MONTCLAIR, NJ--(Marketwired - May 29, 2014) - FluoroPharma Medical, Inc. (OTCQB: FPMI), a company specializing in the development of novel diagnostic imaging products that utilize positron emission tomography (PET) technology for the detection and assessment of disease before clinical manifestation, today announced that data and analysis from a feasibility study on the quantification of myocardial perfusion in humans by PET/CT utilizing the fatty acid analogue 18F-FCPHA will be presented by the principal investigator, Olivier Gheysens, MD, PhD, at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting.
The study was conducted at the University Hospital Leuven, Belgium. Collaborators on this study include Olivier Gheysens, MD, PhD, Andrey Postnov, PhD, Johan Nuyts, PhD, Koen Van Laere, MD, PhD, DrSc (Department of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium), Stefan Janssens, MD, PhD (Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium) and Manuel Cerqueira, MD (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio USA.)
About FluoroPharma Medical
FluoroPharma is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of proprietary PET imaging products to evaluate cardiac disease at the cellular and molecular levels. The company has licensed technology from the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
The company's goal is to enable personalized medicine through precision diagnostics that will help the medical community diagnose disease more accurately at the earliest stages, leading to more effective treatment, management and better patient outcomes.
FluoroPharma's initial focus is the development of breakthrough PET imaging agents and is advancing two products in clinical trials for assessment of acute and chronic forms of coronary artery disease. These first in class agents have been designed to rapidly target myocardial cells. Other products in development include agents for detection of inflamed atherosclerotic plaque in peripheral arteries, agents with the potential to image brain tissue affected by Alzheimer's disease and agents that could potentially be used for imaging specific cancers.
In addition to the United States, Europe and China, patents related to FluoroPharma's portfolio of imaging compounds have been issued in Japan, Canada, Australia, Finland, Portugal, Ireland and Mexico.
For more information on the company, please visit: www.fluoropharma.com
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