Pharsight Corporation Releases WinNonlin(R) Validation Suite(TM)

Pharsight Corporation , a leading provider of software and strategic services designed to optimize clinical drug development, today announced that it has released WinNonlin Validation Suite. The Validation Suite permits rapid and reliable validation of new installations of WinNonlin 5.0.1 using standard kinetic and dynamic data sets and known calculation results. The Validation Suite creates a report detailing all tests and results and noting any discrepancies for ready verification.

“The WinNonlin Validation Suite represents another step in delivering high productivity research solutions to our PK/PD analysis customers,” said Shawn O‘Connor, president and chief executive officer of Pharsight. “Customers have indicated their desire to rapidly and efficiently validate their WinNonlin installations. We believe that this is indicative of their growing interest in our proprietary software and in making the drug development process more efficient. This release is also evidence of Pharsight’s ongoing commitment to remaining at the forefront of technology by being continually responsive to the changing needs of our customers and the markets they serve.”

About Pharsight Corporation

Pharsight Corporation develops and markets products and services that help pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies improve their decision-making in drug development and commercialization. By integrating scientific, clinical and business decision criteria into a dynamic, model-based methodology, Pharsight helps its customers optimize the value of their drug development programs and portfolios from discovery to post-launch marketing and any point in between. Pharsight uses computer-based drug-disease models, dynamic predictive market models, clinical trial simulation and advanced valuation models to create a continuously evolving view of its customers’ development efforts and product portfolios. This enables decision makers to make explicit value-driven trade-offs throughout the development and commercialization process. Pharsight Corporation is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Information about Pharsight is available on the World Wide Web at www.pharsight.com .