Dennis Gillings

Dr. Gillings has served as a director of Icagen, Inc. since August 1997. Dr. Gillings is chairman and chief executive officer of Quintiles Transnational Corp., a pharmaceutical services company. Dr. Gillings founded Quintiles in 1982. He served for more than 15 years as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University in May 2001. Dr. Gillings was honored by the Queen as Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2004 for services to the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Gillings was also appointed Pro-Chancellor of Southampton University in 2006. Dr. Gillings received a diploma in mathematical statistics from Cambridge University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Exeter, England, in 1972.