Bayan Takizawa's Biography

Bayan Takizawa, Chief Business Officer, CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Bayan Takizawa, is a cofounder and Chief Business Officer at CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, a spin off from the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing that is leveraging a novel continuous manufacturing platform to develop and produce drugs faster, cheaper, and of better quality. Dr. Takizawa has helped the CONTINUUS team raise over $100 million through financing rounds, grants, and contracts with multiple commercial partners and government agencies. Prior to joining CONTINUUS, Bayan was a consultant at The Chartis Group, and advisory firm that provides strategic and operational support for hospitals and healthcare systems. He also previously worked at Actin Biomed, a healthcare investment firm, and Yale New Haven Hospital as a General Surgery and Urology resident. Bayan has an M.D. from Yale, an M.S. in Engineering Systems and M.B.A. from MIT, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell. He has multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals, and is an active member of the Massachusetts life sciences community.