MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA--(Marketwire - December 17, 2007) - ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: PLI) (“ProMetic”) extends its congratulations to Robert G. Rohwer, Ph.D., Director, Molecular Neurovirology Laboratory, Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center and Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, for being named among Scientific American magazine’s SA 50, the magazine’s sixth annual listing of the top 50 scientists of 2007. Dr. Rohwer was named for his work on filtering prions from blood, which eventually evolved into the P-Capt™ filter, a product designed to remove infectious prions potentially present in red blood cell concentrates in order to reduce the risk of transmission of varient-Creutzfelt-Jakob disease (“vCJD” otherwise known as mad cow disease in humans). The P-Capt™ filter, which has received European Regulatory Approval (CE mark), is co-promoted in the United Kingdom by Pathogen Removal and Diagnostic Technologies (“PRDT”), a joint venture between ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (“ProMetic”) and The American Red Cross, and PRDT’s commercial and manufacturing partner MacoPharma, SA.
