Yasuhiro Ikeda
Head Of Cell Therapy Advanced Technologies, Cell Therapy Discovery at AstraZeneca
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolYasuhiro Ikeda is a strategic R&D leader with 25+ years advancing cell and gene therapies from concept to IND, currently heading Cell Therapy Advanced Technologies at AstraZeneca. He has driven development of eight CAR-T/CAR-Treg programs—including multiple first-in-human candidates—while building high-throughput CAR discovery platforms and viral vector engineering capabilities. Known for blending deep bench science (gene editing, iPSC differentiation, promoter engineering) with translational rigor, he has led teams up to 45 FTEs and shaped CMC and pre-IND strategy. He established hypoimmune universal cell programs and in vivo CAR delivery approaches, and pioneered COVID-pseudotyped lentivectors and HTP VHH/scFv CAR libraries that cut lead cycles by ~40%. A prolific scientist and mentor, he holds a PhD in Molecular Virology from the University of Tokyo with 150+ publications and multiple patents. Less obvious: he actively integrates AI-enabled tooling into discovery workflows to accelerate candidate design and due diligence.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Github Skills (7)
encoder5
x2644
zoneminder4
broadcast3
realtime2
vim2
package-manager1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
svettom/gpac
Jun 2011 - Jan 2013
Contributions:134 commits in 1 year 7 months
silverfilain/x264_L-SMASH
Aug 2010 - Aug 2011
Contributions:18 commits in 1 year
integratedx264devsdirtysmash
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