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Callan JMB Inc. to Oversee Manufacturing and Quality Control of Attune Biotech’s IND Clinical Trials for lodonal™ in the Treatment of Long COVID
Callan JMB will Provide Independent Manufacturing Oversight and Governance as lodonal™ Undergoes Clinical Trials for Underserved Patient Population SPRING
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[{"type":"text","content":"Callan JMB will Provide Independent Manufacturing Oversight and Governance as lodonal™ Undergoes Clinical Trials for Underserved Patient Population SPRING BRANCH, Texas, March 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Callan JMB Inc. (NASDAQ: CJMB), (“Callan JMB” or the “Company”), an integrative logistics company empowering the healthcare industry and emergency management agencies through fulfillment, storage, monitoring, and cold chain logistics services, today announced that it has agreed with Biostax Corp d/b/a Attune Biotech Inc. (“Attune”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a diversified therapeutic pipeline, to support its investigational new drug clinical trials for the treatment of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (“PASC”), commonly known as Long COVID. The Company previously announced in January 2026, that it had signed a strategic teaming agreement with Attune, whereby Callan JMB serves as independent third-party overseer of Attune's manufacturing, quality assurance and control, and deployment operations. Under this agreement, Callan JMB will provide the following services and oversight for IND 181314 for JKB-122 (lodonal™), including Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) qualification and validation, comprehensive batch record review, supply chain verification and integrity confirmation, surge manufacturing capacity assessment, and distribution pathway validation. Attune has received notification that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received and assigned Investigational New Drug (IND) application number 181314 for JKB-122 (lodonal™) for treatment of Long COVID, which remains a condition for which no FDA-approved therapies are currently indicated. Patients of Long COVID are currently underserved, with approximately 20 million Americans estimated to be living with Long COVID or persistent post-COVID symptoms1. In addition, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued formal guidance titled “Long COVID as a Disability Under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557” (last reviewed July 2025), confirming that Long COVID may qualify as a disability under federal civil rights statutes where symptoms substantially limit major life activities. “When we signed the agreement with Attune at the beginning of the year, we were excited by the potential that several of their product...