DUSA Pharmaceuticals Announces Stiefel Laboratories’s Receipt of Pricing Approval of Levulan PDT in Brazil

WILMINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS--(Marketwire - March 06, 2008) - DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.® (NASDAQ GM: DUSA), received notice on March 5, 2008 that Stiefel Laboratories, Inc., DUSA's marketing partner for Latin America, has now received final pricing approval for Levulan® (aminolevulinic acid HCl) Kerastick® for Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) for the treatment of actinic keratoses (AKs) in Brazil by the Regulatory Chamber of Medicines (Camara de Regulacao do Mercado de Medicamentos) (CMED). The market launch of Levulan PDT in Brazil is expected to follow shortly. Stiefel previously received regulatory approval for Levulan Kerastick from ANVISA (Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria) in 2006.
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