Canon Communications LLC and MDEA has notified Debiotech that it’s “CT Exprés” Advanced Contrast Media Delivery System has been selected as a winner in the 2004 Medical Design Excellence Award competition!

In winning the award, an annual event that is designed to recognize design excellence for medical devices, CT Exprés Advanced Contrast Media Delivery System was selected by a panel of industry judges for the design excellence award, winning is no easy task, as this years competitors were of extremely high caliber, previous winners include some of the industry best know companies.

As a winner, Debiotech’s spin-off company SMC – Swiss Medical Care SA, has been invited to attend the awards ceremony June 16, 2004 at the Medical Design & Manufacturing East 2004 Conference and Exposition at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. Debiotech will also be allowed to display the MDEA Winners Logo on it’s promotional materials, Advertisements, packaging, marketing pieces and Website. News and feature articles about SMC and CT Expres will appear in forthcoming issues of Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry, IVD Technology, MX: Business Strategies for Medical Technology Executives and Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News.

“This Award is a major recognition for all the efforts of a very talented, innovative and passionated team of engineers, technicians, radiologists and nurses who have contributed to the development of the CT Expres over the years. This is also an important step in Swiss Medical Care’s life, where we can see already considerable success with the product being introduced to the market “ says Dr. Frédéric Neftel, President and CEO of Debiotech SA.

We are extremely pleased at SMC CEO Larry Minix said. "It is an honour to be selected by MDEA for recognition as a winner for the 2004 MDEA Awards, the award belongs to our development Team who developed a totally new and innovative delivery platform for the delivery of contrast media in CT, dramatically simplifying the total procedure, yet supplies the new features that Radiologist are asking for; Multi-Dosing and Programmable Saline Flush!

Please Note: “The award is based upon descriptive materials submitted to the jurors; the jurors and the competition operators did not verify the accuracy of any submission or of any claims made and did not test the item to which the award was given.”

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