Senesco's Preclinical Pancreatic Islet Data to be Presented at Upcoming C... ( NEW BRUNSWICK N.J. April 2 2008 /...)

Senesco's Preclinical Pancreatic Islet Data to be Presented at Upcoming Conferences

Date:4/2/2008

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Senesco Technologies, Inc. ("Senesco" or the "Company") (Amex: SNT) announced today that Dr. Raghavendra Mirmira, one of the Company's funded researchers, will be presenting his findings regarding preclinical pancreatic islet cell data at two conferences in April 2008. Dr. Mirmira, who conducted this preclinical research while at the University of Virginia, is presently the Eli Lilly Endowed Chair in Pediatric Diabetes in the Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Cellular and Integrative Physiology at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Senesco's Executive Vice President and CSO, Dr. John E. Thompson and the Company's Vice President of R&D, Richard Dondero, are both co-authors of the study entitled "In vivo application of siRNA technology reveals a novel role for eukaryotic initiation factor 5A in cytokine-mediated islet dysfunction."

Dr. Mirmira will present these results at the Keystone Islet and Beta Cell Symposium which takes place from April 6-11 in Snowbird, Utah, as well as at the Upper Midwest Islet Club's Annual Meeting which will take place from April 30-May 2 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

About Senesco Technologies, Inc.

Senesco Technologies, Inc. is a U.S. biotechnology company, headquartered in New Brunswick, NJ. Senesco has initiated preclinical research to trigger or delay cell death in mammals (apoptosis) to determine if the technology is applicable in human medicine. Accelerating apoptosis may have applications to development of cancer treatments. Delaying apoptosis may have applications to certain inflammatory and ischemic diseases. Senesco takes its name from the scientific term for the aging of plant cells:
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