Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Strategic Restructuring to Focus Operations on Continuing the Advancement...(h patient receiving ANA598 would receive...)

Date:6/4/2009

h patient receiving ANA598 would receive two 800 mg doses on day one, known as a loading dose. The decision to initiate dosing of patients in the 400 mg dose group will be determined after assessing 28 day data from the 200 mg dose group. Anadys intends to enroll 90 patients in this study, in the proportions of 30 patients receiving ANA598 and 15 receiving placebo at each dose level. The study will be conducted at a number of clinical sites in the United States.

About Anadys

Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving patient care by developing novel medicines for the treatment of hepatitis C. The Company believes hepatitis C represents a large unmet medical need in which meaningful improvements in treatment outcomes may be attainable with the introduction of new medicines. The Company is developing ANA598, a non-nucleoside polymerase inhibitor for the treatment of hepatitis C. The Company has also investigated the potential of ANA773, an oral, small-molecule inducer of endogenous interferons that acts via the Toll-like receptor 7, or TLR7, pathway in hepatitis C.

Safe Harbor Statement

Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute "forward-looking statements." Such statements include, but are not limited to, references to Anadys' restructuring plans, its focus of operations, management of its ANA773 programs, its plans regarding the planned ANA598 Phase II trial, the potency, safety and tolerability profile of ANA598, which may not be duplicated in future clinical studies of longer duration, the planned timing for initiating the Phase II trial of ANA598, the proposed design of the ANA598 trial, the expected timing and occurrence of projected ANA598 Phase II data milestones, the Company's reduction of its workforce, its ability to retain personnel, its ability to achieve cost-savings in c
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