Top 5 Global Pharmaceutical Company Selects NewCardio's QTinno for Phase I Drug Safety Trial

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NewCardio, Inc., (OTC BB: NWCI) a cardiovascular diagnostic solutions developer, announced today that a top 5 global pharmaceutical company has selected QTinno®, their automated cardiac safety solution, for an upcoming Phase I drug safety study.  Fully automated ECG analysis, empowered by QTinno, will be delivered by the ECG core lab of a top 3 Clinical Research Organization (CRO) under the terms of an existing Master Services Agreement with NewCardio.    

The study starts in November, and will be completed in the first quarter of 2012. QTinno was selected based on its proven ability to enable the CRO to deliver high-quality results in a much more timely and cost effective manner than the current core ECG lab methodologies, as evidenced by 2 recent studies completed for this drug development sponsor.

Vincent Renz, NewCardio President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are excited to participate in this new study for a major global pharmaceutical company with our CRO partner. QTinno's selection for this study, based on the performance in prior studies, provides clear evidence of the pharmaceutical company's confidence, not only in the accuracy and precision of QTinno's fully automated ECG analysis, but also in the FDA's willingness to accept drug safety data from properly validated technology such as QTinno."  

About QTinno Technology

NewCardio's patented QTinno 3-D ECG software technology is a novel, fully automated program for evaluating QT and other timing intervals relevant for assessing drug cardiac toxicity in drug development. It provides fast, accurate and precise QT data from a broad range of challenging ECGs and enables reliable, automated identification of key cardiac events. Pharmaceutical sponsors and clinical research organizations, which are mandated by the FDA to test new drugs for potential cardiac toxicity, are expected to benefit from QTinno's faster, more accurate and less expensive assessment of cardiac status.

About NewCardio, Inc.

NewCardio is a cardiac diagnostic and services company developing and marketing proprietary software platform technologies to provide higher accuracy to, and increase the value of, the standard 12-lead ECG.  NewCardio's 3-D ECG software platform reduces the time and expense involved in assessing cardiac status while increasing the ability to diagnose clinically significant conditions which were previously difficult to detect.  NewCardio's software products and services significantly improve the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiovascular disease, as well as cardiac safety assessment of drugs under development. For more information, visit www.newcardio.com.

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