AMRI Promotes Takeshi Yura, Ph.D., to Vice President of Discovery and Development Services, Asia
AMRI announced that it has promoted Takeshi Yura, Ph.D., to Vice President of Discovery and Development Services, Asia. Dr. Yura will report directly to Thomas E. D'Ambra, Ph.D., Chairman, President and CEO.
Dr. Yura joined AMRI in January 2011 and most recently served as Senior Director of Drug Discovery services in Singapore, leading the chemistry and biology teams of AMRI's flagship Asian integrated drug discovery operations. Effective immediately, Dr. Yura has also assumed leadership of AMRI's Discovery and Development efforts at AMRI's Hyderabad, India site.
Dr. Yura brings to this role more than 22 years of scientific and leadership experience in discovery research, project management and business development. Before joining AMRI, he was a director at Dishman Japan Ltd., responsible for sales and all business development activities for contract manufacturing services. Before that, he served as discovery chemistry research head at Pfizer Japan, dedicated primarily to the areas of pain and gastrointestinal drug discovery. Prior to Pfizer, he served as section head, medicinal chemistry at Bayer Yakuhin in Japan focused on urology and asthma. He has held additional scientific roles at both Ciba Geigy Japan and Tanabe Seiyaku. Dr. Yura obtained a Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of Tokyo, working with Professor Teruaki Mukaiyama until his retirement and with Professor Koichi Narasaka. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Temple University Tokyo.
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