Palm Beach, FL, Oct. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QSAM Biosciences Inc. (OTCQB: QSAM) announced today that it has commenced trading on The OTC Markets under the new stock symbol QSAM. The company’s previous symbol QPWR is no longer active. Stockholders are not required to take any action at this time.
Last month QSAM announced its new name and business direction pursuing the development and commercialization of a clinical stage novel radiopharmaceutical called CycloSam® which is meant to treat different types of bone cancer and related diseases. QSAM has worldwide, exclusive rights to this promising nuclear technology. CycloSam is expected to go into Phase 1 clinical trials in Q1 2021, and has already been used successfully in one human trial this past summer.
“This is another step forward in our corporate development, which should be matched over the next several months with important advancements preparing for human trials of CycloSam, and developing strategic partnerships that can help us on our mission to treat bone cancer,” stated Douglas Baum, a company Director and President and CEO of the company’s wholly subsidiary QSAM Therapeutics.
About QSAM: QSAM Bioscience, Inc. (f/k/a Q2Earth. Inc.) holds the worldwide license for CycloSam® (Samaium-153 DOTMP), a clinical stage novel radiopharmaceutical meant to treat different types of bone cancer and related diseases. This nuclear technology uses low specific activity Samarium-153 (resulting in far less europium) and DOTMP, a chelator which is believed to eliminate off-target migration and targets high bone turn over making it an ideal agent to treat osteosarcoma, bone metastases and to perform bone marrow ablation. Sm-153 DOTMP has been cleared by the FDA under an investigator initiated IND to commence human dosing of cancer patients.
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