Arch acquires a new CKD platform that has the potential to produce next-generation CKD drugs for the pharmaceutical industry Based on a novel mechanism of action involving IL-32 and directly implicated in CKD, discovered in pre-clinical studies led by Dr. Justin Chun The Company has filed both composition and method of use patents relating to the CKD platform. The Arch CKD program will be led by Dr. Justin Chun, who joins... Read More

First patient successfully completes dosing at Toronto General Hospital St. Michael’s Hospital is expected to be the next Canadian clinical site activated Arch is looking for additional clinical sites in North America to join the trial TORONTO, Aug. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc . (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF) announced today that the first patient has successfully... Read More

TORONTO, July 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF) announced today that the investigator-led Phase II trial titled “ P revention O f N ephro T oxin I nduced A cute K idney Injury with Cilastatin” (PONTIAK) has commenced patient recruitment at its primary clinical sites in Alberta, Canada. The Phase II PONTIAK study aims to evaluate the efficacy of... Read More

TORONTO, April 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that the University Health Network (UHN) Research Ethics Board has granted approval for Toronto General Hospital to participate in the Company’s ongoing Phase II trial evaluating LSALT peptide for the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury... Read More

TORONTO, March 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF) today announced it has closed a non-brokered private placement offering of 145,000 common shares priced at CAD $1.55 per common share and 90,000 common shares priced at USD $1.15 (the “Common Shares”) for total gross proceeds of CAD $374,000 (the “Offering”). The final amount of the Offering was an... Read More

TORONTO, March 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF) today announced it has arranged a non-brokered private placement offering of 225,806 common shares priced at $1.55 per common share (the “Common Shares”) for gross proceeds of $350,000 CAD (the “Offering”). The proceeds of the Offering will be used by Arch as general working capital and for certain... Read More

TORONTO, Feb. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that the clinical team leading the upcoming investigator-led trial, titled “ P revention O f N ephro T oxin I nduced A cute K idney Injury with Cilastatin” (PONTiAK), has received a No Objection Letter (NOL) from Health Canada to proceed with the trial. PONTiAK is a 700-patient... Read More

TORONTO, Feb. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that the Company has arranged a shares for debt transaction to settle an aggregate of $57,246.57 in interest accrued up to February 1, 2025 on the one remaining deferred convertible note outstanding and disclosed in the Company’s financial statements for the year ended September... Read More

TORONTO, Jan. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that the University Health Network Research Ethics Board, through the Clinical Trials Ontario Streamlined Research Ethics Review System, has granted provincial ethics approval for the Phase II trial for LSALT peptide targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac... Read More

TORONTO, Nov. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that patient recruitment and dosing have begun in Canada for the Phase II trial for LSALT peptide targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). The clinical team at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine has... Read More

TORONTO, Oct. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF) today announced it has arranged a non-brokered private placement offering of 290,323 common shares priced at $1.55 per common share (the “Common Shares”) for gross proceeds of $450,000 CAD (the “Offering”). The proceeds of the Offering will be used by Arch as general working capital and for certain... Read More

TORONTO, Oct. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF) announced today that the Company has closed a transaction that was previously announced on September 26, 2024 to settle an aggregate total of $2,600,000 of principal plus accrued interest of $130,000 on four deferred convertible notes maturing on Sept 30, 2024 (the “Notes”). The original terms of... Read More

TORONTO, Sept. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF) announced today that the Company has arranged a transaction to settle an aggregate total of $2,600,000 of principal plus accrued interest owing on four deferred convertible notes maturing on Sept 30, 2024 (the “Notes”). The original terms of the four Notes included settlement of the principal owing... Read More

TORONTO, Sept. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that Alberta Health Services (AHS) has approved the Phase II trial for LSALT peptide targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). The clinical team at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine is now completing... Read More

Arch is repurposing cilastatin, a dipeptidase-1 inhibitor, as a new treatment for acute kidney injury (AKI) Cilastatin is particularly well suited to prevent AKI caused by drug toxins due to its unique off-target effects that block toxin uptake into the kidney tissue Arch continues to perform a Phase II trial for LSALT peptide targeting cardiac surgery-associated-AKI Drug toxins and CS-AKI account for up to 50% of all AKI... Read More

TORONTO, July 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF) today announced it has closed the non-brokered private placement disclosed in a press release July 29, 2024 (the “Offering”). Pursuant to the Offering, Arch issued 400,000 common shares priced at $1.50 per common share (the “Common Shares”) for net proceeds of $600,000 CAD. The proceeds of the... Read More

TORONTO, July 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF) today announced it has arranged a non-brokered private placement offering of 400,000 common shares priced at $1.50 per common share (the “Common Shares”) for gross proceeds of $600,000 CAD (the “Offering”). The proceeds of the Offering will be used by Arch as general working capital and certain... Read More

TORONTO, June 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced that Dalton Pharma Services (Dalton) has completed the good manufacturing practice (GMP) glass vial filling stage for cilastatin, the Company’s second drug candidate for preventing acute kidney injury (AKI). Over the next six to eight weeks Dalton will be completing the quality control... Read More

