igand Pharmaceuticals is one of the growing companies that is into the discovery and development of new drugs that addresses critical unmet medical needs of patients with muscle wasting, hormone related diseases, osteoporosis, anemia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis. Ligand’s drug discovery and development programs are based on advanced cell-based assays, gene expression tools and one of the world’s largest combinatorial chemical libraries. The Company has strategic tie-ups with major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies like GSK, Cephalon, Celgene, Bristol-Myers Squibb.http://www.favstocks.com/ligand-pfizer-c...
The Company also has collaboration with Pfizer and Wyeth for JAK3 which is a tyrosine kinase which is a type of enzyme, and an important target for therapeutic interventions in the treatment of autoimmune disorders, inflammation, and organ transplant rejections.