Ardea Biosciences Provides Additional Results From a Phase 2b Study of Lesinurad

Ardea Biosciences, Inc. RDEA announced today that additional positive clinical and preclinical results from its development program of lesinurad, the Company's lead product candidate for the treatment of hyperuricemia and gout, were presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology hosted by the European League Against Rheumatism in London, UK. Results presented from the ongoing blinded extension portion of Ardea's Phase 2b study (study 203) of lesinurad in patients who did not achieve target on allopurinol therapy alone demonstrated that for those patients who have reached week 28 of the extension period, 91 percent of those patients receiving lesinurad in combination with allopurinol achieved serum urate (sUA) levels below the clinically important target of 6 mg/dL.