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MannKind Corporation Notice of Annual Meeting
         
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Date:
  Thursday, June 2, 2011
 
Time:
  10:00 A.M. PDT
 
Place:
  MannKind Corporation, 28903 North Avenue Paine, Valencia, California 91355
 
   
The purpose of the Annual Meeting is to take action on the following proposals:
1.  
Election of Directors       Nominees
               
     
01 Alfred E. Mann
   04 Ronald Consiglio   07 David H. MacCallum
     
02 Hakan S. Edstrom
   05 Michael Friedman   08 Henry L. Nordhoff
     
03 Abraham E. Cohen
   06 Kent Kresa   09 James S. Shannon
2.  
To approve an amendment to Mannkind’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to increase the authorized number of shares of common stock from 200,000,000 shares to 250,000,000 shares;
 
3.  
To approve an amendment to MannKind’s 2004 Equity Incentive Plan;
 
4.  
To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the named executive officers of Mannkind, as disclosed in Mannkind’s proxy statement for the Annual Meeting;
 
5.  
To indicate, on an advisory basis, the preferred frequency of stockholder advisory vote on the compensation of the named executive officers of Mannkind;
 
6.  
To ratify the selection by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent registered public accounting firm of Mannkind for its fiscal year ending December 31, 2011.
The Board of Directors recommends that you vote FOR all nominees in proposal 1, FOR proposals 2, 3, 4 and 6 and for the selection 1 YEAR on proposal 5.
Should you require directions to the annual meeting, please call (661) 775-5300.
Vote In Person Instructions: While we encourage stockholders to vote by the means indicated above, a stockholder is entitled to vote in person at the annual meeting. Additionally, a stockholder who has submitted a proxy before the meeting, may revoke that proxy in person at the annual meeting.