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Osprey Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. Completes $11 Million Initial Private Financing
Date:9/3/2008

from a first-rate syndicate of international biopharmaceutical investors," said Jack M. Anthony, Chief Executive Officer of Osprey Pharmaceuticals U.S.A. "These funds will enable us to advance our lead compound, a promising treatment designed to reduce kidney damage, into the clinic and to advance additional early-stage compounds in our pipeline together with our partner Osprey Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. of Canada."

Osprey Pharmaceuticals U.S.A. was founded to develop protein therapeutic drugs emerging from Osprey Pharmaceuticals Ltd. of Montreal, Canada and maintains all rights to compounds and the underlying platform. Osprey Pharmaceuticals U.S.A. is led by Jack M. Anthony, Chief Executive Officer and Barbara K. Finck, M.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. Mr. Anthony brings more than 35 years biopharmaceuticals industry experience, including 16 years at Baxter Healthcare where he began his career. Since then, Mr. Anthony has held senior-level positions with a number of companies, including Applied Immune Sciences (now sanofi-aventis), Inhale (now Nektar Therapeutics), FibroGen, Tularik (acquired by Amgen) and Saegis Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Finck is a board certified physician in internal medicine and rheumatology. Having worked in industry for 15 years, she has successfully led product development programs for PDL BioPharma, Immunex Corporation (acquired by Amgen), where she led the Enbrel(R) development team for rheumatoid arthritis in adults and children through to commercialization, and ALZA Corporation (acquired by Johnson & Johnson).

In conjunction with the financing, Jack Anthony, John E. Hamer of Burrill & Company, Martial Lacroix of GeneChem and Jean-Francois Pariseau of BDC Venture Capital will join Osprey Pharmaceuticals U.S.A.'s Board of Directors.

About Osprey Pharmaceuticals U.S.A.

Osprey Pharmaceuticals U.S.A. is focused on the development of protein therapeutics for the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune c
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