Director Shareholding

Aortech International PLC
23 July 2002

                           Aortech International plc

                         Director's Purchase of Shares

Aortech International plc ('the Company') announces that it received
notification today that Mr Francis Madden, Director, yesterday purchased 9,000
ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 32 pence per share.






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