development leader in this segment, which is estimated by Deloitte to be worth $2.7 billion annually. Pure Pulls, the company’s private label brand, is nationally recognized through compliant event sponsorship and ongoing product engagement.

Management Team

Pure Extracts is led by a team of dedicated professionals leveraging extensive industry knowledge.

Ben Nikolaevsky, the company’s CEO, has more than a decade of experience in corporate leadership roles across the natural products, agriculture and cannabis sectors. Nikolaevsky has served as CEO at Natura Naturals Inc. and Blue Goose Capital Corp., as well as market vice president at CIBC and chief credit officer & capital markets manager at IBM Global Financing Canada.

Doug Benville founded Pure Extracts and serves as the company’s COO. He is highly proficient in cannabis cultivation, system operations and oil extraction.

Alexander Logie, Pure Extracts’ vice president of business development, has over 30 years of experience in the financial services sector, having most recently served as interim CFO, COO and senior vice president of business development at Natura Naturals Inc., a licensed cannabis producer acquired at the start of 2019.

Andy Gauvin is vice president of sales for Pure Extracts. Gauvin is an accomplished senior sales leader with over 30 years of experience in the cannabis space. Gauvin also brings extensive knowledge of the complex federal and provincial regulatory environment to the Pure Extracts team.

Pure Extracts Technologies Corp. (CSE: PULL), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.75, up 8.70%, with 174 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 374,808 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.47/$0.89.

Recent News

Imagin Medical Inc. (CSE: IME) (OTCQB: IMEXF)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Imagin Medical Inc. (CSE: IME) (OTCQB: IMEXF).

Imagin Medical (CSE: IME) (OTCQB: IMEXF), a surgical imaging company focused on establishing a new standard of care in visualizing cancer during minimally invasive procedures, today announced its engagement of Rancho Santa Fe, California-based investor relations firm San Diego Torrey Hills Capital, Inc. ("Torrey Hills Capital") to deliver market awareness and investor relations services to IMEXF, subject to acceptance by the Canadian Securities Exchange ("CSE"). The move enables the company to cultivate an informed investor audience in both the U.S. and Canadian marketplaces. The company has engaged the firm at a rate of US$7,000 per month. To view the full press release, visit: https://ibn.fm/DAGEl

Imagin Medical Inc. (CSE: IME) (OTCQB: IMEXF) is a surgical imaging company focused on establishing a new standard of care in visualizing cancer during minimally invasive procedures. Its initial focus is on bladder cancer.

The company’s first product is the i/Blue Imaging™ System, based on advanced optics and light sensors and employing patented ultrasensitive imaging technology. Imagin Medical believes the system can significantly improve surgeons’ ability to visualize and remove cancer cells.

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company works to enhance its market potential by expanding its technology to multiple endoscopic indications, such as laparoscopic, colorectal and thoracic procedures, accommodating multiple contrast agents and illumination sources.

i/Blue Imaging™ System

The conventional method used for visualizing bladder cancer during surgery is an endoscopic procedure called a cystoscopy. This procedure uses white light to illuminate the bladder. White light has been used for decades and is the standard for more than 90% of the market. Blue light cystoscopy uses blue-filtered white light, which addresses the limitations of white light (such as detecting flat tumors and the fine edges that may result in cancerous cells being left behind during removal).

Blue light uses a contrast agent that causes cancer cells to fluoresce when illuminated. Surgeons are then able to more effectively visualize and resect the margins of bladder tumors to reduce the risk of recurrence. Notably, the use of the white light is still necessary during a blue-light procedure so that the surgeon can orient their position within the bladder.

Imagin Medical’s i/Blue Imaging System addresses the limitations of both white and blue light cystoscopies. The i/Blue System combines the white and blue light with an FDA-approved imaging agent and simultaneously displays side-by-side images in real-time, without the necessity to switch back and forth between the two images.

The i/Blue Imaging System is unlike other methods available on the market today. It is external to the body and can attach to almost any endoscope model currently in use. This way, hospitals adopting Imagin Medical’s technology have the ability to use their current endoscopes without the need to purchase new equipment.

Bladder Cancer Prevalence

The company’s initial focus is bladder cancer, which is the sixth most prevalent form of cancer in the United States. In 2020, the number of new bladder cancer cases is expected to total 81,400, accounting for 4.5 percent of all new cancers diagnosed. The death rate in 2020 for cancer deaths associated with the bladder is forecast at 17,980, or 3% of all cancer-related deaths (https://ibn.fm/qLi3l).

Bladder cancer also has one of the highest recurrence rates among all forms of cancer, leaving about 600,000 people in fear that their cancer will return, according to Imagin Medical. The company is committed to addressing this issue, and i/Blue demonstrations have indicated that the use of both white and blue light can enhance accuracy of detection and removal of cancer cells, potentially lowering recurrence rates.

Based on Verified Market Research, the global bladder cancer research market was valued at $3.43 billion in 2018. It is estimated to grow with a CAGR of 4.03% through 2026, resulting in a projected $4.71 billion market (https://ibn.fm/rI7G6).

