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Dr. Penhoet has served as a director since May 2000. Dr. Penhoet is President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation where he had served since 2002 as Chief Program Officer Science and Higher Education. Since September 2000 Dr. Penhoet has been a director of the Alta Biopharma II Fund 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 he 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 currently serves as a director of Chiron and several privately held companies. Dr. Penhoet received a B.A. in Biology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Washington. | 