UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): February 6, 2008

 

 

NILE THERAPEUTICS, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Delaware   333-55166   88-0363465
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)		   (Commission
File Number)		   (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

2850 Telegraph Avenue Suite #310

Berkeley, CA 94705

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(510) 281-7700

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure

On February 6, 2008, Nile Therapeutics, Inc. (“Nile”), a Delaware corporation, issued a press release announcing that the first heart failure patient had been dosed in its Phase Ib, multi-center, open-label, ascending dose clinical study of Nile’s lead product candidate, CD-NP, a novel chimeric natriuretic peptide, in development for the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure. A copy of the press release attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.

The information in this Item 7.01, including the information incorporated herein by reference, is being furnished and shall not be deemed filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section. The information in this Item, including the information incorporated herein by reference, shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.

   

Description

99.1    Press Release of Nile Therapeutics, Inc. dated February 6, 2008.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: February 7, 2008     NILE THERAPEUTICS, INC.
      By:   /s/ Peter M. Strumph
      Name:   Peter M. Strumph
      Title:   Chief Executive Officer

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

   

Description

99.1    Press Release of Nile Therapeutics, Inc. dated February 6, 2008.