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CleverTap Unveils RenderMax

CleverTap

CleverTap, the World's #1 Retention Cloud today unveiled RenderMax – a proprietary technology that can increase mobile push notification render rates up to 90% on low-end Android devices. Push notifications have the power to increase customer retention rates anywhere from 3 - 10 times. Most marketers just focus on their push notification delivery rates, but a “delivered" notification that doesn't render on the user’s device is a wasted effort. For those who equate delivery and rendering as equal, render rate is the percentage of the number of push notifications the end user received (and were rendered) on the user’s device compared to the total number of push notifications that were sent. All Chinese OEM devices use a custom variant of the stock Android OS. To optimize battery consumption, these OS variants are configured to bypass the Google/Firebase push delivery service, resulting in low delivery rates and even lower render rates. RenderMax gives CleverTap customers a significant competitive advantage as they can now engage users they could not before and elevate the ROI from their push campaigns. This is especially true for devices that are in battery saver mode or cannot be reached due to inactivity. “RenderMax is a testament to our continued commitment towards product development and innovation. Low render rates stifle the true potential of mobile push notifications. We are confident that with RenderMax, brands will be able to harness the full power of push notifications. What’s interesting is that we are offering RenderMax to all customers at no additional cost to any brand that wants to try it out.” said Anand Jain, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, CleverTap. Betterhalf, India's first and only marriage super app was provided an early access to RenderMax and their push notification render rates more than doubled! Shankar Krishnamurthy, Group Product Manager, Betterhalf said, “At Betterhalf, mobile push notifications are critical for our business. With CleverTap’s innovative RenderMax solution our push notification render rates have skyrocketed to 85%.” RenderMax powers up the render rates of customers’ push notifications, amplifies the push notification reach, and maximizes user engagement. Enhancing the reach of push notifications can help CleverTap customers lower costs, increase engagement and conversion rates, and reduce churn. “The CleverTap platform has a great breadth of capabilities, and this innovative mobile push solution will certainly help them stay much ahead of the competition,” Shankar added. CleverTap RenderMax works with Android OEMs such as Oppo, Xiaomi, Vivo, One Plus, POCO, Realme, and Samsung. About CleverTap CleverTap is the World's #1 Retention Cloud that helps app-first brands personalize and optimize all consumer touch points to improve user engagement, retention, and lifetime value. It's the only solution built to address the needs of retention and growth teams, with audience analytics, deep-segmentation, multi-channel engagement, product recommendations, and automation in one unified product. The platform is powered by TesseractDB™ - the world’s first purpose-built database for customer engagement, offering both speed and economies of scale. CleverTap is trusted by 1500 customers, including Gojek, ShopX, Electronic Arts, TED, English Premier League, TD Bank, Carousell, AirAsia, Papa John’s, and Tesco. Backed by leading investors such as Sequoia India, Tiger Global, Accel, and CDPQ the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with presence in San Francisco, New York, São Paulo, Bogota, London, Amsterdam, Sofia, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, and Jakarta. For more information, visit clevertap.com or follow on LinkedIn and Twitter. Forward-Looking Statements Some of the statements in this press release may represent CleverTap's belief in connection with future events and may be forward-looking statements, or statements of future expectations based on currently available information. CleverTap cautions that such statements are naturally subject to risks and uncertainties that could result in the actual outcome being absolutely different from the results anticipated by the statements mentioned in the press release. Factors such as the development of general economic conditions affecting our business, future market conditions, our ability to maintain cost advantages, uncertainty with respect to earnings, corporate actions, client concentration, reduced demand, liability or damages in our service contracts, unusual catastrophic loss events, war, political instability, changes in government policies or laws, legal restrictions impacting our business, impact of pandemic, epidemic, any natural calamity and other factors that are naturally beyond our control, changes in the capital markets and other circumstances may cause the actual events or results to be materially different, from those anticipated by such statements. CleverTap does not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or updated or revised status of such statements. Therefore, in no case whatsoever will CleverTap and its affiliate companies be liable to anyone for any decision made or action taken in conjunction with the information and/or statements in this press release or any related damages. Contact Details Sony Shetty sony@clevertap.com Company Website https://clevertap.com/

