-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, NCN0tKK3oAlxsY/U5e6gluOFHzo5J+U3bBymbiTLfqb73q5XdqyAmegBAAY8JTbz 5IpBhyXFX9u15uAgUipbqg== 0001104659-06-014419.txt : 20060307 0001104659-06-014419.hdr.sgml : 20060307 20060307060928 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-06-014419 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 10-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 6 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20051231 FILED AS OF DATE: 20060307 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20060307 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000881464 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 330266089 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-19700 FILM NUMBER: 06668652 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 9360 TOWNE CENTRE DR STREET 2: SUITE 110 CITY: SAN DIEGO STATE: CA ZIP: 92121 BUSINESS PHONE: 6195522200 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 9360 TOWNE CENTRE DR STREET 2: SUITE 110 CITY: SAN DIEGO STATE: CA ZIP: 92121 10-K 1 a06-2364_110k.htm ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 AND 15(D)

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM 10-K

 

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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

 

 

For The Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2005

 

 

 

OR

 

 

 

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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

 

 

For the transition period from                  to                .

 

 

 

Commission File No. 0-19700

 

AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Delaware

 

33-0266089

(State or other jurisdiction of

 

(I.R.S. Employer

incorporation or organization)

 

Identification No.)

 

 

 

9360 Towne Centre Drive

 

 

San Diego, California

 

92121

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (858) 552-2200

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

NONE

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

 

Common Stock, $.001 par value

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Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes  o  No ý

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ý   No o

 

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (Section 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.  ý

 

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The aggregate market value of the common stock of the registrant as of June 30, 2005 held by non-affiliates was $1,141,466,191.

 

The number of shares outstanding of the registrant’s common stock was 111,487,256 as of March 1, 2006.

 

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

 

Portions of the registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to Regulation 14A in connection with the 2006 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 17, 2006 are incorporated herein by reference into Part III of this Report. Such Definitive Proxy Statement will be filed with the Commission not later than 120 days after December 31, 2005.

 

 



 

You should read the following together with the more detailed information regarding our company, our common stock and our financial statements and notes to those statements appearing elsewhere in this document or incorporated by reference. The Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, allows us to “incorporate by reference” information that we file with the SEC, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this annual report on Form 10-K.

 

Except for the historical information contained herein, this annual report on Form 10-K and the information incorporated by reference contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements include projections about our accounting and finances, plans and objectives for the future, future operating and economic performance and other statements regarding future performance. These statements are not guarantees of future performance or events. Our actual results may differ materially from those discussed here. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are described in Part I, Item 1A entitled “Risk Factors,” as well as those discussed in Part II, Item 7 entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and elsewhere throughout this annual report on Form 10-K and in any other documents incorporated by reference into this report. We disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statement.

 

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PART I

 

Item 1. Business

 

We are a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative medicines to improve the lives of people with diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. We have two approved products, BYETTA® (exenatide) injection and SYMLIN® (pramlintide acetate) injection, both of which were commercially launched in the United States during the second quarter of 2005.

 

BYETTA is the first and only approved medicine in a new class of compounds called incretin mimetics. We began selling BYETTA in the United States in June 2005. It is approved as an adjunctive therapy to improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes who are taking metformin and/or sulfonylurea, two common oral therapies, but who have not achieved adequate glycemic control.

 

We have an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company, or Lilly, for the global development and commercialization of exenatide. This agreement includes BYETTA and any sustained-release formulations of exenatide such as exenatide LAR. Under the terms of the agreement, operating profits from products sold in the United States are shared equally between Lilly and us and operating profits from products sold outside of the United States will be split 80% to Lilly and 20% to us. Lilly has primary responsibility for developing and commercializing BYETTA outside of the United States, including any sustained release formulations of exenatide.

 

SYMLIN is the first and only approved medicine in a new class of compounds called amylinomimetics. We began selling SYMLIN in the United States in April 2005. It is approved as an adjunctive therapy to improve glycemic control in patients with either type 2 or type 1 diabetes who are treated with mealtime insulin but who have not achieved adequate glycemic control.

 

We have a field force in excess of 400 people dedicated to marketing BYETTA and SYMLIN in the United States. Lilly also co-promotes BYETTA in the United States. Our field force includes our specialty and primary care sales forces, a managed care and government affairs organization, a medical science organization, and diabetes care specialists.

 

In addition to our marketed products, our development pipeline includes late-stage programs for diabetes and obesity, and a Phase 2 program in cardiovascular disease. We are working with Alkermes and Lilly to develop a sustained release formulation of exenatide, which we refer to as exenatide LAR, to enable once-weekly administration of exenatide for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. We also have multiple early stage programs for diabetes and obesity, maintain an active discovery research program focused on novel peptide therapeutics, and are actively seeking to in-license additional drug candidates.

 

Our principal executive offices are located at 9360 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, and our telephone number is (858) 552-2200. We were incorporated in Delaware in September 1987. We maintain a website at www.amylin.com. The reference to our worldwide web address does not constitute incorporation by reference into this report of any of the information contained on our website.

 

Our periodic and current reports that we file with the SEC are available free of charge on our website at www.amylin.com as soon as reasonably practicable after we have electronically filed them with, or furnished them to, the SEC.

 

Diabetes

 

Diabetes is a major health problem worldwide and is the sixth leading cause of death by disease in the United States. Diabetes is a complex, multihormonal disorder of carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism, primarily resulting from the failure of the beta cells to produce sufficient insulin – the hormone needed to convert sugar, starches and other foods into energy – often compounded by the body’s inabiliy to use insulin optimally. The result is that not enough glucose can enter and fuel the body’s cells and it builds up in the bloodstream causing hyperglycemia (high blood sugar), which may result in severe complications such as kidney failure, nerve damage, blindness, amputation, and cardiovascular disease. Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), usually caused by too much insulin or oral antidiabetic medication, is also dangerous and, if untreated, can be fatal.

 

It is estimated that nearly 200 million people worldwide have diabetes. Of that population, it is estimated that approximately 90-95% have type 2 diabetes, also known as adult-onset diabetes, and the remainder have type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile-onset diabetes. In the United States alone, in 2005 there were approximately 20.8 million people, or 7% of the population, with diabetes and there were approximately 20.6 million over the age of 20, or 9.6% of all people in this age group, with diabetes. However, only 14.6 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with diabetes, with approximately 1.5 million new cases – almost 30,000 a week - of diabetes being diagnosed each year. From 1997 through 2003, new cases of diagnosed diabetes among Americans aged 18-79 increased by 52%. In addition, there are currently approximately 41 million people in the United States with pre-diabetes. Pre-diabetes is a condition that raises the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke. People with pre-diabetes have

 

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blood glucose levels higher than normal but not high enough for a diabetes diagnosis.

 

Glycated hemoglobin (A1C) is the most widely accepted measure of long-term blood glucose control. A person’s A1C level is a recognized indicator of that individual’s average blood glucose concentrations over the preceeding 3 to 4-month period. Lower A1C levels indicate better average blood glucose control, with values in people without diabetes usually being less than 6%. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) suggests that people with diabetes should aim for an A1C value that is lower than 7%. It is estimated that nearly two-thirds of Americans being treated for diabetes are failing to achieve recommended blood glucose levels and, according to research studies conducted in the United States and abroad, these patients would significantly benefit from improved glycemic control. In general, for every 1-point reduction in A1C, the risk of developing microvascular diabetic complications (eye, kidney, and nerve disease) is reduced by up to 40%. However, only a minority of people diagnosed with diabetes in the United States are able to achieve the ADA’s recommended target A1C level, even with available drug therapies. Additionally, aggressive use of insulin and some oral medications to reduce glucose levels can be associated with an increased risk of hypoglycemia and weight gain. Consequently, there has long been a need to develop new treatment strategies that improve the overall health profile of patients with diabetes and reduce the risk of complications without increased pain and suffering.

 

In people without diabetes, the beta cells of the pancreas produce two hormones, insulin and amylin. Type 1 diabetes destroys beta cells, resulting in deficiency of both hormones, and most often is diagnosed in children and young adults. Replacement of beta cells through islet transplant therapy can, in some cases, temporarily render patients insulin-independent; however, life-long daily insulin therapy is eventually required to sustain life for people with type 1 diabetes. The addition of SYMLIN therapy can reduce the typical rise in blood sugars after meals contributing to a reduction in A1C levels.

 

Type 2 diabetes results from the body’s inability to make enough insulin, or to properly use available insulin, or both. Secretion of the hormone amylin is also impaired in people with type 2 diabetes. Historically, type 2 diabetes occurs later in life. However, primarily as a result of changes in diet and lifestyle, type 2 diabetes is now occurring much earlier in life for many people. Diet and exercise therapy, oral medications, BYETTA, insulin, and insulin with SYMLIN are currently used to treat type 2 diabetes.

 

Type 2 diabetes usually begins with insulin resistance, a disorder in which the cells do not use insulin properly. As the disease progresses, the beta cells in the pancreas become “tired” and gradually lose their ability to produce insulin in a timely manner. Because of the progressive nature of the disease, no single therapy is currently proven to be effective in controlling the disease over time. As the disease progresses, typically one or more oral medications become necessary, and these often become ineffective in regulating blood glucose levels. Historically, insulin therapy is then added; however, over time, the insulin dosage and number of insulin injections usually need to be increased. Even with additional insulin injections, many people are unable to control their blood glucose levels, or do so at the expense of weight gain and increased risk of hypoglycemia.

 

In 2005, we introduced two new treatment options, BYETTA and SYMLIN, for healthcare professionals to use in the diabetes care continuum. BYETTA offers patients with inadequate glycemic control using oral medications the opportunity to better control their blood glucose levels and potentially lose weight. SYMLIN offers patients with inadequate glycemic control using mealtime insulin the opportunity to also better control their blood glucose levels and lose weight. These novel first-in-class medicines have given new options in disease management and glucose control to millions of people suffering from diabetes.

 

For people suffering from diabetes, poor control of blood glucose levels has been shown to result in severe long-term complications. For instance, the Center for Disease Control has stated that complications due to diabetes include:

 

      heart disease and stroke;

      high blood pressure;

      blindness due to retinopathy, a condition manifested by damage to the retina;

      nephropathy, or kidney disease;

      neuropathy, a condition where there is damage to the nervous system;

      amputations due to peripheral vascular disease; and

      periodontal disease.

 

Weight control and obesity are also major problems for patients with diabetes, particularly for those people using insulin and certain oral medications as part of their treatment regimen. In addition, patients with diabetes frequently have wide fluctuations in blood sugar following meals. These fluctuations in blood sugar can significantly affect a patient’s quality of life. Collectively, these complications and associated metabolic disorders can lead to increased pain, suffering, reduced quality of life, reduced productivity in the workplace, and early death.

 

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Marketed Products

 

BYETTA® (exenatide) injection

 

BYETTA is the first and only approved medicine in a new class of compounds called incretin mimetics. We began selling BYETTA in the United States in June 2005 after receiving approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, in April 2005 to market BYETTA as adjunctive therapy to improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes who are taking metformin and/or sulfonylurea, two common oral therapies, but have not achieved adequate glycemic control. Net product sales of BYETTA were $75.2 million in 2005.

 

BYETTA provides self-regulating glucose control by augmenting the body’s natural physiologic processes, allowing the body to respond to blood glucose changes as they occur. BYETTA directly affects the beta cells’ response to elevated glucose by enhancing insulin secretion; this effect dissipates as glucose levels approach the normal range. BYETTA also restores first-phase insulin response, an effect which is evident following the initial dose. BYETTA is administered twice a day utilizing a fixed dose injection, and requires no dose adjustments due to changes in meal size or composition, exercise, or other variables. No additional glucose monitoring is required with BYETTA therapy.

 

The most common adverse effect of BYETTA is mild to moderate nausea, which tends to dissipate with time. Mild to moderate hypoglycemia has been observed, primarily in conjunction with sulfonylurea, an agent that is known to induce hypoglycemia.

 

We estimate the number of people in the United States currently using metformin and/or sulfonylurea to be approximately 6 million. In addition, we estimate that more than 60% of those patients change their oral therapy at least once a year. Approximately two-thirds of all diabetes patients using oral medications are believed to have an A1C higher than the ADA’s recommendation of less than 7%.

 

In 2005, we launched BYETTA utilizing our field force that we grew to currently include over 400 people. This field force, combined with the Lilly field organization supporting BYETTA, focused its sales efforts on an initial target list of approximately 40,000 physicians in the United States. These targeted physicians write more than half of the prescriptions for diabetes medications in the U.S. Our goal is to provide education, through both one-on-one interactions and educational programs, to ensure that these physicians understand the profile of BYETTA and its mechanisms of action, potential benefit and important use considerations, and that they are prepared to select the appropriate patients to begin BYETTA therapy.

 

Lilly has primary responsibility for developing and commercializing BYETTA outside the U.S., including any sustained release formulations such as exenatide LAR. In late 2005, Lilly filed a Marketing Authorisation Application, or MAA, with the European Medicines Evaluation Agency, or the EMEA, the European Union’s regulatory authority, which has since been accepted by the EMEA.

 

Development Activities. In September 2005, we announced results from an open-label extension study indicating that BYETTA showed sustained improvements in blood sugar control and progressive weight reduction through two years of therapy for people with type 2 diabetes failing to achieve acceptable blood sugar control on metformin and/or a sulfonylurea. After two years, patients in the study demonstrated an average reduction from baseline of 1.1% in A1C levels and an average weight reduction of 11.4 pounds. In addition, we announced data that showed improvements in patients through eighteen months of treatment in markers associated with cardiovascular risk factors, including HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure. In general, improvements in cardiovascular risk factors appeared greatest in patients who experienced the greatest weight reduction. Mild to moderate nausea was the most common adverse effect and dissipated over time.

 

In November 2005, we released the results from a study introducing BYETTA treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes who were not achieving adequate glucose control using a thiazolidinediene, or TZD, a common oral diabetes medication, either alone or with metformin.  Patients in the study showed an improvement in A1C by approximately 0.9% at the end of the 16-week study for subjects receiving twice daily 10 microgram subcutaneous injections of BYETTA in addition to their usual TZD or TZD plus metformin regimen, compared to subjects receiving a TZD or a TZD plus metformin and placebo. Sixty-two percent of subjects receiving BYETTA who entered the study while taking a TZD and with an A1C greater than 7% achieved an A1C of 7% or less, compared to 16% of similar subjects on placebo and a TZD. Compared to placebo, subjects receiving BYETTA experienced an average weight reduction of approximately three pounds at 16 weeks. The most common adverse event was nausea, which occurred in 40% of subjects receiving BYETTA compared to 15% of those receiving a TZD with placebo.  No severe hypoglycemia was observed. Results from this study formed the basis of our Supplemental New Drug Application, or sNDA, submission to the FDA in the first quarter of 2006. This sNDA seeks to expand our label to include patients who are taking a TZD or a TZD and metformin and have inadequate glycemic control.

 

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In addition, in 2006 we expect to commence a monotherapy (stand-alone therapy) study for BYETTA. In April 2005, the FDA issued an approvable letter for BYETTA when used as a monotherapy for patients with type 2 diabetes. Any additional data submitted to support a monotherapy indication is expected to receive a six-month review. We are also conducting other clinical trials to further our knowledge of the utility of BYETTA.

 

SYMLIN® (pramlintide acetate) injection

 

SYMLIN is the first and only approved medicine in a new class of compounds called amylinomimetics. We began selling SYMLIN in the United States in April 2005 after receiving approval from the FDA in March 2005 to market SYMLIN as adjunctive therapy to mealtime insulin to treat diabetes. Other than insulin and insulin analogues, SYMLIN is the first FDA-approved medication addressing glucose control for patients with type 1 diabetes since the discovery of insulin over 80 years ago. SYMLIN is intended to improve blood glucose control in people treated with insulin alone or, in the case of patients with type 2 diabetes, treated with insulin plus one or more oral medications. Net product sales of SYMLIN were $11.5 million in 2005.

 

SYMLIN is indicated for use in adults with type 2 or type 1 diabetes to control blood sugar. SYMLIN works with insulin to smooth out the peaks in blood glucose levels to give patients more stable blood glucose levels after meals and throughout the day. SYMLIN also lowers the A1C levels of most patients beyond what insulin alone can achieve. SYMLIN also induces satiety, which leads to eating less and weight loss in most patients. In addition, because SYMLIN works with insulin to control blood sugar, patients need less insulin to achieve desired blood sugar levels after meals.

 

SYMLIN is used with insulin and has been associated with an increased risk of insulin-induced severe hypoglycemia. The risk can be reduced by appropriate patient selection, careful patient instruction, and insulin dose adjustments. Other adverse effects commonly observed are primarily gastrointestinal, including nausea, which decrease over time in most patients.

 

Our initial SYMLIN launch was focused on a target physician population of 3,000, with a goal of educating these physicians on the profile of SYMLIN and its mechanisms of action, potential benefit and use considerations, and appropriate patient selection for initiating SYMLIN therapy.  SYMLIN is supported by the full Amylin field force and currently has an expanded target physician population of approximately 16,000.

 

Development Activities.     In the fourth quarter of 2005, we initiated a new study designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adding mealtime SYMLIN to the therapy regimen of patients who are on a stable regimen of once-daily basal insulin. The study design was reviewed by the FDA, and includes a composite endpoint that will assess the benefits of SYMLIN beyond an A1C measurement, including measurements of effects on postprandial blood glucose excursions, body weight and the avoidance of severe hypoglycemia. This study is designed to support a potential regulatory application to expand the label for SYMLIN for the use with basal insulin alone.

 

We also initiated a controlled open-label observational study of SYMLIN in the third quarter of 2005. This study is designed to evaluate SYMLIN use in the marketplace. Patients will receive SYMLIN as part of their routine diabetes management and will be followed in this real-world setting for a period of six months. The adverse event profile of these subjects will be compared with a group of similar patients with diabetes who are using insulin therapy alone. In addition, we plan to initiate a small pharmacokinetic study in pediatric age patients with type 1 diabetes (age 12 to 16) during 2006.

 

We are currently working with Ypsomed AG to develop a disposable pen for the delivery of SYMLIN in cartridges with a goal of introducing this delivery platform to the marketplace in 2007.

 

Sales, Marketing and Distribution

 

We have built a sales and marketing organization that focuses on healthcare providers, managed healthcare organizations, wholesalers and pharmacies, government purchasers, and other third-party payors. We have a field force in excess of 400 people dedicated to marketing BYETTA and SYMLIN in the United States. Lilly also co-promotes BYETTA in the United States. Our field force includes a primary care sales force as well as a specialty sales force of approximately 75 representatives who target endocrinologists and other physicians who have large diabetes care practices. In addition to our sales forces, our field force includes a managed care and government affairs organization, a medical science organization, and diabetes care specialists who support broad medical education programs for both BYETTA and SYMLIN. Members of our sales and marketing team have extensive industry experience from a wide range of large and small companies and have substantial experience in the field of diabetes, as well as in launching and marketing pharmaceutical products.

 

We utilize common pharmaceutical company practices to market our products. We call on individual physicians, pharmacists and distributors. We also provide professional symposia through our extensive medical education programs. Our medical education events are conducted live, via satellite or telephone, and through web-based, interactive programs. We will continue to

 

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focus on medical education efforts for both BYETTA and SYMLIN through thousands of programs across the United States organized through our medical affairs and professional education organizations. We train physicians and other healthcare professionals as speakers, so that they can in turn teach their peers about how best to incorporate BYETTA or SYMLIN into their patients’ diabetes treatment regimens.

 

We provide customer service and other related programs for our products, such as disease and product-specific websites, insurance research services, a customer service call center, and order, delivery and fulfillment services. We have programs in the United States that provide qualified uninsured and underinsured patients with our products at no charge.

 

We sell BYETTA and SYMLIN to wholesale distributors, who in turn, sell to retail pharmacies and government entities. Decisions made by these wholesalers and their customers regarding the levels of inventory they hold, and thus, the amount of BYETTA and SYMLIN they purchase, may affect the level of our product sales in any particular period.

 

Manufacturing

 

We have selected manufacturers that we believe comply with current Good Manufacturing Practices, or cGMP, and other regulatory standards. We have established a quality control and quality assurance program, including a set of standard operating procedures, analytical methods and specifications, designed to ensure that our products and product candidates are manufactured in accordance with applicable regulations. We require that our contract manufacturers adhere to cGMP, except for products and product candidates for toxicology and animal studies, which we require to be manufactured in accordance with current Good Laboratory Practices, or cGLP.

 

Although some materials for our drug products are currently available from a limited number of qualified sources, we will attempt to acquire a substantial inventory of such materials, establish alternative sources and/or negotiate long-term supply arrangements. We believe we will not have any significant issues obtaining suppliers; however, we cannot be certain that we will be able to obtain long-term supplies of our manufacturing materials.

 

BYETTA Manufacturing

 

We obtain exenatide, the active ingredient contained in BYETTA, from Bachem California and Mallinckrodt, Inc. pursuant to long-term agreements with each company. We have long-term agreements with CP Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a subsidiary of Wockhardt Ltd., and Baxter Pharmaceutical Solutions LLC, a subsidiary of Baxter, Inc., to supply us the dosage form of exenatide in cartridges. Currently, Baxter’s manufacturing process for BYETTA cartridges is undergoing validation. We have a long-term agreement with Lilly to supply pens for delivery of BYETTA in cartridges.

 

SYMLIN Manufacturing

 

We obtain pramlintide acetate, the active ingredient contained in SYMLIN, from Bachem and Lonza Ltd. pursuant to long-term agreements with each company. Lonza recently acquired the peptide manufacturing division of UCB S.A., our original supplier of pramlintide. We have a long-term contract with Baxter for the dosage form of SYMLIN in vials. We have an agreement with CP Pharmaceuticals for the dosage form of SYMLIN in cartridges and are working with Ypsomed to develop a disposable pen for the delivery of SYMLIN in cartridges.

 

Exenatide LAR Manufacturing

 

In October 2005, we entered into an amendment to our development and license agreement with Alkermes, Inc. for the development of exenatide LAR. Under the terms of the amendment, we will be responsible for manufacturing the once-weekly dosing formulation of exenatide LAR for commercial sale and will pay Alkermes milestone payments upon achievement of development milestones and royalties on sales of exenatide LAR. In addition, Alkermes will transfer to us its technology for manufacturing the once-weekly formulation of exenatide LAR and will supply us with the polymer materials required for the manufacture of exenatide LAR.

 

In December 2005, Amylin Ohio LLC, our wholly-owned subsidiary, completed the purchase of an existing building and 26 acres of land in West Chester, Ohio to house the planned manufacturing facility for exenatide LAR. We are actively working with Alkermes and the Parsons Corporation, a group with significant experience in the design and construction of pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, to complete the design, construction and validation of this facility. We anticipate that the activities associated with the design, construction and validation of this manufacturing facility may cost up to $150 million over the three years ending December 31, 2008 as we work to finalize our commercial manufacturing process during that period.

 

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Lilly Collaboration

 

We entered into a collaboration agreement with Lilly in 2002 for the global development and commercialization of exenatide, including both the twice-daily version, BYETTA, and sustained-release formulations, such as exenatide LAR. Under the terms of the agreement, Lilly made initial payments to us, and purchased approximately 1.6 million shares of our common stock. In addition, Lilly has made milestone payments to us upon the achievement of development and commercial milestones for BYETTA. Lilly has also agreed to make future milestone payments to us upon the achievement of additional development milestones, which primarily relate to sustained-release formulations of exenatide. A portion of future development milestone payments relating to sustained-release formulations of exenatide may be converted into our common stock, at Lilly’s option, if the filing of the New Drug Application with the FDA for the sustained-release formulation of exenatide does not occur on or before December 31, 2007. In addition, Lilly is obligated to make additional future milestone payments to us of up to $100 million contingent upon the commercial launch of exenatide in selected territories throughout the world, including BYETTA and sustained-release formulations of exenatide. Our collaboration agreement may be terminated by Lilly at any time on 60 days notice.

 

We share exenatide U.S. development and commercialization costs with Lilly equally. Development costs outside of the United States are shared 80% by Lilly and 20% by us, and Lilly is responsible for all commercialization costs outside of the United States.

 

Each company will receive 50% of the operating profits from the sale of products in the United States. Operating profits elsewhere will be shared at 80% to Lilly and 20% to us. We record all U.S. product revenues and Lilly will record all product revenues from outside the U.S.

 

Under our co-promotion arrangement with Lilly, the parties use approximately equal efforts to co-promote BYETTA within the United States and have agreed to use approximately equal efforts to co-promote sustained-release formulations of exenatide within the United States. Lilly will be primarily responsible for commercialization efforts outside the United States. In late 2005, Lilly filed a MAA with the EMEA, the European Union’s regulatory authority, which has subsequently been accepted.

 

Research and Development

 

Product Pipeline Programs

 

We have two late-stage development programs in the therapeutic areas of diabetes and obesity, a Phase 2 program in cardiovascular disease, and multiple early stage programs in diabetes and obesity. Our years of research in diabetes and deep understanding of peptide hormones – their physiology, functionality, and impact on the disease – are being leveraged to develop potential treatments for obesity and cardiovascular disorders. The metabolic components of these diseases are linked in numerous ways, which are reflected in the impact each has on the other. Reductions in obesity reduce the incidence of diabetes, and both of these conditions, independently, are major contributors to cardiovascular disease. In addition, persons with diabetes are two to four times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than persons without diabetes. Further evidence of the underlying metabolic links of these diseases is the fact that cardiovascular disease and stroke account for approximately 65% of deaths in people with diabetes.

 

Diabetes

 

Exenatide LAR

 

The combination of potency and the glucose-dependent mechanism of action inherent in exenatide makes it well suited to development of a sustained-release formulation. We have an agreement with Alkermes for the development, manufacture and commercialization of exenatide LAR. We are working with Alkermes and Lilly to develop a formulation that enables a once-a-week administration of exenatide for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

 

In August 2005, we announced preliminary results of a Phase 2 multi-dose study of exenatide LAR in patients with type 2 diabetes using a once-a-week dosing regimen. The multi-dose study was a placebo-controlled, multi-center study of 45 subjects with type 2 diabetes failing to achieve adequate glucose control using diet and exercise with or without metformin. The primary objectives of the study included safety, tolerability, and the pharmacokinetics of weekly administered exenatide LAR. Secondary objectives included effects on A1C, fasting blood glucose and body weight.

 

In the study, A1C improved approximately 2% for subjects receiving the high dose of exenatide LAR, compared to placebo. At the beginning of the study, the average A1C of study participants was approximately 8.5%. The decrease in A1C was progressive with no evidence of a plateau at week 15. Twelve of the 14 high-dose subjects who entered the study with an A1C greater than 7% achieved an A1C of 7% or less at 15 weeks. None of the 14 subjects receiving placebo achieved that target. Fasting blood glucose concentrations were reduced by approximately 50 mg/dL for subjects in the high dose group compared

 

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to those receiving placebo. Subjects in this group experienced an average weight reduction of approximately 9 pounds compared to those receiving placebo. The most common adverse event was mild nausea, which occurred in approximately 20% of subjects in this group compared to approximately 7% in the placebo group. No severe gastrointestinal side effects were reported. No severe hypoglycemia was reported, and no subjects receiving exenatide LAR withdrew because of adverse events. In a 12-week follow up period after discontinuation of dosing no new safety signals were observed.

 

Obesity

 

Obesity is a condition that significantly raises the risk of illness, disability or death from serious medical conditions. It is associated with more than 30 medical conditions, including high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer of the breast, prostate, and colon. Obesity is the second-leading cause of preventable deaths and is a major health problem in all developed countries. In the United States, obesity-related medical costs exceed $125 billion a year. It is estimated that approximately 130 million adults in the United States are considered overweight, and approximately 60 million are obese. Of these, approximately 9 million are severely obese.

 

Genetic, metabolic, psychological, and environmental factors can all contribute to obesity. Obesity is measured by Body Mass Index, or BMI, a mathematical formula using a person’s height and weight. BMI is calculated by dividing a person’s weight in kilograms by the person’s height in meters squared. A person with a BMI between 25 and 29.9 is considered overweight. A person with a BMI of 30 or more is considered obese, and a person with a BMI of 40 or more is considered severely obese. Current treatments for obesity include diet, exercise, drug therapy and surgery.

 

Treatment of Obesity with Pramlintide

 

We are developing pramlintide acetate, the active ingredient in SYMLIN, as a potential treatment of obesity. Pramlintide acetate has been studied extensively in people with diabetes and has demonstrated the effect of lowering body weight.

 

In February 2006, we reported positive results from a Phase 2 dose-ranging study evaluating the safety and weight effects of pramlintide in obese subjects. After completing 16 weeks of treatment with pramlintide in addition to lifestyle intervention, subjects on average experienced an 8.4 to 13.4 pound weight loss from baseline, compared to a 6.2 pound weight loss with placebo plus lifestyle intervention. Several of the twice-daily and three-times-a-day pramlintide dosage arms achieved the primary study endpoint of significant difference in weight from placebo at week 16.

