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Peter S. Lu, M.D., Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Lu discovered the role of PDZ proteins in the immune system as a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Stanford University, where he also directed the Stanford Psoriasis Treatment Center. He founded Arbor Vita Corporation in May 1998.

J. David Garman, Ph.D., Associate Director, Business Development
Dr. Garman is a scientist at Arbor Vita currently working on patent development and business development. Prior to joining Arbor Vita in 1999, Dr. Garman conducted academic research in the laboratories of Dr. David Clayton and Dr. Lucille Shapiro at Stanford University and Dr. Elizabeth Jones at Carnegie Mellon University.

Peter H. Kilner, Vice President, Business Development
Mr. Kilner joined Arbor Vita in April 2002. Mr. Kilner spent 18 years in business development, specializing in strategic partnering, at Catalytica. For the past 6 years, Mr. Kilner started-up and managed a subsidiary business for the manufacture of catalysts for the pharmaceutical and polyolefin industries.

Ken Mendoza, IT, Bioinformatics
Mr. Mendoza joined Arbor Vita in 2001. He is a software engineer specializing in data automation and bioinformatics and is the developer of the software components of Arbor Vita's in silico high throughput drug discovery tool, the Predictive Bio-Simulator.

Johannes G. Schweizer, Ph.D.
Dr. Schweizer is a molecular geneticist trained at Institute Pasteur and Stanford University who joined Arbor Vita as a Scientist in 1999. Dr. Schweizer manages the HPV program.

Chamorro Somoza, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Somoza is an immunologist who joined Arbor Vita as a Scientist in 2000. Dr. Somoza was trained at University of Madrid and Oxford University, and did post-doctoral work at the DNAX Research Institute. She is further developing Arbor Vita’s HPV Program.


Board of Directors

Peter S. Lu, M.D.
Chairman

Eugene A. Bauer, M.D.
Dean, Vice President, Medical Affairs, Stanford University (retired)
Board of Directors: Connetics Corporation, Reconstructive Technologies, Bay Area Bioscience

Francis R. Cano, Ph.D.
President and Chief Operating Officer, Aviron (retired)
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
Ex-President, Protein Design Lab
Vice President, Roche (retired)
Board of Directors: Incyte, Protein Design Labs, and others

William M. Smith
Partner, Townsend and Townsend and Crew, LLP
Vice President, Legal Affairs, Fluidigm Corporation
Board of Directors: Fluidigm, Theracos

Charles Trimble
Founder and former CEO, Trimble Navigation
Member, National Academy of Engineering; Recipient of the American Electronics Association Annual Medal of Achievement for 2000


Scientific Advisory Board

Edward P. Amento, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Director, Molecular Medicine Research Institute; Co-founder, Connetics Corporation

Jason Cyster, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Francisco

Mark M. Davis, Ph.D.
Chairman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University
Director, Immunology Program, Stanford University
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Scientific Advisory Board: Affymetrix, SurroMed

Frances L. Johnson, M.D.
Director of Transplantation Cardiology, Palo Alto VA Medical Center
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Mary Lake Polan, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman and Professor, Department of Ob/Gyn, Stanford University
Board of Directors, American Home Product

Brian Seed, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology, Harvard Medical School
Co-founder, Connetics Corporation, Phylos, and Edge BioSciences
Scientific Advisory Board, Aventis SA and Medigene AG

Barbara Wold, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Member, Advisory Board of Human Genome Project, National Institutes of Health
Scientific Advisory Board: Myriad Genomics


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