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02/21/17 9:17 AM

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Vericel's Heart Failure Drug Gets FDA Fast Track Status - Shares Up 11% Pre-Bell
MIDNIGHT TRADER 8:37 AM ET 2/21/2017
Symbol Last Price Change
VCEL 3.05 0 (0%)
QUOTES AS OF 04:00:00 PM ET 02/17/2017
08:37 AM EST, 02/21/2017 (MT Newswires) -- Shares of Vericel Corp.(VCEL) were 11% higher pre-market Tuesday after the company said its Ixmyelocel-T investigation product for the treatment of patients with chronic advanced heart failure due to ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy was granted Fast Track Status from the Food and Drug Administration.

CEO Nick Colangelo said "Receiving Fast Track designation highlights both the unmet medical need for improved therapies to treat advanced heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy and the significance of the results from the ixmyelocel-T phase 2b ixCELL-DCM clinical study."

Price: 3.30, Change: +0.35, Percent Change: +11.86