Flamel Technologies Announces Results Of Annual Meeting

Flamel Technologies S.A. (NASDAQ: FLML) today announced the results of its annual meeting held on June 25, 2010. The election of each member of the Board of Directors of the Company for a further one-year term was approved by holders of more than 98% of the Company’s shares. Each additional resolution proposed favorably by management at the meeting was approved overwhelmingly.

As a consequence, shareholders re-elected Flamel’s Board of Directors. Mr. Elie Vannier, former Senior Advisor and Operating Partner at Oaktree Capital Management, will continue to serve as the Company’s non-Executive Chairman. Also re-elected to the Company’s Board of Directors were: Mr. Lodewijk J.R. deVink, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Lambert; Dr. Frank Fildes, former Senior Vice President: Head of Global Development for AstraZeneca; Mr. Frederic Lemoine, Chairman of the Executive Board of Wendel, Mr. John Vogelstein, former President of Warburg Pincus; and Mr. Stephen H. Willard, Flamel’s Chief Executive Officer.

“We are pleased to have the continued support of our shareholders,” said Mr. Elie Vannier, non-Executive Chairman of Flamel. “Flamel has expanded its base of partnerships with leading pharmaceutical companies over the past year. We now are working with eight of the top twenty-five pharmaceutical companies in the world on projects that involve both novel and already-marketed molecules. Our scientists have made important advances on both the Medusa and Micropump technology platforms. The diversified pipeline of projects we are pursuing is advancing strongly and we are well-positioned to leverage the advantages that both platforms bring to our partners with respect to safety and efficacy, as well as greater convenience for patients and their caregivers. As a result, we believe in the coming year we will achieve important milestones with our partners and deliver strong growth to our shareholders.”

Flamel Technologies, S.A. is a biopharmaceutical company principally engaged in the development of two unique polymer-based delivery technologies for medical applications. Micropump is a controlled release and taste-masking technology for the oral administration of small molecule drugs. Flamel's Medusa technology is designed to deliver controlled-release formulations of therapeutic proteins, peptides, and other molecules.

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