Dr. D'Ambra received a B.A. in chemistry from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. in 1978, and a doctorate degree in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. After leaving MIT, he joined the Medicinal Chemistry Department at Sterling Winthrop, and over the next seven years he participated in drug research programs in the endocrine, cardiovascular and analgesic therapeutic areas. Dr. D'Ambra left Sterling in 1989 to join Coromed, Inc., another local Albany company, as a co-founder, where he established the chemistry and biology departments. He left Coromed in the summer of 1991 and founded Albany Molecular Research, Inc.