Christopher Becker has been promoted to vice president of chemistry at SurroMed, and William Leschensky has been promoted to president, intellectual property. Becker joined SurroMed as director of chemistry in 2001, after serving as senior director of proteomics technology at Thermo Electron, and previously, as a staff scientist at SRI. He received his PhD in chemistry at UC Berkeley. Leschensky has been director of intellectual property at SurroMed since 2000, and has also been associate general counsel.