Dr. Shuguang Ma is currently a director in the department of Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism at Amgen Inc. Previously he was a Senior Principal Scientist at Genentech Inc. and Schering-Plough (now Merck). He received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Purdue University, followed by a postdoctoral training in biological mass spectrometry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Ma has authored over 60 research articles in the peer-reviewed journals and contributed six book chapters and one recent book (as co-editor). His research interests include the development of novel LC/MS-based techniques for metabolite detection and mechanistic investigation of novel biotransformation and bioactivation of xenobiotics.