Management Team

E. James Hutchens is the Chief Executive Officer of Imagin Medical Inc. He is a proven entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in management in the medical technology industry. Hutchens served as a managing partner with Origin Partners, a $55 million early-stage venture capital fund. He was also the founder and CEO of both Microsurge Inc. (a venture-backed minimally invasive surgical company) and Choice Therapeutics (an advanced wound-care company). He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Brigham and Women’s and Faulkner hospitals. Hutchins holds a BS in Business Administration from Boston University.

John Vacha is the company’s Chief Financial Officer. He has 20 years of experience in the health care industry. Prior to Medtronic’s acquisition of Intact Medical Corp. in 2017, Vacha was the company’s President, CEO and a board member for seven years. He is a licensed CPA in Massachusetts. Vacha has an MBA and an MS in Accounting from Northeastern University in Boston. He is also a serving member of the Board of Directors at the South Boston Health Center. He currently has two patents in electrosurgical instrumentation.

Michael G. Vergano is the Director of Operations of Imagin Medical. He has been the President of The Harvest Group Inc. since 1998, where he has provided consultant services for startups and major corporations. Vergano has over 30 years of experience in the medical device industry. He has held management positions at Microsurge Inc., Ciba Corning Diagnostics and Boston Scientific Corp. He is currently the holder of 11 medical device patents and holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University.

Pam Papineau is the company’s Director of Regulatory Affairs. She has over 30 years of experience in quality and regulatory affairs with Boston Scientific, Baxter and Cogentix. She has served as a consultant on various devices including imaging, endoscopy, orthopedic, GI/GU and cardiovascular applications. Papineau has successfully prepared dozens of FDA pre-market and EU submissions to support CE marking of a broad spectrum of medical devices. She is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, a Certified Biomedical Auditor, a Certified Quality Auditor and an ISO 13485:2016 Lead Auditor, and she is certified by the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society – U.S., EU and Canada. Papineau works with the company’s legal counsel to prepare pre-submission meetings with the FDA and activities through the regulatory approval process.

Imagin Medical Inc. (CSE: IME) (OTCQB: IMEXF), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.60, up 0.033344%, on 111,541 volume with 66 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 16,700 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.200000002/$1.40400004.

Recent News

Josemaria Resources Inc. (TSX: JOSE) (OTC: JOSMF)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Josemaria Resources Inc. (TSX: JOSE) (OTC: JOSMF).

Josemaria Resources Inc. (TSX: JOSE) (OTCQB: JOSMF) was featured today in a publication from MiningNewsWire, examining how, in the first week of 2021, the London Metal Exchange (LME) three-month price of tin rose to $21,360 per ton. This marks tin’s highest trade since March 2019. At the moment, the price sits at $21,085. This increase happened despite the impact the coronavirus pandemic had on the supply of tin, as key supplier countries of the metal have been affected greatly. However, according to the International Tin Association, even with a 6% approximate downturn in the demand of the metal, the world market recorded a 5,200-ton shortfall in supply last year.

Josemaria Resources Inc. (TSX: JOSE) (OTC: JOSMF) is a Canadian natural resources company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company’s current focus is on advancing the development of its wholly owned Josemaria copper-gold mining project.

Josemaria Resources is part of The Lundin Group of companies, a conglomerate of 13 business entities operating in the mining, oil and gas and renewables sectors all around the world.

The Josemaria Copper-Gold Project

The company’s flagship Josemaria Copper-Gold Project is located in the San Juan Province of Argentina – a well-known mining hub supporting a wide variety of mining service companies. The Lundin Group has been active in Argentina for approximately 30 years. Committed to advancing the project, Josemaria Resources has already begun the bridging phase, with basic and detailed engineering planning expected to commence in early 2021.

The company recently announced the results of a feasibility study at the Josemaria Project. The study, prepared by a team of engineering and consulting providers including Fluor Canada Ltd., SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. and Knight Piésold Ltd., highlights a robust, low-risk project with rapid payback expected via an open pit operation with forecast capacity to feed a conventional process plant at a rate of 152,000 tonnes a day over a 19-year mine life.

According to the feasibility study, the project is expected to yield an average annual production of 136,000 tonnes of copper, 231,000 ounces of gold and 1,164,000 ounces of silver. Other highlights of the study include:

  • The optimized mining production plan provides average grades in the first three years of production that are notably better than the life-of-mine average. This supports a forecast 3.8-year payback period from the start of production.
  • The project’s total initial cost, including engineering, procurement, construction, management, on- and off-site infrastructure, contingency and pre-construction engineering work, amounts to roughly $3.09 billion.
  • The location provides readily available access to essential resources, including water, grid power, transportation and logistics infrastructure within San Juan Province.
  • An Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the project is already underway and is expected to be submitted to relevant authority agencies for review during Q1 2021.

The Josemaria Copper-Gold Project has been designed to incorporate the latest technology. Per the feasibility study, the project will include the use of autonomous trucks and production drill fleets, with the option of incorporating green energy, indicating the company’s commitment to minimizing and mitigating the adverse effects of mining on the environment.

To this end, the company intends to leverage suitable planning, impact assessment and monitoring tools while also incorporating water and energy efficiency systems and ecosystem conservation services in the design and implementation of its operations.

