Yukio Ishikawa

Senior Director, Pharmacology Department, Neurology Discovery, Deep Human Biology Learning Unit
​Eisai Co., Ltd.

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Yukio Ishikawa is a senior director of Pharmacology Department, Neurology Discovery, Deep Human Biology Learning Unit in Eisai. He supervises nonclinical pharmacology research of clinical stage projects in neurology area. He also joins lecanemab international project team as Discovery Lead.
He joined Eisai in 2006 as a scientist in drug discovery department in neurology area and worked for several discovery projects related with dementia and epilepsy. He completed Ph.D course in Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University in 2006.

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