December 07, 2022 05:07 AM Eastern Standard Time

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Matthew Coleman Joins AmeriLife as Vice President of Annuity and Life Product Innovation

AmeriLife

AmeriLife Group, LLC (“AmeriLife”), a national leader in developing, marketing, and distributing life and health insurance, annuities and retirement planning solutions, announced today that Matthew Coleman has joined the company as vice president of Annuity and Life Product Innovation. In this newly created role, which will report to AmeriLife’s Senior Vice President of Product Innovation Brad Shelton, Coleman will partner with the company’s valued carrier partners to expand AmeriLife’s proprietary life insurance and annuity offerings to better meet the increasing demands of the company’s affiliates and their agents and clients. “Matt brings a powerful combination of actuarial expertise and leadership experience within both carrier and distribution organizations,” said Shelton. “His addition comes at a perfect time given AmeriLife’s continued growth in the life and annuities space. We’re thrilled to have him join our team.” Coleman brings nearly 30 years of industry experience to AmeriLife, most recently serving as a director at Willis Towers Watson, where he led business and product development, actuarial support and distribution strategy for the fixed, indexed and variable annuity markets. Previous to Willis Towers Watson, Coleman worked in progressively senior positions for BMA Insurance Company and financial services company CreativeOne. He also co-founded the Ideal Producers Group, where he spearheaded the actuarial department and led product innovation, design and marketing. Coleman, who holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Kansas, is also a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. “At a time of increased distribution aggregation in the life and annuity markets, the integration of product development and distribution is a key business accelerator,” said Coleman. “Quality and insightful product development turns insurer relationships into long-lasting partnerships and maximizes the value delivered up and down the vertical. I look forward to helping deliver that on behalf of AmeriLife.” “Matt’s appointment comes at a critical time of increasing demand for solutions that deliver on consumers’ total financial wellbeing," added Pat Fleming, executive vice president of Product Innovation and corporate actuary. “We look forward to Matt’s contributions with the development of proprietary life and annuity products, which will expand our growing product portfolio and provide unique solutions for our carrier partners as well as our marketers, agents and consumers.” ### About AmeriLife AmeriLife’s strength is its mission: to provide insurance and retirement solutions to help people live longer, healthier lives. In doing so, AmeriLife has become recognized as the leader in developing, marketing, and distributing life and health insurance, annuities and retirement planning solutions to enhance the lives of pre-retirees and retirees across the United States. For more than 50 years, AmeriLife has partnered with top insurance carriers to provide value and quality to customers served through a distribution network of over 300,000 insurance agents and advisors and more than 100 marketing organizations and insurance agency locations nationwide. For more information, visit AmeriLife.com, and follow AmeriLife on Facebook and LinkedIn. Contact Details Media Jeff Maldonado +1 321-297-1112 jmaldonado@amerilife.com Partnership Inquiries Patrick Nichols +1 727-726-0726 pnichols@amerilife.com Company Website https://amerilife.com/

December 06, 2022 01:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

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LectureLinx and PAYCE Announce a Global Expansion Through a Worldwide Exclusive Licensing Agreement to Combine Technologies and Services for the Pharmaceutical Industry

