Yuji Iizawa

Dr. Yuji Iizawa is Senior Investment Director at Takeda Ventures, Inc. Dr. Iizawa joined TVI as Vice President in April 2011 with more than 28 years R&D experience at Takeda.
Prior to joining TVI, he was Senior Director of Strategic Research Planning Department and Global Research Management Department in Pharmaceutical Research Division, with responsibility for the strategic oversight of Takeda research affiliates Worldwide.
Prior to this, he spent 2 years with TVI when it was Takeda Research Investment, Inc..
During his tenure in Takeda’s Pharmacology Research Laboratories, he assumed responsibility for anti-infectives drug discovery, and spent one year on sabbatical in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Iizawa joined Takeda, in 1983 with a D.V.M.
from Tokyo University, obtaining his Ph.D.
from the same institution in 1990.