Dawei Ma

Dr. Dawei Ma received his PhD in 1989 from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), and did his postdoctoral studies at the Universityof Pittsburghand 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 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, as well as the discovery of small modulators for target proteins. He has received some awards, which include 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).