LectureLinx

LectureLinx, a leader in compliance technologies for the pharmaceutical and life science industries, and PAYCE, a leading pharmaceutical technology provider for healthcare professionals (HCPs) and healthcare organizations (HCOs) in Europe, have agreed to an exclusive global license to integrate key PAYCE technologies and services into the LectureLinx platform and systems in a worldwide initiative to transform how healthcare practitioners and the pharmaceutical industry collaborate. In the last decade pharmaceutical and life science companies have adopted new transparency reporting requirements across different countries, whilst seeking to minimise the impacts on the HCP and ensuring that their systems and processes remain highly effective. More and more companies are now fully focused on the HCP experience. With continued operational challenges, reporting, tracking, audit and more, LectureLinx and PAYCE saw the opportunity to combine forces to solve both problems. Based in the U.S., LectureLinx will develop and commercialize the multi-functional PAYCE platform, which has an established reputation across the European pharma market. The purpose-built industry platform offers a new standard in compliance technologies for the pharmaceutical industry, as well as proven solutions, which include streamlined contracting and faster HCP payments, as well as strengthening disclosure reporting, while recognizing regional differences across international markets. The two companies will combine their expertise and experience across different locations and their understanding of local markets to operate as a single global provider, delivering expanded offerings and reach, a broader set of solutions, and increased benefits to existing and future clients. “Years of real-world market experience allow LectureLinx and PAYCE to combine forces to make this bold and brave move. Together, we provide a unique, fully integrated solution across the globe, which no other provider can offer or match,” said LectureLinx Founder and CEO Ellen Varelas. “It’s challenging to navigate the pharmaceutical markets both in the U.S. and EU. But together, with integrated solutions and strategies and future investment in development, we will enable our pharmaceutical clients to offer unparalleled experiences for healthcare providers and organizations.” “We are leveraging our shared synergies and combining our solutions to fulfill a global need for pharma and, more importantly, a better experience for HCPs and HCOs worldwide,” said PAYCE Founder and CEO David Bloomfield. “Every business that is looking to strengthen its compliance and improve HCP engagement on a global scale will benefit.” LectureLinx’s global headquarters will remain in the US. The European headquarters will be located in the UK. To learn more, please visit: www.lecturelinx.com About LectureLinx Founded in 2001, LectureLinx is a technology company providing pharmaceutical and life science companies with an ecosystem of innovative products and platforms designed to improve operational efficiency and reduce risk with the confidence that processes are compliant, auditable, and reportable. LectureLinx’s solutions are imminently scalable and supported by over 20 years of real-world expertise and hands-on market experience. As trusted advisors and solution providers, LectureLinx provides world-class and fully integrated solutions while ensuring a best-in-class experience for end users. Learn more at lecturelinx.com About PAYCE PAYCE is a dedicated, purpose-built portal offering a new standard in compliance technologies for the pharmaceutical industry. It is also a specialist contracting and payment tool that offers an unrivalled experience for pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations. PAYCE streamlines contracting and payment processes, removing complexity so that users can focus on execution. PAYCE is used by leading pharmaceutical companies and thousands of HCPs and HCOs. Contact Details Jennifer Cronin lecturelinx@trustrelations.agency Carole Ayemaung carole.ayemaung@cofinitive.com

December 06, 2022 09:01 AM Eastern Standard Time

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Does This Brain Drink Help You Leave Work Earlier?

TruBrain

