Sid Bhoopathy, Ph.D. has been named to chief operating officer at Absorption Systems. He has been with the company since 2004 and previously served as vice president of operations. Before coming to the company, Dr. Bhoopathy was a research scientist at PPDI.

He has overall responsibility for strategic leadership and day-to-day operations in sales and marketing, as well as planning, execution and delivery of contract services (ADMET studies). Dr. Bhoopathy is based at the company’s Exton, PA headquarters.

“Sid has proven his considerable value to the company in his seven years with us, and has been rewarded with steadily increasing levels of responsibility along the way,” said Patrick M. Dentinger, president and chief executive officer of Absorption Systems. “As chief operating officer, his passion, focus and drug development savvy will help us execute our shared vision for the future of Absorption Systems.”