Day: January 24, 2022

Oslo (Norway), 24 January 2022 – PCI Biotech (OSE: PCIB), a cancer focused biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the company has decided to stop the RELEASE study and focus their drug development efforts on the promising immunotherapy opportunities with both fimaVacc and fimaNAc assets. The decision to stop the RELEASE study is based on recent randomised Phase III clinical trial results presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium (ASCO GI, January 20-22, 2022) from the TOPAZ-1 study, demonstrating that a combination of immune checkpoint inhibition with gemcitabine and cisplatin provides a significant survival benefit to patients with advanced biliary tract cancer compared with placebo plus gemcitabine and cisplatin. These results are expected to rapidly change the first line standard...

Leading-edge breast cancer detection platform meets stringent U.S. government security thresholds required for use across military healthcare facilities NASHUA, N.H., Jan. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — iCAD, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICAD), a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions, today announced that the Company’s breast artificial intelligence (AI) platform was granted an Authorization to Operate (ATO) from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). iCAD’s breast AI platform includes ProFound AI®, which became the first AI software for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) to be FDA cleared in 2018. “It is a significant accomplishment for our technology to achieve this authorization,” said Stacey Stevens, President and incoming Chief Executive Officer of iCAD, Inc. “This distinction is a testament...

TORONTO, Jan. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; OTCQX: POETF), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center and tele-communication markets, today announced the Company has been named to the 2022 OTCQX® Best 50, a ranking of top performing companies traded on the OTCQX Best Market last year. The OTCQX Best 50 is an annual ranking of the top 50 U.S. and international companies traded on the OTCQX market. The ranking is calculated based on an equal weighting of one-year total return and average daily dollar volume growth in the previous calendar year. Companies in the 2022 OTCQX Best 50 were ranked based on their performance in 2021. POET’s Executive Vice President and CFO, Thomas Mika, commented,...

OLD GREENWICH, Conn., Jan. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Star Equity Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: STRR; STRRP) (“Star Equity” or the “Company”), a diversified holding company, announced today the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 9,500,000 shares of its common stock (or pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of common stock in lieu thereof) and warrants to purchase up to 9,500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “common warrants”). Each share of common stock (or pre-funded warrant in lieu thereof) was sold together with one common warrant to purchase one share of common stock at a price of $1.50 per share and common warrant. Gross proceeds, before deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses, are approximately $14.26 million. Certain members of the Company’s management and board purchased...

The agreement cements ICOA’s fast progression into the world of NFTs, and includes details on its recently announced forthcoming tokenization and distribution of two Scholas Occurrentes paintings, which were created by His Holiness Pope Francis in partnership with esteemed artists$ICOA – ICOA Inc. signs MOU for soon-to-launch NFT platform with prominent artists, including Martha Saenz, at Expo 2020 in DubaiLeft to Right – Martha Sáenz, and Dr. Vin Menon, Advisor, ICOA$ICOA – ICOA Inc. signs MOU for soon-to-launch NFT platform with prominent artists, including Martha Saenz, at Expo 2020 in DubaiLeft to Right – Dr. Vin Menon, Advisor, ICOA. and Martha Sáenz signing the MOU agreement$ICOA – ICOA Inc. signs MOU for soon-to-launch NFT platform with prominent artists, including...

CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — InPlay Oil Corp. (TSX: IPO) (OTCQX: IPOOF) (“InPlay” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has been named to the 2022 OTCQX® Best 50, a ranking of top performing companies traded on the OTCQX Best Market last year. The OTCQX Best 50 is an annual ranking of the top 50 U.S. and international companies traded on the OTCQX market. The ranking is calculated based on an equal weighting of one-year total return and average daily dollar volume growth in the previous calendar year. Companies in the 2022 OTCQX Best 50 were ranked based on their performance in 2021. Doug Bartole, President and Chief Executive Officer of InPlay, commented: “We are very pleased with InPlay’s inclusion in the OTCQX Best 50 list. InPlay was the third best performer on the OTCQX Best Market based on 2021...