Interested in investing in TruBrain's campaign? Click here to get started! In our more remote, information-driven economy, efficiency and value creation are prized over the 1990s office model of 9 to 5 coffee-driven meetings and water cooler gossip. As a remote worker who writes for a living, I need long periods of deep work, when I can be both efficient and creative. TruBrain has helped me crack the code. TruBrain recognizes that most people today - regardless of their work - want to have healthy boundaries between their career and personal life so that they can put time into meaningful activities that matter most to them. The company is looking to help these people by providing drinks and edible products that nourish the brain and increase efficiency. Already over 90% of employees want a job that’s part or full-time remote - saying it allows better work/life balance - but achieving a productive flow state poses a real challenge for many people. The internet - with its continuous notifications and diversions - is the greatest source of distraction for most people. This kills efficiency, as brain science tells us that it can take as much as 23 minutes to return to a proper flow state after we’ve been distracted. Chugging a cup of coffee, blocking youtube, and locking yourself out of Twitter might be strategies that help some people deal with shallow work, but cutting-edge efficiency requires sustained focused concentration. That’s where TruBrain products come in - its ketone and nootropics products fuel the brain for its best thinking, giving it the nutrition it needs for concentration and focus. Finding the Brain Food That Works for You TruBrain primarily produces brain foods, though it has a variety of products. Tackling workplace stress - which over 90% experience at work - TruBrain has developed wearable tech that uses vibrotherapy in an effort to destress America’s workforce. Meanwhile, its custom drinks include various nootropics - as part of a $3.3 billion industry. Nootropics are natural or synthetic cognitive enhancers that increase concentration, creativity, memory, and brain growth. Caffeine is a basic nootropic, which works by blocking the drowsiness receptors in the brain - however, TruBrain’s drinks harness a host of healthy ingredients to power the brain for clearness and creativity. Its tasty drinks are based on various formulas combine to make a fully customized product line. TruBrain provides its personalized drinks package because it knows that each individual brain is influenced by a combination of unique genetic and external factors. The package currently offers a variety of 7 nootropics drinks designed to maximize mental performance. The range of the drinks means that you can tailor consumption based on your unique brain to perform at your best, regardless of the situation. TruBrain is a grassroots company with over 2000 individual investors. Profitable since 2019 as a company, TruBrain looks to advance in the direct-to-consumer market, with comparables in the space like successful companies Hims (NYSE: HIMS), RXBar, and EAS. With over $18 million in lifetime sales, it is currently raising funds through a new round of investing – will TruBrain become another great direct-to-consumer winner? Want to find out how to invest in TruBrain? Click here. To learn more about TruBrain, visit its website. TruBrain is a profitable brand in high-performance cognitive nutrition with over $18 million in lifetime sales. We deliver patent-pending brain food designed by neuroscientists to enhance your memory, focus, sleep, and more. Our personalized formulas will empower you to be the best version of your unique self. This post contains sponsored advertising content. This content is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be investing advice. Benzinga may receive monetary compensation from the issuer, or its agency, for publicizing the offering of the issuer’s securities. This content is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be investing advice. This is a paid ad. Please see 17b disclosure linked in the campaign page for more information. TruBrain's Reg A+ offering is made available through StartEngine Primary, LLC, member FINRA /SIPC.This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. For more information about this offering, please view TruBrain's offering circular and risks associated with this offering. Contact Details TruBrain Investor Relations invest@trubrainstock.com Company Website https://www.trubrain.com/