Josemaria Resources President and CEO Adam Lundin welcomed the results of the study as confirming that this is one of the very few readily developable copper-gold projects in the world and forecasting an attractive economic outcome for the asset, comparable with other copper-gold projects in development.

“We believe that Josemaria is perfectly positioned to commence production by mid-decade, meeting rising copper demand from a rapidly electrifying global economy. I believe the study results will allow us to unlock various financing opportunities as we move toward construction,” Lundin said in a news release.

Market Outlook

The global smart mining market was estimated at $6.8 billion in 2019. It is forecast to reach $20.31 billion by 2025. The significant increase is expected to be driven by technological advancements within the sector.

Global demand for copper is also growing steadily, due to the metal’s versatility and multiple uses for industrial, domestic and high-technology indications. The global copper market is expected to reach $222.1 billion by the end of 2026.

Management Team

Adam Lundin is the President, CEO and Director of Josemaria Resources. He has several years of experience in managing capital markets and public companies across the natural resources sector. His background includes oil, gas, mining technology, investment advising, international finances and executive management. Lundin began his career working for several of the Lundin Group mining companies. He is currently engaged in multiple roles, as he is also the Chairman for Filo Mining Corp. and Africa Energy Corp. and a Director of NGEx Minerals Ltd. and the Lundin Foundation.

Ian Gibbs serves as CFO of Josemaria Resources. He is a Canadian Chartered Accountant and a graduate of the University of Calgary, holding a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Gibbs has held many prominent positions within the Lundin Group of companies over the last 15 years, most recently as the CFO of Africa Oil Corp.

Arndt Brettschneider is the company’s Vice President of Projects. He has over 23 years of international mining, consulting and project development experience. Before joining Josemaria Resources, he was Vice President of the mining consulting businesses of two globally recognized engineering companies. Brettschneider obtained a Bachelor of Science with Honors from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He received his MBA from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.

Bob Carmichael is the company’s Vice President of Exploration. He joined Josemaria Resources from Lundin Mining Corporation’s UK office. In his UK role, he was the General Manager of Resource Exploration. Carmichael is a registered Professional Engineer in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He obtained a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of British Columbia. His dual role includes serving as Vice President of Exploration for Filo Mining Corp. and NGEx Minerals Ltd.

Alfredo Vitaller is Josemaria Resources’ General Manager in Argentina. He has been involved in the mining industry since 1993. He graduated as a Licentiate in Geological Sciences from Buenos Aires University and has an M.Sc. from Mackay School of Mines at the University of Reno. Vitaller has worked with the Lundin Group since 1993 and was a part of the exploration teams for Filo, Helados and Josemaria.

Notable Directors

Ashley Heppenstall, chairman of the Josemaria Resources board of directors, has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas and resources sectors. From 2002 to 2015, Heppenstall served as the President, CEO and Finance Director of Lundin Petroleum AB, an oil and gas exploration and production company with core assets in Norway and Southeast Asia. He is credited with building Lundin Petroleum into the largest independent oil firm in the world today, leveraging a single equity raise of $50 million to guide Lundin in the design and implementation of a strategy that’s led it to a current market cap of roughly $6 billion.

Ron Hochstein has worked for the Lundin family directly as a consultant for over 20 years and is currently the President and CEO of Lundin Gold, a gold-producing business whose key asset is the Fruta del Norte gold deposit in Ecuador. Hochstein led construction efforts on the first mine in Ecuador, which went into production in 2019 and was completed on time and on budget.

Paul Conibear has been with The Lundin Group for over two decades, including serving as the CEO and Director of Lundin Mining from 2011 through 2018. Lundin Mining’s current market cap is estimated at $3.5 billion. In total, Conibear has more than 35 years of experience in progressively more responsible positions in the resource sector ranging through management of all phases of mine investment, including exploration, economic assessments, construction, operations and closure.

Josemaria Resources Inc. (TSX: JOSE) (OTC: JOSMF), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.5849, up 2.059%, on 10,282 volume with 10 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 19,882 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.465299993/$0.685000002.

Recent News

Bullfrog Gold Corp. (CSE: BFG) (OTCQB: BFGC) (FSE: 11B)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Bullfrog Gold Corp. (CSE: BFG) (OTCQB: BFGC) (FSE: 11B).

Bullfrog Gold (OTCQB: BFGC) (CSE: BFG) (FSE: 11B), a Delaware corporation engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of gold and silver properties in the United States, has changed its name. The company confirmed that it will begin trading under the name Augusta Gold Corp. with its trading symbol on the Canadian Securities Exchange also changing to G (“G”). In addition, the company announced that Len Boggio had also been named to BFG’s board of directors, effective immediately. To view the full press release, visit http://ibn.fm/O3Lds

Bullfrog Gold Corp. (the “Company”) (CSE: BFG) (OTCQB: BFGC) (FSE: 11B) is a Delaware corporation engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of gold and silver properties in the United States. The Company controls strategic lands with established 43-101 compliant resources in one of the most exciting gold exploration areas in the United States. The Bullfrog Gold Project (“Project”) includes a lease/option on much of the lands where Barrick Bullfrog Inc., a subsidiary of Barrick Gold Corp., produced more than 2.3 million ounces of gold and 2.49 million ounces of silver from 1989 to 1999. The Project is located within the prolific Walker Trend about 125 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Project Highlights

