President and Chief Executive Officer
Renovis, Inc.

Corey S. Goodman, Ph.D. has served as Renovis' President and Chief Executive Officer and a Director since September 2001 and is a co-founder of Renovis. From 1987 to 2001, Dr. Goodman was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, most recently as the Evan Rauch Professor of Neuroscience, the Director of the Wills Neuroscience Institute and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. From 1979 to 1987, Dr. Goodman was on the faculty of Stanford University. Dr. Goodman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Dr. Goodman's honors include the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1983, the Gairdner Award in 1997 and the March-of-Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology in 2001. Dr. Goodman is Chair of the National Research Council's Board of Life Sciences and President of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. Dr. Goodman co-founded Exelixis, Inc., a biotechnology company, in 1994. Dr. Goodman received a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University, a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of California, Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego.