LIXTE BIOTECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC. ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF REGINA BROWN TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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[{"type":"text","content":"EAST SETAUKET, NY, May 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIXT) today announced the appointment of Regina Brown, CPA to its board of directors. She will serve as an independent director and audit committee chair. Dr. John S. Kovach, Founder and CEO of Lixte, said “We are pleased to welcome Regina to our board of directors. We look forward to benefiting from her decades of experience in public accounting. As our company expands, her expertise in compliance, taxation and internal control implementation is a valuable addition to our board of directors.” Ms. Brown began her accounting practice over 30 years ago. Currently, her practice has a wide range of clients, varying in size, industry, and geographic locations. They include large national corporations listed on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as smaller regional businesses. Other clients consist of professionals, wholesalers, and high net worth individuals. Many of her clients have international and cross-border operations. As a consequence of her depth of experience, she regularly assists other professionals with their clients’ issues and performs tax research and analysis in connection with litigation and other matters including tax and accounting with respect to mergers and acquisitions and implementation of internal controls. In addition, international tax matters and compliance have become a significant part of her practice. She is a member in good standing of California Society of CPAs and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. About Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:LIXT) is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering drugs for more effective treatments for many forms of cancer and other serious common diseases. A major driver of cancer is defects in the switches that turn the biochemical pathways in cells on and off. Most cancer research over the past 30 years has focused on the “on” switches because the “off” switches, especially the master “off” switch protein phosphatase (PP2A), were believed to cause intolerable toxicity in patients. Lixte has achieved a breakthrough with its novel, first-in-class lead compound, PP2A inhibitor LB-100, by demonstrating that it is readily tolerated in cancer patients at doses associated with anti-cancer activity...

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