COR Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Management Changes.SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--June 14, 1999-- COR Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CORR CORR Used on the consolidated tape to indicate a correction in a reported transaction : CORR.LAST.GY 50 WAS 51. ) today announced changes to its management team. Effective September 1, 1999, Laura A. Brege, Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer will leave the Company to become a partner in a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage software companies. Mrs. Brege has served as Chief Financial Officer for COR since 1992. "Laura has played a key role on COR Therapeutics' management team. In addition, she has been responsible for building the Company's finance and administrative infrastructure necessary to support COR at our current size and complexity. We wish her every success in her new endeavors. We will miss her," said Vaughn M. Kailian, President and Chief Executive Officer of COR. In addition, Todd J. Lorenz, M.D. was promoted to Vice President, Medical Affairs. He was previously Senior Director, Clinical Research. COR Therapeutics, Inc. is dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of novel pharmaceutical products for the treatment and prevention of severe cardiovascular diseases Cardiovascular disease Disease that affects the heart and blood vessels. Mentioned in: Lipoproteins Test cardiovascular disease . COR has complementary research and development programs that seek to address critical needs in severe cardiovascular care, including unstable angina un·sta·ble angina n. Angina pectoris characterized by pain of coronary origin that occurs in response to less exercise or other stimuli than usually required to produce pain. , acute myocardial infarction acute myocardial infarction (  ·kyōōtˑ mī·ō·karˑ·dē· , deep vein thrombosis A blood clot (thrombos) in a vein deep within the muscle, typically in the thigh or calf. It is caused by disease or the lack of activity such as sitting for hours at a computer screen. and restenosis. For additional information about COR Therapeutics, please visit the Company's Web site at http://www.corr.com.
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