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Rakovina Therapeutics Announces Second Upsizing of Private Placement

V.RKV | July 19, 2024

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rakovina Therapeutics Inc. (TSX-V: RKV) (the “Company”), a biopharmaceutical company committed to advancing new cancer therapies based on novel DNA-damage response technologies, is pleased to announce, further to the press releases dated May 23, 2024 and June 20, 2024, that to accommodate additional indications of interest it will upsize the previously announced private placement of $2.0 million to $2.3 million, subject to TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V) approval. The terms of the private placement otherwise remain unchanged. The Company now anticipates closing the private placement on or about July 22, 2024.

AboutRakovinaTherapeuticsInc.
Rakovina Therapeutics Inc. is focused on the development of new cancer treatments based on novel DNA-damage response technologies. The Company has established a pipeline of novel DNA-damage response inhibitors with the goal of advancing one or more drug candidates into human clinical trials and obtaining marketing approval for new cancer therapeutics from Health Canada, the United States Food and Drug Administration and similar international regulatory agencies. Further information may be found at www.rakovinatherapeutics.com.

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NoticeRegardingForward-LookingStatements:
This release includes forward-looking statements regarding the Company and its respective business, which may include, but is not limited to, statements with respect to the timeline of the private placement, TSX Venture Exchange approval for the upsizing, the proposed business plan of the Company and other statements. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “plans”, “is expected”, “expects”, “scheduled”, “intends”, “contemplates”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “proposes” or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases, orstatethatcertainactions, events, orresults“may”,“could”,“would”,“might”or“will”betaken, occur or be achieved. Such statements are based on the current expectations of the managementoftheCompany.Theforward-lookingeventsandcircumstancesdiscussedinthis release may not occur by certain specified dates or at all and could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting the Company, including risks regarding the medical device industry, economic factors, regulatory factors and the need for regulatory approval, the equity markets generally and risks associated with growth and competition.

Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events, or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements,theremaybeotherfactorsthat causeactions, events, orresultstodifferfromthose anticipated,estimatedorintended.Noforward-lookingstatementcanbeguaranteed. Except as required by applicable securities laws, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.The reader is referred to the Company’s most recent filings on SEDAR for a more completediscussionofallapplicableriskfactorsandtheirpotentialeffects,copiesofwhichmay be accessed through the Company’s profile page at www.sedar.com.