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Dr. Carson has been a member of our Board of Directors since December 1996. Dr. Carson is a noted researcher in the fields of autoimmune and immunodeficiency diseases and is co-discoverer with Dr. Eyal Raz of the immunostimulatory sequences that form the basis of our technology. He has played key roles in the founding of Vical, Inc., a gene therapy company, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company, and Triangle Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Carson is director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging and has been a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego since 1995. He received his M.D. from Columbia University and his BA from Haverford College.
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