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Ligand to Report First Quarter 2019 Results on May 2nd

April 18, 2019 Off By BusinessWire

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND) announced
today plans to report first quarter 2019 financial results on May 2,
2019. Ligand’s CEO John Higgins, President and COO Matt Foehr and
Executive Vice President and CFO Matt Korenberg will host the conference
call.

First Quarter 2019 Earnings Call

	What:			Ligand conference call to discuss financial results and provide general business updates
	When:			Thursday, May 2, 2019
	Time:			4:30 p.m. Eastern time (1:30 p.m. Pacific time)
	Conference Call:			(833) 591-4752 within the U.S.
				(720) 405-1612 outside the U.S.
				Conference ID – 6375579
	Webcast:			Live conference call webcast and replay accessible at www.ligand.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.