Management
Board of Directors

Scientific Advisory Board

Board of Directors

Peter S. Lu, M.D.

  • Chairman, Founder and CEO Arbor Vita Corporation

Eugene A. Bauer, M.D.

  • CEO, Neosil Inc.
  • Former Dean, Vice President, Medical Affairs, Stanford University
  • Member, Board of Directors: Connetics Corporation, Reconstructive Technologies and Bay Area Bioscience

Francis R. Cano, Ph.D.

  • Former Chairman and CEO, Vaxin Inc.
  • Former President and Chief Operating Officer, Aviron
  • Former Vice President and General Manager, Lederle Laboratories American Cyanamid Company

Joseph T. Lu, M.D.

  • Chairman of Pediatrics and Director of Neonatal ICU, Garfield Hospital (retired)
  • Associate Professor of Pharmacology, University of Southern California (retired)

Thomas D. Recine, M.B.A.

  • Vice President, Linear Technology Corporation (retired)
  • Founder, Marcon Sales

Jon S. Saxe

  • President, Protein Design Lab (retired)
  • Former Vice President, Roche (retired)
  • Chairman, Board of Directors: POINT Biomedical Corporation, Iconix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Entelos, Inc. and VistaGen, Inc.
  • Member, Board of Directors: InSite Vision, First Horizon Pharmaceutical Corporation, PDL BioPharma, Inc., Durect Corporation, Algodign, LLC, Athenagen, Inc., Astex Technology, Ltd., Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

William M. Smith, J.D.

  • Partner, Townsend and Townsend and Crew, LLP
  • General Counsel and Vice President, Legal Affairs, Fluidigm Corporation
  • Member, Board of Directors: Fluidigm and Theracos, Inc.

Charles Trimble

  • Founder and former CEO, Trimble Navigation
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering
  • Member, Board of Trustees, California Institute of Technology
  • Recipient of the American Electronics Association Annual Medal of Achievement for 2000