Gilead Sciences Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (GILD)

Gilead Sciences (GILD)
Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call
January 30th 2006, 4:30 PM.

Executives:

John Milligan, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
John Martin, President and Chief Executive Officer
Kevin Young, Executive Vice President for Commercial Operations
Norbert Bischofberger, Executive Vice President of Research and Development
Mark Perry, Senior Business Advisor
Mat Howe Vice President of Finance
Susan Hubbard, Senior Director of Investor Relations

Analysts:

Geoff Porges, Sanford Bernstein
Meg Malloy, Goldman Sachs
Craig Parker, Lehman Brothers
Thomas Ray, Piper Jaffray
Yaron Werber, Citigroup
Bret Holley, CIBC world markets
Ian Somaiya, Thomas Weisel Partners
David Whiskey, Banc of America Securities
Shiv Kapoor, Montgomery & Company
Jason Canter, RBC Capital Markets
Sabana Srivatsava, Morgan Stanley

Presentation

Operator

Ladies and gentleman thank you for standing by and welcome to the Gilead Sciences Fourth Quarter 2005 Earnings Conference Call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question and answer session. At that time if have a question simply press “*