Anne Heatherington is Head of Data Sciences Institute and R&D Chief Data and Technology Officer at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. In this role, she is responsible for driving the data, digital and technology strategy for R&D to improve the lives of patients. Her mandate is to ensure that innovation in R&D rests on a strong data and technological foundation and is directed towards providing excellence in design, analyses and data delivery of our programs. The expertise in her organization includes statistics, programming, clinical pharmacology, pharmacometrics, data science, epidemiology, psychometrics, digital health, library sciences, data architecture, data governance, data engineering, product management, product engineering and technology delivery. Anne has over 25 years' experience leading organizations and programs in large pharma, mid-size biotechs and start-up organizations, including Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Summit Therapeutics, Pfizer Ltd and Amgen Inc. Anne received her bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, and her Ph.D. in pharmacokinetics from the University of Manchester, England. She completed post-doctoral training in the Centre for Bioengineering at University of Washington, Seattle.