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Dr. Gibson joining Lexaria's new scientific advisor board KELOWNA, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 17, 2024 / Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (NASDAQ:LEXX)(NASDAQ:LEXXW) (the "Company" or "Lexaria"), a global innovator in drug delivery platforms, announces the appointment of Dr. Michael Gibson as its new Chief Medical Advisor. Dr. Gibson will collaborate directly with President John Docherty as Lexaria's patented DehydraTECH drug delivery platform continues to expand its applications in GLP-1 and hypertension.C. Michael Gibson M.S., M.D., is an interventional cardiologist, cardiovascular researcher & educator. He is the CEO of the combined non-profit Baim and PERFUSE research institutes at Harvard Medical School. Gibson founded PERFUSE in 1987 which served as the TIMI Data coordinating center that coordinated data for the first 50 TIMI trials. The Baim institute was formerly known as Harvard Clinical Research Institute and was founded in 2000.The combined institutes have led over 1,250 studies, published 5,500 manuscripts in peer review literature (including 144 in the New England Journal of Medicine) and have led 70 FDA submissions from their network of 7,000 sites in 57 countries worldwide. Since 2014, Gibson has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most highly cited authors in all of science by Thomson Reuters. In 2021, he was named one of the Fifty of the Most Influential Voices in Healthcare by Medika Life. His work has been cited over 170,000 times."Lexaria's drug delivery technology offers exciting new pathways towards improving pharmacokinetic drug performance that could unlock a new era of reduced drug waste and adverse side effects combined with enhanced efficacy," said Dr. Gibson. "I'm excited to pursue new and improved applications for this exciting technology.""Dr. Gibson has a wealth of knowledge and experience that will benefit Lexaria, particularly in the area of hypertension which remains an area of intense interest for Lexaria," said John Docherty, President. "On behalf of everyone at Lexaria, I welcome Dr. Gibson's contributions as our new Chief Medial Advisor and member of our scientific advisory board."As Chief Medical Advisor, Dr. Gibson will participate with other scientific and medical experts within Lexaria's newly-formed scientific advisory board in pursuing Lexaria's prioritized objectives in the fields of drug delivery optimization.Dr. Gibson has led phase 1-4 clinical trials, and cardiology megatrials of over 34,000 patients which eventuate in international approval of drugs like prasugrel, rivaroxaban, betrixaban and andexanet as well as devices such as one that alarms to alert a patient to heart attack. He founded WikiDoc.org and WikiPatient.org and is Editor-In-Chief of over 2,200 active contributors who have edited the content of over 100,000 chapters millions of times over the past 15 years. Gibson also founded www.clinicaltrialresults.org. Gibson serves as Chief Medical Correspondent for the American College of Cardiology. Gibson has over 435,000 followers on social media where he is a leading influencer, second only to Sanjay Gupta in some pollsAbout Lexaria Bioscience Corp. & DehydraTECHDehydraTECH™ is Lexaria's patented drug delivery formulation and processing platform technology which improves the way active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) enter the bloodstream through oral delivery. Since 2016, Lexaria has developed and investigated DehydraTECH with a variety of beneficial molecules in oral and topical formats. DehydraTECH has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to increase bio-absorption and has also evidenced an ability to deliver some drugs more effectively across the blood brain barrier, which Lexaria believes to be of particular importance for centrally active compounds. Lexaria operates a licensed in-house research laboratory and holds a robust intellectual property portfolio with 46 patents granted and many patents pending worldwide. For more information, please visit www.lexariabioscience.com.CAUTION REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTSThis press release includes forward-looking statements. Statements as such term is defined under applicable securities laws. These statements may be identified by words such as "anticipate," "if," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "could," "should," "will," and other similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements by the company relating the Company's ability to carry out research initiatives, receive regulatory approvals or grants or experience positive effects or results from any research or study. Such forward-looking statements are estimates reflecting the Company's best judgment based upon current information and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, and there can be no assurance that the Company will actually achieve the plans, intentions, or expectations disclosed in these forward-looking statements. As such, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those estimated by the Company include, but are not limited to, government regulation and regulatory approvals, managing and maintaining growth, the effect of adverse publicity, litigation, competition, scientific discovery, the patent application and approval process, potential adverse effects arising from the testing or use of products utilizing the DehydraTECH technology, the Company's ability to maintain existing collaborations and realize the benefits thereof, delays or cancellations of planned R&D that could occur related to pandemics or for other reasons, and other factors which may be identified from time to time in the Company's public announcements and periodic filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on EDGAR. 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SAN DIEGO, CA, USA I January 17, 2024 I Tr1X, Inc. today announced its emergence from stealth with a $75 million Series A financing to bring universal allogeneic regulatory T (Treg) and CAR-Treg cell therapies to the clinic to treat and potentially cure autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The financing was led by Bay Area-based The Column Group, with participation from NEVA SGR and Alexandria Ventures. The Company appointed William Lis Chief Executive Officer, strengthened its leadership team with other biopharma industry veterans, and announced members of the Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board. "We are thrilled to partner with Bill Lis, Maria Grazia Roncarolo and Tr1X's world-class team to revolutionize the field through its innovative, breakthrough science," said Leon Chen, Ph.D., MBA, Partner at The Column Group and Tr1X Board Member. "With its experienced management team at the helm, we are confident in Tr1X's ability to bring curative cell therapies to patients who currently require life-long treatment and management." Science and Pipeline The Company's science is primarily based on the work of Tr1X's Scientific Founder Maria Grazia Roncarolo, M.D., the discoverer of Type 1 regulatory T (Tr1) cells, which have features that can benefit