ACADIA Pharmaceuticals to Announce Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Financial Results on March 9, 2010

ACADIA to Host Conference Call and Webcast on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern TimeSAN DIEGO, Mar 02, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: ACAD), a biopharmaceutical company utilizing innovative technology to fuel drug discovery and clinical development of novel treatments for central nervous system disorders, today announced that it will report its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009 on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, after the U.S. financial markets close. ACADIA’s management will host a conference call and webcast on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss ACADIA’s financial results and development programs.

The conference call may be accessed by dialing 866-783-2140 for participants in the U.S. or Canada and 857-350-1599 for international callers (reference passcode 53357519). A telephone replay of the conference call may be accessed through March 23, 2010 by dialing 888-286-8010 for callers in the U.S. or Canada and 617-801-6888 for international callers (reference passcode 56612031). The conference call also will be webcast live on ACADIA’s website, www.acadia-pharm.com, under the investors section and will be archived there until March 23, 2010.

About ACADIA Pharmaceuticals

ACADIA is a biopharmaceutical company utilizing innovative technology to fuel drug discovery and clinical development of novel treatments for central nervous system disorders. ACADIA is currently developing a portfolio consisting of four product candidates including pimavanserin, which is being developed for three separate neurological and psychiatric indications in collaboration with Biovail. These indications are Parkinson’s disease psychosis, which is in Phase III development, adjunctive therapy for schizophrenia, which is in Phase III planning, and Alzheimer’s disease psychosis, for which ACADIA is planning to initiate a Phase II feasibility study. In addition to pimavanserin, ACADIA has a product candidate in Phase II development for chronic pain and a product candidate in Phase I development for glaucoma, both in collaboration with Allergan, and a program in IND-track development in collaboration with Meiji Seika Kaisha. All of the product candidates in ACADIA’s pipeline emanate from discoveries made using its proprietary drug discovery platform.

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ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Thomas H. Aasen, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(858) 558-2871