ALBIREO PHARMA, INC. - Quarter Report: 2010 December (Form 10-Q)

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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)


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

For the quarterly period ended December 31, 2010


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

For the transition period from to .

Commission File Number 001-33451

BIODEL INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		90-0136863 (IRS Employer Identification No.)

100 Saw Mill Road Danbury, Connecticut (Address of principal executive offices)		06810 (Zip code)

(203) 796-5000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable
(Former Name, Former Address, and Former Fiscal Year, if Changed Since Last Report)

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. þ Yes o No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). o Yes o No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):


Large accelerated filer o	Accelerated filer þ	Non-accelerated filer o	Smaller reporting company o
		(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). o Yes þ No

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of the issuer’s common stock as of the latest practicable date: As of January 24, 2011 there were 26,433,982 shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding.

BIODEL INC.


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PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Condensed Financial Statements		1

Condensed Balance Sheets at September 30, 2010 and December 31, 2010 (unaudited)		1

Condensed Statements of Operations (unaudited) for the Three Months Ended December 31, 2009 and 2010 and for the period from December 3, 2003 (inception) to December 31, 2010		2

Condensed Statements of Stockholders’ Equity (unaudited) for the period from December 3, 2003 (inception) to December 31, 2010		3

Condensed Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited) for the Three Months Ended December 31, 2009 and 2010 and for the period from December 3, 2003 (inception) to December 31, 2010		6

Notes to Condensed Financial Statements		8

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations		17

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk		24

Item 4. Controls and Procedures		24

PART II — OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1A. Risk Factors		25

Item 6. Exhibits		39

Signatures		40
EX-10.1
EX-31.01
EX-31.02
EX-32.01
EX-31.01
EX-31.02
EX-32.01

PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION


Item 1.		Condensed Financial Statements.

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Balance Sheets
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)


	September 30,			December 31,
	2010			2010
				(unaudited)
ASSETS
Current:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	22,922		$	22,289
Restricted cash		150			150
Marketable securities, available for sale		6,001			—
Taxes receivable		116			116
Other receivables		11			1,235
Prepaid and other assets		365			971


Total current assets		29,565			24,761
Property and equipment, net		2,998			2,814
Intellectual property, net		53			51


Total assets	$	32,616		$	27,626


LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current:
Accounts payable	$	1,989		$	2,822
Accrued expenses:
Clinical trial expenses		1,362			781
Payroll and related		357			566
Accounting and legal fees		300			172
Severance		—			692
Other		334			273
Income taxes payable		45			48


Total current liabilities		4,387			5,354

Common stock warrant liability		4,169			1,397
Other long term liabilities		—			638


Total liabilities	$	8,556		$	7,389
Commitments
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock, $.01 par value; 50,000,000 shares authorized, none outstanding
Common stock, $.01 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 26,399,764 and 26,433,982 issued and outstanding		264			264
Additional paid-in capital		188,549			190,035
Accumulated other comprehensive income		1			—
Deficit accumulated during the development stage		(164,754	)		(170,062	)


Total stockholders’ equity		24,060			20,237


Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	$	32,616		$	27,626

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)


							December 3,
							2003
	Three months ended						(inception) to
	December 31,						December 31,
	2009			2010			2010
Revenue	$	—		$	—		$	—

Operating expenses:
Research and development		8,754			5,505			121,733
General and administrative		2,417			2,577			50,202


Total operating expenses		11,171			8,082			171,935


Other (income) and expense:
Interest and other income		(5	)		(5	)		(5,511	)
Interest expense		—			—			78
Adjustments to fair value of common stock warrant liability		—			(2,772	)		(1,518	)
Loss on settlement of debt		—			—			627


Operating loss before tax provision (benefit)		(11,166	)		(5,305	)		(165,611	)
Tax provision (benefit)		(18	)		3			(609	)


Net loss		(11,148	)		(5,308	)		(165,002	)
Charge for accretion of beneficial conversion rights		—			—			(603	)
Deemed dividend — warrants		—			—			(4,457	)


Net loss applicable to common stockholders	$	(11,148	)	$	(5,308	)	$	(170,062	)


Net loss per share — basic and diluted	$	(0.47	)	$	(0.20	)


Weighted average shares outstanding — basic and diluted		23,848,855			26,419,105

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)


																		Deficit
																Accumulated		Accumulated
	Common Stock				Series A Preferred stock				Series B Preferred stock				Additional			Other		During the			Total
	$01 Par Value				$.01 Par Value				$.01 Par Value				Paid in			Comprehensive		Development			Stockholders’
	Shares		Amount		Shares		Amount		Shares		Amount		Capital			Income (loss)		Stage			Equity
Shares issued to employees		732,504	$	7		—	$	—		—	$	—	$	(7	)	$	—	$	—		$	—
January 2004 Proceeds from sale of common stock		4,581,240		46		—		—		—		—		1,308			—		—			1,354
Net loss		—		—		—		—		—		—		—					(774	)		(774	)


Balance, September 30, 2004		5,313,744		53		—		—		—		—		1,301			—		(774	)		580
Additional stockholder contributions		—		—		—		—		—		—		514			—		—			514
Share-based compensation		—		—		—		—		—		—		353			—		—			353
Shares issued to employees and directors for services		42,656		1		—		—		—		—		60			—		—			61
July 2005 Private placement — Sale of Series A preferred stock, net of issuance costs of $379		—		—		569,000		6		—		—		2,460			—		—			2,466
Founder’s compensation contributed to capital		—		—		—		—		—		—		63			—		—			63
Net loss		—		—		—		—		—		—		—			—		(3,383	)		(3,383	)


Balance, September 30, 2005		5,356,400		54		569,000		6		—		—		4,751			—		(4,157	)		654
Share-based compensation		—		—		—		—		—		—		1,132			—		—			1,132
July 2006 Private placement — Sale of Series B preferred stock, net of issuance costs of $1,795		—		—		—		—		5,380,711		54		19,351			—		—			19,405
July 2006 — Series B preferred stock units issued July 2006 to settle debt		—		—		—		—		817,468		8		3,194			—		—			3,202
Shares issued to employees and directors for services		4,030		—		—		—		—		—		23			—		—			23
Accretion of fair value of beneficial conversion charge		—		—		—		—		—		—		603			—		(603	)		—
Net loss		—		—		—		—		—		—		—			—		(8,068	)		(8,068	)


Balance, September 30, 2006		5,360,430		54		569,000		6		6,198,179		62		29,054			—		(12,828	)		16,348

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)


																						Deficit
					Series A Preferred														Accumulated			Accumulated
	Common Stock				stock						Series B Preferred stock						Additional		Other			During the			Total
	$01 Par Value				$.01 Par Value						$.01 Par Value						Paid in		Comprehensive			Development			Stockholders’
	Shares		Amount		Shares			Amount			Shares			Amount			Capital		Income (loss)			Stage			Equity
May 2007 Proceeds from sale of common stock		5,750,000		58		—			—			—			—			78,697		—			—			78,755
Conversion of preferred stock on May 16, 2007		6,407,008		64		(569,000	)		(6	)		(6,198,179	)		(62	)		4		—			—			—
Share-based compensation		—		—		—			—			—			—			4,224		—			—			4,224
Shares issued to employees, non-employees and directors for services		2,949		—		—			—			—			—			16		—			—			16
Stock options exercised		3,542		—		—			—			—			—			5		—			—			5
March 2007 Warrants exercised		2,636,907		26		—			—			—			—			397		—			—			423
Deemed dividend — warrants		—		—		—			—			—			—			4,457		—			(4,457	)		—
Net loss		—		—		—			—			—			—			—		—			(22,548	)		(22,548	)


Balance, September 30, 2007		20,160,836		202		—			—			—			—			116,854		—			(39,833	)		77,223
Proceeds from sale of common stock		3,260,000		32		—			—			—			—			46,785		—			—			46,817
Issuance of restricted stock		9,714		—		—			—			—			—			172		—			—			172
Share-based compensation		—		—		—			—			—			—			6,503		—			—			6,503
Stock options exercised		174,410		1		—			—			—			—			901		—			—			902
Warrants exercised		79,210		1		—			—			—			—			111		—			—			112
Net unrealized (loss) on Marketable Securities		—		—		—			—			—			—			—		(62	)		—			(62	)
Proceeds from sale of stock — ESPP		14,388		1		—			—			—			—			180		—			—			181
Net loss		—		—		—			—			—			—			—		—			(43,361	)		(43,361	)


Balance, September 30, 2008		23,698,558		237		—		$	—			—			—			171,506		(62	)	$	(83,194	)		88,487

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)


																			Deficit
					Series A Preferred											Accumulated			Accumulated
	Common Stock				stock				Series B Preferred stock				Additional			Other			During the			Total
	$01 Par Value				$.01 Par Value				$.01 Par Value				Paid in			Comprehensive			Development			Stockholders’
	Shares		Amount		Shares		Amount		Shares		Amount		Capital			Income (loss)			Stage			Equity
Share-based compensation		—		—		—		—		—		—		5,064			—			—			5,064
Stock options exercised		17,661		—		—		—		—		—		25			—			—			25
Net unrealized gain on Marketable Securities		—		—		—		—		—		—		—			62			—			62
Proceeds from sale of stock — ESPP		87,453		1		—		—		—		—		169			—			—			170
Net loss																				(43,270	)		(43,270	)


Balance, September 30, 2009		23,803,672	$	238		—	$	—		—	$	—	$	176,764		$	—		$	(126,464	)	$	50,538

Registered direct financing		2,398,200		24										8,688									8,712
Initial value of warrants issued in a registered direct														(2,915	)								(2,915	)
Share-based compensation														5,621									5,621
Stock options exercised		32,320		—		—		—		—		—		68			—			—			68
Net unrealized gain (loss) on marketable securities		—		—		—		—		—		—		—			1			—			1
Sales of stock — ESPP		165,572		2		—		—		—		—		323			—			—			325
Net Loss		—		—		—		—		—		—		—			—			(38,290	)		(38,290	)


Balance, September 30, 2010		26,399,764	$	264		—	$			—	$		$	188,549		$	1		$	(164,754	)	$	24,060

Net unrealized loss on marketable securities		—		—		—		—		—		—		—			(1	)		—			(1	)

Share-based compensation		—		—		—		—		—		—		1,428			—			—			1,428
Sales of stock — ESPP		34,218		—		—		—		—		—		58			—			—			58
Net loss		—		—		—		—		—		—		—			—			(5,308	)		(5,308	)


Balance, December 31, 2010		26,433,982	$	264		—	$	—		—	$	—	$	190,035		$	—		$	(170,062	)	$	20,237

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)


							December 3,
							2003
	Three months ended						(inception) to
	December 31,						December 31,
	2009			2010			2010
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net loss	$	(11,148	)	$	(5,308	)	$	(165,002	)


Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization		245			252			3,392
Founder’s compensation contributed to capital		—			—			271
Share-based compensation for employees and directors		1,301			1,472			22,304
Share-based compensation for non-employees		(26	)		(44	)		2,274
Loss on settlement of debt		—			—			627
Write-off of loan to related party		—			—			41
Write-off of capitalized patent expense		—			—			208
Adjustment to fair value of common stock warrant liability		—			(2,772	)		(1,518	)
(Increase) decrease in:
Income tax receivable		(7	)		—			(116	)
Other receivables		(1,406	)		(1,224	)		(1,235	)
Prepaid expenses		(548	)		(606	)		(971	)
Increase (decrease) in:
Accounts payable		606			833			2,822
Income taxes payable		(10	)		3			48
Accrued expenses		(4,211	)		769			3,341


Total adjustments		(4,056	)		(1,317	)		31,488


Net cash used in operating activities		(15,204	)		(6,625	)		(133,514	)


Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchase of property and equipment		(40	)		(66	)		(6,167	)
Purchase of marketable securities		—			—			(31,614	)
Sale of marketable securities		—			6,000			31,614
Acquisition of intellectual property		—			—			(298	)
Loan to related party		—			—			(41	)


Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities		(40	)		5,934			(6,506	)


Cash flows from financing activities:
Restricted cash		—			—			(150	)
Options exercised		—			—			1,000
Warrants exercised		—			—			535
Employee stock purchase plan		155			58			735
Deferred public offering costs		—			—			(1,458	)
Stockholder contribution		—			—			1,660
Net proceeds from sale of Series A preferred stock		—			—			2,466
Net proceeds from sale of common stock		—			—			135,742
Proceeds from bridge financing		—			—			2,575
Net proceeds from sale of Series B preferred stock		—			—			19,205


Net cash provided by financing activities		155			58			162,309


Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents		(15,089	)		(633	)		22,289

Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period		54,640			22,922			—


Cash and cash equivalents, end of period	$	39,551		$	22,289		$	22,289

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Condensed Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)


					December 3,
					2003
	Three months ended				(inception) to
	December 31,				December 31,
	2009		2010		2010
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
Cash paid for interest and income taxes was:
Interest	$	—	$	—	$	9
Income taxes		—		—		306
Non-cash financing and investing activities:
Warrants issued in connection with registered direct offering		—		—		2,915
Settlement of debt with Series B preferred stock		—		—		3,202
Accrued expenses settled with Series B preferred stock		—		—		150
Deemed dividend — warrants		—		—		4,457
Accretion of fair value of beneficial charge on preferred stock		—		—		603
Conversion of convertible preferred stock to common stock		—		—		68

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Notes to Condensed Financial Statements
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)

1. Business and Basis of Presentation

Business

Biodel Inc. (“Biodel” or the “Company”, and formerly Global Positioning Group Ltd.) is a development stage specialty pharmaceutical company located in Danbury, Connecticut. The Company was incorporated in the State of Delaware on December 3, 2003 and commenced operations in January 2004. The Company is focused on the development and commercialization of innovative treatments for diabetes. The Company develops product candidates by applying its proprietary formulation technologies to existing drugs in order to improve their therapeutic profiles. The Company’s most advanced product is Linjeta™ (formerly known as VIAject^®). The Company has formulated Linjeta™ as a rapid-acting mealtime insulin for the treatment of patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Earlier stage product candidates include follow-on and second generation rapid-acting mealtime insulin or insulin analogs, VIAtab™, a sublingual tablet formulation of insulin, a line of basal insulins and a stabilized formulation of glucagon.

Basis of Presentation

The financial statements have been prepared by the Company and are unaudited. In the opinion of management, the Company has made all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) necessary to present fairly the financial position and results of operations for the interim periods presented. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in the annual financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“US GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted. These condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the September 30, 2010 audited financial statements and accompanying notes included in the 2010 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 14, 2010 (the “Annual Report”). The results of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2010 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for the full year or any other interim period.

The Company is in the development stage, as defined by Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) ASC 915 (prior authoritative literature: Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 7), “Accounting and Reporting by Development Stage Enterprises”, as its primary activities since incorporation have been establishing its facilities, recruiting personnel, conducting research and development, business development, business and financial planning and raising capital.

