NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - September 02, 2008) - Delcath Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCTH) announced today that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has named Dr. Marybeth S. Hughes, MD as the Principal Investigator for the current Phase III and Phase II clinical trials of the Company's Percutaneous Hepatic Perfusion (PHP) System. These trials are being conducted under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between the NCI and Delcath. This announcement comes as Dr. James F. Pingpank, Jr., who was Principal Investigator of the trials while at NCI, has assumed the position of associate professor in the division of surgical oncology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Pingpank has been named extramural Adjunct Principal Investigator for the ongoing trials at the NCI.
