HAMBURG, Germany, Dec. 1, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Evotec AG (Frankfurt:EVT) (Nasdaq:EVTC) today announced that Jorn Aldag, President & CEO, and Dr John Kemp, Chief Research & Development Officer, will present at the 20th Annual Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference in New York.
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 Time: 4.30 pm EST (10.30 pm CET/9.30 pm GMT) Venue: The New York Palace, New York City
A live webcast of the presentation will be accessible through the Evotec website at www.evotec.com - Investors. A replay will be available for 30 days following the conference at www.evotec.com - Investors - Webcasts.
About Evotec AG
Evotec is a leader in the discovery and development of novel small molecule drugs. Both through its own discovery programs and through research collaborations, it is generating the highest quality research results to its partners in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. In proprietary projects, Evotec specializes in finding new treatments for diseases of the Central Nervous System. Evotec has four programs in clinical development: EVT 201, a partial positive allosteric modulator (pPAM) of the GABAA receptor complex for the treatment of insomnia, EVT 302, a MAO-B inhibitor in development for smoking cessation, EVT 101, a subtype selective NMDA receptor antagonist for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and/or pain, and a P2X7 antagonist for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. In addition, Evotec has a number of proprietary projects in preclinical development as well as a worldwide license agreement with Pfizer to research, develop and commercialize small molecule vanilloid receptor (VR1) antagonists for the treatment of pain. For additional information please go to www.evotec.com