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LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR
SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS


	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned's hereby authorizes each of
Gil M. Labrucherie, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of
Nektar Therapeutics (the "Company") and Mark Wilson, Senior Vice President and
General Counsel of the Company, to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned,
in the undersigned's capacity as an executive officer of the Company, Forms 3, 4
and 5, and any amendments thereto, and cause such Forms(s) to be filed with the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 16(a) of
the Securities Act of 1934, relating to the undersigned's beneficial ownership
of securities in the Company. The undersigned hereby grants to each such
attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act
and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise
of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full
power of substitution or revocation hereby ratifying and confirming all that
such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes,
shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and
the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.


This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of, and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.


	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 11th day of November, 2021.




                                         /s/ Diana Brainard
                                         _________________________________
                                         Signature


                                         Diana Brainard
                                         _________________________________
                                         Print Name



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