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Dr. John LaMattina is a member of the Compensation Committee. As Senior Vice President Pfizer Inc. and President Pfizer Global Research & Development Dr. LaMattina led Pfizer’s drug discovery and development efforts in the United States Europe and Asia until his retirement in late 2007. He joined Pfizer in 1977 and over the years held positions of increasing responsibility for Pfizer Central Research including Vice President of U.S. Discovery Operations Senior Vice President of Worldwide Discovery Operations and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Development. Dr. LaMattina graduated cum laude from Boston College and received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of New Hampshire where he worked with Professor Robert E. Lyle. He then moved on to Princeton University as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Professor E. C. Taylor. Dr. LaMattina received the 1998 Boston College Alumni Award of Excellence in Science and received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire in 2007. Dr. LaMattina serves on the Board of Directors of the Neurogen Corporation and the Board of Trustees of Boston College. | 