2. Restricted Cash

Restricted cash as of December 31, 2010 and September 30, 2010 consisted of a $150 money market account held with a bank to secure a credit card purchasing agreement utilized to facilitate employee travel and certain ordinary purchases.

3. Other Receivable

In November 2010, the Company announced that it has been awarded $1,200 in research grants under the Internal Revenue Service’s therapeutic discovery tax credit program for which the Company subsequently received the funds in January 2011. This program was created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 to provide tax credits, or grants, representing up to 50 percent of eligible qualified investments in therapeutic discovery projects during tax years 2009 and 2010. These funds were recorded as a credit to research and development against the Company’s Linjeta™, VIAtab™ extended glargine, glucagon and glucose sensing glargine insulin development projects.

4. Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The carrying amounts of the Company’s financial instruments, which include cash and cash equivalents, accounts payable, and accrued expenses approximate their fair values due to their short term maturities.

ASC Topic 820 (“ASC 820”, originally issued as SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements) applies under other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements, the FASB having previously concluded in those accounting pronouncements that fair value is the relevant measurement attribute. Accordingly, ASC 820 does not require any new fair value measurements. The fair value framework requires the categorization of assets and liabilities into three levels based upon the assumptions (inputs) used to price the assets or liabilities. The three levels of inputs used are as follows:

Level 1 — Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2 — Observable inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1, such as quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar assets and liabilities in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data.

Biodel Inc.

(A Development Stage Company)
Notes to Condensed Financial Statements
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)

Level 3 — Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities. This includes certain pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies and similar techniques that use significant unobservable inputs.

As of December 31, 2010, the Company had liabilities that fell under the scope of ASC 820. The fair value of the Company’s warrant liability was determined by the Monte Carlo simulation method. The Monte Carlo simulation is a generally accepted statistical method used to generate a defined number of stock price paths in order to develop a reasonable estimate of the range of future expected stock prices of the Company and its peer group and minimizes standard error. Accordingly, the Company’s fair value measurements of the Company’s cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash was classified as a Level 1 input and warrant liability as a Level 3 input.

The fair value of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities carried at fair value and measured on a recurring basis are as follows:


				Quoted Prices in		Significant Other		Significant
	Fair Value at			Active Markets for		Observable		Unobservable
	December 31,			Identical Assets		Market Inputs		Inputs
Description	2010			(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)
Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	22,289		$	22,289	$	—	$	—
Restricted cash		150			150		—		—


Subtotal		22,439			22,439		—		—

Liabilities:
Common stock warrant liability (see Note 9)		(1,397	)		—		—		(1,397	)


Subtotal		(1,397	)		—		—		(1,397	)

Total	$	21,042		$	22,439	$	—	$	(1,397	)

A reconciliation of the Company’s liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) is as follows:


	Fair Values
	Measurement Using
	Significant
	Unobservable Inputs
	(Level 3)

Balance at September 30, 2010	$	4,169
Adjustments to fair value of common stock warrant liability		(2,772	)


Balance at December 31, 2010	$	1,397

5. Pre-Launch Inventory

Inventory costs associated with products that have not yet received regulatory approval are capitalized if the Company believes there is probable future commercial use and future economic benefit. If the probability of future commercial use and future economic benefit cannot be reasonably determined, then costs associated with pre-launch inventory that has not yet received regulatory approval are expensed as research and development expense during the period the costs are incurred. For the three months ended December 31, 2010, the Company expensed approximately $2.4 million of costs associated with the purchase of recombinant human insulin, as research and development expense after it passed quality control inspection by the Company and transfer of title occurred. In November 2010, the Company announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued a complete response letter requesting additional information regarding its New Drug Application (“NDA”) for Linjeta™. The complete response letter stated that the FDA’s review cycle was complete and that the application could not be approved in its present form. Until the Company determines the preferred development, clinical and regulatory program for a

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Notes to Condensed Financial Statements
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)

proprietary rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog formulation, completes a Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials and files an NDA and receives FDA approval, the Company will continue to expense pre-launch inventory as research and development.

6. Share-Based Compensation

In March 2010, the stockholders of the Company approved the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan (2010 Plan). Up to 5,400,000 shares of the Company’s common stock may be issued pursuant to awards granted under the 2010 Plan, plus shares of common stock underlying already outstanding awards under the Company’s prior plans. As of September 30, 2009, the Company had 3,407,633 shares of common stock subject to outstanding awards. The contractual life of options granted under the 2010 Plan may not exceed seven years. The 2010 Plan uses a “fungible share” concept under which any awards that are not a full-value award will be counted against the share limit as one (1) share for each share of common stock and any award that is a full-value award will be counted against the share limit as 1.6 shares for each one share of common stock. The Company has not made any new awards under any prior equity plans after March 2, 2010 — the effective date the 2010 Plan was approved by the Company’s stockholders. The 2010 Plan replaces the 2004 Stock Incentive Plan and 2005 Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan.

The Company recognizes stock-based compensation arising from compensatory stock-based transactions using the fair value at the grant date of the award. Determining the fair value of stock-based awards at the grant date requires judgment. The Company uses an option-pricing model (Black-Scholes pricing model) to assist in the calculation of fair value. Due to its limited history, the Company uses the “calculated value method” which relies on comparable company historical volatility and uses the average of (i) the weighted average vesting period and (ii) the contractual life of the option, or seven years, as the estimated term of the option. The Company bases its estimates of expected volatility on the median historical volatility of a group of publicly traded companies that it believes are comparable to the Company based on the line of business, stage of development, size and financial leverage.

The risk free rate of interest for periods within the contractual life of the stock option award is based on the yield of U.S. Treasury strips on the date the award is granted with a maturity similar to the expected term of the award. The Company estimates forfeitures based on actual forfeitures during its limited history. Additionally, the Company has assumed that dividends will not be paid.

Based on historical experience of option cancellations, the Company has estimated an annualized forfeiture rate of 9% for employee and director options. Forfeiture rates will be adjusted over the requisite service period when actual forfeitures differ, or are expected to differ, from the estimate.

The Company expenses ratably over the vesting period the cost of the stock options granted to employees and directors. The total compensation charge for the three months ended December 31, 2009 and 2010 was $1,301 and $1,472, respectively. At December 31, 2010, the total compensation charge related to non-vested options to employees and directors not yet recognized was $6,977 which will be recognized over the remaining vesting periods, up to the next four years, assuming the employees complete their service period for vesting of the options.

For stock options granted to non-employees, the Company measures fair value of the equity instruments utilizing the Black-Scholes model, if that value is more reliably measurable than the fair value of the consideration or service received. The fair value of these instruments are periodically revalued as the options vest, and are recognized as expense over the related period of service or vesting period, whichever is longer. The total compensation charge or credit for options granted to non-employees for the three months ended December 31, 2009 and 2010 was $(26) and $(44), respectively.

The following table summarizes the stock option activity during the three months ended December 31, 2010:


					Weighted
			Weighted		Average
			Average		Remaining		Aggregate
			Exercise		Contractual		Intrinsic
	Number		Price		Life in Years		Value
Outstanding options, September 30, 2010		4,635,532	$	9.68			$	93
Granted		1,055,000		1.63			$	211
Forfeited, expired		19,377		12.54				—

Outstanding options, December 31, 2010		5,671,155	$	6.32		6	$	304


Exercisable options, December 31, 2010		2,772,922	$	11.31		5	$	93

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Notes to Condensed Financial Statements
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)

The Black-Scholes pricing model assumptions for the three months ended December 31, 2009 and 2010 are determined as discussed below:


	December 31,
	2009			2010
Expected life (in years)		5.25			3.00-5.25
Expected volatility		64-76	%		65-70	%
Expected dividend yield		0	%		0	%
Risk-free interest rate		1.38-2.69	%		0.09-2.08	%
Weighted average grant date fair value	$	3.71		$	1.63

Restricted Stock Units

In the quarter ended December 31, 2010, the Company granted restricted stock units (RSUs) to executive officers, and employees pursuant to the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan. There is no direct cost to the recipients of RSUs, except for any applicable taxes.

Except as set forth below with regard to RSUs awarded in connection with a reduction in cash compensation, each RSU represents one share of common stock and each award vests annually over three years, with fifty percent vesting on the first anniversary of the date of grant and the remainder vesting in two equal installments on each anniversary thereafter. Each year following the annual vesting date, between January 1st and March 15th, the Company will issue common stock for each vested RSU. During the period when the RSU is vested but not distributed, the RSUs cannot be transferred and the grantee has no voting rights. If the Company declares a dividend, RSU recipients will receive payment based upon the percentage of RSUs that have vested prior to the date of declaration. The costs of the awards, determined as the fair market value of the shares on the grant date, are expensed per the vesting schedule outlined in the award. For example, the December 2010 RSU awards vest over three years and expensed 50% the first year and 25% the next two years; whereas, the December 2009 RSU awards are expensed ratably over the four year vesting period.

In connection with a one-time reduction in cash compensation expenditures for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011 the Company’s chief executive officer, agreed, on October 1, 2010, to reduce his base salary for the fiscal year from $37,500 per month to $33,333 per month, for total reduction of $50,000. The Company treats the reduced portion of its chief executive officer’s base salary as deferred into 9,843 RSUs that the Company granted to him on the same date. The number of RSUs was determined by dividing $50,000 by $5.08, or the fair market value of the Company’s common stock on October 1, 2010, the date of grant. Additionally, effective October 1, 2010, the board of directors of the Company modified the compensation it will pay to its independent directors for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011. The Company typically pays its chairman and/or lead director $60,000 in cash annually and each of its other non-employee directors $30,000 in cash annually. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, the Company’s chairman and/or lead director will receive $40,000 in cash as compensation for serving as a director and the remaining $20,000 in the form of RSUs. Each other independent director will receive $20,000 in cash as compensation for serving as a director and the remaining $10,000 in the form of RSUs. The independent members of our board of directors received a total of 17,719 RSUs.

The RSUs the Company granted in connection with reduced cash compensation were issued under the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan and will vest in equal installments on each of December 31, 2010, March 31, 2011, June 30, 2011 and September 30, 2011. The shares of common stock represented by the RSUs will be distributed on (and not before) September 30, 2011, absent an intervening reorganization event or change in control event (each as defined in the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan) that causes an earlier distribution.

Based on historical experience of option cancellations, the Company has estimated an annualized forfeiture rate of 9% for employee RSUs. Forfeiture rates will be adjusted over the requisite service period when actual forfeitures differ, or are expected to differ, from the estimate.

As of December 31, 2010, the executives and employees had 65,157 RSUs vest, which will be distributed between January 1 and March 15, 2011.

The stock-based compensation expense associated with the RSUs have been recorded in the statement of operations and in additional paid-in-capital on the balance sheets is as follows:


	Three Months Ended
	December 31,
	2009		2010
Stock compensation expense — RSUs	$	21	$	119

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Notes to Condensed Financial Statements
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)

At December 31, 2010, there was $1,344 of total unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to RSU awards granted under the 2004 and 2010 Stock Incentive Plan. This expense is expected to be recognized over the remaining vesting periods up to four years.

The following table summarizes RSU activity from October 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010:


			Weighted Average
			Grant-Date
	Shares		Fair Value
Nonvested balance at October 1, 2010		249,020	$	3.95
Changes during the period:
Shares granted		362,562	$	1.89
Shares vested		62,157	$	3.95
Shares forfeited or expired		390		3.95


Nonvested balance at December 31, 2010		549,035	$	2.59

2005 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

The Company’s 2005 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“the Purchase Plan”) was adopted by its Board of Directors and approved by its stockholders on March 20, 2007. The Purchase Plan became effective upon the closing of the Company’s initial public offering. The Purchase Plan is intended to qualify as an employee stock purchase plan within the meaning of Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Under the Purchase Plan, eligible employees may contribute up to 15% of their eligible earnings for the period of that offering withheld for the purchase of common stock under the Purchase Plan. The employee’s purchase price is equal to the lower of: 85% of the fair market value per share on the start date of the offering period in which the employee is enrolled or 85% of the fair market value per share on the semi-annual purchase date. The Purchase Plan imposes a limitation upon a participant’s right to acquire common stock if immediately after the purchase the employee would own 5% or more of the total combined voting power or value of the Company’s common stock or of any of its affiliates. The Purchase Plan provides for an automatic rollover when the purchase price for a new offering period is lower than previously established purchase price(s). The Purchase Plan also provides for a one-time election that allows an employee the opportunity to enroll into a new offering period when the new offering is higher than their current offering price. This election must be made within 30 days from the start of a new offering period. Offering periods are twenty-seven months in length. The compensation cost in connection with the Purchase Plan for the three months ended December 31, 2009 and 2010 were $172 and $12, respectively.

An aggregate of 1,600,000 shares of common stock are reserved for issuance pursuant to purchase rights to be granted to the Company’s eligible employees under the Purchase Plan. The Purchase Plan shares are replenished annually on the first day of each calendar year by virtue of an evergreen provision. The provision allows for share replenishment equal to the lesser of 1% of the total number of shares of common stock outstanding on that date or 100,000 shares. As of December 31, 2010, a total of 1,298,369 shares were reserved and available for issuance under the Purchase Plan. As of December 31, 2010, the Company issued 301,631 shares under the Purchase Plan.

7. Income Taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes under FASB Codification Topic 740-10-25 (“ASC 740-10-25”), Accounting for Income Taxes. Under ASC 740-10-25, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. Under ASC 740-10-25, the effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date.

The Company files U.S. federal and state tax returns and has determined that its major tax jurisdictions are the United States and Connecticut. The tax years ended in 2004 through 2009 remain open and subject to examination by the appropriate governmental agencies in the United States and Connecticut.

The Company’s effective tax rate for the three months ended December 31, 2009 and 2010, was 0% and 0%, respectively, and differs from the federal statutory rate of 34% primarily due to the effects of state income taxes and valuation allowance.

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Notes to Condensed Financial Statements
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)

8. Net Loss per Share

Basic and diluted net loss per share has been calculated by dividing net loss applicable to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. All potentially dilutive common shares have been excluded from the calculation of weighted average common shares outstanding, as their inclusion would be antidilutive.

The amount of options, warrants and RSUs excluded are as follows:


	Three months ended
	December 31,
	2009		2010
Common shares underlying warrants issued in registered direct offering		—		2,398,200
Common shares underlying warrants for Series A Preferred Stock		118,815		118,815
Stock options		3,801,883		5,671,155
RSUs		250,000		611,192

9. August 2010 Financing

On August 24, 2010, the Company sold to two institutional investors an aggregate of 2,398,200 units, with each unit consisting of (i) one share of common stock and (ii) one warrant to purchase one share of common stock, for a purchase price of $3.93 per unit. These units were not issued nor certificated. The shares and warrants were immediately separated and the Company issued 2,398,200 shares of its common stock and warrants to purchase an additional 2,398,200 shares of the Company’s common stock at an initial exercise price of $4.716 per share, subject to re-pricing following the Company’s receipt of the complete response letter for Linjeta™. On December 1, 2010, the exercise price of the warrants was re-set to $1.56 per share as per the terms of the warrant. These warrants will expire on December 1, 2011, one year and 21 trading days following the Company’s receipt of the FDA’s complete response letter for Linjeta™. This financing resulted in gross proceeds of $9,400.

