RXi prices underwritten public offering of 11,950,000 shares of common stock

RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq: RXII), a biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing innovative therapies addressing major unmet medical needs using immunotherapy and RNA-targeted technologies, today announced that it has priced an underwritten public offering of 11,950,000 units at a price to the public of $1.00 per unit for gross proceeds of approximately $12 million. Each unit consists of one share of common stock and a warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share. The shares of common stock and warrants are immediately separable and will be issued separately such that no units will be issued. The warrants are exercisable beginning one year and one day from the date of issuance, but only if RXi's stockholders approve an increase in the number of its authorized shares of common stock, and expire on the sixth anniversary of the date of issuance. Net proceeds, after underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated fees and expenses payable by RXi, and assuming the warrants are not exercised, will be approximately $10.9 million. RXi intends to use the net proceeds of the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include working capital, capital expenditures, research and development expenditures, clinical and pre-clinical trial expenditures, commercial expenditures, acquisitions of new technologies or businesses that are complementary to its current technologies or business focus, and investments. The offering is expected to close on or about April 20, 2011, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions. ROTH Capital Partners, LLC is acting as the sole manager for the offering.