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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549



POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933



ANORMED INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)



Canada
(
State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
  98-0171581
(
I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

200-20353 64th Avenue
Langley, British Columbia
Canada V2Y 1N5
(604) 530-1057

(
Address of Principal Executive Offices)



Incentive Stock Option Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)

CT Corporation System
111 Eighth Avenue
New York, New York 10011
(212) 894-8600
(Name, address, and telephone number, including area code, of Agent for Service)


with copies to:
Paul M. Kinsella
Ropes & Gray LLP
One International Place
Boston, Massachusetts 02110
(617) 951-7000
  Peter Wirth
Genzyme Corporation
500 Kendall Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Telephone: (617) 252-7500





RECENT EVENTS: DEREGISTRATION

        On June 16, 2006, AnorMED Inc. ("AnorMED") filed a Form S-8 registration statement (File No. 333-135097) registering the issuance by AnorMED of 3,821,246 common shares, no par value, of AnorMED ("AnorMED Shares"), authorized for issuance under AnorMED's Incentive Stock Option Plan. On November 7, 2006, Dematal Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Genzyme Corporation, completed a cash tender offer and related transaction pursuant to which it acquired all the outstanding AnorMED Shares.

        As AnorMED will cease to be a reporting issuer in connection with this transaction, AnorMED hereby removes from registration any and all AnorMED Shares originally authorized for issuance under the Incentive Stock Option Plan and registered for issuance under this Registration Statement on Form S-8 which have not been issued. AnorMED's Incentive Stock Option Plan will be terminated and no additional AnorMED Shares may be issued or sold under such plan. There are no outstanding stock options under AnorMED's Incentive Stock Option Plan as of the date hereof.



SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Cambridge, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the date below.

    ANORMED INC.

 

 

By:

/s/  
JOANNE M. VASILY-CIOFFI      
Joanne M. Vasily-Cioffi
Assistant Secretary

Dated: November 9, 2006

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to the registration statement on Form S-8 has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated below.

Signature

  Title

  Date

/s/  HENRI A. TERMEER      
Henri A. Termeer
  President
(
principal executive officer)
  Nov. 9, 2006

/s/  MICHAEL S. WYZGA      
Michael S. Wyzga

 

Vice President, Treasurer & Director
(
principal financial and
accounting officer
)

 

Nov. 9, 2006

/s/  SANDFORD D. SMITH      
Sandford D. Smith

 

Director

 

Nov. 9, 2006

/s/  BRIAN LEWIS      
Brian Lewis

 

Director

 

Nov. 9, 2006

/s/  GEORGES GEMAYEL      
Georges Gemayel

 

Director

 

Nov. 9, 2006


AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned has signed this Post-Effective Amendment to the registration statement on Form S-8, solely in the capacity of the duly authorized representative of AnorMED Inc. in the United States.


 

 

By:

/s/  
JOANNE M. VASILY-CIOFFI      
Joanne M. Vasily-Cioffi
Assistant Secretary

Dated: November 9, 2006

 

 

 



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SIGNATURES
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE