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At AstraZeneca, we focus on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines in Oncology, BioPharmaceuticals and Rare Disease, including Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism, and Respiratory & Immunology. Our R&D groups are unified in their approach, and united in their purpose to deliver life-changing medicines to people who need them most. By collaborating internally and externally, we aim to accelerate the discovery of novel therapies for unmet medical needs.

BioPharmaceuticals R&D

VP and Head of Translational Science and Experimental Medicine, Respiratory and Immunology, AstraZeneca

Business Planning & Operations Director, Chief Operating Office, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

VP and Head of Translational Science & Experimental Medicine, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, AstraZeneca

Caterina Brindicci

Senior Vice President and Global Head of R&I Late-Stage Development, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca

Christopher J. Rhodes

Chief Scientist, Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), BioPharmaceuticals R&D, and Chair of AstraZeneca’s postdoc programme

Executive Director, Head of Bioscience Metabolism, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), AstraZeneca

Senior Project Leader, Research and Early Development, Respiratory, Inflammation & Autoimmunity, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Elisa Lázaro Ibáñez

Postdoctoral Researcher, Discovery Biology, Discovery Sciences, R&D

Elisabeth Björk

SVP, Late-Stage Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Senior Medical Lead, Late-stage Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Senior Director, Head of Cell Therapy Bioprocess Development and Manufacturing, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Francesco Dazzi

Medical Lead Cell Therapies, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca

Gayathri Mohankumar

Senior Data Scientist, Computer Vision, AstraZeneca

Vice President, Data Science & AI, R&D

Executive Director and Head of Bioscience COPD & IPF, Respiratory & Immunology (R&I), AstraZeneca

Executive Director and Head of Bioscience Cardiovascular, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), AstraZeneca

Head of Projects

Magnus Johansson

Principal Scientist, Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Executive Director and Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Senior Vice President and Head of Research and Early Development, Respiratory, Inflammation and Autoimmunity, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Vice President and Head of Microbial Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Interim Senior Vice President Late-Stage Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Head of Digital Health, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Executive Vice-President, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Natalie Fishburn

Vice President and Head, BioPharmaceuticals Clinical Operations, R&D, AstraZeneca

Nicolas Jose Guzman

Director Physician, Nephrology Clinical Research

Pernille B. Laerkegaard Hansen

Executive Director and Head of Bioscience Renal, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), AstraZeneca

Senior Principal Scientist, Bioscience, Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Rasmus Jansson-Löfmark

Executive Director and Head of DMPK, Early CVRM, AstraZeneca

Regina Fritsche-Danielson

Senior Vice President and Head of Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Head of Bioscience Cell Therapy, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Slavé Petrovski

VP, Head of Centre for Genomics Research, Discovery Sciences, R&D

Head of Early Respiratory & Immunology Statistics, Executive Director Statistics, AstraZeneca

Stephen Delaney

Team Leader, Research and Early Development, Respiratory, Inflammation & Autoimmunity (RIA), BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Executive Director and Head of Bioscience Asthma and Skin Immunity, Respiratory and Immunology (R&I), AstraZeneca

Tatiana Scetinina

Director, Data Science, AstraZeneca

Tonya Villafana

Vice President, Global Franchise Head, Infection

Victoria Parker

Executive Group Director, Metabolism, Early Clinical Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca.

Oncology R&D

Alicyn Campbell

Head of Digital Health, Oncology R&D

Senior Vice President, Global Head of Haematology (Early and Late Stage) Oncology R&D

Vice President, Franchise Head, Late Oncology R&D

Cristian Massacesi

Chief Medical Officer and Oncology Chief Development Officer

Vice President of Early Development Oncology

Director, Translational Medicine, Oncology Research & Early Development

Head of Epigenetics, Research & Development

Ingrid A. Mayer

Global Clinical Head for Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Strategy

Global Study Medical Scientist Leader, Immuno-oncology

Global Clinical Head for Lung Cancer and Lung Cancer Strategy

Director, Head of the Cancer Research UK – AstraZeneca Antibody Alliance Laboratory

Vice President, Discovery, Oncology R&D

Mark O’Connor

Chief Scientist, Early Oncology Discovery

Maurizio Scaltriti

Vice President, Translational Medicine, Early Oncology

VP, Late Stage Oncology Clinical Operations, AstraZeneca

Vice President and Franchise Head, R&D, AstraZeneca

Senior Vice President, Biologics Engineering & Oncology Targeted Delivery

Senior Vice-President of Precision Medicine, R&D Oncology

Susan Galbraith

Executive Vice-President, Oncology R&D

Teresa Klinowska

Global Product Leader, Oncology R&D

R&D

Principal Scientist, Advanced Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D

Vice President, R&D IT

Head of Advanced Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D

Audrey Koitka-Weber

Data Strategy Director, AstraZeneca

Executive Director and Head of Global Sample Management, Discovery Sciences, R&D

Cristina Durán

Chief Digital Health Officer, R&D

Lennart Lindfors

Adjunct Professor and Principal Scientist, Advanced Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D

Marianne Ashford

Senior Principal Scientist, Advanced Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D

Associate Director, Computational Chemistry, Discovery Sciences, R&D

Shalini Andersson

Vice President Oligonucleotide Discovery, Discovery Sciences, AstraZeneca

SVP, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca

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Veeva ID: Z4-51286
Date of preparation: December 2022