patients with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Tr1 cells, a differentiated subpopulation of regulatory T cells, are crucial for maintaining homeostasis and tolerance in healthy individuals and have several important functions. These include dampening of local inflammation and downregulation of the inflammasome, suppression of pathogenic effector T cell responses, and induction of long-term tolerance as observed in preclinical models and patients. Tr1X's proprietary technology enables the conversion of CD4 + T cells isolated from healthy donors into Treg-like cells that have a similar function and profile to naturally occurring Tr1 cells. These cells can be further engineered to target specific tissues or organs to enable local, targeted immunomodulation. With a proprietary, GMP-grade, closed-loop system that provides consistency, quality and reliability at scale, Tr1X can enable production of its products at commercial volume. Currently, Tr1X is working on its first investigational Tr1 cell therapy, TRX103, which it plans to evaluate in a Phase 1 trial to prevent Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD) in patients undergoing mismatched hematopoietic stem cell transplant. The Company is developing additional pipeline programs to treat inflammatory bowel disease, Type 1 diabetes and multiple B-cell mediated autoimmune diseases. "The ability to develop a pipeline of medicines based on our work on regulatory T cells represents the culmination of decades of discovery and research into the underpinnings of immunological tolerance and autoimmunity," said Dr. Roncarolo, Scientific Founder, President and Head of R&D at Tr1X. "Tr1 cells have unique properties and represent the ideal therapeutic platform from which to develop 'immune reset' products. Our two platforms have the required attributes to address a broad set of indications, including dual targeting of pathogenic T and B cells. These engineered cells have the potential to induce tolerance, which could transform the lives of people living with chronic autoimmune diseases by providing them with a cure instead of ongoing treatment." Proven Leadership Team, Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board Tr1X is led by industry veterans with cell therapy expertise who have a track record of discovery, development and commercialization of more than a dozen novel first- or best-in-class medicines. Chief Executive Officer William "Bill" Lis has more than 25 years of biotech executive leadership experience in building companies and product pipelines from R&D stage through commercialization. He most recently served as Chairman and interim CEO of Jasper Therapeutics, Inc., from 2019 to 2022, where he led the company's Series A and follow-on financings and successful brequilimab Phase 1 study readouts in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Before that, he served as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2008 to 2018 after serving as Chief Operating Officer, where he built the company from a private research-stage startup into a multi-billion dollar public company that launched Andexxa ® and Bevyxxa ® . Portola was acquired by Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 2020. Previously, Mr. Lis held executive positions at Scios, Inc. (a Johnson & Johnson company) where he last served as Senior Vice President of New Product Development and Business Development, leading in-licensing efforts, development and commercial P&L operations for Xarelto ® and the company's therapeutics pipeline. Earlier in his career, he held positions at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., COR Therapeutics, Inc. and Rhone Poulenc Rorer. He is a director of Zai Laboratories, Inc. Scientific Founder, President and Head of R&D Dr. Maria Grazia Roncarolo is the George D. Smith Professor in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Founder of the Center for Definitive and Curative Medicine, and former Co-Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Roncarolo has spent her career translating discoveries in immune-mediated diseases and regenerative medicine into novel patient therapies. She and her team were the first to discover Type 1 regulatory T cells in patients and the first to develop curative treatments for ADA-SCID. A pediatric immunologist by training, she was instrumental in bringing novel cell and gene therapies to market, including Strimvelis ® and Libmeldy ® . She is a Co-Founder of the gene-editing companies Graphite Bio and Kamau Therapeutics. Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer David de Vries has over a decade of experience founding and scaling companies at the intersection of healthcare, biology and technology. Prior to Tr1X, he was Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Arine, a medication intelligence and therapeutic optimization company he helped start, launch and scale to serve millions of patients, working with some of the largest healthcare organizations in the U.S. Previously, he worked at Proteus Digital Health, an innovative drug-device company and the first in the field to obtain FDA approval for a digital medicine, Abilify MyCite ® . "Tr1X is committed to bringing cures to millions of patients suffering from autoimmune diseases through our scalable, universal allogeneic cell therapy process that has been demonstrated to yield billions of cells in a single run," said Mr. Lis, CEO of Tr1X. "In just 18 months, the Tr1X team has successfully closed a Series A financing and extension, assembled an experienced leadership team, board of directors and scientific advisory board, and established a scalable GMP-grade manufacturing process. We are well positioned to advance our pipeline of first-of-their kind allogeneic engineered Treg and CAR-Treg cell therapies that have the potential to address the significant limitations of current cell therapies for autoimmune diseases, which include, among others, poor trafficking, lack of stability, limited persistence and induction of cytokine-associated toxicities, at a fraction of the cost per dose." In addition to Mr. Lis, Dr. Roncarolo and Mr. de Vries, the Tr1X leadership team includes Xavier Paliard, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer; James Adams, MBA, Chief Technical Officer; Jonathan Perrin, J.D., Co-Founder and General Counsel; and Erik Poulsen, M.S., Head of Regulatory Affairs. Joining Mr. Lis and Dr. Roncarolo on Tr1X's Board of Directors are: Tr1X has recruited experts in immunology, stem cell and gene therapy, T-cell biology and immune-mediated diseases to join its Scientific Advisory Board. They include: About Tr1X Tr1X is a privately held biotechnology company focused on engineering cures for immune and inflammatory diseases. Founded by industry veterans, including the scientists behind the discovery of Tr1 cells, the company's pipeline of universal allogeneic cell therapies is being developed for diseases with high unmet medical need. The company is headquartered in San Diego, has developed a robust intellectual property portfolio, and is backed by leading investors, including The Column Group, NEVA SGR and Alexandria Ventures. For more information visit: www.tr1x.bio . SOURCE: Tr1X