Updates Optimer (Nasdaq:OPTR), Emergent BioSol (NYSE:EBS), Elan (NYSE:ELN), Sucampo (NASDAQ:SCMP)

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On 09/14/09, Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPTR), announced the presentation of results from its second prulifloxacin Phase 3 clinical study for the treatment of infectious diarrhea in travelers, by clinical investigator Robert Steffen, M.D., at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in San Francisco.

On 09/14/09, Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS), released the following statement relating to its efforts to collect on the debt owed to it by Protein Sciences Corporation (PSC) through the filing of an involuntary bankruptcy petition with the federal bankruptcy court in Delaware which ruled PSC is insolvent under the federal bankruptcy laws, because it generally was not paying its debts as they become due.

On 09/14/09, Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE:ELN), announced it has cured an unintended breach of its Tysabri Collaboration Agreement with Biogen that had been identified by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

On 09/14/09, Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCMP), announced the appointment of James J. Egan as Chief Operating Officer, Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a newly-created position, effective September 15, 2009, reporting to Ryuji Ueno, M.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., Chair, and Chief Executive Officer of Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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