Yvonne Dragan BA, PhD

Yvonne Dragan is the Director of Global Discovery Toxicology at Takeda. Yvonne received her PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Medical College of VA and performed postdoctoral work in chemical carcinogenesis at the University of WI-Madison. She held appointments in WI in Oncology and later at OSU in the School of Public Health. Yvonne spent 5 years with NCTR/FDA leading preclinical hepatotoxicity efforts and establishing a Systems Toxicology group. She joined AstraZeneca to Lead the US-Investigative Group and its US- Discovery Toxicology efforts. She then joined DuPont as a business unit liaison to the bio-based businesses and initiated a Predictive Sciences group. Yvonne recently joined Takeda where she is responsible for developing and implementing the global discovery toxicology strategy to decrease safety-related attrition throughout the pipeline.