Martin Gerstel
Management
On behalf of my associates and all the employees of Compugen, welcome to our Q1 2013 conference call. Thanks for joining us. This is a very exciting rewarding time for Compugen after more than a decade of world-class multidisciplinary focused research leading to multiple scientific breakthroughs in the predictive understanding of key biological phenomena documented in part by more than 70 peer reviewed scientific papers. We have accomplished something that many thought was impossible. Compugen now has a broadly applicable and validated computer-based discovery infrastructure that can predict the sequences of novel molecules and their expected biological activity. During the past three years, we have utilized this capability to address our first focused discovery effort, the discovery of B7/CD28 have been checkpoint proteins. This area of research is one of the, if not the area of highest pharmaceutical interest. The results of this first focused program have far exceeded even our most optimistic expectations and we now have a wide and attractive early stage pipeline in this important field. More recently as we have begun disclosing product candidate performance, both the potential of these product candidates and the uniqueness of our capabilities are rapidly becoming recognized within the industry and the scientific community. Furthermore, only when one recognizes that all of these product candidates that are now attracting so much interest are the result of using our unique predictive infrastructure in only the first focused discovery program in our selective fields of focus; immunology and oncology. Again the full potential of what has been created at Compugen began to be appreciated. In view of reaching this critical space for our company, earlier this year, we for the first time disclosed our key corporate objectives for the year. These objectives clearly reflect the power and potential that can now be harvested…