MONTREAL, QC / ACCESSWIRE / June 26, 2017 / Sunshine Biopharma Inc. (OTC PINK: SBFM) is a pharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of various forms of cancer. The Company's lead anticancer compound, Adva-27a, has proven effective at killing Multidrug Resistant Cancer cells including Pancreatic Cancer cells, Small-Cell Lung Cancer cells, Breast Cancer cells and Uterine Sarcoma cells (Results published in ANTICANCER RESEARCH, Volume 32, Pages 4423-4432, October 2012).
The Company today received the results of an independent valuation it had commissioned on its issued and outstanding shares. MNP LLP ("MNP") was retained to provide a Valuation Report (the "Report") on the estimated en bloc Fair Market Value at March 31, 2017 of its issued and outstanding shares. The value arrived at in the Report was in the range of $977.0 million to $1,133.0 million. The Company had commissioned the Report as part of an obligation it had previously made to investors.
MNP is one of the largest public accountancy firms in Canada (www.mnp.ca). The Montréal Valuation Practice (the "Practice") is engaged in the valuation of businesses, business ownership interests, and securities and intangible assets in connection with business combinations, distributions of listed and unlisted securities, private placements, exchanges of shares, corporate and financial reorganizations, going-private transactions, leveraged buy-outs, fair value measurement of assets and liabilities for purchase price allocation and annual impairment testing for financial reporting pursuant to generally-accepted accounting principles both in Canada and the United States. The Practice has performed more than 3,000 valuations of public and private companies throughout Canada and in the United States during the past thirty years. Members of the Practice have also been playing an active role in the Canadian and U.S. professional societies of which they are accredited members, including serving on governing boards and standards-promulgating committees.
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About Adva-27a
Adva-27a is Sunshine Biopharma's lead anticancer compound, a small molecule that has recently been shown to be effective at killing Multidrug Resistant Breast Cancer cells, Small-Cell Lung Cancer cells, Uterine Sarcoma cells and Pancreatic Cancer cells (Published in ANTICANCER RESEARCH, Volume 32, Pages 4423-4432, October 2012). Adva-27a is currently in the IND-Enabling stage of development. The original U.S. patent covering Adva-27a was issued on August 7, 2012 under U.S. patent number 8,236,935. The Company is planning a Phase I clinical trial of Adva-27a for Pancreatic Cancer in parallel to the Phase I clinical trial of Adva-27a for multidrug resistant Breast Cancer to be conducted at McGill University's Jewish General Hospital in Montreal (Canada).
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For Additional Information:
Sunshine Biopharma Inc.
Camille Sebaaly, CFO
Tel.: 514-814-0464
[email protected]
SOURCE: Sunshine Biopharma Inc.