  • The Company initially acquired 79 unpatented claims and two patents in mid-2011 and has since staked, leased, optioned, or purchased lands that now total 5,250 acres. Via a 2015 lease/option with Barrick, the Project includes the northern one-third of the Bullfrog deposit where most of the current resources in the Bullfrog mine area occur, along with their interest in the Montgomery-Shoshone deposit which gave the Company 100% control.
  • In mid-2017, a NI 43-101-compliant report by independent mining consultancy Tetra Tech Inc. estimated measured and indicated (“M&I”) resources of 624,000 ounces of gold and 1.73 million ounces of silver at average grades of 0.70 g/t and 1.93 g/t, respectively. The expansion plans of these two pits were based on a $1200 gold price, use of heap leach processing, and also included 110,000 ounces of inferred gold resources averaging 1.20 g/t. Barrick used conventional milling to process an average gold grade of 3 g/t.
  • The established resources and exploration potential of the Project are strongly supported by a large data base obtained from Barrick, including detailed information on 155 miles of drilling in 1,262 holes in the Bullfrog mine area.

Gold Rush in the Bullfrog Territory

The area around Beatty, Nevada has now attracted AngloGold Ashanti, Kinross Gold, Corvus Gold, Coeur Mining as well as the Company and Waterton. In this regard, Northern Empire Resources Corp’s property located a few miles east of the Project was acquired by Coeur Mining in October 2018 for C$117 million, implying a valuation of C$134/oz of inferred resources. As of today, the Company is trading at a significant discount to the valuation at which Northern Empire was purchased (http://nnw.fm/9NaaN), thereby highlighting the Company’s value proposition for investors.

Bullfrog Gold Corp. is focused on enhancing shareholder returns by concurrently advancing Project development and performing exploration drilling programs on several targets identified by the Company.

Secured Financing for 2020 Operations

Bullfrog Gold Corp. raised C$2 million in January 2020 through a private placement of shares priced at C$0.13/share plus a one-half warrant exercisable within two years at C$0.20 on a full warrant basis. The raise was carried out primarily to fund a drill program that started on May 1 (http://nnw.fm/6nZ0m), and was completed on June 6, 2020. Results from drilling 12,520 feet in 25 holes will be released in the coming weeks. The Company subsequently intends to conduct a preliminary financial analysis and complete further drill programs to advance the Project and add value. The financing was subscribed by several influential shareholders, including a former director of Northern Empire, who handled the sale of the company to Coeur Mining, and Eros Resources, the management of which has been involved with several high-profile mining projects and sales in the past.

Gold Prices estimated to average $1,800/oz in 2021

Gold prices have been on a remarkable run in 2020, rising by $245/oz to $1,760 prior to peaking in early May. Global central banks carried out 144 interest rate cuts thus far in 2020, reducing their rates by a cumulative 5,035 basis points (http://nnw.fm/jzZt0). Meanwhile, the IMF has estimated that global governments have introduced fiscal support measures amounting to over $9 trillion since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (http://nnw.fm/Or9rI). The resulting weakness in the U.S. dollar and eventual inflationary pressures stemming from these measures prompted Credit Suisse to recently hike their gold price forecasts for the full year to $1,701/oz (from $1,570 previously), while the outlook for 2021 has been raised to $1,800/oz (versus $1,600 previously) (http://nnw.fm/Iqg0X).

Management Team

David Beling, CEO, President and Director
David Beling is a Registered Professional Mining Engineer with 55 years of diverse experience in areas such as engineering, development, permitting, construction, financing and management of mines and plants and the building and growth of several corporations. His initial employment included 14 years with Phelps Dodge, Union Oil, Fluor, United Technologies, and Westinghouse, followed by 41 years of senior management and consulting with 25+ U.S. and Canadian mining companies. In 2006-2007, he spearheaded an IPO, successfully drove equity raises totaling C$112 million and grew that Company’s market capitalization to $460 million. Beling has served on 14 boards since 1981, including three mining companies distinguished by the TSX Venture Exchange as top-10 performers.

Alan Lindsay, Chairman of the Board
Alan Lindsay is an entrepreneur and businessman who has founded seven companies within the mining and pharmaceutical industries, including Anatolia Minerals Development Ltd., Uranium Energy Corp., Oroperu Mineral, Strategic American Oil and AZCO Mining. Lindsay also developed the strategic vision for the 2011 acquisition and placement of the Project from NPX Metals into Bullfrog Gold Corp.

Kjeld Thygesen, Director
Kjeld is a graduate of the University of Natal in South Africa and has 48 years of experience as a resource analyst and fund manager. In 1972, he joined James Capel and Co. in London as part of its highly rated gold and mining research team before subsequently becoming manager of N. M. Rothschild & Sons’ commodities and Natural Resources Department in 1979. In 1987, he became an executive director of N. M. Rothschild International Asset Management Ltd., before co-founding Lion Resource Management Ltd., a specialist investment manager in the mining and natural resources sector, in 1989. Thygesen has been a director of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. since 2001 and served as investment director for Resources Investment Trust PLC from 2002 to 2006.