December 06, 2022 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

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What's Next For Cell Therapy In Oncology? Enlivex (NASDAQ: ENLV) Says It Has The Answers

Enlivex Therapeutics, Ltd.

Since Robert Hooke discovered cells in 1665 and Theodor Schwann proposed the classical cell theory in 1839, the cell therapy industry has grown by leaps and bounds. Today, there are several potential applications of cell therapies. They can be used in treating infectious and autoimmune diseases, fighting cancers, improving a weakened immune system, helping patients with neurological disorders, rebuilding damaged cartilage in joints and repairing spinal cord injuries, among other applications. Because of the wide applications of this technology, the global cell therapy market is growing. Governments around the world are increasingly investing in the biopharmaceutical industry's development, and the cell therapy industry is being propelled forward by an increase in the number of clinical trials for cell-based treatments. Already, leading industry participants like Fate Therapeutics (NASDAQ: FATE), Enlivex Therapeutics Ltd. (NASDAQ: ENLV), bluebird bio Inc. (NASDAQ: BLUE) and NKarta Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: NKTX) are introducing ground-breaking cell treatments into the global market. What's Next For Cell Therapy In Oncology? In particular, Enlivex Therapeutics says it is already looking into the future of cell therapy in oncology. Currently, cellular therapies are designed to improve the immune system's ability to fight cancer. Manufacturing them involves collecting a specific set of cells — T-cell transfer therapy — from the blood, modifying them to produce a more vigorous attack on a patient's cancer cells and then reinjecting them into the patient. Apart from T-cell therapy, another area of research in cell therapy is CAR-T cell therapy. In this treatment, T-cells are taken from a patient's blood. Then, the gene for a unique man-made receptor binds to a specific protein on the patient's cancer cells — known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) — and is added to the T-cells. This alteration turns the T-cells into CAR-T cells that attack the patient's cancer cells. In what could be a new approach, Israel-based Enlivex reports developing Allocetra™, an off-the-shelf therapy designed to reprogram macrophages into their homeostatic state. Diseases such as solid cancers, sepsis, COVID-19 and many others reprogram macrophages out of their homeostatic state. These nonhomeostatic macrophages contribute significantly to the severity of such diseases. By restoring macrophage homeostasis, Allocetra™ has the potential to provide an immunotherapeutic mechanism of action for life-threatening clinical indications – defined as unmet medical needs – as a stand-alone therapy or in combination with therapeutic agents. Equilibriums That Solve Complex Diseases Enlivex Executive Chairman Shai Novik, speaking at Cantor Fitzgerald's Cell and Genetic Medicines Conference, highlighted the company's initial focus on sepsis indication, which has a high unmet need. He said that the first solid tumor clinical trial was initiated a few months ago. Since being founded in October 2005, the company reports its mission has been to establish new equilibriums that solve complex diseases. According to Enlivex, Allocetra™ cell-based therapy breaks old paradigms, effectively treating numerous acute conditions through a radically different clinical approach. Novik said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post that a team of scientists, doctors, investors and entrepreneurs are working together to develop what they believe could "tackle some of the most problematic diseases, save more patients and ultimately change the world." Preclinical And Clinical Trials Of Allocetra™ As a clinical-stage company focused on macrophage reprogramming, Enlivex says it intends to develop and commercialize a drug pipeline for macrophage reprogramming in solid cancers, sepsis and other indications. The company reports that preclinical and clinical trials of Allocetra™ have been promising. The trials have started to show that restoring macrophage homeostasis could help people recover faster and with fewer complications when used on its own or in combination with other therapeutic agents. As part of a new generation of companies representing the future of cell therapy – off-the-shelf, highly scalable and low COGS “beyond CAR-T” cell therapies – Enlivex is focused on a highly differentiated novel immunotherapeutic mechanism – macrophage homeostasis. Macrophage homeostasis is severely disrupted by certain diseases states, and such imbalance is critical to the progression of the diseases. Allocetra has the potential to introduce highly-effective, low-cost allogeneic cell therapies for life-threatening clinical indications that are defined as "unmet medical needs", including sepsis – one of the leading causes of mortality, and oncology, through restoration of macrophage homeostasis. Enlivex is led by a seasoned management team who founded PROLOR Biotech and led it to a successful $560 financial exit and a partnership with Pfizer. PROLOR’s lead product, now named NGenla® by Pfizer, recently received marketing approval in Australia, Canada, Japan and the EU. Safe Harbor Statement: This press release contains forward-looking statements, which may be identified by words such as “expects,” “plans,” “projects,” “will,” “may,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “should,” “would”, “could,” “intends,” “estimates,” “suggests,” “has the potential to” and other words of similar meaning, including statements regarding expected cash balances, market opportunities for the results of current clinical studies and preclinical experiments, the effectiveness of, and market opportunities for, ALLOCETRATM programs. All such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may affect Enlivex’s business and prospects, including the risks that Enlivex may not succeed in generating any revenues or developing any commercial products; that the products in development may fail, may not achieve the expected results or effectiveness and/or may not generate data that would support the approval or marketing of these products for the indications being studied or for other indications; that ongoing studies may not continue to show substantial or any activity; and other risks and uncertainties that may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. The results of clinical trials in humans may produce results that differ significantly from the results of clinical and other trials in animals. The results of early-stage trials may differ significantly from the results of more developed, later-stage trials. The development of any products using the ALLOCETRATM product line could also be affected by a number of other factors, including unexpected safety, efficacy or manufacturing issues, additional time requirements for data analyses and decision making, the impact of pharmaceutical industry regulation, the impact of competitive products and pricing and the impact of patents and other proprietary rights held by competitors and other third parties. In addition to the risk factors described above, investors should consider the economic, competitive, governmental, technological and other factors discussed in Enlivex’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date the statements were made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements, except as required under applicable law. This post contains sponsored advertising content. This content is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be investing advice. Contact Details Shachar Shlosberger shachar@enlivexpharm.com Company Website https://enlivex.com

December 06, 2022 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

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Context Therapeutics announces bispecific antibody clinical candidate to treat CLDN6+ cancers

Context Therapeutics

Contact Details Proactive Investors USA Proactive Investors USA +1 347-449-0879 na-editorial@proactiveinvestors.com

December 06, 2022 03:40 AM Pacific Standard Time

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UNOS CEO Calls for Expanded Improvements in the Organ Donation and Transplant Field