 

Weight loss experienced with pramlintide was typically progressive in nature, with no evidence of a plateau in effect at 16 weeks. At the end of the study, more pramlintide recipients than placebo recipients reported that study medication had helped them to control appetite and portion sizes.

 

Pramlintide was well tolerated, showed progressive weight loss at doses up to 360 micrograms, and no new safety signals were observed in this study, which included higher doses than those previously studied in obese subjects. There was clear evidence of a dose response for the twice-daily regimens. Consistent with previous observations, the most common adverse effect was mild nausea. Weight loss in subjects who did not experience nausea was similar to that seen in the overall study population.

 

Early Stage Programs

 

We are developing PYY 3-36 (AC162352) as a drug candidate for the potential treatment of obesity. Independent researchers have reported a reduction in food intake in humans using PYY 3-36. In 2003, we conducted preclinical studies on AC162352. We completed a Phase 1 study in 2004, and are currently reviewing our development options.

 

In addition, in 2006 we plan to file an IND and commence a Phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of obesity with a molecule discovered and identified by our research program. In 2005, we conducted preclinical studies on this compound and based on our evaluation of these results, have decided to advance this program into human trials.

 

Cardiovascular Disease

 

Congestive heart failure, or CHF, occurs when the heart cannot adequately pump oxygenated blood throughout the body, resulting in impaired kidney function and an accumulation of fluid in the lungs and other body tissues. Many diseases or medical conditions contribute to CHF, including ischemic heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. CHF carries risks of morbidity and mortality above and beyond those of the underlying diseases. More than 5 million persons in the United States are affected with CHF, and it is the most frequent cause of hospitalization for persons 65 and older.

 

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AC2592 (GLP-1)

 

We are developing GLP-1, or AC2592, for the treatment of congestive heart failure. GLP-1 is a naturally occurring hormone produced in the gut in response to food intake.

 

In July 2003, we reported on an open-label Phase 2 study utilizing the continuous infusion of GLP-1 in 14 patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III or IV congestive heart failure. Patients showed general improvement in a composite score designed to quantify quality-of-life and cardiac function while receiving study medication. The composite score returned to baseline when medication was discontinued. The severity of heart failure, as indicated by NYHA class, also improved during GLP-1 administration. The most common adverse event reported was mild to moderate nausea.

 

We filed an IND for AC2592 and initiated a Phase 2 multi-dose clinical study of AC2592 in the fourth quarter of 2004. This multi-dose study of approximately 180 patients is a placebo-controlled, multi-center trial to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of AC2592 in subjects with NYHA Class III or IV congestive heart failure. The primary endpoint is peak oxygen consumption and the secondary endpoints are related to quality-of-life and cardiac function, including left ventricular ejection fraction and BNP. We expect the study to be completed in 2006.

 

Research Activities

 

A key element of our strategy is to develop first-in-class compounds for treating metabolic diseases. To achieve this goal, we are exploring hormones with multiple mechanisms of action that will potentially lead to products that have utility in treatment of more than one disease with the potential for many product forms. To do so, we take an integrated and biological, rather than a target-driven, approach to research. Our research is centered on peptide hormones that play an important metabolic role, and which we consider more likely to have an acceptable safety profile because these hormones exist naturally in the human body. Our development path begins with identifying a particular peptide, and then determining if it is a circulating hormone, a substance that travels through the bloodstream to affect bodily functions. We then attempt to understand the hormone’s functionality and potential impact on a disease. Rather than starting with a known biology and targeting molecules to modify, enhance, or block it, our scientists are discovering the biology of previously unknown peptides, and uncovering utility that could potentially translate into a new human therapy.

 

Based on a premise that every peptide hormone has a utility – and a potential therapeutic benefit – we have developed a proprietary and continually growing peptide hormone library (PHORMOLÔ). PHORMOL encompasses an extensive panel of potentially valuable biologics that have been taken from nature, including human peptides not previously described. All of these have been synthesized to create a rich source of compounds for ongoing research in their functionality, utility, and potential value in treating a range of human diseases.

 

The conventional development process emphasizes utilizing isolated cells or molecular targets to further drug discovery. Our approach to research calls for our scientists to quickly move to in vivo testing, using highly predictive animal models that allow us to design subsequent information-rich clinical trials in humans.

 

We currently have approximately 500 full-time employees dedicated to our research and development activities. We also have more than 165 employees with Ph.D., Pharm.D. or M.D. degrees, several of whom are diabetologists.

 

We are also using our resources to optimize pharmaceutical properties of peptide drugs to develop new peptide hormone analogs.

 

In the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004, and 2003, we incurred research and development expense of $132.1 million, $119.6 million, and $149.4 million, respectively.

 

In-Licensing Activities

 

To augment our internal discovery and development capabilities, we also license or acquire rights to compounds, drug candidates and technologies that have been developed outside of Amylin. We have recently completed three acquisitions which add to our intellectual property portfolio and we continue to evaluate other in-licensing opportunities.

 

Leptin    In early 2006, we acquired the exclusive rights to the leptin molecular franchise and program from Amgen, Inc. Leptin is a naturally occurring protein hormone secreted by fat cells. It plays a key role in metabolism through multiple metabolic actions and appears to act primarily at the hypothalamus to regulate food intake and energy expenditure. Under the terms of the license agreement, we made an up-front payment, may make potential future payments related to technology transfer and development

 

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and regulatory milestones and will pay royalties on any product sales. Our license includes exclusive rights to the leptin intellectual property developed by Amgen as well as intellectual property Amgen originally licensed from Rockefeller University.

 

Leptin’s roles in the treatment of obesity and lipodystrophy have been extensively studied, and the lead molecules have a strong safety profile. Humans suffering from lipodystrophy, a disease characterized by loss of body fat and consequent metabolic disorders (insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, and dyslipidemia) are rendered incapable of secreting sufficient amounts of leptin due to the loss of fat. We plan to further explore leptin’s utility for this and other metabolic disorders.

 

Gryphon. In late 2005, we acquired the chemical ligation technology and intellectual property from Gryphon Therapeutics, Inc. This acquisition expands our chemistry capabilities and improves our flexibility for the synthesis and precision engineering of larger peptides and proteins for research. This technology will enable us to create and alter longer-chain molecules using synthetic chemical processes rather than design-intensive and time-consuming recombinant processes, thus expanding our peptide and protein library.

 

Diabetica. In the first quarter of 2006, we in-licensed intellectual property and other rights to glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) agonists from Diabetica, Ltd.  The transaction included rights to certain pre-clinical GIP agonist molecules.  We plan to explore the utility of GIP compounds in diabetes and other metabolic disorders.

 

Competition

 

Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies are highly competitive. There are many pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, public and private universities and research organizations actively engaged in the research and development of products that may be similar to our products. A number of our largest competitors, including AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Merck & Co., Novartis AG, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, are pursuing the development of or are marketing pharmaceuticals that target the same diseases that we are targeting, and it is probable that the number of companies seeking to develop products and therapies for the treatment of diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and other metabolic disorders will increase. Many of these and other existing or potential competitors have substantially greater financial, technical and human resources than we do and may be better equipped to develop, manufacture and market products. These companies may develop and introduce products and processes competitive with or superior to ours. In addition, other technologies or products may be developed that have an entirely different approach or means of accomplishing the intended purposes of our products, which might render our technology and products noncompetitive or obsolete. For example, all of our current drug products are injectable, and may have to compete with therapies that do not require injection. We cannot be certain that we will be able to compete successfully.

 

SYMLIN is the only non-insulin-based drug product approved for improving blood glucose control in people with type 1 diabetes. Further, insulin and oral medications are often insufficient for many people with type 2 diabetes to achieve satisfactory glucose and weight control. BYETTA or SYMLIN may be complementary to, or competitive with, these other medications.

 

BYETTA and SYMLIN must compete with established therapies for market share. In addition, many companies are pursuing the development of novel pharmaceuticals that target diabetes. These companies may develop and introduce products competitive with or superior to BYETTA or SYMLIN. Such competitive products and potential products include:

 

•     sulfonylureas;

•     metformin;

•     insulins (injectable and inhaled versions);

•     thiazolidinediones (TZDs);

•     glinides;

•     dipeptidyl peptidase type IV (DPP-IV) inhibitors

•     PPARs; and

•     alpha-glucosidase inhibitors.

 

There is substantial competition in the discovery and development of treatments for obesity, as well as emerging prescription and over-the-counter treatments for this condition. Current treatments for obesity include dietary therapy, physical activity, drug therapy and surgery. Hoffmann-LaRoche and Abbott Laboratories already market oral medicines for the treatment of obesity. Sanofi-Aventis has a product candidate that has received an approvable letter from the FDA, and a number of other pharmaceutical companies are developing new potential therapeutics.

 

Current therapies for congestive heart failure in patients include angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin

 

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receptor blockers, beta blockers, aldosterone antagonists and Nesiritide (B-type natiuretic peptide). Other therapies include the use of various devices or the periodic infusion of inotropic agents. Endothelin receptor antagonist and other therapies and devices are under investigation for the treatment of heart failure. None of these aforementioned agents or therapies are directed at correcting the cardiac metabolic abnormalities associated with congestive heart failure.

 

Patents, Proprietary Rights, and Licenses

 

We believe that patents and other proprietary rights are important to our business. Our policy is to file patent applications to protect technology, inventions and improvements that may be important to the development of our business. We also rely upon trade secrets, know-how, continuing technological innovations and licensing opportunities to develop and maintain our competitive position. We plan to enforce our issued patents and our rights to proprietary information and technology. We review third-party patents and patent applications, both to shape our own patent strategy and to identify useful licensing opportunities.

 

We have a number of patents, patent applications and rights to patents related to our compounds, products and technology, but we cannot be certain that issued patents will be enforceable or provide adequate protection or that pending patent applications will result in issued patents. We have also filed foreign counterparts of many of these issued patents and applications.

 

We may obtain patents for our compounds many years before we obtain marketing approval for them. Because patents have a limited life, which may begin to run prior to the commercial sale of the related product, the commercial value of the patent may be limited. However, we may be able to apply for patent term extensions. For example, applications for patent term extensions for patents on BYETTA and SYMLIN have been filed in the United States, to compensate in part for delays in obtaining marketing approval. Similar patent term extensions may be available for other products that we are developing, but we cannot be certain we will obtain them.

 

Included within our exenatide patent portfolio are issued patents for:

 

              pharmaceutical compositions containing exenatide;

              modulating gastric emptying;

              inhibiting glucagon secretion;

              stimulating insulin release; and

              reducing food intake.

 

These patents expire between 2013 and 2020. We do not have a composition of matter patent for the exenatide molecule.

 

Included within our pramlintide patent portfolio are issued patents for:

 

              pramlintide and other amylin agonist analogues invented by our researchers;

              amylin agonist pharmaceutical compositions, including compositions containing pramlintide; and

              methods for treating diabetes and related conditions using  amylin agonists.

 

These patents expire between 2009 and 2018.

 

With respect to our drug candidates, we have patents and patent applications pending, or have licensed patents and patent applications, relevant to the development and commercialization of such drug candidates.

 

Generally, our policy is to file foreign counterpart applications in countries with significant pharmaceutical markets.

 

It is also very important that we do not infringe patents or proprietary rights of others and that we do not violate the agreements that grant proprietary rights to us. If we do infringe patents or violate these agreements, we could be prevented from developing or selling products or from using the processes covered by those patents or agreements, or we could be required to obtain a license from the third party allowing us to use their technology. We cannot be certain that, if required, we could obtain a license to any third-party technology or that we could obtain one at a reasonable cost. If we were not able to obtain a required license, we could be adversely affected. Because patent applications are confidential for at least some period of time, there may be pending patent applications from which patents will eventually issue and prevent us from developing or selling certain products unless we can obtain a license to use the patented technology.

 

Patents relating to pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and biotechnology products, compounds and processes such as those that cover our existing compounds, products and processes and those that we will likely file in the future do not always provide complete or adequate protection. Future litigation or reexamination proceedings regarding the enforcement or validity of our existing patents or any future patents could invalidate our patents or substantially reduce their protection. In addition, our pending patent

 

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applications and patent applications filed by our collaborative partners may not result in the issuance of any patents or may result in patents that do not provide adequate protection. As a result, we may not be able to prevent third parties from developing the same compounds and products that we have developed or are developing. In addition, certain countries do not permit enforcement of our patents, and manufacturers are able to sell generic versions of our products in those countries.

 

We also rely on unpatented trade secrets and improvements, unpatented internal know-how and technological innovation. We protect these rights mainly through confidentiality agreements with our corporate partners, employees, consultants and vendors. These agreements provide that all confidential information developed or made known to an individual during the course of their relationship with us will be kept confidential and will not be used or disclosed to third parties except in specified circumstances. In the case of employees, the agreements provide that all inventions made by the individual while employed by us will be our exclusive property. We cannot be certain that these parties will comply with these confidentiality agreements, that we have adequate remedies for any breach, or that our trade secrets will not otherwise become known or be independently discovered by our competitors. Under some of our research and development agreements, inventions discovered in certain cases become jointly owned by us and our corporate partner and in other cases become the exclusive property of one of us. It can be difficult to determine who owns a particular invention and disputes could arise regarding those inventions.

 

Government Regulation

 

Regulation by governmental authorities in the United States and foreign countries is a significant factor in the development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceutical products. All of our potential products will require regulatory approval by governmental agencies prior to commercialization. In particular, human therapeutic products are subject to rigorous preclinical testing and clinical trials and other pre-market approval requirements by the FDA and regulatory authorities in foreign countries. Various federal, state and foreign statutes and regulations also govern or influence the manufacturing, safety, labeling, storage, record keeping and marketing of such products.

 

The activities required before a pharmaceutical agent may be marketed in the United States begin with preclinical testing. Preclinical tests include laboratory evaluation of product chemistry and animal studies to assess the potential safety and activity of the product and its formulations. The results of these studies must be submitted to the FDA as part of an IND which must be reviewed by the FDA before a proposed clinical trial can begin. Typically, clinical trials involve a three-phase process. In Phase 1, clinical trials are conducted with a small number of healthy volunteers to determine the early safety and tolerability profile and the pattern of drug distribution and metabolism. In Phase 2, clinical trials are conducted with groups of patients afflicted with a specified disease in order to determine preliminary efficacy, dosing regimens and expanded evidence of safety. In Phase 3, large-scale, multi-center, adequate and well-controlled comparative clinical trials are conducted with patients afflicted with a target disease in order to provide enough data for the statistical proof of efficacy and safety required by the FDA and others. The results of the preclinical testing and clinical trials for a pharmaceutical product are then submitted to the FDA in the form of a New Drug Application, or NDA, for approval to commence commercial sales. In responding to an NDA, the FDA may grant marketing approval, request additional information, or deny the application if it determines that the application does not satisfy its regulatory approval criteria.

 

Among the conditions for NDA approval is the requirement that the prospective manufacturer’s quality control and manufacturing procedures conform to cGMP. In complying with cGMP, manufacturers must continue to expend time, money and effort in the area of production, quality control, and quality assurance to ensure full technical compliance. Manufacturing facilities are subject to periodic inspections by the FDA to ensure compliance.

 

We are also subject to various federal, state, and local laws, regulations and recommendations relating to safe working conditions; laboratory and manufacturing practices; the experimental use of animals; and the use and disposal of hazardous or potentially hazardous substances, including radioactive compounds and infectious disease agents, used in connection with our research.

 

The activities required before a pharmaceutical agent may be marketed in the European Union are dictated by the International Conference on Harmonization and are generally similar to those established in the United States. Approval of new drugs across the European Union relies on either the mutual recognition process or the centralized approval process of the EMEA. Under the centralized procedure, the marketing application is referred for review to two review teams, each representing one of the member countries. Each reviewer then forwards an early assessment to the Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products, or CPMP, for discussion and preparation of an initial consolidated assessment report, including a list of questions requesting clarification as well as additional information. This step initiates a series of dialogues, meetings and other communications among the CPMP, the two review teams and the applicant, leading in turn to clarification, education and refinement of the original assessment reports. Ultimately, a decision is reached to either grant marketing approval or deny the application if it is determined that the application does not satisfy the regulatory approval criteria. An alternative regulatory procedure in Europe to the centralized procedure for some drugs is the mutual recognition process. Under the mutual recognition process, an application is filed in one country for review. If the drug is approved in that country, it may only be marketed initially in that country. However, under the mutual recognition process, other

 

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European countries may individually recognize the approval and allow the drug to then be marketed in such countries.

 

The clinical testing, manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical products outside of the United States and the European Union are subject to regulatory approvals by other jurisdictions which may be more or less rigorous than those required by the United States or the European Union.

 

Employees

 

As of December 31, 2005, we had approximately 1,150 full-time employees. A significant number of our management and professional employees have had experience with pharmaceutical, biotechnology or medical product companies. We believe that we have been highly successful in attracting skilled and experienced personnel. None of our employees is covered by collective bargaining agreements and we consider relations with our employees to be good.

 

Directors and Executive Officers

 

The names of our directors and executive officers and certain information about them as of February 15, 2006 are set forth below:

 

Name

 

Age

 

Position

Ginger L. Graham (4)

 

50

 

President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Joseph C. Cook, Jr. (4)

 

64

 

Chairman of the Board

Vaughn D. Bryson (1) (3)

 

67

 

Director

Karin Eastham (2)

 

56

 

Director

James R. Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D. (3)

 

60

 

Director

Howard E. Greene, Jr. (2) (4)

 

63

 

Director

Terrance H. Gregg (1) (3)

 

57

 

Director

Jay S. Skyler, M.D., MACP

 

59

 

Director

Joseph P. Sullivan (2) (4)

 

63

 

Director

Thomas R. Testman (2)

 

69

 

Director

James N. Wilson (1) (3)

 

62

 

Director

Daniel M. Bradbury

 

44

 

Chief Operating Officer

Alain D. Baron, M.D.

 

52

 

Senior Vice President, Research

Dwayne M. Elwood

 

57

 

Senior Vice President, Marketing

Orville G. Kolterman, M.D.

 

58

 

Senior Vice President, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs

Roger Marchetti

 

47

 

Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services

Craig A. Eberhard

 

46

 

Vice President, Sales

Mark G. Foletta

 

45

 

Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer

Lloyd A. Rowland

 

49

 

Vice President, Legal, General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer

Gregg Stetsko, Ph.D.

 

49

 

Vice President, Operations

 


(1)           Member of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee.

(2)           Member of the Audit Committee.

(3)           Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee.

(4)           Member of the Finance Committee.

 

Ms. Graham has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2003. Ms. Graham has served as a director since November 1995 and currently serves on the Finance Committee. She previously served on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee. From February 2000 until June 2003, Ms. Graham held various positions with Guidant Corporation, notably as Advisor to the President, Group Chairman; Office of the President; and President of the Vascular Intervention Group and Vice President. Ms. Graham held various positions with Eli Lilly and Company from 1979 to 1992 including sales, marketing and strategic planning positions. She serves on the board of directors of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the California Healthcare Institute, the Harvard Business School Health Advisory Board, the Harvard Business School Dean’s Advisory Board, the Advisory Board for the Kellogg Center for Executive Women, the Advisory Board for the California Council on Science and Technology, and the University of California, San Diego Health Sciences Advisory Board. Ms. Graham received an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

 

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Mr. Cook has been our Chairman of the Board since March 1998. He currently serves as chair of our Finance Committee. He served as Chief Executive Officer from March 1998 until September 2003. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Cook served as a member of our Board and a consultant to us. Mr. Cook is a founder and serves as Chairman of the Board of Microbia, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company. He also serves as a director of Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated. Mr. Cook is also a founder of Mountain Group Capital, LLC, Clinical Products, Inc., and Mountain Ventures, Inc. Mr. Cook also serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering, University of Tennessee, on the Board of Trustees for Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the Board of Mercy Ministries, Inc. He formerly served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of the American Diabetes Research Foundation. Mr. Cook retired as a Group Vice President of Eli Lilly and Company in 1993 after more than 28 years of service. Mr. Cook received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Tennessee.

 

Mr. Bryson has served as a director since July 1999 and serves as the chair of our Nominating and Governance Committee and on the Compensation and Human Resources Committee. Mr. Bryson was a thirty-two year employee of Eli Lilly and Company and retired as its President and Chief Executive Officer in 1993. He was Executive Vice President from 1986 until 1991, and served as a member of Eli Lilly’s board of directors from 1984 until his retirement in 1993. Mr. Bryson was Vice Chairman of Vector Securities International from April 1994 to 1996. Mr. Bryson is President of Clinical Products, Inc., which develops and markets medical foods for people with diabetes and obesity. He serves on the board of directors of AtheroGenics, Inc., Chiron Corporation and ICOS Corporation. Mr. Bryson received a B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of North Carolina and completed the Sloan Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

 

Ms. Eastham has served as a director since September 2005 and serves on the Audit Committee. She has over 25 years experience in financial and operations management, primarily in life sciences companies. She currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, a non-profit corporation engaged in basic biomedical research and the home to three research centers – a Cancer Center, the Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience and Aging and a Center for Research on Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases. From April 1999 to May 2004, Ms. Eastham served as Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary of Diversa Corporation. She previously held similar positions with CombiChem, Inc., a computational chemistry company, and Cytel Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company. Ms. Eastham also held several positions, including Vice President, Finance, at Boehringer Mannheim Corporation, from 1976 to 1988. Ms. Eastham also serves as a director for Tercica, Inc., Illumina, Inc., and SGX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Ms. Eastham received a B.S. and an M.B.A. from Indiana University and is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Director.

 

Dr. Gavin has served as a director since December 2005 and serves on the Nominating and Governance Committee. Dr. Gavin is currently the interim Chief Executive Officer of MicoIslets, Inc. and is Clinical Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine. He also serves as Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs, Healing Our Village, Inc. He was President of the Morehouse School of Medicine from 2002 to 2004. Dr. Gavin is a member of the board of directors of Baxter International Inc., Anastasia Marie Laboratories, Inc., dLife, Inc., and MicroIslets, Inc. Dr. Gavin was Chairman of the board of directors of Equidyne Corporation from August 2001 to 2003. He was also a member of the board of directors of Taste for Living, Inc. from 1999 to 2002. From 1991 to 2002, Dr. Gavin was the Senior Scientific Officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. From 2002 until 2005, he served as National Chairman of the National Diabetes Education Program. He completed his B.S. in Chemistry at Livingstone College, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Emory University and his M.D. at Duke University Medical School. Dr. Gavin has received numerous civic and academic awards and honors.

 

Mr. Greene is our co-founder and has served as a director since our inception in 1987. Mr. Greene serves on the Audit Committee and the Finance Committee. Mr. Greene is an entrepreneur who has participated in the founding and/or management of eleven medical technology companies over two decades, including three companies for which he served as chief executive officer. From 1987 to 1996, Mr. Greene served as our Chief Executive Officer. From 1986 until 1993, Mr. Greene was a founding general partner of Biovest Partners, a seed venture capital firm. He was Chief Executive Officer of Hybritech from 1979 until its acquisition by Eli Lilly and Company in 1986, and he was co-inventor of Hybritech’s patented monoclonal antibody assay technology. Prior to joining Hybritech, he was an executive with the medical diagnostics division of Baxter Healthcare Corporation from 1974 to 1979 and a consultant with McKinsey & Company from 1967 to 1974. He is a director of Biosite Incorporated. Mr. Greene received an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

 

Mr. Gregg has served as a director since October 2001 and serves on the Compensation and Human Resources Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee. Mr. Gregg is associated with Galen-Partners, a venture capital firm, as a Special Ventures Partner. Until September 2004, Mr. Gregg served as a senior advisor to the diabetes business of Medtronic, Inc., a medical technology company. He had served in this capacity since he retired in 2002 as Vice President of Medtronic and as President of Medtronic MiniMed, positions he had held since 2001. Mr. Gregg previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Minimed Inc. from 1996 until its acquisition by Medtronic in 2001. Mr. Gregg joined Minimed as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Research in 1994 and in 1995 was promoted to Executive Vice President, Operations. Prior to joining Minimed, Mr. Gregg spent the preceding nine years as Vice President of Governmental Affairs for Ioptex Research, the ophthalmic surgical products subsidiary of Smith & Nephew, PLC. Prior to joining Ioptex Research, Mr. Gregg was responsible for Regulatory Affairs,

 

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Clinical Research and Quality Assurance for divisions of Allergan, Inc. Mr. Gregg serves on the board of directors of Vasogen, Inc., LMS Medical Systems, Ltd., and DexCom, Inc. Mr. Gregg is also an Ambassador to the President of the University of Southern California, and formerly served as the Chairman of the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation Board. Mr. Gregg received a B.S. in Zoology from Colorado State University.

 

Dr. Skyler has served as a director since August 1999. He is Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Psychology, in the Division of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism; and Associate Director for Academic Programs at the Diabetes Research Institute; all at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida, where he has been employed since 1976. He is also Study Chairman for the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases of the Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet clinical trial network, and serves on the board of directors of DexCom, Inc. Dr. Skyler has served as President of the American Diabetes Association and as Vice President of the International Diabetes Federation. Dr. Skyler serves on the editorial board of several diabetes and general medicine journals. He received his B.S. from Pennsylvania State University, his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College, and completed postdoctoral studies at Duke University Medical Center.

 

Mr. Sullivan has served as a director since September 2003 and serves on the Audit Committee and the Finance Committee. Mr. Sullivan is currently Chairman of the Board of Advisors of RAND Health and Vice Chairman of the Board of the UCLA Medical Center. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Sullivan served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Protocare, Inc. From 1993 to 1999, he served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a director of American Health Properties, Inc. For the previous twenty years, Mr. Sullivan was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs. Mr. Sullivan also currently serves on the board of directors of Covenant Care, Inc. (a private nursing home company) and Health Care Property Investors, Inc. (a real estate investment trust). Mr. Sullivan received his M.B.A. from Harvard University and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.

 

Mr. Testman has served as a director since December 2002 and serves as the chair of our Audit Committee. Mr. Testman is a former managing partner of Ernst & Young, LLP where, during his tenure from 1962 to 1992, he served as managing partner of both Health Care Services and Management Consulting Services for the West Coast and national practices. He also served as an area managing partner for the audit and tax practice. Mr. Testman currently serves on the board of directors of Endocare, Inc. He formerly served as Chairman of the Board of Specialty Laboratories, Inc. and on the board of directors of three other publicly held companies. He also serves on the board of four privately held health-care companies. He received an M.B.A. from Trinity University and is a Certified Public Accountant (retired).

 

Mr. Wilson has served as a director since March 2002 and serves as the chair of our Compensation and Human Resources Committee and on the Nominating and Governance Committee. He is a director and Chairman of the Board of both Corcept Therapeutics Inc. and NuGEN, Inc. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Wilson was Chairman of the Board of Amira Medical, Inc. From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Wilson served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Syntex Corporation. Prior to 1990, he served in various senior management positions, including Chief Executive Officer for Neurex Corporation and LifeScan, Inc. Mr. Wilson serves on the board of directors of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, A Stepping Stone Foundation (pre-school education) and the Insight Prison Project. Mr. Wilson received his B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Arizona.

 

Mr. Bradbury has served as our Chief Operating Officer since June 2003, and previously served as Executive Vice President since June 2000. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development from April 1998 to June 2000 and as Vice President of Marketing from 1995 to 1998. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Bradbury, a native of the United Kingdom, served as Director of Marketing for Amylin Europe Limited. Prior to joining us, Mr. Bradbury was employed by SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals from 1984 to 1994, where he held a number of positions, most recently as Associate Director, Anti-Infectives in the Worldwide Strategic Product Development Division. He is a director of Illumina, Inc. and two privately held biotechnology companies. Mr. Bradbury is a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and serves on the Advisory Council of the Keck Graduate Institute and the University of California-San Diego Leadership Council. He received a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Nottingham University and a Diploma in Management Studies from Harrow and Ealing Colleges of Higher Education.

 

Dr. Baron has served as our Senior Vice President, Research since September 2004, and previously served as Senior Vice President, Clinical Research since June 2002. He previously served as Vice President, Clinical Research since December 1999. Dr. Baron has been clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and Clinical VA Staff Physician at the VA Medical Center, San Diego, since 2001. From 1989 to 2000, Dr. Baron worked for the Indiana University School of Medicine, where he served as Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. Earlier, Dr. Baron held academic and clinical positions in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of California, San Diego, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Diego. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards for his research in diabetes and vascular disease, including the 1996 Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award from the American Federation for Medical Research, several awards from the American Diabetes Association, and is a current National Institutes of Health MERIT award recipient. He earned his M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego.

