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Gordon Ringold, Ph.D.

Gordon Ringold, Ph.D. has served as a member of our Board since June 2001. Since March 2000, Dr. Ringold has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alavita, Inc., a biotechnology company. From March 1995 to February 2000, Dr. Ringold served as Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of Affymax Research Institute where he managed the development of novel technologies to accelerate the pace of drug discovery. Dr. Ringold is also a member of the board of directors of Maxygen, Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company, and 3V Bio-Pharma, a privately-held biotechnology company, and was a member of the board of directors of Oxonica plc, a publicly-traded nanotechnology company, from 2005 to 2009. Dr. Ringold received a Ph.D. in microbiology from University of California, San Francisco, in the laboratory of Dr. Harold Varmus before joining the Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology. Dr. Ringold also received a B.S. in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.