Dr Hiro Usuda

Scouting & Transaction Lead, Business Development at Astellas Pharma Europe

Speaker

Hiro Usuda is Scouting & Transaction Lead, Business Development at Astellas. He moved to Cambridge, UK in 2021 when Astellas launched an BD office in Cambridge. He is responsible for introducing European technologies and assets to global Astellas, communicating with external partners, and creating new collaborations, licensing, M&A and investments (including in the field of Cell & Gene therapy). Hiro started his career at Astellas as a medicinal chemist, developing candidate drugs in immunology and oncology drug candidates as a bench chemist and group leader.