Dr.Edward E. Penhoet, Ph.D.

Overview

Edward E. Penhoet, Ph.D., age 66, has served as one of our directors since May 2000 and our lead independent director since June 2005. Since September 2004, Dr. Penhoet has served as President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. From July 2002 to September 2004, he served as its Chief Program Officer, Science and Higher Education. Since September 2000, Dr. Penhoet has been a director of the Alta Biopharma Funds II and III at Alta Partners, a venture capital firm. He served as Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley from July 1998 to July 2002. From May 1998 to February 2001, Dr. Penhoet served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Chiron Corporation, a biotechnology company, which he co-founded in 1981. From 1981 to May 1998, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Chiron. From 1971 to 1981, he was a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Penhoet is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and currently serves as a director of Renovis, Inc. and several privately held companies. In December 2004, Dr. Penhoet was appointed Vice Chair of the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Penhoet received a B.A. in Biology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Washington.