Cen Gao, Takeda

Cen Gao, PhD is a computational medicinal chemist, currently serving as Head of Global Computational Chemistry and Cheminformatics at Takeda, where he drives computational strategies to support therapeutic innovation. With over 15 years of experience across pharmaceutical and biotech industries, Cen has held research and leadership roles at companies including Eli Lilly and MOMA Therapeutics, contributing to multiple small-molecule oncology and immunology programs and advancing candidates from target identification through clinical proof of concept. His research interest includes integrating computational methods with medicinal chemistry to accelerate discovery efforts.