UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): February 5, 2010 (February 4, 2010)

Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc.

Florida (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)		000-33357 (Commission File Number)		65-0643773 (IRS Employer Identification No.)

2 Snunit Street Science Park, POB 455 Carmiel, Israel (Address of principal executive offices)		20100 (Zip Code)

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

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Item 8.01. Other Events

On February 4, 2010, Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that data from its pivotal Phase III clinical trial of taliglucerase alfa in patients with Gaucher disease will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Lysosomal Disease Network: WORLD Symposium 2010, February 10 through 12, 2010 in Miami, Florida. Hanna Rosenbaum, M.D., Director of Hematology Day Care Unit, RAMBAM Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, and study investigator, will give the oral presentation, titled: “Novel Enzyme Replacement Therapy for Gaucher Disease: Phase III Pivotal Clinical Trial with Plant Cell Expressed Recombinant Glucocerebrosidase (prGCD) - taliglucerase alfa,” on Thursday, February 11, 2010, at 10:15 AM ET. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

99.1 Press release dated February 4, 2010.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.