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Bringing Urgency And Focus To Takeda: An Interview With Tachi Yamada

 
• By Michael Goodman

In a wide-ranging interview conducted at Elsevier’s PSA 2013 conference, Takeda’s R&D chief spoke of progress in building a global vaccine business, of the key late-stage assets that will carry the company into the next decade, and of business development priorities in the post-Nycomed era.

Since taking control of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s research and development in 2011, Tachi Yamada, MD, has wrought significant change on several fronts.

Takeda’s chief medical and scientific officer has moved quickly to transform the Japanese pharma’s R&D organization by putting in place therapeutic area teams under leaders empowered with strategy and budget authority

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