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Ms. Masterson was elected a director at our 2004 annual meeting of stockholders, which was held on September 29, 2004. Ms. Masterson has 29 years of experience in the life science industry. Ms. Masterson has been the CEO of Science Futures, Inc., an investment and advisory firm, since 1982. Ms. Masterson is currently Managing Member and General Partner of Science Futures LLC, I, II and III, which are all venture capital funds invested in life science funds and companies. She also serves as a Senior Advisor to TVM Techno Venture Management, an international venture capital company. She was the first biotechnology analyst on Wall Street, working with Drexel Burnham Lambert and Merrill Lynch. She is co-founder of Sequenom, Inc., a genetic analysis company located in San Diego and Hamburg, Germany. She started the BioTech Meeting in Laguna Nigel, California and the annual Biopharmaceutical Conference in Europe. She was nominated to the 100 Irish American Business List in 2003. Ms. Masterson began her career at Ames Company, a division of Bayer, and spent eight years at Millipore Corporation in sales and sales management. She received her Masters in Biological Sciences from George Washington University, and continued Ph.D. work at the University of Florida. | 