CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRT), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing small molecule drugs to treat diseases of aging, announced today that it presented data from pre-clinical and Phase 1a studies at the 6th Annual Metabolic Diseases Drug Discovery and Development World Summit in San Diego, California on July 17, 2007. As previously announced, Jill Milne, Ph.D., Senior Director of Biology at Sirtris, delivered a keynote address “SIRT1 Activation: A Novel Mechanism for Treating Type 2 Diabetes.”