SUNRISE, Fla., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bioheart, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BHRT - News) a company committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases announced today acceptance of MARVEL-1 data for presentation at the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Meeting September 13-16th, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Chris O’Connor, MD, Head of Heart Failure at Duke University and Thomas Povsic, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University will present the final data for Part 1 of the MARVEL Phase II/III Clinical Trial as a part of the Late Breaking Clinical Trials Session on September 16, 2009.
Doug Owens, RN, MPH, CCRA, Director of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, at Bioheart, Inc., states “We are very excited about the positive results we have seen in the Marvel-Part 1 study and look forward to presenting the final data. We are eager to launch part two of the MARVEL Study and anticipate rapid enrollment upon re-initiation of the trial.”
Bioheart, Inc. is committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases. Its goals are to improve a patient’s quality of life and reduce health care costs and hospitalizations. Specific to biotechnology, Bioheart is focused on the discovery, development and, subject to regulatory approval, commercialization of autologous cell therapies for the treatment of chronic and acute heart damage. Its lead product candidate, MyoCell(®), is an innovative clinical muscle-derived stem cell therapy designed to populate regions of scar tissue within a patient’s heart with new living cells for the purpose of improving cardiac function in chronic heart failure patients. The Company’s pipeline includes multiple product candidates for the treatment of heart damage, including Bioheart Acute Cell Therapy, an autologous, adipose tissue-derived stem cell treatment for acute heart damage, and MyoCell(®) SDF-1, a therapy utilizing autologous cells that are genetically modified to express additional potentially therapeutic growth proteins. For more information on Bioheart, visit www.bioheartinc.com.
MyoCell, MyoCell SDF-1 and MyoCath are trademarks of Bioheart, Inc.
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Investors and others are cautioned that a variety of factors, including certain risks, may affect our business and cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. These risk factors include, without limitation, (i) our ability to obtain additional financing; (ii) our ability to control and reduce our expenses; (iii) our ability to establish a distribution network for and commence distribution of certain products for which we have acquired distribution rights; (iv) our ability to timely and successfully complete our clinical trials; (v) the occurrence of any unacceptable side effects during or after preclinical and clinical testing of our product candidates; (vi) the timing of and our ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approvals for our product candidates; (vii) our dependence on the success of our lead product candidate; (viii) our inability to predict the extent of our future losses or if or when we will become profitable; (ix) our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; and (x) intense competition. The Company is also subject to the risks and uncertainties described in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the section entitled “Risk Factors” in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, as amended by its Annual Report on Form 10-K/A, and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2008; June 30, 2008 and September 30, 2008.
Contact:
At the Company:
Howard J. Leonhardt, Chief Executive Officer (954) 835-1500
Investor Relations:
RedChip Companies, Inc. Dave Gentry, (800) 733-2447, Ext. 104 info@redchip.com
