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R. Sanders Williams, M.D. (58) is being nominated to serve as a director of the Company. Dr. Williams has been Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Duke University since April 2001. Prior to this position, Dr. Williams served on the faculty of Duke University and of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Williams has served as president of the Association of University Cardiologists and Chairman of the Research Committee of the American Heart Association. He participated on the Director’s Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health and the Board of External Advisors to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Dr. Williams serves as a director for Bristol-Myers Squibb. | 