VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 15, 2023 /CNW/ - Filament Health Corp. (OTCQB: FLHLF) (NEO: FH) (FSE: 7QS) ("Filament" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage natural psychedelic drug development company, released its first quarter financial results and operational highlights for the period ended June 30, 2023.

"I'm proud to report on another highly productive quarter," said Benjamin Lightburn, CEO and Co-Founder of Filament Health. "The Filament team has achieved a number of industry-first milestones and continued to grow our revenue-generating supply network. Shortly after the period ended, we announced our intention to list on the Nasdaq through a business combination with Jupiter Acquisition Corporation. This transaction will accelerate the progression of our botanical psychedelic drug development platform, and facilitate our mission to see safe, standardized natural psychedelics in the hands of everyone who needs them."

Q2 2023 Financial and Operational Highlights:

• Cash and cash equivalents of approximately $1.2 million as of June 30, 2023 (which excludes $2.5 million private placement completed by Filament in July 2023).
• On June 30, 2023, the Company announced an exclusive global licensing agreement with NeoLumina Bioscience Inc. to license its proprietary botanical psilocybin drug candidate, PEX010, and associated intellectual property, to NeoLumina for clinical and commercial development related to eating disorders.
• On May 30, 2023, the Company announced interim safety reporting from its Phase I clinical trial in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco's Translational Psychedelic Research Program, noting fifteen doses of Filament's PEX010, PEX020 and PEX030 psilocybin drug candidates have been given, and all were reported to be well tolerated with no serious or unexpected adverse events.
• On May 17, 2023, the Company announced the completion of the first-ever Nagoya Protocol-compliant import of Tabernanthe iboga root from Gabon to Filament's research and development facility.

Q1 2023 Refilings:

The Company has revised and refiled the following documents:

• Unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements, together with the notes thereto, for the three months ended March 31, 2023 (the "Q1 FS"); and
• Management's Discussion and Analysis for the three months ended March 31, 2023 (the "Q1 MD&A");

The Q1 FS, originally filed on SEDAR on May 12, 2023, have been revised and refiled to reflect revisions in the accounting treatment applied to and recognized for the acquisition of the joint venture included in the original condensed interim consolidated financial statements.

The Q1 MD&A, originally filed on SEDAR on May 12, 2023, was revised to reflect the effects of the restatement in the Q1 FS and is being refiled with the Q1 FS.

The Company considered these revisions to be material. The Amended Statements replace and supersede those previously filed and are available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

ABOUT FILAMENT HEALTH (OTCQB:FLHLF) (NEO:FH) (FSE:7QS)

Filament Health is a clinical-stage natural psychedelic drug development company. We believe that safe, standardized, naturally-derived psychedelic medicines can improve the lives of many, and our mission is to see them in the hands of everyone who needs them as soon as possible. Filament's platform of proprietary intellectual property enables the discovery, development, and delivery of natural psychedelic medicines for clinical development. We are paving the way with the first-ever natural psychedelic drug candidates.

Learn more atwww.filament.health and onTwitter, Instagram andLinkedIn.

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