Deborah Neff has served as a member of our Board since June 2022 and has served as our lead independent director since February 2025. Since 2020, she has served as the Principal of DJN Consulting, LLC, an executive management, business strategy and operations consulting company. Prior to that, from 2017 to 2020, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Evanostics LLC, an early-stage, private biotechnology company. From 2014 to 2016, she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Complete Genomics Inc., a business unit of BGI-Shenzhen, a publicly traded genomic sequencing and proteomic services company. From 2006 to 2013, she served as the Chief Executive Officer at Pathwork Diagnostics Inc., a privately held molecular diagnostics company, and from 2003 to 2006, she served as the Chief Executive Officer at Predicant Biosciences, formerly a private biotechnology company. Ms. Neff also served as President of BD Biosciences, Inc., a global business segment of Becton Dickinson, from 1995 to 2003. Ms. Neff served as a director on the board of Atomo Diagnostics Limited, an Australian publicly listed rapid diagnostics company, from October 2021 to May 2025, on the advisory board of privately funded start-up company Wainamics, Inc. from March 2021 to February 2025, on the board of directors of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. from 2011 to 2017 and on the board of directors of Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. from 2003 to 2009. Ms. Neff has served as the Executive Trustee and Chair of the University of California, Davis Foundation since 2021, as chair of the board of directors of Guide Dogs for the Blind since July 2024 and as a member of the board since February 2022, and on the advisory board of privately funded start-up company Partillion Bioscience Corporation since August 2020. Ms. Neff holds a B.S. degree in Physiology from the University of California, Davis and completed graduate training and licensure in clinical laboratory science. She has attended executive business programs in finance, marketing and general management at Wharton, Stanford and Harvard Business Schools. We believe that Ms. Neff's extensive strategic, operational, and scientific experience within the biotechnology industry, combined with her knowledge of our business and past public company board service, provide valuable and differentiated expertise to the Board and contribute meaningfully to its overall capabilities. Her robust technical skill set and decades of executive leadership experience in the biotechnology industry provides her with the qualifications and skills to serve as a director of the Company.