** Shares of digital tech firm BullFrog AI Holdings Inc
shares BFRG.O rise 10.8% to $5.2 before the bell
** Co reports expansion of worldwide agreement with Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) for use of
patented artificial intelligence technology powering co's bfLEAP
platform
** Co says its bfLEAP platform analyzes drug development
data to potentially make life-saving therapies and treatments
available to patients more quickly
** The licensing deal between BFRG and Johns Hopkins was
first announced in early April
** Johns Hopkins on March 29 said it licensed two powerful
machine-learning tools — named Prometheus and Seagull - to BFRG
** Co's stock down about 28% from its IPO price of $6.50,
since its debut in mid-Feb
(Reporting by Pratik Jain in Bengaluru)
((Pratik.Jain@thomsonreuters.com;))