Tyler Minnick, CFO and Director of Administration & Finance
A registered member of the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants with over 24 years of experience within the fields of accounting, auditing, and administrative services. Minnick has been engaged with the Company since mid-2011 and previously worked in the finance department of MDC Holdings/Richmond American Homes, one of the largest residential construction companies in the United States.

Bullfrog Gold Corp. (OTCQB: BFGC), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.35, up 1.4493%, on 399,018 volume with 82 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 251,491 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.047449998/$0.465000003.

Recent News

CannAssist International Corp. (OTCQB: CNSC)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight CannAssist International Corp. (OTCQB: CNSC).

With industry experts predicting the stabilization of hemp prices and a more predictable market in 2021 (https://cnw.fm/7p6Dt), CannAssist International (OTCQB: CNSC) appears to be ideally situated in a sector forecast for remarkable growth. Owner of Xceptor Labs, CannAssist is a biotechnological pharmaceutical and wellness company that markets a powerful line of cannabidiol (“CBD”) products under the Xceptol brand.

CannAssist International Corp. (OTCQB: CNSC), owner of Xceptor Labs, is a biotechnological pharmaceutical and wellness company marketing the Xceptol consumer brand.

CannAssist, a Delaware corporation, was established in May 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego County, California.

2018 Farm Bill and CBD Market Size

Signed into law in December 2018, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) removed hemp from its classification as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

There are over 100 known cannabinoids within the hemp plant. The two most commonly utilized cannabinoids are THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol). Cannabinoids have been shown to affect the endocannabinoid system within the human body, which is why CBD has demonstrated effectiveness as a therapeutic option when delivered through the right absorption avenues.

The 2018 Farm Bill is expected to have a sustained impact on the growth of the cannabidiol market and related sectors. In 2018, the global cannabidiol market was valued at $4.6 billion, and it’s expected to increase almost sixfold by 2025, reaching $23.6 billion (https://ibn.fm/PL6PO).

This growth is expected to provide multiple opportunities to CannAssist and its high-quality, high-performance brands, including products currently under development. Based on current revenue from licensing agreements, retail sales and the Xceptol brand’s international distribution, the company expects to reach first-year sales of $5 million. With additional products in the pipeline and an unwavering commitment to quality and effectiveness, the company expects to see steady sales growth in the years ahead.

Xceptor Labs

Xceptor Labs is an R&D and raw material manufacturing company that partners with TakaUSA, in Coppell, Texas, for contract manufacturing and production services.

CiBiDinol Technology

Xceptor Labs’ technology, CiBiDinol, is formulated using a proprietary process developed by CannAssist Founder Mark Palumbo. It is specifically designed to address many critical issues with oil-soluble CBD molecules, including delivery, bioavailability and short shelf-life. This technology provides the basis for Xceptor Labs and Xceptol consumer products.

CiBiDinol is believed to provide CBD in a format that is more in line with the body’s natural bioactivity. The company’s proprietary processes are used to combine CBD molecules with penetration enhancing cyclodextrin, effectively modifying the CBD molecule’s surface and rendering it water dispersible. This technology enhances absorption through the skin and gut.

The company believes that CBD products created using its CiBiDinol technology offer more predictable potency and enable reduced dosage requirements. This technology clears the way for a wide variety of products, including many oil-soluble active ingredients and highly effective consumer product applications.

Independent Testing

Third-party testing has confirmed that products made with CiBiDinol demonstrate a 400 percent increase in skin penetration as compared to regular CBD in oil carriers alone, as well as a 300 percent higher absorption rate in the gut. The company believes that the results indicate that the amount of CBD needed to achieve targeted endpoints can be significantly lower, resulting in lower costs for manufacturers and consumers with little to no side effects.

“Oversight of manufacturing and third-party testing of this ingredient produced consumer products designed to provide clinicians and consumers safe, effective, and affordable treatment options to address their health and wellness concerns,” Palumbo said in a news release.

CiBiDinol is currently being evaluated for safety by the National Science Foundation for Global Recognition and has been submitted to the FDA’s bulk drug substance program. The company is developing a commerce pathway in each state’s pharmaceutical distribution network through the National Board of Pharmacies. The company aims to capture increasing market share through product extensions and advancements by seeking critical third-party analysis and physician feedback regarding its proprietary technology’s attributes. Xceptor Labs intends to offer licensing arrangements for brand-consumer companies.

Xceptol Products

CiBiDinol technology is the foundation for Xceptor Labs and the Xceptol line of products, including topical creams, capsules, tinctures and pet drops. The Xceptol line began launching its products in September 2020, and it currently has five National Drug Code topical pain creams utilizing ingredients registered with the FDA.

Xceptol products will be sold online, through Range Me, as well as through national and international retail and pharmaceutical distributors. Marketing for Xceptol products is planned through multiple social media campaigns including using celebrities and former athletes associated with Freedman Sports Promotional Relations.

Xceptol is establishing sales channels in North America, Central America, South America, South Africa, the EU, the UK and the Philippines.

Management Team

Mark Palumbo, CEO and Founder, is an entrepreneur, scientist and executive with over 30 years in the health care, laboratory and manufacturing industries. His entrepreneurial endeavors include a successful personal care industry distribution company, a currently owned and operated tissue culture laboratory and Xceptor Labs, now part of CannAssist International.

