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Dr. Gordon has served on the company’s Board of Directors since May 2007. He is an accomplished corporate executive with extensive experience leading biopharmaceutical companies focused on the development, manufacture and commercialization of biologic products for the prevention and treatment of human infectious disease. Dr. Gordon has served as President , Chief Executive Officer and as a Director of VaxGen, Inc. from 2001 to 2007 during which time, the Company generated over $250 million in income and $1 billion in contracts for biodefense vaccines. Prior to joining Vaxgen, Dr. Gordon was Executive Director of North America for Acambis plc. and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors from 1999 to 2001. Previously, he was President and CEO of OraVax, Inc. from 1990 to 1999, prior to its acquisition by Peptide Therapeutics to form Acambis. Before joining OraVax, he was the CEO of North American Vaccine from 1988 to 1990, prior to its acquisition by Baxter International. He has also held positions as Associate Director, Clinical Pharmacology at E. R. Squibb and Research Director, Viral and Bacterial Vaccines, at Connaught Laboratories. Among his many Professional Affiliations, Dr. Gordon is a member of the United States National Vaccines Advisory Committee (NVAC) since 2005, a member of the Sabin Vaccine Institute Board of Trustees since 2003 and a member of the Expert Panel of the Meningitis Vaccine Project, WHO and PATH since 1999. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Science, Immunology and Molecular Genetics from the University of Connecticut at Farmington and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of California at Humboldt.
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