PixarBio CEO Frank Reynolds To Receive The 2016 Irish America Magazine Healthcare & Life Sciences 50 Award At The Harvard Club On October 5, 2016 In New York City

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today announced that Frank Reynolds Co-founder and CEO of PixarBio Corporation, and inventors of NeuroRelease^TM, a novel morphine replacement, non-opiate/opioid, non-addictive pain treatment, will receive the 2016 Irish American Healthcare & Life Sciences 50 Award at the Harvard Club in New York City on October 5, 2016. The annual Irish America Healthcare & Life Sciences 50 Award recognizes the excellence, performance, and extraordinary contributions of Irish-American leaders in fields including medical care, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, research and development, and life sciences venture capital.

“After being paralyzed in 1992 and emerging from bed in 1999, I reconnected to the real world through Irish business networks and activities”

Frank Reynolds is the co-founder, CEO, CFO, CSO, and chairman of the board of PixarBio Corporation, a Massachusetts-based specialty pharma/biotechnology company. His father Frank Reynolds is from Cloone County Leitrim, Ireland and was a successful entrepreneur in the NYC Irish community, and his mother is from Kiltamagh County Mayo, Ireland.

Frank received the Irish American Business Chambers 2015 Taoiseach Award from Anne Andersen, Ireland Ambassador to the USA, for his leadership in the Irish Business community. In 2014, Frank received a life-time achievement award from the American Spinal Injury Association for his invention of the NeuroScaffold, the first treatment to restore function in humans after traumatic spinal cord injury. In 2010, Ireland President Mary McAleese awarded Frank the 2010 Irish Life Science 50 Award. Since 2005, he’s won a variety of Irish Entrepreneurship Awards. In addition, Frank won trophies and medals for Irish step dancing as a child and performed at Irish shows at Carnegie Hall in the 1970s.

Irish culture, organizations and activities have been major impact on Frank’s success. “After being paralyzed in 1992 and emerging from bed in 1999, I reconnected to the real world through Irish business networks and activities,” said Frank Reynolds, “the Irish helped re-launch my life. I developed a treatment for paralysis with the help of Irish minds, and as I say every day, “Irish scientists rule!”

The NeuroRelease^TM Platform: Non-Addictive and Non-opiate Treatment of Pain
NeuroRelease^TM is a morphine replacement, and non-addictive pain platform for the surgical/hospital setting, or for acute and chronic pain. First product FDA approval for the platform will be for a 14-day post-surgical pain treatment and it is expected in late 2018.

Major Benefits of NeuroRelease^TM

• Effects only sensory signals
• No effect on locomotion nerve fibers, so patients can enter physical therapy quickly
• Maintains two-point discriminate touch so patients can function
• No effect on proprioception so no effect on a person feeling of well-being

Therefore, patients will maintain two-point discriminate touch, control of their locomotion nerve fibers so they control voluntary movement to enter rehabilitation quickly with a non-addictive morphine replacement. PixarBio’s NeuroRelease^TM pain platform also includes 4-8 hour, 3-day, 7-day, 14-day and 90-Day pain treatments all have expected FDA approvals in 2020. NeuroRelease^TM is biodegradable, and it's non-toxic so NeuroRelease^TM can be re-injected to extend treatment timelines.

PixarBio Corporation is in the process of preparing to trade publicly in mid- October and our stock symbol will be PXRB. PixarBio Corporation was awarded the Boston Business Journal's "2016 Best Places to Work". The award recognizes PixarBio as one of the region's best firms, offering the greatest professional opportunities and work environments to innovate.

About PixarBio Corporation
PixarBio is a specialty pharmaceutical/biotechnology company focused on 505(b)2; pre-clinical and commercial development of novel neurological drug delivery systems for post-operative pain. PixarBio researches and develops targeted delivery systems for drugs, cells, or biologics to treat pain, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, and spinal cord injury. Our lead product platform, NeuroRelease™, has achieved sustained therapeutic release of non-opiate drugs for post-operative, acute and chronic pain in pre-clinical models. For more information, visit www.pixarbio.com.

Safe Harbor Statement
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