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Key Patent Allowances Represent Major Step Toward International Exclusivity for its LSD-Therapeutic in the $2 Billion LSD Market

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Mar 27, 2014) - biOasis Technologies Inc. (TSX-VENTURE:BTI)(OTCQX:BIOAF), a pioneering biopharmaceutical company focused on overcoming the limitations of therapeutic drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier, has received notices of allowance from the European and Canadian Patent offices for its patent application titled, "Use of P97 as an Enzyme Delivery System for the Delivery of Therapeutic Lysosomal Enzymes".

The claims of the patent cover methods of using biOasis' brain penetrating drug delivery vector, Transcend, coupled with a lysosomal storage disease enzyme for the treatment of lysosomal storage diseases (LSD). Specifically, the Transcend-coupled enzymes claimed in the patent allowance include those that are used clinically as enzyme replacement therapies to treat lysosomal storage diseases, such as Hunter Syndrome, Hurler syndrome and others.

"These patent allowances in Canada and Europe complement our existing issued LSD-related U.S. patent and mark another major step towards international exclusivity in the rare disease market," said Rob Hutchison, CEO. "We believe it helps validates our Transcend vector technology for treating LSD and particularly its special ability to deliver therapeutic compounds across the blood-brain barrier."

biOasis' corresponding LSD therapeutic patent issued in the United States on October 1, 2013 as US 8,546,319.

A patent allowance represents the official communications from the responsible patent authorities that an application will be issued upon final review and payment of the issuance fee.

About Lysosomal Storage Diseases

Lysosomal storage diseases are inherited metabolic disorders caused by a deficiency in lysosomal enzymes, of which approximately 50 have been described to date. These diseases usually affect children, many of whom die within several years of birth and some following years of dealing with symptoms of the disease that may include developmental delay, movement disorders, seizures, dementia, deafness and blindness. The most effective therapeutic strategy used is replacement of the missing enzyme. However, no currently approved therapeutic enzyme is able to effectively treat the effects of these diseases on the central nervous system. Despite the limitations of existing products, market revenues have exceeded $2 billion for each of the past three years.

About Transcend

Transcend offers the creation of a new class of drugs that can cross the blood-brain barrier to address unmet medical needs in the treatment of brain metastatic cancer and other brain disorders, such as neurodegeneration and metabolic diseases, including lysosomal storage diseases. The blood-brain barrier represents the single greatest challenge in treating diseases and other disorders within the brain. Diseases such as cancer and lysosomal storage diseases are readily treated in many areas of the body, but drugs designed to treat them simply cannot penetrate the blood-brain barrier.

Over the past five years, biOasis has developed a unique and novel blood-brain barrier vector called Transcend. Trials in animal models have shown that Transcend can deliver Herceptin®, a chemotherapeutic used to treat HER2-positive breast cancer, in sufficient quantity to the brain to significantly reduce the number of HER2-positive metastatic brain tumors. Further, after only four treatments, the remaining tumor masses were reduced in size by an average of 58%.

Also in animal models, the company has demonstrated that the Transcend vector could deliver a 4-to-8- fold increase of a variety of different therapeutic biologics across the blood-brain-tumor barrier versus the compounds on their own.

The ability to more effectively permeate both the blood-brain and the blood-tumor barrier opens the door for the creation of new drugs designed to treat a wide variety of neurological diseases and disorders. Additionally, Transcend offers the potential to take existing clinically approved drugs that are near their end of patent life and extend them.

About biOasis

biOasis Technologies Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Richmond, BC, Canada. Based on Transcend, biOasis' proprietary brain delivery platform, the company is focused on creating new drugs that can cross the blood-brain barrier to address unmet medical needs in the treatment of brain disorders such as neurodegeneration, metastatic cancer and metabolic diseases. biOasis trades on the OTCQX under the symbol "BIOAF" and on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "BTI". For more information about the company please visit www.bioasis.ca.

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On Behalf of the Board of Directors

Rob Hutchison, Chairman & CEO

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biOasis Technologies Inc.Rob HutchisonChairman & CEO778-383-3280rob@bioasis.cawww.bioasis.caInvestor Relations Contact: Liolios Group, Inc.Ron BothSenior Managing Director949-574-3860BTI@liolios.com

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