Taro Masunaga
Investment Director @ Astellas Venture Management
Taro Masunaga is a startup investor at Astellas Venture Management. Dr. Masunaga joined Astellas Venture Management in Oct 2013. He has more than 25 years experience of drug discovery research from target discovery to development mainly in Immunology area including transplantation and autoimmune. From 2007 to 2012, he served as associate director to start up the Astellas Research Institute of America (ARIA)which is engaging early drug discovery (target identification, Hit/Lead generation and therapeutic strategy) in transplantation. Prior to joining AVM, he worked as a head of Advanced Drug Discovery (ADD) group in Pharmacology Research Laboratories taking a responsibility for early drug discovery of small molecules for every single focused therapeutic area, Urology, Oncology, Immunology, CNS, Kidney diseases and Frontier diseases.
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About Astellas Venture Management
Astellas Venture Management is a California-based financial organization that targets investments in the biotechnology sector.
Astellas Venture Management Contacts
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Ken Shimokawa
Senior Investment Director
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Takashi Futami
Associate Investment Director
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Takatoshi Soga
Associate Investment Director
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Taro Masunaga
Investment Director
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Kenji Yasukawa
President and CEO
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