Arena Pharmaceuticals to Report Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results and to Host Conference Call and Webcast on Thursday, Octobe...( SAN DIEGO Oct. 23 /- Arena Pharma...)

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARNA) today announced it will report third quarter 2008 financial results after the NASDAQ Global Market closes on Thursday, October 30, 2008. That same afternoon, Jack Lief, Arena's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Robert E. Hoffman, Arena's Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (2:00 p.m. Pacific Time) to discuss the third quarter 2008 financial results and to provide a corporate update.

The conference call may be accessed by dialing 877.874.1570 for domestic callers and 719.325.4780 for international callers. Please specify to the operator that you would like to join the "Arena Pharmaceuticals Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Call." The conference call will be webcast live under the investor relations section of Arena's website at http://www.arenapharm.com, and will be archived there for 30 days following the call. Please connect to Arena's website several minutes prior to the start of the broadcast to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be necessary.

About Arena Pharmaceuticals

Arena is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing oral drugs in four major therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, central nervous system, inflammatory and metabolic diseases. Arena's most advanced drug candidate, lorcaserin, is being investigated in a Phase 3 clinical trial program for the treatment of obesity. Arena's broad pipeline of novel compounds target G protein-coupled receptors, an important class of validated drug targets, and includes compounds being e
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