Antibe Therapeutics Receives Approval from Health Canada to Begin Human Clinical Testing

Antibe Therapeutics Inc. (TSXV:ATE) is pleased to announce that it has received regulatory approval to begin its Phase I clinical trial program. Health Canada issued a No Objection Letter in response to Antibe’s Clinical Trial Application allowing the company to initiate its study entitled ‘A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase I Study to Assess Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Single/Multiple Ascending Doses of ATB-346 Orally Administered in Healthy Male and Female Subjects.’ This approval represents a significant milestone on Antibe’s well-defined pathway for the development of ATB-346.

John Wallace, Antibe’s CSO, said, "We are excited to have received approval from Health Canada to begin studies of ATB-346 in humans. We look forward to characterizing the drug’s effects in healthy subjects in our planned Phase I clinical program, scheduled to start next week. The data from these studies will enable us to optimize the design of our proof-of-concept trials.”

About Antibe Therapeutics Inc.

Antibe Therapeutics Inc. develops safer medicines for pain and inflammation. These medicines are based on Nobel Prize-winning medical research highlighting the crucial role of gaseous mediators, chemical substances produced in the human body to regulate a range of fundamental cellular processes. The company's drug design approach involves chemically linking an existing off-patent drug to an Antibe-patented, hydrogen sulfide-releasing molecule. For medical conditions characterized by inflammation or pain, this approach can efficiently produce improved versions of existing drugs.

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