Marla Palumbo, President, is a health care professional and registered nurse with over 30 years of experience in the industry. She handles sales, patient advocacy, patient care and general management. Marla Palumbo has effectively developed and grown a personal care distribution company with significant year over year increases in sales. Her management and organization skills were instrumental in the early development of Xceptor Labs, leading to its CannAssist International public company status.

Dr. Rahul Dixit, MD, Medical Director, is a doctor of gastroenterology at Providence St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, California. He was part of a double fellowship with the University of Miami in Gastroenterology and Hepatology/Liver Transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has over 20 years of experience with cannabis and hemp-related products.

Takako McGowan, Managing Director, Founding Member and Owner of TakaUSA, brings 40 years of experience in manufacturing and consumer product research & development to the CannAssist team.

Camron Elizabeth, Managing Director-Sales and Marketing, is an entrepreneur and leader who has brought immense success to the companies with whom she has worked. As Founder and CEO of Platinum Pack, Elizabeth was responsible for all aspects of its success in bringing products from concept to completion and successful sell-through on the retailer’s shelf. She has been in the beauty industry for over 40 years.

Benjamin Perlstein, VP of Operations, has been a part of the health care and business development field for over 25 years. As a surgical technologist, he has experience as a clinical application specialist and materials manager.

Braden Traub, Director of Marketing and Customer Development, is an entrepreneur and business owner with 10 years of experience in the health and fitness industries. Traub also has skills and experience as a tax resolutionist and legal document preparer.

Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements

Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the following: the timing and nature of any capital raising transactions; the Company’s ability to offer products and services for use by customers in existing and new markets; the Company’s ability to deliver in a timely fashion and to its customers’ satisfaction the products purchased; the risk of competition; its ability to find, recruit and retain personnel with knowledge and experience in selling products and services in existing and new markets; its ability to manage growth; and general market, economic and business conditions. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the Company’s forward-looking statements are under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year 2019 and its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, all filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof, and the Company expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to update forward-looking statements.

CannAssist International Corp. (OTCQB: CNSC), closed Wednesday's trading session at $0.121, even for the day, on 1 volume with 1 trade. The average volume for the last 3 months is 728 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.115000002/$0.50.

Recent News

Trxade Group Inc. (NASDAQ: MEDS)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Trxade Group Inc. (NASDAQ: MEDS).

Trxade Group (NASDAQ: MEDS), an integrated drug procurement, delivery and healthcare platform, has announced that it will be hosting a virtual roadshow next month. The event is scheduled for 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Trxade Group CEO Suren Ajjarapu will host the presentation, which will include an overview of the company’s business model and an outline of growth initiatives. The webinar will also include a question-and-answer session.  The entire presentation can be accessed via webcast link or dial-in numbers. To register for and view the full webcast, visit https://ibn.fm/Q7m5p. To view the full press release, visit https://ibn.fm/pdlVF

Trxade Group Inc. (NASDAQ: MEDS) is an integrated pharmaceutical services company that offers a unique combination of a web-based purchasing platform (www.trxade.com) for transactions between independent pharmacists and drug distributors (B2B); a network of pharmacies with E-Hub software; a mail order pharmacy; and warehouse and drug delivery services. This synergistic combination of product offerings and superior data analytics is poised to benefit all stakeholders and consumers within the pharmaceutical industry.

Trxade will leverage and scale its fully integrated model to execute the following growth strategies:

  • Increase share of pharmacist drug purchasing
  • Additional SKUs and expand product breath
  • Partner with Specialty and International Mfg.
  • Expand mail order licenses to all 50 states
  • Scale Delivmeds for consumer delivery nationwide
  • Integration with telemedicine
  • M&A Opportunities within drug value chain

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Trxade’s overarching corporate strategy is to penetrate the existing retail independent pharmacy marketplace and diversify the company’s pharmaceutical mix with additional specialty and acute care products. Trxade is advancing on this mission by focusing on three key niches in the health care market.

Business-to-Business (B2B)

The $330 billion U.S. pharmaceutical industry is comprised of more than 65,000 pharmacy facilities and 1,500 state-licensed suppliers. Roughly 24,000 of these facilities are independent pharmacies, which collectively spend approximately $93 billion a year on branded and generic drugs.

Trxade targets these independent pharmacies, leveraging a robust, “E-Bay/Kayak-like” technology platform with optimum buyer/seller pricing algorithms, product availability, and predictive data analytics features.

Trxade currently serves and transacts with more than one-third (10,250) of these independent pharmacies and facilitates over $10 million of drug purchases a month!

Consumer

Trxade also targets the “consumer side” of the pharmaceutical industry, aiming to lower prescription drug costs by attacking the inefficient value chain; offering drug price transparency and efficient buying; and, delivering drugs DIRECT to independent pharmacists and consumers.

The company operates a full-service mail order pharmacy for U.S. consumers, as well as a mobile app called “Delivmeds” (http://www.delivmeds.com) which enables SAME DAY home delivery of dispensed prescriptions.

