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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-11-277913
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20111021
ITEM INFORMATION:		Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
ITEM INFORMATION:		Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
ITEM INFORMATION:		Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20111024
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20111024

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ARROWHEAD RESEARCH CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000879407
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-COMMERCIAL PHYSICAL & BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH [8731]
		IRS NUMBER:				460408024
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0930

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-21898
		FILM NUMBER:		111153494

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		201 SOUTH LAKE AVENUE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 703
		CITY:			PASADENA
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			91101
		BUSINESS PHONE:		626-304-3400

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		201 SOUTH LAKE AVENUE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 703
		CITY:			PASADENA
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			91101

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	INTERACTIVE GROUP INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20020509

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	INTERACTIVE INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19940224
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<P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:1pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>FORM 8-K
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="4"><B>CURRENT REPORT </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) of the </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Securities Exchange Act of
1934 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): October&nbsp;21, 2011 </B></FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Stock and Asset Purchase Agreement </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">On
October&nbsp;21, 2011, Arrowhead Research Corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;) entered into a Stock and Asset Purchase Agreement (the &#147;RNAi Purchase Agreement&#148;) with Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd (collectively,
&#147;Roche&#148;), pursuant to which the Company purchased from Roche (i)&nbsp;all of the outstanding common stock of Roche Madison Inc. (&#147;Roche Madison&#148;) and (ii)&nbsp;the intellectual property rights currently held by Roche related to
its RNAi business and identified in the RNAi Purchase Agreement (the &#147;Transaction&#148;). In consideration for the purchase of Roche Madison and the Roche RNAi assets, the Company issued to Roche a promissory note with a principal value of
$50,000 and 9,017,021 shares of Common Stock. Additionally, the Company agreed that, subject to stockholder approval under the NASDAQ Marketplace Rules, the Company would issue an additional 1,465,626 shares of common stock, plus a number of
additional shares equal to 9.9% of the shares of common stock (or common stock equivalents) sold by the Company in capital raising transactions within one year from the closing, but only with respect to the first $3,118,615 of gross offering
proceeds (the &#147;Top-up Shares&#148;). If the Company is prohibited from issuing the Top-up Shares due to NASDAQ Marketplace Rules, then the Company must instead pay the cash value of the Top-up Shares, based on the then-current fair value of
such shares. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pursuant to the RNAi Purchase Agreement, Roche has a limited right of first negotiation on certain product candidates developed
by the Company and its affiliates relating to the purchased assets.&nbsp;This right of first negotiation applies to all three Existing Candidates (as defined in the RNAi Purchase Agreement) and for up to five other &#147;Clinical Candidates&#148;
(as defined in the RNAi Purchase Agreement).</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition to the consideration paid by the Company at the closing of the Transaction, the
Company is obligated to make certain royalty and milestone payments to Roche upon the occurrence of certain events after drug approval.&nbsp;For certain product candidates that are developed by the Company or its affiliates and that are covered by a
valid claim by the patent rights transferred in the Transaction for which the Company and Roche do not enter into a licensing arrangement, the Company will be obligated to pay a 3% royalty on Net Sales (as defined in the RNAi Purchase Agreement),
provided that the royalty rate may be reduced or offset in certain circumstances.</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company will also be obligated to make cash payments to
Roche upon the achievement of various milestones, including the first regulatory approval of an Existing Candidate in certain jurisdictions and upon certain annual sales milestones for Existing Candidates that may receive regulatory approval. The
potential payments range from $2,500,000 to $6,000,000 per milestone. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The foregoing summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the
RNAi Purchase Agreement, which will be attached as an exhibit to the Company&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September&nbsp;30, 2011, portions of which will be subject to a FOIA Confidential Treatment Request to the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 24b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The omitted material will be included in the request for confidential treatment. . </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Non-Exclusive License Agreement </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In
connection with the Transaction, the Company and Roche entered into a Non-Exclusive License Agreement, dated October&nbsp;21, 2011, (the &#147;License Agreement&#148;) pursuant to which the Company granted to Roche an irrevocable, fully paid up,
royalty-free, non-exclusive license, including the right to sublicense, under certain patent rights acquired in the Transaction and listed in the License Agreement (the &#147;Arrowhead Licensed Rights&#148;), to make or have made, use, sell, offer
for sale and import and otherwise exploit, any invention covered by the Licensed Rights but not related to RNA interference. Also pursuant to the License Agreement, Roche granted to the Company an irrevocable, fully paid up, royalty-free,
non-exclusive license, including the right to sublicense, under certain Roche patent rights identified in the License Agreement (the &#147;Roche Licensed Rights&#148;), to make or have made, use, sell, offer for sale and import and otherwise
exploit, any invention covered by the Roche Licensed Rights related to RNA interference. </FONT></P>

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reference to the full text of such agreement, a copy of which will be attached as an exhibit to the Company&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September&nbsp;30, 2011. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Registration Rights Agreement </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Concurrent with the execution of the RNAi Purchase Agreement, the Company and an affiliate of Roche entered into a Registration Rights Agreement (the
&#147;Roche Registration Rights Agreement&#148;), pursuant to which the Company agreed to file a registration statement with the SEC within thirty days of the closing of the Transaction covering the resale of the shares issued to Roche in connection
with the Transaction. The Company agreed to cause the registration statement to be declared effective the earlier of (i)&nbsp;the 90th day following the date of the closing (or the 120th day if the SEC reviews and has written comments to the
registration statement that would require the filing of a pre-effective amendment thereto with the SEC) and (ii)&nbsp;the fifth trading day following the date on which the Company is notified by the SEC that the registration statement will not be
reviewed or is no longer subject to further review and comments. The Roche Registration Rights Agreement provides that (i)&nbsp;the Company shall not be required to effectuate more than three shelf underwritten offerings, (ii)&nbsp;only shareholders
holding at least 25% of the then-outstanding Registerable securities may initiate an underwritten shelf offering and (iii)&nbsp;the Company is only obligated to effect shelf underwritten offerings with expected proceeds of at least $2,000,000,
unless all remaining registerable securities are being sold. The Company will also be required to file a second registration statement covering the resale of the Top-up Shares, when issued. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The foregoing description of the Registration Rights Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such agreement, a copy of which will be attached as an
exhibit to the Company&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September&nbsp;30, 2011. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:18px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The disclosure set forth above under Item&nbsp;1.01 is incorporated herein by reference. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:18px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The disclosure set forth above under Item&nbsp;1.01 is incorporated herein by reference. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The shares of common stock issued to an affiliate of Roche were issued in a private placement transaction that was exempt from registration under Section&nbsp;4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933.
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Financial Statements and Exhibits. </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a)
Financial Statements of Business Acquired. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The financial statements required by Item&nbsp;9.01(a) of Form 8-K will be filed by amendment
within 71 days after the date upon which this Current Report on Form 8-K must be filed. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) Pro Forma Financial Information. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The pro forma information required by Item&nbsp;9.01(b) of Form 8-K will be filed by amendment within 71 days after the date upon which this Current
Report on Form 8-K must be filed. </FONT></P>

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