LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - March 8, 2011) - MMRGlobal, Inc. (
At a recent meeting of MMRGlobal's Board of Directors, it was decided that its biotech assets, developed at a cost of more than $100 million and which include data from its FavId®/Specifid™ vaccine pre-merger clinical trials, other intellectual property to treat B-cell malignancies, patient tumor samples, anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies and numerous worldwide biotech patents in various stages, will be transferred to the new subsidiary.
According to Robert H. Lorsch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MMRGlobal, "Based on recent successes in licensing and interest in forming strategic alliances to utilize these biotech assets in various forms of research and development, we believe that the value of our intellectual property is not accurately reflected in MMRGlobal's current corporate structure and current valuation."
"Additionally, potential partners interested in our MyMedicalRecords Personal Health Record and document management business, who might be interested in investment or other strategic relationships with MMR, find it complicated to deal with the biotech component of our business with their management and boards. Separating the two distinct business opportunities allows us to maximize the potential of both," Lorsch added.
MMRGlobal will continue to identify opportunities with universities, biotech and pharmaceutical companies and institutional biotech investors that can expand the value of MMRGlobal's pre-merger Favrille assets on a worldwide basis. As previously stated, MMRGlobal will also focus on cross-selling MMRGlobal's Personal Health Record products for customized use in the design of clinical trials.
About MMRGlobal
MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. (MMR), provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records (PHRs) and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, and professional organizations and affinity groups. MyMedicalRecords enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. The MyMedicalRecords Personal Health Record is built on proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to populate a user's account. MMRGlobal's professional offering, MMRPro, is designed to give physicians' offices an easy and cost-effective solution to digitizing paper-based medical records and sharing them with patients in real time through an integrated patient portal. MMR is an Independent Software Vendor Partner with Kodak to deliver an integrated turnkey EMR solution for healthcare professionals. MMR is also an integrated service provider on Google Health. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc. and its products, visit www.mmrglobal.com.
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Bobbie Volman
MMRGlobal, Inc.
(310) 476-7002, Ext. 7015
bvolman@mmrmail.com
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(310) 553-5732
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