NEW YORK, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The winning products in
this year’s Medical Design
Excellence Awards (MDEA) competition, presented by UBM
Canon, received their gold or silver recognition at a ceremony
held today during the Medical Design & Manufacturing
East (MD&M East) 2011 Conference and Exposition at the
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

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In addition,
Alfred E. Mann, Chairman and CEO of MannKind
Corporation, was awarded the Medical Design Excellence Awards’
(MDEA)
Lifetime Achievement Award.  This award honors an
individual whose contributions during a long career have had a
demonstrable impact on technological, business, and cultural
advancements in medical devices.

MDEA is the premier awards program for the medical technology
community. It recognizes the achievements of medical device
manufacturers, their suppliers, and the many people behind the
scenes—engineers, scientists, designers, and
clinicians—who are responsible for the groundbreaking
innovations that are changing the face of healthcare. MDEA-winning
entries excel in the areas of product innovation, design and
engineering achievement, end-user benefit, and cost-effectiveness
in manufacturing and healthcare delivery. A comprehensive review of
the entries was performed by an impartial, multidisciplinary panel
of third-party jurors with expertise in biomedical engineering,
human factors, industrial design, medicine,

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