Leroy Hood biography
Dr. Leroy E. Hood M.D. Ph.D. serves as Independent Director of the Company. He has served on our board of directors since March 2001. He also has served on our nominating and governance committee since September 2009, on our compensation committee since July 2011 and on our scientific committee since September 2019. Dr. Hood previously served as a member of our audit committee from September 2009 to December 2009 and from June 2012 to September 2012. Dr. Hood has served as senior vice president and chief science officer of Providence Health & Services, a multi-state, not-for-profit health system, since April 2016, and is the chief strategy officer of the Institute for Systems Biology, a non-profit research institute dedicated to the study and application of systems biology. Dr. Hood co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology in 2000 and served as its president through December 2017. Previously, Dr. Hood was founder and chairman of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Hood also co-founded Amgen, Inc., Applied Biosystems, Inc., Darwin Molecular Technologies, Inc., Rosetta Inpharmatics, Inc. and SyStemix, Inc. Dr. Hood is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Association of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Hood received his Ph.D. and B.S. from the California Institute of Technology and his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Our nominating and governance committee has concluded that Dr. Hood should continue to serve on the board of directors based on his scientific expertise in drug discovery and development and experience in founding and building biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
What is the salary of Leroy Hood?
As the Independent Director of Omeros, the total compensation of Leroy Hood at Omeros is $132,670. There are 11 executives at Omeros getting paid more, with Gregory Demopulos having the highest compensation of $4,825,130.
