Vicuron Pharmaceuticals to Present at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference 2005 KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vicuron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: MICU; Nuovo Mercato: MICU) today announced that George F. Horner III, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the 2005 BIO CEO & Investor Conference at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, February 24, 2005 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. To access the live audio broadcast or the subsequent archived recording log on to http://www.vicuron.com/ and click on the investor relations section. Please connect to the website several minutes prior to the start of the webcast to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be necessary. The live broadcast will be archived for 30 days. About Vicuron Pharmaceuticals Vicuron Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, manufacturing and commercializing vital medicine for seriously ill patients. The company has two New Drug Applications pending with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its lead products, dalbavancin, a novel intravenous antibiotic for the treatment of serious Gram-positive infections, and anidulafungin, a novel antifungal agent. Vicuron's versatile research engine integrates industry-leading expertise in functional genomics, natural products discovery, mechanism-based drug design and combinatorial and medicinal chemistry. These approaches are yielding promising novel and next-generation compounds, many of which are in the later stages of preclinical development. In addition, the company has research and development collaborations with leading pharmaceutical companies, such as Novartis and Pfizer. Forward-Looking Statements The presentation contains forward-looking statements that predict or describe future events or trends. The matters described in these forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other unpredictable factors, many of which are beyond Vicuron's control. Vicuron faces many risks that could cause its actual performance to differ materially from the results predicted by its forward-looking statements, including the possibilities that clinical trials and the results thereof might be delayed or unsuccessful, that the timing of the filing of any new drug application or any amendment to a new drug application might be delayed, that clinical trials might indicate that a product candidate is unsafe or ineffective, that the FDA might require additional information to be submitted and additional actions to be taken before it will make any decision, that any filed new drug application may not be approved by the FDA, that ongoing proprietary and collaborative research might not occur or yield useful results, that the pipeline may not yield a new clinical candidate or a commercial product, that a third party may not be willing to license Vicuron's product candidates on terms acceptable to it or at all, that competitors might develop superior substitutes for Vicuron's products or market these competitive products more effectively, that a sales force may not be developed as contemplated and that one or more of Vicuron's product candidates may not be commercialized successfully. The reports that Vicuron files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission contain a fuller description of these and many other risks to which Vicuron is subject. Because of those risks, Vicuron's actual results, performance or achievements may differ materially from the results, performance or achievements contemplated by its forward-looking statement. The information set forth in the presentation represents management's current expectations and intentions. Vicuron assumes no responsibility to issue updates to the forward-looking matters discussed in the presentation. DATASOURCE: Vicuron Pharmaceuticals Inc. CONTACT: Dov A. Goldstein, M.D., of Vicuron Pharmaceuticals Inc., +1-610-205-2312, or ; or E. Blair Schoeb of WeissComm Partners, +1-212-923-6737, or , for Vicuron Pharmaceuticals Inc.; or Aline Schimmel of Burns McClellan Inc., +1-212-213-0006, or , for Vicuron Pharmaceuticals Inc. Web site: http://www.vicuron.com/

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