 

Mr. Elwood has served as Senior Vice President, Marketing since January 2003. Prior to joining us, Mr. Elwood served as a

 

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consultant to various pharmaceutical companies and other companies regarding pharmaceutical industry matters from November 2001 to January 2003. He served as Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales at Corixa Corporation from December 2000, when Corixa acquired Coulter Pharmaceuticals, Inc., to November 2001. Mr. Elwood served in various positions at Coulter from 1997 until its acquisition by Corixa, including as Chief Commercial Officer beginning in 1999, and Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales beginning in 1997. Earlier, Mr. Elwood served as Executive Director, New Product Development from 1990 to 1995, and Vice President, New Product Development from 1995 to 1997 for Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, a division of Johnson & Johnson. From 1983 to 1990, Mr. Elwood served in various positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. He received his B.S. in Business Administration, with a special emphasis in Marketing and Accounting, from California State University.

 

Dr. Kolterman has served as Senior Vice President, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs since August 2005. Dr. Kolterman previously served as Senior Vice President, Clinical Affairs from February 1997 to August 2005, Vice President, Medical Affairs from 1993 to 1997, and Director, Medical Affairs from 1992 to 1993. From 1983 to 1992, he was Program Director of the General Clinical Research Center and Medical Director of the Diabetes Center, at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center. Since 1989, he has been Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. From 1978 to 1983, he was Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Endocrinology and Metabolism Division at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver. He was a member of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Study Group and presently serves as a member of the Epidemiology of Diabetes Intervention and Complications Study. He is also a past-president of the California Affiliate of the American Diabetes Association. Dr. Kolterman earned his M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine.

 

Mr. Marchetti has served as our Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services since November 2005. Prior to joining us, he served as Vice President, Human Resources for Guidant Corporation from July 2002 to October 2005. Prior to this role, he served as Vice President, Finance and Information Systems, Guidant Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Canada, since the beginning of 2001. From 1999 through 2000, he served as Vice President, Human Resources for Guidant’s Vascular Intervention group, and served as Guidant’s first Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer from 1994 to 1999. He joined Eli Lilly and Company’s Medical Devices and Diagnostics division in 1988. In 1992, he became Financial Manager of Lilly’s pharmaceutical manufacturing operations in Indianapolis. From 1980 to 1986, he was with the audit staff of Touche Ross & Co. (currently Deloitte). He is a Certified Public Accountant, and a graduate of LaSalle University in Philadelphia. He also received a MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

 

Mr. Eberhard has served as Vice President, Sales since May 2003. Prior to joining us, Mr. Eberhard was Regional Vice President, Sales, at Pharmacia Corporation, for which he had worked for 21 years. During his career with Pharmacia Corporation and its related pre-merger companies, he held positions in sales, sales management, corporate training, sales operations, and managed care before assuming the Vice President, Sales position. Mr. Eberhard received his B.S. in Biology from California Lutheran University.

 

Mr. Foletta has served as Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer since March 2000. Mr. Foletta previously served as a Principal of Triton Group Management, Inc. from 1997 to 2000. From 1986 to 1997, Mr. Foletta held a number of management positions with Intermark, Inc. and Triton Group Ltd., the most recent of which was Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary. From 1982 to 1986, Mr. Foletta was with Ernst & Young, most recently serving as an Audit Manager. He is a director of Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mr. Foletta earned his B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Financial Executives Institute.

 

Mr. Rowland has served as our Vice President, Legal, General Counsel, and Secretary since September 2001. In 2005, he was also appointed Chief Compliance Officer. Prior to joining us, Mr. Rowland served in various positions at Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp., including as Vice President beginning in 1999, Secretary beginning in 1998 and General Counsel and Assistant Secretary beginning in 1993. Earlier, Mr. Rowland served as Vice President and Senior Counsel, Finance and Securities, at Imperial Savings Association for four years. For the previous eight years, he was engaged in the private practice of corporate law with the San Diego, California law firm of Gray, Cary, Ames & Fry, and the Houston, Texas law firm of Bracewell & Patterson. He received a J.D. from Emory University.

 

Dr. Stetsko was appointed Vice President, Operations in September 2004. Dr. Stetsko previously served as Vice President, Product Development since July 2002, and as Executive Director of Preclinical and Product Development from September 2000 to July 2002. Prior to joining us, from 1999 to 2000 he was an independent consultant providing regulatory, quality assurance and product development support to biotech companies. From 1994 to 1999, Dr. Stetsko was responsible for product development at Ligand Pharmaceuticals, most recently as the Senior Director of Pharmaceutical and Analytical Development. From 1987 to 1994, he held a number of management positions at Sterling Winthrop, most recently Associate Director of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Prior to employment at Sterling Winthrop, from 1983 to 1987, Dr. Stetsko was a senior research scientist at Sandoz, Ltd. He received his B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Rhode Island and his Ph.D. in Industrial and Physical Pharmacy from Purdue University.

 

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Item 1A. Risk Factors

 

CAUTIONARY FACTORS THAT MAY AFFECT FUTURE RESULTS

 

Except for the historical information contained herein or incorporated by reference, this annual report on Form 10-K and the information incorporated by reference contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements include projections about our accounting and finances, plans and objectives for the future, future operating and economic performance and other statements regarding future performance. These statements are not guarantees of future performance or events. Our actual results may differ materially from those discussed here. Factors that could cause or contribute to differences in our actual results include those discussed in the following section, as well as those discussed in Part II, Item 7 entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and elsewhere throughout this annual report on Form 10-K and in any other documents incorporated by reference into this report. You should consider carefully the following risk factors, together with all of the other information included or incorporated in this annual report on Form 10-K. Each of these risk factors, either alone or taken together, could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition, as well as adversely affect the value of an investment in our common stock. There may be additional risks that we do not presently know of or that we currently believe are immaterial which could also impair our business and financial position.

 

We have a history of operating losses, anticipate future losses, and may never become profitable.

 

We have experienced significant operating losses since our inception in 1987, including losses of $206.8 million in 2005, $157.2 million in 2004 and $122.8 million in 2003. As of December 31, 2005, we had an accumulated deficit of approximately $1.0 billion. The extent of our future losses and the timing of potential profitability are uncertain, and we may never achieve profitable operations. We have been engaged in discovering and developing drugs since inception, which has required, and will continue to require, significant research and development expenditures. We derived substantially all of our revenues prior to 2005 from development funding, fees and milestone payments under collaborative agreements and from interest income. We may not succeed in commercializing BYETTA or SYMLIN, or any of our other drug candidates. We may incur substantial operating losses for at least the next few years as we continue to expand our commercial function in the immediate future for BYETTA and SYMLIN and our research and development activities for the other drug candidates in our development pipeline. These losses, among other things, have had and will have an adverse effect on our stockholders’ equity and working capital. Even if we become profitable, we may not remain profitable.

 

We began selling, marketing and distributing our first products, BYETTA and SYMLIN, in 2005 and we will depend heavily on the success of those products in the marketplace.

 

Prior to the launch of BYETTA and SYMLIN, we had never sold or marketed our own products. Our ability to generate product revenue in the foreseeable future will depend solely on the commercialization of these products. The successful commercialization of BYETTA and SYMLIN will depend on many factors, including the following:

 

 acceptance of these first-in-class medicines by the medical community, patients receiving therapy and third party payors;

 a satisfactory efficacy and safety profile as demonstrated in a broad patient population;

 successfully building and sustaining manufacturing capacity to meet demand;

 the competitive landscape for approved and developing therapies that will compete with the products; and

 our ability to expand the indications for which we can market the products.

 

If we encounter safety issues with BYETTA or SYMLIN or any other drugs we market or fail to comply with extensive continuing regulations enforced by domestic and foreign regulatory authorities, it could cause us to discontinue marketing those drugs, reduce our revenues and harm our ability to generate future revenues, which would negatively impact our financial position.

 

BYETTA and SYMLIN, in addition to any other of our drug candidates that may be approved by the FDA, will be subject to continual review by the FDA, and we cannot assure you that newly discovered or developed safety issues will not arise. With the use of any of our marketed drugs by a wide patient population, serious adverse events may occur from time to time that initially do not appear to relate to the drug itself, and only if the specific event occurs with some regularity over a period of time does the drug become suspect as having a causal relationship to the adverse event. Any safety issues could cause us to suspend or cease marketing of our approved products, subject us to substantial liabilities, and adversely affect our revenues and financial condition.

 

Moreover, the marketing of our approved products will be subject to extensive regulatory requirements administered by the FDA and other regulatory bodies, including adverse event reporting requirements and the FDA’s general prohibition against promoting products for unapproved uses. The manufacturing facilities for our approved products are also subject to continual review and periodic

 

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inspection and approval of manufacturing modifications. Manufacturing facilities that manufacture drug products for the U.S. market, whether they are located inside or outside the United States, are subject to biennial inspections by the FDA and must comply with the FDA’s cGMP regulations. The FDA stringently applies regulatory standards for manufacturing. Failure to comply with any of these post-approval requirements can, among other things, result in warning letters, product seizures, recalls, fines, injunctions, suspensions or revocations of marketing licenses, operating restrictions and criminal prosecutions. Any of these enforcement actions, any unanticipated changes in existing regulatory requirements or the adoption of new requirements, or any safety issues that arise with any approved products, could adversely affect our ability to market products and generate revenues and thus adversely affect our ability to continue our business.

 

The manufacturers of our products and drug candidates also are subject to numerous federal, state, local and foreign laws relating to such matters as safe working conditions, manufacturing practices, environmental protection, fire hazard control and hazardous substance disposal. In the future, our manufacturers may incur significant costs to comply with those laws and regulations, which could increase our manufacturing costs and reduce our ability to operate profitably.

 

We do not manufacture our own drug products or drug candidates and may not be able to obtain adequate supplies, which could cause delays, subject us to product shortages, or reduce product sales.

 

The manufacturing of sufficient quantities of new and/or approved drug candidates is a time-consuming and complex process. We currently have no manufacturing capabilities. In order to successfully commercialize our products, including BYETTA and SYMLIN, and continue to develop our drug candidates, including exenatide LAR, we need to contract or otherwise arrange for the necessary manufacturing.

 

There are a limited number of manufacturers that operate under the FDA’s cGMP regulations capable of manufacturing for us. If we are not able to arrange for and maintain third-party manufacturing on commercially reasonable terms, or we lose one of our sole source suppliers used for our existing products or for some components of our manufacturing processes for our products or drug candidates, we may not be able to market our products or complete development of our drug candidates on a timely basis, if at all.

 

Reliance on third-party manufacturers limits our control regarding certain aspects of the manufacturing process and therefore exposes us to a variety of significant risks, including, but not limited to, risks to our ability to commercialize our products or conduct clinical trials, risks of reliance on the third-party for regulatory compliance and quality assurance, third-party refusal to supply on a long-term basis, the possibility of breach of the manufacturing agreement by the third-party and the possibility of termination or non-renewal of the agreement by the third-party, based on its business priorities, at a time that is costly or inconvenient for us. If any of these risks occur, our product supply will be interrupted resulting in lost or delayed revenues and delayed clinical trials.

 

If any of our existing or future manufacturers cease to manufacture or are otherwise unable to timely deliver sufficient quantities of BYETTA or SYMLIN, our ability to successfully commercialize our products will be diminished. Likewise, if any of our existing or future manufacturers cease to manufacture or are otherwise unable to timely deliver sufficient quantities of BYETTA, SYMLIN, exenatide LAR or our other drug candidates, in either bulk or dosage form, or other product components, including pens for the delivery of these products, we may need to engage additional manufacturers, so that we will be able to continue our commercialization and development efforts for these products or drug candidates. The cost and time to establish these new manufacturing facilities would be substantial. As a result, using a new manufacturer could disrupt our ability to market our products, subject us to product shortages, reduce product sales, and/or reduce our profit margins. Any delay or disruption in the manufacturing of bulk product, the dosage form of our products or other product components, including pens for delivery of our products, could also harm our reputation in the medical and patient communities.

 

We have entered into agreements with Bachem California and Mallinckrodt, Inc. for the long-term supply of bulk exenatide. We have long-term agreements with CP Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a subsidiary of Wockhardt Ltd., and Baxter Pharmaceutical Solutions LLC, a subsidiary of Baxter, Inc., for the dosage form of BYETTA in cartridges. Currently, Baxter’s manufacturing process for BYETTA cartridges is undergoing validation. We have an agreement with Lilly to supply pens for delivery of BYETTA in cartridges. We have long-term agreements with Bachem and Lonza for the commercial manufacture of bulk pramlintide acetate, the active ingredient contained in SYMLIN and used in our treatment of obesity with pramlintide development program. We have a long-term contract with Baxter for the dosage form of SYMLIN in vials. We have a long-term agreement with CP Pharmaceuticals for the dosage form of SYMLIN in cartridges and are working with a manufacturer, Ypsomed AG, for the manufacture of disposable pens for delivery of SYMLIN in cartridges. Our manufacturers have not produced BYETTA or SYMLIN for commercial use for a sustained period of time. As such, additional unforeseeable risks may be encountered as we, together with our manufacturers, continue to develop familiarity and experience with regard to manufacturing our products. Furthermore, we and the other manufacturers used for our drug candidates may not be able to produce supplies in commercial quantities if our drug candidates are approved. While we believe that business relations between us and our manufacturers are generally good, we cannot predict whether any of the manufacturers that we may use will meet our requirements for quality, quantity or timeliness for the manufacture of bulk exenatide or pramlintide acetate, dosage form of BYETTA or SYMLIN, or pens. Therefore, we may not be able to obtain supplies of products with

 

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acceptable quality, on acceptable terms or in sufficient quantities, if at all. Our dependence on third parties for the manufacture of products may also reduce our gross profit margins and our ability to develop and deliver products in a timely manner.

 

In order to manufacture on a commercial scale the once-weekly formulation of exenatide LAR, if it is approved by the FDA, we must design, construct, validate and license a new facility.  We will depend upon Alkermes and Parsons to assist us in the design, construction and validation of the manufacturing facility. We have never established or operated a manufacturing facility and cannot assure you that we will be able to successfully establish or operate such a facility in a timely or economical manner, or at all.  In addition, we will depend upon Alkermes to successfully develop and transfer to us its technology for manufacturing the once-weekly formulation of exenatide LAR.  While Alkermes has manufactured exenatide LAR in small quantities for use in clinical trials, we cannot assure you that a commercial scale manufacturing process for exenatide LAR will be successfully developed and/or transferred to us in a timely or economical manner, or at all. In addition, we are dependent upon Alkermes to supply us with commercial quantities of the polymer required to manufacture exenatide LAR. We also will need to obtain sufficient supplies of diluent necessary for commercial manufacture of exenatide LAR. If we, together with Alkermes, are unable to successfully develop a commercial scale manufacturing process and increase our manufacturing scale to a commercially viable level, we may not be able to commercially launch exenatide LAR.

 

Our ability to generate revenues will be diminished if we fail to obtain acceptable prices or an adequate level of reimbursement for our products from third-party payors.

 

The requirements governing product licensing, pricing and reimbursement vary widely from country to country. Some countries require approval of the sale price of a drug before it can be marketed. In many countries, the pricing review period begins after product licensing approval is granted. As a result, we may obtain regulatory approval for a product in a particular country, but then be subject to price regulations that reduce our revenues from the sale of the product. Also, in some foreign markets, pricing of prescription pharmaceuticals is subject to continuing governmental control even after initial marketing approval. With respect to BYETTA, SYMLIN, or any of our potential drug candidates, we cannot be certain that the products will be considered cost effective and that reimbursement will be available or will be sufficient to allow us to sell the products on a competitive basis.

 

The continuing efforts of government, private health insurers, and other third-party payors to contain or reduce the costs of health care through various means, including efforts to increase the amount of patient co-pay obligations, may limit our commercial opportunity. In the United States, we expect that there will continue to be a number of federal and state proposals to implement government control over the pricing of prescription pharmaceuticals. In addition, increasing emphasis on managed care in the United States will continue to put pressure on the rate of adoption and pricing of pharmaceutical products.

 

Significant uncertainty exists as to the reimbursement status of newly approved health care products such as BYETTA and SYMLIN. Third-party payors, including Medicare, are challenging the prices charged for medical products and services. Government and other third-party payors increasingly are attempting to contain health care costs by limiting both coverage and the level of reimbursement for new drugs and by refusing, in some cases, to provide coverage for uses of approved products for disease indications for which the FDA has not granted labeling approval. Third-party insurance coverage may not be available to patients for BYETTA and/or SYMLIN or any other products we discover and develop. If government and other third-party payors do not provide adequate coverage and reimbursement levels for our products, the market acceptance of these products may be reduced.

 

We may require future capital and are uncertain of the availability or terms of additional funding, and if additional capital is not available or not available on acceptable terms, we may have to reduce the size of our operations.

 

We may need to continue to find additional sources of capital in order to successfully commercialize BYETTA and SYMLIN and to complete the development and commercialization of our drug candidates. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including:

 

 the costs of marketing and selling BYETTA and SYMLIN;

 our ability, and the ability of any partner, to effectively market, sell and distribute BYETTA and SYMLIN;

 the costs of manufacturing BYETTA, SYMLIN, exenatide LAR, and our other drug candidates;

 the time and costs involved in designing, constructing, validating and licensing a facility to manufacture exenatide LAR;

 the continuation of our collaboration with Lilly for the commercialization of BYETTA and the further development of sustained-release formulations of BYETTA, including exenatide LAR;

 our ability to meet milestone objectives under our collaboration with Lilly;

 our access to loan amounts under our collaboration with Lilly;

 progress with our preclinical studies and clinical trials;

 the time and costs involved in obtaining regulatory approvals for the marketing of any of our drug candidates;

 scientific progress in our other research programs and the magnitude of these programs;

 our ability to establish one or more development or commercialization arrangements for our drug candidates;

 

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•   the acquisition and implementation cost of any potential realized licenses or acquisitions;

•   the costs involved in preparing, filing, prosecuting, maintaining and enforcing patents or defending ourselves against competing technological and market developments; and

•   the potential need to repay existing indebtedness.

 

You should be aware that:

 

 we may not be able to obtain additional financial resources in the necessary time frame or on terms favorable to us, if at all;

 any available additional financing may not be adequate; and

 we may be required to use a portion of future financing to repay existing indebtedness to our current or future creditors.

 

In the event we are unable to obtain additional financing on acceptable terms, we may have to delay, scale back or eliminate one or more of our development or commercialization programs, or obtain funds by entering into more arrangements with collaborative partners or others that may require us to relinquish rights to certain of our drug candidates or technologies that we would not otherwise relinquish.

 

Competition in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries may result in competing products, superior marketing of other products and lower revenues or profits for us.

 

There are many companies that are seeking to develop products and therapies for the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Our competitors include multinational pharmaceutical and chemical companies, specialized biotechnology firms and universities and other research institutions. A number of our largest competitors, including AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sanofi-Aventis, Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, are pursuing the development or marketing of pharmaceuticals that target the same diseases that we are targeting, and it is possible that the number of companies seeking to develop products and therapies for the treatment of diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and other metabolic disorders will increase. Many of our competitors have substantially greater financial, technical, human and other resources than we do and may be better equipped to develop, manufacture and market technologically superior products. In addition, many of these competitors have significantly greater experience than we do in undertaking preclinical testing and human clinical studies of new pharmaceutical products and in obtaining regulatory approvals of human therapeutic products. Accordingly, our competitors may succeed in obtaining FDA approval for superior products. Furthermore, now that we have received FDA approval for BYETTA and SYMLIN, we may also be competing against other companies with respect to our manufacturing and product distribution efficiency and sales and marketing capabilities, areas in which we have limited or no experience as an organization.

 

Our initial target patient population for BYETTA is people with diabetes who have not achieved adequate glycemic control using metformin, a sulfonylurea or both two common oral therapies. Our target population for SYMLIN is people with either type 2 or type 1 diabetes whose therapy includes multiple mealtime insulin injections daily. Other products are currently in development or exist in the market that may compete directly with the products that we are developing or marketing. Various other products are available or in development to treat type 2 diabetes, including:

 

 sulfonylureas;

 metformin;

 insulins, including injectable and inhaled versions;

 glinides;

 PPARS;

  DPP-IV inhibitors;

 alpha-glucosidase inhibitors; and

 thiazolidinediones (TZDs).

 

In addition, several companies are developing various approaches to improve treatments for type 1 and type 2 diabetes. We cannot predict whether our products will have sufficient advantages to cause health care professionals to adopt them over other products or that our products will offer an economically feasible alternative to other products. Our products could become obsolete before we recover expenses incurred in developing these products.

 

We are subject to “fraud and abuse” and similar laws and regulations, and a failure to comply with such regulations or prevail in any litigation related to noncompliance could harm our business.

 

Upon approval of BYETTA and SYMLIN by the FDA, we became subject to various health care “fraud and abuse” laws, such as the Federal False Claims Act, the federal anti-kickback statute and other state and federal laws and regulations. Pharmaceutical companies have faced lawsuits and investigations pertaining to violations of these laws and regulations. We cannot

 

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guarantee that measures that we have taken to prevent such violations, including our corporate compliance program, will protect us from future violations, lawsuits or investigations. If any such actions are instituted against us, and we are not successful in defending ourselves or asserting our rights, those actions could have a significant impact on our business, including the imposition of significant fines or other sanctions.

 

We are substantially dependent on our collaboration with Lilly for the development and commercialization of BYETTA and dependent on Lilly and Alkermes for the development of exenatide LAR.

 

We have entered into collaborative arrangements with Lilly, who currently markets diabetes therapies and is developing additional diabetes drug candidates, to commercialize BYETTA and further develop sustained-release formulations of BYETTA, including exenatide LAR. We entered into this collaboration in order to:

 

 fund some of our research and development activities;

 assist us in seeking and obtaining regulatory approvals; and

 assist us in the successful commercialization of BYETTA and exenatide LAR.

 

In general, we cannot control the amount and timing of resources that Lilly may devote to our collaboration. If Lilly fails to assist in the further development of exenatide LAR or the commercialization of BYETTA, or if Lilly’s efforts are not effective, our business may be negatively affected. We are primarily relying on Lilly to obtain regulatory approvals outside the United States for BYETTA and exenatide LAR. Our collaboration with Lilly may not continue or result in successfully commercialized drugs. Lilly can terminate our collaboration at any time upon 60 days notice. If Lilly ceased funding and/or developing and commercializing BYETTA or sustained-release formulations of BYETTA, we would have to seek additional sources for funding and may have to delay, reduce or eliminate one or more of our development programs for these compounds. We are also dependent on Alkermes for the development of exenatide LAR. If Alkermes’ technology is not successfully developed to effectively deliver exenatide in a sustained release formulation, or Alkermes does not devote sufficient resources to the collaboration, our efforts to develop sustained release formulations of exenatide could be delayed or curtailed.

 

If our patents are determined to be unenforceable or if we are unable to obtain new patents based on current patent applications or for future inventions, we may not be able to prevent others from using our intellectual property.

 

We own or hold exclusive rights to many issued U.S. patents and pending U.S. patent applications related to the development and commercialization of exenatide, including BYETTA and exenatide LAR, SYMLIN and our other drug candidates. These patents and applications cover composition-of-matter, medical indications, methods of use, formulations and other inventive results. We do not have a composition-of-matter patent covering exenatide. We do have issued and pending applications for formulations of BYETTA and exenatide LAR. We also own or hold exclusive rights to various foreign patent applications that correspond to issued U.S. patents or pending U.S. patent applications.

 

Our success will depend in part on our ability to obtain patent protection for our products and drug candidates and technologies both in the United States and other countries. We cannot guarantee that any patents will issue from any pending or future patent applications owned by or licensed to us. Alternatively, a third party may successfully circumvent our patents. Our rights under any issued patents may not provide us with sufficient protection against competitive products or otherwise cover commercially valuable products or processes. In addition, because patent applications in the United States are maintained in secrecy for eighteen months after the filing of the applications, and publication of discoveries in the scientific or patent literature often lag behind actual discoveries, we cannot be sure that the inventors of subject matter covered by our patents and patent applications were the first to invent or the first to file patent applications for these inventions. In the event that a third party has also filed a patent on a similar invention, we may have to participate in interference proceedings declared by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to determine priority of invention, which could result in a loss of our patent position. Furthermore, we may not have identified all U.S. and foreign patents that pose a risk of infringement.

 

Litigation regarding patents and other proprietary rights may be expensive, cause delays in bringing products to market and harm our ability to operate.

 

Our success will depend in part on our ability to operate without infringing the proprietary rights of third parties and preventing others from infringing our patents. Challenges by pharmaceutical companies against the patents of competitors are common. Legal standards relating to the validity of patents covering pharmaceutical and biotechnological inventions and the scope of claims made under these patents are still developing. As a result, our ability to obtain and enforce patents is uncertain and involves complex legal and factual questions. Third parties may challenge, in courts or through patent office proceedings, or infringe upon, existing or future patents. In the event that a third party challenges a patent, a court or patent office may invalidate the patent or

 

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determine that the patent is not enforceable. Proceedings involving our patents or patent applications or those of others could result in adverse decisions about:

 

 the patentability of our inventions, products and drug candidates; and/or

 the enforceability, validity or scope of protection offered by our patents.

 

The manufacture, use or sale of any of our products or drug candidates may infringe on the patent rights of others. If we are unable to avoid infringement of the patent rights of others, we may be required to seek a license, defend an infringement action or challenge the validity of the patents in court. Patent litigation is costly and time consuming. We may not have sufficient resources to bring these actions to a successful conclusion. In addition, if we do not obtain a license, develop or obtain non-infringing technology, fail to successfully defend an infringement action or have infringing patents declared invalid, we may:

 

 incur substantial monetary damages;

 encounter significant delays in bringing our drug candidates to market; and/or

 be precluded from participating in the manufacture, use or sale of our products or drug candidates or methods of treatment requiring licenses.

 

Our business has a substantial risk of product liability claims, and insurance may be expensive or unavailable.

 

Our business exposes us to potential product liability risks that are inherent in the testing, manufacturing and marketing of human therapeutic products. Product liability claims could result in the imposition of substantial liability on us, a recall of products, or a change in the indications for which they may be used. We currently have limited product liability insurance. We cannot assure you that our insurance will provide adequate coverage against potential liabilities. Furthermore, product liability insurance is becoming increasingly expensive. As a result, we may not be able to obtain additional insurance or obtain insurance at a reasonable cost or in sufficient amounts to protect against losses that could have a material adverse effect on us.

 

Delays in the conduct or completion of our clinical trials, the analysis of the data from our clinical trials, or our manufacturing scale-up activities may result in delays in our planned filings for regulatory approvals, and may adversely affect our ability to enter into new collaborative arrangements.

 

We cannot predict whether we will encounter problems with any of our completed, ongoing or planned clinical studies that will cause us or regulatory authorities to delay or suspend our ongoing clinical studies, delay or suspend planned clinical studies, or delay the analysis of data from our completed or ongoing clinical studies. We also cannot predict whether we will encounter delays or an inability to create manufacturing processes for drug candidates that allow us to produce drug product in large enough quantities to be economical, otherwise known as manufacturing scale-up. If the results of our ongoing or planned clinical studies for our drug candidates are not available when we expect or if we encounter any delay in the analysis of data from our clinical studies or if we encounter delays in our ability to scale-up our manufacturing processes:

 

•   we may be unable to complete our development programs for exenatide LAR, the treatment of obesity with pramlintide, or AC2592;

•   we may have to delay or terminate our planned filings for regulatory approval;

•   we may not have the financial resources to continue research and development of any of our drug candidates; and

•   we may not be able to enter into additional collaborative arrangements.

 

In addition, Lilly may terminate our collaboration for the development and commercialization of BYETTA and sustained-release formulations of exenatide at any time on 60 days’ notice. Moreover, if the FDA does not accept for filing an NDA for a sustained-release formulation of exenatide by December 31, 2007, Lilly will have the right to convert a portion of future milestone payments that we may receive under our collaboration into shares of our common stock at a conversion price equal to the fair market value of our common stock at the time of any such conversion.

 

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Any of the following could delay the completion of our ongoing and planned clinical studies:

 

•   ongoing discussions with the FDA or comparable foreign authorities regarding the scope or design of our clinical trials;

•   delays in enrolling volunteers;

•   lower than anticipated retention rate of volunteers in a clinical trial;

•   negative results of clinical studies;

•   insufficient supply or deficient quality of drug candidate materials or other materials necessary for the performance of clinical trials;

•   our inability to reach agreement with Lilly regarding the scope, design, conduct or costs of clinical trials with respect to sustained-release formulations of BYETTA; or

•   serious side effects experienced by study participants relating to a drug candidate.

 

We may be unable to obtain regulatory clearance to market our drug candidates in the United States or foreign countries on a timely basis, or at all.

 

Our drug candidates are subject to extensive government regulations related to development, clinical trials, manufacturing and commercialization. The process of obtaining FDA and other regulatory approvals is costly, time-consuming, uncertain and subject to unanticipated delays. Regulatory authorities may refuse to approve an application for approval of a drug candidate if they believe that applicable regulatory criteria are not satisfied. Regulatory authorities may also require additional testing for safety and efficacy. Moreover, if the FDA grants regulatory approval of a product, the approval may be limited to specific indications or limited with respect to its distribution, and expanded or additional indications for approved drugs may not be approved, which could limit our revenues. Foreign regulatory authorities may apply similar limitations or may refuse to grant any approval.

