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Bioheart CEO Mike Tomas Honored for Community and Business Endeavors

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Bioheart , Inc. (OTCQB: BHRT) announced today that Mike Tomas, the Company's President/CEO has received multiple accolades and honors from both national and international assemblages.

This past Saturday Mr. Tomas attended the 12th Annual Torch Awards at Florida International University (FIU). He was bestowed FIU's highest honor; the 2013 Torch Award for lifetime business, community leadership and civic involvement.  https://fiualumni.com/torch2013/

He was also nominated for the 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. The award is considered the world's most prominent business award for entrepreneurs.  http://www.ey.com/US/en/About-us/Entrepreneur...f-The-Year

This June Mr. Tomas will be presented the 2013 Father of the Year award by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Each year the ADA recognizes men from the U.S.A. for the outstanding strength, commitment and love they exhibit as fathers.  http://main.diabetes.org/site/PageServer?page...=MikeTomas

"I am sincerely honored to be recognized by these exceptional organizations. I endeavor to make a positive difference in the lives of others and to push forward on opportunities," said Mr. Tomas.

In the past year, Mike Tomas was inducted into the Miami Dade College Hall of Fame and welcomed into the World Assembly and Council (WACE) Hall of Fame.

Dr. William P. Murphy Jr., Chairman of the Board commented, "Bioheart is fortunate to have someone of Mike's caliber leading our company. His business acumen has been proven time and again throughout his career. He has led his many business ventures to success and I feel confident that Bioheart will be no exception."

About Bioheart, Inc.

Bioheart is committed to maintaining its leading position within the cardiovascular sector of the cell technology industry delivering cell therapies and biologics that help address congestive heart failure, lower limb ischemia, chronic heart ischemia, acute myocardial infarctions and other issues. Bioheart's goals are to cause damaged tissue to be regenerated, when possible, and to improve a patient's quality of life and reduce health care costs and hospitalizations.

Specific to biotechnology, Bioheart is focused on the discovery, development and, subject to regulatory approval, commercialization of autologous cell therapies for the treatment of chronic and acute heart damage and peripheral vascular disease. Its leading product, MyoCell, is a clinical muscle-derived cell therapy designed to populate regions of scar tissue within a patient's heart with new living cells for the purpose of improving cardiac function in chronic heart failure patients. For more information on Bioheart, visit  www.bioheartinc.com , or visit us on Facebook: Bioheart and Twitter  @BioheartInc .

About Mike Tomas 

Mike Tomas was appointed as Bioheart's President, CEO and a Director on June 19, 2010. For the past 11 years, he has served as President of The ASTRI Group, an early stage private equity investment company in Florida with an investment in Bioheart. In 2003, he joined Bioheart's Board of Directors as the independent representative of The ASTRI Group. Prior to this, Tomas held ascending executive positions including Chief Marketing Officer at Avantel, a $1 billion dollar joint venture with MCI. He currently sits on the boards of Perimeter Internetworking, Avisena and Total Home Health. He is also the current chairman of the Global Entrepreneurship Center at Florida International University and a founding coach/mentor at the University of Miami's Launch Pad at the Toppel Center. Mike holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Miami, a Bachelor degree from Florida International University and an Associate degree from Miami Dade College.

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Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Also, forward-looking statements represent our management's beliefs and assumptions only as of the date hereof. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.

The Company is subject to the risks and uncertainties described in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the section entitled "Risk Factors" in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2012.

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