Onyx Pharmaceuticals Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Financial Results Teleconference and Webcast

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Feb 15, 2011, 04:00 ET

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) today announced that it will host a webcast and teleconference with management to provide a general business overview, as well as to discuss fourth quarter and full year 2010 financial results, on Wednesday, February 23, 2011, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (2:00 p.m. Pacific Time). Financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 30, 2010 will be released earlier that day.

Interested parties may access a live webcast of the presentation on the company's website at:

http://www.onyx-pharm.com/view.cfm/32/Event-Calendar

or by dialing 847-413-3362 and using the passcode 29045749#. A replay of the presentation will be available on the Onyx website or by dialing 630-652-3042 and using the passcode 29045749# approximately one hour after the teleconference concludes. The replay will be available through March 9, 2011.

About Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company committed to improving the lives of people with cancer. The company, in collaboration with Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., is developing and marketing Nexavar® (sorafenib) tablets, a small molecule drug that is currently approved for the treatment of liver cancer and advanced kidney cancer. Additionally, Nexavar is being investigated in several ongoing trials in a variety of tumor types. Beyond Nexavar, Onyx has established a development pipeline of anticancer compounds at various stages of clinical testing, including carfilzomib, a selective, next generation proteasome inhibitor, that is currently being evaluated in multiple clinical trials for the treatment of patients with relapsed or relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma and solid tumors. ONX 0801, an alpha-folate receptor targeted inhibitor of thymidylate synthase, and ONX 0912, an oral proteasome inhibitor, are currently in Phase 1 testing. For more information about Onyx, visit the company's website at www.onyx-pharm.com.

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