In the event that the Company enters into a merger or change of control transaction, the holders of the warrants will be entitled to receive consideration as if they had exercised the warrant immediately prior to such transaction, or they may require the Company to purchase the warrant at the Black-Scholes value of the warrant on the date of such transaction. As per the warrants, the holders have up to 30 days following any such transaction to exercise this clause.

The Company’s warrant liability is marked-to-market each reporting period with the change in fair value recorded as a gain or loss within Other Expense (“Adjustments to fair value of common stock warrant liability”), until the warrants are exercised, expire or other facts and circumstances lead the warrant liability to be reclassified as an equity instrument. The fair value of the warrant liability is determined at each reporting period by utilizing the Monte Carlo simulation model that takes into account estimated probabilities of possible outcomes provided by the Company. At the date of the transaction, the fair value of the warrant liability was $2,915 utilizing the Monte Carlo simulation method. The Monte Carlo simulation is a generally accepted statistical technique used to generate a defined number of stock price paths in order to develop a reasonable estimate of the range of future expected stock prices of the Company and its peer group and minimizes standard error.

At December 31, 2010, the fair value of the warrant liability determined utilizing the Monte Carlo simulation method was approximately $1,397. The decrease in the fair value of the warrants from September 30, 2010 mainly reflects the decrease in the value of the Company’s common stock price from September 30, 2010 to December 31, 2010.

During the three months ended December 31, 2010, the Company recorded a credit of $2,772 to Adjustments to fair value of common stock warrant liability, within Other (income) expense, to reflect the decrease in the valuation of the warrants from September 30, 2010 to December 31, 2010.

The following summarizes the changes in value of the warrant liability from the date of issuance through December 31, 2010:


Balance at September 30, 2010	$	4,169
Adjustment to fair value of common stock warrant liability		2,772


Balance at December 31, 2010	$	1,397

Fair Value Assumptions Used in Accounting for Warrant Liability

The Company has determined its warrant liability to be a Level 3 fair value measurement and used the Monte Carlo simulation approach to calculate the fair value as of December 31, 2010.

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Notes to Condensed Financial Statements
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)

At these measurement dates, the Company estimates the fair value of these securities using the Monte Carlo simulation approach, using critical assumptions provided by management reflecting conditions at the valuation dates.

Fair values at measurement dates as of December 31, 2010 were estimated using the following assumptions:


	December 31,
	2010

Risk-free interest rate		.26	%
Expected remaining term	.66 years
Expected volatility		100	%
Dividend yield		0	%

Risk-Free Interest Rate. This is the United States Treasury rate for the measurement date having a term equal to the expected remaining term of the warrant. An increase in the risk-free interest rate will increase the fair value and the associated derivative liability.

Expected Remaining Term. This is the period of time over which the warrant is expected to remain outstanding and is based on management’s estimate, taking into consideration the remaining contractual life, and historical experience. An increase in the expected remaining term will increase the fair value and the associated derivative liability.

Expected Volatility. This is a measure of the amount by which the stock price has fluctuated or is expected to fluctuate. Since the Company’s stock has not been traded for as long as the expected remaining term of the warrants, the Company uses a weighted-average of the historic volatility of four comparable companies over the retrospective period corresponding to the expected remaining term of the warrants on the measurement date. Extra weighting is attached to those companies most similar in terms of size and business activity. An increase in the expected volatility will increase the fair value and the associated derivative liability.

Dividend Yield. The Company has not made any dividend payments nor does it have plans to pay dividends in the foreseeable future. An increase in the dividend yield will decrease the fair value and the associated derivative liability.

Change of Control. The Monte Carlo simulation incorporates the probability that the Company effects a change of control. The Company estimated a 15% probability for a change of control.

Participating Securities

If at any time the Company grants, issues or sells securities or other property to holders of any class of common stock the holders of the warrants are entitled to also acquire those same securities as if they held the number of shares of common stock acquirable upon complete exercise of the warrants.

As such, given that the warrant holders will participate fully on any dividends or dividend equivalents, the Company determined that the warrants are participating securities and therefore are subject to ASC 260-10-55 earnings per share. These securities were excluded from the quarter ended December 31, 2010 earnings per share calculation since their inclusion would be anti-dilutive.

10. Commitments

Former Chief Scientific Officer General Release

Effective December 14, 2010, Dr. Solomon Steiner, the Company’s former Chief Scientific Officer, retired from all his management positions with the Company. On the same date, the Company and Dr. Steiner executed a general release agreement. Dr. Steiner is therefore entitled to receive the severance benefits set forth in his employment agreement (“agreement”) with the Company that were conditioned upon his signing the release. Pursuant to the employment agreement, Dr. Steiner will receive payment in the amount of two times his base salary in effect on the date of his retirement, two times his target annual bonus, plus a pro rata of his 2011 target bonus, as defined in the employment agreement, for the fiscal year in which he is terminated. Furthermore, the agreement provides that any outstanding equity compensation awards will fully and immediately vest with respect to any amounts that would have vested if he had remained employed for an additional 24 months, which totals options to purchase 234,545 shares of common stock at exercise prices between $2.29 through $18.16. The options remain exercisable until the earlier of the second anniversary of Dr. Steiner ceasing to be a board member or their date of expiration. The Company recorded a charge of $1,330 for salary, bonus and benefits continuation for twenty-four months and an option acceleration modification charge of $7 in the three months ended December 31, 2010. As of December 2010, the Company has not paid any of the obligations per the terms of the agreement; $692 has been classified in short term obligation and $638 in other long term liabilities.

Biodel Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Notes to Condensed Financial Statements
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)

Leases

As of December 31, 2010, the Company leased three facilities in Danbury, Connecticut with Mulvaney Properties, LLC, which is controlled by a non-affiliated stockholder of the Company.

The Company entered into its first lease for laboratory space in February 2004, which was renewed in January 2010 for an additional three years. The lease will expire in January 2013. This lease provides for annual basic lease payments of $64, plus operating expenses.

In July 2007 the Company entered into a second lease for its corporate office, which was amended in October 2007. The October 2007 amendment increased the term from five years to seven years beginning on August 1, 2007 and ending on July 31, 2014. The renewal option was also amended from a five year to a seven year term. This lease provides for annual basic lease payments of $357, plus operating expenses.

In December 2008, the Company entered into a third lease agreement for additional office space adjacent to its laboratory space, which was renewed in January 2010 for an additional three years. The Company has agreed to use the leased premises only for offices, laboratories, research, development and light manufacturing. This lease provides for annual basic lease payments of $29, plus operating expenses.

Lease expense for the three months ended December 2009 and 2010 was $149, and $158, respectively.

11. Subsequent Event

In January 2011, the Company committed to a restructuring plan that resulted in a reduction in force affecting 16 employees, none of whom are executives of the Company. Employees directly affected by the reduction in force have received notification and will be provided with severance payments and continuation of benefits for a limited term. The positions impacted are across Company’s business functions, including research and development, clinical, operations and general and administrative departments. As a result of the restructuring plan, the Company estimates that it will record an aggregate restructuring charge of approximately $400 in the second quarter of fiscal year 2011 for severance and other personnel related expenses, such as employee benefits.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q regarding our strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipates,” “believes,” “could,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “plans,” “potential,” “predicts,” “projects,” “should,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.

Our forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those described or implied in the forward-looking statements, including:

	•		our ability to respond to the complete response letter regarding our NDA for Linjeta™ (formerly known as VIAject^®) in a timely manner and the possibility that information we provide in response to the letter may not be sufficient for the approval of Linjeta™ or another rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA;

	•		our ability to secure approval by the FDA for our product candidates under Section 505(b)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, or FFDCA, and the degree to which we are able to clarify with the FDA related regulatory requirements;

	•		our ability to conduct the additional pivotal clinical trials the FDA requested in the complete response letter or other tests or analyses required by the FDA to secure approval to commercialize Linjeta™

	•		our ability to develop and commercialize formulations of Linjeta™ or other rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog formulations that may be associated with less injection site discomfort than the formulation that is the subject of the complete response letter we received from the FDA;

	•		the progress, timing or success of our product candidates, particularly Linjeta™, and that of our research, development and clinical programs, including any resulting data analyses;

	•		our ability to enter into collaboration arrangements for the commercialization of our product candidates and the success or failure of any such collaborations into which we enter, or our ability to commercialize our product candidates ourselves;

	•		our ability to enforce our patent for Linjeta™ and our ability to secure additional patents for Linjeta™ and for our other product candidates;

	•		our ability to protect our intellectual property and operate our business without infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others;

	•		the degree of clinical utility of our products;

	•		the ability of our major suppliers to produce our products in our final dosage form;

	•		our commercialization, marketing and manufacturing capabilities and strategies; and

	•		our ability to accurately estimate anticipated operating losses, future revenues, capital requirements and our needs for additional financing.

We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements we make. We have included important factors in the cautionary statements included in this Quarterly Report, particularly in Item 1A of this Quarterly Report, and in our other public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements that we make.

You should read this Quarterly Report and the documents that we have filed as exhibits to the Quarterly Report completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. It is routine for internal projections and expectations to change as the year, or each quarter in the year, progresses, and therefore it should be clearly understood that the internal projections and beliefs upon which we base our expectations are made as of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and may change prior to the end of each quarter or the year. While we may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q . Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this Form 10-Q , including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business and related financing, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. You should read the “Risk Factors” section of this Form 10-Q (see Part II-Item 1A below) for a discussion of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis.

Overview

We are a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative treatments for diabetes that may be safer, more effective and more convenient for patients. We develop our product candidates by applying our proprietary formulation technologies to existing drugs in order to improve their therapeutic profiles. Our most advanced product candidate is Linjeta™ (formerly known as VIAject^®). We have formulated Linjeta™ as rapid-acting mealtime insulin for the treatment of patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Earlier stage product candidates include follow-on and second generation rapid-acting mealtime insulins or insulin analogs, VIAtab™, a sublingual tablet formulation of insulin, a line of basal insulins, and a stabilized formulation of glucagon.

Linjeta™ is our proprietary injectable formulation of recombinant human insulin designed to be absorbed into the blood faster than the currently marketed rapid-acting insulin analogs. We have completed two pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials of Linjeta™, one in patients with Type 1 diabetes and the other in patients with Type 2 diabetes. In both clinical trials we compared Linjeta™ to Humulin^® R, a form of recombinant human insulin. Based upon our preclinical and clinical data, we believe Linjeta™ may produce a profile of insulin levels in the blood that approximates the natural first-phase insulin release that is normally seen in persons without diabetes following a meal.

In November 2010, we announced that the FDA issued a complete response letter requesting additional information regarding our NDA for Linjeta™. The complete response letter stated that the FDA’s review cycle was complete and that the application could not be approved in its present form. The FDA requested that we conduct two new Phase 3 clinical trials using the final commercial formulation of Linjeta™, one in patients with Type 1 diabetes and the other in patients with Type 2 diabetes, to establish efficacy and safety as related to hypoglycemia and toleration. The FDA also requested additional data related to stability and manufacturing of our final commercial formulation of Linjeta™. In addition, the FDA indentified resolution of manufacturing issues related to recent site inspections at Hyaluron, Inc. and Wockhardt, Ltd. as a requisite for approval. On January 28, 2011, we met with the FDA to discuss the Complete Response letter.

In November 2010, we announced that it has been awarded $1.2 million in research grants under the Internal Revenue Service’s therapeutic discovery tax credit program and subsequently received the funds in January 2011. This program was created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 to provide tax credits or grants representing up to 50 percent of eligible qualified investments in therapeutic discovery projects during tax years 2009 and 2010. These funds will be used to support the Company’s Linjeta™, VIAtab™, extended glargine, glucagon and glucose-sensing glargine insulin development projects.

Effective December 14, 2010, Dr. Solomon Steiner, our former Chief Scientific Officer, retired from all his management positions with us. On the same date, we and Dr. Steiner executed a general release agreement. Dr. Steiner is therefore entitled to receive the severance benefits set forth in his employment agreement with us that were conditioned upon his signing the release. Pursuant to the employment agreement, Dr. Steiner will receive payment in the amount of two times his base salary in effect on the date of his retirement, two times his target annual bonus, plus a pro rata of his 2011 target bonus, as defined in the employment agreement, for the fiscal year in which he is terminated. Furthermore, the agreement provides that any outstanding equity compensation awards will fully and immediately vest with respect to any amounts that would have vested if he had remained employed for an additional 24 months, which totals options to purchase 234,545 shares of common stock at exercise prices between $2.29 through $18.16. The options remain exercisable until the earlier of the second anniversary of Dr. Steiner ceasing to be a board member or their date of expiration. We recorded a charge of $1.3 million for salary, bonus and benefits continuation for twenty-four months and an option acceleration modification charge of $7 thousand in the three months ended December 31, 2010.

We are a development stage company. We were incorporated in December 2003 and commenced active operations in January 2004. To date, we have generated no revenues and have incurred significant losses. We have financed our operations and internal growth through our initial public offering in May 2007, a follow-on offering in February 2008, a registered direct offering in August 2010 and, prior to these public offerings, private placements of convertible preferred stock and other securities. We have devoted substantially all of our efforts to research and development activities, including clinical trials. Our net loss was $5.3 million for the three months ended December 31, 2010. As of December 31, 2010, we had a deficit accumulated during the development stage of $170.1 million. The deficit accumulated during the development stage is attributable primarily to our research and development activities and non-cash charges for (1) accretion of beneficial conversion rights and (2) deemed dividend-warrants and share-based compensation. Research and development and general and administrative expenses, as a percentage of net loss applicable to common stockholders, represent approximately 71% and 29%, respectively, of the expenses that we have incurred since our inception. We expect to continue to generate significant losses as we continue to develop our product candidates.

To date, we have not generated revenues and we expect to incur operating losses as we continue our efforts to seek FDA approval of Linjeta™ or advance follow-on and second generation rapid-acting mealtime insulins or insulin analogs. As of December 31, 2010, we had approximately $22.3 million in cash and cash equivalents compared to $39.6 million in cash and cash equivalents as of December 31, 2009. We believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and marketable securities will be sufficient to fund our anticipated operating expenses and capital expenditures at least through the first quarter of fiscal year 2012. If the warrants issued in connection with our registered direct offering in August 2010 or the August 2010 warrants, are exercised, we anticipate the cash runway to extend at least through the second quarter of fiscal year 2012.

