Copenhagen, 14 December 2009 - With reference to announcement no 57-09 of 11 November 2009 regarding the completion of a rights issue, NeuroSearch hereby announces that the related stabilisation period expired on 13 December 2009. The right issue's joint global coordinators and stabilising agents - Danske Markets (division of Danske Bank A/S) and Handelsbanken Capital Markets (division of Svenska Handelsbanken AB) - have both informed NeuroSearch that no stabilisation measures have been taken with regards to the company's shares during the stabilisation period. Flemming Pedersen CEO Contact persons: Flemming Pedersen, CEO, telephone: +45 2148 0118 Hanne Leth Hillman, Vice President, Director of Investor & Capital Market Relations, telephone: +45 4017 5103 About NeuroSearch - Company profile NeuroSearch (NEUR) is a Scandinavian biopharmaceutical company listed on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen A/S. The core business of the company covers the development of novel pharmaceutical agents, based on a broad and well-established drug discovery platform, focusing on ion channels and central nervous system (CNS) disorders. A substantial share of the activities is partner financed through strategic alliances with Janssen Pharmaceutica, Eli Lilly and Company and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and a license collaboration with Abbott. The drug pipeline comprises eight clinical (Phase I-III) development programmes: Huntexil® (pridopidine) for Huntington's disease (Phase III), tesofensine for obesity (Phase III ready), ABT-894 for ADHD (Phase II) in partnership with Abbott, ACR343 for schizophrenia (Phase II ready), ACR325 to treat dyskinesias in Parkinson's disease (Phase Ib), ABT-560 for the treatment of cognitive dysfunctions (Phase I) in collaboration with Abbott, NSD-788 for anxiety/depression (Phase I) and NSD-721 for social anxiety disorder (Phase I) in partnership with GSK. In addition, NeuroSearch has a broad portfolio of preclinical drug candidates and holds equity interests in several biotech companies.