SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anesiva, Inc. announced today that John P. McLaughlin, the company’s chief executive officer, will present at the Lazard Capital Markets Annual Life Sciences Conference in New York City on November 28, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. EST.
Mr. McLaughlin also will present at the Piper Jaffray & Co. 18th Annual Health Care Conference, also in New York City, on November 29, 2006 at 12:00 p.m. EST.
To access the live webcasts or the subsequent archived recordings, log on to www.anesiva.com and go to the Investors page, and click on Events. Please connect to Anesiva’s website several minutes prior to the start of the webcasts to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be necessary.
About Anesiva and its Diverse Pipeline of Pain Products
Anesiva, Inc. is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company that seeks to be the leader in the development and commercialization of novel therapeutic treatments for pain. The company has three drug candidates in development for multiple pain-related indications, the most advanced of which, Zingo(TM), has completed Phase 3 clinical trials. The second product in the pipeline, 4975, has been shown to reduce pain after only a single administration for weeks to months in multiple settings in numerous mid-stage clinical trials for site- specific, moderate-to-severe pain. A third product, 1207, is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1 clinical trial as a topical local anesthetic. Anesiva is based in South San Francisco, CA. For more information about Anesiva’s leadership in the development of products for pain management, and an overview of the clinical challenges being addressed by its product candidates, go to www.anesiva.com .
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CONTACT: Jennifer Cook Williams, Vice President, Investor Relations, ofAnesiva, Inc., +1-650-624-9600 or investors@anesiva.com
Web site: http://www.anesiva.com/