We believe that future cash expenditures will be partially offset by raising additional capital from the capital markets, proceeds derived from collaborations, including, but not limited to, upfront fees, research and development funding, milestone payments and royalties. We can give no assurances that such funding will, in fact, be realized in the time frames we expect, or at all. We may be required to secure alternative financing arrangements and/or defer or limit some or all of our research, development and/or clinical projects.

Financial Operations Overview

Revenues

To date, we have generated no revenues. We do not expect to begin generating any revenues unless any of our product candidates receive marketing approval or if we receive payments in connection with strategic collaborations that we may enter into for the commercialization of our product candidates.

Research and Development Expenses

Research and development expenses consist of the cost associated with our basic research activities, as well as the costs associated with our drug development efforts, conducting preclinical studies and clinical trials, manufacturing development efforts and activities related to regulatory filings. Our research and development expenses consist of:

	•		external research and development expenses incurred under agreements with third-party contract research organizations and investigative sites, third-party manufacturing organizations and consultants;

	•		employee-related expenses, which include salaries and benefits for the personnel involved in our preclinical and clinical drug development and manufacturing activities; and

	•		facilities, depreciation and other allocated expenses, which include direct and allocated expenses for rent and maintenance of facilities, depreciation of leasehold improvements and equipment and laboratory and other supplies.

We anticipate that our research and development expenses will decrease as we plan to conduct preclinical studies and Phase 1 clinical trials to study Linjeta™ follow-on and second generation rapid-acting mealtime insulins or insulin analogs in order to determine our preferred development, clinical and regulatory program for our rapid-acting formulations. Over the longer term, however, we anticipate these expenses will increase as we:

	•		conduct preclinical studies and Phase 1 clinical trials to determine whether one or more of our newer insulin formulations is likely to offer a combination of pharmacokinetic, stability and tolerability characteristics that is preferable to Linjeta™ ;

	•		determine our preferred development, clinical and regulatory program for a proprietary rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog formulation following our meeting with the FDA regarding Linjeta™, and based on our analysis of the preclinical and Phase 1 clinical data for our alternate insulin formulations;

	•		conduct preclinical studies with earlier stage product candidates and make limited investments in order to advance proof-of-concept formulations;

	•		purchase recombinant human insulin and other materials as required under existing contractual commitments; and

	•		advance a preferred formulation toward pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials.

We have used our employee and infrastructure resources across multiple research projects and our drug development program for Linjeta™. To date, we have not tracked expenses related to our product development activities on a project or program basis. Accordingly, we cannot reasonably estimate the amount of research and development expenses that we incurred with respect to each of our clinical and preclinical product candidates. However, substantially all of our research and development expenses incurred to date are attributable to our Linjeta™ program.

The following table illustrates, for each period presented, our research and development costs by nature of the cost.


					December 3, 2003
	Three Months Ended				(Inception) to
	December 31,				December 31,
	2009		2010		2010
	(in thousands)
Research and development expenses:
Pre-clinical expenses	$	600	$	1,019	$	16,019
Manufacturing expenses		2,817		3,252		34,207
Clinical/regulatory expenses		5,337		1,234		71,507


Total	$	8,754	$	5,505	$	121,733

The successful development of our product candidates is highly uncertain. At this time, we cannot reasonably estimate or know the nature, specific timing and estimated costs of the efforts that will be necessary to complete the remainder of the development of, or the period, if any, in which material net cash inflows may commence from our product candidates. This is due to the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with developing drugs, including the uncertainty of:

	•		our ability to respond to the complete response letter regarding our NDA for Linjeta™ in a timely manner and the possibility that information we provide in response to the letter may not be sufficient for the approval of Linjeta™ or another rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog by the FDA;

	•		our ability to secure approval by the FDA for our product candidates under Section 505(b)(2) of the FFDCA and the degree to which we are able to clarify with the FDA related regulatory requirements;

	•		our ability to conduct the additional pivotal clinical trials the FDA requested in the complete response letter or other tests or analyses required by the FDA to secure approval to commercialize Linjeta™ ;

	•		our ability to develop and commercialize formulations of Linjeta™ or other rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog formulations that may be associated with less injection site discomfort than the formulation that is the subject of the complete response letter we received from the FDA;

	•		the progress, timing or success of our product candidates, particularly Linjeta™ formulation, and that of our research, development and clinical programs, including any resulting data analyses;

	•		the cost to develop an insulin pen for use with Linjeta™ and a formulation of Linjeta™ for use in insulin pumps;

	•		the costs of pre-commercialization activities, if any;

	•		the costs associated with qualifying and obtaining regulatory approval of suppliers of insulin and manufacturers of our product candidates;

	•		the costs of preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications and maintaining, enforcing and defending intellectual property-related claims;

	•		the emergence of competing technologies and products and other adverse market developments; and

	•		our ability to establish and maintain collaborations and the terms and success of the collaborations, including the timing and amount of payments that we might receive from potential strategic collaborators.

A change in the outcome of any of these variables with respect to the development of Linjeta™ or our other product candidates could mean a significant change in the costs and timing associated with product development.

Restricted Cash

Restricted cash as of December 31, 2010 consisted of $150 thousand held in a money market account with a bank to secure a credit card purchasing agreement utilized to facilitate employee travel and certain ordinary purchases. The restricted cash balance as of December 31, 2009 was $0.

General and Administrative Expenses

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries and related expenses for personnel, including stock-based compensation expenses, in our executive, legal, accounting, finance and information technology functions. Other general and administrative expenses include facility-related costs not otherwise allocated to research and development expense, travel expenses, costs associated with industry conventions and professional fees, such as legal and accounting fees and consulting costs.

We anticipate that our general and administrative expenses will not change significantly as we focus our product development efforts on obtaining regulatory approval for Linjeta™. Over the longer term, however, these expenses could increase as we approach the commercial launch of Linjeta™.

Pre-Launch Inventory

Inventory costs associated with products that have not yet received regulatory approval are capitalized if we believe there is probable future commercial use and future economic benefit. If the probability of future commercial use and future economic benefit cannot be reasonably determined, then costs associated with pre-launch inventory that has not yet received regulatory approval are expensed as research and development expense during the period the costs are incurred. For the three months ended December 31, 2010, the Company expensed approximately $2,400 of costs associated with the purchase of recombinant human insulin, as research and development expense after it passed quality control inspection by the Company and transfer of title occurred. In November 2010, we announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued a complete response letter requesting additional information regarding its New Drug Application (“NDA”) for Linjeta™. The complete response letter stated that the FDA’s review cycle was complete and that the application could not be approved in its present form. At this time, we will continue to expense pre-launch inventory as research and development. The pre-launch inventory treatment will be reevaluated if we complete Phase 3 clinical trials of Linjeta™, or an alternate product candidate for which the inventory is applicable, and we file a related NDA or NDA supplement for review by the FDA.

Restricted Stock Units

In the quarter ended December 31, 2010, we granted restricted stock units, or RSUs, to board members and executive officers pursuant to the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan. There is no direct cost to the recipients of the RSUs, except for any applicable personal taxes. Each RSU represents one share of common stock and annually vests ratably over four years. Each year following the annual vesting date, between January 1st and March 15th, we will issue common stock for each vested RSU. During the vesting period, the RSUs cannot be transferred and the grantee has no voting rights. If the Company declares a dividend, RSU recipients will receive payment based upon the percentage of RSUs that have vested prior to the date of declaration. The costs of the awards, determined as the fair value of the shares on the grant date, are expensed per the vesting schedule outlined in the award.

Warrant Liability

On August 24, 2010, we entered into definitive agreements to sell to two institutional investors 2,398,200 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase an additional 2,398,200 shares of our common stock with an initial exercise price of $4.716 per share. On December 1, 2010, the exercise price of the warrants was re-set to $1.56 per share. These warrants are measured at fair value using an accepted valuation model which takes in account, as of the valuation date, factors including the current exercise price, the expected life of the warrant, the current price of the underlying stock and its expected volatility, expected dividends on the stock, the risk-free interest rate for the term of the warrant and the probability of a change of control. The liability is revalued at each reporting period and changes in fair value are recognized currently in the statements of operations under the caption “Adjustments to fair value of common stock warrant liability.” These warrants will expire on December 1, 2011, one year and 21 trading days after receiving the complete response letter from the FDA.

Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates

Our management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our unaudited financial statements, that have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements requires us 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, as well as the reported expenses during the reporting periods. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates and assumptions. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various assumptions that we believe are 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.

Our significant accounting policies are described in Note 2 to our audited financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2010 and in the notes to our financial statements included in this Form 10-Q. We believe that our accounting policies relating to preclinical study and clinical trial accruals, stock-based compensation and income taxes are the most critical to aid you in fully understanding and evaluating our financial condition and results of operations. These policies are described under “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2010. There have been no material changes to such policies since the filing of such Annual Report.

Results of Operations

Three Months Ended December 31, 2009 Compared to Three Months Ended December 31, 2010

Revenue. We did not recognize any revenue during the three months ended December 31, 2009 or 2010.

Research and Development Expenses.


	Three Months Ended
	December 31,						Decrease
	2009			2010			$		%
	(in thousands)
Research and Development	$	8,754		$	5,505		$	3,249		37.1	%


Percentage of net loss		78.5	%		103.7	%

Research and development expenses were $5.5 million for the three months ended December 31, 2010, a decrease of $3.2 million, or 37.1%, from $8.8 million for the three months ended December 31, 2009. This decrease was primarily attributable to the net effect of the following events. Regulatory professional fees and clinical expenses decreased by approximately $2.1 million and $1.7 million, respectively, for the three months ended December 31, 2010 due to filing our NDA in December 2009. This decrease was offset by an increase of $0.7 million in the purchase of active pharmaceutical ingredient, or API, in the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2010 as compared to the fiscal quarter end December 31, 2009. The increase was attributed to higher quantity of API purchases and foreign exchange rates. We continue to purchase API (recombinant human insulin) to build commercial supply and have expensed $2.4 million in the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2010 and $1.7 million in the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2009. Research and development expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2010 included the following one-time events: (i) In November 2010, we received notice from the Internal Revenue Service that it has awarded $1.2 million in research grants under the Internal Revenue Service’s therapeutic discovery tax credit program for which we subsequently received the funds in January 2011. We recorded the $1.2 million as a credit against our Linjeta™, VIAtab™, extended glargine, glucagon and glucose-sensing glargine insulin development projects; (ii) In December 2010, we recorded a charge of $1.3 million for salary, bonus, benefits continuation for twenty-four months and an option acceleration modification charge of $7 thousand per the terms of the executed general release between Dr. Steiner, the Company’s former Chief Scientific Officer, and us. Research and development expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2010 include $0.6 million in stock-based compensation expense related to options and RSUs granted to employees. Because we revalue options granted to non-employees for accounting purposes each reporting period, the amount of stock-based compensation credit for the quarter ended December 31, 2010 was $42 thousand.

General and Administrative Expenses.


	Three Months Ended
	December 31,						Increase
	2009			2010			$		%
				(in thousands)
General and Administrative	$	2,417		$	2,577		$	160		6.6	%


Percentage of net loss		21.7	%		48.6	%

General and administrative expenses were $2.6 million for the three months ended December 31, 2010, an increase of $0.2 million, or 6.6%, from $2.4 million for the three months ended December 31, 2009. This increase was primarily attributable to increased personnel costs that resulted from higher medical rates and salary raises that were approved back in December 2009. General and administrative expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2010 include $0.9 million in stock-based compensation expense related to options and RSUs granted to employees. Because we revalue options granted to non-employees for accounting purposes each reporting period, the amount of stock-based compensation credit for the quarter ended December 31, 2009 was $2 thousand.

Interest and Other Income.


	Three Months Ended
	December 31,
	2009			2010		$		%
				(in thousands)
Interest and Other Income	$	5		$	5	$	0		0	%


Percentage of net loss		—	%		—

Interest and other income was $5 thousand for the three months ended December 31, 2010 and $5 thousand for the three months ended December 31, 2009. This was primarily due to our investments remaining in treasury securities, with the focus on preserving cash and investing in stable securities.

Adjustments to Fair Value of Common Stock Warrant Liability.


	Three Months Ended
	December 31,						Decrease
	2009			2010			$		%
				(in thousands)
Adjustments to fair value of common stock warrant liability	$	—		$	(2,772	)	$	2,772		100	%


Percentage of net loss		—	%		52.2

Adjustments to fair value of common stock warrant liability was $2.8 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2010 as compared to $0 for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. Since the closing stock price as of December 31, 2010 of $1.83 is lower than September 30, 2010 closing stock price of $5.30, we decreased the fair value of our warrant liability by $2.8 million, which was determined by the Monte Carlo simulation method. The Monte Carlo simulation is a generally accepted statistical method used to generate a defined number of stock price paths in order to develop a reasonable estimate of the range of our and our peer group’s future expected stock prices and minimizes standard error. Until the warrants are exercised, these warrants will be revalued each reporting period.

Net Loss per Share.


	Three Months Ended
	December 31,						Decrease
	2009			2010			$		%
	(in thousands, except per share amounts)
Net loss	$	(11,148	)	$	(5,308	)	$	5,840		52.4	%


Net loss per share	$	(0.47	)	$	(0.20	)

Net loss was $5.3 million, or $(0.22) per share, for the three months ended December 31, 2010 compared to $11.1 million, or $(0.47) per share, for the three months ended December 31, 2009. The decrease in net loss was primarily attributable to the net impact of changes in expenses described above. We expect our losses to continue as we plan to conduct preclinical and Phase 1 clinical trials of several rapid-acting insulin and insulin analog formulations prior to advancing a preferred rapid-acting formulation by conducting Phase 2 or 3 clinical trials.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Sources of Liquidity and Cash Flows

As a result of our significant research and development expenditures and the lack of any approved products or other sources of revenue, we have not been profitable and have generated significant operating losses since we were incorporated in 2003. We initially funded our research and development operations through proceeds from our Series A convertible preferred stock financing in 2005 and our mezzanine and Series B convertible preferred stock financings in 2006. Through December 31, 2006, we had received aggregate gross proceeds of $26.6 million from these sales. We received an aggregate of $134.3 million from our initial public offering in May 2007, our follow-on offering in February 2008 and our registered direct offering in August 2010.

At December 31, 2010, we had cash and cash equivalents totaling approximately $22.3 million. To date, we have invested our excess funds primarily in treasury and government based managed money funds with one major financial institution. All highly liquid investments with an original maturity of less than three months at the date of purchase are categorized as cash equivalents. We plan to continue to invest our cash and cash equivalents in accordance with our approved investment policy guidelines, which set forth our policy to hold investment securities to maturity.

Net cash used in operating activities was $6.6 million for the three months ended December 31, 2010 and $15.2 million for the three months ended December 31, 2009. Net cash used in operating activities for the three months ended December 31, 2010 primarily reflects the net loss for the period, offset in part by stock-based compensation, depreciation and amortization expenses, increases in accrued expenses, accounts payable, other receivables and prepaid expenses. Net cash used in operating activities for the three months ended December 31, 2009 primarily reflects the net loss for the period, offset in part by stock-based compensation, depreciation and amortization expenses, a decrease in accrued expenses and an increase in other receivables, prepaid expenses and accounts payable.

