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POZEN Names Dr. Elly Savaluny As Vice President, Biostatistics and Data Management

Posted on: Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 09:01 CST

POZEN Inc. (NASDAQ: POZN), a pharmaceutical company focused primarily on products for the treatment of migraine, acute and chronic pain and other pain-related conditions, today announced the appointment of Elly Savaluny, Ph.D. as Vice President, Biostatistics and Data Management. Dr. Savaluny will be responsible for the data management and statistical analysis of clinical trials to support New Drug Application (NDA) submissions to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and submissions to other worldwide regulatory agencies.

Dr. Marshall Reese, POZEN's Executive Vice President, Product Development, said, "We believe Dr. Savaluny will be a great asset to the POZEN team. Dr. Savaluny is an experienced global leader and manager of biostatistics with a proven record to ensure quality delivery of the data from our clinical development programs."

Dr. Savaluny was most recently employed at the Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Novartis Consumer Health SA as global head of clinical operations, biostatistics and data management. In this capacity, Dr. Savaluny was responsible for the management of clinical operations in Europe and the United States. Prior to joining Novartis in 2001, Dr. Savaluny held senior level positions at Pfizer Central Research in the United Kingdom and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. in Basel, Switzerland.

Dr. Savaluny received a Ph.D. from the University of Reading, an M.Sc. in Medical Statistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Graduate Diploma in Statistics from Portsmouth University.

About POZEN

POZEN is a pharmaceutical company committed to developing therapeutic advancements for diseases with unmet medical needs where it can improve efficacy, safety, and/or patient convenience. Since its inception, POZEN has focused its efforts primarily on the development of pharmaceutical products for the treatment of migraine. POZEN is also exploring the development of product candidates in other acute and chronic pain and pain-related therapeutic areas. POZEN has a development and commercialization alliance with GlaxoSmithKline. The company's common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol "POZN". For detailed company information, including copies of this and other press releases, see POZEN's website: www.pozen.com.

Statements included in this press release that are not historical in nature are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You should be aware that our actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements, which are based on management's current expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, our failure to successfully commercialize our product candidates; costs and delays in the development and/or FDA approval of our product candidates, including as a result of the need to conduct additional studies, or the failure to obtain such approval of our product candidates, including as a result of changes in regulatory standards or the regulatory environment during the development period of any of our product candidates; uncertainties in or unexpected clinical trial results or uncertainties in the timing of clinical trials, resulting in, among other things, an extension in the period over which we recognize deferred revenue or our failure to achieve milestones that would have provided us with revenue; our inability to maintain or enter into, and the risks resulting from our dependence upon, collaboration or contractual arrangements necessary for the development, manufacture, commercialization, marketing, sales and distribution of any products; competitive factors; our inability to protect our patents or proprietary rights and obtain necessary rights to third party patents and intellectual property to operate our business; our inability to operate our business without infringing the patents and proprietary rights of others; general economic conditions; the failure of any products to gain market acceptance; our inability to obtain any additional required financing; technological changes; government regulation; changes in industry practice; and one-time events, including those discussed herein and in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2005 under "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations." We do not intend to update any of these factors or to publicly announce the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements.

Source: Business Wire

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