United Network for Organ Sharing

On Monday, Interim CEO of United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), Maureen McBride, Ph.D., addressed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Board of Directors and called for the donation and transplant community to address public concerns by expanding ongoing efforts to improve the U.S. organ donation and transplant system. “Our national donation and transplant system saves thousands of people’s lives every year. But as long as there are patients on the waiting list, there is more we need to do,” said Dr. McBride. “Our critics agree – they have been vocal. Our supporters, too, have offered constructive feedback. … Here is where we all agree: We can do better. We must do better. We will do better.” Dr. McBride outlined several areas for improvement, including organ utilization and transportation, equity in access to the waitlist, oversight and coordination with the government, technology and patient engagement. “It’s clear that each year, too many donated kidneys never find a recipient, and that number is growing,” said Dr. McBride. “This is unacceptable.” Acknowledging previous board work to improve organ utilization – including implementing recommendations from the National Kidney Foundation’s Consensus Conference to Decrease Kidney Discards – Dr. McBride stated that the OPTN must seek additional opportunities to address the issue. Suggested actions included examining methods to increase usage of older and more complex donor organs as well as prioritizing discussions and potential solutions for safe and efficient organ transportation. “Practical, logistical, and regulatory obstacles to the safe and efficient delivery of donor organs should be identified, remedied, and monitored,” said Dr. McBride. Dr. McBride went on to address issues of inequitable patient access to the organ transplant waitlist. While the OPTN has the data and resources to maintain equitable services for waitlisted patients, there remains a challenge in helping pre-waitlisted patients, whose needs and data currently fall outside of the OPTN’s purview. “I am committed to seeking HRSA’s continued support for access to the data,” said Dr. McBride. “In my view, it is time for us to take bigger, bolder steps to increase equity across the entire donation and transplant landscape, not just one part.” Dr. McBride also acknowledged system improvement efforts by lawmakers and members of Congress, including the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, expressing her belief that oversight should include all members of the donation and transplant system. “In August, the Senate Finance Committee stated that ‘Everybody wants this system to work with as few errors as possible.’ We completely agree,” said Dr. McBride. “My vision for the OPTN is one in which we work alongside, closely and collaboratively, with members of Congress, HHS, HRSA, CMS and others in the federal government to do the hard work of driving change and instituting substantive reforms.” Noting OPTN technology as another focus of congressional attention, Dr. McBride spoke of the need to match public expectations and continuously evolve IT and other technologies that the system relies upon. “We stand ready to alleviate those concerns, serve as a resource and engage in one-on-one conversations to provide assurances – to HHS and Congress, patients, and the general public – that our systems remain secure and effective.” Lastly, Dr. McBride addressed the importance of patient engagement, referencing feedback from patient representatives that their input might have limited impact on board decisions and that non-volunteer patients require more comprehensive information to help them or their loved ones. “We will commit to ensure you have the support you need to make a meaningful contribution and that you feel you are heard and valued,” said Dr. McBride. “For patients not yet involved in the OPTN policy process, I’ve heard that they want an easy-to-access source of information – content and resources that will help them on their transplant journey … Work already is underway to offer more educational resources to meet those needs.” Stressing that each topic of concern aligns with ongoing initiatives to better serve the donation and transplant community, Dr. McBride urged the OPTN Board of Directors to join her in seeking these improvements. “I am calling on everyone in this room … to work with me to make these changes,” said Dr. McBride. “All of us have worked very hard to drive significant progress to date and we all are committed to doing even more. This is our profound responsibility – one we can never take lightly.” Dr. McBride was appointed Interim Executive Director of the OPTN in October. She has been with UNOS since 1995, most recently serving as the organization’s Chief Operating Officer until she accepted the role of Interim CEO. A copy of Dr. McBride’s remarks can be found here. About UNOS United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a non-profit, charitable organization that serves as the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) under contract with the federal government. The OPTN helps create and define organ allocation and distribution policies that make the best use of donated organs. This process involves continuously evaluating new advances and discoveries so policies can be adapted to best serve patients waiting for transplants. All transplant programs and organ procurement organizations throughout the country are OPTN members and are obligated to follow the policies the OPTN creates for allocating organs. Contact Details Anne Paschke +1 804-782-4730 anne.paschke@unos.org Company Website https://unos.org

December 05, 2022 01:03 PM Eastern Standard Time

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Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies appoints new CEO

Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies Holdings PLC

Contact Details Proactive UK Ltd +44 20 7989 0813 uk@proactiveinvestors.com

December 05, 2022 09:38 AM Eastern Standard Time

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The Company With A Big Smile This Black Friday

Bruush Oral Care Inc.