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities was $5.9 million for the three months ended December 31, 2010 and $(41) thousand for the three months ended December 31, 2009. Net cash provided by investing activities for the three months ended December 31, 2010 primarily

reflects the sale of marketable securities. Net cash used in investing activities for the three months ended December 31, 2009 primarily reflects the purchase of equipment.

Net cash provided by financing activities was $58 thousand for the three months ended December 31, 2010 and $155 thousand for the three months ended December 31, 2009. Net cash provided by financing activities in the three months ended December 31, 2010 primarily reflects sale of stock through our 2005 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Net cash provided by financing activities in the three months ended December 31, 2009 primarily reflects the proceeds from the sale of stock through our 2005 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

On August 24, 2010, we sold to two institutional investors an aggregate of 2,398,200 units that were immediately separated and we issued 2,398,200 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase an additional 2,398,200 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $4.716. The financing resulted in gross proceeds of $9.4 million. On December 1, 2010, the exercise price of the warrants was re-set to $1.56 per share.

Funding Requirements

We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to fund our anticipated operating expenses and capital expenditures at least through the first quarter of fiscal year 2012. If the August 2010 warrants are exercised, we anticipate the cash runway to extend at least through the second quarter of fiscal year 2012. We have based this estimate upon assumptions that may prove to be wrong and we could use our available capital resources sooner than we currently expect. Our existing capital resources are not sufficient to complete our clinical development program for Linjeta™. Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with the development and commercialization of our product candidates, and to the extent that we may or may not enter into collaborations with third parties to participate in their development and commercialization, we are unable to estimate the amounts of increased capital outlays and operating expenditures associated with our current anticipated clinical trials.

Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including:

	•		our ability to respond to the complete response letter regarding our NDA for Linjeta™ in a timely manner and the possibility that information we provide in response to the letter may not be sufficient for the approval of Linjeta™ or another rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog by the FDA;

	•		our ability to secure approval by the FDA for our product candidates under Section 505(b)(2) of the FFDCA and the degree to which we are able to clarify with the FDA related regulatory requirements;

	•		our ability to conduct the additional pivotal clinical trials the FDA requested in the complete response letter or other tests or analyses required by the FDA to secure approval to commercialize Linjeta™ ;

	•		our ability to develop and commercialize formulations of Linjeta™ or other rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog formulations that may be associated with less injection site discomfort than the formulation that is the subject of the complete response letter we received from the FDA;

	•		the progress, timing or success of our product candidates, particularly Linjeta™, and that of our research, development and clinical programs, including any resulting data analyses;

	•		the cost to develop an insulin pen for use with Linjeta™ and a formulation of Linjeta™ for use in insulin pumps;

	•		the costs of pre-commercialization activities, if any;

	•		the costs associated with qualifying and obtaining regulatory approval of suppliers of insulin and manufacturers of our product candidates;

	•		the costs of preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications and maintaining, enforcing and defending intellectual property-related claims;

	•		the emergence of competing technologies and products and other adverse market developments;

	•		our ability to establish and maintain collaborations and the terms and success of the collaborations, including the timing and amount of payments that we might receive from potential strategic collaborators; and

	•		our ability to accurately estimate anticipated operating losses, future revenues, capital requirements and our needs for additional financing.

We do not anticipate generating product revenue for the next few years. In the absence of additional funding, we expect our continuing operating losses to result in increases in our cash used in operations over the next several years. To the extent our capital resources are insufficient to meet our future capital requirements, we will need to finance our future cash needs through public or private equity offerings, debt financings or corporate collaboration and licensing arrangements. We do not currently have any commitments for future external funding.

We may receive additional proceeds from the exercise of warrants in connection with the securities purchase agreement and related documents we entered into in August 2010. Whether the warrants are exercised will depend on decisions made by the warrant holders and on whether the market price of our common stock exceeds the warrant exercise price, which is currently $1.56 per share.

Additional equity or debt financing or corporate collaboration and licensing arrangements may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all. If adequate funds are not available, we may be required to reduce general and administrative expenses and delay, reduce the scope of or eliminate some or all of our research and development programs, which could possibly include another reduction in personnel. We would also reduce our planned commercialization efforts or obtain funds through arrangements with collaborators or others that may require us to relinquish rights to certain drug candidates that we might otherwise seek to develop or commercialize independently or enter into corporate collaborations at a later stage of development. In addition, any future equity funding will dilute the ownership of our equity investors.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We have no off-balance sheet arrangements.

Contractual Obligations

The following table summarizes our significant contractual obligations and commercial commitments as of December 31, 2010 (in thousands):


			Less						More
			Than						Than
	Total		1 Year		1-3 Years		3-5 Years		5 Years
Operating lease obligations	$	2,188	$	639	$	1,549	$	—	$	—
Purchase commitments		4,035		4,035		—		—		—


Total fixed contractual obligations	$	6,223	$	4,674	$	1,549	$	—	$	—

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Our exposure to market risk is limited to our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. We invest in high-quality financial instruments, as permitted by the terms of our investment policy guidelines. Currently, our investments are limited to treasury securities. A portion of our investments may be subject to interest rate risk and could fall in value if interest rates were to increase. The effective duration of our portfolio is currently less than one year, which we believe limits interest rate and credit risk. We do not hedge interest rate exposure.

Because most of our transactions are denominated in United States dollars, we do not have any material exposure to fluctuations in currency exchange rates.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Management’s Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2010. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2010, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level.

Changes in internal controls

No change in our internal control over financial reporting (defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) occurred during the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2010 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II-OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

Risks Related to Our Financial Position and Need for Additional Capital

We have incurred significant losses since our inception. We expect to incur losses for the foreseeable future and may never achieve or maintain profitability.

Since our inception in December 2003, we have incurred significant operating losses. Our net loss was approximately $5.3 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2010. As of December 31, 2010, we had a deficit accumulated during the development stage of approximately $170.1 million. We have invested a significant portion of our efforts and financial resources in the development of Linjeta™. In October 2010, the FDA notified us that it would not approve our NDA for Linjeta™ unless and until we conduct two new Phase 3 clinical trials, one in Type 1 diabetes and the other in Type 2 diabetes, using the final commercial formulation of Linjeta™, we address deficiencies with the chemistry, manufacturing and controls, or CMC, section of the NDA, and our primary third-party manufacturers adequately remediate facility inspection observations. In light of the extensive nature of the FDA’s comments, we do not anticipate commencing new pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials with Linjeta™ prior to meeting with the FDA to clarify their requests and, separately, determining whether related rapid-acting insulin or insulin analogs that we are formulating should be advanced instead. These alternate formulations generally use the same or similar excipients as the formulation of Linjeta™ in our NDA, but they may present improvements with regard to injection site discomfort. After meeting with the FDA to discuss the complete response letter we received for Linjeta™, we expect to determine our preferred development, clinical and regulatory program for our rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog formulations and whether to advance our current formulation of Linjeta™ in additional pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials. We expect to continue to incur significant operating losses for at least the next several years as we may:

	•		conduct pre-clinical studies and Phase 1 clinical trials to study formulations of Linjeta™ and other related rapid-acting insulin and insulin analog formulations that that may be associated with less injection site discomfort than the formulation that is the subject of the complete response letter we received from the FDA;

	•		commence a stability program to determine whether any of our alternate formulations of rapid-acting insulins or insulin analogs are likely to present a commercially acceptable stability profile;

	•		conduct additional clinical trials of Linjeta™, including two potential pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials requested by the FDA to support approval;

	•		produce additional validation batches of Linjeta™ vials, cartridges, and disposable pens to support our NDA for Linjeta™ ;

	•		purchase recombinant human insulin and other materials consistent with our existing contractual obligations; and

	•		conduct additional clinical development of our other product candidates.

To become and remain profitable, we must succeed in developing and eventually commercializing drugs with significant market potential. This will require us to be successful in a range of challenging activities, including successfully completing preclinical testing and clinical trials of our product candidates, obtaining regulatory approval for these product candidates and manufacturing, marketing and selling those products for which we may obtain regulatory approval. We may never succeed in these activities and may never generate revenues that are significant or large enough to achieve profitability. Even if we do achieve profitability, we may not be able to sustain or increase profitability on a quarterly or annual basis. Our failure to become and remain profitable could depress the market price of our common stock and could impair our ability to raise capital, expand our business or continue our operations. A decline in the market price of our common stock could also cause you to lose all or a part of your investment.

We will need substantial additional funding and may be unable to raise capital when needed, which would force us to delay, reduce or eliminate our product development programs or commercialization efforts.

We are a development stage company with no commercial products. All of our product candidates are still being developed. All but Linjeta™ are in early stages of development, and we are in the process of determining whether to commence new pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials with our current formulation of Linjeta™ or advance one of our other proprietary rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog formulations instead. Our product candidates will require significant additional clinical development, regulatory approvals and related investment before they can be commercialized. While we have reduced expenditures on our development programs that are not related to rapid-acting mealtime insulins, we do not expect our research and development expenses to decrease as we continue our formulation work. Unless we are successful in consummating a strategic partnership to develop and commercialize Linjeta™ or an alternate rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog, we may need to raise substantial additional capital to develop and commercialize a competitive mealtime insulin product. Such financing may not be available on terms acceptable to us, or at all. If we are unable to obtain financing on favorable terms, our business, results of operations and financial condition may be materially adversely affected.

Based upon our current plans, we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash will be sufficient to fund our anticipated operating expenses and capital expenditures at least through the first quarter of fiscal year 2012. If the August 2010 warrants are exercised, we anticipate the cash runway to extend at least through the second quarter of fiscal year 2012. We cannot assure you that our plans

will not change or that changed circumstances will not result in the depletion of our capital resources more rapidly than we currently anticipate. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including:

	•		our ability to respond to the complete response letter regarding our NDA for Linjeta™ in a timely manner and the possibility that information we provide in response to the letter may not be sufficient for the approval of Linjeta™ or another rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog by the FDA;

	•		our ability to secure approval by the FDA for our product candidates under Section 505(b)(2) of the FFDCA and the degree to which we are able to clarify with the FDA related regulatory requirements;

	•		our ability to conduct the additional pivotal clinical trials that the FDA requested in the complete response letter or other tests or analyses required by the FDA to secure approval to commercialize Linjeta™ ;

	•		our ability to develop and commercialize formulations of Linjeta™ or other rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog formulations that may be associated with less injection site discomfort than the formulation that is the subject of the complete response letter we received from the FDA;

	•		the progress, timing or success of our product candidates, particularly Linjeta™, and that of our research, development and clinical programs, including any resulting data analyses;

	•		the cost to develop an insulin pen for use with Linjeta™ and a formulation of Linjeta™ for use in insulin pumps;

	•		the costs of pre-commercialization activities, if any;

	•		the costs associated with qualifying and obtaining regulatory approval of suppliers of insulin and manufacturers of our product candidates;

	•		the costs of preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications and maintaining, enforcing and defending intellectual property-related claims;

	•		the emergence of competing technologies and products and other adverse market developments; and

	•		our ability to establish and maintain collaborations and the terms and success of the collaborations, including the timing and amount of payments that we might receive from potential strategic collaborators.

Until such time, if ever, as we can generate substantial product revenues, we expect to finance our cash needs through public or private equity offerings and debt financings, strategic collaborations and licensing arrangements. If we raise additional funds by issuing additional equity securities, our stockholders will experience dilution. Debt financing, if available, may involve agreements that include covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures or declaring dividends. Any debt financing or additional equity that we raise may contain terms, such as liquidation and other preferences, that are not favorable to us or our stockholders. If we raise additional funds through collaboration, strategic alliance and licensing arrangements with third parties, it may be necessary to relinquish valuable rights to our technologies or product candidates, future revenue streams, research programs or product candidates or to grant licenses on terms that may not be favorable to us.

Our short operating history may make it difficult for you to evaluate the success of our business to date and to assess our future viability.

We commenced active operations in January 2004. Our operations to date have been limited to organizing and staffing our company, developing and securing our technology and undertaking preclinical studies and clinical trials of our product candidates. We have limited experience completing large-scale, pivotal clinical trials and we have not yet demonstrated our ability to obtain regulatory approvals, manufacture a commercial scale product, or arrange for a third party to do so on our behalf, or conduct sales and marketing activities necessary for successful product commercialization. Consequently, any predictions you make about our future success or viability may not be as accurate as they could be if we had a longer operating history.

In addition, as a new business, we may encounter unforeseen expenses, difficulties, complications, delays and other known and unknown factors. We may need to transition from a company with a research focus to a company capable of supporting commercial activities. We may not be successful in such a transition.

Risks Related to the Development and Commercialization of Our Product Candidates

We have depended heavily on the success of our most advanced product candidate, Linjeta™.

We have invested a significant portion of our efforts and financial resources in the development of our most advanced product candidate, Linjeta™. The FDA has concluded, however, that the results from our completed pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials of Linjeta™ are not sufficient to obtain marketing approval for Linjeta™. If we are unable, or choose not to, complete the two new pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials of Linjeta™ required by the FDA, or if we experience significant delays in doing so, our business may be materially harmed.

Our development of alternate formulations of Linjeta™ or other rapid-acting mealtime insulins or insulin analogs may not be successful; some formulations may have different regulatory requirements to obtain marketing approval from the FDA.

While we have significant experience with the technology we use to develop mealtime insulin formulations designed to be more rapid-acting than currently available products, we cannot guarantee that our program to advance alternate formulations of Linjeta™ or other rapid-acting insulins or insulin analogs will be successful. Some of these formulations appear to be less stable in accelerated testing than the Linjeta™ formulation submitted in our NDA, and we have clinical data suggesting improvements in injection site discomfort relative to Linjeta™ only with regard to two of the alternate formulations. We may be unable to develop a new formulation that is as tolerable and stable as is minimally acceptable to us, a potential strategic partner or the FDA. Furthermore, the regulatory requirements for any alternate formulation may not meet our expectations or may be different from those applicable to the formulation of Linjeta™ submitted in our NDA. For example, advancing any formulation based on an insulin analog may necessitate our conducting additional toxicology work or filing an investigational new drug application.

We may never reinitiate significant expenditures on our earlier stage product candidates.

We have suspended significant expenditures on the development of product candidates that are not related to a rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog. Until we determine our development, clinical and regulatory program for our rapid-acting insulin formulations and whether to advance our current formulation of Linjeta™ in additional pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials, we cannot guarantee that we will have sufficient resources to allocate to earlier stage product candidates or that the focus of our early stage product development program will not change.

The results of clinical trials do not ensure success in future clinical trials or commercial success.

