Welcome to the Halozyme 2008 fourth quarter and full year financial results and pipeline update conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Following management’s prepared remarks, we will hold a question-and-answer session. (Operator instructions) As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded today, March 13, 2009. I would now like to turn the call over to Robert Uhl. Please go ahead.

Thank you, and thanks also to everyone for participating in today’s call. I am Robert Uhl, Senior Director of Investor Relations at Halozyme Therapeutics. Joining me on the call today from Halozyme are Jonathan Lim, President and Chief Executive Officer; and David Ramsay, Chief Financial Officer. Additional members of the Halozyme management team will also be available to address your questions during the Q&A portion of the call. This morning Halozyme released 2008 fourth quarter and full-year financial results. If you have not received this news release, or if you would like to be added to the company’s distribution list, please call Alex Schlam [ph] at 858-704-8288. This call is also being web cast live over the Internet at www.halozyme.com and a replay will be available on the company’s website for the next 30 days. Before we begin, let me remind you that during this conference call we will make forward-looking statements. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a Safe Harbor for forward-looking statements. All statements made during this conference call that are not statements of historical facts constitute forward-looking statements. The matters referred to in forward-looking statements could be affected by the risks and uncertainties of Halozyme’s business, both known and unknown. Such risks inherent to company’s business are described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as in our news releases. The company’s actual results may differ materially from those expressed and/or indicated by such forward-looking statements. With that I’d like to now turn the call over to Jonathan Lim, President and CEO.

Thank you, Robert. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. On the call today, I will briefly review our major accomplishments in 2008, update the status of our key development programs, and provide an overview of our business plan, and how each program fits within that plan. Also on the called today David Ramsay, our CFO, will provide the highlights of our financial results and some thoughts about the current year. I'm pleased with the tremendous progress Halozyme has made in 2008 and so far in 2009. As a result of this forward momentum; Halo’s fundamentals have been stronger than they have ever been since founding just over a decade ago. During the fourth quarter of 2008, four of our programs made important advances in clinical development as two programs entered Phase I, one entered Phase 2, and one began a Phase 3 clinical trial. Specifically, these four programs are bisphosphonate PH20, which began a face on clinical trial in osteoporosis patients; Roche, which initiated its first Phase I clinical trial for one of its biologics with PH20, and has subsequently initiated an additional Phase I clinical trial in 2009; insulin PH20, which advanced to a Phase 2 clinical trial in type 1 diabetic patients; and GAMMAGARD LIQUID with PH20 in a development alliance with Baxter BioScience, began a Phase 3 registration study in patients with primary immunodeficiency. PEG PH20 for the treatment of solid tumors made strong progress in preclinical studies in 2008 that are paving the way for it to begin patient dosing in a Phase I cancer study soon. We firmly believe that the development milestones that I just described along with the development activities related to other proprietary and partnered product candidates are significantly raising the intrinsic value of Halozyme. So, one of the important…

Thank you, Jonathan, and good morning everyone. The net loss for the fourth quarter of 2008 was $16.8 million or $0.21 per share compared with a net loss for the fourth quarter of 2007 of $8.7 million or $0.11 per share. For the year ended December 31, 2008, our net loss totaled $48.7 million or $0.61 per share compared to a net loss of $23.9 million or $0.32 per share for the full-year 2007. Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2008 was $3.1 million compared to $1.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2007. Revenues under collaborative agreements for the fourth quarter of 2008 were $2.8 million compared to $1.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2007. Revenues under collaborative agreements for the fourth quarter of 2008 primarily consisted of the amortization of upfront fees received from Baxter and Roche of $1.6 million and research and development reimbursements from Baxter and Roche of $1.2 million. Total revenues for the year 2008 were $8.8 million compared to $3.8 million reported for 2007. Revenues under collaborative agreements for the year 2008, totaled $8.1 million compared to $3.2 million for 2007. Revenues under collaborative agreements in 2008 consisted primarily of the amortization of upfront fees received from Baxter and Roche of $3.4 million versus $1.9 million for 2007. Revenues under collaborative agreements also include R&D reimbursement revenue, primarily from Baxter and Roche, which jumped substantially to $4.7 million in 2008 compared to $1.3 million during the prior year, 2007. R&D expenses for the fourth quarter of 2008 were $16.8 million compared with $7.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2007 primarily due to an increase in research and development headcount, spending on the PEG PH20, insulin PH20, and bisphosphonate PH20 pre-clinical and clinical program, and production costs associated with the manufacturing scale up…

