Richard J. Hawkins

Richard J. Hawkins joined as Director in December 2007 and was appointed to serve as Chairman in January 2018. Mr. Hawkins is currently the CEO of Lumos Pharma, Inc., a start-up pharma company. Mr. Hawkins founded LabNow Inc., a diagnostic device company developing rapid, point-of-care, physician office-based diagnostic testing systems, and served Chairman and CEO from 2004 until October 2009. Mr. Hawkins previously founded and guided the growth of Pharmaco, a clinical drug development services company where he served as Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer. He is a founder of id2, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology research management company, Sensus Drug Development Corp., a biotechnology company that was sold to Pfizer, and Covance Biotechnology Services, and served as Chairman of the Board for LoopOne, Inc., a shipping and logistics software company. Mr. Hawkins holds a B.S. in biology from Ohio University.