Our people

"By overcoming biological barriers which have previously prevented drug delivery, we are now bringing new drug modalities, such as peptides, proteins, antisense oligonucleotides and mRNA, to the clinic."

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

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Our people

"Although significant advances have been made, we still need to work on not just the treatment of chronic lung disease but also on disease modification and cure."

Maria Belvisi, Senior Vice President and Head of Research and Early Development, Respiratory & Immunology, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

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Our people

"New digital technologies are allowing us to reimagine healthcare and improve patient experiences and outcomes, allowing us to reinvent clinical trials, select study populations that better reflect real-world demographics, and enabling us to minimise research disruption during a pandemic. "

Cristina Durán, Chief Digital Health Officer, R&D

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"We recently got some exciting data on cardiomyocyte proliferation, where we showed that our modRNA molecules and some small molecules we identified through phenotypic screening could proliferate human cardiomyocytes."

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

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Our people

"I am passionate about developing medicines to improve the outcomes for patients with cancer and developing the skills and experience of the people within my team.".

Susan Galbraith, Executive Vice-President, Oncology R&D

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Alan Sabirsh

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

Alicyn Campbell

Head of Digital Health, Oncology R&D

Amy Taylor

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

Anand Subramony

Vice President, Protein Engineering, R&D

Anas Younes

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

Anders Broo

Head of Data Science and Modelling, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D

Andrea Burgos Prieto

Associate Director Alliance & Integration Management, Business Development Operations

Andrew Foxley

Vice President, Franchise Head, Late Oncology R&D

Anna Åsberg

Vice President, R&D IT

Anna Sundgren

Global Development Leader, Lokelma & Bydureon

Annette Bak

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

Arpan Desai

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

Åsa Sjöholm Timén, PhD

Associate Transaction Director, Business Development Operations

Ashiq Ariff

Data Scientist

Ashling Mulvaney

Vice President, Global Sustainability, Access to Healthcare, AstraZeneca

Barry Davies

Global Project Leader, Oncology Combinations, Early Oncology

Carlos Doti

Global Medical Affairs Head, Hematology and Ad Interim US Hematology Franchise Head, Medical Affairs

Chris Kenny

Senior Information Architect

Christopher J. Rhodes

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

Clive Green

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

Cristian Massacesi

Chief Medical Officer and Oncology Chief Development Officer

Cristina Durán

Chief Digital Health Officer, R&D

Dafni Bika

Senior Vice President and Global Head of Pharmaceutical Technology and Development (PT&D), Global Operations

Daniel Freeman

Vice President of Early Development Oncology

David Geleta

Data Scientist

David Keeling

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

Ella Ekholm

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

Esben Jannik Bjerrum

Principal Scientist, Cheminformatics, Discovery Sciences, R&D

Ezogelin Oflazoglu-Gruyters

Vice-President, Head of External R&D and Strategic Alliances, Oncology R&D

Fredrik Röök

Transaction Director, Business Development Operations

Helen Angell

Director, Translational Medicine, Oncology Research & Early Development

Ingrid A. Mayer

Global Clinical Head for Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Strategy

Jason Snape

Global Head of Environmental Protection

Jim Weatherall

Vice President, Data Science & AI, R&D

Joris Silon

Senior Vice President, Global Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), BioPharmaceuticals Business Unit

Kiran Nistala

VP and Head of Clinical Development, Immunology, Respiratory & Immunology Late-stage Development

Kirsha Naicker

Global Study Medical Scientist Leader, Immuno-oncology

Lennart Lindfors

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

Leora Horn

Global Clinical Head for Lung Cancer and Lung Cancer Strategy

Lutz Jermutus

Head of Projects

Magnus Johansson

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

Malin Lemurell

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

Maria Belvisi

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

Maria Groves

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

Marianne Ashford

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

Mark Cobbold

Vice President, Discovery, Oncology R&D

Mark T. Esser

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

Mark O’Connor

Chief Scientist, Early Oncology Discovery

Matt Bonam

Head of Digital Health, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Menelas Pangalos

Executive Vice-President, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Mika Sovak

Vice President and Franchise Head, R&D, AstraZeneca

Miriam Guest

Associate Principal Scientist, Microbiology, Pharmaceutical Technology and Development

Mohit Manrao

VP, Global Franchise Head Lung Cancer, Oncology Business Unit

Nicolas Jose Guzman

Director Physician, Nephrology Clinical Research

Ola Engkvist

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

Paul Harper

Principal Scientist, Discovery Sciences, R&D

Per Alfredsson

Senior Vice President, Global Biologics Operations

Per Lindblom

Director, Global Project Management

Puja Sapra

Senior Vice President, Biologics Engineering & Oncology Targeted Delivery

Qing-Dong Wang

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

Ralph Knöll

Chief Scientist, Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Regina Fritsche-Danielson

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

Renee Bailey Iacona

Vice President, Oncology Biometrics, Oncology R&D

Richard Marshall

Senior Vice President and Global Head of Respiratory & Immunology Late Stage Development, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Ruth March

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

Ryan Hicks

Head of Bioscience Cell Therapy, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

Sanya Puri

Associate Director, Advanced Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D

Sean Connolly

Head of Information Technology for Drug Development and Digital Health

Serban Ghiorghiu

Vice President, Clinical Development, Late Development Oncology R&D

Shawn Davis

Head of Drug Delivery, BioPharmaceuticals Development, R&D

Shin Morita

Vice President, Oncology Business Unit

Simon Bradford

Data & Analytics Enabling Units Engineering Lead

Slavé Petrovski

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

Stephen Delaney

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

Steve Rees

VP, Discovery Biology, Discovery Sciences, R&D

Stewart Owen

Principal Environmental Scientist

Sunil Verma

Vice President, Global Clinical Head, Breast Cancer and Head of Breast Cancer Research Strategy

Susan Galbraith

Executive Vice-President, Oncology R&D

Teresa Klinowska

Global Product Leader, Oncology R&D

Ti Hwei How

Vice President, International Oncology

Tom Keith-Roach

President, AstraZeneca UK

Tonya Villafana

Vice President, Global Franchise Head, Infection

William Dall’Acqua

Vice President, Protein Engineering, R&D

Regina Fritsche-Danielson

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

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Mark O’Connor

Chief Scientist, Oncology

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Ruth March

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

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Menelas Pangalos

Executive Vice-President, BioPharmaceuticals R&D

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Fredrik Röök

Transaction Director, Business Development Operations

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Our therapy areas

Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism

Oncology

Respiratory & Immunology

Neuroscience

Infection and Vaccines