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As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 14, 2003

Registration No. 333-87167



SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549


POST-EFFECTIVE
AMENDMENT NO. 1
to
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

GILEAD SCIENCES, INC.
(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
      94-3047598
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

333 LAKESIDE DRIVE
FOSTER CITY, CALIFORNIA 94404
(650) 574-3000
(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant's Principal Executive Offices)

MARK L. PERRY
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS
GILEAD SCIENCES, INC.
333 LAKESIDE DRIVE, FOSTER CITY, CALIFORNIA 94404
(650) 574-3000
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)




Copy to:
LAURA BEREZIN, ESQ.
COOLEY GODWARD LLP
FIVE PALO ALTO SQUARE
3000 EL CAMINO REAL
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94306
(650) 843-5000
  GREGG H. ALTON, ESQ.
GENERAL COUNSEL
GILEAD SCIENCES, INC.
333 LAKESIDE DRIVE
FOSTER CITY, CALIFORNIA 94404
(650) 574-3000

If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.    o

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.    ý

If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.    o

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.    o





DEREGISTRATION OF SHARES

        This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, as amended (No. 333-87167), is being filed to deregister unsold shares of common stock of the registrant, Gilead Sciences, by the Selling Stockholders. The registrant's obligation to keep the Registration Statement effective has expired. Therefore, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement is being filed to deregister, as of the effectiveness of this post-effective amendment, all of the shares of common stock, the sale of which was registered under the Registration Statement, that were not sold under the Registration Statement.



SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Foster City, State of California, on the October 14, 2003.

    GILEAD SCIENCES, INC.

 

 

By:

/s/  
JOHN C. MARTIN      
John C. Martin
President and Chief Executive Officer

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

Signature
  Title
   

 

 

 

 

 
/s/  JOHN C. MARTIN      
John C. Martin
  President, Chief Executive Officer and
Director (Principal Executive Officer)
  October 14, 2003

/s/  
JOHN F. MILLIGAN      
John F. Milligan

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

October 14, 2003

*

Paul Berg

 

Director

 

October 14, 2003

*

Etienne F. Davignon

 

Director

 

October 14, 2003

*

James M. Denny

 

Chairman of the Board

 

October 14, 2003

*

Gordon E. Moore

 

Director

 

October 14, 2003

*

George P. Shultz

 

Director

 

October 14, 2003


Gayle Edlund Wilson

 

Director

 

October 14, 2003


Cordell W. Hull

 

Director

 

October 14, 2003

*By:

 

/s/  
JOHN C. MARTIN    

John C. Martin
As Attorney-in Fact

 

 

 

 

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