Scisparc Ltd

SciSparc Ltd. announced that CliniQuantum Ltd., the majority-owned subsidiary of its NeuroThera Labs Inc. unit, reported an approximately 16.8-fold computational acceleration from its GPU-accelerated quantum-simulation platform. The benchmark ran on a single machine with 64 cores and a single NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU, compared with the same 64-vCPU machine using only a CPU implementation. The evaluation used a real clinical gene-expression dataset of 11 patients and 3,531 gene-expression features, a high-dimensional setting in which biological variables greatly outnumber patients. Searching for correlated three-gene configurations, the algorithm covered 7,331,162,245 possible three-gene combinations and identified approximately 22.2 million correlated gene triplets at a predefined minimum correlation threshold. The analysis took approximately 8.4 hours on 64 vCPUs versus approximately 0.5 hours with the single NVIDIA T4 GPU, while producing the same qualifying gene-triplet results. The benchmark, run on an AWS g4dn.16xlarge EC2 machine using IBM Qiskit Aer GPU-based quantum simulation, was designed to evaluate computational performance and did not establish the clinical validity, predictive value, or potential utility of any identified gene combinations. CliniQuantum said it intends to advance its algorithms toward increasingly complex multi-feature configurations and larger biomedical datasets, progressing from simulation and validation toward execution on quantum computing hardware.

SciSparc Ltd. announced that its subsidiary, NeuroThera Labs Inc., is pursuing U.S. Food and Drug Administration Orphan Drug Designation for SCI-110, its drug candidate for treating adults with Tourette Syndrome, and has engaged RK Strategies, a U.S. government and public affairs firm, to support the regulatory pathway. The designation, if granted, could strengthen the product's market profile, as it is reserved for therapies targeting rare diseases affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the United States. SCI-110, a cannabinoid-based candidate combining dronabinol and palmitoylethanolamide, recently advanced into a Phase IIb program at three academic centers, building on Phase IIa results that showed an average tic reduction of 21% as measured by the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale. The engagement with RK Strategies aims to boost visibility among federal stakeholders and reinforce the importance of new treatment options for adult Tourette Syndrome.

Several biotech stocks posted sharp gains on Wednesday, led by SciSparc after its subsidiary completed internal validation of a quantum sampling platform for clinical trial data. SciSparc closed at $9.09, up 70.54%, following the announcement that NeuroThera Labs successfully validated the platform being advanced by CliniQuantum, in which NeuroThera holds a 54.01% ownership interest. Avantor rose 15.78% to $14.38 after reporting second-quarter net sales of $1.69 billion and raising its full-year adjusted EPS guidance to $0.80 to $0.83 from $0.77 to $0.83. NeoGenomics gained 13.96% to $15.27 after second-quarter consolidated revenue increased 11% to $202 million and the company lifted its full-year revenue outlook to $802 million to $806 million from $797 million to $803 million. Alvotech climbed 13.87% to $3.53 after the FDA classified the inspection of its Reykjavik manufacturing facility as Voluntary Action Indicated, a step forward for its biosimilar applications. Sanara MedTech surged 13.55% to $30.25 after agreeing to be acquired by MiMedx Group in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $35 per share, or about $350 million in total enterprise value. LB Pharmaceuticals advanced 11.62% to $39.00 after securing a $150 million private placement and accelerating the timeline for topline results from its Phase 3 schizophrenia trial to the first half of 2027.

SciSparc announced that its subsidiary NeuroThera Labs has completed internal validation of a proprietary quantum sampling workflow for clinical trials data analysis. The workflow, which represents continuous probability distributions within a quantum computing framework, was developed and evaluated using a hybrid quantum-classical computing platform from an S&P 500 company. This validation supports a key component of NeuroThera's broader computational architecture and is expected to expand capabilities for analyzing large-scale clinical and biomedical datasets. The technology is being advanced through CliniQuantum, a quantum-focused initiative in which NeuroThera holds a 54.01% stake.

SciSparc Ltd. announced its board has decided to target the agentic artificial intelligence market. As part of this initiative, the company is establishing a Scientific Advisory Board focused on AI and cybersecurity. SciSparc is currently evaluating opportunities and is in discussions with several companies active in the agentic AI field.

NeuroThera Labs, a subsidiary of SciSparc, has initiated its Phase IIb clinical trial site at Hannover Medical School in Germany for SCI-110, its proprietary cannabinoid-based treatment candidate for Tourette Syndrome in adults. The trial, which previously received regulatory clearance from Germany’s Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices and the ethics committee at Hannover Medical School, will also be conducted at Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel. The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over study will evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of daily oral SCI-110 in patients aged 18 to 65, with the primary endpoint being the change in tic severity measured by the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale at weeks 12 and 26 compared to baseline. The Phase IIb trial builds on positive Phase IIa results that showed an average tic reduction of 21% across all participants.