WACO, Texas - (Send2Press Newswire) - October 2, 2003 -- Direct Wireless Communications, Inc. (OTC BB: DWCM) a biotechnology company which is focused on biomarker and pathway discovery for diagnostic markers and drug targets today announced the appointment of award winning cancer researcher, Dr. Ramananda Madyastha to its Scientific Advisory Board.

Dr. Madyastha, is the recipient of the Raja Ravi Sher Singh of Kalsia Memorial Cancer Research prize for outstanding contributions in the field of cancer research. He also served on the Faculty of the Basic and Clinical Immunology and Microbiology Department at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. He has been an active member of the American Association of Cancer Research for more than 20 years. In addition, Dr. Madyastha is Board Certified by the American Board of Managed Care Medicine and is a licensed Clinical Laboratory Director.

"It is truly an honor to have Dr. Madyastha, with his tremendous scientific accomplishments in cancer research, agree to become a member of our Scientific Advisory Board," said Stephen D. Barnhill, M.D., President and Medical Director of Direct Wireless Communications. "This appointment brings significant expertise in cancer research and laboratory medicine to our Scientific Advisory Board, which already includes such notable scientists as Kary Mullis, Ph.D., winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993, for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)." We are very excited to be working with Dr. Madyastha as we advance our position in diagnostic and drug discovery."

Dr. Madyastha commented, "I am looking forward to working with Dr. Barnhill and his team of world renowned scientists and mathematicians as they seek to identify the key biomarkers to be used for diagnostic testing and as potential drug targets for devastating diseases like cancer and AIDS."

This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27a of the Securities Acts of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove correct.

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