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Lin has served on our Board of Directors since April 2019. Dr. Lin has served as Executive Vice President, Head of Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer of Horizon Pharma plc, a biopharmaceutical company, since January 2018. Dr. Lin is an immunologist, rheumatologist and allergist with more than 20 years of academic and clinical research experience. Prior to Horizon, Dr. Lin was a corporate officer and Vice President, Therapeutic Areas, Development Excellence and International Development at AbbVie Inc., a pharmaceutical company, from March 2015 to December 2017. In that role, she led immunology, virology, neuroscience and general medicine, across on-market and pipeline compounds as well as international development across all therapeutic areas. Prior to AbbVie, Dr. Lin was Vice President, Inflammation and Respiratory Development at Gilead Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, from July 2012 to February 2015. She also held leadership positions in immunology and other therapeutic areas while at Amgen, Inc., a biotechnology company. Dr. Lin received her medical degree and doctorate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed fellowships and post-doctoral work in rheumatology, allergy and immunology at the University of California San Diego and The Scripps Clinic and Research Institute. She received a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry and chemical engineering from Rice University. Dr. Lin has previously been on the faculty of Rockefeller University as a Clinical Scholar and also served as adjunct faculty at Cornell, University of California Los Angeles, Stanford and Northwestern medical schools. We believe that Dr. Lin is qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on her more than 20 years of academic and clinical research experience across multiple therapeutic areas.