ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financi...(ghlights As of December 31 2008 the ...)

As of December 31, 2008, the Company had cash and cash equivalents totaling $9.8 million. Stockholders' equity amounted to $6.0 million as of December 31, 2008.

Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements

On March 20, 2009, the Company's management concluded that ADVENTRX's consolidated financial statements contained in its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, June 30 and September 30, 2007 and March 31, June 30 and September 30, 2008 should no longer be relied upon. ADVENTRX intends to correct the misstatements in those financial statements in its annual report on Form 10 K for the year ended December 31, 2008, which it anticipates filing before March 31, 2009.

The misstatements occurred as a result of the erroneous application of generally accepted accounting principles related to accounting for warrant liability. In connection with ADVENTRX's adoption on January 1, 2007 of Financial Accounting Standards Board Staff Position No. EITF 00-19-2, "Accounting for Registration Payment Arrangements" ("FSP EITF 00-19-2"), it erroneously retrospectively applied FSP EITF 00-19-2 to the years ended December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2006. However, the effect of this misapplication of FSP EITF 00-19-2 related entirely to non-cash line items. It had no impact on ADVENTRX's current assets (e.g., cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments) or its operating expenses and did not affect any loan covenants or other contractual requirements.

About ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals

ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company whose product candidates are designed to improve the safety and commercial potential of existing cancer treatments. In December 2008, the Company announced that it is exploring a range of strategic options, including the sale or disposition
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