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Dr. Afting, 64, has served as a director since 1996. From 1995 until his retirement in 2006, Dr. Afting served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Center for Environment and Health, GSF-Forschungszentrom für Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH, in Munich, one of the biggest governmental research centers in Germany. From 1993 to 1995, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Roussel UCLAF, Paris. He was also a member of the board of the Pharmaceutical Division of Hoechst Group from 1984 to 1993 and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Divisional Pharmaceutical Board of Hoechst from 1992-1993. Dr. Afting was a member of the advisory committee on Science and Technology to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1996 to 1997 and from 1996 to 2005 has been a member of the German National Advisory Committee on Health Research to the State Secretaries of Science, Technology and Health. Dr. Afting has been a member of the medical faculty at the University of Goettingen since 1985. Dr. Afting currently serves on the boards of Intercell AG, Vienna, Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Olympus Europa GmbH, Hamburg. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry and M.D. from the University of Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany. | 