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<div align="center"><b>Technology Executives @MIT Lecture
Series</b></div>
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<div align="center"><b>Sponsored by the Office of Corporate
Relations</b></div>
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<div align="center"><b>Dr. Tachi Yamada</b></div>
<div align="center"><b>Executive Director, Chairman</b></div>
<div align="center"><b>Research and Development</b></div>
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<div align="center"><b>GlaxoSmithKline</b></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1"><b>"R&D in the
Pharmaceutical Industry:</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1"><b>Rising to the
Challenge"</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><b>Tuesday, February 14, 2006 @ 4:00 pm</b></div>
<div align="center"><b>Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center</b></div>
<div align="center">Refreshments preceding the lecture @ 3:30 pm</div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Biography:</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-2" color="#000000">Tadataka
(Tachi) Yamada assumed the role of Chairman, Research &
Development, Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline in January 2001. He is a
member of the Corporate Executive Team and the Board of
GlaxoSmithKline plc. He became Chairman, Research and Development,
Pharmaceuticals, SmithKline Beecham, in February 1999.<br>
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Previously, Tachi was President, SmithKline Beecham Healthcare
Services, taking that post in February 1996. He joined SmithKline
Beecham as a Non-executive member of the Board of Directors in
February 1994.<br>
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He was formerly Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the
University of Michigan Medical School and Physician-in-Chief of the
University of Michigan Medical Center.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-2" color="#000000">Tachi is a
Councillor of the Association of American Physicians, past President
of the American Gastroenterological Association, Master of the
American College of Physicians and a member of the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a member of
the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine and
a member at large of the National Board of Medical Examiners. He was a
member of the Board of Directors of diaDexus Inc until December 2004
and is a Trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.</font></div>
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