TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS PARTNERS WITH WESTWOOD & WILSHIRE TO FILL SENIOR DIRECTOR OF REGULATORY AFFAIRS - VACCINE

Takeda Pharmaceuticals – among the top pharmaceutical companies in the world and one of the fastest growing with a U.S. Hub in Massachusetts that includes the operational center for Takeda’s Global Vaccines Business Unit - has hired Dr. Long Wang as the new Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs Vaccine in the North American division responsible for all assets in the Takeda Vaccines portfolio. Dr. Wang has joined from Merck where he served as the Senior Director, Global Regulatory Team Leader in the Vaccines & Infectious Disease program.

The search was successfully led by Tamir Halaban at Westwood & Wilshire of Westwood & Wilshire’s Life Sciences practice.

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