Dr Ma will report directly to Shuhui Chen, chief scientific officer of WuXi PharmaTech. Dr Ma has received his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Tokushima, Japan and joined in WuXi in March 2001.
Dr Chen said: “I am very delighted to promote Dr Ma to this new leadership position. Dr Ma’s depth of synthetic chemistry experience and his commitment and coaching capabilities of our young scientists undoubtedly will further accelerate the development of our core synthetic chemistry division.”