Vancouver, British Columbia / TheNewswire / November 5th, 2018 – BioMark Diagnostics Inc. (“BioMark”) (CSE: BUX, FSE: 20B, OTCQB: BMKDF) is pleased to announce that Dr. Myron Weisfeldt will be joining BioMark’s Scientific Advisory Team.

 

Mr. Rashid Ahmed, CEO and President of BioMark Diagnostics says: “We are extremely proud and honored to have Dr. Myron Weisfeldt join our scientific board. Over the past few months Dr. Weisfeldt provided BioMark with excellent counsel on how to fine tune our lung cancer clinical trial protocols and opened potential new opportunities for collaboration. This is what we at BioMark need as we transition into a fully commercial entity.”

BioMark’s board and shareholders welcome Dr. Weisfeldt and look forward to his professional contribution to building BioMark into a stronger international entity.

 

About Dr. Myron Weisfeldt

 

Dr. Myron Weisfeldt is the Senior Medical Director of Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures. In this position he provides advice on strategies and evaluation of intellectual property of Johns Hopkins to faculty.  He is also University Distinguished Service Professor. From 2001 to 2014 Dr. Weisfeldt was the William Osler Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was also Physician-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.  Dr. Weisfeldt received a BA and MD from the Johns Hopkins University. He trained in Cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health and from 1975 to 1991, was Director of the Cardiology Division at the Johns Hopkins.  From 1991 to 2001, he was Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Samuel Bard Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Medical Service at the Columbia-Presbyterian Campus of the New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Weisfeldt was Chairman of the Cardiology Advisory Board of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute from 1987 to 1990 and held the position of President of the American Heart Association in 1990. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

 

His research interests have included heart function, age changes in the heart and circulation, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Since 2003 he has been study chair for a large-scale ongoing clinical trials network to conduct randomized definitive trials of devices, drugs and other therapies for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and severe traumatic injury sponsored by NHLBI and others. This network is called Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium and is now on no cost extension.  

 

About BioMark Diagnostics Inc.

   

BioMark is developing proprietary, non-invasive, and accurate cancer diagnostic solutions which can help detect, monitor and assess treatment for cancer early and cost effectively. The technology can also be used for measuring response to treatment and potentially for serial monitoring for cancer survivors.

 

Further information about BioMark is available under its profile on the SEDAR website www.sedar.com and on the CSE website https://thecse.com/.

 

For further information on BioMark, please Contact:

Rashid Ahmed Bux

President & CEO

BioMark Diagnostics Inc.

Tel. 604-370-0779

Email: info@biomarkdiagnostics.com  

 

Forward-Looking Information:

 

This press release may include forward-looking information within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation, concerning the business of Biomark.  Forward-looking information is based on certain key expectations and assumptions made by the management of BioMark. Although BioMark believes that the expectations and assumptions on which such forward-looking information is based are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking information because BioMark can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release. BioMark disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise, other than as required by applicable securities laws.

 

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