Read The Latest Report About Brüush. Brüush Oral Care Inc. (NASDAQ: BRSH) is back - after a strong Thanksgiving weekend, the leading electric toothbrush company announced record revenue, with over $500,000 of revenues for the month of November, representing year-over-year growth of over 50%. The long, post-Thanksgiving weekend stretching from Black Friday to Cyber Monday is a frenetic time for shops and shoppers alike. Spending totaled $188 billion in 2020, and with things back to normal this year, consumer activity is returning to pre-pandemic levels. In response to modern consumer needs, much Black Friday sales activity has moved online - with a record-breaking $9.12 billion spent online this year - and Brüush is riding this digital market wave. The Vancouver-based toothbrush company, boasting a cutting-edge product and strong online presence, saw one of its strongest weekends of sales in company history this Thanksgiving. Brüush sells top-of-the-line electric toothbrushes and is looking to become a leader in an oral care market worth $33.7 billion. The company, which already has a big smile over its partnership with comedian Kevin Hart, is delighted with this significant weekend of sales and record numbers of Brüush subscriptions and individual purchases. Brüushing Ahead This Black Friday Brüush can be proud of a strong weekend with record revenue from sales that provide significant growth for the company. The company believes that it is poised to become a leading provider of oral hygiene products going forward. As well as its strong individual kit sales, the company saw a boom in its subscription service, with 35,000 subscribers versus 28,000 before its IPO in August. The company’s individual toothbrush kits come with an electric brush and 3 replaceable heads, while its highly affordable subscription service provides 3 replacement heads every 6 months for only $21.60. Brüush’s mid-range pricing - with kits starting at only $80 - makes its brushes an attractive option compared with competitors. These include electric brushes from Oral B, owned by Procter and Gamble (NYSE: PG) and Koninklijke Philips ’ (NYSE: PHG) product, Sonicare. Along with its affordable price tag, Brüush offers a premium product that it claims gives the best teeth cleaning in the market. The Brüush brushes at 42,000 strokes per minute - compared with the average electric brush that brushes just 30,000 times - and removes over 20% more plaque than a manual brush. Its batteries last an industry-leading 4 weeks on a single charge, and the brushes have a 2-year warranty, though the company is confident it won’t be needed. The mid-range prices that provide top-quality oral hygiene results - along with savvy digital marketing - make Brüush popular among millennials, with 18-45-year-olds forming the largest segment of the company's customer base. Building on its resounding Thanksgiving successes, Brüush reports it will be launching a range of oral hygiene products in 2023 to complement its toothbrushes, including a line of toothpaste, floss, mouthwash, and more. Want to read more about Brüush? Visit its website. About Bruush Oral Care Inc. Bruush Oral Care Inc. is on a mission to inspire confidence through brighter smiles and better oral health. Founded in 2018, Brüush is an oral care company that is disrupting the space by reducing the barriers between consumers and access to premium oral care products. The Company is an e-commerce business with a product portfolio that currently consists of a sonic-powered electric toothbrush kit and brush head refills. Brüush has developed a product to make upgrading to an electric brush appealing with three core priorities in mind: (i) a high-quality electric toothbrush at a more affordable price than a comparable electric toothbrush from the competition; (ii) a sleek, countertop-friendly design; and (iii) a convenient brush head refill subscription program that eliminates the frustrating experience of purchasing replacement brush heads at the grocery/drug store. The Company is rooted in building a brand that creates relevant experiences and content, with the goal of becoming the go-to oral care brand for millennials and Generation Z.For more information on Bruush Oral Care Inc visit https://bruush.com. This post contains sponsored advertising content. This content is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be investing advice. Contact Details TraDigital IR - Colette Eymontt colette@tradigitalir.com Company Website http://www.tradigitalir.com

December 02, 2022 11:15 AM Eastern Standard Time

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