Sona Engages Clinical Trial Clinic for First-in-Human Early Feasibility Study of its THT Cancer Therapy
First Patients Expected to be Enrolled This MonthHalifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 16, 2025) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company", "Sona") an oncology-focused life sciences company developing innovative therapies based on its uniquely biocompatible gold nanorod technology, today announced that it has entered into a clinical trial agreement for an early feasibility study clinical trial of its Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy ("THT"). Sona has engaged Bradford Hill Investigacion Clinica ("Bradford Hill") in Santiago, Chile for a...
2025-06-16 8:23 AM EDT
Sona Successfully Completes FDA-Required Toxicity Study
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 27, 2025) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company", "Sona") is pleased to announce positive results from a required preclinical safety study evaluating for toxicity issues when animals are injected with its proprietary gold nanorods, conducted by CBSET, Inc. Donald Hodges, PhD, DSP, DABT, Head of Integrated Toxicology at CBSET, Inc., commented, "This study indicates Sona's gold nanorods were well tolerated, with no signs of acute or systemic toxicity at 100...
2025-05-27 8:27 AM EDT
Sona Announces Successful Study Showing Absence of Endotoxins In Its Cancer Therapy Gold Nanorods Prior to First-in-human Clinical Trial
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 15, 2025) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company", "Sona") is pleased to announce the successful completion of bacterial endotoxin testing ("BET") on Sona's uniquely biocompatible gold nanorods using the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate ("LAL") method at a leading global provider of laboratory testing and expert advisory services for MedTech and pharmaceutical companies based in the US.Sona Nanotech CEO, David Regan, commented, "These great results clear another hurdle for Sona as we...
2025-05-15 9:32 AM EDT
BioVaxys and Sona Nanotech Enter Research Collaboration
Vancouver, British Columbia, and Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 7, 2025) - BioVaxys Technology Corp. (CSE: BIOV) (FSE: 5LB) (OTCQB: BVAXF) ("BioVaxys") and Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) ("Sona") announce today that they have entered into a Research Agreement ("Agreement") to collaborate on the development of new cancer therapeutics based on BioVaxys' DPX™ Immune Educating Platform ("DPX") in combination with Sona's Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy™ ("THT"), a photothermal cancer therapy that uses highly targeted infrared light to...
2025-05-07 9:12 AM EDT
Sona Nanotech Announces Annual Options Grants
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 1, 2025) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA), (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company" or "Sona") announces that it has granted 2,135,000 incentive stock options under the Company's Stock Option Plan ("Option Plan") of which 1,855,0000 have been granted to Directors and Officers. Each option is exercisable into one common share at a price of $0.30 per share and will vest at the rate of 25% every six months. The options will expire five years from...
2025-05-01 9:21 AM EDT
Sona Presents Additional Preclinical Data Demonstrating Repeated Ability Of Its Cancer Therapy To Inhibit Tumor Growth In Colorectal Cancer Model
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 19, 2025) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company", "Sona") is pleased to provide updated data confirming efficacy of its Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy ("THT") cancer treatment in an immunotherapy resistant cancer. In this follow-up data to the previously released preliminary study (see press release dated December 11, 2024), again using an industry-standard, immunotherapy resistant, CT-26 colon cancer model, Sona's THT cancer treatment was 100% effective in activating a strong, effective...
2025-03-19 8:46 AM EDT
Sona Nanotech's Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy To Be Presented at the International 19th Canadian Melanoma Conference
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 12, 2025) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company", "Sona") is pleased to announce that its recently published findings from its "Targeted Intra-tumoral Hyperthermia with Uniquely Biocompatible Gold Nanorods Induces a Strong Immunogenic Cell Death in Two Immunogenically 'Cold' Tumors" study will be presented at the international 19th Canadian Melanoma Conference on February 20th in Vancouver. Sona's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Carman Giacomantonio, a planning committee member for this conference,...
2025-02-12 8:24 AM EST
Sona Nanotech's THT Cancer Therapy Preclinical Efficacy Studies Published In Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 13, 2025) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company", "Sona") is pleased to announce that the now complete findings from our previously announced pre-clinical breast cancer and melanoma efficacy studies have been published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Frontiers in Immunology. This research article includes new follow-up data which provides a comprehensive analysis of the immunity activated by Sona's Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy ("THT"). The published manuscript titled, "Targeted Intra-tumoral...
2025-01-13 9:22 AM EST
Sona Nanotech's THT Cancer Studies Demonstrates Strong Efficacy in Third Preclinical Study and Plans for First-in-human Early Feasibility Study
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 11, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company", "Sona") announces results from its most recent preclinical study of its Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy ("THT") which uses the Company's patented, biocompatible gold nanorods ("GNRs") to treat certain solid cancer tumors, shrinking them and acting as an immune stimulator. Building on its success in melanoma and breast cancer studies, the Company's third preclinical efficacy study was conducted in an immunologically 'cold'...
2024-12-11 9:01 AM EST
Sona Nanotech to Showcase Its THT Cancer Therapy at NCL 20th Anniversary Symposium and Provides Corporate Update
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 7, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company", "Sona") is pleased to announce that its Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Len Pagliaro, has been invited to showcase Sona's developing Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy ("THT") cancer treatment today at the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory ("NCL"). Sona will be one of six commercial and academic collaborators to present its research at the NCL's 20th anniversary "Advancing Medical Applications of Cancer Nanotechnology" symposium. Sona's subsidiary...
