WuXi Biologics announced the appointment of five internationally recognized scientists, entrepreneurs and visionary thinkers to its newly formed Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The SAB includes: Peter G. Schultz, PhD (President of the Scripps Research Institute and the California Institute for Translational Research); James Larrick, MD and PhD (Founder, Managing Director, Scientific Director of Panorama Research Institute; Managing Director & Chief Medical Officer of Velocity Pharmaceutical Development); Ram Sasisekharan, PhD (Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Biological Engineering and Health Sciences & Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology); David D. Ho, MD (Scientific Director and CEO, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center; and Irene Diamond Professor, the Rockefeller University) and Wei-Shou Hu, PhD (Distinguished McKnight University Professor at University of Minnesota). Chaired by Dr. Schultz, the inaugural members represent a broad range of scientific disciplines in biologics research and development in the fields of synthetic biology, antibody therapeutics, protein engineering, analytical sciences, virology, vaccines, and cell culture bioprocessing and bioengineering. In addition, the SAB members are also thought leaders and entrepreneurs, collectively founding more than forty successful biotech companies.