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Featured at Annual Symposium

HONG KONG, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R stent(TM) is the subject of several sessions about innovation in interventional cardiology strategies and device design at this year's Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium, TCT 2007, which is set for Oct. 20-25 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

The line-up of sessions that feature the first pro-healing stent, which is an alternative to drug-eluting stents, includes:

- Interventional Strategies and Adjunct Pharmacology in ACS and AMI;

Should Specialized DES for AMI be Developed? Early Experience with EPC

Capture Technology; Jan Henk Dambrink, M.D., Ph.D., Department of

Cardiology, ISALA Klinieken, Hospital De Weezenlanden, Zwolle, The

Netherlands; 2:10 p.m. EDT on Oct. 21; Room 151B

- Innovative Devices and Futuristic Concepts: Novel Bare Metal and Drug-

Eluting Stents; The Genous Stent Coating with CD34 Antibodies to

Actively Capture Circulating EPCs: Design Parameters and Effects on

Healing and Thrombogenicity; Michael Kutryk, M.D., clinician scientist

and interventional cardiologist at St. Michael's Hospital, assistant

professor at the University of Toronto; Canada; 3:08 p.m. EDT on Oct.

21; Room 152A

In addition, the latest results from clinical trials of the Genous stent will be discussed by Robbert de Winter, M.D., Ph.D., principal investigator and director of the catheterization laboratory at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. Specifically, de Winter will present:

- Updates from the HEALING studies, AMC "Real World" registry and TRIAS

trial; 4:36 p.m. EDT on Oct. 21; Ballroom C, 3rd floor

- A late-breaking report of six-month clinical outcomes from the TRIAS HR

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