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CYTOMEDIX ISSUES WARRANT CALL
Potential $2.4 Million Cash
Infusion
ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug 2, 2006 – Cytomedix, Inc. (AMEX:
GTF),
a biotechnology company specializing in developing and licensing
systems for use with non-healing chronic wounds including diabetic
ulcers, today announced that, having met certain trading conditions,
it has issued warrant calls for 100%, or 273,400, of its outstanding
Series C-1 warrants, and 100%, or 1,332,334 of its outstanding Unit
Warrants that were subject to call.
The exercise price on all warrants is $1.50. Total cash to be
received if all called warrants are exercised is approximately $2.4
million. The primary condition that the Company needed to meet prior
to calling these warrants was for the closing price of the stock to
exceed $3.00 for the ten consecutive trading days prior to delivery
of the call notice.
If all called warrants are exercised, the Company would have
approximately 29.4 million shares outstanding. The Company will
remit $0.01 for each called warrant that is not exercised.
“The cash proceeds from this warrant call will further bolster our
cash position,” stated Cytomedix Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer Kshitij Mohan. “We plan to utilize the proceeds for general
corporate purposes and believe that it is prudent to be in a
stronger cash position at this juncture in our progress. As we look
at the Company’s progress to date, we have had considerable success
in enforcing our patents through royalty bearing licenses; have
completed a clinical trial of our Autologel™ technology with
favorable results; have made a 510(k) submission to FDA and have
sent the Agency further information and analysis that they requested
while we await a meeting with them currently scheduled for early
September 2006. In addition, since March 2004, we have not done any
financings other than raise about $2.3 million with minimal dilution
and costs, by issuing our D warrants in May 2006, in exchange for
our shareholders exercising other warrants that they held. This new
warrant call will further simplify our capital structure and
strengthen our financial position with no dilution and minimal
costs. Strengthening our financial position with this additional
infusion of inexpensive capital and tightly managing our cost
structure will allow us to move resolutely to execute on our
strategic objectives.”
ABOUT CYTOMEDIX
Cytomedix, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in processes
and products derived from autologous platelet releasates for uses
with wounds and other applications. The current offering is
AutoloGel™System, a process that utilizes an autologous platelet gel
composed of multiple growth factors, other platelet releasates, and
fibrin matrix. The Company has announced favorable results from its
blinded, prospective, multi-center clinical trial on the use of its
technology with diabetic foot ulcers. Additional information
regarding Cytomedix is available at: http://www.cytomedix.com
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
Statements contained in this press release not relating to
historical facts are forward-looking statements that are intended to
fall within the safe harbor rule for such statements under the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The information
contained in the forward-looking statements is inherently uncertain,
and Cytomedix's actual results may differ materially due to a number
of factors, many of which are beyond Cytomedix's ability to predict
or control, including among others, the success of new sales
initiatives, governmental regulation, acceptance by the medical
community and competition.
There is no guarantee that the FDA will complete its review of the
Company’s 510(k) submission for a specific wound healing indication
within any estimated timeframe, or that the FDA will fully agree
with the Company in the interpretation of the data or the regulatory
pathway and provide marketing clearance. Further, even assuming the
FDA grants the Company’s request for marketing clearance, there is
no guarantee that the Company will receive Medicare reimbursement
for its product; the Company’s marketing efforts will be successful;
or that it will be able to achieve its other strategic goals.
There is no guarantee that the Company’s current capitalization will
be sufficient to attain its goals or that future funding will be
available to the Company on acceptable terms. These forward-looking
statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual events to differ from the forward-looking
statements. More information about some of these risks and
uncertainties may be found in the reports filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission by Cytomedix, Inc. Except as is expressly
required by the federal securities laws, Cytomedix undertakes no
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, changed circumstances or
future events or for any other reason.
Contact:
Cytomedix, Inc.
Kshitij Mohan, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO
240-499-2680
The Wall Street Group, Inc.
Ron Stabiner
212-888-4848
Source: Cytomedix, Inc.
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