 

The data collected from our clinical trials may not be sufficient to support initial approval of our drug candidates or additional or expanded indications by the FDA or any foreign regulatory authorities. Biotechnology stock prices have declined significantly in certain instances where companies have failed to meet expectations with respect to FDA approval or the timing for FDA approval. If the FDA’s response is delayed or not favorable for any of our drug candidates, our stock price could decline significantly.

 

Moreover, manufacturing facilities operated by the third-party manufacturers with whom we may contract to manufacture our unapproved drug candidates may not pass an FDA or other regulatory authority preapproval inspection. Any failure or delay in obtaining these approvals could prohibit or delay us or any of our business partners from marketing these drug candidates.

 

Consequently, even if we believe that preclinical and clinical data are sufficient to support regulatory approval for our drug candidates, the FDA and foreign regulatory authorities may not ultimately approve our drug candidates for commercial sale in any jurisdiction. If our drug candidates are not approved, our ability to generate revenues may be limited and our business will be adversely affected.

 

Our ability to enter into and maintain third-party relationships is important to our successful development and commercialization of BYETTA, SYMLIN, and our other drug candidates and to our potential profitability.

 

To market any of our products in the United States or elsewhere, we must develop internally or obtain access to sales and marketing forces with technical expertise and with supporting distribution capability in the relevant geographic territory. With respect to sales, marketing and distribution outside the United States, we will be substantially dependent on Lilly for activities relating to BYETTA and sustained-release formulations of BYETTA, including exenatide LAR. We believe that we will likely need to enter into marketing and distribution arrangements with third parties for, or find a corporate partner who can provide support for, the development and commercialization of SYMLIN or our other drug candidates outside the United States. We may also enter into arrangements with third parties for the commercialization of SYMLIN or any of our other drug candidates within the United States.

 

With respect to BYETTA and, if approved, exenatide LAR, Lilly is co-promoting within the United States. If Lilly ceased commercializing BYETTA or, if approved, exenatide LAR, for any reason, we would likely need to either enter into a marketing and distribution arrangement with a third party for those products or significantly increase our internal sales and commercialization infrastructure.

 

We may not be able to enter into marketing and distribution arrangements or find a corporate partner for SYMLIN or our other drug candidates. If we are not able to enter into a marketing or distribution arrangement or find a corporate partner who can provide support for commercialization of our drug candidates as we deem necessary, we may not be able to successfully perform these marketing or distribution activities. Moreover, any new marketer or distributor or corporate partner for our drug candidates, including Lilly, with whom we choose to contract may not establish adequate sales and distribution capabilities or gain market acceptance for our products, if any.

 

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We have a significant amount of indebtedness. We may not be able to make payments on our indebtedness, and we may incur additional indebtedness in the future, which could adversely affect our operations.

 

We have substantial indebtedness outstanding and have the potential borrowing capacity under our collaboration with Lilly of up to $110 million. In June and July 2003, we issued $175 million of 2.25% convertible senior notes due 2008. In April 2004, we issued $200 million of 2.50% convertible senior notes due 2011. Our ability to make payments on our debt, including the notes, will depend on our future operating performance and ability to generate cash and may also depend on our ability to obtain additional debt or equity financing. During each of the last five years, our operating cash flows were negative and insufficient to cover our fixed charges. We may need to use our cash to pay principal and interest on our debt, thereby reducing the funds available to fund our research and development programs, strategic initiatives and working capital requirements. Our ability to generate sufficient operating cash flow to service our indebtedness, including the notes, and fund our operating requirements will depend on our ability, alone or with others, to successfully develop, manufacture, obtain required regulatory approvals for and market our drug candidates, as well as other factors, including general economic, financial, competitive, legislative and regulatory conditions, some of which are beyond our control. Our debt service obligations increase our vulnerabilities to competitive pressures, because many of our competitors are less leveraged than we are. If we are unable to generate sufficient operating cash flow to service our indebtedness and fund our operating requirements, we may be forced to reduce our development programs, sell assets or seek additional debt or equity financing, which may not be available to us on satisfactory terms or at all. Our level of indebtedness may make us more vulnerable to economic or industry downturns. If we incur new indebtedness, the risks relating to our business and our ability to service our indebtedness will intensify.

 

We may be required to redeem our convertible senior notes upon a designated event.

 

Holders of our 2.25% convertible senior notes due 2008 and our 2.50% convertible senior notes due 2011 may require us to redeem all or any portion of their notes upon the occurrence of certain designated events which generally involve a change in control of our company. We may not have sufficient cash funds to redeem the notes upon a designated event. We may elect, subject to certain conditions, to pay the redemption price in our common stock or a combination of cash and our common stock. We may be unable to satisfy the requisite conditions to enable us to pay some or all of the redemption price in our common stock. In addition, although there are currently no restrictions on our ability to pay the redemption price under our existing debt agreements, future debt agreements may prohibit us from repaying the redemption price in either cash or common stock. If we are prohibited from redeeming the notes, we could seek consent from our lenders to redeem the notes. If we are unable to obtain their consent, we could attempt to refinance the notes. If we were unable to obtain a consent or refinance, we would be prohibited from redeeming the notes. If we were unable to redeem the notes upon a designated event, it would result in an event of default under the indentures governing the notes. An event of default under the indentures could result in a further event of default under our other then-existing debt. In addition, the occurrence of a designated event may be an event of default under our other debt.

 

If our research and development programs fail to result in additional drug candidates, our ability to generate revenue will be substantially limited.

 

Our research and development programs for drug candidates are at an early stage and will require significant research, development, preclinical and clinical testing, manufacturing scale-up activities, regulatory approval and/or commitments of resources before commercialization. We cannot predict whether our research will lead to the discovery of any additional drug candidates that could generate revenues for us.

 

Our future success depends on our ability to retain our chief executive officer and other key executives and to attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel.

 

We are highly dependent on Ginger L. Graham, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and the other principal members of our executive and scientific teams. The loss of the services of any of these persons might impede the achievement of our research, development and commercialization objectives. Recruiting and retaining qualified sales, marketing, scientific and other personnel and consultants will also be critical to our success. We may not be able to attract and retain these personnel and consultants on acceptable terms given the competition between numerous pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. We do not maintain “key person” insurance on any of our employees.

 

We may be unable to adequately prevent disclosure of trade secrets and other proprietary information.

 

In order to protect our proprietary technology and processes, we rely in part on confidentiality agreements with our corporate partners, employees, consultants, outside scientific collaborators and sponsored researchers and other advisors. These agreements may not effectively prevent disclosure of confidential information and may not provide an adequate remedy in the event of unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. In addition, others may independently discover trade secrets and proprietary information.

 

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Costly and time-consuming litigation could be necessary to enforce and determine the scope of our proprietary rights, and failure to obtain or maintain trade secret protection could adversely affect our competitive business position.

 

Our activities involve the use of hazardous materials, which subject us to regulation, related costs and delays and potential liabilities.

 

Our research and development involves the controlled use of hazardous materials, chemicals and various radioactive compounds. Although we believe that our safety procedures for handling and disposing of these materials comply with the standards prescribed by state and federal regulations, the risk of accidental contamination or injury from these materials cannot be eliminated. If an accident occurs, we could be held liable for resulting damages, which could be substantial. We are also subject to numerous environmental, health and workplace safety laws and regulations, including those governing laboratory procedures, exposure to blood-borne pathogens and the handling of biohazardous materials. Additional federal, state and local laws and regulations affecting our operations may be adopted in the future. We may incur substantial costs to comply with, and substantial fines or penalties if we violate, any of these laws or regulations.

 

We have implemented anti-takeover provisions that could discourage or prevent an acquisition of our company, even if the acquisition would be beneficial to our stockholders, and as a result our management may become entrenched and hard to replace.

 

Provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us, even if doing so would benefit our stockholders. These provisions include:

 

•   allowing our board of directors to elect a director to fill a vacancy created by the expansion of the board of directors;

•   allowing our board of directors to issue, without stockholder approval, up to 5.5 million shares of preferred stock with terms set by the board of directors;

•   limiting the ability of holders of our outstanding common stock to call a special meeting of our stockholders; and

•   preventing stockholders from taking actions by written consent and requiring all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of our stockholders.

 

Each of these provisions, as well as selected provisions of Delaware law, could discourage potential takeover attempts, could adversely affect the trading price of our securities and could cause our management to become entrenched and hard to replace. In addition to provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law, an acquisition of our company could be made more difficult by our employee benefits plans and our employee change in control plan, under which, in connection with a change in control, stock options held by our employees may become vested and our executive officers may receive severance benefits. We also have implemented a stockholder rights plan, also called a poison pill, which could make it uneconomical for a third party to acquire us on a hostile basis.

 

Our executive officers, directors and major stockholders control approximately 46% of our common stock.

 

As of December 31, 2005, executive officers, directors and holders of 5% or more of our outstanding common stock, in the aggregate, owned or controlled approximately 46% of our outstanding common stock. As a result, these stockholders are able to influence all matters requiring approval by our stockholders, including the election of directors and the approval of corporate transactions. This concentration of ownership may also delay, deter or prevent a change in control of our company and may make some transactions more difficult or impossible to complete without the support of these stockholders.

 

Substantial future sales of our common stock by us or our existing stockholders or the conversion of our convertible senior notes to common stock could cause the trading price of our common stock to fall.

 

Sales by existing stockholders of a large number of shares of our common stock in the public market or the perception that additional sales could occur could cause the trading price of our common stock to drop. Likewise, the issuance of shares of common stock upon conversion of our convertible notes or redemption of our convertible notes upon a designated event, or upon additional convertible debt or equity financings or other share issuances by us, including shares issued in connection with potential future strategic alliances and the uncertain number of additional shares that we may be required to issue under our agreements with Lilly, could adversely affect the trading price of our common stock. Our convertible notes are currently convertible into a total of up to approximately 11.2 million shares. In addition, the existence of these notes may encourage short selling of our common stock by market participants.

 

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Significant volatility in the market price for our common stock could expose us to litigation risk.

 

The market prices for securities of biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including our common stock, have historically been highly volatile, and the market from time to time has experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that are unrelated to the operating performance of these biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Since January 1, 2004, the high and low sales price of our common stock varied significantly, as shown in the following table:

 

 

 

High

 

Low

 

Year ending December 31, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

First Quarter through March 1, 2006

 

$

45.79

 

$

35.58

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year ended December 31, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

Fourth Quarter

 

$

42.36

 

$

32.63

 

Third Quarter

 

35.47

 

18.50

 

Second Quarter

 

21.73

 

14.50

 

First Quarter

 

24.95

 

17.15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year ended December 31, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

Fourth Quarter

 

$

24.01

 

$

18.80

 

Third Quarter

 

23.25

 

16.48

 

Second Quarter

 

26.80

 

19.69

 

First Quarter

 

25.63

 

18.49

 

 

Given the uncertainty of our future funding, the successful commercialization of BYETTA and SYMLIN and the regulatory approval of our other drug candidates, we may continue to experience volatility in our stock price for the foreseeable future. In addition, the following factors may significantly affect the market price of our common stock:

 

 our financial results;

 clinical study results;

 determinations by regulatory authorities with respect to our drug candidates;

 developments in our relationships with current or future collaborative partners;

 our ability to successfully implement our commercialization strategies;

 fluctuations in our operating results;

 developments in our relationships with third-party manufacturers of our products and other parties who provide services to us;

 public concern as to the safety of drugs that we are developing;

 technological innovations or new commercial therapeutic products by us or our competitors;

 developments in patent or other proprietary rights; and

 governmental policy or regulation, including with respect to pricing and reimbursement  .

 

Broad market and industry factors also may materially adversely affect the market price of our common stock, regardless of our actual operating performance. Periods of volatility in the market price of our common stock expose us to securities class-action litigation, and we may continue to be the target of such litigation as a result of market price volatility in the future.

 

We are exposed to potential risks from recent legislation requiring companies to evaluate internal controls over financial reporting.

 

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that we report annually on the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting. Among other things, we must perform systems and processes evaluation and testing. We must also conduct an assessment of our internal controls to allow management to report on, and our independent registered public accounting firm to attest to, our assessment of our internal controls over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. These requirements became effective for the first time for our fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, and neither we nor our independent registered public accounting firm had previously performed an evaluation of our internal controls over financial reporting under these new rules. In connection with our Section 404 compliance efforts, we have incurred or expended, and expect to continue to incur or expend, substantial accounting and other expenses and significant management time and resources. We have implemented certain remediation activities resulting from our ongoing assessment of internal controls over financial reporting. Our future assessment, or the future assessments by our independent registered public accounting firm, may reveal material weaknesses in our internal controls. If material weaknesses are identified in the future we would be required to conclude that our internal controls over financial reporting are

 

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ineffective and we could be subject to sanctions or investigations by the SEC, the NASDAQ National Market or other regulatory authorities, which would require additional financial and management resources and could adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

 

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

 

None.

 

Item 2. Properties

 

Our primary administrative offices and research laboratories are located in San Diego, California. As of December 31, 2005, we occupied approximately 360,000 square feet of office and laboratory space. Our leases on a majority of these properties expire in 2015. We also maintain small offices in Boulder, Colorado, and Germany.

 

Our wholly-owned subsidiary, Amylin Ohio LLC, completed the purchase of an existing building and 26 acres of land located in West Chester, Ohio in December 2005. The building, once built out for the manufacture of exenatide LAR, will occupy approximately 150,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space.

 

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

 

None.

 

Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

 

None.

 

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PART II

 

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

 

Our common stock is traded on The NASDAQ National Market under the symbol “AMLN.” The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the reported high and low sales price per share of our common stock on The NASDAQ National Market:

 

 

 

High

 

Low

 

Year Ended December 31, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

Fourth Quarter

 

$

42.36

 

$

32.63

 

Third Quarter

 

35.47

 

18.50

 

Second Quarter

 

21.73

 

14.50

 

First Quarter

 

24.95

 

17.15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended December 31, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

Fourth Quarter

 

$

24.01

 

$

18.80

 

Third Quarter

 

23.25

 

16.48

 

Second Quarter

 

26.80

 

19.69

 

First Quarter

 

25.63

 

18.49

 

 

The last reported sale price of our common stock on The NASDAQ National Market on March 1, 2006 was $43.90. As of March 1, 2006, there were approximately 760 shareholders of record of our common stock.

 

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our capital stock. We currently intend to retain any future earnings for funding growth and, therefore, do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

 

For information concerning prior stockholder approval of and other matters relating to our equity incentive plans, see “Equity Compensation Plan Information” under Item 12 in this annual report on Form 10-K.

 

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data

 

Please read the following selected financial data in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and the Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes included elsewhere in this annual report on Form 10-K.

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in thousands, except for per share amounts)

 

Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net product sales

 

$

86,713

 

$

 

$

 

$

 

$

 

Revenue under collaborative agreements

 

53,761

 

34,268

 

85,652

 

13,395

 

 

Total revenues

 

140,474

 

34,268

 

85,652

 

13,395

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Costs and expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of goods sold

 

14,784

 

 

 

 

 

Research and development

 

132,128

 

119,558

 

149,431

 

94,456

 

49,601

 

Selling, general and administrative

 

171,520

 

66,958

 

56,761

 

25,334

 

20,469

 

Collaborative profit sharing

 

31,359

 

 

 

 

 

Acquired in-process research and development

 

 

 

3,300

 

 

 

Total costs and expenses

 

349,791

 

186,516

 

209,492

 

119,790

 

70,070

 

Net interest and other income (expense)

 

2,485

 

(4,909

)

1,032

 

(3,392

)

(1,902

)

Net loss

 

(206,832

)

(157,157

)

(122,808

)

(109,787

)

(71,972

)

Net loss per share — basic and diluted

 

$

(1.96

)

$

(1.67

)

$

(1.33

)

$

(1.39

)

$

(1.09

)

Shares used in calculating net loss per share — basic and diluted

 

105,532

 

94,054

 

92,396

 

79,106

 

65,927

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consolidated Balance Sheets Data:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments

 

$

443,423

 

$

293,756

 

$

269,776

 

$

147,358

 

$

46,574

 

Working capital

 

415,134

 

282,421

 

243,144

 

92,368

 

47,188

 

Total assets

 

568,046

 

357,800

 

311,045

 

168,545

 

63,527

 

Long-term obligations

 

399,112

 

403,233

 

202,425

 

88,234

 

58,073

 

Accumulated deficit

 

(1,004,328

)

(797,496

)

(640,339

)

(517,531

)

(407,744

)

Total stockholders’ equity (deficit)

 

69,264

 

(87,370

)

63,216

 

12,298

 

(3,483

)

 

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

Overview

 

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative medicines to improve the lives of people with diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. We have two approved products, BYETTA® (exenatide) injection, and SYMLIN® (pramlintide acetate) injection, both of which were commercially launched in the United States during the second quarter of 2005.

 

BYETTA is the first and only approved medicine in a new class of compounds called incretin mimetics. We began selling BYETTA in the United States in June 2005. It is approved as an adjunctive therapy to improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes who are taking metformin and/or sulfonylurea, two common oral therapies, but have not achieved adequate glycemic control.

 

We have an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company, or Lilly, for the global development and commercialization of exenatide. This agreement includes BYETTA and any sustained-release formulations of exenatide such as exenatide LAR. Under the terms of the agreement, operating profits from products sold in the United States are shared equally between Lilly and us and operating profits from products sold outside of the United States will be split 80% to Lilly and 20% to us. Lilly has primary responsibility for developing and commercializing BYETTA outside of the United States, including any sustained release formulations of exenatide.

 

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SYMLIN is the first and only approved medicine in a new class of compounds called amylinomimetics. We began selling SYMLIN in the United States in April 2005. It is approved as an adjunctive therapy to improve glycemic control in patients with either type 2 or type 1 diabetes who are treated with mealtime insulin but who have not achieved adequate glycemic control.

 

We have a field force in excess of 400 people dedicated to marketing BYETTA and SYMLIN in the United States. Lilly also co-promotes BYETTA in the United States. Our field force includes our specialty and primary care sales forces, a managed care and government affairs organization, a medical science organization, and diabetes care specialists.

 

In addition to our marketed products, our development pipeline includes late-stage programs for diabetes and obesity, and a Phase 2 program in cardiovascular disease. We are working with Alkermes and Lilly to develop a sustained release formulation of exenatide, which we refer to as exenatide LAR, to enable once-weekly administration of exenatide for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. We also have multiple early stage programs for diabetes and obesity, maintain an active discovery research program focused on novel peptide therapeutics, and are actively seeking to in-license additional drug candidates.

 

Since our inception in September 1987, we have devoted substantially all of our resources to our research and development programs and, more recently, to the commercialization of our products. All of our revenues prior to May 2005 were derived from fees and expense reimbursements under our BYETTA collaboration agreement with Lilly, previous SYMLIN collaborative agreements and co-promotion agreements with each of Lilly and Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. During the second quarter of 2005, we began to derive revenues from product sales of BYETTA and SYMLIN. We have been unprofitable since inception and may incur additional operating losses for at least the next few years. At December 31, 2005, our accumulated deficit was approximately $1.0 billion.

 

At December 31, 2005, we had approximately $443.4 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments. In February and September 2005 we completed public offerings of our common stock, generating net proceeds to us of approximately $190 million and $152 million, respectively. We do not expect to generate positive operating cash flows for at least the next few years and accordingly, we may need to raise additional funds from outside sources. Refer to the discussions under the headings “Liquidity and Capital Resources” below and “Cautionary Factors That May Affect Future Results” in Part I, Item 1A for further discussion regarding our anticipated future capital requirements.

 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates, including those related to revenue recognition, inventory costs, research and development expenses and income taxes. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

 

We believe the following critical accounting policies affect the significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements (see Note 1 to our consolidated financial statements on page F-7).

 

Revenue Recognition
 

We recognize revenue from the sale of our products, license fees and milestones earned and for reimbursement of development costs based on contractual arrangements.

 

We sell our products to wholesale distributors, who in turn, sell to retail pharmacies and government entities. Decisions made by these wholesalers and their customers regarding the level of inventories they hold, and thus the amount of product they purchase, can materially affect the level of our product sales in any particular period.

 

We recognize revenue from the sale of our products when delivery has occurred and title has transferred to our wholesale customers. We recognize revenue net of allowances for discounts, distributor fees and product returns at the time of sale. We are required to make significant judgments and estimates in determining these allowances. If actual results differ from our estimates, we will be required to make adjustments to these allowances in the future.

 

We do not offer our customers a general right of return. However, we will accept returns of products that are damaged or defective when received by the customer or for any unopened product during the period beginning six months prior to and up to 12 months subsequent to its expiration date. As BYETTA and SYMLIN are new products, we estimate product returns based on the experience of our collaborative partner and industry trends for other products with similar characteristics. Additionally, we consider several other factors in our estimation process

 

 

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including our internal sales forecasts, the expiration dates of product shipped and third party data to assist us in monitoring estimated channel inventory levels and prescription trends.

 

Allowances for product discounts arise from chargebacks and rebates, which currently include mandated discounts to government entities, contracted discounts with commercial payors, and discounts for prescription coupons. Chargebacks are discounts that occur when a contracted customer purchases directly from an intermediary wholesale purchaser. The contracted customer generally purchases the product at its contracted price, plus a mark-up from the wholesaler. The wholesaler, in-turn, charges back to the Company the difference between the price initially paid by the wholesaler and the contracted price paid to the wholesaler by the customer. The allowance for chargebacks is based on expected utilization of these programs and estimated wholesaler inventory levels. Rebates are amounts owed based on contractual agreements or legal requirements with private sector and public sector (e.g. Medicaid) benefit providers after the final dispensing of the product by a pharmacy to a benefit plan participant. The allowance for rebates is based on expected patient usage and contractual terms. Prescription coupon discounts are amounts owed to pharmacies for redemption of coupons for a free prescription. We provide prescription coupons to physicians, who in turn distribute these coupons to patients. Patients may redeem the coupon at a pharmacy for a free prescription. We reimburse the pharmacy for the price it paid the wholesaler for the medicine. The allowance for prescription coupon discounts is based upon the number of unredeemed coupons in circulation and the expected redemption rate.

 

Inventories and Related Reserves

 

Inventories consist of raw materials, work-in-process and finished goods for SYMLIN and BYETTA. We maintain inventory reserves primarily for production failures and potential product expiration. The manufacturing processes for our products are complex. Deviations in the manufacturing process may result in production failures and additional inventory reserves. Obsolete inventory due to expiration may also result in additional inventory reserves. In estimating inventory obsolescence reserves, we analyze the shelf life, expiration dates and internal sales forecasts, each on a product-by-product basis.

 

Research and Development Expenses
 

Research and development costs are expensed as incurred and include: salaries and benefits; costs paid to third-party contractors to perform research, conduct clinical trials and develop and manufacture drug materials and delivery devices; and associated overhead expenses and facilities costs. Clinical trial costs are a significant component of research and development expenses and include costs associated with third-party contractors. Invoicing from third-party contractors for services performed can lag several months. We accrue the costs of services rendered in connection with third-party contractor activities based on our estimate of management fees, site management and monitoring costs and data management costs. Differences between actual clinical trial costs from estimated clinical trial costs have historically not been material and are adjusted for in the period in which they become known.

 

Income Taxes
 

We have net deferred tax assets relating primarily to net operating loss carry forwards and research and development tax credits. Subject to certain limitations, these deferred tax assets may be used to offset taxable income in future periods. Since we have been unprofitable since inception and the likelihood of future profitability is not assured, we have fully reserved for these deferred tax assets in our consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. If we determine that we are able to realize a portion or all of these deferred tax assets in the future, we will record an adjustment to increase their recorded value and a corresponding adjustment to increase income in that same period.

 

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
 

In December 2004, The Financial Accounting Standards Board, or “FASB”, issued SFAS 123(R) “Share-Based Payment,” which requires stock-based compensation for an award of equity instruments, including stock options and employee stock purchase rights, issued to employees to be recognized as a cost in the financial statements. The cost of these awards are measured according to the grant date fair value of the stock options and is recognized over the period during which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the award, which is usually the vesting period. In the absence of an observable market price for the stock awards, the grant-date fair value of the stock options would be based upon a valuation methodology that takes into consideration various factors, including the exercise price of the option, the expected term of the option, the current price of the underlying shares, the expected volatility of the underlying share price, the expected dividends on the underlying shares and the risk-free interest rate.

 

SFAS 123(R)  may be adopted using one of the following two methods:

 

         A “modified prospective” method in which cost is recognized beginning with the effective date (a) based on the requirements of SFAS 123(R)  for all share-based payments granted after the effective date of SFAS 123(R)  and (b) based

 

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on the requirements of SFAS 123(R)  for all awards granted to employees before the effective date that remain unvested as of the effective date; or

 

         A “modified retrospective” method that includes the requirements of the modified prospective method described above, but also permits entities to restate based on the amounts previously recognized under SFAS 123(R)  for purposes of pro forma disclosures either (a) for all prior periods presented or (b) for prior interim periods of the year of adoption.

 

The requirements of SFAS 123(R)  are effective for us beginning January 1, 2006. We intend to adopt the requirements of SFAS 123(R) using the modified prospective method discussed above. The adoption of this standard is expected to increase operating expenses. We expect that stock compensation expense for 2006 will be between $50 and $60 million with the significant majority included in research and development and selling, general and administrative expenses. The actual amount of stock option expense we record for 2006 will depend on the timing and number of options granted in 2006 and underlying marketing conditions at the time of such grants.

 

Research and Development Programs

 

Currently, our research and development efforts are focused on programs for the treatment of diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease in various stages of development. From inception through 1998, we devoted substantially all of our research and development efforts to SYMLIN. Beginning in 1999, our research and development costs started to include costs for our other drug candidates, primarily BYETTA and exenatide LAR and in 2004 we initiated our program for the treatment of obesity with pramlintide. As we continue to expand our pipeline, our investment in other programs will continue to increase.

 

The drug development process in the U.S., from discovery through regulatory approval, takes an average of 12 years according to recent industry reports. The process includes several steps defined by the FDA. The process begins with discovery and preclinical evaluation leading up to the submission of an IND to the FDA, which allows for the initiation of the clinical evaluation in humans of a potential drug candidate. Clinical evaluation is typically comprised of three phases of study: Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3. Generally, the majority of a drug candidate’s total development costs are incurred during Phase 3, as these trials are typically the longest and largest trials conducted during the drug development process. Successful completion of Phase 3 clinical testing is followed by the submission of an NDA to the FDA for marketing approval. It is not uncommon for the FDA to request additional data following its review of an NDA, which can significantly increase the drug development timeline and expenses. Following initial regulatory approval for a drug candidate, companies generally initiate additional clinical trials aimed at expanding product labeling and market potential.

 

The timing and costs to complete the successful development of any of our drug candidates are highly uncertain, and therefore difficult to estimate.

 

Our research and development expenses are comprised of salaries and benefits; costs paid to third-party contractors to perform research, conduct clinical trials, develop and manufacture drug materials and delivery devices; and a portion of our facilities costs. We charge direct internal and external program costs to the respective development programs. We also incur indirect costs that are not allocated to specific programs because such costs benefit multiple development programs and allow us to increase our overall pharmaceutical development capabilities. These consist primarily of facilities costs and other internal-shared resources related to the development and maintenance of systems and processes applicable to all of our programs.

 

The following table provides historical information regarding our research and development expenses for our major projects (in millions):

 

 

 

Year ended December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

2003

 

BYETTA

 

$

27.7

 

$

40.0

 

$

80.1

 

SYMLIN

 

21.1

 

15.8

 

27.3

 

Phase 2 programs

 

33.7

 

22.1

 

7.8

 

Early stage programs and research

 

25.5

 

12.2

 

12.2

 

Unallocated

 

24.1

 

29.5

 

22.0

 

 

 

$

132.1

 

$

119.6

 

$

149.4

 

 

BYETTA

 

We began selling BYETTA in the United States in June 2005. In November 2005, we announced the positive results from a study of BYETTA used in addition to a common class of oral diabetes medication called thiazolidinediones (or TZDs), in people with type 2 diabetes who were not achieving adequate blood sugar control. Results from this study formed the basis of our Supplemental

 

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New Drug Application, or sNDA, submission to the FDA in the first quarter of 2006. This sNDA seeks to expand our label to include patients who are taking TZDs and have inadequate glycemic control. Additional development activities planned for BYETTA in 2006 include the initiation of a clinical study evaluating BYETTA for use as a monotherapy for patients with type 2 diabetes.

 

The timing of material net cash inflows from our BYETTA development program is dependent upon market acceptance following its commercial launch in the second quarter of 2005 and the other factors described in this report.

