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● Synopsis of 2020 Achievements and Key Actions for 2021 ●

CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — XORTX Therapeutics Inc.. (“XORTX” or the “Firm”) (CSE: XRX) (OTCQB: XRTXF), a biopharmaceutical firm targeted on growing revolutionary therapies to deal with progressive kidney illness, is happy to supply a synopsis of 2020 achievements and steering on key actions for 2021.

2020 represented a pivotal 12 months for XORTX and a 12 months that supplied a number of key milestones for the Firm. The appearance of the COVID disaster in March produced a worldwide impression on people and throughout all kinds of industries. Offered with this new problem XORTX undertook an inner strategic evaluation of applications. Concurrently, our strong information of the uric acid decreasing agent class of medication and extra particularly xanthine oxidase inhibition (XOI) permitted a brand new deal with potential therapeutic options to deal with and forestall Acute Kidney Damage (AKI) related to COVID-19 an infection. Moreover, an understanding of acute kidney pathology introduced a possibility to provoke improvement of therapeutic approaches to help people contaminated with average to extreme COVID-19 and accompanied by AKI.

Key actions throughout 2020 resulted within the achievement of quite a few necessary milestones together with:

February 2020 – XORTX accomplished fundraising of ~$2,500,000.

March 2020 – XORTX filed a provisional patent targeted on the therapy and prevention of the well being penalties of COVID-19 an infection, and particularly AKI.

July 2020 – XORTX and Icahn Faculty of Drugs at Mount Sinai entered right into a analysis partnership to find out the function of excessive uric acid related to AKI and different organ harm throughout COVID-19 an infection. Preliminary information of hospitalized sufferers suggests excessive, early elevated serum uric acid concentrations in these sufferers suggestive of AKI seen in “tumor lysis syndrome” noticed in most cancers sufferers.

August by way of October 2020 – Pre-IND submitting for XRx-101 led to constructive FDA steering on medical program design for therapy and prevention of AKI in reference to COVID-19 an infection.

November 2020 – Topline outcomes from Mount Sinai Analysis partnership revealed a regarding, prevalent, early enhance in serum uric acid concentrations in sufferers hospitalized with COVID-19 infections. Early dose dependent affiliation of excessive uric acid focus and AKI prompt a viral “tissue lysis syndrome” might contribute to hyperuricemia, acute kidney and acute organ harm throughout COVID-19 an infection in people.

December 2020 – XORTX acquired discover of grant of European patent for compositions of formulations key to XORTX’s platform know-how. This European patent grant strengthens the Firm’s mental property portfolio within the EU. Importantly, this European patent grant protects our first-in-class program for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney illness (ADPKD).

XORTX is poised to construct upon the outcomes from 2020 and proceed to advance its actions in each XRx-008 for ADPKD and XRx-101 for AKI as a consequence of COVID-19 an infection.

Key actions deliberate for 2021 focus key worth creation actions and catalysts for the 12 months:

• Full fundraising of between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000;
  
   
• Proceed to extend publicity of XORTX’s late medical stage applications to pharma companion candidates and buyers;
  
   
• Advance Pharma partnership curiosity and licensing discussions for each of XORTX’s first in school alternatives in AKI (XRx-101) and in ADPKD (XRx-008);
  
   
• Advance and broaden XORTX’s program applied sciences by advancing key important path improvement steps, together with:

  ◦ Manufacturing drug provide for each upcoming part 3 “registration” medical trials;
  ◦ Finishing our regulatory filings with FDA and EMA;
  ◦ Characterizing bioavailability of XRx-008 and different formulations of uric acid decreasing brokers;
  ◦ Full orphan drug designation submitting for the XRx-008 ADPKD program;
  ◦ Negotiating the particular protocol evaluation (SPA) for ADPKD part Three registration medical trial;
  ◦ Getting ready and submitting further provisional patent purposes in each XRx-008 and XRx-101 applications; and
  ◦ Grant of pending patent purposes in US and Europe.

• XORTX additionally intends to hunt an uplisting for its shares in the USA.

Dr. Allen Davidoff, CEO of XORTX said, “2021 shall be an necessary 12 months for advancing our first-in-class therapeutics for each continual and acute kidney harm. Executing on the trail described on this market steering illustrates the necessary key catalysts for XORTX as we try to achieve a bigger viewers with applied sciences which have the potential to redefine how kidney illness is handled sooner or later.”

The Firm will not be making any specific or implied claims that it has the power to remove, treatment or include the COVID-19 coronavirus at the moment.

