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                <value>Common Stock</value>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price.  These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $0.06 to $0.108, inclusive.  The Reporting Person undertakes to provide to ARYx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., any security holder of ARYx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in this footnote.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">The shares are directly held by Growth Equity Opportunities Fund, LLC (&quot;GEO&quot;) and indirectly held by New Enterprise Associates 12, Limited Partnership (&quot;NEA 12&quot;), the sole member of GEO, NEA Partners 12, Limited Partnership (&quot;NEA Partners 12&quot;), the sole general partner of NEA 12, NEA 12 GP, LLC (&quot;NEA 12 GP&quot;), the sole general partner of NEA Partners 12, and the individual managers of NEA 12 GP (NEA 12, NEA Partners 12, NEA GP 12 and the individual managers of NEA 12 GP together, the &quot;Indirect Reporting Persons&quot;).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">The individual managers of NEA 12 GP are M. James Barrett, Peter J. Barris, Forest Baskett, Ryan D. Drant, Patrick J. Kerins, C. Richard Kramlich, Krishna &quot;Kittu&quot; Kolluri, Charles W. Newhall III, Mark W. Perry and Scott D. Sandell.  The Indirect Reporting Persons disclaim beneficial ownership within the meaning of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise of such portion of the shares held by GEO in which the Indirect Reporting Persons have no actual pecuniary interest.</footnote>
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    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Shawn Conway, attorney-in-fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2011-03-14</signatureDate>
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