SkyePharma Inc. Postpones R&D Days

LONDON, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SkyePharma PLC announces that because of the ongoing Strategic Review, the Company has concluded that its R&D Day meetings, scheduled to be held on Wednesday 25 January 2006 in London and on Thursday 26 January in New York, cannot go ahead as planned. These meetings are therefore postponed until further notice.

For further information please contact: SkyePharma PLC +44 207 491 1777 Michael Ashton, Chief Executive Officer Peter Laing, Director of Corporate Communications +44 207 491 5124 Sandra Haughton, US Investor Relations +1 212 753 5780 Buchanan Communications +44 207 466 5000 Tim Anderson / Mark Court About SkyePharma

SkyePharma PLC develops pharmaceutical products benefiting from world-leading drug delivery technologies that provide easier-to-use and more effective drug formulations. There are now eleven approved products incorporating SkyePharma’s technologies in the areas of oral, injectable, inhaled and topical delivery, supported by advanced solubilisation capabilities. For more information, visit www.skyepharma.com.

Certain statements in this news release are forward-looking statements and are made in reliance on the safe harbour provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Although SkyePharma believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these expectations will materialize. Because the expectations are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may vary significantly from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements based upon a number of factors, which are described in SkyePharma’s 20-F and other documents on file with the SEC. Factors that could cause differences between actual results and those implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this news release include, without limitation, risks related to the development of new products, risks related to obtaining and maintaining regulatory approval for existing, new or expanded indications of existing and new products, risks related to SkyePharma’s ability to manufacture products on a large scale or at all, risks related to SkyePharma’s and its marketing partners’ ability to market products on a large scale to maintain or expand market share in the face of changes in customer requirements, competition and technological change, risks related to regulatory compliance, the risk of product liability claims, risks related to the ownership and use of intellectual property, and risks related to SkyePharma’s ability to manage growth. SkyePharma undertakes no obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.

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CONTACT: SkyePharma PLC, +44-207-491-1777, or Michael Ashton, ChiefExecutive Officer of SkyePharma PLC, +44-207-491-5124, or Peter Laing,Director of Corporate Communications of SkyePharma PLC, +44-207-491-5124;or Sandra Haughton, US Investor Relations, +1-212-753-5780; or Tim Andersonof Buchanan Communications, +44-207-466-5000, or Mark Court of BuchananCommunications, +44-207-466-5000, all for SkyePharma PLC

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