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Tue, October 18, 2011Mon, October 17, 2011Sun, October 16, 2011Sat, October 15, 2011Fri, October 14, 2011Thu, October 13, 2011Wed, October 12, 2011Tue, October 11, 2011Mon, October 10, 2011Sun, October 9, 2011Sat, October 8, 2011Fri, October 7, 2011Thu, October 6, 2011Wed, October 5, 2011Tue, October 4, 2011Mon, October 3, 2011Sun, October 2, 2011Sat, October 1, 2011Fri, September 30, 2011Thu, September 29, 2011Wed, September 28, 2011Tue, September 27, 2011Mon, September 26, 2011Sat, September 24, 2011Fri, September 23, 2011Ligand to Present at the BioCentury NewsMakers Conference on October 21
Published in Health and Fitness on Saturday, October 8th 2011 at 1:01 GMT by Market Wire
SAN DIEGO--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND) announced today that John Higgins, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ligand will present at the BioCentury NewsMakers Conference on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time (7:30 a.m. Pacific). The conference takes place at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City.
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 is a specialty biotech company based on a business model of developing or acquiring technology and royalty revenue generating assets that are coupled to a lean corporate cost structure. Liganda™s goal is to produce a bottom line that supports a sustainably profitable business. By diversifying the portfolio of technologies and assets across numerous therapeutic areas, drug targets, and industry partners, we offer investors an opportunity to invest in the increasingly complicated and unpredictable pharmaceutical industry. Ligand recognized the important role of the drug reformulation segment in the pharmaceutical industry and added Captisol® to its technology portfolio. Captisol is a powerful formulation technology that has enabled five FDA approved products, including Pfizera™s VFEND® IV and Baxter Internationala™s Nexterone®. In comparison to its peers, we believe Ligand has assembled one of the largest and most diversified asset portfolios in the industry with the potential to generate revenue in the future. These therapies address the unmet medical needs of patients for a broad spectrum of diseases including hepatitis, muscle wasting, Alzheimer's disease, dyslipidemia, diabetes, anemia, COPD, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. Ligand has established multiple alliances with the world's leading pharmaceutical companies including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb. For more information, please visit [ www.ligand.com ].
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