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Robert Adelman, M.D. has been a member of our board of directors since June 2003. Since March 2002, Dr. Adelman has served as a principal for OrbiMed Advisors, LLC, an asset management fund that specializes in private equity investments and structured transactions of small-capitalization public equity companies, which together with its affiliates, is one of our principal stockholders. From November 2000 to August 2001, Dr. Adelman was Vice President of Business Development for NeoGenesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical discovery company. In October 1999, Dr. Adelman founded Veritas Medicine, a healthcare clinical trials matching company, where he served as Chief Operating Officer until October 2000. He also co-founded Operon Technologies, Inc. a commercial producer of synthetic DNA. Dr. Adelman received a B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine. He trained as an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery at Cornell University. | 