ADVISORY/MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta Event to Provide Insights to the Future of Artificial Human Organs in Atlanta.

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

ADVISORY...for May 14 (Wednesdsay)

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WHAT: "Artificial Human Organs

How Close to Reality?" An informative program by The MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta (www.mitforum-atlanta.org) with support from the Georgia Biomedical Partnership and the Georgia Research Alliance.

A team of the world's preeminent researchers and thought leaders in the tissue engineering field will provide insights on the current state-of-the-art technologies regarding the synthesis of artificial human tissues and the key challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

Panelists include:

-- "Tissue Engineering: the Science, the Technology, and the

Industry" - Robert M. Nerem, Ph.D., Director of the Parker

H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at

Georgia Tech

-- "Carticel(R): Bringing Tissue Engineering from Bench to

Bedside" - David Levine, MD, MPH, Vice President,

Clinical Research for Genzyme Corporation

-- "Can the Human Body on a Chip Replace Organ Transplants?"

- Linda G. Griffith, Ph.D., Professor of Chemical and

Biological Engineering, Deputy Director of the

Biotechnology Process Engineering Center, MIT

WHEN: Wednesday, May 14, 2003

WHERE: GCATT Auditorium, 250 14th Street NW, Atlanta GA 30318

TIME: 5:30 p.m. EST, panel presentation at 6:30 p.m.

MEDIA: Please call Scott Mills, 678/781-7201 for press registration or email: [e-mail]