Biopharmaceutics and Biologic Drugs

Biography

Aida is the head of alliance management in oncology R&D at AstraZeneca. Her team is responsible for a broad portfolio of global strategic Alliances, including co-development, licensing, acquisitions, externalizations, and clinical collaborations. Aida has over 25 years of experience in the biopharma industry including project & portfolio management, alliance and integration management, business development, and compliance. At Medimmune she created and led a centralized alliance management function with accountability for key strategic partnerships across therapeutic areas. She was responsible along with her team for establishing innovative alliance best practices, advanced systems, and alliance capabilities at Medimmune. Prior to that during her 13 years at Medimmune, Aida held positions of increasing responsibility while managing a variety of drug development projects and partnerships across oncology, respiratory, inflammation, autoimmunity, and other therapeutic areas. Aida has experience leading through broad organization-wide change initiatives and has extensive drug development experience across diverse therapeutic areas gained through multiple roles earlier in her career. She fosters an alliance management community of excellence within AstraZeneca, is President of the DC/Mid Atlantic Chapter of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, and CA-AM certified.

Research Interest

Pharma