Mar 18, 2020 in Drug Delivery, Press Releases

Update on XPhyto’s Epilepsy Treatment Program

Vancouver, Canada (March 18, 2020) – XPhyto Therapeutics Corp. (CSE:XPHY; FSE:4XT) (“XPhyto” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce significant progress with respect to development of its cannabidiol (“CBD”) based Epilepsy product. Further to the Company’s press release dated December 9, 2019, titled “Epilepsy Treatment to be Developed with XPhyto Therapeutics Thin Film Delivery System,” and based on recent positive product development results, XPhyto will be advancing the program to clinical studies immediately.

In the past three months, Vektor Pharma TF GmbH (“Vektor”), the Company’s wholly owned German subsidiary, has completed the initial stage of product development and established a number of critical parameters necessary for an efficient and well-defined dissolvable oral CBD dosage form. The Company is now finalizing the formulation and preparing for European-based clinical studies in Q2 and Q3 of 2020.

XPhyto’s thin film drug delivery system was developed by Vektor, a narcotics manufacturer, importer, and researcher located in the Upper Swabia region of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Vektor’s previous development work has included narcotics delivery systems for conventional oncology and non-oncology pain treatment, such as Fentanyl, Hydromorphone, and Oxycodone, and more recently, the development of efficient cannabis delivery and dosage systems.

The Company’s CBD-based Epilepsy treatment program is one of several dissolvable oral drug delivery initiatives for 2020. Oral thin film drug delivery is a large and growing international industry which provides an alternative to conventional solid and liquid oral dosage forms. Transparency Market Research estimates that the global market for thin film drug manufacturing will be worth US$15.984 billion by 2024 and rising at a solid 9.0% CAGR between 2019 and 2024. XPhyto’s additional oral thin film drug delivery programs include both cannabinoid and non-cannabinoid products for pain, neurology and infectious disease.

Further to the Company’s press release on March 3, 2020, XPhyto is planning to announce, in due course, an update on its infectious disease programs, particularly as they relate to products relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic.