ALT Anne Heatherington is Senior Vice President and Head of Data Sciences Institute (DSI) with Research and Development (R&D) at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. She oversees many of the quantitative groups within Takeda, including Statistics and Quantitative Solutions, Global Evidence and Outcomes, Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology, Data Architecture and Digital Solutions and Digital Strategy Group. Her mandate is to drive innovation and excellence in R&D through focusing on knowledge through data, enabling patient-centricity and developing tools and infrastructure to understand the safety and efficacy of Takeda's medicines. Anne has over 20 years' experience leading organizations and programs in large pharma, mid-size biotechs and start-up organizations, including Summit Therapeutics, Pfizer Ltd and Amgen Inc. Anne's PhD in pharmacokinetics is from the University of Manchester, England. She completed post-doctoral training in the Centre for Bioengineering at University of Washington, Seattle.