Ashraf Yassen

Ashraf Yassen is a highly experienced pharmaceutical professional currently serving as Director Pharmacometric Strategist at Bayer HealthCare since October 2015. Prior to this role, Ashraf held positions at Astellas Pharma, including Associate Director and Scientist in PK-PD Modeling and Simulation from December 2008 to September 2015. Ashraf's career also includes a Scientist position in PK-PD at Organon and a Postdoc role in Clinical Pharmacology/Anesthesiology at Leiden University Medical Center. Ashraf began academic training as a PhD student at the Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, focusing on mechanism-based PK-PD modeling of opioids, and earlier gained practical experience as a PharmD student at Erasmus MC. Ashraf's educational background is rooted in studies at Utrecht University.