Nearly 40 Emerging Cardiovascular, Orthopedics and Spine, Regenerative Medicine, Drug Delivery Companies, among Others Confirmed to Date to Present at Medtech Insight and Windhover Information's 'In3 Medical Device Summit'.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- June 21-23, 2006, The Palace Hotel, San Francisco 

Medtech Insight has announced that nearly 40 emerging medical technology companies seeking investment and/or funding opportunities are confirmed to date to present at its largest medical technology strategic investment and partnering event for medical technology executives, the "Investment In Innovation (In3) Medical Device Summit." The In3 Summit (www.meddevicesummit.com), being held June 21-23, 2006 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco, is the most important venue of its kind for previewing cutting-edge emerging medical technology companies and engaging with the biggest dealmakers in the industry, including hundreds of senior executives from the device industry and healthcare investment community.

The In3 Summit program will be unlike any other past Medtech Insight In3 event, featuring a 50 percent larger speaker faculty, including 60+ early-stage medical technology industry presenters focused into 3 Tracks, with more VC and large/mid-size company presentations, and focused workshops for start-up companies. Attendees will also benefit from new Partnering Software that allows attendees before and during the conference to access a wealth of searchable information on other attending companies, including detailed company and delegate profile information, a database of licensing opportunities, and the ability to communicate with and directly schedule meetings with prospective partners.

The 60+ emerging medical technology company presentations will each be followed by break-out sessions in private conference rooms (the majority presenting for the first time at an In3 event). Track 1 will include Cardiovascular and Peripheral Vascular Diagnostics and Therapeutics companies; Track 2 is comprised of Orthopedics and Spine companies; and Track 3 includes Other High-Growth Technologies such as Drug Delivery, Gastrointestinal, General Surgery, Imaging, Metabolic Disorders, Neurology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Tissue Engineering, and Uro/Gynecology, and Wound Management, among others. Track 1 presenters confirmed to date include Alchimer, Cardium Therapeutics, Design Medical, Edrich Health Technologies, FlowMedic, Meridian Medical, Myotech, Percardia, Vascular Reconditioning, and VasoGenix Pharmaceuticals. Confirmed Track 2 presenters to date include BioniCare Medical Technologies, Bone Solutions, Conexis Biosciences, Disc Dynamics, ISTO Technologies, SpineVision, SpinX Technologies, St. Francis Medical Technologies, Tibion, and VitalWear, and Track 3 presenters to date include BioImagene, Biosan Medical, CleveX, CoolTouch, CVAC Systems, EMcision, GlucoLight, Light Sciences Adipose, LiverCyte, Micro Medical Devices, Nanolution, Novashunt, Retanus, StemCapture, TyRx Pharma, Vision Solutions Technologies, and Vitality Medical Products. Visit the In3 Summit Web site at www.meddevicesummit.com for full event details.

Participating speakers to date include Tom Fogarty, Founder, Fogarty Engineering; Hanson S. Gifford, III, President and CEO, The Foundry; Hank Plain, Vice Chairman, The Foundry; Trevor Moody, Partner, Frazier Healthcare Ventures; Rich Ferrari, Managing Director, De Novo Ventures; Leslie Bottorff, General Partner, Medical Technology Onset Ventures; Sami Hamade, Vice President, Compass Group, Guidant Corporation; David L. Douglass, General Partner, Delphi Ventures; Brent Ahrens, General Partner, Canaan Partners; Bryant Zanko, Vice President, Business Development, Stryker Corporation; Alan Will, Managing Director, Split Rock Partners; and Michael Carusi, General Partner, Advanced Technology Ventures. In addition, David Cassak, Managing Partner at Windhover Information, will give the State of the Start-up Industry Address titled "A Market Analysis of Where Medical Technology Companies are Going."

The In3 Summit audience will represent the largest dealmakers in the worldwide medtech industry and healthcare investment community; attending companies include, among many others, 3M, Abbott Laboratories, Boston Scientific, Cook Group, Cordis, C.R. Bard, De Novo Ventures, Earlybird Ventures, Edwards Lifesciences, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Golden Gate Capital, Guidant, Johnson & Johnson, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Kimberly-Clark, Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals of America, Krauth Medical, Matignon Technologies FCPR, Morgan Stanley, Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, NASDAQ, Novartis Pharma, Olympus America, Rodman & Renshaw, Smith & Nephew, Sorin, Stryker, The Aurora Funds, Thomas Weisel Healthcare Venture Partners, Triathlon Medical Ventures, Terumo, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and ZEVEX International.

Co-sponsors for the In3 Summit include AdvaMed, Battelle, Business Wire, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP, Medical Capital Advisors, Medmarc and The Hartford, The Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI), Reimbursement Principles, Ronald Trahan Associates, Teledyne Medical Microsystems, The MedTech Group, and Underwriters Laboratories.

To register to attend or if your early-stage company is interested in presenting, call Kristy Grimes of Medtech Insight at 480-985-9512, 888-202-5939 toll-free in the U.S., e-mail [e-mail], or register on the In3 Medical Device Summit Web site at www.meddevicesummit.com. Through March 31, 2006, attendees registering for the conference can save $300 off the $1,495 registration fee, and through May 31 attendees can save $200.

Medtech Insight's medical technology investment and partnering conferences have drawn over 5,850 attendees and more than 650 innovative early-stage presenting companies since their inception, making them the premier investment, partnering and networking event in the medical technology industry.

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