PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genaera Corporation (Nasdaq: GENR) will present at the Eleventh Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference, being held February 9-10, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Jack Armstrong, President and Chief Executive Officer, will provide promising preliminary Phase 1b clinical data for MSI-1436, the first-in-class, highly selective inhibitor of PTP1B and Genaera's lead drug candidate for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity, on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 2:15 p.m. (ET).

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Genaera Corporation is developing trodusquemine (MSI-1436), for type 2 diabetes and obesity currently in phase 1 clinical testing and has a fully out-licensed partnership with MedImmune, Inc. that is in phase 2 clinical testing in asthma. For further information, please see our website at www.genaera.com.

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