Notice of Results

1 April 2010

Notice of Results for the Twelve Months Ended 31 December 2009

Vernalis plc (LSE: VER) today announces its year end results for the twelve months ended 31 December 2009 will be released on Monday, 12 April 2010. The earnings announcement will be distributed at 7:00 am (UK) and will be available to download from http://www.vernalis.com

Following the results announcement, the Company will host an analyst presentation and adjoining conference call at 9:00 am (UK) on 12 April 2010. The presentation will be held at the offices of Brunswick Group, 16 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3ED. Please contact Valerie Mugridge at Brunswick on +44 (0) 207 396 5325 if you plan to attend in person.

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About Vernalis

Vernalis is a development stage pharmaceutical company with significant expertise both in de novo fragment and structure-based drug discovery and pre-clinical and clinical development. The Group has one marketed product, frovatriptan for the acute treatment of migraine, and five priority product candidates in clinical development (three of which are partnered), two further priority programmes in pre-clinical development (neither of which is partnered) and other collaborative drug discovery programmes. Vernalis has a further two partnered programmes that are in clinical development in which it retains an economic interest. Our technologies, capabilities and products are endorsed by collaborations with leading, global pharmaceutical companies including GSK, Biogen Idec, Novartis, Servier, Chiesi, Menarini, and Endo. For further information about Vernalis, please visit www.vernalis.com

Forward-Looking Statement

This news release may contain forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectations regarding future events including the clinical development and regulatory clearance of the Company's products, the Company's ability to find partners for the development and commercialisation of its products, as well as the Company's future capital raising activities. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Actual events could differ materially from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors including the success of the Company's research strategies, the applicability of the discoveries made therein, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies, the uncertainties related to the regulatory process, the ability of the Company to identify and agree beneficial terms with suitable partners for the commercialisation and/or development of its products, as well as the achievement of expected synergies from such transactions, the acceptance of Frova® and other products by consumers and medical professionals, the successful integration of completed mergers and acquisitions and achievement of expected synergies from such transactions, and the ability of the Company to identify and consummate suitable strategic and business combination transactions.