TORONTO, June 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that the University of Calgary’s Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board (CHREB) has approved the Phase II trial for LSALT peptide targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). The clinical team at the University of Calgary... Read More

TORONTO, April 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that a research team from St. Michael’s Hospital, a site of Unity Health Toronto, has joined the Phase II trial for LSALT peptide targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). LSALT peptide is the Company’s lead drug candidate... Read More

TORONTO, April 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that Anesthesia Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU), an academic research organization in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management at the University Health Network (UHN), has joined the Phase II trial for LSALT peptide targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac... Read More

TORONTO, April 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that three additional clinical sites in Turkey have joined the Phase II trial for LSALT peptide targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). LSALT peptide is the Company’s lead drug candidate for preventing and treating... Read More

British Medical Journal Open publishes paper detailing the results of the international Phase II human trial for LSALT peptide targeting acute lung and kidney inflammation in hospitalized patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus Phase II findings previously disclosed support dipeptidase-1 (DPEP-1) as a relevant therapeutic target for diseases of the lung, kidneys and liver where inflammation plays a major role. New biomarker... Read More

TORONTO, March 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that a research team from the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine has joined the Phase II trial for LSALT peptide targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). LSALT peptide is the Company’s lead drug candidate... Read More

TORONTO, March 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that patient recruitment and dosing has begun in Turkey for the Phase II trial for LSALT peptide targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). LSALT peptide is the Company’s lead drug candidate for preventing and treating... Read More

TORONTO, Feb. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that it had a pre-investigational new drug application (PIND) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Products (DCRP) on February 23, 2024 to discuss Arch’s plan to repurpose cilastatin as a new treatment to prevent toxin... Read More

TORONTO, Jan. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc . , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that it has received a No Objection Letter from Health Canada to conduct a Phase II trial for LSALT peptide, targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). LSALT peptide is the Company’s lead drug candidate for preventing and... Read More

TORONTO, Jan. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that it has received approval in Turkey from the Ministry of Health to proceed with a Phase II trial for LSALT peptide, targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). LSALT peptide is the Company’s lead drug candidate for... Read More

TORONTO, Dec. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that it received approval in Turkey from the Kocaeli University Clinical Research Ethics Committee to proceed with a Phase II trial for LSALT peptide, targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). LSALT peptide is the Company’s... Read More

TORONTO, Dec. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that its Board of Directors has granted a total of 350,000 stock options to directors and officers pursuant to the Company's stock option plan and the requirements of the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV). The grant of 350,000 stock options to the directors and officers represents... Read More

TORONTO, Dec. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today it has submitted a Clinical Trial Application to Health Canada to obtain permission to proceed with a Phase II trial for LSALT peptide, targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). LSALT peptide is the Company’s lead drug... Read More

TORONTO, Oct. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF) announced today that the Company has arranged a shares for debt transaction to settle an aggregate of $172,500 in interest accrued up to September 30, 2023 on all five of the deferred convertible notes outstanding and disclosed in the Company’s financial statements (the “Notes”). The shares for... Read More

TORONTO, Sept. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced that it has submitted applications to the Ministry of Health (MoH) and local Ethics Committee in Turkey to obtain permission to proceed with a Phase II trial for LSALT peptide, targeting the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). LSALT... Read More

TORONTO, July 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that it has engaged the services of Independent Trading Group (“ITG”) to provide market-making services in accordance with TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) policies, subject to regulatory approval. ITG will trade shares of the Company on the TSXV and all other trading venues with the... Read More

Approval from FDA to initiate Phase II trial with LSALT peptide to target cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI) LSALT peptide targets dipeptidase-1 (DPEP-1), an enzyme known to mediate organ inflammation in the lungs, liver and kidneys There are currently no treatments available to prevent or treat AKI TORONTO, June 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture:... Read More

TORONTO, April 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), a clinical stage company focused on the development of novel therapeutics targeting organ inflammation, announced that it has safely increased the maximum daily dose of LSALT peptide to 20 mg per day in healthy, normal volunteers in a recently completed human trial in Australia. LSALT... Read More

TORONTO, March 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), a clinical stage company focused on the development of novel therapeutics targeting organ inflammation, announced that Arch is receiving advisory services and up to $4,000,000 in funding from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (“NRC IRAP”) to... Read More

TORONTO, Feb. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), a clinical stage company focused on the development of innovative technologies and novel therapeutics targeting organ inflammation, announced that an Arch scientist at the University of Calgary was awarded a Canadian Institute of Health Resources (CIHR) Project Grant worth $1,109,250 to... Read More

TORONTO, Dec. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Biopartners Inc. , (“Arch” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: ARCH and OTCQB: ACHFF), announced today that the Company has arranged a shares for debt transaction to settle an aggregate of $201,459 in interest accrued up to September 30, 2022 on all five of the deferred convertible notes outstanding and disclosed in the Company’s financial statements (the “Notes”). The shares for... Read More