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Matthew D. Linnik, Ph.D., joined the Company in 1998 as Director of Research and Development, was promoted to Vice President of Research in February 1999, to Executive Vice President of Research in June 1999 and to Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of Research in 2002. Prior to joining the Company, from 1989 to 1998, Dr. Linnik served as Senior Pharmacologist, Scientist, Research Scientist and Project Leader for Hoechst Marion Roussel, formerly Marion Merrell Dow and Marion Laboratories, a publicly held pharmaceutical company. From 1996 to 1998, he also served as Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine. From 1986 to 1988, he served as Postdoctoral Fellow, then Instructor, in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Linnik holds a B.A. in Physiology from Southern Illinois University and a Ph.D., in Physiology and Pharmacology from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. | 