Targacept Announces Reduction In Force And Plan To Focus Resources On Later-Stage Pipeline

About Targacept

Targacept is developing a diverse pipeline of innovative NNR Therapeutics™ for difficult-to-treat diseases and disorders of the nervous system. NNR Therapeutics selectively modulate the activity of specific neuronal nicotinic receptors, unique proteins that regulate vital biological functions that are impaired in various disease states. Targacept’s clinical pipeline includes multiple Phase 2 product candidates, all representing first-in-class opportunities. Targacept leverages its scientific leadership and proprietary drug discovery platform Pentad™ to generate novel small molecule product candidates to fuel its pipeline and attract significant collaborations with global pharmaceutical companies. For more information, please visit www.targacept.com.

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Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes "forward-looking statements" made under the provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements, other than statements of historical fact, regarding, without limitation: the effect of the reduction in Targacept’s workforce on its future cash operating expenses; the amount of severance and related costs related to the workforce reduction; Targacept’s announcement of updated financial guidance for 2012; the prospects for the product candidates in Targacept’s pipeline; or Targacept’s plans, expectations or future operations, financial position, revenues, costs or expenses. Actual results, performance or experience may differ materially from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statement as a result of various important factors, including without limitation Targacept's critical accounting policies and risks and uncertainties relating to: Targacept’s ability to implement the workforce reduction successfully and achieve the estimated savings; Targacept’s ability to manage its cash operating expenses; whether the workforce reduction will have an adverse impact on the research and development of any Targacept product candidate or Targacept’s business generally; the conduct and results of clinical trials and non-clinical studies and assessments of TC-5619, TC-6987, AZD3480, AZD1446 or any other Targacept product candidate, including the performance of third parties engaged to execute such trials, studies and assessments; whether positive findings from any particular completed clinical trial of TC-5619 or TC-6987 will be replicated in ongoing or any future clinical trials of that product candidate; Targacept's ability to protect its intellectual property; the timing and success of submission, acceptance and approval of regulatory filings; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading "Risk Factors" in Targacept's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and in other filings that it makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result of the risks and uncertainties, the results or events indicated by the forward-looking statements may not occur. Targacept cautions you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statement.

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