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About ANA598

In June 2007, Anadys announced the nomination of ANA598 as a clinical development candidate. ANA598 was selected based on an optimized balance of preclinical properties, including intrinsic potency as an NS5b inhibitor, cellular activity in the hepatitis C replicon assay, oral bioavailability and early indicators of safety and tolerability. Anadys has recently completed IND enabling activities for ANA598 and pending allowance by the Food and Drug Administration, intends to initiate clinical studies of ANA598 in healthy volunteers in the second quarter of 2008. Following the healthy volunteer study, in the third quarter of 2008 Anadys plans to initiate a short-term Phase Ib study in patients infected with chronic HCV infection.

About Anadys

Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving patient care by developing novel medicines in the areas of hepatitis C and oncology. The Company is developing ANA598, a small-molecule, non-nucleoside inhibitor of the NS5B polymerase for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C and ANA773, an oral TLR7 agonist prodrug for cancer.

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 the expected timing and planned development activities for ANA598, including future clinical trials and the belief that ANA598 has the broad potential utility to be used in combination with other anti-HCV agents, regardless of class, as well as the belief that ANA598 will be an active antiviral in HCV infected patients. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause Anadys' actual results to be materiall
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