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La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company to Present at 26th Annual ROTH Growth Stock Conference
[March 05, 2014]

La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company to Present at 26th Annual ROTH Growth Stock Conference


SAN DIEGO --(Business Wire)--

La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company (NASDAQ: LJPC) (the "Company" or "La Jolla"), a biotechnology company developing therapeutics targeting significant unmet, life-threatening diseases today announced that George Tidmarsh, MD, PhD, President and CEO of La Jolla will be presenting a corporate update at the 26th Annual ROTH Conference on March 10, 2014 at 2:30 PM pacific time. An update on the phase 2 clinical study of GCS (News - Alert)-100 for the treatment of chronic kidney disease will be included in the presentation. The presentation will be webcast and can be found on the Company's website www.ljpc.com after the presentation.

About La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company

La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, developmnt and commercialization of innovative therapeutics for chronic organ failure and cancer. GCS-100, the Company's lead product candidate, is a first-in-class inhibitor of galectin-3, a novel molecular target implicated in chronic organ failure and cancer. LJPC-501, the Company's second product candidate, is a natural peptide for the treatment of hepatorenal syndrome. LJPC-401, the Company's third product candidate, is a natural peptide for the treatment of iron overload. For more information on the Company please visit http://www.ljpc.com.



Forward Looking Statement Safe Harbor

This document contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to future events or our future results of operations. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results to be materially different from these forward-looking statements. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they were made. Certain of these risks, uncertainties, and other factors are described in greater detail in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC (News - Alert)"), all of which are available free of charge on the SEC's web site http://www.sec.gov. These risks include, but are not limited to, risks relating to the development of GCS-100, LJPC-501 and LJPC-401, the success and timing of future preclinical and clinical studies of these compounds, and potential indications for which GCS-100, LJPC-501 and LJPC-401 may be developed. Subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or to persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements set forth in the Company's reports filed with the SEC. The Company expressly disclaims any intent to update any forward-looking statements.



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