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Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This website contains forward-looking statements about our business. These forward-looking statements do not relate strictly to historical or current facts and they may be accompanied by such words as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” “target,” “may,” “will” and other words and terms of similar meaning.  Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those that we express or imply, including our continued dependence on our two principal products, AVONEX® and RITUXAN®, the uncertainty of success in commercializing other products including TYSABRI®, the occurrence of adverse safety events with our products, the failure to execute our growth strategy successfully or to compete effectively in our markets, our dependence on collaborations over which we may not always have full control, possible adverse impact of government regulation and changes in the availability of reimbursement for our products, problems with our manufacturing processes and our reliance on third parties, our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel, the risk of doing business internationally, fluctuations in our operating results, our significant investments in marketable securities, the impact of the global credit crisis, our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and the cost of doing so, product liability claims, fluctuations in our effective tax rate, our substantial indebtedness, environmental risks, the actions of activist shareholders and the other risks and uncertainties that are described in Item 1.A. Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and in other reports we file with the SEC.  These reports are available at www.sec.gov or by calling our investor relations department at 617.679.2812. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are posted to this website (unless an earlier date is indicated), and we do not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.