Gilead Sciences, Inc. Q1 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (GILD)

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD)
Q1 2006 Earnings Conference Call
April 18th 2006, 4:30 PM.

Executives:

Dr. John Milligan, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
John Martin, Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Member of Executive Committee
Kevin Young, Executive Vice President of Commercial Operations and Member of Executive Committee

Analysts:

Geoffrey Porges, Sanford Bernstein
Meg Malloy, Goldman Sachs
Thomas Wei, Piper Jaffray
Yaron Werber
M. Somaiya, Thomas Weisel Partners
Sapna Srivastava, Morgan Stanley
David Witzke, Banc of America Securities
George Farmer, Wachovia Securities
Shiv Kapoor, Montgomery & Company
Phil Nadeau, Cowen & Co.

Presentation

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Gilead Sciences First Quarter 2006 Earnings Conference Call. At this time all participants are in listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question and answer session. At that time if you have a question, simply press “*