IBO:CC - Universal Ibogaine Announces Formation of Advisory Board
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Calgary, AB – TheNewswire - November 08, 2022 – Universal Ibogaine Inc.( TSXV:IBO )(“ UI ” or the“ Company ”), a lifesciences company with a mission to deliver medicalizedibogaine-centered addiction care, is pleased to announce the formationof an external Advisory Board as part of its strategic plans andmission to deliver medicalized ibogaine-centered addiction care and toundertake a planned clinical trial applicationprocess.
The UI Advisory Board is intended toallow the Company to draw on a broad range of expertise and experienceof its members from various fields, including medical practice, FirstNations leadership, psychedelics research, government relations andgrant funding. The initial members joining the UI Advisory Boardinclude:
MelissaLavasani – MelissaLavasani is Founder andExecutive Director of Plant Medicine Coalition, a Washington DC basedorganization advocating for all plant medicines and their syntheticderivatives at the national, state, and local levels. Melissa proposedDC’s Initiative 81, “The Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Actof 2020,” after entheogenic plants and fungi helped her overcomesevere postpartum depression. As Chairwoman, she successfully ran theDecriminalize Nature DC, the campaign supporting the historic passageof Initiative 81. After the use of psilocybin and ayahuasca helped herreclaim her life, Melissa was motivated to change laws in the Districtof Columbia so that other residents would not face the same fear ofinvestigation, arrest, and prosecution for using psychedelics to healthemselves.
MarcosMoura - Marcos Moura is co-owner and ChiefDevelopment Officer of Amada Franchise Inc., a brand dedicated toenriching the lives of our rapidly aging population. Marcos hasreceived Recognition for Amada Senior Care including Top 10 Best NewFranchises to Invest In" by Entrepreneur Magazine, #245 onEntrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500 Ranking and Inc. 5000 fastedgrowing companies. Marcos has helped hundredsof entrepreneurs grow businesses that allow them to live life on theirterms and do work that is meaningful to them, their families, andtheir communities. Marcos holds an MBA from the University ofSouthern California (USC) and works and lives in San Clemente, CA,with his wife and three boys.
Grand Chief JerryDaniels - Grand Chief ofthe Southern Chiefs’ Organization (“SCO”), which represents 34Anishnaabe and Dakota communities in southern Manitoba.? In Januaryof 2020; Chief Daniels was acclaimed for a second term noting thatthis is the first time a Grand Chief has run unopposed in SCO’shistory. Chief Daniels graduated from the University of Manitobawith a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, and he is the owner ofInnovative Educational Business. Collectively First Nations are one ofthe key drivers of Manitoba’s economy, and Chief Daniels focus is onimproving the quality of life through key initiatives in the FirstNations health care experience, including designing and buildingcommunity care models consistent with the evolution of thechildren’s welfare system as envisioned by southern First Nations. Grand Chief Daniels serves on boards and councils at the local,regional, and national levels.
TravisHayes – Travis Hayes isthe founder and CEO of Hayco Construction, a design-build generalcontractor with extensive experience in the development andconstruction of medical facilities across Canada and the USA. Travisis leader in addiction recovery in his community and has personallyexperienced the incredible healing powers of ibogaine, and like otherswho have done so, Travis is dedicated to bringing the medicalizedibogaine treatment model to the world.
About UniversalIbogaine Inc.
UI is a life sciences company, with a mission totransform addiction treatment using medicalized ibogaine through aplanned Canadian clinical trial focused on opioid use disorder, andultimately to utilize that protocol globally through planned futurelicensing agreements. UIis concurrently developing a state of the art holistic addictiontreatment protocol at its Kelburn Recovery Centre that, which whenpaired with the planned ibogaine detox protocol, is intended torevolutionize the way we treat addiction and drastically improve thelives of individuals and families affected byaddiction.
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Since ?forward-looking statementsaddress future events and conditions, by their very nature theyinvolve ?inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results coulddiffer materially from those currently anticipated ?due to a numberof factors and risks, which include, but are not limited to, risksthat required ?regulatory approvals are not obtained. The reader iscautioned that assumptions used in the ?preparation of suchinformation, although considered reasonable by UI at the time of?preparation, may prove to be incorrect and readers are cautionednot to place undue reliance on ?forward-looking information, whichspeaks only to conditions as of the date hereof.? UI does not?undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions toforward-looking information contained ?herein to reflect events orcircumstances that occur after the date hereof or to reflect theoccurrence ?of unanticipated events, except as may be required underapplicable securities laws. ?
For furtherinformation:
InvestorRelations: Dugan Selkirk,IR Manager
dugan.selkirk@universalibogaine.com
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