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Armin M. Kessler has been a director since October 1998. Mr. Kessler joined us after a 35-year career in the pharmaceutical industry which included senior management positions at Sandoz Pharma Ltd. (now Novartis Pharma AG) in Switzerland the United States and Japan and most recently at Hoffmann-La Roche Basel Switzerland where he was Chief Operating Officer and Head of the Pharmaceutical Division until 1995. Mr. Kessler currently also serves as a director of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc. Gen-Probe Incorporated and PRA International Inc. Mr. Kessler received degrees in physics and chemistry from the University of Pretoria a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Cape Town a law degree from Seton Hall and an honorary doctorate in business administration from the University of Pretoria. | 