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07/18/2008

Akesis Pharmaceuticals Names Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSc to its Scientific Advisory Board

SAN DIEGO (July 18, 2008) – Akesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC/BB: AKES), an emerging metabolic disease drug development company, today announced it has appointed Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSc, to its scientific advisory board (SAB). Dr. Mantzoros is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He serves as the Clinical Research Overseer of the Division of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Scholars in Clinical Science Program, a postgraduate clinical investigators training program at Harvard Medical School.

06/30/2008

Akesis Pharmaceuticals Names Carl LeBel as President and Chief Operating Officer

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Akesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB:AKES - News), an emerging diabetes drug-development company, today announced it has named Carl LeBel, Ph.D., as president and chief operating officer. Dr. LeBel has served on Akesis’ board of directors since December 2007. The company stated that current president, Jay Lichter, Ph.D., will retain the position of chief executive officer and add the title of chairman of the board of directors.

06/17/2008

Akesis Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive Results from its Phase IIa Trial of AKP-020 for Type 2 Diabetes

06/04/2008

Akesis Pharmaceuticals Completes Phase IIa Trial of AKP-020 for Type 2 Diabetes

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Akesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB:AKES), an emerging diabetes drug-development company, today announced that it has completed the recruitment and dosing phases in its placebo-controlled Phase IIa trial designed to test the safety and efficacy of AKP-020, a novel vanadium compound, in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

03/17/2008

Akesis Pharmaceuticals Provides Preliminary Data from Phase IIa Trial of AKP-020 for Type 2 Diabetes

SAN DIEGO (March 17, 2008) – Akesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC/BB: AKES), an emerging diabetes drug-development company, today disclosed preliminary data on patients in its placebo-controlled Phase IIa trial designed to test the safety and efficacy of AKP-020, a novel vanadium compound, in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

02/25/2008

Akesis Pharmaceuticals Doses First Patient in Phase IIa Trial

Akesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced it has initiated dosing of patients in its placebo controlled Phase IIa trial for AKP-020, a novel vanadium compound, to test its safety and efficacy in patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

12/17/2007

Akesis Pharmaceuticals Appoints Carl LeBel to Board of Directors

SAN DIEGO (December 17, 2007) – Akesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC/BB: AKES), an emerging diabetes drug-development company, today announced it has appointed Carl LeBel, Ph.D., to serve on its board of directors. Dr. LeBel has more than 17 years of experience as a biopharmaceutical industry executive, including 14 years at Amgen Inc. where he was an executive director for program management and strategic operations. Most recently his responsibilities at Amgen included overseeing global cross-functional program activities for a late-stage development candidate in osteoporosis, and he also has extensive experience in the area of metabolic diseases.

11/12/2007

FDA Accepts Akesis Pharmaceuticals’ AKP-020 IND Application For a Phase IIa study in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes

Akesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC/BB: AKES), an emerging diabetes drug-development company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for AKP-020, a novel vanadium compound, to test its safety and efficacy in patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

10/31/2007