Thank you, David. At this point, I would like to provide you with a summary listing of some of the important Halozyme milestones that we expect to occur during the remainder of 2009. So, we plan to begin dosing of Phase I clinical trial for PEG PH20 as a single agent in cancer patients with refractory solid tumors in the second quarter of this year. For the insulin program, we will have multiple events this year, including presentation of interim Phase 2 data for insulin PH20 at the ADA meeting in June, followed by presentation of full dataset for Phase 2 insulin PH20 at the EASD meeting in September of 2009, initiation of the insulin PH20 with three times per day dosing in the fourth quarter of 2009, presenting top line data from the bisphosphonate PH20 Phase 1 clinical trial in the fourth quarter of this year, Hylenex launch by Baxter in pediatric hydration, also in the fourth quarter, and completion of enrolment by Baxter in the Phase 3 GAMMAGARD PH20 in the treatment of primary immunodeficiency during the fourth quarter of this year. Additional milestones that we expect to occur this year, but where I can't give you precise timing are the initiation of additional Roche clinical trials plus milestone payments. At Halozyme, I believe we are making tremendous progress in advancing both our proprietary and partnership programs as rapidly as we can. With that overview let us open it up for questions. Operator?

And the first question comes from Kevin DeGeeter.

Hi, good morning, guys.

Hi, good morning.

A couple of quick questions here. For the glucodynamic study and inter-patient variability study for insulin, should we eventually look for those being presented? Is that also EASD or is that some other form?

Yes. We're not sure yet Kevin because we just started that but we will give more guidance later this year.

Okay.

It should be a fairly quick study though.

Likely in the third quarter in terms of when we might see that data in some context?

It could be, still it is a little early for us to know precisely when but, yes, Q3 or Q4 would be reasonable.

Okay, and maybe here just one or two quick timing questions for David here. Help me just – I guess make sure I'm thinking about the cash payments here from Roche in the right manner here. The $10.25 million you received in December that was all received in the fourth quarter, correct?

No, it wasn't, Kevin. Actually the majority of that was received on January 2nd.

Okay and that's the $6 million?

Yes, correct.

So where is the other $4.25 million? Was that in December or is that still –

That was received in December and booked to deferred revenue.

Okay. And the $6 million will be booked to deferred revenue as well?

Most of it not all of it, but a good chunk of it.

Okay, and amortized over what period or reversed under what circumstance?

Amortized until 2024.

Okay, perfect and just help me I guess and understand I don't want to dwell on it, but understand why you received the $4.25 million than the $6 million. I am assuming that pertains to different elements of –

It does, Kevin. The $4.25 million is maintenance payment that had a slightly different payment schedule, and so we received that prior to year-end. So that's something that we'll receive on any annual basis provided Roche keeps their remaining targets, option period open.

Okay, and maybe one more from me then I will get back in queue. With regard to exploring strategic alternatives for Chemophase, are you going to wait until later this year and you have a full data package to go out with perspective partners. I'm assuming that's how we should read that announcement or is that something you hope to move aggressively with the data you have in hand.

Yes, Kevin we're going to be packaging Chemophase with studies that we have and complete those and then put those as part of the package for potential discussions.

Okay, so we should think of that as more of a longer-term process at this point?

That's right.

Okay, thanks so much.

The next question is from Eun Yang.

