Research Area: total synthesis of complex natural products with biological activities, development of new synthetic methodologies and their applications in synthesis of biologically and pharmaceutically important molecules, and biochemistry

Location: Shanghai, China

Dr. Dawei Ma received his PhD in 1989 from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), and did his postdoctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh and Mayo Clinic. He returned to SIOC in 1994, and was appointed as research professor in 1995. From 2001 to 2010 he was the director of State Key laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products. He also served as a deputy director of SIOC from 2011 to 2019. He is presently the chairman of scientific committee of SIOC and a chaired professor of Southern University of Science and Technology. His research interests currently focus on the development of new synthetic methodologies, the total synthesis of complex natural products and their SAR and action mode studies, as well as the discovery of small modulators for target proteins and special biological processes. He has received numerous scientific awards, which include Nien-Chu C. Yang Memorial Lectureship Award (2016), Arthur C. Cope Scholars Award (2018), Future Science Prize-Physical Sciences (2018), Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019) and Yao-Zeng Huang Award on Organometallic Chemistry (2021).

Webpage: http://daweima.sioc.ac