Jean-Pierre Sommadossi

Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Idenix

Jean-Pierre Sommadossi, Ph.D., is the principal founder of Idenix and has served as the chairman of our board of directors since our inception in 1998 and as our president and chief executive officer since November 2000. During the period from November 1999 to November 2000, Dr. Sommadossi served as our executive president and chief scientific officer. Dr. Sommadossi served as a professor of pharmacology, toxicology and clinical pharmacology and associate director of both the Center for AIDS Research and the Liver Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine from June 1992 to November 2000. From 1996 to 1999, Dr. Sommadossi served on the Research Agenda Committee of the AIDS Clinical Trial Group. Dr. Sommadossi holds a Pharm.D. and Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Marseilles in France.