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 President and CEO Safi Bahcall, Ph.D., will participate in a panel discussion titled Tackling Tumors at the 2008 RBC Capital Markets Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, December 10 at 1:30 pm (ET) at The Westin New York at Times Square.