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Roger D. Kornberg Ph.D.

Co-Founder, Chief Scientist, Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board and Member of The Board of Directors, Cocrystal Discovery, Inc.

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Prof. Roger D. Kornberg, Ph.D. co-founded Cocrystal Discovery, Inc. in 2008 and serves as its Chief Scientist. Prof. Kornberg has been a Professor, Department of Structural Biology and Medicine for Stanford University since 1978. From 1984 to 1992, he served as the Chair of the Department of Structural Biology at Stanford and Professor of Harvard Medical School. He serves as the Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board of Cocrystal Discovery, Inc. He serves as a Director ... of Cocrystal Discovery, Inc. He has been a Director of OphthaliX Inc. (formerly Denali Concrete Management Inc.). since February 6, 2012, Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd. since February 07, 2012, Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. since February 7, 2008 and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. since July 17, 2007. He serves as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Pacific Biosciences, Inc. He serves as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Marina Biotech, Inc and Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. He has been a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Epiphany Biosciences, Inc. since February 15, 2007. He serves as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board for SuperGen Inc and BioCancell Therapeutics Ltd. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Deloitte LLP and Deloitte & Touche LLP. Prof. Kornberg serves as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at MDRNA, Inc. Prof. Kornberg is a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, an honorary member of other academies and professional societies in the United States, Europe, and Japan and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an author of over 200 published papers. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his seminal studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, the biological process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA. His Nobel Prize-winning work included discovery of Mediator, a protein complex required to facilitate gene transcription, as well the solution of the three-dimensional crystal structure of RNA polymerase II, the most complex protein structure solved to date. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Prof. Kornberg has been honored for his work with the Eli Lilly Award, the Passano Award, the Ciba-Drew Award, the Gairdner International Award (shared with R. Roeder), the Hoppe-Seyler Lecture Award, the Harvey Prize from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), the ASBMB-Merck Award, the Welch Prize in 2001, the Pasarow Award in Cancer Research, the Le Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer in 2002 and the 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize. He is a recipient of honorary degrees from universities in Europe and Israel, including the Hebrew University, where he is a Visiting Professor. Prof. Kornberg holds a BA from Harvard in 1967 and a PhD in Chemistry from Stanford University in 1972 and did his postdoctoral studies with Aaron Klug and Francis Crick at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge (UK) where he discovered the Nucleosome.

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