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ARIAD to Present at Leerink Swann Roundtable Conference, "Novel Cancer Therapeutics" & Participate in a Targeted Cancer Therapies Panel at The BIO 2009 International Convention
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 14, 2009 -- ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARIA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) today announced that it is scheduled to participate in two upcoming meetings on Wednesday, May 20, 2009: the Leerink Swann Roundtable Conference in New York City, New York, and the BIO 2009 International Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Leerink Swann Roundtable Conference
ARIAD is scheduled to present at the Leerink Swann Roundtable Conference, "Novel Cancer Therapeutics," at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Harvey J. Berger, M.D., chairman and chief executive officer of ARIAD, is scheduled to provide an overview of the Company and its progress in key programs in a corporate presentation at 2:15 p.m. (ET). Dr. Berger will also participate in a panel discussion entitled, "New Developments in Liquid Tumors" at 3:30 p.m. (ET).
The ARIAD corporate presentation will be webcast live and can be accessed by visiting the investor relations section of the Company's website at http://www.ariad.com/investor. A replay will be available on the ARIAD website approximately twenty-four hours after the presentation and will be archived for two weeks.
2009 BIO International Convention
ARIAD is scheduled to participate in a panel at the 2009 BIO International Convention in Atlanta. Timothy P. Clackson, Ph.D, senior vice president and chief scientific officer at ARIAD, will moderate the panel discussion, "New Developments in Targeted Cancer Therapies," at 10:00 a.m. (ET) on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 in B405, in Building B of the Georgia World Congress Center.
About ARIAD
ARIAD's vision is to transform the lives of cancer patients with breakthrough medicines. The Company's mission is to discover, develop and commercialize small-molecule drugs to treat cancer in patients with the greatest and most urgent unmet medical need - aggressive cancers where current therapies are inadequate. ARIAD's lead product candidate, deforolimus, is an investigational mTOR inhibitor in Phase 3 clinical development in patients with advanced sarcomas and is being developed in collaboration with Merck & Co., Inc. ARIAD's second product candidate, AP24534, is an investigational multi-targeted kinase inhibitor in Phase 1 clinical development in patients with hematological cancers. ARIAD has an exclusive license to pioneering technology and patents related to certain NF-kB cell-signaling activity, which may be useful in treating certain diseases. For additional information about the Company, please visithttp://www.ariad.com.
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