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Published in Health and Fitness on Thursday, May 27th 2010 at 4:10 GMT by Market Wire
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCRX) today announced that Stuart Grant, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BioCryst, plans to provide a corporate summary and updates regarding its clinical programs for BCX4208, peramivir and forodesine at the Jefferies 2010 Global Life Sciences Conference in New York on June 8, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Links to a live audio Web cast and replay of the presentation may be accessed on the BioCryst Web site at [ www.biocryst.com. ]
About BioCryst
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals designs, optimizes and develops novel small-molecule pharmaceuticals that block key enzymes involved in infectious diseases, cancer and inflammatory diseases. BioCryst has progressed two novel compounds that are in late-stage pivotal trials; [ peramivir ], a neuraminidase inhibitor for the treatment of influenza, and [ forodesine ], an orally-available purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) inhibitor for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). Additionally, BioCryst has a third product candidate, [ BCX4208 ]a"a next generation PNP inhibitora"in mid-stage trials for the treatment of gout. Utilizing crystallography and structure-based drug design, BioCryst continues to discover additional compounds and to progress others through pre-clinical and early development to address the unmet medical needs of patients and physicians. For more information, please visit the Companya™s Web site at [ www.biocryst.com ].
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding future results and achievements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Please refer to the documents BioCryst files periodically with the SEC and located at [ http://investor.shareholder.com/biocryst/sec.cfm ].
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