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Margaret Valeur-Jensen, J.D., Ph.D. was appointed Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in January 2005 after having served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since January 2000 and Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since joining the company in October 1998. She is responsible for all corporate and patent law practices, serves as Corporate Secretary and is a member of the senior management committee. From 1995 to 1998, she served as Associate General Counsel, Licensing and Business Law of Amgen. From 1991 to 1995, she served first as Corporate Counsel and later as Senior Counsel, Licensing for Amgen. Prior to joining Amgen, she practiced law at Davis, Polk & Wardell, a leading corporate law firm. She earned a J.D. degree from Stanford University, a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Syracuse University, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical | 