Asep Medical Holdings Inc. ("Asep Inc." or the "Company") (CSE: ASEP) (OTCQB: SEPSF) is pleased to announce its recent successful listing on the OTCQB Venture Market in the US. The Company will be trading under the stock symbolOTCQB: SEPSF and will continue to sell its common shares on the CSE under the stock symbol CSE: ASEP. Asep Inc. will officially commence trading on the OTCQB as of the market opening today.
The Company is also pleased to announce that it has also met the requirements for an account with the Depository Trust Company (DTC). The DTC is one of the world's largest securities depositories and acts as a limited-purpose trust company that will provide safekeeping through electronic record-keeping of securities balances. It will also serve as the Company's clearinghouse to process and settle trades as well as providing liquidity enhancement.
Trading on the OTCQB is a significant milestone. It gives us added access and visibility with U.S. institutional and retail investors interested in the biotech and healthcare industries. The listing is expected to provide us with added liquidity and a diversified investor base in a large established public market. In parallel to the CSE, we expect to develop a strong shareholder base in the U.S. to achieve an improved valuation considering the innovative nature of our therapeutic and diagnostic technologies, as we strive to impact patients around the globe."
Chairman and CEO Rudy Mazzocchi.
Our leading technologies are directed to major worldwide issues with enormous economic impacts. This OTCQB listing will enable us to more effectively engage with knowledgeable investors outside Canada who support innovative and effective solutions."
Dr. Robert E. W. Hancock, the Company's Founder and COO.
OTCQB is recognized by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission as an established public market. The OTCQB platform enables companies to provide current public information that investors need to analyze, value and trade a security. An extensive network of data distributors and media partners ensures that trade data, news and disclosure are available to broker-dealers, market data providers, and investors. On the OTCQB, investors get an exchange-comparable information experience, convenient trading through their preferred broker or financial advisor, transparent pricing with real-time quotes, and trusted disclosure.
ABOUT ASEP MEDICAL HOLDINGS INC.
Asep Inc. is dedicated to addressing antibiotic failure by developing novel solutions for significant unmet medical needs. The Company is a consolidation of two existing private companies (Sepset Biosciences Inc. and ABT Innovations Inc.) that are both in the advanced development of both proprietary diagnostic tools, enabling the early and timely identification of severe sepsis as well as broad-spectrum therapeutic agents to address multidrug-resistant biofilm infections.
Sepset Biosciences Inc. is developing a diagnostic technology that involves a patient gene expression signature that predicts severe sepsis, one of the significant diseases leading to antibiotic failure since antibiotics are the primary treatment for sepsis. Despite this, sepsis is responsible for nearly 20% of all deaths on the planet. The SepsetER test is a blood-based gene expression assay that is straightforward to implement, and results are obtained in about an hour in the emergency room or intensive care unit. This proprietary diagnostic technology differs from current diagnostic tests in enabling diagnosis of severe sepsis within 1-2 hours of first clinical presentation (i.e., in the emergency room), while other diagnostics only provide diagnosis after 24-36 hours. Asep Inc. believes this will enable critical early decisions to be made by physicians regarding appropriate therapies and reduce overall morbidity and mortality due to sepsis.
ABOUT SEPSIS
Sepsis is the body's dysfunctional response to infection and is very common, occurring in 49-million individuals globally. Recently the situation has worsened since sepsis is the cause of death in most patients who die from COVID-19. Sepsis is tremendously complex, and early symptoms are relatively non-specific, including fever, fatigue, hyperventilation and a fast heart rate — symptoms can also occur in other diseases. The most severe form of the disease, which occurs for up to one-half of all patients with suspected sepsis, leads to multi-organ failure and, in 23% of cases, death. Current diagnostic tools deliver results after approximately 24-36 hours, often delaying the initiation of treatment.