Bioheart to Present at IN3 Medical Innovation Summit

SUNRISE, Fla., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Bioheart, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BHRT) is one of the Emerging Medtech Presenters at 40th medical device partnering conference: Investment-In-Innovation (IN3) SUMMIT – October 27th-29th in San Francisco, CA at the Grand Hyatt. IN3 events bring together early/mid/late-stage, medical technology innovators with investors, venture capitalists, and business development executives - all in a single forum.

IN3 Summit is the largest annual strategic partnership and investment meeting for senior-level medical technology executives.  Leading venture capital firms and corporate acquirers are expected to attend to hear the latest innovations and investment opportunities.  Howard J. Leonhardt, Bioheart's founder and Chief Science & Technology Officer will be presenting the company's products for treating heart failure including the flagship product MyoCell, muscle derived stem cells for treating patients in advanced heart failure.  The company presented at the Heart Failure Society of America Meeting interim results from the Phase II/III MARVEL study which is randomized, double blinded and placebo controlled.  MyoCell treated patients improved 91.7 meters in the six minute walk test, the primary end point of the study, while placebo patients declined 4 meters. 

About Bioheart, Inc.

Bioheart is committed to maintaining a leading position within the cardiovascular sector of the cell technology industry, delivering cell therapies, intelligent devices and biologics that help address congestive heart failure, lower limb ischemia, chronic heart ischemia, acute myocardial infarctions and other issues. Bioheart works to prevent the worsening of any condition with devices that monitor and diagnose. The company's goals are to enable damaged tissue to be regenerated, if possible, and 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 and peripheral vascular disease. MyoCell is a clinical muscle-derived 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.

For more information on Bioheart, visit www.bioheartinc.com.

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SOURCE Bioheart, Inc.