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About the company
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated is a biopharmaceutical company enabling scientific advancement through supporting the clinical development of medicines. It does this by financing, licensing its technologies or both. It operates two infrastructure-light royalty-generating IP platform technologies. Its Captisol platform technology is a chemically modified cyclodextrin with a structure designed to optimize the solubility and stability of drugs. This technology has enabled FDA-approved products, including Gilead’s Veklury, Amgen’s Kyprolis, Baxter’s Nexterone, and Acrotech Biopharma’s Evomela. Its NITRICIL platform technology facilitates tunable dosing, permitting an adjustable drug release profile to allow proprietary formulations that target a range of indications. Its technologies also include HepDirect, LTP and BEPro Technology Platform, and Pelican Expression Technology. It has multiple alliances, licenses and other business relationships with various pharmaceutical companies.
- Revenue in USD (TTM)181.49m
- Net income in USD-132.62m
- Incorporated1987
- Employees68.00
- LocationLigand Pharmaceuticals Inc3911 Sorrento Valley Blvd, Suite 110SAN DIEGO 92121United StatesUSA
- Phone+1 (858) 550-7500
- Fax+1 (302) 636-5454
- Websitehttps://www.ligand.com/
Mergers & acquisitions
Acquired company | LGND:NMQ since announced | Transaction value |
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APEIRON Biologics AG | 35.81% | 100.00m |