About Polycystic Kidney Illness and XRx-008

Polycystic kidney illness (PKD) is taken into account a uncommon illness with two predominant sorts – autosomal dominant PKD (ADPKD) and autosomal recessive PDK (ARPKD), with prevalence of 1:800 and 1:20,000, respectively. PKD is a dysfunction that originates as a consequence of genetic modifications, and leads to quite a few fluid-filled cysts that may type within the kidneys. This genetic dysfunction tends to worsen with progressing age and is characterised by growing cyst quantity and dimension that modifications the form of kidneys making them a lot bigger. Development of this illness reduces kidney perform and will result in kidney failure and the necessity for transplant or dialysis. Statistically, higher than 50% of people attain finish stage kidney failure by the age of 60 years. Sometimes, prognosis of ADPKD happens between the ages of 30 and 50, when indicators and signs start to seem. Development of PKD is continuously accompanied by hypertension, hyperuricemia, gout, kidney stones, proteinuria, stomach ache, hematuria and declining GFR. Like many progressing kidney illnesses, the speed of filtering capability accelerates with time main to finish stage kidney failure and the necessity for kidney transplant or dialysis.

XORTX’s XRx-008, for ADPKD, is a proprietary mixture of uric acid decreasing brokers and different excipients. At current, there are few therapeutic choices obtainable to deal with progressing kidney illness as a consequence of ADPKD or DN. The 20-year safety afforded by this patent will allow XORTX’s first-in-class ADPKD remedy to deal with unmet medical wants in Europe. Market dimension estimates for Europe, the USA and Globally are estimated 160,000, 150,000 and three M¹, respectively. ADPKD is a uncommon illness with orphan illness applications in EU, US and Japan of defending market exclusivity for 10, 7 and 10-year intervals respectively.

Lately, non-clinical and medical proof has gathered displaying that prime serum uric acid focus might mediate illness development in ADPKD together with:

1. People with ADPKD have excessive reported incidences of hyperuricemia (>60%) and medical gout (24%) and, circumstances which are related to uric acid crystal formation within the kidneys resembling low serum and urine pH^1,2,3.
2. A excessive prevalence of kidney stones of roughly equal uric acid composition or oxalate composition⁴.
3. Excessive serum uric acid is an unbiased threat issue for cyst genesis, cyst progress and declining filtering capability of kidneys¹.
4. Xanthine oxidase inhibition in ADPKD sufferers might reverse development of glomerular filtration price decline⁵.

These days, few therapeutic choices to deal with, stabilize or sluggish this progressing kidney illness can be found. These days, solely a single drug is authorised up to now – Tolvaptan. Though useful for slowing cyst progress, the necessity to develop of therapeutic choices that sluggish progressive decline of filtering capability stays, as is the important to enhance high quality of life and kidney well being for people going through this illness. XRx-008 represents a first-in-class alternative to assist people with lowering renal filtering capability and sluggish or forestall finish stage renal illness and the necessity for dialysis.

References:

1. Helal I, Nephrol Dial Transplant 28:380 ,2013
2. Jacob A.Torres, Mina Rezaei, Caroline Broderick, Louis Lin, Xiaofang Wang, Bernd Hoppe, Benjamin D. Cowley, Vincenzo Savica, Vincente E Torres, Saeed Khan, Ross P Holmes, Michael Mrug, Thomas Weimbs, Crystal deposition triggers tubule dilation that accelerated cystogenesis in polycystic kidney illness, J Clin Make investments, 2019
3. Errasti P, Et al., Autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney illness: Transplant Proc, 2003, 35(5)1717 &
4. Idrizi A, et al Prevalence of Nephrolithiasis in polycystic kidney illness Cent Eur J Med 6(4):497_2011
5. Han M, et al., Hyperuricemia and Deterioration of Renal perform in ADPKD, BMC Nephrol 15:63-2014

About XORTX Therapeutics Inc.

XORTX Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical firm with three clinically superior merchandise in improvement – XRx-008 for Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Illness (ADPKD), XRx-101 for Coronavirus / COVID-19 an infection and XRx-221 is a medical stage program for Sort 2 Diabetic Nephropathy (T2DN). The Firm has sturdy mental property rights and established proof of idea by way of unbiased medical research. XORTX is working to advance its medical improvement stage merchandise that focus on uric acid decreasing as a technique of treating progressive kidney illness. At XORTX, we’re devoted to growing drugs to enhance the standard of life and way forward for sufferers with kidney illness. Extra data on XORTX is on the market at www.xortx.com.

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¹ Supply: The Nationwide Middle for Biotechnology Info, a department of the US Nationwide Institutes of Well being and the PKD Worldwide Affiliation.