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Edward E. Penhoet joined Alta in 2000 as a Director. He is a member of the Boards of Directors of ChemoCentryx Chimerix Renovis Scynexis and ZymoGenetics and serves as the Chairman of the Board for Metabolex. A co-founder of Chiron he served as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer from its formation in 1981 until April 1998. Dr. Penhoet is the Vice Chair of the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and recently served as the as President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. For 10 years prior to founding Chiron he was a faculty member of the Biochemistry Department of the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Penhoet is the immediate past Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California Berkeley. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and has co-authored more than 50 scientific articles and papers. | 