Washington, D.C. - The inaugural AdvaMed 2007 conference will include a Business Development Forum and company presentation program, offering medical device and technology companies from the United States and abroad a unique networking vehicle. The first 22 of 38 companies have been selected to make company presentations to an audience of potential investors, partners and business collaborators attending AdvaMed 2007. A total of 38 companies will present at AdvaMed 2007.

Companies selected to participate in AdvaMed 2007 were chosen by a committee comprised of leading business development and licensing executives, venture capitalists, and other industry experts. "The committee is thrilled with the quality of applicants for the conference. The selected companies are a combination of exciting technology innovators and commercial leaders in the MedTech industry," said Matt Rieke, M.D., Co-Chair of the AdvaMed 2007 Business Development Committee and Partner at Quaker BioVentures. "We are proud of the first round of selection, and look forward to completing the company presentation selection process in early September. Applications are still being accepted on a rolling basis through August."

The first round of companies selected to present at AdvaMed 2007 are:
* Advanced Liquid Logic of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. (http://www.liquid-logic.com/)
* Alcon of Fort Worth, Texas. (http://www.alcon.com/)
* Axial Biotech of Salt Lake City, Utah. (http://www.axialbiotech.com/)
* CarioMag Imaging of Schenectady, New York. (http://www.cardiomag.com/)
* Chembio Diagnostics, Inc., of Medford, New York. (http://www.chembio.com/)
* Cytonome, Inc., of Boston, Massachusetts. (http://www.cytonome.com/)
* Deltex Medical Group, of Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom. (http://www.deltexmedical.com/)
* GlucoLight Corporation, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. (http://www.glucolight.com/)
* Ivivi Technologies of Northvale, New Jersey. (http://www.ivivitechnologies.com/)
* Kinetic Concepts, Inc., of San Antonio, Texas. (http://www.kci1.com/)
* Micronics, Inc., located in Redmond, Washington. (http://www.micronics.net/)
* Nanomix, Inc. located in Emeryville, California. (www.nano.com)
* Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc., of Houston, Texas. (http://www.nanospectra.com/)
* NeoMatrix, LLC of Irvine, California. (http://www.neomatrix.com/)
* Neuronetics, Inc., of Malvern, Pennsylvania. (http://www.neuronetics.com/)
* Orqis Medical Corporation of Lake Forest, California.(www.orqis.com)
* ScyFIX of Chanhassen, Minnesota. (http://www.scyfix.org/)
* Stereotaxis, Inc., of St. Louis, Missouri. (http://www.stereotaxis.com/)
* SyntheMed, Inc., of Iselin, New Jersey (http://www.synthemed.com/)

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