 

SYMLIN

 

We began selling SYMLIN in the United States in April 2005. In 2005, we commenced a controlled, open-label study to evaluate SYMLIN use in clinical practice, and intend to enroll approximately 1,200 patients over the two years of the study. In the fourth quarter of 2005, we also commenced a study to evaluate the addition of SYMLIN at mealtime for patients who are on a stable regimen of once-daily basal insulin. Our planned 2006 development activities for SYMLIN include the continuation of these studies, the initiation of a small pharmacokinetic study in pediatric age patients with type 1 diabetes (age 12 to 16) and the continued development of a disposable pen for the delivery of SYMLIN in cartridges.

 

The timing of material net cash inflows from SYMLIN is dependent upon market acceptance following its commercial launch in the second quarter of 2005 and the other factors described in this report.

 

Development Programs

 

We currently have late-stage development programs in diabetes and obesity and a Phase 2 program in cardiovascular disease. In diabetes, we are studying exenatide LAR, a sustained-release formulation of BYETTA. We recently completed a Phase 2 multi-dose study of exenatide LAR, utilizing a once-a-week dosing regimen. Results from this study demonstrated that both doses of exenatide LAR were well tolerated, expected therapeutic blood levels of exenatide were achieved, and dose-dependent improvements in A1C and weight were observed.

 

We are developing exenatide LAR in collaboration with Lilly and Alkermes. Pursuant to our amended development and license agreement with Alkermes for exenatide LAR, Alkermes is responsible for manufacturing exenatide LAR for use in clinical trials and we are responsible for commercial scale manufacture of exenatide LAR. We are working with Alkermes and Parsons Corporation to establish a manufacturing facility for commercial production of exenatide LAR, which we expect to complete in stages through 2008. Additional development activities planned for exenatide LAR in 2006 include the initiation of a long-term, open-label, randomized study to evaluate its safety and efficacy.

 

In obesity, we are studying pramlintide acetate, the active ingredient contained in SYMLIN. We submitted an IND to the FDA for pramlintide acetate for the treatment of obesity in the second quarter of 2005, and we commenced a 400-patient Phase 2 dose-ranging study of pramlintide acetate for obesity in the second quarter of 2005. In February 2006, we reported positive results from this study.

 

In cardiovascular disease, we have a Phase 2 program for AC2592 (GLP-1) for the treatment of congestive heart failure. We submitted an IND for AC2592 in the second half of 2004 and initiated a Phase 2 study in the fourth quarter of 2004. We expect to complete this study in 2006.

 

Early-stage Programs and Research

 

In addition to our late-stage development programs in diabetes and obesity and our Phase 2 program in cardiovascular disease, we have a research and Phase 1 program studying AC162352 (PYY 3-36) for potential utility as a treatment for obesity. We also have early-stage programs in diabetes and obesity. In early 2006, we acquired the exclusive rights to the leptin molecular franchise and program from Amgen, Inc. We plan to further explore leptin’s utility in treating metabolic disorders. We also maintain a discovery research program focused on novel peptide therapeutics and we are actively seeking to in-license additional drug candidates.

 

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Results of Operations

 

Net Product Sales

 

Net product sales were $86.7 million in 2005 and consisted of shipments of BYETTA and SYMLIN to wholesale customers, less distribution service fees and allowances for product discounts and returns. There were no net product sales in 2004 or 2003 as these products were not approved for sale until 2005. Net product sales for BYETTA and SYMLIN for the year ended December 31, 2005 were $75.2 million and $11.5 million, respectively
 
Revenues under Collaborative Agreements
 

The following table summarizes the components of revenues under collaborative agreements for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 (in millions):

 

 

 

Year ended December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

2003

 

Amortization of up-front payments

 

$

4.3

 

$

4.4

 

$

42.1

 

Recognition of milestone payments

 

35.0

 

5.0

 

30.0

 

Cost-sharing and co-promotion payments

 

14.5

 

24.9

 

13.6

 

 

 

$

53.8

 

$

34.3

 

$

85.7

 

 

Substantially all of the revenue recorded in these periods consists of amounts earned pursuant to our collaboration agreement with Lilly, and consists of the amortization of up-front payments, milestone payments, cost-sharing payments and co-promotion payments.

 

The amortization of up-front payments relates to an $80 million non-refundable payment made by Lilly in September 2002, upon the signing of our collaboration agreement. In connection with this agreement we agreed to incur the first $101.2 million of development costs following the date of the agreement. Accordingly, we recorded 100% of the first $101.2 million of U.S. development costs for exenatide, whether incurred by us or by Lilly, and we recorded as revenue approximately 50% of these development costs through an amortization of $50 million of the up-front payment, which amortization was completed during the third quarter of 2003. The remaining $30 million is being amortized to revenues ratably over a seven-year period, which represents our estimate of the period of our performance of significant development activities under the agreement.

 

Milestone payments relate to certain development and commercialization events defined in the exenatide collaboration agreement. We recognize milestone payments as revenue upon the achievement of performance requirements underlying such milestone payments and, for certain development milestones, the expiration of stock conversion rights associated with such payments.

 

Cost sharing payments consist of amounts payable by Lilly to us to equalize development expenses under our collaboration agreement. Subsequent to the first $101.2 million of development expenses following the signing of our collaboration agreement, Lilly became responsible to fund, on an ongoing basis, 50% of development costs in the United States and 80% of development costs outside of the United States. While we continue to lead exenatide development efforts in the United States, Lilly also incurs exenatide development expenses and makes cost-sharing payments to us to equalize development costs, which are recorded as revenues under collaborative agreements in the period in which the related development expenses are incurred.

 

Co-promotion payments consist of small amounts of revenue earned pursuant to previous co-promotion agreements.

 

The $19.5 million increase in revenue under collaborative agreements in 2005, as compared to 2004, primarily reflects an increase in milestone revenue due to the recognition of $35 million of milestones earned in connection with the regulatory approval and commercial launch of BYETTA in the United States, of which $30 million was received in 2005, partially offset by a reduction in cost-sharing revenue due to lower development expenses for BYETTA in 2005 as compared to 2004.

 

The $51.4 million reduction in revenue under collaborative agreements in 2004, as compared to 2003, reflects a shift in the relative proportion of total development expenses related to exenatide recorded by us and by Lilly and a reduction in milestone revenue. Milestone revenue in 2004 consists of a $5 million payment from Lilly in connection with the results of a clinical study comparing exenatide to insulin glargine in the third quarter of 2004. Milestone revenue in 2003 consisted of a $30 million payment from Lilly following the completion of the pivotal Phase 3 trials for exenatide in the fourth quarter of 2003.

 

In future periods, revenues under collaborative agreements will consist of ongoing cost-sharing payments from Lilly to equalize U.S. development costs, possible future milestone payments and the continued amortization of the $30 million portion of the up-front payment.

 

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Cost of Goods Sold

 

Cost of goods sold was $14.8 million in 2005 and is comprised primarily of costs associated with the manufacture of BYETTA and SYMLIN. There was no cost of goods sold for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2003, as we did not begin selling BYETTA and SYMLIN until the second quarter of 2005. Prior to regulatory approval of BYETTA and SYMLIN, certain indirect costs associated with the qualification of our inventory for commercial sale were expensed and recorded as research and development expenses. Beginning in the second quarter of 2005, we began including these costs in inventories and cost of goods sold.

 

Research and Development Expenses

 

Research and development expenses were $132.1 million, $119.6 million and $149.4 million in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

 

The $12.5 million increase in 2005 as compared to 2004 reflects increases of $13.3 million for our early stage programs and research, $11.6 million for our Phase 2 programs, and $5.3 million for our SYMLIN development expenses, partially offset by reductions of $12.3 million and $5.4 million for our BYETTA and unallocated research and development expenses, respectively.

 

The increase in our early stage programs and research reflects increased investments in our discovery research activities, increased costs associated with preclinical development of potential drug candidates and costs associated with an increased number of employees to support these activities.

 

The increase in expenses for our Phase 2 programs in 2005 as compared to 2004 primarily reflects costs associated with the clinical development of exenatide LAR and our obesity program for pramlintide. For exenatide LAR, this includes the recently completed multi-dose study and for our obesity program with pramlintide, this includes the recently completed dose-ranging study. The increase also reflects increased costs associated with manufacturing scale-up for exenatide LAR.

 

The increase in SYMLIN development expenses in 2005 as compared to 2004 primarily reflects increased clinical development costs associated with an ongoing open-label study evaluating SYMLIN use in clinical practice.

 

The decrease in BYETTA development expenses primarily reflects reduced clinical development costs following the completion of activities required to support regulatory approval of BYETTA in 2004, which included open-label extensions of the pivotal Phase 3 clinical studies for BYETTA and costs associated with manufacturing scale-up.

 

The decrease in unallocated research and development expenses in 2005 as compared to 2004 primarily reflects an increased emphasis on development activities in our late-stage, Phase 2 and early stage programs.

 

The $29.8 million decrease in 2004 compared to 2003 reflects reduced expenses of $40.1 million and $11.5 million for our BYETTA and SYMLIN development programs, respectively, partially offset by increased expenses of $14.3 million for our Phase 2 programs and a $7.5 million increase in unallocated research and development expenses.

 

The decrease in expenses in 2004 as compared to 2003 primarily reflects reduced clinical development costs following the completion of the pivotal Phase 3 trials for BYETTA in the fall of 2003. The decrease in SYMLIN expenses in 2004 as compared to 2003 primarily reflects reduced clinical development costs in 2004 clinical trials supporting a SYMLIN NDA submitted to the FDA in June 2003. The increase in expenses for our Phase 2 programs in 2004 as compared to 2003 primarily reflects increased clinical development costs for our obesity program with pramlintide and to a lesser extent increased development expenses for exenatide LAR.

 

The $7.5 million increase in unallocated research and development expenses in 2004 as compared to 2003 primarily reflects increased facilities costs, a portion of which are allocated to research and development expense.

 

Research and development expenses are expected to continue to increase for the year ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the same period in 2005. This expected increase reflects continued development of our late-stage programs for exenatide LAR and the treatment of obesity with pramlintide, clinical work to further our understand the utility of BYETTA and SYMLIN and the advancement of our early stage programs.

 

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Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

 

Selling, general and administrative expenses were $171.5 million, $67.0 million, and $56.8 million in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004, and 2003, respectively.

 

The $104.5 million increase in 2005 as compared to 2004 reflects the expansion of our commercial capabilities and additions to our business infrastructure to support the commercial launches of BYETTA and SYMLIN in 2005. This includes the hiring and training of our field force, expanded marketing and medical education activities, the establishment of customer service capabilities and related administrative support. We, along with Lilly, are jointly responsible for the co-promotion of BYETTA within the United States, and share equally in sales force costs and external marketing expenses. Accordingly, our selling, general and administrative expenses include our 50% share of these costs in the United States.

 

The $10.2 million increase in 2004 as compared to 2003 primarily reflects increased business support and facilities costs, and to a lesser extent increased pre-launch costs, primarily for BYETTA, incurred in preparation of the commercial launches of BYETTA and SYMLIN.

 

Selling, general and administrative expenses are expected to continue to increase for the year ended December 31, 2006, compared to the same period in 2005. This expected increase primarily reflects the full annual cost and potential expansion of our field force, the majority of which was added in the middle of 2005 following the regulatory approvals of BYETTA and SYMLIN.

 

Collaborative Profit Sharing

 

Collaborative profit sharing was $31.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2005, and consists of amounts due to Lilly for its share of the gross margin for BYETTA in the United States. There was no collaborative profit sharing for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2003, as we began selling BYETTA in the second quarter of 2005.

 

Other Income and Expense
 

Interest and other income consists primarily of interest income from investment of cash and investments. Interest and other income was $13.2 million in 2005, $4.7 million in 2004, and $7.1 million in 2003. The increase in 2005 primarily reflects higher average cash balances available for investment and higher interest rates in 2005 as compared to 2004. The decrease in 2004 reflects the fact that in 2003 interest and other income included a one-time $3.6 million gain on early retirement of debt at a discount.

 

Interest and other expense consists primarily of interest expense resulting from long-term debt obligations and include interest payments and the amortization of debt interest costs. Interest and other expense was $10.7 million in 2005, $9.6 million in 2004 and $6.0 million in 2003. The increase in 2005 compared to 2004 reflects a full year of interest expense for the $200 million of 2.5% convertible senior notes issued in April 2004. The increase in 2004 reflects additional interest expense associated with the issuance $200 million of 2.5% convertible senior notes in April 2004.

 

Net Loss
 

Our net loss for the year ended December 31, 2005 was $206.8 million compared to $157.2 million in 2004 and $122.8 million in 2003. The increase in the net loss in 2005 compared to 2004 reflects the increased costs and expenses, partially offset by the increases in net product sales and revenue under collaborative agreements discussed above. The increase in the net loss in 2004 compared to 2003 primarily reflects the decrease in revenue under collaborative agreements, partially offset by the decrease in operating expenses discussed above.

 

We may incur operating losses for the next few years. Our ability to reach profitability in the future will be heavily dependent upon the amount of product sales that we achieve for BYETTA and SYMLIN. We also expect increased expenses associated with the commercialization of BYETTA and SYMLIN, as well as increased expenses associated with the continuation and potential expansion of our research and development programs, including our ongoing late-stage programs and our earlier stage development programs, expenses associated with the design and construction of our manufacturing facility, and related general and administrative support that may impact our ability to reach profitability in the future. Our operating results may fluctuate from quarter to quarter as a result of differences in the timing of expenses incurred and revenues recognized.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

Since our inception, we have financed our operations primarily through public and private placements of common stock and preferred stock, debt financings, payments received pursuant to our exenatide collaboration with Lilly and reimbursement of SYMLIN development expenses through earlier collaboration agreements, and more recently, from sales of BYETTA and SYMLIN.

 

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At December 31, 2005, we had $443.4 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments compared to $293.8 million at December 31, 2004. The increase in our cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments in 2005 primarily reflects approximately $362.5 million provided by our financing activities, partially offset by $182.0 million used to fund operating activities and $29.6 million used for capital expenditures in 2005.

 

We used cash of $182.0 million, $162.9 million, and $143.4 million for our operating activities in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004, and 2003, respectively. Our operating activities in 2005 benefited from a $30 million milestone payment from Lilly. In addition, operating activities in 2005 benefited from a net source of cash of $14.3 million from changes in our working capital, consisting of an increase in accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities of $57.7 million, partially offset by uses of cash due to increases in accounts receivable and inventories of $26.8 million and $9.6 million, respectively and a net use of cash of $7.0 million for other working capital changes. Our investing activities used $169.0 million, $53.8 million, and $128.3 million in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004, and 2003, respectively. Investing activities in all three years consisted primarily of purchases and sales of short-term investments, but also included purchases of property and equipment and patent additions. Financing activities provided $362.5 million, $200.6 million, and $278.9 million in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004, and 2003, respectively. Financing activities in 2005 include $342 million in net proceeds from public offerings of our common stock in February and September 2005 and proceeds from the exercise of stock options. These amounts consisted primarily of proceeds from sales of common stock and the issuance of convertible senior notes, partially offset by principal payments on notes payable and capital lease obligations.

 

We expect that our capital expenditures will increase significantly in future periods due primarily to costs associated with our plans to establish a manufacturing facility for exenatide LAR, which we expect to complete in phases through 2008 at an estimated cost of up to $150 million.

 

We may not generate positive operating cash flows for the next few years and our ability to do so will depend on many factors including the market acceptance and the amount of product sales we achieve for BYETTA and SYMLIN, costs to commercialize BYETTA and SYMLIN, costs associated with the continuation and potential expansion of our ongoing and recently acquired development programs, costs for related general and administrative support, and the other factors described in this annual report, including those discussed in Part I, Item 1A under the heading “Cautionary Factors That May Affect Future Results.”

 

We have a loan facility available from Lilly that, subject to certain defined development and regulatory events, over time could provide us up to $110 million to fund a portion of our development and commercialization costs for BYETTA. As of December 31, 2005, $72.5 million of this facility was available to us and there were no amounts outstanding. Any loans under this facility would be secured by some of our patents and other tangible assets and, at Lilly’s option, are convertible into our common stock if amounts remain outstanding for more than two years. Additionally, any loans under this facility must be executed prior to May 26, 2006, the first anniversary of BYETTA's product launch in the United States, at which point 50% of any outstanding loan amounts become due.

 

At December 31, 2005, we had outstanding long-term debt of $375 million. This amount includes $175 million aggregate principal amount of the 2.25% convertible senior notes issued in 2003 and due 2008, or the 2003 Notes. The 2003 Notes are currently convertible into a total of up to 5.4 million shares of our common stock at approximately $32.55 per share. Under certain circumstances, the 2003 Notes are redeemable in whole or in part, at our option, on or after June 30, 2006, at specified redemption prices plus accrued and unpaid interest. The remainder of our long-term debt balance at December 31, 2005 consists of $200 million aggregate principal amount of the 2.5% convertible senior notes issued in 2004 and due 2011, or the 2004 Notes. The 2004 Notes are currently convertible into a total of up to 5.8 million shares of our common stock at approximately $34.35 per share. The 2004 Notes are not redeemable at our option.

 

The following table summarizes our contractual obligations and maturity dates as of December 31, 2005 (in thousands).

 

 

 

Payments Due by Period

 

Contractual
Obligations

 

Total

 

Less
than 1
year

 

2-3 years

 

4-5
years

 

After 5
years

 

Long-term debt

 

$

375,000

 

$

 

$

175,000

 

$

 

$

200,000

 

Interest on long-term debt

 

37,344

 

8,938

 

15,906

 

10,000

 

2,500

 

Inventory purchase obligations (1)

 

128,943

 

85,468

 

31,886

 

11,589

 

 

Capital lease obligations

 

14

 

14

 

 

 

 

Operating leases

 

72,872

 

10,999

 

20,417

 

14,867

 

26,589

 

Total (2)

 

$

614,173

 

$

105,419

 

$

243,209

 

$

36,456

 

$

229,089

 

 


(1)   Includes $101 million of outstanding purchase orders, cancelable by us upon 30 days’ written notice,

subject to reimbursement of costs incurred through the date of cancellation.

(2)   Excludes long-term obligation of $4.8 million related to deferred compensation, the payment of which is subject to elections made by participants that are subject to change.

 

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In addition, under certain license and collaboration agreements with other companies we are required to pay royalties and/or milestone payments upon the successful development and commercialization of related products. We do not expect to make any significant milestone payments under these agreements within 12 months from the date of this annual report.

 

Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including: the amount of product sales we achieve for BYETTA and SYMLIN; costs associated with the commercialization of BYETTA and SYMLIN; our ability to effectively market BYETTA and SYMLIN; costs associated with an increase in our infrastructure; our ability to receive milestone payments or obtain access to loan amounts pursuant to our collaboration with Lilly; our ability and the extent to which we establish commercialization arrangements, outside of the United States, if any, for SYMLIN; our ability to progress with our pipeline development programs and other ongoing and new clinical and preclinical trials; progress in our other research and development programs and the magnitude of these programs; the costs involved in preparing, filing, prosecuting, maintaining, enforcing or defending our patents; competing technological and market developments; changes in or new collaborative relationships; costs of manufacturing, including costs associated with obtaining and validating additional manufacturers of our products and scale-up costs for our drug candidates; costs associated with the establishment of an exenatide LAR manufacturing facility; the acquisition and implementation costs of potential licenses or acquisitions; and the need to repay existing indebtedness.

 

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

 

We invest our excess cash primarily in U.S. Government securities, asset-backed securities and debt instruments of financial institutions and corporations with strong credit ratings. These instruments have various short-term maturities, and therefore the risk of loss due to interest rate risk is considered to be immaterial. We do not utilize derivative financial instruments, derivative commodity instruments or other market risk sensitive instruments, positions or transactions in any material fashion. Accordingly, we believe that, while the instruments held are subject to changes in the financial standing of the issuer of such securities, we are not subject to any material risks arising from changes in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates, commodity prices, equity prices or other market changes that affect market risk sensitive investments. Our debt is not subject to significant swings in valuation as interest rates on our debt are fixed. At December 31, 2005, the fair values of our 2003 Notes and 2004 Notes were $222.7 million and $262.0 million, respectively. A hypothetical 1% adverse move in interest rates along the entire interest rate yield curve would not materially affect the fair value of our financial instruments that are exposed to changes in interest rates.

 

Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

 

The financial statements and supplemental data required by this item are set forth at the pages indicated in Part IV, Item 15(a)(1) of this annual report.

 

Item 9. Changes In and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

 

None.

 

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

 

Conclusion Regarding the Effectiveness of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as such term is defined under Rule 13a-15(e) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. Based on this evaluation, our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2005.

 

Our management does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal controls over financial reporting will prevent all potential error and fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, or misstatements due to error, if any, within the Company have been detected. While we believe that our disclosure controls and procedures and internal

 

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control over financial reporting are and have been effective, we intend to continue to examine and refine our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting and to monitor ongoing developments in these areas.

 

Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

 

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f). Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the framework in Internal Control - Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on our evaluation under the framework in Internal Control — Integrated Framework, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2005.

 

Our management’s assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005 has been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which is set forth below.

 

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

 

There has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting in our most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

 

To The Board of Directors and Stockholders of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

 

We have audited management’s assessment, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, that Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the COSO criteria). Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management’s assessment and an opinion on the effectiveness of the company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.

 

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, evaluating management’s assessment, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

 

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

 

In our opinion, management’s assessment that Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, is fairly stated, in all material respects, based on the COSO criteria. Also, in our opinion, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, based on the COSO criteria.

 

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We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2005 and 2004, and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2005 of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and our report dated February 10, 2006 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

 

San Diego, California

/s/ ERNST & YOUNG LLP

 

February 10, 2006

 

 

Item 9B. Other Information

 

On March 6, 2006, the Compensation and Human Resources Committee of the Board of Directors of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. awarded cash bonuses to our “named executive officers” (as defined by SEC regulations) in respect of the officers’ and Amylin’s 2005 performance. The bonus awards were based on the achievement of commercialization objectives, pipeline advancement objectives, organizational effectiveness, and financial performance.  On the same date, the Committee also approved the 2006 base salaries for the named executive officers. The Committee annually evaluates the performance and determines the compensation of Amylin’s executive officers based on

 

·         the Committee’s assessment of the Company’s performance,

·         the Committee’s assessment of the officer’s achievement of established performance objectives, and

·         comparisons to market data from biopharmaceutical companies comparable to Amylin.

 

The Committee may change these salaries at any time. The 2005 bonuses and 2006 base salaries approved by the Committee are as follows:

 

Name

 

Title

 

2005 Bonus

 

2006 Base Salary

Ginger L. Graham

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

$

400,000

 

$

565,000

Daniel M. Bradbury

 

Chief Operating Officer

 

$

174,200

 

$

440,000

Alain D. Baron, M.D.

 

Senior Vice President, Research

 

$

132,000

 

$

375,380

Orville Kolterman, M.D.

 

Senior Vice President, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs

 

$

110,000

 

$

375,380

Dwayne Elwood

 

Senior Vice President, Marketing

 

$

110,000

 

$

303,850

 

In addition, the Committee established corporate objectives for 2006 for purposes of Amylin’s Executive Cash Bonus Plan (which was described in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed February 22, 2005) in which all named executive officers are eligible to participate.  The 2006 corporate objectives relate to commercialization and research and development objectives and apply to all participants under the Executive Cash Bonus Plan.

 

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PART III

 

Item 10. Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant

 

The information required by this item with respect to executive officers and directors is incorporated by reference from the information under the caption of “Election of Directors,” contained in the proxy statement to be filed with the SEC pursuant to Regulation 14A in connection with our 2006 annual meeting of stockholders.

 

Item 11. Executive Compensation

 

The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to the information under the caption “Executive Compensation” contained in the proxy statement to be filed with the SEC pursuant to Regulation 14A in connection with our 2006 annual meeting of stockholders.

 

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Shareholder Matters

 

The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to the information under the caption “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” contained in the proxy statement to be filed with the SEC pursuant to Regulation 14A in connection with our 2006 annual meeting of stockholders.

 

Equity Compensation Plan Information

 

The following table sets forth information regarding all of our equity compensation plans as of December 31, 2005 (in thousands, except per share amounts):

 

Plan Category

 

Number of securities to be
issued upon exercise of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights

 

Weighted average
exercise price of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights

 

Number of securities
remaining available for
issuance under equity
compensation plans,
(excluding securities
reflected in first column)

 

Equity compensation plans approved by securityholders

 

15,736

 

$

17.47

 

4,614

 

Equity compensation plans not approved by securityholders

 

9

 

 

6.58

 

 

Total

 

15,745

 

 

14.47

 

4,614

 

 

The following equity compensation plans were in effect as of December 31, 2005 and were each adopted with the approval of our stockholders:  the 1991 Option Plan, the 2001 Equity Incentive Plan, the 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, the 1994 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Option Plan, the 2003 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Option Plan and the Non-Employee Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan.

 

Our stockholders were not asked to, and therefore did not, approve the individual compensation arrangement entered into in January 1995 with Joseph C. Cook, Jr., who served as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2003, and continues to serve as an employee and as our Chairman. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Cook served as a consultant to us under various consulting agreements pursuant to which he received cash compensation and was granted non-qualified stock options. In connection with one of his consulting agreements with us entered into in January 1995, we also entered into a phantom stock unit agreement with Farview

 

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Management Co., L.P., a consulting firm of which Mr. Cook is a general partner. Pursuant to the phantom stock agreement, Farview received 9,000 phantom stock units, each representing the right to receive cash or shares of our common stock. The phantom stock agreement provides that on the date Mr. Cook ceases to be a consultant to or director of our Company, we will pay Farview the fair market value of the phantom stock units in cash or shares of our common stock, at our election. The fair market value of each phantom stock unit is to be determined based on the closing price per share of our common stock on The NASDAQ National Market on the last trading day prior to the date that Mr. Cook ceases to be a consultant to or director of our company.

 

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

 

The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to the information under the caption contained in “Certain Transactions” contained in the proxy statement to be filed with the SEC pursuant to Regulation 14A in connection with our 2006 annual meeting of stockholders.

 

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services

 

The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to the information under the caption contained in “Ratification of Selection of Independent Auditors” contained in the proxy statement to be filed with the SEC pursuant to Regulation 14A in connection with our 2006 annual meeting of stockholders.

 

PART IV

 

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

 

(a)(1) Index to Consolidated Financial Statements

 

The financial statements required by this item are submitted in a separate section beginning on page F-1 of this annual report.

 

(a)(2) Financial Statement Schedules: The following Schedule is filed as part of this Form 10-K Annual Report:

 

 

 

Page Number

II. Valuation Accounts

 

F-21

 

All other schedules have been omitted because they are not applicable or required, or the information required to be set forth therein is included in the Consolidated Financial Statements or notes thereto.

 

(a)(3) Index to Exhibits — See Item 15(c) below.

 

(b)  Exhibits

 

Exhibit
Footnote

 

Exhibit
Number

 

 

(1)

 

3.1

 

Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant.

(6)

 

3.2

 

Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant.

(14)

 

3.3

 

Certificate of Amendment of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant.

 

 

4.1

 

Reference is made to Exhibits 3.1 - 3.3.

(20)(2)

 

4.2

 

Registration Rights Agreement dated September 19, 2002, between the Registrant and Eli Lilly and Company.

(19)

 

4.3

 

Rights Agreement dated June 17, 2002, between the Registrant and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company.

(19)

 

4.4

 

Certificate of Designation of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock.

(27)

 

4.5

 

First Amendment to Rights Agreement dated December 13, 2002, between the Registrant and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company.

(23)

 

4.6

 

Indenture dated as of June 23, 2003, between Registrant and J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association (as Trustee).

(23)

 

4.7

 

Form of 2.25% Convertible Senior Note due 2008.

(23)

 

4.8

 

Registration Rights Agreement dated June 23, 2003, between Registrant and Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated.

(10)

 

4.9

 

Warrant Agreement issued by the Registrant to Johnson & Johnson dated September 30, 1997.

 

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(11)

 

4.10

 

Indenture, dated as of April 6, 2004, between Registrant and J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association (as Trustee).

(11)

 

4.11

 

Form of 2.50% Convertible Senior Note due 2011.

(11)

 

4.12

 

Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of April 6, 2004, between Registrant and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and Goldman, Sachs & Co.

(1)

 

10.1

 

Form of Indemnity Agreement entered into between the Registrant and its directors and officers.†

(16)

 

10.2

 

Registrant’s 1991 Stock Option Plan, as amended.†

(5)

 

10.3

 

Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement under the 1991 Stock Option Plan.†

(1)

 

10.4

 

Form of Supplemental Stock Option Agreement under the 1991 Stock Option Plan.†

(1)

 

10.5

 

Form of Supplemental Stock Option Agreement not granted under the 1991 Stock Option Plan with related schedule.†

(12)

 

10.6

 

Registrant’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended.†

(21)

 

10.7

 

Registrant’s Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Option Plan (the “Directors’ Plan”).†

(4)

 

10.8

 

Phantom Stock Unit Agreement, dated January 4, 1995, between the Registrant and Farview Management Co., L.P.†

(7)(2)

 

10.9

 

Patent and Technology License Agreement, Consulting Agreement and Nonstatutory Stock Option Agreement dated October 1, 1996, between the Registrant and Dr. John Eng.

