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David Kroin, has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2005. Mr. Kroin has been the Managing Director of Great Point Partners, LLC, an asset management firm focusing in the healthcare industry, with an emphasis on life sciences, since September 2003. From December 1998 to September 2003, Mr. Kroin was a senior member of the healthcare group at J.H. Whitney & Co., an alternative-asset-management firm. From June 1997 to December 1998, Mr. Kroin worked as an analyst in the corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions group at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Mr. Kroin graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in actuarial mathematics in May 1997. Mr. Kroin was nominated for election by Biomedical Value Fund, L.P. and Biomedical Offshore Value Fund, Ltd., two of the investors in our October 2005 private placement, pursuant to a voting agreement among the participants in the private placement and FinSirton. | 