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Ligand Earns $2 Million Milestone

June 7, 2005

Ligand Pharmaceuticals has announced that the company has earned a $2 million milestone payment from GlaxoSmithKline with that company's filing of an IND for SB-559448, a small-molecule drug that mimics the activity of thrombopoietin, a protein factor that promotes growth and production of blood platelets.

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