ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASTM), the leading developer of patient-specific, expanded multicellular therapies for the treatment of severe, chronic cardiovascular diseases, announced today that it has completed the previously announced exchange of its outstanding December 2010 warrants for common stock. As of July 27, 2012, when the company’s offer to exchange these warrants for common stock expired, 9,691,900 warrants had been exchanged for 4,845,949 shares of common stock. This total includes warrants that were part of a private exchange on June 27, 2012. There now remain 308,100 December 2010 warrants outstanding with an exercise price of $3.22 and an expiration date of December 15, 2015.