Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANAC) announced today that Paul Berns, the company’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, will provide a company overview at the 35th Annual Cowen Health Care Conference on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 8:00 a.m. ET in Boston, Massachusetts. The event will be webcast live and may be accessed under “Events and Presentations” on the Investors page of Anacor’s website at www.anacor.com. A replay will also be available for three months following the presentation.

About Anacor Pharmaceuticals

Anacor is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing novel small-molecule therapeutics derived from its boron chemistry platform. Anacor’s first approved drug, KERYDINTM (tavaborole) topical solution, 5%, is an oxaborole antifungal approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in July 2014 for the topical treatment of onychomycosis of the toenails. In July 2014, Anacor entered into an exclusive agreement with Sandoz Inc., a Novartis company, pursuant to which Sandoz distributes and commercializes KERYDIN in the United States. In September 2014, KERYDIN was launched in the United States by Sandoz pursuant to this agreement. Anacor’s lead product candidate is AN2728, an investigational non-steroidal topical PDE-4 inhibitor in development for the potential treatment of mild-to-moderate atopic dermatitis and psoriasis. Beyond KERYDIN and AN2728, Anacor has discovered three investigational compounds that it has out-licensed for further development. The first compound is licensed to Eli Lilly and Company for the potential treatment of an animal health indication. The second compound, AN5568, also referred to as SCYX-7158, is licensed to Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative for the potential treatment of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, or sleeping sickness) and the third compound is licensed to GlaxoSmithKline LLC for development in tuberculosis. Anacor also has a pipeline of other internally discovered topical and systemic boron-based compounds in early stages of research and development. These include three wholly-owned investigational product candidates. AN2718 is an investigational topical antifungal, AN2898 is an investigational non-steroidal topical PDE-4 inhibitor and AN3365 is an investigational Gram-negative antibiotic. For more information, visit www.anacor.com.