FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

INCOGEN Appoints Don Van Dyke Vice President of Business Development

Brings Extensive Experience and Achievements in Life Science Industry

Williamsburg, VA. May 3, 2004

WILLIAMSBURG, VA.--(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 3, 2004--INCOGEN, Inc. today announced the appointment of Don Van Dyke as Vice President of Business Development. In his new role, Van Dyke will be responsible for managing sales, marketing and strategic commercial relationships for the company’s range of products and services worldwide.

Van Dyke has been in the Life Science Industry beginning in sales and sales management at American Scientific Products and Dade Diagnostics. He then spent 11 years at Bio Image in several executive positions, ultimately as President and CEO. That company helped produce the first physical map of the Humane Genome and was an early leader in proteomics data analysis. He was VP Sales and Marketing at Molecular Mining Corporation from 2000 to 2003, involved with leading edge technologies in microarray data analysis. Recently he has served as a consultant to several emerging Life Sciences firms and was a consultant to INCOGEN before joining the firm on May 1.

"With the growing momentum at INCOGEN, I could not have imagined a better time to join this team," said Van Dyke. "INCOGEN is a truly unique player in the informatics world and has started to make major strides in our markets."

"Don's experience and track record make him the right man at the right time," said Dr. Maciek Sasinowski, Founder and CEO of INCOGEN. "With so many things in the pipeline for INCOGEN, it will take somebody of Don's caliber to maximize our success. This is a crucial time for us and we are delighted to move forward with Don on-board."



About INCOGEN:
INCOGEN, Inc. provides state-of-the-art software and industry-leading professional services to scientists involved in pharmaceutical, agricultural and biotechnology research. The suite of INCOGEN tools includes GenePort®, a web-browser-based information mining and management portal; VIBE™, an extensible bioinformatics visual programming and workflow management platform; and HDFR™ and Magelan™, two image analysis software packages. INCOGEN Professional Services provide scientists with industry-leading technological expertise to assist researchers with every phase of design, development and implementation of their informatics infrastructures. The company is committed to supplying the research community with tools to optimize the analysis, mining, and management of life science data.