SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:LGND) today announced that interim data from a Phase IIa study with its Captisol-enabled, propylene glycol-free, Melphalan program was featured today in a poster presentation at the 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago, June 3-7, 2011.