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ActivBiotics' Intellectual Property Assets, Including Drug Product Candidates, Sold for $3.5 Million

    WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph F. Finn,
Jr., CPA, the Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors of ActivBiotics,
announced today the completion of the sale of ActivBiotics intellectual
property assets for $3.5 million. The assets consisted of 1) Rifalazil, a
Phase II antibiotic, 2) a library of novel rifamycin compounds, and 3) a
clinical stage superoxide dismutase mimetic (SODm) and a library of SODm
small molecules.

    Mr. Finn praised the team of ActivBiotics executives who worked closely
with him after the assets were assigned to him. He singled out Christo
Shalish, MBA, Director of Business Development, Chris Murphy, Ph.D.,
Director of Pharmacology, and David Rothstein, Ph.D., Senior Director of
Preclinical Development.

    The sale of the assets was conducted through an Assignment for the
Benefit of Creditors. This process entails transference of the assets to a
fiduciary who then liquidates them for the benefit of the creditors of the
company.

    Source and Contact Information

    Joseph F. Finn, Jr., CPA, Finn, Warnke & Gayton, 167 Worcester Street,
Suite 201, Wellesley Hills, MA 02481. E-mail: jffinnjr@earthlink.net,
phone: 781-237-8840.



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Joseph F. Finn, Jr., CPA of Finn, Warnke &
Gayton, +1-781-237-8840, jffinnjr@earthlink.net