Rick Winningham
Management
Thanks very much. I would like to thank Citi for inviting us here to present today. We've got a terrific year ahead of us at Theravance; I'll walk you through in the presentation some of the significant events and significant programs that we are working on this year. Before I get started, there is a Safe Harbor, of course we'll be making some forward-looking statements and you should refer to our SEC documents that are currently on our website. Theravance, so what do we focus on? Well, medicines that makes a difference. We focus on discovery and development of medicines. We are working on building value from drug discovery through commercialization. We have multiple major late stage programs in Phase 3 in front of regulatory authorities. We have a very deep pipeline behind those programs and as I noted 2013 is a path to significant growth for the company. If you look at the growth drivers for us for 2013 and beyond, three late stage respiratory programs with the potential to enter very large markets with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease as well as asthma. Also our high value strategic partnerships with GlaxoSmithKline and the significant funding that they have provided to advance the company. Another key driver for growth in 2013 and beyond is the deep pipeline beyond the late stage respiratory programs. We've taken over 20 development candidates into the clinic and we have over 1,430 patents that have been issued to Theravance discovered molecules and we are in a very strong financial position, strong cash position going into 2013 and beyond. First, I'll start with the advanced respiratory programs in partnership with GSK. Stepping back for a moment, looking at the size of the opportunity, here you see a graph of sales of products containing long-acting beta agonist…