QualityStocksNewsBreaks – Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (NASDAQ: LEXX) Awards CRO Contract for Upcoming Hypertension Study
Lexaria Bioscience (NASDAQ: LEXX, LEXXW), a global innovator in drug delivery platforms, today announced that it awarded the contract for clinical research organization (“CRO”) services to California-based InClin, Inc. for its expected upcoming Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”)-registered, U.S. phase 1b Investigational New Drug (“IND”) hypertension study HYPER-H23-1 with its patented DehydraTECH-powered cannabidiol (“DehydraTECH-CBD”). According to the announcement, HYPER-H23-1 is entitled “A Phase 1b Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of the Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of DehydraTECH-CBD in Subjects with Stage 1 or Stage 2 Hypertension.” The study’s primary objective will be to evaluate safety and tolerability in 120 hypertensive patients,…