(9)

 

10.10

 

Registrant’s Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan.†

(24)

 

10.11

 

Registrant’s Directors’ Plan Stock Option Agreement, as amended. †

(12)

 

10.12

 

Special Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement under the Option Plan of the Registrant.†

(13)

 

10.13

 

Stock Option Agreement dated March 25, 1998, between the Registrant and Joseph C. Cook, Jr.†

(17)(2)

 

10.14

 

Manufacturing Agreement dated April 28, 1999, between the Registrant and CP Pharmaceuticals Limited.

(18)(2)

 

10.15

 

Development and License Agreement dated May 15, 2000, between the Registrant and Alkermes Controlled Therapeutics II, Inc.

(8)

 

10.16

 

Registrant’s Change in Control Employee Severance Benefits Plan.†

(15)

 

10.17

 

Registrant’s 2001 Equity Incentive Plan.†

(20)(2)

 

10.18

 

Collaboration Agreement dated September 19, 2002, between the Registrant and Eli Lilly and Company.

(20)(2)

 

10.19

 

U.S. Co-Promotion Agreement dated September 19, 2002, between the Registrant and Eli Lilly and Company.

(20)(2)

 

10.20

 

Loan Agreement dated September 19, 2002, between the Registrant and Eli Lilly and Company.

(20)

 

10.21

 

Milestone Conversion Agreement dated September 19, 2002, between the Registrant and Eli Lilly and Company.

(20)

 

10.22

 

Stock Purchase Agreement dated September 19, 2002, between the Registrant and Eli Lilly and Company.

(23)

 

10.23

 

Security Agreement dated June 30, 2003, between the Registrant and Eli Lilly and Company.

(25)(2)

 

10.24

 

Device Development and Manufacturing Agreement dated July 1, 2003, between Registrant and Eli Lilly and Company.

(24)

 

10.25

 

Form of Registrant’s 2001 Equity Incentive Plan Officer Stock Option Agreement, as amended. †

(24)

 

10.26

 

Form of Registrant’s 2001 Equity Incentive Plan Stock Option Agreement, as amended. †

(24)

 

10.27

 

Employment Agreement dated June 9, 2003, between Registrant and Ginger L. Graham. †

(26)(2)

 

10.28

 

Manufacturing Agreement dated May 12, 2003, between Registrant and UCB S.A.

(28)(2)

 

10.29

 

Exenatide Manufacturing Agreement dated October 21, 2003, between Registrant and Mallinckrodt Inc.

(28)(2)

 

10.30

 

Commercial Supply Agreement for Exenatide dated December 23, 2003, between Registrant and Bachem, Inc.

(29)

 

10.31

 

Sublease Agreement dated November 24, 2003, between Registrant and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.

(29)

 

10.32

 

Lease Agreement dated November 14, 2003, between Registrant and ARE-9363/9373/9393 Towne Centre, LLC.

(30)(2)

 

10.33

 

Commercial Supply Agreement dated February 14, 2005 between Registrant and Baxter Pharmaceutical Solutions LLC.

(30)(2)

 

10.34

 

Commercial Supply Agreement dated October 7, 2004 between Registrant and CP Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

(30)(2)

 

10.35

 

Commercial Supply Agreement dated March 2, 2005 between Registrant and Baxter Pharmaceutical Solutions LLC.

(30)

 

10.36

 

Summary Description of Registrant’s Named Executive Officer Oral At-Will Employment Agreements.

(31)

 

10.37

 

Description of Registrant’s Executive Cash Bonus Plan.

 

 

10.38

 

Amendment to Development and License Agreement dated October 24, 2005, between Registrant and Alkermes Controlled Therapeutics II*

(32)

 

10.39

 

Underwriting Agreement dated August 29, 2005, between Registrant and Goldman, Sachs & Co.

(33)(2)

 

10.40

 

Commercial Supply Agreement dated June 28, 2005, between Registrant and Bachem, Inc.

 

 

23.1

 

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

 

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24.1

 

Power of Attorney. Reference is made to page 47.

 

 

31.1

 

Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

 

31.2

 

Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

 

32.1

 

Certifications Pursuant to U.S.C. Section 1350, As Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 


       Indicates management or compensatory plan or arrangement required to be identified pursuant to Item 15(c).

*       Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to certain portions of this exhibit. Omitted portions have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

(1)       Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 33-44195) or amendments thereto and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(2)       Confidential Treatment has been granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to portions of this agreement.

 

(3)       Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1993.

 

(4)       Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994.

 

(5)       Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1995.

 

(6)       Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2001.

 

(7)       Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1996.

 

(8)       Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2001.

 

(9)       Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-61660) or amendments thereto and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(10)     Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1997.

 

(11)     Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2004.

 

(12)     Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 1998.

 

(13)     Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1998.

 

(14)     Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2001.

 

(15)     Filed as an exhibit to Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2000.

 

(16)     Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1999.

 

(17)     Filed as an exhibit to Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1999.

 

(18)     Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2000.

 

(19)     Filed as an exhibit on Form 8-K dated June 17, 2002, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(20)     Filed as an exhibit on Form 8-K dated October 3, 2002, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(21)     Filed as an exhibit to Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001.

 

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(22)     Filed as an exhibit to Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2003, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(23)     Filed as an exhibit to Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2003, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(24)     Filed as an exhibit to Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2003, and incorporated herein by reference .

 

(25)     Filed as an exhibit to Amendment 1 to Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A for the quarter ended June 30, 2003, and incorporated herein by reference ..

 

(26)     Filed as an exhibit to Amendment 1 to Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2003, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(27)     Filed as an exhibit to Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(28)     Filed as an exhibit to Amendment 1 to Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(29)     Filed as an exhibit to Registrant s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(30)     Filed as an exhibit to Registrant s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(31)     Filed on Form 8-K dated February 15, 2005, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(32)     Filed as an exhibit on Form 8-K dated September 1, 2005, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

(33)     Filed as an exhibit to Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2005, and incorporated herein by reference .

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date:

March 6, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/Ginger L. Graham

 

 

 

Ginger L. Graham

 

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Ginger L. Graham and Mark G. Foletta, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Report, and any other documents in connection therewith, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them or their or his substitute or substituted, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this Report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signatures

 

Title

 

Date

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ GINGER L. GRAHAM

 

President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

 

March 6, 2006

Ginger L. Graham

 

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ MARK G. FOLETTA

 

Vice President, Finance and
Chief Financial Officer

 

March 6, 2006

Mark G. Foletta

 

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ JOSEPH C. COOK, JR.

 

Chairman of the Board

 

March 6, 2006

Joseph C. Cook, Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ VAUGHN D. BRYSON

 

Director

 

March 6, 2006

Vaughn D. Bryson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ KARIN EASTHAM

 

Director

 

March 6, 2006

Karin Eastham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Director

 

March 6, 2006

James R. Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ HOWARD E. GREENE, JR.

 

Director

 

March 6, 2006

Howard E. Greene, Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ TERRANCE H. GREGG

 

Director

 

March 6, 2006

Terrance H. Gregg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ JAY S. SKYLER, M.D.

 

Director

 

March 6, 2006

Jay S. Skyler, M.D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ JOSEPH P. SULLIVAN

 

Director

 

March 6, 2006

Joseph P. Sullivan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ THOMAS R. TESTMAN

 

Director

 

March 6, 2006

Thomas R. Testman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ JAMES N. WILSON

 

Director

 

March 6, 2006

James N. Wilson

 

 

 

 

 

47




 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

The Board of Directors and Stockholders of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. as of December 31, 2005 and 2004, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2005. Our audits also included the financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15(a)(2). These financial statements and schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and schedule based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., at December 31, 2005 and 2004, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2005, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.

 

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the effectiveness of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 10, 2006 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

 

 

 

 

/s/ ERNST & YOUNG LLP

 

 

 

 

 

San Diego, California

 

February 10, 2006

 

 

F-2



 

AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

 

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

 

 

Current assets:

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

72,026

 

$

60,583

 

Short-term investments

 

371,397

 

233,173

 

Accounts receivable, net

 

26,784

 

 

Receivables from collaborative partners

 

 

5,770

 

Inventories, net

 

26,750

 

15,676

 

Other current assets

 

17,847

 

9,156

 

Total current assets

 

514,804

 

324,358

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property and equipment, net

 

42,050

 

20,739

 

Patents and other assets, net

 

3,687

 

3,258

 

Debt issuance costs, net

 

7,505

 

9,445

 

 

 

$

568,046

 

$

357,800

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

 

$

21,046

 

$

5,520

 

Accrued compensation

 

29,122

 

13,506

 

Other current liabilities

 

45,216

 

18,625

 

Current portion of deferred revenue

 

4,286

 

4,286

 

Total current liabilities

 

99,670

 

41,937

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred revenue, net of current portion

 

11,658

 

20,943

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other long-term obligations, net of current portion

 

12,454

 

7,290

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Convertible senior notes

 

375,000

 

375,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commitments and contingencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stockholders’ equity (deficit):

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred stock, $.001 par value, 7,500 shares authorized, none issued and  outstanding at December 31, 2005 and 2004

 

 

 

Common stock, $.001 par value, 200,000 shares authorized, 110,531 and  94,489 issued and outstanding at December 31, 2005 and 2004

 

111

 

94

 

Additional paid-in capital

 

1,073,948

 

710,457

 

Accumulated deficit

 

(1,004,328

)

(797,496

)

Deferred compensation

 

 

(162

)

Accumulated other comprehensive income

 

(467

)

(263

)

Total stockholders’ equity (deficit)

 

69,264

 

(87,370

)

 

 

$

568,046

 

$

357,800

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

F-3



 

AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

 

 

Years ended December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net product sales

 

$

86,713

 

$

 

$

 

Revenues under collaborative agreements

 

53,761

 

34,268

 

85,652

 

Total revenues

 

140,474

 

34,268

 

85,652

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Costs and expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of goods sold

 

14,784

 

 

 

Research and development

 

132,128

 

119,558

 

149,431

 

Selling, general and administrative

 

171,520

 

66,958

 

56,761

 

Collaborative profit sharing

 

31,359

 

 

 

Acquired in-process research and development

 

 

 

3,300

 

Total costs and expenses

 

349,791

 

186,516

 

209,492

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating loss

 

(209,317

)

(152,248

)

(123,840

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest and other income

 

13,214

 

4,696

 

7,079

 

Interest and other expense

 

(10,729

)

(9,605

)

(6,047

)

Net loss

 

$

(206,832

)

$

(157,157

)

$

(122,808

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss per share — basic and diluted

 

$

(1.96

)

$

(1.67

)

$

(1.33

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares used in computing net loss per share, basic and diluted

 

105,532

 

94,054

 

92,396

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)

For the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003

(in thousands)

 

 

 

Common stock

 

Additional

 

Accumulated

 

Deferred

 

Accumulated
other
comprehensive

 

Total
stockholders’
equity

 

 

 

Shares

 

Amount

 

paid-in capital

 

deficit

 

compensation

 

income (loss)

 

(deficit)

 

Balance at December 31, 2002

 

81,979

 

$

82

 

$

530,023

 

$

(517,531

)

$

(443

)

$

167

 

$

12,298

 

Comprehensive loss:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

 

 

 

(122,808

)

 

 

(122,808

)

Unrealized gain on available-for-sale securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

125

 

125

 

Comprehensive loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(122,683

)

Issuance of common stock upon exercise of options and warrants

 

898

 

1

 

6,376

 

 

 

 

6,377

 

Issuance of common stock for other employee benefit plans

 

206

 

 

2,257

 

 

 

 

2,257

 

Stock-based compensation

 

 

 

84

 

 

 

 

84

 

Issuance of common stock in public offering, net

 

10,542

 

11

 

164,674

 

 

 

 

164,685

 

Deferred compensation related to stock options

 

 

 

65

 

 

(65

)

 

 

Amortization of deferred compensation

 

 

 

 

 

198

 

 

198

 

Balance at December 31, 2003

 

93,625

 

94

 

703,479

 

(640,339

)

(310

)

292

 

63,216

 

Comprehensive loss:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

 

 

 

(157,157

)

 

 

(157,157

)

Unrealized loss on available-for-sale securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

(555

)

(555

)

Comprehensive loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(157,712

)

Issuance of common stock upon exercise of options

 

667

 

 

4,554

 

 

 

 

4,554

 

Issuance of common stock for other employee benefit plans

 

197

 

 

2,462

 

 

 

 

2,462

 

Deferred compensation related to stock options

 

 

 

(38

)

 

38

 

 

 

Amortization of deferred compensation

 

 

 

 

 

110

 

 

110

 

Balance at December 31, 2004

 

94,489

 

94

 

710,457

 

(797,496

)

(162

)

(263

)

(87,370

)

Comprehensive loss:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

 

 

 

(206,832

)

 

 

(206,832

)

Unrealized loss on available-for-sale securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

(204

)

(204

)

Comprehensive loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(207,036

)

Issuance of common stock upon exercise of options

 

1,548

 

2

 

15,977

 

 

 

 

15,979

 

Issuance of common stock for other employee benefit plans

 

226

 

 

4,135

 

 

 

 

4,135

 

Stock-based compensation

 

 

 

433

 

 

 

 

433

 

Issuance of common stock in public offering, net

 

14,268

 

15

 

342,357

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

342,372

 

Deferred compensation related to stock options

 

 

 

589

 

 

162

 

 

751

 

Balance at December 31, 2005

 

110,531

 

$

111

 

$

1,073,948

 

$

(1,004,328

)

$

 

$

(467

)

$

69,264

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(in thousands)

 

 

 

Years ended December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

2003

 

Operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

$

(206,832

)

$

(157,157

)

$

(122,808

)

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

10,487

 

7,307

 

5,136

 

Inventory reserve

 

(1,482

)

(237

)

2,186

 

Accrued interest added to note payable

 

 

 

2,701

 

Gain on early retirement of note payable

 

 

 

(3,567

)

Other non-cash expenses

 

1,535

 

1,320

 

1,303

 

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts receivable, net

 

(26,784

)

 

 

Inventories

 

(9,592

)

(3,598

)

(4,207

)

Receivables from collaborative partners

 

5,770

 

(4,979

)

(791

)

Other current assets

 

(8,607

)

(2,904

)

(3,137

)

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

 

57,733

 

(3,467

)

15,820

 

Deferred revenue

 

(9,285

)

(4,286

)

(37,090

)

Other assets and liabilities, net

 

5,075

 

5,148

 

1,049

 

Net cash used in operating activities

 

(181,982

)

(162,853

)

(143,405

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchases of short-term investments

 

(491,927

)

(237,735

)

(335,756

)

Sales and maturities of short-term investments

 

353,415

 

197,056

 

220,329

 

Purchases of equipment, net

 

(29,639

)

(12,904

)

(12,314

)

Increase in patents

 

(897

)

(211

)

(546

)

Net cash used in investing activities

 

(169,048

)

(53,794

)

(128,287

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Financing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net

 

362,486

 

7,016

 

172,446

 

Proceeds from issuance of convertible debt, net

 

 

193,613

 

169,696

 

Principal payments on notes payable and capital leases

 

(13

)

(14

)

(63,250

)

Net cash provided by financing activities

 

362,473

 

200,615

 

278,892

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

 

11,443

 

(16,032

)

7,200

 

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year

 

60,583

 

76,615

 

69,415

 

Cash and cash equivalents at end of year

 

$

72,026

 

$

60,583

 

$

76,615

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest paid

 

$

8,398

 

$

6,563

 

$

2,065

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

 

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

Organization

 

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company” or “Amylin”) was incorporated in Delaware on September 29, 1987. Amylin is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of drug candidates for the treatment of diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease.

 

Principles of Consolidation

 

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Amylin Europe Limited, Amylin Puerto Rico, LLC and Amylin Ohio LLC. All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

Net Product Sales

 

The Company sells BYETTA® (exenatide) injection and SYMLIN® (pramlintide acetate) injection to wholesale distributors in the United States, who, in turn, sell primarily to retail pharmacies and government entities. Product sales are recognized upon shipment, which is when delivery of the products has occurred, title has passed to the customer, the selling price is fixed or determinable, collectibility is reasonably assured and the Company has no further obligations. The Company records allowances for discounts, distribution fees and product returns at the time of sale and reports product sales net of such allowances. The Company must make significant judgments in determining these allowances. If actual results differ from the Company’s estimates, the Company will be required to make adjustments to these allowances in the future.

 

The Company reports all BYETTA and SYMLIN product sales for sales in the United States. With respect to BYETTA, the Company has determined that it is qualified as a principal under the criteria set forth in Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF), Issue
99-19, “Reporting Gross Revenue as a Principal vs. Net as an Agent,” based on the Company’s responsibilities under its contracts with Eli Lilly and Company, or Lilly, which include manufacture of product for sale in the United States, responsibility for establishing pricing in the United States, distribution, ownership of product inventory and credit risk from customers.

 

Revenue Under Collaborative Agreements

 

Amounts received for upfront product and technology license fees under multiple-element arrangements are deferred and recognized over the period of such services or performance if such arrangements require on-going services or performance. Amounts received for milestones are recognized upon achievement of the milestone, and the expiration of stock conversion rights, if any, associated with such payments. Amounts received for equalization of development expenses are recognized in the period in which the related expenses are incurred. Any amounts received prior to satisfying these revenue recognition criteria will be recorded as deferred revenue.

 

Collaborative Profit-Sharing

 

Collaborative profit-sharing represents Lilly’s share of the gross margin for Byetta sales in the United States.

 

Shipping and Handling Costs

 

Shipping and handling costs incurred for product shipments are included in cost of goods sold in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

 

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Research and Development Expenses

 

Research and development costs are expensed as incurred and include salaries and benefits; costs paid to third-party contractors to perform research, conduct clinical trials and develop and manufacture drug materials and delivery devices; and a portion of facilities costs. Clinical trial costs are a significant component of research and development expenses and include costs associated with third-party contractors. Invoicing from third-party contractors for services performed can lag several months. The Company accrues the costs of services rendered in connection with third-party contractor activities based on its estimate of management fees, site management and monitoring costs and data management costs. Actual clinical trial costs may differ from estimated clinical trial costs and are adjusted for in the period in which they become known.

 

Concentrations of Risk

 

The Company invests its excess cash in U.S. Government securities and debt instruments of financial institutions and corporations with strong credit ratings. The Company has established guidelines relative to diversification and maturities that maintain safety and liquidity. These guidelines are periodically reviewed. Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant credit risk consist principally of cash equivalents and short-term investments.

 

The Company is also subject to credit risk from its accounts receivable related to product sales. The Company sells its products in the United States primarily to wholesale distributors, the top three of which represented approximately 92% of net product sales in 2005 and 93% of the accounts receivable balance at December 31, 2005. The Company evaluates the credit worthiness of its customers and generally does not require collateral. The Company has experienced no losses on uncollectible accounts receivable to date.

 

The Company relies on third-party manufacturers for the production of its products and drug candidates. If the Company’s third-party manufacturers are unable to continue manufacturing its products and/or drug candidates, or if the Company loses one of its sole source suppliers used in its manufacturing processes, the Company may not be able to meet market demand for its products and could be materially and adversely affected.

 

Lilly provides funding for 50% of the development and commercialization expenses for BYETTA and exenatide LAR in the United States pursuant to a global development and commercialization agreement between the parties. Lilly co-promotes the product with the Company in the United States and manufactures pen devices for the administration of BYETTA. If Lilly is unable to perform these activities the Company may be unable to meet market demand for its products and could be materially and adversely affected.

 

Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

The Company considers instruments with a maturity date of less than 90 days from the date of purchase to be cash equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents include certificates of deposits underlying letters of credit of $3.1 million and $1.6 million at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

 

Short-Term Investments

 

Short-term investments consist principally of U.S. Government securities and other highly liquid debt instruments. The Company has classified its debt securities as available-for-sale and are stated at fair value, and unrealized holding gains or losses on these securities are carried as a separate component of stockholders’ equity (deficit). The amortized cost of debt securities in this category is adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts to maturity. Such amortization is included in interest income. Realized gains and losses and declines in value judged to be other-than-temporary (of which there have been none to date) on available-for-sale securities are included in interest income. The cost of securities sold is based on the specific-identification method.

 

Accounts Receivable

 

Trade accounts receivable are recorded net of allowances for cash discounts for prompt payment and doubtful accounts. Allowances for discounts, distribution fees, and product returns are included in accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Estimates for allowances for doubtful accounts, for which there have been none to date, will be determined based on existing contractual obligations, historical payment patterns and individual customer circumstances.

 

Inventories, net

 

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (FIFO) or market, net of valuation allowances for potential excess and/or obsolete material of $1.6 million and $3.1 million at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. Raw materials consists of pramlintide acetate

 

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and exenatide bulk drug material, work-in-process primarily consists of in-process SYMLIN vials and in-process BYETTA cartridges and finished goods consists of finished SYMLIN drug product in vials for syringe administration and BYETTA drug product in cartridges for pen administration.

 

Property and Equipment

 

Property and equipment, consisting primarily of leasehold improvements, office and laboratory equipment, software and land, are recorded at cost. Depreciation of equipment is computed using the straight-line method, over three to five years. Leasehold improvements are amortized on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the estimated useful lives of the assets or the remaining term of the lease. Amortization of equipment under capital leases is reported with depreciation of property and equipment. Construction in progress includes costs associated with the Company’s planned manufacturing facility for exenatide LAR. The Company recorded depreciation expense of $8.3 million, $5.3 million and $3.1 million in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

 

The Company records impairment losses on property and equipment used in operations when events and circumstances indicate that assets might be impaired and the undiscounted cash flows estimated to be generated by those assets are less than the carrying amount of those assets. The Company also records the assets to be disposed of at the lower of their carrying amount or fair value less cost to sell. To date, the Company has not experienced any impairment losses on its long-lived assets used in operations. While the Company’s current and historical operating and cash flow losses are indicators of impairment, the Company believes the future cash flows to be received support the carrying value of its long-lived assets and accordingly, the Company has not recognized any impairment losses as of December 31, 2005.

 

Computer Software Costs for Internal Use

 

The Company records the costs of computer software for internal use in accordance with AICPA Statement of Position (SOP) 98-1, “Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use.” SOP 98-1 requires that certain internal-use computer software costs be capitalized. Capitalized costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life of software, generally three years and included in depreciation expense.

 

Patents

 

The Company has filed a number of patent applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in foreign countries. Legal and related costs incurred in connection with pending patent applications have been capitalized. Costs related to successful patent applications are amortized over the lesser of the remaining useful life of the related technology or the remaining patent life, commencing on the date the patent is issued. Gross capitalized patent costs were approximately $4.1 million and $4.0 million at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. Accumulated amortization was approximately $1.7 million and $1.9 million at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The Company recorded patent amortization expense of $0.3 million, $0.3 million and $0.8 million in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Capitalized costs related to patent applications are expensed as a selling general and administrative expense in the period during which a determination not to pursue such applications is made. Such expenses were not material in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

 

Debt Issuance Costs

 

Debt issuance costs relate to the $175 million aggregate principal amount of 2.25% convertible senior notes, due June 30, 2008, which were issued in June and July of 2003, referred to as the 2003 Notes; and the $200 million aggregate principal amount of 2.5% convertible senior notes, due April 15, 2011, which were issued in April 2004, referred to as the 2004 Notes. Debt issuance costs are being amortized to interest expense on a straight-line basis over the contractual term of the respective notes. The Company incurred total debt issuance costs of $5.3 million in connection with the 2003 Notes and $6.4 million in connection with the 2004 Notes and recorded $1.9 million and $1.7 million of amortization of such costs in the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. Accumulated amortization of debt issuance costs were $4.2 million and $2.2 million at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. Estimated amortization expense for the five years beginning January 1, 2006 is $7.5 million.

 

Net Loss Per Share

 

Basic and diluted net loss applicable to common stock per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Common stock equivalents from stock options and warrants of approximately 4.3 million, 4.1 million and 4.3 million were excluded from the calculation of net loss per share for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively, because the effect would be antidilutive. In addition, common stock equivalents from shares underlying the Company’s convertible senior notes of 11.2 million, 11.2 million, and 5.8 million were excluded from the net loss per share for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively, because the effect would be antidilutive. In future periods, if the

 

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Company reports net income and the common share equivalents for the Company’s convertible senior notes are dilutive, the common stock equivalents will be included in the weighted average shares computation and interest expense related to the notes will be added back to net income to calculate diluted earnings per share.

 

Foreign Currency Translation

 

Assets and liabilities of foreign operations where the functional currency is other than the U.S. dollar are translated at fiscal year-end rates of exchange, and the related revenue and expense amounts are translated at the average rates of exchange during the fiscal year. Gains and losses resulting from translating foreign currency financial statements resulted in an immaterial impact to the Company’s financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003.

 

Comprehensive Income (Loss)

 

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 130, “Reporting Comprehensive Income” requires that all components of comprehensive income (loss) be reported in the financial statements in the period in which they are recognized. Comprehensive income is defined as the change in equity during a period from transactions and other events and circumstances from non-owner sources. Net income (loss) and other comprehensive income (loss), including unrealized gains and losses on investments, shall be reported, net of their related tax effect, to arrive at comprehensive income (loss).

 

Stock-based Compensation

 

The Company records compensation expense for employee stock options based upon the intrinsic value on the date of grant pursuant to Accounting Principles Board (APB) Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees.” Because the Company establishes the exercise price based on the fair market value of the Company’s stock at the date of grant, the options have no intrinsic value upon grant, and therefore no expense is recorded.

 

As required under SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation,” and SFAS No. 148, “Accounting for Stock Based Compensation Transition and Disclosure,” the pro forma effects of stock-based compensation on net income and net earnings per common share have been estimated at the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions:

 

 

 

Year ended December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

2003

 

Stock option plans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Risk-free interest rate

 

3.9

%

3.7

%

3.3

%

Dividend yield

 

%

%

%

Volatility factor

 

64

%

88

%

121

%

Weighted-average expected life

 

5.4

 

5.8

 

5.9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employee stock purchase plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Risk-free interest rate

 

3.7

%

3.3

%

3.8

%

Dividend yield

 

%

%

%

Volatility factor

 

40

%

45

%

58

%

Weighted-average expected life

 

0.8

 

1.2

 

0.7

 

 

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For purposes of pro forma disclosures, the estimated fair value of the options is amortized ratably to expense over the options’ vesting periods. These pro forma amounts may not be representative of the effects on reported net income (loss) for future years due to the uncertainty of stock option grant volume and potential changes in assumptions driven by market factors. The pro forma effects of recognizing compensation expense under the fair value method on net income (loss) and net earnings per common share were as follows (in thousands, except for net loss per share):

 

 

 

Years ended December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

2003

 

Net loss, as reported

 

$

(206,832

)

$

(157,157

)

$

(122,808

)

Add: Stock-based employee compensation expense included in reported net loss

 

433

 

 

84

 

Deduct: Stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value based method for all awards, net of related tax effects

 

40,342

 

34,901

 

23,947

 

Pro forma net loss

 

$

(246,741

)

$

(192,058

)

$

(146,671

)

Net loss per share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and diluted – as reported

 

$

(1.96

)

$

(1.67

)

$

(1.33

)

Basic and diluted – pro forma

 

$

(2.34

)

$

(2.04

)

$

(1.59

)

 

Reclassifications

 

Certain reclassifications have been made to the consolidated financial statements to provide consistent presentation for all periods presented.

 

Recently Issued Accounting Standards

 

In December 2004, The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued SFAS No. 123 (R) “Share-Based Payment,” which requires stock-based compensation for an award of equity instruments, including stock options and employee stock purchase rights, issued to employees to be recognized as a cost in the financial statements. The cost of these awards are measured according to the grant date fair value of the stock options and is recognized over the period during which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the award, which is usually the vesting period. In the absence of an observable market price for the stock awards, the grant-date fair value of the stock options would be based upon a valuation methodology that takes into consideration various factors, including the exercise price of the option, the expected term of the option, the current price of the underlying shares, the expected volatility of the underlying share price, the expected dividends on the underlying shares and the risk-free interest rate. SFAS No. 123 (R) permits companies to adopt the new requirements using one of two methods:

 

1.        A “modified prospective” method in which cost is recognized beginning with the effective date (a) based on the requirements of SFAS No. 123 (R) for all share-based payments granted after the effective date of SFAS No. 123 (R) and (b) based on the requirements of SFAS No. 123 for all awards granted to employees before the effective date that remain unvested as of the effective date; or

 

2.        A “modified retrospective” method that includes the requirements of the modified prospective method described above, but also permits entities to restate based on the amounts previously recognized under SFAS No. 123 for purposes of pro forma disclosures either (a) for all prior periods presented or (b) for prior interim periods of the year of adoption.

