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Audit
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Compensation
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Governance & Nominating
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 James S.J. Manuso, Ph.D., MBA 
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
James S.J. Manuso, Ph.D., MBA, serves as chairman and chief executive officer. He served as Astex Pharmaceuticals (formerly SuperGen) chairman, president and CEO from January 2004 to July 2011, as chief executive officer-elect from September 2003 to December 2003 and as a director since February 2001. He is co-founder and immediate past president and chief executive officer of Galenica Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Manuso co-founded and was general partner of PrimeTech Partners, a biotechnology venture management partnership, from 1998 to 2002, and co-founder and managing general partner of The Channel Group LLC, an international life sciences corporate advisory firm. He was also president of Manuso, Alexander & Associates, Inc., management consultants and financial advisors to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Dr. Manuso was a vice president and director of Health Care Planning and Development for The Equitable Companies (now Group Axa), where he also served as an acting medical director. He currently serves on the boards of Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. (NVLT:OB) and privately-held KineMed, Inc. Previously, he served on the boards of Merrion Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (MERR:IEX; Dublin, Ireland), Inflazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Symbiontics, Inc. (subsequently sold to BioMarin as ZyStor Therapeutics, Inc.), Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Galenica Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Supratek Pharma, Inc. Dr. Manuso earned a B.A. with Honors in Economics and Chemistry from New York University, a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychophysiology from the Graduate Faculty of The New School University, a Certificate in Health Systems Management from Harvard Business School, and an Executive M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. Dr. Manuso is the author of over 30 chapters, articles and books on topics including health care cost containment and biotechnology company management. He has taught and lectured at Columbia, New York University, Georgetown, Polytechnic University, Waseda University (Japan) and elsewhere. He has delivered invited addresses at meetings of the American Management Association, the American Medical Association, the Securities Industry Association, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, and many other professional associations. Dr. Manuso serves on the Board of Directors of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and its Health Section Governing Board. He previously served as vice president and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
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Harren Jhoti, Ph.D.
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President and Director
Harren Jhoti, Ph.D., has served as Astex Pharmaceuticals president and member of the board of directors since July 2011. He co-founded Astex Therapeutics in 1999 and was chief scientific officer until November 2007 when he was appointed chief executive. Dr. Jhoti was named by the Royal Society of Chemistry as 'Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year' for 2007. He has published widely including in leading journals such as Nature and Science and has also been featured in TIME magazine after being named by the World Economic Forum a Technology Pioneer in 2005. Dr. Jhoti served as a non-executive director of Iconix Inc. Before starting up Astex Therapeutics in 1999, he was Head of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics at GlaxoWellcome in the U.K. (1991-1999). Prior to Glaxo, Dr. Jhoti was a post-doctoral scientist at Oxford University. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biochemistry in 1985, and Ph.D. in Protein Crystallography from the University of London in 1989.
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Charles J. Casamento 
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Executive Director and Principal
The Sage Group, Inc.
Charles J. Casamento has served as a director since September 2002. Mr. Casamento is currently Executive Director and Principal of The Sage Group, a healthcare advisory group specializing in Transactions, acquisitions, and partnerships between biotechnology companies and pharmaceutical companies. Mr. Casamento was the president and CEO of Osteologix, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company developing products for treating osteoporosis, from 2004 through 2007. From 1999 through 2004, he served as chairman of the board, president and CEO of Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mr. Casamento formerly served as RiboGene, Inc.'s president, CEO and chairman of the board from 1993 through 1999 until it merged with Cypros to form Questcor. He was co-founder, president and CEO of Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, from 1989 until 1993. Mr. Casamento has also held senior management positions at Genzyme Corporation, where he was senior vice president, pharmaceuticals and biochemicals; American Hospital Supply, where he was vice president of business development and strategic planning for the Critical Care Division; Johnson & Johnson, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc. and Sandoz Inc. Mr. Casamento also serves on the boards of directors of CORTEX Pharmaceuticals, International Stem Cell Corporation, and VIVUS, Inc. He holds a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from Fordham University and an M.B.A. from Iona College and was originally licensed to practice pharmacy in the states of New York and New Jersey.
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 Peter Fellner, Ph.D. 
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Executive Chairman
Vernalis
Peter Fellner, Ph.D. was Chairman of Astex from 2002 until its recent acquisition by Astex Pharmaceuticals (formerly SuperGen). He also serves as Chairman of Consort Medical plc, Optos plc, Biotie Therapies Corp and Vernalis plc. In addition, he is a director of the global biopharmaceutical company UCB SA, and a member of the Novo A/S Advisory Group. He has previously been Chairman of several other life science companies, including Acambis plc and Premier Research Group plc, until they each were sold during 2008. He was previously Chairman of Celltech Group plc, one of Europe's largest biotechnology companies until its acquisition in 2004, having served as its CEO from 1990 to 2003. Before joining Celltech, Dr. Fellner served as CEO of Roche UK, from 1986 to 1990. From 1984 to 1986 he was Director of the Roche UK Research Centre.
