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Vion Pharmaceuticals Holds Special Meeting of Stockholders
Date:2/13/2008

Stockholders Approve Board Authority to Implement Reverse Stock Split and

Reduce the Number of Total Shares and Authorized Shares

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VION PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Nasdaq: VION) announced that a Special Meeting of Stockholders was held at the Omni Hotel in New Haven, Connecticut today at 10:00 Eastern Time.

At the meeting, shareholders voted to approve amendments to the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation to:

-- effect a reverse stock split of the Company's outstanding common stock

of not less than 1-for-5 and not more than 1-for-10, with the exact

ratio to be set within that range by the Board of Directors without

further approval by stockholders; and

-- decrease the total number of shares and the number of shares of common

stock that the Company is authorized to issue.

Alan Kessman, Chief Executive Officer, said, "We are pleased that our shareholders have authorized our Board of Directors to implement a reverse stock split. We will now determine the appropriate split ratio to establish a price for our common stock allowing us to regain compliance with Nasdaq's listing requirements."

Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is committed to extending the lives and improving the quality of life of cancer patients worldwide by developing and commercializing innovative cancer therapeutics. Vion has two agents in clinical trials. Cloretazine(R) (VNP40101M), a unique alkylating agent, is being evaluated in a pivotal Phase II trial as a single agent in elderly patients with de novo poor-risk acute myelogenous leukemia. Clinical trials of Cloretazine(R) (VNP40101M) as a single agent in small cell lung cancer, w
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