 

The requirements of SFAS No. 123 (R) are effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2006. The Company intends to adopt SFAS No. 123 (R) using the modified prospective method discussed above. The adoption of this standard is expected to increase operating expenses.

 

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2. Investments

 

The following is a summary of short-term investments as of December 31, 2005 and 2004 (in thousands).

 

 

 

Available-for-Sale Securities

 

 

 

Amortized
Cost

 

Gross
Unrealized
Gains

 

Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 

Estimated
Fair Value

 

December 31, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. Government agencies

 

$

57,635

 

$

1

 

$

(203

)

$

57,433

 

Corporate debt securities

 

157,193

 

16

 

(204

)

157,004

 

Asset backed securities

 

117,217

 

9

 

(381

)

116,846

 

Mortgage-backed securities

 

34,797

 

1

 

(219

)

34,579

 

Debt securities issued by states of the United States and political subdivisions of the states

 

5,535

 

 

 

5,535

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

372,377

 

$

27

 

$

(1,007

)

$

371,397

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. Government agencies

 

$

53,321

 

$

 

$

(200

)

$

53,121

 

Corporate debt securities

 

76,004

 

3

 

(63

)

75,944

 

Asset backed securities

 

70,991

 

 

(353

)

70,638

 

Mortgage-backed securities

 

13,735

 

1

 

(64

)

13,672

 

Debt securities issued by states of the United States and political subdivisions of the states

 

19,814

 

 

(16

)

19,798

 

Total

 

$

233,865

 

$

4

 

$

(696

)

$

233,173

 

 

The gross realized gains on sales of available-for-sale securities totaled approximately $72,000, $45,000 and $0.2 million and the gross realized losses totaled $0.3 million, $0.6 million and $1.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

 

Contractual maturities of short-term investments at December 31, 2005 were as follows (in thousands):

 

 

 

Fair Value

 

Due within 1 year

 

$

130,690

 

After 1 but within 5 years

 

174,379

 

After 5 but within 10 years

 

11,619

 

After 10 years

 

54,709

 

Total

 

$

371,397

 

 

For purposes of these maturity classifications, the final maturity date is used for securities not due at a single maturity date, which, for the Company includes asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities.

 

The following table shows the gross unrealized losses and fair value of the company’s investments with unrealized losses that are not deemed to be other-than-temporarily impaired, aggregated by investment category and length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position, at December 31, 2005 (in thousands):

 

 

 

Less then 12 Months

 

12 Months or Greater

 

Total

 

 

 

Fair Value

 

Unrealized
Losses

 

Fair Value

 

Unrealized
Losses

 

Fair Value

 

Unrealized
Losses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury securities and obligations of U.S. Government agencies

 

$

48,433

 

$

(203

)

$

 

$

 

$

48,433

 

$

(203

)

Corporate debt securities

 

115,455

 

(180

)

5,010

 

(24

)

120,465

 

(204

)

Asset backed securities

 

75,669

 

(176

)

23,172

 

(205

)

98,841

 

(381

)

Mortgage-backed securities

 

25,017

 

(168

)

3,319

 

(51

)

28,336

 

(219

)

 

 

$

264,574

 

$

(727

)

$

31,501

 

$

(280

)

$

296,075

 

$

(1,007

)

 

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The unrealized losses on the Company’s investments are due to increased interest rates, and not credit quality. Because the Company has the ability and intent to hold these investments until a recovery of fair value, which may be maturity, the Company does not consider these investments to be other-than-temporarily impaired at December 31, 2005.

 

3.   Other Financial Information

 

Inventories consist of the following (in thousands):

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

Raw materials

 

$

21,395

 

$

14,052

 

Work-in process

 

2,576

 

1,624

 

Finished goods

 

2,779

 

 

 

 

$

26,750

 

$

15,676

 

 

 

Other current assets consists of the following (in thousands):

 

 

 

At December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

Interest and other receivables

 

$

3,388

 

$

1,311

 

Prepaid expenses

 

14,459

 

7,845

 

 

 

$

17,847

 

$

9,156

 

 

Property and equipment consists of the following (in thousands):

 

 

 

At December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

Land

 

$

1,878

 

$

 

Office equipment and furniture

 

12,189

 

5,758

 

Computer Software

 

11,037

 

5,054

 

Laboratory equipment

 

13,609

 

10,463

 

Production equipment

 

4,396

 

1,166

 

Leasehold improvements

 

9,864

 

9,059

 

Construction in progress

 

7,684

 

 

 

 

60,657

 

31,500

 

Less accumulated depreciation and amortization

 

(18,607

)

(10,761

)

 

 

$

42,050

 

$

20,739

 

 

Other current liabilities consist of the following (in thousands):

 

 

 

At December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

Payable to collaborative partner

 

16,678

 

2,791

 

Accrued commercial expenses

 

6,722

 

912

 

Other current liabilities

 

21,816

 

14,922

 

 

 

$

45,216

 

$

18,625

 

 

4. Collaborative Agreements

 

Collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company

 

In September 2002, the Company and Lilly entered into a collaboration agreement for the global development and commercialization of exenatide, including both twice-daily and sustained release formulations. Under the terms of the agreement Amylin and Lilly will share United States development and commercialization costs equally. Development costs outside of the United States are shared 80% by Lilly and 20% by the Company and Lilly will be responsible for all commercialization costs outside of the United States.

 

The Company and Lilly share equally in operating profits from the sale of collaboration products in the United States. In 2005, the Company received United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the twice-daily formulation of exenatide, which is marketed in the United States under the trade name BYETTA. Operating profits from the sale of product outside of the

 

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United States will be shared at approximately 80% to Lilly and 20% to Amylin. Amylin records all United States product revenues and Lilly will record all product revenues outside of the United States.

 

At signing, Lilly made initial non-refundable payments to the Company totaling $80 million and Amylin agreed to incur the first $101.2 million of development expenses for exenatide following the date of the agreement. This cumulative level of development expenses was reached during the year ended December 31, 2003. Subsequent to this $101.2 million of cumulative development expenses, Lilly has funded, on an ongoing basis, 50% of development costs in the United States and 80% of development costs outside of the United States.

 

In addition to these up-front payments, Lilly agreed to make future milestone payments of up to $85 million upon the achievement of certain development milestones, including milestones relating to both twice daily and sustained release formulations of exenatide, of which $40 million has been paid through December 31, 2005. Certain of the potential future development milestone payments may be converted into the Company’s common stock, at Lilly’s option, if the filing of a New Drug Application with the FDA for exenatide LAR is delayed beyond December 31, 2007. Lilly also agreed to make additional future milestone payments of up to $130 million contingent upon the commercial launch of exenatide in selected territories throughout the world, including both twice-daily and sustained release formulations, of which $30 million has been paid through December 31, 2005.

 

The following table summarizes the milestones received to date and the manner of recognition in the accompanying consolidated financial statements:

 

Amount

 

Year
Received

 

Milestone event

 

Manner of recognition

 

Type

$

30 million

 

2003

 

Completion of Phase 3 clinical trials for BYETTA.

 

Recognized as revenue under collaborative agreements upon receipt.

 

Development

$

5 million

 

2003

 

Completion of Phase 3 clinical trials for BYETTA.

 

Deferred upon receipt and recognized as revenue under collaborative agreements in 2005 following contents of approved label for BYETTA.

 

Development

$

5 million

 

2004

 

Results of clinical study comparing BYETTA to insulin-glargine.

 

Recognized as revenue under collaborative agreements upon filing of BYETTA New Drug Application in 2004.

 

Development

$

30 million

 

2005

 

Regulatory approval and commercial launch of BYETTA.

 

Recognized as revenue under collaborative agreements upon commercial launch of BYETTA in 2005.

 

Commercial

 

The Company recorded revenue under this collaborative agreement of $53.8 million, $34.3 million and $85.7 million in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively, and incurred reimbursable development expenses of $37.4 million, $53.0 million and $88.3 million in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Reimbursable development expenses consist of direct internal and external expenses for exenatide, including both BYETTA and sustained release formulations.

 

The Company has a loan facility with Lilly that, subject to certain defined development and regulatory events, over time could provide the Company up to $110 million to fund a portion of its development and commercialization costs for exenatide. At December 31, 2005, $72.5 million was available to the Company under this loan facility and there were no amounts outstanding. Any loans under this facility are secured by certain of the Company’s patents and other tangible assets and, at Lilly’s option, are convertible into the Company’s common stock if amounts remain outstanding for more than two years. Loans under this facility must be executed prior to May 26, 2006, the first anniversary of BYETTA product launch, at which point, 50% of any outstanding loan amounts become due.

 

Collaboration with Alkermes, Inc.

 

In May 2000, the Company signed an agreement with Alkermes, Inc., a company specializing in the development of products based on proprietary drug delivery technologies, for the development, manufacture and commercialization of an injectable long-acting formulation of exenatide, or exenatide LAR, with the goal of developing a product that would allow up to a once-a-month administration of exenatide.

 

Under the terms of the agreement, Alkermes has granted the Company an exclusive, worldwide license to its Medisorb ®  technology for the development and commercialization of injectable sustained release formulations of exendins, such as exenatide, and other related compounds that Amylin may develop. In exchange, Alkermes receives funding for research and development and

 

 

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may earn future milestone payments upon achieving specified development and commercialization goals. Alkermes will also receive royalties on any future product sales.

 

In October, 2005, the Company and Alkermes Controlled Therapeutics II, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alkermes, Inc., entered into an Amendment to Development and License Agreement (the “Amendment”), which amends the Development and License Agreement between the parties dated May 15, 2000. Under the terms of the Amendment, the Company will be responsible for manufacturing for commercial sale the once weekly dosing formulation of exenatide LAR, if approved. The royalty to be paid from the Company to Alkermes for commercial sales of exenatide LAR was adjusted to reflect the new manufacturing arrangement.

 

In December 2005, the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Amylin Ohio LLC, purchased an existing building and land to house the planned facility for approximately $9 million and the Company will be responsible for all costs and expenses associated with the design, construction, validation and utilization of the facility. The Company expects to complete the facility in phases through 2008 at a total cost of up to approximately $150 million.

 

5. Lease Commitments

 

The Company leases its facilities under operating leases, with various terms through 2015. The minimum annual rent on the Company’s facilities is subject to increases based on stated rental adjustment terms of certain leases, taxes, insurance and operating costs. For financial reporting purposes, rent expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the leases. Accordingly, rent expense recognized in excess of rent paid is reflected as deferred rent. Deferred rent totaled $5.7 million and $3.3 million at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively, of which $5.1 million and $3.3 million is included in other long-term obligations, net of current portion in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. Certain of the Company’s facility leases contain incentives in the form of reimbursement from the landlord for a portion of the costs of leasehold improvements incurred by the Company. These incentives are recognized as a reduction of rental expense on a straight-line basis over the term of the respective leases. Unamortized leasehold improvement incentives totaled $3.0 million and $1.0 million at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively, of which $2.6 million and $0.9 million is included in other long-term obligations, net of current portion in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

 

The Company leases vehicles for its field force under operating leases, with lease terms up to four years, of which the first year is non-cancellable. Minimum future payments for the non-cancellable term of these leases are $1.6 million at December 31, 2005.

 

Minimum future annual obligations for facility and vehicle operating leases for years ending after December 31, 2005 are as follows (in thousands):

 

2006

 

$

10,999

 

2007

 

10,142

 

2008

 

10,275

 

2009

 

8,657

 

2010

 

6,210

 

Thereafter

 

26,589

 

Total minimum lease payments

 

$

72,872

 

 

Rent expense for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, was $10.1 million, $8.2 million and $4.5 million, respectively.

 

6. Note Payable

 

In July 2003, the Company repaid all of its outstanding indebtedness to a former collaborative partner for $62.7 million, representing a discount of 7% from face value on the date of payment. This transaction resulted in a gain of $3.6 million, which is included in interest and other income in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2003.

 

7.     Convertible Senior Notes

 

In June and July 2003, the Company issued the 2003 Notes, which have an aggregate principal amount of $175 million, in a private placement. The 2003 Notes have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, to permit registered resale of the 2003 Notes and of the common stock issuable upon conversion of the 2003 Notes. The 2003 Notes bear interest at a rate of 2.25% per year, payable in cash semi-annually, and are convertible into a total of up to 5.4 million shares of common stock at a conversion price of $32.55 per share, subject to customary adjustments such as stock dividends and other dilutive

 

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transactions.

 

The 2003 Notes are redeemable at the Company’s option in whole or in part on or after June 30, 2006, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date, if the closing price of the Company’s common stock exceeds $45.57 for at least 20 trading days in any consecutive 30-day trading period. At the time of any such redemption, the Company will also make an additional payment on the redeemed 2003 Notes equal to $112.94 per $1,000 principal amount of the 2003 Notes, less interest actually paid or accrued but unpaid on the 2003 Notes. At December 31, 2005 and 2004, the fair value of the 2003 notes, based on observed market prices, was $222.7 and $181.3 million, respectively.

 

In April 2004, the Company issued the 2004 Notes, which have an aggregate principal amount of $200 million, in a private placement. The 2004 Notes have been registered under the Securities Act to permit registered resale of the 2004 Notes and of the common stock issuable upon conversion of the 2004 Notes. The 2004 Notes bear interest at 2.5% per year, payable in cash semi-annually and are convertible into a total of up to 5.8 million shares of common stock at a conversion price of $34.35 per share, subject to customary adjustments for stock dividends and other dilutive transactions. The Company may not redeem the 2004 Notes prior to maturity. At December 31, 2005 and 2004, the fair value of the 2004 notes, based on observed market prices, was $262.0 and $202.8 million, respectively.

 

Upon a change in control, the holders of the 2003 and 2004 Notes may elect to require the Company to re-purchase the 2003 or 2004 Notes. The Company may elect to pay the purchase price in common stock instead of cash, or a combination thereof. If paid with common stock the number of shares of common stock a holder will receive will be valued at 95% of the closing prices of our common stock for the five-day trading period ending on the third day before the purchase date.

 

8. Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)

 

Stock Purchase Plans

 

In March 2001, the Company adopted the 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2001 Stock Purchase Plan”), under which 400,000 shares of common stock may be issued to eligible employees, including officers. Contributions to the 2001 Stock Purchase Plan may not exceed 15% of the participant’s eligible compensation. The Company’s stockholders approved the 2001 Stock Purchase Plan at the Company’s 2001 annual meeting. At the Company’s 2004 annual meeting, the Company’s stockholders approved an increase in the aggregate number of shares authorized for issuance under the 2001 Stock Purchase Plan of 750,000 shares to a total of 1.15 million shares. The price of common stock issued under the 2001 Stock Purchase Plan is equal to the lesser of 85% of the market price on the effective date of an employee’s participation in the plan or 85% of the fair market value of the common stock at the purchase date. At December 31, 2005, approximately 590,000 shares of common stock had been issued under the 2001 Stock Purchase Plan.

 

Stock Option Plans

 

Under the Company’s 1991 Stock Option Plan (the “1991 Plan”), 7.8 million shares of common stock were reserved for issuance upon exercise of options granted to employees and consultants of the Company. The 1991 Plan provided for the grant of incentive and nonstatutory stock options. The exercise price of incentive stock options must equal at least the fair market value on the date of grant, and the exercise price of nonstatutory stock options may be no less than 85% of the fair market value on the date of grant. Generally, options are granted at prices equal to at least 100% of the fair market value of the stock subject to the option at the date of grant, expire not later than ten years from the date of grant and vest over a four-year period, with one-quarter becoming exercisable one year following the date of grant and the remainder becoming exercisable in monthly increments over a three-year period. From time to time, as approved by the Company’s Board of Directors, options with differing terms have also been granted. Options ceased being granted under the 1991 Plan upon the adoption of the 2001 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2001 Plan”) described below.

 

In December 2000, the Company adopted the 2001 Plan, as amended, which provides for an additional 11.5 million shares of common stock reserved for issuance upon exercise of options granted to employees and consultants of the Company. The 2001 Plan provides for up to an additional 5.3 million shares to be reserved for issuance upon exercise of options to the extent that options issued under the 1991 Plan expire or are cancelled subsequent to the adoption of the 2001 Plan. The 2001 Plan was approved at a meeting of stockholders in January 2001. The Company’s stockholders approved the 2001 Plan, as amended, at its 2003 annual meeting. The exercise price of incentive stock options may not be less than 100% of the fair market value of the stock subject to the option on the date of the grant and, in some cases, may not be less than 110% of such fair market value. The exercise price of nonstatutory options may not be less than 100% of the fair market value of the stock on the date of the grant and, in some cases, may not be less than 100% of such fair market value. Options issued under the 2001 Plan are generally issued, vest and expire on the same terms as the 1991 Plan.

 

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Under the Company’s Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Option Plan (the “Directors’ Plan”), 450,000 shares of common stock are reserved for issuance upon exercise of nonqualified stock options granted to non-employee directors of the Company. The Company’s stockholders approved the Directors’ Plan at the Company’s 2001 annual meeting. Options granted under the Directors’ Plan must have an exercise price of at least 100% of the fair market value of the stock subject to the option on the date of grant, vest ratably over periods ranging from twelve to thirty-six months and expire not later than ten years from the date of grant. Options ceased being granted under the Directors’ Plan upon the approval of the 2003 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Option Plan (the “2003 Directors’ Plan”) described below.

 

In April 2003, the Company adopted the 2003 Directors’ Plan, which provides for automatic stock option grants to non-employee directors upon their initial appointment or election to the Company’s Board of Directors. Options granted under the 2003 Directors’ Plan are issued from shares authorized under the 2001 Plan described above. Options are granted at prices that may not be less than 100% of the fair market value of the stock subject to the option at the date of grant, expire not later than ten years from the date of grant and vest over a four-year period, with one-quarter becoming exercisable one year following the date of grant and the remainder becoming exercisable in monthly increments over a three-year period.

 

The following table summarizes option activity for all of the option plans (in thousands, except per share data):

 

 

 

Shares
Under Option

 

Weighted
Average

Exercise Price

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2002

 

7,964

 

$

8.96

 

Granted

 

3,665

 

$

20.40

 

Exercised

 

(898

)

$

7.68

 

Cancelled

 

(161

)

$

11.74

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2003

 

10,570

 

$

13.01

 

Granted

 

3,133

 

$

22.30

 

Exercised

 

(702

)

$

7.56

 

Cancelled

 

(379

)

$

19.20

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2004

 

12,622

 

$

15.43

 

Granted

 

5,387

 

$

20.39

 

Exercised

 

(1,626

)

$

10.58

 

Cancelled

 

(647

)

$

19.31

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2005

 

15,736

 

$

17.47

 

 

At December 31, 2005, approximately 4.0 million shares remained available for grant under the Company’s stock option plans. The weighted average grant-date fair value of options granted by the Company was $11.51, $16.36 and $17.69 in the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Following is a further breakdown of the options outstanding as of December 31, 2005 (in thousands, except life and per share data):

 

Range of Exercise Prices

 

Number
Outstanding

 

Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life

 

Weighted
Average
Exercise Price

 

Number
Exercisable

 

Weighted
Average
Exercise Price

 

$

0.31

 

-

 

$

1.07

 

252

 

3.04

 

$

0.63

 

252

 

$

0.63

 

$

1.31

 

-

 

$

1.69

 

19

 

3.41

 

$

1.33

 

19

 

$

1.33

 

$

2.50

 

-

 

$

3.75

 

507

 

2.38

 

$

2.69

 

507

 

$

2.69

 

$

4.38

 

-

 

$

6.56

 

646

 

5.05

 

$

5.58

 

646

 

$

5.58

 

$

7.03

 

-

 

$

10.50

 

1,015

 

5.11

 

$

9.14

 

992

 

$

9.14

 

$

10.56

 

-

 

$

16.13

 

2,334

 

5.23

 

$

12.95

 

2,068

 

$

12.81

 

$

16.14

 

-

 

$

24.38

 

9,690

 

8.48

 

$

19.51

 

3,123

 

$

20.41

 

$

24.68

 

-

 

$

36.75

 

1,074

 

9.03

 

$

31.24

 

204

 

$

27.29

 

$

37.40

 

-

 

$

39.92

 

199

 

9.93

 

$

38.34

 

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15,736

 

 

 

 

 

7,811

 

 

 

 

Stock Warrants

 

The Company has warrants outstanding, which were granted in 1997 and 2000, to purchase a total of 1.6 million shares of its common stock. The warrants are exercisable at prices from $10.01 to $12.00 and expire through March 2008.

 

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Shares Reserved for Future Issuance

 

The following shares of common stock are reserved for future issuance at December 31, 2005 (in thousands):

 

Stock Option Plans

 

19,766

 

Stock Purchase Plan

 

560

 

401(k) Plan

 

452

 

Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan

 

24

 

Warrants

 

1,626

 

Convertible Senior Notes

 

11,199

 

 

 

33,627

 

 

Issuance of Common Stock

 

In January 2003, the Company completed a public offering of approximately 10.5 million shares of its common stock at a price of $16.60 per share. This offering was completed pursuant to a $175 million universal shelf registration statement initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in November 2002. This transaction generated net proceeds of approximately $165 million for the Company.

 

On February 1, 2005, the Company completed a public offering of 9.2 million shares of its common stock at a price of $22.00 per share. This transaction generated net proceeds of approximately $190 million for the Company and was completed pursuant to a $300 million universal shelf registration statement initially filed with Securities and Exchange Commission in December 2003.

 

On September 1, 2005, the Company completed a public offering of 5.1 million shares of its common stock at a price of $31.00 per share. This transaction generated net proceeds of approximately $152 million for the Company and was completed pursuant to shelf registration statements previously filed with Securities and Exchange Commission in 2001 and 2003.

 

Shareholder Rights Plan

 

In June 2002, the Company adopted a Preferred Share Purchase Rights Plan (the “Rights Plan”). The Rights Plan provides for a dividend distribution of one preferred stock purchase right (a “Right”) for each outstanding share of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, held of record at the close of business on June 28, 2002. The Rights are not currently exercisable. Under certain conditions involving an acquisition or proposed acquisition by any person or group of 15% or more of the Company’s common stock, the Rights permit the holders (other than the 15% holder) to purchase one one-hundredth of a share of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Preferred Shares”) at a price of $100 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share, subject to adjustment. Each one one-hundredth of a share of Preferred Shares has designations and powers, preferences and rights and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions which make its value approximately equal to the value of one share of the Company’s common stock. Under certain conditions, the Rights are redeemable by the Company’s Board of Directors in whole, but not in part, at a price of $0.001 per Right.

 

9.     Benefit Plans

 

The Company has a defined contribution 401(k) plan for the benefit of all eligible employees. Discretionary matching contributions are based on a percentage of employee contributions and are funded by newly issued shares of the Company’s common stock. The fair market value of matching contributions made by the Company for the benefit of its employees in 2005, 2004 and 2003 was $2.7 million, $1.0 million and $873,000, respectively.

 

In August 1997, the Company adopted a Non-Employee Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan (the “Directors’ Deferral Plan”) that permits participating non-employee directors to elect, on an annual basis, to defer all or a portion of their cash compensation in a deferred stock account, pursuant to which the deferred fees are credited in the form of phantom shares of the Company’s common stock, based on the market price of the stock at the time the fees are earned. Deferred amounts are valued at the fair market value of the Company’s common stock at each reporting date and are included in accrued compensation in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Upon termination of service the director’s account is settled in either cash or stock, at the Company’s discretion. The Company recorded expense associated with this plan of $1.3 million, $323,000 and $521,000 for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

 

The Company adopted a Deferred Compensation Plan in April 2001, which allows officers and directors to defer up to 100% of their annual compensation. The trust assets, consisting of primarily cash, mutual funds and equity securities are recorded at current market prices. The company-owned assets are placed in a “rabbi trust” and are included in other current assets in the accompanying

 

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consolidated balance sheets. The corresponding liability was $4.9 million and $3.3 million at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively, of which $4.8 million and $3.1 million are included in other long-term liabilities, net of current portion in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The current portion of the corresponding liability is included in accrued compensation in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2005 and 2004. Total contributions to this plan, consisting solely of compensation deferred by participants, were $1.2 million, $1.0 million and $1.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

 

10. Income Taxes

 

Significant components of the Company’s deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2005 and 2004 are shown below (in thousands). A valuation allowance of approximately $458 million has been recognized at December 31, 2005 to offset the deferred tax assets, as realization of such assets has not met the more likely than not threshold under SFAS No 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.”  The deferred tax asset at December 31, 2005 includes a future tax benefit of $21.7 million related to stock option deductions.

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

Deferred tax assets:

 

 

 

 

 

Net operating loss carryforwards

 

$

301,263

 

$

197,955

 

Research tax credits

 

52,295

 

43,437

 

Deferred revenue

 

6,496

 

10,280

 

Capitalized research and development expenses

 

91,331

 

102,961

 

Other

 

6,687

 

3,847

 

Total deferred tax assets

 

485,072

 

358,480

 

Valuation allowance for deferred tax assets

 

(458,072

)

(358,480

)

Net deferred tax assets

 

$

 

$

 

 

Following is a summary of the Company’s Federal net operating loss carryforwards, Federal research tax credit carryforwards and California net operating loss carryforwards at December 31, 2005 (in thousands):

 

 

 

Federal net operating
loss carryforwards

 

California net
operating loss
carryforwards

 

Federal research and
development tax credit
carryforwards

 

Expiring within one year

 

$

 

$

11,560

 

$

459

 

After 1 but within 5 years

 

80,899

 

 

4,366

 

After 5 but within 10 years

 

191,348

 

365,423

 

7,885

 

After 10 years

 

519,872

 

 

28,434

 

 

 

$

792,119

 

$

376,983

 

$

41,144

 

 

At December 31, 2005, the Company had Federal net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $792 million, which begin to expire in 2007. The Company also has California net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $377 million, which begin to expire in 2005, and UK net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $8 million, which carry forward indefinitely. The difference between the Federal and California tax loss carryforwards is attributable to the capitalization of research and development expenses for California tax purposes and the prior years’ limitation on California loss carryforwards. The Company has Federal research tax credit carryforwards of $41 million, which begin to expire in 2006, and California research tax credit carryforwards of $17 million, which carry forward indefinitely.

 

Pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Sections 382 and 383, the use of the Company’s net operating loss and credit carryforwards may be limited if a cumulative change in ownership of more than 50% occurs within a three-year period.

 

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11. Quarterly Financial Data (Unaudited)

 

The following financial information reflects all normal recurring adjustments, which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair statement of the results of the interim periods. Summarized quarterly data for fiscal 2005 and 2004 are as follows (in thousands, except per share data):

 

 

 

For the quarters ended

 

 

 

March 31

 

June 30

 

September 30

 

December 31

 

2005:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net product sales

 

$

 

$

8,652

 

$

21,872

 

$

56,189

 

Revenues under collaborative agreements

 

4,262

 

38,114

 

4,034

 

7,351

 

Gross profit from product sales

 

 

7,130

 

17,612

 

47,187

 

Net loss

 

(43,604

)

(26,594

)

(69,475

)

(67,159

)

Basic and diluted net loss per share (1)

 

$

(0.43

)

$

(0.26

)

$

(0.65

)

$

(0.61

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2004:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net product sales

 

$

 

$

 

$

 

$

 

Revenues under collaborative agreements

 

6,689

 

7,559

 

13,423

 

6,597

 

Gross profit from product sales

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

(37,273

)

(39,427

)

(34,056

)

(46,401

)

Basic and diluted net loss per share (1)

 

$

(0.40

)

$

(0.42

)

$

(0.36

)

$

(0.49

)

 


(1)   Net loss per share is computed independently for each of the quarters presented. Therefore, the sum of the quarterly per-share calculations will not necessarily equal the annual per share calculation.

 

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Schedule II

 

AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC
Schedule II: Valuation Accounts
(in thousands)

 

 

 

Balance at

 

Additions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

beginning of
period

 

Charged to
expense

 

Charged to
other

 

Deductions

 

Balance at end of
period

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year ended December 31, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inventory Reserve

 

$

3,100

 

1,697

 

 

3,179

(1)

$

1,618

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year ended December 31, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inventory Reserve

 

$

3,337

 

3,218

 

 

3,455

(2)

$

3,100

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year ended December 31, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inventory Reserve

 

$

1,151

 

1,926

 

260

(3)

 

$

3,337

 

 


(1)   Deductions relate primarily to sale of previously marked down inventory.

(2)   Deductions relate primarily to material used for development activities.

(3)   Addition related to a physical inventory adjustment.

