MAP Pharmaceuticals to present nine analyses on LEVADEX for migraine therapy at 2010 EHMTIC congress

Oct 21 2010

MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAPP) today announced that the Company will present nine analyses relating to its LEVADEX™ orally inhaled migraine therapy product candidate, including analysis from the FREEDOM-301 Phase 3 trial, at the 2010 European Headache and Migraine Trust International Congress (EHMTIC) in Nice, France.  EHMTIC is a biennial congress of the Migraine Trust and the European Headache Federation for neurologists, physicians, scientists, researchers, international experts and healthcare professionals.

An oral platform presentation titled "Utility of LEVADEX in Situations Where Early Intervention Paradigm is Impractical" reports the efficacy of LEVADEX in treating acute migraine at different time points during an attack, as early as initial migraine onset and as late as eight hours after onset of a migraine attack. It will be presented by Stewart Tepper, M.D., Director of Research for the Center for Headache and Pain at the Cleveland Clinic during the Migraine-Clinical Experiment Studies session on Sunday, October 31 at 10:40 a.m. CEST. This will also be presented as a poster (#322) starting Saturday, October 30 at 9:00 a.m. CEST.

In addition, two new analyses from the LEVADEX program will be presented in poster presentations. Poster number 460, "The Major Metabolite of Dihydroergotamine (DHE) After Oral Inhalation and IV Administration Does Not Significantly Contribute to the Pharmacological Activity," will be presented starting Thursday, October 28 at 12:00 p.m. CEST. Poster number 471, "Migraine Recurrence Rates: Case for Standardization of the Definition," will be presented starting Saturday, October 30 at 9:00 a.m. CEST.

Six additional poster presentations also will be presented in two separate sessions:

Thursday, October 28 at 12:00 p.m. CEST

• Efficacy Evaluation of LEVADEX in Treating a Broad Spectrum of Acute Migraine Attacks (#463)
• Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of LEVADEX (MAP0004) in Treating Acute Menstrual Migraine (#465)
• Evaluation of Efficacy and Safety of LEVADEX (MAP0004) in Reversing Central Sensitization and Treating Migraine in Established Allodynic Patients (#466)

Saturday, October 30 at 9:00 a.m. CEST

• LEVADEX, a Novel Orally Inhaled Treatment for Acute Migraine: Efficacy and Tolerability Results of a Phase 3 Study (#462)
• Efficacy Evaluation of LEVADEX in Treating Resistant Migraine Including Migraine with Allodynia, Morning Migraine, Disabling Migraine and Migraine Treated Late (#464)
• The Efficacy and Tolerability of LEVADEX (Orally Inhaled DHE) for the Treatment of Migraine in Subjects with Concomitant Asthma (#467)