Ronald Farquhar, Ph.D. has served as our Vice President, Discovery Biology since January 2009. From July 2005 to October 2008, he was Divisional Vice President and General Manager, Preclinical Services, Charles River Laboratories, Inc. Previously, from 2003 to 2005, he was Vice President, Research and Preclinical Development at Activbiotics, Inc. From 1998 to 2003 Dr. Farquhar was senior program director for infectious diseases at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, and in 2000 he became the senior program director for the Millennium-Bayer alliance. In 1989, Dr. Farquhar joined Pfizer Central Research in Sandwich, England, and over the following nine years he held leadership roles in infectious disease drug discovery as well as technology development. Dr. Farquhar received a bachelor's and D. Phil. degree in microbiology in the United Kingdom from Edinburgh University and Oxford University, respectively.