Verona Pharma to Report Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results and Provide Corporate Update

LONDON and RALEIGH, N.C., July 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verona Pharma plc (Nasdaq: VRNA) (“Verona Pharma”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on respiratory diseases, announces that it will report its financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 on Thursday, August 5, 2021 and host an investment community conference call at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 1:30 p.m. BST to discuss these financial results and provide a corporate update.

To participate, please dial one of the following numbers and reference conference ID 8333487:

• [phone] for callers in the United States
• [phone] for international callers

A live webcast will be available on the Events and Presentations link on the Investors page of the Company’s website, www.veronapharma.com, and the audio replay will be available for 90 days.

For further information please contact:

Verona Pharma plc	US Tel: [phone] UK Tel: [phone]
Victoria Stewart, Director of Investor Relations and Communications	[e-mail]
Argot Partners (US Investor Enquiries)	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]
Kimberly Minarovich / Michael Barron
Optimum Strategic Communications (International Media and European Investor Enquiries)	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]
Mary Clark / Karl Hard / Elakiya Rangarajah

About Verona Pharma

Verona Pharma is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapies for the treatment of respiratory diseases with significant unmet medical needs. If successfully developed and approved, Verona Pharma’s product candidate, ensifentrine, has the potential to be the first therapy for the treatment of respiratory diseases that combines bronchodilator and anti-inflammatory activities in one compound. The Company is evaluating nebulized ensifentrine in its Phase 3 clinical program ENHANCE (“Ensifentrine as a Novel inHAled Nebulized COPD thErapy”) for COPD maintenance treatment. Two additional formulations of ensifentrine are in Phase 2 development for the treatment of COPD: dry powder inhaler (“DPI”) and pressurized metered-dose inhaler (“pMDI”). Ensifentrine has potential applications in cystic fibrosis, asthma and other respiratory diseases. For more information, please visit www.veronapharma.com.