Aequus and EHave enter into Collaboration Agreement for Comprehensive Patient Data Management in Clinical Trials of Medical Cannabis

Mar 5, 2018

Ehave’s Bioinformatics Platform Technology to Be Used to Evaluate Aequus’ Products in Multiple Neurological Disorders

VANCOUVER, BC. March 5, 2018 - Aequus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX-V: AQS, OTCQB: AQSZF) (“Aequus” or the “Company”), a specialty pharmaceutical company with a focus on developing, advancing and promoting differentiated products, and Ehave, Inc. (OTCQB: EHVVF) (“Ehave”), a healthcare bioinformatics company whose platform efficiently captures, integrates, and delivers high-quality clinical data and treatment tools, have entered into a collaboration agreement whereby Aequus will incorporate Ehave’s bioinformatics platform to enhance and streamline data management processes for Aequus-sponsored clinical trials studying specific Cannabinoid-rich formulations for treating a number of neurological disorders. The Companies had been working together under a previously announced Letter of Intent established in August 2017.

“Our thinking regarding conducting clinical trials of various cannabinoid containing formulations has advanced substantially since we signed the original Letter of Intent with Ehave. We have a number of different trials in late-stage planning and see multiple opportunities for us to leverage our traditional pharmaceutical expertise in designing and implementing clinical programs, but we also see growing opportunities for us to leverage our existing relationships with Canadian clinicians and take advantage of our existing pharmaceutical sales infrastructure to better serve clinicians and Insurers as it relates to medical cannabis. We and Ehave are in a unique position to generate meaningful product safety and efficacy data in a variety of trial settings in a very efficient and cost-effective way,” says Doug Janzen, Chairman and CEO of Aequus. “In our most recent comprehensive physician survey regarding factors that prevent them from recommending medical cannabis products, Canadian clinicians identified the lack of robust clinical data in a real-world setting for such products as a significant limiting factor.”

"Our robust bioinformatics platform allows us to provide customized, next-generation clinical solutions that empower pharmaceutical developers such as Aequus to be successful," said Prateek Dwivedi, CEO of Ehave. "We are particularly committed to partnering with companies seeking to evaluate medical cannabis products, recognizing the specific need within this emerging industry for ”˜pharmaceutical-grade’ patient and clinical data informatics to help unlock the value of these new therapies for clinicians, patients, and payors. Aequus shares this view based on its strong background, unique capabilities and commercial experience in traditional pharmaceutical development, making them an ideal partner for Ehave. We look forward to helping them advance their clinical programs and potentially improve outcomes for patients with neurological disorders who may benefit from Aequus’ products.”

The terms of the agreement are similar to that of the original Letter of Intent.Aequus will pay Ehave a per-patient fee for trials conducted using Ehave’s platform and Aequus will receive patient assessment, diagnostic and therapeutic outcomes and side-effect profile content from formal and informal studies conducted using the Ehave platform, subject to standard patient consent and clinical research ethics approvals. Aequus will own all clinical results and data generated from trials using the Ehave platform.

About Aequus Pharmaceuticals

Aequus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX-V:AQS, OTCQB:AQSZF) is a growing specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing high quality, differentiated products. Aequus’ development stage pipeline includes several products in neurology and psychiatry with a goal of addressing the need for improved medication adherence through enhanced delivery systems. With a focus in neurology and other specialty areas, our most recent addition to the development pipeline was a long-acting form of medical cannabis, where there is a high need for a consistent, predictable and pharmaceutical-grade delivery of products for patients. Aequus intends to commercialize its internal programs in Canada alongside its current portfolio of marketed established medicines and will look to form strategic partnerships that would maximize the reach of its product candidates worldwide. Aequus plans to build on its Canadian commercial platform through the launch of additional products that are either created internally or brought in through an acquisition or license; remaining focused on highly specialized therapeutic areas. For further information, please visit www.aequuspharma.ca.

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