Dr. Malcolm MacCoss was appointed a member of the Company's Board in January 2010. Dr. MacCoss was formerly Group Vice President for Chemical Research at the Schering-Plough Research Institute and was the Head of Chemistry at the Schering-Plough Kenilworth, N.J. site. He also chaired the Schering-Plough Global Chemistry Council, a forum for formulating global chemistry strategies. From 1982-2008, Dr. MacCoss held positions with increasing levels of responsibility at Merck Research Laboratories in the areas of Exploratory, Medicinal, and Basic Chemistry. In 1999, he became Vice President, Basic Chemistry at the Rahway, N.J. site, and in 2003, he became the Vice President of Basic Chemistry and Drug Discovery Sciences and the Deputy Site-Head of the Rahway Site; he was also Chairman of the Merck World-Wide Chemistry Council. He serves on the Advisory Committee of the Executive Dean for the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University and also on the Advisory Board of the Rutgers University Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department. Dr. MacCoss obtained a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Birmingham in the U.K.