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Per A. Peterson, M.D., Ph.D has served as a Director since March 2007. Dr. Peterson recently retired as Chairman, Research & Development, Pharmaceuticals at Johnson & Johnson. He joined Johnson & Johnson in 1994 as Vice President, Drug Discovery, of the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Dr. Peterson was named Group Vice President of the Pharmaceutical Research Institute in April 1998 and its President in November 1998. In 2000, he was named Chairman, Research & Development, Pharmaceuticals Group and became a Member of the Executive Committee in 2001. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Dr. Peterson spent eight years at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, where he headed the Division of Molecular Immunogenetics before being appointed Chairman of the Department of Immunology in 1987. He had earlier served as Director of the Wallenberg Laboratory, as well as professor of cell biology at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Born in Kalmar, Sweden, Dr. Peterson received his B.M. in Medicine and his Ph.D. in Medicinal Biochemistry from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. | 