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0000950123-09-002694.txt : 20090213 0000950123-09-002694.hdr.sgml : 20090213 20090213081649 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950123-09-002694 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20090213 ITEM INFORMATION: Regulation FD Disclosure ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20090213 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20090213 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001006281 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS (NO DIAGNOSTIC SUBSTANCES) [2836] IRS NUMBER: 650643773 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-33357 FILM NUMBER: 09598135 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2 SNUNIT ST STREET 2: SCIENCE PARK, POB 455 CITY: CARMIEL STATE: L3 ZIP: 20100 BUSINESS PHONE: 972-4-988-9488 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2 SNUNIT ST STREET 2: SCIENCE PARK, POB 455 CITY: CARMIEL STATE: L3 ZIP: 20100 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ORTHODONTIX INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19980422 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: EMBASSY ACQUISITION CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19960124 8-K 1 y01133e8vk.htm FORM 8-K 8-K

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 13, 2009

Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Florida	000-27836	65-0643773

(State or other	(Commission	(IRS Employer
jurisdiction of	File Number)	Identification No.)
incorporation)

2 Snunit Street
Science Park
POB 455
Carmiel, Israel 20100

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: +972-4-988-9488

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits
SIGNATURES
EX-99.1: PRESS RELEASE

Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure

On February 13, 2009, Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that Dr. Einat Brill Almon, the Company’s Senior Vice President of Product Development, will be presenting at the WORLD Symposium 2009, co-organized by Lysosomal Disease Network and the National Institutes of Health. The symposium will take place February 18 through 20, 2009 at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, California. Dr. Almon’s presentation, entitled “Novel Enzyme Replacement Therapy for Gaucher Disease: On Going Phase III Clinical Trial with Recombinant Human Glucocerebrosidase Expressed in Plant Cells,” will be delivered on Friday, February 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM PT.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d)

Exhibits

99.1

Press release dated February 13, 2009.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


	PROTALIX BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC.

Date: February 13, 2009	By:	/s/ David Aviezer
	Name:	David Aviezer, Ph.D.
	Title:	President and
		Chief Executive Officer

EX-99.1 2 y01133exv99w1.htm EX-99.1: PRESS RELEASE EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

Protalix BioTherapeutics to Present at the WORLD Lysosomal Disease Network Symposium 2009

CARMIEL, Israel, February 13, 2009 (Business Wire) — Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (AMEX: PLX), today announced that Dr. Einat Brill Almon, the Company’s Senior Vice President of Product Development, will be presenting at the WORLD Symposium 2009, co-organized by Lysosomal Disease Network and the National Institutes of Health. The symposium will take place February 18 through 20, 2009 at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, California. Dr. Almon’s presentation, entitled “Novel Enzyme Replacement Therapy for Gaucher Disease: On-Going Phase III Clinical Trial with Recombinant Human Glucocerebrosidase Expressed in Plant Cells,” will be delivered on Friday, February 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM PT.

About Protalix BioTherapeutics

Protalix is a biopharmaceutical company. Its goal is to become a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of proprietary recombinant therapeutic proteins to be expressed through its proprietary plant cell based expression system. Protalix’s ProCellEx(TM) presents a proprietary method for the expression of recombinant proteins that Protalix believes will allow for the cost-effective, industrial-scale production of recombinant therapeutic proteins. Protalix is conducting a phase III pivotal study for its lead product candidate, prGCD, to be used in enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease, a lysosomal storage disorder in humans. Protalix has reached an agreement with the United States Food and Drug Administration on the final design of the pivotal phase III clinical trial through the FDA’s Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) process. Protalix has completed enrollment for this study and is treating patients in its pivotal phase III clinical trial in North America, South America, Israel, Europe and South Africa. Protalix is also advancing additional recombinant biopharmaceutical drug development programs.

Contact:
Marcy Nanus
The Trout Group, LLC
Telephone: 646-378-2927
Email: mnanus@troutgroup.com

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