 CC-11050 is a novel anti-inflammatory compound with potential to treat a variety of chronic inflammatory conditions and cytokine storms associated with infectious diseases. CC-11050 is a selective phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor PDE4 that is active in several in vivo models of inflammatory disease, inhibiting systemic TNF- production, colitis symptoms of the colon, psoriasiform features in the skin, arthritogenic swelling in the joints, neutrophilia and eosinophilia in the lung, and reducing choroidal neovascularization. These data suggest that CC-11050 may have therapeutic potential for chronic inflammatory conditions andor as an antiangiogenic treatment. The safety profile of CC-11050 has been investigated in healthy males and in subjects with cutaneous lupus erythematosus; the most frequently reported adverse events were fatigue, headache, upper respiratory infection and pruritus; there were no deaths or serious adverse events. 