Lexaria Bioscience (NASDAQ: LEXX), a global innovator in drug-delivery platforms, has awarded licensing of its proprietary DehydraTECH(TM) offering for development in the European and United Kingdom markets. The company awarded the nonexclusive licenses to Valcon Medical A/S, a European contract manufacturing organization that specializes in the manufacturing of medical cannabis extracts for the EU and UK. According to the announcement, Lexaria will receive milestone fees and royalty payments from sales of products manufactured by Valcon.Valcon products will include an array of options, from nonregistered medical products through magistral programs to country-level market-authorized medical cannabis products through pilot programs; they will also include bulk powders or solid oral-dosage forms as well as powder-filled capsules, compressed tablets, pills, oral melts, and topical creams and lotions. “We are very excited to have licensed Lexaria’s DehydraTECH technology for what we expect will be rapid growth across the European markets,” said Valcon Medical A/S CEO Pete Patterson in the press release. “As Valcon continues to build out its manufacturing capabilities, we are developing new IP and partnering with industry leaders. Lexaria has developed and patented an incredible technology, which will benefit medical cannabis patients with enhanced bioavailability with a quicker effect onset. Backed by substantial clinical efficacy studies, Valcon will bridge the extensive work that Lexaria has done in the U.S., over to Europe.”
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About Lexaria Bioscience Corp.
Lexaria Bioscience’s patented drug-delivery technology, DehydraTECH(TM), improves the way active pharmaceutical ingredients (“APIs”) enter the bloodstream by promoting more effective oral delivery. Since 2016, DehydraTECH has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to increase bioabsorption with cannabinoids and nicotine by up to 10 times and, in some instances, with cannabinoids by as much as 27 times compared to standard industry formulations; reduce time of onset from one to two hours to minutes; and mask unwanted tastes; it is also being evaluated for orally administered antiviral drugs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), PDE5 inhibitors and more. DehydraTECH has also evidenced an ability to deliver some drugs more effectively across the blood brain barrier. Lexaria operates a licensed in-house research laboratory and holds a robust intellectual property portfolio with 25 patents granted and more than 50 patents pending worldwide. For more information about the company, please visit www.LexariaBioscience.com.
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