BioCardia Issued New U.S. Patent for Technology that Enhances Control for Cardiac Therapies

Technology Anticipated to Impact Cardiac Biologic Therapies, Cardiac Arrhythmia, and Structural Heart Procedures

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Dec. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BioCardia®, Inc. [Nasdaq: BCDA] a leader in the development of comprehensive solutions for cardiovascular regenerative therapies, today announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No: 10,874, 831 for “Devices and Methods for Accessing the Vasculature of a Patient” that further protects the Helix™ Biotherapeutic Delivery System and enhances its cell therapy delivery capabilities.

This patent covers a steerable design intended to provide uniform bending rigidity in all orientations. This uniform bending rigidity is expected to significant enhance physician control in tortuous anatomy. The patented technology is incorporated in the Company’s recently approved Morph DNA and AVANCE steerable catheter offerings. The advances also are expected to strengthen the Company’s clinical stage biotherapeutic programs in heart failure and chronic myocardial ischemia. 

“We continue to believe that delivery is critically important to successful biotherapeutic treatment. You can have a promising cell therapy, but if sub-par delivery doesn’t facilitate biologic retention by the heart or has a poor safety profile, it can cause a therapy to fail,” said BioCardia CEO Peter Altman, Ph.D. “At BioCardia, we have always recognized the important role delivery plays in the overall success of our therapeutics and in their promise to improve the lives of millions of patients with heart disease. This additional patent protection for technology to enhance physician control for all steerable catheter systems, is anticipated to have value and impact beyond the scope of our biotherapeutic programs, initially through our Avance product offering.”

About BioCardia®

BioCardia, Inc., headquartered in San Carlos, California, is developing regenerative biologic therapies to treat cardiovascular and respiratory disease. CardiAMP autologous and Neurokinin-1 Receptor Positive allogenic cell therapies are the Company’s biotherapeutic platforms in clinical development. The Company’s products include the Helix Biotherapeutic Delivery System and its steerable guide and sheath catheter portfolio. BioCardia also partners with other biotherapeutic companies to provide its Helix system and clinical support for their programs studying therapies for the treatment of heart failure, chronic myocardial ischemia and acute myocardial infarction. For more information, visit www.BioCardia.com.

Forward Looking Statements:
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