 

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EX-10.38 2 a06-2364_1ex10d38.htm MATERIAL CONTRACTS

Exhibit 10.38

 

***Text Omitted and Filed Separately

Confidential Treatment Requested

Under 17 C.F.R. §§ 200.80(b)(4)

and 240.24b-2

 

AMENDMENT TO DEVELOPMENT AND LICENSE AGREEMENT

 

THIS AMENDMENT TO DEVELOPMENT AND LICENSE AGREEMENT (the “Amendment”) is entered into as of October 24, 2005 (the “Amendment Effective Date”) by and between AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., a Delaware corporation (Amylin”), and ALKERMES CONTROLLED THERAPEUTICS INC. II, a Pennsylvania corporation (ACTII”).

 

WHEREAS, ACTII and Amylin are parties to that certain Development and License Agreement dated May 15, 2000 (the “Agreement”); and

 

WHEREAS, the Parties desire to amend the Agreement as set forth in this Amendment.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the covenants herein contained, the Parties hereby agree to amend the Agreement as follows:

 

1.             Definitions.

 

1.1          All capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Agreement.

 

1.2          Section 1.16 of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

 

“1.16       “Inventions” means any inventions or discoveries, whether or not patentable, conceived pursuant to (i) the Product Development Plan during the term of this Agreement or within three (3) months thereafter and (ii) the Project Plan or the provision of Ongoing Technical Support during the term of the Tech Transfer Agreement or within three (3) months thereafter.”

 

1.3          Section 1.29 of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

 

“1.29       [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]”

 

1.4          The following new sections, beginning with Section 1.34, are hereby inserted at the end of Section 1 of the Agreement:

 

“1.34       “API” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Tech Transfer Agreement.”

 

“1.35       “Core Oversight Group” means a group formed pursuant to Section 4.2.1(a).”

 



 

“1.36       “Executive Committee” means a committee formed pursuant to Section 4.2.2(a).”

 

“1.37       “Exenatide LAR” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Tech Transfer Agreement.”

 

“1.38       “First Commercial Sale” means, with respect to Exenatide LAR, the first commercial sale of such product in a country after all Regulatory Approvals for such product have been obtained in such country.”

 

“1.39       “Four-Week Exenatide LAR” means a Product that is a formulation of API and that is designed to deliver API over a four-week period of time.”

 

“1.40       “Lillymeans Eli Lilly and Company.”

 

“1.41       “Ongoing Technical Support” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Tech Transfer Agreement.”

 

“1.42       “Project” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Tech Transfer Agreement.”

 

“1.43       “Project Plan” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Tech Transfer Agreement.”

 

“1.44       “RACI Task Analysis” means a list of the major tasks required to perform the Product Development Plan to be agreed by the Parties, including for each task:  the person or Party that is responsible for final decision making; the person or Party that is required to approve steps in the process; the person or Party that needs to be consulted for input and direction, but not approve decisions; and the person or Party that needs to be updated or informed, as such RACI Task Analysis may be amended from time to time as provided herein.”

 

“1.45       “Tech Transfer” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Tech Transfer Agreement.”

 

“1.46       “Tech Transfer Agreementmeans the Technology Transfer and Construction Management Agreement to be entered into between ACTII and Amylin concurrently herewith, as may be amended in accordance with its terms.”

 

2.                                      NON-SUIT

 

2.1          Section 2.1 of the Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following provision:

 

“(c)         Amylin and its Affiliates, sublicensees and agents, agree, on a worldwide basis, not to sue ACTII or its Affiliates, or any third party collaborating with ACTII or its Affiliates, for developing, making, having made, using, selling, offering to sell or importing a product outside the Field under patent rights held by Amylin or its Affiliates, or either of their

 

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sublicenses or agents, that cover or are an improvement to the process for the manufacture of Exenatide LAR transferred to Amylin by ACTII pursuant to the Tech Transfer Agreement.”

 

3.                                      PAYMENTS TO ACTII

 

3.1          Section 3.4 of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

 

“3.4         Payment for Four-Week Exenatide LAR.  According to Section 6, Amylin shall pay to ACTII a transfer price based on Net Sales of all Four-Week Exenatide LAR manufactured by ACTII.  For all Four-Week Exenatide LAR that is not manufactured by ACTII and is instead manufactured by a third party pursuant to Section 6.2 (“Failure to Supply”), below, Amylin shall pay to ACTII a royalty on Net Sales at the rate of [***] percent ([***]%).  For all Four-Week Exenatide LAR that is not manufactured by ACTII and is instead manufactured by a third party pursuant to Section 6.3 (“Second Source”), below, Amylin shall pay to ACTII a royalty on Net Sales at the rate of [***] percent ([***]%).  The royalty payable under this Section 3.4 will be payable only once with respect to a particular sale of Four-Week Exenatide LAR regardless of there being more than one Valid Claim of an ACTII Patent applicable to such Product”

 

3.2          Section 3.5 of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

 

“3.5         Royalties on Products Not Manufactured by ACTII.  Until [***] of the [***] full calendar year following the year in which the First Commercial Sale of Exenatide LAR occurs, Amylin shall pay to ACTII a royalty on Net Sales of Exenatide LAR at the following rates:  (i) [***] percent ([***]%) of Net Sales of the [***] of Exenatide LAR sold or commercially disposed of for value during any [***], or portion thereof, during such period and (ii) [***] percent ([***]%) of Net Sales of the [***] of Exenatide LAR sold or commercially disposed of for value during such [***], or portion thereof, during such period.  Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, Amylin shall pay to ACTII a royalty on Net Sales of Products not manufactured by ACTII at the rate of [***] percent ([***]%).  The royalty payable under this Section 3.5 will be payable only once with respect to a particular sale of a Product regardless of there being more than one Valid Claim of an ACTII Patent applicable to such Product.”

 

4.                                      PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

 

4.1          Section 4.1 of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

 

“4.1         Scope.  ACTII shall have principal responsibility for the formulation and non-clinical development of a Product for use in the Field, including formulation, development and optimization, stability testing, manufacturing of clinical supplies (except as provided below), process scale-up, process validation and preparation of the chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) section of the NDA for Exenatide LAR.  Amylin shall have principal responsibility for toxicological and clinical development of a Product through Regulatory

 


***         CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED

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Approval and sole responsibility for commercialization of a Product.  Amylin and ACTII agree to use the RACI Task Analysis as a tool to assign responsibilities for decision making and to ensure information flow at the Project Working Team level with respect to performance by the Parties under the Product Development Plan.  The RACI Task Analysis with respect to the Product Development Plan may be amended from time to time during the term of this Agreement upon mutual written agreement of ACTII and Amylin.  The Parties acknowledge that as a result of such amendment, responsibilities for decision making may shift from one Party to another. Each Party shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts in performing its functions under the Product Development Plan.  Subsequent to Tech Transfer except as otherwise agreed by the Parties, Amylin shall be responsible for the manufacture of any clinical supplies of Products other than pilot phase material to be used in clinical studies prior to Phase III Clinical Trials.  ACTII acknowledges that Lilly may collaborate with Amylin in the development of a Product, as a potential sublicensee of certain of Amylin’s rights hereunder.”

 

4.2          Section 4.2 of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

 

4.2         Governance.

 

4.2.1        Core Oversight Group.

 

(a)           The committee known as the Steering Committee that was initially formed by the Parties under the Agreement shall after the Amendment Effective Date be known as the Core Oversight Group.  The Core Oversight Group shall operate and have the authority described in this Section 4.2, including the general authority over the management of the Product Development Plan and the Project Working Team, and shall have the further authority over the management of the Project as described in Article 3 of the Tech Transfer Agreement.

 

(b)           ACTII and Amylin shall each appoint three (3) representatives as their representatives to serve on the Core Oversight Group.  A Party may change its representatives from time to time by giving written notice to the other Party.

 

(c)           The Core Oversight Group shall generally meet at such times as it may decide and at least once per calendar quarter.  The location of Core Oversight Group meetings shall alternate between ACTII’s offices and Amylin’s offices unless otherwise agreed by the Parties.  Minutes of a meeting setting forth decisions of the Core Oversight Group shall be prepared by the Party hosting the meeting.  Minutes will become official when agreed to by all members of the Core Oversight Group.  Each Party will bear all expenses associated with attendance of its representatives at meetings.  If the Core Oversight Group members all agree, a meeting may be held by telephone.

 

(d)           Decisions of the Core Oversight Group shall be made by unanimous vote, with each member having one vote.  If the Core Oversight Group is unable to reach a unanimous vote on any issue, the issue shall be referred to the Executive Committee for resolution.

 

(e)           Within fifteen (15) days after the receipt of a proposed Product Development Plan or any amendments thereto from the Project Working Team or referral of any

 

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matter on which the Project Working Team did not reach consensus, the Core Oversight Group shall meet to consider the resolution of such matter or recommending approval of such proposed Product Development Plan or amendments to the Executive Committee, as applicable.  The Core Oversight Group shall also settle any disputes among the Project Working Team.

 

4.2.2        Executive Committee.

 

(a)           Within thirty (30) days after the Amendment Effective Date, the Parties shall form an Executive Committee.  The Executive Committee shall operate and have the authority described in this Section 4.2, including the general authority over the progress, budget and strategic direction of the Product Development Plan, and shall have the further authority over the progress, budget and strategic direction of the Project as described in Article 3 of the Tech Transfer Agreement.

 

(b)           ACTII and Amylin shall each appoint two (2) representatives as their representatives to serve on the Executive Committee.  A Party may change its representatives from time to time by giving written notice to the other Party.

 

(c)           The Executive Committee shall generally meet at such times as it may decide and at least twice per calendar year.  The location of Executive Committee meetings shall alternate between ACTII’s offices and Amylin’s offices unless otherwise agreed by the Parties, with the first meeting being held at Amylin’s office.  Minutes of a meeting setting forth decisions of the Executive Committee shall be prepared by the Party hosting the meeting.  Minutes will become official when agreed to by all members of the Executive Committee.  Each Party will bear all expenses associated with attendance of its representatives at meetings.  If the Executive Committee members all agree, a meeting may be held by telephone.

 

(d)           Decisions of the Executive Committee shall be made by unanimous vote, with each member having one vote.  Except as otherwise specifically set forth in Sections 3.3(a)(i) and (iii) of the Tech Transfer Agreement, if the Executive Committee is unable to reach a unanimous vote on any issue over which it has decision-making authority, the issue shall be referred to Amylin’s Chief Executive Officer (or successor position), who shall make the final decision regarding such issue.

 

(e)           Within fifteen (15) days after the receipt of a proposed Product Development Plan or any amendments thereto from the Core Oversight Group or referral of any dispute by the Core Oversight Group, the Executive Committee shall meet to consider approval of such plan or amendments or resolution of such dispute.  The Executive Committee, or the Core Oversight Group if and to the extent so designated by the Executive Committee, shall periodically review the Product Development Plan from a strategic perspective, the status of efforts to implement it and shall make any changes to the Product Development Plan that it deems necessary to accomplish the purpose of this Agreement.”

 

4.3          Subsections (c) and (d) to Section 4.3 of the Agreement are hereby amended and restated in their entirety as follows:

 

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“(c)         As a general principle, the Project Working Team will use the RACI Task Analysis to agree to responsibilities, approvals, consultations and information flow under the Product Development Plan.  Except as provided in the succeeding sentence of this paragraph, in the event that the Project Working Team members do not reach consensus with respect to a matter that is within the purview of the Project Working Team within fifteen (15) days after the meeting in which they consider such matter, such matter may be referred by either Party to the Core Oversight Group for resolution.  Amylin’s representatives on the Project Working Team shall have the sole right to determine how to proceed with respect to any commercialization activity related to a Product.  No vote of the Project Working Team shall be taken unless a majority of the members of the Project Working Team are present, including at least one (1) representative of each Party.  The Project Working Team shall keep minutes of any meeting at which a decision is to be reached and shall circulate such minutes to all members of the Project Working Team and the Core Oversight Group.  Responsibility for the preparation of the minutes shall rest with the hosting party.  Minutes shall be deemed approved unless any member of the Project Working Team objects to the accuracy of such minutes within five (5) days of receipt.  A Party desiring to refer a matter on which consensus has not been reached by the Project Working Team to the Core Oversight Group shall make its referral in writing to all Core Oversight Group members within twenty (20) days of the meeting at which the matter was considered.  Action pursuant to any matter referred to the Core Oversight Group shall be suspended pending a determination by the Core Oversight Group or the referral of the matter to the Executive Committee for resolution.  A Party may at any time request reconsideration of any issue if it in good faith believes that substantial changes in circumstances have occurred that necessitate such reconsideration.

 

(d) (i)      The Project Working Team shall develop, and present to the Core Oversight Group for consideration, a detailed development plan to address fully, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, the key elements reasonably necessary for the research, development, formulation, and manufacture of Products through Regulatory Approval and the budgeted FTEs and other expenses related to all work to be conducted under the development plan (“Product Development Plan”).  The Product Development Plan shall be based on an initial product development plan, a first draft of which is attached as Exhibit B to this Agreement.  The product to be the subject of the initial product development plan shall be Exenatide LAR.  Should Amylin determine at any time during the course of this Agreement that it wishes to develop and commercialize an additional Field Product, or that it wishes to discontinue development and commercialization of Exenatide LAR and instead develop and commercialize a different Field Product, the Parties will negotiate in good faith whether to develop such additional or different Field Product and, if so, any appropriate alterations or additions to the provisions of this Agreement, including but not limited to its financial provisions.  In the event that Amylin discontinues the development and commercialization of Exenatide LAR and the Parties are unable to agree upon the development of a different Field Product within 180 days of such discontinuation, then this Agreement shall terminate as if Amylin had terminated this Agreement under Section 9.2(b).  The Project Working Team shall be responsible for implementing the Product Development Plan, addressing fully the appropriate strategy for development and Regulatory Approval of a Product, developing the responsibilities and procedures for handling any and all regulatory issues related to a Product and for addressing all issues that develop during the course of implementing the Product Development Plan.  Such implementation efforts shall include:  (A) establishing comprehensive and detailed plans

 

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designed to accomplish the goals of the Product Development Plan, including a plan pursuant to which ACTII will perform technical and scientific work under this Agreement, (B) allocating tasks and coordinating activities required to carry out the objectives of the Product Development Plan, (C) monitoring progress of the Product Development Plan, (D) monitoring the FTEs worked and expenditures made under the Product Development Plan and (E) discharging such other obligations as are assigned to the Project Working Team under this Agreement or by the Core Oversight Group.

 

(ii)           The Project Working Team may propose modifications to the Product Development Plan to the Core Oversight Group for its approval and recommendation to the Executive Committee.  No modification may be implemented unless approved by the Executive Committee or any authorized designee.”

 

4.4          Sections 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6 of the Agreement are hereby amended and restated in their entirety as follows:

 

“4.4         Quarterly Reports.  Within 30 days following the end of each calendar quarter each Party shall provide the Core Oversight Group and the Project Working Team with quarterly status reports summarizing its research and development efforts under the Product Development Plan during such quarter.  This report shall include a general summary of important events and milestones achieved, personnel changes, learning points and such other matters as the Party believes are relevant or that the Core Oversight Group may request.

 

4.5           Governance Following Product Launch.  As soon as practicable following launch of the Product in a Major Market Country, the Parties shall meet to review whether it is appropriate to continue the Product Development Plan under the day-to-day management of the Project Working Team, or whether the objectives of the Project Working Team have been substantially achieved and it is appropriate to disband or reorganize the Project Working Team.  Regardless of whether the Parties elect to disband or reorganize the Project Working Team, the Executive Committee shall continue to provide overall direction to development of Products.

 

4.6           Other Working Teams.  The Core Oversight Group and Project Working Team, with the approval of the Core Oversight Group, may appoint one or more other working teams (“Working Teams”) to perform such functions as the Core Oversight Group or Project Working Team, as applicable, may determine.  Unless a Party elects not to participate on a particular Working Team, all Working Teams shall have at least one representative of each Party.  Working Teams may provide advice and make recommendations to the Project Working Team, but shall have no authority to bind the Project Working Team or either Party.”

 

5.                                      FOUR-WEEK EXENATIDE LAR

 

5.1          Section 6 of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

 

“6            Four-Week Exenatide LAR.

 

6.1           Manufacturing Agreement.  In the event Amylin decides to proceed with the development and commercialization of Four-Week Exenatide LAR, then Amylin and ACTII

 

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shall proceed in accordance with Section 4.3(d)(i).  If the Parties negotiate a Four-Week Exenatide LAR Product Development Plan, then ACTII shall have the option to be the exclusive manufacturer of Four-Week Exenatide LAR for a period of [***] ([***]) [***] after the first commercial sale in a Major Market Country of Four-Week Exenatide LAR, and, if ACTII exercises this option, ACTII shall exclusively manufacture and supply Four-Week Exenatide LAR, in the amounts and at such delivery times as required by Amylin, its Affiliates, sublicensees and Co-Marketers.  ACTII shall decide whether to exercise this option prior to the commencement of Phase III Clinical Trials for Four-Week Exenatide LAR.  Upon ACTII’s exercise of this option and prior to the commencement of Phase III Clinical Trials for Four-Week Exenatide LAR, or sooner if agreed by Amylin and ACTII, the Parties shall negotiate in good faith and enter into a manufacturing and supply agreement (the “Manufacturing Agreement”) on the terms provided in this Section 6 and such other terms to be mutually agreed upon, including but not limited to, provisions dealing with ACTII’s responsibility to incur all capital expenditures necessary to develop manufacturing capability for Four-Week Exenatide LAR (subject to the last sentence of this Section 6.1), minimum purchase requirements for Four-Week Exenatide LAR, forecasting of Amylin’s requirements for Four-Week Exenatide LAR, delivery times and terms, rejection of Four-Week Exenatide LAR, recall of Four-Week Exenatide LAR, inspection of ACTII’s manufacturing facilities, indemnification, and Amylin’s and ACTII’s responsibilities with respect to compliance with global governmental regulations and force majeure.  The agreement shall provide that Amylin will supply sufficient quantities of API for use in the manufacture of Four-Week Exenatide LAR for commercialization at no cost to ACTII.  Under the agreement Amylin shall pay ACTII a transfer price equal to the greater of (a) [***]% of Net Sales of Four-Week Exenatide LAR and (b) [***] dollars ($[***]) for each dose of Four-Week Exenatide LAR.  Such $[***] price shall be adjusted annually by ACTII in accordance with the annual percentage change in the Consumer Price Index (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for all urban consumers, U.S. City Average — all items less food and energy (October 1999 equals 178.3 (Reference CUUR0000 SAOL1E)).  The Parties shall also negotiate in good faith provisions for inclusion in the agreement regarding payment by Amylin to ACTII of some portion of the transfer price at the time of shipment of Four-Week Exenatide LAR and quarterly reconciliation of the balance of the transfer price owed on Net Sales of Four-Week Exenatide LAR.  The agreement shall also include provisions regarding the manufacturing options provided to Amylin in Sections 6.2 and 6.3 below.  In addition the agreement shall include provisions regarding the reimbursement of ACTII by Amylin of any costs and expenses ACTII has incurred to design, construct, commission or validate any manufacturing facility, or portion thereof, including the purchase of equipment, to permit the manufacture of Four-Week Exenatide LAR in the event that Amylin does not develop Four-Week Exenatide LAR and commercialize it for a period of [five] ([5]) [years] after its first commercial sale in a Major Market Country.

 

6.2           Failure to Supply.  Should ACTII ever fail to supply any or all of Amylin’s (as well as any Affiliate, sublicensee or Co-Marketer of Amylin’s) needs for Four-Week Exenatide LAR to the extent Amylin has forecasted such needs, ACTII shall have the first right to secure a third party to manufacture that amount of Four-Week Exenatide LAR which ACTII has failed or anticipates failing to supply.  Such third party shall be approved by Amylin, which approval may not be unreasonably withheld.  In the event that ACTII is unable to secure a third party manufacturer, or ACTII continues to fail to supply all of Amylin’s (as well as any Affiliate, sublicensee or Co-Marketer of Amylin’s) needs for Four-Week Exenatide LAR for more than [***] ([***]) [***], Amylin may do any of the following:  (i) elect to make

 


***         CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED

 

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nonexclusive the license grant to ACTII with respect to Four-Week Exenatide LAR granted in accordance with Section 6.1, above, (ii) terminate the Manufacturing Agreement with ACTII for ACTII’s breach (should said breach be material), and (iii) either by itself and/or by utilizing the services of a third party, manufacture and supply Four-Week Exenatide LAR or components thereof (without an obligation to pay to ACTII any transfer price payments on such Four-Week Exenatide LAR manufactured by Amylin or such third party).  Any Four-Week Exenatide LAR sold by Amylin, its Affiliates, sublicensees or Co-Marketers under this Section 6.2 shall be subject to the applicable royalty payment provided in Section 3.4, above.

 

6.3           Second Source.  After the expiration of ACTII’s manufacturing exclusivity period of [***] ([***]) [***], as described in Section 6.1, above, Amylin may do any of the following:  (i) elect to make nonexclusive the license grant to ACTII with respect to Four-Week Exenatide LAR granted in accordance with Section 6.1, above, or (ii) either by itself and/or by utilizing the services of a third party, manufacture and supply Four-Week Exenatide LAR or components thereof (without an obligation to pay to ACTII any transfer price payments on such Four-Week Exenatide LAR manufactured by Amylin or such third party).  Any Four-Week Exenatide LAR sold by Amylin, its Affiliates, sublicensees or Co-Marketers under this Section 6.3 shall be subject to the applicable royalty payment provided in Section 3.4, above.

 

6.4           ACTII Cooperation.  In the event Amylin exercises its rights pursuant to Sections 6.2 or 6.3, above, to provide for manufacture of Four-Week Exenatide LAR other than by ACTII, ACTII shall transfer to Amylin or a third party, as appropriate, any ACTII Know-How required to enable Amylin or such third party to manufacture Four-Week Exenatide LAR and provide such assistance as is reasonably necessary to assist such manufacture and supply.  Amylin shall pay ACTII the FTE Hourly Rate for time spent by ACTII personnel in such technology transfer.”

 

6.                                      USE OF MATERIALS AND INFORMATION

 

6.1          The following new section is hereby inserted at the end of Section 8 of the Agreement:

 

“8.6         Disclosure to Collaboration Partner.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Amylin may disclose the terms of this Agreement and Confidential Information of ACTII to Lilly as necessary or appropriate for the research, development or commercialization of Products; provided that Lilly is subject to obligations of confidentiality comparable to those contained herein.”

 

7.                                      PROSECUTION AND MAINTENANCE OF PATENTS

 

7.1          Subsections (a) and (b) of Section 10.2 of the Agreement are hereby amended and restated in their entirety as follows:

 

“(a)         ACTII’s Obligations to Prosecute.  ACTII shall file and control prosecution and maintenance of patent applications for all ACTII Patents, including ACTII Patents claiming Inventions owned by ACTII, and, subject to consultation rights granted to Amylin in Section 10.2(b) below, patents claiming Inventions owned jointly by ACTII and Amylin (“Joint Inventions”) and be responsible for related interference proceedings in

 


***         CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED

 

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accordance with reasonable commercial standards and reasonable principles of intellectual property protection, all at ACTII’s expense.  For prosecution and maintenance of patents and patent applications claiming Joint Inventions, ACTII shall use external counsel of its choosing, subject to the consent of the General Counsel of Amylin, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld.  ACTII shall endeavor to ensure that all ACTII Patents, and patents claiming Joint Inventions are filed before any public disclosure of the inventions claimed therein to maximize the scope of protection of such patents filed outside the United States.  ACTII shall furnish Amylin with copies of all substantive communications between ACTII and applicable patent offices regarding patents and patent applications claiming Inventions.

 

(b)           Consultation; No Disclosure by Amylin.  ACTII and Amylin shall discuss and evaluate Joint Inventions and confer with each other regarding the advisability of filing patent applications in the United States and in foreign countries to cover Joint Inventions.  ACTII shall provide to Amylin (i) draft patent applications, and (ii) draft official correspondence to national or international patent authorities which purports to amend the scope of the claims presented in the originally filed application, each to be provided sufficiently in advance of filing for Amylin to have the opportunity to comment thereon, and at least 30 days prior to the contemplated filing date whenever possible.  Any reasonable requests made by Amylin pertaining to such drafts shall be reflected in such drafts, provided that Amylin provides such input to ACTII sufficiently in advance of such proposed submission date to permit inclusion therein.  Amylin shall endeavor to delay any public disclosure of the subject matter of any patent application filed or to be filed by ACTII under this Agreement until after filing by ACTII of such patent application.  Should the respective patent counsel of ACTII and Amylin be unable to agree, within thirty (30) days (or earlier if such time period might affect patentability) of a set of claims being presented by one Party to the other, as to the inventorship of any patent application claiming an Invention in which each Party claims its employee or agent is an inventor, the Parties shall refer such dispute to a neutral patent attorney or other appropriately qualified person mutually agreed upon by the Parties.  Such neutral third party shall be instructed to complete his/her determination as to inventorship within thirty (30) days of referral of the dispute (or earlier if such time period might affect patentability).  Such neutral third party’s determination regarding the referred issue shall be final and binding upon the Parties.  The Party whose position did not agree with the neutral third party’s determination will pay the fees associated with such neutral third party decision, unless neither Party’s position prevails in which case the Parties will share on a 50/50 basis the fees associated with such neutral third party’s decision.”

 

8.                                      MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

8.1                      Governing Law.  This Amendment shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of laws.

 

8.2                      Entire Agreement.  Except as specifically amended by this Amendment, the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.  If there is any inconsistency or conflict between any provision in this Amendment and any provision in the Agreement, the provision in this Amendment shall control.

 

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8.3                      Headings.  Any headings and captions included herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not be used to construe this Amendment.

 

8.4                      Counterparts; Facsimile.  This Amendment shall become binding when any one or more counterparts hereof, individually or taken together, shall bear the signature of each of the Parties hereto.  This Amendment may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be an original as against any Party whose signature appears thereon, but all of which together shall constitute but one and the same instrument.  This Amendment may be executed and delivered by facsimile and upon such delivery the facsimile signature will be deemed to have the same effect as if the original signature had been delivered to the other Party.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have duly executed and delivered this AMENDMENT TO DEVELOPMENT AND LICENSE AGREEMENT as of the Amendment Effective Date.

 

 

 

AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

 

ALKERMES CONTROLLED THERAPEUTICS INC. II

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Daniel M. Bradbury

 

By:

/s/ Michael Landine

 

 

 

Title:

Chief Operating Officer

 

Title:

Vice President, Corporate Development

 

 

 

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EX-23.1 3 a06-2364_1ex23d1.htm CONSENTS OF EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

Exhibit 23.1

 

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statements on Form S-8 (No.’s 33-45092, 33-47604, 33-85512,
333-2894, 333-2896, 333-51577, 333-82965, 333-39124, 333-61660, 333-108050, 333-115187, 333-121496, and 333-126513) and Form S-3 (No.’s 33-83602, 333-2898, 333-87033, 333-33340, 333-61144, 333-75066, 333-101278, 333-108008, 333-111086, 333-115509, 333-127949, and 333-127950), of our reports dated February 10, 2006, with respect to the consolidated financial statements and schedule of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. included in the Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2005.

 

                                                /s/ ERNST & YOUNG LLP  

 

San Diego, California

March 1, 2006

 


EX-31.1 4 a06-2364_1ex31d1.htm 302 CERTIFICATION

Exhibit 31.1

 

CERTIFICATIONS

 

I, Mark G. Foletta, certify that:

 

1.             I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.;

 

2.             Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this annual report;

 

3.             Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual report;

 

4.             The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

a.             Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report is being prepared;

 

b.             Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

c.             Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

d.             Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5.             The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors:

 

a.             All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

b.             Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date:  March  6, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

             /s/ MARK G. FOLETTA

 

 

 

Vice President, Finance and
Chief Financial Officer

 

 


EX-31.2 5 a06-2364_1ex31d2.htm 302 CERTIFICATION

Exhibit 31.2

 

CERTIFICATIONS

 

I, Ginger L. Graham, certify that:

 

1.             I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.;

 

2.             Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this annual report;

 

3.             Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual report;

 

4.             The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

a.             Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report is being prepared;

 

b.             Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

c.             Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

d.             Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5.             The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors:

 

a.             All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

b.             Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date:  March 6, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/S/  GINGER L. GRAHAM

 

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 


EX-32.1 6 a06-2364_1ex32d1.htm 906 CERTIFICATION

Exhibit 32.1

 

CERTIFICATION

 

Pursuant to Section 906 of the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 (18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted), Ginger L. Graham, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”), and Mark G. Foletta, the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, each hereby certifies that, to the best of his or her knowledge:

 

1.             The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2005, to which this Certification is attached as Exhibit 32.1 (the “Periodic Report”), fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

 

2.             The information contained in the Periodic Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition of the Company at the end of the period covered by the Periodic Report and results of operations of the Company for the period covered by the Periodic Report.

 

 

Dated:  March 6, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ GINGER L. GRAHAM

 

/s/ MARK G. FOLETTA

 

Ginger L. Graham

Mark G. Foletta

President and Chief Executive Officer

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 


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