We have completed and released the results of our two pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials of Linjeta™. We have not completed the development of any products through commercialization. In October 2010, the FDA notified us that it would not approve our NDA for Linjeta™ unless and until we conduct two new pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials using the final commercial formulation of Linjeta™, we address deficiencies with the CMC section of our NDA, and our primary third-party manufacturers adequately remediate facility inspection observations. The outcomes of preclinical testing and clinical trials may not be predictive of the success of later clinical trials. Furthermore, interim or preliminary results of a clinical trial do not necessarily predict final results. We cannot assure you that our additional clinical trials of Linjeta™, if any, will ultimately be successful. New information regarding the safety, efficacy and tolerability of Linjeta™ may arise that may be less favorable than the data observed to date.

If we are not successful in commercializing any of our product candidates, or are significantly delayed in doing so, our business will be materially harmed. The commercial success of our product candidates will depend on several factors, including the following:

	•		successful completion of preclinical development and clinical trials;

	•		our ability to identify and enroll patients who meet clinical trial eligibility criteria;

	•		receipt of marketing approvals from the FDA and similar regulatory authorities outside the United States;

	•		establishing that, with regard to Linjeta™ or any rapid or long-acting insulin or insulin analog, the formulation is well-tolerated in chronic use;

	•		establishing commercial manufacturing capabilities through arrangements with third-party manufacturers;

	•		launching commercial sales of the products, whether alone or in collaboration with others;

	•		competition from other products; and

	•		continued acceptable safety and tolerability profiles of the products following approval.

If our clinical trials are delayed or do not produce positive results, we may incur additional costs and ultimately be unable to commercialize our product candidates.

Before obtaining regulatory approval for the sale of our product candidates, we must conduct, at our own expense, extensive preclinical tests to demonstrate the safety of our product candidates in animals and clinical trials to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of our product candidates in humans. Preclinical and clinical testing is expensive, difficult to design and implement, can take many years to complete and is uncertain as to outcome. A failure of one or more of our clinical trials of Linjeta™ or alternate rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog formulations can occur at any stage of testing. We may experience numerous unforeseen events during our clinical trials that could delay or prevent our ability to receive regulatory approval or commercialize our product candidates, including:

	•		the number of patients required for our clinical trials may be larger than we anticipate, enrollment in our clinical trials may be slower than we currently anticipate, or participants may drop out of our clinical trials at a higher rate than we anticipate, any of which would result in significant delays;

	•		our third-party contractors may fail to comply with regulatory requirements or meet their contractual obligations to us in a timely manner;

	•		we might have to suspend or terminate our clinical trials if the participants are being exposed to unacceptable health risks;

	•		regulators or institutional review boards may require that we hold, suspend or terminate clinical research for various reasons, including noncompliance with regulatory requirements;

	•		the cost of our clinical trials may be greater than we anticipate;

	•		the supply or quality of our product candidates or other materials necessary to conduct our clinical trials may be insufficient or inadequate; and

	•		the effects of our product candidates may not be the desired effects, may include undesirable side effects or the product candidates may have other unexpected characteristics.

If we are required to conduct additional clinical trials or other testing of our product candidates beyond those that we currently contemplate, if we are unable to successfully complete our clinical trials or other testing, if the results of these trials or tests are not positive or are only modestly positive or if there are safety concerns, we may:

	•		be delayed in obtaining marketing approval for our product candidates;

	•		not be able to obtain marketing approval;

	•		obtain approval for indications that are not as broad as intended; or

	•		have the product removed from the market after obtaining marketing approval.

Our product development costs will also increase if we experience delays in testing or approvals. We do not know whether any preclinical tests or clinical trials will begin as planned, will need to be restructured or will be completed on schedule, if at all. Significant preclinical or clinical trial delays also could shorten any periods during which we may have the exclusive right to commercialize our product candidates or allow our competitors to bring products to market before we do and impair our ability to commercialize our products or product candidates and may harm our business and results of operations.

If our product candidates are found to cause undesirable side effects we may need to delay or abandon our development and commercialization efforts.

Any undesirable side effects that might be caused by our product candidates could interrupt, delay or halt clinical trials and could result in the denial of regulatory approval by the FDA or other regulatory authorities for any or all targeted indications. In addition, if any of our product candidates receive marketing approval and we or others later identify undesirable side effects caused by the product, we could face one or more of the following:

	•		a change in the labeling statements or withdrawal of FDA or other regulatory approval of the product;

	•		a change in the way the product is administered; or

	•		the need to conduct additional clinical trials.

Any of these events could prevent us from achieving or maintaining market acceptance of the affected product or could substantially increase the costs and expenses of commercializing the product, which in turn could delay or prevent us from generating significant revenues from its sale.

In our analysis of our completed pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials, we found that Linjeta™ was associated with injection site discomfort, although the prevalence of discomfort decreased during the course of the treatment. In addition, in an October 2009 tolerability trial of the liquid formulation of Linjeta™, it was determined that some patients experienced more injection site discomfort with Linjeta™ than they did with Humalog^®.

The commercial success of any product candidates that we may develop, including Linjeta™, will depend upon the degree of market acceptance by physicians, patients, healthcare payors and others in the medical community.

Any products that we bring to the market, including Linjeta™, if they receive marketing approval, may not gain market acceptance by physicians, patients, healthcare payors and others in the medical community. If these products do not achieve an adequate level of acceptance, we may not generate significant product revenues and we may not become profitable. Physicians will not recommend our product candidates until clinical data or other factors demonstrate the safety and efficacy of our product candidates as compared to other treatments. Even if the clinical safety and efficacy of our product candidates is established, physicians may elect not to recommend these product candidates for a variety of reasons including the reimbursement policies of government and third-party payors, the effectiveness of our competitors in marketing their products and, in the case of Linjeta™, the possibility that patients may experience more injection site discomfort than they experience with competing products.

The degree of market acceptance of our product candidates, if approved for commercial sale, will depend on a number of factors, including:

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the willingness and ability of patients and the healthcare community to adopt our products;

	•		the ability to manufacture our product candidates in sufficient quantities with acceptable quality and to offer our product candidates for sale at competitive prices;

	•		the perception of patients and the healthcare community, including third-party payors, regarding the safety, efficacy and benefits of our product candidates compared to those of competing products or therapies;

	•		the convenience and ease of administration of our product candidates relative to existing treatment methods;

	•		the label and promotional claims allowed by the FDA, such as, in the case of Linjeta™, claims relating to glycemic control, hypoglycemia, weight gain, injection site discomfort, expiry dating and required handling conditions;

	•		the pricing and reimbursement of our product candidates relative to existing treatments; and

	•		marketing and distribution support for our product candidates.

If we fail to enter into strategic collaborations for the commercialization of our product candidates or if our collaborations are unsuccessful, we may be required to establish our own sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution capabilities which will be expensive, require additional capital we do not currently have, and could delay the commercialization of our product candidates and have a material and adverse effect on our business.

A broad base of physicians, including primary care physicians, internists and endocrinologists, treat patients with diabetes. A large sales force may be required to educate and support these physicians. Therefore, our current strategy for developing, manufacturing and commercializing our product candidates includes securing collaborations with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for the commercialization of our product candidates. To date, we have not entered into any collaborations with pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies. We face significant competition in seeking appropriate collaborators. In addition, collaboration agreements are complex and time-consuming to negotiate, document and implement. For all these reasons, it may be difficult for us to find third parties that are willing to enter into collaborations on economic terms that are favorable to us, or at all. Even if we do enter into any such collaboration, the collaboration may not be successful. The success of our collaboration arrangements will depend heavily on the efforts and activities of our collaborators. It is likely that our collaborators will have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources that they will apply to these collaborations.

If we fail to enter into collaborations, or if our collaborations are unsuccessful, we may be required to establish our own direct sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution capabilities. Establishing these capabilities can be time-consuming and expensive and we have little experience in doing so. Because of our size, we would be at a disadvantage to our potential competitors to the extent they collaborate with large pharmaceutical companies that have substantially more resources than we do. As a result, we would not initially be able to field a sales force as large as our competitors or provide the same degree of market research or marketing support. In addition, our competitors would have a greater ability to devote research resources toward expansion of the indications for their products. We cannot assure prospective investors that we will succeed in entering into acceptable collaborations, that any such collaboration will be successful or, if not, that we will successfully develop our own sales, marketing and distribution capabilities.

If we are unable to obtain adequate reimbursement from governments or third-party payors for any products that we may develop or if we are unable to obtain acceptable prices for those products, they may not be purchased or used and our revenues and prospects for profitability will suffer.

Our future revenues and profits will depend heavily upon the availability of adequate reimbursement for the use of our approved product candidates from governmental and other third-party payors, both in the United States and in other markets. Reimbursement by a third-party payor may depend upon a number of factors, including the third-party payor’s determination that use of a product is:

	•		a covered benefit under its health plan;

	•		safe, effective and medically necessary;

	•		appropriate for the specific patient;

	•		cost-effective; and

	•		neither experimental nor investigational.

Obtaining reimbursement approval for a product from each government or other third-party payor is a time-consuming and costly process that could require us to provide supporting scientific, clinical and cost-effectiveness data for the use of our products to each payor. We may not be able to provide data sufficient to gain acceptance with respect to reimbursement. Even when a payor determines that a product is eligible for reimbursement, the payor may impose coverage limitations that preclude payment for some uses that are approved by the FDA or comparable authorities. In addition, eligibility for coverage does not imply that any product will be reimbursed in all cases or at a rate that allows us to make a profit or even cover our costs.

Interim payments for new products, if applicable, may also not be sufficient to cover our costs and may not be made permanent.

We may be subject to pricing pressures and uncertainties regarding Medicare reimbursement and reform.

Reforms in Medicare added a prescription drug reimbursement benefit beginning in 2006 for all Medicare beneficiaries. Although we cannot predict the full effects on our business of the implementation of this legislation, it is possible that the new benefit, which will be managed by private health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other managed care organizations, will result in decreased reimbursement for prescription drugs, which may further exacerbate industry-wide pressure to reduce the prices charged for prescription drugs. This could harm our ability to generate revenues.

Governments outside the United States tend to impose strict price controls, which may adversely affect our revenues, if any.

In some countries, particularly the countries of the European Union, the pricing of prescription pharmaceuticals is subject to governmental control. In these countries, pricing negotiations with governmental authorities can take considerable time after the receipt of marketing approval for a product. To obtain reimbursement or pricing approval in some countries, we may be required to conduct a clinical trial that compares the cost-effectiveness of our product candidate to other available therapies. If reimbursement of our products is unavailable or limited in scope or amount, or if pricing is set at unsatisfactory levels, our business could be adversely affected.

Legislation has been introduced in Congress that, if enacted, would permit more widespread re-importation of drugs from foreign countries into the United States, which may include re-importation from foreign countries where the drugs are sold at lower prices than in the United States. Such legislation, or similar regulatory changes, could decrease the price we receive for any approved products which, in turn, could adversely affect our operating results and our overall financial condition.

Product liability lawsuits against us could cause us to incur substantial liabilities and to limit commercialization of any products that we may develop.

We face an inherent risk of product liability exposure related to the testing of our product candidates in human clinical trials and will face an even greater risk if we commercially sell any products that we may develop. If we cannot successfully defend ourselves against claims that our product candidates or products caused injuries, we will incur substantial liabilities. Regardless of merit or eventual outcome, liability claims may result in:

	•		decreased demand for any product candidates or products that we may develop;

	•		injury to our reputation;

	•		withdrawal of clinical trial participants;

	•		costs to defend the related litigation;

	•		substantial monetary awards to trial participants or patients;

	•		loss of revenue; and

	•		the inability to commercialize any products that we may develop.

We currently carry global liability insurance that we believe is sufficient to cover us from potential damages arising from clinical trials of Linjeta™. We also carry local insurance policies per clinical trial of our product candidates. The amount of insurance that we currently hold may not be adequate to cover all liabilities that we may incur. We intend to expand our insurance coverage to include the sale of commercial products if we obtain marketing approval for any products. Insurance coverage is increasingly expensive. We may not be able to maintain insurance coverage at a reasonable cost. If losses from product liability claims exceed our liability insurance coverage, we may ourselves incur substantial liabilities. If we are required to pay a product liability claim, we may not have sufficient financial resources to complete development or commercialization of any of our product candidates and, if so, our business and results of operations would be harmed.

We face substantial competition in the development of our product candidates which may result in others developing or commercializing products before or more successfully than we do.

We are engaged in segments of the pharmaceutical industry that are characterized by intense competition and rapidly evolving technology. Many large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academic institutions, governmental agencies and other public and private research organizations are pursuing the development of novel drugs that target endocrine disorders. We face, and expect to continue to face, intense and increasing competition as new products enter the market and advanced technologies become available. There are several approved injectable rapid-acting mealtime insulin analogs currently on the market including Humalog^®, marketed by Eli Lilly and Company, NovoLog^®, marketed by Novo Nordisk A/S, and Apidra ^® , marketed by Sanofi-Aventis. These rapid-acting insulin analogs provide improvement over regular forms of short-acting insulin, including faster subcutaneous absorption, an earlier and greater insulin peak and more rapid post-peak decrease. In addition, other development stage rapid-acting insulin formulations may be approved and compete with Linjeta™. Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. has conducted a Phase 1 and multiple Phase 2 clinical trials of Humulin^® R and Humalog^® in combination with a recombinant human hyaluronidase enzyme and has reported that in each case the combination yielded pharmacokinetics and glucodynamics that better mimicked physiologic mealtime insulin release and activity than Humulin^® R or Humalog^® alone. Novo Nordisk has reported that they have initiated clinical development of an ultra-fast-acting insulin analog intended to provide faster onset of action than the currently available fast-acting insulin analogs.

Several companies are also developing alternative insulin systems for diabetes, including MannKind Corporation, which has an inhalable insulin product candidate for which an NDA was submitted in early 2009. Although currently the subject of a complete response letter from the FDA, the approval and acceptance of an inhaled insulin such as MannKind’s inhaled insulin could reduce the overall market for injectable prandial insulin.

Treatment practices can also change with the introduction of new classes of therapy. Currently GLP-1 analogs such as exantide, marketed by Eli Lilly, and liraglutide, marketed by Novo Nordisk, are growing in usage and could delay the start of insulin usage in some patients therefore decreasing the size of the prandial insulin market.

While at this time there are no approved generic or biosimilar insulin analogs in the market in the United States or Europe, in other countries such as India there are multiple approved manufacturers of insulin analogs such has Humalog^® . Both Humalog^® and NovoLog^® have limited remaining patent protection in the United States and Europe. Biocon, an established biosimilar manufacturer, has entered into a collaboration with Pfizer to commercialize biosimilar versions of Humalog^® and NovoLog^®. The possible introduction of lower priced brands or substitutable generic versions of these products could negatively impact the revenue potential of Linjeta™.

