"The creation of Medical Marijuana Sciences, Inc. is designed to strengthen our portfolio of natural source products and broaden the Company's biotechnology base through studies using medical marijuana," commented Dr. Gerald W. Crabtree, COO of Nuvilex. "We believe that by leveraging the positive data collected from our completed Phase II clinical trial on our living cell encapsulation technology coupled with published research demonstrating the therapeutic benefits of cannabinoids on a variety of indications will immediately position Nuvilex as a leader in the medical cannabis industry."

Nuvilex's President and CEO, Dr. Robert F. Ryan, emphasized, "The work to be carried out by Medical Marijuana Sciences, Inc. will not delay or dilute in any way Nuvilex's collaborative efforts with Austrianova Singapore to carry out planned late-stage clinical investigations using our unique, proprietary, living-cell encapsulation technology for pancreatic cancer and the development of treatments for a wide variety of diseases including other cancers, diabetes, diseases whose treatments may be based on stem cells, viral diseases, and others. The new subsidiary is a means to further employ our core technologies to capitalize on the rapidly growing medical cannabis industry and provide new products for unmet medical needs."

About Nuvilex

Nuvilex, Inc. (OTCQB:NVLX) has been a provider of all-natural products for many years, has expanded its company to increase its natural product based footprint through medical marijuana studies and is becoming an international biotechnology provider of live, therapeutically valuable, encapsulated cells and services for treatments, research and medicine. Our company's offerings will ultimately include cancer, diabetes and other clinical treatments using the company's natural product knowledge, product base, cell and gene therapy expertise, and live-cell encapsulation technology in addition to other new products currently under development.

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