LGND Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: LGND) today announced that Chief Executive Officer Todd Davis and Chief Financial Officer Tavo Espinoza will participate in the following upcoming investor conferences:

• Leerink Partners Global Healthcare Conference (Miami). Management will participate in one-on-one meetings on March 10, 2025.

• Barclays 27th Annual Global Healthcare Conference (Miami). Management will participate in a fireside chat on March 12, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. ET.

Ligand management is scheduled to host one-on-one meetings with investors and attendees during these conferences. Investors interested in arranging one-on-one meetings should contact their Leerink or Barclays representative.

About Ligand PharmaceuticalsLigand is a biopharmaceutical company enabling scientific advancement through supporting the clinical development of high-value medicines. Ligand does this by providing financing, licensing our technologies or both. Our business model seeks to generate value for stockholders by creating 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 and diversified manner. Our business model is based on funding programs in mid- to late-stage drug development in return for economic rights, purchasing royalty rights in development stage or commercial biopharmaceutical products and licensing our technology to help partners discover and develop medicines. We partner with other pharmaceutical companies to attempt to leverage what they do best (late-stage development, regulatory management and commercialization) in order to generate our revenue. We operate two infrastructure-light royalty generating technology IP platform technologies. Our Captisol® platform technology is a chemically modified cyclodextrin with a structure designed to optimize the solubility and stability of drugs. Our NITRICIL™ platform technology facilitates tunable dosing, permitting an adjustable drug release profile to allow proprietary formulations that target a broad range of indications. We have established multiple alliances, licenses and other business relationships with the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies including Amgen, Merck, Pfizer, Jazz, Gilead Sciences and Baxter International. For more information, please visit www.ligand.com. Follow Ligand on X @Ligand_LGND.

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Contacts

Investors:Melanie Hermaninvestors@ligand.com (858) 550-7761

Media:         Kellie Walshmedia@ligand.com(914) 315-6072