Novagali Pharma Announces the Registration of its "document de base" With the French Securities Market Authority ("Auto

EVRY, France, July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- In preparation for the application for the listing of its shares on Eurolist by Euronext, Novagali Pharma, an emerging ophthalmic pharmaceutical company, announces that its document de base was registered on July 18, 2007 by the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) under number I.07-132.

The document de base is available free of charge from Novagali Pharma, 1 rue Pierre Fontaine, Bâtiment Genavenir IV, 91000 Evry, France, on the AMF website (www.amf-france.org) and on the Novagali Pharma website (www.novagali.com).

The public attention is drawn to the chapter 4 of the document de base, entitled 'Risk Factors'.

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About Novagali Pharma : http://www.novagali.com

Novagali Pharma is an emerging ophthalmic pharmaceutical company based in the Génopôle biocluster in Evry (France), that develops innovative products for all segments of the eye. Thanks to its proprietary technology platforms Novasorb(R) and Eyeject(R), the company has developed a broad pipeline of 8 innovative products addressing main ocular conditions as well as orphan diseases. Most advanced products include Vekacia(R), an orphan product for treatment of vernal keratoconjunctivitis, Cationorm(R), a CE mark product for dry eye relief, and Nova22007, a product for the treatment of moderate-to-severe dry eye syndrome. Founded in 2000, Novagali Pharma has raised a total amount of Euro 44 million in 3 series of financing.

Press contacts: Novagali Pharma, Geneviève Garrigos, +33-1-69-87-40-20 / +33-6-65-54-60-19, genevieve.garrigos@novagali.com; Euro RSCG, Estelle Griffe, +33-1-58-47-95-25 / +33-6-23-75-09-23, estelle.griffe@eurorscg.fr