Caladrius Biosciences, Inc. announced that three additional clinical sites, including UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, under the direction of investigator Stephen Gitelman, MD, have opened to enroll subjects for the Company’s Phase 2 clinical trial of CLBS03 in type 1 diabetes, The Sanford Project: T-Rex Study.  The other clinical sites include University of Florida Diabetes Institute (under Michael Haller, MD) and the Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Health Center at Oregon Health & Science University (under Ines Guttman-Bauman, MD).  These sites will contribute to the continued enrollment of subjects in the trial to meet the total of 111. The study is evaluating CLBS03 (the Company’s product candidate consisting of autologous expanded regulatory T cells, or Tregs) as a treatment for recent-onset type 1 diabetes (T1D). These three clinical sites join existing clinical sites for the T-Rex Study at Sanford Research (Sioux Falls, South Dakota under Kurt Griffin, MD, PhD and Fargo, North Dakota under Luis Casas, MD), the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes in Aurora, Colorado under Peter Gottlieb, MD and Indiana University under Linda DiMeglio, MD, MPH. The study is expected to include approximately 12 U.S. study sites.