LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. (NASDAQ: SNTA), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing small molecule drugs to treat severe medical conditions, today announced that Donald Kufe, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, has been appointed to the Board of Directors effective September 28, 2010.