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Date:11/6/2007

ael, reported the results of a prospective population-based study of more than 3,000 individuals age 55 or older with diabetes mellitus, who were tested for Hp type and followed for two years in a registry. It was observed that Hp2-2 was associated with a highly significant increase in incidence of non- fatal-myocardial infarction, stroke and cardiovascular death and that only patients with the Hp2-2 genotype (as compared to patients with genotypes Hp1-2 or Hp1-1) were shown to have a significant decrease in major cardiovascular events if their HbA1c was maintained below 7.0, the generally recommended target for tight glycemic control.

The study concluded that to optimize healthcare resource utilization, cardiovascular risk factor modification in individuals with diabetes mellitus should be focused on those patients exhibiting the Hp2-2 genotype (40% of the population). Synvista is developing a diagnostic kit for the detection of Hp type. Until that kit has completed development and becomes available for marketing, physicians or patients may order Hp genotyping from ARUP Laboratories, a Synvista licensee in Salt Lake City, Utah.

About Synvista Therapeutics

Synvista Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing small molecule drugs to treat and prevent cardiovascular disease and to treat nephropathy in people with diabetes. The Company has identified several product candidates that it believes represent novel approaches to some of the largest pharmaceutical markets. The Company's portfolio includes orally bioavailable, organoselenium mimics of glutathione peroxidase. These compounds metabolize lipid peroxides and have the potential to limit myocardial damage subsequent to a myocardial infarction. The Company is developing a clinical diagnostic test, based on cardiovascular risk assessment, using Haptoglobin characterization, to identify patients at high risk for cardiovascular complications of diabetes.

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