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James S. Burns has served as member of the board of directors since April 2006. Mr. Burns has been President and Chief Executive officer of EntreMed, Inc. since June 2004 and a director since September 2004. From 2001-2003, Mr. Burns was a co-founder and served as President and as Executive Vice President of MedPointe, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, markets and sells branded prescription pharmaceuticals. From 2000-2001, he served as a founder and Managing Director of MedPointe Capital Partners, a private equity firm that led a leveraged buyout of a NYSE company to form MedPointe Pharmaceuticals. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Burns served as a founder, Chairman, President and CEO of Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held biotech company developing therapeutic stem cell products for the regeneration of damaged or diseased tissue. From 1986-1992, he was Vice Chairman of HealthCare Investment Corporation and a founding General Partner of Healthcare Ventures L.P., a venture capital partnership specializing in forming companies build around new pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. From 1981-1986, Mr. Burns served as Group President and as Vice President of the Laboratory Products Group at Becton Dickinson and Company, a multinational medical device company. Previously, he was a Vice President and Partner at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., an international consulting firm. Mr. Burns is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International BioResources Group and the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), and a Director of Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc. He earned his BS and MS degrees in biological sciences from the University of Illinois and an MBA degree from DePaul University | 