BIPH news! The correlation with ANPI keeps becoming more apparent, if the current Boston Scientific tests are successful, I believe we'll get much meatier details than we got today:
Biophan CEO to Present at the SRI Institute's Medical Device Investor and Corporate Development Conference
Tuesday June 29, 8:01 am ET
Conference to Focus on Convergence of Drugs, IT, and Medical Devices;
ROCHESTER, N.Y--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2004-- Investors' Insights on Future Opportunities in the Medical Device
Industry
Biophan Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: BIPH - News) an innovator, developer and marketer of MRI-related and other advanced biomedical technology, announced today that the Company's CEO, Michael Weiner, will be a presenter and panel participant at the Strategic Research Institute's Medical Device Investor and Corporate Development Conference today at the Hyatt Regency Princeton in Princeton, NJ. The panel will specifically discuss the growing convergence of medical devices, drugs, and information technology. Joining Mr. Weiner on the panel are Jeanne M. Bertonis, Chief Business Officer of Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a $1.6 billion market cap manufacturer of drug-coated medical devices and drug-loaded surgical implants, and Astro Teller, CEO of BodyMedia.
Mr. Weiner will cover some recent advances developed by Biophan's technology partner, Nanoset, LLC, which has recently filed several new patents regarding the use of nanomagnetic particles to enhance the uptake and release of drugs in medical device coatings. Under the expanded relationship between Nanoset and Biophan, announced earlier this year, the Company has exclusive rights to all applications developed by Nanoset in the field of medical devices.
Specific topics that Mr. Weiner will highlight include:
Generating power from body heat using thin-film coating for diagnostics and therapeutics
Coatings for allowing post-implant drug uptake and release
Controllable recharging of drugs in coatings
Controllable drug elution (release)
Detection and treatment of plaque, inflammation, and infection
Broad diagnostics and therapeutics
Coating nanoparticles for use as contrast agents, thus allowing multiple markers in single procedures
Commenting on his presentation, Mr. Weiner stated, "While we have previously announced our initiatives in biothermal power sources and contrast agents, today we are publicly announcing for the first time that, through Nanoset, we are involved in the development of drug elution technologies."
About Biophan Technologies
Biophan Technologies develops and markets cutting-edge technologies designed to make biomedical devices--such as cardiac pacemakers, surgical and diagnostic tools--safe and compatible with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment. The Company develops enabling technologies for implanted medical systems such as pacemakers, and interventional surgical devices such as catheters and guidewires, as well as stents and other implants that can be safely and effectively imaged under MRI. The technology is also being used to create enhanced MRI contrast agents. Committed to growth through innovation and developmental leadership, Biophan and its licensors have nine issued U.S. patents and over fifty patents pending, in areas including nanotechnology (nanomagnetic particle coatings), radio frequency filters, polymer composites, photonics, and a long-life power source for use in implanted medical devices. Biophan's technology will help realize its goal of one day making all biomedical devices capable of safely and successfully working with MRI. For more information, please visit www.biophan.com.
About the Strategic Research Institute
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