2024-11-07 8:15 AM EST
Sona Nanotech Issued Patent and Appoints New Board Member
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 21, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company", "Sona") is pleased to announce the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 12117447 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to the Company, entitled, "Metal Nanoparticles and Methods of Making Same". This patent covers the Company's proprietary process for manufacturing gold nanorods without the use of the toxic substance, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide ("CTAB"), which typically carries significant cytotoxic and genotoxic risks. The Company...
2024-10-21 4:32 PM EDT
Sona Nanotech Grants Options
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 9, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company" or "Sona") is pleased to announce that it has granted 25,000 incentive stock options under the Company's Stock Option Plan ("Option Plan") to a consultant. Each option is exercisable into one common share at a price of $0.30 per share and will vest at the rate of 25% every six months. The options will expire five years from the date of grant....
2024-10-09 8:11 AM EDT
Sona Nanotech Closes Private Placement Financing to Raise $1,643,750 in Gross Proceeds
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 24, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company" or "Sona") is pleased to announce that it has closed its non-brokered private placement that was announced on September 5, 2024 with the issuance of 6,575,000 common shares (each, a "Share") at $0.25 per share (the "Financing") for gross proceeds of $1,643,750. One Insider of Sona subscribed for 400,000 of those common shares for gross proceeds of $100,000. The subscription...
2024-09-24 8:47 AM EDT
Sona Nanotech Closes Private Placement Financing to Raise $1,500,000 in Gross Proceeds and Announces Additional Financing
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 5, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company" or "Sona") is pleased to announce that it has closed its non-brokered private placement that was announced on July 31, 2024 with the issuance of 6,000,000 common shares (each, a "Share") at $0.25 per share (the "Financing"). As previously disclosed, Sona intends to use the net proceeds of the Financing for advancing studies to support regulatory permission for an international,...
2024-09-05 8:25 AM EDT
Sona Nanotech to Arrange Private Placement Financing
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 31, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company", "Sona") is pleased to announce that it plans to raise up to $1,500,000 through a private placement financing (the "Financing") of up to 6,000,000 common shares of Sona (each, a "Share") at a price of $0.25 per Share (the "Offering Price"). Insiders and certain other existing shareholders of Sona may also subscribe for Shares under the Financing. Numus Capital Corp. (the...
2024-07-31 8:22 AM EDT
Sona's Cancer Therapy Triggers Abscopal Effect, Eliminating Distant Tumors In Preclinical Melanoma Study
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 26, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company" or "Sona") is pleased to announce that a detailed biomarker analysis of the recently reported pre-clinical melanoma study conducted at Dalhousie University (the "Study") indicates that, beyond shrinking tumors on its own, Sona's Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy ("THT") also stimulates the innate immune system to target and eliminate untreated (contralateral) tumors when combined with a standard immunotherapeutic drug, IL-2. (See figure #1,...
2024-06-26 9:54 AM EDT
Sona's Therapy Shows Significant Preclinical Efficacy in Second Cancer
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 20, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company" or "Sona") is pleased to announce that its targeted hyperthermia therapy ("THT") demonstrated positive results in a second preclinical cancer model. Findings just presented at the 2024 STING & TLR Targeted Therapies Summit for immunotherapies in San Diego, California, show that Sona's THT achieved responses in a preclinical melanoma model equal to that which was recently reported from its triple negative breast...
2024-06-20 9:45 AM EDT
Sona Appoints Chief Medical Officer and Files Provisional Conjugation Patent
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 21, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company" or "Sona") is pleased to advise that it has appointed Dr. Carman Giacomantonio MD, MSc., FRCSC (Cav.) to be the Company's Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Giacomantonio is a practicing Surgical Oncologist at the QEII Health Sciences Centre and a Professor of Surgery at Dalhousie University. Dr. Giacomantonio leads a productive translational research group at Dalhousie University and has successfully initiated...
2024-05-21 9:09 AM EDT
Sona's Cancer Therapy Creates a Systemic Immune Response in Murine Breast Cancer Model
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 29, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company" or "Sona") announces further results from the triple negative breast cancer murine model portion of its current research study at Dalhousie University (the "Study") which confirms that the previously reported tumor volume reduction was due to activation of a tumor specific systemic immune response. These data relate to the follow-up biomarker analysis performed on the previously reported cohort of animals that...
2024-04-29 9:32 AM EDT
Sona Nanotech Provides Interim Results of Dalhousie Efficacy Study
Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 12, 2024) - Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA) (OTCQB: SNANF) (the "Company" or "Sona") is pleased to announce further positive interim results from its study with The Giacomantonio Immuno-Oncology Research Group at Dalhousie University (the "Study"). The Company was provided with data from the Study that indicates the response in a pre-clinical triple negative breast cancer model treated with the combination of Sona's targeted hyperthermia therapy ("THT") and interleukin-2 ("IL-2"), a standard immunotherapy,...
2024-04-12 8:35 AM EDT