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Laura L. Kiessling, Ph.D., also a founder of the company, is a leading expert on multivalency as well as the chemistry and biology of carbohydrates and nucleic acids. Dr. Kiessling serves on the Company's Board of Directors and on the Scientific Advisory Board. As inventor of a number of the technologies licensed exclusively to the Company, Dr. Kiessling continues to provide guidance on the development and commercialization of those technologies. Dr. Kiessling received a Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from Yale University and did postdoctoral work in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. In 1991, she joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, where she is now Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Dr. Kiessling has served as a Scientific Advisory Board member or consultant for numerous pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. She is on the Editorial Boards of Chemistry & Biology, Carbohydrate Research, and Organic Reactions. Dr. Kiessling has won national awards for her research, including a 1999 MacArthur Fellowship for the discovery of the Neobiopolymer(TM) technology and an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in Organic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. She has been cited as one of "50 R&D Stars to Watch" (Industry Week; December 6, 1999). | 