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Ligand to Present at the BMO Capital Markets Healthcare Conference on August 5

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^{Published in Health and Fitness on Monday, July 26th 2010 at 6:15 GMT by Market Wire}  

SAN DIEGO--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND) announced today that President and Chief Executive Officer John L. Higgins will present at the BMO Capital Markets 10th Annual Focus on Healthcare Conference on Thursday, August 5, 2010, at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time (12:30 p.m. Pacific). The conference takes place at the Sheraton in New York.

A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Companya™s website [ www.ligand.com ]. A replay of the presentation will be archived on the site for 30 days.

About Ligand Pharmaceuticals

Ligand discovers and develops new drugs that address critical unmet medical needs of patients for a broad spectrum of diseases including hepatitis, muscle wasting, Alzheimer's, inflammatory diseases, anemia, COPD, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. Ligand's proprietary drug discovery and development programs are based on advanced cell-based assays, gene-expression tools, ultra-high throughput screening and one of the world's largest combinatorial chemical libraries. Ligand has strategic alliances with major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Cephalon and more than 30 programs are in various stages of development by its partners.