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CALGARY, Alberta, March 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — XORTX Therapeutics Inc. (“XORTX” or the “Company”) (CSE: XRX; OTCQB: XRTXF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies to treat progressive kidney disease, announces its participation in the WuXI Healthcare Forum to be held virtually March 15-18, 2021.

February 17, 2021 07:00 ET | Source: XORTX Therapeutics Inc.

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CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — XORTX Therapeutics Inc. (“XORTX” or the “Company”) (CSE: XRX; OTCQB: XRTXF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies to treat progressive kidney disease, is pleased to announce that it has closed the over-subscribed private placement, initially announced on January 7, 2021, for total gross proceeds of $6.1 million (the “Offering”).

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CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — XORTX Therapeutics Inc. (“XORTX” or the “Company”) (CSE: XRX; OTCQB: XRTXF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies to treat progressive kidney disease, is pleased to announce that further to its press release of January 28^th, the Company is further increasing the private placement due to the high level of interest.

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CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — XORTX Therapeutics Inc. (“XORTX” or the “Company”) (CSE: XRX; OTCQB: XRTXF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies to treat progressive kidney disease, is pleased to announce that further to its press release of January 7th, the Company has received significant interest in the non-brokered private placement.

CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — XORTX Therapeutics Inc. (“XORTX” or the “Company”) (CSE: XRX) (OTCQB: XRTXF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies to treat progressive kidney disease, announces that it has granted in accordance with the Company’s stock option plan an aggregate of 700,000 options to purchase common shares of the Company to a consultant and a director of the Company.

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CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — XORTX Therapeutics Inc. (“XORTX” or the “Company”) (CSE: XRX; OTCQB: XRTXF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies to treat progressive kidney disease, announces a non-brokered private placement to raise between CDN $2,000,000 and CDN $3,000,000 through the issuance of between 8,000,000 and 12,000,000 common share units of the Company at a price of CDN $0.25 per unit (the “Private Placement”).

CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — XORTX Therapeutics Inc. (“XORTX” or the “Company”) (CSE: XRX) (OTCQB: XRTXF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies to treat progressive kidney disease, is pleased to announce its participation in two upcoming virtual conferences in November 2020.