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According to the Russell Investment Group, the Russell indexes are widelyused by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and asbenchmarks for passive and active investment strategies. The Company willhold its membership until Russell reconstitutes its indexes in June 2009.
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"We are pleased with our inclusion in this index, which reflects ourcontinued momentum," said William Kline, Chief Financial Officer, Bioheart,Inc. "We are confident that our inclusion in this index will generate greaterinterest in our stock among institutional investors."
The Russell Microcap Index measures the performance of the microcapsegment of the U.S. equity market. It includes 1,000 of the smallestsecurities in the small-cap Russell 2000(R) Index based on a combination oftheir market cap and current index membership as well as the next 1,000securities below the index.
ABOUT BIOHEART, INC.
Bioheart, Inc. (NASDAQ: BHRT) is a biotechnology company focused on thediscovery, development and, subject to regulatory approval, commercializationof autologous cell therapies for the treatment of chronic and acute heartdamage. Its lead product candidate, MyoCell(R), is an innovative clinicalcell therapy designed to populate regions of scar tissue within a patient'sheart with new living cells for the purpose of improving cardiac function inchronic heart failure patients. The Company's pipeline includes multipleproduct candidates for the treatment of heart damage, including Bioheart AcuteCell Therapy, an autologous, adipose cell treatment for acute heart damage,and MyoCell(R) SDF-1, a therapy utilizing autologous cells that aregenetically modified to express additional potentially therapeutic growthproteins. For more information on Bioheart, visit http://www.bioheartinc.com.
MyoCell and MyoCell SDF-1 are trademarks of Bioheart, Inc.
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SOURCE Bioheart, Inc.
