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Robert McDowell, Ph.D. joined the company in 2000 and has held increasing levels of responsibility; he is now Vice President of Research. Prior to joining the company, Dr. McDowell worked at Axys Pharmaceuticals as Director of Structural Chemistry from 1999 to 2000. He was at Genentech from 1988 to 1999, where he was a founding member of the Bio-organic Chemistry department and helped to pioneer novel approaches for discovering non-peptidyl drug leads starting from three-dimensional structures of bioactive peptides. Dr. McDowell's career started at Syntex Corporation, where he worked on prostaglandin and peptide hormone analogs. Dr. McDowell received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. | 