Speaker Profile
Ph.D., President & Division Head, Gene Therapy Research & Technical Operations, Astellas
Biography
Morten Sogaard is President, Research TechOps at Astellas Gene Therapies. Morten oversees Research and nonGMP CMC in South SF and Japan with a remit to deliver 2 clinical gene therapy candidates p.a. Before Astellas Morten led human genetics, functional genomics, CompBio and diagnostics functions as Global Head of Genome Sciences and a member of Pfizer's RD LT, and later led Target Sciences. He also headed up Search Evaluation for Platform Technologies and Oncology. Morten started his industry career at Pharmacia (Sweden), where he oversaw NextGen immunooncology antibody therapeutics. Later at AZ he led Molecular Sciences providing biologics and genomics capabilities to TAs. 2004, Morten moved to BI (CT) as global head, enabling technology, building a companywide platform of global skill centers, research informatics and briefly served as Head of RD Informatics. Morten received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Univ. of Copenhagen and did postdoctoral studies at MSKCC.