Potential competitors also include academic institutions, government agencies and other public and private research organizations that conduct research, seek patent protection and establish collaborative arrangements for research, development, manufacturing and commercialization. Our competitors may develop products that are more effective, safer, more convenient or less costly than any that we are developing or that would render our product candidates obsolete or non-competitive. Our competitors may also obtain FDA or other regulatory approval for their products more rapidly than we may obtain approval for ours.

Many of our potential competitors have:

	•		significantly greater financial, technical and human resources than we have and may be better equipped to discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize product candidates;

	•		more extensive experience in preclinical testing and clinical trials, obtaining regulatory approvals and manufacturing and marketing pharmaceutical products;

	•		product candidates that have been approved or are in late-stage clinical development; or

	•		collaborative arrangements in our target markets with leading companies and research institutions.

Our product candidates may be rendered obsolete by technological change.

The rapid rate of scientific discoveries and technological changes could result in one or more of our product candidates becoming obsolete or noncompetitive. For several decades, scientists have attempted to improve the bioavailability of injected formulations and to devise alternative non-invasive delivery systems for the delivery of drugs such as insulin. Our product candidates will compete against many products with similar indications. In addition to the currently marketed rapid-acting insulin analogs, our competitors are developing insulin formulations delivered by oral pills, pulmonary devices and oral spray devices. Our future success will depend not only on our ability to develop our product candidates, but also on our ability to maintain market acceptance against emerging industry developments. We cannot assure present or prospective stockholders that we will be able to do so.

Our business activities involve the storage and use of hazardous materials, which require compliance with environmental and occupational safety laws regulating the use of such materials. If we violate these laws, we could be subject to significant fines, liabilities or other adverse consequences.

Our research and development work and manufacturing processes involve the controlled storage and use of hazardous materials, including chemical and biological materials. Our operations also produce hazardous waste products. We are subject to federal, state and local laws and regulations governing the use, manufacture, storage, handling and disposal of these materials. Although we believe that our safety procedures for handling and disposing of such materials and waste products comply in all material respects with the standards prescribed by federal, state and local laws and regulations, the risk of accidental contamination or injury from hazardous materials cannot be completely eliminated. In the event of an accident or failure to comply with environmental laws, we could be held liable for any damages that may result, and any such liability could fall outside the coverage or exceed the limits of our insurance. In addition, we could be required to incur significant costs to comply with environmental laws and regulations in the future or pay substantial fines or penalties if we violate any of these laws or regulations. Finally, current or future environmental laws and regulations may impair our research, development or production efforts.

Risks Related to Our Dependence on Third Parties

Use of third parties to manufacture our product candidates may increase the risks that we will not have sufficient quantities of our product candidates or such quantities at an acceptable cost, or that our suppliers will not be able to manufacture our products in their final dosage form. In any such case, clinical development and commercialization of our product candidates could be delayed, prevented or impaired.

We do not currently own or operate manufacturing facilities for commercial production of our product candidates. We have limited experience in drug manufacturing and we lack the resources and the capabilities to manufacture any of our product candidates on a clinical or

commercial scale. Our current strategy is to outsource all manufacturing of our product candidates and products to third parties. We also expect to rely upon third parties to produce materials required for the commercial production of our product candidates if we succeed in obtaining necessary regulatory approvals. We currently rely on two manufacturers, Hyaluron, Inc. and Wockhardt, Ltd., to manufacture Linjeta™, but we do not have commercial supply agreements with these third parties.

Hyaluron, Inc. and Wockhardt, Ltd. have each recently undergone an inspection by the FDA in which deficiencies were identified and a warning letter from the FDA was issued. The FDA has required that these deficiencies be corrected prior to the approval or manufacture of Linjeta™ or the manufacture of our other product formulations for use in clinical trials. At this time, the ability of, and the length of time that may be required by Hyaluron, Inc. and Wockhardt, Ltd. to remediate the deficiencies identified by the FDA is uncertain. Failure by either Hyaluron, Inc. or Wockhardt, Ltd. to adequately and in a timely manner remediate the deficiencies identified by the FDA may delay the execution of our strategic plans, including the manufacturing of study drugs for use in clinical trials.

Reliance on third-party manufacturers entails risks to which we would not be subject if we manufactured product candidates or products ourselves, including:

	•		reliance on the third party for regulatory compliance and quality assurance;

	•		the possible breach of the manufacturing agreement by the third party because of factors beyond our control; and

	•		the possible refusal by the third party to support our manufacturing programs, based on its own business priorities, at a time that is costly or inconvenient for us.

Our manufacturers may not be able to comply with current good manufacturing practice, or cGMP, regulations or other regulatory requirements or similar regulatory requirements outside the United States. Our manufacturers are subject to unannounced inspections by the FDA, state regulators and similar regulators outside the United States. Our failure, or the failure of our third-party manufacturers, to comply with applicable regulations could result in sanctions being imposed on us, including fines, injunctions, civil penalties, failure of regulatory authorities to grant marketing approval of our product candidates, delays, suspension or withdrawal of approvals, license revocation, seizures or recalls of product candidates or products, operating restrictions and criminal prosecutions, any of which could significantly and adversely affect supplies of our product candidates.

Our product candidates and any products that we may develop may compete with other product candidates and products for access to manufacturing facilities. There are a limited number of manufacturers that operate under cGMP regulations and that are both capable of manufacturing for us and willing to do so. If the third parties that we engage to manufacture product for our clinical trials should cease to continue to do so for any reason, we likely would experience delays in advancing these trials while we identify and qualify replacement suppliers and we may be unable to obtain replacement supplies on terms that are favorable to us. In addition, if we are not able to obtain adequate supplies of our product candidates or the drug substances used to manufacture them, it will be more difficult for us to develop our product candidates and compete effectively.

Our current and anticipated future dependence upon others for the manufacture of our product candidates may adversely affect our future profit margins and our ability to develop product candidates and commercialize any products that receive regulatory approval on a timely and competitive basis.

We rely on third parties to conduct our clinical trials and those third parties may not perform satisfactorily, including failing to meet established deadlines for the completion of such trials.

We do not independently conduct clinical trials of our product candidates. We rely on third parties, such as contract research organizations, clinical data management organizations, medical institutions and clinical investigators, to enroll qualified patients and conduct our clinical trials. Our reliance on these third parties for clinical development activities reduces our control over these activities. We are responsible for ensuring that each of our clinical trials is conducted in accordance with the general investigational plan and protocols for the trial. Moreover, the FDA requires us to comply with standards, commonly referred to as Good Clinical Practices, for conducting, recording, and reporting the results of clinical trials to assure that data and reported results are credible and accurate and that the rights, integrity and confidentiality of trial participants are protected. Our reliance on third parties that we do not control does not relieve us of these responsibilities and requirements. Furthermore, these third parties may also have relationships with other entities, some of which may be our competitors. If these third parties do not successfully carry out their contractual duties, meet expected deadlines or conduct our clinical trials in accordance with regulatory requirements or our stated protocols, we will not be able to obtain, or may be delayed in obtaining, regulatory approvals for our product candidates and will not be able to, or may be delayed in our efforts to, successfully commercialize our product candidates.

If our suppliers, principally our sole insulin supplier, fail to deliver materials and provide services needed for the production of Linjeta™ or any alternative rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog in a timely and sufficient manner, or if they fail to comply with applicable regulations, clinical development or regulatory approval of our product candidates or commercialization of our products could be delayed, producing additional losses and depriving us of potential product revenue.

We need access to sufficient, reliable and affordable supplies of recombinant human insulin and other materials for which we rely on various suppliers. We also must rely on those suppliers to comply with relevant regulatory and other legal requirements, including the

production of insulin in accordance with cGMP. We can make no assurances that our suppliers, particularly our insulin supplier, will comply with cGMP.

We have entered into an agreement with our existing single insulin supplier from which we obtain all of the insulin that we use for testing and manufacturing Linjeta™ or any alternative rapid-acting insulin formulation based on recombinant human insulin. Our agreement with this insulin supplier will terminate in December 2011. We are discussing the possibility of extending this supply agreement beyond 2011, depending on our strategic plans, but we cannot guarantee that this effort will be successful.

We believe that our current supplies of insulin, together with the quantities of insulin called for under our existing supply agreement, will be sufficient to allow us to complete, if we so choose, the two new pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials of Linjeta™ required by the FDA in order to receive approval to market Linjeta™. We may seek to qualify other insulin suppliers to serve as additional or alternative suppliers if we are unable or choose not to enter into a new commercial supply agreement with our existing supplier. We do not anticipate being able to qualify a new insulin supplier prior to December 2011. Even if we do qualify a new supplier in a timely manner, the cost of switching or adding additional suppliers may be significant, and we cannot assure you that we will be able to enter into a commercial supply agreement with a new supplier on favorable terms. If we are unable to procure sufficient quantities of insulin from our current or any future supplier, if supply of recombinant human insulin and other materials otherwise becomes limited, or if our suppliers do not meet relevant regulatory requirements, and if we were unable to obtain these materials in sufficient amounts, in a timely manner and at reasonable prices, we could be delayed in the manufacturing and possible commercialization of Linjeta™, which may have a material adverse effect on our business. We would incur substantial costs and manufacturing delays if our suppliers are unable to provide us with products or services approved by the FDA or other regulatory agencies.

Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property

If we are unable to protect our intellectual property rights, our competitors may develop and market similar or identical products that may reduce demand for our products, and we may be prevented from establishing collaborative relationships on favorable terms.

The following factors are important to our success:

	•		receiving patent protection for our product candidates;

	•		maintaining our trade secrets;

	•		not infringing on the proprietary rights of others; and

	•		preventing others from infringing our proprietary rights.

We will be able to protect our proprietary rights from unauthorized use by third parties only to the extent that our proprietary rights are covered by valid and enforceable patents or are effectively maintained as trade secrets. We try to protect our proprietary position by filing U.S. and foreign patent applications related to our proprietary technology, inventions and improvements that are important to the development of our business. Because the patent position of pharmaceutical companies involves complex legal and factual questions, the issuance, scope and enforceability of patents cannot be predicted with certainty. Patents, if issued, may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented. Thus, any patents that we own or license from others may not provide any protection against competitors.

We have been granted one U.S. patent, one European patent, one Hong Kong patent, and one Australian patent. The European patent entered the national phase in all of the designated countries. In addition, we have several pending United States and corresponding foreign and international patent applications relating to our Linjeta™ and VIAtab™ technology and several pending U.S. and foreign patent applications relating to our technology for enhancing delivery of drugs. These pending patent applications, those we may file in the future, or those we may license from third parties, may not result in patents being issued. If patents do not issue with claims encompassing our products, our competitors may develop and market similar or identical products that compete with ours. Even if patents are issued, they may not provide us with proprietary protection or competitive advantages against competitors with similar technology. Failure to obtain effective patent protection for our technology and products may reduce demand for our products and prevent us from establishing collaborative relationships on favorable terms.

The active and inactive ingredients in our Linjeta™ and VIAtab™ product candidates have been known and used for many years and, therefore, are no longer subject to patent protection. Accordingly, our granted U.S. and foreign patents and pending patent applications are directed to the particular formulations of these ingredients in our products, and their use. Although we believe our formulations and their use are patentable and provide a competitive advantage, even if issued, our patents may not prevent others from marketing formulations using the same active and inactive ingredients in similar but different formulations.

We also rely on trade secrets, know-how and technology, which are not protected by patents, to maintain our competitive position. We try to protect this information by entering into confidentiality agreements with parties that have access to it, such as potential corporate partners, collaborators, employees and consultants. Any of these parties may breach the agreements and disclose our confidential information or our competitors may learn of the information in some other way. Furthermore, others may independently develop similar technologies or duplicate any technology that we have developed. If any trade secret, know-how or other technology not protected by a patent were to be disclosed to or independently developed by a competitor, our business and financial condition could be materially adversely affected.

The laws of many foreign countries do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States.

We may become involved in lawsuits and administrative proceedings to protect, defend or enforce our patents that would be expensive and time-consuming.

In order to protect or enforce our patent rights, we may initiate patent litigation against third parties in the United States or in foreign countries. In addition, we may be subject to certain opposition proceedings conducted in patent and trademark offices challenging the validity of our patents and may become involved in future opposition proceedings challenging the patents of others. The defense of intellectual property rights, including patent rights, through lawsuits, interference or opposition proceedings, and other legal and administrative proceedings can be costly and can divert our technical and management personnel from their normal responsibilities. Such costs increase our operating losses and reduce our resources available for development activities. An adverse determination of any litigation or defense proceedings could put one or more of our patents at risk of being invalidated or interpreted narrowly and could put our patent applications at risk of not issuing.

Furthermore, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in connection with intellectual property litigation, there is a risk that some of our confidential information could be compromised by disclosure during this type of litigation. For example, during the course of this kind of litigation and despite protective orders entered by the court, confidential information may be inadvertently disclosed in the form of documents or testimony in connection with discovery requests, depositions or trial testimony. This disclosure could materially adversely affect our business and financial results.

Claims by other parties that we infringe or have misappropriated their proprietary technology may result in liability for damages, royalties, or other payments, or stop our development and commercialization efforts.

Competitors and other third parties may initiate patent litigation against us in the United States or in foreign countries based on existing patents or patents that may be granted in the future. Many of our competitors may have obtained patents covering products and processes generally related to our products and processes, and they may assert these patents against us. Moreover, there can be no assurance that these competitors have not sought or will not seek additional patents that may cover aspects of our technology. As a result, there is a greater likelihood of a patent dispute than would be expected if our competitors were pursuing unrelated technologies.

While we conduct patent searches to determine whether the technologies used in our products infringe patents held by third parties, numerous patent applications are currently pending and may be filed in the future for technologies generally related to our technologies, including many patent applications that remain confidential after filing. Due to these factors and the inherent uncertainty in conducting patent searches, there can be no guarantee that we will not violate third-party patent rights that we have not yet identified.

There may be U.S. and foreign patents issued to third parties that relate to aspects of our product candidates. There may also be patent applications filed by these or other parties in the United States and various foreign jurisdictions that relate to some aspects of our product candidates, which, if issued, could subject us to infringement actions. The owners or licensees of these and other patents may file one or more infringement actions against us. In addition, a competitor may claim misappropriation of a trade secret by an employee hired from that competitor. Any such infringement or misappropriation action could cause us to incur substantial costs defending the lawsuit and could distract our management from our business, even if the allegations of infringement or misappropriation are unwarranted. A need to defend multiple actions or claims could have a disproportionately greater impact. In addition, either in response to or in anticipation of any such infringement or misappropriation claim, we may enter into commercial agreements with the owners or licensees of these rights. The terms of these commercial agreements may include substantial payments, including substantial royalty payments on revenues received by us in connection with the commercialization of our products.