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Thomas V. Girardi
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Senior Partner
Girardi & Keese
Thomas V. Girardi has served as a director since May 2000. Mr. Girardi is senior partner of Girardi & Keese, a law firm specializing in major business litigation, where he has worked since 1964. Mr. Girardi has served as national president and Los Angeles chapter president of the American Board of Trial Advocates, has also served as president of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an organization limited to 500 trial lawyers in America, from 2005 to 2006 and is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, American Board of Professional Liability Lawyers, International Society of Barristers, and American Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Girardi is also a member of the board of directors of Boyd Gaming, Inc. He received his B.S. from Loyola Marymount University, his J.D. from Loyola Law School and an L.L.M. from New York University.
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Allan R. Goldberg, Ph.D.
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Managing Partner
The Channel Group LLC
Allan R. Goldberg, Ph.D. has served as a director since March 2005. Dr. Goldberg is a co-founder and currently serves as a managing partner of The Channel Group LLC (TCG), a global life sciences venture management and strategic advisory organization with expertise in business, financial, scientific and commercial development. In that capacity, he also served as president of Phage Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from April 2010 to the present time. Prior to his affiliation with TCG, Dr. Goldberg co-founded PrimeTech Partners, a venture management partnership whose purpose was to create, finance and develop biomedical companies. From 1989 to 1997, Dr. Goldberg held various senior management positions including chief scientific officer, chairman and chief executive officer at Innovir Laboratories, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed biotechnology company he co-founded. He was a director and co-founder of ZyStor Therapeutics, Inc., a Milwaukee-based biotechnology company that was purchased in August 2010 by BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. In addition, he was on the board of directors of LCT BioPharma Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Living Cell Technologies Limited (ASX:LCT). He is a co-founder of and a board member of Lesanne Life Sciences, LLC. Prior to founding Innovir, Dr. Goldberg was a professor of virology and a member of the faculty of The Rockefeller University from 1971 to 1989. Dr. Goldberg has served as a consultant to several large pharmaceutical companies as well as numerous private and public academic institutions. He earned a B.A. in English and Mathematics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry/Biology from Princeton University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Timothy Haines
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Partner
Abingworth Management Ltd.
Timothy Haines has served a director since July 2011. He has been a partner at Abingworth Management Limited, a life science and healthcare private investment firm, since 2005. Prior to this, Mr. Haines was chief executive of Astex Therapeutics. Mr. Haines was with Astex Therapeutics for more than five years. Previously, he was chief executive of two divisions of the publicly-listed medical technology company, Datascope Corp. Prior to Datascope, he held a number of other senior management positions in the U.S. and Europe. Current and past board positions include Astex Therapeutics, Fovea, IMI, KSpine, PowderMed, Stanmore Implants and XCounter. Mr. Haines has a BSc from Exeter University and an MBA from INSEAD. He is a former director of the Biotechnology Industry Association and currently sits on the Venture Committee of the BVCA.
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Ismail Kola, Ph.D.
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Executive Vice President and President, New Medicines
UCB S.A.
Ismail Kola, Ph.D. has served a director since July 2011. He is executive vice president and president, New Medicines at UCB S.A. Dr. Kola joined UCB from Schering Plough Corporation where he was senior vice president, Discovery Research and Early Clinical Research & Experimental Medicine at Schering-Plough Research Institute and chief scientific officer, Schering Plough Corporation. Prior to Schering-Plough, Dr. Kola held senior positions at Merck, as senior vice president and Site Head, Basic Research and at Pharmacia Corporation where he was vice president, Research and global head, Genomics Science and Biotechnology with Pharmacia Corporation, and served as a consultant to SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals and as a member of their Genomics Advisory Board. Dr. Kola holds Adjunct Professorships of Medicine at Washington University and at Monash University Medical School; a Foreign Adjunct Professorship at The Karolinska Institute; and is a William Pitt Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, U.K. Dr. Kola has a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Walter J. Lack 
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Managing Partner
Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack
Walter J. Lack has served as a director since February 2000. Mr. Lack is managing partner of Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack, a Los Angeles, California law firm that he founded in 1974. Mr. Lack has acted as a special arbitrator for the Superior Court of the State of California since 1976 and for the American Arbitration Association since 1979. He is a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and an Advocate of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He received his B.A. from Loyola Marymount University where he is a long standing member of the Board of Regents. He received his J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
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