Richard J. Hawkins joined us as Director in December 2007 and was appointed to serve as Chairman in January 2018. Mr. Hawkins is currently the CEO of Lumos Pharma, Inc., a start-up pharma company. Mr. Hawkins founded LabNow Inc., a diagnostic device company developing rapid, point-of-care, physician office-based diagnostic testing systems, and served Chairman and CEO from 2004 until October 2009. Mr. Hawkins previously founded and guided the growth of Pharmaco, a clinical drug development services company where he served as Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer. He is a founder of id2, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology research management company, Sensus Drug Development Corp., a biotechnology company that was sold to Pfizer, and Covance Biotechnology Services, and served as Chairman of the Board for LoopOne, Inc., a shipping and logistics software company. Mr. Hawkins holds a B.S. in biology from Ohio University.