Echo Therapeutics Chairman and CEO to be Interviewed on Steve Crowley's American Scene Radio Program and Featured on Money Channel Inc.

FRANKLIN, Mass., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Echo Therapeutics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ECTE), a company developing the needle-free Symphony™ tCGM System as a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring (tCGM) system and the Prelude™ SkinPrep System for transdermal drug delivery, announced today that Patrick T. Mooney, M.D., the Company's Chairman and CEO, will be interviewed on "Steve Crowley's American Scene National Radio" on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 9:42 AM ET and Friday January 22, 2010 at 10:24 AM ET.  Dr. Mooney also will be a regular on-air guest on American Scene twice weekly and will be interviewed by host Steve Crowley regarding relevant corporate events, news releases and updates.  

Steve Crowley's American Scene National Radio, owned by the Money Channel Inc., airs for three hours daily Monday through Friday.  Money Channel also produces a national weekly television program, WallStreetCast, which airs on the FOX Business Network during certain times of the year.  American Scene was launched nationally in June 1990, and WallStreetCast has been produced since 2005.  Both programs feature personal finance advice, stock market-related news and advice, and they include regular CEO interviews of Micro-cap and Small-cap companies.  American Scene has over 3,000,000 listeners on the three-hour daily radio broadcasts and airs on hundreds of radio channels nation-wide through the IRN/USA Radio Network affiliates.

"We are extremely excited to be interviewed by Steve Crowley, a Wall Street legend, on his American Scene radio program," commented Dr. Mooney.  "Echo Therapeutics recently completed the initial product development work on our Prelude SkinPrep System and we are now focused on completing steps for our regulatory advance to commercialization and leveraging our strategic partnerships to generate product-related revenue. We believe the investors who listen to these shows will be interested in our story because we are positioned to be 'first-to-market' with a proven, needleless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring system in the $1 billion-plus hospital critical care market. In addition, we anticipate near-term revenue for Echo from the royalties on Prelude disposables and lidocaine sales, and we look forward to working with Ferndale Pharma Group to generate cash flow to Echo from the topical anesthetic market in the US and UK during 2010. Finally, we are targeting an application to secure a national exchange listing in the near future, further increasing our visibility to investors and expanding our audience of potential investors. With these important milestones in view, we believe we have reached a compelling point in Echo's history, so the timing couldn't be better for us to share our story with the American Scene and WallStreetCast audiences."

About Echo Therapeutics

Echo is developing the Symphony tCGM System as a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring system for patients with diabetes and for use in hospital critical care units.  Echo is also developing its needle-free Prelude SkinPrep System for transdermal drug delivery of a wide range of novel topical reformulations of widely-used, FDA-approved products.

About Money Channel Inc.

The Money Channel Inc. is headquartered in Coconut Creek, Florida and has operated as a Media Company since 2004, and its CEO, Stephen Crowley is a former Price Waterhouse and Co. CPA-Manager, the former Money Editor of ABC's Good Morning America as well as the author of Money for Life, published by Simon & Schuster Inc.

Mr. Crowley and his team have produced more than 9,000 national Radio and Television programs since 1982 in markets ranging from New York to San Diego and from Seattle to Miami.  American Scene Radio is also co-branded with Investors Business Daily at www.investors.com/americanscene and with "thestreet.com" founded by Jim Cramer.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements

The statements in this press release that are not historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual future results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements.  Those risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks related to regulatory approvals and the success of Echo's and its partners' ongoing studies, including the efficacy of the Symphony tCGM System and Prelude SkinPrep System, the failure of future development and preliminary marketing efforts related to the Symphony tCGM System and Prelude SkinPrep System, Echo's ability to secure additional commercial partnering arrangements, risks and uncertainties relating to Echo's ability to develop, market and sell diagnostic and transdermal drug delivery products based on its skin permeation platform technologies, including the Symphony tCGM System and Prelude SkinPrep System, the availability of substantial additional equity or debt capital to support its research, development and product commercialization activities, and the success of its research, development, regulatory approval, marketing and distribution plans and strategies, including those plans and strategies related to the Symphony tCGM System and the Prelude SkinPrep System.  These and other risks and uncertainties are identified and described in more detail in Echo's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and its current reports on Form 8-K. Echo Therapeutics, Inc. undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.

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