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Michael C. Venuti, Ph.D., age 53, has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2003. Since January 2007, Dr. Venuti has been serving as a consultant to TPG Growth Biotech Ventures. Prior to the merger, he served as Chief Scientific Officer of DPI from April 2005 to November 2006 and as Acting Chief Executive Officer of DPI from November 2005 until the closing of the merger in September 2006. From 2001 to 2005, Dr. Venuti served as Senior Vice President of Pharmacogenomics and previously had been Senior Vice President of Research and General Manager at Celera South San Francisco, an Applera company, when Applera Corporation acquired Axys Pharmaceuticals in 2001. From 1994 to 2001, Dr. Venuti held various research management positions within Axys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded drug discovery and development company, and its predecessor company, Arris Pharmaceutical Corporation. Dr. Venuti has also held an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco since 1992. Dr. Venuti received an A.B. in Chemistry from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Venuti completed post doctoral training at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at Syntex Research, Palo Alto, California. | 