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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 19, 2007
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<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt">Registration No.&nbsp;333-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</DIV>



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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>CARDICA, INC.</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Delaware</B>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>94-3187233</B></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(State or other jurisdiction of
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>900 Saginaw Drive<BR>
Redwood City, California 94063<BR>
(650)&nbsp;364-9975</B><BR>
(Address of principal executive offices)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>2005 Equity Incentive Plan</B><BR>
(Full title of the plan)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Bernard A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D.<BR>
Chief Executive Officer<BR>
Cardica, Inc.<BR>
900 Saginaw Drive<BR>
Redwood City, California 94063<BR>
(650)&nbsp;364-9975</B><BR>
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><I>Copies to:</I><BR>
<B>Suzanne Sawochka Hooper, Esq.<BR>
Cooley Godward Kronish </B><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS"><B>llp</B></FONT><BR>
<B>Five Palo Alto Square<BR>
3000 El Camino Real<BR>
Palo Alto, California 94306<BR>
(650)&nbsp;843-5000</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B>
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    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>Title of Securities to be Registered</B></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>Registered (1)</B></TD>
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    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share</DIV></TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 2px solid #000000; border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">500,000&nbsp;shares</TD>
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    <TD align="center" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$9.29</TD>
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    <TD align="center" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$4,645,000.00</TD>
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    <TD align="center" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$142.60</TD>
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    <TD>Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416(a), this Registration Statement
shall also cover any additional shares of Registrant&#146;s
Common Stock that become issuable under the plan by
reason of any stock dividend, stock split,
recapitalization or other similar transaction effected
without receipt of consideration that increases the
number of outstanding shares of Registrant&#146;s Common
Stock. In addition, pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416(c), this
Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate
amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to
the employee benefit plans described herein.</TD>
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    <TD>Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the
amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h)
and Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended. The offering price per share and aggregate
offering price are based upon the average of the high
and low prices of Registrant&#146;s Common Stock as reported
on the Nasdaq Global Market on December&nbsp;18, 2007.</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Registration Statement is being filed for the purposes of registering an additional
500,000 shares of the Registrant&#146;s common stock to be issued pursuant to the Registrant&#146;s 2005
Equity Incentive Plan, as amended. Accordingly, pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the
contents of the earlier registration statements relating to the 2005 Equity Incentive Plan, as
amended, previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March&nbsp;2, 2006 (File No.
333-132155) and on December&nbsp;6, 2006 (File No.&nbsp;333-139134) are incorporated herein by reference and
made a part hereof.
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    <TD>Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company&#146;s Current
Report on Form 8-K, dated November&nbsp;19, 2007 and filed
with the Commission on the date thereof, and
incorporated by reference herein.</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Redwood City, State of
California, on this 19<SUP>th</SUP> day
of December, 2007.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left"><B>Cardica, Inc.</B> <BR>
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    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>

<TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/
Bernard A. Hausen&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Bernard A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D.&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="2" align="left">President and Chief Executive Officer&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>POWER OF ATTORNEY</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<B>Know All Persons By These Presents</B>, that each person whose signature appears below hereby
constitutes and appoints Bernard A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D., and Robert Y. Newell, and each of them
acting individually, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of each
to act alone, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place
and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement filed herewith and any and
all amendments to said Registration Statement (including post-effective amendments and any related
registration statements thereto filed pursuant to Rule&nbsp;462 and otherwise), and file the same, with
all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of each to act alone,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to
be done in connection therewith, as fully for all intents and purposes as he might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his or their
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has
been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
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    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Title</B></TD>
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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Bernard A. Hausen&nbsp;<BR>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bernard A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D.</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center">President, Chief Executive<BR>
Officer and Director<BR>
<I>(Principal Executive Officer)</I></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 19, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Robert Y. Newell&nbsp;<BR>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Robert Y. Newell</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center">Chief Financial Officer<BR>
( <I>Principal Financial and<BR>
Accounting Officer </I>)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 19, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ J. Michael Egan&nbsp;<BR>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;J. Michael Egan</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 19, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Kevin T. Larkin&nbsp;<BR>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kevin T. Larkin</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 19, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Richard P. Powers&nbsp;<BR>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Richard P. Powers</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 19, 2007</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Jeffrey L. Purvin&nbsp;<BR>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Jeffrey L. Purvin</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 19, 2007</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Robert C. Robbins&nbsp;<BR>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Robert C. Robbins, M.D.</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 19, 2007</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ John Simon&nbsp;<BR>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;John Simon, Ph.D.</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 19, 2007</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Stephen A. Yencho&nbsp;<BR>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stephen A. Yencho, Ph.D.</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">December 19, 2007</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD align="left" nowrap valign="top">/s/ William H. Younger&nbsp;<BR>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;William H. Younger, Jr.</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">Director</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" valign="top">December 19, 2007</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion of Cooley Godward Kronish <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">llp</FONT>.</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Cooley Godward Kronish <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">llp</FONT> (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5.1 to this Registration Statement).</TD>
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    <TD>Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company&#146;s Current
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 19, 2007
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
CARDICA, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
94-3187233
(State or other jurisdiction of
(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)
Identification No.)
900 Saginaw Drive
Redwood City, California 94063
(650) 364-9975
(Address of principal executive offices)
2005 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Bernard A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Cardica, Inc.
900 Saginaw Drive
Redwood City, California 94063
(650) 364-9975
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Suzanne Sawochka Hooper, Esq.
Cooley Godward Kronish
llp
Five Palo Alto Square
3000 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, California 94306
(650) 843-5000
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Amount to be
Proposed Maximum Offering
Proposed Maximum Aggregate
Amount of
Title of Securities to be Registered
Registered (1)
Price Per Share (2)
Offering Price (2)
Registration Fee
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share
500,000 shares
$9.29
$4,645,000.00
$142.60
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416(a), this Registration Statement
shall also cover any additional shares of Registrant's
Common Stock that become issuable under the plan by
reason of any stock dividend, stock split,
recapitalization or other similar transaction effected
without receipt of consideration that increases the
number of outstanding shares of Registrant's Common
Stock. In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c), this
Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate
amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to
the employee benefit plans described herein.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the
amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h)
and Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended. The offering price per share and aggregate
offering price are based upon the average of the high
and low prices of Registrant's Common Stock as reported
on the Nasdaq Global Market on December 18, 2007.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE AND INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
EXHIBITS
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT 5.1
EXHIBIT 23.1
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EXPLANATORY NOTE AND INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
This Registration Statement is being filed for the purposes of registering an additional
500,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock to be issued pursuant to the Registrant's 2005
Equity Incentive Plan, as amended. Accordingly, pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the
contents of the earlier registration statements relating to the 2005 Equity Incentive Plan, as
amended, previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 2, 2006 (File No.
333-132155) and on December 6, 2006 (File No. 333-139134) are incorporated herein by reference and
made a part hereof.
EXHIBITS
Exhibit
Number
Description
5.1
Opinion of Cooley Godward Kronish
llp
.
23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2
Consent of Cooley Godward Kronish
llp
(included in Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement).
24.1
Power of Attorney (included in the signature pages).
99.1 (1)
2005 Equity Incentive Plan and forms of related agreements.+
(1)
Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company's Current
Report on Form 8-K, dated November 19, 2007 and filed
with the Commission on the date thereof, and
incorporated by reference herein.
+
Indicates management contract or compensatory plan.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Redwood City, State of
California, on this 19
th
day
of December, 2007.
Cardica, Inc.
By:
/s/
Bernard A. Hausen
Bernard A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know All Persons By These Presents
, that each person whose signature appears below hereby
constitutes and appoints Bernard A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D., and Robert Y. Newell, and each of them
acting individually, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of each
to act alone, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place
and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement filed herewith and any and
all amendments to said Registration Statement (including post-effective amendments and any related
registration statements thereto filed pursuant to Rule 462 and otherwise), and file the same, with
all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of each to act alone,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to
be done in connection therewith, as fully for all intents and purposes as he might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his or their
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has
been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Signatures
Title
Date
/s/ Bernard A. Hausen
Bernard A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D.
President, Chief Executive
Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
December 19, 2007
/s/ Robert Y. Newell
Robert Y. Newell
Chief Financial Officer
(
Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer
)
December 19, 2007
/s/ J. Michael Egan
J. Michael Egan
Director
December 19, 2007
/s/ Kevin T. Larkin
Kevin T. Larkin
Director
December 19, 2007
/s/ Richard P. Powers
Richard P. Powers
Director
December 19, 2007
/s/ Jeffrey L. Purvin
Jeffrey L. Purvin
Director
December 19, 2007
/s/ Robert C. Robbins
Robert C. Robbins, M.D.
Director
December 19, 2007
/s/ John Simon
John Simon, Ph.D.
Director
December 19, 2007
/s/ Stephen A. Yencho
Stephen A. Yencho, Ph.D.
Director
December 19, 2007
/s/ William H. Younger
William H. Younger, Jr.
Director
December 19, 2007
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Description
5.1
Opinion of Cooley Godward Kronish
llp
.
23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2
Consent of Cooley Godward Kronish
llp
(included in Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement).
24.1
Power of Attorney (included in the signature pages).
99.3 (1)
2005 Equity Incentive Plan and forms of related agreements.+
(1)
Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company's Current
Report on Form 8-K, dated November 19, 2007 and filed
with the Commission on the date thereof, and
incorporated by reference herein.
+
Indicates management contract or compensatory plan.