Board of directors

Dr Rosenblatt has been a member of the Company's Board since April 24, 2008 and is a member of the Company's Science & Technology Committee. Dr Rosenblatt is the Dean of Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. He was previously Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has served in senior research positions at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He was the founding director of the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In addition, Dr Rosenblatt has served as Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Heath Sciences and Technology and as Senior Vice President for Research at Merck Research Laboratories where he headed a worldwide development team as well as directing drug discovery efforts in the United States, Japan and Italy. In Japan, he was responsible for Merck's clinical research and development; he also headed Merck Research's worldwide University and Industry Relations Department. He is a graduate of Columbia University and gained his medical qualification at Harvard Medical School.