Trius Therapeutics second quarter 2010 revenue increases to $2.1 million

Trius Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSRX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative antibiotics for serious, life-threatening infections, announced today its financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2010.

Revenues from federal research contracts for the three months ended June 30, 2010 increased to $2.1 million as compared to $1.2 million for the same period in 2009. For the six months ended June 30, 2010, total revenues were $3.6 million, as compared to $2.3 million for the same period in 2009. The increase in revenues during the three and six months ended June 30, 2010 was largely due to the award of the company's second federal research contract, a $29.5 million, four and a half-year contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Trius' first federal contract was a $27.7 million, five-year contract from the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Total operating expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2010 were $4.5 million, as compared to $6.5 million for the same period in 2009. For the six months ended June 30, 2010, total operating expenses were $9.9 million, as compared to $14.2 million for the same period in 2009. The decrease in operating expenses during the three and six months ended June 30, 2010 was primarily the result of lower clinical trial expenses during the periods as the company finalized the Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Trius ended the second quarter of 2010 with cash and cash equivalents totaling $10.4 million. On a pro forma basis, accounting for the net cash proceeds of its Initial Public Offering (IPO) which closed in August 2010 as of June 30, 2010, the company had cash and cash equivalents of $56.0 million. As of August 16, 2010, Trius had 23,554,766 shares outstanding.

"With the proceeds from our recent IPO and in accordance with the SPA recently granted to Trius by the FDA, Trius is poised to move torezolid phosphate into its first Phase 3 study for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI)," said Jeffrey Stein, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Trius.