Kazumichi Kobayashi
Pharmacology
Otsuka Pharmaceutical
Japan
Biography
Kazumichi Kobayashi graduated from Gifu Pharmaceutical University, and joined Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. as a regulatory affairs staff. After several year engagements, he was transferred to Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc. from 1996 to 1999 as an international regulatory affairs coordinator. When he came back to Japan, he was appointed as Director of Regulatory Affairs. Thereafter, he was assigned to take care of clinical development and quality & safety assurance headquarter as well as regulatory affairs, as Corporate Officer. He is the first CEO of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization Inc in the US in 2007.Otsuka has sent him on loan to Office of Pharmaceutical Industry Research (OPIR) in JPMA, as Senior Research Fellow.
Research Interest
Pharmacology
