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Stephen P. Squinto Ph.D. is a founder of Alexion and has been Executive Vice President and Head of Research since August 2000. He held the positions of Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer from March 1998 to July 2000 Vice President of Research Molecular Sciences from August 1994 to March 1998 Senior Director of Molecular Sciences from July 1993 to July 1994 and Director of Molecular Development from 1992 to July 1993. From 1989 to 1992 Dr. Squinto held various positions at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. most recently serving as Senior Scientist and Assistant Head of the Discovery Group. From 1986 to 1989 Dr. Squinto was an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Louisiana State University Medical Center. Dr. Squinto's work has led to over 70 scientific papers in the fields of gene regulation growth factor biology and gene transfer. Dr. Squinto's work is primarily in the fields of regulation of eukaryotic gene expression mammalian gene expression systems and growth receptor and signal transduction biology. Dr. Squinto served as a Director of the Biotechnology Research and Development Corporation a biotechnology consortium from 1997 to 2003. Dr. Squinto received his B.A. in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Loyola University of Chicago. | 