Dr. Sanders has served as a director since May 1997. Dr. Sanders retired in 1995. Dr. Sanders served as chairman and chief executive officer of Glaxo Inc. from 1989 to May 1995 and also served as a member of the board of directors of Glaxo plc. Previously Dr. Sanders was general director of Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sanders is past chairman of the New York Academy of Sciences and past chairman of The Commonwealth Fund. He is currently a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences a member of the CSIS Board of Trustees chairman of Project HOPE chairman of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and chairman of the Overseers Committee to Visit the Harvard Medical School. In addition he serves on the boards of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Genentech BioPure Trimeris Cephalon and Fisher Scientific International. In the past Dr. Sanders has served on the boards of several multi-national corporations including Merrill Lynch and Company Morton International Inc and Reynolds Metals Company. |