Retail

Trxade’s Managed Services Organization (“TrxadeMSO”) enables its member independent retail pharmacies to get patients, process orders, and deliver or ship prescriptions to patients. TrxadeMSO provides access to encompassing network of pharmacies through the E-Hub software, allowing for timely and comprehensive medication fulfillment.

These offerings ensure the best-suited pharmacy receives the patient’s information, thereby ensuring appropriate medication coverage based on the patient’s location, payor coverage, and medication access/inventory. This will save the clinicians and their staff time as they benefit from efficiency and enhanced workflow management in script processing and fulfillment.

Health Care Market

The U.S. health care market currently hovers near $4 trillion and is expected to grow as the general population ages. This growth will have greater impact on consumers as out-of-pocket expenses also rise. Additionally, drug costs are paced to increase faster than the overall health care and well above inflation.

Drug pricing is variable, and reimbursement is squeezing profits. This provides significant opportunity for the Trxade model of price visibility and profit optimization.

Trxade’s fair online market platform targets the nation’s retail community and independent pharmacies, of which there are approximately 24,000 nationwide. TRxADE has found that independent pharmacies, in order to be cost-effective, often operate with minimal staff and conduct up-to-the minute price checks. The TRxADE S2P platform gives these pharmacists the ability to easily compare the price of drugs offered by various suppliers and select the most favorable deals, saving money by taking advantage of best purchase pricing.

TRxADE’s programs include:

  • TRxADE Exchange, which opens and widens the distribution channel to the retail, community pharmacy. A purchasing pharmacy can view products from manufacturers, buying groups, and wholesalers on a real-time and continuous basis. This approach significantly enhances the competitive spirit of the exchange where the lowest price exists for each product at any given point in time. TRxADE has become a competitive tool for all progressive entities and is recognized for its easy searching of hard-to-find generic pharmaceuticals at substantially reduced prices.  
  • RX Guru™ is an industry-leading price prediction model that integrates product shortage insight into pharmacy acquisition benchmarks (“PAC”) to ascertain trends and pricing variances that result in significant purchasing opportunities. RX Guru affords members the opportunity to continuously benefit from real price purchasing opportunities that are concealed from the rest of the industry. 
  • Product Shortage Database – TRxADE maintains the most comprehensive retail, specialty and acute care pharmaceutical product shortage database in the country. Other industry competitors mainly restrict their efforts to specialty and acute care product shortages and narrowly research oral generic products. TRxADE’s advanced prediction tools help members source those hard-to-find products at affordable costs in a timely and easy-to-search process. 

Management Team 

Trxade’s management team is rich in expertise within the pharmaceutical supply chain and is supported by a base of advisors and contractors who are experts in related fields of the pharmaceutical sector.

Suren Ajjarapu – Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary
Suren Ajjarapu has served as Trxade’s chairman of the board, CEO and secretary since 2014, and as the chairman of the board, chief executive officer and secretary of Trxade Nevada since its inception. Ajjarapu also serves as a chairman of the board for Feeder Creek Group Inc., since March 2018. Ajjarapu formerly was a founder, CEO and chairman of Sansur Renewable Energy Inc., a company involved in developing wind power sites in the Midwest, United States; a founder, president and director of Aemetis Inc., a biofuels company (AMTX.OB); a founder, chairman and CEO of International Biofuels, a subsidiary of Aemetis Inc.; and a co-founder, COO, and director at Global Information Technology Inc., an IT outsourcing and systems design company. Ajjarapu holds an M.S. in environmental engineering from South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, and an MBA from the University of South Florida, specializing in international finance and management. Ajjarapu is also a graduate of the Venture Capital and Private Equity program at Harvard University.

Prashant Patel – Director, President and Chief Operating Officer
Prashant Patel has served as Trxade’s full-time president and COO, and as a director since the company’s acquisition of Trxade Nevada in 2014, and as the COO and president and as a director of Trxade Nevada since its inception. He has been a president and member of the board of Trxade since August 2010. Patel is a registered pharmacist and pharmaceutical consultant with over 10 years of experience in retail pharmacy and pharmaceutical logistics. He is the founder of several pharmacies in the Tampa Bay area, in Florida. Since 2008, Patel has been managing member of the APAA LLC pharmacy. Since 2007, Patel has been a vice president of Holiday Pharmacy Inc. Patel graduated from Nottingham University School of Pharmacy and practiced in the United Kingdom before obtaining his masters in Transport, Trade and Finance from Cass Business School, City University, UK.

 

Trxade Group Inc. (NASDAQ: MEDS), closed Wednesday's trading session at $5.90, off by 1.6667%, on 76,838 volume with 542 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 702,274 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $4.01000022/$11.6000003.

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Pressure BioSciences Inc. (PBIO)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Pressure BioSciences Inc. (PBIO).

