Signature Diagnostics AG to Present at the 23rd Annual Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference

POTSDAM, GERMANY--(Marketwire - November 24, 2011) -

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Potsdam, Germany, November 24, 2011 - Signature Diagnostics AG announced today that André Rosenthal, Chief Executive Officer of Signature Diagnostics, will present at the 23(rd) Annual Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference on Wednesday, November 29(th) at 11:10 a.m. Eastern Time at the New York Palace Hotel in New York City. Dr. Rosenthal will provide an overview of the company and its development and commercial programs including its blood-based Detector C test suite for early detection of colorectal cancer.

About Signature Diagnostics AG
Signature Diagnostics AG is a molecular diagnostics company based in Potsdam, Germany, focusing on the development and commercialization of novel molecular oncology diagnostic products for early detection (screening) and prognosis of cancer. The company has completed development of its first two diagnostic products for colorectal cancer screening (“Detector C”) and prognosis (“Predictor C”), which will be launched in 2012 in its own ISO 15189 certified service laboratory. Using its state-of-the-art technologies in tissue and blood sample collection, molecular pathology, Xenopatient™ platform, genome-wide profiling, data mining, and biostatistics, the company collaborates with clinical, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic partners. Signature Diagnostics sponsors and conducts large prospective, multicenter clinical trials with more than 33 primary care hospitals and several dozen colonoscopy centers in Germany to discover and validate biomarkers in oncology.


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Signature Diagnostics
Hermannswerder 20 A Potsdam Germany

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For more information, please contact:
Rainer Kramer, CBO
Signature Diagnostics
Hermannswerder 20A
14473 Potsdam, Germany
phone: +49-331-2000-200
PR@signature-diagnostics.de

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