Ligand To Host Analyst Day On November 14th In New York City

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND) will host an Analyst Day on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern time (1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific time) in New York City.

Company presenters will include:

  • John Higgins, Chief Executive Officer
  • Matt Foehr, President and Chief Operating Officer
  • Matt Korenberg, Chief Financial Officer
  • Members of Ligand’s scientific leadership presenting the OmniAb technology and GRA program

The event will be webcast live and will be able to be accessed at www.ligand.com. A replay of this webcast will be available for 90 days following the event. For more information or to reserve a seat, please contact Ani Mikaelian at amikaelian@lhai.com.

About Ligand Pharmaceuticals

Ligand is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing or acquiring technologies that help pharmaceutical companies discover and develop medicines. Our business model creates value for stockholders by providing a diversified portfolio of biotech and pharmaceutical product revenue streams that are supported by an efficient and low corporate cost structure. Our goal is to offer investors an opportunity to participate in the promise of the biotech industry in a profitable, diversified and lower-risk business than a typical biotech company. Our business model is based on doing what we do best: drug discovery, early-stage drug development, product reformulation and partnering. We partner with other pharmaceutical companies to leverage what they do best (late-stage development, regulatory management and commercialization) to ultimately generate our revenue. Ligand’s Captisol® platform technology is a patent-protected, chemically modified cyclodextrin with a structure designed to optimize the solubility and stability of drugs. OmniAb® is a patent-protected transgenic animal platform used in the discovery of fully human mono-and bispecific therapeutic antibodies. Ligand has established multiple alliances, licenses and other business relationships with the world's leading pharmaceutical companies including Novartis, Amgen, Merck, Pfizer, Celgene, Gilead, Janssen, Baxter International and Eli Lilly.

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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
Todd Pettingill
(858) 550-7500
investors@ligand.com
@Ligand_LGND
or
LHA
Bruce Voss
(310) 691-7100
bvoss@lhai.com

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