Craig D. Wegner PhD

Dr. Wegner is a passionate translational scientist and strategic leader with over 25 years of academic and biopharmaceutical research experience. He has published peer-review manuscripts, review articles, edited books and led small initiative through to large department teams spanning a number of disease areas and disciplines. Presently, Craig champions an internal Drug Repositioning Ideation Team, manages AZ’s partnership with the NIH/NCATS and Taiwan NRPB, and leads AstraZeneca’s expanding Open Innovation platform that partners internal assets and knowhow with the disease insight and expertise of academic physician- and basic-scientists to collaboratively advance pioneering research and therapies for the benefit of patients.