Payments under such agreements could increase our operating losses and reduce our resources available for development activities. Furthermore, a party making this type of claim could secure a judgment that requires us to pay substantial damages, which would increase our operating losses and reduce our resources available for development activities. A judgment could also include an injunction or other court order that could prevent us from making, using, selling, offering for sale or importing our products or prevent our customers from using our products. If a court determined or if we independently concluded that any of our products or manufacturing processes violated third-party proprietary rights, our clinical trials could be delayed and there can be no assurance that we would be able to reengineer the product or processes to avoid those rights, or to obtain a license under those rights on commercially reasonable terms, if at all.

If the FDA does not believe that our product candidates satisfy the requirements for the Section 505(b)(2) approval procedure, or if the requirements for Linjeta™ under Section 505(b)(2) are not as we expect, the approval pathway will take longer and cost more than anticipated and in either case may not be successful.

We believe Linjeta™ and our other rapid-acting insulin formulations using regular human insulin qualify for approval under Section 505(b)(2) of the FFDCA. Because we are developing new formulations of previously approved chemical entities, such as insulin, this may enable us to avoid having to submit certain types of data and studies that are required in full NDAs and instead submit an NDA under Section 505(b)(2). The FDA has not published any guidance that specifically addresses an NDA for an insulin product candidate under Section 505(b)(2). No other insulin product has yet been approved pursuant to an NDA under Section 505(b)(2). If the FDA determines that NDAs under Section 505(b)(2) are not appropriate and that full NDAs are required for our product candidates, we would have to conduct additional studies, provide additional data and information, and meet additional standards for approval. The time and financial resources required to obtain FDA approval for our product candidates could substantially and materially increase. This would require us to obtain

substantially more funding than previously anticipated which could significantly dilute the ownership interests of our stockholders. Even with this investment, the prospect for FDA approval may be significantly lower. If the FDA requires full NDAs for our product candidates or requires more extensive testing and development for some other reason, our ability to compete with alternative products that arrive on the market more quickly than our product candidates would be adversely impacted.

Notwithstanding the approval of many products by the FDA under Section 505(b)(2) over the last few years, certain brand-name pharmaceutical companies and others have objected to the FDA’s interpretation of Section 505(b)(2). If the FDA’s interpretation of Section 505(b)(2) is successfully challenged, the FDA may be required to change its interpretation of Section 505(b)(2) which could delay or even prevent the FDA from approving any NDA that we submit under Section 505(b)(2). The pharmaceutical industry is highly competitive, and it is not uncommon for a manufacturer of an approved product to file a citizen petition with the FDA seeking to delay approval of, or impose additional approval requirements for, pending competing products. If successful, such petitions can significantly delay, or even prevent, the approval of the new product. However, even if the FDA ultimately denies such a petition, the FDA may substantially delay approval while it considers and responds to the petition.

Moreover, even if Linjeta™ or an alternate rapid-acting insulin or insulin analog formulation is approved under Section 505(b)(2), the approval may be subject to limitations on the indicated uses for which the product may be marketed or to other conditions of approval, or may contain requirements for costly post-marketing testing and surveillance to monitor the safety or efficacy of the product.

Any product for which we obtain marketing approval could be subject to restrictions or withdrawal from the market and we may be subject to penalties if we fail to comply with regulatory requirements or if we experience unanticipated problems with our products, when and if any of them are approved.

Any product for which we obtain marketing approval, along with the manufacturing processes, post-approval clinical data, labeling, advertising and promotional activities for such product, will be subject to continual requirements of and review by the FDA and other state and federal regulatory authorities. These requirements include, in the case of FDA, submissions of safety and other post-marketing information and reports, registration requirements, cGMP requirements relating to quality control, quality assurance and corresponding maintenance of records and documents, requirements regarding the distribution of samples to physicians and recordkeeping. Even if regulatory approval of a product is granted, the approval may be subject to limitations on the indicated uses for which the product may be marketed or to other conditions of approval, or may contain requirements for costly post-marketing testing and surveillance to monitor the safety or efficacy of the product. In addition, if any of our product candidates are approved, our product labeling, advertising and promotion would be subject to regulatory requirements and continuing regulatory review. The FDA strictly regulates the promotional claims that may be made about prescription drug products. In particular, a drug may not be promoted in a misleading manner or for uses that are not approved by the FDA as reflected in the product’s approved labeling. The FDA and other state and federal entities actively enforce the laws and regulations prohibiting misleading promotion and the promotion of off-label uses, and a company that is found to have improperly promoted off-label uses may be subject to significant liability.

Discovery after approval of previously unknown problems with our products, manufacturers or manufacturing processes, or failure to comply with state or federal regulatory requirements, may result in actions such as:

	•		restrictions on such products’ manufacturers or manufacturing processes;

	•		restrictions on the marketing or distribution of a product;

	•		requirements that we conduct new studies, make labeling changes, and implement Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies;

	•		warning letters;

	•		withdrawal of the products from the market;

	•		refusal to approve pending applications or supplements to approved applications that we submit;

	•		recall of products;

	•		fines, restitution or disgorgement of profits or revenue;

	•		suspension or withdrawal of regulatory approvals;

	•		refusal to permit the import or export of our products;

	•		product embargo and/or seizure;

	•		injunctions; or

	•		imposition of civil or criminal penalties.

Changes in law, regulations, and policies legislation may preclude approval of our product under a 505(b)(2) or make it more difficult and costly for us to obtain regulatory approval of our product candidates and to produce, market and distribute our existing products.

On March 23, 2010, the President signed into law new legislation creating an abbreviated pathway for approval of biological products under the Public Health Service, or PHS Act, that are similar to previously approved biological products. This legislation also expanded the definition of biological product to include proteins such as insulin. The new law contains transitional provisions governing protein products such as insulin that, under certain circumstances, might permit companies to seek approval for their insulin products as biologics under the PHS Act and might require that Biodel’s product be approved under the PHS Act rather than in a 505(b)(2) NDA. We would be unlikely to pursue approval of our insulin product candidates if we were required to seek approval under the PHS Act rather than in a 505(b)(2) NDA.

In addition, the federal and state regulations, policies or guidance may change and new may be enacted that could prevent or delay regulatory approval of our product candidates or further restrict or regulate post-approval activities. It is impossible to predict whether additional legislative changes will be enacted, or FDA regulations, guidance or interpretations implemented or modified, or what the impact of such changes, if any, may be.

Failure to obtain regulatory approval in international jurisdictions would prevent us from marketing our products abroad.

We intend to have our products marketed outside the United States. In order to market our products in the European Union and many other jurisdictions, we must obtain separate regulatory approvals and comply with numerous and varying regulatory requirements of other countries regarding safety and efficacy and governing, among other things, clinical trials and commercial sales and distribution of our products. The approval procedure varies among countries and can involve additional testing. The time required to obtain approval may differ from that required to obtain FDA approval. The regulatory approval processes outside the United States may include all of the risks associated with obtaining FDA approval, as well as additional risks. In addition, in many countries outside the United States, it is required that the product be approved for reimbursement before the product can be approved for sale in that country. We may not obtain approvals from regulatory authorities outside the United States on a timely basis, if at all. Approval by the FDA does not ensure approval by regulatory authorities in other countries or jurisdictions, and approval by one regulatory authority outside the United States does not ensure approval by regulatory authorities in other countries or jurisdictions or by the FDA. We may not be able to file for regulatory approvals and may not receive necessary approvals to commercialize our products in any market.

Reports of side effects or safety concerns in related technology fields or in other companies’ clinical trials could delay or prevent us from obtaining regulatory approval or negatively impact public perception of our product candidates.

At present, there are a number of clinical trials being conducted by us and by other pharmaceutical companies involving insulin or insulin delivery systems. The major safety concern with patients taking insulin is the occurrence of hypoglycemic events. If we discover that our product is associated with a significantly increased frequency of hypoglycemic or other adverse events, or if other pharmaceutical companies announce that they observed frequent or significant adverse events in their trials involving insulin or insulin delivery systems, we could encounter delays in the commencement or completion of our clinical trials or difficulties in obtaining the approval of our product candidates. In addition, the public perception of our products might be adversely affected, which could harm our business and results of operations, even if the concern relates to another company’s product.

Risks Related to Employee Matters and Managing Growth

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 Dr. Errol B. De Souza, President and Chief Executive Officer, Gerard Michel, our Chief Financial Officer and Dr. Alan Krasner, our Chief Medical Officer. The loss of the services of any of these persons might impede the achievement of our research, development and commercialization objectives. Replacing key employees may be difficult and time-consuming because of the limited number of individuals in our industry with the skills and experiences required to develop, gain regulatory approval of and commercialize our product candidates successfully. We generally do not maintain key person life insurance to cover the loss of any of our employees.

Recruiting and retaining qualified scientific personnel, clinical personnel and sales and marketing personnel will also be critical to our success. We may not be able to attract and retain these personnel on acceptable terms, if at all, given the competition among numerous pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for similar personnel. We also experience competition for the hiring of scientific and clinical personnel from other companies, universities and research institutions. In addition, we rely on consultants and advisors, including scientific and clinical advisors, to assist us in formulating our research and development and commercialization strategy. Our consultants and advisors may be employed by employers other than us and may have commitments under consulting or advisory contracts with other entities that may limit their availability to us.

We may expand our development, regulatory and sales and marketing capabilities, and as a result, we may encounter difficulties in managing our growth, which could disrupt our operations.

If our development and commercialization plans for any of our product candidates are successful, we may experience significant growth in the number of our employees and the scope of our operations, particularly in the areas of manufacturing, clinical trials management, and regulatory affairs. To manage our anticipated future growth, we must continue to implement and improve our managerial, operational and financial systems and continue to recruit and train additional qualified personnel. Due to our limited financial resources we may not be able to effectively manage the expansion of our operations or recruit and train additional qualified personnel. Any inability to manage growth could delay the execution of our business plans or disrupt our operations.

Risks Related to Our Common Stock

Provisions in our corporate charter documents and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of us, which may be beneficial to our stockholders, more difficult and may prevent attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management.

Provisions in our corporate charter and bylaws may discourage, delay or prevent a merger, acquisition or other change in control of us that stockholders may consider favorable, including transactions in which you might otherwise receive a premium for your shares. These provisions could also limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our common stock, thereby depressing the market price of our common stock. In addition, these provisions may frustrate or prevent any attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management by making it more difficult for stockholders to replace members of our board of directors. Because our board of directors is responsible for appointing the members of our management team, these provisions could in turn affect any attempt by our stockholders to replace current members of our management team.

Among others, these provisions:

	•		establish a classified board of directors such that not all members of the board are elected at one time;

	•		allow the authorized number of our directors to be changed only by resolution of our board of directors;

	•		limit the manner in which stockholders can remove directors from the board;

	•		establish advance notice requirements for stockholder proposals that can be acted on at stockholder meetings and nominations to our board of directors;

	•		require that stockholder actions must be effected at a duly called stockholder meeting and prohibit actions by our stockholders by written consent;

	•		limit who may call stockholder meetings;

	•		authorize our board of directors to issue preferred stock without stockholder approval, which could be used to institute a stockholder rights plan or “poison pill” that would work to dilute the stock ownership of a potential hostile acquirer, effectively preventing acquisitions that have not been approved by our board of directors; and

	•		require the approval of the holders of at least 75% of the votes that all our stockholders would be entitled to cast to amend or repeal certain provisions of our charter or bylaws.

In addition, because we are incorporated in Delaware, we are governed by the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which generally prohibits a person who owns in excess of 15% of our outstanding voting stock from merging or combining with us for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person acquired in excess of 15% of our outstanding voting stock, unless the merger or combination is approved in a prescribed manner.

If our stock price is volatile, purchasers of our common stock could incur substantial losses.

Our stock price has been and may continue to be volatile. The stock market in general and the market for biotechnology companies in particular have experienced extreme volatility that has often been unrelated to the operating performance of particular companies. The market price for our common stock may be influenced by many factors, including:

	•		results of clinical trials of our product candidates or those of our competitors;

	•		regulatory or legal developments in the United States and other countries;

	•		variations in our financial results or those of companies that are perceived to be similar to us;

	•		developments or disputes concerning patents or other proprietary rights;

	•		the recruitment or departure of key personnel;

	•		changes in the structure of healthcare payment systems;

	•		market conditions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors and issuance of new or changed securities analysts’ reports or recommendations;

	•		general economic, industry and market conditions; and

	•		the other factors described in this “Risk Factors” section.

Our outstanding warrants may be exercised in the future, which would increase the number of shares in the public market and result in dilution to our stockholders.

In August 2010 we sold to two institutional investors 2,398,200 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase 2,398,200 shares of our common stock, resulting in gross proceeds to us, before deducting placement agents’ fees and offering expenses, of approximately $8.7 million. The warrants to purchase 2,398,200 shares of our common stock had an initial exercise price of $4.716, subject to re-pricing following our receipt of the complete response letter for Linjeta™. On December 1, 2010, the exercise price of the warrants was re-set to become $1.56 per share. These warrants will expire on December 1, 2011.

We have never paid any cash dividends on our capital stock and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

We have paid no cash dividends on our capital stock to date. We currently intend to retain our future earnings, if any, to fund the development and growth of our business. In addition, the terms of any future debt agreements may preclude us from paying dividends. As a result, we do not expect to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future, and payment of cash dividends, if any, will depend on our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements and other factors and will be at the discretion of our board of directors. Furthermore, we may in the future become subject to contractual restrictions on, or prohibitions against, the payment of dividends. Capital appreciation, if any, of our common stock will be investors’ sole source of gain for the foreseeable future.

A significant portion of our total outstanding shares are restricted from immediate resale but may be sold into the market in the near future. This could cause the market price of our common stock to drop significantly, even if our business is doing well.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market could occur at any time. These sales, or the perception in the market that the holders of a large number of shares intend to sell shares, could reduce the market price of our common stock. As of November 30, 2010, we had approximately 26,433,982 million shares of common stock outstanding. Of these, approximately 7 million shares are able to be sold in accordance with the SEC’s Rule 144 and the remainder is generally freely tradable without restriction under securities laws.

We incur substantial costs as a result of operating as a public company, and our management is required to devote substantial time to comply with public company regulations.

We are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as well as other federal and state laws. These requirements may place a strain on our people, systems and resources. The Exchange Act requires that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with respect to our business and financial condition. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls over financial reporting. In order to maintain and improve the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls over financial reporting, significant resources and management oversight will be required. This may divert management’s attention from other business concerns, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Item 6. Exhibits


Exhibit No.		Description

10.1		Form Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for 2004 Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan.

31.01		Chief Executive Officer—Certification pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

31.02		Chief Financial Officer—Certification pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

32.01		Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer—Certification pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

SIGNATURES

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


	BIODEL INC.
Dated: February 7, 2011	By:	/s/ Gerard Michel
		Gerard Michel, Chief Financial Officer,
		VP Corporate Development, and Treasurer


Exhibit No.		Description

31.01		Chief Executive Officer—Certification pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

31.02		Chief Financial Officer—Certification pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

32.01		Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer—Certification pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.