Dr. Ronald E. Cape to Retire from EntreMed Board of...( ROCKVILLE Md. April 7 2008 /- Ent...),Health

ROCKVILLE, Md., April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EntreMed, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENMD), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases, today announced the retirement of Ronald E. Cape, Ph.D. as Director, effective June 5, 2008.

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Dr. Cape has been a Director of EntreMed since 2003, and has been instrumental in helping the Company chart its path forward in multi-mechanism oncology drugs. Dr. Cape was the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Cetus Corporation, a world leader and pioneer in genetic engineering, including the discovery and development of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), for which Cetus scientist Kary Mullis received the Nobel Prize. Cetus later merged with Chiron Corporation. Dr. Cape was the founding chairman of Darwin Molecular Corporation, which was later sold to Chiroscience plc. He was also a founding member of the Biotechnology Industry Organization and served as its President for three years.

Dr. Cape is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the recipient of many awards, including the 2007 Biotechnology Heritage Award, and has held dozens of prestigious board positions in the public and private sectors. In recent years, Dr. Cape has been an investor in the field of biotechnology and a board member of various public and private companies. He has also served on the boards of Princeton University, Rockefeller University, the Whitehead Institute at MIT, and the Board of Rege
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