NBA Champion and Golden State Warriors Guard Joins Valor to Help Bring Clinically Sound, Non-Addictive Injury Recovery and Pain Management Solutions to Professional Athletes
MEQUON, Wis., June 22, 2026 /CNW/ -- Vector Science & Therapeutics Corp. (TSXV: PAIN) today announced that Gary Payton II has joined the company as Chief Athletic Ambassador for Valor, the company's sports medicine division. The Valor division has been purpose-built to develop relationships in the professional athlete market to permit the company to incorporate learnings directly from elite professionals into its biomechanical and transdermal peptide delivery platforms.
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