Thanks very much. A quick question to David, in terms of the R&D spending, you know, you mentioned that in the fourth quarter there are increased expenses associated with manufacturing ramp up. Could you actually give us some guidance on what the quarterly run rate would be in 2009?

Sure, Eun. I think, as I mentioned if you take a look at how 2 million of that number was shifted from Q1 ‘09 to Q4. If you just sort of back that out from Q4 that should give you a pretty good sort of estimate of the subsequent quarterly run rate in total.

Okay, and then your cash guidance – cash usage guidance of $30 million to $35 million based on the increased R&D expense, anticipated R&D expense in ’09. What's the kind of revenue assumptions that you have there.

Sure. So, as you can see as we incurred in even Q4, we had significant expense but offset by a fair amount of milestones coming in. So a lot of the ‘09 incoming cash, for example, we anticipate from continued receipts of cash from Baxter and Roche. For example, we mentioned that in January we received $5.5 million from Baxter and $6 million from Roche. So that all is offsetting the burn to get you to that $30 million to $35 million number. So we anticipate that continuing as we move our programs forward into the clinic resulting in a net burn of $30 million to $35 million.

Okay.

Some of the subtleties in that are, you know, a lot of the cash we get we booked to deferred revenues. So it's not revenue per se.

Okay, thanks. And then, I'll ask a question to Jonathan. In the new administration’s proposed budget, there is some element there where they are actually kind of proposing to prohibit brand biology manufacturers from reformulating existing product into new product until we start the kind of exclusivity process. They call it like evergreening [ph]. So I just want to get your thoughts on how you think PH20 or Enhanze Technology that Halozyme is developing fitting into that newly proposed budget.

Yes, Eun, based on our current partnership activities if it is a new BLA type of filing, then we don't believe that this new legislation would impact that.

So initially – our understanding is that this enhanced program would be like (inaudible) to pathway.

Not for biologics, Eun, so the option is either a supplemental BLA or a new BLA, but that's not to mean that there is any significant clinical pathway. So it's not a full-blown clinical development pathway for the enhanced technology type of program. It's really just a matter of whether you file a new BLA for regulatory purposes versus file a supplement to an existing BLA.

So – this is to make sure I understand. So enhanced products that Roche is developing, you do not think that's kind of a reformulation of existing products. Is that correct?

Correct, absolutely correct. Yes, so that the timing is unchanged.

Okay, thank you.

Sure.

The next question is from Chris Geston.

Good morning.

Good morning, Chris.

Could you speak to the number of folks that are working directly on additional, let’s call them partnership opportunities and is that different, has it increased over the last 6 to 12 months, and maybe it would be helpful to have the same kind of number of professionals working directly on and with Roche?

Yes, Chris, I will just say that you know, in terms of business development it is always a team effort, and so we have enough then with working on the various options that we are pursuing in parallel. So I will say that the amount of focus and attention on that pathway is significant. And then in terms of the Roche Alliance management, we have also a dedicated team of people working on the support activities and we also pull various degrees of bandwidth and support from existing departments, for instance, product development, manufacturing, R&D, and other areas as needed.

Terrific. Just going back to the first one, there was a conference call and I don't remember the exact time in which, I think there was some disappointment over the number of team people that were working directly on additional partnership opportunities. My understanding or guess would be that that has been enhanced. Is there any way you could give us a general number or an increase percentage wise.

Yes, I wouldn't focus too much on the number of people within business development, it is more. Are we fully and adequately supporting the outreach efforts that are needed and the question is, or the answer is a definitive, yes.

Perfect, thanks very much.

You're welcome.

Your next question comes from Matt Osborne.

Hi and thanks for taking the question. Just you can clarify the manufacturing with Cook now, where it stands and is Roche now treating patients with supply from that facility, and what the capacity is there for that in terms of leaders of manufacturing, and does it need to go to another round of increased capacity before Roche move into Phase 2. Thank you.