Pressure BioSciences (OTCQB: PBIO), today announced a collaboration with SinuSys Corporation aimed at evauating the potential for PBI's innovative Ultra Shear Technology(TM) ("UST") platform to strengthen the effectiveness of SinuSys Corp's lead product candidate Restora. Depending on the outcome of the collaboration, SinuSys plans to license PBI's UST platform for use with Restora on its path to FDA approval in a phase IIb clinical study later this year. PBIO is a leader in the development and sale of broadly enabling, pressure-based instruments, consumables and platform technology services to the worldwide biotechnology, biotherapeutics and other industries. To view the full press release, visit http://ibn.fm/D3Nw6

Pressure BioSciences Inc. (PBIO) develops, markets and sells proprietary laboratory instrumentation and associated consumables to the life sciences sample preparation market. Sample preparation refers to the wide range of activities that precede most forms of scientific analysis. It is often complex and time-consuming, yet a critical part of scientific research. The market for sample preparation products is currently estimated at $6 billion worldwide.

The Company’s product line can be used to exquisitely control the sample preparation process. It is based on a patented, enabling technology platform called pressure cycling technology (“PCT”). PCT uses alternating cycles of hydrostatic pressure between ambient (14.5 psi) and ultra-high levels (up to 100,000 psi) to safely and reproducibly control critical biological processes, such as the lysis (breakage) of cells, the digestion of proteins, and the inactivation of pathogens.

Pressure BioSciences’ product line is led by its newly released, next-generation Barocycler 2320EXTREME instrument. Named a finalist in the prestigious 2017 R&D Awards (also known as the “Oscars of Innovation”), the Barocycler 2320EXT is already being touted by some key opinion leaders as an essential element of the $1.8 billion U.S. “Cancer Moonshot” program. For example, Professor Phil Robinson, Co-head of the cancer research center of the Children’s Medical Research Institute (Sydney, Australia), said in a recent interview: “We are collecting the whole proteome on 70,000 tumor samples from all classes where complete clinical outcome is known. Due to its unique capabilities, the Barocycler 2320EXT has become a critical part of our program. It is the primary enabler of the high-throughput component of the project. Without this step, our project simply could not be done. In fact, the Barocycler 2320EXT works so well we have just purchased two more.”

Momentum is building when it comes to the potential for using the Company’s unique PCT technology platform. Leading scientists are intrigued by Pressure BioSciences’ approach, which among other attributes, revolutionizes the process of rupturing cells (lysis) for further study, yielding superior biomolecules for investigation. The Company’s technology transcends current methods of breaking open cells, which use chemicals, blades, metal beads, or other damaging and altering methods that can ultimately adversely affect the result for researchers. Pressure BioSciences’ PCT technology utilizes customized, controlled hydrostatic (water) pressure to rupture cells in a chamber, enabling exquisitely customized levels of pressure to optimally break open different types of cells at prescribed pressure levels—something never before accomplished in a commercial setting. Using this pioneering method, the result is a truer, more legitimate sample, which boosts the efficacy of research and the quality of results. The potential impact of this technology on scientific advancement is enormous, enabling research scientists to begin their studies with biological samples of unprecedented integrity, with the potential to improve research outcomes at the earliest, most critical step. PCT can additionally inactivate pathogens (e.g., viruses, bacteria) using hydrostatic pressure, making the samples safer to study—another innovation with astronomical potential for application in a variety of markets.

The Company’s high-pressure instruments for research purposes are marketed throughout the United States, Europe, China and Japan. To date, Pressure BioSciences has installed nearly 300 PCT Systems in over 165 leading academic, government, biotech and pharma laboratories around the world. Its primary applications are in biomarker discovery, forensics, agriculture and pathology. Over 100 scientific papers have been published on the advantages of the PCT platform, which is also being used in the specialized fields of drug discovery and design, bio-therapeutics characterization, soil and plant biology, vaccine development and histology.

Impressive as their biotech business is, there is more to the PBI story. Pressure BioSciences recently received two patents in China for its novel Ultra Shear Technology (UST), a process that has potential in a wide range of industrial applications, including extending the shelf life of some food products and making two insoluble liquids (like oil in water) soluble. Patents have also been filed in many other countries worldwide. UST is a novel technique based on the use of intense shear forces generated from ultra-high-pressure valve discharge.

This important technology has the potential to play a significant role in a number of commercially important areas through its ability to create high-quality, stable nanoemulsions. Scientific studies indicate that improved absorption, higher bioavailability, greater stability, lower surfactant levels and other advantages can be achieved with nanoemulsions — all hugely important factors in the fields of nutraceuticals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and in various medical products. There is an enormous opportunity in the cannabis market, since the technology can potentially reduce oil droplets containing cannabidiol (CBD) to nanoparticles, after which they can be safely suspended in a stable water solution—something many companies have endeavored to achieve without success. Researchers looking for a way to increase the bioavailability of cannabinoids in the body will find this technology a game changer.

The Company’s UST technology also has possibilities in the production of clean label foods, which are currently processed using several innovative methods, including high-pressure treatments (such as Starbucks’ Evolution line of juices). In 2015, the worldwide market for high-pressure processed (HPP) food was estimated at U.S. $10 billion. UST uses ultra-high pressures and certain valves to generate intense shear forces under controlled temperature conditions to produce nanoemulsions, and which also significantly reduces food-borne pathogens. Pressure BioSciences’ initial focus with this technology will be to evaluate UST for the production of high-quality dairy products and beverages.

Pressure BioSciences Inc. (PBIO), closed Wednesday's trading session at $2.33, off by 1.2712%, on 12,876 volume with 52 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 25,204 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.75/$4.48999977.

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