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Michael D. Bick, Ph.D., previously served as Chairman of Board of Xtrana, and its predecessor company, Biopool International, from July 1993 until the closing of the Merger and has been a director of Alpha Innotech since October 2005. Dr. Bick also served as Chief Executive Officer of Biopool International from August 1991 until August 2000. He is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Portable Information Management Systems, Inc,, a consumer oriented Medical Informatics company. In 1988, Dr. Bick founded MediTech, a medical device company, and was Chief Executive Officer thereof until it was acquired by Biopool International in January 1992. Prior to that date, he was co-founder and president of a privately held medical device firm for ten years. Dr. Bick received a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Southern California in 1971 and was affiliated with the Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston carrying out research in human genetics from 1971 to 1974. Dr. Bick was a staff member of the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology from 1974 to 1978. Dr. Bick has served on the Board of Counselors of the School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, is a Charter Member of the Keiretsu Forum of Southern California and a Director of VCBio. He has served as an advisor to numerous early stage life sciences companies. | 