Adeona Becomes Synthetic Biologics

Adeona Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: AEN] announced today that it received approval at yesterday's special meeting of stockholders to change its corporate name to Synthetic Biologics, Inc. It is expected that the Company's shares will start trading under its new name and stock ticker symbol, "SYN", effective as of market open today, Thursday, February 16, 2012. Synthetic Biologics' common stock has been assigned a new CUSIP number of 87163U102 in connection with the name change. Outstanding stock certificates are not affected by the name change and will not need to be exchanged.