Yes, so the capacity is 2500 liters, and we will be using material both from Abbott as well as Cook at various stages of development of the Roche products.

And is any further progress from Roche dependent upon additional scale that is required or is there sufficient scale now for them to move forward into Phase 2 or Phase 3.

Yes, manufacturing will not be rate limiting in Roche’s development.

Okay, great. Thank you.

You're welcome.

Your next question comes from Andrew Vaino.

Hi, thanks for taking my call and kudos to you guys for having your earnings call on Friday the 13th, that's just fantastic. I was wondering if you could comment, you mentioned that your R&D headcount increased. Can you comment by how much?

Yes, you know, we ended the year Andrew with about 130 employees and about 100 or 97 of those are involved in R&D and that's a significant increase, for example, from year-end 2007 when I believe we ended the year with about 87 employees and about 60 or so were R&D. So, it's probably year-over-year, probably about 50% or almost 50% increase in R&D headcount. And that really is divided or allocated throughout the whole R&D chain. So, for example, we hired people in research from oncology preclinical, regulatory clinical, just the whole gamut there and particularly now as we have scaled up our clinical program, for example, having three insulin trials running simultaneously right now. You know, extra headcount there was required to move those programs along expeditiously. So just kind of gives you a sense. Most of the increase was in the R&D side, and we don't expect to see that kind of increase in ’09. You know, the increase in ‘09 will be much more modest in terms of headcount, anywhere between 10 to 12 people or so. You know, the bulk of the infrastructure we've needed to build out now, we've done and is able to handle all of our proprietary as well as partnered programs.

Okay, that's great. You mentioned that you had had paper accepted in a peer-review Journal. Is it possible to know which one?

We'll comment on that in the future.

Okay, and secondly, I am just trying to challenge in evaluating your company. Do you guys have any idea of what you expect in terms of revenue for say you know, 2011-2012, or it is still very much premature?

We do Andrew, but we don't disclose it. A lot of that revenue comes from milestones and such from partners and so, you know, they've asked us and particularly Roche has asked us not to give guidance as to those milestones, but we have a very detailed forecast and as you can imagine, do scenario planning and have all sorts of scenarios built into that forecast, and that's – it is that type of planning that gives us the granularity to be able to say that we anticipate ‘09 cash burn to be about $30 million or $35 million.

Excellent, thank you very much.

Okay, thanks, Andrew.

(Operator instructions) And the next question is from Stephen Harris.

Good morning, gentlemen. A very basic question about Roche and Genentech. Do you have a team internally that is going through some of the Genentech products to see if your relationship with Roche can get any deeper after this acquisition?

Yes, what I can say about the Roche and Genentech acquisition is that two targets covered in our partnership with Roche are in Phase I clinical trials, and both of these began during the midst of the Genentech bidding process. So we don't believe that the acquisition process affected the progress of our partnership. The gating factors are all of the usual things you would expect in drug development such as formulation talks, discussions with regulators, etc. So that's a comment on that and then in terms of the possibility of adding other targets to the mix based on the acquisition, well that's always a possibility.

And then, no further questions at this time.

Okay. Well Halozyme’s unique and exciting business model strikes a balance between proprietary product development programs and partnerships with other companies that aim to leverage our core technology and knowledge base. We are applying our core technology and expertise across several therapeutic categories that represent large established markets and substantial multi-billion dollar commercial opportunities. Despite the breadth of our programs and the depth of our activities, we continue to operate in a capital efficient manner as demonstrated by our use of $34 million of net cash during the full-year 2008. We believe this strategy will provide multiple opportunities for success that can drive significant value for our shareholders. We look forward to updating you again soon on our progress and will be presenting at the Cowen Health Care Conference next week on Wednesday, March 18th. We'll also be presenting three abstracts on preclinical results for PEG PH20 at the AACR meeting in Denver on April 19th. Again, thank you for your support and for your interest in Halozyme, and for your participation in today's call. Take care everyone.