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The appointment of this team will enable Mr. Leonhardt to pursue the company's strategic initiatives with respect to strengthening and broadening the Company's technologies. To this end, he has resigned from the Board of Directors.
Of his more focused position, Howard Leonhardt goes on to say:
"As Founder, Chief Scientific and Technology Officer, and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board I will remain fully dedicated to assuring that our products are superior to all others in treating and caring for heart failure patients and will continue to be the Company's ambassador in developing relationships worldwide with heart failure physicians."
Mr. Leonhardt emphasized that Bioheart is, in truth, "fully committed to being the 'Go To Technology Partner for Heart Failure Specialists and Their Patients.'"
About Bioheart, Inc.
Bioheart, Inc. is committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases. Its goals are to improve a patient's quality of life and reduce health care costs and hospitalizations. Specific to biotechnology, Bioheart is focused on the discovery, development and, subject to regulatory approval, commercialization of autologous cell therapies for the treatment of chronic and acute heart damage. Its lead product candidate, MyoCell((R)), is an innovative clinical muscle-derived stem cell therapy designed to populate regions of scar tissue within a patient's heart with new living cells for the purpose of improving cardiac function in chronic heart failure patients. The Company's pipeline includes multiple product candidates for the treatment of heart damage, including Bioheart Acute Cell Therapy, an autologous, adipose tissue-derive
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