Pressure Biosciences

Greetings and welcome to the Pressure Biosciences Q1 2023 Investor Call and Business Update. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Richard Schumacher, President and CEO at Pressure Biosciences. You may begin.

Thank you, Paul, and welcome, everybody. Seems like we just did this. Welcome to the PBI First Quarter Financial Review Business Update. Before we begin, as always, I need to read a cautionary statement. The following remarks may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results Performance or achievements of the company could be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievement expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, those detailed from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events conditions or circumstances on which any such statement or statements were based. First, I'm pleased to welcome back to the financial review and business update, John Hollister. John is the company's director of marketing and sales. As many of you might remember, John is himself an entrepreneur starting several companies. and also including One Cannabis, one of the first publicly traded cannabis companies. He also has worked in big pharma in the past with budgets I can only dream about sometimes. Welcome, John.

Thanks, Rick. Appreciate it. And I'm happy to be here today.