Dr. Rajesh B. Parekh

General Partner, Advent Venture Partners (UK)

Dr. Parekh became a Director of Celldex in March 2004. He is a General Partner at Advent Venture Partners (UK) whom he joined in 2005. He was a co-founder and served as Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Research and Development of Oxford GlycoSciences, plc (UK) from 1988 to 2003. Dr. Parekh is Chairman of Galapagos nv (Belgium) and currently serves on the Board of Directors of seven companies in the United States and Europe. He received his B.A. and D.Phil. degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine from the University of Oxford where he has also been a Visiting Professor.