**Exhibit        31.1**

**CERTIFICATION        PURSUANT TO**

**RULE        13-A-14 OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1934**

**AS        ADOPTED PURSUANT TO**

**SECTION        302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002**

**CERTIFICATION        of the CEO**

|   | (b) | evaluated                  the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures                  and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness                  of                  the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period                  covered by this report based on such evaluation ; and  |
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|   | (c) | presented                  in this annual report our conclusions about the effectiveness of                  the                  disclosure controls and procedures based on our evaluation;  |
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|  | 5. | The                  registrant's other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based                  upon our                  most recent evaluation,                  to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of registrant's                  board                  of directors (or persons                  performing the equivalent                  function): |
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|   | (a) | all                  significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal                  controls                  which could adversely affect the registrant's ability to record,                  process,                  summarize and report financial data and have identified for the                  registrant's auditors any material weaknesses in internal controls;                  and |
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|   | (b) | any                  fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other                  employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal                  controls. |
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| Date:                  June 14, 2005                   |
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| /s/                  Kanwar J.S. Chadha,               |
| Kanwar                  J.S. Chadha, Ph. D.            |
| President                  and Chief Executive Officer |