BioCardia®, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCDA), a global leader in cellular and cell-derived therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, today reported submission to United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the CardiAMP HF clinical study data and on its plans to meet with the FDA to discuss the accelerated approval pathway for the CardiAMP® System for ischemic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

This meeting request is in line with previous guidance and BioCardia expects to have the meeting during this quarter. The meeting will be held under BioCardia's FDA Breakthrough Designation for the CardiAMP System.

The key objectives of the meeting are to obtain FDA feedback on the acceptability of BioCardia's proposed submission for approval based on the safety seen in the CardiAMP HF Trial, the well-characterized clinical response data for the 125 ischemic HFrEF patients enrolled into the trial, and the low risk and high potential benefit profile in the subgroup with elevated biomarkers of heart stress participating in the trial.