SAN DIEGO, April 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Skye Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq: SKYE) ("Skye"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel classes of therapeutic drugs that modulate the endocannabinoid system, today announced that it will present two posters at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2024 Annual Meeting being held May 5-9, 2024, in Seattle, Washington.

Details of the presentations are as follows:

Title: Phase 1 Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetic Study of Topical Ocular CB1 Agonist,
SBI-100 A Novel Prodrug of THC, in Healthy Volunteers
Posterboard Number: B0267
Date and Time: Monday, May 6, 2024, at 8:30-10:15 a.m. PDT
Location: Exhibit Hall - Seattle Convention Center
Presenter: Tu Diep, MSc, Chief Development Officer of Skye

Title: Development and screening of a novel library of synthetic endocannabinoid agonists and inhibitors to advance a potential therapy to treat dry eye disease and chronic ocular pain
Posterboard Number: B0328
Date and Time: Thursday, May 9, 2024, at 8:00-9:45 a.m. PDT
Location: Exhibit Hall - Seattle Convention Center
Presenter: Chris Twitty, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Skye

About Skye Bioscience
Skye is focused on unlocking the pharmaceutical potential of the endocannabinoid system to treat diseases with metabolic, inflammatory, and fibrotic processes. Backed by leading life science venture investors, Skye's strategy leverages biologic targets with substantial clinical proof of mechanism for the development of first-in-class therapeutics with significant clinical and commercial differentiation. Nimacimab, a negative allosteric modulating antibody that inhibits peripheral CB1, showed a favorable safety and tolerability profile in a Phase 1 study. Skye plans to start a Phase 2 clinical trial in obesity comparing monotherapy and combination arms of nimacimab and a GLP-1R agonist in Q3 2024. Enrollment has been completed for a Phase 2 clinical trial of SBI-100 Ophthalmic Emulsion, a CB1 agonist currently being studied in patients with glaucoma and ocular hypertension. Topline data for this study is expected in Q2 2024. For more information, please visit: .

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Media Inquiries
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FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
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