Ardea to Present Data on Lead HIV Candidate, RDEA806, at XVII International AIDS ...( SAN DIEGO July 17 /- Ardea Biosci...)

SAN DIEGO, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ardea Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: RDEA) today announced that Dr. Graeme Moyle, Director of HIV Research, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, will present results from the Phase 2a proof-of-concept monotherapy study of RDEA806, during an oral presentation at a late breaker session of the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City on August 7, 2008. RDEA806 is the Company's novel investigational non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Presentation Details

Date/Time: Thursday, August 7, 2008 from 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. CDT

Abstract Title: "Antiviral activity of RDEA806, a novel HIV non-nucleoside

reverse transcriptase inhibitor, in treatment of naive HIV patients"

Session Title: THAB04 - Late Breaker Track B, Session 2

Location: Centro Banamex -- Session Room 1 (Abstract #THAB0403)

About Ardea Biosciences, Inc.

Ardea Biosciences, Inc., of San Diego, California, is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of HIV, cancer and inflammatory diseases, including gout. We have four drug candidates in clinical trials and others in preclinical development and discovery. Our most advanced development candidate is RDEA806, a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), which has successfully completed a Phase 2a study for the treatment of patients with HIV. We have evaluated our second-generation NNRTI for the treatment of HIV, RDEA427, in a human micro-dose pharmacokinetic study and have selected it as a development candidate. RDEA594, our lead development candidate for the treatment of gout, is in
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