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Samuel Broder, M.D., was elected as a Director of PDL BioPharma in October 2005. He is currently Chief Medical Officer at Celera Genomics and Celera Diagnostics. In 1995, Dr. Broder became Senior Vice President for Research and Development at the IVAX Corporation (now in process of being acquired by TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.) in Florida, where he directed a broad range of pharmaceutical research on new drugs for heart disease, diabetes and diseases of the lung. In 1989, President Ronald Reagan named Dr. Broder Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Under his leadership, the NCI initiated a number of important large-scale human trials in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Dr. Broder began his research career in the Metabolism Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1972. During his tenure at the NCI, Dr. Broder performed research that lead to the development of several important anti-retroviral drugs for the therapy of HIV/AIDS. He has authored or co-authored over 300 scientific papers, and is the inventor or co-inventor on numerous patents. Dr. Broder received his bachelor�s and medical degrees from the University of Michigan.
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