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Ligand to Present at the Stifel Nicolaus Healthcare Conference on September 17

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^{Published in Health and Fitness on Friday, September 10th 2010 at 10:35 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 Stifel Nicolaus Healthcare Conference on Friday, September 17, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time (5:00 a.m. Pacific). The conference takes place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston.

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 disease, 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 (GSK), Merck, Pfizer, Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb and AztraZeneca, and more than 30 programs are in various stages of development by its partners.