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Amylin Urges Shareholders to Support the Company's Twelve Nominees

SAN DIEGO, May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN) today reminded its shareholders to use their BLUE proxy card to vote FOR all of Amylin's nominees, including its two new independent Director nominees: Paul N. Clark and Paulo F. Costa. Amylin urges shareholders to disregard any proxy cards received from Carl Icahn and Eastbourne Capital Management, L.L.C.

Amylin's 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders is taking place tomorrow, May 27, 2009. It is important that shareholders vote as soon as possible to ensure that they benefit from the value creation opportunity of exenatide once weekly, the Company's investigational therapy that has the potential to transform the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The Company asks that shareholders please vote by telephone or Internet according to the instructions on the BLUE proxy card, or by signing, dating and mailing the BLUE proxy card. Even if shareholders have already voted using Icahn's or Eastbourne's proxy card, they have the right to change their vote simply by executing and submitting the BLUE proxy card, as only the last dated proxy card will count. Voting by telephone or Internet is more likely to ensure that shareholders' votes will be counted.

"We would like to again remind all Amylin shareholders to vote," said James N. Wilson, Amylin's Lead Independent Director. "Amylin's nominees are knowledgeable leaders who bring extensive experience in biopharmaceuticals and diabetes as well as valuable operational and marketing expertise. We are confident that our nominees possess the qualifications to oversee the successful execution of Amylin's stated strategy for creating value in 2009 and beyond. We would like to thank all the shareholders who have expressed their sup
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