Germany's Göttingen University Buys ART SoftScan Optical Breast Imaging System

Montreal, Canada, May 12, 2009 - ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc. ("ART") (TSX: ARA), a Canadian medical device company and a leader in optical molecular imaging products for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, announced today that it has received a purchase order for one of its SoftScan® breast imaging systems from the Department of Radiology of the University Medical Center Göttingen, in Germany.

"We are very proud to see that the interdisciplinary molecular imaging group of the University of Göttingen, in cooperation with the Max-Planck-Institute of Experimental Medicine, has chosen our SoftScan breast imaging system to conduct world-class research in the field of translational oncology and radiology and to have them among our growing base of clients," said Sébastien Gignac, Chairman & CEO of ART. "The fact that the Interdisciplinary Imaging Group Göttingen, in which radiologists, oncologists, physicists, molecular biologists, imaging scientists and chemists work in close collaboration, has ordered a SoftScan system is testimony to the power of our technology to address the needs of leading researchers in the field of oncology," added Mr. Gignac.

source: ART