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Litigation

Sep. 12, 2008

Biotech Firm Settles Cancer Drug Dispute With Nonprofit

Ligand Pharmaceuticals will pay the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a not-for-profit research group, $9.5 million immediately and $3.5 million six months from now.

By Noah Barron
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 2

      A large San Diego pharmaceutical corporation will pay a biology research nonprofit $13 million as part of a settlement of disputes stemming from the transfer of ownership of a tumor-inhibiting drug.
      Ligand Pharmaceuticals, a biotech developer valued at $320 million, will pay the Salk Institute for Bio...

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