Reputed Orthopaedic Surgeon to Join Business Intelligence Services Firm HiTIS Team as Scientific & Medical Advisor

Paris, France - October 18th, 2006 - HiTIS - life science & biotech intelligence, is pleased to announce that Pierre Hamon, MD, MSc, a reputed orthopaedic surgeon and sports trauma specialist, joined HiTIS team, bringing a wealth of musculo-skeletal disorders and therapies knowledge as a researcher and clinician.

Christian Girard, HiTIS' founder, said "Pierre's experience in the bones and joints therapeutics field makes him a key member of our team, serving this sector competitive intelligence needs."

Girard added, "Pierre's knowledge will be instrumental in the launch of a new family of competitive intelligence reports which we tailored to meet orthopaedics industry's executives information needs." These publications are to be launched within the coming weeks, and will be announced in due time.

About Pierre Hamon

Pierre Hamon, MD, MSc, is an orthopaedic surgeon at Institut de l'Appareil Locomoteur Nollet, Paris. He specializes in Sports & Knee Surgery and is a Medical Consultant for the French National Soccer Training School at Clairefontaine. His training and clinical experience provide him with an outstanding expertise in the fields of bone healing process, cartilage repair and knee ligament surgery, as well as a fundamental approach to most osteo-articular topics.

Dr. Hamon trained at the Center for Traumatology in Strasbourg, France (CTO), and completed his residency at the Knee & Sports Surgery Department headed by Pr. Jean-Henry Jaeger at Strasbourg University Teaching Hospital (Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg).

Concurrently, from 1989 to 1995, Dr. Hamon was a collaborator (and a fellow in 1991) at AO-ASIF Research Institute in Davos (Switzerland), developing new instrumentation for intramedullary osteotomies, leading to a Master of Surgical Science in Biomaterials and Biomechanics.

Most recently, Dr. Hamon has been a consultant for a major US biopharma in the field of autologous cartilage cell therapy.

Dr. Hamon has been a member of the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) since its foundation in 1997.

About HiTIS - life science & biotech intelligence

HiTIS - life science & biotech intelligence is a European competitive intelligence services firm aimed at providing life science industry' decision-makers with web-based sophisticated information tools. HiTIS - life science & biotech intelligence offers competitive intelligence services and resources to pharma, biopharma, biotech, and medtech companies executives. Our information solutions include www.biotech-intelligence.com - a global web-based competitive intelligence platform -, a growing family of periodical reports (Vaccines Competitive Intelligence Weekly, Stents Competitive Intelligence Monthly, Eye Therapies Competitive Intelligence Weekly, Neurodegenerative Diseases Therapeutics & Diagnostics Competitive Intelligence Weekly, etc.), as well as on-demand customized R&D Pipelines. Our customers include Top 5 pharma companies, global medtech firms, as well as biopharmas and biotech start-ups.

Contact

For more information:

Christian Girard, Founding Partner
HiTIS - life science & biotech intelligence
11, rue Madiraa - 92400 Courbevoie - France
Tel. +33 (0) 147 882 348
Mob. + 33 (0) 667 266 092
Email christian.girard@biotech-intelligence.com
Web www.biotech-intelligence.com

Pierre Hamon, MD, MSc.
Mob. +33 (0) 622 108 590
Email docteurhamon@aol.com