SENOMYX TO WEBCAST CORPORATE PRESENTATION AT THE 13TH ANNUAL NEEDHAM HEALTHCARE CONFERENCE

SAN DIEGO, April 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Senomyx, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNMX), a leading company using proprietary taste science technologies to discover, develop, and commercialize novel flavor ingredients for the food, beverage, and flavor industries, announced today that John Poyhonen, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Tony Rogers, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present an overview of Senomyx's technology and programs on Wednesday, April 9, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (5:00 a.m. Pacific Time) during the 13^th Annual Needham Healthcare Conference.  The conference is taking place at the Westin New York Grand Central in New York, NY. During the presentation, Mr. Poyhonen and Mr. Rogers will discuss corporate developments including the Company's pipeline of novel flavor ingredients and its business strategy.

To access the live presentation or a subsequent archived recording, please log onto Senomyx's website at http://www.senomyx.com and click on the "Investor Relations" tab.  The archived webcast will be available for 30 days following the presentation.  Please connect to Senomyx's website prior to the start of the webcast to ensure adequate time to download any software that may be necessary.

In addition to the Needham Healthcare Conference, Senomyx will participate in the "Sweet Solutions on the Rise" panel at the Goldman Sachs Global Staples Summit on May 13 in New York City, and the Company will present a corporate overview at the Citi Consumer Conference to be held May 28-29 in New York City.

About Senomyx, Inc. (www.senomyx.com)
Senomyx is using proprietary taste science technologies to discover, develop, and commercialize novel flavor ingredients.  These include modifiers of Sweet and Salt flavors as well as Savory Flavors, Bitter Blockers, and Cooling Agents.  The Company is also engaged in an effort to discover and develop natural high-potency sweeteners.  Under its direct sales program, Senomyx is beginning to sell certain of its Complimyx™ brand flavor ingredients, Sweetmyx™ and Savorymyx™, to flavor companies for re-sale to their food and beverage company customers.  In addition, Senomyx has collaborative agreements with global food, beverage, and ingredient supply companies, some of which are currently marketing products that contain Senomyx's flavor ingredients.  Senomyx's corporate socially responsible activities are described on the Senomyx Cares blog at http://www.senomyx-csrblog.com/.  For more information, please visit www.senomyx.com.

Contact: 
Gwen Rosenberg
Senomyx, Inc.
Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
(858) 646-8369          
[email protected]

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