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William G. Gerber, M.D. has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 1997. Dr. Gerber is currently a partner at Bay City Capital, a life sciences investment fund management firm. From September 1999 until its merger into Nanogen, Inc. in December 2004, Dr. Gerber was President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Epoch Biosciences, Inc., a biomedical company. From April 1998 to July 1999, he was President of diaDexus LLC, a pharmacogenomics company. Previous to his appointment at diaDexus, he was Chief Operating Officer of Onyx Pharmaceuticals. Before joining Onyx in 1995, Dr. Gerber was with Chiron Corporation, a biopharmaceutical, vaccine and blood testing company, where he was President of the Chiron Diagnostics business unit after Chiron's merger with Cetus Corporation in December 1991. He joined Cetus in 1987 as Senior Director of Corporate Ventures and was named Vice President and General Manager of the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) Division in November 1988.11. Dr. Gerber is Chairman of the Board of Pathway Diagnostics, a private company, and on the board of directors of Nanogen Inc., Radiant Medical Inc. and Galileo Pharmaceuticals Inc. Dr. Gerber earned his B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine . | 