Cybin to Host Key Opinion Leader Webinar on June 9, 2022
- Featured speakers include Dr. John Krystal, Yale School of Medicine, and Dr. David Nutt, Imperial College London -
- Deep dive into the psychedelics landscape and overview of current and emerging psychedelic-based treatments -
TORONTO, CANADA – June 2, 2022 – Cybin Inc. (NEO:CYBN) (NYSE American:CYBN) (“Cybin” or the “Company”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on progressing “Psychedelics to Therapeutics™,” today announced that it will host a virtual Key Opinion Leader webinar on Thursday June 9, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. ET to 12:00 p.m. ET. The webinar will feature two leading experts for a discussion on the psychedelics landscape and current and emerging psychedelic-based therapeutics, and will be moderated by Cybin’s Chief Executive Officer, Doug Drysdale.
To listen to the event, please click here to register and access the webcast. The archived webcast will also be available on the Company’s investor relations website on the Events & Presentations page.
Dr. John Krystal is the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Professor of Translational Research; Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Psychology; Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University; and Chief of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Krystal has published extensively on the neurobiology and treatment of schizophrenia, alcoholism, PTSD, and depression. Notably, his laboratory discovered the rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine in patients with depression. He is the Director of the NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism. Dr. Krystal is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Currently, he is co-director of the Neuroscience Forum of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and editor of Biological Psychiatry.
Dr. David Nutt, DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, DLaws, is Edmund J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology, Head Centre for Psychedelic Research in the Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London. He spent two years as head of the research ward at NIAAA
in the USA before setting up the Psychopharmacology unit at Bristol University in 1988, where he later became Professor of Psychopharmacology and Dean of Clinical Medicine before moving to Imperial in 2008. Dr. Nutt’s contributions to pharmacology include GABA and noradrenaline receptor function in anxiety disorders, serotonin function in depression, endorphin and dopamine function in addiction and the neuroscience and clinical utility of psychedelics. He has also led psychedelic neuroimaging studies and conducted influential research on psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression. He has over 500 original research papers, a similar number of reviews/book chapters, eight government reports, and 36 books.
About Cybin
Cybin is a leading ethical biopharmaceutical company, working with a network of world-class partners and internationally recognized scientists, on a mission to create safe and effective therapeutics for patients to address a multitude of mental health issues. Headquartered in Canada and founded in 2019, Cybin is operational in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Company is focused on progressing Psychedelics to Therapeutics by engineering proprietary drug discovery platforms, innovative drug delivery systems, novel formulation approaches and treatment regimens for mental health disorders.
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Cybin makes no medical, treatment or health benefit claims about Cybin’s proposed products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Health Canada or other similar regulatory authorities have not evaluated claims regarding psilocybin, psychedelic tryptamine, tryptamine derivatives or other psychedelic compounds. The efficacy of such products has not been confirmed by approved research. There is no assurance that the use of psilocybin, psychedelic tryptamine, tryptamine derivatives or other psychedelic compounds can diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease or condition. Rigorous scientific research and clinical trials are needed. Cybin has not conducted clinical trials for the use of its proposed products. Any references to quality, consistency, efficacy and safety of potential products do not imply that Cybin verified such in clinical trials or that Cybin will complete such trials. If Cybin cannot obtain the approvals or research necessary to commercialize its business, it may have a material adverse effect on Cybin’s performance and operations.
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Cybin Inc.
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