Exhibit 10.75

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

               THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is made and entered
into as of May 30, 2002 by and between GENE LOGIC INC., a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”) and DUDLEY STAPLES, a Maryland resident (“STAPLES”).

RECITALS:

     The Company desires to secure the services of STAPLES and STAPLES desires
to perform such services for the Company on the terms and conditions as set
forth in this Agreement.

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of these premises and the mutual promises
and conditions contained in this Agreement, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:

     1.     Employment and Duties. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, the Company shall employ STAPLES as the Senior Vice President,
General Counsel of the Company and STAPLES hereby accepts such employment and
such position. STAPLES shall devote his full time, ability, attention, knowledge
and skill to performing all duties as Senior Vice President, General Counsel of
the Company as lawfully assigned or delegated to him by the President & CEO.

     2.     Base Salary. In consideration for STAPLES’s services to the Company
during the term of his employment under this Agreement, STAPLES shall receive an
annualized base salary of $205,000 during 2002, and thereafter in such amounts
as may be mutually agreed by the Company and STAPLES, but not less than
$205,000. Base salary shall be paid in equal, semi-monthly installments from
which the Company shall withhold and deduct all applicable federal and state
income, social security, disability and other taxes as required by applicable
laws.

     3.     Incentive Stock Options. The Company will grant 65,000 incentive
stock options, to the maximum extent allowed under IRS rules, to STAPLES,
contingent upon approval by the Board of Directors. Such incentive stock options
shall become exercisable according to the schedule established by the Board of
Directors for the Company’s Incentive Stock Option Plan.

     5.     Additional Compensation and Benefits.

               5.1     Executive Bonus Program. You are eligible to participate
in the Executive Bonus Program which has an annualized potential of $50,000. You
will be eligible to receive a prorated portion of this based upon your start
date and the achievement of goals and successful attainment of objectives as
mutually agreed by you and the President & CEO.

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               5.2     Medical Benefits, Vacation and Sick Leave. STAPLES shall
be entitled to participate in such medical, health and life insurance plans as
the Company may from time to time implement, and to receive twenty-eight
(28) days of paid vacation per year and sick leave on the same basis as the
Company’s other senior executives. This paid time off will be prorated depending
on actual start date to accrue at 9.33 hours per pay period.

               5.3     Pension Plan. STAPLES shall be entitled to participate as
a beneficiary under such pension plan(s) as the Company may from time to time
adopt, on the same basis as the Company’s other senior executives.

     6.     Confidentiality and Proprietary Inventions Agreement. Upon the
commencement of the term of this Agreement, STAPLES shall enter into the
Company’s standard form of agreement relating to the treatment of the Company’s
confidential information and ownership of proprietary inventions.

     7.     Term of Employment. Subject to the provisions of Section 8, the term
of the employment engaged by this Agreement shall be a period of four (4) years
commencing on May 30, 2002 and ending four (4) years later, May 29, 2006
whereupon the term shall automatically renew for successive one (1) year periods
unless one of the parties to the Agreement shall have given notice of its
intention to terminate the Agreement not later than ninety (90) days prior to
the end of such initial term or any such renewal term.

     8.     Termination of Employment.

               8.1     For Cause. The Company may terminate this Agreement,
effective immediately upon written notice to STAPLES, if at any time, in the
reasonable opinion of the Company’s Board of Directors, (a) STAPLES commits any
material act of dishonesty, fraud or embezzlement with respect to the Company or
any subsidiary or affiliate thereof, (b) is convicted of a crime of moral
turpitude, or (c) breaches any material obligation under this Agreement. The
Company’s total liability to STAPLES in the event of termination of STAPLES’s
employment under this Subsection 8.1 shall be limited to the payment of
STAPLES’s salary and benefits through the effective date of termination.

               8.2     Without Cause. The Company may terminate this agreement
without cause upon thirty (30) days’ written notice to STAPLES. Upon any
termination of this agreement without cause by the Company, the Company shall
pay to STAPLES as severance pay in one lump sum an amount equal to six months of
his current salary in addition to such other compensation to which STAPLES may
be entitled prior to the date of termination.

               8.3     By STAPLES. STAPLES reserves the right to terminate his
employment hereunder for any reason upon thirty (30) days’ written notice to the
Company. The Company’s total liability to STAPLES in the event of termination of
STAPLES’s employment under this Subsection 8.3 shall be limited

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to the payment of STAPLES’s salary and benefits through the effective date of
termination and the provisions of Subsection 8.2 shall not apply.

               8.4     Executive Severance Plan. The Board will be asked to
approve STAPLES’ inclusion in the Executive Severance Plan.

     9.     Miscellaneous.

               9.1     Modification. Any modification of this Agreement shall be
effective only if reduced to writing and signed by the parties to be bound
thereby.

               9.2     Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire
agreement between the Company and STAPLES pertaining to the subject matter
hereof and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous written or verbal agreements
and understandings between the parties in connection with the subject matter
hereof.

               9.3     Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held
by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the
remaining provisions shall, nevertheless, continue in full force and effect
without being impaired or invalidated in any way.

               9.4     Waiver. The parties hereto shall not be deemed to have
waived any of their respective rights under this Agreement unless the waiver is
in writing and signed by the waiving party. No delay in exercising any right
shall be a waiver of such right nor shall a waiver of any right on one occasion
operate as a waiver of such right on a future occasion.

               9.5     Costs of Enforcement. If any action or proceeding shall
be commenced to enforce this Agreement or any right arising in connection with
this Agreement, each party shall initially bear its own costs and legal fees
associated with such action or proceeding. The prevailing party in any such
action or proceeding shall be entitled to recover from the other party the
reasonable attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses incurred by such prevailing party
in connection with such action or proceeding.

               9.6     Notices. All notices provided for herein shall be in
writing and delivered personally or sent by United States mail, registered or
certified, postage paid or by Federal Express, addressed as follows:

      To the Company:   Gene Logic Inc.
   708 Quince Orchard Road
   Gaithersburg, MD 20878       To STAPLES:   Dudley Staples

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or to such other addresses as either of such parties may from time to time
designate in writing. Any notice given under this Agreement shall be deemed to
have been given on the date of actual receipt, or, if not received during normal
business hours, on the next business day.

               IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement by
their duly authorized officers or agents as of the date first written above.

      “Company”   “Employee”       GENE LOGIC INC   /s/ Dudley Staples    

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a Delaware corporation   Dudley Staples       By: /s/ Mark D. Gessler

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Name: Mark Gessler

Title: President and Chief Executive Officer

   

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