Share Purchases

RNS Number:1708T
Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc
25 April 2008


For immediate release                                 25 April 2008

                         Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc.
                        ("Napo" or "the Company")

                             Share Purchases


Notification of Transactions of Directors, Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibility or Connected Persons



NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN, INTO OR
FROM THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA OR JAPAN



South San Francisco, California,   25 April 2008 - South San Francisco,
California, Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (LSE: NAPL and NAPU), announces that in
relation to transactions of Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibility, it was informed on 24 April 2008 that Lisa Conte, CEO of Napo,
and Gregory Stock, Non-executive Director of Napo, have purchased Common Shares
(LSE: NAPL).



Lisa Conte purchased 10,000 Common Shares at a price of 5.0 pence per share.
These shares were purchased on 24 April 2008. Following the purchase of these
Common Shares, Lisa Conte has a total personal holding of 110,000 Common Shares
in the Company amounting to 0.2 per cent of the issued share capital.



Ms. Conte has a deemed interest in 527,746 shares of Common Shares which are
held by Lucy W. Reckseit as Trustee for the Lisa A. Conte 2006 Children's Trust
DTD.  This is an irrevocable trust.



Gregory Stock, purchased 10,000 Common Shares at a price of 5.0 pence per share.
These shares were also purchased on 24 April 2008. Following the purchase of
these Common Shares, Gregory Stock has a total personal holding of 10,000 Common
Shares in the Company amounting to 0.02 per cent of the issued share capital.



For more information please contract:



Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Lisa Conte, Chief Executive Officer

(001) + 650 616 1902



Charles Thompson, Chief Financial Officer

(001) + 650 616 1903



Buchanan Communications

(44) + 020 7466 5000

Tim Anderson, Mary-Jane Johnson, Catherine Breen





About Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.



Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. focuses on the development and commercialisation of
proprietary pharmaceuticals for the global marketplace in collaboration with
local partners. Napo was founded in November 2001, and is based in California,
USA with a subsidiary in Mumbai, India.



Napo's late-stage proprietary gastro-intestinal compound, crofelemer, is in
various stages of clinical development for four distinct product indications,
including a late-stage Phase 3 program:



   CRO-HIV for AIDS diarrhoea, Phase 3

   CRO-IBS for diarrhoea irritable bowel syndrome ("D-IBS"), Phase 2

   CRO-ID for acute infectious diarrhoea (including cholera), Phase 2

   CRO-PED for paediatric diarrhoea, Phase 1



The FDA has granted fast-track status to CRO-IBS and CRO-HIV.



Crofelemer, a proprietary patented agent, is extracted from Croton lechleri, a
medicinal plant which can be sustainably harvested from several countries in
South America. Napo also plans to develop an early clinical stage product,
NP-500, for the treatment of insulin resistant diseases of Type II diabetes and
metabolic syndrome (Syndrome X; pre-diabetic syndrome). Napo also has a plant
library of approximately 2,300 medicinal plants from tropical regions, and Napo
has entered two screening relationship associated with this collection.



Currently, products are based on the chemical and biological diversity derived
from plants with medicinal properties, but future products may be in-licensed
from other sources.



Napo has partnerships with Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited of India and
AsiaPharm Group Ltd. of China.



For more information please visit www.napopharma.com.






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